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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 38 10
Rank change year-on-year +7 -28 +1
Permanent jobs citing Java 136 162 436
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 6.10% 6.09% 15.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.75% 13.00% 30.62%
Number of salaries quoted 115 124 402
10th Percentile £58,000 £56,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -2.63%
75th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £135,500 £137,500 £125,000
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £90,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -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 766 1,246 1,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 34.33% 46.82% 50.60%
Number of salaries quoted 626 911 1,303
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,500 £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 £100,000 £96,625 £102,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £120,000 £115,000
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 9 January 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 4 (2.94%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.47%) Apache
3 2 (1.47%) Luigi
3 2 (1.47%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.47%) Adaptiv
Cloud Services
1 39 (28.68%) AWS
2 16 (11.76%) Azure
2 16 (11.76%) Datadog
3 11 (8.09%) GCP
4 10 (7.35%) SaaS
5 3 (2.21%) Snowflake
6 2 (1.47%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (1.47%) GitHub
6 2 (1.47%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.47%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.74%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.74%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.74%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.74%) dbt
7 1 (0.74%) Google App Engine
7 1 (0.74%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.47%) DHCP
1 2 (1.47%) DNS
1 2 (1.47%) LAN
1 2 (1.47%) NAS
1 2 (1.47%) SAN
1 2 (1.47%) SNMP
1 2 (1.47%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.47%) WAN
2 1 (0.74%) HTTP
2 1 (0.74%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.74%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.24%) Relational Database
2 9 (6.62%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.68%) ClickHouse
3 5 (3.68%) Hadoop
4 4 (2.94%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.21%) Big Data
6 2 (1.47%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.47%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.47%) KDB
6 2 (1.47%) Power BI
7 1 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.74%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.74%) DB2
7 1 (0.74%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.74%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.74%) MySQL
7 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.74%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 3 (2.21%) Selenium
2 1 (0.74%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.74%) Git
2 1 (0.74%) GitLab
2 1 (0.74%) Gradle
2 1 (0.74%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.74%) JMeter
2 1 (0.74%) JUnit
2 1 (0.74%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (0.74%) MLflow
2 1 (0.74%) WebDriver
General
1 32 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 27 (19.85%) Finance
2 27 (19.85%) Front Office
3 16 (11.76%) Banking
4 11 (8.09%) Billing
5 8 (5.88%) Financial Institution
6 6 (4.41%) Investment Banking
7 5 (3.68%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.94%) Marketing
9 3 (2.21%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.47%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.74%) French Language
11 1 (0.74%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.74%) Law
11 1 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 64 (47.06%) Developer
2 38 (27.94%) Senior
3 27 (19.85%) Java Engineer
4 19 (13.97%) Java Developer
5 17 (12.50%) Senior Developer
6 15 (11.03%) Lead
7 14 (10.29%) Software Engineer
8 13 (9.56%) Senior Java Engineer
9 11 (8.09%) Java Software Engineer
10 7 (5.15%) Architect
11 6 (4.41%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (4.41%) DV Cleared Java Developer
12 5 (3.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 4 (2.94%) Applications Architect
13 4 (2.94%) Data Engineer
13 4 (2.94%) Java Applications Architect
13 4 (2.94%) Java Architect
13 4 (2.94%) Web Applications Architect
13 4 (2.94%) Web Architect
14 3 (2.21%) Senior Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (13.97%) Kafka
2 14 (10.29%) .NET
3 13 (9.56%) Spring
4 11 (8.09%) RESTful
4 11 (8.09%) Spring Boot
5 9 (6.62%) Java Concurrency
5 9 (6.62%) React
6 8 (5.88%) FIX Protocol
7 4 (2.94%) Node.js
8 3 (2.21%) LDAP
9 2 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (1.47%) HTML
9 2 (1.47%) Playwright
9 2 (1.47%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (1.47%) Vue
10 1 (0.74%) Apache Thrift
10 1 (0.74%) Flutter
10 1 (0.74%) GraphQL
10 1 (0.74%) PyTorch
10 1 (0.74%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 27 (19.85%) Onboarding
2 22 (16.18%) Cloud Native
3 18 (13.24%) Algorithms
4 15 (11.03%) Derivative
4 15 (11.03%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (10.29%) Equities
6 10 (7.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (3.68%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.68%) Market Risk
8 4 (2.94%) Credit Risk
8 4 (2.94%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (2.21%) NHS
10 2 (1.47%) FPGA
11 1 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.74%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.74%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.74%) PKI
11 1 (0.74%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.74%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.68%) Linux
2 2 (1.47%) CentOS
2 2 (1.47%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 33 (24.26%) Test Automation
3 32 (23.53%) DevOps
4 28 (20.59%) Migration
4 28 (20.59%) Software Engineering
5 24 (17.65%) Low Latency
5 24 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (16.91%) Agile
7 22 (16.18%) Microservices
8 21 (15.44%) Computer Science
9 20 (14.71%) Electronic Trading
10 19 (13.97%) Stakeholder Management
11 18 (13.24%) Mathematics
12 17 (12.50%) Analytics
12 17 (12.50%) Scrum
13 16 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (11.76%) Document Management
13 16 (11.76%) Error Analysis
13 16 (11.76%) Requirements Gathering
14 14 (10.29%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 53 (38.97%) Python
2 36 (26.47%) C#
3 23 (16.91%) SQL
4 12 (8.82%) Kotlin
5 8 (5.88%) C++
6 6 (4.41%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.94%) Scala
8 2 (1.47%) Go
8 2 (1.47%) Perl
8 2 (1.47%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.74%) COBOL
9 1 (0.74%) Groovy
9 1 (0.74%) Korn
9 1 (0.74%) R
9 1 (0.74%) Ruby
9 1 (0.74%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (13.97%) Degree
2 13 (9.56%) Security Cleared
3 11 (8.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (8.09%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.88%) Master's Degree
5 6 (4.41%) PhD
6 2 (1.47%) CFA
6 2 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.47%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.47%) PMP
6 2 (1.47%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.21%) QA
System Software
1 5 (3.68%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (13.24%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.68%) Ansible
3 3 (2.21%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.47%) Puppet
4 2 (1.47%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (1.47%) Red Hat Spacewalk
4 2 (1.47%) Terraform
5 1 (0.74%) Argo
Vendors
1 27 (19.85%) Guidewire
2 4 (2.94%) Databricks
3 3 (2.21%) Dell
3 3 (2.21%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.47%) FIS
4 2 (1.47%) Google
4 2 (1.47%) HP
4 2 (1.47%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.47%) Murex
4 2 (1.47%) Oracle
5 1 (0.74%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.74%) Foundry
5 1 (0.74%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.74%) Palantir
5 1 (0.74%) Pega
5 1 (0.74%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.74%) Solace