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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 23 16
Rank change year-on-year -15 -7 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,058 1,176 1,995
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.56% 9.59% 9.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.35% 22.92% 24.50%
Number of salaries quoted 597 751 1,479
10th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £58,750
25th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £107,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% +7.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £110,000 £132,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £133,500 £142,500 £150,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £78,810 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.18% -1.49% -

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 5,131 8,144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.58% 41.83% 40.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3,816 3,532 6,066
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% - +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £135,000
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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -21 142 £97,500 +5.41% 46
South London -27 24 £70,000 -15.15% 3
West London -24 17 £80,000 +166.67% 19
East London -10 1 - - 14
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 32 (3.02%) Confluence
2 24 (2.27%) Apache Spark
3 18 (1.70%) Apache
4 16 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (1.42%) Camunda
5 15 (1.42%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (0.38%) CMS
7 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.28%) SAS
8 2 (0.19%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.19%) JBoss
8 2 (0.19%) Moodle
9 1 (0.095%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.095%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.095%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.095%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.095%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (1.32%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.19%) Moqups
6 1 (0.095%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (0.76%) Maximo
2 5 (0.47%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.47%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.095%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.095%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.095%) Endur
3 1 (0.095%) Findur
3 1 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.095%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
3 1 (0.095%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.095%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 488 (46.12%) AWS
2 207 (19.57%) Azure
3 187 (17.67%) GCP
4 66 (6.24%) AWS CloudFormation
5 58 (5.48%) Amazon EKS
6 55 (5.20%) GitHub
7 51 (4.82%) Serverless
8 41 (3.88%) SaaS
9 30 (2.84%) Amazon ECS
10 27 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
12 22 (2.08%) OpenShift
13 20 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
14 17 (1.61%) Amazon S3
14 17 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (1.61%) Azure Service Bus
15 16 (1.51%) GitHub Copilot
16 15 (1.42%) Amazon EventBridge
17 14 (1.32%) AWS Control Tower
18 13 (1.23%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.93%) HTTP
2 18 (1.70%) TCP/IP
3 17 (1.61%) Network Security
4 13 (1.23%) DMARC
5 10 (0.95%) Broadband
6 6 (0.57%) BGP
6 6 (0.57%) DNS
6 6 (0.57%) IPsec
6 6 (0.57%) Kerberos
6 6 (0.57%) VPN
7 5 (0.47%) Internet
8 4 (0.38%) IPv4
8 4 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.28%) Firewall
9 3 (0.28%) LAN
9 3 (0.28%) SAN
9 3 (0.28%) WAN
10 1 (0.095%) AMQP
10 1 (0.095%) LTE
10 1 (0.095%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (7.37%) NoSQL
2 63 (5.95%) PostgreSQL
3 54 (5.10%) Relational Database
4 41 (3.88%) MongoDB
5 28 (2.65%) SQL Server
6 23 (2.17%) Db2
7 18 (1.70%) Big Data
8 15 (1.42%) Redis
9 13 (1.23%) BigQuery
10 12 (1.13%) DynamoDB
10 12 (1.13%) Hadoop
10 12 (1.13%) MySQL
11 10 (0.95%) DTS
12 9 (0.85%) Metadata
12 9 (0.85%) RDBMS
13 7 (0.66%) Apache Hive
13 7 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
14 6 (0.57%) HBase
15 5 (0.47%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 70 (6.62%) Git
2 53 (5.01%) GitLab
3 49 (4.63%) Jenkins
4 41 (3.88%) TeamCity
5 37 (3.50%) JIRA
6 36 (3.40%) Cucumber
7 34 (3.21%) Selenium
8 22 (2.08%) JUnit
9 14 (1.32%) Bitbucket
9 14 (1.32%) Maven
10 13 (1.23%) Mockito
11 12 (1.13%) Gradle
12 11 (1.04%) Claude Code
13 9 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 9 (0.85%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.85%) Postman
14 7 (0.66%) JMeter
15 5 (0.47%) REST Assured
15 5 (0.47%) WebDriver
16 4 (0.38%) Subversion
General
1 453 (42.82%) Finance
2 197 (18.62%) Banking
3 188 (17.77%) Social Skills
4 111 (10.49%) Front Office
5 88 (8.32%) Public Sector
6 77 (7.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 75 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
8 69 (6.52%) Law
9 57 (5.39%) Retail
10 54 (5.10%) Financial Institution
11 33 (3.12%) Investment Banking
12 29 (2.74%) Back Office
13 19 (1.80%) Marketing
14 16 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (1.13%) Tech for Good
16 11 (1.04%) Health Technology
17 9 (0.85%) Games
17 9 (0.85%) Manufacturing
17 9 (0.85%) Telecoms
18 8 (0.76%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 295 (27.88%) Developer
2 282 (26.65%) Senior
3 255 (24.10%) Software Engineer
4 236 (22.31%) Java Engineer
