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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 41 8
Rank change year-on-year +12 -33 +3
Permanent jobs citing Java 139 170 457
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 6.67% 6.25% 15.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.99% 13.28% 31.39%
Number of salaries quoted 117 131 423
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £71,875 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -
75th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £134,500 £137,500 £127,000
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £90,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -

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 732 1,280 1,456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 35.12% 47.02% 50.82%
Number of salaries quoted 596 946 1,338
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £102,500 £97,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £123,750 £120,000 £116,250
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -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 28 December 2025.

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 4 (2.88%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.44%) Apache
3 2 (1.44%) Luigi
3 2 (1.44%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.44%) Adaptiv
2 1 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 39 (28.06%) AWS
2 20 (14.39%) Azure
3 17 (12.23%) Datadog
4 13 (9.35%) GCP
5 11 (7.91%) SaaS
6 3 (2.16%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.44%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (1.44%) GitHub
7 2 (1.44%) Google App Engine
7 2 (1.44%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.44%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.44%) Serverless
8 1 (0.72%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.72%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.72%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.72%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.72%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.72%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.72%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.44%) DHCP
1 2 (1.44%) DNS
1 2 (1.44%) LAN
1 2 (1.44%) NAS
1 2 (1.44%) SAN
1 2 (1.44%) SNMP
1 2 (1.44%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.44%) WAN
2 1 (0.72%) HTTP
2 1 (0.72%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.72%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.67%) Relational Database
2 8 (5.76%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (4.32%) ClickHouse
3 6 (4.32%) Hadoop
4 4 (2.88%) Big Data
4 4 (2.88%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.16%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.44%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.44%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.44%) KDB
6 2 (1.44%) Power BI
7 1 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.72%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.72%) DB2
7 1 (0.72%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.72%) MySQL
7 1 (0.72%) OLAP
7 1 (0.72%) OLTP
7 1 (0.72%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 3 (2.16%) JUnit
1 3 (2.16%) Selenium
2 2 (1.44%) Git
2 2 (1.44%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.44%) JMeter
2 2 (1.44%) WebDriver
3 1 (0.72%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.72%) GitLab
3 1 (0.72%) Gradle
3 1 (0.72%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (0.72%) MLflow
3 1 (0.72%) TeamCity
General
1 36 (25.90%) Social Skills
2 29 (20.86%) Finance
3 27 (19.42%) Front Office
4 19 (13.67%) Banking
5 12 (8.63%) Billing
6 9 (6.47%) Financial Institution
7 6 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.32%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.88%) Marketing
9 2 (1.44%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.44%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.72%) French Language
10 1 (0.72%) Law
10 1 (0.72%) Retail
10 1 (0.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (44.60%) Developer
2 39 (28.06%) Senior
3 27 (19.42%) Java Engineer
4 18 (12.95%) Lead
5 17 (12.23%) Senior Developer
6 16 (11.51%) Software Engineer
7 14 (10.07%) Java Developer
8 13 (9.35%) Senior Java Engineer
9 12 (8.63%) Java Software Engineer
10 7 (5.04%) Architect
11 6 (4.32%) AWS Engineer
12 4 (2.88%) Applications Architect
12 4 (2.88%) Data Engineer
12 4 (2.88%) Development Team Leader
12 4 (2.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 4 (2.88%) Java Applications Architect
12 4 (2.88%) Java Architect
12 4 (2.88%) Team Leader
12 4 (2.88%) Web Applications Architect
12 4 (2.88%) Web Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (15.11%) Kafka
2 17 (12.23%) .NET
3 15 (10.79%) Spring
4 13 (9.35%) React
5 12 (8.63%) RESTful
5 12 (8.63%) Spring Boot
6 9 (6.47%) Java Concurrency
7 8 (5.76%) FIX Protocol
8 5 (3.60%) Node.js
9 3 (2.16%) LDAP
9 3 (2.16%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.44%) Apache Thrift
10 2 (1.44%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.44%) HTML
10 2 (1.44%) JSON
10 2 (1.44%) REST
10 2 (1.44%) Vue
11 1 (0.72%) Flutter
11 1 (0.72%) GraphQL
11 1 (0.72%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 30 (21.58%) Onboarding
2 25 (17.99%) Cloud Native
3 18 (12.95%) Algorithms
4 15 (10.79%) Derivative
4 15 (10.79%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (10.07%) Equities
6 10 (7.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (4.32%) Market Risk
8 5 (3.60%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.88%) Credit Risk
9 4 (2.88%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.44%) FPGA
10 2 (1.44%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.44%) NHS
10 2 (1.44%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.72%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.72%) PKI
11 1 (0.72%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.60%) Linux
2 2 (1.44%) CentOS
2 2 (1.44%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (27.34%) CI/CD
2 35 (25.18%) Test Automation
3 34 (24.46%) DevOps
4 30 (21.58%) Agile
4 30 (21.58%) Migration
5 28 (20.14%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (18.71%) Microservices
7 25 (17.99%) Low Latency
7 25 (17.99%) Software Engineering
8 22 (15.83%) Computer Science
8 22 (15.83%) Stakeholder Management
9 20 (14.39%) Electronic Trading
10 19 (13.67%) Scrum
11 18 (12.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (12.95%) Mathematics
12 17 (12.23%) Analytics
12 17 (12.23%) Document Management
12 17 (12.23%) Error Analysis
12 17 (12.23%) Requirements Gathering
13 16 (11.51%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 56 (40.29%) Python
2 39 (28.06%) C#
3 25 (17.99%) SQL
4 12 (8.63%) Kotlin
5 9 (6.47%) C++
6 6 (4.32%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.88%) Scala
7 4 (2.88%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.44%) Go
8 2 (1.44%) Perl
9 1 (0.72%) COBOL
9 1 (0.72%) Groovy
9 1 (0.72%) Korn
9 1 (0.72%) R
9 1 (0.72%) Ruby
9 1 (0.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (14.39%) Degree
2 12 (8.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (7.19%) Security Cleared
4 9 (6.47%) Master's Degree
5 8 (5.76%) DV Cleared
6 6 (4.32%) PhD
7 2 (1.44%) CFA
7 2 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.44%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.44%) PMP
7 2 (1.44%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.16%) QA
2 1 (0.72%) GDPR
2 1 (0.72%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.72%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (4.32%) Docker
2 1 (0.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (13.67%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.60%) Ansible
3 4 (2.88%) Terraform
4 3 (2.16%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.44%) Puppet
5 2 (1.44%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (1.44%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 1 (0.72%) Argo
Vendors
1 29 (20.86%) Guidewire
2 4 (2.88%) Databricks
3 3 (2.16%) Dell
3 3 (2.16%) Google
3 3 (2.16%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.16%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.44%) FIS
4 2 (1.44%) HP
4 2 (1.44%) Murex
4 2 (1.44%) Oracle
4 2 (1.44%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.72%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.72%) Foundry
5 1 (0.72%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.72%) Palantir
5 1 (0.72%) Pega
5 1 (0.72%) Solace