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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 30 10
Rank change year-on-year +4 -20 +1
Permanent jobs citing Java 179 230 533
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 9.51% 7.15% 15.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.96% 15.64% 31.65%
Number of salaries quoted 162 182 490
10th Percentile £57,500 £52,750 £53,750
25th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £96,250 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.24% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £118,750 £107,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £122,250 £133,875
London median annual salary £105,000 £100,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% +5.88%

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 747 1,471 1,684
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 39.67% 45.75% 48.94%
Number of salaries quoted 633 1,010 1,547
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £110,000 £95,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £119,250
London median annual salary £80,500 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -2.42% +3.13% +6.67%

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 16 October 2025.

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 16 October 2025. 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 +7 172 £90,000 +5.88% 76
City of Westminster +23 2 £57,500 - 1
West End of London +16 1 £57,500 -26.98% 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 4 (2.23%) Apache Spark
1 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.12%) Luigi
2 2 (1.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.79%) Adaptiv
2 4 (2.23%) Endur
3 3 (1.68%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.56%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 57 (31.84%) AWS
2 38 (21.23%) Azure
3 24 (13.41%) Datadog
4 18 (10.06%) GCP
5 13 (7.26%) GitHub
5 13 (7.26%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (5.59%) SaaS
8 7 (3.91%) Serverless
9 5 (2.79%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.23%) OpenShift
10 4 (2.23%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.68%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.68%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (1.68%) Google App Engine
11 3 (1.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (1.12%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.12%) Azure Machine Learning
12 2 (1.12%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.56%) HTTP
1 1 (0.56%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (17.32%) Relational Database
2 9 (5.03%) SQL Server
3 8 (4.47%) ClickHouse
3 8 (4.47%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.35%) Big Data
4 6 (3.35%) Hadoop
5 5 (2.79%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.23%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.23%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.23%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.68%) OLAP
7 3 (1.68%) OLTP
8 2 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.12%) KDB
8 2 (1.12%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.12%) Power BI
8 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (4.47%) SonarQube
2 5 (2.79%) JIRA
3 4 (2.23%) Git
4 3 (1.68%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.68%) JUnit
4 3 (1.68%) Selenium
5 2 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.12%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.12%) JMeter
5 2 (1.12%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.12%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.56%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.56%) GitLab
6 1 (0.56%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (0.56%) Vagrant
General
1 62 (34.64%) Social Skills
2 44 (24.58%) Finance
3 30 (16.76%) Banking
4 21 (11.73%) Front Office
5 18 (10.06%) Billing
6 12 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (5.59%) Financial Institution
8 8 (4.47%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.23%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.68%) Advertising
10 3 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.12%) Law
12 1 (0.56%) French Language
12 1 (0.56%) Retail
12 1 (0.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 79 (44.13%) Developer
2 33 (18.44%) Senior
3 27 (15.08%) Lead
4 14 (7.82%) Java Engineer
5 13 (7.26%) Senior Developer
6 12 (6.70%) Java Developer
7 11 (6.15%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (4.47%) Head of IT
8 8 (4.47%) Senior Java Engineer
8 8 (4.47%) Software Engineer
9 7 (3.91%) Analyst
9 7 (3.91%) Architect
10 6 (3.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 5 (2.79%) Development Team Leader
11 5 (2.79%) Qualitative Analyst
11 5 (2.79%) Quantitative Analyst
11 5 (2.79%) Team Leader
12 4 (2.23%) Development Manager
12 4 (2.23%) Engineering Manager
12 4 (2.23%) Java Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (21.79%) .NET
2 30 (16.76%) React
3 24 (13.41%) Kafka
4 21 (11.73%) RESTful
5 18 (10.06%) Spring
6 15 (8.38%) Spring Boot
7 14 (7.82%) Node.js
8 6 (3.35%) Java Concurrency
9 5 (2.79%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (2.23%) FIX Protocol
11 3 (1.68%) JSON
11 3 (1.68%) Middleware
11 3 (1.68%) REST
12 2 (1.12%) Apache Thrift
12 2 (1.12%) AWS CDK
12 2 (1.12%) Elastic Stack
12 2 (1.12%) HTML
12 2 (1.12%) Quarkus
12 2 (1.12%) Spring Batch
12 2 (1.12%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 45 (25.14%) Cloud Native
1 45 (25.14%) Onboarding
2 17 (9.50%) Algorithms
3 15 (8.38%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (7.26%) Equities
5 11 (6.15%) Derivative
5 11 (6.15%) Market Risk
6 6 (3.35%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.35%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.79%) Credit Risk
8 4 (2.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.23%) Swaptions
9 3 (1.68%) Fixed Income
10 2 (1.12%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.12%) Sports Betting
11 1 (0.56%) Cyberattack
11 1 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.79%) Linux
2 1 (0.56%) Android
2 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (43.58%) Agile
2 65 (36.31%) CI/CD
3 60 (33.52%) DevOps
3 60 (33.52%) Migration
4 44 (24.58%) Problem-Solving
4 44 (24.58%) Test Automation
5 43 (24.02%) Continuous Improvement
6 36 (20.11%) Microservices
7 32 (17.88%) Scrum
7 32 (17.88%) Stakeholder Management
8 31 (17.32%) Computer Science
9 25 (13.97%) Low Latency
10 24 (13.41%) Document Management
10 24 (13.41%) Error Analysis
10 24 (13.41%) Requirements Gathering
11 22 (12.29%) Analytics
11 22 (12.29%) Code Quality
12 21 (11.73%) Collaborative Working
12 21 (11.73%) Software Delivery
13 20 (11.17%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 83 (46.37%) Python
2 63 (35.20%) C#
3 37 (20.67%) SQL
4 22 (12.29%) C++
5 17 (9.50%) TypeScript
6 10 (5.59%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.47%) Go
7 8 (4.47%) Kotlin
8 4 (2.23%) Scala
8 4 (2.23%) VB
9 3 (1.68%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.56%) Bash
10 1 (0.56%) COBOL
10 1 (0.56%) Groovy
10 1 (0.56%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.56%) R
10 1 (0.56%) Ruby
10 1 (0.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 29 (16.20%) Degree
2 16 (8.94%) Master's Degree
3 9 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (4.47%) CFA
4 8 (4.47%) ITIL Certification
4 8 (4.47%) PMI Certification
4 8 (4.47%) PMP
4 8 (4.47%) Security Cleared
5 7 (3.91%) PhD
6 5 (2.79%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.12%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.91%) QA
2 4 (2.23%) GDPR
3 3 (1.68%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.68%) SLA
4 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.56%) ITGC
System Software
1 13 (7.26%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (12.29%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.70%) Terraform
3 6 (3.35%) Ansible
4 4 (2.23%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.68%) Puppet
6 1 (0.56%) Consul
6 1 (0.56%) Packer
6 1 (0.56%) Salt
6 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (24.02%) Guidewire
2 8 (4.47%) Murex
3 7 (3.91%) Google
3 7 (3.91%) Oracle
4 5 (2.79%) FIS
4 5 (2.79%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.23%) Databricks
5 4 (2.23%) OpenLink
5 4 (2.23%) Solace
5 4 (2.23%) Sybase
5 4 (2.23%) TIBCO
6 3 (1.68%) Informatica
6 3 (1.68%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.56%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.56%) Dell
7 1 (0.56%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.56%) Palantir
7 1 (0.56%) Pega
7 1 (0.56%) SimCorp
7 1 (0.56%) Talend