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 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 35 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 -19 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 151 172 421
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 4.19% 6.63% 11.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.41% 14.79% 26.35%
Number of salaries quoted 117 128 379
10th Percentile £68,250 £60,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £81,250 £81,250 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -2.63%
75th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £148,250 £123,000
London median annual salary £95,000 £105,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +13.51% +2.78%

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 1,048 1,163 1,598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 29.11% 44.82% 45.38%
Number of salaries quoted 797 934 1,388
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,375 £47,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £58,750 £60,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £111,750 £120,000 £115,000
London median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year - +3.13% +3.23%

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 3 April 2026.

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 3 April 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
City of London -12 127 £100,000 +2.04% 109
West End of London +14 6 £83,750 -18.29% 1
City of Westminster +22 4 £85,000 -
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 2 (1.32%) Apache
1 2 (1.32%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.32%) nginx
2 1 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.66%) CICS
2 1 (0.66%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 69 (45.70%) AWS
2 20 (13.25%) Azure
3 16 (10.60%) GCP
4 6 (3.97%) SaaS
5 4 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.65%) Datadog
5 4 (2.65%) Pulumi
6 3 (1.99%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.32%) GitHub
7 2 (1.32%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.32%) Stripe
8 1 (0.66%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.66%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.66%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (0.66%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (0.66%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 1 (0.66%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.66%) dbt
8 1 (0.66%) OCI
8 1 (0.66%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.99%) Network Security
2 2 (1.32%) DHCP
2 2 (1.32%) DNS
2 2 (1.32%) LAN
2 2 (1.32%) NAS
2 2 (1.32%) SAN
2 2 (1.32%) SNMP
2 2 (1.32%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.32%) WAN
3 1 (0.66%) Broadband
3 1 (0.66%) HTTP
3 1 (0.66%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.66%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.28%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.97%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.65%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.32%) Big Data
4 2 (1.32%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.32%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.32%) MySQL
4 2 (1.32%) Power BI
4 2 (1.32%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.66%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.66%) DB2
5 1 (0.66%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.66%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.66%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (3.97%) Gradle
2 5 (3.31%) JIRA
3 3 (1.99%) Selenium
4 2 (1.32%) Git
4 2 (1.32%) GitLab
5 1 (0.66%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.66%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.66%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.66%) MLflow
General
1 36 (23.84%) Finance
2 31 (20.53%) Social Skills
3 27 (17.88%) Front Office
4 17 (11.26%) Banking
5 10 (6.62%) Financial Institution
6 5 (3.31%) Marketing
7 4 (2.65%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.65%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.99%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.99%) Law
9 2 (1.32%) Advertising
9 2 (1.32%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.32%) Legal
10 1 (0.66%) Cantonese Language
10 1 (0.66%) French Language
10 1 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.66%) Retail
10 1 (0.66%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (33.77%) Developer
2 40 (26.49%) Senior
3 37 (24.50%) Java Engineer
4 32 (21.19%) Software Engineer
5 29 (19.21%) Java Developer
6 28 (18.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 28 (18.54%) Lead
7 20 (13.25%) Java Software Engineer
8 18 (11.92%) Senior Developer
9 12 (7.95%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (7.95%) Senior Java Engineer
10 8 (5.30%) Front Office Developer
10 8 (5.30%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 8 (5.30%) Senior Software Engineer
11 7 (4.64%) AWS Software Engineer
11 7 (4.64%) Senior Java Developer
12 6 (3.97%) DV Cleared Java Developer
12 6 (3.97%) Full-Stack Developer
13 5 (3.31%) Architect
13 5 (3.31%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (18.54%) React
2 25 (16.56%) Spring
2 25 (16.56%) Spring Boot
3 24 (15.89%) .NET
4 20 (13.25%) Node.js
5 13 (8.61%) Kafka
6 12 (7.95%) FIX Protocol
7 7 (4.64%) CSS
7 7 (4.64%) HTML
8 6 (3.97%) AngularJS
8 6 (3.97%) REST
9 5 (3.31%) Vue
10 4 (2.65%) Java Concurrency
11 3 (1.99%) LDAP
11 3 (1.99%) Web Services
12 2 (1.32%) OpenTelemetry
12 2 (1.32%) Playwright
12 2 (1.32%) RabbitMQ
12 2 (1.32%) RESTful
13 1 (0.66%) Phoenix
Miscellaneous
1 40 (26.49%) Cloud Native
2 19 (12.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (7.95%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (7.28%) Derivative
5 5 (3.31%) Equities
5 5 (3.31%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.65%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.65%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (2.65%) NHS
6 4 (2.65%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.99%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.99%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.99%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.99%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.99%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.32%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.32%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.32%) FPGA
8 2 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.62%) Linux
2 4 (2.65%) Windows
3 2 (1.32%) CentOS
3 2 (1.32%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.32%) Unix
4 1 (0.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (30.46%) Software Engineering
2 40 (26.49%) CI/CD
3 34 (22.52%) Full-Stack Development
3 34 (22.52%) Test Automation
4 32 (21.19%) Computer Science
5 29 (19.21%) Agile
6 25 (16.56%) DevOps
7 24 (15.89%) Low Latency
7 24 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (14.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (14.57%) Technical Leadership
9 19 (12.58%) AI
10 18 (11.92%) Fintech
10 18 (11.92%) Mentoring
10 18 (11.92%) User Experience
11 17 (11.26%) Microservices
12 16 (10.60%) Electronic Trading
12 16 (10.60%) Prototyping
12 16 (10.60%) Software Delivery
12 16 (10.60%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 36 (23.84%) Python
2 25 (16.56%) JavaScript
3 20 (13.25%) C#
4 18 (11.92%) TypeScript
5 16 (10.60%) SQL
6 11 (7.28%) Kotlin
7 10 (6.62%) Go
8 5 (3.31%) C++
8 5 (3.31%) Perl
9 4 (2.65%) Bash
9 4 (2.65%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.65%) Ruby
10 3 (1.99%) C
10 3 (1.99%) Objective-C
10 3 (1.99%) Rust
11 1 (0.66%) COBOL
11 1 (0.66%) JCL
11 1 (0.66%) Korn
11 1 (0.66%) Scala
11 1 (0.66%) VBA
Qualifications
1 36 (23.84%) Degree
2 15 (9.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (8.61%) Security Cleared
4 10 (6.62%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.99%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.99%) CCSAM
5 3 (1.99%) CREST Certified
5 3 (1.99%) GPEN
5 3 (1.99%) GXPN
5 3 (1.99%) OSCE
5 3 (1.99%) OSCP
6 2 (1.32%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.99%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (1.32%) QA
3 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.66%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (6.62%) Docker
2 2 (1.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (15.23%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.64%) Terraform
3 4 (2.65%) Ansible
4 2 (1.32%) Argo
4 2 (1.32%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.32%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (1.32%) Red Hat Spacewalk
5 1 (0.66%) Grafana
5 1 (0.66%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.66%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (3.97%) Microsoft
1 6 (3.97%) Solace
2 5 (3.31%) Guidewire
2 5 (3.31%) Oracle
3 3 (1.99%) Dell
3 3 (1.99%) OpenAI
3 3 (1.99%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.32%) Google
4 2 (1.32%) HP
4 2 (1.32%) iManage
4 2 (1.32%) Revolut
4 2 (1.32%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.66%) Databricks
5 1 (0.66%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.66%) IBM
5 1 (0.66%) JDA
5 1 (0.66%) Splunk
5 1 (0.66%) Temenos
5 1 (0.66%) VMware