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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 32 18
Rank change year-on-year -8 -14 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 144 144 358
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.46% 7.61% 11.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.43% 16.36% 23.77%
Number of salaries quoted 112 115 323
10th Percentile £62,750 £65,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £80,938 £76,250 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £92,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +2.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £101,250 £121,250 £112,500
90th Percentile £122,200 £151,500 £122,500
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £99,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +1.01% +10.00% -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 998 880 1,506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 24.01% 46.49% 47.46%
Number of salaries quoted 781 740 1,245
10th Percentile £52,000 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £60,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - +0.63%
75th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
90th Percentile - £126,375 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £80,750 £77,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% +4.19% -

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 28 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 1 (0.69%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 53 (36.81%) AWS
2 19 (13.19%) Azure
3 17 (11.81%) GCP
4 4 (2.78%) Pulumi
5 3 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.39%) GitHub
6 2 (1.39%) SaaS
6 2 (1.39%) Serverless
7 1 (0.69%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.69%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.69%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (0.69%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.69%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (0.69%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.69%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.69%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (0.69%) Datadog
7 1 (0.69%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (0.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.08%) Network Security
2 1 (0.69%) Broadband
2 1 (0.69%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.78%) Geospatial Data
2 4 (2.78%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.08%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.08%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.39%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.39%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.69%) Big Data
5 1 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.69%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.69%) MySQL
5 1 (0.69%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.69%) Pinecone
5 1 (0.69%) Power BI
5 1 (0.69%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.69%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 8 (5.56%) Gradle
2 4 (2.78%) Git
3 3 (2.08%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.08%) JIRA
3 3 (2.08%) Selenium
4 2 (1.39%) GitLab
5 1 (0.69%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.69%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.69%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.69%) JUnit
5 1 (0.69%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (0.69%) Maven
5 1 (0.69%) MLflow
5 1 (0.69%) Mockito
5 1 (0.69%) Spock
General
1 43 (29.86%) Finance
2 23 (15.97%) Front Office
3 21 (14.58%) Social Skills
4 17 (11.81%) Banking
5 11 (7.64%) Financial Institution
6 10 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.47%) Marketing
8 4 (2.78%) Tech for Good
9 3 (2.08%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.39%) Advertising
10 2 (1.39%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.39%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.69%) Cantonese Language
11 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Law
11 1 (0.69%) Retail
11 1 (0.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (37.50%) Developer
2 37 (25.69%) Java Engineer
3 35 (24.31%) Software Engineer
4 34 (23.61%) Java Developer
5 31 (21.53%) Senior
6 24 (16.67%) Java Software Engineer
7 16 (11.11%) Senior Developer
8 15 (10.42%) AWS Engineer
9 14 (9.72%) Lead
10 10 (6.94%) AWS Software Engineer
10 10 (6.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 10 (6.94%) Senior Software Engineer
11 9 (6.25%) Consultant
11 9 (6.25%) Java Consultant
12 7 (4.86%) Development Consultant
12 7 (4.86%) Senior Java Developer
12 7 (4.86%) Senior Java Engineer
12 7 (4.86%) Software Consultant
12 7 (4.86%) Software Development Consultant
12 7 (4.86%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (20.83%) Spring Boot
2 26 (18.06%) Spring
3 16 (11.11%) Kafka
4 12 (8.33%) React
5 11 (7.64%) FIX Protocol
6 8 (5.56%) .NET
7 5 (3.47%) REST
8 4 (2.78%) CSS
8 4 (2.78%) HTML
8 4 (2.78%) Node.js
9 3 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (2.08%) Middleware
9 3 (2.08%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (2.08%) Web Services
10 2 (1.39%) AngularJS
10 2 (1.39%) Java Concurrency
10 2 (1.39%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (1.39%) Playwright
10 2 (1.39%) Vue
11 1 (0.69%) Ember.js
Miscellaneous
1 26 (18.06%) Cloud Native
2 16 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (7.64%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.86%) Derivative
5 6 (4.17%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.78%) Equities
6 4 (2.78%) NHS
6 4 (2.78%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.78%) Reinsurance
7 3 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.08%) Fixed Income
7 3 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.08%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.08%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.08%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.39%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.39%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.39%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.25%) Linux
2 4 (2.78%) Windows
3 1 (0.69%) Unix
3 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (37.50%) Software Engineering
2 35 (24.31%) DevOps
3 25 (17.36%) Low Latency
4 24 (16.67%) Agile
5 23 (15.97%) CI/CD
6 22 (15.28%) Mentoring
7 20 (13.89%) Full-Stack Development
8 19 (13.19%) AI
9 18 (12.50%) Computer Science
9 18 (12.50%) Roadmaps
10 17 (11.81%) Code Quality
10 17 (11.81%) Microservices
11 16 (11.11%) Mathematics
12 14 (9.72%) Fintech
13 13 (9.03%) Electronic Trading
13 13 (9.03%) Test Automation
14 12 (8.33%) Containerisation
15 11 (7.64%) Market Making
15 11 (7.64%) Ultra-Low Latency
16 9 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 34 (23.61%) Python
2 22 (15.28%) C#
3 19 (13.19%) SQL
4 11 (7.64%) C++
5 10 (6.94%) Go
6 9 (6.25%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.17%) Bash
7 6 (4.17%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.47%) R
8 5 (3.47%) Rust
9 4 (2.78%) C
9 4 (2.78%) Julia
9 4 (2.78%) MATLAB
9 4 (2.78%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.08%) Objective-C
10 3 (2.08%) Perl
10 3 (2.08%) Ruby
10 3 (2.08%) VBA
11 2 (1.39%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.69%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 21 (14.58%) Degree
2 15 (10.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (6.25%) Security Cleared
4 7 (4.86%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.08%) CCSAM
5 3 (2.08%) CREST Certified
5 3 (2.08%) GPEN
5 3 (2.08%) GXPN
5 3 (2.08%) OSCE
5 3 (2.08%) OSCP
6 2 (1.39%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.39%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.47%) GDPR
2 3 (2.08%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (2.08%) QA
3 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.69%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (9.72%) Docker
2 1 (0.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 19 (13.19%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.94%) Terraform
3 4 (2.78%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.08%) Ansible
4 3 (2.08%) Grafana
5 1 (0.69%) Argo
5 1 (0.69%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 8 (5.56%) Solace
2 5 (3.47%) Guidewire
3 4 (2.78%) Oracle
4 3 (2.08%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.08%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.08%) Splunk
5 2 (1.39%) Google
5 2 (1.39%) JDA
5 2 (1.39%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.69%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.69%) Databricks
6 1 (0.69%) Pega
6 1 (0.69%) Temenos