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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 34 10
Rank change year-on-year +9 -24 +2
Permanent jobs citing Java 176 219 501
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 9.04% 6.76% 15.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.59% 15.29% 30.95%
Number of salaries quoted 160 167 460
10th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £74,688 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £133,000 £120,000 £130,000
London median annual salary £105,000 £100,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% +2.86%

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 746 1,432 1,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 38.32% 44.20% 50.06%
Number of salaries quoted 619 1,002 1,484
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,625 £56,250 £58,775
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £110,000 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £115,000 £120,000
London median annual salary £80,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +0.63% - +6.67%

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 13 November 2025.

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 13 November 2025. 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 +7 164 £96,250 +13.24% 334
City of Westminster +31 1 £57,500 - 2
West End of London +5 1 £57,500 -26.98% 12
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 4 (2.27%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.14%) Luigi
2 2 (1.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.57%) Apache
3 1 (0.57%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.84%) Adaptiv
2 2 (1.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.57%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 61 (34.66%) AWS
2 29 (16.48%) Azure
3 23 (13.07%) Datadog
4 16 (9.09%) GCP
5 11 (6.25%) SaaS
6 8 (4.55%) GitHub
6 8 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (3.41%) Serverless
8 4 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.27%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.70%) Google App Engine
9 3 (1.70%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.14%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.14%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.14%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (1.14%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.14%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (1.14%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (1.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.57%) DHCP
1 1 (0.57%) DNS
1 1 (0.57%) HTTP
1 1 (0.57%) Kerberos
1 1 (0.57%) LAN
1 1 (0.57%) Multicast
1 1 (0.57%) NAS
1 1 (0.57%) SAN
1 1 (0.57%) SNMP
1 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (13.64%) Relational Database
2 8 (4.55%) ClickHouse
3 6 (3.41%) Big Data
3 6 (3.41%) Hadoop
4 5 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.70%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.70%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.70%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.70%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.14%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.14%) KDB
6 2 (1.14%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.14%) OLAP
6 2 (1.14%) OLTP
7 1 (0.57%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.57%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.57%) DB2
7 1 (0.57%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 5 (2.84%) SonarQube
2 3 (1.70%) Git
2 3 (1.70%) JUnit
2 3 (1.70%) Selenium
3 2 (1.14%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.14%) JMeter
3 2 (1.14%) TeamCity
3 2 (1.14%) WebDriver
4 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.57%) GitLab
4 1 (0.57%) JIRA
4 1 (0.57%) Katalon Studio
General
1 67 (38.07%) Social Skills
2 43 (24.43%) Finance
3 26 (14.77%) Banking
4 23 (13.07%) Front Office
5 18 (10.23%) Billing
6 11 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (5.68%) Financial Institution
8 6 (3.41%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.70%) Advertising
9 3 (1.70%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.14%) Law
11 1 (0.57%) French Language
11 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.57%) Retail
11 1 (0.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 76 (43.18%) Developer
2 38 (21.59%) Senior
3 30 (17.05%) Lead
4 16 (9.09%) Java Engineer
5 15 (8.52%) Senior Developer
6 13 (7.39%) Java Developer
7 11 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 10 (5.68%) Senior Java Engineer
9 9 (5.11%) Architect
9 9 (5.11%) Software Engineer
10 8 (4.55%) Head of IT
11 6 (3.41%) Analyst
11 6 (3.41%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (3.41%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 6 (3.41%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
12 5 (2.84%) Development Team Leader
12 5 (2.84%) Front Office Developer
12 5 (2.84%) Qualitative Analyst
12 5 (2.84%) Quantitative Analyst
12 5 (2.84%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (22.16%) .NET
2 31 (17.61%) React
3 25 (14.20%) Kafka
4 20 (11.36%) RESTful
5 17 (9.66%) Node.js
6 16 (9.09%) Spring
7 15 (8.52%) Spring Boot
8 7 (3.98%) Java Concurrency
9 5 (2.84%) FIX Protocol
9 5 (2.84%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (1.70%) JSON
10 3 (1.70%) REST
11 2 (1.14%) Apache Thrift
11 2 (1.14%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (1.14%) HTML
11 2 (1.14%) LDAP
11 2 (1.14%) Middleware
11 2 (1.14%) Quarkus
12 1 (0.57%) AWS CDK
12 1 (0.57%) Flutter
Miscellaneous
1 48 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 44 (25.00%) Onboarding
3 17 (9.66%) Algorithms
4 16 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (7.95%) Equities
6 12 (6.82%) Derivative
7 11 (6.25%) Market Risk
8 7 (3.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (2.84%) Credit Risk
9 5 (2.84%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.84%) Public Cloud
10 4 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.70%) Fixed Income
12 2 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (1.14%) Mobile App
12 2 (1.14%) Sports Betting
13 1 (0.57%) Distributed Computing
13 1 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
13 1 (0.57%) Private Cloud
13 1 (0.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.84%) Linux
2 1 (0.57%) CentOS
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (38.64%) Agile
2 66 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 51 (28.98%) Test Automation
4 49 (27.84%) Migration
4 49 (27.84%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (26.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 46 (26.14%) DevOps
6 36 (20.45%) Computer Science
7 33 (18.75%) Microservices
8 30 (17.05%) Scrum
8 30 (17.05%) Stakeholder Management
9 29 (16.48%) Low Latency
10 23 (13.07%) Document Management
10 23 (13.07%) Error Analysis
10 23 (13.07%) Requirements Gathering
11 22 (12.50%) Software Delivery
12 21 (11.93%) Analytics
12 21 (11.93%) Code Quality
13 20 (11.36%) Mathematics
14 19 (10.80%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 78 (44.32%) Python
2 59 (33.52%) C#
3 31 (17.61%) SQL
4 20 (11.36%) TypeScript
5 19 (10.80%) C++
6 16 (9.09%) JavaScript
7 13 (7.39%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.84%) Go
9 4 (2.27%) Scala
10 3 (1.70%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.57%) COBOL
11 1 (0.57%) Groovy
11 1 (0.57%) Perl
11 1 (0.57%) R
11 1 (0.57%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (19.32%) Degree
2 15 (8.52%) Master's Degree
3 10 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (5.11%) Security Cleared
5 8 (4.55%) CFA
5 8 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
5 8 (4.55%) PMI Certification
5 8 (4.55%) PMP
6 7 (3.98%) DV Cleared
7 6 (3.41%) PhD
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.27%) QA
2 3 (1.70%) GDPR
3 2 (1.14%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.14%) SLA
4 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.57%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.57%) ITGC
System Software
1 9 (5.11%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (13.07%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.11%) Terraform
3 4 (2.27%) Ansible
4 3 (1.70%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.14%) Puppet
6 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (23.30%) Guidewire
2 8 (4.55%) Murex
3 5 (2.84%) FIS
3 5 (2.84%) Google
4 4 (2.27%) Databricks
4 4 (2.27%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.27%) Solace
5 3 (1.70%) Oracle
5 3 (1.70%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.14%) Dell
7 1 (0.57%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.57%) Foundry
7 1 (0.57%) HP
7 1 (0.57%) Informatica
7 1 (0.57%) Palantir
7 1 (0.57%) Pega
7 1 (0.57%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.57%) SimCorp
7 1 (0.57%) Talend