Java Jobs in Central London

Java
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 19 11
Rank change year-on-year -15 -8 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 179 402 830
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 7.05% 10.63% 15.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.57% 24.13% 30.99%
Number of salaries quoted 132 358 742
10th Percentile £65,125 £62,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £80,938 £67,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £99,500 £90,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.56% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £110,938
90th Percentile £149,750 £129,125 £128,750
London median annual salary £105,000 £95,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% +5.88%

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 1,150 1,666 2,678
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 45.28% 44.04% 50.55%
Number of salaries quoted 915 1,366 2,431
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £79,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% +1.94% +3.33%
75th Percentile £103,750 £98,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
London median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% - +6.67%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Java in Central London

Java
Salary Trend in Central London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java in Central London.

Salary trend for Java in Central London

Java
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Central London over the 6 months to 30 April 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 30 April 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 -16 146 £95,000 +5.56% 56
Camden +2 15 - - 3
City of Westminster -10 13 - - 1
West End of London - 4 £102,500 - 13
Southwark -5 3 £87,500 +37.25%
Java
London

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.68%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.12%) Confluence
2 2 (1.12%) Ethereum
2 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.12%) Solana
3 1 (0.56%) Alfresco
3 1 (0.56%) Apache
3 1 (0.56%) Camunda
3 1 (0.56%) CMS
3 1 (0.56%) Liferay
Business Applications
1 4 (2.23%) Endur
2 3 (1.68%) Orchestrade
2 3 (1.68%) SimCorp Dimension
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 75 (41.90%) AWS
2 55 (30.73%) Azure
3 32 (17.88%) GitHub
4 27 (15.08%) GCP
5 25 (13.97%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (10.06%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (6.70%) Serverless
8 10 (5.59%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (5.59%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (5.59%) Datadog
9 9 (5.03%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (4.47%) npm
11 6 (3.35%) Amazon S3
12 5 (2.79%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (2.79%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (2.79%) SaaS
13 4 (2.23%) Power Platform
14 3 (1.68%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (1.68%) Anthos
14 3 (1.68%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.94%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.82%) NoSQL
2 14 (7.82%) SQL Server
3 13 (7.26%) Relational Database
4 9 (5.03%) MongoDB
4 9 (5.03%) MySQL
5 7 (3.91%) RDBMS
6 6 (3.35%) Big Data
7 5 (2.79%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (2.23%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (2.23%) Power BI
8 4 (2.23%) Redis
8 4 (2.23%) Tableau
9 3 (1.68%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.12%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.56%) Flink
Development Applications
1 17 (9.50%) Jenkins
2 16 (8.94%) Git
3 13 (7.26%) Gradle
4 11 (6.15%) SonarQube
5 9 (5.03%) Maven
6 7 (3.91%) JIRA
7 5 (2.79%) JUnit
8 4 (2.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (2.23%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.12%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.12%) Mockito
9 2 (1.12%) Postman
9 2 (1.12%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.12%) SoapUI
9 2 (1.12%) Subversion
9 2 (1.12%) Xcode
9 2 (1.12%) XCTest
10 1 (0.56%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.56%) WebDriver
General
1 62 (34.64%) Social Skills
2 44 (24.58%) Finance
3 34 (18.99%) Banking
4 22 (12.29%) Front Office
5 16 (8.94%) Games
6 14 (7.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (7.82%) Investment Banking
7 8 (4.47%) Law
8 5 (2.79%) Advertising
8 5 (2.79%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.79%) Retail
8 5 (2.79%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.68%) French Language
10 1 (0.56%) Back Office
10 1 (0.56%) Legal
