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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 34 16
Rank change year-on-year -8 -18 -5
Permanent jobs citing Java 140 149 382
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.57% 7.17% 11.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.70% 15.07% 25.08%
Number of salaries quoted 104 117 347
10th Percentile £66,450 £67,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £97,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +8.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile - £122,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £151,000 £130,000
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £100,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.26%

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 1,022 989 1,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 26.08% 47.59% 47.71%
Number of salaries quoted 800 826 1,292
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £67,250 £61,250 £60,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £98,750
90th Percentile £101,600 £123,750 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £79,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% +1.27% +1.94%

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 2 May 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 2 (1.43%) Apache
1 2 (1.43%) nginx
2 1 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 55 (39.29%) AWS
2 19 (13.57%) Azure
3 18 (12.86%) GCP
4 4 (2.86%) Pulumi
5 3 (2.14%) SaaS
6 2 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.43%) GitHub
6 2 (1.43%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.43%) Serverless
7 1 (0.71%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.71%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.71%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (0.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.71%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.71%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.71%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (0.71%) Datadog
7 1 (0.71%) dbt
7 1 (0.71%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.14%) Network Security
2 2 (1.43%) DHCP
2 2 (1.43%) DNS
2 2 (1.43%) LAN
2 2 (1.43%) NAS
2 2 (1.43%) SAN
2 2 (1.43%) SNMP
2 2 (1.43%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.43%) WAN
3 1 (0.71%) Broadband
3 1 (0.71%) LTE
3 1 (0.71%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.86%) NoSQL
2 4 (2.86%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.14%) DynamoDB
3 3 (2.14%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.43%) MySQL
4 2 (1.43%) Power BI
5 1 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.71%) Big Data
5 1 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.71%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.71%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.71%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.71%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.71%) Pinecone
5 1 (0.71%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.71%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 7 (5.00%) Gradle
2 3 (2.14%) Git
2 3 (2.14%) JIRA
2 3 (2.14%) Selenium
3 1 (0.71%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.71%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.71%) GitLab
3 1 (0.71%) Jaeger
3 1 (0.71%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.71%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (0.71%) MLflow
General
1 41 (29.29%) Finance
2 26 (18.57%) Front Office
3 18 (12.86%) Banking
4 17 (12.14%) Social Skills
5 10 (7.14%) Financial Institution
6 6 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.57%) Marketing
8 4 (2.86%) Tech for Good
9 3 (2.14%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.43%) Advertising
10 2 (1.43%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.43%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.71%) Cantonese Language
11 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.71%) Law
11 1 (0.71%) Retail
11 1 (0.71%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (33.57%) Developer
2 39 (27.86%) Java Engineer
3 35 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 34 (24.29%) Senior
5 30 (21.43%) Java Developer
6 25 (17.86%) Java Software Engineer
7 16 (11.43%) Senior Developer
8 15 (10.71%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (8.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 12 (8.57%) Lead
10 10 (7.14%) AWS Software Engineer
10 10 (7.14%) Senior Java Engineer
11 9 (6.43%) Senior Software Engineer
12 7 (5.00%) Front Office Developer
12 7 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
13 6 (4.29%) Architect
13 6 (4.29%) Consultant
13 6 (4.29%) DV Cleared Java Developer
13 6 (4.29%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 6 (4.29%) Java Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (18.57%) Spring Boot
2 22 (15.71%) Spring
3 14 (10.00%) Kafka
4 13 (9.29%) React
5 12 (8.57%) FIX Protocol
6 8 (5.71%) .NET
7 5 (3.57%) CSS
7 5 (3.57%) HTML
7 5 (3.57%) Node.js
8 4 (2.86%) REST
8 4 (2.86%) Vue
9 3 (2.14%) AngularJS
9 3 (2.14%) Java Concurrency
9 3 (2.14%) Middleware
9 3 (2.14%) Web Services
10 2 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.43%) LDAP
10 2 (1.43%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (1.43%) Playwright
10 2 (1.43%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 25 (17.86%) Cloud Native
2 18 (12.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (6.43%) Derivative
5 5 (3.57%) Equities
6 4 (2.86%) NHS
6 4 (2.86%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.86%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.14%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.14%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.14%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (2.14%) Fixed Income
7 3 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.14%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.14%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.43%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.43%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.43%) FPGA
8 2 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.43%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.86%) Linux
2 4 (2.86%) Windows
3 2 (1.43%) CentOS
3 2 (1.43%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.71%) Unix
4 1 (0.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (37.14%) Software Engineering
2 29 (20.71%) DevOps
3 24 (17.14%) Low Latency
4 23 (16.43%) CI/CD
5 21 (15.00%) Mentoring
6 20 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
7 19 (13.57%) Agile
8 18 (12.86%) Roadmaps
9 17 (12.14%) AI
9 17 (12.14%) Computer Science
10 16 (11.43%) Fintech
11 15 (10.71%) Electronic Trading
11 15 (10.71%) Microservices
11 15 (10.71%) Test Automation
12 12 (8.57%) Code Quality
12 12 (8.57%) Mathematics
12 12 (8.57%) Ultra-Low Latency
13 11 (7.86%) Market Making
14 10 (7.14%) Containerisation
15 9 (6.43%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 33 (23.57%) Python
2 17 (12.14%) C#
3 15 (10.71%) SQL
4 12 (8.57%) JavaScript
5 10 (7.14%) Go
6 7 (5.00%) C++
7 6 (4.29%) Kotlin
8 5 (3.57%) Bash
8 5 (3.57%) Perl
8 5 (3.57%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.86%) C
9 4 (2.86%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.86%) Ruby
9 4 (2.86%) Rust
10 3 (2.14%) Objective-C
11 2 (1.43%) VBA
12 1 (0.71%) Groovy
12 1 (0.71%) Korn
12 1 (0.71%) R
12 1 (0.71%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (15.00%) Degree
2 15 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (9.29%) Security Cleared
4 10 (7.14%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.14%) CCSAM
5 3 (2.14%) CREST Certified
5 3 (2.14%) GPEN
5 3 (2.14%) GXPN
5 3 (2.14%) OSCE
5 3 (2.14%) OSCP
5 3 (2.14%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.43%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.14%) Actionable Recommendations
1 3 (2.14%) QA
2 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.71%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (9.29%) Docker
2 1 (0.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (15.71%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.43%) Terraform
3 4 (2.86%) Ansible
4 3 (2.14%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.43%) Argo
5 2 (1.43%) Grafana
5 2 (1.43%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (1.43%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 1 (0.71%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 7 (5.00%) Solace
2 5 (3.57%) Oracle
3 3 (2.14%) Guidewire
3 3 (2.14%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.14%) Red Hat
3 3 (2.14%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.43%) Dell
4 2 (1.43%) Google
4 2 (1.43%) HP
4 2 (1.43%) JDA
4 2 (1.43%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.43%) Splunk
5 1 (0.71%) Databricks
5 1 (0.71%) Pega
5 1 (0.71%) Temenos