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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 28 16
Rank change year-on-year -15 -12 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,093 1,007 1,883
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.22% 8.56% 10.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.91% 22.33% 24.24%
Number of salaries quoted 543 601 1,295
10th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £100,000 £134,500 £137,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £142,500 £148,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £78,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% +3.23%

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 5,489 4,510 7,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.20% 38.36% 42.20%
Number of salaries quoted 3,614 3,012 5,092
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,525 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,813 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -20 95 £100,000 +8.11% 160
South London -19 23 £70,000 -15.15% 16
West London -10 19 £80,000 -3.03% 25
East London -5 7 - - 12
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 39 (3.57%) Confluence
2 19 (1.74%) Camunda
3 18 (1.65%) Apache
4 14 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (0.91%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
7 5 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.46%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.37%) JBoss
9 3 (0.27%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.27%) Hedera
9 3 (0.27%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.27%) SAS
10 2 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.18%) CMS
10 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
10 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.091%) IIS
11 1 (0.091%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.091%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (1.19%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.64%) Moqups
4 3 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.091%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.46%) Distributed Ledger
1 5 (0.46%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.18%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
3 2 (0.18%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.091%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.091%) Maximo
4 1 (0.091%) Quorum
4 1 (0.091%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.091%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.091%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 512 (46.84%) AWS
2 202 (18.48%) Azure
3 200 (18.30%) GCP
4 81 (7.41%) GitHub
5 77 (7.04%) Amazon EKS
6 74 (6.77%) AWS CloudFormation
7 70 (6.40%) SaaS
8 48 (4.39%) Serverless
9 36 (3.29%) GitHub Actions
10 31 (2.84%) Anthropic Claude
11 30 (2.74%) GitHub Copilot
12 28 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
12 28 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
13 27 (2.47%) Cloud Computing
14 21 (1.92%) Amazon S3
14 21 (1.92%) Snowflake
15 20 (1.83%) Azure Service Bus
16 18 (1.65%) Datadog
17 17 (1.56%) Amazon EventBridge
18 16 (1.46%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.47%) HTTP
2 23 (2.10%) TCP/IP
3 20 (1.83%) Network Security
4 17 (1.56%) BGP
4 17 (1.56%) VPN
5 15 (1.37%) DMARC
6 8 (0.73%) DNS
6 8 (0.73%) Firewall
7 6 (0.55%) IPsec
8 4 (0.37%) Broadband
8 4 (0.37%) Internet
8 4 (0.37%) IPv4
8 4 (0.37%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.37%) VLAN
9 3 (0.27%) LAN
9 3 (0.27%) SAN
9 3 (0.27%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.27%) WAN
10 1 (0.091%) Multicast
10 1 (0.091%) Unicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (7.87%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (7.78%) NoSQL
3 66 (6.04%) Relational Database
4 46 (4.21%) MongoDB
5 28 (2.56%) SQL Server
6 21 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
7 20 (1.83%) Big Data
8 18 (1.65%) MySQL
9 15 (1.37%) Redis
10 12 (1.10%) BigQuery
10 12 (1.10%) Db2
11 10 (0.91%) DTS
11 10 (0.91%) DynamoDB
11 10 (0.91%) Power BI
12 8 (0.73%) Hadoop
13 7 (0.64%) Pinecone
14 6 (0.55%) Flink
14 6 (0.55%) Geospatial Data
14 6 (0.55%) HBase
14 6 (0.55%) KDB
Development Applications
1 81 (7.41%) Git
2 75 (6.86%) GitLab
3 68 (6.22%) TeamCity
4 64 (5.86%) Jenkins
5 53 (4.85%) Cucumber
6 44 (4.03%) JIRA
7 30 (2.74%) JUnit
8 23 (2.10%) Claude Code
8 23 (2.10%) Selenium
9 21 (1.92%) Maven
10 20 (1.83%) Postman
11 19 (1.74%) Mockito
12 17 (1.56%) Cypress.io
13 14 (1.28%) REST Assured
14 13 (1.19%) Bitbucket
15 11 (1.01%) JMeter
16 9 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 9 (0.82%) Gradle
17 6 (0.55%) MLflow
17 6 (0.55%) SonarQube
General
1 464 (42.45%) Finance
2 256 (23.42%) Banking
3 237 (21.68%) Social Skills
4 111 (10.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 105 (9.61%) Law
6 87 (7.96%) Retail
7 76 (6.95%) Financial Institution
8 71 (6.50%) Front Office
9 66 (6.04%) Public Sector
10 63 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
11 43 (3.93%) Back Office
12 26 (2.38%) Investment Banking
13 23 (2.10%) Marketing
14 15 (1.37%) Tech for Good
15 12 (1.10%) Retail Banking
16 11 (1.01%) Legal
17 10 (0.91%) Health Technology
18 9 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
19 8 (0.73%) Manufacturing
20 7 (0.64%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 311 (28.45%) Senior
2 284 (25.98%) Java Engineer
3 264 (24.15%) Software Engineer
