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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 26 15
Rank change year-on-year -11 -11 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 835 1,239 1,877
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.90% 7.97% 10.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.32% 19.29% 23.58%
Number of salaries quoted 539 809 1,545
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £53,850
25th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £142,500 £143,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -

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 4,322 6,422 7,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 30.55% 41.33% 43.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,053 4,124 6,893
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £101,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 15 January 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 15 January 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 +8 153 £100,000 +11.11% 80
South London +6 19 £62,600 +4.33% 9
West London -5 9 £82,500 +48.65% 14
East London -11 3 £75,000 -45.45% 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 42 (5.03%) Apache Airflow
2 41 (4.91%) Apache
3 40 (4.79%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.80%) Confluence
5 10 (1.20%) JBoss
6 9 (1.08%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.72%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.48%) Appian
8 4 (0.48%) nginx
8 4 (0.48%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.36%) Liferay
9 3 (0.36%) Luigi
9 3 (0.36%) Mule
10 2 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.24%) Camunda
10 2 (0.24%) Moodle
11 1 (0.12%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.12%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (1.08%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (0.84%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.48%) Maximo
2 4 (0.48%) Shopify
3 2 (0.24%) Adaptiv
3 2 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.12%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 376 (45.03%) AWS
2 124 (14.85%) Azure
3 113 (13.53%) GCP
4 67 (8.02%) Amazon EKS
5 56 (6.71%) SaaS
6 45 (5.39%) GitHub
7 43 (5.15%) Serverless
8 38 (4.55%) Snowflake
9 37 (4.43%) dbt
10 27 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
11 26 (3.11%) Amazon Kinesis
12 24 (2.87%) Datadog
13 21 (2.51%) Amazon EC2
14 19 (2.28%) Amazon ECS
14 19 (2.28%) OpenShift
15 17 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
16 15 (1.80%) Amazon S3
16 15 (1.80%) GitHub Copilot
17 11 (1.32%) Amazon EMR
18 10 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.47%) TCP/IP
2 13 (1.56%) HTTP
3 12 (1.44%) Broadband
4 8 (0.96%) Multicast
5 7 (0.84%) VPN
6 4 (0.48%) AMQP
6 4 (0.48%) DNS
6 4 (0.48%) Firewall
6 4 (0.48%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.36%) BGP
7 3 (0.36%) LAN
7 3 (0.36%) SAN
7 3 (0.36%) VLAN
7 3 (0.36%) WAN
8 2 (0.24%) DHCP
8 2 (0.24%) FTP
8 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.24%) Internet
8 2 (0.24%) SMTP
8 2 (0.24%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (9.94%) Relational Database
2 79 (9.46%) PostgreSQL
3 51 (6.11%) NoSQL
4 47 (5.63%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (5.63%) RDBMS
5 42 (5.03%) Data Lake
6 40 (4.79%) SQL Server
7 38 (4.55%) MongoDB
8 36 (4.31%) Big Data
9 34 (4.07%) Hadoop
10 32 (3.83%) Apache Ignite
11 29 (3.47%) Amazon Athena
11 29 (3.47%) Apache Arrow
11 29 (3.47%) Apache Iceberg
11 29 (3.47%) Dremio
12 22 (2.63%) DB2
13 19 (2.28%) DynamoDB
14 17 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
15 15 (1.80%) Neo4j
15 15 (1.80%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 67 (8.02%) Jenkins
2 48 (5.75%) Selenium
3 35 (4.19%) TeamCity
4 34 (4.07%) Git
4 34 (4.07%) JIRA
5 27 (3.23%) Cucumber
6 22 (2.63%) JUnit
7 21 (2.51%) Bitbucket
7 21 (2.51%) JMeter
8 20 (2.40%) GitLab
9 19 (2.28%) Cypress.io
10 14 (1.68%) Mockito
11 12 (1.44%) Postman
11 12 (1.44%) WebDriver
12 10 (1.20%) Jaeger
13 6 (0.72%) Maven
13 6 (0.72%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.72%) Subversion
13 6 (0.72%) Vite
13 6 (0.72%) webpack
General
1 309 (37.01%) Finance
2 223 (26.71%) Banking
2 223 (26.71%) Social Skills
3 106 (12.69%) Front Office
4 94 (11.26%) Investment Banking
5 71 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
6 69 (8.26%) Financial Institution
7 65 (7.78%) Law
8 58 (6.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 45 (5.39%) Public Sector
10 41 (4.91%) Retail
11 29 (3.47%) Back Office
12 22 (2.63%) Telecoms
13 18 (2.16%) Billing
14 13 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
16 11 (1.32%) Games
17 6 (0.72%) Legal
17 6 (0.72%) Marketing
18 5 (0.60%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 298 (35.69%) Developer
2 212 (25.39%) Senior
3 185 (22.16%) Software Engineer
4 168 (20.12%) Java Developer
5 144 (17.25%) Java Engineer
6 117 (14.01%) Lead
7 94 (11.26%) Java Software Engineer
8 80 (9.58%) Senior Software Engineer
9 78 (9.34%) Full-Stack Developer
10 74 (8.86%) Senior Java Engineer
11 62 (7.43%) AWS Engineer
12 59 (7.07%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 50 (5.99%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 48 (5.75%) Architect
15 43 (5.15%) Senior Developer
