Java Jobs in Central London

Java
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 20 11
Rank change year-on-year -4 -9 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 213 341 802
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 9.15% 9.11% 16.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.25% 20.82% 32.68%
Number of salaries quoted 170 297 703
10th Percentile £63,500 £62,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £66,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £85,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% -8.11% +2.78%
75th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £148,875 £122,500 £130,000
London median annual salary £105,000 £95,250 £90,000
% change year-on-year +10.24% +5.83% +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 1,052 1,638 2,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 45.17% 43.76% 49.52%
Number of salaries quoted 842 1,272 2,204
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,350 £49,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.27% -2.58% +3.33%
75th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £127,500 £115,000 £117,500
London median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java in Central London.

Salary trend for Java in Central London

Java
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Central London over the 6 months to 6 July 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 6 July 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 -4 184 £90,000 +2.86% 327
City of Westminster -2 12 - - 40
West End of London +13 6 £102,500 - 43
Camden -9 6 - -
Southwark -7 2 £55,000 -
Lambeth +4 1 - -
Kensington and Chelsea -2 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 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.94%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.94%) Confluence
2 2 (0.94%) Ethereum
2 2 (0.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (0.94%) Solana
3 1 (0.47%) Alfresco
3 1 (0.47%) Apache
3 1 (0.47%) Camunda
3 1 (0.47%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.35%) Endur
2 4 (1.88%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (1.88%) SimCorp Dimension
3 3 (1.41%) Adaptiv
3 3 (1.41%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.47%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 85 (39.91%) AWS
2 66 (30.99%) Azure
3 31 (14.55%) GitHub
4 26 (12.21%) GCP
5 25 (11.74%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (11.74%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (9.39%) Datadog
7 13 (6.10%) Serverless
8 9 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (4.23%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (4.23%) Pulumi
9 8 (3.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (3.76%) npm
10 6 (2.82%) SaaS
11 5 (2.35%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (1.88%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (1.88%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (1.88%) AWS Step Functions
12 4 (1.88%) Power Platform
12 4 (1.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.29%) Broadband
2 3 (1.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (14.08%) Relational Database
2 17 (7.98%) SQL Server
3 16 (7.51%) RDBMS
4 15 (7.04%) NoSQL
5 12 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.82%) Big Data
6 6 (2.82%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.88%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.88%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.88%) Hadoop
7 4 (1.88%) MySQL
7 4 (1.88%) OLAP
7 4 (1.88%) OLTP
7 4 (1.88%) Power BI
7 4 (1.88%) Redis
7 4 (1.88%) Tableau
8 3 (1.41%) ClickHouse
8 3 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (5.63%) SonarQube
2 10 (4.69%) Git
2 10 (4.69%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.76%) JIRA
4 7 (3.29%) Jaeger
4 7 (3.29%) JUnit
5 6 (2.82%) Maven
6 5 (2.35%) Gradle
7 4 (1.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.41%) Selenium
9 2 (0.94%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.94%) JMeter
9 2 (0.94%) Mockito
9 2 (0.94%) Postman
9 2 (0.94%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.94%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.94%) Subversion
9 2 (0.94%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.94%) WebDriver
9 2 (0.94%) Xcode
General
1 70 (32.86%) Social Skills
2 62 (29.11%) Finance
3 46 (21.60%) Banking
4 21 (9.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (8.92%) Front Office
6 15 (7.04%) Investment Banking
7 11 (5.16%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (4.23%) Law
9 7 (3.29%) Billing
10 5 (2.35%) Games
11 4 (1.88%) Advertising
11 4 (1.88%) Retail
12 3 (1.41%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.41%) French Language
12 3 (1.41%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.47%) Legal
13 1 (0.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 78 (36.62%) Developer
