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 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 19 27
Rank change year-on-year -17 +8 -19
Permanent jobs citing Java 117 191 215
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.77% 11.11% 7.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.06% 26.60% 16.30%
Number of salaries quoted 100 165 174
10th Percentile £61,125 £57,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £70,938 £73,750 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -8.11%
75th Percentile £112,500 £120,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £140,000 £120,000
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -6.85%

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 686 718 1,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 22.09% 41.77% 46.10%
Number of salaries quoted 551 602 929
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 £76,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +5.26% -1.94%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,938 £97,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £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 17 September 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 (0.85%) Camunda
Applications
1 7 (5.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.71%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 45 (38.46%) AWS
2 23 (19.66%) Azure
3 19 (16.24%) GCP
4 5 (4.27%) GitHub
5 4 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.42%) Serverless
6 3 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (2.56%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.56%) Vertex AI
7 2 (1.71%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (1.71%) Azure AI
7 2 (1.71%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 2 (1.71%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (1.71%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (1.71%) Cloud Run
7 2 (1.71%) Datadog
7 2 (1.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.85%) Amazon Neptune
8 1 (0.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.56%) Network Security
2 2 (1.71%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.85%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.85%) Internet
3 1 (0.85%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.13%) Geospatial Data
1 6 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.42%) MongoDB
2 4 (3.42%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.56%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.71%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.71%) Cloud Spanner
5 1 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.85%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.85%) MySQL
5 1 (0.85%) Pinecone
5 1 (0.85%) Power BI
5 1 (0.85%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.85%) SQLPlus
5 1 (0.85%) Stardog
5 1 (0.85%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 11 (9.40%) Git
2 6 (5.13%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.13%) JUnit
2 6 (5.13%) Maven
2 6 (5.13%) Mockito
3 3 (2.56%) GitLab
3 3 (2.56%) Gradle
3 3 (2.56%) JIRA
3 3 (2.56%) Spock
4 2 (1.71%) Burp Suite
4 2 (1.71%) Snyk
5 1 (0.85%) JMeter
5 1 (0.85%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (0.85%) Postman
General
1 41 (35.04%) Finance
2 29 (24.79%) Social Skills
3 15 (12.82%) Banking
4 14 (11.97%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.84%) Front Office
6 4 (3.42%) Financial Institution
6 4 (3.42%) Prime Brokerage
7 3 (2.56%) Back Office
7 3 (2.56%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.56%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.71%) Advertising
9 1 (0.85%) Cantonese Language
9 1 (0.85%) Games
9 1 (0.85%) iGaming
9 1 (0.85%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.85%) Retail
9 1 (0.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (34.19%) Developer
2 26 (22.22%) Java Developer
3 21 (17.95%) Senior
4 20 (17.09%) Software Engineer
5 18 (15.38%) Java Engineer
6 10 (8.55%) Lead
7 9 (7.69%) Consultant
7 9 (7.69%) Java Consultant
7 9 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
8 8 (6.84%) Senior Developer
8 8 (6.84%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (5.98%) Development Consultant
9 7 (5.98%) Software Consultant
9 7 (5.98%) Software Development Consultant
9 7 (5.98%) Technical Consultant
10 6 (5.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 6 (5.13%) Python Engineer
11 5 (4.27%) AWS Software Engineer
11 5 (4.27%) Principal Java Engineer
11 5 (4.27%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (29.06%) Spring Boot
2 28 (23.93%) Spring
3 17 (14.53%) Terraform
4 10 (8.55%) Kafka
4 10 (8.55%) REST
5 9 (7.69%) .NET
5 9 (7.69%) React
6 8 (6.84%) FIX Protocol
7 6 (5.13%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (4.27%) LangChain
9 3 (2.56%) FIXML
9 3 (2.56%) FpML
9 3 (2.56%) OAuth
9 3 (2.56%) OpenID
10 2 (1.71%) AngularJS
10 2 (1.71%) JPA
10 2 (1.71%) Middleware
10 2 (1.71%) Node.js
10 2 (1.71%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (19.66%) Cloud Native
2 18 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.98%) Reinsurance
4 6 (5.13%) Onboarding
4 6 (5.13%) Virtual Team
5 5 (4.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.42%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.56%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.56%) Credit Risk
7 3 (2.56%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.56%) Equities
7 3 (2.56%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.56%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.71%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.71%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.71%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.71%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.85%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.11%) Linux
2 5 (4.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (38.46%) Software Engineering
2 36 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 34 (29.06%) Agile
4 33 (28.21%) DevOps
5 24 (20.51%) Microservices
6 23 (19.66%) Mentoring
7 22 (18.80%) AI
8 17 (14.53%) Containerisation
8 17 (14.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (12.82%) Computer Science
10 13 (11.11%) Decision-Making
10 13 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (11.11%) Roadmaps
11 12 (10.26%) Full-Stack Development
11 12 (10.26%) Migration
12 11 (9.40%) Code Quality
12 11 (9.40%) Low Latency
12 11 (9.40%) Mathematics
13 10 (8.55%) LLM
13 10 (8.55%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 47 (40.17%) Python
2 27 (23.08%) C#
3 18 (15.38%) SQL
4 16 (13.68%) C++
5 13 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 11 (9.40%) Bash
6 11 (9.40%) Rust
7 10 (8.55%) TypeScript
8 8 (6.84%) R
9 7 (5.98%) Go
9 7 (5.98%) Julia
9 7 (5.98%) MATLAB
10 6 (5.13%) VBA
11 5 (4.27%) PowerShell
12 4 (3.42%) C
12 4 (3.42%) Ruby
13 3 (2.56%) Objective-C
13 3 (2.56%) Perl
14 2 (1.71%) Groovy
14 2 (1.71%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 16 (13.68%) Degree
2 12 (10.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (5.98%) Security Cleared
4 5 (4.27%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.56%) CCSAM
5 3 (2.56%) CREST Certified
5 3 (2.56%) GPEN
5 3 (2.56%) GXPN
5 3 (2.56%) OSCE
5 3 (2.56%) OSCP
6 2 (1.71%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.85%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.55%) GDPR
2 3 (2.56%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (2.56%) QA
3 1 (0.85%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (13.68%) Docker
2 5 (4.27%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.85%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (20.51%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.84%) Ansible
3 7 (5.98%) Grafana
3 7 (5.98%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.85%) Puppet
4 1 (0.85%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (5.13%) Guidewire
1 6 (5.13%) Splunk
2 4 (3.42%) Google
2 4 (3.42%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.42%) OpenAI
2 4 (3.42%) Oracle
3 3 (2.56%) Solace
4 2 (1.71%) Checkmarx
4 2 (1.71%) JDA
4 2 (1.71%) Palantir
4 2 (1.71%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.71%) Veracode
5 1 (0.85%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.85%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.85%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.85%) Pega
5 1 (0.85%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.85%) Temenos
5 1 (0.85%) VMware