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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 26 17
Rank change year-on-year -14 -9 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,074 1,124 1,973
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.51% 9.22% 10.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.23% 22.41% 24.77%
Number of salaries quoted 594 710 1,442
10th Percentile £55,000 £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 £107,500 £130,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £132,125 £142,500 £149,875
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 5,584 5,015 7,964
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.46% 41.12% 40.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3,853 3,429 5,798
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £49,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.59% -2.42% +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 £60,939
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.56% -6.25%

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 12 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 12 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 -19 138 £100,000 +11.11% 81
South London -26 23 £70,000 -15.15% 12
West London -23 18 £80,000 +77.78% 24
East London -12 1 - - 14
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 35 (3.26%) Confluence
2 21 (1.96%) Apache Spark
3 19 (1.77%) Apache
4 18 (1.68%) Camunda
5 16 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.40%) Palantir Foundry
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 (0.093%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.093%) Oracle 10gAS
9 1 (0.093%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.093%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (1.30%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.37%) Moqups
4 3 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.093%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.65%) 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 (0.093%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.093%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.093%) Endur
4 1 (0.093%) Findur
4 1 (0.093%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.093%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.093%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 504 (46.93%) AWS
2 219 (20.39%) Azure
3 191 (17.78%) GCP
4 67 (6.24%) AWS CloudFormation
5 62 (5.77%) GitHub
6 53 (4.93%) Amazon EKS
7 48 (4.47%) Serverless
8 43 (4.00%) SaaS
9 29 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
10 27 (2.51%) AWS Lambda
11 26 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
12 21 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
12 21 (1.96%) OpenShift
13 20 (1.86%) GitHub Copilot
14 18 (1.68%) Amazon S3
15 17 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
15 17 (1.58%) Azure Service Bus
16 16 (1.49%) Snowflake
17 15 (1.40%) Amazon EventBridge
17 15 (1.40%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 32 (2.98%) HTTP
2 17 (1.58%) Network Security
2 17 (1.58%) TCP/IP
3 13 (1.21%) DMARC
4 10 (0.93%) Broadband
5 7 (0.65%) DNS
5 7 (0.65%) VPN
6 6 (0.56%) BGP
6 6 (0.56%) IPsec
6 6 (0.56%) Kerberos
7 5 (0.47%) Internet
8 4 (0.37%) IPv4
8 4 (0.37%) 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 (0.093%) AMQP
11 1 (0.093%) FIX Connectivity
11 1 (0.093%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (7.64%) NoSQL
2 65 (6.05%) PostgreSQL
3 61 (5.68%) Relational Database
4 45 (4.19%) MongoDB
5 31 (2.89%) SQL Server
6 22 (2.05%) Db2
7 18 (1.68%) Big Data
7 18 (1.68%) Redis
8 17 (1.58%) MySQL
9 13 (1.21%) DynamoDB
10 12 (1.12%) BigQuery
10 12 (1.12%) Hadoop
11 10 (0.93%) DTS
12 9 (0.84%) RDBMS
13 8 (0.74%) Metadata
14 7 (0.65%) Apache Hive
14 7 (0.65%) Geospatial Data
15 6 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
15 6 (0.56%) HBase
15 6 (0.56%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 78 (7.26%) Git
2 56 (5.21%) GitLab
3 52 (4.84%) Jenkins
4 40 (3.72%) Cucumber
5 39 (3.63%) JIRA
6 36 (3.35%) TeamCity
7 35 (3.26%) Selenium
8 22 (2.05%) JUnit
9 16 (1.49%) Maven
10 15 (1.40%) Bitbucket
11 14 (1.30%) Mockito
12 13 (1.21%) Claude Code
13 11 (1.02%) Cypress.io
13 11 (1.02%) Gradle
13 11 (1.02%) Postman
14 10 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 7 (0.65%) JMeter
16 6 (0.56%) MLflow
17 5 (0.47%) REST Assured
17 5 (0.47%) SonarQube
General
1 459 (42.74%) Finance
2 209 (19.46%) Social Skills
3 204 (18.99%) Banking
4 100 (9.31%) Front Office
5 91 (8.47%) Public Sector
6 80 (7.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 74 (6.89%) Analytical Skills
8 72 (6.70%) Law
9 54 (5.03%) Financial Institution
10 49 (4.56%) Retail
11 31 (2.89%) Investment Banking
12 25 (2.33%) Back Office
13 24 (2.23%) Marketing
14 16 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (1.21%) Tech for Good
16 11 (1.02%) Health Technology
17 9 (0.84%) Manufacturing
17 9 (0.84%) Telecoms
18 7 (0.65%) Advertising
18 7 (0.65%) Games
Job Titles
1 298 (27.75%) Senior
2 276 (25.70%) Developer
3 263 (24.49%) Software Engineer
4 246 (22.91%) Java Engineer
5 153 (14.25%) Lead
6 148 (13.78%) Java Developer
7 96 (8.94%) Senior Software Engineer
8 81 (7.54%) Senior Developer
9 75 (6.98%) Java Software Engineer
10 65 (6.05%) Senior Java Engineer
