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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 41 11
Rank change year-on-year +10 -30 +1
Permanent jobs citing Java 157 200 489
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 7.23% 6.05% 15.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.26% 13.70% 30.45%
Number of salaries quoted 138 158 454
10th Percentile £57,500 £50,350 £53,750
25th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -8.11% -
75th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £138,250 £132,250 £127,500
London median annual salary £102,500 £100,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +2.50% +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 775 1,460 1,606
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 35.70% 44.16% 49.66%
Number of salaries quoted 642 1,057 1,481
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,250 £55,000 £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 £129,500 £119,250 £116,250
London median annual salary £80,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +0.63% - +5.41%

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 13 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 13 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 +7 141 £100,000 +14.29% 52
City of Westminster +30 1 £57,500 - 3
West End of London +3 1 £57,500 -26.98% 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 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (1.91%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.27%) Apache
2 2 (1.27%) Luigi
2 2 (1.27%) nginx
Business Applications
1 3 (1.91%) Adaptiv
2 1 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 57 (36.31%) AWS
2 22 (14.01%) Azure
3 20 (12.74%) Datadog
4 15 (9.55%) GCP
5 11 (7.01%) SaaS
6 5 (3.18%) GitHub
7 4 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.91%) Google App Engine
8 3 (1.91%) Serverless
8 3 (1.91%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.27%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.64%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.64%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (0.64%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.64%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.64%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.64%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (0.64%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.64%) 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 (0.64%) HTTP
2 1 (0.64%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.64%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.01%) Relational Database
2 8 (5.10%) ClickHouse
3 6 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.18%) Hadoop
5 4 (2.55%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.91%) Big Data
6 3 (1.91%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.27%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.27%) KDB
8 1 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.64%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.64%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.64%) DB2
8 1 (0.64%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.64%) Kdb+
8 1 (0.64%) MySQL
8 1 (0.64%) OLAP
8 1 (0.64%) Power BI
8 1 (0.64%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 3 (1.91%) JUnit
2 2 (1.27%) Git
2 2 (1.27%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.27%) JMeter
2 2 (1.27%) Selenium
2 2 (1.27%) WebDriver
3 1 (0.64%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.64%) GitLab
3 1 (0.64%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (0.64%) MLflow
3 1 (0.64%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.64%) TeamCity
General
1 60 (38.22%) Social Skills
2 33 (21.02%) Finance
3 25 (15.92%) Front Office
4 21 (13.38%) Banking
5 15 (9.55%) Billing
6 10 (6.37%) Financial Institution
7 7 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (3.82%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.27%) Advertising
10 1 (0.64%) French Language
10 1 (0.64%) Law
10 1 (0.64%) Marketing
10 1 (0.64%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.64%) Retail
10 1 (0.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 70 (44.59%) Developer
2 37 (23.57%) Senior
3 33 (21.02%) Lead
4 18 (11.46%) Java Engineer
5 17 (10.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 16 (10.19%) Senior Developer
7 13 (8.28%) Java Developer
8 12 (7.64%) Senior Java Engineer
9 9 (5.73%) Software Engineer
10 8 (5.10%) Architect
11 5 (3.18%) Development Team Leader
11 5 (3.18%) Java Architect
11 5 (3.18%) Team Leader
12 4 (2.55%) Applications Architect
12 4 (2.55%) Engineering Manager
12 4 (2.55%) Head of IT
12 4 (2.55%) Java Software Engineer
12 4 (2.55%) Java Team Leader
12 4 (2.55%) Principal Developer
12 4 (2.55%) Web Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (23.57%) .NET
2 32 (20.38%) React
3 20 (12.74%) Kafka
3 20 (12.74%) Node.js
4 16 (10.19%) RESTful
4 16 (10.19%) Spring
5 13 (8.28%) Spring Boot
6 8 (5.10%) Java Concurrency
7 6 (3.82%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (1.91%) LDAP
8 3 (1.91%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (1.27%) Apache Thrift
9 2 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (1.27%) HTML
9 2 (1.27%) JSON
9 2 (1.27%) REST
9 2 (1.27%) Vue
10 1 (0.64%) Flutter
10 1 (0.64%) GraphQL
10 1 (0.64%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 46 (29.30%) Cloud Native
2 38 (24.20%) Onboarding
3 18 (11.46%) Algorithms
4 15 (9.55%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (9.55%) Equities
5 14 (8.92%) Derivative
6 9 (5.73%) Market Risk
7 8 (5.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (3.18%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.55%) Credit Risk
9 4 (2.55%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.91%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (1.27%) FPGA
11 2 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.27%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.64%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.64%) Fixed Income
12 1 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.64%) Mainframe
12 1 (0.64%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.82%) Linux
2 2 (1.27%) CentOS
2 2 (1.27%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (39.49%) CI/CD
2 58 (36.94%) Agile
3 51 (32.48%) Test Automation
4 49 (31.21%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (26.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 37 (23.57%) Computer Science
6 37 (23.57%) Migration
7 36 (22.93%) DevOps
8 31 (19.75%) Microservices
9 27 (17.20%) Low Latency
10 26 (16.56%) Scrum
10 26 (16.56%) Stakeholder Management
11 23 (14.65%) Software Delivery
12 22 (14.01%) Full-Stack Development
12 22 (14.01%) Prototyping
13 20 (12.74%) Document Management
13 20 (12.74%) Error Analysis
13 20 (12.74%) Requirements Gathering
14 19 (12.10%) Technical Leadership
15 18 (11.46%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 62 (39.49%) Python
2 45 (28.66%) C#
3 26 (16.56%) SQL
4 21 (13.38%) JavaScript
4 21 (13.38%) TypeScript
5 12 (7.64%) Kotlin
6 11 (7.01%) C++
7 4 (2.55%) Go
8 3 (1.91%) Scala
9 2 (1.27%) Perl
10 1 (0.64%) COBOL
10 1 (0.64%) Groovy
10 1 (0.64%) Korn
10 1 (0.64%) R
10 1 (0.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (21.66%) Degree
2 12 (7.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (6.37%) Master's Degree
4 9 (5.73%) Security Cleared
5 7 (4.46%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.82%) PhD
7 4 (2.55%) CFA
7 4 (2.55%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (2.55%) PMI Certification
7 4 (2.55%) PMP
8 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.64%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.27%) QA
2 1 (0.64%) GDPR
2 1 (0.64%) ITGC
2 1 (0.64%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.64%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (6.37%) Docker
2 1 (0.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (14.65%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.10%) Terraform
3 5 (3.18%) Ansible
4 3 (1.91%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.27%) Puppet
5 2 (1.27%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (1.27%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 1 (0.64%) Argo
Vendors
1 35 (22.29%) Guidewire
2 4 (2.55%) Murex
3 3 (1.91%) Databricks
3 3 (1.91%) Dell
3 3 (1.91%) FIS
3 3 (1.91%) Google
3 3 (1.91%) Red Hat
3 3 (1.91%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.27%) HP
4 2 (1.27%) Oracle
4 2 (1.27%) Solace
5 1 (0.64%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.64%) Foundry
5 1 (0.64%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.64%) Palantir
5 1 (0.64%) Pega