10 1 (0.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 72 (40.22%) Developer
2 48 (26.82%) Lead
3 32 (17.88%) Software Engineer
4 31 (17.32%) Senior
5 26 (14.53%) Java Developer
6 17 (9.50%) Lead Developer
7 15 (8.38%) Senior Developer
8 13 (7.26%) Java Engineer
9 12 (6.70%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (6.70%) Lead Software Engineer
9 12 (6.70%) Software Developer
10 11 (6.15%) Data Engineer
10 11 (6.15%) Java Software Engineer
10 11 (6.15%) Platform Engineer
10 11 (6.15%) Python Developer
11 8 (4.47%) Analyst
11 8 (4.47%) Lead Data Engineer
12 7 (3.91%) Android Developer
12 7 (3.91%) Architect
12 7 (3.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (18.99%) React
2 24 (13.41%) Spring
3 23 (12.85%) .NET
4 16 (8.94%) AngularJS
5 15 (8.38%) Kafka
5 15 (8.38%) Node.js
6 12 (6.70%) ARM Templates
6 12 (6.70%) RESTful
7 11 (6.15%) REST
7 11 (6.15%) Spring Boot
7 11 (6.15%) Web Services
8 7 (3.91%) Unity (Game Engine)
9 6 (3.35%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (3.35%) FIX Protocol
9 6 (3.35%) Hibernate
9 6 (3.35%) Pandas
10 5 (2.79%) .NET Core
10 5 (2.79%) Middleware
10 5 (2.79%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (2.23%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 29 (16.20%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.26%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (6.70%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (6.70%) Mobile Games
4 11 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (6.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (5.59%) Algorithms
6 8 (4.47%) Mobile App
7 7 (3.91%) Data Structures
7 7 (3.91%) Fixed Income
8 6 (3.35%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.79%) Derivative
9 5 (2.79%) Public Cloud
10 4 (2.23%) Cyberattack
10 4 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (2.23%) Video Conferencing
11 3 (1.68%) Blockchain
12 2 (1.12%) Bitcoin
12 2 (1.12%) Hedge funds
12 2 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.26%) Linux
2 11 (6.15%) Android
3 8 (4.47%) Unix
4 7 (3.91%) Apple iOS
5 5 (2.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (43.58%) Agile
2 68 (37.99%) Software Engineering
3 58 (32.40%) DevOps
4 49 (27.37%) CI/CD
4 49 (27.37%) Computer Science
5 46 (25.70%) Microservices
6 40 (22.35%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (21.79%) Containerisation
8 38 (21.23%) Mentoring
9 31 (17.32%) Migration
10 26 (14.53%) Infrastructure as Code
11 24 (13.41%) Technical Leadership
12 23 (12.85%) Analytics
13 22 (12.29%) Multithreading
13 22 (12.29%) Platform Engineering
14 20 (11.17%) Low Latency
14 20 (11.17%) SDLC
15 18 (10.06%) Concurrent Programming
15 18 (10.06%) Sprint Planning
16 17 (9.50%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 82 (45.81%) Python
2 39 (21.79%) SQL
3 34 (18.99%) JavaScript
4 33 (18.44%) C#
5 20 (11.17%) C++
6 14 (7.82%) Rust
7 12 (6.70%) TypeScript
8 11 (6.15%) Bash
8 11 (6.15%) PowerShell
8 11 (6.15%) Scala
9 10 (5.59%) Go
10 9 (5.03%) Kotlin
11 7 (3.91%) Objective-C
11 7 (3.91%) Swift
12 4 (2.23%) Ruby
12 4 (2.23%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.68%) F#
13 3 (1.68%) Shell Script
14 2 (1.12%) Groovy
14 2 (1.12%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 57 (31.84%) Degree
2 40 (22.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (7.26%) Master's Degree
3 13 (7.26%) Security Cleared
4 8 (4.47%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.79%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (2.79%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.68%) PhD
7 1 (0.56%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.06%) QA
2 3 (1.68%) GDPR
3 2 (1.12%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (22.91%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 48 (26.82%) Kubernetes
2 26 (14.53%) Terraform
3 21 (11.73%) Prometheus
4 9 (5.03%) Ansible
5 8 (4.47%) Argo
6 7 (3.91%) Grafana
7 6 (3.35%) Progress Chef
7 6 (3.35%) Puppet
8 4 (2.23%) Consul
8 4 (2.23%) Istio
9 3 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.56%) Packer
10 1 (0.56%) Salt
Vendors
1 19 (10.61%) Google
2 15 (8.38%) New Relic
3 10 (5.59%) Oracle
4 9 (5.03%) Microsoft
5 5 (2.79%) Solace
6 4 (2.23%) Informatica
6 4 (2.23%) OpenLink
7 3 (1.68%) Barracuda Networks
7 3 (1.68%) SimCorp
8 2 (1.12%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.12%) Databricks
8 2 (1.12%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.12%) Splunk
8 2 (1.12%) Sybase
8 2 (1.12%) Talend
8 2 (1.12%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.56%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.56%) Murex
9 1 (0.56%) SAP