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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 34 9
Rank change year-on-year +6 -25 +3
Permanent jobs citing Java 168 219 508
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 8.27% 6.55% 15.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.40% 14.81% 31.17%
Number of salaries quoted 152 169 467
10th Percentile £57,500 £51,100 £53,750
25th Percentile £74,688 £65,000 £65,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -1.37%
75th Percentile £120,000 £107,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £137,000 £126,500 £130,000
London median annual salary £105,000 £100,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% +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 750 1,479 1,630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 36.91% 44.20% 49.94%
Number of salaries quoted 618 1,050 1,494
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £110,000 £95,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £132,500 £115,000 £120,000
London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - - +6.67%

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 22 November 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 22 November 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 +3 155 £100,000 +17.65% 304
City of Westminster +28 1 £57,500 - 1
West End of London +4 1 £57,500 -26.98% 6
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 3 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (1.79%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.19%) Luigi
3 1 (0.60%) Apache
3 1 (0.60%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.98%) Adaptiv
2 2 (1.19%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 57 (33.93%) AWS
2 25 (14.88%) Azure
3 21 (12.50%) Datadog
4 15 (8.93%) GCP
5 11 (6.55%) SaaS
6 7 (4.17%) GitHub
7 6 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (2.98%) Serverless
9 4 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.79%) Google App Engine
10 3 (1.79%) Snowflake
11 2 (1.19%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.19%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (1.19%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 1 (0.60%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.60%) AWS Step Functions
12 1 (0.60%) Azure Machine Learning
12 1 (0.60%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.60%) DHCP
1 1 (0.60%) DNS
1 1 (0.60%) HTTP
1 1 (0.60%) Kerberos
1 1 (0.60%) LAN
1 1 (0.60%) Multicast
1 1 (0.60%) NAS
1 1 (0.60%) SAN
1 1 (0.60%) SNMP
1 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.60%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (13.69%) Relational Database
2 8 (4.76%) ClickHouse
3 5 (2.98%) Big Data
3 5 (2.98%) Hadoop
3 5 (2.98%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.79%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.79%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (1.19%) KDB
5 2 (1.19%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.19%) OLAP
5 2 (1.19%) OLTP
6 1 (0.60%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.60%) DB2
6 1 (0.60%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.60%) Kdb+
6 1 (0.60%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.60%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.60%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 3 (1.79%) Git
1 3 (1.79%) JUnit
1 3 (1.79%) Selenium
1 3 (1.79%) SonarQube
2 2 (1.19%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.19%) JMeter
2 2 (1.19%) TeamCity
2 2 (1.19%) WebDriver
3 1 (0.60%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.60%) GitLab
3 1 (0.60%) JIRA
3 1 (0.60%) Katalon Studio
General
1 65 (38.69%) Social Skills
2 39 (23.21%) Finance
3 26 (15.48%) Banking
4 24 (14.29%) Front Office
5 17 (10.12%) Billing
6 10 (5.95%) Financial Institution
7 8 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.98%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.79%) Advertising
10 1 (0.60%) French Language
10 1 (0.60%) Law
10 1 (0.60%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.60%) Retail
10 1 (0.60%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 72 (42.86%) Developer
2 36 (21.43%) Senior
3 30 (17.86%) Lead
4 17 (10.12%) Java Engineer
5 14 (8.33%) Senior Developer
6 13 (7.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 13 (7.74%) Java Developer
7 11 (6.55%) Senior Java Engineer
8 9 (5.36%) Software Engineer
9 8 (4.76%) Architect
9 8 (4.76%) Head of IT
10 6 (3.57%) Analyst
10 6 (3.57%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 6 (3.57%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
10 6 (3.57%) Front Office Developer
11 5 (2.98%) Development Team Leader
11 5 (2.98%) Java Architect
11 5 (2.98%) Qualitative Analyst
11 5 (2.98%) Quantitative Analyst
11 5 (2.98%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (23.21%) .NET
2 31 (18.45%) React
3 21 (12.50%) Kafka
4 19 (11.31%) RESTful
5 18 (10.71%) Node.js
6 16 (9.52%) Spring
7 14 (8.33%) Spring Boot
8 7 (4.17%) Java Concurrency
9 5 (2.98%) FIX Protocol
9 5 (2.98%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (1.79%) HTML
10 3 (1.79%) JSON
10 3 (1.79%) REST
11 2 (1.19%) Apache Thrift
11 2 (1.19%) CSS
11 2 (1.19%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (1.19%) LDAP
11 2 (1.19%) Middleware
11 2 (1.19%) Quarkus
12 1 (0.60%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 45 (26.79%) Cloud Native
2 41 (24.40%) Onboarding
3 17 (10.12%) Algorithms
4 16 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (8.33%) Equities
6 12 (7.14%) Derivative
7 11 (6.55%) Market Risk
8 7 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (2.98%) Credit Risk
9 5 (2.98%) Data Structures
10 4 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (2.38%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.79%) Fixed Income
12 2 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (1.19%) Mobile App
12 2 (1.19%) Sports Betting
13 1 (0.60%) Distributed Computing
13 1 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
13 1 (0.60%) Mainframe
13 1 (0.60%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.98%) Linux
2 1 (0.60%) CentOS
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (38.69%) Agile
2 63 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 50 (29.76%) Test Automation
4 49 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (26.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 42 (25.00%) Migration
7 39 (23.21%) DevOps
8 38 (22.62%) Computer Science
9 31 (18.45%) Microservices
10 29 (17.26%) Low Latency
11 28 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
12 27 (16.07%) Scrum
13 21 (12.50%) Analytics
13 21 (12.50%) Document Management
13 21 (12.50%) Error Analysis
13 21 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
13 21 (12.50%) Software Delivery
14 20 (11.90%) Code Quality
14 20 (11.90%) Mathematics
15 19 (11.31%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 69 (41.07%) Python
2 56 (33.33%) C#
3 28 (16.67%) SQL
4 20 (11.90%) TypeScript
5 18 (10.71%) JavaScript
6 17 (10.12%) C++
7 12 (7.14%) Kotlin
8 4 (2.38%) Go
9 3 (1.79%) MATLAB
9 3 (1.79%) Scala
10 2 (1.19%) Ruby
11 1 (0.60%) COBOL
11 1 (0.60%) Groovy
11 1 (0.60%) Perl
11 1 (0.60%) R
Qualifications
1 36 (21.43%) Degree
2 15 (8.93%) Master's Degree
3 11 (6.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (4.76%) CFA
4 8 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
4 8 (4.76%) PMI Certification
4 8 (4.76%) PMP
4 8 (4.76%) Security Cleared
5 6 (3.57%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.57%) PhD
6 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.60%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.38%) QA
2 2 (1.19%) GDPR
2 2 (1.19%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.19%) SLA
3 1 (0.60%) ITGC
System Software
1 9 (5.36%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (13.10%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.17%) Terraform
3 4 (2.38%) Ansible
4 3 (1.79%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.19%) Puppet
6 1 (0.60%) Argo
6 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 38 (22.62%) Guidewire
2 8 (4.76%) Murex
3 5 (2.98%) FIS
4 4 (2.38%) Google
4 4 (2.38%) Solace
5 3 (1.79%) Databricks
5 3 (1.79%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.79%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.19%) Dell
6 2 (1.19%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.60%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.60%) Foundry
7 1 (0.60%) HP
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle
7 1 (0.60%) Palantir
7 1 (0.60%) Pega