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 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 23 17
Rank change year-on-year -12 -6 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,058 1,198 2,170
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.71% 9.64% 9.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.73% 23.15% 24.16%
Number of salaries quoted 602 772 1,624
10th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £110,000 £130,000 £140,625
90th Percentile £134,750 £142,500 £150,000
England median annual salary £70,079 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.58% - -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 5,362 5,174 8,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.85% 41.65% 40.20%
Number of salaries quoted 3,791 3,587 6,838
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,375 £60,939
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £103,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £135,000 £130,375
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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 19 July 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 19 July 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 -19 146 £98,750 +1.28% 39
South London -19 24 £70,000 -15.15% 4
West London -14 20 £80,000 +166.67% 8
East London -5 2 - - 12
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 30 (2.84%) Confluence
2 25 (2.36%) Apache Spark
3 16 (1.51%) Apache
4 15 (1.42%) Palantir Foundry
5 12 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.04%) Camunda
7 4 (0.38%) CMS
8 3 (0.28%) JBoss
8 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.28%) SAS
9 2 (0.19%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.19%) Moodle
9 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.095%) CICS
10 1 (0.095%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.095%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.095%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.095%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (1.32%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.095%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 10 (0.95%) Maximo
2 5 (0.47%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.47%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.095%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.095%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.095%) Endur
3 1 (0.095%) Findur
3 1 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.095%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 490 (46.31%) AWS
2 191 (18.05%) Azure
3 188 (17.77%) GCP
4 73 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
5 65 (6.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 55 (5.20%) SaaS
7 53 (5.01%) Serverless
8 52 (4.91%) GitHub
9 30 (2.84%) Amazon ECS
10 28 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
11 25 (2.36%) OpenShift
12 19 (1.80%) Amazon S3
12 19 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
13 17 (1.61%) Azure Service Bus
14 16 (1.51%) Amazon EventBridge
14 16 (1.51%) Azure DevOps
15 14 (1.32%) AWS Control Tower
15 14 (1.32%) dbt
16 13 (1.23%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.93%) HTTP
2 22 (2.08%) TCP/IP
3 17 (1.61%) Network Security
4 16 (1.51%) Broadband
5 13 (1.23%) DMARC
6 9 (0.85%) BGP
6 9 (0.85%) VPN
7 6 (0.57%) DNS
7 6 (0.57%) IPsec
8 5 (0.47%) Internet
8 5 (0.47%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.38%) IPv4
9 4 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.28%) Firewall
10 3 (0.28%) VLAN
11 2 (0.19%) LAN
11 2 (0.19%) SAN
11 2 (0.19%) WAN
12 1 (0.095%) FIX Connectivity
12 1 (0.095%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (7.84%) NoSQL
2 64 (6.05%) PostgreSQL
3 53 (5.01%) Relational Database
4 34 (3.21%) MongoDB
5 25 (2.36%) Db2
5 25 (2.36%) SQL Server
6 18 (1.70%) Big Data
6 18 (1.70%) RDBMS
7 15 (1.42%) BigQuery
8 13 (1.23%) Hadoop
9 12 (1.13%) DynamoDB
9 12 (1.13%) Redis
10 11 (1.04%) MySQL
11 10 (0.95%) DTS
11 10 (0.95%) Metadata
12 8 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (0.66%) Apache Hive
13 7 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
14 6 (0.57%) HBase
Development Applications
1 63 (5.95%) Git
2 53 (5.01%) GitLab
3 51 (4.82%) TeamCity
4 47 (4.44%) Jenkins
5 34 (3.21%) Cucumber
6 33 (3.12%) JIRA
7 32 (3.02%) Selenium
8 20 (1.89%) JUnit
9 14 (1.32%) Maven
10 13 (1.23%) Gradle
11 12 (1.13%) Bitbucket
12 11 (1.04%) Claude Code
12 11 (1.04%) Mockito
13 8 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 8 (0.76%) Cypress.io
14 7 (0.66%) JMeter
14 7 (0.66%) Postman
15 6 (0.57%) Jaeger
16 5 (0.47%) SpecFlow
16 5 (0.47%) WebDriver
General
1 441 (41.68%) Finance
2 204 (19.28%) Banking
3 171 (16.16%) Social Skills
4 111 (10.49%) Front Office
5 96 (9.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 87 (8.22%) Public Sector
7 78 (7.37%) Law
8 76 (7.18%) Retail
9 68 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
10 65 (6.14%) Financial Institution
11 42 (3.97%) Back Office
12 30 (2.84%) Investment Banking
13 15 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (1.23%) Marketing
15 12 (1.13%) Games
16 11 (1.04%) Telecoms
17 10 (0.95%) Billing
17 10 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
18 9 (0.85%) Manufacturing
19 8 (0.76%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 310 (29.30%) Developer
2 271 (25.61%) Senior
3 247 (23.35%) Software Engineer
4 227 (21.46%) Java Engineer
5 171 (16.16%) Java Developer
6 151 (14.27%) Lead
7 85 (8.03%) Senior Developer
8 83 (7.84%) Java Software Engineer
