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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 35 9
Rank change year-on-year +8 -26 +2
Permanent jobs citing Java 143 189 473
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 7.73% 6.75% 15.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.34% 14.44% 31.30%
Number of salaries quoted 124 145 436
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £87,500 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -5.41% -
75th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £140,700 £137,500 £127,500
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £85,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -8.11% +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 703 1,309 1,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 38.00% 46.73% 50.25%
Number of salaries quoted 581 954 1,386
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £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 £105,000 £95,750 £101,250
90th Percentile £132,500 £120,000 £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 2 December 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 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (2.10%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.40%) Apache
2 2 (1.40%) Luigi
2 2 (1.40%) nginx
Business Applications
1 3 (2.10%) Adaptiv
2 2 (1.40%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 44 (30.77%) AWS
2 25 (17.48%) Azure
3 20 (13.99%) Datadog
4 16 (11.19%) GCP
5 11 (7.69%) SaaS
6 6 (4.20%) GitHub
7 5 (3.50%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (3.50%) Serverless
8 3 (2.10%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.10%) Google App Engine
8 3 (2.10%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.40%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.40%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.40%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.70%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.70%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (0.70%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.40%) DHCP
1 2 (1.40%) DNS
1 2 (1.40%) LAN
1 2 (1.40%) NAS
1 2 (1.40%) SAN
1 2 (1.40%) SNMP
1 2 (1.40%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.40%) WAN
2 1 (0.70%) HTTP
2 1 (0.70%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.70%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (15.38%) Relational Database
2 8 (5.59%) ClickHouse
3 6 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.50%) Hadoop
5 4 (2.80%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.80%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.10%) Big Data
6 3 (2.10%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.40%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.40%) KDB
7 2 (1.40%) OLAP
7 2 (1.40%) OLTP
8 1 (0.70%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.70%) DB2
8 1 (0.70%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.70%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.70%) MySQL
8 1 (0.70%) Power BI
8 1 (0.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (2.10%) Git
1 3 (2.10%) JUnit
2 2 (1.40%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.40%) JMeter
2 2 (1.40%) Selenium
2 2 (1.40%) SonarQube
2 2 (1.40%) TeamCity
2 2 (1.40%) WebDriver
3 1 (0.70%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.70%) GitLab
3 1 (0.70%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (0.70%) MLflow
General
1 46 (32.17%) Social Skills
2 35 (24.48%) Finance
3 24 (16.78%) Front Office
4 21 (14.69%) Banking
5 15 (10.49%) Billing
6 10 (6.99%) Financial Institution
7 7 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (3.50%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.10%) Advertising
10 1 (0.70%) French Language
10 1 (0.70%) Law
10 1 (0.70%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.70%) Retail
10 1 (0.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 68 (47.55%) Developer
2 37 (25.87%) Senior
3 18 (12.59%) Java Engineer
3 18 (12.59%) Lead
4 14 (9.79%) Senior Developer
5 13 (9.09%) Java Developer
6 12 (8.39%) Senior Java Engineer
7 10 (6.99%) Software Engineer
8 8 (5.59%) Architect
9 5 (3.50%) Development Team Leader
9 5 (3.50%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 5 (3.50%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
9 5 (3.50%) Front Office Developer
9 5 (3.50%) Java Architect
9 5 (3.50%) Team Leader
10 4 (2.80%) Java Applications Architect
10 4 (2.80%) Java Development Team Leader
10 4 (2.80%) Principal Developer
10 4 (2.80%) Web Applications Architect
10 4 (2.80%) Web Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (16.08%) .NET
2 21 (14.69%) Kafka
3 19 (13.29%) React
4 17 (11.89%) RESTful
4 17 (11.89%) Spring
5 14 (9.79%) Spring Boot
6 7 (4.90%) Java Concurrency
6 7 (4.90%) Node.js
7 5 (3.50%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (2.80%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (2.10%) LDAP
10 2 (1.40%) Apache Thrift
10 2 (1.40%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.40%) HTML
10 2 (1.40%) JSON
10 2 (1.40%) Middleware
10 2 (1.40%) REST
10 2 (1.40%) Vue
11 1 (0.70%) Flutter
11 1 (0.70%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 38 (26.57%) Onboarding
2 32 (22.38%) Cloud Native
3 17 (11.89%) Algorithms
4 15 (10.49%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (9.79%) Equities
6 12 (8.39%) Derivative
7 9 (6.29%) Market Risk
8 7 (4.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (3.50%) Data Structures
10 4 (2.80%) Public Cloud
11 3 (2.10%) Credit Risk
11 3 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (1.40%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (1.40%) Fixed Income
12 2 (1.40%) FPGA
12 2 (1.40%) Mobile App
13 1 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
13 1 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
13 1 (0.70%) Mainframe
13 1 (0.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.20%) Linux
2 2 (1.40%) CentOS
2 2 (1.40%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (34.97%) CI/CD
2 47 (32.87%) Agile
3 38 (26.57%) Migration
4 37 (25.87%) Test Automation
5 36 (25.17%) DevOps
6 34 (23.78%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (20.98%) Microservices
8 29 (20.28%) Low Latency
9 27 (18.88%) Stakeholder Management
10 26 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (18.18%) Scrum
11 21 (14.69%) Computer Science
12 20 (13.99%) Document Management
12 20 (13.99%) Error Analysis
12 20 (13.99%) Requirements Gathering
13 18 (12.59%) Electronic Trading
14 17 (11.89%) Analytics
14 17 (11.89%) Code Quality
15 16 (11.19%) Collaborative Working
15 16 (11.19%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 63 (44.06%) Python
2 46 (32.17%) C#
3 28 (19.58%) SQL
4 12 (8.39%) Kotlin
5 11 (7.69%) C++
6 8 (5.59%) TypeScript
7 6 (4.20%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.80%) Go
9 3 (2.10%) Scala
10 2 (1.40%) Perl
10 2 (1.40%) Ruby
11 1 (0.70%) COBOL
11 1 (0.70%) Groovy
11 1 (0.70%) Korn
11 1 (0.70%) R
Qualifications
1 19 (13.29%) Degree
2 11 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (6.99%) Master's Degree
4 6 (4.20%) PhD
4 6 (4.20%) Security Cleared
5 5 (3.50%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.80%) CFA
6 4 (2.80%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (2.80%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.80%) PMP
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.10%) QA
2 2 (1.40%) GDPR
2 2 (1.40%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.40%) SLA
3 1 (0.70%) ITGC
System Software
1 10 (6.99%) Docker
2 1 (0.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (16.08%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.59%) Terraform
3 5 (3.50%) Ansible
4 3 (2.10%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.40%) Puppet
5 2 (1.40%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (1.40%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 1 (0.70%) Argo
Vendors
1 35 (24.48%) Guidewire
2 4 (2.80%) Google
2 4 (2.80%) Murex
3 3 (2.10%) Databricks
3 3 (2.10%) Dell
3 3 (2.10%) FIS
3 3 (2.10%) Red Hat
3 3 (2.10%) ServiceNow
3 3 (2.10%) Solace
4 2 (1.40%) HP
4 2 (1.40%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.40%) Oracle
5 1 (0.70%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.70%) Foundry
5 1 (0.70%) Palantir
5 1 (0.70%) Pega