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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 28 16
Rank change year-on-year -12 -12 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,064 1,062 1,985
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.30% 8.87% 10.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.48% 22.50% 25.01%
Number of salaries quoted 573 642 1,391
10th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £58,938
25th Percentile £67,500 £75,313 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £102,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +2.44% +13.89%
75th Percentile £100,000 £134,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £123,500 £142,500 £148,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +0.23%

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 5,461 4,719 7,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 22.09% 39.43% 41.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,710 3,188 5,360
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.38% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £115,125 £135,000 £137,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.36% +1.60% -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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -18 120 £100,000 +11.11% 122
South London -23 21 £70,000 -15.15% 11
West London -15 17 £80,000 +12.28% 58
East London -7 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 39 (3.67%) Confluence
2 19 (1.79%) Apache
3 16 (1.50%) Camunda
4 13 (1.22%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.22%) Palantir Foundry
5 10 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.38%) JBoss
7 3 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.28%) CMS
7 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.28%) SAS
8 2 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
8 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.094%) CICS
9 1 (0.094%) IIS
9 1 (0.094%) Oracle 10gAS
9 1 (0.094%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.094%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.094%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (1.22%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.47%) Moqups
4 3 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.094%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.47%) Fidessa
1 5 (0.47%) Temenos T24
2 4 (0.38%) Maximo
3 3 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.19%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 1 (0.094%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.094%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.094%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.094%) Endur
5 1 (0.094%) Findur
5 1 (0.094%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.094%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.094%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 510 (47.93%) AWS
2 224 (21.05%) Azure
3 189 (17.76%) GCP
4 74 (6.95%) AWS CloudFormation
5 67 (6.30%) GitHub
6 55 (5.17%) Amazon EKS
7 51 (4.79%) Serverless
8 48 (4.51%) SaaS
9 31 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
10 29 (2.73%) Amazon ECS
10 29 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
11 24 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
12 22 (2.07%) GitHub Copilot
13 20 (1.88%) Amazon S3
13 20 (1.88%) Anthropic Claude
13 20 (1.88%) Datadog
14 19 (1.79%) Snowflake
15 18 (1.69%) Azure Service Bus
16 16 (1.50%) OpenShift
17 15 (1.41%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.29%) HTTP
2 17 (1.60%) Network Security
3 13 (1.22%) DMARC
4 12 (1.13%) TCP/IP
5 8 (0.75%) DNS
6 7 (0.66%) BGP
6 7 (0.66%) VPN
7 6 (0.56%) IPsec
8 5 (0.47%) Broadband
8 5 (0.47%) Internet
8 5 (0.47%) IPv4
8 5 (0.47%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.28%) LAN
10 3 (0.28%) SAN
10 3 (0.28%) WAN
11 2 (0.19%) Firewall
12 1 (0.094%) DHCP
12 1 (0.094%) IPv6
12 1 (0.094%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (8.18%) NoSQL
2 67 (6.30%) PostgreSQL
3 57 (5.36%) Relational Database
4 48 (4.51%) MongoDB
5 32 (3.01%) SQL Server
6 19 (1.79%) Big Data
7 18 (1.69%) Redis
8 17 (1.60%) Db2
8 17 (1.60%) MySQL
9 13 (1.22%) DynamoDB
10 10 (0.94%) DTS
10 10 (0.94%) Hadoop
11 9 (0.85%) BigQuery
12 8 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
13 7 (0.66%) Pinecone
14 6 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
14 6 (0.56%) Apache Hive
14 6 (0.56%) HBase
15 5 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 83 (7.80%) Git
2 69 (6.48%) GitLab
3 62 (5.83%) Jenkins
4 47 (4.42%) Cucumber
5 44 (4.14%) JIRA
6 41 (3.85%) TeamCity
7 31 (2.91%) Selenium
8 26 (2.44%) JUnit
9 21 (1.97%) Maven
10 17 (1.60%) Postman
11 16 (1.50%) Bitbucket
11 16 (1.50%) Cypress.io
11 16 (1.50%) Mockito
12 13 (1.22%) Claude Code
13 11 (1.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 10 (0.94%) JMeter
14 10 (0.94%) REST Assured
15 9 (0.85%) Gradle
16 7 (0.66%) SonarQube
17 6 (0.56%) MLflow
General
1 450 (42.29%) Finance
2 229 (21.52%) Banking
3 210 (19.74%) Social Skills
4 89 (8.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 78 (7.33%) Law
6 76 (7.14%) Public Sector
7 69 (6.48%) Front Office
8 68 (6.39%) Analytical Skills
9 59 (5.55%) Financial Institution
9 59 (5.55%) Retail
10 29 (2.73%) Back Office
11 23 (2.16%) Investment Banking
11 23 (2.16%) Marketing
12 15 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (1.32%) Tech for Good
14 11 (1.03%) Health Technology
15 9 (0.85%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.75%) Legal
17 7 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (0.66%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 295 (27.73%) Senior
2 261 (24.53%) Java Engineer
3 254 (23.87%) Software Engineer
4 229 (21.52%) Developer
