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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 23 17
Rank change year-on-year -12 -6 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,037 1,170 2,238
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.76% 9.60% 9.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.38% 23.15% 22.91%
Number of salaries quoted 589 748 1,706
10th Percentile £56,000 £57,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £74,870 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £110,000 £130,625 £137,500
90th Percentile £136,250 £142,500 £150,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -6.25%

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 5,352 5,054 9,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.57% 41.45% 40.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,784 3,509 7,596
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £64,250 £62,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £84,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £131,250
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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -20 149 £100,000 +2.56% 41
South London -11 24 £70,000 -15.15% 3
West London -19 20 £80,000 +166.67% 10
East London -2 3 - - 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 23 (2.22%) Confluence
2 21 (2.03%) Apache Spark
3 15 (1.45%) Apache
3 15 (1.45%) Palantir Foundry
4 12 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.58%) Camunda
6 5 (0.48%) JBoss
7 4 (0.39%) CMS
7 4 (0.39%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.29%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.29%) SAS
9 2 (0.19%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.19%) Moodle
10 1 (0.096%) Liferay
10 1 (0.096%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.096%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.096%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.096%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (0.87%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (1.06%) Maximo
2 5 (0.48%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.48%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.096%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.096%) Endur
3 1 (0.096%) Findur
3 1 (0.096%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.096%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 468 (45.13%) AWS
2 191 (18.42%) GCP
3 176 (16.97%) Azure
4 66 (6.36%) Amazon EKS
5 58 (5.59%) SaaS
6 52 (5.01%) AWS CloudFormation
6 52 (5.01%) GitHub
7 33 (3.18%) Serverless
8 24 (2.31%) OpenShift
9 22 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
10 18 (1.74%) Amazon S3
11 17 (1.64%) Azure Service Bus
12 16 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
13 15 (1.45%) dbt
13 15 (1.45%) Pulumi
14 13 (1.25%) Azure Key Vault
14 13 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
14 13 (1.25%) Azure Storage
14 13 (1.25%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.89%) HTTP
2 22 (2.12%) TCP/IP
3 21 (2.03%) Broadband
4 13 (1.25%) DMARC
5 7 (0.68%) Network Security
6 5 (0.48%) BGP
6 5 (0.48%) VPN
7 4 (0.39%) IPv4
7 4 (0.39%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.39%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.29%) Firewall
8 3 (0.29%) Internet
8 3 (0.29%) VLAN
9 2 (0.19%) AMQP
9 2 (0.19%) DNS
9 2 (0.19%) IPsec
9 2 (0.19%) LAN
9 2 (0.19%) SAN
9 2 (0.19%) WAN
10 1 (0.096%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (7.33%) NoSQL
2 58 (5.59%) PostgreSQL
3 53 (5.11%) Relational Database
4 30 (2.89%) MongoDB
5 24 (2.31%) SQL Server
6 23 (2.22%) Db2
6 23 (2.22%) RDBMS
7 15 (1.45%) BigQuery
8 11 (1.06%) Big Data
8 11 (1.06%) DynamoDB
8 11 (1.06%) MySQL
9 10 (0.96%) Metadata
10 9 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (0.87%) Hadoop
10 9 (0.87%) Redis
11 7 (0.68%) DTS
11 7 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
12 6 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 56 (5.40%) Git
2 53 (5.11%) TeamCity
3 50 (4.82%) GitLab
4 42 (4.05%) Jenkins
5 31 (2.99%) JIRA
5 31 (2.99%) Selenium
6 30 (2.89%) Cucumber
7 18 (1.74%) JUnit
8 15 (1.45%) Maven
9 14 (1.35%) Gradle
10 12 (1.16%) Bitbucket
11 11 (1.06%) Claude Code
11 11 (1.06%) Jaeger
12 8 (0.77%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 7 (0.68%) Mockito
13 7 (0.68%) Postman
14 6 (0.58%) WebDriver
15 5 (0.48%) JMeter
15 5 (0.48%) REST Assured
General
1 409 (39.44%) Finance
2 199 (19.19%) Banking
3 165 (15.91%) Social Skills
4 103 (9.93%) Front Office
4 103 (9.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 81 (7.81%) Law
6 79 (7.62%) Public Sector
7 75 (7.23%) Retail
8 65 (6.27%) Financial Institution
9 61 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
10 44 (4.24%) Back Office
11 30 (2.89%) Investment Banking
12 17 (1.64%) Telecoms
13 16 (1.54%) Games
14 15 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (1.16%) Billing
16 11 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (0.77%) Health Technology
17 8 (0.77%) Manufacturing
17 8 (0.77%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 327 (31.53%) Developer
2 256 (24.69%) Senior
3 249 (24.01%) Software Engineer
4 216 (20.83%) Java Engineer
5 184 (17.74%) Java Developer
6 153 (14.75%) Lead
7 86 (8.29%) Java Software Engineer
8 84 (8.10%) Senior Developer
9 77 (7.43%) Senior Software Engineer
10 60 (5.79%) Lead Software Engineer
10 60 (5.79%) Senior Java Engineer
