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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 30 18
Rank change year-on-year -5 -12 -5
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,058 978 2,054
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.18% 7.91% 8.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.34% 19.52% 21.79%
Number of salaries quoted 594 723 1,599
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £105,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £110,000 £127,500 £122,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £143,750 £148,750
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £73,805
% change year-on-year -3.33% +1.62% -7.74%

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 5,201 5,009 9,425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.49% 40.51% 40.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,675 3,715 7,581
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,550 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £132,000 £130,000
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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -12 158 £100,000 +1.52% 98
South London -20 21 £70,000 -15.15% 2
West London -19 18 £80,000 +166.67% 10
East London -8 3 - - 20
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 23 (2.17%) Apache Spark
2 20 (1.89%) Confluence
3 15 (1.42%) Palantir Foundry
4 14 (1.32%) Apache
4 14 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.66%) JBoss
6 5 (0.47%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.38%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.38%) Camunda
7 4 (0.38%) CMS
7 4 (0.38%) Moodle
8 3 (0.28%) Appian
8 3 (0.28%) Liferay
9 2 (0.19%) nginx
9 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.095%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.095%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.095%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.095%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.66%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.095%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 11 (1.04%) Maximo
2 4 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.28%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.28%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.095%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.095%) Endur
4 1 (0.095%) Findur
4 1 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.095%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 459 (43.38%) AWS
2 195 (18.43%) GCP
3 165 (15.60%) Azure
4 69 (6.52%) Amazon EKS
5 66 (6.24%) SaaS
6 52 (4.91%) GitHub
7 40 (3.78%) AWS CloudFormation
8 28 (2.65%) Serverless
9 26 (2.46%) OpenShift
10 22 (2.08%) GitHub Copilot
11 19 (1.80%) Pulumi
12 18 (1.70%) Amazon S3
13 16 (1.51%) dbt
14 15 (1.42%) Datadog
14 15 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
15 14 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
16 13 (1.23%) Amazon ECS
16 13 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
17 12 (1.13%) Amazon EC2
18 10 (0.95%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.84%) HTTP
2 25 (2.36%) Broadband
3 23 (2.17%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.38%) AMQP
4 4 (0.38%) IPv4
4 4 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (0.28%) BGP
5 3 (0.28%) Internet
5 3 (0.28%) Network Security
5 3 (0.28%) VLAN
5 3 (0.28%) VPN
6 2 (0.19%) DMARC
6 2 (0.19%) Firewall
6 2 (0.19%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.19%) LAN
6 2 (0.19%) Multicast
6 2 (0.19%) SAN
6 2 (0.19%) WAN
7 1 (0.095%) MQTT
7 1 (0.095%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (7.18%) NoSQL
2 62 (5.86%) PostgreSQL
3 60 (5.67%) Relational Database
4 35 (3.31%) RDBMS
5 29 (2.74%) SQL Server
6 26 (2.46%) DB2
6 26 (2.46%) MongoDB
7 17 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (1.61%) DynamoDB
8 15 (1.42%) Big Data
9 13 (1.23%) BigQuery
9 13 (1.23%) MySQL
10 10 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (0.95%) Hadoop
10 10 (0.95%) Neo4j
10 10 (0.95%) Pentaho
11 9 (0.85%) Flink
11 9 (0.85%) Metadata
11 9 (0.85%) Redis
12 7 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 60 (5.67%) TeamCity
2 48 (4.54%) Git
3 45 (4.25%) Jenkins
4 42 (3.97%) Selenium
5 36 (3.40%) GitLab
6 29 (2.74%) Cucumber
6 29 (2.74%) JIRA
7 17 (1.61%) Bitbucket
8 15 (1.42%) Jaeger
9 14 (1.32%) Gradle
9 14 (1.32%) JUnit
10 12 (1.13%) Maven
11 11 (1.04%) Claude Code
12 9 (0.85%) WebDriver
13 8 (0.76%) Cypress.io
14 6 (0.57%) Postman
15 5 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 5 (0.47%) SpecFlow
16 4 (0.38%) Mockito
16 4 (0.38%) SonarQube
General
1 406 (38.37%) Finance
2 221 (20.89%) Banking
3 182 (17.20%) Social Skills
4 113 (10.68%) Front Office
5 111 (10.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 95 (8.98%) Law
7 82 (7.75%) Retail
8 67 (6.33%) Public Sector
9 66 (6.24%) Analytical Skills
10 64 (6.05%) Financial Institution
11 48 (4.54%) Back Office
12 36 (3.40%) Investment Banking
13 25 (2.36%) Telecoms
14 21 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
15 19 (1.80%) Games
16 16 (1.51%) Billing
17 11 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.76%) Marketing
18 8 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (0.76%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 345 (32.61%) Developer
2 278 (26.28%) Senior
3 267 (25.24%) Software Engineer
4 220 (20.79%) Java Engineer
5 197 (18.62%) Java Developer
6 169 (15.97%) Lead
7 108 (10.21%) Java Software Engineer
8 89 (8.41%) Senior Software Engineer
9 87 (8.22%) Senior Developer