5 147 (13.82%) Lead
6 134 (12.59%) Java Developer
7 99 (9.30%) Senior Software Engineer
8 77 (7.24%) Senior Developer
9 74 (6.95%) Senior Java Engineer
10 71 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
11 57 (5.36%) Principal Engineer
12 50 (4.70%) Architect
13 48 (4.51%) Lead Software Engineer
14 47 (4.42%) Principal Java Engineer
15 40 (3.76%) Engineering Manager
16 37 (3.48%) Senior Java Developer
17 35 (3.29%) Software Developer
18 34 (3.20%) Consultant
18 34 (3.20%) Software Development Engineer
18 34 (3.20%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 279 (26.22%) Spring
2 230 (21.62%) Spring Boot
3 185 (17.39%) Kafka
4 136 (12.78%) REST
5 130 (12.22%) Terraform
6 80 (7.52%) React
7 76 (7.14%) RESTful
8 66 (6.20%) .NET
9 62 (5.83%) Node.js
10 45 (4.23%) AngularJS
11 38 (3.57%) OAuth
12 27 (2.54%) FIX Protocol
12 27 (2.54%) OAuth2
13 24 (2.26%) Hibernate
13 24 (2.26%) Middleware
14 23 (2.16%) Web Services
15 21 (1.97%) RabbitMQ
16 19 (1.79%) Playwright
17 16 (1.50%) LangChain
18 15 (1.41%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 225 (21.15%) Cloud Native
2 161 (15.13%) Distributed Systems
3 127 (11.94%) Product Ownership
4 116 (10.90%) Public Cloud
5 54 (5.08%) Onboarding
6 41 (3.85%) Distributed Architecture
7 38 (3.57%) e-Learning
8 33 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
9 31 (2.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 29 (2.73%) Equities
11 27 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
12 24 (2.26%) AI Agents
13 23 (2.16%) Blog
14 22 (2.07%) Fixed Income
15 20 (1.88%) Virtual Team
16 19 (1.79%) Algorithms
17 17 (1.60%) Data Structures
17 17 (1.60%) Enterprise Cloud
17 17 (1.60%) Mobile App
18 16 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 77 (7.24%) Linux
2 30 (2.82%) Windows
3 15 (1.41%) Android
4 13 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (1.03%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.94%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.75%) Unix
8 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.094%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 438 (41.17%) Software Engineering
2 362 (34.02%) CI/CD
3 310 (29.14%) Microservices
4 261 (24.53%) Agile
5 225 (21.15%) Test Automation
6 215 (20.21%) Mentoring
7 210 (19.74%) DevOps
8 206 (19.36%) AI
9 188 (17.67%) Roadmaps
10 178 (16.73%) Event-Driven
11 164 (15.41%) Problem-Solving
12 160 (15.04%) Infrastructure as Code
13 158 (14.85%) Technical Leadership
14 127 (11.94%) Containerisation
15 123 (11.56%) Continuous Improvement
16 111 (10.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 111 (10.43%) Fintech
17 101 (9.49%) Full-Stack Development
18 97 (9.12%) BDD
19 96 (9.02%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 326 (30.64%) Python
2 176 (16.54%) SQL
3 99 (9.30%) C#
4 95 (8.93%) JavaScript
5 79 (7.42%) C++
6 71 (6.67%) TypeScript
7 68 (6.39%) Go
8 55 (5.17%) Kotlin
9 48 (4.51%) Bash
10 33 (3.10%) C
11 32 (3.01%) Ruby
12 26 (2.44%) Rust
13 21 (1.97%) Perl
13 21 (1.97%) PowerShell
13 21 (1.97%) Scala
14 20 (1.88%) PHP
15 11 (1.03%) R
16 10 (0.94%) RPG
17 8 (0.75%) VBA
18 7 (0.66%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 131 (12.31%) Security Cleared
2 106 (9.96%) Degree
3 75 (7.05%) SC Cleared
4 73 (6.86%) AWS Certification
5 63 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 62 (5.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 44 (4.14%) DV Cleared
8 16 (1.50%) OSCP
9 11 (1.03%) CREST Certified
10 10 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (0.75%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.66%) CISSP
12 7 (0.66%) Master's Degree
12 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.56%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 5 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.47%) CCSP
14 5 (0.47%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (6.11%) QA
2 23 (2.16%) GDPR
3 20 (1.88%) Data Quality
4 15 (1.41%) ISO 20022
5 11 (1.03%) GRC
6 9 (0.85%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.85%) NIST
7 7 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.38%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.38%) WCAG
9 3 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.28%) MiFID
9 3 (0.28%) UCITS
10 2 (0.19%) PSD2
11 1 (0.094%) SOC 2
System Software
1 132 (12.41%) Docker
2 18 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.13%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.47%) KVM
6 5 (0.47%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.38%) Squid
7 4 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.38%) vSphere
8 3 (0.28%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.094%) Firmware
9 1 (0.094%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 212 (19.92%) Kubernetes
2 62 (5.83%) Grafana
3 40 (3.76%) Ansible
4 25 (2.35%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.66%) Kibana
6 6 (0.56%) Argo
6 6 (0.56%) Hadoop YARN
6 6 (0.56%) Kubeflow
6 6 (0.56%) Puppet
7 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.47%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (0.38%) Packer
8 4 (0.38%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.28%) Rancher
9 3 (0.28%) WSUS
10 2 (0.19%) EnCase
10 2 (0.19%) FTK
10 2 (0.19%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 65 (6.11%) Oracle
2 56 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 53 (4.98%) Google
4 30 (2.82%) IBM
5 28 (2.63%) Splunk
6 25 (2.35%) Red Hat
7 22 (2.07%) Palantir
8 19 (1.79%) VMware
9 16 (1.50%) ServiceNow
10 15 (1.41%) OpenAI
11 13 (1.22%) Foundry
11 13 (1.22%) SAP
11 13 (1.22%) SendGrid
12 12 (1.13%) Bloomberg
13 11 (1.03%) Solace
14 10 (0.94%) OutSystems
15 9 (0.85%) Databricks
15 9 (0.85%) HP
16 8 (0.75%) Dynatrace
16 8 (0.75%) Guidewire