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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 30 19
Rank change year-on-year -7 -11 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 951 1,054 1,904
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.55% 7.95% 8.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.06% 19.13% 21.25%
Number of salaries quoted 569 755 1,551
10th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £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 £115,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £143,750 £145,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -7.22%

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 4,741 5,511 8,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 27.69% 41.59% 40.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,324 3,930 7,641
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £126,250 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £63,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.08% +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 19 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 19 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 -7 144 £100,000 +0.50% 108
South London -10 13 £70,000 -6.67%
West London -21 13 £61,250 +104.17% 9
East London -15 5 £75,000 - 12
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 (3.36%) Apache Spark
2 21 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (1.37%) Confluence
4 12 (1.26%) Apache
4 12 (1.26%) JBoss
5 11 (1.16%) WebSphere
6 8 (0.84%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.53%) Camunda
7 5 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.42%) Appian
8 4 (0.42%) Moodle
8 4 (0.42%) nginx
9 3 (0.32%) Liferay
9 3 (0.32%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.11%) CMS
10 1 (0.11%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.11%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.11%) Mule
10 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (0.95%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (1.05%) Maximo
2 7 (0.74%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.42%) Shopify
4 1 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.11%) Endur
4 1 (0.11%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 421 (44.27%) AWS
2 167 (17.56%) GCP
3 135 (14.20%) Azure
4 86 (9.04%) Amazon EKS
5 82 (8.62%) SaaS
6 48 (5.05%) GitHub
7 30 (3.15%) OpenShift
7 30 (3.15%) Serverless
8 23 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
9 22 (2.31%) dbt
10 19 (2.00%) Amazon Kinesis
10 19 (2.00%) Pulumi
11 18 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
12 17 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
12 17 (1.79%) Datadog
13 16 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
13 16 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (1.68%) GitHub Copilot
14 14 (1.47%) Amazon S3
15 13 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.36%) TCP/IP
2 25 (2.63%) Broadband
3 12 (1.26%) HTTP
4 9 (0.95%) VPN
5 6 (0.63%) BGP
5 6 (0.63%) Multicast
5 6 (0.63%) VLAN
6 5 (0.53%) AMQP
6 5 (0.53%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.42%) 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 (0.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (8.31%) PostgreSQL
2 77 (8.10%) Relational Database
3 66 (6.94%) NoSQL
4 46 (4.84%) RDBMS
5 31 (3.26%) SQL Server
6 28 (2.94%) DB2
7 26 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
8 24 (2.52%) MongoDB
9 22 (2.31%) Big Data
10 19 (2.00%) Hadoop
11 14 (1.47%) DynamoDB
11 14 (1.47%) MySQL
12 13 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (1.37%) Neo4j
13 11 (1.16%) Flink
13 11 (1.16%) Pentaho
14 10 (1.05%) Apache Hive
14 10 (1.05%) Redis
15 9 (0.95%) Data Lake
16 8 (0.84%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 66 (6.94%) TeamCity
2 50 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 48 (5.05%) Selenium
4 36 (3.79%) Git
5 31 (3.26%) Cucumber
6 26 (2.73%) GitLab
7 22 (2.31%) JIRA
8 17 (1.79%) JUnit
9 16 (1.68%) Jaeger
10 12 (1.26%) Bitbucket
11 11 (1.16%) Cypress.io
11 11 (1.16%) Gradle
11 11 (1.16%) JMeter
11 11 (1.16%) WebDriver
12 8 (0.84%) Maven
13 7 (0.74%) Mockito
13 7 (0.74%) Postman
14 6 (0.63%) Claude Code
15 5 (0.53%) SpecFlow
16 4 (0.42%) webpack
General
1 346 (36.38%) Finance
2 219 (23.03%) Banking
3 203 (21.35%) Social Skills
4 122 (12.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 108 (11.36%) Front Office
6 107 (11.25%) Law
7 88 (9.25%) Retail
8 85 (8.94%) Financial Institution
9 63 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
9 63 (6.62%) Public Sector
10 59 (6.20%) Investment Banking
11 55 (5.78%) Back Office
12 29 (3.05%) Telecoms
13 23 (2.42%) Games
14 17 (1.79%) Billing
15 14 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (0.84%) Marketing
17 8 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
18 6 (0.63%) Legal
Job Titles
1 337 (35.44%) Developer
2 248 (26.08%) Software Engineer
3 247 (25.97%) Senior
4 192 (20.19%) Java Developer
5 170 (17.88%) Java Engineer
6 145 (15.25%) Lead
7 101 (10.62%) Java Software Engineer
8 84 (8.83%) Full-Stack Developer
9 80 (8.41%) Senior Software Engineer
10 69 (7.26%) Senior Java Engineer
11 68 (7.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 68 (7.15%) Senior Developer
12 55 (5.78%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 50 (5.26%) Lead Software Engineer
14 49 (5.15%) Architect
