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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 26 17
Rank change year-on-year -15 -9 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,066 1,083 1,998
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.42% 8.97% 10.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.20% 22.26% 24.98%
Number of salaries quoted 580 668 1,442
10th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £58,938
25th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £102,500 £132,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £142,500 £148,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% -

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 5,552 4,865 7,997
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.02% 40.28% 40.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,808 3,313 5,666
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £49,441
25th Percentile £64,250 £61,250 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £136,875
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,206
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.11% -5.84%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -17 135 £100,000 +11.11% 42
South London -22 22 £70,000 -15.15% 2
West London -21 16 £80,000 +33.33% 79
East London -6 1 - - 11
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 (3.66%) Confluence
2 19 (1.78%) Apache
3 17 (1.59%) Camunda
4 16 (1.50%) Palantir Foundry
5 14 (1.31%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.38%) JBoss
8 3 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.28%) CMS
8 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.28%) SAS
9 2 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
9 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.094%) IIS
10 1 (0.094%) Oracle 10gAS
10 1 (0.094%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.094%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.094%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.094%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (1.31%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.47%) Moqups
4 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.094%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.56%) Maximo
2 5 (0.47%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.47%) Temenos T24
3 3 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.19%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 1 (0.094%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.094%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.094%) Endur
5 1 (0.094%) Findur
5 1 (0.094%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.094%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.094%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 507 (47.56%) AWS
2 225 (21.11%) Azure
3 188 (17.64%) GCP
4 69 (6.47%) AWS CloudFormation
5 68 (6.38%) GitHub
6 51 (4.78%) Amazon EKS
7 48 (4.50%) Serverless
8 47 (4.41%) SaaS
9 32 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
10 28 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
11 27 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
12 22 (2.06%) Anthropic Claude
12 22 (2.06%) Cloud Computing
12 22 (2.06%) GitHub Copilot
13 20 (1.88%) Datadog
14 19 (1.78%) OpenShift
15 18 (1.69%) Amazon S3
16 17 (1.59%) Azure Service Bus
17 15 (1.41%) Amazon EventBridge
18 14 (1.31%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.10%) HTTP
2 17 (1.59%) Network Security
3 14 (1.31%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.22%) DMARC
5 7 (0.66%) DNS
5 7 (0.66%) VPN
6 6 (0.56%) BGP
6 6 (0.56%) IPsec
7 5 (0.47%) Broadband
7 5 (0.47%) Internet
7 5 (0.47%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.38%) IPv4
8 4 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.28%) LAN
9 3 (0.28%) SAN
9 3 (0.28%) WAN
10 2 (0.19%) Firewall
11 1 (0.094%) FIX Connectivity
11 1 (0.094%) LTE
11 1 (0.094%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (7.97%) NoSQL
2 68 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
3 57 (5.35%) Relational Database
4 49 (4.60%) MongoDB
5 32 (3.00%) SQL Server
6 20 (1.88%) Db2
7 19 (1.78%) MySQL
8 18 (1.69%) Big Data
8 18 (1.69%) Redis
9 13 (1.22%) DynamoDB
10 11 (1.03%) Hadoop
11 10 (0.94%) DTS
12 9 (0.84%) BigQuery
13 7 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
13 7 (0.66%) Pinecone
14 6 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
14 6 (0.56%) Apache Hive
14 6 (0.56%) HBase
14 6 (0.56%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 85 (7.97%) Git
2 64 (6.00%) GitLab
3 61 (5.72%) Jenkins
4 44 (4.13%) Cucumber
4 44 (4.13%) JIRA
5 36 (3.38%) Selenium
5 36 (3.38%) TeamCity
6 27 (2.53%) JUnit
7 20 (1.88%) Maven
8 17 (1.59%) Postman
9 16 (1.50%) Bitbucket
9 16 (1.50%) Cypress.io
9 16 (1.50%) Mockito
10 15 (1.41%) Claude Code
11 11 (1.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 11 (1.03%) JMeter
12 10 (0.94%) Gradle
12 10 (0.94%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.56%) MLflow
13 6 (0.56%) SonarQube
General
1 452 (42.40%) Finance
2 215 (20.17%) Banking
3 206 (19.32%) Social Skills
4 88 (8.26%) Public Sector
5 84 (7.88%) Front Office
6 82 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 68 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
8 67 (6.29%) Law
9 56 (5.25%) Financial Institution
10 49 (4.60%) Retail
11 26 (2.44%) Back Office
11 26 (2.44%) Investment Banking
12 25 (2.35%) Marketing
13 16 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (1.22%) Tech for Good
15 11 (1.03%) Health Technology
16 9 (0.84%) Manufacturing
17 7 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
18 6 (0.56%) Games
18 6 (0.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 296 (27.77%) Senior
2 259 (24.30%) Software Engineer
3 250 (23.45%) Developer
4 248 (23.26%) Java Engineer
5 148 (13.88%) Lead
