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 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 28 19
Rank change year-on-year -6 -9 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 926 1,168 1,986
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.99% 7.83% 9.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.53% 19.26% 22.01%
Number of salaries quoted 565 772 1,652
10th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £105,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £143,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -6.45%

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 4,510 6,065 9,022
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 29.17% 40.65% 42.36%
Number of salaries quoted 3,173 3,920 7,821
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 16 February 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 16 February 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 +5 147 £100,000 +2.56% 53
South London -9 14 £70,000 +9.80% 11
West London -7 12 £82,500 +175.00% 20
East London -5 4 £75,000 - 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 38 (4.10%) Apache Spark
2 23 (2.48%) Apache
2 23 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (1.51%) Confluence
4 12 (1.30%) JBoss
5 11 (1.19%) WebSphere
6 6 (0.65%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.43%) Appian
7 4 (0.43%) nginx
7 4 (0.43%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.32%) Liferay
8 3 (0.32%) Mule
9 2 (0.22%) Camunda
9 2 (0.22%) Moodle
9 2 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.11%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.11%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (0.97%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (0.76%) Fidessa
1 7 (0.76%) Maximo
2 4 (0.43%) Shopify
3 2 (0.22%) Adaptiv
3 2 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 422 (45.57%) AWS
2 152 (16.41%) GCP
3 122 (13.17%) Azure
4 94 (10.15%) Amazon EKS
5 82 (8.86%) SaaS
6 46 (4.97%) GitHub
7 41 (4.43%) Serverless
8 25 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
9 24 (2.59%) dbt
9 24 (2.59%) OpenShift
10 23 (2.48%) Amazon Kinesis
11 22 (2.38%) Datadog
12 21 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
12 21 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
13 20 (2.16%) Snowflake
14 18 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
15 17 (1.84%) Amazon S3
15 17 (1.84%) Pulumi
16 16 (1.73%) GitHub Actions
16 16 (1.73%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.56%) TCP/IP
2 19 (2.05%) Broadband
3 11 (1.19%) HTTP
4 10 (1.08%) VPN
5 8 (0.86%) Multicast
6 6 (0.65%) BGP
6 6 (0.65%) VLAN
7 5 (0.54%) AMQP
7 5 (0.54%) Firewall
8 4 (0.43%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.22%) DHCP
9 2 (0.22%) DNS
9 2 (0.22%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.22%) Internet
9 2 (0.22%) LAN
9 2 (0.22%) NAS
9 2 (0.22%) SAN
9 2 (0.22%) SNMP
9 2 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (9.18%) PostgreSQL
2 83 (8.96%) Relational Database
3 65 (7.02%) NoSQL
4 51 (5.51%) RDBMS
5 42 (4.54%) Data Warehouse
6 35 (3.78%) SQL Server
7 32 (3.46%) Big Data
7 32 (3.46%) MongoDB
8 29 (3.13%) Hadoop
9 25 (2.70%) DB2
10 21 (2.27%) Data Lake
11 18 (1.94%) DynamoDB
12 17 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
13 15 (1.62%) MySQL
13 15 (1.62%) Neo4j
14 14 (1.51%) Pentaho
15 13 (1.40%) Apache Hive
15 13 (1.40%) Apache Ignite
16 12 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
17 11 (1.19%) Flink
Development Applications
1 63 (6.80%) TeamCity
2 56 (6.05%) Jenkins
3 49 (5.29%) Selenium
4 34 (3.67%) Git
5 32 (3.46%) Cucumber
6 31 (3.35%) JIRA
7 23 (2.48%) GitLab
8 19 (2.05%) Bitbucket
9 18 (1.94%) JUnit
10 16 (1.73%) Cypress.io
10 16 (1.73%) Jaeger
10 16 (1.73%) JMeter
11 14 (1.51%) WebDriver
12 9 (0.97%) Maven
12 9 (0.97%) Mockito
12 9 (0.97%) Postman
13 7 (0.76%) Gradle
14 6 (0.65%) Subversion
15 5 (0.54%) LoadRunner
15 5 (0.54%) REST Assured
General
1 338 (36.50%) Finance
2 243 (26.24%) Banking
3 221 (23.87%) Social Skills
4 115 (12.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 107 (11.56%) Law
6 103 (11.12%) Front Office
7 91 (9.83%) Financial Institution
8 86 (9.29%) Retail
9 74 (7.99%) Investment Banking
10 64 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
11 53 (5.72%) Back Office
12 50 (5.40%) Public Sector
13 26 (2.81%) Telecoms
14 18 (1.94%) Games
15 17 (1.84%) Billing
16 13 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
18 6 (0.65%) Legal
18 6 (0.65%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 320 (34.56%) Developer
2 234 (25.27%) Senior
3 232 (25.05%) Software Engineer
4 182 (19.65%) Java Developer
5 161 (17.39%) Java Engineer
6 141 (15.23%) Lead
7 102 (11.02%) Java Software Engineer
8 86 (9.29%) Full-Stack Developer
9 79 (8.53%) Senior Software Engineer
10 68 (7.34%) Senior Java Engineer
11 61 (6.59%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 56 (6.05%) Senior Developer
13 54 (5.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 50 (5.40%) Architect
14 50 (5.40%) AWS Engineer
15 41 (4.43%) Senior Java Software Engineer
