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 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 28 16
Rank change year-on-year -13 -12 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,123 1,026 1,930
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.34% 8.73% 10.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.09% 22.52% 24.64%
Number of salaries quoted 571 618 1,320
10th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £59,875
25th Percentile £69,375 £75,313 £77,500
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 £134,875 £140,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £142,500 £148,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +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 5,591 4,556 7,833
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.60% 38.77% 41.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3,717 3,051 5,129
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,200 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £62,375 £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 £110,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £135,000
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 30 September 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 30 September 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 -20 107 £100,000 +11.11% 175
South London -25 21 £70,000 -15.15% 16
West London -5 19 £80,000 -3.03% 61
East London -5 5 - - 8
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 42 (3.74%) Confluence
2 21 (1.87%) Apache
3 18 (1.60%) Camunda
4 13 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.16%) Apache Spark
5 9 (0.80%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (0.36%) Ethereum
6 4 (0.36%) JBoss
7 3 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.27%) CMS
7 3 (0.27%) Hedera
7 3 (0.27%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.27%) SAS
8 2 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
8 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.089%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.089%) Hyperledger
9 1 (0.089%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (1.16%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.62%) Moqups
4 3 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.089%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.45%) Distributed Ledger
1 5 (0.45%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.18%) Maximo
3 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.18%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
3 2 (0.18%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.089%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.089%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.089%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.089%) Quorum
4 1 (0.089%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.089%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.089%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 537 (47.82%) AWS
2 219 (19.50%) Azure
3 206 (18.34%) GCP
4 81 (7.21%) AWS CloudFormation
5 79 (7.03%) GitHub
6 72 (6.41%) Amazon EKS
7 65 (5.79%) SaaS
8 53 (4.72%) Serverless
9 37 (3.29%) GitHub Actions
10 31 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
11 29 (2.58%) Amazon ECS
12 27 (2.40%) GitHub Copilot
13 25 (2.23%) Anthropic Claude
13 25 (2.23%) Cloud Computing
14 23 (2.05%) Amazon S3
15 22 (1.96%) Datadog
16 20 (1.78%) Azure Service Bus
16 20 (1.78%) Snowflake
17 17 (1.51%) Amazon EventBridge
18 16 (1.42%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 32 (2.85%) HTTP
2 18 (1.60%) TCP/IP
3 17 (1.51%) Network Security
4 15 (1.34%) DMARC
5 11 (0.98%) BGP
5 11 (0.98%) VPN
6 8 (0.71%) DNS
7 6 (0.53%) IPsec
8 5 (0.45%) Internet
8 5 (0.45%) IPv4
9 4 (0.36%) Broadband
9 4 (0.36%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.27%) Firewall
10 3 (0.27%) LAN
10 3 (0.27%) SAN
10 3 (0.27%) WAN
11 2 (0.18%) VLAN
12 1 (0.089%) Unicast
12 1 (0.089%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (7.93%) NoSQL
2 77 (6.86%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (5.79%) Relational Database
4 47 (4.19%) MongoDB
5 29 (2.58%) SQL Server
6 20 (1.78%) Big Data
7 17 (1.51%) Redis
8 16 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (1.42%) MySQL
9 14 (1.25%) Db2
10 13 (1.16%) DynamoDB
11 12 (1.07%) BigQuery
12 10 (0.89%) DTS
12 10 (0.89%) Hadoop
13 8 (0.71%) Power BI
14 7 (0.62%) Flink
14 7 (0.62%) Geospatial Data
14 7 (0.62%) Pinecone
15 6 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
15 6 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 84 (7.48%) Git
2 77 (6.86%) GitLab
3 68 (6.06%) Jenkins
4 61 (5.43%) TeamCity
5 55 (4.90%) Cucumber
6 46 (4.10%) JIRA
7 29 (2.58%) JUnit
7 29 (2.58%) Selenium
8 22 (1.96%) Maven
9 20 (1.78%) Postman
10 18 (1.60%) Claude Code
10 18 (1.60%) Cypress.io
10 18 (1.60%) Mockito
11 16 (1.42%) Bitbucket
12 13 (1.16%) REST Assured
13 11 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 11 (0.98%) JMeter
14 8 (0.71%) Gradle
15 7 (0.62%) SonarQube
16 6 (0.53%) MLflow
General
1 473 (42.12%) Finance
2 257 (22.89%) Banking
3 238 (21.19%) Social Skills
4 106 (9.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 100 (8.90%) Law
6 83 (7.39%) Retail
7 74 (6.59%) Public Sector
8 71 (6.32%) Financial Institution
9 70 (6.23%) Front Office
10 67 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
11 39 (3.47%) Back Office
12 26 (2.32%) Investment Banking
13 23 (2.05%) Marketing
14 16 (1.42%) Tech for Good
15 13 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (0.98%) Health Technology
16 11 (0.98%) Legal
17 10 (0.89%) Retail Banking
18 9 (0.80%) Manufacturing
19 7 (0.62%) Military
Job Titles
1 313 (27.87%) Senior
2 288 (25.65%) Java Engineer
3 269 (23.95%) Software Engineer
