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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 20 15
Rank change year-on-year -9 -5 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 991 1,671 2,094
As % of all permanent jobs in London 7.65% 9.48% 11.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.01% 22.57% 24.52%
Number of salaries quoted 605 1,137 1,774
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £53,750
25th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £132,500 £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 4,502 7,404 8,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.75% 42.01% 45.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,005 4,902 7,438
10th Percentile £46,059 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £107,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £128,750 £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 22 November 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 22 November 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 +6 168 £100,000 +17.65% 317
South London +17 34 £82,500 +26.92% 14
West London -11 5 £60,000 -20.00% 20
East London -18 2 £75,000 -40.00% 17
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 78 (7.87%) Apache Airflow
2 70 (7.06%) Apache
3 42 (4.24%) Apache Spark
4 14 (1.41%) Confluence
5 10 (1.01%) JBoss
6 6 (0.61%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.50%) BizTalk Server
7 5 (0.50%) nginx
8 4 (0.40%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.40%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.30%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.30%) Appian
9 3 (0.30%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.30%) Luigi
9 3 (0.30%) Mule
9 3 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
9 3 (0.30%) Traefik
10 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 7 (0.71%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.61%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.50%) Adaptiv
2 5 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.40%) Shopify
4 3 (0.30%) Maximo
5 1 (0.10%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.10%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.10%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 502 (50.66%) AWS
2 146 (14.73%) GCP
3 144 (14.53%) Azure
4 81 (8.17%) Amazon EKS
5 72 (7.27%) dbt
6 70 (7.06%) Serverless
7 66 (6.66%) Snowflake
8 55 (5.55%) GitHub
9 54 (5.45%) SaaS
10 42 (4.24%) Amazon EC2
11 37 (3.73%) Amazon ECS
12 36 (3.63%) AWS Lambda
13 27 (2.72%) Datadog
14 25 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
15 22 (2.22%) Amazon Kinesis
16 21 (2.12%) Amazon S3
17 18 (1.82%) OpenShift
18 15 (1.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 12 (1.21%) Amazon SQS
19 12 (1.21%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.23%) TCP/IP
2 10 (1.01%) Multicast
2 10 (1.01%) VPN
3 7 (0.71%) HTTP
4 6 (0.61%) DNS
5 4 (0.40%) Broadband
5 4 (0.40%) DHCP
5 4 (0.40%) Firewall
5 4 (0.40%) Kerberos
6 3 (0.30%) BGP
6 3 (0.30%) ICMP
6 3 (0.30%) LAN
6 3 (0.30%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (0.30%) SAN
6 3 (0.30%) VLAN
6 3 (0.30%) WAN
7 2 (0.20%) FTP
7 2 (0.20%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.20%) SSH
7 2 (0.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (10.90%) Relational Database
2 99 (9.99%) PostgreSQL
3 77 (7.77%) Data Lake
4 68 (6.86%) Apache Iceberg
5 65 (6.56%) Amazon Athena
5 65 (6.56%) Apache Arrow
5 65 (6.56%) Dremio
6 60 (6.05%) Apache Ignite
7 52 (5.25%) NoSQL
8 46 (4.64%) MongoDB
