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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 25 22
Rank change year-on-year -20 -3 -11
Permanent jobs citing Java 148 207 326
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 3.49% 9.29% 9.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.86% 20.74% 20.76%
Number of salaries quoted 119 174 284
10th Percentile £61,250 £62,000 £61,250
25th Percentile £81,250 £75,313 £65,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £97,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +14.71% -8.11%
75th Percentile £106,250 £120,000 £108,125
90th Percentile £126,500 £148,375 £122,500
London median annual salary £85,000 £105,000 £97,500
% change year-on-year -19.05% +7.69% +8.33%

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 933 998 1,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 22.03% 44.77% 44.45%
Number of salaries quoted 732 831 1,236
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +10.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,375 £127,500 £115,000
London median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
% 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -21 141 £100,000 +11.11% 37
West End of London +4 5 £85,000 -17.07%
City of Westminster +14 2 £87,500 - 6
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 (0.68%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.68%) Camunda
1 1 (0.68%) CICS
1 1 (0.68%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (4.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.68%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 52 (35.14%) AWS
2 23 (15.54%) Azure
3 20 (13.51%) GCP
4 5 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.70%) GitHub
6 3 (2.03%) Pulumi
6 3 (2.03%) Serverless
6 3 (2.03%) Vertex AI
7 2 (1.35%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.35%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.35%) Azure AI
7 2 (1.35%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 2 (1.35%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (1.35%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (1.35%) Cloud Run
7 2 (1.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (1.35%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.35%) Stripe
8 1 (0.68%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.03%) Network Security
2 2 (1.35%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.68%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.68%) Internet
3 1 (0.68%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.68%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.76%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.05%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (2.70%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.70%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.03%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.35%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.35%) Cloud Spanner
5 2 (1.35%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.68%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.68%) Db2
6 1 (0.68%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.68%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.68%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.68%) SQLPlus
6 1 (0.68%) Stardog
6 1 (0.68%) Trino
6 1 (0.68%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 8 (5.41%) Git
2 7 (4.73%) Gradle
3 6 (4.05%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.03%) JIRA
4 3 (2.03%) JUnit
4 3 (2.03%) Maven
4 3 (2.03%) Mockito
4 3 (2.03%) Spock
5 2 (1.35%) GitLab
6 1 (0.68%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.68%) JMeter
6 1 (0.68%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (0.68%) Postman
6 1 (0.68%) Selenium
General
1 45 (30.41%) Finance
2 31 (20.95%) Social Skills
3 18 (12.16%) Front Office
4 14 (9.46%) Banking
5 13 (8.78%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (6.76%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.03%) Advertising
7 3 (2.03%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.35%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.35%) Retail
9 1 (0.68%) Cantonese Language
9 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Law
9 1 (0.68%) Marketing
9 1 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (36.49%) Developer
2 33 (22.30%) Senior
3 32 (21.62%) Software Engineer
4 31 (20.95%) Java Developer
5 30 (20.27%) Java Engineer
6 16 (10.81%) Java Software Engineer
7 14 (9.46%) Senior Developer
8 12 (8.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 12 (8.11%) Lead
9 11 (7.43%) Senior Software Engineer
10 9 (6.08%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (6.08%) Consultant
10 9 (6.08%) Java Consultant
10 9 (6.08%) Senior Java Engineer
11 8 (5.41%) AWS Software Engineer
11 8 (5.41%) Python Engineer
11 8 (5.41%) Senior Java Developer
12 7 (4.73%) Development Consultant
12 7 (4.73%) Principal Engineer
12 7 (4.73%) Software Development Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 33 (22.30%) Spring
3 16 (10.81%) Kafka
3 16 (10.81%) React
4 10 (6.76%) .NET
4 10 (6.76%) REST
5 9 (6.08%) FIX Protocol
6 6 (4.05%) AngularJS
6 6 (4.05%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (4.05%) Node.js
7 4 (2.70%) CSS
7 4 (2.70%) HTML
7 4 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (2.03%) LangChain
8 3 (2.03%) Middleware
8 3 (2.03%) Vue
8 3 (2.03%) Web Services
9 2 (1.35%) FastAPI
9 2 (1.35%) LangGraph
9 2 (1.35%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 33 (22.30%) Cloud Native
2 17 (11.49%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (10.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (4.73%) Reinsurance
5 6 (4.05%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.05%) Virtual Team
6 5 (3.38%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.70%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.70%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.70%) Equities
7 4 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.70%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.70%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.03%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.03%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.35%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.35%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.68%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.78%) Linux
2 5 (3.38%) Windows
3 1 (0.68%) Unix
3 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (35.81%) Software Engineering
2 37 (25.00%) DevOps
3 36 (24.32%) Agile
4 32 (21.62%) CI/CD
5 30 (20.27%) AI
6 26 (17.57%) Microservices
7 24 (16.22%) Mentoring
8 23 (15.54%) Computer Science
9 22 (14.86%) Low Latency
10 20 (13.51%) Roadmaps
11 19 (12.84%) Full-Stack Development
12 18 (12.16%) Code Quality
13 17 (11.49%) Containerisation
14 16 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (10.81%) Decision-Making
14 16 (10.81%) Mathematics
15 13 (8.78%) Infrastructure as Code
15 13 (8.78%) Migration
16 12 (8.11%) Fintech
16 12 (8.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 50 (33.78%) Python
2 27 (18.24%) C#
3 22 (14.86%) SQL
4 16 (10.81%) C++
5 11 (7.43%) Go
5 11 (7.43%) Rust
5 11 (7.43%) TypeScript
6 10 (6.76%) Bash
6 10 (6.76%) JavaScript
7 8 (5.41%) R
8 7 (4.73%) Julia
8 7 (4.73%) MATLAB
9 6 (4.05%) VBA
10 5 (3.38%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.70%) C
11 4 (2.70%) Kotlin
11 4 (2.70%) Ruby
12 3 (2.03%) Objective-C
12 3 (2.03%) Perl
13 2 (1.35%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 24 (16.22%) Degree
2 18 (12.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.05%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.38%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.03%) CCSAM
5 3 (2.03%) CREST Certified
5 3 (2.03%) GPEN
5 3 (2.03%) GXPN
5 3 (2.03%) OSCE
5 3 (2.03%) OSCP
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.68%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.76%) GDPR
2 3 (2.03%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (2.03%) QA
3 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.68%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (11.49%) Docker
2 5 (3.38%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (1.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (18.92%) Kubernetes
2 16 (10.81%) Terraform
3 8 (5.41%) Ansible
3 8 (5.41%) Grafana
3 8 (5.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (4.73%) Solace
1 7 (4.73%) Splunk
2 6 (4.05%) Guidewire
2 6 (4.05%) OpenAI
2 6 (4.05%) Oracle
3 5 (3.38%) Google
3 5 (3.38%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.03%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.35%) JDA
5 2 (1.35%) Palantir
5 2 (1.35%) Revolut
6 1 (0.68%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.68%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.68%) Dell
6 1 (0.68%) IBM
6 1 (0.68%) Pega
6 1 (0.68%) Temenos
6 1 (0.68%) VMware