16 42 (5.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 36 (4.31%) Python Engineer
18 33 (3.95%) AWS Software Engineer
18 33 (3.95%) Development Engineer
19 32 (3.83%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (21.32%) Spring
2 145 (17.37%) React
3 128 (15.33%) Spring Boot
4 116 (13.89%) Kafka
5 98 (11.74%) REST
6 65 (7.78%) Node.js
6 65 (7.78%) RESTful
7 61 (7.31%) .NET
8 55 (6.59%) HTML
9 45 (5.39%) AngularJS
10 39 (4.67%) CSS
11 35 (4.19%) Hibernate
12 33 (3.95%) gRPC
13 32 (3.83%) Pandas
14 31 (3.71%) GraphQL
15 29 (3.47%) NumPy
15 29 (3.47%) Protocol Buffers
15 29 (3.47%) SciPy
16 27 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
16 27 (3.23%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 151 (18.08%) Cloud Native
2 130 (15.57%) Distributed Systems
3 78 (9.34%) Equities
4 62 (7.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 52 (6.23%) Derivative
6 49 (5.87%) Fixed Income
7 43 (5.15%) Hedge funds
8 40 (4.79%) Algorithms
8 40 (4.79%) Product Ownership
9 32 (3.83%) Greenfield Project
10 31 (3.71%) Pricing Data
11 29 (3.47%) Onboarding
12 23 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
13 22 (2.63%) Management Information System
14 21 (2.51%) FPGA
15 20 (2.40%) Data Structures
16 19 (2.28%) Distributed Architecture
16 19 (2.28%) Public Cloud
17 17 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
17 17 (2.04%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 104 (12.46%) Linux
2 23 (2.75%) Windows
3 22 (2.63%) Unix
4 11 (1.32%) Android
5 4 (0.48%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.24%) CentOS
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.24%) VMS
7 1 (0.12%) AIX
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (34.73%) Agile
2 272 (32.57%) Software Engineering
3 261 (31.26%) CI/CD
4 196 (23.47%) Microservices
5 163 (19.52%) DevOps
6 155 (18.56%) Full-Stack Development
7 146 (17.49%) Problem-Solving
7 146 (17.49%) Test Automation
8 117 (14.01%) Mentoring
9 103 (12.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 96 (11.50%) Computer Science
11 95 (11.38%) Low Latency
12 92 (11.02%) Containerisation
13 91 (10.90%) Roadmaps
14 85 (10.18%) Fintech
15 81 (9.70%) AI
15 81 (9.70%) Technical Leadership
16 72 (8.62%) User Experience
17 71 (8.50%) TDD
18 64 (7.66%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 293 (35.09%) Python
2 172 (20.60%) JavaScript
3 132 (15.81%) SQL
4 131 (15.69%) TypeScript
5 92 (11.02%) C#
6 56 (6.71%) Go
7 54 (6.47%) Kotlin
8 53 (6.35%) C++
9 42 (5.03%) Scala
10 41 (4.91%) C
11 17 (2.04%) Rust
11 17 (2.04%) Shell Script
12 16 (1.92%) Bash
13 9 (1.08%) Ruby
14 8 (0.96%) Groovy
14 8 (0.96%) PowerShell
15 7 (0.84%) PHP
15 7 (0.84%) VBA
16 6 (0.72%) Perl
17 5 (0.60%) RPG
Qualifications
1 119 (14.25%) Degree
2 99 (11.86%) Security Cleared
3 55 (6.59%) SC Cleared
4 45 (5.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (4.67%) DV Cleared
6 37 (4.43%) Master's Degree
7 27 (3.23%) AWS Certification
8 19 (2.28%) PhD
9 10 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (1.08%) Azure Certification
11 8 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
12 6 (0.72%) CREST Certified
12 6 (0.72%) OSCP
13 5 (0.60%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.48%) OSCE
15 3 (0.36%) ISEB
15 3 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 2 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
16 2 (0.24%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.07%) QA
2 19 (2.28%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.92%) GDPR
4 11 (1.32%) Data Quality
5 8 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
6 6 (0.72%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.72%) SOC 2
7 5 (0.60%) SLA
8 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.48%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.48%) SEPA
9 2 (0.24%) PSD2
10 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 133 (15.93%) Docker
2 15 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (1.68%) Virtual Servers
4 10 (1.20%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.96%) HDFS
6 2 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.12%) Firmware
7 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.12%) KVM
7 1 (0.12%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.12%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.12%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 192 (22.99%) Kubernetes
2 59 (7.07%) Terraform
3 29 (3.47%) Ansible
4 27 (3.23%) Grafana
5 23 (2.75%) Argo
6 17 (2.04%) Kibana
7 15 (1.80%) Prometheus
8 10 (1.20%) Kustomize
9 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.48%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.36%) Nagios
12 2 (0.24%) logstash
12 2 (0.24%) Puppet
12 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Spacewalk
13 1 (0.12%) Control-M
13 1 (0.12%) Icinga
13 1 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 36 (4.31%) Oracle
2 27 (3.23%) Google
3 26 (3.11%) Guidewire
4 19 (2.28%) Informatica
4 19 (2.28%) Talend
5 18 (2.16%) Databricks
6 17 (2.04%) Microsoft
6 17 (2.04%) Splunk
7 15 (1.80%) Atlassian
7 15 (1.80%) IBM
8 14 (1.68%) Dynatrace
9 12 (1.44%) Dell
10 10 (1.20%) MuleSoft
11 7 (0.84%) OpenAI
11 7 (0.84%) Red Hat
12 6 (0.72%) SAP
12 6 (0.72%) Solace
13 5 (0.60%) ForgeRock
13 5 (0.60%) HP
13 5 (0.60%) Salesforce