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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 24 18
Rank change year-on-year -21 -6 -8
Permanent jobs citing Java 142 185 322
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.43% 9.48% 10.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.69% 20.56% 21.93%
Number of salaries quoted 114 154 284
10th Percentile £61,250 £64,125 £65,000
25th Percentile £81,250 £74,063 £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 £105,938 £120,000 £110,625
90th Percentile £130,250 £149,625 £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 905 900 1,468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 21.83% 46.13% 46.89%
Number of salaries quoted 715 751 1,178
10th Percentile £51,250 £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% -2.52%
75th Percentile £100,000 £108,125 £97,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £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 9 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 (0.70%) Camunda
1 1 (0.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 50 (35.21%) AWS
2 21 (14.79%) Azure
3 18 (12.68%) GCP
4 5 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.82%) GitHub
5 4 (2.82%) Pulumi
6 3 (2.11%) Serverless
6 3 (2.11%) Vertex AI
7 2 (1.41%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.41%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.41%) Azure AI
7 2 (1.41%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 2 (1.41%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (1.41%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (1.41%) Cloud Run
7 2 (1.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.70%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.70%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.11%) Network Security
2 1 (0.70%) Broadband
2 1 (0.70%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.70%) Internet
2 1 (0.70%) LTE
2 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.34%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.23%) Geospatial Data
3 5 (3.52%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.82%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.11%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.41%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.41%) Cloud Spanner
6 2 (1.41%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.41%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.70%) MySQL
7 1 (0.70%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.70%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.70%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.70%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.70%) SQLPlus
7 1 (0.70%) Stardog
7 1 (0.70%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 8 (5.63%) Git
2 7 (4.93%) Gradle
3 6 (4.23%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.11%) JIRA
4 3 (2.11%) JUnit
4 3 (2.11%) Maven
4 3 (2.11%) Mockito
4 3 (2.11%) Spock
5 2 (1.41%) GitLab
6 1 (0.70%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.70%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.70%) JMeter
6 1 (0.70%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (0.70%) Postman
6 1 (0.70%) Selenium
General
1 43 (30.28%) Finance
2 29 (20.42%) Social Skills
3 18 (12.68%) Front Office
4 14 (9.86%) Banking
5 13 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (7.04%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.11%) Advertising
7 3 (2.11%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.41%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.41%) Retail
9 1 (0.70%) Cantonese Language
9 1 (0.70%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.70%) Law
9 1 (0.70%) Marketing
9 1 (0.70%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.70%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 50 (35.21%) Developer
2 32 (22.54%) Senior
3 31 (21.83%) Java Engineer
4 30 (21.13%) Software Engineer
5 29 (20.42%) Java Developer
6 16 (11.27%) Java Software Engineer
7 14 (9.86%) Senior Developer
8 11 (7.75%) Lead
8 11 (7.75%) Senior Software Engineer
9 10 (7.04%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (7.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 9 (6.34%) Consultant
10 9 (6.34%) Java Consultant
10 9 (6.34%) Senior Java Engineer
11 8 (5.63%) AWS Software Engineer
11 8 (5.63%) Senior Java Developer
12 7 (4.93%) Development Consultant
12 7 (4.93%) Software Consultant
12 7 (4.93%) Software Development Consultant
12 7 (4.93%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (23.94%) Spring Boot
2 30 (21.13%) Spring
3 15 (10.56%) Kafka
4 14 (9.86%) React
5 9 (6.34%) FIX Protocol
6 8 (5.63%) .NET
6 8 (5.63%) REST
7 6 (4.23%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (3.52%) Node.js
9 4 (2.82%) CSS
9 4 (2.82%) HTML
9 4 (2.82%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (2.11%) AngularJS
10 3 (2.11%) LangChain
10 3 (2.11%) Middleware
10 3 (2.11%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (2.11%) Web Services
11 2 (1.41%) FastAPI
11 2 (1.41%) LangGraph
11 2 (1.41%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 31 (21.83%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.56%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (10.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (4.93%) Reinsurance
4 6 (4.23%) Virtual Team
5 5 (3.52%) Fixed Income
5 5 (3.52%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.82%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.82%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.82%) Equities
6 4 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.82%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.82%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.11%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.11%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.41%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.70%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.45%) Linux
2 5 (3.52%) Windows
3 1 (0.70%) Unix
3 1 (0.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (35.21%) Software Engineering
2 36 (25.35%) DevOps
3 35 (24.65%) Agile
4 30 (21.13%) CI/CD
5 26 (18.31%) AI
6 24 (16.90%) Mentoring
7 22 (15.49%) Low Latency
7 22 (15.49%) Microservices
8 20 (14.08%) Computer Science
8 20 (14.08%) Roadmaps
9 18 (12.68%) Code Quality
10 17 (11.97%) Containerisation
10 17 (11.97%) Full-Stack Development
11 16 (11.27%) Mathematics
12 15 (10.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (9.86%) Decision-Making
14 13 (9.15%) Infrastructure as Code
15 12 (8.45%) Migration
16 11 (7.75%) Test Automation
16 11 (7.75%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 47 (33.10%) Python
2 26 (18.31%) C#
3 22 (15.49%) SQL
4 16 (11.27%) C++
5 12 (8.45%) Go
6 11 (7.75%) JavaScript
7 10 (7.04%) Bash
7 10 (7.04%) Rust
7 10 (7.04%) TypeScript
8 8 (5.63%) R
9 7 (4.93%) Julia
9 7 (4.93%) MATLAB
10 5 (3.52%) PowerShell
10 5 (3.52%) VBA
11 4 (2.82%) C
11 4 (2.82%) Ruby
12 3 (2.11%) Objective-C
12 3 (2.11%) Perl
13 2 (1.41%) Groovy
13 2 (1.41%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 21 (14.79%) Degree
2 16 (11.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.23%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.52%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.11%) CCSAM
5 3 (2.11%) CREST Certified
5 3 (2.11%) GPEN
5 3 (2.11%) GXPN
5 3 (2.11%) OSCE
5 3 (2.11%) OSCP
6 2 (1.41%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.70%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.04%) GDPR
2 3 (2.11%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (2.11%) QA
3 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.70%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (11.97%) Docker
2 4 (2.82%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (19.01%) Kubernetes
2 16 (11.27%) Terraform
3 8 (5.63%) Prometheus
4 7 (4.93%) Ansible
4 7 (4.93%) Grafana
5 1 (0.70%) Argo
5 1 (0.70%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 7 (4.93%) Solace
2 6 (4.23%) Guidewire
2 6 (4.23%) Splunk
3 5 (3.52%) Google
3 5 (3.52%) Oracle
4 4 (2.82%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.82%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.11%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.41%) JDA
6 2 (1.41%) Palantir
7 1 (0.70%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.70%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.70%) Pega
7 1 (0.70%) Temenos