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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 23 17
Rank change year-on-year -12 -6 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,036 1,153 2,207
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.83% 9.47% 8.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.43% 22.69% 22.39%
Number of salaries quoted 586 728 1,684
10th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £125,313
90th Percentile £133,750 £142,500 £150,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -6.25%

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 5,332 5,081 9,859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.84% 41.75% 39.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3,766 3,521 7,693
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.48% +0.63% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £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 18 June 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 18 June 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 -21 152 £100,000 +2.56% 51
South London -7 23 £60,000 -27.27% 6
West London -11 20 £80,000 +166.67% 12
East London -7 3 - - 7
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 21 (2.03%) Confluence
2 20 (1.93%) Apache Spark
3 17 (1.64%) Apache
4 15 (1.45%) Palantir Foundry
5 12 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.68%) JBoss
7 5 (0.48%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.39%) Camunda
8 4 (0.39%) CMS
9 3 (0.29%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.29%) SAS
10 2 (0.19%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.19%) Liferay
10 2 (0.19%) Moodle
10 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.097%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.097%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.097%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.097%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 8 (0.77%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.097%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (1.06%) Maximo
2 5 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.48%) Temenos T24
3 3 (0.29%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.097%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.097%) Endur
4 1 (0.097%) Findur
4 1 (0.097%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.097%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 455 (43.92%) AWS
2 190 (18.34%) GCP
3 172 (16.60%) Azure
4 61 (5.89%) Amazon EKS
4 61 (5.89%) SaaS
5 51 (4.92%) GitHub
6 47 (4.54%) AWS CloudFormation
7 25 (2.41%) OpenShift
7 25 (2.41%) Serverless
8 20 (1.93%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (1.83%) Pulumi
10 18 (1.74%) Amazon S3
11 16 (1.54%) dbt
12 15 (1.45%) Azure Service Bus
13 14 (1.35%) Amazon ECS
13 14 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (1.35%) GitHub Copilot
14 12 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (1.06%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.90%) HTTP
2 25 (2.41%) Broadband
3 23 (2.22%) TCP/IP
4 11 (1.06%) DMARC
5 4 (0.39%) IPv4
5 4 (0.39%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.29%) BGP
6 3 (0.29%) Kerberos
6 3 (0.29%) Network Security
6 3 (0.29%) VLAN
6 3 (0.29%) VPN
7 2 (0.19%) AMQP
7 2 (0.19%) Firewall
7 2 (0.19%) Internet
7 2 (0.19%) LAN
7 2 (0.19%) SAN
7 2 (0.19%) WAN
8 1 (0.097%) FIX Connectivity
8 1 (0.097%) LTE
8 1 (0.097%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (7.34%) NoSQL
2 57 (5.50%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (5.50%) Relational Database
3 28 (2.70%) MongoDB
3 28 (2.70%) RDBMS
4 22 (2.12%) Db2
4 22 (2.12%) SQL Server
5 15 (1.45%) BigQuery
6 11 (1.06%) DynamoDB
6 11 (1.06%) MySQL
7 10 (0.97%) Metadata
8 9 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (0.87%) Redis
9 8 (0.77%) Big Data
10 7 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
10 7 (0.68%) Hadoop
11 6 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (0.48%) Cloud Spanner
Development Applications
1 54 (5.21%) Git
2 53 (5.12%) TeamCity
3 49 (4.73%) GitLab
4 44 (4.25%) Jenkins
5 33 (3.19%) Selenium
6 32 (3.09%) JIRA
7 30 (2.90%) Cucumber
8 18 (1.74%) JUnit
9 15 (1.45%) Jaeger
9 15 (1.45%) Maven
10 14 (1.35%) Gradle
11 13 (1.25%) Bitbucket
12 11 (1.06%) Claude Code
13 9 (0.87%) Postman
14 8 (0.77%) Cypress.io
15 7 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 7 (0.68%) Mockito
15 7 (0.68%) WebDriver
16 6 (0.58%) JMeter
17 5 (0.48%) SpecFlow
General
1 403 (38.90%) Finance
2 198 (19.11%) Banking
3 169 (16.31%) Social Skills
4 106 (10.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 100 (9.65%) Front Office
6 81 (7.82%) Law
7 77 (7.43%) Public Sector
8 74 (7.14%) Retail
9 65 (6.27%) Financial Institution
10 59 (5.69%) Analytical Skills
11 44 (4.25%) Back Office
12 30 (2.90%) Investment Banking
13 21 (2.03%) Telecoms
14 17 (1.64%) Games
15 15 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
16 14 (1.35%) Billing
17 11 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.77%) Health Technology
18 8 (0.77%) Tech for Good
19 7 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 331 (31.95%) Developer
2 255 (24.61%) Senior
3 251 (24.23%) Software Engineer
4 217 (20.95%) Java Engineer
5 190 (18.34%) Java Developer
6 154 (14.86%) Lead
7 89 (8.59%) Java Software Engineer
8 85 (8.20%) Senior Developer
9 79 (7.63%) Senior Software Engineer
