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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 27 19
Rank change year-on-year -14 -8 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 159 198 352
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 3.55% 8.57% 9.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.32% 19.00% 21.93%
Number of salaries quoted 126 154 307
10th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £62,000
25th Percentile £81,563 £76,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £98,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +12.00% -7.89%
75th Percentile £105,938 £120,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £149,625 £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 1,038 1,042 1,605
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 23.21% 45.11% 44.11%
Number of salaries quoted 800 838 1,264
10th Percentile £51,250 £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 £107,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,125 £126,625 £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 15 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 15 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 -18 147 £100,000 +8.11% 42
West End of London +8 5 £85,000 -17.07% 2
City of Westminster +13 3 £87,500 - 1
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 (0.63%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.63%) CICS
1 1 (0.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 60 (37.74%) AWS
2 21 (13.21%) Azure
3 18 (11.32%) GCP
4 7 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.52%) GitHub
5 4 (2.52%) Pulumi
6 2 (1.26%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.26%) Serverless
6 2 (1.26%) Stripe
7 1 (0.63%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.63%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.63%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.63%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 1 (0.63%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (0.63%) Cloud Functions
7 1 (0.63%) Cloud Run
7 1 (0.63%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (0.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (0.63%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.89%) Network Security
2 1 (0.63%) Broadband
2 1 (0.63%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.63%) Internet
2 1 (0.63%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.63%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.18%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.77%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (2.52%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.52%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.89%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.26%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.26%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.63%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.63%) Big Data
6 1 (0.63%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.63%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (0.63%) Db2
6 1 (0.63%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.63%) MySQL
6 1 (0.63%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.63%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.63%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.63%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 8 (5.03%) Gradle
2 6 (3.77%) Git
3 5 (3.14%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.14%) JIRA
4 3 (1.89%) JUnit
4 3 (1.89%) Maven
4 3 (1.89%) Mockito
4 3 (1.89%) Spock
5 2 (1.26%) GitLab
5 2 (1.26%) Selenium
6 1 (0.63%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.63%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.63%) Katalon Studio
General
1 46 (28.93%) Finance
2 30 (18.87%) Social Skills
3 20 (12.58%) Front Office
4 14 (8.81%) Banking
5 12 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (6.92%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.52%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.89%) Law
8 3 (1.89%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.26%) Advertising
9 2 (1.26%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.26%) Legal
9 2 (1.26%) Marketing
9 2 (1.26%) Retail
10 1 (0.63%) Cantonese Language
10 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (35.22%) Developer
2 39 (24.53%) Java Engineer
3 38 (23.90%) Software Engineer
4 35 (22.01%) Java Developer
5 33 (20.75%) Senior
6 22 (13.84%) Java Software Engineer
7 17 (10.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 17 (10.69%) Lead
8 14 (8.81%) AWS Engineer
8 14 (8.81%) Senior Developer
9 12 (7.55%) Senior Software Engineer
10 9 (5.66%) AWS Software Engineer
10 9 (5.66%) Consultant
10 9 (5.66%) Java Consultant
10 9 (5.66%) Senior Java Engineer
11 8 (5.03%) Senior Java Developer
12 7 (4.40%) Development Consultant
12 7 (4.40%) Software Consultant
12 7 (4.40%) Software Development Consultant
12 7 (4.40%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (21.38%) Spring Boot
2 30 (18.87%) Spring
3 17 (10.69%) React
4 13 (8.18%) Kafka
5 12 (7.55%) .NET
6 11 (6.92%) FIX Protocol
7 8 (5.03%) Node.js
8 7 (4.40%) REST
9 6 (3.77%) CSS
9 6 (3.77%) HTML
10 5 (3.14%) AngularJS
10 5 (3.14%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (1.89%) Middleware
11 3 (1.89%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (1.89%) Vue
11 3 (1.89%) Web Services
12 2 (1.26%) OpenTelemetry
13 1 (0.63%) FastAPI
13 1 (0.63%) Playwright
13 1 (0.63%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 32 (20.13%) Cloud Native
2 17 (10.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 13 (8.18%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.40%) Reinsurance
5 6 (3.77%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.52%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.52%) Equities
6 4 (2.52%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.52%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.52%) NHS
6 4 (2.52%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.52%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.89%) Derivative
7 3 (1.89%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.89%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.26%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.26%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.55%) Linux
2 4 (2.52%) Windows
3 2 (1.26%) Unix
4 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (36.48%) Software Engineering
2 39 (24.53%) DevOps
3 32 (20.13%) Agile
4 28 (17.61%) CI/CD
5 27 (16.98%) Full-Stack Development
6 26 (16.35%) AI
6 26 (16.35%) Computer Science
7 24 (15.09%) Low Latency
8 23 (14.47%) Mentoring
9 21 (13.21%) Microservices
10 20 (12.58%) Roadmaps
11 19 (11.95%) Code Quality
12 18 (11.32%) Mathematics
13 17 (10.69%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (10.06%) Containerisation
14 16 (10.06%) Decision-Making
15 15 (9.43%) Fintech
15 15 (9.43%) Test Automation
16 14 (8.81%) Technical Leadership
17 13 (8.18%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 44 (27.67%) Python
2 27 (16.98%) C#
3 22 (13.84%) SQL
4 16 (10.06%) C++
5 13 (8.18%) JavaScript
6 12 (7.55%) Go
6 12 (7.55%) TypeScript
7 9 (5.66%) Rust
8 8 (5.03%) Bash
8 8 (5.03%) R
9 7 (4.40%) Julia
9 7 (4.40%) MATLAB
10 4 (2.52%) C
10 4 (2.52%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.52%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.52%) Ruby
10 4 (2.52%) VBA
11 3 (1.89%) Objective-C
11 3 (1.89%) Perl
12 2 (1.26%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 27 (16.98%) Degree
2 18 (11.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (5.66%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.14%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.52%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.89%) CCSAM
6 3 (1.89%) CREST Certified
6 3 (1.89%) GPEN
6 3 (1.89%) GXPN
6 3 (1.89%) OSCE
6 3 (1.89%) OSCP
7 2 (1.26%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.66%) GDPR
2 3 (1.89%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (1.89%) QA
3 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.63%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (9.43%) Docker
2 3 (1.89%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (1.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (15.09%) Kubernetes
2 12 (7.55%) Terraform
3 6 (3.77%) Ansible
3 6 (3.77%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.14%) Grafana
5 1 (0.63%) Argo
5 1 (0.63%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 8 (5.03%) Solace
2 5 (3.14%) Guidewire
2 5 (3.14%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.14%) Oracle
2 5 (3.14%) Splunk
3 4 (2.52%) Google
3 4 (2.52%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.89%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.26%) iManage
5 2 (1.26%) JDA
5 2 (1.26%) Palantir
5 2 (1.26%) Revolut
6 1 (0.63%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.63%) Databricks
6 1 (0.63%) Dell
6 1 (0.63%) IBM
6 1 (0.63%) Pega
6 1 (0.63%) Temenos
6 1 (0.63%) VMware