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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 28 16
Rank change year-on-year -14 -12 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,092 1,055 1,974
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.31% 8.86% 10.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.72% 22.56% 24.64%
Number of salaries quoted 580 636 1,372
10th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £75,938 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £106,250 £101,250
Median % change year-on-year -22.35% +4.94% +12.50%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £122,625 £142,500 £148,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +0.46%

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 5,538 4,677 8,011
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.85% 39.27% 41.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3,726 3,153 5,332
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £62,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £136,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -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 20 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 20 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 -18 117 £100,000 +11.11% 165
South London -22 21 £70,000 -15.15% 12
West London -9 18 £80,000 -3.03% 67
East London -6 4 - - 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 41 (3.75%) Confluence
2 19 (1.74%) Apache
3 17 (1.56%) Camunda
4 13 (1.19%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.10%) Palantir Foundry
6 11 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.37%) JBoss
8 3 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.27%) CMS
8 3 (0.27%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.27%) SAS
9 2 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
9 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.092%) CICS
10 1 (0.092%) Hedera
10 1 (0.092%) IIS
10 1 (0.092%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.092%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (1.19%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.55%) Moqups
4 3 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.092%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.46%) Fidessa
1 5 (0.46%) Temenos T24
2 4 (0.37%) Maximo
3 3 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.18%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 1 (0.092%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.092%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.092%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.092%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.092%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.092%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 524 (47.99%) AWS
2 224 (20.51%) Azure
3 195 (17.86%) GCP
4 76 (6.96%) AWS CloudFormation
5 73 (6.68%) GitHub
6 63 (5.77%) Amazon EKS
7 57 (5.22%) SaaS
8 51 (4.67%) Serverless
9 33 (3.02%) GitHub Actions
10 30 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
11 29 (2.66%) Amazon ECS
12 25 (2.29%) Cloud Computing
12 25 (2.29%) GitHub Copilot
13 22 (2.01%) Anthropic Claude
13 22 (2.01%) Datadog
14 21 (1.92%) Amazon S3
15 20 (1.83%) Snowflake
16 19 (1.74%) Azure Service Bus
17 16 (1.47%) Amazon EventBridge
17 16 (1.47%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.21%) HTTP
2 16 (1.47%) Network Security
3 14 (1.28%) DMARC
4 12 (1.10%) TCP/IP
5 8 (0.73%) DNS
6 7 (0.64%) BGP
6 7 (0.64%) VPN
7 6 (0.55%) IPsec
8 5 (0.46%) Internet
8 5 (0.46%) IPv4
8 5 (0.46%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.37%) Broadband
9 4 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.27%) LAN
10 3 (0.27%) SAN
10 3 (0.27%) WAN
11 2 (0.18%) Firewall
12 1 (0.092%) DHCP
12 1 (0.092%) IPv6
12 1 (0.092%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (8.06%) NoSQL
2 70 (6.41%) PostgreSQL
3 61 (5.59%) Relational Database
4 49 (4.49%) MongoDB
5 33 (3.02%) SQL Server
6 20 (1.83%) Big Data
7 18 (1.65%) Redis
8 17 (1.56%) Db2
8 17 (1.56%) MySQL
9 13 (1.19%) DynamoDB
10 10 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (0.92%) BigQuery
10 10 (0.92%) DTS
10 10 (0.92%) Hadoop
11 7 (0.64%) Geospatial Data
11 7 (0.64%) Pinecone
11 7 (0.64%) Power BI
12 6 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (0.55%) Flink
Development Applications
1 84 (7.69%) Git
2 73 (6.68%) GitLab
3 63 (5.77%) Jenkins
4 49 (4.49%) Cucumber
5 48 (4.40%) TeamCity
6 47 (4.30%) JIRA
7 31 (2.84%) Selenium
8 28 (2.56%) JUnit
9 22 (2.01%) Maven
10 19 (1.74%) Postman
11 17 (1.56%) Cypress.io
11 17 (1.56%) Mockito
12 16 (1.47%) Bitbucket
13 15 (1.37%) Claude Code
14 12 (1.10%) REST Assured
15 11 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 10 (0.92%) JMeter
17 9 (0.82%) Gradle
18 7 (0.64%) SonarQube
19 6 (0.55%) MLflow
General
1 464 (42.49%) Finance
2 246 (22.53%) Banking
3 222 (20.33%) Social Skills
4 95 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 88 (8.06%) Law
6 75 (6.87%) Public Sector
7 70 (6.41%) Analytical Skills
8 69 (6.32%) Front Office
9 68 (6.23%) Retail
10 64 (5.86%) Financial Institution
11 34 (3.11%) Back Office
12 25 (2.29%) Investment Banking
13 23 (2.11%) Marketing
14 15 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (1.37%) Tech for Good
15 11 (1.01%) Health Technology
16 10 (0.92%) Legal
17 9 (0.82%) Manufacturing
17 9 (0.82%) Retail Banking
18 7 (0.64%) Military
Job Titles
1 305 (27.93%) Senior
2 271 (24.82%) Java Engineer
3 262 (23.99%) Software Engineer
4 236 (21.61%) Developer
5 149 (13.64%) Lead
6 136 (12.45%) Java Developer
7 100 (9.16%) Senior Software Engineer
8 79 (7.23%) Senior Developer
