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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 27 19
Rank change year-on-year -20 -8 -8
Permanent jobs citing Java 149 201 340
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 3.32% 8.87% 9.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.84% 19.82% 21.22%
Number of salaries quoted 120 164 295
10th Percentile £61,250 £62,375 £62,500
25th Percentile £81,250 £75,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £97,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +14.71% -8.11%
75th Percentile £105,313 £120,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £125,750 £149,625 £121,500
London median annual salary £85,000 £105,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% +5.56%

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 1,004 1,014 1,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 22.40% 44.77% 44.54%
Number of salaries quoted 784 825 1,259
10th Percentile £51,400 £52,500 £47,050
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +3.23% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £129,000 £115,000
London median annual salary £84,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% +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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -23 140 £100,000 +11.11% 36
West End of London +8 5 £85,000 -17.07%
City of Westminster +16 3 £87,500 - 3
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 (0.67%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.67%) CICS
1 1 (0.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 55 (36.91%) AWS
2 20 (13.42%) Azure
2 20 (13.42%) GCP
3 5 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (2.68%) GitHub
4 4 (2.68%) Pulumi
5 2 (1.34%) Cloud Functions
5 2 (1.34%) Cloud Run
5 2 (1.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (1.34%) OpenShift
5 2 (1.34%) Serverless
5 2 (1.34%) Stripe
5 2 (1.34%) Vertex AI
6 1 (0.67%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (0.67%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (0.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.67%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.67%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (0.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.01%) Network Security
2 1 (0.67%) Broadband
2 1 (0.67%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.67%) Internet
2 1 (0.67%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.67%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.38%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.03%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (2.68%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.68%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.01%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.34%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.34%) Cloud Spanner
5 2 (1.34%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.34%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.67%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.67%) Big Data
6 1 (0.67%) Db2
6 1 (0.67%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.67%) MySQL
6 1 (0.67%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.67%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.67%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.67%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.67%) Trino
Development Applications
1 7 (4.70%) Gradle
2 6 (4.03%) Git
3 5 (3.36%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.68%) JIRA
5 3 (2.01%) JUnit
5 3 (2.01%) Maven
5 3 (2.01%) Mockito
5 3 (2.01%) Spock
6 2 (1.34%) GitLab
6 2 (1.34%) Selenium
7 1 (0.67%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.67%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.67%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.67%) Katalon Studio
General
1 45 (30.20%) Finance
2 31 (20.81%) Social Skills
3 17 (11.41%) Front Office
4 14 (9.40%) Banking
5 12 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (6.71%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.01%) Advertising
7 3 (2.01%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.34%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.34%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.34%) Law
8 2 (1.34%) Retail
8 2 (1.34%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.67%) Cantonese Language
9 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Legal
9 1 (0.67%) Marketing
9 1 (0.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (38.26%) Developer
2 34 (22.82%) Java Developer
3 32 (21.48%) Software Engineer
4 31 (20.81%) Java Engineer
4 31 (20.81%) Senior
5 16 (10.74%) Java Software Engineer
6 15 (10.07%) Lead
7 14 (9.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 13 (8.72%) Senior Developer
9 11 (7.38%) AWS Engineer
9 11 (7.38%) Senior Software Engineer
10 9 (6.04%) Consultant
10 9 (6.04%) Java Consultant
11 8 (5.37%) AWS Software Engineer
11 8 (5.37%) Senior Java Engineer
12 7 (4.70%) Development Consultant
12 7 (4.70%) Python Engineer
12 7 (4.70%) Senior Java Developer
12 7 (4.70%) Software Development Consultant
12 7 (4.70%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (22.82%) Spring Boot
2 30 (20.13%) Spring
3 15 (10.07%) Kafka
3 15 (10.07%) React
4 10 (6.71%) .NET
5 9 (6.04%) FIX Protocol
5 9 (6.04%) REST
6 6 (4.03%) Node.js
7 5 (3.36%) AngularJS
7 5 (3.36%) CSS
7 5 (3.36%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (3.36%) HTML
8 4 (2.68%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (2.01%) Middleware
9 3 (2.01%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (2.01%) Vue
9 3 (2.01%) Web Services
10 1 (0.67%) Phoenix
10 1 (0.67%) Playwright
10 1 (0.67%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 31 (20.81%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 14 (9.40%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.70%) Reinsurance
5 6 (4.03%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.68%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.68%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.68%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.68%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.68%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.68%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.01%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.01%) Equities
7 3 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.01%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.34%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.34%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.34%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.34%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.05%) Linux
2 4 (2.68%) Windows
3 2 (1.34%) Unix
4 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (35.57%) Software Engineering
2 37 (24.83%) DevOps
3 33 (22.15%) Agile
4 28 (18.79%) CI/CD
5 24 (16.11%) AI
5 24 (16.11%) Mentoring
6 23 (15.44%) Full-Stack Development
7 22 (14.77%) Computer Science
7 22 (14.77%) Low Latency
7 22 (14.77%) Microservices
8 20 (13.42%) Roadmaps
9 18 (12.08%) Code Quality
10 16 (10.74%) Containerisation
10 16 (10.74%) Decision-Making
10 16 (10.74%) Mathematics
11 15 (10.07%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (8.72%) Fintech
12 13 (8.72%) Migration
13 12 (8.05%) Test Automation
14 11 (7.38%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 44 (29.53%) Python
2 25 (16.78%) C#
3 22 (14.77%) SQL
4 16 (10.74%) C++
5 13 (8.72%) JavaScript
6 12 (8.05%) Go
7 11 (7.38%) TypeScript
8 9 (6.04%) Rust
9 8 (5.37%) Bash
9 8 (5.37%) R
10 7 (4.70%) Julia
10 7 (4.70%) MATLAB
11 4 (2.68%) C
11 4 (2.68%) Kotlin
11 4 (2.68%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.68%) Ruby
11 4 (2.68%) VBA
12 3 (2.01%) Objective-C
12 3 (2.01%) Perl
13 2 (1.34%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 23 (15.44%) Degree
2 16 (10.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (6.04%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.36%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.68%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.01%) CCSAM
6 3 (2.01%) CREST Certified
6 3 (2.01%) GPEN
6 3 (2.01%) GXPN
6 3 (2.01%) OSCE
6 3 (2.01%) OSCP
7 2 (1.34%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.71%) GDPR
2 3 (2.01%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (2.01%) QA
3 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.67%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (10.74%) Docker
2 3 (2.01%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (1.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (18.12%) Kubernetes
2 13 (8.72%) Terraform
3 7 (4.70%) Prometheus
4 6 (4.03%) Ansible
4 6 (4.03%) Grafana
5 1 (0.67%) Argo
5 1 (0.67%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 7 (4.70%) Solace
2 6 (4.03%) Guidewire
3 5 (3.36%) Google
3 5 (3.36%) Oracle
3 5 (3.36%) Splunk
4 3 (2.01%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.01%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.01%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.34%) JDA
5 2 (1.34%) Palantir
5 2 (1.34%) Revolut
6 1 (0.67%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.67%) Dell
6 1 (0.67%) IBM
6 1 (0.67%) iManage
6 1 (0.67%) Pega
6 1 (0.67%) Temenos
6 1 (0.67%) VMware