Java Job Trends in London

Java
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 26 17
Rank change year-on-year -14 -9 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,059 1,101 1,977
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.42% 9.08% 10.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.93% 22.31% 24.96%
Number of salaries quoted 579 686 1,437
10th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £58,938
25th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £106,875 £130,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £142,500 £148,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% -

All Programming Languages
London

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,594 4,934 7,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.33% 40.68% 40.76%
Number of salaries quoted 3,843 3,377 5,737
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £49,500
25th Percentile £64,625 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £136,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +1.63% -5.38%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Java relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Java job vacancy trend in London

Java
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in London over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Java in London

Java
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the London region over the 6 months to 18 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -18 137 £100,000 +11.11% 25
South London -23 22 £70,000 -15.15% 12
West London -19 16 £80,000 +33.33% 21
East London -10 1 - - 16
Java
England

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 37 (3.49%) Confluence
2 19 (1.79%) Apache
3 18 (1.70%) Camunda
4 17 (1.61%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.42%) Palantir Foundry
6 12 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.28%) CMS
7 3 (0.28%) JBoss
7 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.28%) SAS
8 2 (0.19%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.19%) Moodle
8 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
8 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.094%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.094%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.094%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.094%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 14 (1.32%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.47%) Moqups
4 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.094%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.66%) Maximo
2 5 (0.47%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.47%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.19%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 1 (0.094%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.094%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.094%) Endur
4 1 (0.094%) Findur
4 1 (0.094%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.094%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.094%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 495 (46.74%) AWS
2 222 (20.96%) Azure
3 185 (17.47%) GCP
4 66 (6.23%) AWS CloudFormation
5 62 (5.85%) GitHub
6 49 (4.63%) Amazon EKS
7 47 (4.44%) Serverless
8 43 (4.06%) SaaS
9 28 (2.64%) Amazon ECS
10 26 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
10 26 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
11 21 (1.98%) Cloud Computing
12 20 (1.89%) GitHub Copilot
13 19 (1.79%) OpenShift
14 17 (1.61%) Amazon S3
14 17 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (1.61%) Azure Service Bus
15 16 (1.51%) Datadog
16 15 (1.42%) Amazon EventBridge
16 15 (1.42%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.02%) HTTP
2 17 (1.61%) Network Security
3 16 (1.51%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.23%) DMARC
5 7 (0.66%) DNS
5 7 (0.66%) VPN
6 6 (0.57%) BGP
6 6 (0.57%) Broadband
6 6 (0.57%) IPsec
6 6 (0.57%) Kerberos
7 5 (0.47%) Internet
8 4 (0.38%) IPv4
8 4 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.28%) LAN
9 3 (0.28%) SAN
9 3 (0.28%) WAN
10 2 (0.19%) Firewall
11 1 (0.094%) AMQP
11 1 (0.094%) LTE
11 1 (0.094%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (7.74%) NoSQL
2 66 (6.23%) PostgreSQL
3 59 (5.57%) Relational Database
4 46 (4.34%) MongoDB
5 32 (3.02%) SQL Server
6 22 (2.08%) Db2
7 18 (1.70%) Big Data
7 18 (1.70%) MySQL
8 17 (1.61%) Redis
9 13 (1.23%) DynamoDB
10 12 (1.13%) Hadoop
11 10 (0.94%) DTS
12 9 (0.85%) BigQuery
13 7 (0.66%) Apache Hive
13 7 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
13 7 (0.66%) RDBMS
14 6 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
14 6 (0.57%) HBase
14 6 (0.57%) Pinecone
15 5 (0.47%) Cloud Spanner
Development Applications
1 80 (7.55%) Git
2 55 (5.19%) GitLab
3 54 (5.10%) Jenkins
4 41 (3.87%) Cucumber
4 41 (3.87%) JIRA
5 35 (3.31%) Selenium
5 35 (3.31%) TeamCity
6 23 (2.17%) JUnit
7 18 (1.70%) Maven
8 16 (1.51%) Bitbucket
9 15 (1.42%) Mockito
10 13 (1.23%) Claude Code
11 12 (1.13%) Cypress.io
11 12 (1.13%) Postman
12 11 (1.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 11 (1.04%) Gradle
13 7 (0.66%) JMeter
14 6 (0.57%) MLflow
14 6 (0.57%) SonarQube
15 5 (0.47%) REST Assured
General
1 451 (42.59%) Finance
2 207 (19.55%) Social Skills
3 203 (19.17%) Banking
4 91 (8.59%) Public Sector
5 89 (8.40%) Front Office
6 78 (7.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 74 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
8 67 (6.33%) Law
9 53 (5.00%) Financial Institution
10 47 (4.44%) Retail
11 30 (2.83%) Investment Banking
12 25 (2.36%) Marketing
13 24 (2.27%) Back Office
14 16 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (1.23%) Tech for Good
16 11 (1.04%) Health Technology
17 9 (0.85%) Manufacturing
18 7 (0.66%) Games
18 7 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
18 7 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 292 (27.57%) Senior
