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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 31 20
Rank change year-on-year -4 -11 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 997 1,057 1,909
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.42% 8.19% 8.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.13% 19.60% 21.01%
Number of salaries quoted 583 778 1,529
10th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £56,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £74,870 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £105,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +13.51% +2.78%
75th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £120,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £145,750 £146,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -9.38%

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 4,954 5,393 9,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 26.94% 41.78% 40.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,481 3,965 7,580
10th Percentile £47,500 £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% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £125,000 £127,500 £125,000
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 6 April 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 6 April 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 -6 153 £100,000 - 113
West London -25 13 £61,250 +104.17% 11
South London -18 12 £62,600 -24.12% 2
East London -14 4 - - 14
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 (2.61%) Apache Spark
2 21 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (1.50%) Apache
4 14 (1.40%) Confluence
5 12 (1.20%) JBoss
6 11 (1.10%) WebSphere
7 9 (0.90%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.80%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.50%) Camunda
10 4 (0.40%) Appian
10 4 (0.40%) Moodle
10 4 (0.40%) nginx
11 3 (0.30%) Liferay
12 1 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.10%) CICS
12 1 (0.10%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.10%) CMS
12 1 (0.10%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.10%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.80%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 13 (1.30%) Maximo
2 4 (0.40%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.40%) Shopify
3 3 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.30%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.10%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.10%) Endur
4 1 (0.10%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 449 (45.04%) AWS
2 180 (18.05%) GCP
3 146 (14.64%) Azure
4 86 (8.63%) Amazon EKS
5 84 (8.43%) SaaS
6 51 (5.12%) GitHub
7 29 (2.91%) AWS CloudFormation
8 28 (2.81%) OpenShift
9 27 (2.71%) Serverless
10 22 (2.21%) dbt
11 20 (2.01%) GitHub Copilot
11 20 (2.01%) Pulumi
12 18 (1.81%) Amazon ECS
12 18 (1.81%) Amazon Kinesis
12 18 (1.81%) Amazon S3
13 17 (1.71%) Datadog
13 17 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (1.60%) Amazon EC2
15 15 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
16 12 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.01%) TCP/IP
2 25 (2.51%) Broadband
3 19 (1.91%) HTTP
4 6 (0.60%) BGP
4 6 (0.60%) Multicast
4 6 (0.60%) VLAN
4 6 (0.60%) VPN
5 5 (0.50%) AMQP
6 3 (0.30%) Kerberos
6 3 (0.30%) Network Security
7 2 (0.20%) DHCP
7 2 (0.20%) DNS
7 2 (0.20%) Firewall
7 2 (0.20%) Internet
7 2 (0.20%) LAN
7 2 (0.20%) NAS
7 2 (0.20%) SAN
7 2 (0.20%) SNMP
7 2 (0.20%) WAN
8 1 (0.10%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (7.42%) Relational Database
2 73 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
3 71 (7.12%) NoSQL
4 43 (4.31%) RDBMS
5 34 (3.41%) SQL Server
6 31 (3.11%) DB2
7 22 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (1.91%) MongoDB
9 16 (1.60%) Big Data
10 15 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
10 15 (1.50%) DynamoDB
10 15 (1.50%) Hadoop
11 14 (1.40%) MySQL
12 13 (1.30%) Flink
13 12 (1.20%) Neo4j
14 11 (1.10%) Redis
15 10 (1.00%) Pentaho
16 8 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
16 8 (0.80%) BigQuery
16 8 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 68 (6.82%) TeamCity
2 48 (4.81%) Selenium
3 46 (4.61%) Jenkins
4 42 (4.21%) Git
5 32 (3.21%) Cucumber
6 24 (2.41%) GitLab
6 24 (2.41%) JIRA
7 16 (1.60%) Jaeger
8 15 (1.50%) JUnit
9 13 (1.30%) Bitbucket
9 13 (1.30%) Gradle
10 10 (1.00%) Cypress.io
10 10 (1.00%) WebDriver
11 9 (0.90%) JMeter
11 9 (0.90%) Maven
12 7 (0.70%) Claude Code
12 7 (0.70%) Postman
13 5 (0.50%) Mockito
13 5 (0.50%) SpecFlow
14 4 (0.40%) webpack
General
1 380 (38.11%) Finance
2 236 (23.67%) Banking
3 192 (19.26%) Social Skills
4 124 (12.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 115 (11.53%) Front Office
6 109 (10.93%) Law
7 93 (9.33%) Retail
8 84 (8.43%) Financial Institution
9 68 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
10 63 (6.32%) Public Sector
11 59 (5.92%) Back Office
12 54 (5.42%) Investment Banking
13 26 (2.61%) Telecoms
14 23 (2.31%) Games
15 19 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
16 17 (1.71%) Billing
17 13 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.80%) Marketing
18 8 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
19 6 (0.60%) Legal
Job Titles
1 351 (35.21%) Developer
2 273 (27.38%) Senior
3 262 (26.28%) Software Engineer
4 199 (19.96%) Java Developer
5 184 (18.46%) Java Engineer
6 148 (14.84%) Lead
7 106 (10.63%) Java Software Engineer
8 87 (8.73%) Senior Software Engineer
9 83 (8.32%) Senior Developer
10 81 (8.12%) Full-Stack Developer
11 71 (7.12%) Senior Java Engineer
12 70 (7.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 54 (5.42%) Lead Software Engineer
