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 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 31 20
Rank change year-on-year -3 -11 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 996 1,049 1,911
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.48% 8.17% 8.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.15% 19.52% 21.07%
Number of salaries quoted 586 770 1,540
10th Percentile £55,625 £55,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £73,981 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £105,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +13.51% +2.78%
75th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £118,750
90th Percentile £142,500 £147,500 £146,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -9.38%

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 4,943 5,373 9,070
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 27.19% 41.86% 40.56%
Number of salaries quoted 3,475 3,938 7,624
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £126,250 £127,500 £125,000
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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -4 151 £100,000 - 113
West London -26 13 £61,250 +104.17% 11
South London -15 12 £62,600 -24.12% 2
East London -15 4 - - 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 28 (2.81%) Apache Spark
2 21 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (1.51%) Apache
4 13 (1.31%) Confluence
5 12 (1.20%) JBoss
6 11 (1.10%) WebSphere
7 9 (0.90%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.80%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.50%) Camunda
10 4 (0.40%) Appian
10 4 (0.40%) Moodle
10 4 (0.40%) nginx
11 3 (0.30%) Liferay
12 1 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.10%) Ethereum
12 1 (0.10%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.10%) Hyperledger
12 1 (0.10%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.10%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.80%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (1.20%) Maximo
2 4 (0.40%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.40%) Shopify
3 3 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.30%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.10%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.10%) Endur
4 1 (0.10%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 446 (44.78%) AWS
2 181 (18.17%) GCP
3 147 (14.76%) Azure
4 85 (8.53%) Amazon EKS
5 84 (8.43%) SaaS
6 51 (5.12%) GitHub
7 28 (2.81%) AWS CloudFormation
7 28 (2.81%) OpenShift
8 27 (2.71%) Serverless
9 22 (2.21%) dbt
10 20 (2.01%) Pulumi
11 19 (1.91%) Amazon Kinesis
11 19 (1.91%) GitHub Copilot
12 18 (1.81%) Amazon ECS
13 17 (1.71%) Datadog
13 17 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (1.61%) Amazon S3
15 15 (1.51%) Amazon EC2
15 15 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
16 12 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.01%) TCP/IP
2 25 (2.51%) Broadband
3 18 (1.81%) HTTP
4 7 (0.70%) VPN
5 6 (0.60%) BGP
5 6 (0.60%) Multicast
5 6 (0.60%) VLAN
6 5 (0.50%) AMQP
7 3 (0.30%) Firewall
7 3 (0.30%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.30%) Network Security
8 2 (0.20%) DHCP
8 2 (0.20%) DNS
8 2 (0.20%) Internet
8 2 (0.20%) LAN
8 2 (0.20%) NAS
8 2 (0.20%) SAN
8 2 (0.20%) SNMP
8 2 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (7.43%) PostgreSQL
2 72 (7.23%) Relational Database
3 71 (7.13%) NoSQL
4 42 (4.22%) RDBMS
5 34 (3.41%) SQL Server
6 30 (3.01%) DB2
7 23 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
8 20 (2.01%) MongoDB
9 17 (1.71%) Big Data
10 15 (1.51%) DynamoDB
10 15 (1.51%) Hadoop
11 14 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (1.41%) MySQL
12 13 (1.31%) Flink
13 12 (1.20%) Neo4j
13 12 (1.20%) Redis
14 10 (1.00%) Pentaho
15 8 (0.80%) BigQuery
15 8 (0.80%) Data Lake
15 8 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 68 (6.83%) TeamCity
2 49 (4.92%) Selenium
3 44 (4.42%) Jenkins
4 40 (4.02%) Git
5 32 (3.21%) Cucumber
6 25 (2.51%) GitLab
7 23 (2.31%) JIRA
8 16 (1.61%) Jaeger
9 15 (1.51%) JUnit
10 13 (1.31%) Gradle
11 12 (1.20%) Bitbucket
12 11 (1.10%) Cypress.io
12 11 (1.10%) WebDriver
13 9 (0.90%) JMeter
14 8 (0.80%) Maven
15 7 (0.70%) Claude Code
15 7 (0.70%) Postman
16 5 (0.50%) Mockito
16 5 (0.50%) SpecFlow
17 4 (0.40%) webpack
General
1 378 (37.95%) Finance
2 233 (23.39%) Banking
3 195 (19.58%) Social Skills
4 125 (12.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 114 (11.45%) Front Office
6 110 (11.04%) Law
7 93 (9.34%) Retail
8 87 (8.73%) Financial Institution
9 69 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
10 63 (6.33%) Public Sector
11 59 (5.92%) Back Office
12 54 (5.42%) Investment Banking
13 27 (2.71%) Telecoms
14 23 (2.31%) Games
15 18 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
16 17 (1.71%) Billing
17 12 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.80%) Marketing
18 8 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
19 6 (0.60%) Legal
Job Titles
1 350 (35.14%) Developer
2 272 (27.31%) Senior
3 263 (26.41%) Software Engineer
4 198 (19.88%) Java Developer
5 181 (18.17%) Java Engineer
6 147 (14.76%) Lead
7 105 (10.54%) Java Software Engineer
8 88 (8.84%) Senior Software Engineer
9 81 (8.13%) Full-Stack Developer
9 81 (8.13%) Senior Developer
10 71 (7.13%) Senior Java Engineer
11 69 (6.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 54 (5.42%) Lead Software Engineer
13 52 (5.22%) Senior Java Developer