2 50 (23.47%) Lead
3 31 (14.55%) Senior
3 31 (14.55%) Software Engineer
4 25 (11.74%) Java Developer
5 19 (8.92%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (6.10%) Analyst
6 13 (6.10%) Java Engineer
6 13 (6.10%) Lead Software Engineer
7 12 (5.63%) Senior Developer
8 11 (5.16%) Platform Engineer
8 11 (5.16%) Python Developer
9 10 (4.69%) Java Software Engineer
9 10 (4.69%) Software Developer
10 8 (3.76%) Data Engineer
10 8 (3.76%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 8 (3.76%) Lead Developer
10 8 (3.76%) Qualitative Analyst
10 8 (3.76%) Quantitative Analyst
10 8 (3.76%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (16.90%) .NET
1 36 (16.90%) React
2 22 (10.33%) Spring
3 18 (8.45%) Kafka
3 18 (8.45%) RESTful
4 17 (7.98%) Node.js
5 12 (5.63%) Spring Boot
6 10 (4.69%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (4.69%) OpenTelemetry
6 10 (4.69%) REST
7 9 (4.23%) ARM Templates
8 7 (3.29%) Middleware
8 7 (3.29%) Web Services
9 6 (2.82%) FIX Protocol
9 6 (2.82%) JSON
10 5 (2.35%) AngularJS
10 5 (2.35%) Hibernate
10 5 (2.35%) HTML
10 5 (2.35%) Pandas
10 5 (2.35%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 42 (19.72%) Cloud Native
2 22 (10.33%) Onboarding
3 14 (6.57%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (5.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 9 (4.23%) Algorithms
6 8 (3.76%) Fixed Income
7 7 (3.29%) Derivative
7 7 (3.29%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (2.82%) Market Risk
9 5 (2.35%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.35%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.88%) Cyberattack
10 4 (1.88%) Equities
10 4 (1.88%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.88%) Mobile Games
10 4 (1.88%) Swaptions
11 3 (1.41%) Credit Risk
11 3 (1.41%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.39%) Linux
2 14 (6.57%) Unix
3 6 (2.82%) Android
4 4 (1.88%) Windows
5 2 (0.94%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (46.48%) Agile
2 86 (40.38%) DevOps
3 68 (31.92%) CI/CD
4 54 (25.35%) Software Engineering
5 51 (23.94%) Migration
6 49 (23.00%) Containerisation
7 41 (19.25%) Computer Science
8 39 (18.31%) Microservices
9 38 (17.84%) Mentoring
10 36 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
11 32 (15.02%) Infrastructure as Code
12 29 (13.62%) Continuous Improvement
13 28 (13.15%) Platform Engineering
14 26 (12.21%) Roadmaps
15 25 (11.74%) Low Latency
15 25 (11.74%) Multithreading
15 25 (11.74%) Stakeholder Management
16 24 (11.27%) Software Delivery
17 22 (10.33%) Scrum
17 22 (10.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 104 (48.83%) Python
2 54 (25.35%) C#
3 41 (19.25%) SQL
4 38 (17.84%) JavaScript
5 26 (12.21%) C++
6 22 (10.33%) TypeScript
7 20 (9.39%) Go
8 18 (8.45%) Bash
9 13 (6.10%) Rust
10 11 (5.16%) PowerShell
11 10 (4.69%) Scala
12 4 (1.88%) MATLAB
12 4 (1.88%) VB
13 3 (1.41%) F#
13 3 (1.41%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.41%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.41%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.94%) Groovy
14 2 (0.94%) Objective-C
14 2 (0.94%) Swift
Qualifications
1 49 (23.00%) Degree
2 26 (12.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (8.92%) Master's Degree
4 14 (6.57%) Security Cleared
5 10 (4.69%) DV Cleared
6 9 (4.23%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.82%) CFA
7 6 (2.82%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (2.82%) PMI Certification
7 6 (2.82%) PMP
8 4 (1.88%) SC Cleared
9 3 (1.41%) PhD
10 2 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.47%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.04%) QA
2 6 (2.82%) GDPR
3 4 (1.88%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.88%) SLA
4 2 (0.94%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.47%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.47%) ITGC
System Software
1 46 (21.60%) Docker
2 1 (0.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 54 (25.35%) Kubernetes
2 36 (16.90%) Terraform
3 21 (9.86%) Prometheus
4 14 (6.57%) Ansible
5 9 (4.23%) Argo
6 7 (3.29%) Kustomize
7 4 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.41%) Grafana
8 3 (1.41%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.41%) Puppet
9 1 (0.47%) Consul
9 1 (0.47%) Istio
9 1 (0.47%) Packer
9 1 (0.47%) Salt
Vendors
1 25 (11.74%) Google
2 19 (8.92%) Guidewire
3 12 (5.63%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.63%) Oracle
4 7 (3.29%) Murex
4 7 (3.29%) Solace
5 5 (2.35%) OpenLink
6 4 (1.88%) Informatica
6 4 (1.88%) New Relic
6 4 (1.88%) SimCorp
6 4 (1.88%) Sybase
6 4 (1.88%) TIBCO
7 3 (1.41%) Barracuda Networks
7 3 (1.41%) FIS
8 2 (0.94%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.94%) Databricks
8 2 (0.94%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.94%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.94%) Splunk
8 2 (0.94%) Talend