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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 28 17
Rank change year-on-year -7 -11 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,066 990 2,091
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.09% 8.35% 8.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.03% 20.57% 22.09%
Number of salaries quoted 601 694 1,613
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £74,870 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £141,750 £148,750
England median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £73,805
% change year-on-year -6.45% +5.01% -7.74%

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 5,321 4,814 9,465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.39% 40.61% 40.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3,756 3,482 7,539
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,125 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £132,500 £130,000
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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -10 158 £100,000 +1.01% 37
South London -18 23 £60,000 -27.27% 3
West London -15 18 £80,000 +166.67% 8
East London -8 3 - - 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 24 (2.25%) Apache Spark
2 20 (1.88%) Confluence
3 16 (1.50%) Apache
4 15 (1.41%) Palantir Foundry
5 13 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.56%) JBoss
7 5 (0.47%) Camunda
8 4 (0.38%) CMS
8 4 (0.38%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.28%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.28%) Liferay
9 3 (0.28%) Moodle
9 3 (0.28%) SAS
10 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.094%) Appian
11 1 (0.094%) CICS
11 1 (0.094%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.094%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.094%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.75%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (1.03%) Maximo
2 5 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.28%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.19%) Fidessa
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%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 463 (43.43%) AWS
2 195 (18.29%) GCP
3 168 (15.76%) Azure
4 69 (6.47%) Amazon EKS
5 66 (6.19%) SaaS
6 50 (4.69%) GitHub
7 44 (4.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 28 (2.63%) Serverless
9 26 (2.44%) OpenShift
10 19 (1.78%) Pulumi
11 18 (1.69%) Amazon S3
11 18 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (1.59%) GitHub Copilot
13 16 (1.50%) dbt
14 14 (1.31%) Amazon ECS
15 13 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
15 13 (1.22%) Datadog
16 12 (1.13%) Amazon EC2
17 10 (0.94%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.72%) HTTP
2 25 (2.35%) Broadband
3 23 (2.16%) TCP/IP
4 7 (0.66%) DMARC
5 4 (0.38%) IPv4
5 4 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.28%) AMQP
6 3 (0.28%) BGP
6 3 (0.28%) Network Security
6 3 (0.28%) VLAN
6 3 (0.28%) VPN
7 2 (0.19%) Firewall
7 2 (0.19%) Internet
7 2 (0.19%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.094%) LAN
8 1 (0.094%) LTE
8 1 (0.094%) MQTT
8 1 (0.094%) SAN
8 1 (0.094%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.094%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (7.60%) NoSQL
2 60 (5.63%) Relational Database
3 58 (5.44%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (3.19%) RDBMS
5 28 (2.63%) MongoDB
6 26 (2.44%) SQL Server
7 23 (2.16%) DB2
8 16 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (1.50%) DynamoDB
9 14 (1.31%) MySQL
10 13 (1.22%) Big Data
10 13 (1.22%) BigQuery
11 10 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (0.94%) Hadoop
11 10 (0.94%) Redis
12 9 (0.84%) Metadata
12 9 (0.84%) Pentaho
13 8 (0.75%) Flink
14 7 (0.66%) Neo4j
14 7 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 58 (5.44%) TeamCity
2 51 (4.78%) Git
3 42 (3.94%) Jenkins
4 41 (3.85%) GitLab
5 37 (3.47%) Selenium
6 29 (2.72%) Cucumber
6 29 (2.72%) JIRA
7 16 (1.50%) Bitbucket
8 15 (1.41%) Gradle
8 15 (1.41%) Jaeger
8 15 (1.41%) JUnit
9 13 (1.22%) Maven
10 11 (1.03%) Claude Code
11 7 (0.66%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.66%) Postman
11 7 (0.66%) WebDriver
12 6 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.47%) Mockito
13 5 (0.47%) SpecFlow
14 4 (0.38%) SonarQube
General
1 414 (38.84%) Finance
2 218 (20.45%) Banking
3 176 (16.51%) Social Skills
4 111 (10.41%) Front Office
4 111 (10.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 92 (8.63%) Law
6 81 (7.60%) Retail
7 71 (6.66%) Public Sector
8 68 (6.38%) Financial Institution
9 63 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
10 47 (4.41%) Back Office
11 35 (3.28%) Investment Banking
12 23 (2.16%) Telecoms
13 18 (1.69%) Games
14 17 (1.59%) Billing
14 17 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
16 9 (0.84%) Tech for Good
17 8 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
18 7 (0.66%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 349 (32.74%) Developer
2 268 (25.14%) Senior
3 266 (24.95%) Software Engineer
4 226 (21.20%) Java Engineer
5 201 (18.86%) Java Developer
6 164 (15.38%) Lead
7 105 (9.85%) Java Software Engineer
8 90 (8.44%) Senior Developer
9 86 (8.07%) Senior Software Engineer
10 67 (6.29%) Senior Java Engineer
11 59 (5.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 57 (5.35%) Full-Stack Developer
13 56 (5.25%) Lead Software Engineer
