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 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 40 14
Rank change year-on-year -4 -26 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 143 171 452
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 4.43% 5.95% 13.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.56% 13.45% 28.09%
Number of salaries quoted 115 128 410
10th Percentile £70,000 £58,875 £62,500
25th Percentile £81,250 £81,250 £70,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £99,500 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% +7.57% -2.63%
75th Percentile £116,250 £120,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £121,500 £137,500 £125,375
London median annual salary £100,000 £105,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -

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 982 1,271 1,609
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 30.39% 44.25% 46.38%
Number of salaries quoted 764 951 1,444
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £57,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £78,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.97% -2.50% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £101,125 £101,250
90th Percentile £116,750 £120,000 £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 8 March 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 8 March 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 -5 120 £100,000 +3.90% 88
West End of London +13 6 £83,750 -18.29% 6
City of Westminster +29 4 £85,000 - 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 (2.10%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.40%) Apache
2 2 (1.40%) nginx
3 1 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.70%) Confluence
3 1 (0.70%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 63 (44.06%) AWS
2 17 (11.89%) Azure
3 11 (7.69%) GCP
4 9 (6.29%) SaaS
5 8 (5.59%) Datadog
6 4 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.10%) GitHub
7 3 (2.10%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.40%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.40%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.40%) Pulumi
8 2 (1.40%) Serverless
8 2 (1.40%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.40%) Stripe
9 1 (0.70%) Anthropic Claude
9 1 (0.70%) Azure AI
9 1 (0.70%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 1 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.70%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.40%) DHCP
1 2 (1.40%) DNS
1 2 (1.40%) Kerberos
1 2 (1.40%) LAN
1 2 (1.40%) NAS
1 2 (1.40%) SAN
1 2 (1.40%) SNMP
1 2 (1.40%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.40%) WAN
2 1 (0.70%) Broadband
2 1 (0.70%) HTTP
2 1 (0.70%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (6.99%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.10%) Big Data
3 3 (2.10%) DynamoDB
3 3 (2.10%) Hadoop
3 3 (2.10%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.40%) Apache Hive
4 2 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.40%) Power BI
5 1 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.70%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.70%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.70%) DB2
5 1 (0.70%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.70%) MySQL
5 1 (0.70%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.70%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.70%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 5 (3.50%) Gradle
2 4 (2.80%) JIRA
3 3 (2.10%) Selenium
4 2 (1.40%) GitLab
5 1 (0.70%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.70%) Git
5 1 (0.70%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.70%) MLflow
General
1 36 (25.17%) Social Skills
2 30 (20.98%) Finance
3 27 (18.88%) Front Office
4 15 (10.49%) Banking
5 8 (5.59%) Financial Institution
6 6 (4.20%) Investment Banking
7 5 (3.50%) Marketing
8 4 (2.80%) Tech for Good
9 3 (2.10%) Billing
9 3 (2.10%) Law
10 2 (1.40%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.40%) Legal
11 1 (0.70%) Advertising
11 1 (0.70%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.70%) French Language
11 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.70%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (34.97%) Developer
2 38 (26.57%) Senior
3 36 (25.17%) Java Engineer
4 28 (19.58%) Lead
5 26 (18.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 26 (18.18%) Java Developer
6 25 (17.48%) Software Engineer
7 18 (12.59%) Senior Developer
8 17 (11.89%) Java Software Engineer
9 13 (9.09%) Senior Java Engineer
10 10 (6.99%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (4.90%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 6 (4.20%) Architect
12 6 (4.20%) DV Cleared Java Developer
12 6 (4.20%) Front Office Developer
12 6 (4.20%) Senior Java Developer
13 5 (3.50%) Full-Stack Developer
13 5 (3.50%) Senior Software Engineer
14 4 (2.80%) AWS Software Engineer
14 4 (2.80%) Web Applications Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (18.18%) React
2 24 (16.78%) Spring
3 22 (15.38%) .NET
3 22 (15.38%) Spring Boot
4 21 (14.69%) Node.js
5 15 (10.49%) Kafka
6 13 (9.09%) FIX Protocol
7 7 (4.90%) HTML
7 7 (4.90%) Java Concurrency
8 6 (4.20%) CSS
8 6 (4.20%) REST
9 4 (2.80%) AngularJS
9 4 (2.80%) LDAP
10 3 (2.10%) RESTful
10 3 (2.10%) Vue
11 2 (1.40%) GraphQL
11 2 (1.40%) OAuth
11 2 (1.40%) OAuth2
11 2 (1.40%) OpenTelemetry
11 2 (1.40%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 40 (27.97%) Cloud Native
2 16 (11.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 13 (9.09%) Derivative
3 13 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (7.69%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.90%) Algorithms
6 6 (4.20%) Equities
7 5 (3.50%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.50%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (2.80%) NHS
9 2 (1.40%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.40%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.40%) FPGA
9 2 (1.40%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.70%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.90%) Linux
2 3 (2.10%) Unix
3 2 (1.40%) CentOS
3 2 (1.40%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.70%) Windows
4 1 (0.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (30.77%) CI/CD
2 40 (27.97%) Test Automation
3 39 (27.27%) Software Engineering
4 32 (22.38%) Computer Science
5 31 (21.68%) Full-Stack Development
6 30 (20.98%) Agile
7 28 (19.58%) DevOps
8 24 (16.78%) Continuous Improvement
9 23 (16.08%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (15.38%) Low Latency
11 20 (13.99%) Technical Leadership
12 19 (13.29%) AI
12 19 (13.29%) Microservices
13 18 (12.59%) Electronic Trading
13 18 (12.59%) User Experience
14 17 (11.89%) Mentoring
14 17 (11.89%) Software Testing
15 16 (11.19%) Clean Code
15 16 (11.19%) Prototyping
15 16 (11.19%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 37 (25.87%) Python
2 25 (17.48%) JavaScript
3 20 (13.99%) C#
4 19 (13.29%) TypeScript
5 18 (12.59%) SQL
6 12 (8.39%) Kotlin
7 4 (2.80%) Go
8 2 (1.40%) Perl
9 1 (0.70%) Bash
9 1 (0.70%) C++
9 1 (0.70%) COBOL
9 1 (0.70%) Cypher
9 1 (0.70%) Korn
9 1 (0.70%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.70%) Ruby
9 1 (0.70%) Scala
9 1 (0.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (22.38%) Degree
2 15 (10.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (9.09%) Security Cleared
4 10 (6.99%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.10%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.40%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.40%) QA
2 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.70%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (6.29%) Docker
2 3 (2.10%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (16.78%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.50%) Ansible
2 5 (3.50%) Terraform
3 2 (1.40%) Argo
3 2 (1.40%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.40%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (1.40%) Red Hat Spacewalk
4 1 (0.70%) Grafana
4 1 (0.70%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.70%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (7.69%) Guidewire
2 5 (3.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.50%) Solace
3 4 (2.80%) Dell
4 3 (2.10%) Databricks
4 3 (2.10%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.10%) Oracle
4 3 (2.10%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.40%) Google
5 2 (1.40%) HP
5 2 (1.40%) iManage
5 2 (1.40%) Revolut
6 1 (0.70%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.70%) Foundry
6 1 (0.70%) Palantir
6 1 (0.70%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.70%) Splunk