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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 42 11
Rank change year-on-year +6 -31 +3
Permanent jobs citing Java 155 177 477
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 5.42% 5.74% 13.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.63% 13.32% 28.98%
Number of salaries quoted 131 123 438
10th Percentile £67,500 £57,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £81,875 £72,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -2.63%
75th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £112,188
90th Percentile £132,500 £137,500 £123,250
London median annual salary £100,000 £101,250 £90,000
% change year-on-year -1.23% +12.50% -

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 932 1,329 1,646
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 32.59% 43.08% 47.64%
Number of salaries quoted 739 931 1,507
10th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.39% -3.75% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £117,500 £115,000
London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £78,500
% change year-on-year - +1.91% +1.29%

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 4 February 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 4 February 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 +5 134 £100,000 +11.11% 73
City of Westminster +32 4 £85,000 - 3
West End of London +9 3 £85,000 -8.11% 5
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 (2.58%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.29%) Apache
3 2 (1.29%) Luigi
3 2 (1.29%) nginx
4 1 (0.65%) Confluence
4 1 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.29%) Adaptiv
Cloud Services
1 60 (38.71%) AWS
2 15 (9.68%) Azure
3 13 (8.39%) Datadog
4 10 (6.45%) SaaS
5 9 (5.81%) GCP
6 3 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.94%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.29%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.29%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.29%) GitHub
7 2 (1.29%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.29%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.29%) Serverless
7 2 (1.29%) Stripe
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.65%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (0.65%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.65%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.29%) DHCP
1 2 (1.29%) DNS
1 2 (1.29%) LAN
1 2 (1.29%) NAS
1 2 (1.29%) SAN
1 2 (1.29%) SNMP
1 2 (1.29%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.29%) WAN
2 1 (0.65%) Broadband
2 1 (0.65%) HTTP
2 1 (0.65%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.65%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.32%) Relational Database
2 13 (8.39%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.23%) Hadoop
3 5 (3.23%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.58%) ClickHouse
5 3 (1.94%) Big Data
5 3 (1.94%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.29%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.29%) KDB
6 2 (1.29%) Power BI
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.65%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.65%) DB2
7 1 (0.65%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.65%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.65%) MySQL
7 1 (0.65%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.65%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 3 (1.94%) Gradle
1 3 (1.94%) JIRA
1 3 (1.94%) Selenium
2 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.65%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.65%) Git
2 1 (0.65%) GitLab
2 1 (0.65%) Jaeger
2 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.65%) JMeter
2 1 (0.65%) JUnit
2 1 (0.65%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (0.65%) MLflow
2 1 (0.65%) WebDriver
General
1 43 (27.74%) Social Skills
2 30 (19.35%) Finance
3 28 (18.06%) Front Office
4 17 (10.97%) Banking
5 7 (4.52%) Billing
5 7 (4.52%) Financial Institution
6 6 (3.87%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.58%) Marketing
7 4 (2.58%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.94%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.29%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.29%) Law
9 2 (1.29%) Legal
10 1 (0.65%) French Language
10 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.65%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.65%) Retail
