Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
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The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 1 July 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Java
London > Central London
6 months to
1 Jul 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 8 10 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 0
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,495 1,120 1,258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 16.82% 17.21% 16.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.69% 29.11% 29.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,192 1,024 1,137
10th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £108,750 £98,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £126,250 £113,375 £115,000
London median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% +3.23% +6.90%

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for coding skills.

All Programming Languages
Central London
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,437 3,847 4,315
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in Central London 49.92% 59.13% 56.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,706 3,537 3,871
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £106,250 £100,000
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +7.69%

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 1 July 2022.

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 1 July 2022. 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 +2 1,394 £90,000 +9.09% 260
City of Westminster +19 26 £77,500 +34.78%
Lambeth 0 15 - -
West End of London -3 14 £105,000 +21.74%
Southwark +1 9 £90,000 +33.33%
Kensington and Chelsea +3 8 £70,000 -17.65%
Camden -11 7 £95,000 +111.11%
Java
London

For the 6 months to 1 July 2022, IT jobs citing Java also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Central London region with a requirement for Java.

1 654 (43.75%) Agile
2 550 (36.79%) Python
3 466 (31.17%) AWS
4 427 (28.56%) Finance
5 416 (27.83%) Microservices
6 379 (25.35%) DevOps
7 342 (22.88%) CI/CD
8 337 (22.54%) Software Engineering
9 333 (22.27%) Spring
10 324 (21.67%) SQL
11 312 (20.87%) JavaScript
12 311 (20.80%) Docker
13 310 (20.74%) Kubernetes
14 291 (19.46%) Azure
15 288 (19.26%) TDD
16 244 (16.32%) REST
17 238 (15.92%) C#
18 233 (15.59%) Spring Boot
19 230 (15.38%) Test Automation
20 217 (14.52%) C++
21 213 (14.25%) Git (software)
22 212 (14.18%) Linux
23 211 (14.11%) QA
23 211 (14.11%) Social Skills
24 205 (13.71%) OO
25 193 (12.91%) Kafka
26 190 (12.71%) Jenkins
27 188 (12.58%) Mentoring
28 180 (12.04%) React
29 172 (11.51%) Fintech

