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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 28 17
Rank change year-on-year -7 -11 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,058 974 2,074
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.10% 7.94% 8.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.13% 19.67% 21.96%
Number of salaries quoted 594 720 1,600
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £67,813 £73,438 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £105,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £110,000 £125,625 £122,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £142,500 £148,750
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £73,805
% change year-on-year -3.33% +1.62% -7.74%

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 5,255 4,951 9,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.35% 40.34% 40.32%
Number of salaries quoted 3,710 3,679 7,537
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £132,500 £130,000
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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -12 158 £100,000 +2.04% 63
South London -16 22 £70,000 -15.15% 3
West London -15 18 £80,000 +166.67% 8
East London -11 3 - - 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 24 (2.27%) Apache Spark
2 19 (1.80%) Confluence
3 16 (1.51%) Apache
4 15 (1.42%) Palantir Foundry
5 14 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.66%) JBoss
7 5 (0.47%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.38%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.38%) Camunda
8 4 (0.38%) CMS
8 4 (0.38%) Moodle
9 3 (0.28%) Liferay
10 2 (0.19%) Appian
10 2 (0.19%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.19%) nginx
10 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.19%) SAS
11 1 (0.095%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.095%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.095%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (0.57%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.095%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 11 (1.04%) Maximo
2 5 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.28%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.28%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.095%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.095%) Endur
4 1 (0.095%) Findur
4 1 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.095%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 460 (43.48%) AWS
2 196 (18.53%) GCP
3 165 (15.60%) Azure
4 69 (6.52%) Amazon EKS
5 66 (6.24%) SaaS
6 48 (4.54%) GitHub
7 42 (3.97%) AWS CloudFormation
8 28 (2.65%) Serverless
9 25 (2.36%) OpenShift
10 19 (1.80%) GitHub Copilot
10 19 (1.80%) Pulumi
11 18 (1.70%) Amazon S3
12 16 (1.51%) dbt
13 14 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (1.32%) Datadog
13 14 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (1.23%) Amazon ECS
14 13 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (1.13%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (0.95%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.74%) HTTP
2 25 (2.36%) Broadband
3 24 (2.27%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.38%) AMQP
4 4 (0.38%) IPv4
4 4 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (0.28%) BGP
5 3 (0.28%) Internet
5 3 (0.28%) Network Security
5 3 (0.28%) VLAN
5 3 (0.28%) VPN
6 2 (0.19%) DMARC
6 2 (0.19%) Firewall
6 2 (0.19%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.19%) LAN
6 2 (0.19%) SAN
6 2 (0.19%) WAN
7 1 (0.095%) MQTT
7 1 (0.095%) SNMP
7 1 (0.095%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (7.47%) NoSQL
2 59 (5.58%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (5.58%) Relational Database
3 35 (3.31%) RDBMS
4 28 (2.65%) MongoDB
4 28 (2.65%) SQL Server
5 22 (2.08%) DB2
6 17 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (1.61%) DynamoDB
7 15 (1.42%) Big Data
8 13 (1.23%) BigQuery
8 13 (1.23%) MySQL
9 11 (1.04%) Hadoop
10 10 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (0.95%) Pentaho
10 10 (0.95%) Redis
11 9 (0.85%) Flink
11 9 (0.85%) Metadata
11 9 (0.85%) Neo4j
12 7 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 59 (5.58%) TeamCity
2 49 (4.63%) Git
3 44 (4.16%) Jenkins
4 40 (3.78%) Selenium
5 38 (3.59%) GitLab
6 29 (2.74%) Cucumber
6 29 (2.74%) JIRA
7 16 (1.51%) Bitbucket
8 15 (1.42%) Jaeger
9 14 (1.32%) Gradle
9 14 (1.32%) JUnit
10 12 (1.13%) Maven
11 11 (1.04%) Claude Code
12 9 (0.85%) WebDriver
13 7 (0.66%) Cypress.io
14 6 (0.57%) Postman
15 5 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 5 (0.47%) SpecFlow
16 4 (0.38%) SonarQube
16 4 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 407 (38.47%) Finance
2 221 (20.89%) Banking
3 180 (17.01%) Social Skills
4 115 (10.87%) Front Office
5 111 (10.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 95 (8.98%) Law
7 82 (7.75%) Retail
8 69 (6.52%) Public Sector
9 65 (6.14%) Analytical Skills
9 65 (6.14%) Financial Institution
10 47 (4.44%) Back Office
11 36 (3.40%) Investment Banking
12 23 (2.17%) Telecoms
13 18 (1.70%) Games
13 18 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (1.51%) Billing
15 11 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (0.76%) Tech for Good
17 7 (0.66%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 351 (33.18%) Developer
2 271 (25.61%) Senior
3 262 (24.76%) Software Engineer
4 219 (20.70%) Java Engineer
5 200 (18.90%) Java Developer
6 164 (15.50%) Lead
7 106 (10.02%) Java Software Engineer
8 89 (8.41%) Senior Developer
