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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 28 18
Rank change year-on-year -15 -10 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 153 185 367
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 3.53% 7.97% 10.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.87% 17.96% 22.81%
Number of salaries quoted 121 140 328
10th Percentile £65,000 £64,625 £62,125
25th Percentile £81,250 £75,938 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £98,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +8.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £148,875 £122,500
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 1,029 1,030 1,609
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 23.73% 44.36% 44.52%
Number of salaries quoted 792 820 1,296
10th Percentile £51,775 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +3.23% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £105,313 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £126,250 £115,000
London median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year - +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 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 3 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 -13 140 £100,000 +8.11% 77
West End of London +9 5 £85,000 -17.07%
City of Westminster +12 3 £87,500 - 6
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 (1.31%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.65%) CICS
2 1 (0.65%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 58 (37.91%) AWS
2 22 (14.38%) Azure
3 17 (11.11%) GCP
4 6 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.61%) Pulumi
6 3 (1.96%) GitHub
7 2 (1.31%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.31%) SaaS
7 2 (1.31%) Serverless
7 2 (1.31%) Stripe
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.65%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (0.65%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.65%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.65%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 1 (0.65%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.65%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (0.65%) OCI
8 1 (0.65%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.96%) Network Security
2 1 (0.65%) Broadband
2 1 (0.65%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.65%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.19%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.61%) Geospatial Data
3 3 (1.96%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.96%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.31%) Big Data
4 2 (1.31%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.31%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.31%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.31%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.65%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.65%) DB2
5 1 (0.65%) MySQL
5 1 (0.65%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.65%) Power BI
5 1 (0.65%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.65%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 8 (5.23%) Gradle
2 5 (3.27%) Git
2 5 (3.27%) JIRA
3 4 (2.61%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.96%) Selenium
5 2 (1.31%) GitLab
5 2 (1.31%) JUnit
5 2 (1.31%) Maven
5 2 (1.31%) Mockito
5 2 (1.31%) Spock
6 1 (0.65%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.65%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.65%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.65%) Katalon Studio
General
1 45 (29.41%) Finance
2 27 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 21 (13.73%) Front Office
4 16 (10.46%) Banking
5 11 (7.19%) Financial Institution
6 10 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.61%) Marketing
7 4 (2.61%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.96%) Law
9 2 (1.31%) Advertising
9 2 (1.31%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.31%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.31%) Legal
9 2 (1.31%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.65%) Cantonese Language
10 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Retail
10 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (35.29%) Developer
2 38 (24.84%) Java Engineer
3 37 (24.18%) Software Engineer
4 34 (22.22%) Java Developer
5 31 (20.26%) Senior
6 24 (15.69%) Java Software Engineer
7 19 (12.42%) Lead
8 17 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 15 (9.80%) AWS Engineer
9 15 (9.80%) Senior Developer
10 10 (6.54%) AWS Software Engineer
10 10 (6.54%) Senior Software Engineer
11 9 (5.88%) Consultant
11 9 (5.88%) Java Consultant
12 8 (5.23%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 8 (5.23%) Senior Java Developer
13 7 (4.58%) Development Consultant
13 7 (4.58%) Senior Java Engineer
13 7 (4.58%) Software Consultant
13 7 (4.58%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (20.92%) Spring Boot
2 27 (17.65%) Spring
3 18 (11.76%) React
4 14 (9.15%) .NET
4 14 (9.15%) Kafka
5 10 (6.54%) FIX Protocol
6 9 (5.88%) Node.js
7 7 (4.58%) REST
8 6 (3.92%) CSS
8 6 (3.92%) HTML
9 5 (3.27%) AngularJS
10 3 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (1.96%) Middleware
10 3 (1.96%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (1.96%) Vue
10 3 (1.96%) Web Services
11 2 (1.31%) OpenTelemetry
11 2 (1.31%) Playwright
12 1 (0.65%) FastAPI
12 1 (0.65%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 30 (19.61%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.92%) Virtual Team
5 5 (3.27%) Derivative
6 4 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.61%) NHS
6 4 (2.61%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.61%) Reinsurance
7 3 (1.96%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.96%) Equities
7 3 (1.96%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.96%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.96%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.31%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.31%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.31%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.31%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.31%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.54%) Linux
2 4 (2.61%) Windows
3 2 (1.31%) Unix
4 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (34.64%) Software Engineering
2 34 (22.22%) DevOps
3 30 (19.61%) Agile
4 27 (17.65%) Full-Stack Development
5 26 (16.99%) CI/CD
6 23 (15.03%) AI
6 23 (15.03%) Computer Science
6 23 (15.03%) Low Latency
7 22 (14.38%) Mentoring
8 19 (12.42%) Microservices
8 19 (12.42%) Roadmaps
9 17 (11.11%) Test Automation
10 16 (10.46%) Code Quality
10 16 (10.46%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (10.46%) Fintech
11 15 (9.80%) Mathematics
12 14 (9.15%) Technical Leadership
13 12 (7.84%) Decision-Making
13 12 (7.84%) Electronic Trading
13 12 (7.84%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 38 (24.84%) Python
2 23 (15.03%) C#
3 19 (12.42%) SQL
4 14 (9.15%) JavaScript
5 12 (7.84%) C++
5 12 (7.84%) TypeScript
6 11 (7.19%) Go
7 6 (3.92%) Bash
7 6 (3.92%) Rust
8 5 (3.27%) R
9 4 (2.61%) C
9 4 (2.61%) Julia
9 4 (2.61%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.61%) MATLAB
9 4 (2.61%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.96%) Objective-C
10 3 (1.96%) Perl
10 3 (1.96%) Ruby
10 3 (1.96%) VBA
11 1 (0.65%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 26 (16.99%) Degree
2 15 (9.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (4.58%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.27%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.96%) CCSAM
5 3 (1.96%) CREST Certified
5 3 (1.96%) GPEN
5 3 (1.96%) GXPN
5 3 (1.96%) OSCE
5 3 (1.96%) OSCP
6 2 (1.31%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.31%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.27%) GDPR
2 3 (1.96%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (1.96%) QA
3 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.65%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (7.84%) Docker
2 2 (1.31%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 18 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.88%) Terraform
3 4 (2.61%) Ansible
3 4 (2.61%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.96%) Grafana
5 1 (0.65%) Argo
5 1 (0.65%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 8 (5.23%) Solace
2 6 (3.92%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.27%) Oracle
4 4 (2.61%) Guidewire
4 4 (2.61%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.96%) Google
5 3 (1.96%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.96%) Splunk
6 2 (1.31%) iManage
6 2 (1.31%) JDA
6 2 (1.31%) Revolut
7 1 (0.65%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.65%) Databricks
7 1 (0.65%) Dell
7 1 (0.65%) IBM
7 1 (0.65%) Palantir
7 1 (0.65%) Pega
7 1 (0.65%) Temenos
7 1 (0.65%) VMware