9 75 (7.09%) Senior Software Engineer
10 62 (5.86%) Senior Java Engineer
11 60 (5.67%) Lead Software Engineer
12 50 (4.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 48 (4.54%) Senior Java Developer
14 47 (4.44%) Architect
14 47 (4.44%) Principal Engineer
15 43 (4.06%) Consultant
15 43 (4.06%) Software Developer
16 38 (3.59%) Engineering Manager
17 35 (3.31%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 35 (3.31%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 256 (24.20%) Spring
2 218 (20.60%) Spring Boot
3 176 (16.64%) Kafka
4 117 (11.06%) React
4 117 (11.06%) REST
5 92 (8.70%) Node.js
6 64 (6.05%) .NET
7 60 (5.67%) RESTful
8 54 (5.10%) AngularJS
9 42 (3.97%) GraphQL
10 36 (3.40%) Redux
11 34 (3.21%) Web Services
12 29 (2.74%) OAuth
13 24 (2.27%) Middleware
13 24 (2.27%) OAuth2
14 23 (2.17%) Hibernate
15 22 (2.08%) FIX Protocol
16 21 (1.98%) HTML
17 20 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
17 20 (1.89%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 205 (19.38%) Cloud Native
2 120 (11.34%) Distributed Systems
3 102 (9.64%) Product Ownership
4 96 (9.07%) Public Cloud
5 54 (5.10%) Fixed Income
6 49 (4.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 42 (3.97%) Onboarding
8 34 (3.21%) Equities
9 31 (2.93%) Blog
9 31 (2.93%) Distributed Architecture
10 26 (2.46%) e-Learning
11 25 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
12 23 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
13 16 (1.51%) Data Structures
13 16 (1.51%) Enterprise Cloud
13 16 (1.51%) FPGA
14 13 (1.23%) Security Posture
15 11 (1.04%) AI Agents
15 11 (1.04%) Derivative
15 11 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 107 (10.11%) Linux
2 31 (2.93%) Windows
3 20 (1.89%) Unix
4 16 (1.51%) Android
5 11 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.95%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.76%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 398 (37.62%) Software Engineering
2 340 (32.14%) CI/CD
3 301 (28.45%) Agile
4 267 (25.24%) Microservices
5 219 (20.70%) Test Automation
6 217 (20.51%) DevOps
7 199 (18.81%) Mentoring
8 183 (17.30%) Roadmaps
9 154 (14.56%) AI
10 150 (14.18%) Infrastructure as Code
11 148 (13.99%) Technical Leadership
12 143 (13.52%) Problem-Solving
13 131 (12.38%) Full-Stack Development
14 129 (12.19%) Containerisation
15 105 (9.92%) Event-Driven
16 99 (9.36%) Continuous Improvement
17 95 (8.98%) Low Latency
18 94 (8.88%) Fintech
19 86 (8.13%) Computer Science
20 81 (7.66%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 346 (32.70%) Python
2 173 (16.35%) SQL
3 144 (13.61%) JavaScript
4 99 (9.36%) C#
5 96 (9.07%) C++
5 96 (9.07%) Go
5 96 (9.07%) TypeScript
6 56 (5.29%) Bash
7 39 (3.69%) Kotlin
8 37 (3.50%) Rust
9 35 (3.31%) C
10 26 (2.46%) Ruby
11 23 (2.17%) PowerShell
12 21 (1.98%) PHP
13 20 (1.89%) Scala
14 19 (1.80%) Perl
15 10 (0.95%) RPG
16 9 (0.85%) R
17 8 (0.76%) VBA
18 7 (0.66%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 145 (13.71%) Security Cleared
2 107 (10.11%) Degree
3 88 (8.32%) SC Cleared
4 66 (6.24%) AWS Certification
5 56 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 55 (5.20%) DV Cleared
7 50 (4.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 15 (1.42%) OSCP
9 12 (1.13%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.04%) CREST Certified
11 9 (0.85%) ISTQB
12 8 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (0.76%) PhD
13 7 (0.66%) Azure Certification
13 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
15 4 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (0.38%) CISM
15 4 (0.38%) CISSP
15 4 (0.38%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (5.10%) QA
2 20 (1.89%) GDPR
3 19 (1.80%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.32%) GRC
5 11 (1.04%) PCI DSS
6 10 (0.95%) SOC 2
7 8 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.66%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.66%) ISO 20022
8 7 (0.66%) NIST
9 6 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.28%) WCAG
11 2 (0.19%) MiFID
12 1 (0.095%) PSD2
12 1 (0.095%) UCITS
System Software
1 122 (11.53%) Docker
2 16 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.23%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.47%) KVM
6 4 (0.38%) Squid
6 4 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.38%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.38%) vSphere
7 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.095%) Firmware
8 1 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 218 (20.60%) Kubernetes
2 148 (13.99%) Terraform
3 79 (7.47%) Grafana
4 40 (3.78%) Ansible
5 34 (3.21%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.95%) Argo
7 7 (0.66%) Kibana
7 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.57%) Hadoop YARN
8 6 (0.57%) Kustomize
9 4 (0.38%) Packer
9 4 (0.38%) Puppet
9 4 (0.38%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (0.38%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.28%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.28%) Oracle Flashback
10 3 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (0.28%) Rancher
11 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.19%) WSUS
Vendors
1 44 (4.16%) Oracle
2 42 (3.97%) Google
3 41 (3.88%) Microsoft
4 33 (3.12%) IBM
5 28 (2.65%) Splunk
6 24 (2.27%) Palantir
7 17 (1.61%) Foundry
7 17 (1.61%) ServiceNow
7 17 (1.61%) VMware
8 14 (1.32%) Red Hat
8 14 (1.32%) SAP
9 13 (1.23%) SendGrid
10 11 (1.04%) OpenAI
10 11 (1.04%) Solace
11 9 (0.85%) MuleSoft
11 9 (0.85%) Salesforce
12 8 (0.76%) Bloomberg
12 8 (0.76%) HP
13 7 (0.66%) Databricks
14 6 (0.57%) Dynatrace