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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 33 17
Rank change year-on-year -9 -16 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 157 182 392
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 3.83% 7.20% 10.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.36% 15.95% 24.27%
Number of salaries quoted 119 135 355
10th Percentile £67,500 £65,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £81,250 £80,625 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £105,625 £120,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £149,500 £129,500
London median annual salary £90,000 £107,500 £95,000
% change year-on-year -16.28% +13.16% +5.56%

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 1,093 1,141 1,615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 26.65% 45.13% 44.75%
Number of salaries quoted 841 910 1,359
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,175 £47,500
25th Percentile £66,500 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £79,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +1.27% +1.94%
75th Percentile £100,000 £104,875 £98,125
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £115,000
London median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year - +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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -9 138 £100,000 +3.90% 84
West End of London +14 5 £85,000 -17.07% 2
City of Westminster +15 3 £87,500 - 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 2 (1.27%) Apache
1 2 (1.27%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.27%) nginx
2 1 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.64%) CICS
2 1 (0.64%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 67 (42.68%) AWS
2 23 (14.65%) Azure
3 20 (12.74%) GCP
4 4 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (2.55%) Pulumi
5 3 (1.91%) OpenShift
5 3 (1.91%) SaaS
6 2 (1.27%) GitHub
6 2 (1.27%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.27%) Serverless
6 2 (1.27%) Stripe
7 1 (0.64%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.64%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (0.64%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (0.64%) Azure AI
7 1 (0.64%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 1 (0.64%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.64%) dbt
7 1 (0.64%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (0.64%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.91%) Network Security
2 2 (1.27%) DHCP
2 2 (1.27%) DNS
2 2 (1.27%) LAN
2 2 (1.27%) NAS
2 2 (1.27%) SAN
2 2 (1.27%) SNMP
2 2 (1.27%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.27%) WAN
3 1 (0.64%) Broadband
3 1 (0.64%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.64%) LTE
3 1 (0.64%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.64%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.55%) NoSQL
2 4 (2.55%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.91%) DynamoDB
3 3 (1.91%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.27%) Big Data
4 2 (1.27%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.27%) MySQL
4 2 (1.27%) Power BI
5 1 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.64%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.64%) DB2
5 1 (0.64%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.64%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.64%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.64%) Pinecone
5 1 (0.64%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.64%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 7 (4.46%) Gradle
2 5 (3.18%) JIRA
3 3 (1.91%) Git
3 3 (1.91%) Selenium
4 1 (0.64%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.64%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.64%) GitLab
4 1 (0.64%) Jaeger
4 1 (0.64%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.64%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (0.64%) MLflow
General
1 43 (27.39%) Finance
2 29 (18.47%) Social Skills
3 26 (16.56%) Front Office
4 18 (11.46%) Banking
5 10 (6.37%) Financial Institution
6 6 (3.82%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.18%) Marketing
8 4 (2.55%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.91%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.91%) Law
10 2 (1.27%) Advertising
10 2 (1.27%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.27%) Legal
10 2 (1.27%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.64%) Cantonese Language
11 1 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.64%) Retail
11 1 (0.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (31.85%) Developer
2 38 (24.20%) Java Engineer
3 36 (22.93%) Software Engineer
4 35 (22.29%) Senior
5 31 (19.75%) Java Developer
