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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 25 30
Rank change year-on-year -23 +5 -22
Permanent jobs citing Java 109 197 235
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 3.47% 10.06% 7.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.08% 24.78% 15.74%
Number of salaries quoted 94 173 185
10th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £71,563 £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 £134,500 £121,500
London median annual salary £82,500 £105,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -21.43% +5.00% +11.11%

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 678 795 1,493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 21.59% 40.58% 44.96%
Number of salaries quoted 546 668 1,018
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £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 £107,625 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £130,000 £112,500
London median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +3.13% -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 26 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 26 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 -19 108 £100,000 +11.11% 136
West End of London - 1 £100,000 - 9
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 (0.92%) Camunda
Applications
1 7 (6.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.83%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.92%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 43 (39.45%) AWS
2 23 (21.10%) Azure
3 17 (15.60%) GCP
4 5 (4.59%) GitHub
5 4 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.67%) Serverless
6 3 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (2.75%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.75%) Vertex AI
7 2 (1.83%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (1.83%) Azure AI
7 2 (1.83%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 2 (1.83%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (1.83%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (1.83%) Cloud Run
7 2 (1.83%) Datadog
7 2 (1.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.92%) Amazon Neptune
8 1 (0.92%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.83%) Network Security
1 2 (1.83%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.92%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.92%) Internet
2 1 (0.92%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.50%) Geospatial Data
2 5 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.67%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.75%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.83%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.83%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.92%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.92%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.92%) Power BI
6 1 (0.92%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.92%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.92%) SQLPlus
6 1 (0.92%) Stardog
6 1 (0.92%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 10 (9.17%) Git
2 6 (5.50%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.50%) JUnit
2 6 (5.50%) Maven
2 6 (5.50%) Mockito
3 3 (2.75%) GitLab
3 3 (2.75%) Gradle
3 3 (2.75%) Spock
4 2 (1.83%) Burp Suite
4 2 (1.83%) JIRA
4 2 (1.83%) Snyk
5 1 (0.92%) JMeter
5 1 (0.92%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (0.92%) Postman
General
1 40 (36.70%) Finance
2 27 (24.77%) Social Skills
3 13 (11.93%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (11.01%) Banking
5 7 (6.42%) Front Office
6 4 (3.67%) Financial Institution
6 4 (3.67%) Prime Brokerage
7 3 (2.75%) Back Office
7 3 (2.75%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.75%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.83%) iGaming
9 1 (0.92%) Advertising
9 1 (0.92%) Games
9 1 (0.92%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.92%) Retail
9 1 (0.92%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (33.03%) Developer
2 26 (23.85%) Java Developer
3 19 (17.43%) Senior
3 19 (17.43%) Software Engineer
4 18 (16.51%) Java Engineer
5 9 (8.26%) Java Software Engineer
6 8 (7.34%) Consultant
6 8 (7.34%) Java Consultant
6 8 (7.34%) Lead
6 8 (7.34%) Senior Software Engineer
7 7 (6.42%) Development Consultant
7 7 (6.42%) Software Consultant
7 7 (6.42%) Software Development Consultant
7 7 (6.42%) Technical Consultant
8 6 (5.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 6 (5.50%) Python Engineer
8 6 (5.50%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.59%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Principal Java Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (30.28%) Spring Boot
2 27 (24.77%) Spring
3 16 (14.68%) Terraform
4 11 (10.09%) REST
5 10 (9.17%) Kafka
6 9 (8.26%) FIX Protocol
7 8 (7.34%) React
8 6 (5.50%) .NET
8 6 (5.50%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (4.59%) LangChain
10 3 (2.75%) FIXML
10 3 (2.75%) FpML
10 3 (2.75%) OAuth
10 3 (2.75%) OpenID
11 2 (1.83%) FastAPI
11 2 (1.83%) Hibernate
11 2 (1.83%) LangGraph
11 2 (1.83%) Middleware
11 2 (1.83%) Node.js
11 2 (1.83%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 22 (20.18%) Cloud Native
2 17 (15.60%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.42%) Reinsurance
4 6 (5.50%) Onboarding
4 6 (5.50%) Virtual Team
5 5 (4.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.67%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.75%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.75%) Credit Risk
7 3 (2.75%) Equities
7 3 (2.75%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.83%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.83%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.83%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.83%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.83%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.83%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.83%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.83%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.09%) Linux
2 4 (3.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (40.37%) Software Engineering
2 34 (31.19%) CI/CD
3 32 (29.36%) DevOps
4 31 (28.44%) Agile
5 23 (21.10%) Microservices
6 21 (19.27%) AI
7 20 (18.35%) Mentoring
8 18 (16.51%) Containerisation
8 18 (16.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (12.84%) Computer Science
9 14 (12.84%) Decision-Making
10 12 (11.01%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (11.01%) Migration
11 11 (10.09%) Full-Stack Development
11 11 (10.09%) Low Latency
11 11 (10.09%) Mathematics
11 11 (10.09%) Roadmaps
12 10 (9.17%) Code Quality
12 10 (9.17%) Multithreading
12 10 (9.17%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 46 (42.20%) Python
2 24 (22.02%) C#
3 15 (13.76%) C++
3 15 (13.76%) SQL
4 12 (11.01%) JavaScript
5 10 (9.17%) Bash
5 10 (9.17%) Rust
5 10 (9.17%) TypeScript
6 8 (7.34%) R
7 7 (6.42%) Julia
7 7 (6.42%) MATLAB
8 6 (5.50%) VBA
9 4 (3.67%) Go
9 4 (3.67%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.75%) C
10 3 (2.75%) Ruby
11 2 (1.83%) Groovy
11 2 (1.83%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.83%) Objective-C
11 2 (1.83%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (12.84%) Degree
2 11 (10.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (6.42%) Security Cleared
4 5 (4.59%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.83%) CCSAM
5 2 (1.83%) CREST Certified
5 2 (1.83%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.83%) GPEN
5 2 (1.83%) GXPN
5 2 (1.83%) OSCE
5 2 (1.83%) OSCP
6 1 (0.92%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.17%) GDPR
2 3 (2.75%) QA
3 2 (1.83%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.92%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (15.60%) Docker
2 5 (4.59%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.92%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (20.18%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.34%) Ansible
3 7 (6.42%) Grafana
3 7 (6.42%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.92%) Puppet
4 1 (0.92%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (5.50%) Guidewire
1 6 (5.50%) Splunk
2 5 (4.59%) Google
3 4 (3.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.67%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.75%) Oracle
4 3 (2.75%) Solace
5 2 (1.83%) Checkmarx
5 2 (1.83%) Palantir
5 2 (1.83%) Veracode
6 1 (0.92%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.92%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.92%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.92%) JDA
6 1 (0.92%) Pega
6 1 (0.92%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.92%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.92%) VMware