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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 33 17
Rank change year-on-year -10 -16 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 143 144 364
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.47% 7.17% 11.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.90% 15.21% 24.12%
Number of salaries quoted 109 115 333
10th Percentile £64,500 £66,750 £62,500
25th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £92,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +2.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile - £121,250 £112,500
90th Percentile £111,900 £151,500 £129,750
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £98,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +2.04% +8.89% -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 1,029 947 1,509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 24.97% 47.16% 47.65%
Number of salaries quoted 810 801 1,255
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £61,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,750 £97,500
90th Percentile - £126,250 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +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 16 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 (0.70%) Apache
1 1 (0.70%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.70%) Confluence
1 1 (0.70%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 53 (37.06%) AWS
2 19 (13.29%) Azure
3 18 (12.59%) GCP
4 4 (2.80%) Pulumi
5 2 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.40%) SaaS
5 2 (1.40%) Serverless
6 1 (0.70%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (0.70%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.70%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (0.70%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.70%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.70%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.70%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (0.70%) Datadog
6 1 (0.70%) GitHub
6 1 (0.70%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (0.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.10%) Network Security
2 1 (0.70%) Broadband
2 1 (0.70%) DHCP
2 1 (0.70%) DNS
2 1 (0.70%) LAN
2 1 (0.70%) LTE
2 1 (0.70%) NAS
2 1 (0.70%) SAN
2 1 (0.70%) SNMP
2 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.99%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (3.50%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.10%) DynamoDB
3 3 (2.10%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.10%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.40%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (1.40%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.40%) MySQL
5 1 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.70%) Big Data
5 1 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.70%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.70%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.70%) Pinecone
5 1 (0.70%) Power BI
5 1 (0.70%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.70%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 7 (4.90%) Gradle
2 3 (2.10%) Git
2 3 (2.10%) JIRA
2 3 (2.10%) Selenium
3 2 (1.40%) GitLab
3 2 (1.40%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.70%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.70%) Jaeger
4 1 (0.70%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (0.70%) MLflow
General
1 39 (27.27%) Finance
2 24 (16.78%) Front Office
3 19 (13.29%) Social Skills
4 18 (12.59%) Banking
5 10 (6.99%) Financial Institution
6 8 (5.59%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.50%) Marketing
8 4 (2.80%) Tech for Good
9 3 (2.10%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.40%) Advertising
10 2 (1.40%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.40%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.70%) Cantonese Language
11 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.70%) Law
11 1 (0.70%) Retail
11 1 (0.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (35.66%) Developer
2 39 (27.27%) Java Engineer
3 35 (24.48%) Software Engineer
4 34 (23.78%) Senior
5 32 (22.38%) Java Developer
6 26 (18.18%) Java Software Engineer
7 16 (11.19%) Senior Developer
8 15 (10.49%) AWS Engineer
9 14 (9.79%) Lead
10 11 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 11 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
11 10 (6.99%) AWS Software Engineer
12 9 (6.29%) Consultant
12 9 (6.29%) Java Consultant
12 9 (6.29%) Senior Java Engineer
13 7 (4.90%) Development Consultant
13 7 (4.90%) Senior Java Developer
13 7 (4.90%) Software Consultant
13 7 (4.90%) Software Development Consultant
13 7 (4.90%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (19.58%) Spring Boot
2 24 (16.78%) Spring
3 16 (11.19%) Kafka
4 12 (8.39%) React
5 10 (6.99%) FIX Protocol
6 8 (5.59%) .NET
7 5 (3.50%) Node.js
7 5 (3.50%) REST
8 4 (2.80%) CSS
8 4 (2.80%) HTML
9 3 (2.10%) Middleware
9 3 (2.10%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (2.10%) Vue
9 3 (2.10%) Web Services
10 2 (1.40%) AngularJS
10 2 (1.40%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.40%) Java Concurrency
10 2 (1.40%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (1.40%) Playwright
11 1 (0.70%) Ember.js
Miscellaneous
1 25 (17.48%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.90%) Derivative
5 5 (3.50%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.80%) Equities
6 4 (2.80%) NHS
6 4 (2.80%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.10%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.10%) Fixed Income
7 3 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.10%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.10%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.40%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.40%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.40%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.40%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.40%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.40%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.29%) Linux
2 4 (2.80%) Windows
3 1 (0.70%) CentOS
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.70%) Unix
3 1 (0.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (36.36%) Software Engineering
2 32 (22.38%) DevOps
3 23 (16.08%) CI/CD
3 23 (16.08%) Low Latency
4 22 (15.38%) Agile
4 22 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 20 (13.99%) Full-Stack Development
6 18 (12.59%) AI
7 17 (11.89%) Microservices
7 17 (11.89%) Roadmaps
8 15 (10.49%) Computer Science
8 15 (10.49%) Fintech
9 14 (9.79%) Code Quality
9 14 (9.79%) Test Automation
10 13 (9.09%) Mathematics
11 12 (8.39%) Electronic Trading
12 11 (7.69%) Containerisation
13 10 (6.99%) Market Making
13 10 (6.99%) Technical Leadership
13 10 (6.99%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 33 (23.08%) Python
2 19 (13.29%) C#
3 17 (11.89%) SQL
4 10 (6.99%) Go
5 9 (6.29%) C++
5 9 (6.29%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.20%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.50%) Bash
8 4 (2.80%) C
8 4 (2.80%) Perl
8 4 (2.80%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.80%) Rust
9 3 (2.10%) Objective-C
9 3 (2.10%) R
9 3 (2.10%) Ruby
10 2 (1.40%) Julia
10 2 (1.40%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.40%) MATLAB
10 2 (1.40%) VBA
11 1 (0.70%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 19 (13.29%) Degree
2 13 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (6.99%) Security Cleared
4 8 (5.59%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.10%) CCSAM
5 3 (2.10%) CREST Certified
5 3 (2.10%) GPEN
5 3 (2.10%) GXPN
5 3 (2.10%) OSCE
5 3 (2.10%) OSCP
6 2 (1.40%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.40%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.10%) Actionable Recommendations
1 3 (2.10%) QA
2 2 (1.40%) GDPR
3 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.70%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (0.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (12.59%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.29%) Terraform
3 3 (2.10%) Ansible
3 3 (2.10%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.40%) Grafana
5 1 (0.70%) Argo
5 1 (0.70%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 7 (4.90%) Solace
2 5 (3.50%) Oracle
3 4 (2.80%) Guidewire
4 3 (2.10%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.10%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.40%) Google
5 2 (1.40%) JDA
5 2 (1.40%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.40%) Splunk
6 1 (0.70%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.70%) Databricks
6 1 (0.70%) Dell
6 1 (0.70%) HP
6 1 (0.70%) Pega
6 1 (0.70%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.70%) Temenos