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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 24 24
Rank change year-on-year -18 0 -13
Permanent jobs citing Java 142 212 257
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 3.65% 9.78% 8.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.38% 22.39% 17.98%
Number of salaries quoted 116 178 223
10th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £59,250
25th Percentile £72,188 £74,063 £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 £108,125 £120,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £128,750 £145,750 £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 867 947 1,429
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 22.27% 43.68% 45.44%
Number of salaries quoted 682 780 1,084
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £57,313
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 £107,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £112,500
London median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +3.03% - +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 5 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 5 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 -23 137 £100,000 +11.11% 61
West End of London +8 4 £91,250 -10.98%
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 (0.70%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.70%) Camunda
1 1 (0.70%) CICS
Applications
1 7 (4.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.41%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 54 (38.03%) AWS
2 28 (19.72%) Azure
3 24 (16.90%) GCP
4 5 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.82%) GitHub
5 4 (2.82%) Serverless
6 3 (2.11%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (2.11%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.11%) Pulumi
6 3 (2.11%) Vertex AI
7 2 (1.41%) Azure AI
7 2 (1.41%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 2 (1.41%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (1.41%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (1.41%) Cloud Run
7 2 (1.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (1.41%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.70%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (0.70%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.11%) Network Security
2 2 (1.41%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.70%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.70%) Internet
3 1 (0.70%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.70%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.93%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.23%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (2.82%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.82%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.11%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.41%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.41%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.70%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.70%) Db2
6 1 (0.70%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.70%) MySQL
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.70%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.70%) Power BI
6 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.70%) SQLPlus
6 1 (0.70%) Stardog
6 1 (0.70%) Trino
6 1 (0.70%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 9 (6.34%) Git
2 6 (4.23%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.52%) Gradle
4 4 (2.82%) JUnit
4 4 (2.82%) Maven
4 4 (2.82%) Mockito
5 3 (2.11%) Spock
6 2 (1.41%) GitLab
6 2 (1.41%) JIRA
7 1 (0.70%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.70%) JMeter
7 1 (0.70%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (0.70%) Postman
7 1 (0.70%) Selenium
General
1 45 (31.69%) Finance
2 30 (21.13%) Social Skills
3 17 (11.97%) Banking
4 15 (10.56%) Front Office
5 14 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.63%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.11%) Advertising
7 3 (2.11%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.11%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.70%) Back Office
8 1 (0.70%) Cantonese Language
8 1 (0.70%) iGaming
8 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.70%) Law
8 1 (0.70%) Marketing
8 1 (0.70%) Prime Brokerage
8 1 (0.70%) Private Banking
8 1 (0.70%) Retail
8 1 (0.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (34.51%) Developer
2 33 (23.24%) Senior
3 31 (21.83%) Software Engineer
4 30 (21.13%) Java Developer
5 27 (19.01%) Java Engineer
6 13 (9.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 13 (9.15%) Java Software Engineer
7 12 (8.45%) Senior Developer
8 11 (7.75%) Lead
8 11 (7.75%) Senior Software Engineer
9 10 (7.04%) Python Engineer
10 9 (6.34%) Consultant
10 9 (6.34%) Java Consultant
11 8 (5.63%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
11 8 (5.63%) Senior Java Engineer
12 7 (4.93%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (4.93%) AWS Software Engineer
12 7 (4.93%) Development Consultant
12 7 (4.93%) Principal Engineer
12 7 (4.93%) Software Development Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (26.76%) Spring Boot
2 33 (23.24%) Spring
3 14 (9.86%) Kafka
3 14 (9.86%) React
4 12 (8.45%) REST
5 11 (7.75%) .NET
6 9 (6.34%) FIX Protocol
7 6 (4.23%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (3.52%) AngularJS
8 5 (3.52%) LangChain
9 4 (2.82%) Node.js
9 4 (2.82%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (2.11%) CSS
10 3 (2.11%) HTML
10 3 (2.11%) Web Services
11 2 (1.41%) FpML
11 2 (1.41%) Hibernate
11 2 (1.41%) JPA
11 2 (1.41%) Middleware
11 2 (1.41%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 33 (23.24%) Cloud Native
2 22 (15.49%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (7.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (4.93%) Reinsurance
5 6 (4.23%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.23%) Virtual Team
6 5 (3.52%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.82%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.82%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.11%) Credit Risk
8 3 (2.11%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.11%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.11%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.11%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.41%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.41%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.41%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.86%) Linux
2 6 (4.23%) Windows
3 1 (0.70%) Unix
3 1 (0.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (39.44%) Software Engineering
2 38 (26.76%) DevOps
3 37 (26.06%) CI/CD
4 36 (25.35%) Agile
5 30 (21.13%) AI
6 28 (19.72%) Microservices
7 24 (16.90%) Mentoring
8 19 (13.38%) Computer Science
8 19 (13.38%) Containerisation
8 19 (13.38%) Full-Stack Development
9 18 (12.68%) Low Latency
9 18 (12.68%) Roadmaps
10 17 (11.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (11.97%) Decision-Making
11 15 (10.56%) Code Quality
12 14 (9.86%) Mathematics
13 13 (9.15%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (9.15%) Migration
14 12 (8.45%) Test Automation
15 11 (7.75%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 54 (38.03%) Python
2 28 (19.72%) C#
3 22 (15.49%) SQL
4 16 (11.27%) C++
5 11 (7.75%) Bash
5 11 (7.75%) Go
5 11 (7.75%) JavaScript
5 11 (7.75%) Rust
5 11 (7.75%) TypeScript
6 8 (5.63%) R
7 7 (4.93%) Julia
7 7 (4.93%) MATLAB
8 6 (4.23%) PowerShell
8 6 (4.23%) VBA
9 4 (2.82%) C
9 4 (2.82%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.82%) Ruby
10 3 (2.11%) Objective-C
10 3 (2.11%) Perl
11 2 (1.41%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 19 (13.38%) Degree
2 15 (10.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (4.93%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.52%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.11%) CCSAM
5 3 (2.11%) CREST Certified
5 3 (2.11%) GPEN
5 3 (2.11%) GXPN
5 3 (2.11%) OSCE
5 3 (2.11%) OSCP
6 2 (1.41%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.70%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.04%) GDPR
2 3 (2.11%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (2.11%) QA
3 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.70%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (12.68%) Docker
2 5 (3.52%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (1.41%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (20.42%) Kubernetes
2 17 (11.97%) Terraform
3 9 (6.34%) Ansible
4 7 (4.93%) Grafana
4 7 (4.93%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.70%) Puppet
5 1 (0.70%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (4.93%) Splunk
2 6 (4.23%) Google
2 6 (4.23%) Guidewire
2 6 (4.23%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.23%) Oracle
3 5 (3.52%) Solace
4 4 (2.82%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.11%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.41%) JDA
6 2 (1.41%) Palantir
6 2 (1.41%) VMware
7 1 (0.70%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.70%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.70%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.70%) Dell
7 1 (0.70%) IBM
7 1 (0.70%) Pega
7 1 (0.70%) Temenos