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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 29 19
Rank change year-on-year -6 -10 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,038 1,070 1,960
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.36% 8.29% 8.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.50% 19.96% 21.05%
Number of salaries quoted 587 774 1,548
10th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £105,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £114,375 £122,500 £122,500
90th Percentile £136,250 £147,500 £148,750
England median annual salary £74,301 £75,000 £73,500
% change year-on-year -0.93% +2.04% -8.13%

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 5,064 5,361 9,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 26.17% 41.52% 40.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3,541 3,932 7,618
10th Percentile £47,617 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,344 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% +2.38%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £123,750 £130,000 £127,500
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 April 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 April 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 -10 152 £100,000 - 100
West London -30 13 £61,250 +104.17% 12
South London -27 12 £55,200 -33.09% 9
East London -13 4 - - 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 26 (2.50%) Apache Spark
2 17 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (1.54%) Confluence
4 12 (1.16%) Apache
4 12 (1.16%) JBoss
4 12 (1.16%) Palantir Foundry
5 10 (0.96%) WebSphere
6 6 (0.58%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.48%) Camunda
8 4 (0.39%) Appian
8 4 (0.39%) Moodle
8 4 (0.39%) nginx
9 3 (0.29%) Liferay
10 2 (0.19%) CMS
10 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.096%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.096%) CICS
11 1 (0.096%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.096%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.096%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.77%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.096%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.096%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 14 (1.35%) Maximo
2 3 (0.29%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.29%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.19%) Shopify
4 1 (0.096%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.096%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.096%) Endur
4 1 (0.096%) Findur
4 1 (0.096%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 469 (45.18%) AWS
2 199 (19.17%) GCP
3 162 (15.61%) Azure
4 87 (8.38%) Amazon EKS
4 87 (8.38%) SaaS
5 55 (5.30%) GitHub
6 32 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 30 (2.89%) OpenShift
8 27 (2.60%) Serverless
9 23 (2.22%) GitHub Copilot
10 20 (1.93%) Pulumi
11 18 (1.73%) Amazon S3
11 18 (1.73%) dbt
11 18 (1.73%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (1.64%) Amazon ECS
12 17 (1.64%) Amazon Kinesis
12 17 (1.64%) Datadog
13 14 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.89%) TCP/IP
2 25 (2.41%) Broadband
3 24 (2.31%) HTTP
4 6 (0.58%) BGP
4 6 (0.58%) VLAN
4 6 (0.58%) VPN
5 5 (0.48%) AMQP
5 5 (0.48%) Multicast
6 3 (0.29%) Internet
6 3 (0.29%) IPv4
6 3 (0.29%) Kerberos
6 3 (0.29%) Network Security
6 3 (0.29%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.19%) DHCP
7 2 (0.19%) DNS
7 2 (0.19%) Firewall
7 2 (0.19%) LAN
7 2 (0.19%) SAN
7 2 (0.19%) SNMP
7 2 (0.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (7.23%) NoSQL
2 70 (6.74%) Relational Database
3 68 (6.55%) PostgreSQL
4 40 (3.85%) RDBMS
5 32 (3.08%) SQL Server
6 30 (2.89%) DB2
7 21 (2.02%) MongoDB
8 20 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (1.64%) Big Data
10 15 (1.45%) DynamoDB
10 15 (1.45%) Hadoop
11 14 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (1.35%) MySQL
12 13 (1.25%) Flink
13 12 (1.16%) Neo4j
13 12 (1.16%) Redis
14 10 (0.96%) BigQuery
14 10 (0.96%) Pentaho
15 8 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
16 7 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 70 (6.74%) TeamCity
2 49 (4.72%) Git
3 48 (4.62%) Selenium
4 47 (4.53%) Jenkins
5 29 (2.79%) Cucumber
6 27 (2.60%) GitLab
7 25 (2.41%) JIRA
8 17 (1.64%) Bitbucket
9 16 (1.54%) Jaeger
10 15 (1.45%) JUnit
11 13 (1.25%) Gradle
12 10 (0.96%) Maven
13 9 (0.87%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.87%) WebDriver
14 7 (0.67%) Claude Code
14 7 (0.67%) Postman
15 6 (0.58%) JMeter
16 5 (0.48%) SpecFlow
16 5 (0.48%) Subversion
17 4 (0.39%) webpack
General
1 394 (37.96%) Finance
2 241 (23.22%) Banking
3 198 (19.08%) Social Skills
4 129 (12.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 114 (10.98%) Front Office
6 113 (10.89%) Law
7 97 (9.34%) Retail
8 83 (8.00%) Financial Institution
9 73 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
10 65 (6.26%) Public Sector
11 63 (6.07%) Back Office
12 47 (4.53%) Investment Banking
13 26 (2.50%) Telecoms
14 22 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
15 20 (1.93%) Games
16 17 (1.64%) Billing
17 14 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.77%) Advertising
18 8 (0.77%) Marketing
18 8 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 346 (33.33%) Developer
2 279 (26.88%) Senior
3 270 (26.01%) Software Engineer
4 196 (18.88%) Java Engineer
5 195 (18.79%) Java Developer
6 153 (14.74%) Lead
7 107 (10.31%) Java Software Engineer
8 86 (8.29%) Senior Software Engineer
9 85 (8.19%) Senior Developer
10 75 (7.23%) Full-Stack Developer
11 67 (6.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 67 (6.45%) Senior Java Engineer
12 55 (5.30%) Lead Software Engineer
13 52 (5.01%) Senior Java Developer
