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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 20 15
Rank change year-on-year -13 -5 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 905 1,601 1,984
As % of all permanent jobs in London 6.84% 9.36% 10.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.70% 22.03% 24.29%
Number of salaries quoted 586 1,090 1,673
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £54,750
25th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £130,000 £127,188 £115,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £147,500 £143,750
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,554
% change year-on-year -3.13% +5.89% +0.74%

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 4,373 7,269 8,167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 33.03% 42.51% 44.72%
Number of salaries quoted 3,021 4,811 7,138
10th Percentile £46,148 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.63% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £107,500 £108,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £127,500 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 2025. 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 +2 162 £100,000 +17.65% 56
South London +13 31 £82,500 +34.69% 5
West London -10 5 £60,000 -8.05% 14
East London -19 2 £75,000 -40.00% 9
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 67 (7.40%) Apache Airflow
2 61 (6.74%) Apache
3 42 (4.64%) Apache Spark
4 14 (1.55%) Confluence
5 8 (0.88%) JBoss
6 7 (0.77%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.66%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.55%) Appian
8 5 (0.55%) BizTalk Server
8 5 (0.55%) nginx
9 4 (0.44%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.33%) Luigi
10 3 (0.33%) Mule
11 2 (0.22%) Moodle
11 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.11%) Ethereum
12 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.11%) Traefik
Applications
1 7 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (0.77%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (0.77%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.44%) Shopify
4 3 (0.33%) Adaptiv
4 3 (0.33%) Maximo
5 1 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.11%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 454 (50.17%) AWS
2 144 (15.91%) Azure
3 132 (14.59%) GCP
4 75 (8.29%) Amazon EKS
5 60 (6.63%) dbt
6 59 (6.52%) Serverless
7 58 (6.41%) Snowflake
8 54 (5.97%) GitHub
9 53 (5.86%) SaaS
10 35 (3.87%) Amazon EC2
11 32 (3.54%) Amazon ECS
12 31 (3.43%) AWS Lambda
13 29 (3.20%) Datadog
14 23 (2.54%) GitHub Actions
15 21 (2.32%) Amazon Kinesis
16 20 (2.21%) Amazon S3
17 17 (1.88%) OpenShift
18 15 (1.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 13 (1.44%) Amazon EMR
20 12 (1.33%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.43%) TCP/IP
2 10 (1.10%) HTTP
3 9 (0.99%) Multicast
4 8 (0.88%) VPN
5 5 (0.55%) DNS
6 4 (0.44%) Broadband
6 4 (0.44%) Firewall
6 4 (0.44%) Kerberos
6 4 (0.44%) LAN
6 4 (0.44%) SAN
6 4 (0.44%) WAN
7 3 (0.33%) BGP
7 3 (0.33%) DHCP
7 3 (0.33%) VLAN
8 2 (0.22%) AMQP
8 2 (0.22%) FTP
8 2 (0.22%) NAS
8 2 (0.22%) SMTP
8 2 (0.22%) SNMP
8 2 (0.22%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (10.83%) Relational Database
2 91 (10.06%) PostgreSQL
3 68 (7.51%) Data Lake
4 54 (5.97%) Apache Iceberg
5 53 (5.86%) Amazon Athena
5 53 (5.86%) Apache Arrow
5 53 (5.86%) Dremio
6 52 (5.75%) Apache Ignite
7 49 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
8 46 (5.08%) NoSQL
9 45 (4.97%) MongoDB
10 44 (4.86%) RDBMS
11 41 (4.53%) Big Data
12 39 (4.31%) SQL Server
13 36 (3.98%) Hadoop
14 22 (2.43%) DynamoDB
15 18 (1.99%) DB2
15 18 (1.99%) MySQL
16 17 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
17 15 (1.66%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 79 (8.73%) Jenkins
2 48 (5.30%) Git
3 41 (4.53%) Selenium
4 33 (3.65%) JUnit
5 31 (3.43%) TeamCity
6 29 (3.20%) JIRA
7 28 (3.09%) JMeter
8 27 (2.98%) Cucumber
9 25 (2.76%) GitLab
10 22 (2.43%) Mockito
11 20 (2.21%) Cypress.io
12 16 (1.77%) Bitbucket
13 11 (1.22%) WebDriver
14 10 (1.10%) Maven
15 9 (0.99%) Postman
16 8 (0.88%) Vite
17 7 (0.77%) Subversion
18 6 (0.66%) webpack
19 5 (0.55%) CircleCI
19 5 (0.55%) REST Assured
General
1 417 (46.08%) Finance
2 268 (29.61%) Banking
3 253 (27.96%) Social Skills
4 160 (17.68%) Front Office
5 124 (13.70%) Investment Banking
6 108 (11.93%) Law
7 91 (10.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 87 (9.61%) Analytical Skills
9 79 (8.73%) Financial Institution
10 48 (5.30%) Public Sector
11 32 (3.54%) Retail
12 30 (3.31%) Back Office
13 16 (1.77%) Billing
13 16 (1.77%) Marketing
14 15 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
15 13 (1.44%) Games
16 11 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (1.22%) Telecoms
17 10 (1.10%) Legal
18 7 (0.77%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 330 (36.46%) Developer
2 265 (29.28%) Software Engineer
3 232 (25.64%) Senior
4 175 (19.34%) Java Engineer
5 162 (17.90%) Java Developer
6 152 (16.80%) Lead
7 132 (14.59%) Java Software Engineer
8 105 (11.60%) Senior Software Engineer
9 93 (10.28%) Senior Java Engineer
10 86 (9.50%) AWS Engineer
11 71 (7.85%) Full-Stack Developer
12 70 (7.73%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 65 (7.18%) Python Engineer
