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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 25 26
Rank change year-on-year -17 +1 -15
Permanent jobs citing Java 135 206 251
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 3.76% 9.95% 7.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.85% 23.84% 17.37%
Number of salaries quoted 112 174 209
10th Percentile £61,250 £57,800 £57,500
25th Percentile £70,938 £73,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -8.11%
75th Percentile £110,625 £120,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £140,000 £115,000
London median annual salary £85,000 £105,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year -19.05% - +16.67%

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 801 864 1,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 22.30% 41.74% 45.31%
Number of salaries quoted 634 712 1,058
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £108,188 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,125 £130,000 £112,500
London median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -17 133 £100,000 +11.11% 36
West End of London - 1 £100,000 - 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 1 (0.74%) Camunda
1 1 (0.74%) CICS
Applications
1 7 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.48%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 52 (38.52%) AWS
2 25 (18.52%) Azure
3 23 (17.04%) GCP
4 4 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (2.96%) GitHub
4 4 (2.96%) Serverless
5 3 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (2.22%) Amazon S3
5 3 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (2.22%) Vertex AI
6 2 (1.48%) Azure AI
6 2 (1.48%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 2 (1.48%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (1.48%) Cloud Functions
6 2 (1.48%) Cloud Run
6 2 (1.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (0.74%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (0.74%) Amazon Neptune
7 1 (0.74%) OCI
7 1 (0.74%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.22%) Network Security
2 2 (1.48%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.74%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.74%) Internet
3 1 (0.74%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.44%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (2.96%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.96%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.22%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.48%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.48%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.74%) Db2
6 1 (0.74%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.74%) MySQL
6 1 (0.74%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.74%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.74%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.74%) Power BI
6 1 (0.74%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.74%) SQLPlus
6 1 (0.74%) Stardog
6 1 (0.74%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 10 (7.41%) Git
2 6 (4.44%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.70%) JUnit
3 5 (3.70%) Maven
3 5 (3.70%) Mockito
4 3 (2.22%) Gradle
4 3 (2.22%) Spock
5 2 (1.48%) GitLab
5 2 (1.48%) JIRA
6 1 (0.74%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.74%) JMeter
6 1 (0.74%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (0.74%) Postman
6 1 (0.74%) Selenium
6 1 (0.74%) Snyk
General
1 45 (33.33%) Finance
2 30 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 19 (14.07%) Banking
4 14 (10.37%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (8.89%) Front Office
6 6 (4.44%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.96%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.22%) Prime Brokerage
8 3 (2.22%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.48%) Advertising
9 2 (1.48%) Back Office
9 2 (1.48%) iGaming
10 1 (0.74%) Cantonese Language
10 1 (0.74%) Games
10 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Marketing
10 1 (0.74%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.74%) Retail
10 1 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (32.59%) Developer
2 32 (23.70%) Senior
3 28 (20.74%) Software Engineer
4 27 (20.00%) Java Developer
5 26 (19.26%) Java Engineer
6 12 (8.89%) Senior Software Engineer
7 11 (8.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 11 (8.15%) Java Software Engineer
7 11 (8.15%) Senior Developer
8 10 (7.41%) Lead
9 9 (6.67%) Consultant
9 9 (6.67%) Java Consultant
10 8 (5.93%) Python Engineer
10 8 (5.93%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
10 8 (5.93%) Senior Java Engineer
11 7 (5.19%) Development Consultant
11 7 (5.19%) Principal Engineer
11 7 (5.19%) Software Consultant
11 7 (5.19%) Software Development Consultant
11 7 (5.19%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (24.44%) Spring Boot
2 28 (20.74%) Spring
3 18 (13.33%) Terraform
4 12 (8.89%) .NET
4 12 (8.89%) React
5 11 (8.15%) REST
6 10 (7.41%) Kafka
7 8 (5.93%) FIX Protocol
8 6 (4.44%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (3.70%) LangChain
10 3 (2.22%) AngularJS
10 3 (2.22%) Node.js
10 3 (2.22%) Pulumi
10 3 (2.22%) Web Services
11 2 (1.48%) CSS
11 2 (1.48%) HTML
11 2 (1.48%) JPA
11 2 (1.48%) OAuth
11 2 (1.48%) OpenID
11 2 (1.48%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 30 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 21 (15.56%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (5.19%) Reinsurance
5 6 (4.44%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.44%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.96%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.96%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.22%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.22%) Credit Risk
7 3 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.22%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.22%) Equities
7 3 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.22%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.22%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.48%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.37%) Linux
2 6 (4.44%) Windows
3 1 (0.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (38.52%) Software Engineering
2 34 (25.19%) Agile
2 34 (25.19%) CI/CD
2 34 (25.19%) DevOps
3 25 (18.52%) Mentoring
3 25 (18.52%) Microservices
4 23 (17.04%) AI
5 18 (13.33%) Containerisation
6 17 (12.59%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (12.59%) Full-Stack Development
6 17 (12.59%) Low Latency
7 16 (11.85%) Computer Science
8 15 (11.11%) Decision-Making
9 14 (10.37%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (10.37%) Roadmaps
10 13 (9.63%) Code Quality
10 13 (9.63%) Migration
11 12 (8.89%) Mathematics
11 12 (8.89%) Test Automation
12 11 (8.15%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 51 (37.78%) Python
2 28 (20.74%) C#
3 20 (14.81%) SQL
4 17 (12.59%) C++
5 12 (8.89%) JavaScript
6 11 (8.15%) Bash
6 11 (8.15%) Rust
6 11 (8.15%) TypeScript
7 10 (7.41%) Go
8 8 (5.93%) R
9 7 (5.19%) Julia
9 7 (5.19%) MATLAB
10 6 (4.44%) PowerShell
10 6 (4.44%) VBA
11 4 (2.96%) C
11 4 (2.96%) Ruby
12 3 (2.22%) Objective-C
12 3 (2.22%) Perl
13 2 (1.48%) Groovy
13 2 (1.48%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 16 (11.85%) Degree
2 12 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (5.19%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.70%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.22%) CCSAM
5 3 (2.22%) CREST Certified
5 3 (2.22%) GPEN
5 3 (2.22%) GXPN
5 3 (2.22%) OSCE
5 3 (2.22%) OSCP
6 2 (1.48%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.74%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.41%) GDPR
2 3 (2.22%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (2.22%) QA
3 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.74%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (12.59%) Docker
2 5 (3.70%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.74%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (19.26%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.93%) Ansible
3 7 (5.19%) Grafana
3 7 (5.19%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.74%) Puppet
4 1 (0.74%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (5.19%) Splunk
2 6 (4.44%) Google
2 6 (4.44%) Guidewire
2 6 (4.44%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.44%) Oracle
3 4 (2.96%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.22%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.22%) Solace
5 2 (1.48%) JDA
5 2 (1.48%) Palantir
5 2 (1.48%) VMware
6 1 (0.74%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.74%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.74%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.74%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.74%) IBM
6 1 (0.74%) Pega
6 1 (0.74%) Temenos
6 1 (0.74%) Veracode