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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 30 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 -21 +2
Permanent jobs citing Java 160 205 487
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 9.50% 7.32% 16.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.74% 15.77% 31.58%
Number of salaries quoted 144 155 446
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £73,750 £67,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £98,750 £85,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.18% -8.11% -
75th Percentile £115,000 £111,250 £112,500
90th Percentile £139,250 £124,750 £130,000
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -

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 674 1,300 1,542
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 40.02% 46.41% 50.86%
Number of salaries quoted 558 924 1,410
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,900 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £133,250 £120,000 £118,250
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +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 15 November 2025.

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 (2.50%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.25%) Luigi
3 2 (1.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.63%) Apache
4 1 (0.63%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.13%) Adaptiv
2 2 (1.25%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 46 (28.75%) AWS
2 27 (16.88%) Azure
3 22 (13.75%) Datadog
4 16 (10.00%) GCP
5 11 (6.88%) SaaS
6 8 (5.00%) GitHub
7 7 (4.38%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.13%) Serverless
9 4 (2.50%) OpenShift
9 4 (2.50%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.88%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.88%) Google App Engine
11 2 (1.25%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.25%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 1 (0.63%) AWS Step Functions
12 1 (0.63%) dbt
12 1 (0.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.63%) DHCP
1 1 (0.63%) DNS
1 1 (0.63%) HTTP
1 1 (0.63%) Kerberos
1 1 (0.63%) LAN
1 1 (0.63%) Multicast
1 1 (0.63%) NAS
1 1 (0.63%) SAN
1 1 (0.63%) SNMP
1 1 (0.63%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (15.00%) Relational Database
2 8 (5.00%) ClickHouse
3 6 (3.75%) Big Data
3 6 (3.75%) Hadoop
3 6 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.88%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.88%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.88%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.88%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.25%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (1.25%) KDB
5 2 (1.25%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.25%) OLAP
5 2 (1.25%) OLTP
6 1 (0.63%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.63%) DB2
6 1 (0.63%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.63%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 4 (2.50%) SonarQube
2 3 (1.88%) Git
2 3 (1.88%) JUnit
2 3 (1.88%) Selenium
3 2 (1.25%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.25%) JMeter
3 2 (1.25%) TeamCity
3 2 (1.25%) WebDriver
4 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.63%) GitLab
4 1 (0.63%) JIRA
4 1 (0.63%) Katalon Studio
General
1 57 (35.63%) Social Skills
2 41 (25.63%) Finance
3 25 (15.63%) Banking
4 23 (14.38%) Front Office
5 18 (11.25%) Billing
6 10 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (6.25%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.13%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.88%) Advertising
9 1 (0.63%) French Language
9 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.63%) Law
9 1 (0.63%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.63%) Retail
9 1 (0.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 72 (45.00%) Developer
2 36 (22.50%) Senior
3 18 (11.25%) Lead
4 16 (10.00%) Java Engineer
5 13 (8.13%) Senior Developer
6 12 (7.50%) Java Developer
7 10 (6.25%) Architect
7 10 (6.25%) Senior Java Engineer
8 9 (5.63%) Software Engineer
9 8 (5.00%) Head of IT
10 6 (3.75%) Analyst
10 6 (3.75%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 6 (3.75%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
11 5 (3.13%) Development Team Leader
11 5 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.13%) Front Office Developer
11 5 (3.13%) Qualitative Analyst
11 5 (3.13%) Quantitative Analyst
11 5 (3.13%) Team Leader
12 4 (2.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (17.50%) .NET
2 25 (15.63%) Kafka
3 20 (12.50%) React
3 20 (12.50%) RESTful
4 16 (10.00%) Spring
5 14 (8.75%) Spring Boot
6 7 (4.38%) Java Concurrency
6 7 (4.38%) Node.js
7 5 (3.13%) FIX Protocol
7 5 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (1.88%) HTML
8 3 (1.88%) JSON
8 3 (1.88%) REST
9 2 (1.25%) Apache Thrift
9 2 (1.25%) CSS
9 2 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (1.25%) LDAP
9 2 (1.25%) Middleware
9 2 (1.25%) Quarkus
10 1 (0.63%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 43 (26.88%) Onboarding
2 36 (22.50%) Cloud Native
3 17 (10.63%) Algorithms
4 16 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (8.75%) Equities
6 12 (7.50%) Derivative
7 11 (6.88%) Market Risk
8 7 (4.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (3.13%) Credit Risk
9 5 (3.13%) Data Structures
9 5 (3.13%) Public Cloud
10 4 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.88%) Fixed Income
12 2 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (1.25%) Mobile App
12 2 (1.25%) Sports Betting
13 1 (0.63%) Distributed Computing
13 1 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
13 1 (0.63%) Mainframe
13 1 (0.63%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.13%) Linux
2 1 (0.63%) CentOS
2 1 (0.63%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (35.00%) Agile
2 54 (33.75%) CI/CD
3 47 (29.38%) Migration
4 43 (26.88%) DevOps
5 39 (24.38%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (24.38%) Test Automation
6 35 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
7 34 (21.25%) Microservices
8 29 (18.13%) Low Latency
8 29 (18.13%) Scrum
8 29 (18.13%) Stakeholder Management
9 26 (16.25%) Computer Science
10 22 (13.75%) Analytics
10 22 (13.75%) Document Management
10 22 (13.75%) Error Analysis
10 22 (13.75%) Requirements Gathering
11 21 (13.13%) Code Quality
12 20 (12.50%) Mathematics
13 19 (11.88%) Collaborative Working
13 19 (11.88%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 72 (45.00%) Python
2 58 (36.25%) C#
3 30 (18.75%) SQL
4 17 (10.63%) C++
5 13 (8.13%) Kotlin
6 8 (5.00%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.75%) JavaScript
8 5 (3.13%) Go
9 4 (2.50%) Scala
10 3 (1.88%) MATLAB
11 2 (1.25%) Ruby
12 1 (0.63%) COBOL
12 1 (0.63%) Groovy
12 1 (0.63%) Perl
12 1 (0.63%) R
Qualifications
1 24 (15.00%) Degree
2 15 (9.38%) Master's Degree
3 11 (6.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (5.00%) CFA
4 8 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
4 8 (5.00%) PMI Certification
4 8 (5.00%) PMP
5 6 (3.75%) PhD
5 6 (3.75%) Security Cleared
6 5 (3.13%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.50%) QA
2 3 (1.88%) GDPR
3 2 (1.25%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.25%) SLA
4 1 (0.63%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.63%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.63%) ITGC
System Software
1 9 (5.63%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (14.38%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.63%) Terraform
3 4 (2.50%) Ansible
4 3 (1.88%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.25%) Puppet
6 1 (0.63%) Argo
6 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 40 (25.00%) Guidewire
2 8 (5.00%) Murex
3 5 (3.13%) FIS
3 5 (3.13%) Google
4 4 (2.50%) Databricks
4 4 (2.50%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.50%) Solace
5 3 (1.88%) Oracle
5 3 (1.88%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.25%) Dell
6 2 (1.25%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.63%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.63%) Foundry
7 1 (0.63%) HP
7 1 (0.63%) Informatica
7 1 (0.63%) Palantir
7 1 (0.63%) Pega
7 1 (0.63%) Talend