10 71 (6.71%) Senior Java Engineer
11 63 (5.95%) Full-Stack Developer
12 62 (5.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 57 (5.39%) Lead Software Engineer
14 55 (5.20%) Senior Java Developer
15 47 (4.44%) Principal Engineer
16 42 (3.97%) Development Engineer
16 42 (3.97%) Software Development Engineer
17 40 (3.78%) Architect
18 39 (3.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 37 (3.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (21.17%) Spring
2 190 (17.96%) Spring Boot
3 147 (13.89%) React
4 136 (12.85%) Kafka
5 116 (10.96%) REST
6 83 (7.84%) Node.js
7 65 (6.14%) .NET
8 55 (5.20%) AngularJS
9 48 (4.54%) RESTful
10 47 (4.44%) GraphQL
11 39 (3.69%) Web Services
12 35 (3.31%) Redux
13 34 (3.21%) HTML
14 30 (2.84%) Elastic Stack
15 29 (2.74%) CSS
15 29 (2.74%) SOAP
16 23 (2.17%) Hibernate
17 22 (2.08%) FIX Protocol
18 21 (1.98%) OAuth
18 21 (1.98%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 187 (17.67%) Cloud Native
2 100 (9.45%) Distributed Systems
3 86 (8.13%) Product Ownership
4 71 (6.71%) Public Cloud
5 51 (4.82%) Fixed Income
6 43 (4.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 37 (3.50%) Blog
8 36 (3.40%) Equities
9 30 (2.84%) Distributed Architecture
10 19 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
10 19 (1.80%) FPGA
11 17 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
12 16 (1.51%) Data Structures
12 16 (1.51%) Derivative
13 14 (1.32%) e-Learning
13 14 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
13 14 (1.32%) Mobile Banking
14 13 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
14 13 (1.23%) Security Posture
15 10 (0.95%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 102 (9.64%) Linux
2 26 (2.46%) Android
3 25 (2.36%) Unix
4 23 (2.17%) Windows
5 11 (1.04%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.66%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.095%) CentOS
8 1 (0.095%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 390 (36.86%) Software Engineering
2 313 (29.58%) CI/CD
3 298 (28.17%) Agile
4 232 (21.93%) Microservices
5 214 (20.23%) DevOps
6 196 (18.53%) Mentoring
7 192 (18.15%) Test Automation
8 171 (16.16%) Roadmaps
9 169 (15.97%) Full-Stack Development
10 145 (13.71%) Technical Leadership
11 136 (12.85%) Problem-Solving
12 126 (11.91%) AI
13 119 (11.25%) Fintech
14 118 (11.15%) Containerisation
15 111 (10.49%) Infrastructure as Code
16 101 (9.55%) Continuous Improvement
17 92 (8.70%) Low Latency
18 84 (7.94%) Clean Code
19 76 (7.18%) TDD
20 74 (6.99%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 307 (29.02%) Python
2 169 (15.97%) JavaScript
3 148 (13.99%) SQL
4 109 (10.30%) Go
5 105 (9.92%) TypeScript
6 83 (7.84%) C#
7 75 (7.09%) C++
8 50 (4.73%) Kotlin
9 39 (3.69%) Bash
10 30 (2.84%) C
11 22 (2.08%) Rust
12 18 (1.70%) Scala
13 17 (1.61%) PowerShell
14 8 (0.76%) Apex Code
15 7 (0.66%) PHP
15 7 (0.66%) VBA
16 6 (0.57%) Perl
17 5 (0.47%) Groovy
18 4 (0.38%) RPG
18 4 (0.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 132 (12.48%) Security Cleared
2 109 (10.30%) Degree
3 84 (7.94%) SC Cleared
4 61 (5.77%) DV Cleared
5 48 (4.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 44 (4.16%) AWS Certification
7 19 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 18 (1.70%) Master's Degree
8 18 (1.70%) OSCP
9 14 (1.32%) CREST Certified
10 11 (1.04%) PhD
11 9 (0.85%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.66%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
15 4 (0.38%) CCNA
15 4 (0.38%) RHCE
15 4 (0.38%) RHCSA
16 3 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (3.69%) QA
2 15 (1.42%) Data Quality
3 14 (1.32%) GRC
4 13 (1.23%) PCI DSS
5 12 (1.13%) SOC 2
6 6 (0.57%) GDPR
7 5 (0.47%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.28%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.28%) NIST
9 3 (0.28%) SLA
10 1 (0.095%) MiFID
10 1 (0.095%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.095%) WCAG
System Software
1 144 (13.61%) Docker
2 9 (0.85%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.38%) KVM
3 4 (0.38%) Squid
3 4 (0.38%) VMware NSX
3 4 (0.38%) vSphere
4 2 (0.19%) Firmware
4 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.095%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.095%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.095%) OpenDJ
5 1 (0.095%) OpenIDM
5 1 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.095%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.095%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 233 (22.02%) Kubernetes
2 140 (13.23%) Terraform
3 70 (6.62%) Grafana
4 41 (3.88%) Ansible
5 28 (2.65%) Prometheus
6 23 (2.17%) Argo
7 15 (1.42%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.57%) Kibana
8 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.38%) Packer
9 4 (0.38%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.28%) Puppet
11 2 (0.19%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle Flashback
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.19%) Rancher
11 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.095%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.095%) WSUS
Vendors
1 40 (3.78%) Google
2 31 (2.93%) Microsoft
3 29 (2.74%) Oracle
4 20 (1.89%) IBM
5 18 (1.70%) Palantir
6 17 (1.61%) Foundry
7 14 (1.32%) Splunk
8 12 (1.13%) MuleSoft
8 12 (1.13%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.04%) Solace
10 10 (0.95%) Informatica
10 10 (0.95%) Talend
10 10 (0.95%) VMware
11 9 (0.85%) OpenAI
11 9 (0.85%) Red Hat
12 8 (0.76%) Databricks
12 8 (0.76%) ServiceNow
13 7 (0.66%) Dynatrace
14 6 (0.57%) Atlassian
15 4 (0.38%) JDA