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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 43 9
Rank change year-on-year +10 -34 +3
Permanent jobs citing Java 157 193 472
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 6.84% 5.94% 15.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.75% 13.44% 30.91%
Number of salaries quoted 135 145 438
10th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £87,500 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -5.41% -
75th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £137,500 £125,750
London median annual salary £100,000 £100,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year - +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 795 1,436 1,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 34.63% 44.23% 49.31%
Number of salaries quoted 645 1,034 1,410
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £105,000 £95,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £118,750 £117,500
London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - - +3.23%

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 24 December 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 24 December 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 +10 139 £100,000 +11.11% 146
City of Westminster +29 1 £57,500 - 2
West End of London +3 1 £57,500 -26.98% 4
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 (2.55%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.27%) Apache
3 2 (1.27%) Luigi
3 2 (1.27%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Adaptiv
2 1 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 56 (35.67%) AWS
2 20 (12.74%) Azure
3 18 (11.46%) Datadog
4 13 (8.28%) GCP
5 11 (7.01%) SaaS
6 3 (1.91%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.27%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (1.27%) GitHub
7 2 (1.27%) Google App Engine
7 2 (1.27%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.27%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.27%) Serverless
8 1 (0.64%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.64%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.64%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.64%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.64%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.64%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.64%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.27%) DHCP
1 2 (1.27%) DNS
1 2 (1.27%) LAN
1 2 (1.27%) NAS
1 2 (1.27%) SAN
1 2 (1.27%) SNMP
1 2 (1.27%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.27%) WAN
2 1 (0.64%) HTTP
2 1 (0.64%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.64%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (12.74%) Relational Database
2 7 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.82%) ClickHouse
3 6 (3.82%) Hadoop
4 4 (2.55%) Big Data
4 4 (2.55%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.91%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.27%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.27%) KDB
6 2 (1.27%) Power BI
7 1 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.64%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.64%) DB2
7 1 (0.64%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.64%) MySQL
7 1 (0.64%) OLAP
7 1 (0.64%) OLTP
7 1 (0.64%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 3 (1.91%) JUnit
1 3 (1.91%) Selenium
2 2 (1.27%) Git
2 2 (1.27%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.27%) JMeter
2 2 (1.27%) WebDriver
3 1 (0.64%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.64%) GitLab
3 1 (0.64%) Gradle
3 1 (0.64%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (0.64%) MLflow
3 1 (0.64%) TeamCity
General
1 54 (34.39%) Social Skills
2 30 (19.11%) Finance
3 27 (17.20%) Front Office
4 19 (12.10%) Banking
5 13 (8.28%) Billing
6 9 (5.73%) Financial Institution
7 6 (3.82%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.82%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.55%) Marketing
9 2 (1.27%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.27%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.64%) French Language
10 1 (0.64%) Law
10 1 (0.64%) Retail
10 1 (0.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 65 (41.40%) Developer
2 39 (24.84%) Senior
3 35 (22.29%) Lead
4 25 (15.92%) Java Engineer
5 21 (13.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 17 (10.83%) Senior Developer
7 15 (9.55%) Software Engineer
8 14 (8.92%) Java Developer
9 13 (8.28%) Senior Java Engineer
10 11 (7.01%) Java Software Engineer
11 7 (4.46%) Architect
12 5 (3.18%) AWS Engineer
13 4 (2.55%) Applications Architect
13 4 (2.55%) Data Engineer
13 4 (2.55%) Development Team Leader
13 4 (2.55%) Java Applications Architect
13 4 (2.55%) Java Architect
13 4 (2.55%) Team Leader
13 4 (2.55%) Web Applications Architect
13 4 (2.55%) Web Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (22.29%) .NET
2 30 (19.11%) React
3 22 (14.01%) Node.js
4 21 (13.38%) Kafka
5 15 (9.55%) Spring
6 13 (8.28%) RESTful
7 12 (7.64%) Spring Boot
8 9 (5.73%) Java Concurrency
9 8 (5.10%) FIX Protocol
10 3 (1.91%) LDAP
10 3 (1.91%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (1.27%) Apache Thrift
11 2 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (1.27%) HTML
11 2 (1.27%) JSON
11 2 (1.27%) REST
11 2 (1.27%) Vue
12 1 (0.64%) Flutter
12 1 (0.64%) GraphQL
12 1 (0.64%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 42 (26.75%) Cloud Native
2 32 (20.38%) Onboarding
3 18 (11.46%) Algorithms
4 15 (9.55%) Derivative
4 15 (9.55%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (8.92%) Equities
6 10 (6.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (3.82%) Market Risk
8 5 (3.18%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.55%) Credit Risk
9 4 (2.55%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.27%) FPGA
10 2 (1.27%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.27%) NHS
10 2 (1.27%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.64%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.64%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.64%) PKI
11 1 (0.64%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.18%) Linux
2 2 (1.27%) CentOS
2 2 (1.27%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (35.67%) CI/CD
2 52 (33.12%) Test Automation
3 48 (30.57%) Agile
4 46 (29.30%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (24.84%) Computer Science
6 36 (22.93%) Continuous Improvement
7 35 (22.29%) DevOps
8 32 (20.38%) Migration
9 27 (17.20%) Full-Stack Development
9 27 (17.20%) Microservices
10 25 (15.92%) Low Latency
11 24 (15.29%) Prototyping
11 24 (15.29%) Software Engineering
12 23 (14.65%) Stakeholder Management
13 22 (14.01%) Software Delivery
13 22 (14.01%) Technical Leadership
14 20 (12.74%) Scrum
14 20 (12.74%) Software Testing
15 19 (12.10%) Electronic Trading
16 18 (11.46%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 58 (36.94%) Python
2 41 (26.11%) C#
3 26 (16.56%) SQL
4 23 (14.65%) JavaScript
5 21 (13.38%) TypeScript
6 12 (7.64%) Kotlin
7 9 (5.73%) C++
8 4 (2.55%) Scala
9 2 (1.27%) Go
9 2 (1.27%) Perl
10 1 (0.64%) COBOL
10 1 (0.64%) Groovy
10 1 (0.64%) Korn
10 1 (0.64%) R
10 1 (0.64%) Ruby
10 1 (0.64%) VBA
Qualifications
1 37 (23.57%) Degree
2 12 (7.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (7.01%) Security Cleared
4 9 (5.73%) Master's Degree
5 8 (5.10%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.82%) PhD
7 2 (1.27%) CFA
7 2 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.27%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.27%) PMP
7 2 (1.27%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.91%) QA
2 1 (0.64%) GDPR
2 1 (0.64%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.64%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (3.82%) Docker
2 1 (0.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (12.10%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.18%) Ansible
3 4 (2.55%) Terraform
4 3 (1.91%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.27%) Puppet
5 2 (1.27%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (1.27%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 1 (0.64%) Argo
Vendors
1 31 (19.75%) Guidewire
2 4 (2.55%) Databricks
3 3 (1.91%) Dell
3 3 (1.91%) Google
3 3 (1.91%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.91%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.27%) FIS
4 2 (1.27%) HP
4 2 (1.27%) Murex
4 2 (1.27%) Oracle
4 2 (1.27%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.64%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.64%) Foundry
5 1 (0.64%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.64%) Palantir
5 1 (0.64%) Pega
5 1 (0.64%) Solace