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 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 29 19
Rank change year-on-year -6 -10 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 963 1,098 1,934
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.85% 7.74% 9.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.54% 18.88% 21.71%
Number of salaries quoted 588 758 1,592
10th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £105,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,875 £143,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -6.45%

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 4,689 5,817 8,907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 28.48% 40.99% 41.72%
Number of salaries quoted 3,305 3,936 7,672
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,375 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £108,418 £101,250
90th Percentile £128,250 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 5 March 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 5 March 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 +2 150 £100,000 - 133
West London -8 14 £82,500 +175.00% 12
South London -9 14 £70,000 -6.67%
East London -8 4 £75,000 - 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 38 (3.95%) Apache Spark
2 24 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (1.77%) Apache
4 14 (1.45%) Confluence
5 12 (1.25%) JBoss
6 11 (1.14%) WebSphere
7 8 (0.83%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.42%) Appian
8 4 (0.42%) Camunda
8 4 (0.42%) Moodle
8 4 (0.42%) nginx
8 4 (0.42%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.31%) Liferay
9 3 (0.31%) Mule
10 2 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.10%) CMS
11 1 (0.10%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.10%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.10%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (1.04%) MS Visio
2 9 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.21%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (0.93%) Maximo
2 7 (0.73%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.42%) Shopify
4 2 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.10%) Adaptiv
5 1 (0.10%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 426 (44.24%) AWS
2 161 (16.72%) GCP
3 125 (12.98%) Azure
4 91 (9.45%) Amazon EKS
5 83 (8.62%) SaaS
6 48 (4.98%) GitHub
7 35 (3.63%) Serverless
8 28 (2.91%) OpenShift
9 25 (2.60%) dbt
10 21 (2.18%) Amazon Kinesis
10 21 (2.18%) AWS CloudFormation
10 21 (2.18%) AWS Lambda
11 19 (1.97%) Amazon ECS
11 19 (1.97%) Datadog
12 18 (1.87%) Amazon EC2
12 18 (1.87%) Pulumi
12 18 (1.87%) Snowflake
13 16 (1.66%) Amazon S3
13 16 (1.66%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (1.66%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.32%) TCP/IP
2 24 (2.49%) Broadband
3 11 (1.14%) HTTP
4 10 (1.04%) VPN
5 7 (0.73%) Multicast
6 6 (0.62%) BGP
6 6 (0.62%) VLAN
7 5 (0.52%) AMQP
7 5 (0.52%) Firewall
7 5 (0.52%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.21%) DHCP
8 2 (0.21%) DNS
8 2 (0.21%) Internet
8 2 (0.21%) LAN
8 2 (0.21%) NAS
8 2 (0.21%) SAN
8 2 (0.21%) SNMP
8 2 (0.21%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (8.41%) PostgreSQL
2 80 (8.31%) Relational Database
3 65 (6.75%) NoSQL
4 47 (4.88%) RDBMS
5 33 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (3.43%) SQL Server
6 29 (3.01%) MongoDB
7 28 (2.91%) Big Data
7 28 (2.91%) DB2
8 25 (2.60%) Hadoop
9 15 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (1.56%) Data Lake
9 15 (1.56%) DynamoDB
10 12 (1.25%) Apache Hive
10 12 (1.25%) MySQL
10 12 (1.25%) Neo4j
11 11 (1.14%) Flink
11 11 (1.14%) Pentaho
12 10 (1.04%) Redis
13 9 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 63 (6.54%) TeamCity
2 55 (5.71%) Jenkins
3 51 (5.30%) Selenium
4 34 (3.53%) Git
5 33 (3.43%) Cucumber
6 28 (2.91%) JIRA
7 25 (2.60%) GitLab
8 17 (1.77%) Bitbucket
8 17 (1.77%) JUnit
9 16 (1.66%) Jaeger
10 15 (1.56%) JMeter
11 13 (1.35%) Cypress.io
11 13 (1.35%) WebDriver
12 10 (1.04%) Gradle
13 8 (0.83%) Maven
14 7 (0.73%) Mockito
14 7 (0.73%) Postman
15 6 (0.62%) Subversion
16 5 (0.52%) LoadRunner
16 5 (0.52%) REST Assured
General
1 350 (36.34%) Finance
2 231 (23.99%) Banking
3 220 (22.85%) Social Skills
4 118 (12.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 117 (12.15%) Front Office
6 106 (11.01%) Law
7 88 (9.14%) Financial Institution
8 86 (8.93%) Retail
9 67 (6.96%) Investment Banking
10 63 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
11 55 (5.71%) Public Sector
12 53 (5.50%) Back Office
13 29 (3.01%) Telecoms
14 21 (2.18%) Games
15 19 (1.97%) Billing
16 14 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
19 7 (0.73%) Marketing
20 6 (0.62%) Legal
Job Titles
1 348 (36.14%) Developer
2 249 (25.86%) Software Engineer
3 243 (25.23%) Senior
4 195 (20.25%) Java Developer
5 168 (17.45%) Java Engineer
6 148 (15.37%) Lead
7 105 (10.90%) Java Software Engineer
8 87 (9.03%) Full-Stack Developer
9 78 (8.10%) Senior Software Engineer
10 68 (7.06%) Senior Java Engineer
11 67 (6.96%) Senior Developer
12 64 (6.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 58 (6.02%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 54 (5.61%) Architect
