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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 27 17
Rank change year-on-year -7 -10 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,052 1,023 2,140
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.02% 8.54% 8.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.92% 20.93% 22.26%
Number of salaries quoted 591 687 1,636
10th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £66,875 £73,750 £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 £140,000 £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 5,282 4,887 9,614
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.23% 40.80% 40.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,715 3,478 7,595
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £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 £118,750 £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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -15 153 £100,000 +2.04% 100
South London -18 23 £60,000 -27.27% 4
West London -20 19 £80,000 +166.67% 5
East London -8 3 - - 9
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 20 (1.90%) Apache Spark
2 19 (1.81%) Confluence
3 16 (1.52%) Apache
4 15 (1.43%) Palantir Foundry
5 12 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.67%) JBoss
7 5 (0.48%) Camunda
7 5 (0.48%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.38%) CMS
9 3 (0.29%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.29%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.29%) Liferay
9 3 (0.29%) Moodle
9 3 (0.29%) SAS
10 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.095%) CICS
11 1 (0.095%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.095%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (0.67%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (1.05%) Maximo
2 5 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.29%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.19%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.095%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.095%) Endur
5 1 (0.095%) Findur
5 1 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.095%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 460 (43.73%) AWS
2 189 (17.97%) GCP
3 165 (15.68%) Azure
4 68 (6.46%) Amazon EKS
5 66 (6.27%) SaaS
6 48 (4.56%) GitHub
7 45 (4.28%) AWS CloudFormation
8 27 (2.57%) Serverless
9 26 (2.47%) OpenShift
10 19 (1.81%) Pulumi
11 18 (1.71%) Amazon S3
12 17 (1.62%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (1.52%) dbt
14 15 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
14 15 (1.43%) GitHub Copilot
15 14 (1.33%) Amazon ECS
16 13 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
17 12 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
18 11 (1.05%) Datadog
19 10 (0.95%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.76%) HTTP
2 25 (2.38%) Broadband
3 24 (2.28%) TCP/IP
4 7 (0.67%) DMARC
5 4 (0.38%) IPv4
5 4 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.29%) AMQP
6 3 (0.29%) BGP
6 3 (0.29%) Network Security
6 3 (0.29%) VLAN
6 3 (0.29%) VPN
7 2 (0.19%) Firewall
7 2 (0.19%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.19%) LAN
7 2 (0.19%) SAN
7 2 (0.19%) WAN
8 1 (0.095%) Internet
8 1 (0.095%) LTE
8 1 (0.095%) MQTT
8 1 (0.095%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (7.41%) NoSQL
2 58 (5.51%) Relational Database
3 56 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (2.85%) RDBMS
5 25 (2.38%) MongoDB
6 23 (2.19%) DB2
6 23 (2.19%) SQL Server
7 13 (1.24%) BigQuery
7 13 (1.24%) DynamoDB
8 11 (1.05%) MySQL
9 10 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (0.95%) Redis
10 9 (0.86%) Metadata
11 8 (0.76%) Big Data
12 7 (0.67%) Flink
12 7 (0.67%) Hadoop
13 6 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
14 5 (0.48%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 57 (5.42%) TeamCity
2 54 (5.13%) Git
3 44 (4.18%) Jenkins
4 43 (4.09%) GitLab
5 37 (3.52%) Selenium
6 30 (2.85%) JIRA
7 28 (2.66%) Cucumber
8 16 (1.52%) Bitbucket
8 16 (1.52%) JUnit
9 15 (1.43%) Gradle
9 15 (1.43%) Jaeger
10 14 (1.33%) Maven
11 11 (1.05%) Claude Code
12 8 (0.76%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.76%) Postman
13 7 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 7 (0.67%) WebDriver
14 6 (0.57%) Mockito
15 5 (0.48%) REST Assured
15 5 (0.48%) SpecFlow
General
1 413 (39.26%) Finance
2 216 (20.53%) Banking
3 170 (16.16%) Social Skills
4 111 (10.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 108 (10.27%) Front Office
6 88 (8.37%) Law
7 81 (7.70%) Retail
8 75 (7.13%) Public Sector
9 69 (6.56%) Financial Institution
10 59 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
11 47 (4.47%) Back Office
12 34 (3.23%) Investment Banking
13 23 (2.19%) Telecoms
14 17 (1.62%) Games
15 16 (1.52%) Billing
16 15 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
18 9 (0.86%) Tech for Good
19 8 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
20 7 (0.67%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 340 (32.32%) Developer
2 261 (24.81%) Senior
2 261 (24.81%) Software Engineer
3 226 (21.48%) Java Engineer
4 196 (18.63%) Java Developer
5 160 (15.21%) Lead
6 100 (9.51%) Java Software Engineer
7 89 (8.46%) Senior Developer
8 81 (7.70%) Senior Software Engineer