9 44 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
10 43 (4.34%) Big Data
11 40 (4.04%) RDBMS
12 33 (3.33%) SQL Server
13 32 (3.23%) Hadoop
14 22 (2.22%) DynamoDB
15 19 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
16 17 (1.72%) MySQL
17 16 (1.61%) DB2
18 15 (1.51%) KDB
Development Applications
1 80 (8.07%) Jenkins
2 58 (5.85%) Git
3 40 (4.04%) JUnit
4 38 (3.83%) Selenium
5 31 (3.13%) JIRA
6 29 (2.93%) JMeter
7 28 (2.83%) TeamCity
8 26 (2.62%) GitLab
8 26 (2.62%) Mockito
9 23 (2.32%) Cucumber
10 19 (1.92%) Cypress.io
11 15 (1.51%) Bitbucket
12 12 (1.21%) Maven
12 12 (1.21%) Vite
13 10 (1.01%) Postman
14 9 (0.91%) WebDriver
15 8 (0.81%) Subversion
16 7 (0.71%) CircleCI
17 6 (0.61%) REST Assured
18 4 (0.40%) Browser DevTools
General
1 510 (51.46%) Finance
2 341 (34.41%) Banking
3 272 (27.45%) Social Skills
4 188 (18.97%) Law
5 181 (18.26%) Front Office
6 174 (17.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 141 (14.23%) Investment Banking
8 95 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
9 85 (8.58%) Financial Institution
10 62 (6.26%) Public Sector
11 37 (3.73%) Marketing
12 30 (3.03%) Retail
13 29 (2.93%) Back Office
14 21 (2.12%) Legal
15 17 (1.72%) Billing
16 15 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
17 13 (1.31%) Telecoms
18 12 (1.21%) Games
19 10 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
20 7 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 345 (34.81%) Software Engineer
2 331 (33.40%) Developer
3 256 (25.83%) Senior
4 216 (21.80%) Java Engineer
5 198 (19.98%) Lead
6 171 (17.26%) Java Software Engineer
7 168 (16.95%) Java Developer
8 125 (12.61%) Senior Software Engineer
9 108 (10.90%) Lead Software Engineer
10 107 (10.80%) Senior Java Engineer
11 103 (10.39%) AWS Engineer
12 89 (8.98%) Python Engineer
13 82 (8.27%) Python Software Engineer
13 82 (8.27%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 77 (7.77%) AWS Software Engineer
15 66 (6.66%) Full-Stack Developer
16 50 (5.05%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 44 (4.44%) Data Engineer
18 43 (4.34%) Lead Java Engineer
19 37 (3.73%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (20.18%) Spring
2 198 (19.98%) Kafka
3 183 (18.47%) React
4 141 (14.23%) Spring Boot
5 104 (10.49%) RESTful
6 96 (9.69%) Node.js
6 96 (9.69%) REST
7 73 (7.37%) .NET
7 73 (7.37%) Pandas
8 65 (6.56%) NumPy
8 65 (6.56%) SciPy
9 63 (6.36%) gRPC
10 62 (6.26%) AngularJS
11 60 (6.05%) Protocol Buffers
12 56 (5.65%) HTML
13 52 (5.25%) GraphQL
14 43 (4.34%) Hibernate
14 43 (4.34%) Web Services
15 35 (3.53%) CSS
16 31 (3.13%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 219 (22.10%) Cloud Native
2 170 (17.15%) Distributed Systems
3 123 (12.41%) Equities
4 118 (11.91%) Fixed Income
5 112 (11.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 101 (10.19%) Derivative
7 72 (7.27%) Hedge funds
8 62 (6.26%) Algorithms
9 59 (5.95%) Pricing Data
10 51 (5.15%) Onboarding
11 45 (4.54%) Public Cloud
12 39 (3.94%) Greenfield Project
13 32 (3.23%) Product Ownership
14 29 (2.93%) Management Information System
15 25 (2.52%) Data Structures
16 21 (2.12%) FPGA
16 21 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
16 21 (2.12%) Virtual Team
17 17 (1.72%) Legacy Code
18 15 (1.51%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 106 (10.70%) Linux
2 23 (2.32%) Windows
3 15 (1.51%) Unix
4 8 (0.81%) Android
5 6 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.40%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.20%) VMS
7 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.10%) AIX
