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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 23 17
Rank change year-on-year -11 -6 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,058 1,143 2,189
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.97% 9.36% 8.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.78% 22.52% 22.43%
Number of salaries quoted 595 715 1,674
10th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £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 £125,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £142,500 £148,750
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 5,348 5,075 9,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.11% 41.54% 39.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3,771 3,503 7,631
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,400 £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 12 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 12 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 -15 161 £100,000 +1.52% 32
South London -9 23 £60,000 -27.27% 2
West London -11 19 £80,000 +166.67% 13
East London -7 3 - - 5
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 (1.89%) Apache Spark
2 18 (1.70%) Confluence
3 17 (1.61%) Apache
4 15 (1.42%) Palantir Foundry
5 12 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.66%) JBoss
7 5 (0.47%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.38%) Camunda
8 4 (0.38%) CMS
9 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.28%) SAS
10 2 (0.19%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.19%) Liferay
10 2 (0.19%) Moodle
10 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.095%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.095%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.095%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.095%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (0.57%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.095%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (1.04%) Maximo
2 5 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.38%) Temenos T24
4 3 (0.28%) 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
1 467 (44.14%) AWS
2 191 (18.05%) GCP
3 169 (15.97%) Azure
4 65 (6.14%) Amazon EKS
5 64 (6.05%) SaaS
6 51 (4.82%) GitHub
7 46 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 25 (2.36%) Serverless
9 24 (2.27%) OpenShift
10 19 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (1.80%) Pulumi
11 18 (1.70%) Amazon S3
12 16 (1.51%) dbt
13 15 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (1.42%) GitHub Copilot
14 14 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
15 13 (1.23%) Azure Service Bus
16 12 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
17 11 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
17 11 (1.04%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.93%) HTTP
2 25 (2.36%) Broadband
3 24 (2.27%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.85%) DMARC
5 4 (0.38%) IPv4
5 4 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.28%) BGP
6 3 (0.28%) Kerberos
6 3 (0.28%) Network Security
6 3 (0.28%) VLAN
6 3 (0.28%) VPN
7 2 (0.19%) AMQP
7 2 (0.19%) Firewall
7 2 (0.19%) Internet
7 2 (0.19%) LAN
7 2 (0.19%) SAN
7 2 (0.19%) WAN
8 1 (0.095%) LTE
8 1 (0.095%) MQTT
8 1 (0.095%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (7.37%) NoSQL
2 57 (5.39%) Relational Database
3 56 (5.29%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (2.65%) MongoDB
4 28 (2.65%) RDBMS
5 22 (2.08%) SQL Server
6 21 (1.98%) Db2
7 14 (1.32%) BigQuery
8 12 (1.13%) DynamoDB
9 11 (1.04%) MySQL
10 10 (0.95%) Metadata
10 10 (0.95%) Redis
11 9 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (0.76%) Big Data
13 7 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (0.66%) Hadoop
14 6 (0.57%) Geospatial Data
15 5 (0.47%) Amazon Athena
15 5 (0.47%) Flink
Development Applications
1 54 (5.10%) Git
1 54 (5.10%) TeamCity
2 48 (4.54%) GitLab
3 43 (4.06%) Jenkins
4 33 (3.12%) Selenium
5 31 (2.93%) JIRA
6 29 (2.74%) Cucumber
7 18 (1.70%) JUnit
8 15 (1.42%) Gradle
8 15 (1.42%) Jaeger
8 15 (1.42%) Maven
9 13 (1.23%) Bitbucket
10 11 (1.04%) Claude Code
11 9 (0.85%) Postman
12 8 (0.76%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 7 (0.66%) Mockito
13 7 (0.66%) WebDriver
14 5 (0.47%) JMeter
14 5 (0.47%) SpecFlow
General
1 415 (39.22%) Finance
2 211 (19.94%) Banking
3 169 (15.97%) Social Skills
4 111 (10.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 106 (10.02%) Front Office
6 87 (8.22%) Law
7 80 (7.56%) Retail
8 77 (7.28%) Public Sector
9 68 (6.43%) Financial Institution
10 59 (5.58%) Analytical Skills
11 46 (4.35%) Back Office
12 32 (3.02%) Investment Banking
13 21 (1.98%) Telecoms
14 17 (1.61%) Games
15 16 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
16 14 (1.32%) Billing
17 11 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
18 9 (0.85%) Tech for Good
19 7 (0.66%) Health Technology
19 7 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 332 (31.38%) Developer
2 261 (24.67%) Senior
2 261 (24.67%) Software Engineer
3 231 (21.83%) Java Engineer
4 191 (18.05%) Java Developer
5 157 (14.84%) Lead
6 97 (9.17%) Java Software Engineer
7 86 (8.13%) Senior Developer
8 81 (7.66%) Senior Software Engineer
9 66 (6.24%) Senior Java Engineer
