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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 26 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 -11 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 829 1,252 1,858
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.96% 8.03% 10.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.33% 19.42% 23.69%
Number of salaries quoted 543 812 1,527
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £54,750
25th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £139,500 £142,500 £143,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -

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 4,288 6,447 7,842
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 30.80% 41.34% 43.85%
Number of salaries quoted 3,032 4,136 6,805
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £101,250 £105,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.56% -1.54%

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 8 January 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 8 January 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 +10 155 £100,000 +11.11% 90
South London +8 22 £76,250 +27.08% 15
West London -7 8 £71,250 +28.38% 13
East London -15 2 £75,000 -40.00% 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 46 (5.55%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (5.43%) Apache
3 40 (4.83%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.93%) Confluence
5 9 (1.09%) JBoss
6 8 (0.97%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.72%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.48%) Appian
8 4 (0.48%) nginx
8 4 (0.48%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.36%) Liferay
9 3 (0.36%) Luigi
9 3 (0.36%) Mule
10 2 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.24%) Camunda
10 2 (0.24%) Moodle
11 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.12%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.12%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (1.09%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (0.84%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.48%) Shopify
3 3 (0.36%) Maximo
4 2 (0.24%) Adaptiv
4 2 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.12%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 377 (45.48%) AWS
2 127 (15.32%) Azure
3 113 (13.63%) GCP
4 66 (7.96%) Amazon EKS
5 54 (6.51%) SaaS
6 46 (5.55%) GitHub
7 45 (5.43%) Serverless
8 42 (5.07%) Snowflake
9 41 (4.95%) dbt
10 27 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
11 26 (3.14%) Amazon Kinesis
12 25 (3.02%) Datadog
13 22 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
14 21 (2.53%) Amazon ECS
15 19 (2.29%) OpenShift
16 17 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
17 15 (1.81%) Amazon S3
17 15 (1.81%) GitHub Copilot
18 11 (1.33%) Amazon EMR
19 10 (1.21%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.50%) TCP/IP
2 13 (1.57%) HTTP
3 8 (0.97%) Broadband
3 8 (0.97%) Multicast
4 7 (0.84%) VPN
5 4 (0.48%) AMQP
5 4 (0.48%) DNS
5 4 (0.48%) Firewall
5 4 (0.48%) Kerberos
6 3 (0.36%) BGP
6 3 (0.36%) LAN
6 3 (0.36%) SAN
6 3 (0.36%) VLAN
6 3 (0.36%) WAN
7 2 (0.24%) DHCP
7 2 (0.24%) FTP
7 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.24%) Internet
7 2 (0.24%) SMTP
7 2 (0.24%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (9.65%) Relational Database
2 77 (9.29%) PostgreSQL
3 49 (5.91%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (5.79%) NoSQL
5 47 (5.67%) Data Lake
6 43 (5.19%) RDBMS
7 41 (4.95%) SQL Server
8 40 (4.83%) MongoDB
9 36 (4.34%) Apache Ignite
9 36 (4.34%) Big Data
10 34 (4.10%) Hadoop
11 33 (3.98%) Amazon Athena
11 33 (3.98%) Apache Arrow
11 33 (3.98%) Apache Iceberg
11 33 (3.98%) Dremio
12 21 (2.53%) DB2
13 19 (2.29%) DynamoDB
14 18 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
15 15 (1.81%) Neo4j
15 15 (1.81%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 68 (8.20%) Jenkins
2 46 (5.55%) Selenium
3 36 (4.34%) Git
4 34 (4.10%) JIRA
5 33 (3.98%) TeamCity
6 27 (3.26%) Cucumber
7 22 (2.65%) GitLab
7 22 (2.65%) JMeter
7 22 (2.65%) JUnit
8 20 (2.41%) Bitbucket
9 19 (2.29%) Cypress.io
10 15 (1.81%) Mockito
11 12 (1.45%) WebDriver
12 11 (1.33%) Postman
13 7 (0.84%) Maven
13 7 (0.84%) Subversion
14 6 (0.72%) Vite
14 6 (0.72%) webpack
15 5 (0.60%) Jaeger
15 5 (0.60%) REST Assured
General
1 316 (38.12%) Finance
2 226 (27.26%) Social Skills
3 222 (26.78%) Banking
4 112 (13.51%) Front Office
5 97 (11.70%) Investment Banking
6 73 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
7 70 (8.44%) Financial Institution
8 61 (7.36%) Law
9 47 (5.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 46 (5.55%) Public Sector
11 37 (4.46%) Retail
12 29 (3.50%) Back Office
13 19 (2.29%) Telecoms
14 18 (2.17%) Billing
15 13 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
16 10 (1.21%) Games
17 6 (0.72%) Legal
17 6 (0.72%) Marketing
18 5 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 305 (36.79%) Developer
2 214 (25.81%) Senior
3 188 (22.68%) Software Engineer
4 170 (20.51%) Java Developer
5 144 (17.37%) Java Engineer
6 110 (13.27%) Lead
7 97 (11.70%) Java Software Engineer
8 84 (10.13%) Senior Software Engineer
9 78 (9.41%) Full-Stack Developer
10 77 (9.29%) Senior Java Engineer
11 64 (7.72%) AWS Engineer
