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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 19 15
Rank change year-on-year -9 -4 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,031 1,711 2,160
As % of all permanent jobs in London 8.38% 9.84% 11.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.70% 23.29% 24.71%
Number of salaries quoted 613 1,161 1,841
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £53,750
25th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £132,500 £127,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £148,750 £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 4,542 7,347 8,743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 36.94% 42.27% 45.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,000 4,833 7,618
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.63% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £130,000 £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 7 November 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 7 November 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 +3 175 £100,000 +17.65% 581
South London +35 37 £82,500 +22.22% 10
West London -4 7 £82,500 +10.00% 19
East London -7 3 £75,000 -40.00% 28
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 84 (8.15%) Apache Airflow
2 76 (7.37%) Apache
3 44 (4.27%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.16%) Confluence
5 10 (0.97%) JBoss
6 5 (0.48%) BizTalk Server
6 5 (0.48%) nginx
6 5 (0.48%) Red Hat Fuse
7 4 (0.39%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.39%) Apache Pulsar
7 4 (0.39%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.39%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.39%) Traefik
7 4 (0.39%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.29%) Luigi
8 3 (0.29%) Mule
8 3 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.097%) Ethereum
Applications
1 4 (0.39%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.097%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.58%) Adaptiv
2 5 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.39%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.39%) Maximo
3 4 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.39%) Shopify
4 2 (0.19%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.097%) Endur
5 1 (0.097%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.097%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 525 (50.92%) AWS
2 151 (14.65%) GCP
3 148 (14.35%) Azure
4 82 (7.95%) dbt
5 79 (7.66%) Amazon EKS
6 77 (7.47%) Serverless
7 75 (7.27%) Snowflake
8 52 (5.04%) SaaS
9 51 (4.95%) GitHub
10 46 (4.46%) Amazon EC2
11 40 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
12 38 (3.69%) Amazon ECS
13 29 (2.81%) Datadog
14 25 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
15 23 (2.23%) Amazon S3
16 21 (2.04%) Amazon Kinesis
17 17 (1.65%) OpenShift
18 16 (1.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 13 (1.26%) AWS Step Functions
20 12 (1.16%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.01%) TCP/IP
2 10 (0.97%) VPN
3 6 (0.58%) DNS
3 6 (0.58%) Multicast
4 5 (0.48%) HTTP
5 4 (0.39%) DHCP
5 4 (0.39%) Firewall
5 4 (0.39%) ICMP
5 4 (0.39%) Kerberos
5 4 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (0.29%) Broadband
6 3 (0.29%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.29%) SSL
7 2 (0.19%) BGP
7 2 (0.19%) FTP
7 2 (0.19%) LAN
7 2 (0.19%) SAN
7 2 (0.19%) SMTP
7 2 (0.19%) VLAN
7 2 (0.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (11.25%) Relational Database
2 107 (10.38%) PostgreSQL
3 88 (8.54%) Data Lake
4 81 (7.86%) Apache Iceberg
5 77 (7.47%) Amazon Athena
