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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 18 27
Rank change year-on-year -24 +9 -17
Permanent jobs citing Java 97 181 212
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.67% 10.90% 7.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.08% 25.78% 16.08%
Number of salaries quoted 85 159 166
10th Percentile £60,500 £57,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £134,750 £132,500 £126,875
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £91,250 £85,000
% change year-on-year +9.59% +7.35% -5.56%

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 568 702 1,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 21.47% 42.29% 46.67%
Number of salaries quoted 467 594 915
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £56,250
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 £110,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £116,250 £132,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% -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 8 October 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 (1.03%) Camunda
Applications
1 7 (7.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.06%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.03%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 34 (35.05%) AWS
2 19 (19.59%) Azure
3 13 (13.40%) GCP
4 5 (5.15%) GitHub
5 4 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (4.12%) Serverless
6 3 (3.09%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (3.09%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (3.09%) Vertex AI
7 2 (2.06%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (2.06%) Azure AI
7 2 (2.06%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 2 (2.06%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (2.06%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (2.06%) Cloud Run
7 2 (2.06%) Datadog
7 2 (2.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.03%) Amazon Neptune
8 1 (1.03%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.06%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.03%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (1.03%) Internet
2 1 (1.03%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.19%) Geospatial Data
2 5 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.12%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.09%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.06%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.06%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.03%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.03%) Pinecone
6 1 (1.03%) Power BI
6 1 (1.03%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.03%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.03%) SQLPlus
6 1 (1.03%) Stardog
6 1 (1.03%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 9 (9.28%) Git
2 6 (6.19%) Jenkins
2 6 (6.19%) JUnit
2 6 (6.19%) Maven
2 6 (6.19%) Mockito
3 3 (3.09%) GitLab
3 3 (3.09%) Gradle
3 3 (3.09%) Spock
4 2 (2.06%) Burp Suite
4 2 (2.06%) JIRA
4 2 (2.06%) Snyk
5 1 (1.03%) JMeter
5 1 (1.03%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (1.03%) Postman
General
1 33 (34.02%) Finance
2 26 (26.80%) Social Skills
3 12 (12.37%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.25%) Banking
5 7 (7.22%) Front Office
6 4 (4.12%) Financial Institution
6 4 (4.12%) Prime Brokerage
7 3 (3.09%) Back Office
7 3 (3.09%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.06%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.03%) Advertising
9 1 (1.03%) Games
9 1 (1.03%) iGaming
9 1 (1.03%) Private Banking
9 1 (1.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (34.02%) Developer
2 23 (23.71%) Java Developer
3 16 (16.49%) Senior
4 14 (14.43%) Java Engineer
4 14 (14.43%) Software Engineer
5 8 (8.25%) Lead
6 6 (6.19%) Consultant
6 6 (6.19%) Development Consultant
6 6 (6.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 6 (6.19%) Java Consultant
6 6 (6.19%) Python Engineer
6 6 (6.19%) Senior Software Engineer
6 6 (6.19%) Software Consultant
6 6 (6.19%) Software Development Consultant
6 6 (6.19%) Technical Consultant
7 5 (5.15%) Java Software Engineer
7 5 (5.15%) Senior Developer
7 5 (5.15%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (5.15%) Technical Leader
8 4 (4.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (27.84%) Spring Boot
2 25 (25.77%) Spring
3 15 (15.46%) Terraform
4 10 (10.31%) REST
5 9 (9.28%) Kafka
6 8 (8.25%) FIX Protocol
6 8 (8.25%) React
7 6 (6.19%) .NET
7 6 (6.19%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (5.15%) LangChain
9 3 (3.09%) FIXML
9 3 (3.09%) FpML
9 3 (3.09%) OAuth
9 3 (3.09%) OpenID
10 2 (2.06%) FastAPI
10 2 (2.06%) Hibernate
10 2 (2.06%) JPA
10 2 (2.06%) LangGraph
10 2 (2.06%) Node.js
10 2 (2.06%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 20 (20.62%) Cloud Native
2 16 (16.49%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (7.22%) Reinsurance
4 6 (6.19%) Onboarding
5 5 (5.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (5.15%) Virtual Team
6 4 (4.12%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (3.09%) AI Agents
7 3 (3.09%) Credit Risk
7 3 (3.09%) Equities
8 2 (2.06%) Algorithms
8 2 (2.06%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.06%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (2.06%) Fixed Income
8 2 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.03%) Clustering
9 1 (1.03%) Linked Data
9 1 (1.03%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.03%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.03%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.28%) Linux
2 2 (2.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (39.18%) Software Engineering
2 31 (31.96%) CI/CD
2 31 (31.96%) DevOps
3 29 (29.90%) Agile
4 22 (22.68%) Microservices
5 21 (21.65%) AI
6 18 (18.56%) Mentoring
7 16 (16.49%) Containerisation
7 16 (16.49%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (14.43%) Computer Science
9 13 (13.40%) Decision-Making
10 12 (12.37%) Migration
11 11 (11.34%) Full-Stack Development
11 11 (11.34%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (11.34%) Mathematics
12 10 (10.31%) Code Quality
12 10 (10.31%) LLM
12 10 (10.31%) Low Latency
12 10 (10.31%) Multithreading
12 10 (10.31%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 42 (43.30%) Python
2 21 (21.65%) C#
3 15 (15.46%) SQL
4 12 (12.37%) C++
5 11 (11.34%) JavaScript
6 9 (9.28%) TypeScript
7 8 (8.25%) Bash
7 8 (8.25%) R
7 8 (8.25%) Rust
8 7 (7.22%) Julia
8 7 (7.22%) MATLAB
9 6 (6.19%) VBA
10 2 (2.06%) Go
10 2 (2.06%) Groovy
10 2 (2.06%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.03%) Apex Code
11 1 (1.03%) C
11 1 (1.03%) Ruby
11 1 (1.03%) SOQL
11 1 (1.03%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 12 (12.37%) Degree
2 11 (11.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (7.22%) Security Cleared
4 5 (5.15%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.06%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.03%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.31%) GDPR
2 3 (3.09%) QA
3 1 (1.03%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (16.49%) Docker
2 5 (5.15%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.03%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (21.65%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.25%) Ansible
3 7 (7.22%) Grafana
3 7 (7.22%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.03%) Puppet
4 1 (1.03%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (6.19%) Guidewire
1 6 (6.19%) Splunk
2 4 (4.12%) Google
2 4 (4.12%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.12%) OpenAI
3 3 (3.09%) Oracle
3 3 (3.09%) Solace
4 2 (2.06%) Checkmarx
4 2 (2.06%) Palantir
4 2 (2.06%) Veracode
5 1 (1.03%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.03%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.03%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.03%) JDA
5 1 (1.03%) Pega
5 1 (1.03%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.03%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.03%) VMware