5 158 (14.93%) Java Developer
6 151 (14.27%) Lead
7 83 (7.84%) Senior Software Engineer
8 82 (7.75%) Senior Developer
9 77 (7.28%) Java Software Engineer
10 62 (5.86%) Lead Software Engineer
10 62 (5.86%) Senior Java Engineer
11 53 (5.01%) Principal Engineer
12 52 (4.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 45 (4.25%) Architect
14 42 (3.97%) Senior Java Developer
15 41 (3.88%) Software Developer
16 40 (3.78%) Consultant
17 38 (3.59%) Principal Java Engineer
18 36 (3.40%) Engineering Manager
19 34 (3.21%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 272 (25.71%) Spring
2 227 (21.46%) Spring Boot
3 195 (18.43%) Kafka
4 118 (11.15%) React
4 118 (11.15%) REST
5 91 (8.60%) Node.js
6 66 (6.24%) RESTful
7 65 (6.14%) .NET
8 56 (5.29%) AngularJS
9 44 (4.16%) GraphQL
10 37 (3.50%) Redux
11 33 (3.12%) OAuth
12 31 (2.93%) Web Services
13 28 (2.65%) OAuth2
14 24 (2.27%) FIX Protocol
14 24 (2.27%) Hibernate
15 22 (2.08%) Middleware
16 20 (1.89%) HTML
16 20 (1.89%) Playwright
17 19 (1.80%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 201 (19.00%) Cloud Native
2 136 (12.85%) Distributed Systems
3 106 (10.02%) Product Ownership
4 98 (9.26%) Public Cloud
5 56 (5.29%) Fixed Income
6 49 (4.63%) Onboarding
7 46 (4.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 34 (3.21%) Distributed Architecture
9 33 (3.12%) Equities
10 28 (2.65%) e-Learning
11 26 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
11 26 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
12 18 (1.70%) Blog
13 17 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
14 16 (1.51%) AI Agents
14 16 (1.51%) Data Structures
15 15 (1.42%) FPGA
15 15 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
16 14 (1.32%) Derivative
17 13 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 96 (9.07%) Linux
2 31 (2.93%) Windows
3 14 (1.32%) Android
3 14 (1.32%) Unix
4 13 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (1.04%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.66%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 416 (39.32%) Software Engineering
2 345 (32.61%) CI/CD
3 304 (28.73%) Agile
4 283 (26.75%) Microservices
5 216 (20.42%) DevOps
6 213 (20.13%) Test Automation
7 203 (19.19%) Mentoring
8 186 (17.58%) Roadmaps
9 175 (16.54%) AI
10 154 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
11 151 (14.27%) Infrastructure as Code
12 146 (13.80%) Technical Leadership
13 132 (12.48%) Full-Stack Development
14 130 (12.29%) Containerisation
15 126 (11.91%) Event-Driven
16 113 (10.68%) Continuous Improvement
17 94 (8.88%) Low Latency
18 91 (8.60%) Fintech
19 88 (8.32%) Computer Science
20 83 (7.84%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 349 (32.99%) Python
2 177 (16.73%) SQL
3 135 (12.76%) JavaScript
4 104 (9.83%) TypeScript
5 98 (9.26%) C#
6 91 (8.60%) C++
6 91 (8.60%) Go
7 48 (4.54%) Bash
8 44 (4.16%) Kotlin
9 34 (3.21%) C
10 31 (2.93%) Rust
11 28 (2.65%) Ruby
12 23 (2.17%) PowerShell
13 22 (2.08%) Scala
14 21 (1.98%) PHP
15 19 (1.80%) Perl
16 11 (1.04%) R
17 10 (0.95%) RPG
18 8 (0.76%) VBA
19 7 (0.66%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 136 (12.85%) Security Cleared
2 109 (10.30%) Degree
3 84 (7.94%) SC Cleared
4 63 (5.95%) AWS Certification
5 57 (5.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 53 (5.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 50 (4.73%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.32%) OSCP
9 10 (0.95%) CREST Certified
10 9 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (0.85%) ISTQB
10 9 (0.85%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.66%) Azure Certification
13 5 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (0.47%) CCSP
13 5 (0.47%) CISM
13 5 (0.47%) CISSP
13 5 (0.47%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (5.39%) QA
2 21 (1.98%) Data Quality
3 20 (1.89%) GDPR
4 14 (1.32%) GRC
5 9 (0.85%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (0.85%) NIST
6 7 (0.66%) ISO 20022
6 7 (0.66%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.47%) WCAG
8 4 (0.38%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.19%) MiFID
10 2 (0.19%) PSD2
10 2 (0.19%) UCITS
System Software
1 128 (12.10%) Docker
2 17 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.42%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.47%) KVM
6 4 (0.38%) Squid
6 4 (0.38%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.38%) vSphere
7 3 (0.28%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.095%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 216 (20.42%) Kubernetes
2 131 (12.38%) Terraform
3 65 (6.14%) Grafana
4 35 (3.31%) Ansible
5 27 (2.55%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.66%) Kibana
7 6 (0.57%) Hadoop YARN
7 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.47%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (0.38%) Argo
9 4 (0.38%) Packer
9 4 (0.38%) Puppet
9 4 (0.38%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.28%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.28%) Kubeflow
10 3 (0.28%) Oracle Flashback
10 3 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (0.28%) Rancher
10 3 (0.28%) WSUS
11 2 (0.19%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 48 (4.54%) Oracle
2 45 (4.25%) Microsoft
3 42 (3.97%) Google
4 32 (3.02%) IBM
5 30 (2.84%) Splunk
6 24 (2.27%) Palantir
7 18 (1.70%) ServiceNow
7 18 (1.70%) VMware
8 17 (1.61%) Foundry
9 15 (1.42%) Red Hat
9 15 (1.42%) SAP
10 13 (1.23%) OpenAI
10 13 (1.23%) SendGrid
11 11 (1.04%) Bloomberg
11 11 (1.04%) Databricks
11 11 (1.04%) Solace
12 9 (0.85%) HP
13 7 (0.66%) Dynatrace
13 7 (0.66%) MuleSoft
13 7 (0.66%) Salesforce