5 77 (7.47%) Apache Arrow
5 77 (7.47%) Dremio
6 68 (6.60%) Apache Ignite
7 53 (5.14%) NoSQL
8 50 (4.85%) MongoDB
9 47 (4.56%) Big Data
10 46 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
11 41 (3.98%) RDBMS
12 34 (3.30%) SQL Server
13 32 (3.10%) Hadoop
14 23 (2.23%) DynamoDB
15 21 (2.04%) MySQL
16 19 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
17 18 (1.75%) KDB
18 15 (1.45%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 84 (8.15%) Jenkins
2 66 (6.40%) Git
3 44 (4.27%) JUnit
4 34 (3.30%) Selenium
5 30 (2.91%) JIRA
6 29 (2.81%) JMeter
7 27 (2.62%) Mockito
8 25 (2.42%) GitLab
9 21 (2.04%) TeamCity
10 19 (1.84%) Cucumber
11 18 (1.75%) Cypress.io
12 14 (1.36%) Maven
13 13 (1.26%) Vite
14 12 (1.16%) Bitbucket
15 10 (0.97%) WebDriver
16 9 (0.87%) Postman
16 9 (0.87%) Subversion
17 8 (0.78%) CircleCI
18 7 (0.68%) IntelliJ
18 7 (0.68%) SonarQube
General
1 557 (54.03%) Finance
2 361 (35.01%) Banking
3 272 (26.38%) Social Skills
4 234 (22.70%) Law
5 218 (21.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 196 (19.01%) Front Office
7 151 (14.65%) Investment Banking
8 105 (10.18%) Analytical Skills
9 83 (8.05%) Financial Institution
10 66 (6.40%) Public Sector
11 49 (4.75%) Marketing
12 28 (2.72%) Legal
13 24 (2.33%) Retail
14 22 (2.13%) Back Office
15 19 (1.84%) Billing
16 14 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (1.07%) Games
17 11 (1.07%) Telecoms
18 8 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
19 7 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 382 (37.05%) Software Engineer
2 336 (32.59%) Developer
3 260 (25.22%) Senior
4 234 (22.70%) Java Engineer
5 226 (21.92%) Lead
6 193 (18.72%) Java Software Engineer
7 170 (16.49%) Java Developer
8 136 (13.19%) Senior Software Engineer
9 132 (12.80%) Lead Software Engineer
10 114 (11.06%) AWS Engineer
11 112 (10.86%) Senior Java Engineer
12 103 (9.99%) Python Engineer
13 98 (9.51%) Python Software Engineer
14 91 (8.83%) AWS Software Engineer
14 91 (8.83%) Senior Java Software Engineer
15 60 (5.82%) Full-Stack Developer
16 54 (5.24%) Lead Java Engineer
17 46 (4.46%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 44 (4.27%) Data Engineer
19 43 (4.17%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (20.56%) Kafka
2 211 (20.47%) Spring
3 178 (17.26%) React
4 154 (14.94%) Spring Boot
5 112 (10.86%) RESTful
6 91 (8.83%) Node.js
6 91 (8.83%) REST
7 84 (8.15%) Pandas
8 77 (7.47%) NumPy
8 77 (7.47%) SciPy
9 73 (7.08%) .NET
10 72 (6.98%) gRPC
11 69 (6.69%) Protocol Buffers
12 64 (6.21%) AngularJS
13 50 (4.85%) HTML
14 49 (4.75%) Web Services
15 45 (4.36%) GraphQL
16 40 (3.88%) Hibernate
17 33 (3.20%) ActiveMQ
18 31 (3.01%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 232 (22.50%) Cloud Native
2 177 (17.17%) Distributed Systems
3 133 (12.90%) Equities
4 125 (12.12%) Fixed Income
5 124 (12.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 117 (11.35%) Derivative
7 80 (7.76%) Hedge funds
8 67 (6.50%) Algorithms
8 67 (6.50%) Pricing Data
9 56 (5.43%) Onboarding
10 50 (4.85%) Public Cloud
11 36 (3.49%) Greenfield Project
12 34 (3.30%) Management Information System
13 33 (3.20%) Product Ownership
14 26 (2.52%) Data Structures
15 24 (2.33%) Virtual Team
16 22 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
17 21 (2.04%) Mobile App
18 20 (1.94%) FPGA
19 17 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 100 (9.70%) Linux
2 21 (2.04%) Windows
3 19 (1.84%) Unix
4 9 (0.87%) Android
5 7 (0.68%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.39%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.19%) VMS