12 58 (7.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 54 (6.51%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 44 (5.31%) Senior Developer
15 43 (5.19%) Architect
16 41 (4.95%) Python Engineer
17 39 (4.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 37 (4.46%) AWS Software Engineer
19 33 (3.98%) Development Engineer
19 33 (3.98%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (21.23%) Spring
2 146 (17.61%) React
3 126 (15.20%) Spring Boot
4 119 (14.35%) Kafka
5 97 (11.70%) REST
6 67 (8.08%) RESTful
7 66 (7.96%) Node.js
8 62 (7.48%) .NET
9 57 (6.88%) HTML
10 50 (6.03%) AngularJS
11 40 (4.83%) CSS
12 37 (4.46%) gRPC
13 36 (4.34%) Pandas
14 35 (4.22%) Hibernate
15 33 (3.98%) NumPy
15 33 (3.98%) Protocol Buffers
15 33 (3.98%) SciPy
16 30 (3.62%) GraphQL
17 26 (3.14%) Web Services
18 25 (3.02%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 145 (17.49%) Cloud Native
2 131 (15.80%) Distributed Systems
3 85 (10.25%) Equities
4 68 (8.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 56 (6.76%) Derivative
6 53 (6.39%) Fixed Income
7 47 (5.67%) Hedge funds
8 43 (5.19%) Algorithms
9 39 (4.70%) Product Ownership
10 35 (4.22%) Pricing Data
11 31 (3.74%) Greenfield Project
11 31 (3.74%) Onboarding
12 23 (2.77%) Management Information System
12 23 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
13 21 (2.53%) Data Structures
13 21 (2.53%) FPGA
14 20 (2.41%) Public Cloud
15 19 (2.29%) Distributed Architecture
16 17 (2.05%) Legacy Code
17 16 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 101 (12.18%) Linux
2 24 (2.90%) Windows
3 18 (2.17%) Unix
4 11 (1.33%) Android
5 4 (0.48%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.24%) CentOS
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.24%) VMS
8 1 (0.12%) AIX
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (35.46%) Agile
2 275 (33.17%) Software Engineering
3 256 (30.88%) CI/CD
4 192 (23.16%) Microservices
5 155 (18.70%) DevOps
6 154 (18.58%) Full-Stack Development
7 149 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
8 145 (17.49%) Test Automation
9 110 (13.27%) Mentoring
10 103 (12.42%) Computer Science
11 100 (12.06%) Continuous Improvement
12 97 (11.70%) Low Latency
13 87 (10.49%) Containerisation
14 84 (10.13%) Roadmaps
15 83 (10.01%) Fintech
16 81 (9.77%) AI
17 80 (9.65%) Technical Leadership
18 72 (8.69%) User Experience
19 70 (8.44%) TDD
20 67 (8.08%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 299 (36.07%) Python
2 172 (20.75%) JavaScript
3 138 (16.65%) SQL
4 134 (16.16%) TypeScript
5 96 (11.58%) C#
6 55 (6.63%) C++
7 54 (6.51%) Kotlin
8 51 (6.15%) Go
9 44 (5.31%) Scala
10 42 (5.07%) C
11 19 (2.29%) Shell Script
12 17 (2.05%) Rust
13 11 (1.33%) Bash
14 10 (1.21%) Groovy
14 10 (1.21%) Ruby
15 8 (0.97%) PowerShell
15 8 (0.97%) VBA
16 6 (0.72%) Perl
16 6 (0.72%) PHP
17 5 (0.60%) RPG
Qualifications
1 125 (15.08%) Degree
2 97 (11.70%) Security Cleared
3 52 (6.27%) SC Cleared
4 48 (5.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (5.07%) Master's Degree
6 39 (4.70%) DV Cleared
7 22 (2.65%) AWS Certification
7 22 (2.65%) PhD
8 10 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (1.09%) Azure Certification
10 8 (0.97%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (0.72%) CREST Certified
11 6 (0.72%) OSCP
12 5 (0.60%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.48%) OSCE
14 3 (0.36%) ISEB
14 3 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.24%) CFA
15 2 (0.24%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.10%) QA
2 20 (2.41%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.93%) GDPR
4 11 (1.33%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.60%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.60%) SLA
7 5 (0.60%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.48%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.48%) SEPA
9 2 (0.24%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.24%) PSD2
10 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 128 (15.44%) Docker
2 16 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (1.69%) Virtual Servers
4 10 (1.21%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.97%) HDFS
6 2 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.12%) Firmware
7 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.12%) KVM
7 1 (0.12%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.12%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.12%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 185 (22.32%) Kubernetes
2 48 (5.79%) Terraform
3 27 (3.26%) Grafana
4 24 (2.90%) Ansible
5 18 (2.17%) Argo
5 18 (2.17%) Kibana
6 12 (1.45%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.60%) Kustomize
7 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.48%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.36%) Nagios
10 2 (0.24%) Control-M
10 2 (0.24%) logstash
10 2 (0.24%) Puppet
10 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 1 (0.12%) Icinga
11 1 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 37 (4.46%) Oracle
2 28 (3.38%) Guidewire
3 24 (2.90%) Google
4 19 (2.29%) Informatica
4 19 (2.29%) Microsoft
4 19 (2.29%) Splunk
4 19 (2.29%) Talend
5 18 (2.17%) Databricks
6 15 (1.81%) Atlassian
6 15 (1.81%) Dynatrace
7 14 (1.69%) IBM
8 12 (1.45%) Dell
9 9 (1.09%) MuleSoft
10 7 (0.84%) OpenAI
10 7 (0.84%) Red Hat
10 7 (0.84%) SAP
11 6 (0.72%) Solace
12 5 (0.60%) ForgeRock
12 5 (0.60%) HP
13 4 (0.48%) Salesforce