10 59 (5.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 58 (5.48%) Lead Software Engineer
12 53 (5.01%) Senior Java Developer
13 50 (4.73%) Full-Stack Developer
14 46 (4.35%) Principal Engineer
15 42 (3.97%) Architect
15 42 (3.97%) Software Developer
16 37 (3.50%) Engineering Manager
17 36 (3.40%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 33 (3.12%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 252 (23.82%) Spring
2 210 (19.85%) Spring Boot
3 148 (13.99%) Kafka
4 127 (12.00%) React
5 112 (10.59%) REST
6 76 (7.18%) Node.js
7 60 (5.67%) .NET
8 54 (5.10%) AngularJS
9 51 (4.82%) RESTful
10 41 (3.88%) GraphQL
11 37 (3.50%) Web Services
12 34 (3.21%) Redux
13 29 (2.74%) HTML
14 27 (2.55%) Elastic Stack
15 25 (2.36%) OAuth
15 25 (2.36%) SOAP
16 23 (2.17%) CSS
16 23 (2.17%) Hibernate
17 21 (1.98%) FIX Protocol
17 21 (1.98%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 201 (19.00%) Cloud Native
2 105 (9.92%) Distributed Systems
3 96 (9.07%) Product Ownership
4 87 (8.22%) Public Cloud
5 49 (4.63%) Fixed Income
6 48 (4.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 34 (3.21%) Blog
8 33 (3.12%) Equities
9 32 (3.02%) Distributed Architecture
10 22 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
11 21 (1.98%) e-Learning
12 20 (1.89%) FPGA
13 15 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
14 14 (1.32%) Onboarding
14 14 (1.32%) Security Posture
15 13 (1.23%) Data Structures
15 13 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
16 12 (1.13%) Mobile Banking
17 11 (1.04%) AI Agents
17 11 (1.04%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 108 (10.21%) Linux
2 26 (2.46%) Unix
3 24 (2.27%) Android
4 23 (2.17%) Windows
5 11 (1.04%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.76%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 392 (37.05%) Software Engineering
2 320 (30.25%) CI/CD
3 299 (28.26%) Agile
4 244 (23.06%) Microservices
5 219 (20.70%) DevOps
6 209 (19.75%) Test Automation
7 199 (18.81%) Mentoring
8 176 (16.64%) Roadmaps
9 152 (14.37%) Full-Stack Development
10 148 (13.99%) Technical Leadership
11 133 (12.57%) Problem-Solving
12 130 (12.29%) Containerisation
13 127 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
14 124 (11.72%) AI
15 109 (10.30%) Fintech
16 100 (9.45%) Continuous Improvement
17 93 (8.79%) Low Latency
18 82 (7.75%) Event-Driven
19 81 (7.66%) Clean Code
20 79 (7.47%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 300 (28.36%) Python
2 152 (14.37%) JavaScript
3 151 (14.27%) SQL
4 108 (10.21%) Go
5 96 (9.07%) TypeScript
6 89 (8.41%) C#
7 87 (8.22%) C++
8 46 (4.35%) Kotlin
9 44 (4.16%) Bash
10 30 (2.84%) C
10 30 (2.84%) Rust
11 20 (1.89%) PowerShell
11 20 (1.89%) Scala
12 8 (0.76%) Apex Code
12 8 (0.76%) R
13 6 (0.57%) Groovy
13 6 (0.57%) Julia
13 6 (0.57%) MATLAB
13 6 (0.57%) PHP
14 5 (0.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 141 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 100 (9.45%) Degree
3 92 (8.70%) SC Cleared
4 64 (6.05%) DV Cleared
5 51 (4.82%) AWS Certification
6 48 (4.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 18 (1.70%) OSCP
9 14 (1.32%) CREST Certified
10 12 (1.13%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.85%) ISTQB
11 9 (0.85%) PhD
12 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.57%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.38%) CCNA
14 4 (0.38%) RHCE
14 4 (0.38%) RHCSA
15 3 (0.28%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (4.35%) QA
2 15 (1.42%) Data Quality
2 15 (1.42%) GDPR
3 14 (1.32%) GRC
4 13 (1.23%) PCI DSS
5 12 (1.13%) SOC 2
6 7 (0.66%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.57%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.38%) NIST
10 2 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.19%) WCAG
11 1 (0.095%) MiFID
System Software
1 135 (12.76%) Docker
2 11 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.38%) KVM
4 4 (0.38%) Squid
4 4 (0.38%) VMware NSX
4 4 (0.38%) vSphere
5 3 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.19%) Firmware
6 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.095%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.095%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.095%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 232 (21.93%) Kubernetes
2 142 (13.42%) Terraform
3 76 (7.18%) Grafana
4 43 (4.06%) Ansible
5 35 (3.31%) Prometheus
6 20 (1.89%) Argo
7 15 (1.42%) Kustomize
8 8 (0.76%) Kibana
9 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.38%) Packer
10 4 (0.38%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.28%) 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%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.19%) WSUS
13 1 (0.095%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 42 (3.97%) Google
2 34 (3.21%) Microsoft
3 29 (2.74%) Oracle
4 22 (2.08%) Palantir
4 22 (2.08%) Splunk
5 19 (1.80%) IBM
6 17 (1.61%) Foundry
7 14 (1.32%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.13%) Red Hat
8 12 (1.13%) Solace
9 11 (1.04%) VMware
10 10 (0.95%) MuleSoft
10 10 (0.95%) Salesforce
11 9 (0.85%) SendGrid
12 7 (0.66%) Databricks
12 7 (0.66%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.47%) Guidewire
13 5 (0.47%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.47%) SAP
14 4 (0.38%) Sybase