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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 35 15
Rank change year-on-year -6 -20 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 150 167 427
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 4.27% 6.46% 12.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.45% 14.30% 26.74%
Number of salaries quoted 117 125 383
10th Percentile £68,250 £60,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £81,250 £81,250 £71,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -2.63%
75th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £142,250 £124,500
London median annual salary £95,000 £105,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +13.51% +2.78%

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 1,168 1,597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 29.56% 45.17% 45.72%
Number of salaries quoted 790 930 1,393
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,250 £57,813 £60,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £120,000 £115,000
London median annual salary £80,500 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -2.42% +3.13% +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 28 March 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 28 March 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 -6 126 £100,000 +2.56% 109
West End of London +13 6 £83,750 -18.29% 1
City of Westminster +21 4 £85,000 -
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 (2.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.33%) Apache
2 2 (1.33%) nginx
3 1 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.67%) CICS
3 1 (0.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 66 (44.00%) AWS
2 20 (13.33%) Azure
3 16 (10.67%) GCP
4 7 (4.67%) SaaS
5 5 (3.33%) Datadog
6 4 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.67%) OpenShift
6 4 (2.67%) Pulumi
7 2 (1.33%) GitHub
7 2 (1.33%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.33%) Stripe
8 1 (0.67%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.67%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.67%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (0.67%) Azure AI
8 1 (0.67%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 1 (0.67%) dbt
8 1 (0.67%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (0.67%) OCI
8 1 (0.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.33%) DHCP
1 2 (1.33%) DNS
1 2 (1.33%) Kerberos
1 2 (1.33%) LAN
1 2 (1.33%) NAS
1 2 (1.33%) Network Security
1 2 (1.33%) SAN
1 2 (1.33%) SNMP
1 2 (1.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.33%) WAN
2 1 (0.67%) Broadband
2 1 (0.67%) HTTP
2 1 (0.67%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.33%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.67%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.67%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.00%) Big Data
4 3 (2.00%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.33%) Apache Hive
5 2 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.33%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.33%) MySQL
5 2 (1.33%) Power BI
5 2 (1.33%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.67%) DB2
6 1 (0.67%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.67%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.67%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.67%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (4.00%) Gradle
2 5 (3.33%) JIRA
3 3 (2.00%) Selenium
4 2 (1.33%) Git
4 2 (1.33%) GitLab
5 1 (0.67%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.67%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.67%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.67%) MLflow
General
1 33 (22.00%) Finance
1 33 (22.00%) Social Skills
2 28 (18.67%) Front Office
3 16 (10.67%) Banking
4 10 (6.67%) Financial Institution
5 5 (3.33%) Marketing
6 4 (2.67%) Investment Banking
6 4 (2.67%) Tech for Good
7 3 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.00%) Law
8 2 (1.33%) Advertising
8 2 (1.33%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.33%) Legal
9 1 (0.67%) Billing
9 1 (0.67%) Cantonese Language
9 1 (0.67%) French Language
9 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (32.67%) Developer
2 41 (27.33%) Senior
3 37 (24.67%) Java Engineer
4 30 (20.00%) Software Engineer
5 29 (19.33%) Lead
6 28 (18.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 26 (17.33%) Java Developer
8 18 (12.00%) Java Software Engineer
8 18 (12.00%) Senior Developer
9 13 (8.67%) Senior Java Engineer
10 10 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (5.33%) Front Office Developer
11 8 (5.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 8 (5.33%) Senior Software Engineer
12 7 (4.67%) Architect
13 6 (4.00%) DV Cleared Java Developer
13 6 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
13 6 (4.00%) Senior Java Developer
14 5 (3.33%) AWS Software Engineer
14 5 (3.33%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (18.67%) React
2 25 (16.67%) .NET
3 24 (16.00%) Spring
4 21 (14.00%) Spring Boot
5 20 (13.33%) Node.js
6 14 (9.33%) Kafka
7 13 (8.67%) FIX Protocol
8 7 (4.67%) CSS
8 7 (4.67%) HTML
9 6 (4.00%) AngularJS
9 6 (4.00%) REST
10 5 (3.33%) Java Concurrency
10 5 (3.33%) Vue
11 4 (2.67%) LDAP
12 3 (2.00%) Web Services
13 2 (1.33%) JDBC
13 2 (1.33%) OAuth
13 2 (1.33%) ODBC
13 2 (1.33%) RabbitMQ
13 2 (1.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 41 (27.33%) Cloud Native
2 19 (12.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 14 (9.33%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (8.00%) Derivative
5 6 (4.00%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.33%) Algorithms
6 5 (3.33%) Distributed Architecture
6 5 (3.33%) Equities
7 4 (2.67%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.67%) NHS
8 3 (2.00%) Fixed Income
8 3 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.00%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.33%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.33%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.33%) FPGA
9 2 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.33%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.67%) Linux
2 3 (2.00%) Unix
2 3 (2.00%) Windows
3 2 (1.33%) CentOS
3 2 (1.33%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (28.67%) Software Engineering
2 41 (27.33%) CI/CD
3 36 (24.00%) Test Automation
4 34 (22.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 33 (22.00%) Computer Science
6 28 (18.67%) Agile
7 26 (17.33%) DevOps
8 25 (16.67%) Low Latency
9 24 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (14.67%) Technical Leadership
11 21 (14.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (13.33%) AI
13 18 (12.00%) Fintech
13 18 (12.00%) Mentoring
13 18 (12.00%) Microservices
13 18 (12.00%) User Experience
14 17 (11.33%) Electronic Trading
15 16 (10.67%) Prototyping
15 16 (10.67%) Software Delivery
15 16 (10.67%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 37 (24.67%) Python
2 25 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 20 (13.33%) C#
4 18 (12.00%) SQL
4 18 (12.00%) TypeScript
5 10 (6.67%) Kotlin
6 9 (6.00%) Go
7 4 (2.67%) C++
7 4 (2.67%) Perl
8 3 (2.00%) Bash
8 3 (2.00%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.00%) Ruby
9 2 (1.33%) C
9 2 (1.33%) Objective-C
9 2 (1.33%) Rust
10 1 (0.67%) COBOL
10 1 (0.67%) Cypher
10 1 (0.67%) Elm
10 1 (0.67%) JCL
10 1 (0.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 36 (24.00%) Degree
2 16 (10.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (8.67%) Security Cleared
4 10 (6.67%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.00%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.33%) CCSAM
6 2 (1.33%) CREST Certified
6 2 (1.33%) GPEN
6 2 (1.33%) GXPN
6 2 (1.33%) OSCE
6 2 (1.33%) OSCP
6 2 (1.33%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (1.33%) QA
2 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.67%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (6.67%) Docker
2 3 (2.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (16.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.00%) Terraform
3 5 (3.33%) Ansible
4 2 (1.33%) Argo
4 2 (1.33%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.33%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (1.33%) Red Hat Spacewalk
5 1 (0.67%) Grafana
5 1 (0.67%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (4.00%) Guidewire
1 6 (4.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (4.00%) Solace
2 5 (3.33%) Oracle
3 4 (2.67%) Dell
4 3 (2.00%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.00%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.33%) Databricks
5 2 (1.33%) Google
5 2 (1.33%) HP
5 2 (1.33%) iManage
5 2 (1.33%) Revolut
5 2 (1.33%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.67%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.67%) IBM
6 1 (0.67%) JDA
6 1 (0.67%) Splunk
6 1 (0.67%) Temenos
6 1 (0.67%) VMware