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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 26 18
Rank change year-on-year -17 -8 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 146 164 346
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.45% 8.45% 10.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.94% 18.28% 23.05%
Number of salaries quoted 115 133 305
10th Percentile £62,500 £65,250 £65,000
25th Percentile £81,250 £75,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £92,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +2.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £121,500 £149,750 £122,500
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £98,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +2.04% +8.89% -5.26%

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 977 897 1,501
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 23.06% 46.21% 46.85%
Number of salaries quoted 762 747 1,204
10th Percentile £51,775 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £61,375 £60,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £103,525 £130,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% +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 11 June 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 (0.68%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 54 (36.99%) AWS
2 18 (12.33%) Azure
3 16 (10.96%) GCP
4 5 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.74%) GitHub
5 4 (2.74%) Pulumi
6 2 (1.37%) SaaS
6 2 (1.37%) Serverless
7 1 (0.68%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.68%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.68%) Azure AI
7 1 (0.68%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 1 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.68%) Cloud Functions
7 1 (0.68%) Cloud Run
7 1 (0.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (0.68%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.68%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.05%) Network Security
2 1 (0.68%) Broadband
2 1 (0.68%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.68%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.53%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (3.42%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (2.74%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.05%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.05%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.37%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.37%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.68%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.68%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (0.68%) MySQL
6 1 (0.68%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.68%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.68%) Power BI
6 1 (0.68%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.68%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 8 (5.48%) Gradle
2 6 (4.11%) Git
3 5 (3.42%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.05%) JIRA
4 3 (2.05%) JUnit
4 3 (2.05%) Maven
4 3 (2.05%) Mockito
4 3 (2.05%) Spock
5 2 (1.37%) GitLab
5 2 (1.37%) Selenium
6 1 (0.68%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.68%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.68%) Katalon Studio
General
1 46 (31.51%) Finance
2 24 (16.44%) Social Skills
3 20 (13.70%) Front Office
4 14 (9.59%) Banking
5 11 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (7.53%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.74%) Tech for Good
7 3 (2.05%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.37%) Advertising
8 2 (1.37%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.37%) Marketing
9 1 (0.68%) Cantonese Language
9 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.68%) Law
9 1 (0.68%) Retail
9 1 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (34.93%) Developer
2 40 (27.40%) Java Engineer
3 36 (24.66%) Software Engineer
4 33 (22.60%) Java Developer
5 32 (21.92%) Senior
6 23 (15.75%) Java Software Engineer
7 15 (10.27%) AWS Engineer
7 15 (10.27%) Senior Developer
8 12 (8.22%) Lead
9 11 (7.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 11 (7.53%) Senior Software Engineer
10 10 (6.85%) AWS Software Engineer
11 9 (6.16%) Consultant
11 9 (6.16%) Java Consultant
11 9 (6.16%) Senior Java Developer
11 9 (6.16%) Senior Java Engineer
12 7 (4.79%) Development Consultant
12 7 (4.79%) Software Consultant
12 7 (4.79%) Software Development Consultant
12 7 (4.79%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (21.23%) Spring Boot
2 26 (17.81%) Spring
3 13 (8.90%) Kafka
4 12 (8.22%) React
5 11 (7.53%) FIX Protocol
6 8 (5.48%) .NET
7 5 (3.42%) REST
8 4 (2.74%) CSS
8 4 (2.74%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (2.74%) HTML
8 4 (2.74%) Node.js
9 3 (2.05%) Middleware
9 3 (2.05%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (2.05%) Web Services
10 2 (1.37%) AngularJS
10 2 (1.37%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (1.37%) Vue
11 1 (0.68%) FastAPI
11 1 (0.68%) Playwright
11 1 (0.68%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 27 (18.49%) Cloud Native
2 16 (10.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (7.53%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.11%) Reinsurance
4 6 (4.11%) Virtual Team
5 4 (2.74%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.74%) Equities
5 4 (2.74%) Fixed Income
5 4 (2.74%) NHS
5 4 (2.74%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.05%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.05%) Derivative
6 3 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.05%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.05%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.05%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.37%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.37%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.85%) Linux
2 4 (2.74%) Windows
3 1 (0.68%) Unix
3 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (36.99%) Software Engineering
2 34 (23.29%) DevOps
3 27 (18.49%) Agile
4 24 (16.44%) CI/CD
4 24 (16.44%) Low Latency
5 22 (15.07%) Mentoring
6 21 (14.38%) AI
6 21 (14.38%) Full-Stack Development
7 19 (13.01%) Computer Science
7 19 (13.01%) Roadmaps
8 18 (12.33%) Code Quality
8 18 (12.33%) Mathematics
9 17 (11.64%) Microservices
10 14 (9.59%) Containerisation
10 14 (9.59%) Decision-Making
10 14 (9.59%) Fintech
11 13 (8.90%) Electronic Trading
12 12 (8.22%) Ultra-Low Latency
13 11 (7.53%) Market Making
13 11 (7.53%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 38 (26.03%) Python
2 23 (15.75%) C#
3 19 (13.01%) SQL
4 15 (10.27%) C++
5 12 (8.22%) Go
6 9 (6.16%) JavaScript
7 8 (5.48%) Rust
7 8 (5.48%) TypeScript
8 7 (4.79%) Bash
8 7 (4.79%) R
9 6 (4.11%) Julia
9 6 (4.11%) MATLAB
10 4 (2.74%) C
10 4 (2.74%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.74%) VBA
11 3 (2.05%) Objective-C
11 3 (2.05%) Perl
11 3 (2.05%) Ruby
12 2 (1.37%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.68%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 21 (14.38%) Degree
2 15 (10.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (5.48%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.42%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.05%) CCSAM
5 3 (2.05%) CREST Certified
5 3 (2.05%) GPEN
5 3 (2.05%) GXPN
5 3 (2.05%) OSCE
5 3 (2.05%) OSCP
5 3 (2.05%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.37%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.48%) GDPR
2 3 (2.05%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.37%) QA
4 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.68%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (8.90%) Docker
2 2 (1.37%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (14.38%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.53%) Terraform
3 5 (3.42%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.74%) Ansible
4 4 (2.74%) Grafana
5 1 (0.68%) Argo
5 1 (0.68%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 8 (5.48%) Solace
2 5 (3.42%) Guidewire
3 4 (2.74%) Oracle
3 4 (2.74%) Splunk
4 3 (2.05%) Google
4 3 (2.05%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.05%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.37%) JDA
5 2 (1.37%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.37%) Palantir
6 1 (0.68%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.68%) Databricks
6 1 (0.68%) Pega
6 1 (0.68%) Temenos