Java Job Trends in West London

Java
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West London requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 42 46
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 -10
Permanent jobs citing Java 12 17 6
As % of all permanent jobs in West London 1.97% 4.31% 1.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.14% 25.37% 6.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5 7 4
10th Percentile - - £49,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £25,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £30,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +175.00% -53.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £92,500 £45,375 £84,375
90th Percentile £95,500 £63,450 £101,250
London median annual salary £100,000 £105,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -

All Programming Languages
West 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 West London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 70 67 95
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West London 11.48% 17.01% 21.30%
Number of salaries quoted 33 37 88
10th Percentile £30,050 £25,000 £42,125
25th Percentile £32,750 £41,250 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,200 £62,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.65% +7.83% +4.55%
75th Percentile £85,000 £69,000 £69,063
90th Percentile £103,500 £78,350 £82,500
London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - - +3.23%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Java relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West London.

Java job vacancy trend in West London

Java
Salary Trend in West London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in West London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in West London over the 6 months to 16 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Java in West London

Java
Job Locations in West London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the West London region over the 6 months to 16 February 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
Hammersmith -3 3 - -
Ealing - 3 - - 2
Hillingdon - 2 £32,500 - 2
Wembley - 1 - - 4
Java
London

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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 1 (8.33%) Apache
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) AWS
2 7 (58.33%) Pulumi
3 1 (8.33%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (8.33%) dbt
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) NoSQL
1 7 (58.33%) RDBMS
1 7 (58.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Jaeger
2 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 2 (16.67%) Postman
2 2 (16.67%) Selenium
2 2 (16.67%) SoapUI
2 2 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (16.67%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (58.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Lead
2 4 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) CloudOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Lead CloudOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Team Leader
3 2 (16.67%) Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Data Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Team Leader
4 1 (8.33%) Java Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Kafka Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) Elastic Stack
1 7 (58.33%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (16.67%) .NET
2 2 (16.67%) HTML
2 2 (16.67%) Kafka
2 2 (16.67%) SOAP
3 1 (8.33%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (8.33%) Akka
3 1 (8.33%) JMS
3 1 (8.33%) OAuth
3 1 (8.33%) OpenID
3 1 (8.33%) PySpark
3 1 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (8.33%) RxJava
3 1 (8.33%) Spring
3 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (8.33%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Linux
1 7 (58.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Agile
1 10 (83.33%) Mentoring
2 8 (66.67%) DevOps
2 8 (66.67%) High Availability
2 8 (66.67%) Roadmaps
3 7 (58.33%) Budget Control
3 7 (58.33%) Containerisation
3 7 (58.33%) Continuous Integration
3 7 (58.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 7 (58.33%) GitOps
3 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (58.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 7 (58.33%) Product Management
3 7 (58.33%) Resource Management
3 7 (58.33%) Task Automation
4 2 (16.67%) Logistics
4 2 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Software Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Test Management
4 2 (16.67%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Python
2 8 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 7 (58.33%) Bash
3 7 (58.33%) Go
4 3 (25.00%) SQL
5 2 (16.67%) C#
6 1 (8.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) ISTQB
2 2 (16.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 7 (58.33%) Ansible
2 7 (58.33%) Argo
2 7 (58.33%) Kustomize
2 7 (58.33%) Prometheus
2 7 (58.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) Databricks