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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 29 9
Rank change year-on-year +3 -20 +2
Permanent jobs citing Java 155 203 490
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 8.80% 7.09% 16.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.63% 15.29% 31.88%
Number of salaries quoted 139 155 449
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £73,750 £67,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -8.11% -
75th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £140,200 £127,500 £130,000
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -1.37%

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 685 1,328 1,537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 38.88% 46.38% 50.74%
Number of salaries quoted 566 957 1,404
10th Percentile £52,375 £50,650 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £84,250 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.33% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £109,688 £97,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £132,500 £120,000 £118,600
Central London median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 22 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 3 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (1.94%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.29%) Luigi
3 1 (0.65%) Apache
3 1 (0.65%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.23%) Adaptiv
2 2 (1.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 44 (28.39%) AWS
2 25 (16.13%) Azure
3 21 (13.55%) Datadog
4 15 (9.68%) GCP
5 11 (7.10%) SaaS
6 7 (4.52%) GitHub
7 6 (3.87%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (3.23%) Serverless
9 4 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.94%) Google App Engine
10 3 (1.94%) Snowflake
11 2 (1.29%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.29%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (1.29%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 1 (0.65%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.65%) AWS Step Functions
12 1 (0.65%) Azure Machine Learning
12 1 (0.65%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) DHCP
1 1 (0.65%) DNS
1 1 (0.65%) HTTP
1 1 (0.65%) Kerberos
1 1 (0.65%) LAN
1 1 (0.65%) Multicast
1 1 (0.65%) NAS
1 1 (0.65%) SAN
1 1 (0.65%) SNMP
1 1 (0.65%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.65%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (14.84%) Relational Database
2 8 (5.16%) ClickHouse
3 5 (3.23%) Big Data
3 5 (3.23%) Hadoop
3 5 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.94%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.94%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.29%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (1.29%) KDB
5 2 (1.29%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.29%) OLAP
5 2 (1.29%) OLTP
6 1 (0.65%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.65%) DB2
6 1 (0.65%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.65%) Kdb+
6 1 (0.65%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.65%) Power BI
6 1 (0.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (1.94%) Git
1 3 (1.94%) JUnit
1 3 (1.94%) Selenium
1 3 (1.94%) SonarQube
2 2 (1.29%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.29%) JMeter
2 2 (1.29%) TeamCity
2 2 (1.29%) WebDriver
3 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.65%) GitLab
3 1 (0.65%) JIRA
3 1 (0.65%) Katalon Studio
General
1 53 (34.19%) Social Skills
2 38 (24.52%) Finance
3 26 (16.77%) Banking
4 24 (15.48%) Front Office
5 17 (10.97%) Billing
6 10 (6.45%) Financial Institution
7 8 (5.16%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (3.23%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.94%) Advertising
10 1 (0.65%) French Language
10 1 (0.65%) Law
10 1 (0.65%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.65%) Retail
10 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 71 (45.81%) Developer
2 36 (23.23%) Senior
3 18 (11.61%) Lead
4 17 (10.97%) Java Engineer
5 14 (9.03%) Senior Developer
6 13 (8.39%) Java Developer
7 11 (7.10%) Senior Java Engineer
8 9 (5.81%) Software Engineer
9 8 (5.16%) Architect
9 8 (5.16%) Head of IT
10 6 (3.87%) Analyst
10 6 (3.87%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 6 (3.87%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
10 6 (3.87%) Front Office Developer
11 5 (3.23%) Development Team Leader
11 5 (3.23%) Java Architect
11 5 (3.23%) Qualitative Analyst
11 5 (3.23%) Quantitative Analyst
11 5 (3.23%) Team Leader
12 4 (2.58%) Web Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (17.42%) .NET
2 21 (13.55%) Kafka
3 19 (12.26%) React
3 19 (12.26%) RESTful
4 16 (10.32%) Spring
5 14 (9.03%) Spring Boot
6 7 (4.52%) Java Concurrency
7 6 (3.87%) Node.js
8 5 (3.23%) FIX Protocol
8 5 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (1.94%) HTML
9 3 (1.94%) JSON
9 3 (1.94%) REST
10 2 (1.29%) Apache Thrift
10 2 (1.29%) CSS
10 2 (1.29%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.29%) LDAP
10 2 (1.29%) Middleware
10 2 (1.29%) Quarkus
11 1 (0.65%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 41 (26.45%) Onboarding
2 33 (21.29%) Cloud Native
3 17 (10.97%) Algorithms
4 16 (10.32%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (9.03%) Equities
6 12 (7.74%) Derivative
7 11 (7.10%) Market Risk
8 7 (4.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (3.23%) Credit Risk
9 5 (3.23%) Data Structures
10 4 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (2.58%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.94%) Fixed Income
12 2 (1.29%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (1.29%) Mobile App
12 2 (1.29%) Sports Betting
13 1 (0.65%) Distributed Computing
13 1 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
13 1 (0.65%) Mainframe
13 1 (0.65%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.23%) Linux
2 1 (0.65%) CentOS
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (34.19%) Agile
2 51 (32.90%) CI/CD
3 42 (27.10%) Migration
4 39 (25.16%) DevOps
5 38 (24.52%) Test Automation
6 37 (23.87%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (21.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 31 (20.00%) Microservices
9 29 (18.71%) Low Latency
10 28 (18.06%) Stakeholder Management
11 27 (17.42%) Scrum
12 26 (16.77%) Computer Science
13 21 (13.55%) Analytics
13 21 (13.55%) Document Management
13 21 (13.55%) Error Analysis
13 21 (13.55%) Requirements Gathering
14 20 (12.90%) Code Quality
14 20 (12.90%) Mathematics
15 19 (12.26%) Electronic Trading
16 18 (11.61%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 68 (43.87%) Python
2 56 (36.13%) C#
3 28 (18.06%) SQL
4 17 (10.97%) C++
5 12 (7.74%) Kotlin
6 8 (5.16%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.87%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.58%) Go
9 3 (1.94%) MATLAB
9 3 (1.94%) Scala
10 2 (1.29%) Ruby
11 1 (0.65%) COBOL
11 1 (0.65%) Groovy
11 1 (0.65%) Perl
11 1 (0.65%) R
Qualifications
1 24 (15.48%) Degree
2 15 (9.68%) Master's Degree
3 11 (7.10%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (5.16%) CFA
4 8 (5.16%) ITIL Certification
4 8 (5.16%) PMI Certification
4 8 (5.16%) PMP
5 7 (4.52%) Security Cleared
6 6 (3.87%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.87%) PhD
7 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.65%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.58%) QA
2 2 (1.29%) GDPR
2 2 (1.29%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.29%) SLA
3 1 (0.65%) ITGC
System Software
1 9 (5.81%) Docker
2 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (14.19%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.52%) Terraform
3 4 (2.58%) Ansible
4 3 (1.94%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.29%) Puppet
6 1 (0.65%) Argo
6 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 38 (24.52%) Guidewire
2 8 (5.16%) Murex
3 5 (3.23%) FIS
4 4 (2.58%) Google
4 4 (2.58%) Solace
5 3 (1.94%) Databricks
5 3 (1.94%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.94%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.29%) Dell
6 2 (1.29%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.65%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.65%) Foundry
7 1 (0.65%) HP
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle
7 1 (0.65%) Palantir
7 1 (0.65%) Pega