Java Jobs in South London

Java
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South London 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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 27 23
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 -19
Permanent jobs citing Java 88 71 107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 14.38% 7.96% 13.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 56.05% 33.65% 24.26%
Number of salaries quoted 41 45 28
10th Percentile £50,454 £24,000 £41,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £61,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £94,500 £92,375
London median annual salary £107,500 £95,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +13.16% +5.56% +5.88%

All Programming Languages
South 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 South London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 157 211 441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 25.65% 23.65% 57.57%
Number of salaries quoted 88 159 182
10th Percentile £42,150 £39,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £53,438 £53,063 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £86,250 £83,500 £79,688
90th Percentile £111,250 £86,000 £90,000
London median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% - +6.67%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in South London

Java
Salary Trend in South London

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

Salary trend for Java in South London

Java
Salary Histogram in South London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in South London over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Java in South London

Java
Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the South London region over the 6 months to 6 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
Croydon -9 41 £62,500 -16.67% 3
Merton +21 30 £82,500 -13.16% 2
Kingston Upon Thames - 12 £52,656 -
Bromley - 6 - -
Sutton +17 1 - -
Java
London

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (13.64%) JBoss
1 12 (13.64%) Red Hat Fuse
2 6 (6.82%) OpenStack
3 3 (3.41%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 79 (89.77%) AWS
2 39 (44.32%) Serverless
3 37 (42.05%) Amazon EKS
4 35 (39.77%) Amazon ECS
5 20 (22.73%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (10.23%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (7.95%) AWS KMS
8 6 (6.82%) Amazon S3
8 6 (6.82%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (4.55%) Azure
10 2 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.55%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (43.18%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (39.77%) Relational Database
3 17 (19.32%) RDBMS
4 12 (13.64%) Amazon Aurora
4 12 (13.64%) DynamoDB
5 3 (3.41%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 38 (43.18%) Jenkins
2 34 (38.64%) JUnit
3 21 (23.86%) Git
4 20 (22.73%) Mockito
5 17 (19.32%) JMeter
6 3 (3.41%) DbUnit
6 3 (3.41%) jMock
6 3 (3.41%) Maven
6 3 (3.41%) SonarQube
General
1 35 (39.77%) Finance
1 35 (39.77%) Financial Institution
2 32 (36.36%) Public Sector
3 12 (13.64%) Banking
3 12 (13.64%) Law
3 12 (13.64%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.68%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 39 (44.32%) Developer
1 39 (44.32%) Software Engineer
2 37 (42.05%) Java Developer
3 23 (26.14%) Java Engineer
3 23 (26.14%) Java Software Engineer
4 13 (14.77%) Senior
5 10 (11.36%) Senior Java Engineer
5 10 (11.36%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 10 (11.36%) Senior Software Engineer
6 9 (10.23%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (10.23%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 4 (4.55%) Architect
7 4 (4.55%) AWS Architect
7 4 (4.55%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (3.41%) Analyst
8 3 (3.41%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 3 (3.41%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (3.41%) Senior Technical Analyst
8 3 (3.41%) Technical Analyst
9 2 (2.27%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (82.95%) Spring
2 70 (79.55%) Spring Boot
3 38 (43.18%) REST
3 38 (43.18%) Web Services
4 35 (39.77%) AngularJS
5 33 (37.50%) Kafka
6 29 (32.95%) Apache Camel
7 23 (26.14%) Akka
8 20 (22.73%) ActiveMQ
8 20 (22.73%) Hibernate
8 20 (22.73%) HTML
8 20 (22.73%) Node.js
9 18 (20.45%) React
10 17 (19.32%) jQuery
10 17 (19.32%) WireMock
11 15 (17.05%) RESTful
11 15 (17.05%) SOAP
12 13 (14.77%) RxJava
12 13 (14.77%) Spring WebFlux
13 12 (13.64%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 38 (43.18%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (7.95%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.27%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.27%) Android
1 2 (2.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (95.45%) Agile
2 65 (73.86%) Microservices
3 61 (69.32%) TDD
4 55 (62.50%) BDD
5 47 (53.41%) Software Engineering
6 41 (46.59%) CI/CD
7 34 (38.64%) Scrum
8 30 (34.09%) Kanban
9 28 (31.82%) DevOps
10 23 (26.14%) Fintech
10 23 (26.14%) Pair Programming
10 23 (26.14%) SDLC
11 22 (25.00%) Computer Science
12 19 (21.59%) Full-Stack Development
13 18 (20.45%) Mentoring
13 18 (20.45%) Technical Leadership
14 17 (19.32%) Architectural Design
14 17 (19.32%) Process Management
14 17 (19.32%) Workflow
15 16 (18.18%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 25 (28.41%) JavaScript
1 25 (28.41%) Python
2 17 (19.32%) Shell Script
3 8 (9.09%) Rust
4 3 (3.41%) SQL
5 2 (2.27%) C
5 2 (2.27%) C++
5 2 (2.27%) Go
Qualifications
1 33 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 31 (35.23%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.36%) Degree
4 4 (4.55%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.27%) Chartered Engineer
5 2 (2.27%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.64%) SLA
2 4 (4.55%) GDPR
2 4 (4.55%) HIPAA
System Software
1 76 (86.36%) Docker
2 1 (1.14%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 76 (86.36%) Kubernetes
2 17 (19.32%) Kibana
3 14 (15.91%) Ansible
4 6 (6.82%) Terraform
5 4 (4.55%) Grafana
5 4 (4.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (19.32%) Dynatrace
1 17 (19.32%) Splunk
2 2 (2.27%) Microsoft