10 62 (5.98%) Senior Java Engineer
11 58 (5.60%) Lead Software Engineer
12 52 (5.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 52 (5.02%) Senior Java Developer
13 50 (4.83%) Full-Stack Developer
14 46 (4.44%) Architect
15 45 (4.34%) Principal Engineer
16 43 (4.15%) Software Developer
17 37 (3.57%) Engineering Manager
18 36 (3.47%) Developer/Software Engineer
19 32 (3.09%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 252 (24.32%) Spring
2 212 (20.46%) Spring Boot
3 146 (14.09%) Kafka
4 120 (11.58%) React
5 112 (10.81%) REST
6 79 (7.63%) Node.js
7 58 (5.60%) .NET
8 54 (5.21%) AngularJS
9 53 (5.12%) RESTful
10 41 (3.96%) GraphQL
11 37 (3.57%) Web Services
12 34 (3.28%) Redux
13 29 (2.80%) HTML
14 28 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
15 26 (2.51%) OAuth
16 25 (2.41%) SOAP
17 23 (2.22%) CSS
17 23 (2.22%) Middleware
18 22 (2.12%) Hibernate
19 20 (1.93%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 200 (19.31%) Cloud Native
2 102 (9.85%) Distributed Systems
3 95 (9.17%) Product Ownership
4 86 (8.30%) Public Cloud
5 49 (4.73%) Fixed Income
6 46 (4.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 31 (2.99%) Distributed Architecture
8 30 (2.90%) Equities
9 29 (2.80%) Blog
10 22 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
11 21 (2.03%) e-Learning
12 19 (1.83%) FPGA
13 17 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
14 15 (1.45%) Onboarding
15 13 (1.25%) Data Structures
16 12 (1.16%) Security Posture
17 11 (1.06%) AI Agents
17 11 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
17 11 (1.06%) Mobile Banking
18 9 (0.87%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 109 (10.52%) Linux
2 26 (2.51%) Unix
3 24 (2.32%) Windows
4 21 (2.03%) Android
5 9 (0.87%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.77%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 387 (37.36%) Software Engineering
2 314 (30.31%) CI/CD
3 296 (28.57%) Agile
4 249 (24.03%) Microservices
5 220 (21.24%) DevOps
6 205 (19.79%) Test Automation
7 201 (19.40%) Mentoring
8 173 (16.70%) Roadmaps
9 144 (13.90%) Full-Stack Development
9 144 (13.90%) Technical Leadership
10 135 (13.03%) Containerisation
11 133 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
12 128 (12.36%) Infrastructure as Code
13 123 (11.87%) AI
14 102 (9.85%) Fintech
15 98 (9.46%) Continuous Improvement
16 90 (8.69%) Low Latency
17 86 (8.30%) Event-Driven
18 78 (7.53%) Clean Code
19 77 (7.43%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 300 (28.96%) Python
2 153 (14.77%) SQL
3 151 (14.58%) JavaScript
4 105 (10.14%) Go
5 94 (9.07%) TypeScript
6 92 (8.88%) C#
6 92 (8.88%) C++
7 45 (4.34%) Bash
8 44 (4.25%) Kotlin
9 33 (3.19%) Rust
10 30 (2.90%) C
11 20 (1.93%) PowerShell
11 20 (1.93%) Scala
12 9 (0.87%) R
13 8 (0.77%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.68%) Julia
14 7 (0.68%) MATLAB
15 6 (0.58%) Groovy
15 6 (0.58%) PHP
16 5 (0.48%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 137 (13.22%) Security Cleared
2 95 (9.17%) Degree
3 90 (8.69%) SC Cleared
4 58 (5.60%) DV Cleared
5 52 (5.02%) AWS Certification
6 47 (4.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (2.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 16 (1.54%) OSCP
9 12 (1.16%) CREST Certified
10 11 (1.06%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.87%) ISTQB
11 9 (0.87%) PhD
12 7 (0.68%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
15 4 (0.39%) CCNA
15 4 (0.39%) RHCE
15 4 (0.39%) RHCSA
16 3 (0.29%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (4.63%) QA
2 16 (1.54%) GDPR
3 15 (1.45%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.35%) GRC
5 11 (1.06%) PCI DSS
6 10 (0.97%) SOC 2
7 7 (0.68%) Accessibility
7 7 (0.68%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.39%) NIST
10 3 (0.29%) WCAG
11 2 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.097%) MiFID
System Software
1 136 (13.13%) Docker
2 11 (1.06%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.48%) KVM
4 4 (0.39%) Squid
4 4 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (0.39%) VMware NSX
4 4 (0.39%) vSphere
5 2 (0.19%) Firmware
5 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.097%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.097%) OpenDJ
6 1 (0.097%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.097%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 230 (22.20%) Kubernetes
2 139 (13.42%) Terraform
3 77 (7.43%) Grafana
4 44 (4.25%) Ansible
5 37 (3.57%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.74%) Argo
7 15 (1.45%) Kustomize
8 8 (0.77%) Kibana
9 7 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.39%) Packer
10 4 (0.39%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.29%) Puppet
12 2 (0.19%) Data Guard
12 2 (0.19%) Oracle Flashback
12 2 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.19%) Rancher
12 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.19%) WSUS
13 1 (0.097%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 45 (4.34%) Google
2 33 (3.19%) Microsoft
3 30 (2.90%) Oracle
4 23 (2.22%) Palantir
4 23 (2.22%) Splunk
5 20 (1.93%) IBM
6 17 (1.64%) Foundry
7 14 (1.35%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.16%) Red Hat
8 12 (1.16%) VMware
9 11 (1.06%) SendGrid
9 11 (1.06%) Solace
10 10 (0.97%) MuleSoft
10 10 (0.97%) Salesforce
11 7 (0.68%) Dynatrace
12 6 (0.58%) Databricks
13 5 (0.48%) Guidewire
13 5 (0.48%) SAP
14 4 (0.39%) JDA
14 4 (0.39%) Sybase