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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 28 16
Rank change year-on-year -14 -12 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,105 1,005 1,867
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.23% 8.58% 10.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.80% 22.42% 24.24%
Number of salaries quoted 537 604 1,297
10th Percentile £52,000 £57,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £100,000 £134,625 £137,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £142,500 £148,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +3.23%

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 5,582 4,483 7,703
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.35% 38.25% 42.85%
Number of salaries quoted 3,640 2,991 5,080
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.61% -0.61% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +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 October 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 October 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 -18 96 £100,000 +6.67% 34
South London -16 24 £70,000 -15.15% 6
West London -7 19 £80,000 -3.03% 21
East London -4 8 - - 9
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 38 (3.44%) Confluence
2 20 (1.81%) Camunda
3 18 (1.63%) Apache
4 14 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.00%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.54%) Ethereum
6 6 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
7 4 (0.36%) Hedera
7 4 (0.36%) JBoss
8 3 (0.27%) Apache Pulsar
8 3 (0.27%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.27%) SAS
9 2 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.18%) CMS
9 2 (0.18%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
9 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.090%) IIS
10 1 (0.090%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (1.18%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.63%) Moqups
4 3 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.090%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.54%) Distributed Ledger
2 5 (0.45%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.18%) Quorum
4 2 (0.18%) R3 Corda
4 2 (0.18%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 2 (0.18%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.090%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.090%) Maximo
5 1 (0.090%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.090%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 515 (46.61%) AWS
2 203 (18.37%) Azure
3 201 (18.19%) GCP
4 84 (7.60%) GitHub
5 78 (7.06%) Amazon EKS
6 77 (6.97%) AWS CloudFormation
7 71 (6.43%) SaaS
8 49 (4.43%) Serverless
9 39 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
10 31 (2.81%) Anthropic Claude
11 30 (2.71%) GitHub Copilot
12 29 (2.62%) Amazon ECS
12 29 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
13 27 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
14 24 (2.17%) Amazon S3
15 21 (1.90%) Snowflake
16 20 (1.81%) Azure Service Bus
17 19 (1.72%) Datadog
18 17 (1.54%) Amazon EventBridge
19 16 (1.45%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.44%) HTTP
2 26 (2.35%) TCP/IP
3 22 (1.99%) Network Security
4 19 (1.72%) BGP
4 19 (1.72%) VPN
5 15 (1.36%) DMARC
6 10 (0.90%) Firewall
7 8 (0.72%) DNS
8 6 (0.54%) IPsec
9 4 (0.36%) Broadband
9 4 (0.36%) Internet
9 4 (0.36%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.36%) VLAN
10 3 (0.27%) IPv4
10 3 (0.27%) LAN
10 3 (0.27%) SAN
10 3 (0.27%) WAN
11 2 (0.18%) Software-Defined Networking
12 1 (0.090%) Multicast
12 1 (0.090%) Unicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (8.24%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (8.05%) NoSQL
3 67 (6.06%) Relational Database
4 47 (4.25%) MongoDB
5 28 (2.53%) SQL Server
6 23 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
7 20 (1.81%) Big Data
8 19 (1.72%) MySQL
9 16 (1.45%) Redis
10 12 (1.09%) BigQuery
10 12 (1.09%) Db2
11 11 (1.00%) DynamoDB
11 11 (1.00%) Power BI
12 10 (0.90%) DTS
13 8 (0.72%) Hadoop
13 8 (0.72%) KDB
14 7 (0.63%) Pinecone
15 6 (0.54%) Amazon Aurora
15 6 (0.54%) Flink
15 6 (0.54%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 81 (7.33%) Git
2 76 (6.88%) GitLab
3 70 (6.33%) TeamCity
4 66 (5.97%) Jenkins
5 55 (4.98%) Cucumber
6 43 (3.89%) JIRA
7 30 (2.71%) JUnit
8 24 (2.17%) Claude Code
9 22 (1.99%) Selenium
10 21 (1.90%) Maven
11 19 (1.72%) Mockito
11 19 (1.72%) Postman
12 16 (1.45%) Cypress.io
13 13 (1.18%) REST Assured
14 12 (1.09%) Bitbucket
15 11 (1.00%) JMeter
16 10 (0.90%) Gradle
17 9 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 6 (0.54%) MLflow
18 6 (0.54%) SonarQube
General
1 477 (43.17%) Finance
2 262 (23.71%) Banking
3 241 (21.81%) Social Skills
4 112 (10.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 103 (9.32%) Law
6 86 (7.78%) Retail
7 78 (7.06%) Financial Institution
8 69 (6.24%) Front Office
9 66 (5.97%) Public Sector
10 65 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
11 44 (3.98%) Back Office
12 27 (2.44%) Investment Banking
13 23 (2.08%) Marketing
14 14 (1.27%) Retail Banking
14 14 (1.27%) Tech for Good
15 12 (1.09%) Legal
16 9 (0.81%) Health Technology
16 9 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (0.72%) Corporate Banking
18 7 (0.63%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 317 (28.69%) Senior
2 289 (26.15%) Java Engineer
3 267 (24.16%) Software Engineer
4 232 (21.00%) Developer
5 144 (13.03%) Lead
6 141 (12.76%) Java Developer