11 61 (5.68%) Lead Software Engineer
12 57 (5.31%) Principal Engineer
13 49 (4.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 48 (4.47%) Architect
15 43 (4.00%) Principal Java Engineer
16 40 (3.72%) Senior Java Developer
17 38 (3.54%) Consultant
18 37 (3.45%) Engineering Manager
18 37 (3.45%) Software Developer
19 31 (2.89%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 281 (26.16%) Spring
2 233 (21.69%) Spring Boot
3 200 (18.62%) Kafka
4 125 (11.64%) REST
5 109 (10.15%) React
6 86 (8.01%) Node.js
7 77 (7.17%) RESTful
8 69 (6.42%) .NET
9 53 (4.93%) AngularJS
10 38 (3.54%) GraphQL
11 37 (3.45%) OAuth
12 30 (2.79%) OAuth2
13 29 (2.70%) Redux
14 28 (2.61%) Web Services
15 26 (2.42%) FIX Protocol
16 25 (2.33%) Hibernate
17 23 (2.14%) Middleware
18 22 (2.05%) RabbitMQ
19 19 (1.77%) HTML
19 19 (1.77%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 207 (19.27%) Cloud Native
2 150 (13.97%) Distributed Systems
3 113 (10.52%) Product Ownership
4 104 (9.68%) Public Cloud
5 57 (5.31%) Onboarding
6 49 (4.56%) Fixed Income
7 45 (4.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 37 (3.45%) Distributed Architecture
9 33 (3.07%) Equities
10 31 (2.89%) e-Learning
11 30 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
12 28 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
13 23 (2.14%) AI Agents
14 17 (1.58%) Enterprise Cloud
14 17 (1.58%) Virtual Team
15 16 (1.49%) Blog
15 16 (1.49%) Data Structures
16 15 (1.40%) Algorithms
16 15 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
17 14 (1.30%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 97 (9.03%) Linux
2 34 (3.17%) Windows
3 15 (1.40%) Unix
4 13 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.12%) Android
5 12 (1.12%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.84%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.093%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (40.13%) Software Engineering
2 350 (32.59%) CI/CD
3 303 (28.21%) Agile
4 298 (27.75%) Microservices
5 224 (20.86%) DevOps
6 213 (19.83%) Test Automation
7 211 (19.65%) Mentoring
8 195 (18.16%) AI
9 192 (17.88%) Roadmaps
10 160 (14.90%) Infrastructure as Code
10 160 (14.90%) Problem-Solving
11 155 (14.43%) Technical Leadership
12 147 (13.69%) Event-Driven
13 138 (12.85%) Containerisation
14 122 (11.36%) Full-Stack Development
15 118 (10.99%) Continuous Improvement
16 96 (8.94%) Fintech
17 94 (8.75%) Low Latency
18 91 (8.47%) Computer Science
19 90 (8.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 354 (32.96%) Python
2 180 (16.76%) SQL
3 130 (12.10%) JavaScript
4 103 (9.59%) C#
5 99 (9.22%) TypeScript
6 89 (8.29%) C++
7 87 (8.10%) Go
8 51 (4.75%) Kotlin
9 46 (4.28%) Bash
10 34 (3.17%) C
11 30 (2.79%) Ruby
11 30 (2.79%) Rust
12 24 (2.23%) PowerShell
13 23 (2.14%) Scala
14 21 (1.96%) PHP
15 19 (1.77%) Perl
16 11 (1.02%) R
17 10 (0.93%) RPG
18 8 (0.74%) VBA
19 7 (0.65%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 142 (13.22%) Security Cleared
2 110 (10.24%) Degree
3 85 (7.91%) SC Cleared
4 66 (6.15%) AWS Certification
5 60 (5.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 55 (5.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 53 (4.93%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.30%) OSCP
9 10 (0.93%) CREST Certified
10 9 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (0.84%) ISTQB
11 7 (0.65%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.65%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.47%) CCSP
12 5 (0.47%) CISM
12 5 (0.47%) CISSP
12 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (5.77%) QA
2 21 (1.96%) Data Quality
3 20 (1.86%) GDPR
4 14 (1.30%) GRC
5 10 (0.93%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.84%) ISO 20022
6 9 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (0.84%) NIST
7 7 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.47%) WCAG
9 4 (0.37%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.28%) MiFID
10 3 (0.28%) UCITS
11 2 (0.19%) PSD2
12 1 (0.093%) SOC 2
System Software
1 136 (12.66%) Docker
2 18 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.40%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.47%) KVM
5 5 (0.47%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.37%) Squid
6 4 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.37%) vSphere
7 3 (0.28%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.093%) Firmware
8 1 (0.093%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 220 (20.48%) Kubernetes
2 126 (11.73%) Terraform
3 57 (5.31%) Grafana
4 35 (3.26%) Ansible
5 24 (2.23%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.65%) Kibana
7 6 (0.56%) Hadoop YARN
7 6 (0.56%) Kubeflow
7 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.47%) Puppet
8 5 (0.47%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (0.37%) Argo
9 4 (0.37%) Packer
9 4 (0.37%) 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%) kaniko
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 56 (5.21%) Oracle
2 50 (4.66%) Microsoft
3 49 (4.56%) Google
4 31 (2.89%) IBM
5 30 (2.79%) Splunk
6 24 (2.23%) Palantir
7 19 (1.77%) Red Hat
7 19 (1.77%) VMware
8 18 (1.68%) ServiceNow
9 17 (1.58%) Foundry
10 15 (1.40%) SAP
11 14 (1.30%) OpenAI
12 13 (1.21%) Databricks
12 13 (1.21%) SendGrid
13 12 (1.12%) Bloomberg
14 11 (1.02%) Solace
15 9 (0.84%) HP
16 8 (0.74%) Dynatrace
16 8 (0.74%) Salesforce
17 7 (0.65%) MuleSoft