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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 31 19
Rank change year-on-year -4 -12 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,017 1,048 1,930
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.44% 8.14% 8.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.29% 19.59% 21.05%
Number of salaries quoted 587 770 1,542
10th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £105,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +13.51% +2.78%
75th Percentile £117,500 £122,500 £119,688
90th Percentile £142,500 £147,500 £146,250
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 5,012 5,351 9,170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 26.82% 41.59% 40.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3,507 3,931 7,630
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £125,000 £127,500 £126,250
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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -13 153 £100,000 - 113
West London -25 13 £61,250 +104.17% 11
South London -24 11 £62,600 -24.12% 2
East London -11 4 - - 14
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 27 (2.65%) Apache Spark
2 21 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (1.57%) Apache
4 15 (1.47%) Confluence
5 12 (1.18%) JBoss
6 11 (1.08%) Palantir Foundry
6 11 (1.08%) WebSphere
7 8 (0.79%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.49%) Camunda
9 4 (0.39%) Appian
9 4 (0.39%) Moodle
9 4 (0.39%) nginx
10 3 (0.29%) Liferay
11 2 (0.20%) CMS
12 1 (0.098%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.098%) CICS
12 1 (0.098%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.098%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.098%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.098%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.79%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.098%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 13 (1.28%) Maximo
2 4 (0.39%) Shopify
3 3 (0.29%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.29%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.098%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.098%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.098%) Endur
4 1 (0.098%) Findur
4 1 (0.098%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 459 (45.13%) AWS
2 188 (18.49%) GCP
3 157 (15.44%) Azure
4 85 (8.36%) Amazon EKS
5 83 (8.16%) SaaS
6 53 (5.21%) GitHub
7 31 (3.05%) AWS CloudFormation
8 30 (2.95%) OpenShift
9 27 (2.65%) Serverless
10 22 (2.16%) dbt
11 21 (2.06%) GitHub Copilot
12 20 (1.97%) Pulumi
13 18 (1.77%) Amazon Kinesis
13 18 (1.77%) Amazon S3
13 18 (1.77%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
14 17 (1.67%) Datadog
15 15 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
15 15 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
16 12 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.05%) TCP/IP
2 25 (2.46%) Broadband
3 20 (1.97%) HTTP
4 6 (0.59%) BGP
4 6 (0.59%) Multicast
4 6 (0.59%) VLAN
4 6 (0.59%) VPN
5 5 (0.49%) AMQP
6 3 (0.29%) Internet
6 3 (0.29%) Kerberos
6 3 (0.29%) Network Security
7 2 (0.20%) DHCP
7 2 (0.20%) DNS
7 2 (0.20%) Firewall
7 2 (0.20%) LAN
7 2 (0.20%) NAS
7 2 (0.20%) SAN
7 2 (0.20%) SNMP
7 2 (0.20%) WAN
8 1 (0.098%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (7.28%) NoSQL
2 73 (7.18%) Relational Database
3 70 (6.88%) PostgreSQL
4 42 (4.13%) RDBMS
5 34 (3.34%) SQL Server
6 30 (2.95%) DB2
7 22 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
8 21 (2.06%) MongoDB
9 18 (1.77%) Big Data
10 16 (1.57%) Hadoop
11 15 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (1.47%) DynamoDB
12 14 (1.38%) MySQL
13 13 (1.28%) Flink
14 12 (1.18%) Neo4j
14 12 (1.18%) Redis
15 10 (0.98%) Pentaho
16 9 (0.88%) BigQuery
17 8 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
17 8 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 68 (6.69%) TeamCity
2 50 (4.92%) Selenium
3 45 (4.42%) Jenkins
4 44 (4.33%) Git
5 33 (3.24%) Cucumber
6 25 (2.46%) GitLab
7 24 (2.36%) JIRA
8 16 (1.57%) Jaeger
9 15 (1.47%) Bitbucket
9 15 (1.47%) JUnit
10 14 (1.38%) Gradle
11 10 (0.98%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.98%) WebDriver
12 9 (0.88%) Maven
13 8 (0.79%) JMeter
14 7 (0.69%) Claude Code
14 7 (0.69%) Postman
15 5 (0.49%) SpecFlow
16 4 (0.39%) SonarQube
16 4 (0.39%) webpack
General
1 389 (38.25%) Finance
2 239 (23.50%) Banking
3 196 (19.27%) Social Skills
4 125 (12.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 114 (11.21%) Front Office
6 109 (10.72%) Law
7 92 (9.05%) Retail
8 84 (8.26%) Financial Institution
9 72 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
10 66 (6.49%) Public Sector
11 59 (5.80%) Back Office
12 54 (5.31%) Investment Banking
13 26 (2.56%) Telecoms
14 20 (1.97%) Games
14 20 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
15 17 (1.67%) Billing
16 13 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (0.79%) Legal
17 8 (0.79%) Marketing
17 8 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 347 (34.12%) Developer
2 281 (27.63%) Senior
3 268 (26.35%) Software Engineer
4 194 (19.08%) Java Developer
5 191 (18.78%) Java Engineer
6 145 (14.26%) Lead
7 108 (10.62%) Java Software Engineer
8 89 (8.75%) Senior Software Engineer
9 84 (8.26%) Senior Developer
10 77 (7.57%) Full-Stack Developer
11 72 (7.08%) Senior Java Engineer
12 70 (6.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 53 (5.21%) Lead Software Engineer
14 52 (5.11%) Senior Java Developer
15 49 (4.82%) Architect
15 49 (4.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 45 (4.42%) AWS Engineer
17 41 (4.03%) Development Engineer
17 41 (4.03%) Senior Java Software Engineer