14 51 (5.12%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 46 (4.62%) Architect
16 43 (4.32%) AWS Engineer
17 41 (4.12%) React Developer
17 41 (4.12%) Senior Java Software Engineer
18 39 (3.92%) Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (20.18%) Spring
2 180 (18.07%) React
3 154 (15.46%) Spring Boot
4 134 (13.45%) Kafka
5 110 (11.04%) REST
6 93 (9.34%) Node.js
7 68 (6.83%) .NET
8 61 (6.12%) AngularJS
8 61 (6.12%) RESTful
9 56 (5.62%) GraphQL
10 46 (4.62%) HTML
11 39 (3.92%) CSS
11 39 (3.92%) Web Services
12 38 (3.82%) SOAP
13 35 (3.51%) Elastic Stack
13 35 (3.51%) Redux
14 29 (2.91%) Hibernate
15 28 (2.81%) FIX Protocol
16 26 (2.61%) JSON
17 25 (2.51%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 193 (19.38%) Cloud Native
2 116 (11.65%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (5.72%) Fixed Income
4 56 (5.62%) Product Ownership
5 52 (5.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 41 (4.12%) Equities
6 41 (4.12%) Public Cloud
7 39 (3.92%) Blog
8 27 (2.71%) Greenfield Project
9 26 (2.61%) Derivative
10 23 (2.31%) Distributed Architecture
11 21 (2.11%) FPGA
12 18 (1.81%) Data Structures
12 18 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
13 17 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
14 14 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (1.41%) Onboarding
15 13 (1.31%) Mobile Banking
16 12 (1.20%) Algorithms
16 12 (1.20%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 116 (11.65%) Linux
2 30 (3.01%) Unix
3 26 (2.61%) Windows
4 23 (2.31%) Android
5 8 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.40%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.30%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.20%) CentOS
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (37.05%) Software Engineering
2 316 (31.73%) CI/CD
3 311 (31.22%) Agile
4 216 (21.69%) Microservices
5 195 (19.58%) DevOps
6 192 (19.28%) Test Automation
7 190 (19.08%) Full-Stack Development
8 171 (17.17%) Mentoring
9 148 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
10 135 (13.55%) Roadmaps
11 122 (12.25%) AI
11 122 (12.25%) Fintech
12 117 (11.75%) Technical Leadership
13 115 (11.55%) Containerisation
14 102 (10.24%) Continuous Improvement
15 94 (9.44%) Low Latency
16 92 (9.24%) Infrastructure as Code
17 91 (9.14%) Clean Code
18 83 (8.33%) Computer Science
19 68 (6.83%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 296 (29.72%) Python
2 194 (19.48%) JavaScript
3 151 (15.16%) SQL
4 133 (13.35%) TypeScript
5 117 (11.75%) Go
6 84 (8.43%) C#
7 71 (7.13%) C++
8 59 (5.92%) Kotlin
9 37 (3.71%) C
10 35 (3.51%) Bash
11 30 (3.01%) Rust
12 23 (2.31%) Scala
13 13 (1.31%) PowerShell
14 10 (1.00%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.80%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.80%) PHP
16 7 (0.70%) Perl
16 7 (0.70%) Ruby
17 6 (0.60%) VBA
18 5 (0.50%) RPG
Qualifications
1 132 (13.25%) Security Cleared
2 122 (12.25%) Degree
3 85 (8.53%) SC Cleared
4 57 (5.72%) DV Cleared
5 49 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 33 (3.31%) AWS Certification
7 26 (2.61%) Master's Degree
8 15 (1.51%) CREST Certified
8 15 (1.51%) OSCP
9 13 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (1.20%) PhD
11 11 (1.10%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.70%) OSCE
13 6 (0.60%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.40%) ISEB
14 4 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 3 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
15 3 (0.30%) CCSAM
15 3 (0.30%) GPEN
15 3 (0.30%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (3.71%) QA
2 16 (1.61%) GDPR
2 16 (1.61%) PCI DSS
3 15 (1.51%) SOC 2
4 11 (1.10%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
5 8 (0.80%) GRC
6 7 (0.70%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.40%) EU AI Act
7 4 (0.40%) SLA
8 3 (0.30%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.30%) NIST
9 2 (0.20%) WCAG
10 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.10%) MiFID
10 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 143 (14.36%) Docker
2 10 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (0.60%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.30%) HDFS
6 3 (0.30%) KVM
7 2 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.10%) Firmware
8 1 (0.10%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.10%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.10%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 252 (25.30%) Kubernetes
2 138 (13.86%) Terraform
3 73 (7.33%) Grafana
4 37 (3.71%) Ansible
5 30 (3.01%) Argo
6 27 (2.71%) Prometheus
7 16 (1.61%) Kustomize
8 8 (0.80%) Kibana
9 6 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.30%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.20%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Flashback
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.10%) AWS Copilot
12 1 (0.10%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.10%) Icinga
12 1 (0.10%) logstash
12 1 (0.10%) Rancher
Vendors
1 36 (3.61%) Google
2 24 (2.41%) IBM
3 22 (2.21%) Oracle
4 19 (1.91%) Microsoft
5 16 (1.61%) MuleSoft
6 14 (1.41%) Informatica
6 14 (1.41%) Talend
7 12 (1.20%) Salesforce
8 11 (1.10%) Databricks
8 11 (1.10%) Foundry
9 10 (1.00%) OpenAI
10 9 (0.90%) Palantir
10 9 (0.90%) Solace
10 9 (0.90%) Splunk
11 8 (0.80%) Atlassian
11 8 (0.80%) Dell
12 7 (0.70%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.70%) SAP
13 6 (0.60%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.60%) VMware