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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 30 23
Rank change year-on-year +6 -7 -19
Permanent jobs citing Java 95 69 107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 13.21% 7.78% 14.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 49.48% 33.01% 26.16%
Number of salaries quoted 38 44 27
10th Percentile £49,267 £24,000 £41,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £110,313 £83,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £95,250 £92,750
London median annual salary £105,000 £95,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% +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 192 209 409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 26.70% 23.56% 56.18%
Number of salaries quoted 82 157 170
10th Percentile £33,450 £37,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £53,125 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% +13.21%
75th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 £78,750
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 16 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 16 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
Merton +19 37 £82,500 -13.16% 1
Croydon -12 36 - - 5
Kingston Upon Thames - 14 £52,656 -
Bromley - 7 - -
Sutton +14 3 - -
Wandsworth - 1 - - 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 13 (13.68%) JBoss
1 13 (13.68%) Red Hat Fuse
2 6 (6.32%) OpenStack
3 3 (3.16%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 86 (90.53%) AWS
2 34 (35.79%) Serverless
3 32 (33.68%) Amazon EKS
4 30 (31.58%) Amazon ECS
5 20 (21.05%) Pulumi
6 12 (12.63%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (7.37%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (6.32%) Amazon S3
8 6 (6.32%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (5.26%) AWS KMS
10 4 (4.21%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (4.21%) Azure
11 2 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 20 (21.05%) Broadband
2 4 (4.21%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (52.63%) Relational Database
2 31 (32.63%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (32.63%) RDBMS
3 20 (21.05%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.21%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (4.21%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 31 (32.63%) Jenkins
2 27 (28.42%) JUnit
3 20 (21.05%) Git
3 20 (21.05%) Jaeger
4 12 (12.63%) Mockito
5 11 (11.58%) JMeter
6 1 (1.05%) DbUnit
6 1 (1.05%) jMock
6 1 (1.05%) Maven
6 1 (1.05%) SonarQube
General
1 29 (30.53%) Finance
1 29 (30.53%) Financial Institution
2 25 (26.32%) Public Sector
3 22 (23.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (12.63%) Social Skills
5 5 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.21%) Banking
6 4 (4.21%) Law
7 3 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (34.74%) Software Engineer
2 32 (33.68%) Developer
3 30 (31.58%) Java Developer
4 25 (26.32%) Java Engineer
4 25 (26.32%) Java Software Engineer
5 20 (21.05%) Lead
5 20 (21.05%) Team Leader
6 14 (14.74%) Senior
7 11 (11.58%) Senior Java Engineer
7 11 (11.58%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 11 (11.58%) Senior Software Engineer
8 7 (7.37%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (7.37%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 4 (4.21%) Architect
9 4 (4.21%) AWS Architect
9 4 (4.21%) Cloud Architect
10 3 (3.16%) Analyst
10 3 (3.16%) Senior Analyst
10 3 (3.16%) Senior Technical Analyst
10 3 (3.16%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (63.16%) Spring
2 59 (62.11%) Spring Boot
3 35 (36.84%) Kafka
4 31 (32.63%) REST
4 31 (32.63%) Web Services
5 30 (31.58%) Elastic Stack
6 29 (30.53%) AngularJS
7 25 (26.32%) Akka
8 24 (25.26%) Apache Camel
9 20 (21.05%) OpenTelemetry
10 15 (15.79%) RxJava
10 15 (15.79%) Spring WebFlux
11 14 (14.74%) HTML
11 14 (14.74%) RESTful
11 14 (14.74%) SOAP
12 13 (13.68%) J2EE
13 12 (12.63%) ActiveMQ
13 12 (12.63%) Hibernate
13 12 (12.63%) Node.js
14 11 (11.58%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 31 (32.63%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (7.37%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.21%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.11%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (23.16%) Linux
2 20 (21.05%) Unix
3 2 (2.11%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (95.79%) Agile
2 60 (63.16%) Microservices
3 56 (58.95%) TDD
4 50 (52.63%) BDD
5 49 (51.58%) DevOps
6 41 (43.16%) Software Engineering
7 36 (37.89%) Containerisation
8 35 (36.84%) CI/CD
8 35 (36.84%) High Availability
9 30 (31.58%) Mentoring
10 27 (28.42%) Scrum
11 25 (26.32%) Continuous Integration
11 25 (26.32%) Fintech
11 25 (26.32%) Pair Programming
12 24 (25.26%) Cost Optimisation
12 24 (25.26%) Infrastructure as Code
12 24 (25.26%) Product Management
12 24 (25.26%) Resource Management
13 23 (24.21%) Kanban
14 20 (21.05%) Budget Control
Programming Languages
1 39 (41.05%) JavaScript
1 39 (41.05%) Python
2 22 (23.16%) Go
3 20 (21.05%) Bash
4 11 (11.58%) Shell Script
5 8 (8.42%) Rust
6 2 (2.11%) C
6 2 (2.11%) C++
7 1 (1.05%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (27.37%) Security Cleared
2 24 (25.26%) AWS Certification
2 24 (25.26%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.53%) Degree
4 4 (4.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.11%) Chartered Engineer
5 2 (2.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.68%) SLA
2 4 (4.21%) GDPR
2 4 (4.21%) HIPAA
System Software
1 85 (89.47%) Docker
2 1 (1.05%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 85 (89.47%) Kubernetes
2 35 (36.84%) Ansible
3 26 (27.37%) Terraform
4 24 (25.26%) Prometheus
5 20 (21.05%) Argo
5 20 (21.05%) Kustomize
6 11 (11.58%) Kibana
7 4 (4.21%) Grafana
Vendors
1 20 (21.05%) Google
2 11 (11.58%) Dynatrace
2 11 (11.58%) Splunk
3 2 (2.11%) Microsoft