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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 31 19
Rank change year-on-year -4 -12 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 966 1,041 1,901
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.53% 8.00% 8.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.11% 19.17% 21.05%
Number of salaries quoted 578 760 1,543
10th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £73,438 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £105,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +13.51% +2.78%
75th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £117,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £143,750 £145,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -9.38%

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 4,803 5,430 9,029
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 27.51% 41.72% 40.83%
Number of salaries quoted 3,366 3,924 7,638
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +3.13% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £108,418 £101,250
90th Percentile £126,250 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 24 March 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 24 March 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 -7 146 £100,000 - 123
South London -13 13 £62,600 -16.53% 1
West London -21 13 £61,250 +104.17% 10
East London -17 5 £75,000 - 13
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 (3.31%) Apache Spark
2 21 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (1.24%) Apache
3 12 (1.24%) JBoss
4 11 (1.14%) Confluence
4 11 (1.14%) WebSphere
5 8 (0.83%) Anypoint
6 7 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
7 5 (0.52%) Camunda
8 4 (0.41%) Appian
8 4 (0.41%) Moodle
8 4 (0.41%) nginx
9 3 (0.31%) Liferay
10 2 (0.21%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.10%) CMS
11 1 (0.10%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.10%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.10%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.83%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (1.14%) Maximo
2 7 (0.72%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.41%) Shopify
4 3 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.21%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.10%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.10%) Endur
6 1 (0.10%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 424 (43.89%) AWS
2 171 (17.70%) GCP
3 138 (14.29%) Azure
4 85 (8.80%) Amazon EKS
5 84 (8.70%) SaaS
6 48 (4.97%) GitHub
7 30 (3.11%) OpenShift
8 29 (3.00%) Serverless
9 23 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (2.28%) dbt
11 19 (1.97%) Amazon Kinesis
11 19 (1.97%) Pulumi
12 17 (1.76%) Amazon ECS
12 17 (1.76%) Datadog
13 16 (1.66%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (1.66%) AWS Lambda
13 16 (1.66%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (1.66%) GitHub Copilot
14 14 (1.45%) Amazon S3
15 13 (1.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.31%) TCP/IP
2 25 (2.59%) Broadband
3 12 (1.24%) HTTP
4 8 (0.83%) VPN
5 6 (0.62%) BGP
5 6 (0.62%) Multicast
5 6 (0.62%) VLAN
6 5 (0.52%) AMQP
6 5 (0.52%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.41%) Firewall
8 2 (0.21%) DHCP
8 2 (0.21%) DNS
8 2 (0.21%) Internet
8 2 (0.21%) LAN
8 2 (0.21%) NAS
8 2 (0.21%) SAN
8 2 (0.21%) SNMP
8 2 (0.21%) WAN
9 1 (0.10%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (7.97%) PostgreSQL
1 77 (7.97%) Relational Database
2 67 (6.94%) NoSQL
3 45 (4.66%) RDBMS
4 32 (3.31%) SQL Server
5 28 (2.90%) DB2
6 26 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (2.38%) MongoDB
8 22 (2.28%) Big Data
9 19 (1.97%) Hadoop
10 14 (1.45%) DynamoDB
10 14 (1.45%) MySQL
11 13 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (1.35%) Neo4j
12 11 (1.14%) Flink
12 11 (1.14%) Pentaho
12 11 (1.14%) Redis
13 10 (1.04%) Apache Hive
14 9 (0.93%) Data Lake
15 8 (0.83%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 66 (6.83%) TeamCity
2 47 (4.87%) Jenkins
2 47 (4.87%) Selenium
3 37 (3.83%) Git
4 30 (3.11%) Cucumber
5 26 (2.69%) GitLab
6 21 (2.17%) JIRA
7 16 (1.66%) Jaeger
7 16 (1.66%) JUnit
8 12 (1.24%) Gradle
9 11 (1.14%) Bitbucket
9 11 (1.14%) WebDriver
10 10 (1.04%) Cypress.io
10 10 (1.04%) JMeter
11 8 (0.83%) Maven
12 7 (0.72%) Claude Code
12 7 (0.72%) Postman
13 6 (0.62%) Mockito
14 5 (0.52%) SpecFlow
15 4 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 355 (36.75%) Finance
2 220 (22.77%) Banking
3 204 (21.12%) Social Skills
4 123 (12.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 113 (11.70%) Front Office
6 108 (11.18%) Law
7 89 (9.21%) Retail
8 86 (8.90%) Financial Institution
9 66 (6.83%) Analytical Skills
10 62 (6.42%) Public Sector
11 59 (6.11%) Investment Banking
12 57 (5.90%) Back Office
13 28 (2.90%) Telecoms
14 23 (2.38%) Games
15 17 (1.76%) Billing
16 14 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.83%) Marketing
18 8 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
19 6 (0.62%) Legal
Job Titles
1 343 (35.51%) Developer
2 256 (26.50%) Senior
3 249 (25.78%) Software Engineer
4 192 (19.88%) Java Developer
5 173 (17.91%) Java Engineer
6 144 (14.91%) Lead
7 100 (10.35%) Java Software Engineer
8 83 (8.59%) Full-Stack Developer
8 83 (8.59%) Senior Software Engineer
9 72 (7.45%) Senior Developer
10 70 (7.25%) Senior Java Engineer