8 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.097%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 530 (51.41%) Agile
2 466 (45.20%) Software Engineering
3 344 (33.37%) CI/CD
4 254 (24.64%) Microservices
5 221 (21.44%) Problem-Solving
6 194 (18.82%) SDLC
7 161 (15.62%) Test Automation
8 158 (15.32%) DevOps
9 150 (14.55%) Fintech
10 140 (13.58%) Full-Stack Development
11 139 (13.48%) Computer Science
11 139 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
12 118 (11.45%) AI
13 108 (10.48%) Machine Learning
14 105 (10.18%) Investment Management
15 98 (9.51%) Low Latency
16 95 (9.21%) TDD
17 94 (9.12%) Mentoring
18 92 (8.92%) Asset Management
19 91 (8.83%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 445 (43.16%) Python
2 225 (21.82%) JavaScript
3 209 (20.27%) TypeScript
4 163 (15.81%) SQL
5 125 (12.12%) C#
6 105 (10.18%) C++
7 98 (9.51%) Kotlin
8 92 (8.92%) Go
9 59 (5.72%) Scala
10 50 (4.85%) C
11 37 (3.59%) Shell Script
12 26 (2.52%) Rust
13 15 (1.45%) Groovy
14 13 (1.26%) PowerShell
15 10 (0.97%) Bash
15 10 (0.97%) Ruby
16 7 (0.68%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.58%) R
18 4 (0.39%) Apex Code
18 4 (0.39%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 139 (13.48%) Degree
2 93 (9.02%) Security Cleared
3 54 (5.24%) SC Cleared
4 53 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 50 (4.85%) Master's Degree
6 38 (3.69%) AWS Certification
7 30 (2.91%) DV Cleared
8 28 (2.72%) PhD
9 15 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (0.87%) CFA
10 9 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
10 9 (0.87%) PMI Certification
10 9 (0.87%) PMP
11 8 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
11 8 (0.78%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.39%) CREST Certified
13 4 (0.39%) OSCE
13 4 (0.39%) OSCP
14 3 (0.29%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (3.59%) QA
2 24 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 20 (1.94%) GDPR
4 10 (0.97%) Data Quality
4 10 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (0.78%) SLA
6 5 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.39%) EU AI Act
7 4 (0.39%) ISO 9001
7 4 (0.39%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.39%) SEPA
8 3 (0.29%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.19%) GRC
9 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.19%) ITGC
9 2 (0.19%) PSD2
10 1 (0.097%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.097%) WCAG
System Software
1 138 (13.39%) Docker
2 17 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (1.36%) Virtual Servers
4 11 (1.07%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.78%) HDFS
6 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.19%) KVM
6 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.097%) Xen
Systems Management
1 256 (24.83%) Kubernetes
2 75 (7.27%) Terraform
3 35 (3.39%) Grafana
4 25 (2.42%) Kibana
5 20 (1.94%) Prometheus
6 19 (1.84%) Ansible
7 16 (1.55%) Argo
8 11 (1.07%) Progress Chef
8 11 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.39%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.29%) Control-M
11 3 (0.29%) Kustomize
11 3 (0.29%) Puppet
12 2 (0.19%) logstash
12 2 (0.19%) Mesos
12 2 (0.19%) Nagios
12 2 (0.19%) WSUS
13 1 (0.097%) CFEngine
Vendors
1 64 (6.21%) Oracle
2 43 (4.17%) Guidewire
3 33 (3.20%) Microsoft
4 31 (3.01%) Splunk
5 29 (2.81%) Google
6 27 (2.62%) Dynatrace
7 23 (2.23%) Databricks
8 14 (1.36%) Foundry
9 13 (1.26%) Informatica
9 13 (1.26%) MuleSoft
9 13 (1.26%) Palantir
10 12 (1.16%) Talend
11 11 (1.07%) Dell
11 11 (1.07%) IBM
11 11 (1.07%) SAP
12 10 (0.97%) Atlassian
12 10 (0.97%) Solace
13 9 (0.87%) Murex
14 6 (0.58%) Red Hat
14 6 (0.58%) SnapLogic