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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 44 11
Rank change year-on-year +12 -33 0
Permanent jobs citing Java 155 187 454
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 6.57% 5.74% 14.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.16% 13.10% 30.11%
Number of salaries quoted 133 137 419
10th Percentile £57,750 £52,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -
75th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £137,500 £127,500
London median annual salary £100,000 £100,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +2.86%

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 809 1,428 1,508
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 34.27% 43.83% 49.07%
Number of salaries quoted 654 1,017 1,389
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £56,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £102,250 £95,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £118,000 £117,500
London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - - +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 1 January 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 January 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 +9 136 £100,000 +11.11% 82
City of Westminster +33 1 £57,500 - 1
West End of London +3 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 (2.58%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.29%) Apache
3 2 (1.29%) Luigi
3 2 (1.29%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.29%) Adaptiv
Cloud Services
1 53 (34.19%) AWS
2 20 (12.90%) Azure
3 17 (10.97%) Datadog
4 12 (7.74%) GCP
5 10 (6.45%) SaaS
6 3 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.94%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.29%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (1.29%) GitHub
7 2 (1.29%) Google App Engine
7 2 (1.29%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.29%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.65%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.65%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (0.65%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.65%) dbt
8 1 (0.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.29%) DHCP
1 2 (1.29%) DNS
1 2 (1.29%) LAN
1 2 (1.29%) NAS
1 2 (1.29%) SAN
1 2 (1.29%) SNMP
1 2 (1.29%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.29%) WAN
2 1 (0.65%) HTTP
2 1 (0.65%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.65%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.26%) Relational Database
2 8 (5.16%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.87%) ClickHouse
3 6 (3.87%) Hadoop
4 4 (2.58%) Big Data
4 4 (2.58%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.29%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.29%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.29%) KDB
5 2 (1.29%) Power BI
6 1 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.65%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.65%) DB2
6 1 (0.65%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.65%) Kdb+
6 1 (0.65%) MySQL
6 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.65%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 4 (2.58%) Selenium
2 2 (1.29%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.29%) JIRA
2 2 (1.29%) JMeter
2 2 (1.29%) JUnit
2 2 (1.29%) WebDriver
3 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.65%) Git
3 1 (0.65%) GitLab
3 1 (0.65%) Gradle
3 1 (0.65%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (0.65%) MLflow
General
1 50 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 27 (17.42%) Finance
2 27 (17.42%) Front Office
3 17 (10.97%) Banking
4 12 (7.74%) Billing
5 8 (5.16%) Financial Institution
6 6 (3.87%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.87%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.58%) Marketing
8 3 (1.94%) Law
9 2 (1.29%) Legal
9 2 (1.29%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.29%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.65%) French Language
10 1 (0.65%) Retail
10 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 63 (40.65%) Developer
2 38 (24.52%) Senior
3 34 (21.94%) Lead
4 26 (16.77%) Java Engineer
5 20 (12.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 17 (10.97%) Senior Developer
7 14 (9.03%) Java Developer
7 14 (9.03%) Software Engineer
8 13 (8.39%) Senior Java Engineer
9 11 (7.10%) Java Software Engineer
10 7 (4.52%) Architect
11 5 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
12 4 (2.58%) Applications Architect
12 4 (2.58%) Data Engineer
12 4 (2.58%) Development Manager
12 4 (2.58%) Development Team Leader
12 4 (2.58%) Java Applications Architect
12 4 (2.58%) Java Architect
12 4 (2.58%) Team Leader
12 4 (2.58%) Web Applications Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (20.65%) .NET
2 27 (17.42%) React
3 20 (12.90%) Kafka
3 20 (12.90%) Node.js
4 13 (8.39%) Spring
5 12 (7.74%) RESTful
6 11 (7.10%) Spring Boot
7 9 (5.81%) Java Concurrency
8 8 (5.16%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (2.58%) HTML
10 3 (1.94%) CSS
10 3 (1.94%) LDAP
11 2 (1.29%) Apache Thrift
11 2 (1.29%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (1.29%) JSON
11 2 (1.29%) Playwright
11 2 (1.29%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (1.29%) REST
11 2 (1.29%) Vue
12 1 (0.65%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 39 (25.16%) Cloud Native
2 29 (18.71%) Onboarding
3 18 (11.61%) Algorithms
4 15 (9.68%) Derivative
4 15 (9.68%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (9.03%) Equities
6 10 (6.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (3.87%) Market Risk
8 5 (3.23%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.58%) Credit Risk
9 4 (2.58%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.29%) FPGA
10 2 (1.29%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.29%) NHS
10 2 (1.29%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.65%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.65%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.65%) PKI
11 1 (0.65%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.23%) Linux
2 2 (1.29%) CentOS
2 2 (1.29%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (32.90%) CI/CD
1 51 (32.90%) Test Automation
2 43 (27.74%) Problem-Solving
3 42 (27.10%) Agile
4 38 (24.52%) Computer Science
5 35 (22.58%) Continuous Improvement
6 33 (21.29%) DevOps
7 32 (20.65%) Migration
8 26 (16.77%) Full-Stack Development
9 25 (16.13%) Microservices
10 24 (15.48%) Low Latency
11 23 (14.84%) Prototyping
11 23 (14.84%) Software Engineering
12 21 (13.55%) Stakeholder Management
12 21 (13.55%) Technical Leadership
13 20 (12.90%) Electronic Trading
13 20 (12.90%) Software Delivery
13 20 (12.90%) Software Testing
14 19 (12.26%) Analytics
15 18 (11.61%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 59 (38.06%) Python
2 41 (26.45%) C#
3 26 (16.77%) SQL
4 22 (14.19%) JavaScript
5 18 (11.61%) TypeScript
6 12 (7.74%) Kotlin
7 9 (5.81%) C++
8 4 (2.58%) Scala
9 2 (1.29%) Go
9 2 (1.29%) Perl
10 1 (0.65%) COBOL
10 1 (0.65%) Groovy
10 1 (0.65%) Korn
10 1 (0.65%) R
10 1 (0.65%) Ruby
10 1 (0.65%) VBA
Qualifications
1 36 (23.23%) Degree
2 12 (7.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (7.10%) Security Cleared
4 9 (5.81%) Master's Degree
5 8 (5.16%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.87%) PhD
7 2 (1.29%) CFA
7 2 (1.29%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.29%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.29%) PMP
7 2 (1.29%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.94%) QA
System Software
1 5 (3.23%) Docker
2 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (11.61%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.23%) Ansible
3 3 (1.94%) Progress Chef
3 3 (1.94%) Terraform
4 2 (1.29%) Puppet
4 2 (1.29%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (1.29%) Red Hat Spacewalk
5 1 (0.65%) Argo
Vendors
1 29 (18.71%) Guidewire
2 4 (2.58%) Databricks
2 4 (2.58%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.94%) Dell
3 3 (1.94%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.29%) FIS
4 2 (1.29%) Google
4 2 (1.29%) HP
4 2 (1.29%) iManage
4 2 (1.29%) Murex
4 2 (1.29%) Oracle
4 2 (1.29%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.65%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.65%) Foundry
5 1 (0.65%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.65%) Palantir
5 1 (0.65%) Pega
5 1 (0.65%) Solace