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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 23 16
Rank change year-on-year -12 -7 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,054 1,137 2,176
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.96% 9.31% 8.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.75% 22.36% 22.36%
Number of salaries quoted 590 710 1,661
10th Percentile £57,375 £56,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £66,563 £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 £122,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £140,250 £148,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £73,805
% change year-on-year -9.68% +5.01% -7.74%

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 5,338 5,086 9,730
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.12% 41.64% 39.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,756 3,510 7,620
10th Percentile £50,000 £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% -
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 11 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 11 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 -13 158 £100,000 +2.04% 31
South London -14 22 £50,000 -39.39% 2
West London -9 19 £80,000 +166.67% 12
East London -7 3 - - 6
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 19 (1.80%) Apache Spark
2 18 (1.71%) Confluence
3 16 (1.52%) Apache
4 15 (1.42%) Palantir Foundry
5 12 (1.14%) 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 4 (0.38%) 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 2 (0.19%) 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
1 464 (44.02%) AWS
2 191 (18.12%) GCP
3 168 (15.94%) Azure
4 65 (6.17%) Amazon EKS
5 64 (6.07%) SaaS
6 50 (4.74%) GitHub
7 47 (4.46%) AWS CloudFormation
8 25 (2.37%) OpenShift
8 25 (2.37%) Serverless
9 19 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (1.80%) Pulumi
10 17 (1.61%) Amazon S3
11 16 (1.52%) dbt
12 15 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (1.42%) GitHub Copilot
13 14 (1.33%) Amazon ECS
14 13 (1.23%) Azure Service Bus
15 12 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
16 11 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (1.04%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.94%) HTTP
2 25 (2.37%) Broadband
3 24 (2.28%) 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%) LAN
7 2 (0.19%) SAN
7 2 (0.19%) WAN
8 1 (0.095%) FIX Connectivity
8 1 (0.095%) Internet
8 1 (0.095%) LTE
8 1 (0.095%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (7.31%) NoSQL
2 58 (5.50%) Relational Database
3 55 (5.22%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (2.75%) RDBMS
5 28 (2.66%) MongoDB
6 21 (1.99%) Db2
6 21 (1.99%) SQL Server
7 14 (1.33%) BigQuery
8 12 (1.14%) DynamoDB
9 11 (1.04%) MySQL
10 10 (0.95%) Metadata
11 9 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (0.85%) Redis
12 7 (0.66%) Big Data
12 7 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (0.66%) Hadoop
13 6 (0.57%) Geospatial Data
14 5 (0.47%) Amazon Athena
14 5 (0.47%) Flink
Development Applications
1 54 (5.12%) Git
1 54 (5.12%) TeamCity
2 47 (4.46%) GitLab
3 43 (4.08%) Jenkins
4 33 (3.13%) Selenium
5 30 (2.85%) JIRA
6 29 (2.75%) Cucumber
7 18 (1.71%) JUnit
8 15 (1.42%) Gradle
8 15 (1.42%) Jaeger
8 15 (1.42%) Maven
9 14 (1.33%) Bitbucket
10 11 (1.04%) Claude Code
11 8 (0.76%) Cypress.io
11 8 (0.76%) Postman
12 7 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (0.66%) Mockito
12 7 (0.66%) WebDriver
13 5 (0.47%) REST Assured
13 5 (0.47%) SpecFlow
General
1 416 (39.47%) Finance
2 213 (20.21%) Banking
3 168 (15.94%) Social Skills
4 111 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 105 (9.96%) Front Office
6 87 (8.25%) Law
7 79 (7.50%) Retail
8 77 (7.31%) Public Sector
9 68 (6.45%) Financial Institution
10 58 (5.50%) Analytical Skills
11 46 (4.36%) Back Office
12 33 (3.13%) Investment Banking
13 22 (2.09%) Telecoms
14 17 (1.61%) Games
15 16 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
16 15 (1.42%) 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
1 331 (31.40%) Developer
2 262 (24.86%) Senior
3 260 (24.67%) Software Engineer
4 230 (21.82%) Java Engineer
5 191 (18.12%) Java Developer
6 156 (14.80%) Lead
7 97 (9.20%) Java Software Engineer
8 87 (8.25%) Senior Developer
9 81 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
10 66 (6.26%) Senior Java Engineer
11 59 (5.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 57 (5.41%) Lead Software Engineer
