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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 23 17
Rank change year-on-year -12 -6 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,049 1,194 2,306
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.77% 9.59% 9.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.58% 23.06% 23.77%
Number of salaries quoted 596 770 1,760
10th Percentile £55,625 £57,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £67,188 £74,902 £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 £110,000 £132,500 £137,500
90th Percentile £135,625 £142,500 £150,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -6.25%

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 5,357 5,177 9,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.34% 41.58% 40.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,790 3,609 7,516
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,850 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £132,500
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 5 July 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 5 July 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 -18 151 £100,000 +2.56% 116
South London -11 24 £70,000 -15.15% 5
West London -16 21 £80,000 +166.67% 16
East London -2 3 - - 21
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 26 (2.48%) Confluence
2 23 (2.19%) Apache Spark
3 16 (1.53%) Apache
4 15 (1.43%) Palantir Foundry
5 12 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.86%) Camunda
7 5 (0.48%) JBoss
8 4 (0.38%) CMS
8 4 (0.38%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.29%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.29%) SAS
10 2 (0.19%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.19%) Moodle
11 1 (0.095%) CICS
11 1 (0.095%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.095%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.095%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.095%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (1.05%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.095%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (1.05%) Maximo
2 5 (0.48%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.48%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.095%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.095%) Endur
3 1 (0.095%) Findur
3 1 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.095%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 476 (45.38%) AWS
2 191 (18.21%) GCP
3 182 (17.35%) Azure
4 72 (6.86%) Amazon EKS
5 59 (5.62%) AWS CloudFormation
6 58 (5.53%) SaaS
7 51 (4.86%) GitHub
8 42 (4.00%) Serverless
9 25 (2.38%) OpenShift
10 24 (2.29%) Amazon ECS
11 22 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
12 21 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
13 17 (1.62%) Amazon S3
13 17 (1.62%) Azure Service Bus
14 15 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
14 15 (1.43%) dbt
14 15 (1.43%) Pulumi
15 13 (1.24%) Azure Key Vault
15 13 (1.24%) Azure Storage
15 13 (1.24%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.86%) HTTP
2 22 (2.10%) TCP/IP
3 21 (2.00%) Broadband
4 13 (1.24%) DMARC
4 13 (1.24%) Network Security
5 7 (0.67%) BGP
5 7 (0.67%) VPN
6 4 (0.38%) DNS
6 4 (0.38%) IPsec
6 4 (0.38%) IPv4
6 4 (0.38%) Kerberos
6 4 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.29%) Firewall
7 3 (0.29%) Internet
7 3 (0.29%) VLAN
8 2 (0.19%) LAN
8 2 (0.19%) SAN
8 2 (0.19%) WAN
9 1 (0.095%) AMQP
9 1 (0.095%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (7.44%) NoSQL
2 62 (5.91%) PostgreSQL
3 53 (5.05%) Relational Database
4 30 (2.86%) MongoDB
5 25 (2.38%) Db2
6 23 (2.19%) RDBMS
6 23 (2.19%) SQL Server
7 16 (1.53%) BigQuery
8 14 (1.33%) Big Data
9 12 (1.14%) MySQL
10 11 (1.05%) DynamoDB
10 11 (1.05%) Hadoop
11 10 (0.95%) Metadata
11 10 (0.95%) Redis
12 9 (0.86%) DTS
13 8 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
14 7 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
15 6 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
16 5 (0.48%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 57 (5.43%) Git
2 53 (5.05%) TeamCity
3 50 (4.77%) GitLab
4 43 (4.10%) Jenkins
5 31 (2.96%) Cucumber
6 30 (2.86%) JIRA
6 30 (2.86%) Selenium
7 20 (1.91%) JUnit
8 15 (1.43%) Maven
9 14 (1.33%) Gradle
10 13 (1.24%) Bitbucket
11 11 (1.05%) Claude Code
11 11 (1.05%) Jaeger
12 9 (0.86%) Mockito
13 8 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 8 (0.76%) Cypress.io
14 5 (0.48%) JMeter
14 5 (0.48%) REST Assured
14 5 (0.48%) SpecFlow
14 5 (0.48%) WebDriver
General
1 422 (40.23%) Finance
2 197 (18.78%) Banking
3 166 (15.82%) Social Skills
4 104 (9.91%) Front Office
4 104 (9.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 84 (8.01%) Public Sector
6 81 (7.72%) Law
7 76 (7.24%) Retail
8 65 (6.20%) Financial Institution
9 62 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
10 44 (4.19%) Back Office
11 29 (2.76%) Investment Banking
12 15 (1.43%) Games
12 15 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (1.33%) Telecoms
14 11 (1.05%) Billing
14 11 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (0.86%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.76%) Marketing
17 7 (0.67%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 319 (30.41%) Developer
2 266 (25.36%) Senior
3 247 (23.55%) Software Engineer
4 220 (20.97%) Java Engineer
5 178 (16.97%) Java Developer
6 153 (14.59%) Lead
7 85 (8.10%) Java Software Engineer
