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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 25 18
Rank change year-on-year -20 -7 -8
Permanent jobs citing Java 141 171 340
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.29% 8.85% 10.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.73% 19.00% 22.59%
Number of salaries quoted 113 141 297
10th Percentile £61,500 £65,000 £65,000
25th Percentile £81,250 £75,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -4.26%
75th Percentile £105,000 £125,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £131,000 £150,000 £122,500
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £97,500 £87,500
% change year-on-year +2.56% +11.43% -5.41%

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 957 900 1,505
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 22.36% 46.56% 46.65%
Number of salaries quoted 750 755 1,203
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £79,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +1.27% +1.94%
75th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £130,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +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 June 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%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (2.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 50 (35.46%) AWS
2 17 (12.06%) GCP
3 16 (11.35%) Azure
4 4 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (2.84%) GitHub
4 4 (2.84%) Pulumi
5 2 (1.42%) Cloud Functions
5 2 (1.42%) Cloud Run
5 2 (1.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (1.42%) Serverless
5 2 (1.42%) Vertex AI
6 1 (0.71%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (0.71%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.71%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (0.71%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.71%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.71%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (0.71%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.13%) Network Security
2 1 (0.71%) Broadband
2 1 (0.71%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.71%) Internet
2 1 (0.71%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.09%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.26%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (2.84%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.84%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.13%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.42%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.42%) Cloud Spanner
5 2 (1.42%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.42%) Relational Database
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%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.71%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 7 (4.96%) Gradle
2 6 (4.26%) Git
3 5 (3.55%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.13%) JIRA
4 3 (2.13%) JUnit
4 3 (2.13%) Maven
4 3 (2.13%) Mockito
4 3 (2.13%) Spock
5 2 (1.42%) GitLab
5 2 (1.42%) Selenium
6 1 (0.71%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.71%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.71%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.71%) Katalon Studio
General
1 42 (29.79%) Finance
2 27 (19.15%) Social Skills
3 17 (12.06%) Front Office
4 13 (9.22%) Banking
5 12 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (7.09%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.84%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.42%) Advertising
8 2 (1.42%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.42%) Retail
8 2 (1.42%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.71%) Cantonese Language
9 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.71%) Law
9 1 (0.71%) Marketing
9 1 (0.71%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 53 (37.59%) Developer
2 33 (23.40%) Java Developer
2 33 (23.40%) Java Engineer
3 31 (21.99%) Senior
3 31 (21.99%) Software Engineer
4 17 (12.06%) Java Software Engineer
5 14 (9.93%) Senior Developer
6 12 (8.51%) AWS Engineer
6 12 (8.51%) Lead
7 11 (7.80%) Senior Software Engineer
8 10 (7.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 9 (6.38%) Consultant
9 9 (6.38%) Java Consultant
10 8 (5.67%) AWS Software Engineer
10 8 (5.67%) Senior Java Developer
10 8 (5.67%) Senior Java Engineer
11 7 (4.96%) Development Consultant
11 7 (4.96%) Software Consultant
11 7 (4.96%) Software Development Consultant
11 7 (4.96%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (21.99%) Spring Boot
2 27 (19.15%) Spring
3 12 (8.51%) Kafka
4 11 (7.80%) React
5 9 (6.38%) FIX Protocol
6 7 (4.96%) .NET
7 5 (3.55%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (3.55%) REST
8 4 (2.84%) CSS
8 4 (2.84%) HTML
8 4 (2.84%) Node.js
9 3 (2.13%) Middleware
9 3 (2.13%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (2.13%) Web Services
10 2 (1.42%) AngularJS
10 2 (1.42%) Vue
11 1 (0.71%) Ember.js
11 1 (0.71%) SailPoint
11 1 (0.71%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 28 (19.86%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (8.51%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.96%) Reinsurance
5 6 (4.26%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.84%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.84%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.84%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.84%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.84%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.13%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.13%) Equities
7 3 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.13%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.42%) NHS
9 1 (0.71%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.71%) Clustering
9 1 (0.71%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.80%) Linux
2 4 (2.84%) Windows
3 1 (0.71%) Unix
3 1 (0.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (36.88%) Software Engineering
2 36 (25.53%) DevOps
3 29 (20.57%) Agile
4 24 (17.02%) CI/CD
4 24 (17.02%) Mentoring
5 22 (15.60%) Low Latency
6 20 (14.18%) AI
7 19 (13.48%) Computer Science
7 19 (13.48%) Roadmaps
8 18 (12.77%) Code Quality
8 18 (12.77%) Full-Stack Development
8 18 (12.77%) Microservices
9 16 (11.35%) Mathematics
10 15 (10.64%) Containerisation
11 13 (9.22%) Decision-Making
12 12 (8.51%) Fintech
13 11 (7.80%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (7.80%) Electronic Trading
13 11 (7.80%) Infrastructure as Code
13 11 (7.80%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 40 (28.37%) Python
2 24 (17.02%) C#
3 21 (14.89%) SQL
4 16 (11.35%) C++
5 12 (8.51%) Go
6 10 (7.09%) JavaScript
7 9 (6.38%) Rust
8 8 (5.67%) Bash
8 8 (5.67%) R
8 8 (5.67%) TypeScript
9 7 (4.96%) Julia
9 7 (4.96%) MATLAB
10 4 (2.84%) C
10 4 (2.84%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.84%) Ruby
10 4 (2.84%) VBA
11 3 (2.13%) Objective-C
11 3 (2.13%) Perl
12 2 (1.42%) Groovy
12 2 (1.42%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 20 (14.18%) Degree
2 15 (10.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (7.80%) Security Cleared
4 6 (4.26%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.55%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.13%) CCSAM
6 3 (2.13%) CREST Certified
6 3 (2.13%) GPEN
6 3 (2.13%) GXPN
6 3 (2.13%) OSCE
6 3 (2.13%) OSCP
7 2 (1.42%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.38%) GDPR
2 3 (2.13%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (2.13%) QA
3 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.71%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (10.64%) Docker
2 3 (2.13%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (17.02%) Kubernetes
2 13 (9.22%) Terraform
3 7 (4.96%) Prometheus
4 6 (4.26%) Grafana
5 5 (3.55%) Ansible
6 1 (0.71%) Argo
6 1 (0.71%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 7 (4.96%) Solace
2 5 (3.55%) Guidewire
2 5 (3.55%) Splunk
3 4 (2.84%) Google
3 4 (2.84%) Oracle
4 3 (2.13%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.42%) JDA
5 2 (1.42%) Palantir
6 1 (0.71%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.71%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.71%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.71%) Pega
6 1 (0.71%) Temenos