4 239 (21.28%) Developer
5 149 (13.27%) Lead
6 141 (12.56%) Java Developer
7 99 (8.82%) Senior Software Engineer
8 87 (7.75%) Senior Java Engineer
9 81 (7.21%) Java Software Engineer
10 77 (6.86%) Senior Developer
11 68 (6.06%) Principal Engineer
12 53 (4.72%) Architect
13 52 (4.63%) Principal Java Engineer
14 47 (4.19%) Lead Software Engineer
15 38 (3.38%) Engineering Manager
15 38 (3.38%) Senior Java Developer
16 37 (3.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 34 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
18 32 (2.85%) Software Engineering Manager
18 32 (2.85%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 297 (26.45%) Spring
2 250 (22.26%) Spring Boot
3 194 (17.28%) Kafka
4 158 (14.07%) Terraform
5 142 (12.64%) REST
6 84 (7.48%) RESTful
7 83 (7.39%) React
8 71 (6.32%) Node.js
9 64 (5.70%) .NET
10 52 (4.63%) AngularJS
11 41 (3.65%) OAuth
12 29 (2.58%) OAuth2
13 27 (2.40%) FIX Protocol
14 26 (2.32%) Middleware
15 25 (2.23%) Hibernate
16 21 (1.87%) RabbitMQ
17 19 (1.69%) Playwright
18 18 (1.60%) Web Services
19 15 (1.34%) JPA
19 15 (1.34%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 257 (22.89%) Cloud Native
2 176 (15.67%) Distributed Systems
3 127 (11.31%) Product Ownership
4 114 (10.15%) Public Cloud
5 53 (4.72%) Onboarding
6 44 (3.92%) e-Learning
7 41 (3.65%) Enterprise Software
8 38 (3.38%) Distributed Architecture
9 34 (3.03%) Blog
10 32 (2.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 30 (2.67%) Equities
12 27 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
13 26 (2.32%) Fixed Income
14 24 (2.14%) AI Agents
15 23 (2.05%) Virtual Team
16 21 (1.87%) Algorithms
17 20 (1.78%) Data Structures
18 18 (1.60%) Mobile App
19 17 (1.51%) Derivative
19 17 (1.51%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 75 (6.68%) Linux
2 28 (2.49%) Windows
3 19 (1.69%) Android
4 14 (1.25%) Apple iOS
5 12 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.80%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.71%) Unix
8 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.089%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 471 (41.94%) Software Engineering
2 408 (36.33%) CI/CD
3 344 (30.63%) Microservices
4 277 (24.67%) Agile
5 239 (21.28%) Test Automation
6 225 (20.04%) AI
7 222 (19.77%) Mentoring
8 220 (19.59%) DevOps
9 197 (17.54%) Event-Driven
10 176 (15.67%) Problem-Solving
11 174 (15.49%) Infrastructure as Code
12 171 (15.23%) Roadmaps
13 158 (14.07%) Technical Leadership
14 142 (12.64%) Containerisation
15 132 (11.75%) Fintech
16 129 (11.49%) Continuous Improvement
17 123 (10.95%) Full-Stack Development
18 119 (10.60%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 103 (9.17%) Computer Science
20 102 (9.08%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 339 (30.19%) Python
2 197 (17.54%) SQL
3 102 (9.08%) JavaScript
4 99 (8.82%) C#
5 85 (7.57%) C++
6 82 (7.30%) Go
7 78 (6.95%) TypeScript
8 58 (5.16%) Kotlin
9 50 (4.45%) Bash
10 32 (2.85%) C
11 30 (2.67%) Ruby
12 26 (2.32%) Rust
13 24 (2.14%) Scala
14 20 (1.78%) PHP
15 19 (1.69%) Perl
15 19 (1.69%) PowerShell
16 11 (0.98%) R
17 10 (0.89%) RPG
18 8 (0.71%) VBA
19 7 (0.62%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 135 (12.02%) Security Cleared
2 105 (9.35%) Degree
3 80 (7.12%) AWS Certification
4 76 (6.77%) SC Cleared
5 68 (6.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 62 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 43 (3.83%) DV Cleared
8 16 (1.42%) OSCP
9 11 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (0.89%) CREST Certified
11 9 (0.80%) ISTQB
12 8 (0.71%) CISSP
12 8 (0.71%) Master's Degree
13 7 (0.62%) Azure Certification
13 7 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.53%) CCSP
14 6 (0.53%) CISM
14 6 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 5 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (6.23%) QA
2 24 (2.14%) Data Quality
3 23 (2.05%) GDPR
4 17 (1.51%) ISO 20022
5 14 (1.25%) NIST
6 11 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.89%) Accessibility
7 10 (0.89%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.62%) GRC
9 6 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.45%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.36%) WCAG
12 3 (0.27%) MiFID
12 3 (0.27%) UCITS
13 2 (0.18%) PSD2
14 1 (0.089%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 146 (13.00%) Docker
2 18 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.98%) Active Directory
4 8 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (0.53%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.45%) KVM
6 5 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.36%) Squid
7 4 (0.36%) vSphere
8 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.089%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 256 (22.80%) Kubernetes
2 80 (7.12%) Grafana
3 43 (3.83%) Ansible
4 30 (2.67%) Prometheus
5 10 (0.89%) Argo
6 7 (0.62%) Kibana
6 7 (0.62%) Puppet
7 6 (0.53%) Hadoop YARN
7 6 (0.53%) Kubeflow
8 5 (0.45%) EnCase
8 5 (0.45%) FTK
8 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.36%) Packer
9 4 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (0.36%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.27%) Rancher
10 3 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.27%) WSUS
11 2 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 63 (5.61%) Microsoft
1 63 (5.61%) Oracle
2 61 (5.43%) Google
3 34 (3.03%) Splunk
4 28 (2.49%) IBM
5 25 (2.23%) Red Hat
6 18 (1.60%) Palantir
6 18 (1.60%) VMware
7 15 (1.34%) OpenAI
7 15 (1.34%) SendGrid
8 14 (1.25%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.16%) Foundry
9 13 (1.16%) SAP
10 12 (1.07%) Bloomberg
10 12 (1.07%) Solace
11 11 (0.98%) OutSystems
12 10 (0.89%) Databricks
13 9 (0.80%) AppDynamics
13 9 (0.80%) HP
14 8 (0.71%) Guidewire