Java
Co-occurring IT Skills in Central London by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 48 (3.21%) Apache Spark
2 38 (2.54%) Confluence
3 30 (2.01%) Apache
4 27 (1.81%) CMS
4 27 (1.81%) Jetty
5 22 (1.47%) Cloud Foundry
6 19 (1.27%) Tomcat
7 14 (0.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 13 (0.87%) Drupal
8 13 (0.87%) Headless CMS
8 13 (0.87%) SharePoint
9 12 (0.80%) JBoss
10 11 (0.74%) IIS
10 11 (0.74%) SAS
11 8 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
12 6 (0.40%) WebSphere
13 5 (0.33%) WebSphere Application Server
14 3 (0.20%) nginx
14 3 (0.20%) OpenStack
15 2 (0.13%) MQSeries
Applications
1 9 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.33%) Maple
5 1 (0.067%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.27%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.20%) MetaTrader
2 3 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.20%) Summit
3 2 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.13%) PeopleSoft Financials
4 1 (0.067%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.067%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.067%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.067%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.067%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 466 (31.17%) AWS
2 291 (19.46%) Azure
3 160 (10.70%) GCP
4 83 (5.55%) Serverless
5 52 (3.48%) SaaS
6 47 (3.14%) GitHub
7 46 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 36 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
9 30 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
10 28 (1.87%) Amazon S3
11 27 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
12 25 (1.67%) OpenShift
13 24 (1.61%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
14 23 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
15 19 (1.27%) Power Platform
16 17 (1.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 15 (1.00%) Datadog
17 15 (1.00%) Snowflake
18 14 (0.94%) Amazon EKS
18 14 (0.94%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 33 (2.21%) Internet
2 13 (0.87%) Network Security
2 13 (0.87%) TCP/IP
3 11 (0.74%) HTTP
4 7 (0.47%) Broadband
4 7 (0.47%) VoIP
5 6 (0.40%) Bluetooth
6 4 (0.27%) Firewall
7 2 (0.13%) AMQP
7 2 (0.13%) DNS
7 2 (0.13%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.13%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.13%) SMTP
8 1 (0.067%) Cisco IPT
8 1 (0.067%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.067%) NFC
8 1 (0.067%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.067%) VPN
8 1 (0.067%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (7.22%) NoSQL
2 105 (7.02%) SQL Server
3 99 (6.62%) Relational Database
4 89 (5.95%) MongoDB
5 69 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
6 65 (4.35%) Big Data
7 60 (4.01%) Hadoop
8 48 (3.21%) MySQL
9 38 (2.54%) Apache Cassandra
10 37 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
11 36 (2.41%) Redis
12 33 (2.21%) RDBMS
13 29 (1.94%) KDB
14 28 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
15 27 (1.81%) DynamoDB
16 25 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
17 24 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
18 22 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 19 (1.27%) Data Lake
19 19 (1.27%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 213 (14.25%) Git (software)
2 190 (12.71%) Jenkins
3 156 (10.43%) Cucumber
4 148 (9.90%) Selenium
5 128 (8.56%) Maven
6 117 (7.83%) JIRA
7 108 (7.22%) JUnit
8 80 (5.35%) Postman
9 54 (3.61%) Gradle
10 50 (3.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 41 (2.74%) GitLab
12 40 (2.68%) SonarQube
13 39 (2.61%) Bitbucket
14 34 (2.27%) Appium
14 34 (2.27%) Subversion
15 33 (2.21%) Mockito
16 32 (2.14%) WebDriver
17 31 (2.07%) Ant
18 29 (1.94%) JMeter
19 27 (1.81%) Concordion
General
1 427 (28.56%) Finance
2 211 (14.11%) Social Skills
3 167 (11.17%) Banking
4 132 (8.83%) Front Office
5 91 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
6 86 (5.75%) Retail
7 73 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 60 (4.01%) Public Sector
9 38 (2.54%) Investment Banking
10 35 (2.34%) Advertising
11 31 (2.07%) Tech for Good
12 28 (1.87%) Marketing
13 27 (1.81%) Law
13 27 (1.81%) Manufacturing
14 22 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
15 19 (1.27%) Telecoms
16 18 (1.20%) Financial Institution
16 18 (1.20%) Games
16 18 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
17 14 (0.94%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 712 (47.63%) Developer
2 436 (29.16%) Java Developer
3 247 (16.52%) Senior Developer
4 149 (9.97%) Senior Java Developer
5 126 (8.43%) Software Engineer
6 100 (6.69%) Software Developer
7 95 (6.35%) Java Engineer
8 81 (5.42%) DevOps Engineer
9 75 (5.02%) Lead Developer
10 60 (4.01%) Architect
10 60 (4.01%) Technical Leader
11 51 (3.41%) Data Engineer
12 50 (3.34%) QA Engineer
13 44 (2.94%) Test Engineer
14 37 (2.47%) Analyst
14 37 (2.47%) Full Stack Developer
15 35 (2.34%) Senior Software Engineer
16 33 (2.21%) Salesforce Developer
