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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 32 15
Rank change year-on-year -11 -17 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 129 141 411
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.80% 6.73% 12.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.15% 13.70% 27.02%
Number of salaries quoted 97 112 369
10th Percentile £67,500 £63,875 £63,500
25th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £98,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +5.95% -2.63%
75th Percentile £105,000 £120,625 £112,500
90th Percentile £118,300 £152,250 £123,000
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year - +8.11% -2.63%

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 981 1,029 1,521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 28.88% 49.12% 47.95%
Number of salaries quoted 756 865 1,317
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £66,188 £58,750 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
% 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 4 April 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 2 (1.55%) Apache
1 2 (1.55%) nginx
2 1 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.78%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 51 (39.53%) AWS
2 16 (12.40%) Azure
3 14 (10.85%) GCP
4 6 (4.65%) SaaS
5 4 (3.10%) Datadog
5 4 (3.10%) Pulumi
6 2 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.55%) GitHub
6 2 (1.55%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.78%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.78%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (0.78%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.78%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 1 (0.78%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.78%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (0.78%) dbt
7 1 (0.78%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.33%) Network Security
2 2 (1.55%) DHCP
2 2 (1.55%) DNS
2 2 (1.55%) LAN
2 2 (1.55%) NAS
2 2 (1.55%) SAN
2 2 (1.55%) SNMP
2 2 (1.55%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.55%) WAN
3 1 (0.78%) Broadband
3 1 (0.78%) HTTP
3 1 (0.78%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.65%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.10%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.55%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.55%) MySQL
4 2 (1.55%) Power BI
4 2 (1.55%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.78%) Big Data
5 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.78%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.78%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.78%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.78%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (4.65%) Gradle
2 3 (2.33%) JIRA
2 3 (2.33%) Selenium
3 2 (1.55%) Git
3 2 (1.55%) GitLab
4 1 (0.78%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.78%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.78%) Jaeger
4 1 (0.78%) MLflow
General
1 34 (26.36%) Finance
2 27 (20.93%) Front Office
3 18 (13.95%) Banking
4 15 (11.63%) Social Skills
5 10 (7.75%) Financial Institution
6 5 (3.88%) Marketing
7 4 (3.10%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.10%) Tech for Good
8 3 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.55%) Advertising
9 2 (1.55%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.55%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.78%) Billing
10 1 (0.78%) Cantonese Language
10 1 (0.78%) French Language
10 1 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.78%) Law
10 1 (0.78%) Retail
10 1 (0.78%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 46 (35.66%) Developer
2 40 (31.01%) Senior
3 38 (29.46%) Java Engineer
4 31 (24.03%) Software Engineer
5 27 (20.93%) Java Developer
6 21 (16.28%) Java Software Engineer
7 18 (13.95%) Senior Developer
8 13 (10.08%) Senior Java Engineer
9 12 (9.30%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (9.30%) Lead
10 11 (8.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 9 (6.98%) Senior Software Engineer
12 8 (6.20%) Front Office Developer
13 7 (5.43%) AWS Software Engineer
13 7 (5.43%) Senior Java Developer
14 6 (4.65%) DV Cleared Java Developer
14 6 (4.65%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
15 5 (3.88%) Senior Java Software Engineer
16 4 (3.10%) Java Architect
16 4 (3.10%) Web Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (17.83%) Spring
1 23 (17.83%) Spring Boot
2 13 (10.08%) Kafka
3 12 (9.30%) FIX Protocol
3 12 (9.30%) React
4 8 (6.20%) .NET
5 5 (3.88%) CSS
5 5 (3.88%) HTML
5 5 (3.88%) Node.js
6 4 (3.10%) Java Concurrency
6 4 (3.10%) REST
6 4 (3.10%) Vue
7 3 (2.33%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.33%) Web Services
8 2 (1.55%) LDAP
8 2 (1.55%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (1.55%) Playwright
8 2 (1.55%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.55%) RESTful
9 1 (0.78%) Phoenix
Miscellaneous
1 25 (19.38%) Cloud Native
2 19 (14.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (8.53%) Derivative
3 11 (8.53%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.88%) Equities
4 5 (3.88%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.10%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.10%) NHS
5 4 (3.10%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.33%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.33%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (2.33%) Fixed Income
6 3 (2.33%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.33%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.55%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.55%) FPGA
7 2 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.98%) Linux
2 4 (3.10%) Windows
3 2 (1.55%) CentOS
3 2 (1.55%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.78%) Unix
4 1 (0.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (34.88%) Software Engineering
2 25 (19.38%) CI/CD
3 24 (18.60%) Low Latency
4 23 (17.83%) DevOps
5 19 (14.73%) Test Automation
6 18 (13.95%) Mentoring
7 17 (13.18%) Full-Stack Development
8 16 (12.40%) Computer Science
8 16 (12.40%) Electronic Trading
8 16 (12.40%) Fintech
9 14 (10.85%) Agile
9 14 (10.85%) AI
9 14 (10.85%) Microservices
9 14 (10.85%) Roadmaps
10 13 (10.08%) Mathematics
11 12 (9.30%) Code Quality
11 12 (9.30%) Ultra-Low Latency
12 11 (8.53%) Market Making
13 9 (6.98%) Event-Driven
14 8 (6.20%) JVM Tuning
Programming Languages
1 31 (24.03%) Python
2 18 (13.95%) C#
3 14 (10.85%) SQL
4 10 (7.75%) Go
4 10 (7.75%) JavaScript
5 9 (6.98%) Kotlin
6 5 (3.88%) C++
6 5 (3.88%) Perl
7 4 (3.10%) Bash
7 4 (3.10%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.10%) Ruby
8 3 (2.33%) C
8 3 (2.33%) Objective-C
8 3 (2.33%) Rust
8 3 (2.33%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.78%) Cypher
9 1 (0.78%) Elm
9 1 (0.78%) Korn
9 1 (0.78%) Scala
9 1 (0.78%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (15.50%) Degree
2 14 (10.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (9.30%) Security Cleared
4 10 (7.75%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.33%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.33%) CCSAM
5 3 (2.33%) CREST Certified
5 3 (2.33%) GPEN
5 3 (2.33%) GXPN
5 3 (2.33%) OSCE
5 3 (2.33%) OSCP
6 2 (1.55%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.33%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (1.55%) QA
3 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.78%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (7.75%) Docker
2 1 (0.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (17.05%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.43%) Terraform
3 3 (2.33%) Ansible
4 2 (1.55%) Argo
4 2 (1.55%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.55%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (1.55%) Red Hat Spacewalk
5 1 (0.78%) Grafana
5 1 (0.78%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.78%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (4.65%) Solace
2 5 (3.88%) Guidewire
3 4 (3.10%) Oracle
4 3 (2.33%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.33%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.55%) Dell
5 2 (1.55%) HP
5 2 (1.55%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.78%) Databricks
6 1 (0.78%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.78%) Google
6 1 (0.78%) JDA
6 1 (0.78%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.78%) Splunk
6 1 (0.78%) Temenos