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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 23 17
Rank change year-on-year -12 -6 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,039 1,161 2,246
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.78% 9.53% 9.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.40% 22.99% 22.86%
Number of salaries quoted 591 741 1,714
10th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £74,675 £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 £108,750 £130,000 £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 5,355 5,049 9,823
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.63% 41.43% 40.30%
Number of salaries quoted 3,788 3,511 7,638
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £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 £132,500
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 26 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 26 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 -19 150 £100,000 +2.56% 39
South London -10 23 £70,000 -15.15% 3
West London -16 21 £80,000 +166.67% 13
East London +1 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 (2.21%) Confluence
2 21 (2.02%) Apache Spark
3 15 (1.44%) Apache
3 15 (1.44%) Palantir Foundry
4 12 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.58%) Camunda
6 5 (0.48%) JBoss
7 4 (0.38%) CMS
7 4 (0.38%) 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%) CICS
10 1 (0.096%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.096%) Liferay
10 1 (0.096%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.096%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
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%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.48%) Temenos T24
3 4 (0.38%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.096%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.096%) Endur
4 1 (0.096%) Findur
4 1 (0.096%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.096%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 467 (44.95%) AWS
2 191 (18.38%) GCP
3 176 (16.94%) Azure
4 66 (6.35%) Amazon EKS
5 58 (5.58%) SaaS
6 52 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 52 (5.00%) GitHub
7 33 (3.18%) Serverless
8 24 (2.31%) OpenShift
9 22 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (1.73%) Amazon ECS
10 18 (1.73%) Amazon S3
11 17 (1.64%) Azure Service Bus
12 16 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
13 15 (1.44%) dbt
13 15 (1.44%) Pulumi
14 13 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
14 13 (1.25%) Azure Key Vault
14 13 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
14 13 (1.25%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.89%) HTTP
2 22 (2.12%) TCP/IP
3 21 (2.02%) Broadband
4 13 (1.25%) DMARC
5 7 (0.67%) Network Security
6 5 (0.48%) BGP
6 5 (0.48%) VPN
7 4 (0.38%) IPv4
7 4 (0.38%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.38%) 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%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (7.31%) NoSQL
2 58 (5.58%) PostgreSQL
3 53 (5.10%) Relational Database
4 30 (2.89%) MongoDB
5 23 (2.21%) Db2
5 23 (2.21%) RDBMS
5 23 (2.21%) SQL Server
6 15 (1.44%) BigQuery
7 11 (1.06%) Big Data
7 11 (1.06%) DynamoDB
7 11 (1.06%) MySQL
8 10 (0.96%) Metadata
9 9 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (0.87%) Hadoop
9 9 (0.87%) Redis
10 7 (0.67%) DTS
10 7 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
11 6 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 56 (5.39%) Git
2 53 (5.10%) TeamCity
3 50 (4.81%) GitLab
4 42 (4.04%) Jenkins
5 32 (3.08%) Selenium
6 31 (2.98%) JIRA
7 30 (2.89%) Cucumber
8 18 (1.73%) JUnit
9 15 (1.44%) Maven
10 14 (1.35%) Gradle
11 12 (1.15%) Bitbucket
12 11 (1.06%) Claude Code
12 11 (1.06%) Jaeger
13 8 (0.77%) Cypress.io
13 8 (0.77%) Postman
14 7 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 7 (0.67%) Mockito
14 7 (0.67%) WebDriver
15 5 (0.48%) JMeter
15 5 (0.48%) SpecFlow
General
1 410 (39.46%) Finance
2 199 (19.15%) Banking
3 166 (15.98%) Social Skills
4 103 (9.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 102 (9.82%) Front Office
6 81 (7.80%) Law
7 79 (7.60%) Public Sector
8 75 (7.22%) Retail
9 65 (6.26%) Financial Institution
10 61 (5.87%) Analytical Skills
11 44 (4.23%) Back Office
12 30 (2.89%) Investment Banking
13 17 (1.64%) Games
13 17 (1.64%) Telecoms
14 15 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (1.15%) 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
1 325 (31.28%) Developer
2 256 (24.64%) Senior
3 251 (24.16%) Software Engineer
4 219 (21.08%) Java Engineer
5 183 (17.61%) Java Developer
6 153 (14.73%) Lead
7 88 (8.47%) Java Software Engineer
