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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 23 21
Rank change year-on-year -21 -2 -11
Permanent jobs citing Java 136 191 259
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.58% 10.06% 9.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.41% 22.52% 19.67%
Number of salaries quoted 112 159 228
10th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £65,000
25th Percentile £71,250 £74,375 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -8.11%
75th Percentile £106,250 £120,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £124,750 £149,000 £120,000
Central London median annual salary £97,500 £92,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +5.41% +8.82% -8.11%

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 829 848 1,317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 21.81% 44.68% 47.12%
Number of salaries quoted 659 705 1,036
10th Percentile £51,000 £51,550 £47,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £58,750
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 £110,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £132,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £81,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +4.29% +8.67% -6.25%

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 30 July 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 (0.74%) Camunda
1 1 (0.74%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (5.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.74%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 51 (37.50%) AWS
2 24 (17.65%) Azure
3 20 (14.71%) GCP
4 5 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (3.68%) Serverless
5 4 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (2.94%) Amazon S3
5 4 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (2.94%) GitHub
6 3 (2.21%) Pulumi
6 3 (2.21%) Vertex AI
7 2 (1.47%) Azure AI
7 2 (1.47%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 2 (1.47%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (1.47%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (1.47%) Cloud Run
7 2 (1.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.74%) Amazon Neptune
8 1 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.74%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.21%) Network Security
2 2 (1.47%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.74%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.74%) Internet
3 1 (0.74%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.41%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (2.94%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.94%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.21%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.47%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.47%) Cloud Spanner
5 2 (1.47%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.74%) MySQL
6 1 (0.74%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.74%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.74%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.74%) Power BI
6 1 (0.74%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.74%) SQLPlus
6 1 (0.74%) Stardog
6 1 (0.74%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 9 (6.62%) Git
2 6 (4.41%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.68%) Gradle
4 4 (2.94%) JUnit
4 4 (2.94%) Maven
4 4 (2.94%) Mockito
5 3 (2.21%) JIRA
5 3 (2.21%) Spock
6 2 (1.47%) GitLab
7 1 (0.74%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.74%) JMeter
7 1 (0.74%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (0.74%) Postman
7 1 (0.74%) Selenium
General
1 45 (33.09%) Finance
2 29 (21.32%) Social Skills
3 16 (11.76%) Banking
4 15 (11.03%) Front Office
5 14 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.88%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.21%) Advertising
7 3 (2.21%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.21%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.74%) Back Office
8 1 (0.74%) Cantonese Language
8 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.74%) Law
8 1 (0.74%) Marketing
8 1 (0.74%) Prime Brokerage
8 1 (0.74%) Private Banking
8 1 (0.74%) Retail
8 1 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 48 (35.29%) Developer
2 30 (22.06%) Java Developer
2 30 (22.06%) Senior
3 29 (21.32%) Software Engineer
4 28 (20.59%) Java Engineer
5 14 (10.29%) Java Software Engineer
6 12 (8.82%) Senior Developer
7 10 (7.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 10 (7.35%) Lead
7 10 (7.35%) Senior Software Engineer
8 9 (6.62%) Consultant
8 9 (6.62%) Java Consultant
9 8 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (5.88%) AWS Software Engineer
9 8 (5.88%) Senior Java Engineer
10 7 (5.15%) Development Consultant
10 7 (5.15%) Principal Engineer
10 7 (5.15%) Python Engineer
10 7 (5.15%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
10 7 (5.15%) Software Development Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (27.21%) Spring Boot
2 33 (24.26%) Spring
3 14 (10.29%) Kafka
4 12 (8.82%) React
5 10 (7.35%) REST
6 9 (6.62%) .NET
7 8 (5.88%) FIX Protocol
8 6 (4.41%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (3.68%) Node.js
10 4 (2.94%) LangChain
10 4 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (2.21%) AngularJS
11 3 (2.21%) CSS
11 3 (2.21%) HTML
11 3 (2.21%) Middleware
11 3 (2.21%) Web Services
12 2 (1.47%) FastAPI
12 2 (1.47%) FpML
12 2 (1.47%) Hibernate
12 2 (1.47%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 32 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 18 (13.24%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (7.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (5.15%) Reinsurance
5 6 (4.41%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.41%) Virtual Team
6 5 (3.68%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.94%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.94%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.21%) Credit Risk
8 3 (2.21%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.21%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.21%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.21%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.47%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.47%) Equities
10 1 (0.74%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.82%) Linux
2 5 (3.68%) Windows
3 1 (0.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (38.97%) Software Engineering
2 38 (27.94%) DevOps
3 36 (26.47%) Agile
3 36 (26.47%) CI/CD
4 26 (19.12%) Microservices
5 25 (18.38%) AI
6 24 (17.65%) Mentoring
7 18 (13.24%) Computer Science
7 18 (13.24%) Containerisation
8 17 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
8 17 (12.50%) Low Latency
8 17 (12.50%) Roadmaps
9 15 (11.03%) Code Quality
10 14 (10.29%) Decision-Making
10 14 (10.29%) Mathematics
11 12 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (8.82%) Migration
12 11 (8.09%) Process Improvement
12 11 (8.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 48 (35.29%) Python
2 27 (19.85%) C#
3 22 (16.18%) SQL
4 16 (11.76%) C++
5 11 (8.09%) Go
5 11 (8.09%) Rust
6 10 (7.35%) Bash
6 10 (7.35%) JavaScript
6 10 (7.35%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.88%) R
8 7 (5.15%) Julia
8 7 (5.15%) MATLAB
9 6 (4.41%) VBA
10 5 (3.68%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.94%) C
11 4 (2.94%) Ruby
12 3 (2.21%) Objective-C
12 3 (2.21%) Perl
13 2 (1.47%) Groovy
13 2 (1.47%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 19 (13.97%) Degree
2 14 (10.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.41%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.68%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.21%) CCSAM
5 3 (2.21%) CREST Certified
5 3 (2.21%) GPEN
5 3 (2.21%) GXPN
5 3 (2.21%) OSCE
5 3 (2.21%) OSCP
6 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.74%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.74%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.35%) GDPR
2 3 (2.21%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (2.21%) QA
3 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.74%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (12.50%) Docker
2 5 (3.68%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (19.85%) Kubernetes
2 16 (11.76%) Terraform
3 7 (5.15%) Ansible
3 7 (5.15%) Grafana
3 7 (5.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (5.15%) Splunk
2 6 (4.41%) Guidewire
3 5 (3.68%) Oracle
3 5 (3.68%) Solace
4 4 (2.94%) Google
4 4 (2.94%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.94%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.21%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.47%) JDA
6 2 (1.47%) Palantir
7 1 (0.74%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.74%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.74%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.74%) Pega
7 1 (0.74%) Temenos