13 54 (5.12%) Senior Java Developer
14 51 (4.84%) Full-Stack Developer
15 47 (4.46%) Principal Engineer
16 42 (3.98%) Architect
17 41 (3.89%) Software Developer
18 37 (3.51%) Engineering Manager
19 36 (3.42%) Developer/Software Engineer
20 33 (3.13%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 250 (23.72%) Spring
2 209 (19.83%) Spring Boot
3 147 (13.95%) Kafka
4 128 (12.14%) React
5 114 (10.82%) REST
6 76 (7.21%) Node.js
7 60 (5.69%) .NET
8 55 (5.22%) AngularJS
9 51 (4.84%) RESTful
10 41 (3.89%) GraphQL
11 37 (3.51%) Web Services
12 34 (3.23%) Redux
13 29 (2.75%) HTML
14 26 (2.47%) Elastic Stack
15 25 (2.37%) OAuth
15 25 (2.37%) SOAP
16 23 (2.18%) CSS
17 22 (2.09%) Hibernate
18 21 (1.99%) Middleware
19 20 (1.90%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 199 (18.88%) Cloud Native
2 104 (9.87%) Distributed Systems
3 96 (9.11%) Product Ownership
4 86 (8.16%) Public Cloud
5 49 (4.65%) Fixed Income
6 47 (4.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 34 (3.23%) Blog
8 32 (3.04%) Distributed Architecture
8 32 (3.04%) Equities
9 22 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
10 21 (1.99%) e-Learning
11 20 (1.90%) FPGA
12 15 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
13 14 (1.33%) Security Posture
14 13 (1.23%) Data Structures
14 13 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
14 13 (1.23%) Mobile Banking
14 13 (1.23%) Onboarding
15 11 (1.04%) AI Agents
15 11 (1.04%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 107 (10.15%) Linux
2 26 (2.47%) Unix
3 25 (2.37%) Android
4 22 (2.09%) 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
1 388 (36.81%) Software Engineering
2 319 (30.27%) CI/CD
3 299 (28.37%) Agile
4 243 (23.06%) Microservices
5 214 (20.30%) DevOps
6 206 (19.54%) Test Automation
7 199 (18.88%) Mentoring
8 177 (16.79%) Roadmaps
9 153 (14.52%) Full-Stack Development
10 148 (14.04%) Technical Leadership
11 130 (12.33%) Containerisation
11 130 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
12 125 (11.86%) Infrastructure as Code
13 124 (11.76%) AI
14 109 (10.34%) Fintech
15 99 (9.39%) Continuous Improvement
16 91 (8.63%) Low Latency
17 82 (7.78%) Event-Driven
18 79 (7.50%) Clean Code
19 78 (7.40%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 298 (28.27%) Python
2 153 (14.52%) JavaScript
3 149 (14.14%) SQL
4 108 (10.25%) Go
5 97 (9.20%) TypeScript
6 89 (8.44%) C#
7 86 (8.16%) C++
8 47 (4.46%) Kotlin
9 43 (4.08%) Bash
10 29 (2.75%) C
11 28 (2.66%) Rust
12 20 (1.90%) PowerShell
13 18 (1.71%) Scala
14 8 (0.76%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.76%) R
15 6 (0.57%) Julia
15 6 (0.57%) MATLAB
15 6 (0.57%) PHP
16 5 (0.47%) Groovy
16 5 (0.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 139 (13.19%) Security Cleared
2 98 (9.30%) Degree
3 89 (8.44%) SC Cleared
4 63 (5.98%) DV Cleared
5 51 (4.84%) AWS Certification
6 46 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 18 (1.71%) OSCP
9 14 (1.33%) CREST Certified
10 12 (1.14%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.85%) PhD
12 8 (0.76%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.57%) Azure Certification
14 6 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
15 4 (0.38%) CCNA
15 4 (0.38%) RHCE
15 4 (0.38%) RHCSA
16 3 (0.28%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (4.17%) QA
2 15 (1.42%) Data Quality
2 15 (1.42%) GDPR
3 14 (1.33%) GRC
4 13 (1.23%) PCI DSS
5 12 (1.14%) 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
1 134 (12.71%) 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 2 (0.19%) Firmware
5 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.095%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.095%) OpenDJ
6 1 (0.095%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 232 (22.01%) Kubernetes
2 141 (13.38%) Terraform
3 75 (7.12%) Grafana
4 42 (3.98%) Ansible
5 34 (3.23%) Prometheus
6 20 (1.90%) 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%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 42 (3.98%) Google
2 34 (3.23%) Microsoft
3 28 (2.66%) Oracle
4 22 (2.09%) Palantir
5 21 (1.99%) Splunk
6 18 (1.71%) IBM
7 17 (1.61%) Foundry
8 14 (1.33%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.14%) Red Hat
9 12 (1.14%) Solace
10 11 (1.04%) VMware
11 10 (0.95%) MuleSoft
11 10 (0.95%) Salesforce
12 9 (0.85%) SendGrid
13 7 (0.66%) Databricks
13 7 (0.66%) Dynatrace
14 5 (0.47%) Guidewire
14 5 (0.47%) OpenAI
14 5 (0.47%) SAP
15 4 (0.38%) JDA