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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 34 10
Rank change year-on-year +6 -24 +2
Permanent jobs citing Java 172 213 505
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 8.74% 6.57% 15.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.34% 14.88% 30.87%
Number of salaries quoted 155 163 464
10th Percentile £57,500 £50,650 £53,750
25th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £120,000 £108,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £135,500 £122,000 £130,000
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 737 1,431 1,636
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 37.47% 44.11% 49.80%
Number of salaries quoted 605 1,007 1,500
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £59,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.33% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £110,000 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £115,500 £118,875
London median annual salary £80,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +0.63% - +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 18 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 18 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 +5 159 £100,000 +17.65% 326
City of Westminster +27 1 £57,500 - 2
West End of London +5 1 £57,500 -26.98% 7
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 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (1.74%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.16%) Luigi
2 2 (1.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.58%) Apache
3 1 (0.58%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.91%) Adaptiv
2 2 (1.16%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 58 (33.72%) AWS
2 26 (15.12%) Azure
3 22 (12.79%) Datadog
4 15 (8.72%) GCP
5 11 (6.40%) SaaS
6 8 (4.65%) GitHub
7 7 (4.07%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.91%) Serverless
9 4 (2.33%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.74%) Google App Engine
10 3 (1.74%) Snowflake
11 2 (1.16%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.16%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (1.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 1 (0.58%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.58%) AWS Step Functions
12 1 (0.58%) Azure Machine Learning
12 1 (0.58%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.58%) DHCP
1 1 (0.58%) DNS
1 1 (0.58%) HTTP
1 1 (0.58%) Kerberos
1 1 (0.58%) LAN
1 1 (0.58%) Multicast
1 1 (0.58%) NAS
1 1 (0.58%) SAN
1 1 (0.58%) SNMP
1 1 (0.58%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.58%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (13.95%) Relational Database
2 8 (4.65%) ClickHouse
3 6 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.91%) Big Data
4 5 (2.91%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.74%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.74%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.74%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.16%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.16%) KDB
6 2 (1.16%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.16%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.16%) OLAP
6 2 (1.16%) OLTP
7 1 (0.58%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.58%) DB2
7 1 (0.58%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.58%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.58%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (2.33%) SonarQube
2 3 (1.74%) Git
2 3 (1.74%) JUnit
2 3 (1.74%) Selenium
3 2 (1.16%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.16%) JMeter
3 2 (1.16%) TeamCity
3 2 (1.16%) WebDriver
4 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.58%) GitLab
4 1 (0.58%) JIRA
4 1 (0.58%) Katalon Studio
General
1 67 (38.95%) Social Skills
2 42 (24.42%) Finance
3 25 (14.53%) Banking
4 23 (13.37%) Front Office
5 17 (9.88%) Billing
6 10 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (5.81%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.91%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.74%) Advertising
9 1 (0.58%) French Language
9 1 (0.58%) Law
9 1 (0.58%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.58%) Retail
9 1 (0.58%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 72 (41.86%) Developer
2 36 (20.93%) Senior
3 30 (17.44%) Lead
4 17 (9.88%) Java Engineer
5 13 (7.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 13 (7.56%) Senior Developer
6 12 (6.98%) Java Developer
7 11 (6.40%) Senior Java Engineer
8 10 (5.81%) Software Engineer
9 9 (5.23%) Architect
10 8 (4.65%) Head of IT
11 6 (3.49%) Analyst
11 6 (3.49%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 6 (3.49%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
12 5 (2.91%) Development Team Leader
12 5 (2.91%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (2.91%) Front Office Developer
12 5 (2.91%) Qualitative Analyst
12 5 (2.91%) Quantitative Analyst
12 5 (2.91%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (22.67%) .NET
2 32 (18.60%) React
3 24 (13.95%) Kafka
4 19 (11.05%) Node.js
4 19 (11.05%) RESTful
5 16 (9.30%) Spring
6 14 (8.14%) Spring Boot
7 7 (4.07%) Java Concurrency
8 5 (2.91%) FIX Protocol
8 5 (2.91%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (1.74%) HTML
9 3 (1.74%) JSON
9 3 (1.74%) REST
10 2 (1.16%) Apache Thrift
10 2 (1.16%) CSS
10 2 (1.16%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.16%) LDAP
10 2 (1.16%) Middleware
10 2 (1.16%) Quarkus
11 1 (0.58%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 47 (27.33%) Cloud Native
2 42 (24.42%) Onboarding
3 17 (9.88%) Algorithms
4 16 (9.30%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (8.14%) Equities
6 12 (6.98%) Derivative
7 11 (6.40%) Market Risk
8 7 (4.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (2.91%) Credit Risk
9 5 (2.91%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.91%) Public Cloud
10 4 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.74%) Fixed Income
12 2 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (1.16%) Mobile App
12 2 (1.16%) Sports Betting
13 1 (0.58%) Distributed Computing
13 1 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
13 1 (0.58%) Mainframe
13 1 (0.58%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.91%) Linux
2 1 (0.58%) CentOS
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (38.95%) Agile
2 65 (37.79%) CI/CD
3 51 (29.65%) Test Automation
4 49 (28.49%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (26.74%) Continuous Improvement
5 46 (26.74%) Migration
6 42 (24.42%) DevOps
7 38 (22.09%) Computer Science
8 33 (19.19%) Microservices
9 29 (16.86%) Low Latency
9 29 (16.86%) Scrum
9 29 (16.86%) Stakeholder Management
10 22 (12.79%) Document Management
10 22 (12.79%) Error Analysis
10 22 (12.79%) Requirements Gathering
10 22 (12.79%) Software Delivery
11 21 (12.21%) Analytics
12 20 (11.63%) Code Quality
12 20 (11.63%) Mathematics
13 19 (11.05%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 72 (41.86%) Python
2 57 (33.14%) C#
3 29 (16.86%) SQL
4 20 (11.63%) TypeScript
5 18 (10.47%) JavaScript
6 17 (9.88%) C++
7 13 (7.56%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.91%) Go
9 3 (1.74%) MATLAB
9 3 (1.74%) Scala
10 2 (1.16%) Ruby
11 1 (0.58%) COBOL
11 1 (0.58%) Groovy
11 1 (0.58%) Perl
11 1 (0.58%) R
Qualifications
1 36 (20.93%) Degree
2 15 (8.72%) Master's Degree
3 11 (6.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (4.65%) CFA
4 8 (4.65%) ITIL Certification
4 8 (4.65%) PMI Certification
4 8 (4.65%) PMP
5 7 (4.07%) Security Cleared
6 6 (3.49%) PhD
7 5 (2.91%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.58%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.33%) QA
2 2 (1.16%) GDPR
2 2 (1.16%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.16%) SLA
3 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.58%) ITGC
System Software
1 9 (5.23%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (13.37%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.65%) Terraform
3 4 (2.33%) Ansible
4 3 (1.74%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.16%) Puppet
6 1 (0.58%) Argo
6 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 39 (22.67%) Guidewire
2 8 (4.65%) Murex
3 5 (2.91%) FIS
4 4 (2.33%) Google
4 4 (2.33%) Solace
5 3 (1.74%) Databricks
5 3 (1.74%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.74%) Oracle
5 3 (1.74%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.16%) Dell
6 2 (1.16%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.58%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.58%) Foundry
7 1 (0.58%) HP
7 1 (0.58%) Palantir
7 1 (0.58%) Pega