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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 42 12
Rank change year-on-year 0 -30 0
Permanent jobs citing Java 146 168 464
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 4.68% 5.66% 13.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.13% 12.92% 28.91%
Number of salaries quoted 120 121 424
10th Percentile £69,875 £56,250 £60,000
25th Percentile £82,188 £80,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -2.63%
75th Percentile £115,625 £120,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £123,250 £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 965 1,300 1,605
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 30.94% 43.82% 46.62%
Number of salaries quoted 758 939 1,458
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £49,134
25th Percentile £66,250 £57,500 £61,250
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 £118,975 £118,750 £117,575
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 28 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 28 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 -1 123 £100,000 +2.56% 69
West End of London +13 6 £83,750 -18.29% 1
City of Westminster +29 4 £85,000 -
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 (2.05%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.37%) Apache
2 2 (1.37%) nginx
3 1 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.68%) Confluence
3 1 (0.68%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Adaptiv
Cloud Services
1 65 (44.52%) AWS
2 17 (11.64%) Azure
3 12 (8.22%) GCP
4 10 (6.85%) SaaS
5 9 (6.16%) Datadog
6 4 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.05%) GitHub
7 3 (2.05%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.05%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.37%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.37%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.37%) Pulumi
8 2 (1.37%) Serverless
8 2 (1.37%) Stripe
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.68%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.68%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.37%) DHCP
1 2 (1.37%) DNS
1 2 (1.37%) Kerberos
1 2 (1.37%) LAN
1 2 (1.37%) NAS
1 2 (1.37%) SAN
1 2 (1.37%) SNMP
1 2 (1.37%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.37%) WAN
2 1 (0.68%) Broadband
2 1 (0.68%) HTTP
2 1 (0.68%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.53%) PostgreSQL
1 11 (7.53%) Relational Database
2 4 (2.74%) Big Data
2 4 (2.74%) Hadoop
3 3 (2.05%) DynamoDB
3 3 (2.05%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.37%) Apache Hive
4 2 (1.37%) ClickHouse
4 2 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.37%) Power BI
5 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.68%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.68%) DB2
5 1 (0.68%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.68%) MySQL
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.68%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.68%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 5 (3.42%) Gradle
2 4 (2.74%) JIRA
3 3 (2.05%) Selenium
4 2 (1.37%) GitLab
5 1 (0.68%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.68%) Git
5 1 (0.68%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.68%) JMeter
5 1 (0.68%) JUnit
5 1 (0.68%) MLflow
5 1 (0.68%) WebDriver
General
1 38 (26.03%) Social Skills
2 30 (20.55%) Finance
3 24 (16.44%) Front Office
4 13 (8.90%) Banking
5 8 (5.48%) Financial Institution
6 5 (3.42%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.74%) Billing
7 4 (2.74%) Marketing
7 4 (2.74%) Tech for Good
8 3 (2.05%) Law
9 2 (1.37%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.37%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.37%) Legal
10 1 (0.68%) Advertising
10 1 (0.68%) French Language
10 1 (0.68%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (35.62%) Developer
2 38 (26.03%) Senior
3 34 (23.29%) Java Engineer
4 29 (19.86%) Lead
5 26 (17.81%) Java Developer
6 24 (16.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 24 (16.44%) Software Engineer
7 18 (12.33%) Senior Developer
8 16 (10.96%) Java Software Engineer
9 13 (8.90%) Senior Java Engineer
10 10 (6.85%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (4.11%) Architect
11 6 (4.11%) DV Cleared Java Developer
11 6 (4.11%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 5 (3.42%) Front Office Developer
12 5 (3.42%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (3.42%) Senior Java Developer
12 5 (3.42%) Senior Software Engineer
13 4 (2.74%) AWS Software Engineer
13 4 (2.74%) Web Applications Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (17.12%) React
1 25 (17.12%) Spring
2 23 (15.75%) .NET
2 23 (15.75%) Spring Boot
3 20 (13.70%) Node.js
4 17 (11.64%) Kafka
5 13 (8.90%) FIX Protocol
6 7 (4.79%) HTML
6 7 (4.79%) Java Concurrency
6 7 (4.79%) REST
7 6 (4.11%) CSS
8 4 (2.74%) AngularJS
8 4 (2.74%) LDAP
8 4 (2.74%) RESTful
9 3 (2.05%) Vue
10 2 (1.37%) GraphQL
10 2 (1.37%) OAuth
10 2 (1.37%) OAuth2
10 2 (1.37%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (1.37%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 43 (29.45%) Cloud Native
2 16 (10.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 13 (8.90%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (8.90%) Onboarding
4 12 (8.22%) Derivative
5 8 (5.48%) Algorithms
6 6 (4.11%) Equities
7 5 (3.42%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (2.74%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.74%) NHS
9 3 (2.05%) Credit Risk
10 2 (1.37%) FPGA
10 2 (1.37%) Market Risk
10 2 (1.37%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.68%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.68%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.79%) Linux
2 3 (2.05%) Unix
3 2 (1.37%) CentOS
3 2 (1.37%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.68%) Windows
4 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (31.51%) CI/CD
2 42 (28.77%) Test Automation
3 38 (26.03%) Software Engineering
4 33 (22.60%) Computer Science
5 31 (21.23%) Agile
6 29 (19.86%) Full-Stack Development
7 28 (19.18%) DevOps
8 26 (17.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 26 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (14.38%) Low Latency
10 20 (13.70%) AI
10 20 (13.70%) Microservices
10 20 (13.70%) Technical Leadership
11 18 (12.33%) Electronic Trading
11 18 (12.33%) Software Testing
11 18 (12.33%) User Experience
12 17 (11.64%) Mentoring
13 16 (10.96%) Clean Code
13 16 (10.96%) Prototyping
13 16 (10.96%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 39 (26.71%) Python
2 24 (16.44%) JavaScript
3 21 (14.38%) C#
4 19 (13.01%) SQL
5 18 (12.33%) TypeScript
6 13 (8.90%) Kotlin
7 4 (2.74%) Go
8 3 (2.05%) C++
9 2 (1.37%) Perl
10 1 (0.68%) Bash
10 1 (0.68%) COBOL
10 1 (0.68%) Korn
10 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.68%) R
10 1 (0.68%) Ruby
10 1 (0.68%) Scala
10 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 33 (22.60%) Degree
2 15 (10.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (8.90%) Security Cleared
4 10 (6.85%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.05%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.37%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.68%) CFA
7 1 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.68%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.05%) QA
2 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.68%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (6.85%) Docker
2 3 (2.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (17.12%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.42%) Ansible
2 5 (3.42%) Terraform
3 2 (1.37%) Argo
3 2 (1.37%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.37%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (1.37%) Red Hat Spacewalk
4 1 (0.68%) Grafana
4 1 (0.68%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 13 (8.90%) Guidewire
2 5 (3.42%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.42%) Solace
3 4 (2.74%) Dell
4 3 (2.05%) Databricks
4 3 (2.05%) Google
4 3 (2.05%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.05%) Oracle
4 3 (2.05%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.37%) HP
5 2 (1.37%) iManage
5 2 (1.37%) Revolut
6 1 (0.68%) FIS
6 1 (0.68%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.68%) Foundry
6 1 (0.68%) Murex
6 1 (0.68%) Palantir
6 1 (0.68%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.68%) Splunk