8 84 (8.01%) Senior Developer
9 77 (7.34%) Senior Software Engineer
10 61 (5.82%) Senior Java Engineer
11 59 (5.62%) Lead Software Engineer
12 51 (4.86%) Architect
13 50 (4.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 48 (4.58%) Senior Java Developer
15 45 (4.29%) Principal Engineer
16 44 (4.19%) Software Developer
17 40 (3.81%) Consultant
17 40 (3.81%) Full-Stack Developer
18 38 (3.62%) Engineering Manager
19 35 (3.34%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 248 (23.64%) Spring
2 209 (19.92%) Spring Boot
3 161 (15.35%) Kafka
4 118 (11.25%) React
5 113 (10.77%) REST
6 85 (8.10%) Node.js
7 61 (5.82%) .NET
8 54 (5.15%) RESTful
9 53 (5.05%) AngularJS
10 40 (3.81%) GraphQL
11 36 (3.43%) Redux
12 35 (3.34%) Web Services
13 28 (2.67%) OAuth
14 26 (2.48%) Middleware
15 24 (2.29%) Elastic Stack
16 23 (2.19%) Hibernate
17 22 (2.10%) OAuth2
18 21 (2.00%) FIX Protocol
18 21 (2.00%) HTML
18 21 (2.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 206 (19.64%) Cloud Native
2 110 (10.49%) Distributed Systems
3 96 (9.15%) Product Ownership
4 91 (8.67%) Public Cloud
5 49 (4.67%) Fixed Income
6 46 (4.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 32 (3.05%) Blog
7 32 (3.05%) Onboarding
8 30 (2.86%) Distributed Architecture
8 30 (2.86%) Equities
9 24 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
10 23 (2.19%) e-Learning
11 22 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
12 17 (1.62%) FPGA
13 16 (1.53%) Data Structures
14 13 (1.24%) Security Posture
15 12 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
16 11 (1.05%) AI Agents
16 11 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
17 9 (0.86%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 113 (10.77%) Linux
2 26 (2.48%) Windows
3 23 (2.19%) Unix
4 19 (1.81%) Android
5 10 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.86%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.86%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 394 (37.56%) Software Engineering
2 325 (30.98%) CI/CD
3 297 (28.31%) Agile
4 257 (24.50%) Microservices
5 218 (20.78%) DevOps
6 210 (20.02%) Test Automation
7 199 (18.97%) Mentoring
8 178 (16.97%) Roadmaps
9 146 (13.92%) Technical Leadership
10 140 (13.35%) Infrastructure as Code
11 139 (13.25%) AI
12 134 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
13 133 (12.68%) Containerisation
13 133 (12.68%) Full-Stack Development
14 99 (9.44%) Fintech
15 97 (9.25%) Event-Driven
16 96 (9.15%) Continuous Improvement
17 90 (8.58%) Low Latency
18 81 (7.72%) Computer Science
19 79 (7.53%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 332 (31.65%) Python
2 161 (15.35%) SQL
3 150 (14.30%) JavaScript
4 102 (9.72%) Go
5 97 (9.25%) C#
5 97 (9.25%) C++
6 94 (8.96%) TypeScript
7 55 (5.24%) Bash
8 40 (3.81%) Kotlin
9 36 (3.43%) Rust
10 35 (3.34%) C
11 22 (2.10%) PowerShell
12 20 (1.91%) Scala
13 19 (1.81%) Ruby
14 16 (1.53%) PHP
15 14 (1.33%) Perl
16 9 (0.86%) R
16 9 (0.86%) RPG
17 8 (0.76%) Apex Code
18 7 (0.67%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 149 (14.20%) Security Cleared
2 104 (9.91%) Degree
3 91 (8.67%) SC Cleared
4 62 (5.91%) AWS Certification
5 60 (5.72%) DV Cleared
6 54 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 41 (3.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 16 (1.53%) OSCP
9 13 (1.24%) Master's Degree
10 12 (1.14%) CREST Certified
11 9 (0.86%) PhD
12 7 (0.67%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (0.67%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.38%) CCNA
14 4 (0.38%) RHCE
14 4 (0.38%) RHCSA
15 3 (0.29%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (4.96%) QA
2 18 (1.72%) GDPR
3 16 (1.53%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.33%) GRC
5 11 (1.05%) PCI DSS
6 10 (0.95%) SOC 2
7 7 (0.67%) Accessibility
7 7 (0.67%) ISO 20022
8 6 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.48%) NIST
9 5 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.29%) WCAG
11 1 (0.095%) MiFID
System Software
1 128 (12.20%) Docker
2 13 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.14%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.48%) KVM
4 5 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (0.38%) Squid
5 4 (0.38%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.38%) vSphere
6 3 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.19%) Firmware
7 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 226 (21.54%) Kubernetes
2 148 (14.11%) Terraform
3 79 (7.53%) Grafana
4 43 (4.10%) Ansible
5 35 (3.34%) Prometheus
6 15 (1.43%) Argo
7 11 (1.05%) Kustomize
8 7 (0.67%) Kibana
8 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.38%) Hadoop YARN
9 4 (0.38%) Packer
9 4 (0.38%) Puppet
9 4 (0.38%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.29%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.29%) Oracle Flashback
10 3 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (0.29%) Rancher
10 3 (0.29%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.19%) WSUS
12 1 (0.095%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (4.29%) Google
2 37 (3.53%) Oracle
3 36 (3.43%) Microsoft
4 30 (2.86%) IBM
5 25 (2.38%) Splunk
6 24 (2.29%) Palantir
7 17 (1.62%) Foundry
8 16 (1.53%) ServiceNow
9 14 (1.33%) VMware
10 13 (1.24%) Red Hat
10 13 (1.24%) SendGrid
11 11 (1.05%) Solace
12 10 (0.95%) MuleSoft
12 10 (0.95%) Salesforce
12 10 (0.95%) SAP
13 8 (0.76%) OpenAI
14 6 (0.57%) Dynatrace
14 6 (0.57%) Guidewire
14 6 (0.57%) HP
14 6 (0.57%) Sybase