15 50 (5.19%) Lead Software Engineer
16 47 (4.88%) Senior Java Developer
17 45 (4.67%) AWS Engineer
18 43 (4.47%) React Developer
19 39 (4.05%) Senior Java Software Engineer
20 36 (3.74%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (21.39%) Spring
2 180 (18.69%) React
3 159 (16.51%) Spring Boot
4 153 (15.89%) Kafka
5 117 (12.15%) REST
6 95 (9.87%) Node.js
7 65 (6.75%) .NET
8 62 (6.44%) RESTful
9 61 (6.33%) GraphQL
10 57 (5.92%) AngularJS
11 49 (5.09%) HTML
12 40 (4.15%) SOAP
13 38 (3.95%) CSS
14 36 (3.74%) Redux
15 35 (3.63%) Elastic Stack
15 35 (3.63%) Web Services
16 31 (3.22%) Hibernate
17 29 (3.01%) JSON
18 28 (2.91%) FIX Protocol
19 26 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 201 (20.87%) Cloud Native
2 131 (13.60%) Distributed Systems
3 58 (6.02%) Fixed Income
4 50 (5.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 46 (4.78%) Product Ownership
6 43 (4.47%) Equities
7 38 (3.95%) Blog
8 29 (3.01%) Greenfield Project
9 28 (2.91%) Derivative
9 28 (2.91%) Public Cloud
10 22 (2.28%) Distributed Architecture
11 21 (2.18%) Algorithms
11 21 (2.18%) Data Structures
11 21 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
12 20 (2.08%) FPGA
13 18 (1.87%) Onboarding
14 17 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
15 15 (1.56%) Legacy Code
16 14 (1.45%) Hedge funds
17 13 (1.35%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 120 (12.46%) Linux
2 33 (3.43%) Unix
3 25 (2.60%) Windows
4 20 (2.08%) Android
5 7 (0.73%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.42%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.21%) CentOS
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.21%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 349 (36.24%) Software Engineering
2 329 (34.16%) Agile
3 314 (32.61%) CI/CD
4 232 (24.09%) Microservices
5 195 (20.25%) DevOps
6 193 (20.04%) Test Automation
7 192 (19.94%) Full-Stack Development
8 154 (15.99%) Mentoring
9 145 (15.06%) Problem-Solving
10 119 (12.36%) Fintech
11 113 (11.73%) Containerisation
12 110 (11.42%) AI
13 107 (11.11%) Roadmaps
14 106 (11.01%) Continuous Improvement
15 99 (10.28%) Technical Leadership
16 91 (9.45%) Low Latency
17 84 (8.72%) Clean Code
18 83 (8.62%) Computer Science
19 78 (8.10%) Infrastructure as Code
20 70 (7.27%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 301 (31.26%) Python
2 198 (20.56%) JavaScript
3 153 (15.89%) SQL
4 142 (14.75%) TypeScript
5 113 (11.73%) Go
6 85 (8.83%) C#
7 64 (6.65%) C++
8 57 (5.92%) Kotlin
9 39 (4.05%) C
10 30 (3.12%) Rust
11 28 (2.91%) Bash
11 28 (2.91%) Scala
12 12 (1.25%) Shell Script
13 10 (1.04%) PowerShell
14 9 (0.93%) Apex Code
15 7 (0.73%) PHP
16 6 (0.62%) Ruby
16 6 (0.62%) VBA
17 5 (0.52%) R
17 5 (0.52%) RPG
Qualifications
1 130 (13.50%) Security Cleared
2 115 (11.94%) Degree
3 83 (8.62%) SC Cleared
4 51 (5.30%) DV Cleared
5 45 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (3.32%) AWS Certification
7 28 (2.91%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 13 (1.35%) PhD
10 11 (1.14%) CREST Certified
10 11 (1.14%) OSCP
11 10 (1.04%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.52%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (0.42%) OSCE
14 3 (0.31%) ISEB
14 3 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.21%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.21%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (3.84%) QA
2 17 (1.77%) GDPR
3 16 (1.66%) PCI DSS
4 15 (1.56%) SOC 2
5 14 (1.45%) Accessibility
6 13 (1.35%) Data Quality
7 10 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.42%) EU AI Act
9 4 (0.42%) SLA
10 3 (0.31%) SEPA
11 2 (0.21%) NIST
11 2 (0.21%) WCAG
12 1 (0.10%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.10%) MiFID
System Software
1 149 (15.47%) Docker
2 15 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (1.45%) Virtual Servers
4 12 (1.25%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.52%) HDFS
6 3 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.21%) KVM
8 1 (0.10%) Firmware
8 1 (0.10%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.10%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.10%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 257 (26.69%) Kubernetes
2 119 (12.36%) Terraform
3 66 (6.85%) Grafana
4 39 (4.05%) Ansible
5 30 (3.12%) Argo
6 29 (3.01%) Prometheus
7 16 (1.66%) Kustomize
8 11 (1.14%) Kibana
9 7 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.21%) logstash
10 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.10%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.10%) Icinga
11 1 (0.10%) Nagios
11 1 (0.10%) Oracle Flashback
11 1 (0.10%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.10%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.10%) Rancher
Vendors
1 36 (3.74%) Google
2 28 (2.91%) Oracle
3 20 (2.08%) IBM
4 18 (1.87%) Microsoft
5 17 (1.77%) Databricks
5 17 (1.77%) MuleSoft
6 15 (1.56%) Informatica
6 15 (1.56%) Talend
7 13 (1.35%) Atlassian
7 13 (1.35%) Guidewire
7 13 (1.35%) Salesforce
7 13 (1.35%) Splunk
8 12 (1.25%) Dell
9 11 (1.14%) Solace
10 10 (1.04%) OpenAI
11 8 (0.83%) Dynatrace
11 8 (0.83%) SAP
12 6 (0.62%) Red Hat
13 5 (0.52%) Mercator
14 4 (0.42%) TIBCO