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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 22 21
Rank change year-on-year -21 -1 -12
Permanent jobs citing Java 137 189 244
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.70% 10.05% 8.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.85% 22.77% 18.75%
Number of salaries quoted 113 156 214
10th Percentile £61,250 £59,250 £65,000
25th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £88,750 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.68% +4.41% -8.11%
75th Percentile £107,500 £119,063 £107,500
90th Percentile £131,000 £142,500 £118,500
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -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 813 830 1,301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 21.96% 44.15% 47.45%
Number of salaries quoted 647 685 1,006
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £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 £107,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £113,750
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% -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 6 August 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 (0.73%) Camunda
Applications
1 7 (5.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.46%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.73%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 51 (37.23%) AWS
2 25 (18.25%) Azure
3 21 (15.33%) GCP
4 5 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.92%) GitHub
5 4 (2.92%) Serverless
6 3 (2.19%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (2.19%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.19%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.19%) Pulumi
6 3 (2.19%) Vertex AI
7 2 (1.46%) Azure AI
7 2 (1.46%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 2 (1.46%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (1.46%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (1.46%) Cloud Run
7 2 (1.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.73%) Amazon Neptune
8 1 (0.73%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (0.73%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.19%) Network Security
2 2 (1.46%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.73%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.73%) Internet
3 1 (0.73%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.11%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.38%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (2.92%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.92%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.19%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.46%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.46%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.73%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.73%) MySQL
6 1 (0.73%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.73%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.73%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.73%) Power BI
6 1 (0.73%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.73%) SQLPlus
6 1 (0.73%) Stardog
6 1 (0.73%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 9 (6.57%) Git
2 6 (4.38%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.65%) Gradle
4 4 (2.92%) JUnit
4 4 (2.92%) Maven
4 4 (2.92%) Mockito
5 3 (2.19%) Spock
6 2 (1.46%) GitLab
6 2 (1.46%) JIRA
7 1 (0.73%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.73%) JMeter
7 1 (0.73%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (0.73%) Postman
7 1 (0.73%) Selenium
General
1 44 (32.12%) Finance
2 29 (21.17%) Social Skills
3 17 (12.41%) Banking
4 15 (10.95%) Front Office
5 14 (10.22%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.84%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.19%) Advertising
7 3 (2.19%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.19%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.73%) Back Office
8 1 (0.73%) Cantonese Language
8 1 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.73%) Law
8 1 (0.73%) Marketing
8 1 (0.73%) Prime Brokerage
8 1 (0.73%) Private Banking
8 1 (0.73%) Retail
8 1 (0.73%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (34.31%) Developer
2 31 (22.63%) Senior
3 30 (21.90%) Java Developer
4 28 (20.44%) Software Engineer
5 27 (19.71%) Java Engineer
6 13 (9.49%) Java Software Engineer
7 12 (8.76%) Senior Developer
8 11 (8.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 11 (8.03%) Lead
9 10 (7.30%) Senior Software Engineer
10 9 (6.57%) Consultant
10 9 (6.57%) Java Consultant
11 8 (5.84%) Python Engineer
11 8 (5.84%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
11 8 (5.84%) Senior Java Engineer
12 7 (5.11%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (5.11%) AWS Software Engineer
12 7 (5.11%) Development Consultant
12 7 (5.11%) Principal Engineer
12 7 (5.11%) Software Development Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (27.74%) Spring Boot
2 33 (24.09%) Spring
3 14 (10.22%) Kafka
4 13 (9.49%) React
5 11 (8.03%) REST
6 10 (7.30%) .NET
7 8 (5.84%) FIX Protocol
8 6 (4.38%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (3.65%) LangChain
10 4 (2.92%) Node.js
10 4 (2.92%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (2.19%) CSS
11 3 (2.19%) HTML
11 3 (2.19%) Web Services
12 2 (1.46%) AngularJS
12 2 (1.46%) FpML
12 2 (1.46%) Hibernate
12 2 (1.46%) JPA
12 2 (1.46%) Middleware
12 2 (1.46%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 32 (23.36%) Cloud Native
2 20 (14.60%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (7.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (5.11%) Reinsurance
5 6 (4.38%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.38%) Virtual Team
6 5 (3.65%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.92%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.92%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.19%) Credit Risk
8 3 (2.19%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.19%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.19%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.19%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.46%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.46%) Equities
10 1 (0.73%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.49%) Linux
2 6 (4.38%) Windows
3 1 (0.73%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (38.69%) Software Engineering
2 38 (27.74%) DevOps
3 37 (27.01%) CI/CD
4 36 (26.28%) Agile
5 27 (19.71%) AI
5 27 (19.71%) Microservices
6 24 (17.52%) Mentoring
7 18 (13.14%) Computer Science
7 18 (13.14%) Containerisation
8 17 (12.41%) Full-Stack Development
8 17 (12.41%) Low Latency
8 17 (12.41%) Roadmaps
9 16 (11.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (10.95%) Code Quality
11 14 (10.22%) Decision-Making
11 14 (10.22%) Mathematics
12 13 (9.49%) Infrastructure as Code
13 12 (8.76%) Migration
13 12 (8.76%) Test Automation
14 10 (7.30%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 50 (36.50%) Python
2 28 (20.44%) C#
3 22 (16.06%) SQL
4 16 (11.68%) C++
5 11 (8.03%) Bash
5 11 (8.03%) Go
5 11 (8.03%) JavaScript
5 11 (8.03%) Rust
5 11 (8.03%) TypeScript
6 8 (5.84%) R
7 7 (5.11%) Julia
7 7 (5.11%) MATLAB
8 6 (4.38%) PowerShell
8 6 (4.38%) VBA
9 4 (2.92%) C
9 4 (2.92%) Ruby
10 3 (2.19%) Objective-C
10 3 (2.19%) Perl
11 2 (1.46%) Groovy
11 2 (1.46%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 18 (13.14%) Degree
2 14 (10.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (5.11%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.65%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.19%) CCSAM
5 3 (2.19%) CREST Certified
5 3 (2.19%) GPEN
5 3 (2.19%) GXPN
5 3 (2.19%) OSCE
5 3 (2.19%) OSCP
6 2 (1.46%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.73%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.30%) GDPR
2 3 (2.19%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (2.19%) QA
3 1 (0.73%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.73%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (12.41%) Docker
2 5 (3.65%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.73%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.73%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (20.44%) Kubernetes
2 17 (12.41%) Terraform
3 8 (5.84%) Ansible
4 7 (5.11%) Grafana
4 7 (5.11%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.73%) Puppet
5 1 (0.73%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (5.11%) Splunk
2 6 (4.38%) Guidewire
3 5 (3.65%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.65%) Oracle
3 5 (3.65%) Solace
4 4 (2.92%) Google
4 4 (2.92%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.19%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.46%) JDA
6 2 (1.46%) Palantir
7 1 (0.73%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.73%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.73%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.73%) Pega
7 1 (0.73%) Temenos
7 1 (0.73%) VMware