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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 36 8
Rank change year-on-year +4 -28 +3
Permanent jobs citing Java 136 173 459
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 7.00% 6.33% 15.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.43% 13.48% 31.01%
Number of salaries quoted 117 135 425
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -
75th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £138,500 £137,500 £127,500
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £86,250 £92,500
% change year-on-year +15.94% -6.76% -

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 700 1,283 1,480
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 36.03% 46.98% 50.41%
Number of salaries quoted 583 949 1,362
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,400 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £60,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +1.27%
75th Percentile £105,000 £96,250 £102,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £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 14 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 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
Business Applications
1 2 (1.47%) Adaptiv
2 1 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 39 (28.68%) AWS
2 21 (15.44%) Azure
3 19 (13.97%) Datadog
4 14 (10.29%) GCP
5 11 (8.09%) SaaS
6 4 (2.94%) GitHub
7 3 (2.21%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.21%) Google App Engine
7 3 (2.21%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.47%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.47%) Serverless
9 1 (0.74%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.74%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.74%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.74%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.74%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (0.74%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (0.74%) Power Platform
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%) HTTP
2 1 (0.74%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.74%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.44%) Relational Database
2 7 (5.15%) ClickHouse
3 6 (4.41%) Hadoop
3 6 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.94%) Big Data
4 4 (2.94%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.21%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.47%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.47%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.47%) KDB
7 1 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.74%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.74%) DB2
7 1 (0.74%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.74%) MySQL
7 1 (0.74%) OLAP
7 1 (0.74%) OLTP
7 1 (0.74%) Power BI
7 1 (0.74%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 3 (2.21%) JUnit
1 3 (2.21%) Selenium
2 2 (1.47%) Git
2 2 (1.47%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.47%) JMeter
2 2 (1.47%) WebDriver
3 1 (0.74%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.74%) GitLab
3 1 (0.74%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (0.74%) MLflow
3 1 (0.74%) TeamCity
General
1 40 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 29 (21.32%) Finance
3 26 (19.12%) Front Office
4 20 (14.71%) Banking
5 14 (10.29%) Billing
6 9 (6.62%) Financial Institution
7 8 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (4.41%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.21%) Marketing
10 2 (1.47%) Advertising
11 1 (0.74%) French Language
11 1 (0.74%) Law
11 1 (0.74%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.74%) Retail
11 1 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 67 (49.26%) Developer
2 38 (27.94%) Senior
3 19 (13.97%) Java Engineer
3 19 (13.97%) Lead
4 17 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 14 (10.29%) Java Developer
6 12 (8.82%) Senior Java Engineer
7 9 (6.62%) Software Engineer
8 8 (5.88%) Architect
9 5 (3.68%) Development Team Leader
9 5 (3.68%) Java Architect
9 5 (3.68%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (3.68%) Team Leader
10 4 (2.94%) Applications Architect
10 4 (2.94%) Front Office Developer
10 4 (2.94%) Java Applications Architect
10 4 (2.94%) Java Team Leader
10 4 (2.94%) Principal Developer
10 4 (2.94%) Web Applications Architect
10 4 (2.94%) Web Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (14.71%) Kafka
2 19 (13.97%) .NET
3 15 (11.03%) React
3 15 (11.03%) Spring
4 14 (10.29%) RESTful
5 12 (8.82%) Spring Boot
6 8 (5.88%) Java Concurrency
7 6 (4.41%) FIX Protocol
8 5 (3.68%) Node.js
9 3 (2.21%) LDAP
9 3 (2.21%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.47%) Apache Thrift
10 2 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.47%) HTML
10 2 (1.47%) JSON
10 2 (1.47%) REST
10 2 (1.47%) Vue
11 1 (0.74%) Flutter
11 1 (0.74%) GraphQL
11 1 (0.74%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 35 (25.74%) Onboarding
2 28 (20.59%) Cloud Native
3 18 (13.24%) Algorithms
4 15 (11.03%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (10.29%) Derivative
5 14 (10.29%) Equities
6 8 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (5.15%) Market Risk
8 5 (3.68%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.94%) Credit Risk
9 4 (2.94%) Public Cloud
10 3 (2.21%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (1.47%) FPGA
11 2 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.47%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.74%) Fixed Income
12 1 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.74%) Mainframe
12 1 (0.74%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.68%) Linux
2 2 (1.47%) CentOS
2 2 (1.47%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (30.88%) CI/CD
2 38 (27.94%) Agile
3 35 (25.74%) DevOps
3 35 (25.74%) Test Automation
4 34 (25.00%) Migration
5 32 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (22.06%) Microservices
7 25 (18.38%) Low Latency
7 25 (18.38%) Stakeholder Management
8 24 (17.65%) Scrum
9 23 (16.91%) Computer Science
10 21 (15.44%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (13.97%) Document Management
11 19 (13.97%) Error Analysis
11 19 (13.97%) Requirements Gathering
12 18 (13.24%) Electronic Trading
13 17 (12.50%) Code Quality
13 17 (12.50%) Software Engineering
14 16 (11.76%) Collaborative Working
14 16 (11.76%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 58 (42.65%) Python
2 43 (31.62%) C#
3 26 (19.12%) SQL
4 12 (8.82%) Kotlin
5 10 (7.35%) C++
6 6 (4.41%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.68%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.94%) Go
8 4 (2.94%) Scala
9 2 (1.47%) Perl
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
Qualifications
1 20 (14.71%) Degree
2 13 (9.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (7.35%) Master's Degree
4 8 (5.88%) Security Cleared
5 7 (5.15%) DV Cleared
6 6 (4.41%) PhD
7 2 (1.47%) CFA
7 2 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.47%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.47%) PMP
8 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.74%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.21%) QA
2 1 (0.74%) GDPR
2 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.74%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (5.88%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (15.44%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.15%) Terraform
3 5 (3.68%) Ansible
4 3 (2.21%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.47%) Puppet
5 2 (1.47%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (1.47%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 1 (0.74%) Argo
Vendors
1 33 (24.26%) Guidewire
2 3 (2.21%) Databricks
2 3 (2.21%) Dell
2 3 (2.21%) Google
2 3 (2.21%) Red Hat
2 3 (2.21%) ServiceNow
3 2 (1.47%) FIS
3 2 (1.47%) HP
3 2 (1.47%) Murex
3 2 (1.47%) Oracle
3 2 (1.47%) Solace
4 1 (0.74%) ForgeRock
4 1 (0.74%) Foundry
4 1 (0.74%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.74%) Palantir
4 1 (0.74%) Pega