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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 29 9
Rank change year-on-year +2 -20 +2
Permanent jobs citing Java 160 205 497
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 9.83% 7.42% 16.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.81% 15.97% 31.78%
Number of salaries quoted 146 155 454
10th Percentile £57,500 £57,750 £53,750
25th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £96,250 £85,000 £91,250
Median % change year-on-year +13.24% -6.85% -1.35%
75th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £135,000 £121,500 £130,000
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -

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 672 1,284 1,564
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 41.28% 46.50% 51.01%
Number of salaries quoted 563 911 1,426
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £59,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £132,500 £120,000 £119,375
Central London median annual salary £83,500 £75,000 £79,500
% change year-on-year +11.33% -5.66% +4.61%

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 8 November 2025.

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 4 (2.50%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.25%) Luigi
2 2 (1.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.13%) Adaptiv
2 2 (1.25%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.63%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 47 (29.38%) AWS
2 29 (18.13%) Azure
3 23 (14.38%) Datadog
4 16 (10.00%) GCP
5 11 (6.88%) SaaS
6 8 (5.00%) GitHub
6 8 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (3.75%) Serverless
8 4 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.50%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.88%) Google App Engine
9 3 (1.88%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.25%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.25%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.25%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.25%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (1.25%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (1.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.63%) HTTP
1 1 (0.63%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (15.00%) Relational Database
2 8 (5.00%) ClickHouse
3 6 (3.75%) Big Data
3 6 (3.75%) Hadoop
4 5 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.88%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.88%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.88%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.88%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.25%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.25%) KDB
6 2 (1.25%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.25%) OLAP
6 2 (1.25%) OLTP
7 1 (0.63%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.63%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.63%) DB2
7 1 (0.63%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 5 (3.13%) SonarQube
2 3 (1.88%) Git
2 3 (1.88%) JUnit
2 3 (1.88%) Selenium
3 2 (1.25%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.25%) JMeter
3 2 (1.25%) TeamCity
3 2 (1.25%) WebDriver
4 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.63%) GitLab
4 1 (0.63%) JIRA
4 1 (0.63%) Katalon Studio
General
1 56 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 40 (25.00%) Finance
3 26 (16.25%) Banking
4 22 (13.75%) Front Office
5 19 (11.88%) Billing
6 11 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (6.25%) Financial Institution
8 6 (3.75%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.88%) Advertising
9 3 (1.88%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.25%) Law
11 1 (0.63%) French Language
11 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.63%) Retail
11 1 (0.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 76 (47.50%) Developer
2 37 (23.13%) Senior
3 19 (11.88%) Lead
4 16 (10.00%) Java Engineer
5 15 (9.38%) Senior Developer
6 13 (8.13%) Java Developer
7 10 (6.25%) Senior Java Engineer
8 9 (5.63%) Architect
9 8 (5.00%) Head of IT
10 7 (4.38%) Software Engineer
11 6 (3.75%) Analyst
11 6 (3.75%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (3.75%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 6 (3.75%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
12 5 (3.13%) Development Team Leader
12 5 (3.13%) Front Office Developer
12 5 (3.13%) Qualitative Analyst
12 5 (3.13%) Quantitative Analyst
12 5 (3.13%) Team Leader
13 4 (2.50%) Java Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (18.13%) .NET
2 24 (15.00%) Kafka
3 21 (13.13%) RESTful
4 20 (12.50%) React
5 16 (10.00%) Spring
6 15 (9.38%) Spring Boot
7 6 (3.75%) Java Concurrency
7 6 (3.75%) Node.js
8 5 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (1.88%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (1.88%) JSON
9 3 (1.88%) REST
10 2 (1.25%) Apache Thrift
10 2 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.25%) HTML
10 2 (1.25%) Middleware
10 2 (1.25%) Quarkus
11 1 (0.63%) AWS CDK
11 1 (0.63%) GraalVM
11 1 (0.63%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 45 (28.13%) Onboarding
2 36 (22.50%) Cloud Native
3 16 (10.00%) Algorithms
3 16 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (8.13%) Equities
5 11 (6.88%) Derivative
5 11 (6.88%) Market Risk
6 5 (3.13%) Credit Risk
6 5 (3.13%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (3.13%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.88%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.25%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.25%) Sports Betting
10 1 (0.63%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.63%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.63%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.63%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.88%) Linux
2 1 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (36.25%) Agile
2 54 (33.75%) CI/CD
3 50 (31.25%) Migration
4 46 (28.75%) DevOps
5 39 (24.38%) Test Automation
6 38 (23.75%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (22.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (21.25%) Microservices
9 30 (18.75%) Scrum
9 30 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
10 27 (16.88%) Low Latency
11 24 (15.00%) Computer Science
12 23 (14.38%) Document Management
12 23 (14.38%) Error Analysis
12 23 (14.38%) Requirements Gathering
13 22 (13.75%) Code Quality
14 21 (13.13%) Analytics
15 20 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
16 19 (11.88%) Mathematics
17 18 (11.25%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 74 (46.25%) Python
2 60 (37.50%) C#
3 31 (19.38%) SQL
4 19 (11.88%) C++
5 11 (6.88%) Kotlin
6 9 (5.63%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.13%) Go
8 4 (2.50%) Scala
9 3 (1.88%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.88%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.63%) COBOL
10 1 (0.63%) Groovy
10 1 (0.63%) R
10 1 (0.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 22 (13.75%) Degree
2 15 (9.38%) Master's Degree
3 9 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (5.00%) CFA
4 8 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
4 8 (5.00%) PMI Certification
4 8 (5.00%) PMP
5 6 (3.75%) PhD
5 6 (3.75%) Security Cleared
6 5 (3.13%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.50%) QA
2 3 (1.88%) GDPR
3 2 (1.25%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.25%) SLA
4 1 (0.63%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.63%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.63%) ITGC
System Software
1 9 (5.63%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (13.13%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.63%) Terraform
3 3 (1.88%) Ansible
3 3 (1.88%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.25%) Puppet
5 1 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (26.25%) Guidewire
2 8 (5.00%) Murex
3 5 (3.13%) FIS
3 5 (3.13%) Google
4 4 (2.50%) Databricks
4 4 (2.50%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.50%) Solace
5 3 (1.88%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.25%) Oracle
7 1 (0.63%) Dell
7 1 (0.63%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.63%) Foundry
7 1 (0.63%) Informatica
7 1 (0.63%) Palantir
7 1 (0.63%) Pega
7 1 (0.63%) SimCorp
7 1 (0.63%) Talend