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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 26 17
Rank change year-on-year -12 -9 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,083 1,134 1,964
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.58% 9.29% 10.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.49% 22.51% 24.78%
Number of salaries quoted 597 713 1,441
10th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £58,938
25th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £108,750 £132,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £142,500 £150,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% -

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 5,556 5,038 7,925
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.48% 41.26% 40.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3,830 3,453 5,828
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £49,357
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% - +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £136,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year +1.56% +4.56% -5.84%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 -17 139 £100,000 +11.11% 87
South London -25 23 £70,000 -15.15% 5
West London -28 18 £80,000 +77.78% 20
East London -9 1 - - 12
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 34 (3.14%) Confluence
2 21 (1.94%) Apache Spark
3 19 (1.75%) Apache
4 18 (1.66%) Camunda
5 16 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (1.29%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.28%) CMS
7 3 (0.28%) JBoss
7 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.28%) SAS
8 2 (0.18%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.18%) Moodle
8 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.092%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.092%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.092%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.092%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.092%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (1.29%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.37%) Moqups
4 3 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.092%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.65%) Maximo
2 6 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.46%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.46%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.18%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 1 (0.092%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.092%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.092%) Endur
5 1 (0.092%) Findur
5 1 (0.092%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.092%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.092%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 507 (46.81%) AWS
2 218 (20.13%) Azure
3 196 (18.10%) GCP
4 65 (6.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 60 (5.54%) GitHub
6 58 (5.36%) Amazon EKS
7 49 (4.52%) Serverless
8 43 (3.97%) SaaS
9 30 (2.77%) Amazon ECS
10 26 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
12 22 (2.03%) OpenShift
13 21 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
14 19 (1.75%) GitHub Copilot
15 18 (1.66%) Amazon S3
16 17 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
16 17 (1.57%) Azure Service Bus
17 15 (1.39%) Amazon EventBridge
18 14 (1.29%) AWS Control Tower
18 14 (1.29%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 32 (2.95%) HTTP
2 17 (1.57%) Network Security
2 17 (1.57%) TCP/IP
3 13 (1.20%) DMARC
4 10 (0.92%) Broadband
5 6 (0.55%) BGP
5 6 (0.55%) DNS
5 6 (0.55%) IPsec
5 6 (0.55%) Kerberos
5 6 (0.55%) VPN
6 5 (0.46%) Internet
7 4 (0.37%) IPv4
7 4 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.28%) Firewall
8 3 (0.28%) LAN
8 3 (0.28%) SAN
8 3 (0.28%) WAN
9 1 (0.092%) AMQP
9 1 (0.092%) LTE
9 1 (0.092%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (7.39%) NoSQL
2 66 (6.09%) PostgreSQL
3 59 (5.45%) Relational Database
4 44 (4.06%) MongoDB
5 30 (2.77%) SQL Server
6 22 (2.03%) Db2
7 18 (1.66%) Big Data
8 16 (1.48%) MySQL
8 16 (1.48%) Redis
9 12 (1.11%) BigQuery
9 12 (1.11%) DynamoDB
9 12 (1.11%) Hadoop
10 10 (0.92%) DTS
11 9 (0.83%) RDBMS
12 8 (0.74%) Metadata
13 7 (0.65%) Apache Hive
13 7 (0.65%) Geospatial Data
14 6 (0.55%) Apache Cassandra
14 6 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (0.55%) HBase
Development Applications
1 77 (7.11%) Git
2 54 (4.99%) GitLab
3 52 (4.80%) Jenkins
4 42 (3.88%) TeamCity
5 39 (3.60%) JIRA
6 37 (3.42%) Cucumber
7 35 (3.23%) Selenium
8 21 (1.94%) JUnit
9 15 (1.39%) Bitbucket
9 15 (1.39%) Maven
10 13 (1.20%) Claude Code
10 13 (1.20%) Mockito
11 11 (1.02%) Cypress.io
11 11 (1.02%) Gradle
11 11 (1.02%) Postman
12 10 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 7 (0.65%) JMeter
14 6 (0.55%) MLflow
15 5 (0.46%) REST Assured
15 5 (0.46%) SonarQube
General
1 463 (42.75%) Finance
2 205 (18.93%) Banking
3 202 (18.65%) Social Skills
4 102 (9.42%) Front Office
5 92 (8.49%) Public Sector
6 85 (7.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 78 (7.20%) Law
8 74 (6.83%) Analytical Skills
9 57 (5.26%) Retail
10 56 (5.17%) Financial Institution
11 31 (2.86%) Investment Banking
12 29 (2.68%) Back Office
13 23 (2.12%) Marketing
14 16 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (1.20%) Tech for Good
16 11 (1.02%) Health Technology
17 9 (0.83%) Games
17 9 (0.83%) Manufacturing
17 9 (0.83%) Telecoms
18 7 (0.65%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 299 (27.61%) Senior
2 285 (26.32%) Developer
3 268 (24.75%) Software Engineer
4 240 (22.16%) Java Engineer
5 156 (14.40%) Java Developer
