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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 20 15
Rank change year-on-year -11 -5 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 944 1,601 1,987
As % of all permanent jobs in London 7.14% 9.42% 10.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.34% 22.21% 24.28%
Number of salaries quoted 592 1,091 1,673
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £54,750
25th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £68,790
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £101,250 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% +11.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £130,313 £127,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £148,750 £143,750
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,554
% change year-on-year -3.13% +5.89% +0.74%

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 4,424 7,209 8,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 33.46% 42.40% 44.64%
Number of salaries quoted 3,007 4,772 7,147
10th Percentile £46,000 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,375 £61,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £107,500 £108,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £128,625 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 3 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 +6 163 £100,000 +17.65% 54
South London +14 31 £82,500 +34.69% 8
West London -10 5 £60,000 -8.05% 15
East London -19 2 £75,000 -40.00% 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 70 (7.42%) Apache Airflow
2 65 (6.89%) Apache
3 43 (4.56%) Apache Spark
4 14 (1.48%) Confluence
5 8 (0.85%) JBoss
6 7 (0.74%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.64%) nginx
8 5 (0.53%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.53%) BizTalk Server
9 4 (0.42%) Appian
9 4 (0.42%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.32%) Luigi
10 3 (0.32%) Mule
11 2 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.21%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.21%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.21%) Traefik
12 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.11%) Camunda
12 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (0.74%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.21%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (0.74%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.42%) Shopify
4 3 (0.32%) Adaptiv
4 3 (0.32%) Maximo
5 1 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.11%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 479 (50.74%) AWS
2 149 (15.78%) Azure
3 140 (14.83%) GCP
4 76 (8.05%) Amazon EKS
5 64 (6.78%) dbt
6 62 (6.57%) Serverless
6 62 (6.57%) Snowflake
7 55 (5.83%) GitHub
8 53 (5.61%) SaaS
9 37 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
10 33 (3.50%) Amazon ECS
11 32 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
12 28 (2.97%) Datadog
13 23 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
14 22 (2.33%) Amazon Kinesis
15 20 (2.12%) Amazon S3
16 17 (1.80%) OpenShift
17 15 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 13 (1.38%) Amazon EMR
19 12 (1.27%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.28%) TCP/IP
2 10 (1.06%) HTTP
3 9 (0.95%) Multicast
3 9 (0.95%) VPN
4 6 (0.64%) DNS
5 4 (0.42%) Broadband
5 4 (0.42%) DHCP
5 4 (0.42%) Firewall
5 4 (0.42%) Kerberos
5 4 (0.42%) LAN
5 4 (0.42%) SAN
5 4 (0.42%) WAN
6 3 (0.32%) BGP
6 3 (0.32%) VLAN
7 2 (0.21%) AMQP
7 2 (0.21%) ICMP
7 2 (0.21%) Internet
7 2 (0.21%) NAS
7 2 (0.21%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.21%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (10.81%) Relational Database
2 92 (9.75%) PostgreSQL
3 72 (7.63%) Data Lake
4 59 (6.25%) Apache Iceberg
5 57 (6.04%) Amazon Athena
5 57 (6.04%) Apache Arrow
5 57 (6.04%) Dremio
6 56 (5.93%) Apache Ignite
7 50 (5.30%) NoSQL
8 47 (4.98%) Data Warehouse
9 45 (4.77%) MongoDB
10 43 (4.56%) RDBMS
11 42 (4.45%) Big Data
12 38 (4.03%) SQL Server
13 35 (3.71%) Hadoop
14 23 (2.44%) DynamoDB
15 19 (2.01%) MySQL
16 18 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
16 18 (1.91%) DB2
17 14 (1.48%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 79 (8.37%) Jenkins
2 52 (5.51%) Git
3 41 (4.34%) Selenium
4 33 (3.50%) JUnit
5 30 (3.18%) TeamCity
6 29 (3.07%) JIRA
7 28 (2.97%) JMeter
8 27 (2.86%) Cucumber
9 25 (2.65%) GitLab
10 22 (2.33%) Mockito
11 20 (2.12%) Cypress.io
12 16 (1.69%) Bitbucket
13 11 (1.17%) WebDriver
14 10 (1.06%) Maven
14 10 (1.06%) Vite
15 9 (0.95%) Postman
16 7 (0.74%) Subversion
17 6 (0.64%) CircleCI
17 6 (0.64%) webpack
18 5 (0.53%) REST Assured
General
1 458 (48.52%) Finance
2 295 (31.25%) Banking
3 260 (27.54%) Social Skills
4 168 (17.80%) Front Office
5 144 (15.25%) Law
6 132 (13.98%) Investment Banking
7 128 (13.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 92 (9.75%) Analytical Skills
9 81 (8.58%) Financial Institution
10 53 (5.61%) Public Sector
11 31 (3.28%) Retail
12 29 (3.07%) Back Office
13 25 (2.65%) Marketing
14 16 (1.69%) Billing
15 15 (1.59%) Legal
15 15 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
16 14 (1.48%) Games
17 12 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
18 11 (1.17%) Telecoms
19 7 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 326 (34.53%) Developer
2 304 (32.20%) Software Engineer
3 249 (26.38%) Senior
4 193 (20.44%) Java Engineer
5 175 (18.54%) Lead
6 162 (17.16%) Java Developer
7 149 (15.78%) Java Software Engineer
