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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 24 18
Rank change year-on-year -19 -6 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 153 206 338
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 3.43% 9.12% 9.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.44% 20.18% 21.09%
Number of salaries quoted 123 170 294
10th Percentile £61,250 £63,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £81,250 £75,000 £66,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £97,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +14.71% -8.11%
75th Percentile £106,250 £120,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £124,500 £148,875 £122,500
London median annual salary £85,000 £105,000 £97,500
% change year-on-year -19.05% +7.69% +8.33%

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 991 1,021 1,603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 22.21% 45.20% 44.63%
Number of salaries quoted 772 835 1,263
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £46,450
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £57,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +10.00% -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,375 £127,500 £115,000
London median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -

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 July 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 July 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 -20 145 £100,000 +11.11% 102
West End of London +6 5 £85,000 -17.07% 10
City of Westminster +14 3 £87,500 - 9
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 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.65%) Camunda
1 1 (0.65%) CICS
1 1 (0.65%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 55 (35.95%) AWS
2 21 (13.73%) Azure
3 20 (13.07%) GCP
4 5 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.61%) GitHub
5 4 (2.61%) Pulumi
6 3 (1.96%) Vertex AI
7 2 (1.31%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (1.31%) Cloud Run
7 2 (1.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (1.31%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.31%) Serverless
7 2 (1.31%) Stripe
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon Neptune
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.65%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.65%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.65%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.96%) Network Security
2 1 (0.65%) Broadband
2 1 (0.65%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.65%) Internet
2 1 (0.65%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.65%) LTE
2 1 (0.65%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.84%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.92%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (2.61%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.61%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.96%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.31%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.31%) Cloud Spanner
5 2 (1.31%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.31%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.65%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.65%) Db2
6 1 (0.65%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.65%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.65%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.65%) SQLPlus
6 1 (0.65%) Stardog
6 1 (0.65%) Trino
6 1 (0.65%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 7 (4.58%) Git
1 7 (4.58%) Gradle
2 5 (3.27%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.96%) JIRA
3 3 (1.96%) JUnit
3 3 (1.96%) Maven
3 3 (1.96%) Mockito
3 3 (1.96%) Spock
4 2 (1.31%) GitLab
5 1 (0.65%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.65%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.65%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.65%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (0.65%) Selenium
General
1 46 (30.07%) Finance
2 31 (20.26%) Social Skills
3 17 (11.11%) Front Office
4 14 (9.15%) Banking
5 12 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (6.54%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.96%) Advertising
7 3 (1.96%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.31%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.31%) Retail
9 1 (0.65%) Cantonese Language
9 1 (0.65%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Law
9 1 (0.65%) Marketing
9 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.65%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 58 (37.91%) Developer
2 35 (22.88%) Java Developer
3 33 (21.57%) Senior
4 32 (20.92%) Java Engineer
4 32 (20.92%) Software Engineer
5 16 (10.46%) Java Software Engineer
6 14 (9.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 14 (9.15%) Lead
6 14 (9.15%) Senior Developer
7 11 (7.19%) AWS Engineer
7 11 (7.19%) Senior Software Engineer
8 9 (5.88%) Consultant
8 9 (5.88%) Java Consultant
8 9 (5.88%) Senior Java Engineer
9 8 (5.23%) AWS Software Engineer
9 8 (5.23%) Python Engineer
9 8 (5.23%) Senior Java Developer
10 7 (4.58%) Development Consultant
10 7 (4.58%) Software Consultant
10 7 (4.58%) Software Development Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (22.88%) Spring Boot
2 31 (20.26%) Spring
3 17 (11.11%) React
4 15 (9.80%) Kafka
5 11 (7.19%) .NET
6 10 (6.54%) REST
7 9 (5.88%) FIX Protocol
8 6 (3.92%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (3.92%) Node.js
9 5 (3.27%) AngularJS
10 4 (2.61%) CSS
10 4 (2.61%) HTML
10 4 (2.61%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (1.96%) Middleware
11 3 (1.96%) OpenTelemetry
11 3 (1.96%) Vue
11 3 (1.96%) Web Services
12 2 (1.31%) FastAPI
12 2 (1.31%) LangChain
12 2 (1.31%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 33 (21.57%) Cloud Native
2 16 (10.46%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (9.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (4.58%) Reinsurance
5 6 (3.92%) Virtual Team
6 5 (3.27%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.61%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.61%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.61%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.61%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.61%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.96%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.96%) Equities
8 3 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.96%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.31%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.31%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.31%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.65%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.50%) Linux
2 4 (2.61%) Windows
3 2 (1.31%) Unix
4 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (37.25%) Software Engineering
2 38 (24.84%) DevOps
3 37 (24.18%) Agile
4 30 (19.61%) CI/CD
5 28 (18.30%) AI
6 25 (16.34%) Microservices
7 24 (15.69%) Mentoring
8 23 (15.03%) Computer Science
8 23 (15.03%) Full-Stack Development
9 22 (14.38%) Low Latency
10 21 (13.73%) Roadmaps
11 18 (11.76%) Code Quality
12 17 (11.11%) Containerisation
13 16 (10.46%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (10.46%) Decision-Making
13 16 (10.46%) Mathematics
14 14 (9.15%) Fintech
15 12 (7.84%) Infrastructure as Code
15 12 (7.84%) Migration
15 12 (7.84%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 48 (31.37%) Python
2 25 (16.34%) C#
3 22 (14.38%) SQL
4 16 (10.46%) C++
5 13 (8.50%) JavaScript
6 12 (7.84%) Go
6 12 (7.84%) TypeScript
7 10 (6.54%) Rust
8 9 (5.88%) Bash
9 8 (5.23%) R
10 7 (4.58%) Julia
10 7 (4.58%) MATLAB
11 5 (3.27%) VBA
12 4 (2.61%) C
12 4 (2.61%) Kotlin
12 4 (2.61%) PowerShell
12 4 (2.61%) Ruby
13 3 (1.96%) Objective-C
13 3 (1.96%) Perl
14 2 (1.31%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 24 (15.69%) Degree
2 17 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (5.88%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.27%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.61%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.96%) CCSAM
6 3 (1.96%) CREST Certified
6 3 (1.96%) GPEN
6 3 (1.96%) GXPN
6 3 (1.96%) OSCE
6 3 (1.96%) OSCP
7 2 (1.31%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.54%) GDPR
2 3 (1.96%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.31%) QA
4 1 (0.65%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.65%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (11.11%) Docker
2 4 (2.61%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (1.31%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (18.30%) Kubernetes
2 14 (9.15%) Terraform
3 8 (5.23%) Prometheus
4 7 (4.58%) Ansible
4 7 (4.58%) Grafana
5 1 (0.65%) Argo
5 1 (0.65%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 7 (4.58%) Solace
2 6 (3.92%) Google
2 6 (3.92%) Guidewire
2 6 (3.92%) Splunk
3 5 (3.27%) OpenAI
3 5 (3.27%) Oracle
4 3 (1.96%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.96%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.31%) JDA
5 2 (1.31%) Palantir
5 2 (1.31%) Revolut
6 1 (0.65%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.65%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.65%) Dell
6 1 (0.65%) IBM
6 1 (0.65%) Pega
6 1 (0.65%) Temenos
6 1 (0.65%) VMware