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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 43 10
Rank change year-on-year +1 -33 +1
Permanent jobs citing Java 122 143 457
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 4.33% 5.77% 14.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.93% 12.24% 29.66%
Number of salaries quoted 100 110 418
10th Percentile £67,500 £56,250 £60,000
25th Percentile £80,938 £77,813 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £96,250 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% +4.05% -2.12%
75th Percentile £105,000 £118,438 £112,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £137,500 £122,500
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £99,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year +1.01% +7.03% -

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 876 1,168 1,541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 31.12% 47.15% 49.19%
Number of salaries quoted 698 883 1,397
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £57,500 £60,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -3.13% +1.27%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £119,750 £115,500
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 22 February 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 (1.64%) Apache
1 2 (1.64%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.64%) nginx
2 1 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.82%) Confluence
2 1 (0.82%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.64%) Adaptiv
Cloud Services
1 45 (36.89%) AWS
2 14 (11.48%) Azure
3 10 (8.20%) Datadog
3 10 (8.20%) SaaS
4 9 (7.38%) GCP
5 3 (2.46%) GitHub
5 3 (2.46%) Snowflake
6 2 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.64%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.64%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.64%) Serverless
7 1 (0.82%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.82%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (0.82%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (0.82%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (0.82%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.82%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (0.82%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.64%) DHCP
1 2 (1.64%) DNS
1 2 (1.64%) LAN
1 2 (1.64%) NAS
1 2 (1.64%) SAN
1 2 (1.64%) SNMP
1 2 (1.64%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.64%) WAN
2 1 (0.82%) Broadband
2 1 (0.82%) HTTP
2 1 (0.82%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.82%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.84%) Relational Database
2 9 (7.38%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.46%) Big Data
3 3 (2.46%) DynamoDB
3 3 (2.46%) Hadoop
3 3 (2.46%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.64%) ClickHouse
4 2 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.64%) Power BI
5 1 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.82%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.82%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.82%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.82%) DB2
5 1 (0.82%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.82%) KDB
5 1 (0.82%) MySQL
5 1 (0.82%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.82%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 4 (3.28%) Gradle
2 3 (2.46%) Selenium
3 2 (1.64%) GitLab
3 2 (1.64%) JIRA
4 1 (0.82%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.82%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.82%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.82%) Git
4 1 (0.82%) Jaeger
4 1 (0.82%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.82%) JMeter
4 1 (0.82%) JUnit
4 1 (0.82%) MLflow
4 1 (0.82%) WebDriver
General
1 26 (21.31%) Finance
2 24 (19.67%) Front Office
3 23 (18.85%) Social Skills
4 14 (11.48%) Banking
5 6 (4.92%) Financial Institution
6 5 (4.10%) Billing
6 5 (4.10%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.28%) Marketing
7 4 (3.28%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.64%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.64%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.82%) Advertising
9 1 (0.82%) French Language
9 1 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.82%) Law
9 1 (0.82%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 48 (39.34%) Developer
2 38 (31.15%) Senior
3 34 (27.87%) Java Engineer
4 23 (18.85%) Java Developer
5 19 (15.57%) Senior Developer
5 19 (15.57%) Software Engineer
6 16 (13.11%) Java Software Engineer
7 13 (10.66%) Lead
7 13 (10.66%) Senior Java Engineer
8 10 (8.20%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (4.92%) Architect
9 6 (4.92%) DV Cleared Java Developer
9 6 (4.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (4.10%) Front Office Developer
10 5 (4.10%) Senior Java Developer
11 4 (3.28%) Applications Architect
11 4 (3.28%) Java Architect
11 4 (3.28%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 4 (3.28%) Senior Software Engineer
11 4 (3.28%) Web Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (18.03%) Spring
2 20 (16.39%) Spring Boot
3 17 (13.93%) Kafka
4 12 (9.84%) FIX Protocol
5 8 (6.56%) React
6 7 (5.74%) .NET
6 7 (5.74%) Java Concurrency
7 5 (4.10%) Node.js
7 5 (4.10%) RESTful
8 4 (3.28%) HTML
8 4 (3.28%) REST
9 3 (2.46%) CSS
9 3 (2.46%) LDAP
9 3 (2.46%) Vue
10 2 (1.64%) AngularJS
10 2 (1.64%) GraphQL
10 2 (1.64%) HTML5
10 2 (1.64%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (1.64%) Playwright
10 2 (1.64%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 25 (20.49%) Cloud Native
2 15 (12.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 15 (12.30%) Onboarding
3 13 (10.66%) Derivative
4 10 (8.20%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (6.56%) Algorithms
6 6 (4.92%) Equities
7 4 (3.28%) Credit Risk
7 4 (3.28%) Data Structures
7 4 (3.28%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (3.28%) NHS
8 2 (1.64%) FPGA
8 2 (1.64%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.64%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.82%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.82%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.82%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.82%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.10%) Linux
2 2 (1.64%) CentOS
2 2 (1.64%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (27.05%) Software Engineering
2 32 (26.23%) CI/CD
3 27 (22.13%) DevOps
3 27 (22.13%) Test Automation
4 20 (16.39%) Low Latency
5 19 (15.57%) Microservices
6 18 (14.75%) Agile
7 17 (13.93%) Electronic Trading
8 16 (13.11%) Mentoring
8 16 (13.11%) Migration
9 15 (12.30%) Computer Science
10 13 (10.66%) AI
10 13 (10.66%) Mathematics
11 12 (9.84%) Event-Driven
11 12 (9.84%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 12 (9.84%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (9.02%) Code Quality
12 11 (9.02%) Fintech
12 11 (9.02%) Full-Stack Development
12 11 (9.02%) Market Making
Programming Languages
1 34 (27.87%) Python
2 22 (18.03%) C#
3 17 (13.93%) SQL
4 11 (9.02%) Kotlin
5 9 (7.38%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.46%) C++
6 3 (2.46%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.64%) Go
7 2 (1.64%) Perl
8 1 (0.82%) Bash
8 1 (0.82%) COBOL
8 1 (0.82%) Korn
8 1 (0.82%) R
8 1 (0.82%) Ruby
8 1 (0.82%) Scala
8 1 (0.82%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (13.11%) Degree
2 13 (10.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (9.84%) Security Cleared
4 10 (8.20%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.46%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.64%) CFA
6 2 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.64%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.64%) PMP
6 2 (1.64%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.82%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.46%) QA
System Software
1 10 (8.20%) Docker
2 1 (0.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (18.03%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.28%) Ansible
2 4 (3.28%) Terraform
3 2 (1.64%) Argo
3 2 (1.64%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.64%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (1.64%) Red Hat Spacewalk
4 1 (0.82%) Grafana
4 1 (0.82%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.82%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 15 (12.30%) Guidewire
2 4 (3.28%) Solace
3 3 (2.46%) Databricks
3 3 (2.46%) Dell
3 3 (2.46%) Google
3 3 (2.46%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.64%) FIS
4 2 (1.64%) HP
4 2 (1.64%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.64%) Murex
4 2 (1.64%) Oracle
5 1 (0.82%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.82%) Foundry
5 1 (0.82%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.82%) Palantir