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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 20 15
Rank change year-on-year -15 -5 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 852 1,459 1,923
As % of all permanent jobs in London 6.34% 9.01% 10.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.04% 21.22% 24.41%
Number of salaries quoted 578 979 1,600
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £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 £125,375 £125,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £147,500 £143,750
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% +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 4,251 6,876 7,879
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 31.63% 42.45% 44.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2,998 4,531 6,859
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £106,250 £108,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £127,500 £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 17 December 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 17 December 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 +10 158 £100,000 +14.29% 73
South London +11 26 £76,250 +27.08% 10
West London -11 5 £60,000 -8.05% 19
East London -17 2 £75,000 -40.00% 16
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 58 (6.81%) Apache Airflow
2 55 (6.46%) Apache
3 40 (4.69%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.88%) Confluence
5 7 (0.82%) JBoss
5 7 (0.82%) WebSphere
6 6 (0.70%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.47%) Appian
7 4 (0.47%) nginx
7 4 (0.47%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.35%) BizTalk Server
8 3 (0.35%) Luigi
8 3 (0.35%) Mule
8 3 (0.35%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.23%) Camunda
9 2 (0.23%) Moodle
10 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.12%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.12%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.12%) Liferay
Applications
1 8 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 8 (0.94%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (0.82%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.47%) Shopify
4 3 (0.35%) Maximo
4 3 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.23%) Adaptiv
6 1 (0.12%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.12%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 422 (49.53%) AWS
2 129 (15.14%) Azure
3 116 (13.62%) GCP
4 73 (8.57%) Amazon EKS
5 55 (6.46%) SaaS
6 54 (6.34%) Snowflake
7 53 (6.22%) Serverless
8 52 (6.10%) dbt
9 48 (5.63%) GitHub
10 30 (3.52%) AWS Lambda
11 28 (3.29%) Amazon EC2
12 27 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
12 27 (3.17%) Datadog
13 26 (3.05%) Amazon Kinesis
14 20 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
15 19 (2.23%) Amazon S3
15 19 (2.23%) OpenShift
16 13 (1.53%) GitHub Copilot
17 12 (1.41%) Amazon EMR
17 12 (1.41%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.40%) TCP/IP
2 11 (1.29%) HTTP
3 8 (0.94%) Multicast
4 7 (0.82%) VPN
5 4 (0.47%) Broadband
5 4 (0.47%) DNS
5 4 (0.47%) Firewall
5 4 (0.47%) Kerberos
5 4 (0.47%) LAN
5 4 (0.47%) SAN
5 4 (0.47%) WAN
6 3 (0.35%) AMQP
6 3 (0.35%) BGP
6 3 (0.35%) VLAN
7 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.23%) Internet
7 2 (0.23%) NAS
7 2 (0.23%) SMTP
7 2 (0.23%) SNMP
7 2 (0.23%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (9.86%) Relational Database
2 81 (9.51%) PostgreSQL
3 59 (6.92%) Data Lake
4 49 (5.75%) Data Warehouse
5 48 (5.63%) Apache Ignite
6 45 (5.28%) Amazon Athena
6 45 (5.28%) Apache Arrow
6 45 (5.28%) Apache Iceberg
6 45 (5.28%) Dremio
7 43 (5.05%) NoSQL
7 43 (5.05%) SQL Server
8 42 (4.93%) MongoDB
8 42 (4.93%) RDBMS
9 39 (4.58%) Big Data
10 36 (4.23%) Hadoop
11 21 (2.46%) DynamoDB
12 20 (2.35%) DB2
13 17 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
14 16 (1.88%) Neo4j
14 16 (1.88%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 76 (8.92%) Jenkins
2 44 (5.16%) Selenium
3 41 (4.81%) Git
4 33 (3.87%) TeamCity
5 31 (3.64%) JIRA
6 27 (3.17%) Cucumber
6 27 (3.17%) JUnit
7 25 (2.93%) JMeter
8 24 (2.82%) GitLab
9 20 (2.35%) Cypress.io
10 19 (2.23%) Bitbucket
11 18 (2.11%) Mockito
12 11 (1.29%) WebDriver
13 8 (0.94%) Maven
13 8 (0.94%) Postman
14 7 (0.82%) Subversion
14 7 (0.82%) webpack
15 6 (0.70%) Vite
16 5 (0.59%) REST Assured
17 4 (0.47%) Browser DevTools
General
1 358 (42.02%) Finance
2 235 (27.58%) Social Skills
3 234 (27.46%) Banking
4 151 (17.72%) Front Office
5 109 (12.79%) Investment Banking
6 82 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
7 73 (8.57%) Financial Institution
8 59 (6.92%) Law
9 46 (5.40%) Public Sector
10 43 (5.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 37 (4.34%) Retail
12 32 (3.76%) Back Office
13 17 (2.00%) Billing
14 15 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
15 13 (1.53%) Telecoms
16 11 (1.29%) Games
16 11 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
18 6 (0.70%) Marketing
18 6 (0.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 323 (37.91%) Developer
2 220 (25.82%) Software Engineer
3 218 (25.59%) Senior
4 159 (18.66%) Java Developer
5 156 (18.31%) Java Engineer
6 128 (15.02%) Lead
7 113 (13.26%) Java Software Engineer
8 91 (10.68%) Senior Software Engineer
9 87 (10.21%) Senior Java Engineer
10 78 (9.15%) AWS Engineer
11 74 (8.69%) Full-Stack Developer
