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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 28 16
Rank change year-on-year -15 -12 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,094 1,016 1,904
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.23% 8.60% 10.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.01% 22.36% 24.43%
Number of salaries quoted 546 607 1,308
10th Percentile £51,875 £57,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £69,063 £76,875 £77,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £105,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £100,000 £134,750 £137,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £142,500 £148,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £78,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% +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 5,468 4,543 7,795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.15% 38.44% 42.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,605 3,037 5,116
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £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 £108,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £132,500
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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -19 97 £100,000 +9.59% 161
South London -18 23 £70,000 -15.15% 16
West London -7 19 £80,000 -3.03% 26
East London -5 7 - - 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 (3.56%) Confluence
2 19 (1.74%) Camunda
3 18 (1.65%) Apache
4 14 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (0.91%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
7 5 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.46%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.37%) JBoss
9 3 (0.27%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.27%) Hedera
9 3 (0.27%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.27%) SAS
10 2 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.18%) CMS
10 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
10 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.091%) Oracle 10gAS
11 1 (0.091%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.091%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (1.19%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.64%) Moqups
4 3 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.091%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.46%) Distributed Ledger
1 5 (0.46%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.18%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
3 2 (0.18%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.091%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.091%) Maximo
4 1 (0.091%) Quorum
4 1 (0.091%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.091%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.091%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 511 (46.71%) AWS
2 202 (18.46%) Azure
3 198 (18.10%) GCP
4 81 (7.40%) GitHub
5 76 (6.95%) AWS CloudFormation
6 75 (6.86%) Amazon EKS
7 69 (6.31%) SaaS
8 49 (4.48%) Serverless
9 36 (3.29%) GitHub Actions
10 31 (2.83%) Anthropic Claude
11 30 (2.74%) GitHub Copilot
12 28 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
12 28 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
13 27 (2.47%) Cloud Computing
14 21 (1.92%) Amazon S3
14 21 (1.92%) Snowflake
15 20 (1.83%) Azure Service Bus
15 20 (1.83%) Datadog
16 17 (1.55%) Amazon EventBridge
17 16 (1.46%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.47%) HTTP
2 22 (2.01%) TCP/IP
3 20 (1.83%) Network Security
4 16 (1.46%) BGP
4 16 (1.46%) VPN
5 15 (1.37%) DMARC
6 8 (0.73%) DNS
7 7 (0.64%) Firewall
8 6 (0.55%) IPsec
9 4 (0.37%) Broadband
9 4 (0.37%) Internet
9 4 (0.37%) IPv4
9 4 (0.37%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.27%) LAN
10 3 (0.27%) SAN
10 3 (0.27%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.27%) VLAN
10 3 (0.27%) WAN
11 1 (0.091%) LTE
11 1 (0.091%) Unicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (7.77%) NoSQL
2 84 (7.68%) PostgreSQL
3 67 (6.12%) Relational Database
4 46 (4.20%) MongoDB
5 28 (2.56%) SQL Server
6 20 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
6 20 (1.83%) Big Data
7 18 (1.65%) MySQL
8 15 (1.37%) Redis
9 12 (1.10%) BigQuery
9 12 (1.10%) Db2
10 10 (0.91%) DTS
10 10 (0.91%) DynamoDB
10 10 (0.91%) Power BI
11 8 (0.73%) Hadoop
12 7 (0.64%) Pinecone
13 6 (0.55%) Apache Hive
13 6 (0.55%) Flink
13 6 (0.55%) Geospatial Data
13 6 (0.55%) KDB
Development Applications
1 80 (7.31%) Git
2 75 (6.86%) GitLab
3 65 (5.94%) TeamCity
4 64 (5.85%) Jenkins
5 53 (4.84%) Cucumber
6 43 (3.93%) JIRA
7 30 (2.74%) JUnit
8 24 (2.19%) Selenium
9 23 (2.10%) Claude Code
10 21 (1.92%) Maven
11 20 (1.83%) Postman
12 19 (1.74%) Mockito
13 17 (1.55%) Cypress.io
14 13 (1.19%) REST Assured
15 12 (1.10%) Bitbucket
16 11 (1.01%) JMeter
17 9 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 9 (0.82%) Gradle
18 6 (0.55%) MLflow
18 6 (0.55%) SonarQube
General
1 462 (42.23%) Finance
2 253 (23.13%) Banking
3 234 (21.39%) Social Skills
4 106 (9.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 101 (9.23%) Law
6 83 (7.59%) Retail
7 75 (6.86%) Financial Institution
8 72 (6.58%) Front Office
9 67 (6.12%) Public Sector
10 62 (5.67%) Analytical Skills
11 42 (3.84%) Back Office
12 26 (2.38%) Investment Banking
13 23 (2.10%) Marketing
14 15 (1.37%) Tech for Good
15 12 (1.10%) Retail Banking
16 11 (1.01%) Legal
17 10 (0.91%) Health Technology
18 9 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
19 8 (0.73%) Manufacturing