14 61 (6.74%) Lead Software Engineer
15 59 (6.52%) AWS Software Engineer
16 57 (6.30%) Python Software Engineer
17 52 (5.75%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 40 (4.42%) Architect
19 38 (4.20%) Senior Developer
20 35 (3.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (19.67%) Spring
2 175 (19.34%) React
3 165 (18.23%) Kafka
4 125 (13.81%) Spring Boot
5 97 (10.72%) Node.js
6 96 (10.61%) REST
7 81 (8.95%) RESTful
8 73 (8.07%) .NET
9 58 (6.41%) AngularJS
9 58 (6.41%) Pandas
10 55 (6.08%) GraphQL
10 55 (6.08%) HTML
11 54 (5.97%) gRPC
12 53 (5.86%) NumPy
12 53 (5.86%) SciPy
13 50 (5.52%) Protocol Buffers
14 38 (4.20%) Hibernate
15 34 (3.76%) CSS
15 34 (3.76%) Web Services
16 31 (3.43%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 178 (19.67%) Cloud Native
2 151 (16.69%) Distributed Systems
3 108 (11.93%) Equities
4 101 (11.16%) Fixed Income
5 94 (10.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 80 (8.84%) Derivative
7 64 (7.07%) Hedge funds
8 54 (5.97%) Algorithms
9 51 (5.64%) Pricing Data
10 45 (4.97%) Onboarding
11 39 (4.31%) Product Ownership
12 36 (3.98%) Greenfield Project
13 33 (3.65%) Public Cloud
14 27 (2.98%) Management Information System
15 23 (2.54%) Data Structures
15 23 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
16 22 (2.43%) FPGA
17 17 (1.88%) Legacy Code
18 16 (1.77%) Distributed Architecture
18 16 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 105 (11.60%) Linux
2 24 (2.65%) Windows
3 14 (1.55%) Unix
4 9 (0.99%) Android
5 6 (0.66%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.44%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.22%) CentOS
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.22%) VMS
8 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.11%) AIX
9 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 400 (44.20%) Agile
2 356 (39.34%) Software Engineering
3 298 (32.93%) CI/CD
4 219 (24.20%) Microservices
5 180 (19.89%) Problem-Solving
6 157 (17.35%) Test Automation
7 155 (17.13%) DevOps
8 154 (17.02%) Full-Stack Development
9 121 (13.37%) Computer Science
10 115 (12.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 105 (11.60%) SDLC
12 104 (11.49%) Low Latency
13 103 (11.38%) Fintech
14 102 (11.27%) Mentoring
15 92 (10.17%) AI
16 85 (9.39%) Investment Management
16 85 (9.39%) TDD
17 81 (8.95%) Containerisation
18 80 (8.84%) Roadmaps
18 80 (8.84%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 378 (41.77%) Python
2 216 (23.87%) JavaScript
3 183 (20.22%) TypeScript
4 154 (17.02%) SQL
5 107 (11.82%) C#
6 76 (8.40%) Go
7 75 (8.29%) C++
8 64 (7.07%) Kotlin
9 48 (5.30%) Scala
10 46 (5.08%) C
11 27 (2.98%) Shell Script
12 19 (2.10%) Rust
13 12 (1.33%) Ruby
14 11 (1.22%) Groovy
15 7 (0.77%) Bash
15 7 (0.77%) PowerShell
16 6 (0.66%) Perl
16 6 (0.66%) R
16 6 (0.66%) VBA
17 4 (0.44%) RPG
Qualifications
1 134 (14.81%) Degree
2 86 (9.50%) Security Cleared
3 52 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 47 (5.19%) SC Cleared
5 46 (5.08%) Master's Degree
6 26 (2.87%) DV Cleared
6 26 (2.87%) PhD
7 25 (2.76%) AWS Certification
8 13 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (0.99%) Azure Certification
10 8 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.44%) CFA
12 4 (0.44%) CREST Certified
12 4 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.44%) OSCE
12 4 (0.44%) OSCP
12 4 (0.44%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.44%) PMP
13 3 (0.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (4.31%) QA
2 23 (2.54%) Accessibility
3 18 (1.99%) GDPR
4 11 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.10%) Data Quality
6 8 (0.88%) SLA
7 5 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.55%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.44%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.44%) ISO 9001
8 4 (0.44%) SEPA
9 3 (0.33%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.22%) ITGC
10 2 (0.22%) PSD2
11 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 129 (14.25%) Docker
2 17 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (1.55%) Virtual Servers
4 11 (1.22%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.88%) HDFS
6 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.11%) KVM
Systems Management
1 201 (22.21%) Kubernetes
2 52 (5.75%) Terraform
3 28 (3.09%) Grafana
4 23 (2.54%) Kibana
5 20 (2.21%) Ansible
6 14 (1.55%) Prometheus
7 13 (1.44%) Argo
8 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.44%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.33%) Control-M
10 3 (0.33%) Nagios
11 2 (0.22%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.22%) logstash
11 2 (0.22%) Puppet
11 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 2 (0.22%) WSUS
12 1 (0.11%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.11%) Icinga
Vendors
1 45 (4.97%) Oracle
2 36 (3.98%) Guidewire
3 28 (3.09%) Microsoft
4 25 (2.76%) Google
5 24 (2.65%) Splunk
6 20 (2.21%) Dynatrace
7 18 (1.99%) Databricks
7 18 (1.99%) Informatica
7 18 (1.99%) Talend
8 15 (1.66%) MuleSoft
9 13 (1.44%) Atlassian
9 13 (1.44%) Dell
9 13 (1.44%) IBM
10 10 (1.10%) Red Hat
11 9 (0.99%) SAP
12 8 (0.88%) Solace
13 7 (0.77%) OpenAI
14 6 (0.66%) HP
14 6 (0.66%) SnapLogic
15 5 (0.55%) Salesforce