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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 28 17
Rank change year-on-year -5 -11 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,059 990 2,087
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.08% 8.32% 8.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.11% 20.57% 22.00%
Number of salaries quoted 597 696 1,611
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £74,821 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £105,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £110,000 £130,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £142,500 £148,750
England median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £73,805
% change year-on-year -6.45% +5.01% -7.74%

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 5,265 4,814 9,485
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.26% 40.47% 40.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,728 3,476 7,558
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,438 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £132,500 £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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -13 160 £100,000 +1.01% 57
South London -17 23 £60,000 -27.27% 3
West London -19 18 £80,000 +166.67% 6
East London -11 3 - - 11
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 23 (2.17%) Apache Spark
2 19 (1.79%) Confluence
3 16 (1.51%) Apache
4 15 (1.42%) Palantir Foundry
5 14 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.66%) JBoss
7 5 (0.47%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.38%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.38%) Camunda
8 4 (0.38%) CMS
8 4 (0.38%) Moodle
9 3 (0.28%) Liferay
10 2 (0.19%) Appian
10 2 (0.19%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.19%) SAS
11 1 (0.094%) CICS
11 1 (0.094%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.094%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.094%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (0.57%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (1.04%) Maximo
2 5 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.28%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.28%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.094%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.094%) Endur
4 1 (0.094%) Findur
4 1 (0.094%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.094%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 460 (43.44%) AWS
2 195 (18.41%) GCP
3 165 (15.58%) Azure
4 68 (6.42%) Amazon EKS
5 65 (6.14%) SaaS
6 50 (4.72%) GitHub
7 43 (4.06%) AWS CloudFormation
8 28 (2.64%) Serverless
9 26 (2.46%) OpenShift
10 19 (1.79%) Pulumi
11 18 (1.70%) Amazon S3
11 18 (1.70%) GitHub Copilot
12 16 (1.51%) dbt
12 16 (1.51%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (1.32%) Datadog
15 13 (1.23%) Amazon ECS
15 13 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
16 12 (1.13%) Amazon EC2
17 10 (0.94%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.74%) HTTP
2 25 (2.36%) Broadband
3 24 (2.27%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.38%) DMARC
4 4 (0.38%) IPv4
4 4 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (0.28%) AMQP
5 3 (0.28%) BGP
5 3 (0.28%) Network Security
5 3 (0.28%) VLAN
5 3 (0.28%) VPN
6 2 (0.19%) Firewall
6 2 (0.19%) Internet
6 2 (0.19%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.19%) LAN
6 2 (0.19%) SAN
6 2 (0.19%) WAN
7 1 (0.094%) DHCP
7 1 (0.094%) DNS
7 1 (0.094%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (7.55%) NoSQL
2 60 (5.67%) Relational Database
3 58 (5.48%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (3.21%) RDBMS
5 27 (2.55%) MongoDB
5 27 (2.55%) SQL Server
6 22 (2.08%) DB2
7 17 (1.61%) DynamoDB
8 16 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (1.23%) Big Data
9 13 (1.23%) BigQuery
9 13 (1.23%) MySQL
10 10 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (0.94%) Hadoop
10 10 (0.94%) Redis
11 9 (0.85%) Metadata
11 9 (0.85%) Pentaho
12 8 (0.76%) Flink
13 7 (0.66%) Neo4j
13 7 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 59 (5.57%) TeamCity
2 51 (4.82%) Git
3 45 (4.25%) Jenkins
4 40 (3.78%) GitLab
5 39 (3.68%) Selenium
6 30 (2.83%) JIRA
7 29 (2.74%) Cucumber
8 17 (1.61%) Bitbucket
9 15 (1.42%) Gradle
9 15 (1.42%) Jaeger
9 15 (1.42%) JUnit
10 13 (1.23%) Maven
11 11 (1.04%) Claude Code
12 8 (0.76%) WebDriver
13 7 (0.66%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.66%) Postman
14 6 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 5 (0.47%) Mockito
15 5 (0.47%) SpecFlow
16 4 (0.38%) SonarQube
General
1 414 (39.09%) Finance
2 219 (20.68%) Banking
3 178 (16.81%) Social Skills
4 114 (10.76%) Front Office
5 111 (10.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 92 (8.69%) Law
7 82 (7.74%) Retail
8 71 (6.70%) Public Sector
9 67 (6.33%) Financial Institution
10 64 (6.04%) Analytical Skills
11 47 (4.44%) Back Office
12 36 (3.40%) Investment Banking
13 23 (2.17%) Telecoms
14 17 (1.61%) Billing
14 17 (1.61%) Games
14 17 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
16 9 (0.85%) Tech for Good
17 8 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
18 7 (0.66%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 350 (33.05%) Developer
2 268 (25.31%) Senior
3 261 (24.65%) Software Engineer
4 219 (20.68%) Java Engineer
5 201 (18.98%) Java Developer
6 164 (15.49%) Lead
7 103 (9.73%) Java Software Engineer
8 89 (8.40%) Senior Developer
9 84 (7.93%) Senior Software Engineer
