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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 35 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 -26 +3
Permanent jobs citing Java 165 209 498
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 7.83% 6.26% 15.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.35% 14.17% 31.01%
Number of salaries quoted 147 162 459
10th Percentile £57,500 £50,575 £53,750
25th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -8.11% -
75th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £111,875
90th Percentile £134,500 £129,750 £127,500
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 773 1,475 1,606
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 36.70% 44.21% 49.89%
Number of salaries quoted 637 1,054 1,474
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,250 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.33% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £106,250 £95,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £130,050 £118,000 £117,500
London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - - +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 29 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 29 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 +6 149 £100,000 +17.65% 40
City of Westminster +34 1 £57,500 -
West End of London +3 1 £57,500 -26.98%
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 3 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (1.82%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.21%) Apache
2 2 (1.21%) Luigi
2 2 (1.21%) nginx
Business Applications
1 4 (2.42%) Adaptiv
2 2 (1.21%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 59 (35.76%) AWS
2 24 (14.55%) Azure
3 21 (12.73%) Datadog
4 15 (9.09%) GCP
5 11 (6.67%) SaaS
6 6 (3.64%) GitHub
7 5 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (3.03%) Serverless
8 3 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.82%) Google App Engine
8 3 (1.82%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.21%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.21%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (1.21%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.21%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.61%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (0.61%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (0.61%) dbt
10 1 (0.61%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.21%) DHCP
1 2 (1.21%) DNS
1 2 (1.21%) LAN
1 2 (1.21%) NAS
1 2 (1.21%) SAN
1 2 (1.21%) SNMP
1 2 (1.21%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.21%) WAN
2 1 (0.61%) HTTP
2 1 (0.61%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.61%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (13.94%) Relational Database
2 8 (4.85%) ClickHouse
3 6 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.03%) Hadoop
5 4 (2.42%) Big Data
5 4 (2.42%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.82%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.82%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.21%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.21%) KDB
7 2 (1.21%) OLAP
7 2 (1.21%) OLTP
8 1 (0.61%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.61%) DB2
8 1 (0.61%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.61%) Kdb+
8 1 (0.61%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.61%) MySQL
8 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (1.82%) Git
1 3 (1.82%) JUnit
2 2 (1.21%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.21%) JMeter
2 2 (1.21%) Selenium
2 2 (1.21%) SonarQube
2 2 (1.21%) TeamCity
2 2 (1.21%) WebDriver
3 1 (0.61%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.61%) GitLab
3 1 (0.61%) Katalon Studio
General
1 65 (39.39%) Social Skills
2 37 (22.42%) Finance
3 24 (14.55%) Front Office
4 23 (13.94%) Banking
5 16 (9.70%) Billing
6 10 (6.06%) Financial Institution
7 7 (4.24%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (3.03%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.82%) Advertising
10 1 (0.61%) French Language
10 1 (0.61%) Law
10 1 (0.61%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.61%) Retail
10 1 (0.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 70 (42.42%) Developer
2 38 (23.03%) Senior
3 34 (20.61%) Lead
4 18 (10.91%) Java Engineer
5 17 (10.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 14 (8.48%) Senior Developer
7 12 (7.27%) Java Developer
7 12 (7.27%) Senior Java Engineer
8 10 (6.06%) Software Engineer
9 8 (4.85%) Architect
10 6 (3.64%) Head of IT
11 5 (3.03%) Development Team Leader
11 5 (3.03%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 5 (3.03%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
11 5 (3.03%) Front Office Developer
11 5 (3.03%) Java Architect
11 5 (3.03%) Team Leader
12 4 (2.42%) Java Development Team Leader
12 4 (2.42%) Technical Leader
12 4 (2.42%) Web Applications Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (24.24%) .NET
2 34 (20.61%) React
3 22 (13.33%) Node.js
4 20 (12.12%) Kafka
5 18 (10.91%) RESTful
6 16 (9.70%) Spring
7 13 (7.88%) Spring Boot
8 7 (4.24%) Java Concurrency
9 5 (3.03%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (2.42%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (1.82%) LDAP
12 2 (1.21%) Apache Thrift
12 2 (1.21%) Elastic Stack
12 2 (1.21%) HTML
12 2 (1.21%) JSON
12 2 (1.21%) Middleware
12 2 (1.21%) REST
12 2 (1.21%) Vue
13 1 (0.61%) GraphQL
13 1 (0.61%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 47 (28.48%) Cloud Native
2 40 (24.24%) Onboarding
3 17 (10.30%) Algorithms
4 15 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (8.48%) Equities
6 12 (7.27%) Derivative
7 10 (6.06%) Market Risk
8 7 (4.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (3.03%) Data Structures
10 4 (2.42%) Credit Risk
10 4 (2.42%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (1.21%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (1.21%) Fixed Income
12 2 (1.21%) FPGA
12 2 (1.21%) Mobile App
13 1 (0.61%) Distributed Computing
13 1 (0.61%) Mainframe
13 1 (0.61%) PKI
13 1 (0.61%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.64%) Linux
2 2 (1.21%) CentOS
2 2 (1.21%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (39.39%) CI/CD
2 64 (38.79%) Agile
3 53 (32.12%) Test Automation
4 50 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 40 (24.24%) Migration
7 38 (23.03%) Computer Science
8 37 (22.42%) DevOps
9 30 (18.18%) Microservices
10 28 (16.97%) Low Latency
10 28 (16.97%) Stakeholder Management
11 27 (16.36%) Scrum
12 23 (13.94%) Software Delivery
13 22 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
13 22 (13.33%) Prototyping
14 21 (12.73%) Document Management
14 21 (12.73%) Error Analysis
14 21 (12.73%) Requirements Gathering
15 19 (11.52%) Analytics
15 19 (11.52%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 67 (40.61%) Python
2 51 (30.91%) C#
3 28 (16.97%) SQL
4 23 (13.94%) TypeScript
5 21 (12.73%) JavaScript
6 14 (8.48%) C++
7 12 (7.27%) Kotlin
8 4 (2.42%) Go
9 3 (1.82%) Scala
10 2 (1.21%) Perl
10 2 (1.21%) Ruby
11 1 (0.61%) COBOL
11 1 (0.61%) Groovy
11 1 (0.61%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.61%) R
Qualifications
1 36 (21.82%) Degree
2 12 (7.27%) Master's Degree
3 11 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (4.85%) Security Cleared
5 6 (3.64%) CFA
5 6 (3.64%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.64%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (3.64%) PhD
5 6 (3.64%) PMI Certification
5 6 (3.64%) PMP
6 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.61%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.82%) QA
2 2 (1.21%) GDPR
2 2 (1.21%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.21%) SLA
3 1 (0.61%) ITGC
System Software
1 9 (5.45%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.24%) Terraform
3 5 (3.03%) Ansible
4 3 (1.82%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.21%) Puppet
5 2 (1.21%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (1.21%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 1 (0.61%) Argo
Vendors
1 37 (22.42%) Guidewire
2 6 (3.64%) Murex
3 4 (2.42%) FIS
3 4 (2.42%) Google
4 3 (1.82%) Databricks
4 3 (1.82%) Dell
4 3 (1.82%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.82%) ServiceNow
4 3 (1.82%) Solace
5 2 (1.21%) HP
5 2 (1.21%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.21%) Oracle
6 1 (0.61%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.61%) Foundry
6 1 (0.61%) Palantir
6 1 (0.61%) Pega