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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 28 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 -19 +2
Permanent jobs citing Java 167 204 501
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 10.57% 7.36% 16.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.26% 15.81% 32.01%
Number of salaries quoted 152 157 456
10th Percentile £57,500 £58,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £115,000 £107,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £122,500 £130,625
Central London median annual salary £98,750 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +16.18% -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 661 1,290 1,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 41.84% 46.52% 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 571 905 1,428
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,850 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,250 £56,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,500 £79,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.96% -5.03% +6.00%
75th Percentile £110,625 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £120,000 £120,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% +3.33%

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 22 October 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 (2.40%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.20%) Luigi
3 2 (1.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.60%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.99%) Adaptiv
2 3 (1.80%) Endur
2 3 (1.80%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.60%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 48 (28.74%) AWS
2 35 (20.96%) Azure
3 25 (14.97%) Datadog
4 17 (10.18%) GCP
5 11 (6.59%) GitHub
5 11 (6.59%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (5.99%) SaaS
7 9 (5.39%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (4.19%) Serverless
9 5 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.40%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.80%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.80%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.80%) Google App Engine
11 3 (1.80%) OpenShift
11 3 (1.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (1.20%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.20%) AWS Step Functions
12 2 (1.20%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.60%) HTTP
1 1 (0.60%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (18.56%) Relational Database
2 8 (4.79%) ClickHouse
3 6 (3.59%) Big Data
3 6 (3.59%) Hadoop
3 6 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.59%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.40%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.40%) DynamoDB
4 4 (2.40%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.40%) RDBMS
5 3 (1.80%) OLAP
5 3 (1.80%) OLTP
6 2 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.20%) KDB
6 2 (1.20%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.60%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.60%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.60%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 8 (4.79%) SonarQube
2 4 (2.40%) Git
3 3 (1.80%) JUnit
3 3 (1.80%) Selenium
4 2 (1.20%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.20%) JIRA
4 2 (1.20%) JMeter
4 2 (1.20%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.20%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.60%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.60%) GitLab
5 1 (0.60%) Katalon Studio
General
1 55 (32.93%) Social Skills
2 42 (25.15%) Finance
3 30 (17.96%) Banking
4 21 (12.57%) Front Office
5 18 (10.78%) Billing
6 11 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (5.99%) Financial Institution
8 8 (4.79%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.40%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.80%) Advertising
11 2 (1.20%) Law
12 1 (0.60%) French Language
12 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.60%) Retail
12 1 (0.60%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 78 (46.71%) Developer
2 35 (20.96%) Senior
3 18 (10.78%) Lead
4 14 (8.38%) Java Engineer
4 14 (8.38%) Senior Developer
5 12 (7.19%) Java Developer
6 10 (5.99%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (5.39%) Senior Java Engineer
8 8 (4.79%) Head of IT
9 7 (4.19%) Analyst
9 7 (4.19%) Architect
9 7 (4.19%) Software Engineer
10 5 (2.99%) Development Team Leader
10 5 (2.99%) Qualitative Analyst
10 5 (2.99%) Quantitative Analyst
10 5 (2.99%) Team Leader
11 4 (2.40%) Development Manager
11 4 (2.40%) Java Team Leader
11 4 (2.40%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (2.40%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (17.96%) .NET
2 24 (14.37%) Kafka
3 23 (13.77%) React
4 21 (12.57%) RESTful
5 16 (9.58%) Spring
6 14 (8.38%) Spring Boot
7 7 (4.19%) Node.js
8 6 (3.59%) Java Concurrency
9 5 (2.99%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (2.40%) FIX Protocol
11 3 (1.80%) JSON
11 3 (1.80%) Middleware
11 3 (1.80%) REST
12 2 (1.20%) Apache Thrift
12 2 (1.20%) AWS CDK
12 2 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
12 2 (1.20%) LDAP
12 2 (1.20%) OAuth
12 2 (1.20%) Quarkus
12 2 (1.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 46 (27.54%) Onboarding
2 39 (23.35%) Cloud Native
3 17 (10.18%) Algorithms
4 15 (8.98%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (7.78%) Equities
6 11 (6.59%) Derivative
6 11 (6.59%) Market Risk
7 6 (3.59%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.99%) Credit Risk
8 5 (2.99%) Public Cloud
9 4 (2.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.80%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.80%) Swaptions
11 2 (1.20%) Mobile App
11 2 (1.20%) Sports Betting
12 1 (0.60%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.60%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.60%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.60%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.40%) Linux
2 1 (0.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (39.52%) Agile
2 59 (35.33%) CI/CD
2 59 (35.33%) Migration
3 56 (33.53%) DevOps
4 40 (23.95%) Test Automation
5 38 (22.75%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (22.16%) Continuous Improvement
7 35 (20.96%) Microservices
8 33 (19.76%) Stakeholder Management
9 32 (19.16%) Scrum
10 25 (14.97%) Computer Science
10 25 (14.97%) Document Management
10 25 (14.97%) Error Analysis
10 25 (14.97%) Low Latency
10 25 (14.97%) Requirements Gathering
11 22 (13.17%) Code Quality
12 21 (12.57%) Analytics
13 20 (11.98%) Collaborative Working
14 19 (11.38%) Machine Learning
14 19 (11.38%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 80 (47.90%) Python
2 62 (37.13%) C#
3 36 (21.56%) SQL
4 21 (12.57%) C++
5 10 (5.99%) TypeScript
6 9 (5.39%) Kotlin
7 6 (3.59%) Go
8 4 (2.40%) Scala
9 3 (1.80%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.80%) MATLAB
9 3 (1.80%) VB
10 1 (0.60%) COBOL
10 1 (0.60%) Groovy
10 1 (0.60%) R
10 1 (0.60%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (13.77%) Degree
2 16 (9.58%) Master's Degree
3 9 (5.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (4.79%) CFA
4 8 (4.79%) ITIL Certification
4 8 (4.79%) PMI Certification
4 8 (4.79%) PMP
5 7 (4.19%) PhD
6 5 (2.99%) Security Cleared
7 4 (2.40%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.60%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.19%) QA
2 4 (2.40%) GDPR
3 3 (1.80%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.80%) SLA
4 1 (0.60%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.60%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.60%) ITGC
System Software
1 10 (5.99%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (11.98%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.99%) Terraform
3 4 (2.40%) Ansible
4 3 (1.80%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.20%) Puppet
6 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (26.35%) Guidewire
2 8 (4.79%) Murex
3 6 (3.59%) Google
3 6 (3.59%) Oracle
4 5 (2.99%) FIS
4 5 (2.99%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.40%) Databricks
5 4 (2.40%) Solace
6 3 (1.80%) OpenLink
6 3 (1.80%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.80%) Sybase
6 3 (1.80%) TIBCO
7 1 (0.60%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.60%) Dell
7 1 (0.60%) Foundry
7 1 (0.60%) Informatica
7 1 (0.60%) Palantir
7 1 (0.60%) Pega
7 1 (0.60%) SimCorp
7 1 (0.60%) Talend