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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 24 18
Rank change year-on-year -21 -6 -8
Permanent jobs citing Java 145 179 325
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.37% 9.31% 10.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.43% 20.11% 21.96%
Number of salaries quoted 117 149 285
10th Percentile £61,250 £64,750 £65,000
25th Percentile £81,250 £73,750 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +2.86% -5.41%
75th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £128,000 £150,000 £122,500
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £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 940 890 1,480
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 21.88% 46.28% 46.79%
Number of salaries quoted 742 743 1,184
10th Percentile £51,775 £52,500 £47,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +3.23% -0.64%
75th Percentile £100,000 £108,125 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £130,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +10.00% -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 2 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 (0.69%) Camunda
1 1 (0.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 52 (35.86%) AWS
2 19 (13.10%) Azure
3 18 (12.41%) GCP
4 5 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.76%) GitHub
5 4 (2.76%) Pulumi
6 3 (2.07%) Vertex AI
7 2 (1.38%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (1.38%) Cloud Run
7 2 (1.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (1.38%) Serverless
8 1 (0.69%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.69%) Amazon Neptune
8 1 (0.69%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.69%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (0.69%) Azure AI
8 1 (0.69%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 1 (0.69%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (0.69%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.07%) Network Security
2 1 (0.69%) Broadband
2 1 (0.69%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.69%) Internet
2 1 (0.69%) LTE
2 1 (0.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.14%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (2.76%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.76%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.07%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.38%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.38%) Cloud Spanner
5 2 (1.38%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.38%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.69%) MySQL
6 1 (0.69%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.69%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.69%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.69%) SQLPlus
6 1 (0.69%) Stardog
6 1 (0.69%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 7 (4.83%) Git
1 7 (4.83%) Gradle
2 5 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.07%) JIRA
3 3 (2.07%) JUnit
3 3 (2.07%) Maven
3 3 (2.07%) Mockito
3 3 (2.07%) Spock
4 2 (1.38%) GitLab
5 1 (0.69%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.69%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.69%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.69%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (0.69%) Selenium
General
1 44 (30.34%) Finance
2 28 (19.31%) Social Skills
3 17 (11.72%) Front Office
4 14 (9.66%) Banking
5 12 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (6.90%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.07%) Advertising
7 3 (2.07%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.38%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.38%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.38%) Retail
8 2 (1.38%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.69%) Cantonese Language
9 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.69%) Law
9 1 (0.69%) Marketing
9 1 (0.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (37.24%) Developer
2 33 (22.76%) Java Developer
3 32 (22.07%) Java Engineer
4 31 (21.38%) Senior
4 31 (21.38%) Software Engineer
5 17 (11.72%) Java Software Engineer
6 14 (9.66%) Senior Developer
7 11 (7.59%) AWS Engineer
7 11 (7.59%) Lead
7 11 (7.59%) Senior Software Engineer
8 10 (6.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 9 (6.21%) Consultant
9 9 (6.21%) Java Consultant
10 8 (5.52%) AWS Software Engineer
10 8 (5.52%) Senior Java Developer
10 8 (5.52%) Senior Java Engineer
11 7 (4.83%) Development Consultant
11 7 (4.83%) Software Consultant
11 7 (4.83%) Software Development Consultant
11 7 (4.83%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (22.76%) Spring Boot
2 29 (20.00%) Spring
3 15 (10.34%) Kafka
4 13 (8.97%) React
5 9 (6.21%) FIX Protocol
6 8 (5.52%) .NET
6 8 (5.52%) REST
7 6 (4.14%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (2.76%) CSS
8 4 (2.76%) HTML
8 4 (2.76%) Node.js
8 4 (2.76%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (2.07%) Middleware
9 3 (2.07%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (2.07%) Web Services
10 2 (1.38%) AngularJS
10 2 (1.38%) Hibernate
10 2 (1.38%) JPA
10 2 (1.38%) Vue
11 1 (0.69%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 30 (20.69%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 14 (9.66%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.83%) Reinsurance
5 6 (4.14%) Virtual Team
6 5 (3.45%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.76%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.76%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.76%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.76%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.76%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.07%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.07%) Equities
8 3 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.07%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.38%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.38%) NHS
10 1 (0.69%) Clustering
10 1 (0.69%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.28%) Linux
2 4 (2.76%) Windows
3 1 (0.69%) Unix
3 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (37.93%) Software Engineering
2 38 (26.21%) DevOps
3 34 (23.45%) Agile
4 27 (18.62%) CI/CD
5 24 (16.55%) AI
5 24 (16.55%) Mentoring
6 22 (15.17%) Low Latency
7 21 (14.48%) Microservices
8 20 (13.79%) Computer Science
8 20 (13.79%) Roadmaps
9 19 (13.10%) Full-Stack Development
10 18 (12.41%) Code Quality
11 17 (11.72%) Containerisation
12 16 (11.03%) Mathematics
13 14 (9.66%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (9.66%) Decision-Making
14 12 (8.28%) Fintech
14 12 (8.28%) Infrastructure as Code
15 11 (7.59%) Migration
15 11 (7.59%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 44 (30.34%) Python
2 25 (17.24%) C#
3 22 (15.17%) SQL
4 16 (11.03%) C++
5 12 (8.28%) Go
6 11 (7.59%) JavaScript
7 10 (6.90%) Rust
8 9 (6.21%) Bash
8 9 (6.21%) TypeScript
9 8 (5.52%) R
10 7 (4.83%) Julia
10 7 (4.83%) MATLAB
11 5 (3.45%) VBA
12 4 (2.76%) C
12 4 (2.76%) PowerShell
12 4 (2.76%) Ruby
13 3 (2.07%) Objective-C
13 3 (2.07%) Perl
14 2 (1.38%) Groovy
14 2 (1.38%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 21 (14.48%) Degree
2 16 (11.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (6.21%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.45%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.76%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.07%) CCSAM
6 3 (2.07%) CREST Certified
6 3 (2.07%) GPEN
6 3 (2.07%) GXPN
6 3 (2.07%) OSCE
6 3 (2.07%) OSCP
7 2 (1.38%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.90%) GDPR
2 3 (2.07%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.38%) QA
4 1 (0.69%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.69%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (11.72%) Docker
2 4 (2.76%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (18.62%) Kubernetes
2 14 (9.66%) Terraform
3 8 (5.52%) Prometheus
4 7 (4.83%) Grafana
5 6 (4.14%) Ansible
6 1 (0.69%) Argo
6 1 (0.69%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 7 (4.83%) Solace
2 6 (4.14%) Guidewire
2 6 (4.14%) Splunk
3 5 (3.45%) Google
4 4 (2.76%) Oracle
5 3 (2.07%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.07%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.38%) JDA
6 2 (1.38%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.38%) Palantir
7 1 (0.69%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.69%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.69%) Pega
7 1 (0.69%) Temenos