11 50 (4.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 49 (4.73%) Architect
13 48 (4.63%) Senior Java Developer
14 46 (4.44%) Full-Stack Developer
15 45 (4.34%) Principal Engineer
15 45 (4.34%) Software Developer
16 39 (3.76%) Engineering Manager
17 36 (3.47%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 35 (3.38%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 250 (24.11%) Spring
2 210 (20.25%) Spring Boot
3 152 (14.66%) Kafka
4 117 (11.28%) React
5 111 (10.70%) REST
6 82 (7.91%) Node.js
7 56 (5.40%) .NET
8 55 (5.30%) RESTful
9 52 (5.01%) AngularJS
10 40 (3.86%) GraphQL
11 36 (3.47%) Redux
11 36 (3.47%) Web Services
12 26 (2.51%) OAuth
13 25 (2.41%) HTML
14 24 (2.31%) Middleware
15 23 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
15 23 (2.22%) SOAP
16 21 (2.03%) FIX Protocol
17 20 (1.93%) CSS
17 20 (1.93%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 201 (19.38%) Cloud Native
2 103 (9.93%) Distributed Systems
3 96 (9.26%) Product Ownership
4 89 (8.58%) Public Cloud
5 49 (4.73%) Fixed Income
6 46 (4.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 32 (3.09%) Blog
8 30 (2.89%) Distributed Architecture
8 30 (2.89%) Equities
9 23 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
9 23 (2.22%) Onboarding
10 22 (2.12%) e-Learning
11 19 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
12 18 (1.74%) FPGA
13 15 (1.45%) Data Structures
14 13 (1.25%) Security Posture
15 11 (1.06%) AI Agents
15 11 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
16 10 (0.96%) Mobile Banking
17 9 (0.87%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 111 (10.70%) Linux
2 26 (2.51%) Windows
3 23 (2.22%) Unix
4 20 (1.93%) Android
5 10 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.87%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.87%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (37.70%) Software Engineering
2 320 (30.86%) CI/CD
3 292 (28.16%) Agile
4 249 (24.01%) Microservices
5 219 (21.12%) DevOps
6 208 (20.06%) Test Automation
7 198 (19.09%) Mentoring
8 172 (16.59%) Roadmaps
9 143 (13.79%) Technical Leadership
10 141 (13.60%) Full-Stack Development
11 134 (12.92%) Containerisation
12 132 (12.73%) Infrastructure as Code
12 132 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
13 127 (12.25%) AI
14 99 (9.55%) Fintech
15 96 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
16 91 (8.78%) Event-Driven
17 89 (8.58%) Low Latency
18 79 (7.62%) Clean Code
19 77 (7.43%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 313 (30.18%) Python
2 155 (14.95%) SQL
3 148 (14.27%) JavaScript
4 102 (9.84%) Go
5 95 (9.16%) C++
6 94 (9.06%) TypeScript
7 93 (8.97%) C#
8 47 (4.53%) Bash
9 42 (4.05%) Kotlin
10 35 (3.38%) Rust
11 33 (3.18%) C
12 21 (2.03%) PowerShell
13 20 (1.93%) Scala
14 11 (1.06%) Ruby
15 10 (0.96%) PHP
16 9 (0.87%) R
17 8 (0.77%) Apex Code
17 8 (0.77%) Perl
18 7 (0.68%) MATLAB
18 7 (0.68%) RPG
Qualifications
1 143 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 99 (9.55%) Degree
3 90 (8.68%) SC Cleared
4 59 (5.69%) DV Cleared
5 55 (5.30%) AWS Certification
6 50 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (3.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 16 (1.54%) OSCP
9 12 (1.16%) CREST Certified
9 12 (1.16%) Master's Degree
10 9 (0.87%) PhD
11 8 (0.77%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.68%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.39%) CCNA
14 4 (0.39%) RHCE
14 4 (0.39%) RHCSA
15 3 (0.29%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (4.92%) QA
2 18 (1.74%) GDPR
3 14 (1.35%) Data Quality
3 14 (1.35%) GRC
4 11 (1.06%) PCI DSS
5 10 (0.96%) SOC 2
6 7 (0.68%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.68%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.48%) NIST
9 4 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.29%) WCAG
11 1 (0.096%) MiFID
System Software
1 132 (12.73%) Docker
2 13 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.16%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.48%) KVM
5 4 (0.39%) Squid
5 4 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (0.39%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.39%) vSphere
6 3 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.19%) Firmware
7 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.096%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 228 (21.99%) Kubernetes
2 140 (13.50%) Terraform
3 77 (7.43%) Grafana
4 41 (3.95%) Ansible
5 33 (3.18%) Prometheus
6 15 (1.45%) Argo
7 11 (1.06%) Kustomize
8 7 (0.68%) Kibana
8 7 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.39%) Packer
9 4 (0.39%) Puppet
9 4 (0.39%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.29%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.29%) Oracle Flashback
10 3 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (0.29%) Rancher
10 3 (0.29%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.19%) Hadoop YARN
11 2 (0.19%) WSUS
12 1 (0.096%) logstash
Vendors
1 41 (3.95%) Google
2 34 (3.28%) Microsoft
2 34 (3.28%) Oracle
3 26 (2.51%) IBM
4 24 (2.31%) Palantir
5 23 (2.22%) Splunk
6 17 (1.64%) Foundry
7 15 (1.45%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.35%) VMware
9 13 (1.25%) Red Hat
9 13 (1.25%) SendGrid
10 11 (1.06%) Solace
11 10 (0.96%) MuleSoft
11 10 (0.96%) Salesforce
12 8 (0.77%) SAP
13 6 (0.58%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.58%) Guidewire
13 6 (0.58%) Sybase
14 5 (0.48%) Databricks
14 5 (0.48%) TIBCO