8 79 (7.23%) Senior Java Engineer
9 75 (6.87%) Java Software Engineer
10 63 (5.77%) Principal Engineer
11 51 (4.67%) Architect
11 51 (4.67%) Principal Java Engineer
12 49 (4.49%) Lead Software Engineer
13 40 (3.66%) Engineering Manager
13 40 (3.66%) Senior Java Developer
14 34 (3.11%) Consultant
14 34 (3.11%) Software Developer
14 34 (3.11%) Software Engineering Manager
14 34 (3.11%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 287 (26.28%) Spring
2 238 (21.79%) Spring Boot
3 189 (17.31%) Kafka
4 141 (12.91%) Terraform
5 139 (12.73%) REST
6 85 (7.78%) React
7 80 (7.33%) RESTful
8 68 (6.23%) .NET
9 66 (6.04%) Node.js
10 48 (4.40%) AngularJS
11 40 (3.66%) OAuth
12 28 (2.56%) FIX Protocol
12 28 (2.56%) OAuth2
13 25 (2.29%) Middleware
14 24 (2.20%) Hibernate
15 23 (2.11%) Web Services
16 21 (1.92%) RabbitMQ
17 20 (1.83%) Playwright
18 16 (1.47%) HTML
18 16 (1.47%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 233 (21.34%) Cloud Native
2 167 (15.29%) Distributed Systems
3 129 (11.81%) Product Ownership
4 116 (10.62%) Public Cloud
5 54 (4.95%) Onboarding
6 40 (3.66%) Distributed Architecture
6 40 (3.66%) e-Learning
7 35 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
8 33 (3.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 31 (2.84%) Equities
10 26 (2.38%) Blog
10 26 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
11 24 (2.20%) AI Agents
11 24 (2.20%) Fixed Income
12 22 (2.01%) Virtual Team
13 21 (1.92%) Algorithms
14 18 (1.65%) Data Structures
14 18 (1.65%) Mobile App
15 17 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
16 16 (1.47%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 75 (6.87%) Linux
2 29 (2.66%) Windows
3 16 (1.47%) Android
4 13 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.10%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.92%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.73%) Unix
8 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.092%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 455 (41.67%) Software Engineering
2 378 (34.62%) CI/CD
3 322 (29.49%) Microservices
4 265 (24.27%) Agile
5 231 (21.15%) Test Automation
6 219 (20.05%) Mentoring
7 215 (19.69%) AI
8 214 (19.60%) DevOps
9 186 (17.03%) Event-Driven
10 185 (16.94%) Roadmaps
11 171 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
12 162 (14.84%) Infrastructure as Code
12 162 (14.84%) Technical Leadership
13 130 (11.90%) Containerisation
14 124 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
15 121 (11.08%) Fintech
16 114 (10.44%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 109 (9.98%) Full-Stack Development
18 103 (9.43%) Computer Science
19 98 (8.97%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 328 (30.04%) Python
2 184 (16.85%) SQL
3 99 (9.07%) JavaScript
4 98 (8.97%) C#
5 83 (7.60%) C++
6 74 (6.78%) TypeScript
7 70 (6.41%) Go
8 57 (5.22%) Kotlin
9 47 (4.30%) Bash
10 32 (2.93%) C
11 31 (2.84%) Ruby
12 25 (2.29%) Rust
13 22 (2.01%) Scala
14 20 (1.83%) Perl
14 20 (1.83%) PHP
14 20 (1.83%) PowerShell
15 11 (1.01%) R
16 10 (0.92%) RPG
17 8 (0.73%) VBA
18 7 (0.64%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 134 (12.27%) Security Cleared
2 109 (9.98%) Degree
3 76 (6.96%) SC Cleared
4 75 (6.87%) AWS Certification
5 66 (6.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 64 (5.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 44 (4.03%) DV Cleared
8 15 (1.37%) OSCP
9 10 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (0.92%) CREST Certified
10 8 (0.73%) ISTQB
10 8 (0.73%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.64%) CISSP
11 7 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.55%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 5 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (0.46%) CCSP
13 5 (0.46%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (6.14%) QA
2 24 (2.20%) GDPR
3 22 (2.01%) Data Quality
4 17 (1.56%) ISO 20022
5 10 (0.92%) GRC
6 9 (0.82%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.82%) NIST
7 7 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.37%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.37%) WCAG
9 3 (0.27%) MiFID
9 3 (0.27%) UCITS
10 2 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.18%) PSD2
11 1 (0.092%) SOC 2
System Software
1 138 (12.64%) Docker
2 18 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.10%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.46%) KVM
6 5 (0.46%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.37%) Squid
7 4 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.37%) vSphere
8 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.092%) Firmware
9 1 (0.092%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 229 (20.97%) Kubernetes
2 70 (6.41%) Grafana
3 40 (3.66%) Ansible
4 26 (2.38%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.64%) Argo
5 7 (0.64%) Kibana
6 6 (0.55%) Hadoop YARN
6 6 (0.55%) Kubeflow
6 6 (0.55%) Puppet
7 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (0.37%) EnCase
8 4 (0.37%) FTK
8 4 (0.37%) Packer
8 4 (0.37%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.27%) Rancher
9 3 (0.27%) WSUS
10 2 (0.18%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.18%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 67 (6.14%) Oracle
2 60 (5.49%) Microsoft
3 53 (4.85%) Google
4 31 (2.84%) IBM
5 29 (2.66%) Splunk
6 26 (2.38%) Red Hat
7 21 (1.92%) Palantir
8 19 (1.74%) VMware
9 16 (1.47%) ServiceNow
10 15 (1.37%) OpenAI
11 14 (1.28%) Foundry
11 14 (1.28%) SendGrid
12 13 (1.19%) SAP
13 12 (1.10%) Bloomberg
13 12 (1.10%) Solace
14 11 (1.01%) OutSystems
15 10 (0.92%) Databricks
16 9 (0.82%) AppDynamics
16 9 (0.82%) HP
17 8 (0.73%) Guidewire