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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 40 12
Rank change year-on-year +1 -28 +1
Permanent jobs citing Java 149 178 462
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 4.91% 5.84% 13.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.72% 13.38% 29.04%
Number of salaries quoted 125 124 424
10th Percentile £70,000 £57,375 £58,750
25th Percentile £82,500 £76,875 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £98,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +5.95% -1.60%
75th Percentile £119,500 £117,813 £112,500
90th Percentile £132,000 £137,500 £122,500
London median annual salary £100,000 £105,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -

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 948 1,330 1,591
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 31.26% 43.61% 46.56%
Number of salaries quoted 748 948 1,451
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -3.13% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £118,050 £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 19 February 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 19 February 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 -1 127 £100,000 +5.26% 73
West End of London +10 5 £85,000 -17.07% 4
City of Westminster +33 4 £85,000 - 2
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 (1.34%) Apache
1 2 (1.34%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.34%) nginx
2 1 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.67%) Confluence
2 1 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.34%) Adaptiv
Cloud Services
1 61 (40.94%) AWS
2 17 (11.41%) Azure
3 10 (6.71%) Datadog
3 10 (6.71%) SaaS
4 9 (6.04%) GCP
5 4 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.01%) GitHub
6 3 (2.01%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.34%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.34%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.34%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.34%) Serverless
7 2 (1.34%) Stripe
8 1 (0.67%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.67%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.67%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (0.67%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.67%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (0.67%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.34%) DHCP
1 2 (1.34%) DNS
1 2 (1.34%) LAN
1 2 (1.34%) NAS
1 2 (1.34%) SAN
1 2 (1.34%) SNMP
1 2 (1.34%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.34%) WAN
2 1 (0.67%) Broadband
2 1 (0.67%) HTTP
2 1 (0.67%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.67%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.05%) Relational Database
2 11 (7.38%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.01%) Big Data
3 3 (2.01%) DynamoDB
3 3 (2.01%) Hadoop
3 3 (2.01%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.34%) ClickHouse
4 2 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.34%) KDB
4 2 (1.34%) Power BI
5 1 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.67%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.67%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.67%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.67%) Kdb+
5 1 (0.67%) MySQL
5 1 (0.67%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.67%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 4 (2.68%) Gradle
1 4 (2.68%) JIRA
2 3 (2.01%) Selenium
3 2 (1.34%) GitLab
4 1 (0.67%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.67%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.67%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.67%) Git
4 1 (0.67%) Jaeger
4 1 (0.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.67%) JMeter
4 1 (0.67%) JUnit
4 1 (0.67%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (0.67%) MLflow
4 1 (0.67%) WebDriver
General
1 38 (25.50%) Social Skills
2 30 (20.13%) Finance
3 28 (18.79%) Front Office
4 16 (10.74%) Banking
5 7 (4.70%) Financial Institution
6 6 (4.03%) Investment Banking
7 5 (3.36%) Billing
8 4 (2.68%) Marketing
8 4 (2.68%) Tech for Good
9 3 (2.01%) Law
10 2 (1.34%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.34%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.34%) Legal
11 1 (0.67%) Advertising
11 1 (0.67%) French Language
11 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.67%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 56 (37.58%) Developer
2 40 (26.85%) Senior
3 34 (22.82%) Java Engineer
4 29 (19.46%) Lead
5 26 (17.45%) Java Developer
6 23 (15.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 21 (14.09%) Software Engineer
8 19 (12.75%) Senior Developer
9 16 (10.74%) Java Software Engineer
10 13 (8.72%) Senior Java Engineer
11 10 (6.71%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (4.03%) Architect
12 6 (4.03%) DV Cleared Java Developer
13 5 (3.36%) Front Office Developer
13 5 (3.36%) Full-Stack Developer
13 5 (3.36%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 5 (3.36%) Senior Java Developer
14 4 (2.68%) Java Architect
14 4 (2.68%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 4 (2.68%) Web Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (16.11%) Spring
2 23 (15.44%) React
3 22 (14.77%) .NET
3 22 (14.77%) Spring Boot
4 20 (13.42%) Node.js
5 18 (12.08%) Kafka
6 12 (8.05%) FIX Protocol
7 8 (5.37%) Java Concurrency
8 6 (4.03%) HTML
8 6 (4.03%) REST
9 5 (3.36%) CSS
9 5 (3.36%) RESTful
10 4 (2.68%) AngularJS
11 3 (2.01%) LDAP
11 3 (2.01%) Vue
12 2 (1.34%) GraphQL
12 2 (1.34%) HTML5
12 2 (1.34%) OpenTelemetry
12 2 (1.34%) Playwright
12 2 (1.34%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 40 (26.85%) Cloud Native
2 16 (10.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 15 (10.07%) Onboarding
4 14 (9.40%) Derivative
5 11 (7.38%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (6.71%) Algorithms
7 9 (6.04%) Equities
8 4 (2.68%) Credit Risk
8 4 (2.68%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.68%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (2.68%) NHS
9 2 (1.34%) FPGA
9 2 (1.34%) Market Risk
9 2 (1.34%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.67%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.67%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.36%) Linux
2 2 (1.34%) CentOS
2 2 (1.34%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (32.21%) CI/CD
2 43 (28.86%) Test Automation
3 35 (23.49%) Agile
3 35 (23.49%) Software Engineering
4 32 (21.48%) Computer Science
5 30 (20.13%) DevOps
6 29 (19.46%) Continuous Improvement
7 28 (18.79%) Full-Stack Development
8 27 (18.12%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (14.77%) Low Latency
10 21 (14.09%) Microservices
11 19 (12.75%) Electronic Trading
11 19 (12.75%) Software Delivery
11 19 (12.75%) Technical Leadership
12 18 (12.08%) Migration
12 18 (12.08%) Software Testing
12 18 (12.08%) User Experience
13 17 (11.41%) AI
13 17 (11.41%) Prototyping
14 16 (10.74%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 42 (28.19%) Python
2 25 (16.78%) C#
3 24 (16.11%) JavaScript
4 19 (12.75%) SQL
5 18 (12.08%) TypeScript
6 13 (8.72%) Kotlin
7 4 (2.68%) C++
8 2 (1.34%) Go
8 2 (1.34%) Perl
9 1 (0.67%) Bash
9 1 (0.67%) COBOL
9 1 (0.67%) Groovy
9 1 (0.67%) Korn
9 1 (0.67%) R
9 1 (0.67%) Ruby
9 1 (0.67%) Scala
9 1 (0.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (21.48%) Degree
2 13 (8.72%) Computer Science Degree
2 13 (8.72%) Security Cleared
3 10 (6.71%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.01%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.34%) CFA
5 2 (1.34%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.34%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.34%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.34%) PMP
5 2 (1.34%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.01%) QA
System Software
1 10 (6.71%) Docker
2 1 (0.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (14.77%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.68%) Ansible
2 4 (2.68%) Terraform
3 2 (1.34%) Argo
3 2 (1.34%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.34%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (1.34%) Red Hat Spacewalk
4 1 (0.67%) Grafana
4 1 (0.67%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 15 (10.07%) Guidewire
2 4 (2.68%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.68%) Solace
3 3 (2.01%) Databricks
3 3 (2.01%) Dell
3 3 (2.01%) Google
3 3 (2.01%) OpenAI
3 3 (2.01%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.34%) FIS
4 2 (1.34%) HP
4 2 (1.34%) iManage
4 2 (1.34%) Murex
4 2 (1.34%) Oracle
4 2 (1.34%) Revolut
5 1 (0.67%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.67%) Foundry
5 1 (0.67%) Palantir
5 1 (0.67%) Pega