15 47 (4.94%) Senior Java Developer
16 41 (4.31%) AWS Engineer
16 41 (4.31%) React Developer
17 38 (4.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
18 36 (3.79%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (21.14%) Spring
2 177 (18.61%) React
3 153 (16.09%) Spring Boot
4 138 (14.51%) Kafka
5 110 (11.57%) REST
6 94 (9.88%) Node.js
7 66 (6.94%) .NET
8 58 (6.10%) AngularJS
8 58 (6.10%) GraphQL
8 58 (6.10%) RESTful
9 47 (4.94%) HTML
10 40 (4.21%) SOAP
11 38 (4.00%) CSS
12 36 (3.79%) Redux
13 35 (3.68%) Web Services
14 34 (3.58%) Elastic Stack
15 31 (3.26%) Hibernate
16 28 (2.94%) FIX Protocol
16 28 (2.94%) JSON
17 25 (2.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 191 (20.08%) Cloud Native
2 123 (12.93%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (5.99%) Fixed Income
4 49 (5.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 46 (4.84%) Product Ownership
6 40 (4.21%) Equities
7 38 (4.00%) Blog
8 30 (3.15%) Public Cloud
9 28 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
10 25 (2.63%) Derivative
11 21 (2.21%) Distributed Architecture
11 21 (2.21%) FPGA
12 20 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
13 19 (2.00%) Data Structures
14 17 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
15 14 (1.47%) Algorithms
15 14 (1.47%) Onboarding
16 13 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
17 12 (1.26%) Management Information System
17 12 (1.26%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 121 (12.72%) Linux
2 34 (3.58%) Unix
3 25 (2.63%) Windows
4 21 (2.21%) Android
5 7 (0.74%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.42%) 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 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 349 (36.70%) Software Engineering
2 320 (33.65%) Agile
3 307 (32.28%) CI/CD
4 221 (23.24%) Microservices
5 193 (20.29%) DevOps
6 192 (20.19%) Full-Stack Development
7 189 (19.87%) Test Automation
8 155 (16.30%) Mentoring
9 143 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
10 117 (12.30%) AI
10 117 (12.30%) Containerisation
11 115 (12.09%) Fintech
12 112 (11.78%) Roadmaps
13 101 (10.62%) Technical Leadership
14 99 (10.41%) Continuous Improvement
15 90 (9.46%) Low Latency
16 86 (9.04%) Clean Code
17 85 (8.94%) Infrastructure as Code
18 78 (8.20%) Computer Science
19 69 (7.26%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 300 (31.55%) Python
2 198 (20.82%) JavaScript
3 149 (15.67%) SQL
4 135 (14.20%) TypeScript
5 114 (11.99%) Go
6 84 (8.83%) C#
7 66 (6.94%) C++
8 57 (5.99%) Kotlin
9 37 (3.89%) C
10 30 (3.15%) Rust
11 29 (3.05%) Bash
12 24 (2.52%) Scala
13 11 (1.16%) PowerShell
13 11 (1.16%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.95%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.84%) PHP
16 7 (0.74%) Ruby
17 6 (0.63%) VBA
18 5 (0.53%) Perl
18 5 (0.53%) RPG
Qualifications
1 134 (14.09%) Security Cleared
2 117 (12.30%) Degree
3 85 (8.94%) SC Cleared
4 55 (5.78%) DV Cleared
5 43 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (3.26%) AWS Certification
7 28 (2.94%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.47%) PhD
9 13 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (1.26%) CREST Certified
10 12 (1.26%) OSCP
11 10 (1.05%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.63%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.53%) OSCE
14 4 (0.42%) ISEB
14 4 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 3 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
16 2 (0.21%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 2 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
17 1 (0.11%) CCSAM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (3.79%) QA
2 16 (1.68%) PCI DSS
3 15 (1.58%) GDPR
3 15 (1.58%) SOC 2
4 11 (1.16%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (0.95%) Accessibility
7 7 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.42%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.42%) GRC
8 4 (0.42%) SLA
9 3 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.21%) NIST
10 2 (0.21%) WCAG
11 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.11%) MiFID
System Software
1 141 (14.83%) Docker
2 11 (1.16%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (1.05%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.32%) HDFS
5 3 (0.32%) KVM
6 1 (0.11%) Firmware
6 1 (0.11%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.11%) OpenDJ
6 1 (0.11%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 254 (26.71%) Kubernetes
2 126 (13.25%) Terraform
3 70 (7.36%) Grafana
4 39 (4.10%) Ansible
5 30 (3.15%) Argo
6 28 (2.94%) Prometheus
7 16 (1.68%) Kustomize
8 10 (1.05%) Kibana
9 7 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.11%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.11%) Icinga
11 1 (0.11%) Nagios
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Flashback
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.11%) Puppet
11 1 (0.11%) Rancher
Vendors
1 34 (3.58%) Google
2 23 (2.42%) Oracle
3 21 (2.21%) IBM
4 18 (1.89%) Microsoft
5 17 (1.79%) MuleSoft
6 15 (1.58%) Informatica
6 15 (1.58%) Talend
7 13 (1.37%) Databricks
7 13 (1.37%) Salesforce
8 12 (1.26%) Atlassian
8 12 (1.26%) Dell
8 12 (1.26%) Splunk
9 10 (1.05%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.05%) Solace
10 8 (0.84%) SAP
11 7 (0.74%) Dynatrace
11 7 (0.74%) Foundry
11 7 (0.74%) Guidewire
12 6 (0.63%) Mercator
12 6 (0.63%) Red Hat