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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 31 9
Rank change year-on-year +5 -22 +2
Permanent jobs citing Java 159 197 486
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 9.36% 7.11% 15.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.66% 15.37% 31.50%
Number of salaries quoted 142 149 445
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -8.11% -
75th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £139,750 £126,500 £130,000
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -

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 672 1,282 1,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 39.58% 46.26% 50.59%
Number of salaries quoted 553 914 1,410
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £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 £110,000 £97,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £132,500 £120,000 £118,250
Central London median annual salary £83,500 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +11.33% -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 18 November 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 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (1.89%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.26%) Luigi
2 2 (1.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.63%) Apache
3 1 (0.63%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.14%) Adaptiv
2 2 (1.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 45 (28.30%) AWS
2 26 (16.35%) Azure
3 22 (13.84%) Datadog
4 15 (9.43%) GCP
5 11 (6.92%) SaaS
6 8 (5.03%) GitHub
7 7 (4.40%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.14%) Serverless
9 4 (2.52%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.89%) Google App Engine
10 3 (1.89%) Snowflake
11 2 (1.26%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.26%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (1.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 1 (0.63%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.63%) AWS Step Functions
12 1 (0.63%) Azure Machine Learning
12 1 (0.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.63%) DHCP
1 1 (0.63%) DNS
1 1 (0.63%) HTTP
1 1 (0.63%) Kerberos
1 1 (0.63%) LAN
1 1 (0.63%) Multicast
1 1 (0.63%) NAS
1 1 (0.63%) SAN
1 1 (0.63%) SNMP
1 1 (0.63%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (15.09%) Relational Database
2 8 (5.03%) ClickHouse
3 6 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.14%) Big Data
4 5 (3.14%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.89%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.89%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.89%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.26%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.26%) KDB
6 2 (1.26%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.26%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.26%) OLAP
6 2 (1.26%) OLTP
7 1 (0.63%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.63%) DB2
7 1 (0.63%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.63%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (2.52%) SonarQube
2 3 (1.89%) Git
2 3 (1.89%) JUnit
2 3 (1.89%) Selenium
3 2 (1.26%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.26%) JMeter
3 2 (1.26%) TeamCity
3 2 (1.26%) WebDriver
4 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.63%) GitLab
4 1 (0.63%) JIRA
4 1 (0.63%) Katalon Studio
General
1 55 (34.59%) Social Skills
2 41 (25.79%) Finance
3 25 (15.72%) Banking
4 23 (14.47%) Front Office
5 17 (10.69%) Billing
6 10 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (6.29%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.14%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.89%) Advertising
9 1 (0.63%) French Language
9 1 (0.63%) Law
9 1 (0.63%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.63%) Retail
9 1 (0.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 71 (44.65%) Developer
2 36 (22.64%) Senior
3 18 (11.32%) Lead
4 17 (10.69%) Java Engineer
5 13 (8.18%) Senior Developer
6 12 (7.55%) Java Developer
7 11 (6.92%) Senior Java Engineer
8 10 (6.29%) Software Engineer
9 9 (5.66%) Architect
10 8 (5.03%) Head of IT
11 6 (3.77%) Analyst
11 6 (3.77%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 6 (3.77%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
12 5 (3.14%) Development Team Leader
12 5 (3.14%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (3.14%) Front Office Developer
12 5 (3.14%) Qualitative Analyst
12 5 (3.14%) Quantitative Analyst
12 5 (3.14%) Team Leader
13 4 (2.52%) Java Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (16.98%) .NET
2 24 (15.09%) Kafka
3 20 (12.58%) React
4 19 (11.95%) RESTful
5 16 (10.06%) Spring
6 14 (8.81%) Spring Boot
7 7 (4.40%) Java Concurrency
7 7 (4.40%) Node.js
8 5 (3.14%) FIX Protocol
8 5 (3.14%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (1.89%) HTML
9 3 (1.89%) JSON
9 3 (1.89%) REST
10 2 (1.26%) Apache Thrift
10 2 (1.26%) CSS
10 2 (1.26%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.26%) LDAP
10 2 (1.26%) Middleware
10 2 (1.26%) Quarkus
11 1 (0.63%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 42 (26.42%) Onboarding
2 35 (22.01%) Cloud Native
3 17 (10.69%) Algorithms
4 16 (10.06%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (8.81%) Equities
6 12 (7.55%) Derivative
7 11 (6.92%) Market Risk
8 7 (4.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (3.14%) Credit Risk
9 5 (3.14%) Data Structures
9 5 (3.14%) Public Cloud
10 4 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.89%) Fixed Income
12 2 (1.26%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (1.26%) Mobile App
12 2 (1.26%) Sports Betting
13 1 (0.63%) Distributed Computing
13 1 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
13 1 (0.63%) PKI
13 1 (0.63%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.14%) Linux
2 1 (0.63%) CentOS
2 1 (0.63%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (34.59%) Agile
2 53 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 46 (28.93%) Migration
4 42 (26.42%) DevOps
5 39 (24.53%) Test Automation
6 37 (23.27%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (21.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (20.75%) Microservices
9 29 (18.24%) Low Latency
9 29 (18.24%) Scrum
9 29 (18.24%) Stakeholder Management
10 26 (16.35%) Computer Science
11 22 (13.84%) Document Management
11 22 (13.84%) Error Analysis
11 22 (13.84%) Requirements Gathering
12 21 (13.21%) Analytics
13 20 (12.58%) Code Quality
13 20 (12.58%) Mathematics
14 19 (11.95%) Electronic Trading
15 18 (11.32%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 71 (44.65%) Python
2 57 (35.85%) C#
3 29 (18.24%) SQL
4 17 (10.69%) C++
5 13 (8.18%) Kotlin
6 8 (5.03%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.77%) JavaScript
8 5 (3.14%) Go
9 3 (1.89%) MATLAB
9 3 (1.89%) Scala
10 2 (1.26%) Ruby
11 1 (0.63%) COBOL
11 1 (0.63%) Groovy
11 1 (0.63%) Perl
11 1 (0.63%) R
Qualifications
1 24 (15.09%) Degree
2 15 (9.43%) Master's Degree
3 11 (6.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (5.03%) CFA
4 8 (5.03%) ITIL Certification
4 8 (5.03%) PMI Certification
4 8 (5.03%) PMP
5 6 (3.77%) PhD
5 6 (3.77%) Security Cleared
6 5 (3.14%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.52%) QA
2 2 (1.26%) GDPR
2 2 (1.26%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.26%) SLA
3 1 (0.63%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.63%) ITGC
System Software
1 9 (5.66%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (14.47%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.03%) Terraform
3 4 (2.52%) Ansible
4 3 (1.89%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.26%) Puppet
6 1 (0.63%) Argo
6 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 39 (24.53%) Guidewire
2 8 (5.03%) Murex
3 5 (3.14%) FIS
4 4 (2.52%) Google
4 4 (2.52%) Solace
5 3 (1.89%) Databricks
5 3 (1.89%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.89%) Oracle
5 3 (1.89%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.26%) Dell
6 2 (1.26%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.63%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.63%) Foundry
7 1 (0.63%) HP
7 1 (0.63%) Palantir
7 1 (0.63%) Pega