6 155 (14.31%) Lead
7 97 (8.96%) Senior Software Engineer
8 83 (7.66%) Senior Developer
9 78 (7.20%) Java Software Engineer
10 66 (6.09%) Senior Java Engineer
11 63 (5.82%) Lead Software Engineer
12 57 (5.26%) Principal Engineer
13 51 (4.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 48 (4.43%) Architect
15 42 (3.88%) Senior Java Developer
16 41 (3.79%) Principal Java Engineer
17 39 (3.60%) Software Developer
18 38 (3.51%) Consultant
19 37 (3.42%) Engineering Manager
20 31 (2.86%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 279 (25.76%) Spring
2 231 (21.33%) Spring Boot
3 197 (18.19%) Kafka
4 122 (11.27%) REST
5 111 (10.25%) React
6 83 (7.66%) Node.js
7 76 (7.02%) RESTful
8 70 (6.46%) .NET
9 53 (4.89%) AngularJS
10 37 (3.42%) GraphQL
11 36 (3.32%) OAuth
12 30 (2.77%) OAuth2
13 29 (2.68%) Redux
14 28 (2.59%) Web Services
15 27 (2.49%) FIX Protocol
16 24 (2.22%) Hibernate
17 23 (2.12%) Middleware
18 21 (1.94%) RabbitMQ
19 19 (1.75%) HTML
19 19 (1.75%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 213 (19.67%) Cloud Native
2 151 (13.94%) Distributed Systems
3 113 (10.43%) Product Ownership
4 102 (9.42%) Public Cloud
5 55 (5.08%) Onboarding
6 49 (4.52%) Fixed Income
7 46 (4.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 37 (3.42%) Distributed Architecture
9 33 (3.05%) Equities
10 29 (2.68%) e-Learning
11 28 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
11 28 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
12 21 (1.94%) AI Agents
13 19 (1.75%) Blog
14 17 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
15 16 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
15 16 (1.48%) Virtual Team
16 15 (1.39%) Data Structures
17 14 (1.29%) Derivative
17 14 (1.29%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 96 (8.86%) Linux
2 32 (2.95%) Windows
3 15 (1.39%) Unix
4 13 (1.20%) Android
4 13 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (1.02%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.74%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 434 (40.07%) Software Engineering
2 355 (32.78%) CI/CD
3 303 (27.98%) Agile
4 298 (27.52%) Microservices
5 226 (20.87%) DevOps
6 218 (20.13%) Test Automation
7 210 (19.39%) Mentoring
8 193 (17.82%) AI
8 193 (17.82%) Roadmaps
9 161 (14.87%) Problem-Solving
10 158 (14.59%) Infrastructure as Code
11 155 (14.31%) Technical Leadership
12 138 (12.74%) Event-Driven
13 137 (12.65%) Containerisation
14 128 (11.82%) Full-Stack Development
15 119 (10.99%) Continuous Improvement
16 95 (8.77%) Fintech
16 95 (8.77%) Low Latency
17 90 (8.31%) Computer Science
18 84 (7.76%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 355 (32.78%) Python
2 180 (16.62%) SQL
3 131 (12.10%) JavaScript
4 103 (9.51%) C#
5 100 (9.23%) TypeScript
6 90 (8.31%) C++
7 87 (8.03%) Go
8 48 (4.43%) Bash
9 47 (4.34%) Kotlin
10 35 (3.23%) C
11 31 (2.86%) Rust
12 30 (2.77%) Ruby
13 24 (2.22%) PowerShell
14 23 (2.12%) Scala
15 21 (1.94%) PHP
16 19 (1.75%) Perl
17 12 (1.11%) R
18 10 (0.92%) RPG
19 8 (0.74%) VBA
20 7 (0.65%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 140 (12.93%) Security Cleared
2 110 (10.16%) Degree
3 85 (7.85%) SC Cleared
4 64 (5.91%) AWS Certification
5 58 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 53 (4.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 51 (4.71%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.29%) OSCP
9 10 (0.92%) CREST Certified
10 9 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (0.83%) ISTQB
10 9 (0.83%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.74%) Azure Certification
11 8 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.46%) CCSP
12 5 (0.46%) CISM
12 5 (0.46%) CISSP
12 5 (0.46%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (5.63%) QA
2 20 (1.85%) Data Quality
3 19 (1.75%) GDPR
4 14 (1.29%) GRC
5 9 (0.83%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (0.83%) NIST
6 7 (0.65%) ISO 20022
6 7 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.55%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.46%) WCAG
9 3 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.28%) MiFID
9 3 (0.28%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.28%) UCITS
10 2 (0.18%) PSD2
System Software
1 137 (12.65%) Docker
2 18 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.39%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.46%) KVM
5 5 (0.46%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.37%) Squid
6 4 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.37%) vSphere
7 3 (0.28%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.092%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 227 (20.96%) Kubernetes
2 132 (12.19%) Terraform
3 63 (5.82%) Grafana
4 37 (3.42%) Ansible
5 24 (2.22%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.65%) Kibana
7 6 (0.55%) Hadoop YARN
7 6 (0.55%) Kubeflow
7 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.46%) Puppet
8 5 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (0.37%) Argo
9 4 (0.37%) Packer
9 4 (0.37%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.28%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.28%) Oracle Flashback
10 3 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (0.28%) Rancher
10 3 (0.28%) WSUS
Vendors
1 54 (4.99%) Oracle
2 49 (4.52%) Microsoft
3 47 (4.34%) Google
4 31 (2.86%) IBM
5 30 (2.77%) Splunk
6 23 (2.12%) Palantir
7 19 (1.75%) VMware
8 18 (1.66%) ServiceNow
9 17 (1.57%) Red Hat
10 16 (1.48%) Foundry
10 16 (1.48%) SAP
11 14 (1.29%) Databricks
12 13 (1.20%) OpenAI
12 13 (1.20%) SendGrid
12 13 (1.20%) Solace
13 12 (1.11%) Bloomberg
14 9 (0.83%) HP
15 8 (0.74%) Dynatrace
15 8 (0.74%) Salesforce
16 7 (0.65%) MuleSoft