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 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 24 30
Rank change year-on-year -22 +6 -21
Permanent jobs citing Java 119 202 233
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 3.57% 10.09% 7.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.32% 24.97% 15.89%
Number of salaries quoted 102 173 188
10th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £112,500 £120,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £140,000 £120,000
London median annual salary £85,000 £107,500 £105,000
% change year-on-year -20.93% +2.38% +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 729 809 1,466
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 21.89% 40.41% 45.22%
Number of salaries quoted 575 673 1,021
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £67,500 £61,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £130,000 £112,500
London median annual salary £83,000 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +3.75% -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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -19 117 £100,000 +11.11% 95
West End of London - 1 £100,000 - 11
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 (0.84%) Camunda
1 1 (0.84%) CICS
Applications
1 7 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.68%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.84%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 46 (38.66%) AWS
2 25 (21.01%) Azure
3 21 (17.65%) GCP
4 4 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (3.36%) GitHub
4 4 (3.36%) Serverless
5 3 (2.52%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (2.52%) Amazon S3
5 3 (2.52%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (2.52%) Vertex AI
6 2 (1.68%) Azure AI
6 2 (1.68%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 2 (1.68%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (1.68%) Cloud Functions
6 2 (1.68%) Cloud Run
6 2 (1.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (0.84%) Amazon Neptune
7 1 (0.84%) Datadog
7 1 (0.84%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.84%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.52%) Network Security
2 2 (1.68%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.84%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.84%) Internet
3 1 (0.84%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.04%) Geospatial Data
1 6 (5.04%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.36%) MongoDB
2 4 (3.36%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.52%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.68%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.68%) Cloud Spanner
5 1 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.84%) Db2
5 1 (0.84%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.84%) MySQL
5 1 (0.84%) Pinecone
5 1 (0.84%) Power BI
5 1 (0.84%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.84%) SQLPlus
5 1 (0.84%) Stardog
5 1 (0.84%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 11 (9.24%) Git
2 6 (5.04%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.04%) JUnit
2 6 (5.04%) Maven
2 6 (5.04%) Mockito
3 3 (2.52%) Spock
4 2 (1.68%) GitLab
4 2 (1.68%) Gradle
4 2 (1.68%) JIRA
5 1 (0.84%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.84%) JMeter
5 1 (0.84%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (0.84%) Postman
5 1 (0.84%) Snyk
General
1 41 (34.45%) Finance
2 29 (24.37%) Social Skills
3 15 (12.61%) Banking
4 14 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.88%) Front Office
6 4 (3.36%) Financial Institution
6 4 (3.36%) Prime Brokerage
7 3 (2.52%) Back Office
7 3 (2.52%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.52%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.68%) Advertising
8 2 (1.68%) iGaming
9 1 (0.84%) Cantonese Language
9 1 (0.84%) Games
9 1 (0.84%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.84%) Retail
9 1 (0.84%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (33.61%) Developer
2 26 (21.85%) Java Developer
3 23 (19.33%) Senior
4 21 (17.65%) Software Engineer
5 19 (15.97%) Java Engineer
6 10 (8.40%) Lead
7 9 (7.56%) Consultant
7 9 (7.56%) Java Consultant
7 9 (7.56%) Java Software Engineer
7 9 (7.56%) Senior Software Engineer
8 8 (6.72%) Senior Developer
9 7 (5.88%) Development Consultant
9 7 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 7 (5.88%) Python Engineer
9 7 (5.88%) Software Consultant
9 7 (5.88%) Software Development Consultant
9 7 (5.88%) Technical Consultant
10 6 (5.04%) Architect
10 6 (5.04%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
11 5 (4.20%) Principal Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (27.73%) Spring Boot
2 27 (22.69%) Spring
3 17 (14.29%) Terraform
4 11 (9.24%) REST
5 10 (8.40%) Kafka
6 9 (7.56%) .NET
6 9 (7.56%) React
7 8 (6.72%) FIX Protocol
8 6 (5.04%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (4.20%) LangChain
10 3 (2.52%) AngularJS
10 3 (2.52%) FIXML
10 3 (2.52%) FpML
11 2 (1.68%) Hibernate
11 2 (1.68%) JPA
11 2 (1.68%) Node.js
11 2 (1.68%) OAuth
11 2 (1.68%) OpenID
11 2 (1.68%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (1.68%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 25 (21.01%) Cloud Native
2 19 (15.97%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.88%) Reinsurance
4 6 (5.04%) Onboarding
4 6 (5.04%) Virtual Team
5 4 (3.36%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (3.36%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.52%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.52%) Credit Risk
6 3 (2.52%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.52%) Equities
6 3 (2.52%) Fixed Income
6 3 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.52%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.52%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.68%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.68%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.68%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.92%) Linux
2 5 (4.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (38.66%) Software Engineering
2 36 (30.25%) CI/CD
3 34 (28.57%) Agile
4 33 (27.73%) DevOps
5 26 (21.85%) Microservices
6 23 (19.33%) Mentoring
7 21 (17.65%) AI
8 18 (15.13%) Containerisation
8 18 (15.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (11.76%) Computer Science
9 14 (11.76%) Decision-Making
10 13 (10.92%) Full-Stack Development
10 13 (10.92%) Migration
10 13 (10.92%) Roadmaps
11 12 (10.08%) Infrastructure as Code
12 11 (9.24%) Low Latency
13 10 (8.40%) Mathematics
13 10 (8.40%) Multithreading
13 10 (8.40%) Platform Engineering
13 10 (8.40%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 48 (40.34%) Python
2 27 (22.69%) C#
3 19 (15.97%) SQL
4 16 (13.45%) C++
5 12 (10.08%) JavaScript
6 11 (9.24%) Bash
6 11 (9.24%) Rust
7 10 (8.40%) TypeScript
8 8 (6.72%) R
9 7 (5.88%) Go
9 7 (5.88%) Julia
9 7 (5.88%) MATLAB
10 6 (5.04%) VBA
11 5 (4.20%) PowerShell
12 4 (3.36%) C
12 4 (3.36%) Ruby
13 3 (2.52%) Objective-C
13 3 (2.52%) Perl
14 2 (1.68%) Groovy
14 2 (1.68%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 15 (12.61%) Degree
2 11 (9.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (5.88%) Security Cleared
4 5 (4.20%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.52%) CCSAM
5 3 (2.52%) CREST Certified
5 3 (2.52%) GPEN
5 3 (2.52%) GXPN
5 3 (2.52%) OSCE
5 3 (2.52%) OSCP
6 2 (1.68%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.84%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.40%) GDPR
2 3 (2.52%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (2.52%) QA
3 1 (0.84%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (13.45%) Docker
2 5 (4.20%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.84%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (19.33%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.72%) Ansible
3 7 (5.88%) Grafana
3 7 (5.88%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.84%) Puppet
4 1 (0.84%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (5.04%) Google
1 6 (5.04%) Guidewire
1 6 (5.04%) Splunk
2 5 (4.20%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.20%) Oracle
3 4 (3.36%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.68%) JDA
4 2 (1.68%) Palantir
4 2 (1.68%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.68%) Solace
4 2 (1.68%) VMware
5 1 (0.84%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.84%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.84%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.84%) Checkmarx
5 1 (0.84%) IBM
5 1 (0.84%) Pega
5 1 (0.84%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.84%) Temenos
5 1 (0.84%) Veracode