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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 33 18
Rank change year-on-year -9 -15 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 152 178 410
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 3.95% 6.86% 11.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.23% 15.28% 25.53%
Number of salaries quoted 116 129 368
10th Percentile £69,375 £65,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £81,250 £81,250 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £107,188 £120,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £151,500 £125,000
London median annual salary £90,000 £105,000 £94,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +11.11% +5.00%

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 1,068 1,165 1,606
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 27.76% 44.88% 45.02%
Number of salaries quoted 809 928 1,378
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,025 £47,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,750 £120,375 £115,000
London median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year - +3.13% +2.38%

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 16 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 16 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 -8 130 £100,000 +2.56% 78
West End of London +14 5 £85,000 -17.07%
City of Westminster +18 3 £87,500 -
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 68 (44.74%) AWS
2 21 (13.82%) Azure
3 19 (12.50%) GCP
4 4 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (2.63%) Pulumi
4 4 (2.63%) SaaS
5 3 (1.97%) Datadog
5 3 (1.97%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.32%) GitHub
6 2 (1.32%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.32%) Serverless
6 2 (1.32%) Stripe
7 1 (0.66%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.66%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.66%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (0.66%) Azure AI
7 1 (0.66%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 1 (0.66%) dbt
7 1 (0.66%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (0.66%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.97%) 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%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.66%) LTE
3 1 (0.66%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.24%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.95%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.63%) 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 (3.95%) Gradle
2 5 (3.29%) JIRA
3 3 (1.97%) Git
3 3 (1.97%) Selenium
4 1 (0.66%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.66%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.66%) GitLab
4 1 (0.66%) Jaeger
4 1 (0.66%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.66%) MLflow
General
1 37 (24.34%) Finance
2 29 (19.08%) Social Skills
3 26 (17.11%) Front Office
4 17 (11.18%) Banking
5 9 (5.92%) Financial Institution
6 5 (3.29%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.29%) Marketing
7 4 (2.63%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.97%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.97%) Law
9 2 (1.32%) Advertising
9 2 (1.32%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.32%) Legal
9 2 (1.32%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.66%) Billing
10 1 (0.66%) Cantonese Language
10 1 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Retail
10 1 (0.66%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 48 (31.58%) Developer
2 38 (25.00%) Java Engineer
3 37 (24.34%) Senior
4 35 (23.03%) Software Engineer
5 29 (19.08%) Java Developer
6 27 (17.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 26 (17.11%) Lead
8 23 (15.13%) Java Software Engineer
9 17 (11.18%) Senior Developer
10 14 (9.21%) AWS Engineer
11 11 (7.24%) Senior Java Engineer
12 9 (5.92%) AWS Software Engineer
12 9 (5.92%) Senior Software Engineer
13 8 (5.26%) Architect
13 8 (5.26%) Front Office Developer
13 8 (5.26%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 7 (4.61%) Senior Java Developer
15 6 (3.95%) DV Cleared Java Developer
15 6 (3.95%) Full-Stack Developer
16 5 (3.29%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (17.76%) React
2 26 (17.11%) Spring Boot
3 24 (15.79%) Spring
4 23 (15.13%) .NET
5 19 (12.50%) Node.js
6 13 (8.55%) Kafka
7 11 (7.24%) FIX Protocol
8 7 (4.61%) CSS
8 7 (4.61%) HTML
9 6 (3.95%) AngularJS
9 6 (3.95%) REST
10 5 (3.29%) Vue
11 3 (1.97%) Java Concurrency
11 3 (1.97%) LDAP
11 3 (1.97%) Middleware
12 2 (1.32%) OpenTelemetry
12 2 (1.32%) Playwright
12 2 (1.32%) RabbitMQ
12 2 (1.32%) RESTful
12 2 (1.32%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 37 (24.34%) Cloud Native
2 18 (11.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.92%) Derivative
5 5 (3.29%) Equities
6 4 (2.63%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.63%) NHS
6 4 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.63%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.97%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.97%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.97%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.97%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.97%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.32%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.32%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.32%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.32%) FPGA
8 2 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.58%) Linux
2 4 (2.63%) 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 50 (32.89%) Software Engineering
2 38 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 33 (21.71%) Full-Stack Development
4 31 (20.39%) Test Automation
5 30 (19.74%) Agile
5 30 (19.74%) Computer Science
6 27 (17.76%) DevOps
7 23 (15.13%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (15.13%) Technical Leadership
8 22 (14.47%) Low Latency
9 21 (13.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (13.16%) AI
11 19 (12.50%) Microservices
12 18 (11.84%) Fintech
12 18 (11.84%) Mentoring
13 17 (11.18%) Roadmaps
13 17 (11.18%) User Experience
14 15 (9.87%) Clean Code
14 15 (9.87%) Prototyping
14 15 (9.87%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 36 (23.68%) Python
2 26 (17.11%) JavaScript
3 20 (13.16%) C#
4 19 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 17 (11.18%) SQL
6 10 (6.58%) Go
7 9 (5.92%) Kotlin
8 6 (3.95%) C++
9 5 (3.29%) Perl
10 4 (2.63%) Bash
10 4 (2.63%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.63%) Ruby
11 3 (1.97%) C
11 3 (1.97%) Objective-C
11 3 (1.97%) Rust
12 1 (0.66%) COBOL
12 1 (0.66%) Cypher
12 1 (0.66%) Elm
12 1 (0.66%) JCL
12 1 (0.66%) VBA
Qualifications
1 34 (22.37%) Degree
2 14 (9.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (8.55%) Security Cleared
4 10 (6.58%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.97%) CCSAM
5 3 (1.97%) CREST Certified
5 3 (1.97%) GPEN
5 3 (1.97%) GXPN
5 3 (1.97%) OSCE
5 3 (1.97%) OSCP
5 3 (1.97%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.32%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.97%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (1.32%) QA
3 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.66%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (7.24%) Docker
2 2 (1.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (14.47%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.26%) Terraform
3 4 (2.63%) 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
Vendors
1 6 (3.95%) Microsoft
1 6 (3.95%) Solace
2 5 (3.29%) Oracle
3 4 (2.63%) Guidewire
4 3 (1.97%) Dell
4 3 (1.97%) Google
4 3 (1.97%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.97%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.32%) HP
5 2 (1.32%) iManage
5 2 (1.32%) Revolut
5 2 (1.32%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.66%) Databricks
6 1 (0.66%) IBM
6 1 (0.66%) JDA
6 1 (0.66%) Splunk
6 1 (0.66%) Temenos
6 1 (0.66%) VMware