20 7 (0.64%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 309 (28.24%) Senior
2 281 (25.69%) Java Engineer
3 260 (23.77%) Software Engineer
4 231 (21.12%) Developer
5 148 (13.53%) Lead
6 139 (12.71%) Java Developer
7 97 (8.87%) Senior Software Engineer
8 85 (7.77%) Senior Java Engineer
9 77 (7.04%) Java Software Engineer
10 75 (6.86%) Senior Developer
11 68 (6.22%) Principal Engineer
12 54 (4.94%) Architect
13 52 (4.75%) Principal Java Engineer
14 45 (4.11%) Lead Software Engineer
15 38 (3.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 37 (3.38%) Senior Java Developer
17 36 (3.29%) Engineering Manager
18 34 (3.11%) Full-Stack Developer
19 31 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
20 30 (2.74%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 291 (26.60%) Spring
2 244 (22.30%) Spring Boot
3 183 (16.73%) Kafka
4 159 (14.53%) Terraform
5 140 (12.80%) REST
6 82 (7.50%) RESTful
7 81 (7.40%) React
8 72 (6.58%) Node.js
9 61 (5.58%) .NET
10 56 (5.12%) AngularJS
11 41 (3.75%) OAuth
12 29 (2.65%) OAuth2
13 27 (2.47%) FIX Protocol
14 26 (2.38%) Hibernate
14 26 (2.38%) Middleware
15 21 (1.92%) RabbitMQ
16 17 (1.55%) Playwright
17 15 (1.37%) AWS CDK
17 15 (1.37%) GraphQL
17 15 (1.37%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 256 (23.40%) Cloud Native
2 175 (16.00%) Distributed Systems
3 122 (11.15%) Product Ownership
4 108 (9.87%) Public Cloud
5 56 (5.12%) Onboarding
6 45 (4.11%) e-Learning
7 42 (3.84%) Enterprise Software
8 39 (3.56%) Blog
9 36 (3.29%) Distributed Architecture
9 36 (3.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 32 (2.93%) Equities
11 30 (2.74%) Fixed Income
12 26 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
13 25 (2.29%) AI Agents
14 23 (2.10%) Virtual Team
15 22 (2.01%) Management Information System
16 21 (1.92%) Algorithms
16 21 (1.92%) Data Structures
17 20 (1.83%) Derivative
18 19 (1.74%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 71 (6.49%) Linux
2 26 (2.38%) Windows
3 18 (1.65%) Android
4 13 (1.19%) Apple iOS
5 12 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.73%) Unix
6 8 (0.73%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.091%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 456 (41.68%) Software Engineering
2 400 (36.56%) CI/CD
3 344 (31.44%) Microservices
4 265 (24.22%) Agile
5 236 (21.57%) Test Automation
6 233 (21.30%) AI
7 210 (19.20%) Mentoring
8 209 (19.10%) DevOps
9 193 (17.64%) Event-Driven
10 176 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
11 171 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
12 151 (13.80%) Roadmaps
13 145 (13.25%) Technical Leadership
14 137 (12.52%) Containerisation
15 132 (12.07%) Fintech
16 127 (11.61%) Continuous Improvement
17 126 (11.52%) Full-Stack Development
18 117 (10.69%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 100 (9.14%) Computer Science
20 99 (9.05%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 334 (30.53%) Python
2 199 (18.19%) SQL
3 99 (9.05%) JavaScript
4 98 (8.96%) C#
5 88 (8.04%) Go
6 79 (7.22%) C++
6 79 (7.22%) TypeScript
7 52 (4.75%) Kotlin
8 47 (4.30%) Bash
9 29 (2.65%) Ruby
10 28 (2.56%) C
11 26 (2.38%) Rust
12 23 (2.10%) Scala
13 20 (1.83%) PHP
14 19 (1.74%) Perl
15 16 (1.46%) PowerShell
16 11 (1.01%) R
17 10 (0.91%) RPG
18 8 (0.73%) Shell Script
18 8 (0.73%) VBA
Qualifications
1 130 (11.88%) Security Cleared
2 97 (8.87%) Degree
3 80 (7.31%) AWS Certification
4 72 (6.58%) SC Cleared
5 69 (6.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 56 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 39 (3.56%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (1.28%) OSCP
9 13 (1.19%) CISSP
10 10 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 10 (0.91%) CCSP
10 10 (0.91%) CISM
10 10 (0.91%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.82%) CREST Certified
12 7 (0.64%) ISTQB
13 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 6 (0.55%) PhD
14 5 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (6.40%) QA
2 25 (2.29%) Data Quality
3 23 (2.10%) GDPR
4 18 (1.65%) NIST
5 16 (1.46%) ISO 20022
5 16 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.37%) PCI DSS
7 10 (0.91%) Accessibility
7 10 (0.91%) SOC 2
8 6 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.37%) GRC
9 4 (0.37%) WCAG
10 3 (0.27%) MiFID
10 3 (0.27%) UCITS
11 2 (0.18%) PSD2
System Software
1 137 (12.52%) Docker
2 18 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (0.91%) Active Directory
4 8 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.55%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.46%) KVM
7 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.27%) Squid
7 3 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 252 (23.03%) Kubernetes
2 81 (7.40%) Grafana
3 41 (3.75%) Ansible
4 30 (2.74%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.01%) Argo
6 8 (0.73%) Puppet
7 7 (0.64%) EnCase
7 7 (0.64%) FTK
8 6 (0.55%) Cilium
8 6 (0.55%) Hadoop YARN
8 6 (0.55%) Kubeflow
9 5 (0.46%) Kibana
10 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.27%) Packer
11 3 (0.27%) Rancher
11 3 (0.27%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.27%) WSUS
11 3 (0.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 65 (5.94%) Google
2 63 (5.76%) Microsoft
3 61 (5.58%) Oracle
4 34 (3.11%) Splunk
5 27 (2.47%) IBM
6 25 (2.29%) Red Hat
7 18 (1.65%) VMware
8 15 (1.37%) OpenAI
8 15 (1.37%) Palantir
8 15 (1.37%) SendGrid
9 13 (1.19%) SAP
10 12 (1.10%) Bloomberg
10 12 (1.10%) OutSystems
10 12 (1.10%) ServiceNow
10 12 (1.10%) Solace
11 10 (0.91%) Databricks
11 10 (0.91%) Foundry
12 9 (0.82%) HP
13 8 (0.73%) AppDynamics
13 8 (0.73%) Guidewire