16 39 (4.21%) Lead Software Engineer
17 38 (4.10%) Senior Java Developer
18 37 (4.00%) React Developer
19 34 (3.67%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (21.38%) Spring
2 164 (17.71%) React
3 148 (15.98%) Spring Boot
4 134 (14.47%) Kafka
5 110 (11.88%) REST
6 78 (8.42%) Node.js
7 62 (6.70%) .NET
8 60 (6.48%) RESTful
9 51 (5.51%) AngularJS
10 47 (5.08%) GraphQL
10 47 (5.08%) HTML
11 36 (3.89%) SOAP
12 35 (3.78%) CSS
12 35 (3.78%) Elastic Stack
13 33 (3.56%) Hibernate
14 31 (3.35%) Web Services
15 27 (2.92%) JSON
16 25 (2.70%) FIX Protocol
17 24 (2.59%) XML
18 22 (2.38%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 201 (21.71%) Cloud Native
2 138 (14.90%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (5.40%) Equities
3 50 (5.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 49 (5.29%) Product Ownership
5 44 (4.75%) Fixed Income
6 38 (4.10%) Blog
7 33 (3.56%) Derivative
8 31 (3.35%) Greenfield Project
9 27 (2.92%) Algorithms
10 26 (2.81%) Public Cloud
11 24 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (2.27%) Distributed Architecture
12 21 (2.27%) FPGA
13 20 (2.16%) Hedge funds
13 20 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
14 19 (2.05%) Onboarding
15 18 (1.94%) Data Structures
15 18 (1.94%) Management Information System
16 16 (1.73%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 115 (12.42%) Linux
2 29 (3.13%) Unix
3 21 (2.27%) Windows
4 19 (2.05%) Android
5 7 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.43%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.22%) CentOS
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.11%) AIX
9 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (35.96%) Software Engineering
2 313 (33.80%) CI/CD
3 310 (33.48%) Agile
4 227 (24.51%) Microservices
5 190 (20.52%) Test Automation
6 182 (19.65%) DevOps
7 177 (19.11%) Full-Stack Development
8 156 (16.85%) Mentoring
9 143 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
10 118 (12.74%) Fintech
11 107 (11.56%) Containerisation
11 107 (11.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 107 (11.56%) Roadmaps
12 96 (10.37%) AI
13 92 (9.94%) Low Latency
14 89 (9.61%) Technical Leadership
15 88 (9.50%) Computer Science
16 85 (9.18%) Clean Code
17 72 (7.78%) TDD
18 69 (7.45%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 293 (31.64%) Python
2 184 (19.87%) JavaScript
3 143 (15.44%) SQL
4 130 (14.04%) TypeScript
5 94 (10.15%) Go
6 84 (9.07%) C#
7 59 (6.37%) C++
8 56 (6.05%) Kotlin
9 41 (4.43%) C
10 31 (3.35%) Scala
11 28 (3.02%) Bash
11 28 (3.02%) Rust
12 14 (1.51%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.86%) PowerShell
14 7 (0.76%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.76%) PHP
15 6 (0.65%) Ruby
15 6 (0.65%) VBA
16 5 (0.54%) R
16 5 (0.54%) RPG
Qualifications
1 122 (13.17%) Security Cleared
2 116 (12.53%) Degree
3 75 (8.10%) SC Cleared
4 45 (4.86%) DV Cleared
5 44 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 35 (3.78%) AWS Certification
7 31 (3.35%) Master's Degree
8 16 (1.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 16 (1.73%) PhD
9 11 (1.19%) CREST Certified
9 11 (1.19%) OSCP
10 9 (0.97%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.54%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.43%) OSCE
14 3 (0.32%) ISEB
14 3 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (3.78%) QA
2 19 (2.05%) GDPR
3 17 (1.84%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.62%) Data Quality
4 15 (1.62%) PCI DSS
4 15 (1.62%) SOC 2
5 7 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.43%) EU AI Act
7 4 (0.43%) SEPA
7 4 (0.43%) SLA
8 2 (0.22%) PSD2
9 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.11%) MiFID
9 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 149 (16.09%) Docker
2 15 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (1.51%) Virtual Servers
4 9 (0.97%) Active Directory
5 7 (0.76%) HDFS
6 3 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.22%) KVM
8 1 (0.11%) Firmware
8 1 (0.11%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.11%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.11%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 250 (27.00%) Kubernetes
2 114 (12.31%) Terraform
3 63 (6.80%) Grafana
4 39 (4.21%) Ansible
5 30 (3.24%) Argo
6 27 (2.92%) Prometheus
7 16 (1.73%) Kustomize
8 13 (1.40%) Kibana
9 7 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.22%) logstash
11 2 (0.22%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 1 (0.11%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.11%) Icinga
12 1 (0.11%) Nagios
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Flashback
12 1 (0.11%) Puppet
12 1 (0.11%) Rancher
Vendors
1 35 (3.78%) Google
2 30 (3.24%) Oracle
3 18 (1.94%) Databricks
3 18 (1.94%) IBM
3 18 (1.94%) Informatica
3 18 (1.94%) Talend
4 16 (1.73%) Guidewire
5 14 (1.51%) Atlassian
5 14 (1.51%) Microsoft
5 14 (1.51%) MuleSoft
6 13 (1.40%) Splunk
7 11 (1.19%) Dell
8 10 (1.08%) Dynatrace
8 10 (1.08%) OpenAI
8 10 (1.08%) Salesforce
8 10 (1.08%) Solace
9 7 (0.76%) Red Hat
10 6 (0.65%) SAP
11 5 (0.54%) ForgeRock
12 4 (0.43%) Jitterbit