7 101 (9.14%) Senior Software Engineer
8 91 (8.24%) Senior Java Engineer
9 77 (6.97%) Java Software Engineer
10 74 (6.70%) Senior Developer
11 68 (6.15%) Principal Engineer
12 53 (4.80%) Architect
13 52 (4.71%) Principal Java Engineer
14 46 (4.16%) Lead Software Engineer
15 40 (3.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 38 (3.44%) Senior Java Developer
17 35 (3.17%) Engineering Manager
18 32 (2.90%) Full-Stack Developer
18 32 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
19 29 (2.62%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 293 (26.52%) Spring
2 246 (22.26%) Spring Boot
3 183 (16.56%) Kafka
4 161 (14.57%) Terraform
5 139 (12.58%) REST
6 85 (7.69%) RESTful
7 81 (7.33%) React
8 75 (6.79%) Node.js
9 60 (5.43%) .NET
10 57 (5.16%) AngularJS
11 40 (3.62%) OAuth
12 30 (2.71%) OAuth2
13 28 (2.53%) FIX Protocol
14 27 (2.44%) Hibernate
15 25 (2.26%) Middleware
16 20 (1.81%) RabbitMQ
17 16 (1.45%) GraphQL
17 16 (1.45%) Playwright
18 15 (1.36%) AWS CDK
18 15 (1.36%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 262 (23.71%) Cloud Native
2 180 (16.29%) Distributed Systems
3 123 (11.13%) Product Ownership
4 110 (9.95%) Public Cloud
5 57 (5.16%) Onboarding
6 47 (4.25%) e-Learning
7 43 (3.89%) Blog
7 43 (3.89%) Enterprise Software
8 37 (3.35%) Distributed Architecture
9 35 (3.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 32 (2.90%) Equities
11 28 (2.53%) Fixed Income
12 25 (2.26%) AI Agents
12 25 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
12 25 (2.26%) Management Information System
13 23 (2.08%) Virtual Team
14 22 (1.99%) Algorithms
14 22 (1.99%) Data Structures
15 21 (1.90%) Mobile App
16 20 (1.81%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 71 (6.43%) Linux
2 26 (2.35%) Windows
3 17 (1.54%) Android
4 12 (1.09%) Apple iOS
5 11 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.81%) Unix
7 7 (0.63%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.090%) macOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 462 (41.81%) Software Engineering
2 404 (36.56%) CI/CD
3 346 (31.31%) Microservices
4 265 (23.98%) Agile
5 242 (21.90%) Test Automation
6 238 (21.54%) AI
7 210 (19.00%) Mentoring
8 206 (18.64%) DevOps
9 199 (18.01%) Event-Driven
10 185 (16.74%) Problem-Solving
11 173 (15.66%) Infrastructure as Code
12 147 (13.30%) Roadmaps
13 143 (12.94%) Technical Leadership
14 140 (12.67%) Fintech
15 137 (12.40%) Containerisation
16 130 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
17 126 (11.40%) Full-Stack Development
18 119 (10.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 103 (9.32%) Observability
20 101 (9.14%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 337 (30.50%) Python
2 209 (18.91%) SQL
3 97 (8.78%) C#
3 97 (8.78%) JavaScript
4 90 (8.14%) Go
5 83 (7.51%) TypeScript
6 81 (7.33%) C++
7 56 (5.07%) Kotlin
8 48 (4.34%) Bash
9 30 (2.71%) Ruby
10 29 (2.62%) C
11 28 (2.53%) Rust
12 23 (2.08%) Scala
13 20 (1.81%) Perl
13 20 (1.81%) PHP
14 16 (1.45%) PowerShell
15 11 (1.00%) R
16 10 (0.90%) RPG
17 8 (0.72%) Shell Script
17 8 (0.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 124 (11.22%) Security Cleared
2 96 (8.69%) Degree
3 82 (7.42%) AWS Certification
4 71 (6.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 69 (6.24%) SC Cleared
6 56 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (3.08%) DV Cleared
8 16 (1.45%) CISSP
9 15 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (1.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 12 (1.09%) CCSP
10 12 (1.09%) CISM
10 12 (1.09%) OSCP
11 10 (0.90%) Master's Degree
12 8 (0.72%) CREST Certified
13 6 (0.54%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.54%) ISTQB
13 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 6 (0.54%) PhD
14 5 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (6.15%) QA
2 25 (2.26%) Data Quality
3 24 (2.17%) GDPR
4 21 (1.90%) NIST
5 19 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (1.63%) PCI DSS
7 17 (1.54%) ISO 20022
8 13 (1.18%) SOC 2
9 10 (0.90%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.36%) GRC
11 4 (0.36%) WCAG
12 3 (0.27%) MiFID
12 3 (0.27%) UCITS
13 2 (0.18%) PSD2
System Software
1 137 (12.40%) Docker
2 18 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (0.81%) Active Directory
4 8 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (0.54%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.45%) KVM
8 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.18%) Squid
9 2 (0.18%) vSphere
10 1 (0.090%) Oracle Clusterware
10 1 (0.090%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 256 (23.17%) Kubernetes
2 85 (7.69%) Grafana
3 43 (3.89%) Ansible
4 31 (2.81%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.00%) Argo
6 8 (0.72%) Cilium
6 8 (0.72%) EnCase
6 8 (0.72%) FTK
6 8 (0.72%) Puppet
7 6 (0.54%) Hadoop YARN
7 6 (0.54%) Kubeflow
8 5 (0.45%) Kibana
8 5 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (0.36%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.27%) WSUS
11 2 (0.18%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.18%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 68 (6.15%) Google
2 63 (5.70%) Microsoft
2 63 (5.70%) Oracle
3 34 (3.08%) Splunk
4 27 (2.44%) IBM
5 23 (2.08%) Red Hat
6 18 (1.63%) VMware
7 15 (1.36%) OpenAI
7 15 (1.36%) Palantir
7 15 (1.36%) SendGrid
8 13 (1.18%) SAP
9 12 (1.09%) Bloomberg
9 12 (1.09%) OutSystems
9 12 (1.09%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.00%) Foundry
10 11 (1.00%) Solace
11 10 (0.90%) Databricks
12 9 (0.81%) HP
13 8 (0.72%) Cellebrite
13 8 (0.72%) Nuix