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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 21 23
Rank change year-on-year -17 +2 -15
Permanent jobs citing Java 132 191 235
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.76% 10.54% 8.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.92% 24.15% 18.09%
Number of salaries quoted 108 160 200
10th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £70,938 £73,750 £69,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £87,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +2.94% -10.53%
75th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £140,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -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 780 791 1,299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 22.25% 43.65% 47.32%
Number of salaries quoted 621 652 986
10th Percentile £52,000 £52,275 £47,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £61,438 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +3.23% -3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £108,188 £97,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £132,375 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% -4.76%

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 20 August 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 (0.76%) Camunda
Applications
1 7 (5.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.52%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 48 (36.36%) AWS
2 22 (16.67%) Azure
3 20 (15.15%) GCP
4 4 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (3.03%) Serverless
5 3 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (2.27%) Amazon S3
5 3 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (2.27%) GitHub
5 3 (2.27%) Vertex AI
6 2 (1.52%) Azure AI
6 2 (1.52%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 2 (1.52%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (1.52%) Cloud Functions
6 2 (1.52%) Cloud Run
6 2 (1.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (0.76%) Amazon Neptune
7 1 (0.76%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.27%) Network Security
2 2 (1.52%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.76%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.76%) Internet
3 1 (0.76%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.55%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (3.03%) MongoDB
3 4 (3.03%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.27%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.52%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.52%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.76%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.76%) MySQL
6 1 (0.76%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.76%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.76%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.76%) Power BI
6 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.76%) SQLPlus
6 1 (0.76%) Stardog
6 1 (0.76%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 10 (7.58%) Git
2 6 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.79%) JUnit
3 5 (3.79%) Maven
3 5 (3.79%) Mockito
4 4 (3.03%) Gradle
5 3 (2.27%) Spock
6 1 (0.76%) GitLab
6 1 (0.76%) JIRA
6 1 (0.76%) JMeter
6 1 (0.76%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (0.76%) Postman
6 1 (0.76%) Selenium
General
1 43 (32.58%) Finance
2 30 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 19 (14.39%) Banking
4 14 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (9.85%) Front Office
6 7 (5.30%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.03%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.27%) Prime Brokerage
8 3 (2.27%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.52%) Advertising
9 2 (1.52%) Back Office
10 1 (0.76%) Cantonese Language
10 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Marketing
10 1 (0.76%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.76%) Retail
10 1 (0.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (34.09%) Developer
2 30 (22.73%) Senior
3 28 (21.21%) Java Developer
4 26 (19.70%) Java Engineer
4 26 (19.70%) Software Engineer
5 11 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 11 (8.33%) Java Software Engineer
5 11 (8.33%) Senior Developer
6 10 (7.58%) Lead
6 10 (7.58%) Senior Software Engineer
7 9 (6.82%) Consultant
7 9 (6.82%) Java Consultant
8 8 (6.06%) Python Engineer
8 8 (6.06%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
8 8 (6.06%) Senior Java Engineer
9 7 (5.30%) Development Consultant
9 7 (5.30%) Principal Engineer
9 7 (5.30%) Software Consultant
9 7 (5.30%) Software Development Consultant
9 7 (5.30%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (25.76%) Spring Boot
2 29 (21.97%) Spring
3 18 (13.64%) Terraform
4 12 (9.09%) React
5 10 (7.58%) .NET
5 10 (7.58%) Kafka
6 9 (6.82%) REST
7 7 (5.30%) FIX Protocol
8 6 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (3.79%) LangChain
10 3 (2.27%) Node.js
10 3 (2.27%) Pulumi
10 3 (2.27%) Web Services
11 2 (1.52%) AngularJS
11 2 (1.52%) CSS
11 2 (1.52%) FIXML
11 2 (1.52%) HTML
11 2 (1.52%) JPA
11 2 (1.52%) Middleware
11 2 (1.52%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 28 (21.21%) Cloud Native
2 19 (14.39%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (5.30%) Reinsurance
5 6 (4.55%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.55%) Virtual Team
6 4 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.03%) Fixed Income
6 4 (3.03%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.27%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.27%) Credit Risk
7 3 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.27%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.27%) Equities
7 3 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.27%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.27%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.52%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.76%) Linked Data
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.61%) Linux
2 6 (4.55%) Windows
3 1 (0.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (37.88%) Software Engineering
2 34 (25.76%) Agile
2 34 (25.76%) CI/CD
2 34 (25.76%) DevOps
3 25 (18.94%) Mentoring
4 24 (18.18%) AI
4 24 (18.18%) Microservices
5 17 (12.88%) Computer Science
5 17 (12.88%) Full-Stack Development
6 16 (12.12%) Containerisation
6 16 (12.12%) Low Latency
7 15 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (10.61%) Code Quality
8 14 (10.61%) Decision-Making
8 14 (10.61%) Roadmaps
9 13 (9.85%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (9.85%) Mathematics
10 12 (9.09%) Migration
10 12 (9.09%) Test Automation
11 10 (7.58%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 48 (36.36%) Python
2 28 (21.21%) C#
3 20 (15.15%) SQL
4 17 (12.88%) C++
5 11 (8.33%) Bash
5 11 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 11 (8.33%) Rust
5 11 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 10 (7.58%) Go
7 8 (6.06%) R
8 7 (5.30%) Julia
8 7 (5.30%) MATLAB
9 6 (4.55%) PowerShell
9 6 (4.55%) VBA
10 4 (3.03%) C
10 4 (3.03%) Ruby
11 3 (2.27%) Objective-C
11 3 (2.27%) Perl
12 2 (1.52%) Groovy
12 2 (1.52%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 17 (12.88%) Degree
2 13 (9.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (5.30%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.79%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.27%) CCSAM
5 3 (2.27%) CREST Certified
5 3 (2.27%) GPEN
5 3 (2.27%) GXPN
5 3 (2.27%) OSCE
5 3 (2.27%) OSCP
6 2 (1.52%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.58%) GDPR
2 3 (2.27%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (2.27%) QA
3 1 (0.76%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.76%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (10.61%) Docker
2 5 (3.79%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.76%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.76%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (18.94%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.06%) Ansible
3 7 (5.30%) Grafana
3 7 (5.30%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.76%) Puppet
4 1 (0.76%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (5.30%) Splunk
2 6 (4.55%) Guidewire
3 5 (3.79%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.79%) Oracle
4 4 (3.03%) Google
4 4 (3.03%) OpenAI
4 4 (3.03%) Solace
5 3 (2.27%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.52%) JDA
6 2 (1.52%) Palantir
7 1 (0.76%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.76%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.76%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.76%) Pega
7 1 (0.76%) Temenos
7 1 (0.76%) VMware