Java Jobs in London

Java
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 17 13
Rank change year-on-year -8 -4 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,264 2,310 4,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 9.64% 9.55% 13.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.26% 23.71% 28.45%
Number of salaries quoted 773 1,760 3,143
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £74,675 £72,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £95,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £132,500 £137,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £150,000 £141,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +10.34%

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 5,434 9,743 14,416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 41.43% 40.29% 47.66%
Number of salaries quoted 3,617 7,516 11,443
10th Percentile £49,250 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £132,500 £122,500
England median annual salary £62,250 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.75% -7.69% +4.00%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Java in London

Java
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java in London.

Salary trend for Java in London

Java
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in London over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

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 July 2025. 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 -5 213 £97,500 +14.71% 427
South London +18 90 £82,500 +10.00% 21
West London +43 36 £30,000 -53.85% 40
East London -21 12 - - 20
North London - 7 - -
Java
England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 183 (14.48%) Apache Airflow
2 156 (12.34%) Apache
3 62 (4.91%) Apache Spark
4 19 (1.50%) Confluence
5 13 (1.03%) JBoss
6 12 (0.95%) Red Hat Fuse
7 8 (0.63%) nginx
7 8 (0.63%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.63%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.32%) Apache Pulsar
10 4 (0.32%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.32%) Traefik
11 3 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.24%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.24%) Mule
11 3 (0.24%) OpenEdge
11 3 (0.24%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 5 (0.40%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.32%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.16%) Trello
4 1 (0.079%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.079%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.47%) Endur
2 5 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.32%) Adaptiv
3 4 (0.32%) Maximo
3 4 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.32%) SimCorp Dimension
4 3 (0.24%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.16%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.16%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 2 (0.16%) Shopify
6 1 (0.079%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.079%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.079%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.079%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.079%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.079%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 735 (58.15%) AWS
2 214 (16.93%) Azure
3 185 (14.64%) GCP
4 174 (13.77%) dbt
5 146 (11.55%) Serverless
6 116 (9.18%) Snowflake
7 97 (7.67%) Amazon ECS
8 92 (7.28%) AWS Lambda
9 87 (6.88%) Amazon EKS
10 79 (6.25%) GitHub
11 75 (5.93%) Amazon EC2
12 69 (5.46%) Pulumi
13 48 (3.80%) OpenShift
14 39 (3.09%) Amazon S3
14 39 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
15 36 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
16 33 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
17 32 (2.53%) Datadog
17 32 (2.53%) SaaS
18 20 (1.58%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 67 (5.30%) Broadband
2 23 (1.82%) TCP/IP
3 18 (1.42%) Network Security
4 7 (0.55%) DNS
4 7 (0.55%) VPN
