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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 22 27
Rank change year-on-year -19 +5 -18
Permanent jobs citing Java 95 174 215
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.76% 10.72% 7.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.03% 25.63% 16.21%
Number of salaries quoted 85 157 168
10th Percentile £60,500 £57,500 £60,875
25th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £65,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -8.11%
75th Percentile £116,250 £115,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £134,750 £132,500 £126,625
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £93,750 £85,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +10.29% -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 558 679 1,326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 22.11% 41.84% 46.97%
Number of salaries quoted 462 576 925
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,600
25th Percentile £67,813 £61,250 £56,250
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 £110,313 £97,500
90th Percentile £116,250 £132,500 £118,750
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 15 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 (1.05%) Camunda
Applications
1 7 (7.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.11%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.05%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 32 (33.68%) AWS
2 18 (18.95%) Azure
3 12 (12.63%) GCP
4 5 (5.26%) GitHub
5 4 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.16%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (3.16%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (3.16%) Serverless
6 3 (3.16%) Vertex AI
7 2 (2.11%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (2.11%) Azure AI
7 2 (2.11%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 2 (2.11%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (2.11%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (2.11%) Cloud Run
7 2 (2.11%) Datadog
7 2 (2.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.05%) Amazon Neptune
8 1 (1.05%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.05%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (1.05%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.32%) Geospatial Data
2 5 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.21%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.16%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.11%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.11%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.05%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.05%) Pinecone
6 1 (1.05%) Power BI
6 1 (1.05%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.05%) SQLPlus
6 1 (1.05%) Stardog
6 1 (1.05%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 8 (8.42%) Git
2 6 (6.32%) JUnit
2 6 (6.32%) Maven
2 6 (6.32%) Mockito
3 5 (5.26%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.16%) GitLab
4 3 (3.16%) Gradle
4 3 (3.16%) Spock
5 2 (2.11%) Burp Suite
5 2 (2.11%) JIRA
5 2 (2.11%) Snyk
6 1 (1.05%) JMeter
6 1 (1.05%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (1.05%) Postman
General
1 34 (35.79%) Finance
2 26 (27.37%) Social Skills
3 12 (12.63%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.42%) Banking
5 7 (7.37%) Front Office
6 4 (4.21%) Financial Institution
6 4 (4.21%) Prime Brokerage
7 3 (3.16%) Back Office
7 3 (3.16%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.11%) Advertising
8 2 (2.11%) iGaming
8 2 (2.11%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.05%) Games
9 1 (1.05%) Private Banking
9 1 (1.05%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (33.68%) Developer
2 22 (23.16%) Java Developer
3 17 (17.89%) Senior
4 15 (15.79%) Software Engineer
5 14 (14.74%) Java Engineer
6 8 (8.42%) Lead
7 7 (7.37%) Python Engineer
7 7 (7.37%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (5.26%) Consultant
9 5 (5.26%) Development Consultant
9 5 (5.26%) Java Consultant
9 5 (5.26%) Senior Developer
9 5 (5.26%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (5.26%) Software Consultant
9 5 (5.26%) Software Development Consultant
9 5 (5.26%) Technical Consultant
9 5 (5.26%) Technical Leader
10 4 (4.21%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 4 (4.21%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (26.32%) Spring Boot
2 24 (25.26%) Spring
3 14 (14.74%) Terraform
4 11 (11.58%) REST
5 9 (9.47%) FIX Protocol
6 8 (8.42%) Kafka
6 8 (8.42%) React
7 6 (6.32%) .NET
7 6 (6.32%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (5.26%) LangChain
9 3 (3.16%) FIXML
9 3 (3.16%) FpML
9 3 (3.16%) OAuth
9 3 (3.16%) OpenID
10 2 (2.11%) Hibernate
10 2 (2.11%) JPA
10 2 (2.11%) LangGraph
10 2 (2.11%) Node.js
10 2 (2.11%) PyTorch
10 2 (2.11%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 20 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 16 (16.84%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (7.37%) Reinsurance
4 6 (6.32%) Onboarding
5 5 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (4.21%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (4.21%) Virtual Team
7 3 (3.16%) AI Agents
7 3 (3.16%) Credit Risk
7 3 (3.16%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (3.16%) Equities
8 2 (2.11%) Algorithms
8 2 (2.11%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.11%) Fixed Income
8 2 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.11%) Sports Betting
9 1 (1.05%) Clustering
9 1 (1.05%) Linked Data
9 1 (1.05%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.05%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.47%) Linux
2 2 (2.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 30 (31.58%) CI/CD
3 29 (30.53%) DevOps
4 27 (28.42%) Agile
5 21 (22.11%) AI
6 19 (20.00%) Microservices
7 16 (16.84%) Containerisation
7 16 (16.84%) Mentoring
8 15 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (14.74%) Computer Science
9 14 (14.74%) Decision-Making
10 12 (12.63%) Mathematics
10 12 (12.63%) Migration
11 11 (11.58%) Full-Stack Development
11 11 (11.58%) Low Latency
12 10 (10.53%) Code Quality
12 10 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
12 10 (10.53%) LLM
12 10 (10.53%) Multithreading
12 10 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 42 (44.21%) Python
2 20 (21.05%) C#
3 13 (13.68%) SQL
4 11 (11.58%) C++
5 9 (9.47%) JavaScript
6 8 (8.42%) Bash
6 8 (8.42%) R
6 8 (8.42%) Rust
6 8 (8.42%) TypeScript
7 7 (7.37%) Julia
7 7 (7.37%) MATLAB
8 6 (6.32%) VBA
9 2 (2.11%) Go
9 2 (2.11%) Groovy
9 2 (2.11%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.05%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.05%) C
10 1 (1.05%) Ruby
10 1 (1.05%) SOQL
10 1 (1.05%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 12 (12.63%) Degree
2 11 (11.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.32%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.21%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.11%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.05%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.53%) GDPR
2 3 (3.16%) QA
3 1 (1.05%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (16.84%) Docker
2 5 (5.26%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.05%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (21.05%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.42%) Ansible
3 7 (7.37%) Grafana
3 7 (7.37%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.05%) Puppet
4 1 (1.05%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (6.32%) Guidewire
1 6 (6.32%) Splunk
2 4 (4.21%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.21%) OpenAI
3 3 (3.16%) Google
3 3 (3.16%) Oracle
3 3 (3.16%) Solace
4 2 (2.11%) Checkmarx
4 2 (2.11%) Palantir
4 2 (2.11%) Veracode
5 1 (1.05%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.05%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.05%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.05%) JDA
5 1 (1.05%) Pega
5 1 (1.05%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.05%) VMware