17 31 (2.07%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 30 (2.01%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 333 (22.27%) Spring
2 244 (16.32%) REST
3 233 (15.59%) Spring Boot
4 193 (12.91%) Kafka
5 180 (12.04%) React
6 141 (9.43%) AngularJS
7 115 (7.69%) Node.js
8 109 (7.29%) RESTful
9 95 (6.35%) HTML
10 91 (6.09%) Web Services
11 87 (5.82%) .NET
12 76 (5.08%) JSON
13 65 (4.35%) XML
14 58 (3.88%) JMS
15 57 (3.81%) Hibernate
16 56 (3.75%) HTML5
17 53 (3.55%) FIX Protocol
18 49 (3.28%) CSS
19 44 (2.94%) Gherkin
20 39 (2.61%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 73 (4.88%) Algorithms
2 72 (4.82%) Greenfield Project
3 70 (4.68%) Blockchain
4 69 (4.62%) Fixed Income
5 64 (4.28%) Cloud Native
6 63 (4.21%) Derivative
7 60 (4.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 56 (3.75%) Cyberattack
9 53 (3.55%) Data Structures
10 47 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
11 38 (2.54%) User Experience
12 35 (2.34%) Cyber Defence
12 35 (2.34%) Mobile App
13 34 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
14 24 (1.61%) Cybercrime
14 24 (1.61%) Equities
15 23 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
16 20 (1.34%) Blog
17 18 (1.20%) Hedge funds
17 18 (1.20%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 212 (14.18%) Linux
2 102 (6.82%) Unix
3 72 (4.82%) Windows
4 47 (3.14%) Android
5 22 (1.47%) Apple iOS
6 16 (1.07%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.40%) CentOS
8 3 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.20%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.13%) Debian
10 1 (0.067%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.067%) VMS
10 1 (0.067%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 654 (43.75%) Agile
2 416 (27.83%) Microservices
3 379 (25.35%) DevOps
4 342 (22.88%) CI/CD
5 337 (22.54%) Software Engineering
6 288 (19.26%) TDD
7 230 (15.38%) Test Automation
8 205 (13.71%) OO
9 188 (12.58%) Mentoring
10 172 (11.51%) Fintech
11 170 (11.37%) Full Stack Development
12 166 (11.10%) Scrum
13 165 (11.04%) Continuous Integration
14 153 (10.23%) Multithreading
15 130 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
16 125 (8.36%) Low Latency
17 121 (8.09%) BDD
18 120 (8.03%) SDLC
19 113 (7.56%) Unit Testing
20 104 (6.96%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 550 (36.79%) Python
2 324 (21.67%) SQL
3 312 (20.87%) JavaScript
4 238 (15.92%) C#
5 217 (14.52%) C++
6 120 (8.03%) Scala
7 115 (7.69%) Kotlin
8 84 (5.62%) C
9 82 (5.48%) Go
10 68 (4.55%) Ruby
11 59 (3.95%) Bash
12 57 (3.81%) TypeScript
13 51 (3.41%) Perl
14 47 (3.14%) PHP
15 41 (2.74%) PowerShell
16 25 (1.67%) Groovy
17 19 (1.27%) Shell Script
18 18 (1.20%) R
19 16 (1.07%) MATLAB
20 14 (0.94%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 108 (7.22%) Degree
2 65 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 38 (2.54%) Security Cleared
4 28 (1.87%) Master's Degree
5 20 (1.34%) SC Cleared
6 8 (0.54%) ISTQB
7 7 (0.47%) PMI Certification
8 5 (0.33%) OSCP
9 4 (0.27%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.27%) CISSP
9 4 (0.27%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 3 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.20%) PMP
10 3 (0.20%) SANS
11 2 (0.13%) CISM
11 2 (0.13%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.13%) CREST Certified
11 2 (0.13%) Cyber Scheme
11 2 (0.13%) GPEN
11 2 (0.13%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 211 (14.11%) QA
2 14 (0.94%) Accessibility
3 13 (0.87%) GDPR
4 12 (0.80%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.20%) ISO 20022
5 3 (0.20%) NIST
5 3 (0.20%) SLA
6 2 (0.13%) ISO 15022
7 1 (0.067%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.067%) WCAG
System Software
1 311 (20.80%) Docker
2 8 (0.54%) Firmware
3 7 (0.47%) HDFS
4 4 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.13%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.067%) KVM
6 1 (0.067%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.067%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 310 (20.74%) Kubernetes
2 86 (5.75%) Terraform
3 44 (2.94%) Ansible
4 22 (1.47%) Puppet
5 10 (0.67%) Grafana
6 9 (0.60%) Opscode Chef
6 9 (0.60%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.40%) HP Quality Center
8 4 (0.27%) Control-M
8 4 (0.27%) Kibana
9 3 (0.20%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.067%) Argo
10 1 (0.067%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.067%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.067%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.067%) logstash
10 1 (0.067%) Nessus
10 1 (0.067%) SELinux
Vendors
1 106 (7.09%) Oracle
2 52 (3.48%) Google
3 50 (3.34%) Microsoft
4 39 (2.61%) Salesforce.com
5 20 (1.34%) New Relic
6 19 (1.27%) Sybase
7 17 (1.14%) SAP
8 16 (1.07%) Adobe
9 11 (0.74%) Atlassian
9 11 (0.74%) Informatica
9 11 (0.74%) Talend
10 8 (0.54%) Actuate
10 8 (0.54%) Brio
10 8 (0.54%) Red Hat
11 7 (0.47%) Bloomberg
11 7 (0.47%) Databricks
11 7 (0.47%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.47%) VMware
12 6 (0.40%) HP
12 6 (0.40%) Twitter