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 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 23 30
Rank change year-on-year -20 +7 -19
Permanent jobs citing Java 127 205 231
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 3.73% 10.19% 7.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.80% 24.79% 16.09%
Number of salaries quoted 108 174 185
10th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £110,625 £120,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £140,000 £112,500
London median annual salary £85,000 £105,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year -19.05% - +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 756 827 1,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 22.18% 41.10% 45.31%
Number of salaries quoted 597 685 1,015
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,500 £130,000 £112,500
London median annual salary £83,500 £80,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +3.73% -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 8 September 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 8 September 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 -18 125 £100,000 +11.11% 65
West End of London - 1 £100,000 - 20
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 (0.79%) Camunda
1 1 (0.79%) CICS
Applications
1 7 (5.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.57%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 49 (38.58%) AWS
2 25 (19.69%) Azure
3 22 (17.32%) GCP
4 4 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (3.15%) GitHub
4 4 (3.15%) Serverless
5 3 (2.36%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (2.36%) Amazon S3
5 3 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (2.36%) Vertex AI
6 2 (1.57%) Azure AI
6 2 (1.57%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 2 (1.57%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (1.57%) Cloud Functions
6 2 (1.57%) Cloud Run
6 2 (1.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (0.79%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (0.79%) Amazon Neptune
7 1 (0.79%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.79%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.36%) Network Security
2 2 (1.57%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.79%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.79%) Internet
3 1 (0.79%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.51%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.72%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (3.15%) MongoDB
3 4 (3.15%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.36%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.57%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.57%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.79%) Db2
6 1 (0.79%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.79%) MySQL
6 1 (0.79%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.79%) Power BI
6 1 (0.79%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.79%) SQLPlus
6 1 (0.79%) Stardog
6 1 (0.79%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 11 (8.66%) Git
2 6 (4.72%) Jenkins
2 6 (4.72%) JUnit
2 6 (4.72%) Maven
2 6 (4.72%) Mockito
3 3 (2.36%) Gradle
3 3 (2.36%) Spock
4 2 (1.57%) GitLab
4 2 (1.57%) JIRA
5 1 (0.79%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.79%) JMeter
5 1 (0.79%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (0.79%) Postman
5 1 (0.79%) Snyk
General
1 44 (34.65%) Finance
2 29 (22.83%) Social Skills
3 15 (11.81%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (11.81%) Banking
4 9 (7.09%) Front Office
5 5 (3.94%) Financial Institution
6 4 (3.15%) Prime Brokerage
7 3 (2.36%) Back Office
7 3 (2.36%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.36%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.57%) Advertising
8 2 (1.57%) iGaming
9 1 (0.79%) Cantonese Language
9 1 (0.79%) Games
9 1 (0.79%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.79%) Retail
9 1 (0.79%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (33.07%) Developer
2 28 (22.05%) Senior
3 27 (21.26%) Java Developer
4 24 (18.90%) Software Engineer
5 23 (18.11%) Java Engineer
6 11 (8.66%) Senior Software Engineer
7 10 (7.87%) Java Software Engineer
7 10 (7.87%) Lead
8 9 (7.09%) Consultant
8 9 (7.09%) Java Consultant
8 9 (7.09%) Senior Developer
9 8 (6.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 7 (5.51%) Development Consultant
10 7 (5.51%) Python Engineer
10 7 (5.51%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
10 7 (5.51%) Senior Java Engineer
10 7 (5.51%) Software Consultant
10 7 (5.51%) Software Development Consultant
10 7 (5.51%) Technical Consultant
11 6 (4.72%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (26.77%) Spring Boot
2 29 (22.83%) Spring
3 18 (14.17%) Terraform
4 11 (8.66%) REST
5 10 (7.87%) .NET
5 10 (7.87%) Kafka
5 10 (7.87%) React
6 9 (7.09%) FIX Protocol
7 6 (4.72%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (3.94%) LangChain
9 3 (2.36%) AngularJS
9 3 (2.36%) FIXML
9 3 (2.36%) FpML
10 2 (1.57%) Hibernate
10 2 (1.57%) JPA
10 2 (1.57%) Node.js
10 2 (1.57%) OAuth
10 2 (1.57%) OpenID
10 2 (1.57%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (21.26%) Cloud Native
2 20 (15.75%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (5.51%) Reinsurance
5 6 (4.72%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.72%) Virtual Team
6 4 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.15%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.36%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.36%) Credit Risk
7 3 (2.36%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.36%) Equities
7 3 (2.36%) Fixed Income
7 3 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.36%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.36%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.57%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.57%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.57%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.24%) Linux
2 5 (3.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (38.58%) Software Engineering
2 36 (28.35%) CI/CD
3 34 (26.77%) Agile
4 33 (25.98%) DevOps
5 26 (20.47%) Microservices
6 24 (18.90%) Mentoring
7 22 (17.32%) AI
8 18 (14.17%) Containerisation
8 18 (14.17%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (12.60%) Computer Science
9 16 (12.60%) Low Latency
10 14 (11.02%) Decision-Making
10 14 (11.02%) Full-Stack Development
10 14 (11.02%) Roadmaps
11 13 (10.24%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (10.24%) Migration
12 12 (9.45%) Code Quality
13 11 (8.66%) Mathematics
13 11 (8.66%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (7.87%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 49 (38.58%) Python
2 28 (22.05%) C#
3 19 (14.96%) SQL
4 17 (13.39%) C++
5 12 (9.45%) JavaScript
6 11 (8.66%) Bash
6 11 (8.66%) Rust
6 11 (8.66%) TypeScript
7 8 (6.30%) Go
7 8 (6.30%) R
8 7 (5.51%) Julia
8 7 (5.51%) MATLAB
9 6 (4.72%) VBA
10 5 (3.94%) PowerShell
11 4 (3.15%) C
11 4 (3.15%) Ruby
12 3 (2.36%) Objective-C
12 3 (2.36%) Perl
13 2 (1.57%) Groovy
13 2 (1.57%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 17 (13.39%) Degree
2 12 (9.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (5.51%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.94%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.36%) CCSAM
5 3 (2.36%) CREST Certified
5 3 (2.36%) GPEN
5 3 (2.36%) GXPN
5 3 (2.36%) OSCE
5 3 (2.36%) OSCP
6 2 (1.57%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.79%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.87%) GDPR
2 3 (2.36%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (2.36%) QA
3 1 (0.79%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (13.39%) Docker
2 5 (3.94%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.79%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (18.90%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.30%) Ansible
3 7 (5.51%) Grafana
3 7 (5.51%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.79%) Puppet
4 1 (0.79%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (4.72%) Google
1 6 (4.72%) Guidewire
1 6 (4.72%) Splunk
2 5 (3.94%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.94%) Oracle
3 4 (3.15%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.36%) Solace
5 2 (1.57%) JDA
5 2 (1.57%) Palantir
5 2 (1.57%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.57%) VMware
6 1 (0.79%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.79%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.79%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.79%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.79%) IBM
6 1 (0.79%) Pega
6 1 (0.79%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.79%) Temenos
6 1 (0.79%) Veracode