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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 36 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 -21 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 144 168 445
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 4.30% 6.24% 12.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.33% 14.04% 27.69%
Number of salaries quoted 113 124 400
10th Percentile £70,000 £57,375 £62,500
25th Percentile £82,500 £80,938 £70,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £99,500 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% +7.57% -2.63%
75th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £139,250 £125,375
London median annual salary £96,000 £105,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year -8.57% +13.51% +2.78%

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 1,005 1,197 1,607
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 30.00% 44.48% 46.18%
Number of salaries quoted 773 933 1,415
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £57,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £101,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £114,750 £120,000 £115,000
London median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% +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 18 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 18 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 -6 121 £100,000 +3.90% 101
West End of London +11 6 £83,750 -18.29% 5
City of Westminster +30 4 £85,000 - 3
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 (2.08%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.39%) Apache
2 2 (1.39%) nginx
3 1 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 63 (43.75%) AWS
2 17 (11.81%) Azure
3 11 (7.64%) GCP
4 8 (5.56%) SaaS
5 7 (4.86%) Datadog
6 4 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.08%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.08%) Pulumi
8 2 (1.39%) GitHub
8 2 (1.39%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.39%) Stripe
9 1 (0.69%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.69%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.69%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (0.69%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.69%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.69%) dbt
9 1 (0.69%) Serverless
9 1 (0.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.39%) DHCP
1 2 (1.39%) DNS
1 2 (1.39%) Kerberos
1 2 (1.39%) LAN
1 2 (1.39%) NAS
1 2 (1.39%) SAN
1 2 (1.39%) SNMP
1 2 (1.39%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.39%) WAN
2 1 (0.69%) Broadband
2 1 (0.69%) HTTP
2 1 (0.69%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.64%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (6.25%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.08%) Big Data
3 3 (2.08%) Hadoop
3 3 (2.08%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.39%) Apache Hive
4 2 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.39%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.39%) Power BI
5 1 (0.69%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.69%) DB2
5 1 (0.69%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.69%) MySQL
5 1 (0.69%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.69%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (4.17%) Gradle
2 4 (2.78%) JIRA
3 3 (2.08%) Selenium
4 2 (1.39%) GitLab
5 1 (0.69%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.69%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.69%) Git
5 1 (0.69%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.69%) MLflow
General
1 33 (22.92%) Social Skills
2 31 (21.53%) Finance
3 27 (18.75%) Front Office
4 13 (9.03%) Banking
5 10 (6.94%) Financial Institution
6 5 (3.47%) Marketing
7 4 (2.78%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.78%) Tech for Good
8 3 (2.08%) Law
9 2 (1.39%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.39%) Billing
9 2 (1.39%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.39%) Legal
10 1 (0.69%) Advertising
10 1 (0.69%) French Language
10 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 48 (33.33%) Developer
2 41 (28.47%) Senior
3 38 (26.39%) Java Engineer
4 28 (19.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 28 (19.44%) Software Engineer
5 27 (18.75%) Lead
6 26 (18.06%) Java Developer
7 18 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
7 18 (12.50%) Senior Developer
8 14 (9.72%) Senior Java Engineer
9 10 (6.94%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (5.56%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 7 (4.86%) Front Office Developer
11 7 (4.86%) Senior Software Engineer
12 6 (4.17%) Architect
12 6 (4.17%) DV Cleared Java Developer
12 6 (4.17%) Senior Java Developer
13 5 (3.47%) AWS Software Engineer
13 5 (3.47%) Full-Stack Developer
13 5 (3.47%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (18.06%) React
2 24 (16.67%) Spring
3 22 (15.28%) .NET
4 21 (14.58%) Spring Boot
5 20 (13.89%) Node.js
6 14 (9.72%) Kafka
7 13 (9.03%) FIX Protocol
8 6 (4.17%) CSS
8 6 (4.17%) HTML
8 6 (4.17%) REST
9 5 (3.47%) Java Concurrency
10 4 (2.78%) AngularJS
10 4 (2.78%) LDAP
11 3 (2.08%) Vue
12 2 (1.39%) JDBC
12 2 (1.39%) OAuth2
12 2 (1.39%) ODBC
12 2 (1.39%) OpenTelemetry
12 2 (1.39%) Playwright
12 2 (1.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 40 (27.78%) Cloud Native
2 19 (13.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (8.33%) Derivative
3 12 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (6.25%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.47%) Algorithms
5 5 (3.47%) Distributed Architecture
5 5 (3.47%) Equities
6 4 (2.78%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.78%) NHS
7 3 (2.08%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.39%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.39%) FPGA
8 2 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.39%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.69%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.86%) Linux
2 3 (2.08%) Unix
3 2 (1.39%) CentOS
3 2 (1.39%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.69%) Windows
4 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (28.47%) CI/CD
1 41 (28.47%) Software Engineering
2 38 (26.39%) Test Automation
3 33 (22.92%) Full-Stack Development
4 32 (22.22%) Computer Science
5 27 (18.75%) DevOps
6 26 (18.06%) Agile
7 24 (16.67%) Low Latency
8 22 (15.28%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (13.89%) Technical Leadership
10 19 (13.19%) AI
11 18 (12.50%) User Experience
12 17 (11.81%) Electronic Trading
12 17 (11.81%) Microservices
13 16 (11.11%) Fintech
13 16 (11.11%) Prototyping
13 16 (11.11%) Software Delivery
13 16 (11.11%) Software Testing
14 15 (10.42%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 36 (25.00%) Python
2 24 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 19 (13.19%) C#
4 18 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 17 (11.81%) SQL
6 11 (7.64%) Kotlin
7 5 (3.47%) Go
8 2 (1.39%) C++
8 2 (1.39%) Perl
9 1 (0.69%) Bash
9 1 (0.69%) COBOL
9 1 (0.69%) Cypher
9 1 (0.69%) Elm
9 1 (0.69%) Korn
9 1 (0.69%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.69%) Ruby
9 1 (0.69%) Scala
9 1 (0.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 33 (22.92%) Degree
2 15 (10.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (9.03%) Security Cleared
4 10 (6.94%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.08%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.39%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.39%) QA
2 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.69%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (6.94%) Docker
2 3 (2.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (15.97%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.47%) Ansible
2 5 (3.47%) Terraform
3 2 (1.39%) Argo
3 2 (1.39%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.39%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (1.39%) Red Hat Spacewalk
4 1 (0.69%) Grafana
4 1 (0.69%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.69%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (6.25%) Guidewire
2 6 (4.17%) Solace
3 5 (3.47%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.78%) Dell
5 3 (2.08%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.08%) Oracle
5 3 (2.08%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.39%) Databricks
6 2 (1.39%) HP
6 2 (1.39%) iManage
6 2 (1.39%) Revolut
7 1 (0.69%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.69%) Google
7 1 (0.69%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.69%) Splunk