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 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 34 16
Rank change year-on-year -6 -18 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 153 174 417
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 4.18% 6.69% 11.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.52% 14.87% 26.05%
Number of salaries quoted 119 130 374
10th Percentile £68,500 £60,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £81,250 £81,250 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -2.63%
75th Percentile £108,125 £120,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £147,750 £122,500
London median annual salary £95,000 £105,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +13.51% +2.78%

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 1,054 1,170 1,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 28.77% 44.98% 45.41%
Number of salaries quoted 801 940 1,383
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,125 £47,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £58,759 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £115,000
London median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year - +3.13% +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 6 April 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 6 April 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 -13 129 £100,000 +2.56% 109
West End of London +15 6 £83,750 -18.29% 1
City of Westminster +24 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 2 (1.31%) Apache
1 2 (1.31%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.31%) nginx
2 1 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.65%) CICS
2 1 (0.65%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 69 (45.10%) AWS
2 19 (12.42%) Azure
3 16 (10.46%) GCP
4 6 (3.92%) SaaS
5 4 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.61%) Datadog
5 4 (2.61%) Pulumi
6 3 (1.96%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.31%) GitHub
7 2 (1.31%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.31%) Stripe
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.65%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (0.65%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.65%) Azure AI
8 1 (0.65%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 1 (0.65%) dbt
8 1 (0.65%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (0.65%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.96%) Network Security
2 2 (1.31%) DHCP
2 2 (1.31%) DNS
2 2 (1.31%) LAN
2 2 (1.31%) NAS
2 2 (1.31%) SAN
2 2 (1.31%) SNMP
2 2 (1.31%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.31%) WAN
3 1 (0.65%) Broadband
3 1 (0.65%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.65%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.19%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.92%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.61%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.31%) Big Data
4 2 (1.31%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.31%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.31%) MySQL
4 2 (1.31%) Power BI
4 2 (1.31%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.65%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.65%) DB2
5 1 (0.65%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.65%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.65%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (3.92%) Gradle
2 5 (3.27%) JIRA
3 3 (1.96%) Selenium
4 2 (1.31%) Git
5 1 (0.65%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.65%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.65%) GitLab
5 1 (0.65%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.65%) MLflow
General
1 36 (23.53%) Finance
2 31 (20.26%) Social Skills
3 27 (17.65%) Front Office
4 18 (11.76%) Banking
5 9 (5.88%) Financial Institution
6 5 (3.27%) Marketing
7 4 (2.61%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.61%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.96%) Law
9 2 (1.31%) Advertising
9 2 (1.31%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.31%) Legal
9 2 (1.31%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.65%) Billing
10 1 (0.65%) Cantonese Language
10 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Retail
10 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (33.33%) Developer
2 40 (26.14%) Senior
3 39 (25.49%) Java Engineer
4 34 (22.22%) Software Engineer
5 29 (18.95%) Java Developer
6 28 (18.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 28 (18.30%) Lead
7 22 (14.38%) Java Software Engineer
8 18 (11.76%) Senior Developer
9 13 (8.50%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (8.50%) Senior Java Engineer
10 9 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (5.23%) AWS Software Engineer
11 8 (5.23%) Front Office Developer
11 8 (5.23%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 7 (4.58%) Senior Java Developer
13 6 (3.92%) DV Cleared Java Developer
13 6 (3.92%) Full-Stack Developer
14 5 (3.27%) Python Engineer
14 5 (3.27%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (18.30%) React
2 26 (16.99%) Spring Boot
3 25 (16.34%) Spring
4 24 (15.69%) .NET
5 20 (13.07%) Node.js
6 13 (8.50%) Kafka
7 12 (7.84%) FIX Protocol
8 7 (4.58%) CSS
8 7 (4.58%) HTML
9 6 (3.92%) AngularJS
9 6 (3.92%) REST
10 5 (3.27%) Vue
11 4 (2.61%) Java Concurrency
12 3 (1.96%) LDAP
12 3 (1.96%) Web Services
13 2 (1.31%) OpenTelemetry
13 2 (1.31%) Playwright
13 2 (1.31%) RabbitMQ
13 2 (1.31%) RESTful
14 1 (0.65%) Phoenix
Miscellaneous
1 40 (26.14%) Cloud Native
2 19 (12.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (7.19%) Derivative
5 5 (3.27%) Equities
5 5 (3.27%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.61%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.61%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (2.61%) NHS
6 4 (2.61%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.96%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.96%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.96%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.96%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.96%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.31%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.31%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.31%) FPGA
8 2 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.54%) Linux
2 4 (2.61%) Windows
3 2 (1.31%) CentOS
3 2 (1.31%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.31%) Unix
4 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (31.37%) Software Engineering
2 39 (25.49%) CI/CD
3 34 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
3 34 (22.22%) Test Automation
4 32 (20.92%) Computer Science
5 29 (18.95%) Agile
6 25 (16.34%) DevOps
7 24 (15.69%) Low Latency
7 24 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (14.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (14.38%) Technical Leadership
9 19 (12.42%) AI
10 18 (11.76%) Fintech
10 18 (11.76%) Mentoring
10 18 (11.76%) User Experience
11 16 (10.46%) Electronic Trading
11 16 (10.46%) Microservices
11 16 (10.46%) Prototyping
11 16 (10.46%) Software Delivery
11 16 (10.46%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 36 (23.53%) Python
2 24 (15.69%) JavaScript
3 20 (13.07%) C#
4 18 (11.76%) TypeScript
5 16 (10.46%) SQL
6 11 (7.19%) Kotlin
7 10 (6.54%) Go
8 5 (3.27%) C++
8 5 (3.27%) Perl
9 4 (2.61%) Bash
9 4 (2.61%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.61%) Ruby
10 3 (1.96%) C
10 3 (1.96%) Objective-C
10 3 (1.96%) Rust
11 1 (0.65%) COBOL
11 1 (0.65%) Cypher
11 1 (0.65%) Elm
11 1 (0.65%) JCL
11 1 (0.65%) VBA
Qualifications
1 36 (23.53%) Degree
2 15 (9.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (8.50%) Security Cleared
4 10 (6.54%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.96%) CCSAM
5 3 (1.96%) CREST Certified
5 3 (1.96%) GPEN
5 3 (1.96%) GXPN
5 3 (1.96%) OSCE
5 3 (1.96%) OSCP
6 2 (1.31%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.31%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.96%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (1.31%) QA
3 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.65%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (6.54%) Docker
2 2 (1.31%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (15.03%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.58%) Terraform
3 4 (2.61%) Ansible
4 2 (1.31%) Argo
4 2 (1.31%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.31%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (1.31%) Red Hat Spacewalk
5 1 (0.65%) Grafana
5 1 (0.65%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 6 (3.92%) Microsoft
1 6 (3.92%) Solace
2 5 (3.27%) Guidewire
2 5 (3.27%) Oracle
3 3 (1.96%) Dell
3 3 (1.96%) OpenAI
3 3 (1.96%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.31%) Google
4 2 (1.31%) HP
4 2 (1.31%) iManage
4 2 (1.31%) Revolut
4 2 (1.31%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.65%) Databricks
5 1 (0.65%) IBM
5 1 (0.65%) JDA
5 1 (0.65%) Splunk
5 1 (0.65%) Temenos
5 1 (0.65%) VMware