12 64 (7.51%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 54 (6.34%) Python Engineer
14 52 (6.10%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 50 (5.87%) AWS Software Engineer
16 46 (5.40%) Python Software Engineer
17 42 (4.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 40 (4.69%) Senior Developer
19 38 (4.46%) Architect
20 37 (4.34%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (19.84%) React
2 164 (19.25%) Spring
3 149 (17.49%) Kafka
4 114 (13.38%) Spring Boot
5 96 (11.27%) Node.js
5 96 (11.27%) REST
6 70 (8.22%) .NET
7 67 (7.86%) RESTful
8 54 (6.34%) AngularJS
9 53 (6.22%) GraphQL
9 53 (6.22%) HTML
10 49 (5.75%) gRPC
11 48 (5.63%) Pandas
12 45 (5.28%) NumPy
12 45 (5.28%) Protocol Buffers
12 45 (5.28%) SciPy
13 35 (4.11%) CSS
13 35 (4.11%) Hibernate
14 30 (3.52%) Redux
14 30 (3.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 148 (17.37%) Cloud Native
2 137 (16.08%) Distributed Systems
3 97 (11.38%) Equities
4 90 (10.56%) Fixed Income
5 82 (9.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 68 (7.98%) Derivative
7 60 (7.04%) Hedge funds
8 47 (5.52%) Pricing Data
9 46 (5.40%) Algorithms
10 38 (4.46%) Onboarding
10 38 (4.46%) Product Ownership
11 34 (3.99%) Greenfield Project
12 24 (2.82%) Management Information System
12 24 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
13 22 (2.58%) Data Structures
13 22 (2.58%) Public Cloud
14 21 (2.46%) FPGA
15 18 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
16 17 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
16 17 (2.00%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 100 (11.74%) Linux
2 24 (2.82%) Windows
3 14 (1.64%) Unix
4 9 (1.06%) Android
5 5 (0.59%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.47%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.23%) CentOS
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.23%) VMS
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.12%) AIX
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 343 (40.26%) Agile
2 305 (35.80%) Software Engineering
3 269 (31.57%) CI/CD
4 195 (22.89%) Microservices
5 165 (19.37%) Problem-Solving
6 159 (18.66%) Full-Stack Development
7 156 (18.31%) DevOps
8 150 (17.61%) Test Automation
9 114 (13.38%) Computer Science
10 101 (11.85%) Mentoring
11 100 (11.74%) Low Latency
12 99 (11.62%) Continuous Improvement
13 81 (9.51%) Investment Management
13 81 (9.51%) Technical Leadership
14 80 (9.39%) Fintech
15 79 (9.27%) Containerisation
16 78 (9.15%) TDD
17 77 (9.04%) Roadmaps
18 75 (8.80%) AI
19 73 (8.57%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 346 (40.61%) Python
2 211 (24.77%) JavaScript
3 171 (20.07%) TypeScript
4 140 (16.43%) SQL
5 103 (12.09%) C#
6 70 (8.22%) Go
7 62 (7.28%) C++
8 53 (6.22%) Kotlin
9 46 (5.40%) Scala
10 43 (5.05%) C
11 23 (2.70%) Shell Script
12 17 (2.00%) Rust
13 11 (1.29%) Ruby
14 10 (1.17%) Groovy
15 9 (1.06%) VBA
16 8 (0.94%) PowerShell
17 7 (0.82%) Bash
18 6 (0.70%) Perl
18 6 (0.70%) R
19 5 (0.59%) RPG
Qualifications
1 134 (15.73%) Degree
2 87 (10.21%) Security Cleared
3 54 (6.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 47 (5.52%) Master's Degree
5 46 (5.40%) SC Cleared
6 31 (3.64%) DV Cleared
7 23 (2.70%) PhD
8 19 (2.23%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (1.06%) Azure Certification
11 8 (0.94%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.59%) CREST Certified
12 5 (0.59%) OSCP
12 5 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.47%) OSCE
14 3 (0.35%) ISEB
14 3 (0.35%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.23%) CFA
15 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.11%) QA
2 20 (2.35%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.00%) GDPR
4 11 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.17%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.70%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.70%) SLA
7 5 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.59%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.47%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.47%) ISO 9001
8 4 (0.47%) SEPA
9 2 (0.23%) PSD2
10 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 125 (14.67%) Docker
2 17 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (1.64%) Virtual Servers
4 11 (1.29%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.94%) HDFS
6 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.12%) KVM
Systems Management
1 180 (21.13%) Kubernetes
2 46 (5.40%) Terraform
3 27 (3.17%) Grafana
4 21 (2.46%) Ansible
5 20 (2.35%) Kibana
6 14 (1.64%) Argo
7 13 (1.53%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.47%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.35%) Control-M
10 3 (0.35%) Nagios
10 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.23%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.23%) logstash
11 2 (0.23%) Puppet
11 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 2 (0.23%) WSUS
12 1 (0.12%) Icinga
Vendors
1 41 (4.81%) Oracle
2 33 (3.87%) Guidewire
3 23 (2.70%) Microsoft
4 21 (2.46%) Splunk
5 20 (2.35%) Informatica
5 20 (2.35%) Talend
6 19 (2.23%) Google
7 17 (2.00%) Databricks
7 17 (2.00%) Dynatrace
8 14 (1.64%) Atlassian
8 14 (1.64%) IBM
9 13 (1.53%) Dell
10 12 (1.41%) MuleSoft
11 9 (1.06%) Red Hat
11 9 (1.06%) SAP
12 7 (0.82%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.70%) HP
13 6 (0.70%) Solace
14 5 (0.59%) Salesforce
14 5 (0.59%) SnapLogic