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 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 29 19
Rank change year-on-year -14 -10 -8
Permanent jobs citing Java 158 186 367
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 3.63% 7.96% 10.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.05% 17.85% 22.81%
Number of salaries quoted 124 141 328
10th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,125
25th Percentile £81,250 £76,250 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £97,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +8.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £148,750 £122,500
London median annual salary £85,000 £105,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% +5.56%

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 1,050 1,042 1,609
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 24.13% 44.57% 44.56%
Number of salaries quoted 810 834 1,297
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +3.23% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £105,938 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £126,250 £115,000
London median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year - +3.13% -

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -12 145 £100,000 +9.59% 18
West End of London +8 5 £85,000 -17.07%
City of Westminster +11 3 £87,500 -
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 2 (1.27%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.63%) CICS
2 1 (0.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 60 (37.97%) AWS
2 24 (15.19%) Azure
3 19 (12.03%) GCP
4 6 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.53%) Pulumi
6 3 (1.90%) GitHub
7 2 (1.27%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.27%) SaaS
7 2 (1.27%) Serverless
7 2 (1.27%) Stripe
8 1 (0.63%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.63%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.63%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.63%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 1 (0.63%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.63%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (0.63%) Datadog
8 1 (0.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.90%) Network Security
2 1 (0.63%) Broadband
2 1 (0.63%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.63%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.96%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.53%) Geospatial Data
2 4 (2.53%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.90%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.90%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.27%) Big Data
4 2 (1.27%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.27%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.27%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.63%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.63%) DB2
5 1 (0.63%) MySQL
5 1 (0.63%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.63%) Power BI
5 1 (0.63%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.63%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 8 (5.06%) Gradle
2 5 (3.16%) Git
2 5 (3.16%) JIRA
3 4 (2.53%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.90%) Selenium
5 2 (1.27%) GitLab
5 2 (1.27%) JUnit
5 2 (1.27%) Maven
5 2 (1.27%) Mockito
5 2 (1.27%) Spock
6 1 (0.63%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.63%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.63%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (0.63%) MLflow
General
1 46 (29.11%) Finance
2 27 (17.09%) Social Skills
3 23 (14.56%) Front Office
4 17 (10.76%) Banking
5 11 (6.96%) Financial Institution
6 10 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.16%) Marketing
8 4 (2.53%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.90%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.90%) Law
10 2 (1.27%) Advertising
10 2 (1.27%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.27%) Legal
10 2 (1.27%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.63%) Cantonese Language
11 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Retail
11 1 (0.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (37.34%) Developer
2 37 (23.42%) Java Developer
2 37 (23.42%) Java Engineer
2 37 (23.42%) Software Engineer
3 33 (20.89%) Senior
4 24 (15.19%) Java Software Engineer
5 20 (12.66%) Lead
6 17 (10.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 17 (10.76%) Senior Developer
7 15 (9.49%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (6.33%) AWS Software Engineer
8 10 (6.33%) Senior Software Engineer
9 9 (5.70%) Consultant
9 9 (5.70%) Java Consultant
10 8 (5.06%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 8 (5.06%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (4.43%) Senior Java Engineer
11 7 (4.43%) Software Consultant
11 7 (4.43%) Software Development Consultant
11 7 (4.43%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (20.89%) Spring Boot
2 29 (18.35%) Spring
3 18 (11.39%) React
4 16 (10.13%) Kafka
5 14 (8.86%) .NET
6 11 (6.96%) FIX Protocol
7 9 (5.70%) Node.js
8 7 (4.43%) REST
9 6 (3.80%) CSS
9 6 (3.80%) HTML
10 5 (3.16%) AngularJS
11 3 (1.90%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (1.90%) Middleware
11 3 (1.90%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (1.90%) Vue
11 3 (1.90%) Web Services
12 2 (1.27%) Java Concurrency
12 2 (1.27%) OpenTelemetry
12 2 (1.27%) Playwright
13 1 (0.63%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 31 (19.62%) Cloud Native
2 16 (10.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (7.59%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.43%) Derivative
5 6 (3.80%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.53%) Equities
6 4 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.53%) NHS
6 4 (2.53%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.53%) Reinsurance
7 3 (1.90%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.90%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.90%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.90%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.90%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.27%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.27%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.27%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.33%) Linux
2 4 (2.53%) Windows
3 2 (1.27%) Unix
4 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (35.44%) Software Engineering
2 38 (24.05%) DevOps
3 30 (18.99%) Agile
4 29 (18.35%) CI/CD
5 27 (17.09%) Full-Stack Development
6 25 (15.82%) Low Latency
7 24 (15.19%) AI
7 24 (15.19%) Computer Science
8 22 (13.92%) Mentoring
9 21 (13.29%) Microservices
10 19 (12.03%) Roadmaps
11 18 (11.39%) Test Automation
12 17 (10.76%) Code Quality
13 16 (10.13%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (10.13%) Fintech
13 16 (10.13%) Mathematics
14 14 (8.86%) Technical Leadership
15 13 (8.23%) Electronic Trading
16 12 (7.59%) Containerisation
16 12 (7.59%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 39 (24.68%) Python
2 24 (15.19%) C#
3 21 (13.29%) SQL
4 14 (8.86%) JavaScript
5 11 (6.96%) C++
5 11 (6.96%) TypeScript
6 10 (6.33%) Go
7 6 (3.80%) Bash
8 5 (3.16%) R
8 5 (3.16%) Rust
9 4 (2.53%) C
9 4 (2.53%) Julia
9 4 (2.53%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.53%) MATLAB
9 4 (2.53%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.90%) Objective-C
10 3 (1.90%) Perl
10 3 (1.90%) Ruby
10 3 (1.90%) VBA
11 1 (0.63%) Korn
Qualifications
1 27 (17.09%) Degree
2 16 (10.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (5.70%) Security Cleared
4 7 (4.43%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.90%) CCSAM
5 3 (1.90%) CREST Certified
5 3 (1.90%) GPEN
5 3 (1.90%) GXPN
5 3 (1.90%) OSCE
5 3 (1.90%) OSCP
6 2 (1.27%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.27%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.16%) GDPR
2 3 (1.90%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (1.90%) QA
3 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.63%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (8.86%) Docker
2 2 (1.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 20 (12.66%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.33%) Terraform
3 4 (2.53%) Ansible
3 4 (2.53%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.90%) Grafana
5 1 (0.63%) Argo
5 1 (0.63%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 8 (5.06%) Solace
2 6 (3.80%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.16%) Guidewire
3 5 (3.16%) Oracle
4 4 (2.53%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.90%) Google
5 3 (1.90%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.90%) Splunk
6 2 (1.27%) iManage
6 2 (1.27%) JDA
6 2 (1.27%) Revolut
7 1 (0.63%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.63%) Databricks
7 1 (0.63%) Dell
7 1 (0.63%) IBM
7 1 (0.63%) Pega
7 1 (0.63%) Temenos
7 1 (0.63%) VMware