9 65 (6.18%) Senior Java Engineer
10 59 (5.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 57 (5.42%) Lead Software Engineer
12 55 (5.23%) Senior Java Developer
13 54 (5.13%) Full-Stack Developer
14 45 (4.28%) Principal Engineer
15 42 (3.99%) Software Developer
16 39 (3.71%) Architect
17 36 (3.42%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 35 (3.33%) Engineering Manager
18 35 (3.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 249 (23.67%) Spring
2 209 (19.87%) Spring Boot
3 145 (13.78%) Kafka
4 132 (12.55%) React
5 115 (10.93%) REST
6 77 (7.32%) Node.js
7 60 (5.70%) .NET
8 55 (5.23%) AngularJS
9 50 (4.75%) RESTful
10 41 (3.90%) GraphQL
11 39 (3.71%) Web Services
12 34 (3.23%) Redux
13 32 (3.04%) HTML
14 28 (2.66%) Elastic Stack
15 27 (2.57%) SOAP
16 26 (2.47%) CSS
17 24 (2.28%) OAuth
18 23 (2.19%) Hibernate
19 21 (2.00%) Middleware
20 20 (1.90%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 193 (18.35%) Cloud Native
2 102 (9.70%) Distributed Systems
3 93 (8.84%) Product Ownership
4 81 (7.70%) Public Cloud
5 49 (4.66%) Fixed Income
6 45 (4.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 35 (3.33%) Blog
8 32 (3.04%) Equities
9 30 (2.85%) Distributed Architecture
10 21 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (1.90%) FPGA
12 19 (1.81%) e-Learning
13 15 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
14 14 (1.33%) Data Structures
15 13 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
15 13 (1.24%) Mobile Banking
15 13 (1.24%) Security Posture
16 12 (1.14%) Derivative
17 11 (1.05%) Data Centre
17 11 (1.05%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 103 (9.79%) Linux
2 25 (2.38%) Android
2 25 (2.38%) Unix
3 21 (2.00%) Windows
4 11 (1.05%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.67%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (36.60%) Software Engineering
2 319 (30.32%) CI/CD
3 299 (28.42%) Agile
4 244 (23.19%) Microservices
5 215 (20.44%) DevOps
6 205 (19.49%) Test Automation
7 197 (18.73%) Mentoring
8 170 (16.16%) Roadmaps
9 156 (14.83%) Full-Stack Development
10 145 (13.78%) Technical Leadership
11 133 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
12 126 (11.98%) Containerisation
13 122 (11.60%) Infrastructure as Code
14 120 (11.41%) AI
15 110 (10.46%) Fintech
16 98 (9.32%) Continuous Improvement
17 92 (8.75%) Low Latency
18 82 (7.79%) Clean Code
19 79 (7.51%) TDD
20 78 (7.41%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 292 (27.76%) Python
2 160 (15.21%) JavaScript
3 149 (14.16%) SQL
4 108 (10.27%) Go
5 97 (9.22%) TypeScript
6 86 (8.17%) C#
7 81 (7.70%) C++
8 49 (4.66%) Kotlin
9 42 (3.99%) Bash
10 29 (2.76%) C
11 25 (2.38%) Rust
12 20 (1.90%) Scala
13 19 (1.81%) PowerShell
14 8 (0.76%) Apex Code
15 7 (0.67%) PHP
16 6 (0.57%) R
17 5 (0.48%) Groovy
17 5 (0.48%) PL/SQL
17 5 (0.48%) RPG
17 5 (0.48%) VBA
Qualifications
1 139 (13.21%) Security Cleared
2 101 (9.60%) Degree
3 90 (8.56%) SC Cleared
4 63 (5.99%) DV Cleared
5 49 (4.66%) AWS Certification
6 46 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (2.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 18 (1.71%) OSCP
9 15 (1.43%) Master's Degree
10 14 (1.33%) CREST Certified
11 10 (0.95%) PhD
12 8 (0.76%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.57%) Azure Certification
15 5 (0.48%) 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 (0.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (4.09%) QA
2 14 (1.33%) Data Quality
2 14 (1.33%) GRC
3 13 (1.24%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.14%) SOC 2
5 10 (0.95%) GDPR
6 6 (0.57%) ISO 20022
7 5 (0.48%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.29%) NIST
10 1 (0.095%) MiFID
10 1 (0.095%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.095%) WCAG
System Software
1 139 (13.21%) Docker
2 10 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.38%) KVM
4 4 (0.38%) Squid
4 4 (0.38%) VMware NSX
4 4 (0.38%) vSphere
5 2 (0.19%) Firmware
5 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.095%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.095%) OpenDJ
6 1 (0.095%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.095%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.095%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 233 (22.15%) Kubernetes
2 140 (13.31%) Terraform
3 74 (7.03%) Grafana
4 41 (3.90%) Ansible
5 32 (3.04%) Prometheus
6 21 (2.00%) Argo
7 15 (1.43%) Kustomize
8 8 (0.76%) Kibana
9 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.38%) Packer
10 4 (0.38%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.29%) 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
12 2 (0.19%) WSUS
13 1 (0.095%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.095%) logstash
Vendors
1 41 (3.90%) Google
2 33 (3.14%) Microsoft
3 27 (2.57%) Oracle
4 20 (1.90%) Palantir
5 19 (1.81%) IBM
6 18 (1.71%) Splunk
7 17 (1.62%) Foundry
8 12 (1.14%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.14%) Solace
9 11 (1.05%) MuleSoft
9 11 (1.05%) Red Hat
9 11 (1.05%) Salesforce
10 10 (0.95%) VMware
11 7 (0.67%) Databricks
11 7 (0.67%) Dynatrace
11 7 (0.67%) SendGrid
12 5 (0.48%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.48%) SAP
13 4 (0.38%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.38%) JDA