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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 30 9
Rank change year-on-year +5 -21 +2
Permanent jobs citing Java 201 231 618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 10.13% 7.17% 16.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.03% 15.87% 32.22%
Number of salaries quoted 173 186 570
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £120,000 £107,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £120,000 £131,500
London median annual salary £107,500 £102,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +4.88% +13.89% +5.88%

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 803 1,456 1,918
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 40.45% 45.18% 50.66%
Number of salaries quoted 669 1,015 1,779
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £57,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £110,000 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £130,250 £112,500 £117,500
London median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% +6.67%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Java 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 September 2025.

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 September 2025. 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 +9 190 £90,000 +5.88% 87
City of Westminster +12 9 - - 1
Southwark -10 1 - - 1
Java
London

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.49%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.00%) Confluence
3 2 (1.00%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.00%) Luigi
3 2 (1.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.00%) Solana
4 1 (0.50%) Alfresco
4 1 (0.50%) Apache
4 1 (0.50%) Camunda
4 1 (0.50%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.49%) Adaptiv
2 4 (1.99%) Endur
2 4 (1.99%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (1.99%) SimCorp Dimension
3 1 (0.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 71 (35.32%) AWS
2 54 (26.87%) Azure
3 25 (12.44%) GCP
4 23 (11.44%) Datadog
5 19 (9.45%) GitHub
6 16 (7.96%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (7.46%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (6.47%) Serverless
9 9 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (3.48%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.99%) SaaS
12 5 (2.49%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (2.49%) Amazon S3
13 4 (1.99%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (1.99%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (1.99%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (1.99%) AWS Step Functions
13 4 (1.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 3 (1.49%) OpenShift
14 3 (1.49%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (13.43%) Relational Database
2 12 (5.97%) SQL Server
3 9 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.98%) ClickHouse
5 5 (2.49%) Big Data
5 5 (2.49%) Hadoop
5 5 (2.49%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.99%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.99%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.99%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.99%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.99%) OLAP
6 4 (1.99%) OLTP
7 3 (1.49%) Power BI
8 2 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.00%) KDB
8 2 (1.00%) Redis
8 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (1.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (4.48%) SonarQube
2 7 (3.48%) JIRA
3 4 (1.99%) Git
3 4 (1.99%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.99%) JUnit
4 3 (1.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (1.49%) Selenium
5 2 (1.00%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.00%) JMeter
5 2 (1.00%) Maven
5 2 (1.00%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.00%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.50%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.50%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (0.50%) Postman
6 1 (0.50%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.50%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.50%) Subversion
6 1 (0.50%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.50%) Xcode
General
1 60 (29.85%) Social Skills
2 53 (26.37%) Finance
3 38 (18.91%) Banking
4 26 (12.94%) Front Office
5 17 (8.46%) Billing
6 15 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (6.47%) Investment Banking
8 9 (4.48%) Financial Institution
8 9 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (3.98%) Law
10 4 (1.99%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.49%) Advertising
12 2 (1.00%) Retail