2 263 (24.83%) Developer
3 258 (24.36%) Software Engineer
4 243 (22.95%) Java Engineer
5 148 (13.98%) Lead
6 144 (13.60%) Java Developer
7 101 (9.54%) Senior Software Engineer
8 78 (7.37%) Senior Developer
9 73 (6.89%) Java Software Engineer
10 65 (6.14%) Senior Java Engineer
11 56 (5.29%) Principal Engineer
12 55 (5.19%) Lead Software Engineer
13 50 (4.72%) Architect
14 45 (4.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 43 (4.06%) Principal Java Engineer
16 37 (3.49%) Consultant
16 37 (3.49%) Engineering Manager
16 37 (3.49%) Senior Java Developer
17 36 (3.40%) Software Developer
18 31 (2.93%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 277 (26.16%) Spring
2 229 (21.62%) Spring Boot
3 188 (17.75%) Kafka
4 123 (11.61%) REST
5 100 (9.44%) React
6 79 (7.46%) Node.js
6 79 (7.46%) RESTful
7 71 (6.70%) .NET
8 49 (4.63%) AngularJS
9 38 (3.59%) OAuth
10 30 (2.83%) GraphQL
10 30 (2.83%) OAuth2
11 28 (2.64%) Web Services
12 26 (2.46%) FIX Protocol
13 25 (2.36%) Hibernate
14 23 (2.17%) Middleware
14 23 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
15 21 (1.98%) Redux
16 19 (1.79%) HTML
17 18 (1.70%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 206 (19.45%) Cloud Native
2 157 (14.83%) Distributed Systems
3 113 (10.67%) Product Ownership
4 104 (9.82%) Public Cloud
5 58 (5.48%) Onboarding
6 45 (4.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 39 (3.68%) Fixed Income
8 37 (3.49%) Distributed Architecture
9 33 (3.12%) Equities
10 32 (3.02%) e-Learning
11 30 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
12 27 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
13 25 (2.36%) AI Agents
14 18 (1.70%) Virtual Team
15 17 (1.61%) Blog
15 17 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
16 16 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
17 15 (1.42%) Algorithms
17 15 (1.42%) Derivative
18 13 (1.23%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 93 (8.78%) Linux
2 33 (3.12%) Windows
3 13 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (1.23%) Unix
4 12 (1.13%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.04%) Android
6 8 (0.76%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.094%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (40.13%) Software Engineering
2 345 (32.58%) CI/CD
3 296 (27.95%) Microservices
4 290 (27.38%) Agile
5 218 (20.59%) DevOps
6 212 (20.02%) Test Automation
7 209 (19.74%) Mentoring
8 198 (18.70%) AI
9 190 (17.94%) Roadmaps
10 162 (15.30%) Problem-Solving
11 159 (15.01%) Infrastructure as Code
12 155 (14.64%) Technical Leadership
13 154 (14.54%) Event-Driven
14 132 (12.46%) Containerisation
15 119 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
16 117 (11.05%) Full-Stack Development
17 96 (9.07%) Fintech
18 95 (8.97%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 94 (8.88%) Low Latency
20 89 (8.40%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 344 (32.48%) Python
2 172 (16.24%) SQL
3 119 (11.24%) JavaScript
4 104 (9.82%) C#
5 90 (8.50%) TypeScript
6 86 (8.12%) C++
7 80 (7.55%) Go
8 52 (4.91%) Kotlin
9 46 (4.34%) Bash
10 35 (3.31%) C
11 31 (2.93%) Ruby
12 30 (2.83%) Rust
13 24 (2.27%) PowerShell
14 21 (1.98%) PHP
15 20 (1.89%) Perl
15 20 (1.89%) Scala
16 11 (1.04%) R
17 10 (0.94%) RPG
18 8 (0.76%) VBA
19 7 (0.66%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 138 (13.03%) Security Cleared
2 107 (10.10%) Degree
3 81 (7.65%) SC Cleared
4 67 (6.33%) AWS Certification
5 58 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 56 (5.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 50 (4.72%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.32%) OSCP
9 10 (0.94%) CREST Certified
10 9 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (0.85%) ISTQB
11 7 (0.66%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.66%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.57%) CISSP
13 5 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (0.47%) CCSP
13 5 (0.47%) CISM
13 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (5.85%) QA
2 20 (1.89%) Data Quality
2 20 (1.89%) GDPR
3 14 (1.32%) GRC
4 10 (0.94%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.85%) ISO 20022
5 9 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (0.85%) NIST
6 7 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.47%) WCAG
8 4 (0.38%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.28%) MiFID
9 3 (0.28%) UCITS
10 2 (0.19%) PSD2
11 1 (0.094%) SOC 2
System Software
1 133 (12.56%) Docker
2 18 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.42%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.47%) KVM
5 5 (0.47%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.38%) Squid
6 4 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.38%) vSphere
7 3 (0.28%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.094%) Firmware
8 1 (0.094%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 214 (20.21%) Kubernetes
2 124 (11.71%) Terraform
3 56 (5.29%) Grafana
4 37 (3.49%) Ansible
5 24 (2.27%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.66%) Kibana
7 6 (0.57%) Hadoop YARN
7 6 (0.57%) Kubeflow
7 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.47%) Puppet
8 5 (0.47%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (0.38%) Argo
9 4 (0.38%) Packer
9 4 (0.38%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.28%) Rancher
10 3 (0.28%) WSUS
11 2 (0.19%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle Flashback
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 57 (5.38%) Oracle
2 50 (4.72%) Google
2 50 (4.72%) Microsoft
3 31 (2.93%) IBM
4 30 (2.83%) Splunk
5 24 (2.27%) Palantir
6 19 (1.79%) Red Hat
6 19 (1.79%) VMware
7 18 (1.70%) ServiceNow
8 16 (1.51%) Foundry
9 15 (1.42%) SAP
10 14 (1.32%) OpenAI
11 13 (1.23%) SendGrid
12 12 (1.13%) Bloomberg
12 12 (1.13%) Databricks
12 12 (1.13%) Solace
13 9 (0.85%) HP
14 8 (0.76%) Dynatrace
15 7 (0.66%) Salesforce
16 6 (0.57%) Sybase