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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 39 10
Rank change year-on-year +7 -29 +1
Permanent jobs citing Java 136 159 451
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 5.50% 6.06% 15.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.39% 12.99% 29.99%
Number of salaries quoted 113 119 415
10th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £79,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -2.63%
75th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £110,625
90th Percentile £139,500 £137,500 £122,500
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £90,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -2.63%

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 830 1,224 1,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 33.56% 46.63% 50.23%
Number of salaries quoted 669 891 1,377
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £56,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -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 24 January 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 4 (2.94%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.47%) Apache
3 2 (1.47%) Luigi
3 2 (1.47%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.47%) Adaptiv
Cloud Services
1 41 (30.15%) AWS
2 14 (10.29%) Azure
2 14 (10.29%) Datadog
3 10 (7.35%) GCP
3 10 (7.35%) SaaS
4 3 (2.21%) Snowflake
5 2 (1.47%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (1.47%) GitHub
5 2 (1.47%) OpenShift
5 2 (1.47%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.74%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.74%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.74%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.74%) dbt
6 1 (0.74%) Pulumi
6 1 (0.74%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.47%) DHCP
1 2 (1.47%) DNS
1 2 (1.47%) LAN
1 2 (1.47%) NAS
1 2 (1.47%) SAN
1 2 (1.47%) SNMP
1 2 (1.47%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.47%) WAN
2 1 (0.74%) Broadband
2 1 (0.74%) HTTP
2 1 (0.74%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.74%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 11 (8.09%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.68%) Hadoop
3 5 (3.68%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.94%) ClickHouse
5 3 (2.21%) Big Data
6 2 (1.47%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.47%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.47%) KDB
6 2 (1.47%) Power BI
7 1 (0.74%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.74%) DB2
7 1 (0.74%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.74%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.74%) MySQL
7 1 (0.74%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.74%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 3 (2.21%) Selenium
2 2 (1.47%) Gradle
3 1 (0.74%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.74%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.74%) Git
3 1 (0.74%) GitLab
3 1 (0.74%) Jaeger
3 1 (0.74%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.74%) JMeter
3 1 (0.74%) JUnit
3 1 (0.74%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (0.74%) MLflow
3 1 (0.74%) WebDriver
General
1 30 (22.06%) Social Skills
2 28 (20.59%) Front Office
3 26 (19.12%) Finance
4 17 (12.50%) Banking
5 9 (6.62%) Billing
6 7 (5.15%) Financial Institution
7 6 (4.41%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.94%) Marketing
8 4 (2.94%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.47%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.47%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.74%) French Language
10 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.74%) Retail
10 1 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (44.12%) Developer
2 40 (29.41%) Senior
3 31 (22.79%) Java Engineer
4 20 (14.71%) Java Developer
5 19 (13.97%) Senior Developer
6 15 (11.03%) Software Engineer
7 14 (10.29%) Lead
8 13 (9.56%) Senior Java Engineer
9 12 (8.82%) Java Software Engineer
10 8 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (5.15%) Architect
12 6 (4.41%) DV Cleared Java Developer
12 6 (4.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 5 (3.68%) Front Office Developer
14 4 (2.94%) Applications Architect
14 4 (2.94%) Java Applications Architect
14 4 (2.94%) Java Architect
14 4 (2.94%) Senior Java Developer
14 4 (2.94%) Web Applications Architect
14 4 (2.94%) Web Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.50%) Kafka
2 14 (10.29%) Spring
3 12 (8.82%) Spring Boot
4 11 (8.09%) .NET
5 9 (6.62%) FIX Protocol
5 9 (6.62%) React
5 9 (6.62%) RESTful
6 8 (5.88%) Java Concurrency
7 4 (2.94%) Node.js
8 3 (2.21%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (2.21%) HTML
8 3 (2.21%) LDAP
8 3 (2.21%) Vue
9 2 (1.47%) CSS
9 2 (1.47%) HTML5
9 2 (1.47%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (1.47%) Playwright
9 2 (1.47%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.74%) CSS3
10 1 (0.74%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 23 (16.91%) Onboarding
2 21 (15.44%) Cloud Native
3 15 (11.03%) Algorithms
3 15 (11.03%) Derivative
4 14 (10.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 13 (9.56%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (9.56%) Equities
6 6 (4.41%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.94%) Credit Risk
7 4 (2.94%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (2.94%) Market Risk
7 4 (2.94%) NHS
8 2 (1.47%) FPGA
8 2 (1.47%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.74%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.74%) PKI
9 1 (0.74%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.41%) Linux
2 2 (1.47%) CentOS
2 2 (1.47%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (24.26%) CI/CD
2 32 (23.53%) Test Automation
3 29 (21.32%) DevOps
3 29 (21.32%) Software Engineering
4 25 (18.38%) Low Latency
5 24 (17.65%) Migration
6 22 (16.18%) Agile
7 20 (14.71%) Microservices
7 20 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (13.97%) Computer Science
8 19 (13.97%) Electronic Trading
9 16 (11.76%) Mathematics
9 16 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
10 15 (11.03%) Scrum
11 14 (10.29%) Analytics
11 14 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (10.29%) Document Management
11 14 (10.29%) Error Analysis
11 14 (10.29%) Mentoring
11 14 (10.29%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 48 (35.29%) Python
2 31 (22.79%) C#
3 21 (15.44%) SQL
4 12 (8.82%) Kotlin
5 9 (6.62%) JavaScript
6 7 (5.15%) C++
7 4 (2.94%) Scala
8 3 (2.21%) Go
8 3 (2.21%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.47%) Perl
10 1 (0.74%) Bash
10 1 (0.74%) COBOL
10 1 (0.74%) Groovy
10 1 (0.74%) Korn
10 1 (0.74%) R
10 1 (0.74%) Ruby
10 1 (0.74%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (13.24%) Degree
2 13 (9.56%) Security Cleared
3 12 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (8.09%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.68%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.94%) PhD
7 2 (1.47%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.47%) CFA
7 2 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.47%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.47%) PMP
7 2 (1.47%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.21%) QA
System Software
1 7 (5.15%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (14.71%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.41%) Ansible
3 4 (2.94%) Terraform
4 3 (2.21%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.47%) Argo
5 2 (1.47%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.47%) Puppet
5 2 (1.47%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (1.47%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 1 (0.74%) Grafana
6 1 (0.74%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 23 (16.91%) Guidewire
2 4 (2.94%) Databricks
3 3 (2.21%) Dell
3 3 (2.21%) Google
3 3 (2.21%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.47%) FIS
4 2 (1.47%) HP
4 2 (1.47%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.47%) Murex
4 2 (1.47%) Oracle
4 2 (1.47%) Solace
5 1 (0.74%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.74%) Foundry
5 1 (0.74%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.74%) Palantir
5 1 (0.74%) Pega