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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 41 10
Rank change year-on-year +10 -31 +2
Permanent jobs citing Java 158 191 476
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 7.05% 5.91% 15.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.15% 13.39% 30.49%
Number of salaries quoted 138 147 442
10th Percentile £57,500 £50,950 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £87,500 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -5.41% -
75th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £110,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £137,500 £127,250
London median annual salary £100,000 £100,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year - +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 784 1,426 1,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 34.98% 44.15% 49.46%
Number of salaries quoted 646 1,028 1,440
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,375 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £105,000 £95,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £120,000 £115,125
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 16 December 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 16 December 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 +8 140 £100,000 +11.11% 54
City of Westminster +31 1 £57,500 - 2
West End of London +3 1 £57,500 -26.98% 1
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 4 (2.53%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.27%) Apache
3 2 (1.27%) Luigi
3 2 (1.27%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Adaptiv
2 1 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 59 (37.34%) AWS
2 22 (13.92%) Azure
3 19 (12.03%) Datadog
4 14 (8.86%) GCP
5 11 (6.96%) SaaS
6 4 (2.53%) GitHub
7 3 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (1.90%) Google App Engine
7 3 (1.90%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.27%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.27%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.27%) Serverless
9 1 (0.63%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.63%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.63%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.63%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (0.63%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.63%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (0.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.27%) DHCP
1 2 (1.27%) DNS
1 2 (1.27%) LAN
1 2 (1.27%) NAS
1 2 (1.27%) SAN
1 2 (1.27%) SNMP
1 2 (1.27%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.27%) WAN
2 1 (0.63%) HTTP
2 1 (0.63%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.63%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.29%) Relational Database
2 7 (4.43%) ClickHouse
3 6 (3.80%) Hadoop
3 6 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.53%) Big Data
4 4 (2.53%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.90%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.27%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.27%) KDB
6 2 (1.27%) Power BI
7 1 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.63%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.63%) DB2
7 1 (0.63%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.63%) MySQL
7 1 (0.63%) OLAP
7 1 (0.63%) OLTP
7 1 (0.63%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 3 (1.90%) JUnit
1 3 (1.90%) Selenium
2 2 (1.27%) Git
2 2 (1.27%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.27%) JMeter
2 2 (1.27%) WebDriver
3 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.63%) GitLab
3 1 (0.63%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (0.63%) MLflow
3 1 (0.63%) TeamCity
General
1 58 (36.71%) Social Skills
2 32 (20.25%) Finance
3 26 (16.46%) Front Office
4 20 (12.66%) Banking
5 14 (8.86%) Billing
6 9 (5.70%) Financial Institution
7 8 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (3.80%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.90%) Marketing
10 2 (1.27%) Advertising
11 1 (0.63%) French Language
11 1 (0.63%) Law
11 1 (0.63%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.63%) Retail
11 1 (0.63%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.63%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 68 (43.04%) Developer
2 39 (24.68%) Senior
3 36 (22.78%) Lead
4 22 (13.92%) Java Engineer
5 20 (12.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 17 (10.76%) Senior Developer
7 14 (8.86%) Java Developer
8 13 (8.23%) Senior Java Engineer
9 12 (7.59%) Software Engineer
10 8 (5.06%) Architect
10 8 (5.06%) Java Software Engineer
11 5 (3.16%) Development Team Leader
11 5 (3.16%) Java Architect
11 5 (3.16%) Team Leader
12 4 (2.53%) Applications Architect
12 4 (2.53%) Front Office Developer
12 4 (2.53%) Java Applications Architect
12 4 (2.53%) Java Team Leader
12 4 (2.53%) Principal Developer
12 4 (2.53%) Web Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (23.42%) .NET
2 32 (20.25%) React
3 22 (13.92%) Node.js
4 20 (12.66%) Kafka
5 15 (9.49%) Spring
6 14 (8.86%) RESTful
7 12 (7.59%) Spring Boot
8 8 (5.06%) Java Concurrency
9 6 (3.80%) FIX Protocol
10 3 (1.90%) LDAP
10 3 (1.90%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (1.27%) Apache Thrift
11 2 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (1.27%) HTML
11 2 (1.27%) JSON
11 2 (1.27%) REST
11 2 (1.27%) Vue
12 1 (0.63%) Flutter
12 1 (0.63%) GraphQL
12 1 (0.63%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 45 (28.48%) Cloud Native
2 35 (22.15%) Onboarding
3 18 (11.39%) Algorithms
4 15 (9.49%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (8.86%) Derivative
5 14 (8.86%) Equities
6 8 (5.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (4.43%) Market Risk
8 5 (3.16%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.53%) Credit Risk
9 4 (2.53%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (1.27%) FPGA
11 2 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.27%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.63%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.63%) Fixed Income
12 1 (0.63%) Mainframe
12 1 (0.63%) NHS
12 1 (0.63%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.16%) Linux
2 2 (1.27%) CentOS
2 2 (1.27%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (37.97%) CI/CD
2 55 (34.81%) Agile
3 53 (33.54%) Test Automation
4 49 (31.01%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (25.32%) Computer Science
6 38 (24.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 35 (22.15%) DevOps
8 34 (21.52%) Migration
9 30 (18.99%) Microservices
10 26 (16.46%) Full-Stack Development
11 25 (15.82%) Low Latency
11 25 (15.82%) Stakeholder Management
12 24 (15.19%) Prototyping
12 24 (15.19%) Scrum
13 23 (14.56%) Software Delivery
14 21 (13.29%) Technical Leadership
15 20 (12.66%) Clean Code
15 20 (12.66%) Software Testing
16 19 (12.03%) Document Management
16 19 (12.03%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 60 (37.97%) Python
2 43 (27.22%) C#
3 27 (17.09%) SQL
4 23 (14.56%) JavaScript
5 22 (13.92%) TypeScript
6 12 (7.59%) Kotlin
7 10 (6.33%) C++
8 4 (2.53%) Go
8 4 (2.53%) Scala
9 2 (1.27%) Perl
10 1 (0.63%) COBOL
10 1 (0.63%) Groovy
10 1 (0.63%) Korn
10 1 (0.63%) R
10 1 (0.63%) Ruby
10 1 (0.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 38 (24.05%) Degree
2 13 (8.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (6.33%) Master's Degree
4 9 (5.70%) Security Cleared
5 7 (4.43%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.80%) PhD
7 2 (1.27%) CFA
7 2 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.27%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.27%) PMP
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.90%) QA
2 1 (0.63%) GDPR
2 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (5.06%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (13.29%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.43%) Terraform
3 5 (3.16%) Ansible
4 3 (1.90%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.27%) Puppet
5 2 (1.27%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (1.27%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 1 (0.63%) Argo
Vendors
1 33 (20.89%) Guidewire
2 3 (1.90%) Databricks
2 3 (1.90%) Dell
2 3 (1.90%) Google
2 3 (1.90%) Red Hat
2 3 (1.90%) ServiceNow
3 2 (1.27%) FIS
3 2 (1.27%) HP
3 2 (1.27%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.27%) Murex
3 2 (1.27%) Oracle
3 2 (1.27%) Solace
4 1 (0.63%) ForgeRock
4 1 (0.63%) Foundry
4 1 (0.63%) Palantir
4 1 (0.63%) Pega