14 50 (4.82%) Architect
15 47 (4.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 42 (4.05%) Development Engineer
16 42 (4.05%) Principal Engineer
17 41 (3.95%) AWS Engineer
18 40 (3.85%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (19.94%) Spring
2 172 (16.57%) React
3 162 (15.61%) Spring Boot
4 137 (13.20%) Kafka
5 113 (10.89%) REST
6 91 (8.77%) Node.js
7 71 (6.84%) .NET
8 60 (5.78%) AngularJS
9 58 (5.59%) RESTful
10 54 (5.20%) GraphQL
11 44 (4.24%) HTML
12 40 (3.85%) Web Services
13 39 (3.76%) CSS
14 35 (3.37%) Redux
14 35 (3.37%) SOAP
15 34 (3.28%) Elastic Stack
16 27 (2.60%) FIX Protocol
17 26 (2.50%) Hibernate
18 25 (2.41%) Vue
19 23 (2.22%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 193 (18.59%) Cloud Native
2 113 (10.89%) Distributed Systems
3 70 (6.74%) Product Ownership
4 56 (5.39%) Fixed Income
5 53 (5.11%) Public Cloud
6 46 (4.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 37 (3.56%) Blog
7 37 (3.56%) Equities
8 28 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
9 24 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
10 21 (2.02%) Derivative
10 21 (2.02%) FPGA
11 20 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
12 18 (1.73%) Data Structures
13 16 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (1.35%) Mobile Banking
15 13 (1.25%) Security Posture
15 13 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
16 12 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
16 12 (1.16%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 114 (10.98%) Linux
2 29 (2.79%) Windows
3 28 (2.70%) Unix
4 26 (2.50%) Android
5 10 (0.96%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.58%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.39%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.19%) CentOS
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.096%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 392 (37.76%) Software Engineering
2 326 (31.41%) CI/CD
3 303 (29.19%) Agile
4 229 (22.06%) Microservices
5 208 (20.04%) DevOps
6 195 (18.79%) Test Automation
7 186 (17.92%) Mentoring
8 182 (17.53%) Full-Stack Development
9 160 (15.41%) Roadmaps
10 152 (14.64%) Problem-Solving
11 134 (12.91%) Technical Leadership
12 130 (12.52%) AI
13 124 (11.95%) Fintech
14 123 (11.85%) Containerisation
15 106 (10.21%) Infrastructure as Code
16 103 (9.92%) Continuous Improvement
17 96 (9.25%) Clean Code
18 94 (9.06%) Low Latency
19 81 (7.80%) Computer Science
20 74 (7.13%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 307 (29.58%) Python
2 187 (18.02%) JavaScript
3 150 (14.45%) SQL
4 124 (11.95%) TypeScript
5 118 (11.37%) Go
6 83 (8.00%) C#
7 71 (6.84%) C++
8 56 (5.39%) Kotlin
9 39 (3.76%) Bash
10 35 (3.37%) C
11 25 (2.41%) Rust
12 20 (1.93%) Scala
13 16 (1.54%) PowerShell
14 8 (0.77%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.77%) PHP
15 7 (0.67%) Perl
15 7 (0.67%) Ruby
16 6 (0.58%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.58%) VBA
17 4 (0.39%) RPG
Qualifications
1 142 (13.68%) Security Cleared
2 120 (11.56%) Degree
3 89 (8.57%) SC Cleared
4 67 (6.45%) DV Cleared
5 49 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (3.56%) AWS Certification
7 23 (2.22%) Master's Degree
8 20 (1.93%) OSCP
9 17 (1.64%) CREST Certified
10 14 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (1.16%) Azure Certification
11 12 (1.16%) PhD
12 10 (0.96%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.67%) OSCE
14 4 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.39%) ISEB
14 4 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
15 3 (0.29%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (3.76%) QA
2 16 (1.54%) PCI DSS
3 15 (1.45%) SOC 2
4 13 (1.25%) GDPR
5 11 (1.06%) GRC
5 11 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (0.96%) Data Quality
7 8 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.48%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.39%) EU AI Act
9 4 (0.39%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.39%) SLA
10 3 (0.29%) NIST
11 2 (0.19%) WCAG
12 1 (0.096%) MiFID
12 1 (0.096%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 152 (14.64%) Docker
2 9 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.77%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.39%) KVM
5 4 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.29%) Squid
6 3 (0.29%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.29%) vSphere
7 2 (0.19%) Firmware
7 2 (0.19%) HDFS
7 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.096%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.096%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.096%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.096%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 259 (24.95%) Kubernetes
2 150 (14.45%) Terraform
3 79 (7.61%) Grafana
4 43 (4.14%) Ansible
5 30 (2.89%) Argo
6 28 (2.70%) Prometheus
7 16 (1.54%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.58%) Kibana
8 6 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.29%) Packer
9 3 (0.29%) Puppet
9 3 (0.29%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (0.29%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.19%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle Flashback
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.19%) Rancher
10 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.096%) Icinga
Vendors
1 39 (3.76%) Google
2 26 (2.50%) Oracle
3 25 (2.41%) Microsoft
4 23 (2.22%) IBM
5 14 (1.35%) Foundry
5 14 (1.35%) MuleSoft
6 12 (1.16%) Informatica
6 12 (1.16%) Palantir
6 12 (1.16%) Salesforce
6 12 (1.16%) Talend
7 11 (1.06%) Splunk
8 10 (0.96%) Databricks
8 10 (0.96%) OpenAI
8 10 (0.96%) Red Hat
8 10 (0.96%) VMware
9 9 (0.87%) Solace
10 8 (0.77%) Atlassian
11 7 (0.67%) Dynatrace
12 6 (0.58%) Dell
12 6 (0.58%) ServiceNow