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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 41 10
Rank change year-on-year +7 -31 +2
Permanent jobs citing Java 135 162 433
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 5.82% 6.10% 15.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.07% 12.96% 30.67%
Number of salaries quoted 114 124 400
10th Percentile £57,875 £56,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -2.63%
75th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £136,000 £137,500 £125,000
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £90,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -1.33%

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 791 1,250 1,412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 34.08% 47.08% 50.85%
Number of salaries quoted 640 913 1,290
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £51,175
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £118,500 £115,000
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 January 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 4 (2.96%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.48%) Apache
3 2 (1.48%) Luigi
3 2 (1.48%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.48%) Adaptiv
Cloud Services
1 41 (30.37%) AWS
2 15 (11.11%) Azure
2 15 (11.11%) Datadog
3 10 (7.41%) GCP
3 10 (7.41%) SaaS
4 3 (2.22%) Snowflake
5 2 (1.48%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (1.48%) GitHub
5 2 (1.48%) OpenShift
5 2 (1.48%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.74%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.74%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.74%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.74%) dbt
6 1 (0.74%) Pulumi
6 1 (0.74%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.48%) DHCP
1 2 (1.48%) DNS
1 2 (1.48%) LAN
1 2 (1.48%) NAS
1 2 (1.48%) SAN
1 2 (1.48%) SNMP
1 2 (1.48%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.48%) WAN
2 1 (0.74%) Broadband
2 1 (0.74%) HTTP
2 1 (0.74%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.74%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.33%) Relational Database
2 10 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.70%) Hadoop
3 5 (3.70%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.96%) ClickHouse
5 3 (2.22%) Big Data
6 2 (1.48%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.48%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.48%) KDB
6 2 (1.48%) Power BI
7 1 (0.74%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.74%) DB2
7 1 (0.74%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.74%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.74%) MySQL
7 1 (0.74%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.74%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 3 (2.22%) Selenium
2 1 (0.74%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.74%) Git
2 1 (0.74%) GitLab
2 1 (0.74%) Gradle
2 1 (0.74%) Jaeger
2 1 (0.74%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.74%) JMeter
2 1 (0.74%) JUnit
2 1 (0.74%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (0.74%) MLflow
2 1 (0.74%) WebDriver
General
1 31 (22.96%) Social Skills
2 26 (19.26%) Front Office
3 25 (18.52%) Finance
4 16 (11.85%) Banking
5 11 (8.15%) Billing
6 7 (5.19%) Financial Institution
7 6 (4.44%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.96%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.96%) Marketing
8 4 (2.96%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.48%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.48%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.74%) French Language
10 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.74%) Law
10 1 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 61 (45.19%) Developer
2 38 (28.15%) Senior
3 29 (21.48%) Java Engineer
4 19 (14.07%) Java Developer
5 17 (12.59%) Senior Developer
6 15 (11.11%) Lead
7 14 (10.37%) Software Engineer
8 13 (9.63%) Senior Java Engineer
9 11 (8.15%) Java Software Engineer
10 7 (5.19%) Architect
10 7 (5.19%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (4.44%) DV Cleared Java Developer
11 6 (4.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 4 (2.96%) Applications Architect
12 4 (2.96%) Data Engineer
12 4 (2.96%) Java Applications Architect
12 4 (2.96%) Java Architect
12 4 (2.96%) Web Applications Architect
12 4 (2.96%) Web Architect
13 3 (2.22%) Senior Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (13.33%) Kafka
2 13 (9.63%) .NET
2 13 (9.63%) Spring
3 11 (8.15%) RESTful
3 11 (8.15%) Spring Boot
4 9 (6.67%) Java Concurrency
5 8 (5.93%) FIX Protocol
5 8 (5.93%) React
6 4 (2.96%) Node.js
7 3 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (2.22%) LDAP
8 2 (1.48%) HTML
8 2 (1.48%) Playwright
8 2 (1.48%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.48%) Vue
9 1 (0.74%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.74%) HTML5
9 1 (0.74%) JSON
9 1 (0.74%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.74%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 26 (19.26%) Onboarding
2 21 (15.56%) Cloud Native
3 17 (12.59%) Algorithms
4 15 (11.11%) Derivative
5 14 (10.37%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (9.63%) Equities
7 10 (7.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (3.70%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.96%) Credit Risk
9 4 (2.96%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (2.96%) Market Risk
9 4 (2.96%) NHS
10 2 (1.48%) FPGA
11 1 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.74%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.74%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.74%) PKI
11 1 (0.74%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.74%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.44%) Linux
2 2 (1.48%) CentOS
2 2 (1.48%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (24.44%) CI/CD
2 32 (23.70%) Test Automation
3 31 (22.96%) DevOps
4 28 (20.74%) Software Engineering
5 27 (20.00%) Migration
6 23 (17.04%) Agile
6 23 (17.04%) Low Latency
7 22 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (15.56%) Microservices
9 19 (14.07%) Computer Science
9 19 (14.07%) Electronic Trading
10 18 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
11 17 (12.59%) Mathematics
12 16 (11.85%) Analytics
12 16 (11.85%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (11.85%) Scrum
13 15 (11.11%) Document Management
13 15 (11.11%) Error Analysis
13 15 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
14 14 (10.37%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 50 (37.04%) Python
2 34 (25.19%) C#
3 22 (16.30%) SQL
4 12 (8.89%) Kotlin
5 8 (5.93%) JavaScript
6 7 (5.19%) C++
7 4 (2.96%) Scala
8 3 (2.22%) Go
9 2 (1.48%) Perl
9 2 (1.48%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.74%) Bash
10 1 (0.74%) COBOL
10 1 (0.74%) Groovy
10 1 (0.74%) Korn
10 1 (0.74%) R
10 1 (0.74%) Ruby
10 1 (0.74%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (12.59%) Degree
2 13 (9.63%) Security Cleared
3 11 (8.15%) DV Cleared
4 10 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.44%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.70%) PhD
7 2 (1.48%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.48%) CFA
7 2 (1.48%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.48%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.48%) PMP
7 2 (1.48%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 6 (4.44%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (14.07%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.44%) Ansible
3 3 (2.22%) Progress Chef
3 3 (2.22%) Terraform
4 2 (1.48%) Argo
4 2 (1.48%) Puppet
4 2 (1.48%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (1.48%) Red Hat Spacewalk
5 1 (0.74%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.74%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (19.26%) Guidewire
2 4 (2.96%) Databricks
3 3 (2.22%) Dell
3 3 (2.22%) Google
3 3 (2.22%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.48%) FIS
4 2 (1.48%) HP
4 2 (1.48%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.48%) Murex
4 2 (1.48%) Oracle
5 1 (0.74%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.74%) Foundry
5 1 (0.74%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.74%) Palantir
5 1 (0.74%) Pega
5 1 (0.74%) Solace