5 4 (0.32%) DHCP
5 4 (0.32%) ICMP
5 4 (0.32%) Multicast
5 4 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (0.24%) SSL
7 2 (0.16%) LAN
7 2 (0.16%) SAN
7 2 (0.16%) SSH
7 2 (0.16%) WAN
7 2 (0.16%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.079%) Firewall
8 1 (0.079%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.079%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (14.40%) Amazon Athena
2 178 (14.08%) Apache Iceberg
3 174 (13.77%) Dremio
4 166 (13.13%) Apache Arrow
5 163 (12.90%) Relational Database
6 130 (10.28%) PostgreSQL
7 128 (10.13%) NoSQL
8 110 (8.70%) Apache Ignite
9 96 (7.59%) Data Lake
10 95 (7.52%) RDBMS
11 36 (2.85%) SQL Server
12 34 (2.69%) MongoDB
13 29 (2.29%) Big Data
14 26 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
15 24 (1.90%) MySQL
16 17 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
17 16 (1.27%) DynamoDB
17 16 (1.27%) Hadoop
18 15 (1.19%) KDB
19 14 (1.11%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 121 (9.57%) Git
2 111 (8.78%) Jenkins
3 67 (5.30%) Jaeger
4 66 (5.22%) JUnit
5 45 (3.56%) Artifactory
6 42 (3.32%) Maven
7 41 (3.24%) JIRA
8 38 (3.01%) Mockito
9 33 (2.61%) IntelliJ
10 32 (2.53%) GitLab
11 24 (1.90%) Cucumber
12 22 (1.74%) JMeter
12 22 (1.74%) Selenium
13 21 (1.66%) SonarQube
14 17 (1.34%) Bitbucket
14 17 (1.34%) Postman
15 16 (1.27%) Gradle
16 11 (0.87%) CircleCI
17 9 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 8 (0.63%) TeamCity
General
1 649 (51.34%) Finance
2 404 (31.96%) Banking
3 312 (24.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 307 (24.29%) Front Office
5 274 (21.68%) Social Skills
6 214 (16.93%) Law
7 186 (14.72%) Investment Banking
8 107 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
9 60 (4.75%) Public Sector
10 56 (4.43%) Marketing
11 51 (4.03%) Financial Institution
12 32 (2.53%) Legal
13 24 (1.90%) Games
14 12 (0.95%) Retail
15 11 (0.87%) Telecoms
16 9 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (0.71%) Publishing
16 9 (0.71%) Retail Banking
17 7 (0.55%) Billing
17 7 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 453 (35.84%) Software Engineer
2 373 (29.51%) Developer
3 327 (25.87%) Lead
4 290 (22.94%) Java Engineer
5 279 (22.07%) Senior
6 244 (19.30%) Java Software Engineer
7 190 (15.03%) Java Developer
8 186 (14.72%) AWS Engineer
9 159 (12.58%) Python Engineer
10 148 (11.71%) Senior Software Engineer
11 140 (11.08%) AWS Software Engineer
12 139 (11.00%) Lead Software Engineer
13 126 (9.97%) Senior Java Engineer
14 112 (8.86%) Python Software Engineer
15 105 (8.31%) Senior Java Software Engineer
16 91 (7.20%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 90 (7.12%) Data Engineer
18 74 (5.85%) AWS Developer
19 69 (5.46%) Team Leader
20 66 (5.22%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 250 (19.78%) Kafka
2 230 (18.20%) Spring
3 193 (15.27%) React
4 170 (13.45%) Spring Boot
5 122 (9.65%) Pandas
6 115 (9.10%) RESTful
7 105 (8.31%) Node.js
8 103 (8.15%) NumPy
8 103 (8.15%) SciPy
9 102 (8.07%) PySpark
10 100 (7.91%) REST
11 94 (7.44%) AngularJS
12 93 (7.36%) .NET
12 93 (7.36%) Elastic Stack
13 79 (6.25%) gRPC
14 78 (6.17%) OpenTelemetry
15 75 (5.93%) Protocol Buffers
16 65 (5.14%) Web Services
17 57 (4.51%) J2EE
18 48 (3.80%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 183 (14.48%) Fixed Income
2 182 (14.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 173 (13.69%) Cloud Native
4 170 (13.45%) Derivative
5 167 (13.21%) Equities
6 119 (9.41%) Distributed Systems
7 111 (8.78%) Hedge funds
8 66 (5.22%) Algorithms
9 60 (4.75%) Pricing Data
10 50 (3.96%) Public Cloud
11 42 (3.32%) Management Information System
12 38 (3.01%) Greenfield Project
13 37 (2.93%) Product Ownership
14 33 (2.61%) Data Structures
14 33 (2.61%) Onboarding
15 25 (1.98%) Virtual Team
16 23 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
17 22 (1.74%) Mobile App
18 18 (1.42%) Distributed Applications
19 17 (1.34%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 175 (13.84%) Linux