6 142 (13.32%) Java Developer
7 104 (9.76%) Senior Software Engineer
8 79 (7.41%) Senior Developer
9 73 (6.85%) Java Software Engineer
10 69 (6.47%) Senior Java Engineer
11 60 (5.63%) Principal Engineer
12 50 (4.69%) Lead Software Engineer
13 48 (4.50%) Architect
14 46 (4.32%) Principal Java Engineer
15 39 (3.66%) Engineering Manager
16 38 (3.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 38 (3.56%) Software Developer
17 36 (3.38%) Consultant
17 36 (3.38%) Senior Java Developer
18 33 (3.10%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 278 (26.08%) Spring
2 227 (21.29%) Spring Boot
3 190 (17.82%) Kafka
4 136 (12.76%) REST
5 124 (11.63%) Terraform
6 90 (8.44%) React
7 78 (7.32%) RESTful
8 71 (6.66%) .NET
8 71 (6.66%) Node.js
9 49 (4.60%) AngularJS
10 38 (3.56%) OAuth
11 27 (2.53%) FIX Protocol
11 27 (2.53%) OAuth2
12 26 (2.44%) Hibernate
12 26 (2.44%) Web Services
13 25 (2.35%) RabbitMQ
14 24 (2.25%) Middleware
15 23 (2.16%) GraphQL
16 21 (1.97%) Playwright
17 17 (1.59%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 216 (20.26%) Cloud Native
2 162 (15.20%) Distributed Systems
3 120 (11.26%) Product Ownership
4 108 (10.13%) Public Cloud
5 56 (5.25%) Onboarding
6 40 (3.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 38 (3.56%) Distributed Architecture
8 34 (3.19%) e-Learning
9 32 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
9 32 (3.00%) Equities
9 32 (3.00%) Fixed Income
10 27 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
11 26 (2.44%) AI Agents
12 19 (1.78%) Virtual Team
13 18 (1.69%) Blog
14 17 (1.59%) Algorithms
14 17 (1.59%) Enterprise Cloud
14 17 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
15 16 (1.50%) Derivative
16 15 (1.41%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 87 (8.16%) Linux
2 34 (3.19%) Windows
3 15 (1.41%) Android
4 13 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.13%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.94%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.84%) Unix
8 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.094%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (40.62%) Software Engineering
2 354 (33.21%) CI/CD
3 303 (28.42%) Microservices
4 276 (25.89%) Agile
5 222 (20.83%) Test Automation
6 219 (20.54%) DevOps
7 218 (20.45%) Mentoring
8 204 (19.14%) AI
9 190 (17.82%) Roadmaps
10 171 (16.04%) Event-Driven
11 162 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
12 160 (15.01%) Technical Leadership
13 159 (14.92%) Infrastructure as Code
14 132 (12.38%) Containerisation
15 118 (11.07%) Continuous Improvement
16 110 (10.32%) Full-Stack Development
17 107 (10.04%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 107 (10.04%) Fintech
18 93 (8.72%) BDD
18 93 (8.72%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 338 (31.71%) Python
2 171 (16.04%) SQL
3 107 (10.04%) JavaScript
4 101 (9.47%) C#
5 81 (7.60%) TypeScript
6 80 (7.50%) C++
7 78 (7.32%) Go
8 55 (5.16%) Kotlin
9 46 (4.32%) Bash
10 34 (3.19%) C
11 32 (3.00%) Ruby
12 28 (2.63%) Rust
13 24 (2.25%) PowerShell
14 21 (1.97%) Perl
14 21 (1.97%) PHP
14 21 (1.97%) Scala
15 11 (1.03%) R
16 10 (0.94%) RPG
17 8 (0.75%) VBA
18 7 (0.66%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 139 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 107 (10.04%) Degree
3 80 (7.50%) SC Cleared
4 69 (6.47%) AWS Certification
5 62 (5.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 58 (5.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 50 (4.69%) DV Cleared
8 15 (1.41%) OSCP
9 11 (1.03%) CREST Certified
10 9 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (0.84%) ISTQB
11 7 (0.66%) CISSP
11 7 (0.66%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 5 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (0.47%) Azure Certification
13 5 (0.47%) CCSP
13 5 (0.47%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (6.19%) QA
2 21 (1.97%) GDPR
3 19 (1.78%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.31%) GRC
4 14 (1.31%) ISO 20022
5 10 (0.94%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.84%) NIST
7 8 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.47%) WCAG
10 3 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.28%) MiFID
10 3 (0.28%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.28%) UCITS
11 2 (0.19%) PSD2
12 1 (0.094%) SOC 2
System Software
1 134 (12.57%) Docker
2 18 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.31%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.47%) KVM
5 5 (0.47%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.38%) Squid
6 4 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.38%) vSphere
7 3 (0.28%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.094%) Firmware
8 1 (0.094%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 218 (20.45%) Kubernetes
2 58 (5.44%) Grafana
3 38 (3.56%) Ansible
4 24 (2.25%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.66%) Kibana
6 6 (0.56%) Argo
6 6 (0.56%) Hadoop YARN
6 6 (0.56%) Kubeflow
6 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.47%) Puppet
7 5 (0.47%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (0.38%) Packer
8 4 (0.38%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.28%) Rancher
9 3 (0.28%) WSUS
10 2 (0.19%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.19%) kaniko
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle Flashback
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 62 (5.82%) Oracle
2 52 (4.88%) Microsoft
3 51 (4.78%) Google
4 32 (3.00%) IBM
5 30 (2.81%) Splunk
6 25 (2.35%) Palantir
7 20 (1.88%) Red Hat
8 19 (1.78%) VMware
9 18 (1.69%) ServiceNow
10 16 (1.50%) Foundry
11 15 (1.41%) OpenAI
12 13 (1.22%) SAP
12 13 (1.22%) SendGrid
13 12 (1.13%) Bloomberg
13 12 (1.13%) Solace
14 10 (0.94%) Databricks
15 9 (0.84%) HP
16 8 (0.75%) Dynatrace
17 7 (0.66%) AppDynamics
18 6 (0.56%) Veracode