8 83 (7.99%) Senior Developer
9 78 (7.51%) Senior Software Engineer
10 61 (5.87%) Senior Java Engineer
11 60 (5.77%) Lead Software Engineer
12 50 (4.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 49 (4.72%) Architect
14 48 (4.62%) Senior Java Developer
15 46 (4.43%) Full-Stack Developer
16 45 (4.33%) Principal Engineer
17 44 (4.23%) Software Developer
18 39 (3.75%) Engineering Manager
19 36 (3.46%) Developer/Software Engineer
20 35 (3.37%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 251 (24.16%) Spring
2 211 (20.31%) Spring Boot
3 152 (14.63%) Kafka
4 117 (11.26%) React
5 111 (10.68%) REST
6 82 (7.89%) Node.js
7 57 (5.49%) .NET
8 55 (5.29%) RESTful
9 52 (5.00%) AngularJS
10 40 (3.85%) GraphQL
11 36 (3.46%) Redux
11 36 (3.46%) Web Services
12 26 (2.50%) HTML
12 26 (2.50%) OAuth
13 24 (2.31%) Middleware
13 24 (2.31%) SOAP
14 23 (2.21%) Elastic Stack
15 20 (1.92%) CSS
15 20 (1.92%) Hibernate
15 20 (1.92%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 201 (19.35%) Cloud Native
2 103 (9.91%) Distributed Systems
3 96 (9.24%) Product Ownership
4 89 (8.57%) Public Cloud
5 49 (4.72%) Fixed Income
6 46 (4.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 32 (3.08%) Blog
8 30 (2.89%) Distributed Architecture
9 29 (2.79%) Equities
10 23 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
10 23 (2.21%) Onboarding
11 22 (2.12%) e-Learning
12 19 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
13 18 (1.73%) FPGA
14 15 (1.44%) Data Structures
15 13 (1.25%) Security Posture
16 11 (1.06%) AI Agents
16 11 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
17 10 (0.96%) Mobile Banking
18 9 (0.87%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 110 (10.59%) Linux
2 26 (2.50%) Windows
3 23 (2.21%) Unix
4 20 (1.92%) 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
1 392 (37.73%) Software Engineering
2 320 (30.80%) CI/CD
3 292 (28.10%) Agile
4 249 (23.97%) Microservices
5 218 (20.98%) DevOps
6 209 (20.12%) Test Automation
7 199 (19.15%) Mentoring
8 172 (16.55%) Roadmaps
9 143 (13.76%) Technical Leadership
10 141 (13.57%) Full-Stack Development
11 134 (12.90%) Containerisation
12 132 (12.70%) Infrastructure as Code
12 132 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
13 127 (12.22%) AI
14 101 (9.72%) Fintech
15 96 (9.24%) Continuous Improvement
16 91 (8.76%) Event-Driven
17 89 (8.57%) Low Latency
18 79 (7.60%) Clean Code
19 77 (7.41%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 311 (29.93%) Python
2 155 (14.92%) SQL
3 148 (14.24%) JavaScript
4 102 (9.82%) Go
5 95 (9.14%) C++
6 94 (9.05%) C#
6 94 (9.05%) TypeScript
7 47 (4.52%) Bash
8 42 (4.04%) Kotlin
9 35 (3.37%) Rust
10 33 (3.18%) C
11 21 (2.02%) PowerShell
12 20 (1.92%) Scala
13 11 (1.06%) Ruby
14 10 (0.96%) PHP
15 9 (0.87%) R
16 8 (0.77%) Apex Code
16 8 (0.77%) Perl
17 7 (0.67%) Julia
17 7 (0.67%) RPG
Qualifications
1 142 (13.67%) Security Cleared
2 100 (9.62%) Degree
3 90 (8.66%) SC Cleared
4 58 (5.58%) DV Cleared
5 55 (5.29%) AWS Certification
6 50 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (3.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 16 (1.54%) OSCP
9 12 (1.15%) CREST Certified
9 12 (1.15%) Master's Degree
10 9 (0.87%) ISTQB
10 9 (0.87%) PhD
11 7 (0.67%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (0.38%) CCNA
13 4 (0.38%) RHCE
13 4 (0.38%) RHCSA
14 3 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (4.91%) QA
2 18 (1.73%) 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 (0.67%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.67%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.48%) NIST
9 4 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.29%) WCAG
11 1 (0.096%) MiFID
System Software
1 132 (12.70%) Docker
2 13 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.15%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.48%) KVM
5 4 (0.38%) Squid
5 4 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (0.38%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.38%) 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 (21.94%) Kubernetes
2 140 (13.47%) Terraform
3 77 (7.41%) Grafana
4 41 (3.95%) Ansible
5 33 (3.18%) Prometheus
6 15 (1.44%) Argo
7 11 (1.06%) Kustomize
8 7 (0.67%) Kibana
8 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.38%) Packer
9 4 (0.38%) Puppet
9 4 (0.38%) 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%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 41 (3.95%) Google
2 34 (3.27%) Microsoft
2 34 (3.27%) Oracle
3 25 (2.41%) IBM
4 24 (2.31%) Palantir
5 23 (2.21%) Splunk
6 17 (1.64%) Foundry
7 15 (1.44%) 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
14 5 (0.48%) Databricks
14 5 (0.48%) Sybase
15 4 (0.38%) JDA