9 85 (8.03%) Senior Software Engineer
10 67 (6.33%) Senior Java Engineer
11 61 (5.77%) Full-Stack Developer
11 61 (5.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 56 (5.29%) Lead Software Engineer
13 55 (5.20%) Senior Java Developer
14 47 (4.44%) Principal Engineer
15 39 (3.69%) Software Developer
16 38 (3.59%) Development Engineer
16 38 (3.59%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 38 (3.59%) Software Development Engineer
17 37 (3.50%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 232 (21.93%) Spring
2 195 (18.43%) Spring Boot
3 140 (13.23%) React
4 139 (13.14%) Kafka
5 113 (10.68%) REST
6 78 (7.37%) Node.js
7 63 (5.95%) .NET
8 55 (5.20%) AngularJS
9 47 (4.44%) RESTful
10 45 (4.25%) GraphQL
11 39 (3.69%) Web Services
12 34 (3.21%) Redux
13 32 (3.02%) HTML
14 29 (2.74%) Elastic Stack
14 29 (2.74%) SOAP
15 27 (2.55%) CSS
16 23 (2.17%) Hibernate
17 21 (1.98%) OAuth
17 21 (1.98%) Vue
18 20 (1.89%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 188 (17.77%) Cloud Native
2 100 (9.45%) Distributed Systems
3 91 (8.60%) Product Ownership
4 75 (7.09%) Public Cloud
5 51 (4.82%) Fixed Income
6 44 (4.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 36 (3.40%) Blog
8 34 (3.21%) Equities
9 30 (2.84%) Distributed Architecture
10 20 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
10 20 (1.89%) FPGA
11 17 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
12 16 (1.51%) e-Learning
13 15 (1.42%) Data Structures
13 15 (1.42%) Derivative
14 14 (1.32%) Mobile Banking
15 13 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
15 13 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
15 13 (1.23%) Security Posture
16 11 (1.04%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 103 (9.74%) Linux
2 26 (2.46%) Android
2 26 (2.46%) Unix
3 22 (2.08%) Windows
4 11 (1.04%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.66%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.095%) CentOS
6 1 (0.095%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (36.48%) Software Engineering
2 317 (29.96%) CI/CD
3 296 (27.98%) Agile
4 231 (21.83%) Microservices
5 216 (20.42%) DevOps
6 196 (18.53%) Test Automation
7 193 (18.24%) Mentoring
8 171 (16.16%) Roadmaps
9 166 (15.69%) Full-Stack Development
10 145 (13.71%) Technical Leadership
11 135 (12.76%) Problem-Solving
12 123 (11.63%) AI
13 119 (11.25%) Fintech
14 117 (11.06%) Containerisation
15 114 (10.78%) Infrastructure as Code
16 100 (9.45%) Continuous Improvement
17 90 (8.51%) Low Latency
18 83 (7.84%) Clean Code
19 77 (7.28%) TDD
20 71 (6.71%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 305 (28.83%) Python
2 166 (15.69%) JavaScript
3 150 (14.18%) SQL
4 107 (10.11%) Go
5 100 (9.45%) TypeScript
6 83 (7.84%) C#
7 76 (7.18%) C++
8 50 (4.73%) Kotlin
9 39 (3.69%) Bash
10 30 (2.84%) C
11 22 (2.08%) Rust
12 20 (1.89%) Scala
13 17 (1.61%) PowerShell
14 8 (0.76%) Apex Code
15 7 (0.66%) PHP
15 7 (0.66%) VBA
16 6 (0.57%) Perl
17 5 (0.47%) Groovy
18 4 (0.38%) PL/SQL
18 4 (0.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 134 (12.67%) Security Cleared
2 105 (9.92%) Degree
3 85 (8.03%) SC Cleared
4 61 (5.77%) DV Cleared
5 46 (4.35%) AWS Certification
5 46 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (1.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 18 (1.70%) OSCP
8 16 (1.51%) Master's Degree
9 14 (1.32%) CREST Certified
10 11 (1.04%) PhD
11 8 (0.76%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.66%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
15 4 (0.38%) CCNA
15 4 (0.38%) RHCE
15 4 (0.38%) RHCSA
16 3 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (3.59%) QA
2 16 (1.51%) Data Quality
3 14 (1.32%) GRC
4 13 (1.23%) PCI DSS
5 12 (1.13%) SOC 2
6 8 (0.76%) GDPR
7 5 (0.47%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.28%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.28%) NIST
10 2 (0.19%) SLA
11 1 (0.095%) MiFID
11 1 (0.095%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.095%) WCAG
System Software
1 144 (13.61%) Docker
2 9 (0.85%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.38%) KVM
3 4 (0.38%) Squid
3 4 (0.38%) VMware NSX
3 4 (0.38%) vSphere
4 2 (0.19%) Firmware
4 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.095%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.095%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.095%) OpenDJ
5 1 (0.095%) OpenIDM
5 1 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.095%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.095%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 236 (22.31%) Kubernetes
2 139 (13.14%) Terraform
3 71 (6.71%) Grafana
4 41 (3.88%) Ansible
5 29 (2.74%) Prometheus
6 23 (2.17%) Argo
7 15 (1.42%) Kustomize
8 7 (0.66%) Kibana
9 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.38%) Packer
10 4 (0.38%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.28%) Puppet
12 2 (0.19%) Data Guard
12 2 (0.19%) Oracle Flashback
12 2 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.19%) Rancher
12 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.095%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.095%) WSUS
Vendors
1 41 (3.88%) Google
2 32 (3.02%) Microsoft
3 30 (2.84%) Oracle
4 20 (1.89%) IBM
5 18 (1.70%) Palantir
6 17 (1.61%) Foundry
7 15 (1.42%) Splunk
8 12 (1.13%) MuleSoft
8 12 (1.13%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.04%) Red Hat
9 11 (1.04%) Solace
10 10 (0.95%) Informatica
10 10 (0.95%) Talend
10 10 (0.95%) VMware
11 9 (0.85%) ServiceNow
12 8 (0.76%) Databricks
12 8 (0.76%) OpenAI
13 7 (0.66%) Dynatrace
14 5 (0.47%) Guidewire
14 5 (0.47%) SAP