6 25 (15.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 24 (15.29%) Java Software Engineer
7 24 (15.29%) Lead
8 16 (10.19%) Senior Developer
9 14 (8.92%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (6.37%) Senior Java Engineer
11 9 (5.73%) AWS Software Engineer
11 9 (5.73%) Senior Software Engineer
12 8 (5.10%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 7 (4.46%) Architect
13 7 (4.46%) Front Office Developer
13 7 (4.46%) Senior Java Developer
14 6 (3.82%) Consultant
14 6 (3.82%) Full-Stack Developer
14 6 (3.82%) Java Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (17.20%) Spring Boot
2 25 (15.92%) React
3 24 (15.29%) Spring
4 20 (12.74%) .NET
5 16 (10.19%) Node.js
6 14 (8.92%) Kafka
7 12 (7.64%) FIX Protocol
8 7 (4.46%) CSS
8 7 (4.46%) HTML
9 6 (3.82%) AngularJS
9 6 (3.82%) REST
10 5 (3.18%) Vue
11 3 (1.91%) Java Concurrency
11 3 (1.91%) LDAP
11 3 (1.91%) Middleware
11 3 (1.91%) Web Services
12 2 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
12 2 (1.27%) OpenTelemetry
12 2 (1.27%) Playwright
12 2 (1.27%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 36 (22.93%) Cloud Native
2 18 (11.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (7.01%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.73%) Derivative
5 5 (3.18%) Equities
6 4 (2.55%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.55%) NHS
6 4 (2.55%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.55%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.91%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.91%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.91%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.91%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.91%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.27%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.27%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.27%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.27%) FPGA
8 2 (1.27%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.64%) Linux
2 4 (2.55%) Windows
3 2 (1.27%) CentOS
3 2 (1.27%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.27%) Unix
4 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (33.76%) Software Engineering
2 34 (21.66%) CI/CD
3 33 (21.02%) Full-Stack Development
4 31 (19.75%) DevOps
5 30 (19.11%) Agile
6 29 (18.47%) Computer Science
7 26 (16.56%) Test Automation
8 23 (14.65%) Low Latency
9 22 (14.01%) AI
10 21 (13.38%) Mentoring
11 20 (12.74%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (12.74%) Technical Leadership
12 19 (12.10%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (12.10%) Roadmaps
13 18 (11.46%) Fintech
13 18 (11.46%) Microservices
14 15 (9.55%) Electronic Trading
15 14 (8.92%) Software Delivery
15 14 (8.92%) User Experience
16 12 (7.64%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 38 (24.20%) Python
2 23 (14.65%) JavaScript
3 19 (12.10%) C#
4 17 (10.83%) SQL
5 16 (10.19%) TypeScript
6 10 (6.37%) Go
7 8 (5.10%) Kotlin
8 7 (4.46%) C++
9 5 (3.18%) Bash
9 5 (3.18%) Perl
10 4 (2.55%) C
10 4 (2.55%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.55%) Ruby
10 4 (2.55%) Rust
11 3 (1.91%) Objective-C
12 2 (1.27%) VBA
13 1 (0.64%) COBOL
13 1 (0.64%) Groovy
13 1 (0.64%) JCL
13 1 (0.64%) Korn
Qualifications
1 33 (21.02%) Degree
2 16 (10.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (8.28%) Security Cleared
4 10 (6.37%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.91%) CCSAM
5 3 (1.91%) CREST Certified
5 3 (1.91%) GPEN
5 3 (1.91%) GXPN
5 3 (1.91%) OSCE
5 3 (1.91%) OSCP
5 3 (1.91%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.27%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.91%) Actionable Recommendations
1 3 (1.91%) QA
2 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.64%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (8.28%) Docker
2 2 (1.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (14.65%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.73%) Terraform
3 5 (3.18%) Ansible
4 3 (1.91%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.27%) Argo
5 2 (1.27%) Grafana
5 2 (1.27%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (1.27%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 1 (0.64%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 7 (4.46%) Solace
2 6 (3.82%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.82%) Oracle
3 4 (2.55%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.91%) Dell
4 3 (1.91%) Google
4 3 (1.91%) Guidewire
4 3 (1.91%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.91%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.27%) HP
5 2 (1.27%) iManage
5 2 (1.27%) JDA
5 2 (1.27%) Revolut
5 2 (1.27%) Splunk
6 1 (0.64%) Databricks
6 1 (0.64%) IBM
6 1 (0.64%) Pega
6 1 (0.64%) Temenos
6 1 (0.64%) VMware