18 40 (3.93%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (20.26%) Spring
2 177 (17.40%) React
3 160 (15.73%) Spring Boot
4 140 (13.77%) Kafka
5 111 (10.91%) REST
6 90 (8.85%) Node.js
7 73 (7.18%) .NET
8 61 (6.00%) RESTful
9 60 (5.90%) AngularJS
10 56 (5.51%) GraphQL
11 45 (4.42%) HTML
12 42 (4.13%) Web Services
13 39 (3.83%) CSS
14 38 (3.74%) SOAP
15 35 (3.44%) Redux
16 34 (3.34%) Elastic Stack
17 29 (2.85%) FIX Protocol
18 28 (2.75%) Hibernate
19 26 (2.56%) JSON
20 24 (2.36%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 191 (18.78%) Cloud Native
2 116 (11.41%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (6.10%) Product Ownership
4 57 (5.60%) Fixed Income
5 51 (5.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 47 (4.62%) Public Cloud
7 40 (3.93%) Equities
8 38 (3.74%) Blog
9 27 (2.65%) Derivative
10 26 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
11 25 (2.46%) Distributed Architecture
12 22 (2.16%) FPGA
13 19 (1.87%) Data Structures
14 18 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
15 16 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
16 15 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
17 14 (1.38%) Onboarding
18 13 (1.28%) Mobile Banking
19 12 (1.18%) e-Learning
19 12 (1.18%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 116 (11.41%) Linux
2 30 (2.95%) Unix
3 27 (2.65%) Windows
4 23 (2.26%) Android
5 8 (0.79%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.39%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.39%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.20%) CentOS
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.098%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (37.66%) Software Engineering
2 318 (31.27%) CI/CD
3 313 (30.78%) Agile
4 222 (21.83%) Microservices
5 202 (19.86%) DevOps
6 196 (19.27%) Test Automation
7 186 (18.29%) Full-Stack Development
8 176 (17.31%) Mentoring
9 153 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
10 148 (14.55%) Roadmaps
11 126 (12.39%) Technical Leadership
12 125 (12.29%) AI
13 123 (12.09%) Fintech
14 119 (11.70%) Containerisation
15 103 (10.13%) Continuous Improvement
16 99 (9.73%) Infrastructure as Code
17 93 (9.14%) Low Latency
18 91 (8.95%) Clean Code
19 81 (7.96%) Computer Science
20 71 (6.98%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 301 (29.60%) Python
2 193 (18.98%) JavaScript
3 152 (14.95%) SQL
4 130 (12.78%) TypeScript
5 115 (11.31%) Go
6 86 (8.46%) C#
7 73 (7.18%) C++
8 56 (5.51%) Kotlin
9 38 (3.74%) C
10 36 (3.54%) Bash
11 27 (2.65%) Rust
12 22 (2.16%) Scala
13 14 (1.38%) PowerShell
14 9 (0.88%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.79%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.79%) PHP
16 7 (0.69%) Perl
16 7 (0.69%) Ruby
17 6 (0.59%) VBA
18 5 (0.49%) RPG
Qualifications
1 133 (13.08%) Security Cleared
2 120 (11.80%) Degree
3 85 (8.36%) SC Cleared
4 59 (5.80%) DV Cleared
5 48 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (3.54%) AWS Certification
7 24 (2.36%) Master's Degree
8 16 (1.57%) OSCP
9 15 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (1.47%) CREST Certified
10 12 (1.18%) Azure Certification
10 12 (1.18%) PhD
11 8 (0.79%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.69%) OSCE
13 4 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (0.39%) ISEB
13 4 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.29%) CCSAM
14 3 (0.29%) GPEN
14 3 (0.29%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (3.54%) QA
2 16 (1.57%) GDPR
2 16 (1.57%) PCI DSS
3 15 (1.47%) SOC 2
4 11 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (0.98%) Data Quality
5 10 (0.98%) GRC
6 8 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.59%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.39%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.39%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.39%) SLA
9 3 (0.29%) NIST
10 2 (0.20%) WCAG
11 1 (0.098%) MiFID
11 1 (0.098%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 146 (14.36%) Docker
2 7 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.59%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (0.39%) KVM
5 3 (0.29%) HDFS
6 2 (0.20%) Firmware
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.098%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.098%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.098%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.098%) Squid
7 1 (0.098%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.098%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.098%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 250 (24.58%) Kubernetes
2 139 (13.67%) Terraform
3 76 (7.47%) Grafana
4 38 (3.74%) Ansible
5 29 (2.85%) Argo
6 28 (2.75%) Prometheus
7 16 (1.57%) Kustomize
8 8 (0.79%) Kibana
9 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.29%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.20%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Flashback
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.098%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.098%) Nagios
12 1 (0.098%) Packer
12 1 (0.098%) Rancher
12 1 (0.098%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 37 (3.64%) Google
2 26 (2.56%) Oracle
3 25 (2.46%) IBM
4 22 (2.16%) Microsoft
5 16 (1.57%) MuleSoft
6 14 (1.38%) Informatica
6 14 (1.38%) Talend
7 13 (1.28%) Foundry
8 12 (1.18%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.08%) Databricks
9 11 (1.08%) Palantir
10 10 (0.98%) OpenAI
10 10 (0.98%) Splunk
11 8 (0.79%) Atlassian
11 8 (0.79%) Dell
11 8 (0.79%) Solace
11 8 (0.79%) VMware
12 7 (0.69%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.69%) SAP
13 6 (0.59%) ServiceNow