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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 23 20
Rank change year-on-year -24 -3 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 146 208 320
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 3.48% 9.45% 9.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.85% 21.33% 20.38%
Number of salaries quoted 118 175 278
10th Percentile £61,250 £62,250 £60,000
25th Percentile £79,375 £75,625 £65,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £98,750 £97,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% +14.71% -8.11%
75th Percentile £105,938 £120,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £123,250 £148,250 £120,750
London median annual salary £85,000 £105,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -19.05% +5.00% +11.11%

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 921 975 1,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 21.98% 44.32% 44.79%
Number of salaries quoted 725 809 1,234
10th Percentile £50,800 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £56,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +10.00% -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £107,000 £128,000 £115,000
London median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -

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 July 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 July 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 -24 139 £100,000 +11.11% 36
West End of London +7 5 £85,000 -17.07%
City of Westminster +13 2 £87,500 - 4
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 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.68%) Camunda
1 1 (0.68%) CICS
1 1 (0.68%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (4.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.68%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 52 (35.62%) AWS
2 23 (15.75%) Azure
3 20 (13.70%) GCP
4 5 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.74%) GitHub
5 4 (2.74%) Serverless
6 3 (2.05%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (2.05%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.05%) Pulumi
6 3 (2.05%) Vertex AI
7 2 (1.37%) Azure AI
7 2 (1.37%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 2 (1.37%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (1.37%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (1.37%) Cloud Run
7 2 (1.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (1.37%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.37%) Stripe
8 1 (0.68%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.05%) Network Security
2 2 (1.37%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.68%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.68%) Internet
3 1 (0.68%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.68%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.16%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.11%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (2.74%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.74%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.05%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.37%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.37%) Cloud Spanner
5 2 (1.37%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.68%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.68%) Big Data
6 1 (0.68%) Db2
6 1 (0.68%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.68%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.68%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.68%) Stardog
6 1 (0.68%) Trino
6 1 (0.68%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 8 (5.48%) Git
2 6 (4.11%) Gradle
2 6 (4.11%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.05%) JIRA
3 3 (2.05%) JUnit
3 3 (2.05%) Maven
3 3 (2.05%) Mockito
3 3 (2.05%) Spock
4 2 (1.37%) GitLab
5 1 (0.68%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.68%) JMeter
5 1 (0.68%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (0.68%) Postman
5 1 (0.68%) Selenium
General
1 44 (30.14%) Finance
2 31 (21.23%) Social Skills
3 17 (11.64%) Front Office
4 15 (10.27%) Banking
5 13 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (6.16%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.05%) Advertising
7 3 (2.05%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.37%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.37%) Retail
9 1 (0.68%) Cantonese Language
9 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Law
9 1 (0.68%) Marketing
9 1 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (36.99%) Developer
2 32 (21.92%) Java Developer
2 32 (21.92%) Senior
2 32 (21.92%) Software Engineer
3 29 (19.86%) Java Engineer
4 16 (10.96%) Java Software Engineer
5 13 (8.90%) Senior Developer
6 12 (8.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 12 (8.22%) Lead
7 11 (7.53%) Senior Software Engineer
8 9 (6.16%) Consultant
8 9 (6.16%) Java Consultant
8 9 (6.16%) Senior Java Engineer
9 8 (5.48%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (5.48%) AWS Software Engineer
9 8 (5.48%) Python Engineer
9 8 (5.48%) Senior Java Developer
10 7 (4.79%) Front Office Developer
10 7 (4.79%) Software Consultant
10 7 (4.79%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (25.34%) Spring Boot
2 33 (22.60%) Spring
3 16 (10.96%) Kafka
4 14 (9.59%) React
5 10 (6.85%) .NET
5 10 (6.85%) REST
6 8 (5.48%) FIX Protocol
7 6 (4.11%) AngularJS
7 6 (4.11%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (4.11%) Node.js
8 4 (2.74%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (2.05%) CSS
9 3 (2.05%) HTML
9 3 (2.05%) LangChain
9 3 (2.05%) Middleware
9 3 (2.05%) Web Services
10 2 (1.37%) FastAPI
10 2 (1.37%) LangGraph
10 2 (1.37%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (1.37%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 33 (22.60%) Cloud Native
2 17 (11.64%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (8.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (4.79%) Reinsurance
5 6 (4.11%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.11%) Virtual Team
6 5 (3.42%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.74%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.74%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.74%) Equities
7 4 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.74%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.74%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.05%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.05%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.37%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.37%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.37%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.90%) Linux
2 5 (3.42%) Windows
3 1 (0.68%) Unix
3 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (36.99%) Software Engineering
2 37 (25.34%) DevOps
3 36 (24.66%) Agile
4 32 (21.92%) CI/CD
5 28 (19.18%) AI
6 26 (17.81%) Microservices
7 24 (16.44%) Mentoring
8 21 (14.38%) Computer Science
9 20 (13.70%) Low Latency
10 19 (13.01%) Full-Stack Development
10 19 (13.01%) Roadmaps
11 17 (11.64%) Code Quality
11 17 (11.64%) Containerisation
12 16 (10.96%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (10.96%) Decision-Making
13 15 (10.27%) Mathematics
14 13 (8.90%) Infrastructure as Code
14 13 (8.90%) Migration
15 12 (8.22%) Fintech
15 12 (8.22%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 50 (34.25%) Python
2 26 (17.81%) C#
3 22 (15.07%) SQL
4 16 (10.96%) C++
5 11 (7.53%) Go
5 11 (7.53%) Rust
6 10 (6.85%) Bash
6 10 (6.85%) JavaScript
6 10 (6.85%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.48%) R
8 7 (4.79%) Julia
8 7 (4.79%) MATLAB
9 6 (4.11%) VBA
10 5 (3.42%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.74%) C
11 4 (2.74%) Kotlin
11 4 (2.74%) Ruby
12 3 (2.05%) Objective-C
12 3 (2.05%) Perl
13 2 (1.37%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 22 (15.07%) Degree
2 16 (10.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.11%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.42%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.05%) CCSAM
5 3 (2.05%) CREST Certified
5 3 (2.05%) GPEN
5 3 (2.05%) GXPN
5 3 (2.05%) OSCE
5 3 (2.05%) OSCP
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.68%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.85%) GDPR
2 3 (2.05%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (2.05%) QA
3 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.68%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (11.64%) Docker
2 5 (3.42%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (1.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (19.18%) Kubernetes
2 16 (10.96%) Terraform
3 8 (5.48%) Ansible
3 8 (5.48%) Grafana
3 8 (5.48%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (4.79%) Splunk
2 6 (4.11%) Guidewire
2 6 (4.11%) OpenAI
2 6 (4.11%) Oracle
2 6 (4.11%) Solace
3 5 (3.42%) Google
3 5 (3.42%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.05%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.37%) JDA
5 2 (1.37%) Palantir
5 2 (1.37%) Revolut
6 1 (0.68%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.68%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.68%) Dell
6 1 (0.68%) IBM
6 1 (0.68%) Pega
6 1 (0.68%) Temenos
6 1 (0.68%) VMware