Java Job Trends in the City of London

Java
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 42 10
Rank change year-on-year -1 -32 +2
Permanent jobs citing Java 127 136 439
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 4.26% 5.75% 14.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.89% 12.14% 29.40%
Number of salaries quoted 102 109 398
10th Percentile £67,625 £59,250 £62,125
25th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £67,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £97,500 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +5.41% -2.63%
75th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £132,250 £138,000 £125,000
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year - +8.11% -2.63%

All Programming Languages
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 914 1,120 1,493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 30.68% 47.36% 48.62%
Number of salaries quoted 723 875 1,345
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £57,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £120,000 £117,500
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +9.68% -3.13% +3.23%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Java relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Java job vacancy trend in the City of London

Java
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in the City of London over the 6 months to 5 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Java in the City of London

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 2 (1.57%) Apache
1 2 (1.57%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.57%) nginx
2 1 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.79%) Confluence
2 1 (0.79%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Adaptiv
Cloud Services
1 48 (37.80%) AWS
2 14 (11.02%) Azure
3 11 (8.66%) GCP
4 10 (7.87%) SaaS
5 9 (7.09%) Datadog
6 3 (2.36%) GitHub
6 3 (2.36%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.57%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.57%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.57%) Pulumi
7 2 (1.57%) Serverless
8 1 (0.79%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.79%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.79%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (0.79%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.79%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.57%) DHCP
1 2 (1.57%) DNS
1 2 (1.57%) LAN
1 2 (1.57%) NAS
1 2 (1.57%) SAN
1 2 (1.57%) SNMP
1 2 (1.57%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.57%) WAN
2 1 (0.79%) Broadband
2 1 (0.79%) HTTP
2 1 (0.79%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.79%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.66%) Relational Database
2 9 (7.09%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.36%) Big Data
3 3 (2.36%) DynamoDB
3 3 (2.36%) Hadoop
3 3 (2.36%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.57%) ClickHouse
4 2 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.57%) Power BI
5 1 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.79%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.79%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.79%) DB2
5 1 (0.79%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.79%) KDB
5 1 (0.79%) MySQL
5 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.79%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.79%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 5 (3.94%) Gradle
2 4 (3.15%) Selenium
3 2 (1.57%) GitLab
3 2 (1.57%) JIRA
4 1 (0.79%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.79%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.79%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.79%) Git
4 1 (0.79%) Jaeger
4 1 (0.79%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.79%) JMeter
4 1 (0.79%) JUnit
4 1 (0.79%) MLflow
4 1 (0.79%) WebDriver
General
1 27 (21.26%) Finance
1 27 (21.26%) Front Office
2 22 (17.32%) Social Skills
3 15 (11.81%) Banking
4 8 (6.30%) Financial Institution
5 6 (4.72%) Investment Banking
6 5 (3.94%) Marketing
7 4 (3.15%) Billing
7 4 (3.15%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.57%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.57%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.79%) Advertising
9 1 (0.79%) French Language
9 1 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.79%) Law
9 1 (0.79%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (38.58%) Developer
2 39 (30.71%) Senior
3 36 (28.35%) Java Engineer
4 25 (19.69%) Java Developer
5 23 (18.11%) Software Engineer
6 20 (15.75%) Senior Developer
7 17 (13.39%) Java Software Engineer
8 13 (10.24%) Lead
8 13 (10.24%) Senior Java Engineer
9 10 (7.87%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (6.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 6 (4.72%) Architect
11 6 (4.72%) DV Cleared Java Developer
11 6 (4.72%) Front Office Developer
11 6 (4.72%) Senior Java Developer
12 5 (3.94%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 5 (3.94%) Senior Software Engineer
13 4 (3.15%) Applications Architect
13 4 (3.15%) AWS Software Engineer
13 4 (3.15%) Web Applications Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (18.11%) Spring
2 21 (16.54%) Spring Boot
3 17 (13.39%) Kafka
4 13 (10.24%) FIX Protocol
5 11 (8.66%) React
6 8 (6.30%) .NET
7 7 (5.51%) Java Concurrency
8 6 (4.72%) Node.js
9 5 (3.94%) HTML
9 5 (3.94%) REST
10 4 (3.15%) CSS
10 4 (3.15%) RESTful
11 3 (2.36%) LDAP
11 3 (2.36%) Vue
12 2 (1.57%) GraphQL
12 2 (1.57%) HTML5
12 2 (1.57%) OpenTelemetry
12 2 (1.57%) Playwright
12 2 (1.57%) RabbitMQ
12 2 (1.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (22.05%) Cloud Native
2 16 (12.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 13 (10.24%) Derivative
3 13 (10.24%) Onboarding
4 12 (9.45%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (6.30%) Algorithms
6 6 (4.72%) Equities
7 4 (3.15%) Data Structures
7 4 (3.15%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (3.15%) NHS
8 3 (2.36%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.57%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.57%) FPGA
9 2 (1.57%) Market Risk
9 2 (1.57%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.79%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.79%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.72%) Linux
2 2 (1.57%) CentOS
2 2 (1.57%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.57%) Unix
3 1 (0.79%) Windows
3 1 (0.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (29.13%) Software Engineering
2 31 (24.41%) CI/CD
3 28 (22.05%) Test Automation
4 27 (21.26%) DevOps
5 22 (17.32%) Low Latency
6 18 (14.17%) Electronic Trading
6 18 (14.17%) Mentoring
6 18 (14.17%) Microservices
7 17 (13.39%) Computer Science
8 16 (12.60%) Agile
9 15 (11.81%) AI
9 15 (11.81%) Mathematics
10 14 (11.02%) Migration
11 13 (10.24%) Fintech
11 13 (10.24%) Full-Stack Development
12 12 (9.45%) Code Quality
12 12 (9.45%) Event-Driven
12 12 (9.45%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 12 (9.45%) Market Making
13 11 (8.66%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 33 (25.98%) Python
2 20 (15.75%) C#
3 17 (13.39%) SQL
4 11 (8.66%) Kotlin
5 9 (7.09%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.15%) Go
6 4 (3.15%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.36%) C++
8 2 (1.57%) Perl
9 1 (0.79%) Bash
9 1 (0.79%) COBOL
9 1 (0.79%) Korn
9 1 (0.79%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.79%) R
9 1 (0.79%) Ruby
9 1 (0.79%) Scala
9 1 (0.79%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (13.39%) Degree
2 14 (11.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (9.45%) Security Cleared
4 10 (7.87%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.36%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.57%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.79%) CFA
7 1 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.79%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.79%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.36%) QA
2 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.79%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (7.87%) Docker
2 2 (1.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (18.90%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.94%) Terraform
3 4 (3.15%) Ansible
4 2 (1.57%) Argo
4 2 (1.57%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.57%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (1.57%) Red Hat Spacewalk
5 1 (0.79%) Grafana
5 1 (0.79%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.79%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 13 (10.24%) Guidewire
2 5 (3.94%) Solace
3 3 (2.36%) Databricks
3 3 (2.36%) Dell
3 3 (2.36%) Google
3 3 (2.36%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.36%) Oracle
3 3 (2.36%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.57%) HP
5 1 (0.79%) FIS
5 1 (0.79%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.79%) Foundry
5 1 (0.79%) Murex
5 1 (0.79%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.79%) Palantir
5 1 (0.79%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.79%) Splunk