14 52 (5.22%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 52 (5.22%) Senior Java Developer
15 46 (4.61%) Architect
16 44 (4.41%) AWS Engineer
17 41 (4.11%) React Developer
17 41 (4.11%) Senior Java Software Engineer
18 40 (4.01%) Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (20.06%) Spring
2 179 (17.95%) React
3 155 (15.55%) Spring Boot
4 133 (13.34%) Kafka
5 113 (11.33%) REST
6 92 (9.23%) Node.js
7 68 (6.82%) .NET
8 63 (6.32%) RESTful
9 60 (6.02%) AngularJS
10 56 (5.62%) GraphQL
11 46 (4.61%) HTML
12 40 (4.01%) Web Services
13 39 (3.91%) CSS
14 38 (3.81%) SOAP
15 35 (3.51%) Elastic Stack
15 35 (3.51%) Redux
16 29 (2.91%) FIX Protocol
16 29 (2.91%) Hibernate
17 27 (2.71%) JSON
18 24 (2.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 189 (18.96%) Cloud Native
2 112 (11.23%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (5.92%) Product Ownership
4 57 (5.72%) Fixed Income
5 53 (5.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 43 (4.31%) Public Cloud
7 42 (4.21%) Equities
8 38 (3.81%) Blog
9 27 (2.71%) Derivative
9 27 (2.71%) Greenfield Project
10 24 (2.41%) Distributed Architecture
11 21 (2.11%) FPGA
12 19 (1.91%) Data Structures
13 18 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
14 17 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
15 14 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
15 14 (1.40%) Onboarding
16 13 (1.30%) Mobile Banking
17 12 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
17 12 (1.20%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 115 (11.53%) Linux
2 30 (3.01%) Unix
3 26 (2.61%) Windows
4 23 (2.31%) Android
5 8 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.40%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.40%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.20%) CentOS
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (37.11%) Software Engineering
2 315 (31.59%) CI/CD
3 310 (31.09%) Agile
4 215 (21.56%) Microservices
5 197 (19.76%) DevOps
6 192 (19.26%) Test Automation
7 190 (19.06%) Full-Stack Development
8 172 (17.25%) Mentoring
9 146 (14.64%) Problem-Solving
10 137 (13.74%) Roadmaps
11 121 (12.14%) AI
11 121 (12.14%) Technical Leadership
12 120 (12.04%) Fintech
13 116 (11.63%) Containerisation
14 101 (10.13%) Continuous Improvement
15 94 (9.43%) Low Latency
16 93 (9.33%) Clean Code
16 93 (9.33%) Infrastructure as Code
17 81 (8.12%) Computer Science
18 69 (6.92%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 294 (29.49%) Python
2 193 (19.36%) JavaScript
3 150 (15.05%) SQL
4 131 (13.14%) TypeScript
5 114 (11.43%) Go
6 81 (8.12%) C#
7 67 (6.72%) C++
8 57 (5.72%) Kotlin
9 36 (3.61%) Bash
10 35 (3.51%) C
11 27 (2.71%) Rust
12 22 (2.21%) Scala
13 13 (1.30%) PowerShell
14 10 (1.00%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.80%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.80%) PHP
16 7 (0.70%) Perl
17 6 (0.60%) Ruby
17 6 (0.60%) VBA
18 5 (0.50%) RPG
Qualifications
1 131 (13.14%) Security Cleared
2 118 (11.84%) Degree
3 83 (8.32%) SC Cleared
4 58 (5.82%) DV Cleared
5 47 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 33 (3.31%) AWS Certification
7 24 (2.41%) Master's Degree
8 16 (1.60%) OSCP
9 15 (1.50%) CREST Certified
10 13 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (1.20%) PhD
12 11 (1.10%) Azure Certification
13 7 (0.70%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.70%) OSCE
14 4 (0.40%) ISEB
14 4 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 3 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
15 3 (0.30%) CCSAM
15 3 (0.30%) GPEN
15 3 (0.30%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (3.61%) QA
2 16 (1.60%) GDPR
2 16 (1.60%) PCI DSS
3 15 (1.50%) SOC 2
4 11 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.00%) Data Quality
6 8 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
6 8 (0.80%) GRC
7 6 (0.60%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.40%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.40%) SLA
9 3 (0.30%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.30%) NIST
10 2 (0.20%) WCAG
11 1 (0.10%) MiFID
11 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 143 (14.34%) Docker
2 7 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.60%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
3 6 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.30%) HDFS
4 3 (0.30%) KVM
5 2 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.10%) Firmware
6 1 (0.10%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.10%) OpenDJ
6 1 (0.10%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.10%) Squid
6 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.10%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 247 (24.77%) Kubernetes
2 139 (13.94%) Terraform
3 73 (7.32%) Grafana
4 37 (3.71%) Ansible
5 29 (2.91%) Argo
6 27 (2.71%) Prometheus
7 16 (1.60%) Kustomize
8 8 (0.80%) Kibana
9 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.30%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.20%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Flashback
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.10%) Icinga
12 1 (0.10%) Nagios
12 1 (0.10%) Puppet
12 1 (0.10%) Rancher
12 1 (0.10%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 35 (3.51%) Google
2 25 (2.51%) IBM
3 24 (2.41%) Oracle
4 19 (1.91%) Microsoft
5 16 (1.60%) MuleSoft
6 14 (1.40%) Informatica
6 14 (1.40%) Talend
7 12 (1.20%) Salesforce
8 11 (1.10%) Databricks
8 11 (1.10%) Foundry
9 10 (1.00%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.00%) Splunk
10 9 (0.90%) Palantir
10 9 (0.90%) Solace
11 8 (0.80%) Atlassian
11 8 (0.80%) Dell
12 7 (0.70%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.70%) SAP
12 7 (0.70%) VMware
13 6 (0.60%) Dynatrace