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 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 19 27
Rank change year-on-year -17 +8 -19
Permanent jobs citing Java 113 187 218
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.80% 11.01% 7.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.38% 26.52% 16.33%
Number of salaries quoted 97 164 172
10th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £71,250 £73,438 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £88,750 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.68% +4.41% -8.11%
75th Percentile £112,500 £118,750 £107,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £136,750 £122,250
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -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 650 705 1,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 21.89% 41.52% 46.18%
Number of salaries quoted 526 595 927
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,313 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £76,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £132,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% -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 24 September 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 1 (0.88%) Camunda
Applications
1 7 (6.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.77%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 44 (38.94%) AWS
2 22 (19.47%) Azure
3 18 (15.93%) GCP
4 5 (4.42%) GitHub
5 4 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.54%) Serverless
6 3 (2.65%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (2.65%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.65%) Vertex AI
7 2 (1.77%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (1.77%) Azure AI
7 2 (1.77%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 2 (1.77%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (1.77%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (1.77%) Cloud Run
7 2 (1.77%) Datadog
7 2 (1.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon Neptune
8 1 (0.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.77%) Network Security
1 2 (1.77%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.88%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.88%) Internet
2 1 (0.88%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.31%) Geospatial Data
1 6 (5.31%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.54%) MongoDB
2 4 (3.54%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.77%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.77%) Cloud Spanner
3 2 (1.77%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.88%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.88%) MySQL
4 1 (0.88%) Pinecone
4 1 (0.88%) Power BI
4 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.88%) SQLPlus
4 1 (0.88%) Stardog
4 1 (0.88%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 11 (9.73%) Git
2 6 (5.31%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.31%) JUnit
2 6 (5.31%) Maven
2 6 (5.31%) Mockito
3 3 (2.65%) GitLab
3 3 (2.65%) Gradle
3 3 (2.65%) JIRA
3 3 (2.65%) Spock
4 2 (1.77%) Burp Suite
4 2 (1.77%) Snyk
5 1 (0.88%) JMeter
5 1 (0.88%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (0.88%) Postman
General
1 39 (34.51%) Finance
2 27 (23.89%) Social Skills
3 13 (11.50%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (11.50%) Banking
4 8 (7.08%) Front Office
5 4 (3.54%) Financial Institution
5 4 (3.54%) Prime Brokerage
6 3 (2.65%) Back Office
6 3 (2.65%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.65%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.77%) Advertising
8 1 (0.88%) Games
8 1 (0.88%) iGaming
8 1 (0.88%) Private Banking
8 1 (0.88%) Retail
8 1 (0.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (34.51%) Developer
2 26 (23.01%) Java Developer
3 21 (18.58%) Senior
4 20 (17.70%) Software Engineer
5 18 (15.93%) Java Engineer
6 9 (7.96%) Java Software Engineer
6 9 (7.96%) Lead
7 8 (7.08%) Consultant
7 8 (7.08%) Java Consultant
7 8 (7.08%) Senior Developer
7 8 (7.08%) Senior Software Engineer
8 7 (6.19%) Development Consultant
8 7 (6.19%) Software Consultant
8 7 (6.19%) Software Development Consultant
8 7 (6.19%) Technical Consultant
9 6 (5.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 6 (5.31%) Python Engineer
10 5 (4.42%) AWS Software Engineer
10 5 (4.42%) Principal Java Engineer
10 5 (4.42%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (30.09%) Spring Boot
2 28 (24.78%) Spring
3 17 (15.04%) Terraform
4 10 (8.85%) Kafka
4 10 (8.85%) REST
5 9 (7.96%) .NET
5 9 (7.96%) React
6 8 (7.08%) FIX Protocol
7 6 (5.31%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (4.42%) LangChain
9 3 (2.65%) FIXML
9 3 (2.65%) FpML
9 3 (2.65%) OAuth
9 3 (2.65%) OpenID
10 2 (1.77%) AngularJS
10 2 (1.77%) Hibernate
10 2 (1.77%) JPA
10 2 (1.77%) Middleware
10 2 (1.77%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.77%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (20.35%) Cloud Native
2 18 (15.93%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.19%) Reinsurance
4 6 (5.31%) Onboarding
4 6 (5.31%) Virtual Team
5 5 (4.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.65%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.65%) Credit Risk
7 3 (2.65%) Equities
7 3 (2.65%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.77%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.77%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.77%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.77%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.77%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.77%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.77%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.62%) Linux
2 4 (3.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (39.82%) Software Engineering
2 35 (30.97%) CI/CD
3 33 (29.20%) Agile
3 33 (29.20%) DevOps
4 24 (21.24%) Microservices
5 22 (19.47%) Mentoring
6 21 (18.58%) AI
7 17 (15.04%) Containerisation
7 17 (15.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (12.39%) Computer Science
9 13 (11.50%) Decision-Making
9 13 (11.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (10.62%) Full-Stack Development
10 12 (10.62%) Migration
10 12 (10.62%) Roadmaps
11 11 (9.73%) Code Quality
11 11 (9.73%) Low Latency
11 11 (9.73%) Mathematics
12 10 (8.85%) LLM
12 10 (8.85%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 45 (39.82%) Python
2 25 (22.12%) C#
3 17 (15.04%) SQL
4 15 (13.27%) C++
5 13 (11.50%) JavaScript
6 10 (8.85%) Bash
6 10 (8.85%) Rust
6 10 (8.85%) TypeScript
7 8 (7.08%) R
8 7 (6.19%) Julia
8 7 (6.19%) MATLAB
9 6 (5.31%) Go
9 6 (5.31%) VBA
10 4 (3.54%) PowerShell
11 3 (2.65%) C
11 3 (2.65%) Ruby
12 2 (1.77%) Groovy
12 2 (1.77%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.77%) Objective-C
12 2 (1.77%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (12.39%) Degree
2 11 (9.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (6.19%) Security Cleared
4 5 (4.42%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.77%) CCSAM
5 2 (1.77%) CREST Certified
5 2 (1.77%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.77%) GPEN
5 2 (1.77%) GXPN
5 2 (1.77%) OSCE
5 2 (1.77%) OSCP
6 1 (0.88%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.85%) GDPR
2 3 (2.65%) QA
3 2 (1.77%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (14.16%) Docker
2 5 (4.42%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.88%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (21.24%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.08%) Ansible
3 7 (6.19%) Grafana
3 7 (6.19%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.88%) Puppet
4 1 (0.88%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (5.31%) Guidewire
1 6 (5.31%) Splunk
2 4 (3.54%) Google
2 4 (3.54%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.54%) OpenAI
2 4 (3.54%) Oracle
3 3 (2.65%) Solace
4 2 (1.77%) Checkmarx
4 2 (1.77%) JDA
4 2 (1.77%) Palantir
4 2 (1.77%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.77%) Veracode
5 1 (0.88%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.88%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.88%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.88%) Pega
5 1 (0.88%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.88%) VMware