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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 39 10
Rank change year-on-year +6 -29 +3
Permanent jobs citing Java 153 184 449
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 5.89% 5.76% 14.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.75% 13.11% 29.70%
Number of salaries quoted 131 131 417
10th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £80,000 £71,875 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -2.63%
75th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £137,500 £125,000
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 862 1,403 1,512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 33.20% 43.93% 48.55%
Number of salaries quoted 688 978 1,389
10th Percentile £53,750 £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 £100,000 £97,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £117,500 £116,250
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 18 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 18 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 +3 135 £100,000 +11.11% 79
City of Westminster +31 2 £57,500 - 1
West End of London +7 1 £57,500 -30.30% 3
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 (2.61%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.31%) Apache
3 2 (1.31%) Luigi
3 2 (1.31%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.31%) Adaptiv
Cloud Services
1 58 (37.91%) AWS
2 17 (11.11%) Azure
3 14 (9.15%) Datadog
4 10 (6.54%) GCP
4 10 (6.54%) SaaS
5 3 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.96%) Snowflake
6 2 (1.31%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (1.31%) GitHub
6 2 (1.31%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.31%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (0.65%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.65%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (0.65%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.65%) dbt
7 1 (0.65%) Pulumi
7 1 (0.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.31%) DHCP
1 2 (1.31%) DNS
1 2 (1.31%) LAN
1 2 (1.31%) NAS
1 2 (1.31%) SAN
1 2 (1.31%) SNMP
1 2 (1.31%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.31%) WAN
2 1 (0.65%) Broadband
2 1 (0.65%) HTTP
2 1 (0.65%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.65%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 11 (7.19%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.27%) Hadoop
3 5 (3.27%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.61%) ClickHouse
5 3 (1.96%) Big Data
6 2 (1.31%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.31%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.31%) KDB
6 2 (1.31%) Power BI
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.65%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.65%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.65%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.65%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.65%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.65%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 3 (1.96%) Selenium
2 2 (1.31%) Gradle
2 2 (1.31%) JIRA
3 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.65%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.65%) Git
3 1 (0.65%) GitLab
3 1 (0.65%) Jaeger
3 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.65%) JMeter
3 1 (0.65%) JUnit
3 1 (0.65%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (0.65%) MLflow
3 1 (0.65%) WebDriver
General
1 45 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 27 (17.65%) Finance
2 27 (17.65%) Front Office
3 16 (10.46%) Banking
4 10 (6.54%) Billing
5 7 (4.58%) Financial Institution
6 6 (3.92%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.61%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.61%) Marketing
7 4 (2.61%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.96%) Law
9 2 (1.31%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.31%) Legal
9 2 (1.31%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.65%) French Language
10 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (39.22%) Developer
2 39 (25.49%) Senior
3 30 (19.61%) Java Engineer
3 30 (19.61%) Lead
4 21 (13.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 19 (12.42%) Java Developer
6 18 (11.76%) Senior Developer
7 14 (9.15%) Software Engineer
8 13 (8.50%) Senior Java Engineer
9 11 (7.19%) Java Software Engineer
10 8 (5.23%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (4.58%) Architect
12 6 (3.92%) DV Cleared Java Developer
13 4 (2.61%) Applications Architect
13 4 (2.61%) Data Engineer
13 4 (2.61%) Development Manager
13 4 (2.61%) Java Applications Architect
13 4 (2.61%) Java Architect
13 4 (2.61%) Web Applications Architect
13 4 (2.61%) Web Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (17.65%) .NET
2 25 (16.34%) React
3 19 (12.42%) Node.js
4 17 (11.11%) Kafka
5 14 (9.15%) Spring
6 12 (7.84%) Spring Boot
7 10 (6.54%) RESTful
8 9 (5.88%) FIX Protocol
8 9 (5.88%) Java Concurrency
9 5 (3.27%) HTML
10 4 (2.61%) CSS
11 3 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (1.96%) LDAP
11 3 (1.96%) Vue
12 2 (1.31%) HTML5
12 2 (1.31%) Playwright
12 2 (1.31%) RabbitMQ
13 1 (0.65%) CSS3
13 1 (0.65%) OAuth
13 1 (0.65%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 36 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 24 (15.69%) Onboarding
3 16 (10.46%) Algorithms
4 15 (9.80%) Derivative
5 13 (8.50%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (7.84%) Equities
6 12 (7.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (3.27%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.61%) Credit Risk
8 4 (2.61%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (2.61%) Market Risk
8 4 (2.61%) NHS
9 2 (1.31%) FPGA
10 1 (0.65%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.65%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.65%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.65%) PKI
10 1 (0.65%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.65%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.92%) Linux
2 2 (1.31%) CentOS
2 2 (1.31%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (31.37%) CI/CD
2 46 (30.07%) Test Automation
3 37 (24.18%) Agile
4 36 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (22.88%) Computer Science
6 32 (20.92%) Continuous Improvement
6 32 (20.92%) DevOps
7 28 (18.30%) Full-Stack Development
7 28 (18.30%) Software Engineering
8 27 (17.65%) Migration
9 24 (15.69%) Low Latency
10 21 (13.73%) Technical Leadership
11 20 (13.07%) Electronic Trading
11 20 (13.07%) Microservices
12 19 (12.42%) Prototyping
12 19 (12.42%) Software Delivery
13 18 (11.76%) Software Testing
14 17 (11.11%) Analytics
14 17 (11.11%) Mathematics
14 17 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (33.33%) Python
2 35 (22.88%) C#
3 23 (15.03%) JavaScript
3 23 (15.03%) SQL
4 18 (11.76%) TypeScript
5 12 (7.84%) Kotlin
6 7 (4.58%) C++
7 4 (2.61%) Scala
8 3 (1.96%) Go
9 2 (1.31%) Perl
10 1 (0.65%) Bash
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 33 (21.57%) Degree
2 14 (9.15%) Security Cleared
3 12 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (7.19%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.27%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.61%) PhD
7 2 (1.31%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.31%) CFA
7 2 (1.31%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.31%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.31%) PMP
7 2 (1.31%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 6 (3.92%) Docker
2 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (12.42%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.92%) Ansible
3 3 (1.96%) Progress Chef
3 3 (1.96%) Terraform
4 2 (1.31%) Argo
4 2 (1.31%) Puppet
4 2 (1.31%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (1.31%) Red Hat Spacewalk
5 1 (0.65%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.65%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (15.69%) Guidewire
2 4 (2.61%) Databricks
2 4 (2.61%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.96%) Dell
3 3 (1.96%) Google
3 3 (1.96%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.31%) FIS
4 2 (1.31%) HP
4 2 (1.31%) iManage
4 2 (1.31%) Murex
4 2 (1.31%) Oracle
4 2 (1.31%) Solace
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