Java Job Trends in Central London

Java
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 30 10
Rank change year-on-year 0 -20 +2
Permanent jobs citing Java 172 222 509
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 9.17% 6.93% 15.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.43% 15.57% 31.07%
Number of salaries quoted 158 170 467
10th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £65,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £120,000 £107,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £120,000 £130,000
London median annual salary £105,000 £100,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% +2.86%

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 734 1,426 1,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 39.13% 44.51% 49.92%
Number of salaries quoted 613 996 1,499
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £48,950
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £78,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.46% +4.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £115,000 £120,000
London median annual salary £80,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +0.63% - +6.67%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Java job vacancy trend in Central London

Java
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Central London over the 6 months to 6 November 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 6 November 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 +2 160 £97,500 +14.71% 415
City of Westminster +23 1 £57,500 - 3
West End of London +6 1 £57,500 -26.98% 17
Java
London

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central 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 4 (2.33%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.16%) Luigi
2 2 (1.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.91%) Adaptiv
2 2 (1.16%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.58%) Endur
3 1 (0.58%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 58 (33.72%) AWS
2 30 (17.44%) Azure
3 24 (13.95%) Datadog
4 16 (9.30%) GCP
5 11 (6.40%) SaaS
6 9 (5.23%) GitHub
6 9 (5.23%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.49%) Serverless
9 4 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.33%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.74%) Google App Engine
10 3 (1.74%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.16%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.16%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.16%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.16%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (1.16%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (1.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.58%) HTTP
1 1 (0.58%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (15.12%) Relational Database
2 8 (4.65%) ClickHouse
3 6 (3.49%) Big Data
3 6 (3.49%) Hadoop
4 5 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.33%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.74%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.74%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.74%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.16%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.16%) KDB
7 2 (1.16%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.16%) OLAP
7 2 (1.16%) OLTP
8 1 (0.58%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.58%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.58%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.58%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 6 (3.49%) SonarQube
2 3 (1.74%) Git
2 3 (1.74%) JUnit
2 3 (1.74%) Selenium
3 2 (1.16%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.16%) JMeter
3 2 (1.16%) TeamCity
3 2 (1.16%) WebDriver
4 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.58%) GitLab
4 1 (0.58%) JIRA
4 1 (0.58%) Katalon Studio
General
1 67 (38.95%) Social Skills
2 40 (23.26%) Finance
3 26 (15.12%) Banking
4 22 (12.79%) Front Office
5 19 (11.05%) Billing
6 11 (6.40%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (5.81%) Financial Institution
8 6 (3.49%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.74%) Advertising
9 3 (1.74%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.16%) Law
11 1 (0.58%) French Language
11 1 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.58%) Retail
11 1 (0.58%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 78 (45.35%) Developer
2 37 (21.51%) Senior
3 29 (16.86%) Lead
4 15 (8.72%) Java Engineer
4 15 (8.72%) Senior Developer
5 13 (7.56%) Java Developer
6 11 (6.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 10 (5.81%) Senior Java Engineer
8 8 (4.65%) Architect
8 8 (4.65%) Head of IT
9 7 (4.07%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (3.49%) Analyst
10 6 (3.49%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 6 (3.49%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
10 6 (3.49%) Software Engineer
11 5 (2.91%) Development Team Leader
11 5 (2.91%) Front Office Developer
11 5 (2.91%) Qualitative Analyst
11 5 (2.91%) Quantitative Analyst
11 5 (2.91%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (23.26%) .NET
2 32 (18.60%) React
3 24 (13.95%) Kafka
4 21 (12.21%) RESTful
5 17 (9.88%) Node.js
6 16 (9.30%) Spring
7 15 (8.72%) Spring Boot
8 6 (3.49%) Java Concurrency
9 5 (2.91%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (1.74%) FIX Protocol
10 3 (1.74%) JSON
10 3 (1.74%) REST
11 2 (1.16%) Apache Thrift
11 2 (1.16%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (1.16%) HTML
11 2 (1.16%) Middleware
11 2 (1.16%) Quarkus
12 1 (0.58%) CSS
12 1 (0.58%) JDBC
12 1 (0.58%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 48 (27.91%) Cloud Native
2 46 (26.74%) Onboarding
3 16 (9.30%) Algorithms
3 16 (9.30%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (7.56%) Equities
5 11 (6.40%) Market Risk
6 10 (5.81%) Derivative
7 5 (2.91%) Credit Risk
7 5 (2.91%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (2.91%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.74%) Fixed Income
10 2 (1.16%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.16%) Sports Betting
11 1 (0.58%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.58%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.58%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.58%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.74%) Linux
2 1 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (40.70%) Agile
2 67 (38.95%) CI/CD
3 53 (30.81%) Migration
4 51 (29.65%) Test Automation
5 49 (28.49%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (27.91%) DevOps
7 47 (27.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 35 (20.35%) Computer Science
9 34 (19.77%) Microservices
10 31 (18.02%) Scrum
10 31 (18.02%) Stakeholder Management
11 27 (15.70%) Low Latency
12 24 (13.95%) Document Management
12 24 (13.95%) Error Analysis
12 24 (13.95%) Requirements Gathering
13 23 (13.37%) Software Delivery
14 22 (12.79%) Code Quality
15 21 (12.21%) Analytics
16 20 (11.63%) Collaborative Working
17 19 (11.05%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 75 (43.60%) Python
2 61 (35.47%) C#
3 32 (18.60%) SQL
4 20 (11.63%) TypeScript
5 19 (11.05%) C++
6 13 (7.56%) JavaScript
7 10 (5.81%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.91%) Go
9 4 (2.33%) Scala
10 3 (1.74%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.58%) COBOL
11 1 (0.58%) Groovy
11 1 (0.58%) R
11 1 (0.58%) Ruby
11 1 (0.58%) VB
Qualifications
1 33 (19.19%) Degree
2 15 (8.72%) Master's Degree
3 9 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (4.65%) CFA
4 8 (4.65%) ITIL Certification
4 8 (4.65%) PMI Certification
4 8 (4.65%) PMP
5 6 (3.49%) PhD
5 6 (3.49%) Security Cleared
6 4 (2.33%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.58%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.33%) QA
2 3 (1.74%) GDPR
3 2 (1.16%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.16%) SLA
4 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.58%) ITGC
System Software
1 9 (5.23%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (11.63%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.23%) Terraform
3 3 (1.74%) Ansible
3 3 (1.74%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.16%) Puppet
5 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (25.00%) Guidewire
2 8 (4.65%) Murex
3 5 (2.91%) FIS
3 5 (2.91%) Google
4 4 (2.33%) Databricks
4 4 (2.33%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.33%) Solace
5 3 (1.74%) Oracle
5 3 (1.74%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.58%) Dell
6 1 (0.58%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.58%) Foundry
6 1 (0.58%) Informatica
6 1 (0.58%) OpenLink
6 1 (0.58%) Palantir
6 1 (0.58%) Pega
6 1 (0.58%) SimCorp
6 1 (0.58%) Sybase
6 1 (0.58%) Talend
6 1 (0.58%) TIBCO