4 228 (20.86%) Developer
5 146 (13.36%) Lead
6 138 (12.63%) Java Developer
7 99 (9.06%) Senior Software Engineer
8 87 (7.96%) Senior Java Engineer
9 79 (7.23%) Java Software Engineer
10 75 (6.86%) Senior Developer
11 67 (6.13%) Principal Engineer
12 53 (4.85%) Architect
13 52 (4.76%) Principal Java Engineer
14 45 (4.12%) Lead Software Engineer
15 39 (3.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 38 (3.48%) Senior Java Developer
17 36 (3.29%) Engineering Manager
18 33 (3.02%) Full-Stack Developer
19 31 (2.84%) Solutions Architect
20 30 (2.74%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 291 (26.62%) Spring
2 242 (22.14%) Spring Boot
3 180 (16.47%) Kafka
4 159 (14.55%) Terraform
5 139 (12.72%) REST
6 83 (7.59%) RESTful
7 80 (7.32%) React
8 71 (6.50%) Node.js
9 60 (5.49%) .NET
10 56 (5.12%) AngularJS
11 39 (3.57%) OAuth
12 29 (2.65%) OAuth2
13 27 (2.47%) FIX Protocol
14 26 (2.38%) Hibernate
14 26 (2.38%) Middleware
15 21 (1.92%) RabbitMQ
16 17 (1.56%) Playwright
17 15 (1.37%) AWS CDK
17 15 (1.37%) GraphQL
17 15 (1.37%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 255 (23.33%) Cloud Native
2 176 (16.10%) Distributed Systems
3 122 (11.16%) Product Ownership
4 109 (9.97%) Public Cloud
5 56 (5.12%) Onboarding
6 45 (4.12%) e-Learning
7 42 (3.84%) Enterprise Software
8 41 (3.75%) Blog
9 36 (3.29%) Distributed Architecture
10 35 (3.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 32 (2.93%) Equities
12 29 (2.65%) Fixed Income
13 25 (2.29%) AI Agents
13 25 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
14 23 (2.10%) Virtual Team
15 22 (2.01%) Management Information System
16 21 (1.92%) Algorithms
16 21 (1.92%) Data Structures
17 20 (1.83%) Derivative
17 20 (1.83%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 69 (6.31%) Linux
2 26 (2.38%) Windows
3 17 (1.56%) Android
4 13 (1.19%) Apple iOS
5 11 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.73%) Unix
6 8 (0.73%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.091%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 458 (41.90%) Software Engineering
2 400 (36.60%) CI/CD
3 342 (31.29%) Microservices
4 263 (24.06%) Agile
5 238 (21.77%) Test Automation
6 234 (21.41%) AI
7 207 (18.94%) Mentoring
8 205 (18.76%) DevOps
9 194 (17.75%) Event-Driven
10 178 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
11 169 (15.46%) Infrastructure as Code
12 150 (13.72%) Roadmaps
13 144 (13.17%) Technical Leadership
14 137 (12.53%) Containerisation
14 137 (12.53%) Fintech
15 127 (11.62%) Continuous Improvement
16 124 (11.34%) Full-Stack Development
17 117 (10.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 100 (9.15%) Computer Science
18 100 (9.15%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 332 (30.38%) Python
2 200 (18.30%) SQL
3 98 (8.97%) C#
4 97 (8.87%) JavaScript
5 87 (7.96%) Go
6 80 (7.32%) C++
6 80 (7.32%) TypeScript
7 53 (4.85%) Kotlin
8 48 (4.39%) Bash
9 30 (2.74%) Ruby
10 29 (2.65%) C
11 26 (2.38%) Rust
12 23 (2.10%) Scala
13 20 (1.83%) Perl
13 20 (1.83%) PHP
14 16 (1.46%) PowerShell
15 11 (1.01%) R
16 10 (0.91%) RPG
17 8 (0.73%) Shell Script
17 8 (0.73%) VBA
Qualifications
1 127 (11.62%) Security Cleared
2 97 (8.87%) Degree
3 80 (7.32%) AWS Certification
4 70 (6.40%) SC Cleared
5 69 (6.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 56 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 38 (3.48%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (1.28%) CISSP
8 14 (1.28%) OSCP
9 10 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 10 (0.91%) CCSP
9 10 (0.91%) CISM
9 10 (0.91%) Master's Degree
10 9 (0.82%) CREST Certified
11 7 (0.64%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 6 (0.55%) PhD
13 5 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (6.22%) QA
2 25 (2.29%) Data Quality
3 23 (2.10%) GDPR
4 18 (1.65%) NIST
5 17 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.46%) ISO 20022
6 16 (1.46%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.01%) SOC 2
8 10 (0.91%) Accessibility
9 6 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.37%) GRC
10 4 (0.37%) WCAG
11 3 (0.27%) MiFID
11 3 (0.27%) UCITS
12 2 (0.18%) PSD2
System Software
1 135 (12.35%) Docker
2 18 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (0.91%) Active Directory
4 8 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.55%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.46%) KVM
7 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.27%) Squid
7 3 (0.27%) vSphere
8 1 (0.091%) Oracle Clusterware
8 1 (0.091%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 253 (23.15%) Kubernetes
2 84 (7.69%) Grafana
3 43 (3.93%) Ansible
4 31 (2.84%) Prometheus
5 10 (0.91%) Argo
6 7 (0.64%) EnCase
6 7 (0.64%) FTK
6 7 (0.64%) Puppet
7 6 (0.55%) Cilium
7 6 (0.55%) Hadoop YARN
7 6 (0.55%) Kubeflow
8 5 (0.46%) Kibana
8 5 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
10 3 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.27%) Packer
10 3 (0.27%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.27%) WSUS
10 3 (0.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 65 (5.95%) Google
2 63 (5.76%) Microsoft
2 63 (5.76%) Oracle
3 34 (3.11%) Splunk
4 27 (2.47%) IBM
5 24 (2.20%) Red Hat
6 18 (1.65%) VMware
7 15 (1.37%) OpenAI
7 15 (1.37%) Palantir
7 15 (1.37%) SendGrid
8 13 (1.19%) SAP
9 12 (1.10%) Bloomberg
9 12 (1.10%) OutSystems
9 12 (1.10%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.10%) Solace
10 10 (0.91%) Databricks
10 10 (0.91%) Foundry
11 9 (0.82%) HP
12 8 (0.73%) Guidewire
13 7 (0.64%) Nuix