10 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (38.71%) Developer
2 41 (26.45%) Senior
3 33 (21.29%) Java Engineer
4 30 (19.35%) Lead
5 23 (14.84%) Java Developer
6 22 (14.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 19 (12.26%) Senior Developer
8 17 (10.97%) Software Engineer
9 14 (9.03%) Java Software Engineer
9 14 (9.03%) Senior Java Engineer
10 9 (5.81%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (4.52%) Architect
12 6 (3.87%) DV Cleared Java Developer
13 5 (3.23%) Front Office Developer
14 4 (2.58%) Applications Architect
14 4 (2.58%) Development Manager
14 4 (2.58%) Senior Java Developer
14 4 (2.58%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 4 (2.58%) Senior Software Engineer
14 4 (2.58%) Web Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (16.77%) React
2 25 (16.13%) .NET
3 21 (13.55%) Node.js
4 18 (11.61%) Kafka
4 18 (11.61%) Spring
5 16 (10.32%) Spring Boot
6 10 (6.45%) FIX Protocol
7 8 (5.16%) Java Concurrency
8 7 (4.52%) RESTful
9 5 (3.23%) HTML
10 4 (2.58%) CSS
11 3 (1.94%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (1.94%) LDAP
11 3 (1.94%) REST
11 3 (1.94%) Vue
12 2 (1.29%) AngularJS
12 2 (1.29%) HTML5
12 2 (1.29%) OpenTelemetry
12 2 (1.29%) Playwright
12 2 (1.29%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 39 (25.16%) Cloud Native
2 20 (12.90%) Onboarding
3 15 (9.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 14 (9.03%) Algorithms
4 14 (9.03%) Derivative
5 12 (7.74%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (7.10%) Equities
7 6 (3.87%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.58%) Credit Risk
8 4 (2.58%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (2.58%) Market Risk
8 4 (2.58%) NHS
9 2 (1.29%) FPGA
9 2 (1.29%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.65%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.65%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.65%) PKI
10 1 (0.65%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.23%) Linux
2 2 (1.29%) CentOS
2 2 (1.29%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (30.97%) CI/CD
2 47 (30.32%) Test Automation
3 37 (23.87%) Agile
4 35 (22.58%) Computer Science
5 34 (21.94%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (20.65%) Software Engineering
7 31 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 29 (18.71%) DevOps
8 29 (18.71%) Full-Stack Development
9 24 (15.48%) Low Latency
10 23 (14.84%) Migration
11 21 (13.55%) Technical Leadership
12 20 (12.90%) Microservices
12 20 (12.90%) Prototyping
12 20 (12.90%) Software Delivery
13 19 (12.26%) Electronic Trading
13 19 (12.26%) Software Testing
14 17 (10.97%) Clean Code
14 17 (10.97%) User Experience
15 16 (10.32%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 48 (30.97%) Python
2 30 (19.35%) C#
3 25 (16.13%) JavaScript
4 22 (14.19%) SQL
5 19 (12.26%) TypeScript
6 12 (7.74%) Kotlin
7 6 (3.87%) C++
8 4 (2.58%) Scala
9 3 (1.94%) Go
10 2 (1.29%) Perl
11 1 (0.65%) Bash
11 1 (0.65%) COBOL
11 1 (0.65%) Groovy
11 1 (0.65%) Korn
11 1 (0.65%) R
11 1 (0.65%) Ruby
11 1 (0.65%) VBA
Qualifications
1 35 (22.58%) Degree
2 13 (8.39%) Computer Science Degree
2 13 (8.39%) Security Cleared
3 10 (6.45%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.58%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.94%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.94%) PhD
6 2 (1.29%) CFA
6 2 (1.29%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.29%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.29%) PMP
6 2 (1.29%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.94%) QA
System Software
1 7 (4.52%) Docker
2 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (12.26%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.87%) Ansible
3 4 (2.58%) Terraform
4 3 (1.94%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.29%) Argo
5 2 (1.29%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.29%) Puppet
5 2 (1.29%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (1.29%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 1 (0.65%) Grafana
6 1 (0.65%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 20 (12.90%) Guidewire
2 4 (2.58%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.94%) Databricks
3 3 (1.94%) Dell
3 3 (1.94%) Google
3 3 (1.94%) OpenAI
3 3 (1.94%) Red Hat
3 3 (1.94%) Solace
4 2 (1.29%) FIS
4 2 (1.29%) HP
4 2 (1.29%) iManage
4 2 (1.29%) Murex
4 2 (1.29%) Oracle
4 2 (1.29%) Revolut
5 1 (0.65%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.65%) Foundry
5 1 (0.65%) Palantir
5 1 (0.65%) Pega