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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -18 -1 -13
Permanent jobs citing Java 140 203 257
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 3.65% 9.55% 8.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.34% 22.23% 17.91%
Number of salaries quoted 115 173 221
10th Percentile £61,250 £58,800 £58,750
25th Percentile £71,875 £73,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -8.11%
75th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £140,000 £115,000
London median annual salary £85,000 £105,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -19.05% +5.00% +11.11%

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 857 913 1,435
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 22.35% 42.94% 45.54%
Number of salaries quoted 670 755 1,078
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £56,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £106,875 £95,000
90th Percentile £108,638 £127,000 £112,500
London median annual salary £85,000 £80,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +5.59% -2.42% +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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -18 137 £100,000 +14.29% 57
West End of London +5 2 £91,250 -10.98% 1
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 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.71%) Camunda
1 1 (0.71%) CICS
Applications
1 7 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.43%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 53 (37.86%) AWS
2 26 (18.57%) Azure
3 23 (16.43%) GCP
4 5 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.86%) Serverless
6 3 (2.14%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (2.14%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.14%) GitHub
6 3 (2.14%) Pulumi
6 3 (2.14%) Vertex AI
7 2 (1.43%) Azure AI
7 2 (1.43%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 2 (1.43%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (1.43%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (1.43%) Cloud Run
7 2 (1.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (1.43%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.71%) OCI
8 1 (0.71%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.14%) Network Security
2 2 (1.43%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.71%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.71%) Internet
3 1 (0.71%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.71%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.29%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (2.86%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.86%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.14%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.43%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.43%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.71%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.71%) Db2
6 1 (0.71%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.71%) MySQL
6 1 (0.71%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.71%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.71%) Power BI
6 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.71%) SQLPlus
6 1 (0.71%) Stardog
6 1 (0.71%) Trino
6 1 (0.71%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 9 (6.43%) Git
2 6 (4.29%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.57%) Gradle
4 4 (2.86%) JUnit
4 4 (2.86%) Maven
4 4 (2.86%) Mockito
5 3 (2.14%) Spock
6 2 (1.43%) GitLab
6 2 (1.43%) JIRA
7 1 (0.71%) JMeter
7 1 (0.71%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (0.71%) Postman
7 1 (0.71%) Selenium
General
1 46 (32.86%) Finance
2 31 (22.14%) Social Skills
3 19 (13.57%) Banking
4 15 (10.71%) Front Office
5 14 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (6.43%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.86%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.14%) Advertising
8 3 (2.14%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.43%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (0.71%) Back Office
10 1 (0.71%) Cantonese Language
10 1 (0.71%) iGaming
10 1 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Law
10 1 (0.71%) Marketing
10 1 (0.71%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.71%) Retail
10 1 (0.71%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (33.57%) Developer
2 33 (23.57%) Senior
3 30 (21.43%) Java Developer
4 28 (20.00%) Software Engineer
5 27 (19.29%) Java Engineer
6 12 (8.57%) Java Software Engineer
6 12 (8.57%) Senior Developer
7 11 (7.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 11 (7.86%) Lead
7 11 (7.86%) Senior Software Engineer
8 9 (6.43%) Consultant
8 9 (6.43%) Java Consultant
9 8 (5.71%) Python Engineer
9 8 (5.71%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 8 (5.71%) Senior Java Engineer
10 7 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (5.00%) AWS Software Engineer
10 7 (5.00%) Development Consultant
10 7 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
10 7 (5.00%) Software Development Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (26.43%) Spring Boot
2 32 (22.86%) Spring
3 14 (10.00%) React
4 13 (9.29%) Kafka
5 11 (7.86%) .NET
6 10 (7.14%) REST
7 9 (6.43%) FIX Protocol
8 6 (4.29%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (3.57%) LangChain
10 3 (2.14%) AngularJS
10 3 (2.14%) CSS
10 3 (2.14%) HTML
10 3 (2.14%) Node.js
10 3 (2.14%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (2.14%) Web Services
11 2 (1.43%) FpML
11 2 (1.43%) Hibernate
11 2 (1.43%) JPA
11 2 (1.43%) Middleware
11 2 (1.43%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 32 (22.86%) Cloud Native
2 21 (15.00%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (5.00%) Reinsurance
5 6 (4.29%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.29%) Virtual Team
6 5 (3.57%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.86%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.14%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.14%) Credit Risk
8 3 (2.14%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.14%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.14%) Equities
8 3 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.14%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.14%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.43%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.43%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.71%) Linux
2 6 (4.29%) Windows
3 1 (0.71%) Unix
3 1 (0.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (37.86%) Software Engineering
2 37 (26.43%) DevOps
3 36 (25.71%) Agile
4 35 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 28 (20.00%) AI
6 26 (18.57%) Microservices
7 24 (17.14%) Mentoring
8 19 (13.57%) Computer Science
9 18 (12.86%) Containerisation
9 18 (12.86%) Low Latency
9 18 (12.86%) Roadmaps
10 17 (12.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (12.14%) Full-Stack Development
11 15 (10.71%) Code Quality
11 15 (10.71%) Decision-Making
12 14 (10.00%) Mathematics
13 13 (9.29%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (9.29%) Migration
14 12 (8.57%) Test Automation
15 11 (7.86%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 51 (36.43%) Python
2 29 (20.71%) C#
3 22 (15.71%) SQL
4 17 (12.14%) C++
5 11 (7.86%) Bash
5 11 (7.86%) JavaScript
5 11 (7.86%) Rust
5 11 (7.86%) TypeScript
6 10 (7.14%) Go
7 8 (5.71%) R
8 7 (5.00%) Julia
8 7 (5.00%) MATLAB
9 6 (4.29%) PowerShell
9 6 (4.29%) VBA
10 4 (2.86%) C
10 4 (2.86%) Ruby
11 3 (2.14%) Objective-C
11 3 (2.14%) Perl
12 2 (1.43%) Groovy
12 2 (1.43%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 19 (13.57%) Degree
2 15 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (5.00%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.57%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.14%) CCSAM
5 3 (2.14%) CREST Certified
5 3 (2.14%) GPEN
5 3 (2.14%) GXPN
5 3 (2.14%) OSCE
5 3 (2.14%) OSCP
6 2 (1.43%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.71%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.14%) GDPR
2 3 (2.14%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (2.14%) QA
3 1 (0.71%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.71%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (11.43%) Docker
2 5 (3.57%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (1.43%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.71%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (19.29%) Kubernetes
2 17 (12.14%) Terraform
3 9 (6.43%) Ansible
4 7 (5.00%) Grafana
4 7 (5.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.71%) Puppet
5 1 (0.71%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (5.00%) Splunk
2 6 (4.29%) Google
2 6 (4.29%) Guidewire
2 6 (4.29%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.29%) Oracle
3 5 (3.57%) Solace
4 4 (2.86%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.14%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.43%) JDA
6 2 (1.43%) Palantir
6 2 (1.43%) VMware
7 1 (0.71%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.71%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.71%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.71%) Dell
7 1 (0.71%) IBM
7 1 (0.71%) Pega
7 1 (0.71%) Temenos