2 91 (7.20%) Unix
3 37 (2.93%) Android
4 21 (1.66%) Apple iOS
5 13 (1.03%) Windows
6 3 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.16%) zOS
8 1 (0.079%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.079%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 747 (59.10%) Agile
2 631 (49.92%) Software Engineering
3 390 (30.85%) CI/CD
4 325 (25.71%) DevOps
5 288 (22.78%) Microservices
6 227 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
7 216 (17.09%) SDLC
8 215 (17.01%) Containerisation
9 200 (15.82%) Asset Management
10 188 (14.87%) Mentoring
11 178 (14.08%) Fintech
12 152 (12.03%) Infrastructure as Code
13 141 (11.16%) Roadmaps
14 137 (10.84%) TDD
15 134 (10.60%) Computer Science
16 124 (9.81%) Investment Management
16 124 (9.81%) Test Automation
17 114 (9.02%) Continuous Integration
18 113 (8.94%) High Availability
19 111 (8.78%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 628 (49.68%) Python
2 339 (26.82%) JavaScript
3 221 (17.48%) SQL
4 213 (16.85%) Go
5 205 (16.22%) TypeScript
6 133 (10.52%) C++
7 124 (9.81%) C#
8 92 (7.28%) Bash
9 86 (6.80%) Kotlin
10 51 (4.03%) Scala
11 43 (3.40%) Rust
12 40 (3.16%) C
13 39 (3.09%) Shell Script
14 20 (1.58%) PowerShell
15 16 (1.27%) Objective-C
16 15 (1.19%) Swift
17 10 (0.79%) Groovy
17 10 (0.79%) Ruby
18 9 (0.71%) PL/SQL
19 8 (0.63%) PHP
Qualifications
1 169 (13.37%) Degree
2 111 (8.78%) AWS Certification
3 99 (7.83%) Security Cleared
4 71 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 70 (5.54%) SC Cleared
6 59 (4.67%) Master's Degree
7 31 (2.45%) DV Cleared
8 30 (2.37%) PhD
9 26 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.55%) CFA
10 7 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (0.55%) PMI Certification
10 7 (0.55%) PMP
11 5 (0.40%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.32%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.24%) Numerate Degree
14 2 (0.16%) Chartered Engineer
14 2 (0.16%) Dell Certification
14 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (4.35%) QA
2 24 (1.90%) GDPR
3 18 (1.42%) HIPAA
4 17 (1.34%) SLA
5 11 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (0.71%) NIST
7 8 (0.63%) Accessibility
8 6 (0.47%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.24%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.24%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.16%) GRC
10 2 (0.16%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.16%) ITGC
11 1 (0.079%) COBIT
11 1 (0.079%) ISO 15022
11 1 (0.079%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.079%) NCSC
11 1 (0.079%) WCAG
System Software
1 353 (27.93%) Docker
2 5 (0.40%) Apache Flume
3 3 (0.24%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.16%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.16%) KVM
4 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.16%) Xen
5 1 (0.079%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.079%) HDFS
5 1 (0.079%) Postfix
5 1 (0.079%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 459 (36.31%) Kubernetes
2 246 (19.46%) Terraform
3 118 (9.34%) Ansible
4 115 (9.10%) Prometheus
5 84 (6.65%) Argo
6 74 (5.85%) Kustomize
7 44 (3.48%) Grafana
8 20 (1.58%) Kibana
9 13 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (0.95%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.47%) Puppet
12 5 (0.40%) HP Fortify
12 5 (0.40%) Oozie
13 4 (0.32%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.32%) Packer
14 3 (0.24%) Istio
15 2 (0.16%) CA Endevor
15 2 (0.16%) CFEngine
15 2 (0.16%) Mesos
15 2 (0.16%) WSUS
Vendors
1 123 (9.73%) Google
2 60 (4.75%) Oracle
3 46 (3.64%) Microsoft
4 31 (2.45%) Splunk
5 26 (2.06%) Dynatrace
6 21 (1.66%) Databricks
7 19 (1.50%) Guidewire
8 18 (1.42%) IBM
9 14 (1.11%) Foundry
10 13 (1.03%) Palantir
10 13 (1.03%) Solace
11 9 (0.71%) OpenAI
12 8 (0.63%) Murex
12 8 (0.63%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.55%) ServiceNow
13 7 (0.55%) Sybase
14 6 (0.47%) Cloudera
14 6 (0.47%) MuleSoft
14 6 (0.47%) OpenLink
14 6 (0.47%) SAP