11 69 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 54 (5.59%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 50 (5.18%) Lead Software Engineer
14 49 (5.07%) Architect
15 47 (4.87%) Senior Java Developer
16 41 (4.24%) AWS Engineer
16 41 (4.24%) React Developer
17 39 (4.04%) Senior Java Software Engineer
18 36 (3.73%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (20.70%) Spring
2 177 (18.32%) React
3 152 (15.73%) Spring Boot
4 136 (14.08%) Kafka
5 109 (11.28%) REST
6 94 (9.73%) Node.js
7 66 (6.83%) .NET
8 58 (6.00%) AngularJS
8 58 (6.00%) GraphQL
9 57 (5.90%) RESTful
10 45 (4.66%) HTML
11 39 (4.04%) SOAP
12 37 (3.83%) CSS
13 36 (3.73%) Web Services
14 35 (3.62%) Redux
15 33 (3.42%) Elastic Stack
16 30 (3.11%) Hibernate
17 29 (3.00%) FIX Protocol
18 27 (2.80%) JSON
19 25 (2.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 192 (19.88%) Cloud Native
2 122 (12.63%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (5.90%) Fixed Income
4 50 (5.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 49 (5.07%) Product Ownership
6 42 (4.35%) Equities
7 38 (3.93%) Blog
8 31 (3.21%) Public Cloud
9 27 (2.80%) Greenfield Project
10 26 (2.69%) Derivative
11 23 (2.38%) Distributed Architecture
12 22 (2.28%) FPGA
13 20 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
14 19 (1.97%) Data Structures
15 17 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
16 14 (1.45%) Algorithms
16 14 (1.45%) Onboarding
17 13 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
18 12 (1.24%) Management Information System
18 12 (1.24%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 121 (12.53%) Linux
2 34 (3.52%) Unix
3 24 (2.48%) Windows
4 21 (2.17%) Android
5 7 (0.72%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.41%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.21%) CentOS
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.21%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (36.23%) Software Engineering
2 315 (32.61%) Agile
3 309 (31.99%) CI/CD
4 219 (22.67%) Microservices
5 195 (20.19%) DevOps
6 192 (19.88%) Test Automation
7 191 (19.77%) Full-Stack Development
8 158 (16.36%) Mentoring
9 146 (15.11%) Problem-Solving
10 120 (12.42%) AI
11 117 (12.11%) Containerisation
11 117 (12.11%) Roadmaps
12 116 (12.01%) Fintech
13 104 (10.77%) Technical Leadership
14 99 (10.25%) Continuous Improvement
15 93 (9.63%) Low Latency
16 87 (9.01%) Clean Code
17 86 (8.90%) Infrastructure as Code
18 81 (8.39%) Computer Science
19 67 (6.94%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 300 (31.06%) Python
2 197 (20.39%) JavaScript
3 150 (15.53%) SQL
4 136 (14.08%) TypeScript
5 113 (11.70%) Go
6 82 (8.49%) C#
7 68 (7.04%) C++
8 57 (5.90%) Kotlin
9 38 (3.93%) C
10 30 (3.11%) Bash
10 30 (3.11%) Rust
11 24 (2.48%) Scala
12 11 (1.14%) Shell Script
13 10 (1.04%) PowerShell
14 9 (0.93%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.83%) PHP
16 7 (0.72%) Ruby
17 6 (0.62%) VBA
18 5 (0.52%) Perl
18 5 (0.52%) RPG
Qualifications
1 133 (13.77%) Security Cleared
2 120 (12.42%) Degree
3 85 (8.80%) SC Cleared
4 56 (5.80%) DV Cleared
5 47 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (3.21%) AWS Certification
7 27 (2.80%) Master's Degree
8 13 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 13 (1.35%) PhD
9 12 (1.24%) CREST Certified
9 12 (1.24%) OSCP
10 10 (1.04%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.62%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.52%) OSCE
13 4 (0.41%) ISEB
13 4 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
15 2 (0.21%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 2 (0.21%) Oracle Certification
15 2 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (3.73%) QA
2 16 (1.66%) PCI DSS
3 15 (1.55%) GDPR
3 15 (1.55%) SOC 2
4 11 (1.14%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.83%) Accessibility
7 7 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.62%) GRC
9 4 (0.41%) EU AI Act
9 4 (0.41%) SLA
10 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.21%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.21%) NIST
10 2 (0.21%) WCAG
11 1 (0.10%) MiFID
System Software
1 139 (14.39%) Docker
2 11 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.04%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.31%) HDFS
5 3 (0.31%) KVM
6 2 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.10%) Firmware
7 1 (0.10%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.10%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.10%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 252 (26.09%) Kubernetes
2 127 (13.15%) Terraform
3 71 (7.35%) Grafana
4 40 (4.14%) Ansible
5 30 (3.11%) Argo
6 28 (2.90%) Prometheus
7 16 (1.66%) Kustomize
8 8 (0.83%) Kibana
9 6 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.21%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle Flashback
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.10%) AWS Copilot
11 1 (0.10%) Icinga
11 1 (0.10%) Nagios
11 1 (0.10%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.10%) Puppet
Vendors
1 34 (3.52%) Google
2 23 (2.38%) Oracle
3 22 (2.28%) IBM
4 17 (1.76%) Microsoft
4 17 (1.76%) MuleSoft
5 15 (1.55%) Informatica
5 15 (1.55%) Talend
6 13 (1.35%) Databricks
6 13 (1.35%) Salesforce
7 12 (1.24%) Dell
8 11 (1.14%) Atlassian
8 11 (1.14%) Splunk
9 10 (1.04%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.04%) Solace
10 9 (0.93%) Foundry
11 7 (0.72%) Guidewire
11 7 (0.72%) Palantir
11 7 (0.72%) SAP
12 6 (0.62%) Mercator
12 6 (0.62%) Red Hat