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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 27 17
Rank change year-on-year -10 -10 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 883 1,185 2,051
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.88% 7.78% 9.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.79% 19.26% 22.58%
Number of salaries quoted 542 778 1,694
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £101,250 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £140,750 £143,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -6.45%

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 4,461 6,154 9,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 29.71% 40.43% 42.92%
Number of salaries quoted 3,137 3,961 7,870
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £78,500
Median % change year-on-year - +1.91% +1.29%
75th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £126,750 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 4 February 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 4 February 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 +6 155 £100,000 +11.11% 82
South London -2 15 £70,000 +16.67% 7
West London -9 12 £82,500 +175.00% 18
East London -9 4 £75,000 -50.00% 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 40 (4.53%) Apache Spark
2 28 (3.17%) Apache
3 27 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (1.70%) Confluence
5 12 (1.36%) JBoss
6 11 (1.25%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.68%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.45%) Appian
8 4 (0.45%) nginx
8 4 (0.45%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.34%) Liferay
9 3 (0.34%) Luigi
9 3 (0.34%) Mule
10 2 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.23%) Camunda
10 2 (0.23%) Moodle
10 2 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.11%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.11%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (1.02%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (0.79%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.68%) Maximo
3 4 (0.45%) Shopify
4 2 (0.23%) Adaptiv
4 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 400 (45.30%) AWS
2 131 (14.84%) GCP
3 120 (13.59%) Azure
4 82 (9.29%) Amazon EKS
5 72 (8.15%) SaaS
6 44 (4.98%) GitHub
6 44 (4.98%) Serverless
7 29 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
8 25 (2.83%) Amazon Kinesis
9 24 (2.72%) Datadog
9 24 (2.72%) dbt
9 24 (2.72%) Snowflake
10 22 (2.49%) OpenShift
11 21 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
12 20 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
12 20 (2.27%) Amazon S3
13 16 (1.81%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (1.81%) Pulumi
14 15 (1.70%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (1.70%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.62%) TCP/IP
2 18 (2.04%) Broadband
3 12 (1.36%) HTTP
4 10 (1.13%) VPN
5 8 (0.91%) Multicast
6 6 (0.68%) BGP
6 6 (0.68%) VLAN
7 5 (0.57%) AMQP
8 4 (0.45%) Firewall
8 4 (0.45%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.34%) DNS
10 2 (0.23%) DHCP
10 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.23%) Internet
10 2 (0.23%) LAN
10 2 (0.23%) NAS
10 2 (0.23%) SAN
10 2 (0.23%) SNMP
10 2 (0.23%) WAN
11 1 (0.11%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (9.85%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (9.51%) Relational Database
3 65 (7.36%) NoSQL
4 52 (5.89%) RDBMS
5 45 (5.10%) Data Warehouse
6 38 (4.30%) SQL Server
7 35 (3.96%) Big Data
8 34 (3.85%) Hadoop
8 34 (3.85%) MongoDB
9 26 (2.94%) Data Lake
10 24 (2.72%) DB2
11 20 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
11 20 (2.27%) DynamoDB
12 18 (2.04%) Apache Ignite
13 16 (1.81%) Amazon Athena
13 16 (1.81%) Neo4j
14 15 (1.70%) Apache Arrow
14 15 (1.70%) Dremio
14 15 (1.70%) MySQL
14 15 (1.70%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 60 (6.80%) Jenkins
2 51 (5.78%) TeamCity
3 48 (5.44%) Selenium
4 35 (3.96%) Git
5 34 (3.85%) JIRA
6 30 (3.40%) Cucumber
7 22 (2.49%) GitLab
8 20 (2.27%) Bitbucket
8 20 (2.27%) JUnit
9 17 (1.93%) Cypress.io
9 17 (1.93%) JMeter
10 16 (1.81%) Jaeger
11 13 (1.47%) WebDriver
12 10 (1.13%) Mockito
12 10 (1.13%) Postman
13 9 (1.02%) Maven
14 6 (0.68%) Gradle
14 6 (0.68%) Subversion
14 6 (0.68%) Vite
15 5 (0.57%) webpack
General
1 311 (35.22%) Finance
2 232 (26.27%) Banking
3 225 (25.48%) Social Skills
4 95 (10.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 92 (10.42%) Front Office
6 91 (10.31%) Law
7 84 (9.51%) Financial Institution
8 79 (8.95%) Investment Banking
9 69 (7.81%) Retail
10 66 (7.47%) Analytical Skills
11 47 (5.32%) Public Sector
12 43 (4.87%) Back Office
13 24 (2.72%) Telecoms
14 17 (1.93%) Billing
15 16 (1.81%) Games
16 13 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
18 6 (0.68%) Legal
18 6 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
18 6 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 297 (33.64%) Developer
2 223 (25.25%) Senior
3 202 (22.88%) Software Engineer
4 170 (19.25%) Java Developer
5 152 (17.21%) Java Engineer
6 130 (14.72%) Lead
7 96 (10.87%) Java Software Engineer
8 79 (8.95%) Full-Stack Developer
8 79 (8.95%) Senior Software Engineer
9 69 (7.81%) Senior Java Engineer