8 1 (0.10%) CentOS
8 1 (0.10%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 483 (48.74%) Agile
2 432 (43.59%) Software Engineering
3 327 (33.00%) CI/CD
4 250 (25.23%) Microservices
5 209 (21.09%) Problem-Solving
6 162 (16.35%) Test Automation
7 158 (15.94%) SDLC
8 157 (15.84%) DevOps
9 151 (15.24%) Full-Stack Development
10 138 (13.93%) Computer Science
11 131 (13.22%) Fintech
12 130 (13.12%) Continuous Improvement
13 116 (11.71%) AI
14 109 (11.00%) Low Latency
15 103 (10.39%) Mentoring
16 99 (9.99%) Machine Learning
17 94 (9.49%) Investment Management
18 91 (9.18%) TDD
19 84 (8.48%) Containerisation
20 83 (8.38%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 424 (42.79%) Python
2 226 (22.81%) JavaScript
3 203 (20.48%) TypeScript
4 159 (16.04%) SQL
5 120 (12.11%) C#
6 97 (9.79%) C++
7 89 (8.98%) Go
8 87 (8.78%) Kotlin
9 56 (5.65%) Scala
10 48 (4.84%) C
11 33 (3.33%) Shell Script
12 23 (2.32%) Rust
13 14 (1.41%) Groovy
14 12 (1.21%) Ruby
15 9 (0.91%) Bash
15 9 (0.91%) PowerShell
16 6 (0.61%) R
17 4 (0.40%) PL/SQL
18 3 (0.30%) Perl
18 3 (0.30%) RPG
Qualifications
1 141 (14.23%) Degree
2 90 (9.08%) Security Cleared
3 53 (5.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 50 (5.05%) Master's Degree
5 49 (4.94%) SC Cleared
6 34 (3.43%) AWS Certification
7 28 (2.83%) DV Cleared
8 26 (2.62%) PhD
9 15 (1.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (0.81%) AWS Certified Developer
10 8 (0.81%) Azure Certification
10 8 (0.81%) CFA
10 8 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (0.81%) PMI Certification
10 8 (0.81%) PMP
11 5 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.40%) CREST Certified
12 4 (0.40%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.40%) OSCE
12 4 (0.40%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (3.94%) QA
2 23 (2.32%) Accessibility
3 19 (1.92%) GDPR
4 11 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (0.81%) Data Quality
5 8 (0.81%) SLA
6 5 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.50%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.40%) EU AI Act
7 4 (0.40%) ISO 9001
7 4 (0.40%) SEPA
7 4 (0.40%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.20%) GRC
8 2 (0.20%) ITGC
8 2 (0.20%) PSD2
9 1 (0.10%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.10%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 136 (13.72%) Docker
2 17 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (1.41%) Virtual Servers
4 11 (1.11%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.81%) HDFS
6 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.10%) KVM
Systems Management
1 243 (24.52%) Kubernetes
2 69 (6.96%) Terraform
3 33 (3.33%) Grafana
4 25 (2.52%) Kibana
5 19 (1.92%) Ansible
6 18 (1.82%) Argo
6 18 (1.82%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.61%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.30%) Control-M
10 3 (0.30%) HAProxy
10 3 (0.30%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.30%) Nagios
11 2 (0.20%) logstash
11 2 (0.20%) Puppet
11 2 (0.20%) WSUS
12 1 (0.10%) Icinga
12 1 (0.10%) Mesos
12 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 53 (5.35%) Oracle
2 38 (3.83%) Guidewire
3 31 (3.13%) Microsoft
4 29 (2.93%) Google
5 28 (2.83%) Splunk
6 24 (2.42%) Dynatrace
7 20 (2.02%) Databricks
8 14 (1.41%) Foundry
9 13 (1.31%) Atlassian
9 13 (1.31%) MuleSoft
9 13 (1.31%) Palantir
10 12 (1.21%) Dell
11 11 (1.11%) Informatica
11 11 (1.11%) SAP
11 11 (1.11%) Talend
12 10 (1.01%) IBM
12 10 (1.01%) Solace
13 9 (0.91%) Red Hat
14 8 (0.81%) Murex
15 6 (0.61%) SnapLogic