Java Jobs in Central London

Java
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central 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 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 22 9
Rank change year-on-year -3 -13 0
Permanent jobs citing Java 219 327 802
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 9.45% 8.89% 16.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.18% 20.49% 32.95%
Number of salaries quoted 175 284 702
10th Percentile £62,250 £61,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £65,938 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £85,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% -8.11% +2.78%
75th Percentile £120,000 £108,125 £112,500
90th Percentile £148,250 £122,500 £130,000
London median annual salary £105,000 £97,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% +5.88%

All Programming Languages
Central 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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,034 1,596 2,434
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 44.63% 43.40% 49.64%
Number of salaries quoted 833 1,236 2,183
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £127,500 £115,000 £117,500
London median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% - +6.67%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Central London

Java
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Java in Central London

Java
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Central London over the 6 months to 13 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Java in Central London

Java
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Central London region over the 6 months to 13 July 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
City of London -5 189 £90,000 +5.88% 52
City of Westminster +2 12 - - 1
West End of London +12 6 £102,500 - 2
Camden -9 6 - -
Southwark -8 2 £55,000 -
Kensington and Chelsea -3 1 - -
Lambeth - 1 - -
Java
London

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.91%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.91%) Confluence
2 2 (0.91%) Ethereum
2 2 (0.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (0.91%) Solana
3 1 (0.46%) Alfresco
3 1 (0.46%) Apache
3 1 (0.46%) Camunda
3 1 (0.46%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.46%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.28%) Endur
2 4 (1.83%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (1.83%) SimCorp Dimension
3 3 (1.37%) Adaptiv
3 3 (1.37%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.46%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 87 (39.73%) AWS
2 68 (31.05%) Azure
3 31 (14.16%) GitHub
4 27 (12.33%) GCP
5 25 (11.42%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (11.42%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (9.59%) Datadog
7 13 (5.94%) Serverless
8 9 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (4.11%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (4.11%) Pulumi
9 8 (3.65%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (3.65%) npm
10 6 (2.74%) SaaS
11 5 (2.28%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (1.83%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.83%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (1.83%) AWS Step Functions
12 4 (1.83%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.20%) Broadband
2 2 (0.91%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (14.16%) Relational Database
2 17 (7.76%) SQL Server
3 16 (7.31%) RDBMS
4 15 (6.85%) NoSQL
5 12 (5.48%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.74%) Big Data
6 6 (2.74%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.83%) ClickHouse
7 4 (1.83%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.83%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.83%) Hadoop
7 4 (1.83%) MySQL
7 4 (1.83%) OLAP
7 4 (1.83%) OLTP
7 4 (1.83%) Power BI
7 4 (1.83%) Redis
7 4 (1.83%) Tableau
8 3 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (5.48%) SonarQube
2 10 (4.57%) Git
2 10 (4.57%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.65%) JIRA
4 7 (3.20%) Jaeger
4 7 (3.20%) JUnit
5 6 (2.74%) Maven
6 5 (2.28%) Gradle
7 4 (1.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.37%) Selenium
9 2 (0.91%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.91%) JMeter
9 2 (0.91%) Mockito
9 2 (0.91%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.91%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.91%) Subversion
9 2 (0.91%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.91%) WebDriver
9 2 (0.91%) Xcode
9 2 (0.91%) XCTest
General
1 73 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 63 (28.77%) Finance
3 47 (21.46%) Banking
4 21 (9.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (9.13%) Front Office
6 15 (6.85%) Investment Banking
7 12 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (4.11%) Law
9 8 (3.65%) Billing
10 5 (2.28%) Games
10 5 (2.28%) Retail
11 4 (1.83%) Advertising
11 4 (1.83%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.37%) French Language