10 59 (6.68%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 57 (6.46%) AWS Engineer
12 53 (6.00%) Architect
13 50 (5.66%) Senior Developer
14 45 (5.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 43 (4.87%) Senior Java Software Engineer
16 32 (3.62%) Development Engineer
16 32 (3.62%) Senior Java Developer
17 30 (3.40%) Cloud Engineer
17 30 (3.40%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (21.18%) Spring
2 149 (16.87%) React
3 137 (15.52%) Spring Boot
4 114 (12.91%) Kafka
5 103 (11.66%) REST
6 66 (7.47%) Node.js
7 62 (7.02%) RESTful
8 61 (6.91%) .NET
9 49 (5.55%) HTML
10 44 (4.98%) AngularJS
11 36 (4.08%) CSS
11 36 (4.08%) Elastic Stack
12 34 (3.85%) Hibernate
12 34 (3.85%) SOAP
13 31 (3.51%) GraphQL
14 28 (3.17%) Web Services
15 26 (2.94%) JSON
16 24 (2.72%) FIX Protocol
17 23 (2.60%) XML
18 22 (2.49%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 184 (20.84%) Cloud Native
2 138 (15.63%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (6.46%) Equities
4 52 (5.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 46 (5.21%) Product Ownership
6 37 (4.19%) Derivative
7 33 (3.74%) Fixed Income
8 32 (3.62%) Algorithms
8 32 (3.62%) Blog
8 32 (3.62%) Greenfield Project
9 26 (2.94%) Hedge funds
10 25 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
11 24 (2.72%) Public Cloud
12 23 (2.60%) Onboarding
13 21 (2.38%) Distributed Architecture
13 21 (2.38%) FPGA
14 20 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
14 20 (2.27%) Management Information System
15 18 (2.04%) Data Structures
16 17 (1.93%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 114 (12.91%) Linux
2 27 (3.06%) Unix
3 22 (2.49%) Windows
4 14 (1.59%) Android
5 4 (0.45%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.45%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.23%) CentOS
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.11%) AIX
8 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (34.20%) Software Engineering
2 292 (33.07%) CI/CD
3 290 (32.84%) Agile
4 213 (24.12%) Microservices
5 177 (20.05%) DevOps
6 173 (19.59%) Test Automation
7 157 (17.78%) Full-Stack Development
8 147 (16.65%) Problem-Solving
9 141 (15.97%) Mentoring
10 106 (12.00%) Fintech
11 104 (11.78%) Roadmaps
12 102 (11.55%) Continuous Improvement
13 98 (11.10%) Containerisation
14 93 (10.53%) Computer Science
14 93 (10.53%) Low Latency
15 89 (10.08%) AI
15 89 (10.08%) Technical Leadership
16 72 (8.15%) Clean Code
17 71 (8.04%) TDD
18 69 (7.81%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 290 (32.84%) Python
2 168 (19.03%) JavaScript
3 139 (15.74%) SQL
4 118 (13.36%) TypeScript
5 88 (9.97%) C#
6 76 (8.61%) Go
7 59 (6.68%) C++
8 55 (6.23%) Kotlin
9 41 (4.64%) C
10 38 (4.30%) Scala
11 26 (2.94%) Bash
11 26 (2.94%) Rust
12 14 (1.59%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.91%) PowerShell
14 7 (0.79%) PHP
14 7 (0.79%) Ruby
15 6 (0.68%) Groovy
15 6 (0.68%) VBA
16 5 (0.57%) Apex Code
16 5 (0.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 119 (13.48%) Degree
2 117 (13.25%) Security Cleared
3 68 (7.70%) SC Cleared
4 46 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (4.98%) DV Cleared
6 36 (4.08%) AWS Certification
7 33 (3.74%) Master's Degree
8 17 (1.93%) PhD
9 15 (1.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (0.91%) Azure Certification
10 8 (0.91%) CREST Certified
10 8 (0.91%) OSCP
11 7 (0.79%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.57%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.45%) OSCE
14 3 (0.34%) ISEB
14 3 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (3.85%) QA
2 19 (2.15%) GDPR
3 18 (2.04%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.47%) Data Quality
4 13 (1.47%) PCI DSS
4 13 (1.47%) SOC 2
5 7 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.45%) EU AI Act
7 4 (0.45%) SEPA
7 4 (0.45%) SLA
8 2 (0.23%) PSD2
9 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.11%) MiFID
9 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 141 (15.97%) Docker
2 15 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (1.59%) Virtual Servers
4 9 (1.02%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.91%) HDFS
6 3 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.23%) KVM
8 1 (0.11%) Firmware
8 1 (0.11%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.11%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.11%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 223 (25.25%) Kubernetes
2 95 (10.76%) Terraform
3 47 (5.32%) Grafana
4 39 (4.42%) Ansible
5 30 (3.40%) Argo
6 23 (2.60%) Prometheus
7 16 (1.81%) Kustomize
8 14 (1.59%) Kibana
9 7 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.45%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.34%) Puppet
13 2 (0.23%) logstash
13 2 (0.23%) Nagios
13 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Spacewalk
14 1 (0.11%) Icinga
14 1 (0.11%) Rancher
Vendors
1 34 (3.85%) Google
2 33 (3.74%) Oracle
3 20 (2.27%) Guidewire
4 19 (2.15%) Informatica
4 19 (2.15%) Talend
5 17 (1.93%) Databricks
5 17 (1.93%) IBM
6 15 (1.70%) Atlassian
7 14 (1.59%) Microsoft
7 14 (1.59%) Splunk
8 13 (1.47%) MuleSoft
9 11 (1.25%) Dell
9 11 (1.25%) Dynatrace
10 10 (1.13%) OpenAI
11 8 (0.91%) Salesforce
11 8 (0.91%) Solace
12 7 (0.79%) Red Hat
13 6 (0.68%) SAP
14 5 (0.57%) ForgeRock
15 4 (0.45%) SnapLogic