10 65 (6.14%) Senior Java Engineer
11 59 (5.57%) Full-Stack Developer
11 59 (5.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 56 (5.29%) Lead Software Engineer
13 55 (5.19%) Senior Java Developer
14 46 (4.34%) Principal Engineer
15 39 (3.68%) Software Developer
16 38 (3.59%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 37 (3.49%) Architect
18 36 (3.40%) Developer/Software Engineer
19 35 (3.31%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 238 (22.47%) Spring
2 200 (18.89%) Spring Boot
3 139 (13.13%) Kafka
4 138 (13.03%) React
5 115 (10.86%) REST
6 79 (7.46%) Node.js
7 61 (5.76%) .NET
8 55 (5.19%) AngularJS
9 50 (4.72%) RESTful
10 44 (4.15%) GraphQL
11 39 (3.68%) Web Services
12 34 (3.21%) Redux
13 32 (3.02%) HTML
14 30 (2.83%) Elastic Stack
15 29 (2.74%) SOAP
16 27 (2.55%) CSS
17 23 (2.17%) Hibernate
18 22 (2.08%) OAuth
19 21 (1.98%) FIX Protocol
19 21 (1.98%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 190 (17.94%) Cloud Native
2 100 (9.44%) Distributed Systems
3 91 (8.59%) Product Ownership
4 77 (7.27%) Public Cloud
5 50 (4.72%) Fixed Income
6 45 (4.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 35 (3.31%) Blog
8 34 (3.21%) Equities
9 30 (2.83%) Distributed Architecture
10 20 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
10 20 (1.89%) FPGA
11 17 (1.61%) e-Learning
12 16 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
13 15 (1.42%) Data Structures
13 15 (1.42%) Derivative
14 14 (1.32%) Mobile Banking
15 13 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
15 13 (1.23%) Security Posture
16 11 (1.04%) Data Centre
16 11 (1.04%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 103 (9.73%) Linux
2 26 (2.46%) Android
3 25 (2.36%) Unix
4 22 (2.08%) Windows
5 11 (1.04%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.66%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.094%) CentOS
7 1 (0.094%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (36.45%) Software Engineering
2 321 (30.31%) CI/CD
3 297 (28.05%) Agile
4 237 (22.38%) Microservices
5 220 (20.77%) DevOps
6 199 (18.79%) Test Automation
7 196 (18.51%) Mentoring
8 172 (16.24%) Roadmaps
9 162 (15.30%) Full-Stack Development
10 145 (13.69%) Technical Leadership
11 133 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
12 122 (11.52%) AI
13 121 (11.43%) Containerisation
14 118 (11.14%) Infrastructure as Code
15 117 (11.05%) Fintech
16 99 (9.35%) Continuous Improvement
17 91 (8.59%) Low Latency
18 82 (7.74%) Clean Code
19 79 (7.46%) TDD
20 70 (6.61%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 302 (28.52%) Python
2 165 (15.58%) JavaScript
3 154 (14.54%) SQL
4 107 (10.10%) Go
5 97 (9.16%) TypeScript
6 84 (7.93%) C#
7 77 (7.27%) C++
8 49 (4.63%) Kotlin
9 41 (3.87%) Bash
10 29 (2.74%) C
11 23 (2.17%) Rust
12 20 (1.89%) Scala
13 18 (1.70%) PowerShell
14 8 (0.76%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.76%) VBA
15 7 (0.66%) PHP
16 5 (0.47%) Groovy
16 5 (0.47%) Perl
16 5 (0.47%) R
17 4 (0.38%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 137 (12.94%) Security Cleared
2 102 (9.63%) Degree
3 88 (8.31%) SC Cleared
4 62 (5.85%) DV Cleared
5 47 (4.44%) AWS Certification
6 46 (4.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 18 (1.70%) OSCP
9 15 (1.42%) Master's Degree
10 14 (1.32%) CREST Certified
11 11 (1.04%) PhD
12 8 (0.76%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.66%) Azure Certification
14 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
16 4 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
16 4 (0.38%) CCNA
16 4 (0.38%) RHCE
16 4 (0.38%) RHCSA
17 3 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (3.78%) QA
2 16 (1.51%) Data Quality
3 14 (1.32%) GRC
4 13 (1.23%) PCI DSS
5 12 (1.13%) SOC 2
6 9 (0.85%) GDPR
7 5 (0.47%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.38%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.28%) NIST
10 2 (0.19%) SLA
11 1 (0.094%) MiFID
11 1 (0.094%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.094%) WCAG
System Software
1 143 (13.50%) Docker
2 9 (0.85%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.38%) KVM
3 4 (0.38%) Squid
3 4 (0.38%) VMware NSX
3 4 (0.38%) vSphere
4 2 (0.19%) Firmware
4 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.094%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.094%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.094%) OpenDJ
5 1 (0.094%) OpenIDM
5 1 (0.094%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.094%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.094%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 236 (22.29%) Kubernetes
2 141 (13.31%) Terraform
3 73 (6.89%) Grafana
4 43 (4.06%) Ansible
5 31 (2.93%) Prometheus
6 22 (2.08%) Argo
7 15 (1.42%) Kustomize
8 7 (0.66%) Kibana
9 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.38%) Packer
10 4 (0.38%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.28%) 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
13 1 (0.094%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.094%) WSUS
Vendors
1 41 (3.87%) Google
2 32 (3.02%) Microsoft
3 30 (2.83%) Oracle
4 19 (1.79%) IBM
5 18 (1.70%) Palantir
6 17 (1.61%) Foundry
6 17 (1.61%) Splunk
7 12 (1.13%) MuleSoft
7 12 (1.13%) Salesforce
7 12 (1.13%) Solace
8 11 (1.04%) Red Hat
9 10 (0.94%) ServiceNow
9 10 (0.94%) VMware
10 9 (0.85%) Informatica
10 9 (0.85%) Talend
11 8 (0.76%) Databricks
12 7 (0.66%) Dynatrace
12 7 (0.66%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.47%) Guidewire
13 5 (0.47%) SAP