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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 42 10
Rank change year-on-year +5 -32 +2
Permanent jobs citing Java 134 154 465
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 5.14% 6.05% 14.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.55% 13.02% 29.71%
Number of salaries quoted 110 115 426
10th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £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 £112,188 £115,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £140,100 £137,500 £123,750
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 862 1,183 1,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 33.05% 46.50% 49.86%
Number of salaries quoted 690 871 1,429
10th Percentile £53,625 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £76,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.84% -5.00% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £119,800 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £77,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +10.39% -3.75% +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 February 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 (2.99%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.24%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.49%) Apache
3 2 (1.49%) Luigi
3 2 (1.49%) nginx
4 1 (0.75%) Confluence
4 1 (0.75%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.49%) Adaptiv
Cloud Services
1 43 (32.09%) AWS
2 13 (9.70%) Azure
2 13 (9.70%) Datadog
3 10 (7.46%) SaaS
4 9 (6.72%) GCP
5 3 (2.24%) Snowflake
6 2 (1.49%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.49%) GitHub
6 2 (1.49%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.49%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.49%) Serverless
7 1 (0.75%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.75%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (0.75%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.75%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.75%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.49%) DHCP
1 2 (1.49%) DNS
1 2 (1.49%) LAN
1 2 (1.49%) NAS
1 2 (1.49%) SAN
1 2 (1.49%) SNMP
1 2 (1.49%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.49%) WAN
2 1 (0.75%) Broadband
2 1 (0.75%) HTTP
2 1 (0.75%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.75%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.94%) Relational Database
2 11 (8.21%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.73%) Hadoop
3 5 (3.73%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.99%) ClickHouse
5 3 (2.24%) Big Data
5 3 (2.24%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.49%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.49%) KDB
6 2 (1.49%) Power BI
7 1 (0.75%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.75%) DB2
7 1 (0.75%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.75%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.75%) MySQL
7 1 (0.75%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.75%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 3 (2.24%) Gradle
1 3 (2.24%) Selenium
2 1 (0.75%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.75%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.75%) Git
2 1 (0.75%) GitLab
2 1 (0.75%) Jaeger
2 1 (0.75%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.75%) JIRA
2 1 (0.75%) JMeter
2 1 (0.75%) JUnit
2 1 (0.75%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (0.75%) MLflow
2 1 (0.75%) WebDriver
General
1 28 (20.90%) Front Office
2 27 (20.15%) Finance
2 27 (20.15%) Social Skills
3 17 (12.69%) Banking
4 7 (5.22%) Billing
4 7 (5.22%) Financial Institution
5 6 (4.48%) Investment Banking
6 4 (2.99%) Marketing
6 4 (2.99%) Tech for Good
7 3 (2.24%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.49%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.75%) French Language
9 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.75%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.75%) Retail
9 1 (0.75%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (42.54%) Developer
2 41 (30.60%) Senior
3 33 (24.63%) Java Engineer
4 21 (15.67%) Java Developer
5 19 (14.18%) Senior Developer
6 17 (12.69%) Software Engineer
7 14 (10.45%) Java Software Engineer
7 14 (10.45%) Senior Java Engineer
8 13 (9.70%) Lead
9 9 (6.72%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (5.22%) Architect
11 6 (4.48%) DV Cleared Java Developer
11 6 (4.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 5 (3.73%) Front Office Developer
13 4 (2.99%) Applications Architect
13 4 (2.99%) Java Architect
13 4 (2.99%) Senior Java Developer
13 4 (2.99%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 4 (2.99%) Senior Software Engineer
13 4 (2.99%) Web Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (13.43%) Kafka
2 16 (11.94%) Spring
3 14 (10.45%) Spring Boot
4 10 (7.46%) FIX Protocol
4 10 (7.46%) React
5 9 (6.72%) .NET
6 8 (5.97%) Java Concurrency
7 7 (5.22%) RESTful
8 5 (3.73%) Node.js
9 3 (2.24%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (2.24%) HTML
9 3 (2.24%) LDAP
9 3 (2.24%) Vue
10 2 (1.49%) AngularJS
10 2 (1.49%) CSS
10 2 (1.49%) HTML5
10 2 (1.49%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (1.49%) Playwright
10 2 (1.49%) RabbitMQ
11 1 (0.75%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 23 (17.16%) Cloud Native
2 20 (14.93%) Onboarding
3 15 (11.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 14 (10.45%) Algorithms
4 14 (10.45%) Derivative
5 12 (8.96%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (8.21%) Equities
7 6 (4.48%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.99%) Credit Risk
8 4 (2.99%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (2.99%) Market Risk
8 4 (2.99%) NHS
9 2 (1.49%) FPGA
9 2 (1.49%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.75%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.75%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.75%) PKI
10 1 (0.75%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.73%) Linux
2 2 (1.49%) CentOS
2 2 (1.49%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (23.88%) CI/CD
1 32 (23.88%) Software Engineering
2 31 (23.13%) Test Automation
3 27 (20.15%) DevOps
4 24 (17.91%) Low Latency
5 21 (15.67%) Agile
5 21 (15.67%) Migration
6 19 (14.18%) Computer Science
6 19 (14.18%) Electronic Trading
7 18 (13.43%) Microservices
7 18 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (11.94%) Mathematics
9 15 (11.19%) Mentoring
9 15 (11.19%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (10.45%) Scrum
11 13 (9.70%) Analytics
11 13 (9.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (9.70%) Document Management
11 13 (9.70%) Error Analysis
11 13 (9.70%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 45 (33.58%) Python
2 28 (20.90%) C#
3 20 (14.93%) SQL
4 12 (8.96%) Kotlin
5 9 (6.72%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.48%) C++
7 4 (2.99%) Scala
8 3 (2.24%) Go
8 3 (2.24%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.49%) Perl
10 1 (0.75%) Bash
10 1 (0.75%) COBOL
10 1 (0.75%) Groovy
10 1 (0.75%) Korn
10 1 (0.75%) R
10 1 (0.75%) Ruby
10 1 (0.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (14.18%) Degree
2 13 (9.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (8.96%) Security Cleared
4 10 (7.46%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.99%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.24%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.24%) PhD
7 2 (1.49%) CFA
7 2 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.49%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.49%) PMP
7 2 (1.49%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.24%) QA
System Software
1 7 (5.22%) Docker
2 1 (0.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (14.18%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.48%) Ansible
3 4 (2.99%) Terraform
4 3 (2.24%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.49%) Argo
5 2 (1.49%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.49%) Puppet
5 2 (1.49%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (1.49%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 1 (0.75%) Grafana
6 1 (0.75%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 20 (14.93%) Guidewire
2 3 (2.24%) Databricks
2 3 (2.24%) Dell
2 3 (2.24%) Google
2 3 (2.24%) Red Hat
2 3 (2.24%) Solace
3 2 (1.49%) FIS
3 2 (1.49%) HP
3 2 (1.49%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.49%) Murex
3 2 (1.49%) Oracle
4 1 (0.75%) ForgeRock
4 1 (0.75%) Foundry
4 1 (0.75%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.75%) Palantir
4 1 (0.75%) Pega