14 55 (5.16%) Senior Java Developer
15 49 (4.60%) Principal Engineer
16 41 (3.85%) Software Developer
17 39 (3.66%) Architect
18 37 (3.47%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 36 (3.38%) Developer/Software Engineer
20 35 (3.28%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 246 (23.08%) Spring
2 208 (19.51%) Spring Boot
3 145 (13.60%) Kafka
4 134 (12.57%) React
5 115 (10.79%) REST
6 80 (7.50%) Node.js
7 61 (5.72%) .NET
8 55 (5.16%) AngularJS
9 52 (4.88%) RESTful
10 42 (3.94%) GraphQL
11 39 (3.66%) Web Services
12 34 (3.19%) Redux
13 31 (2.91%) HTML
14 29 (2.72%) Elastic Stack
15 27 (2.53%) SOAP
16 26 (2.44%) CSS
17 24 (2.25%) OAuth
18 22 (2.06%) Hibernate
19 21 (1.97%) Middleware
20 20 (1.88%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 195 (18.29%) Cloud Native
2 105 (9.85%) Distributed Systems
3 91 (8.54%) Product Ownership
4 78 (7.32%) Public Cloud
5 50 (4.69%) Fixed Income
6 46 (4.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 35 (3.28%) Blog
8 33 (3.10%) Equities
9 31 (2.91%) Distributed Architecture
10 21 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
11 19 (1.78%) FPGA
12 18 (1.69%) e-Learning
13 16 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
14 15 (1.41%) Data Structures
14 15 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
15 14 (1.31%) Derivative
15 14 (1.31%) Mobile Banking
16 13 (1.22%) Security Posture
17 12 (1.13%) Onboarding
18 11 (1.03%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 102 (9.57%) Linux
2 26 (2.44%) Android
3 25 (2.35%) Unix
4 21 (1.97%) Windows
5 11 (1.03%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.66%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 393 (36.87%) Software Engineering
2 322 (30.21%) CI/CD
3 301 (28.24%) Agile
4 244 (22.89%) Microservices
5 220 (20.64%) DevOps
6 202 (18.95%) Test Automation
7 200 (18.76%) Mentoring
8 170 (15.95%) Roadmaps
9 159 (14.92%) Full-Stack Development
10 144 (13.51%) Technical Leadership
11 132 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
12 125 (11.73%) Containerisation
13 123 (11.54%) AI
14 120 (11.26%) Infrastructure as Code
15 116 (10.88%) Fintech
16 99 (9.29%) Continuous Improvement
17 93 (8.72%) Low Latency
18 83 (7.79%) Clean Code
19 79 (7.41%) TDD
20 76 (7.13%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 301 (28.24%) Python
2 163 (15.29%) JavaScript
3 155 (14.54%) SQL
4 107 (10.04%) Go
5 97 (9.10%) TypeScript
6 87 (8.16%) C#
7 78 (7.32%) C++
8 49 (4.60%) Kotlin
9 41 (3.85%) Bash
10 29 (2.72%) C
11 23 (2.16%) Rust
12 21 (1.97%) Scala
13 18 (1.69%) PowerShell
14 8 (0.75%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.75%) VBA
15 7 (0.66%) PHP
16 6 (0.56%) R
17 5 (0.47%) Groovy
17 5 (0.47%) PL/SQL
17 5 (0.47%) RPG
Qualifications
1 139 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 103 (9.66%) Degree
3 89 (8.35%) SC Cleared
4 64 (6.00%) DV Cleared
5 48 (4.50%) AWS Certification
6 47 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (2.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 18 (1.69%) OSCP
9 16 (1.50%) Master's Degree
10 14 (1.31%) CREST Certified
11 11 (1.03%) PhD
12 8 (0.75%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.66%) Azure Certification
14 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
16 4 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
16 4 (0.38%) CCNA
16 4 (0.38%) RHCE
16 4 (0.38%) RHCSA
17 3 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (3.94%) QA
2 16 (1.50%) Data Quality
3 14 (1.31%) GRC
4 13 (1.22%) PCI DSS
5 12 (1.13%) SOC 2
6 10 (0.94%) GDPR
7 6 (0.56%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.38%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.28%) NIST
10 1 (0.094%) MiFID
10 1 (0.094%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.094%) SLA
10 1 (0.094%) WCAG
System Software
1 141 (13.23%) Docker
2 9 (0.84%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.38%) KVM
3 4 (0.38%) Squid
3 4 (0.38%) VMware NSX
3 4 (0.38%) vSphere
4 2 (0.19%) Firmware
4 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.094%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.094%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.094%) OpenDJ
5 1 (0.094%) OpenIDM
5 1 (0.094%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.094%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.094%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 236 (22.14%) Kubernetes
2 142 (13.32%) Terraform
3 73 (6.85%) Grafana
4 41 (3.85%) Ansible
5 31 (2.91%) Prometheus
6 22 (2.06%) Argo
7 15 (1.41%) Kustomize
8 8 (0.75%) Kibana
9 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.38%) Packer
10 4 (0.38%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.28%) Puppet
12 2 (0.19%) Data Guard
12 2 (0.19%) Oracle Flashback
12 2 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.19%) Rancher
12 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.094%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.094%) logstash
13 1 (0.094%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 41 (3.85%) Google
2 32 (3.00%) Microsoft
3 29 (2.72%) Oracle
4 20 (1.88%) IBM
5 18 (1.69%) Palantir
6 17 (1.59%) Foundry
6 17 (1.59%) Splunk
7 12 (1.13%) Solace
8 11 (1.03%) MuleSoft
8 11 (1.03%) Salesforce
9 10 (0.94%) Red Hat
9 10 (0.94%) ServiceNow
9 10 (0.94%) VMware
10 9 (0.84%) Informatica
10 9 (0.84%) Talend
11 8 (0.75%) Databricks
12 7 (0.66%) Dynatrace
12 7 (0.66%) SendGrid
13 6 (0.56%) OpenAI
14 5 (0.47%) Guidewire