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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 37 9
Rank change year-on-year +10 -28 +2
Permanent jobs citing Java 147 189 469
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 7.84% 6.74% 15.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.79% 14.39% 31.23%
Number of salaries quoted 127 145 433
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £87,500 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -5.41% -
75th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £140,400 £137,500 £127,500
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £85,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -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 707 1,313 1,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 37.73% 46.83% 50.27%
Number of salaries quoted 585 959 1,379
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,750 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £105,000 £95,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £132,000 £120,000 £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 3 December 2025.

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 3 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (2.04%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.36%) Apache
2 2 (1.36%) Luigi
2 2 (1.36%) nginx
Business Applications
1 3 (2.04%) Adaptiv
2 2 (1.36%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 45 (30.61%) AWS
2 26 (17.69%) Azure
3 21 (14.29%) Datadog
4 17 (11.56%) GCP
5 11 (7.48%) SaaS
6 6 (4.08%) GitHub
7 5 (3.40%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (3.40%) Serverless
8 3 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.04%) Google App Engine
8 3 (2.04%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.36%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.36%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.36%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.68%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (0.68%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (0.68%) dbt
10 1 (0.68%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.36%) DHCP
1 2 (1.36%) DNS
1 2 (1.36%) LAN
1 2 (1.36%) NAS
1 2 (1.36%) SAN
1 2 (1.36%) SNMP
1 2 (1.36%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.36%) WAN
2 1 (0.68%) HTTP
2 1 (0.68%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.68%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (15.65%) Relational Database
2 8 (5.44%) ClickHouse
3 6 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.40%) Hadoop
5 4 (2.72%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.72%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.04%) Big Data
6 3 (2.04%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.36%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.36%) KDB
7 2 (1.36%) OLAP
7 2 (1.36%) OLTP
8 1 (0.68%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.68%) DB2
8 1 (0.68%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.68%) Kdb+
8 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.68%) MySQL
8 1 (0.68%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (2.04%) Git
1 3 (2.04%) JUnit
2 2 (1.36%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.36%) JMeter
2 2 (1.36%) Selenium
2 2 (1.36%) SonarQube
2 2 (1.36%) TeamCity
2 2 (1.36%) WebDriver
3 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.68%) GitLab
3 1 (0.68%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (0.68%) MLflow
General
1 46 (31.29%) Social Skills
2 35 (23.81%) Finance
3 26 (17.69%) Front Office
4 22 (14.97%) Banking
5 15 (10.20%) Billing
6 10 (6.80%) Financial Institution
7 7 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (4.08%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.04%) Advertising
10 1 (0.68%) French Language
10 1 (0.68%) Law
10 1 (0.68%) Marketing
10 1 (0.68%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.68%) Retail
10 1 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 71 (48.30%) Developer
2 39 (26.53%) Senior
3 19 (12.93%) Lead
4 18 (12.24%) Java Engineer
5 16 (10.88%) Senior Developer
6 14 (9.52%) Java Developer
7 12 (8.16%) Senior Java Engineer
8 10 (6.80%) Software Engineer
9 8 (5.44%) Architect
10 5 (3.40%) Development Team Leader
10 5 (3.40%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 5 (3.40%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
10 5 (3.40%) Front Office Developer
10 5 (3.40%) Java Architect
10 5 (3.40%) Team Leader
11 4 (2.72%) Java Applications Architect
11 4 (2.72%) Java Development Team Leader
11 4 (2.72%) Principal Developer
11 4 (2.72%) Web Applications Architect
11 4 (2.72%) Web Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (15.65%) .NET
2 22 (14.97%) Kafka
3 19 (12.93%) React
4 18 (12.24%) Spring
5 17 (11.56%) RESTful
6 14 (9.52%) Spring Boot
7 8 (5.44%) Java Concurrency
8 7 (4.76%) Node.js
9 6 (4.08%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (2.72%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (2.04%) LDAP
12 2 (1.36%) Apache Thrift
12 2 (1.36%) Elastic Stack
12 2 (1.36%) HTML
12 2 (1.36%) JSON
12 2 (1.36%) Middleware
12 2 (1.36%) REST
12 2 (1.36%) Vue
13 1 (0.68%) GraphQL
13 1 (0.68%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 39 (26.53%) Onboarding
2 33 (22.45%) Cloud Native
3 18 (12.24%) Algorithms
4 15 (10.20%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (10.20%) Equities
5 14 (9.52%) Derivative
6 9 (6.12%) Market Risk
7 8 (5.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (3.40%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.72%) Credit Risk
9 4 (2.72%) Public Cloud
10 3 (2.04%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.36%) Fixed Income
11 2 (1.36%) FPGA
11 2 (1.36%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.68%) Mainframe
12 1 (0.68%) PKI
12 1 (0.68%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.08%) Linux
2 2 (1.36%) CentOS
2 2 (1.36%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (35.37%) CI/CD
2 47 (31.97%) Agile
3 39 (26.53%) DevOps
3 39 (26.53%) Migration
4 38 (25.85%) Test Automation
5 34 (23.13%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (21.09%) Microservices
7 30 (20.41%) Low Latency
8 28 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
9 27 (18.37%) Scrum
10 26 (17.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (14.97%) Computer Science
12 21 (14.29%) Document Management
12 21 (14.29%) Error Analysis
12 21 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
13 19 (12.93%) Electronic Trading
14 18 (12.24%) Code Quality
15 17 (11.56%) Analytics
16 16 (10.88%) Collaborative Working
16 16 (10.88%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 64 (43.54%) Python
2 47 (31.97%) C#
3 29 (19.73%) SQL
4 12 (8.16%) Kotlin
5 11 (7.48%) C++
6 8 (5.44%) TypeScript
7 6 (4.08%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.72%) Go
9 3 (2.04%) Scala
10 2 (1.36%) Perl
10 2 (1.36%) Ruby
11 1 (0.68%) COBOL
11 1 (0.68%) Groovy
11 1 (0.68%) Korn
11 1 (0.68%) R
Qualifications
1 20 (13.61%) Degree
2 12 (8.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (6.80%) Master's Degree
4 7 (4.76%) Security Cleared
5 6 (4.08%) DV Cleared
5 6 (4.08%) PhD
6 4 (2.72%) CFA
6 4 (2.72%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (2.72%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.72%) PMP
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.68%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.04%) QA
2 2 (1.36%) GDPR
2 2 (1.36%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.36%) SLA
3 1 (0.68%) ITGC
System Software
1 11 (7.48%) Docker
2 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (16.33%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.44%) Terraform
3 5 (3.40%) Ansible
4 3 (2.04%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.36%) Puppet
5 2 (1.36%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (1.36%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 1 (0.68%) Argo
Vendors
1 36 (24.49%) Guidewire
2 4 (2.72%) Google
2 4 (2.72%) Murex
3 3 (2.04%) Databricks
3 3 (2.04%) Dell
3 3 (2.04%) FIS
3 3 (2.04%) Red Hat
3 3 (2.04%) ServiceNow
3 3 (2.04%) Solace
4 2 (1.36%) HP
4 2 (1.36%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.36%) Oracle
5 1 (0.68%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.68%) Foundry
5 1 (0.68%) Palantir
5 1 (0.68%) Pega