13 1 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 91 (45.27%) Developer
2 38 (18.91%) Lead
3 28 (13.93%) Senior
4 20 (9.95%) Java Developer
5 15 (7.46%) Software Engineer
6 14 (6.97%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (6.47%) Senior Developer
8 10 (4.98%) Java Engineer
9 8 (3.98%) Analyst
9 8 (3.98%) Data Engineer
9 8 (3.98%) Head of IT
9 8 (3.98%) Python Developer
10 7 (3.48%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (2.99%) Lead Data Engineer
11 6 (2.99%) Lead Software Engineer
12 5 (2.49%) Architect
12 5 (2.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 5 (2.49%) Java Software Engineer
12 5 (2.49%) Software Developer
12 5 (2.49%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (21.89%) .NET
2 35 (17.41%) React
3 23 (11.44%) Kafka
4 22 (10.95%) RESTful
5 19 (9.45%) Spring
6 16 (7.96%) Node.js
7 11 (5.47%) Spring Boot
8 6 (2.99%) ARM Templates
8 6 (2.99%) REST
9 5 (2.49%) HTML
9 5 (2.49%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (1.99%) Django
10 4 (1.99%) Flask
10 4 (1.99%) Java Concurrency
10 4 (1.99%) JSON
10 4 (1.99%) Pandas
11 3 (1.49%) CSS
11 3 (1.49%) JPA
11 3 (1.49%) Middleware
12 2 (1.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 43 (21.39%) Cloud Native
2 40 (19.90%) Onboarding
3 16 (7.96%) Algorithms
4 13 (6.47%) Equities
5 12 (5.97%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (5.47%) Market Risk
7 9 (4.48%) Derivative
8 6 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (2.49%) Credit Risk
9 5 (2.49%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.49%) Fixed Income
9 5 (2.49%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.99%) Cyberattack
10 4 (1.99%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.99%) Swaptions
11 3 (1.49%) Blockchain
11 3 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (1.00%) Bitcoin
12 2 (1.00%) Mobile App
12 2 (1.00%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.98%) Linux
2 4 (1.99%) Android
3 3 (1.49%) Unix
4 1 (0.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (44.78%) Agile
2 68 (33.83%) DevOps
3 65 (32.34%) CI/CD
4 60 (29.85%) Migration
5 45 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (21.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 40 (19.90%) Microservices
8 37 (18.41%) Computer Science
9 34 (16.92%) Stakeholder Management
9 34 (16.92%) Test Automation
10 32 (15.92%) Software Engineering
11 31 (15.42%) Containerisation
12 28 (13.93%) Analytics
12 28 (13.93%) Scrum
13 25 (12.44%) Low Latency
14 23 (11.44%) Collaborative Working
14 23 (11.44%) Software Delivery
15 22 (10.95%) Code Quality
16 21 (10.45%) Platform Engineering
16 21 (10.45%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 100 (49.75%) Python
2 60 (29.85%) C#
3 35 (17.41%) SQL
4 25 (12.44%) C++
5 19 (9.45%) JavaScript
5 19 (9.45%) TypeScript
6 13 (6.47%) Go
7 10 (4.98%) Scala
8 8 (3.98%) Rust
9 4 (1.99%) Bash
9 4 (1.99%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.99%) VB
10 3 (1.49%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.49%) MATLAB
11 2 (1.00%) Groovy
11 2 (1.00%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.50%) R
12 1 (0.50%) Ruby
12 1 (0.50%) Solidity
12 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (18.91%) Degree
2 22 (10.95%) Master's Degree
3 17 (8.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (6.97%) Security Cleared
5 11 (5.47%) DV Cleared
6 8 (3.98%) CFA
6 8 (3.98%) ITIL Certification
6 8 (3.98%) PMI Certification
6 8 (3.98%) PMP
7 7 (3.48%) PhD
8 3 (1.49%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.98%) QA
2 5 (2.49%) GDPR
3 4 (1.99%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.99%) SLA
4 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.50%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.50%) ITGC
System Software
1 28 (13.93%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 34 (16.92%) Kubernetes
2 20 (9.95%) Terraform
3 8 (3.98%) Ansible
4 4 (1.99%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.49%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.49%) Puppet
6 1 (0.50%) Consul
6 1 (0.50%) Grafana
6 1 (0.50%) Istio
6 1 (0.50%) Packer
6 1 (0.50%) Salt
Vendors
1 38 (18.91%) Guidewire
2 14 (6.97%) Google
3 9 (4.48%) Oracle
4 8 (3.98%) Microsoft
4 8 (3.98%) Murex
5 5 (2.49%) FIS
5 5 (2.49%) Solace
6 4 (1.99%) OpenLink
6 4 (1.99%) SimCorp
6 4 (1.99%) Sybase
6 4 (1.99%) TIBCO
7 3 (1.49%) Informatica
7 3 (1.49%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.00%) Databricks
9 1 (0.50%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.50%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.50%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.50%) Pega
9 1 (0.50%) Splunk
9 1 (0.50%) Talend