8 119 (12.61%) Senior Software Engineer
9 101 (10.70%) Senior Java Engineer
10 93 (9.85%) AWS Engineer
11 82 (8.69%) Lead Software Engineer
12 77 (8.16%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 76 (8.05%) Python Engineer
14 70 (7.42%) Full-Stack Developer
15 68 (7.20%) Python Software Engineer
16 66 (6.99%) AWS Software Engineer
17 52 (5.51%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 40 (4.24%) Architect
19 39 (4.13%) Data Engineer
20 37 (3.92%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (19.81%) Spring
2 180 (19.07%) React
3 178 (18.86%) Kafka
4 129 (13.67%) Spring Boot
5 97 (10.28%) Node.js
6 96 (10.17%) REST
7 89 (9.43%) RESTful
8 73 (7.73%) .NET
9 63 (6.67%) Pandas
10 59 (6.25%) AngularJS
11 58 (6.14%) gRPC
12 57 (6.04%) NumPy
12 57 (6.04%) SciPy
13 55 (5.83%) HTML
14 54 (5.72%) GraphQL
14 54 (5.72%) Protocol Buffers
15 39 (4.13%) Hibernate
16 36 (3.81%) Web Services
17 34 (3.60%) CSS
18 31 (3.28%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 195 (20.66%) Cloud Native
2 158 (16.74%) Distributed Systems
3 114 (12.08%) Equities
4 106 (11.23%) Fixed Income
5 100 (10.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 89 (9.43%) Derivative
7 68 (7.20%) Hedge funds
8 58 (6.14%) Algorithms
9 55 (5.83%) Pricing Data
10 47 (4.98%) Onboarding
11 39 (4.13%) Product Ownership
11 39 (4.13%) Public Cloud
12 38 (4.03%) Greenfield Project
13 29 (3.07%) Management Information System
14 24 (2.54%) Data Structures
15 23 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
16 21 (2.22%) FPGA
17 17 (1.80%) Legacy Code
17 17 (1.80%) Virtual Team
18 16 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 104 (11.02%) Linux
2 24 (2.54%) Windows
3 15 (1.59%) Unix
4 8 (0.85%) Android
5 6 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.42%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.21%) CentOS
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.21%) VMS
8 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.11%) AIX
9 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 430 (45.55%) Agile
2 395 (41.84%) Software Engineering
3 314 (33.26%) CI/CD
4 233 (24.68%) Microservices
5 195 (20.66%) Problem-Solving
6 161 (17.06%) Test Automation
7 155 (16.42%) DevOps
7 155 (16.42%) Full-Stack Development
8 129 (13.67%) Computer Science
9 128 (13.56%) SDLC
10 120 (12.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 115 (12.18%) Fintech
12 105 (11.12%) AI
12 105 (11.12%) Low Latency
12 105 (11.12%) Mentoring
13 89 (9.43%) Investment Management
14 86 (9.11%) TDD
15 85 (9.00%) Machine Learning
16 82 (8.69%) Scrum
16 82 (8.69%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 397 (42.06%) Python
2 220 (23.31%) JavaScript
3 193 (20.44%) TypeScript
4 157 (16.63%) SQL
5 107 (11.33%) C#
6 80 (8.47%) C++
6 80 (8.47%) Go
7 75 (7.94%) Kotlin
8 52 (5.51%) Scala
9 47 (4.98%) C
10 29 (3.07%) Shell Script
11 20 (2.12%) Rust
12 12 (1.27%) Groovy
12 12 (1.27%) Ruby
13 8 (0.85%) Bash
13 8 (0.85%) PowerShell
14 6 (0.64%) Perl
14 6 (0.64%) R
15 4 (0.42%) RPG
15 4 (0.42%) VBA
Qualifications
1 138 (14.62%) Degree
2 85 (9.00%) Security Cleared
3 54 (5.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 47 (4.98%) SC Cleared
5 45 (4.77%) Master's Degree
6 28 (2.97%) AWS Certification
7 25 (2.65%) DV Cleared
7 25 (2.65%) PhD
8 14 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (0.95%) Azure Certification
10 8 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.42%) CFA
12 4 (0.42%) CREST Certified
12 4 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.42%) OSCE
12 4 (0.42%) OSCP
12 4 (0.42%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.42%) PMP
13 3 (0.32%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (4.13%) QA
2 23 (2.44%) Accessibility
3 18 (1.91%) GDPR
4 11 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (0.95%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.74%) SLA
7 5 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.53%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.42%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.42%) ISO 9001
8 4 (0.42%) SEPA
9 3 (0.32%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.21%) ITGC
10 2 (0.21%) PSD2
11 1 (0.11%) GRC
11 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 133 (14.09%) Docker
2 17 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (1.48%) Virtual Servers
4 11 (1.17%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.85%) HDFS
6 2 (0.21%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.11%) KVM
Systems Management
1 219 (23.20%) Kubernetes
2 58 (6.14%) Terraform
3 29 (3.07%) Grafana
4 23 (2.44%) Kibana
5 19 (2.01%) Ansible
6 15 (1.59%) Argo
6 15 (1.59%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.53%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.32%) Control-M
8 3 (0.32%) Nagios
9 2 (0.21%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.21%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.21%) logstash
9 2 (0.21%) Puppet
9 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 2 (0.21%) WSUS
10 1 (0.11%) Icinga
Vendors
1 48 (5.08%) Oracle
2 36 (3.81%) Guidewire
3 29 (3.07%) Microsoft
4 26 (2.75%) Google
5 25 (2.65%) Splunk
6 21 (2.22%) Dynatrace
7 19 (2.01%) Databricks
8 15 (1.59%) Informatica
8 15 (1.59%) Talend
9 14 (1.48%) MuleSoft
10 13 (1.38%) Atlassian
10 13 (1.38%) Dell
10 13 (1.38%) IBM
11 10 (1.06%) Red Hat
12 9 (0.95%) Foundry
12 9 (0.95%) SAP
12 9 (0.95%) Solace
13 8 (0.85%) Palantir
14 7 (0.74%) OpenAI
15 6 (0.64%) SnapLogic