12 3 (1.37%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.46%) Legal
Job Titles
1 81 (36.99%) Developer
2 52 (23.74%) Lead
3 32 (14.61%) Software Engineer
4 31 (14.16%) Senior
5 24 (10.96%) Java Developer
6 19 (8.68%) DevOps Engineer
7 14 (6.39%) Java Engineer
8 13 (5.94%) Analyst
8 13 (5.94%) Lead Software Engineer
9 12 (5.48%) Senior Developer
10 11 (5.02%) Java Software Engineer
10 11 (5.02%) Platform Engineer
10 11 (5.02%) Python Developer
11 10 (4.57%) Software Developer
12 9 (4.11%) Team Leader
13 8 (3.65%) Electronic Trading Developer
13 8 (3.65%) Lead Data Engineer
13 8 (3.65%) Lead Developer
13 8 (3.65%) Qualitative Analyst
13 8 (3.65%) Quantitative Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (17.81%) .NET
2 38 (17.35%) React
3 22 (10.05%) Spring
4 19 (8.68%) Kafka
4 19 (8.68%) RESTful
5 18 (8.22%) Node.js
6 12 (5.48%) Spring Boot
7 10 (4.57%) Elastic Stack
7 10 (4.57%) OpenTelemetry
7 10 (4.57%) REST
8 9 (4.11%) ARM Templates
9 7 (3.20%) Middleware
9 7 (3.20%) Web Services
10 6 (2.74%) FIX Protocol
10 6 (2.74%) JSON
11 5 (2.28%) Hibernate
11 5 (2.28%) HTML
11 5 (2.28%) Pandas
11 5 (2.28%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (1.83%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 44 (20.09%) Cloud Native
2 24 (10.96%) Onboarding
3 14 (6.39%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (5.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (4.57%) Algorithms
6 8 (3.65%) Fixed Income
7 7 (3.20%) Derivative
7 7 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (3.20%) Market Risk
7 7 (3.20%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.74%) Public Cloud
9 5 (2.28%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.28%) Equities
9 5 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.83%) Cyberattack
10 4 (1.83%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.83%) Mobile Games
10 4 (1.83%) Swaptions
11 3 (1.37%) Blockchain
11 3 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.13%) Linux
2 14 (6.39%) Unix
3 6 (2.74%) Android
4 4 (1.83%) Windows
5 2 (0.91%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (46.58%) Agile
2 88 (40.18%) DevOps
3 70 (31.96%) CI/CD
4 55 (25.11%) Software Engineering
5 53 (24.20%) Migration
6 49 (22.37%) Containerisation
7 44 (20.09%) Computer Science
8 41 (18.72%) Microservices
9 39 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
10 38 (17.35%) Mentoring
11 33 (15.07%) Infrastructure as Code
12 31 (14.16%) Continuous Improvement
13 28 (12.79%) Platform Engineering
14 27 (12.33%) Stakeholder Management
15 26 (11.87%) Roadmaps
16 25 (11.42%) Low Latency
16 25 (11.42%) Multithreading
16 25 (11.42%) Software Delivery
16 25 (11.42%) Test Automation
17 23 (10.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 108 (49.32%) Python
2 57 (26.03%) C#
3 42 (19.18%) SQL
4 39 (17.81%) JavaScript
5 27 (12.33%) C++
6 23 (10.50%) TypeScript
7 20 (9.13%) Go
8 18 (8.22%) Bash
9 13 (5.94%) Rust
10 11 (5.02%) PowerShell
11 10 (4.57%) Scala
12 4 (1.83%) MATLAB
12 4 (1.83%) VB
13 3 (1.37%) F#
13 3 (1.37%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.37%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.37%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.91%) Groovy
14 2 (0.91%) Objective-C
14 2 (0.91%) Swift
Qualifications
1 52 (23.74%) Degree
2 27 (12.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (9.59%) Master's Degree
4 14 (6.39%) Security Cleared
5 10 (4.57%) DV Cleared
6 9 (4.11%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.74%) CFA
7 6 (2.74%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (2.74%) PMI Certification
7 6 (2.74%) PMP
8 4 (1.83%) PhD
8 4 (1.83%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.46%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.85%) QA
2 6 (2.74%) GDPR
3 4 (1.83%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.83%) SLA
4 2 (0.91%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.46%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.46%) ITGC
System Software
1 46 (21.00%) Docker
2 1 (0.46%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 54 (24.66%) Kubernetes
2 37 (16.89%) Terraform
3 21 (9.59%) Prometheus
4 14 (6.39%) Ansible
5 9 (4.11%) Argo
6 7 (3.20%) Kustomize
7 4 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.37%) Grafana
8 3 (1.37%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.37%) Puppet
9 1 (0.46%) Consul
9 1 (0.46%) Istio
9 1 (0.46%) Packer
9 1 (0.46%) Salt
Vendors
1 25 (11.42%) Google
2 21 (9.59%) Guidewire
3 12 (5.48%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.48%) Oracle
4 7 (3.20%) Murex
4 7 (3.20%) Solace
5 5 (2.28%) OpenLink
6 4 (1.83%) Informatica
6 4 (1.83%) New Relic
6 4 (1.83%) SimCorp
6 4 (1.83%) Sybase
6 4 (1.83%) TIBCO
7 3 (1.37%) Barracuda Networks
7 3 (1.37%) FIS
7 3 (1.37%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.91%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.91%) Databricks
8 2 (0.91%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.91%) Splunk
8 2 (0.91%) Talend