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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 22 18
Rank change year-on-year -22 -4 -8
Permanent jobs citing Java 140 188 286
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.59% 9.85% 9.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.39% 21.89% 20.66%
Number of salaries quoted 114 157 251
10th Percentile £61,250 £60,750 £65,000
25th Percentile £71,563 £75,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £96,250 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.94% +5.88% -8.11%
75th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £124,250 £149,250 £120,000
Central London median annual salary £95,000 £97,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -2.56% +14.71% -8.11%

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 854 859 1,384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 21.90% 45.02% 46.88%
Number of salaries quoted 680 716 1,099
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,625 £47,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +3.23% -3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +10.00% -3.85%

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 23 July 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 (0.71%) Camunda
1 1 (0.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 51 (36.43%) AWS
2 22 (15.71%) Azure
3 18 (12.86%) GCP
4 5 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (3.57%) Serverless
5 4 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (2.86%) Amazon S3
5 4 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (2.86%) GitHub
6 3 (2.14%) Pulumi
6 3 (2.14%) Vertex AI
7 2 (1.43%) Azure AI
7 2 (1.43%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 2 (1.43%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (1.43%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (1.43%) Cloud Run
7 2 (1.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.71%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (0.71%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (0.71%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.14%) Network Security
2 2 (1.43%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.71%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.71%) Internet
3 1 (0.71%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.29%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (2.86%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.86%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.14%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.43%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.43%) Cloud Spanner
5 2 (1.43%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.71%) MySQL
6 1 (0.71%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.71%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.71%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.71%) Power BI
6 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.71%) SQLPlus
6 1 (0.71%) Stardog
6 1 (0.71%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 8 (5.71%) Git
2 6 (4.29%) Gradle
2 6 (4.29%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.14%) JIRA
3 3 (2.14%) JUnit
3 3 (2.14%) Maven
3 3 (2.14%) Mockito
3 3 (2.14%) Spock
4 2 (1.43%) GitLab
5 1 (0.71%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.71%) JMeter
5 1 (0.71%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (0.71%) Postman
5 1 (0.71%) Selenium
General
1 45 (32.14%) Finance
2 30 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 17 (12.14%) Banking
3 17 (12.14%) Front Office
4 14 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.43%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.14%) Advertising
6 3 (2.14%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.14%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.43%) Retail
8 1 (0.71%) Cantonese Language
8 1 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.71%) Law
8 1 (0.71%) Marketing
8 1 (0.71%) Private Banking
8 1 (0.71%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (35.00%) Developer
2 31 (22.14%) Software Engineer
3 30 (21.43%) Java Developer
3 30 (21.43%) Java Engineer
3 30 (21.43%) Senior
4 16 (11.43%) Java Software Engineer
5 12 (8.57%) Senior Developer
6 11 (7.86%) Senior Software Engineer
7 10 (7.14%) Lead
8 9 (6.43%) Consultant
8 9 (6.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 9 (6.43%) Java Consultant
8 9 (6.43%) Senior Java Engineer
9 8 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (5.71%) AWS Software Engineer
10 7 (5.00%) Development Consultant
10 7 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
10 7 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
10 7 (5.00%) Software Consultant
10 7 (5.00%) Software Development Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (25.71%) Spring Boot
2 32 (22.86%) Spring
3 16 (11.43%) Kafka
4 12 (8.57%) React
5 8 (5.71%) .NET
5 8 (5.71%) FIX Protocol
5 8 (5.71%) REST
6 6 (4.29%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (3.57%) Node.js
8 4 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (2.14%) AngularJS
9 3 (2.14%) CSS
9 3 (2.14%) HTML
9 3 (2.14%) LangChain
9 3 (2.14%) Middleware
9 3 (2.14%) Web Services
10 2 (1.43%) FastAPI
10 2 (1.43%) JPA
10 2 (1.43%) LangGraph
10 2 (1.43%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 33 (23.57%) Cloud Native
2 16 (11.43%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (8.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (5.00%) Reinsurance
5 6 (4.29%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.29%) Virtual Team
6 5 (3.57%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.86%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.86%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.86%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.86%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.14%) Credit Risk
8 3 (2.14%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.14%) Equities
8 3 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.14%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.43%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.71%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.57%) Linux
2 5 (3.57%) Windows
3 1 (0.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (39.29%) Software Engineering
2 38 (27.14%) DevOps
3 36 (25.71%) Agile
4 34 (24.29%) CI/CD
5 25 (17.86%) AI
5 25 (17.86%) Microservices
6 23 (16.43%) Mentoring
7 19 (13.57%) Computer Science
7 19 (13.57%) Low Latency
8 18 (12.86%) Containerisation
8 18 (12.86%) Roadmaps
9 17 (12.14%) Code Quality
9 17 (12.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (11.43%) Full-Stack Development
11 15 (10.71%) Mathematics
12 14 (10.00%) Decision-Making
13 13 (9.29%) Infrastructure as Code
14 12 (8.57%) Migration
15 11 (7.86%) Process Improvement
15 11 (7.86%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 49 (35.00%) Python
2 26 (18.57%) C#
3 22 (15.71%) SQL
4 16 (11.43%) C++
5 11 (7.86%) Go
5 11 (7.86%) Rust
6 10 (7.14%) Bash
6 10 (7.14%) JavaScript
7 9 (6.43%) TypeScript
8 8 (5.71%) R
9 7 (5.00%) Julia
9 7 (5.00%) MATLAB
10 6 (4.29%) VBA
11 5 (3.57%) PowerShell
12 4 (2.86%) C
12 4 (2.86%) Ruby
13 3 (2.14%) Objective-C
13 3 (2.14%) Perl
14 2 (1.43%) Groovy
14 2 (1.43%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 20 (14.29%) Degree
2 15 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.29%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.57%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.14%) CCSAM
5 3 (2.14%) CREST Certified
5 3 (2.14%) GPEN
5 3 (2.14%) GXPN
5 3 (2.14%) OSCE
5 3 (2.14%) OSCP
6 1 (0.71%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.71%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.71%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.14%) GDPR
2 3 (2.14%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (2.14%) QA
3 1 (0.71%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.71%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (12.86%) Docker
2 5 (3.57%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 16 (11.43%) Terraform
3 8 (5.71%) Grafana
3 8 (5.71%) Prometheus
4 7 (5.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (5.00%) Splunk
2 6 (4.29%) Guidewire
2 6 (4.29%) Solace
3 5 (3.57%) Oracle
4 4 (2.86%) Google
4 4 (2.86%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.86%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.14%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.43%) JDA
6 2 (1.43%) Palantir
7 1 (0.71%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.71%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.71%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.71%) Pega
7 1 (0.71%) Temenos