Java Jobs in Merton

Java
South London > Merton

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Merton requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 23 14
Rank change year-on-year +20 -9 -11
Permanent jobs citing Java 30 5 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merton 44.12% 3.91% 20.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 78.95% 27.78% 26.42%
Number of salaries quoted 29 5 8
10th Percentile £46,500 £86,500 -
25th Percentile £78,750 £92,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £95,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% +80.95% -30.00%
75th Percentile £111,250 £107,500 £91,250
90th Percentile - £112,750 £92,375
South London median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +15.38%

All Programming Languages
Merton

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 Merton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 38 18 106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merton 55.88% 14.06% 77.37%
Number of salaries quoted 36 14 28
10th Percentile £50,750 £56,250 £41,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £63,000 £43,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% +39.13% -23.33%
75th Percentile £108,438 £96,875 £82,813
90th Percentile £111,250 £104,500 £93,250
South London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% +14.29%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Merton

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Merton.

Job vacancy trend for Java in Merton

Java
Salary Trend in Merton

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java in Merton.

Salary trend for Java in Merton

Java
Salary Histogram in Merton

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Merton over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Java in Merton

Java
Job Locations in Merton

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Merton region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
Wimbledon +4 23 £82,500 -24.14%
New Malden - 6 £46,500 -
Morden - 1 - -
Java
South London

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merton by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 24 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (10.00%) Azure
3 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
General
1 23 (76.67%) Finance
1 23 (76.67%) Financial Institution
2 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 27 (90.00%) Software Engineer
2 23 (76.67%) Java Engineer
2 23 (76.67%) Java Software Engineer
3 10 (33.33%) Senior
3 10 (33.33%) Senior Java Engineer
3 10 (33.33%) Senior Java Software Engineer
3 10 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Developer
5 1 (3.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (76.67%) Akka
1 23 (76.67%) AngularJS
1 23 (76.67%) Kafka
1 23 (76.67%) Spring
1 23 (76.67%) Spring Boot
2 13 (43.33%) RxJava
2 13 (43.33%) Spring WebFlux
3 1 (3.33%) .NET
3 1 (3.33%) Node.js
3 1 (3.33%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.33%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Android
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (100.00%) Agile
1 30 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 23 (76.67%) BDD
2 23 (76.67%) Fintech
2 23 (76.67%) Microservices
2 23 (76.67%) Pair Programming
2 23 (76.67%) TDD
3 13 (43.33%) CI/CD
3 13 (43.33%) Concurrent Programming
3 13 (43.33%) Multithreading
4 12 (40.00%) DevOps
5 11 (36.67%) Containerisation
6 10 (33.33%) High Availability
7 7 (23.33%) Mathematics
8 6 (20.00%) Computer Science
9 4 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (13.33%) DevSecOps
9 4 (13.33%) Software Testing
9 4 (13.33%) Test Automation
10 2 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (23.33%) Python
1 7 (23.33%) Rust
2 2 (6.67%) C
3 1 (3.33%) C++
3 1 (3.33%) Go
3 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) Chartered Engineer
3 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 24 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.33%) Ansible
2 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft