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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 33 14
Rank change year-on-year -13 -19 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 131 149 392
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.57% 7.06% 12.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.17% 14.55% 25.76%
Number of salaries quoted 97 115 356
10th Percentile £67,500 £65,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £97,500 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +5.41% -2.63%
75th Percentile £105,000 £121,250 £112,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £152,500 £126,875
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £100,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -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 995 1,024 1,522
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 27.13% 48.55% 47.83%
Number of salaries quoted 765 851 1,307
10th Percentile £50,200 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
% 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 18 April 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 2 (1.53%) Apache
1 2 (1.53%) nginx
2 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 52 (39.69%) AWS
2 17 (12.98%) Azure
2 17 (12.98%) GCP
3 4 (3.05%) Pulumi
3 4 (3.05%) SaaS
4 2 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (1.53%) Datadog
4 2 (1.53%) GitHub
4 2 (1.53%) Power Platform
4 2 (1.53%) Serverless
5 1 (0.76%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (0.76%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.76%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (0.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (0.76%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (0.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (0.76%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (0.76%) dbt
5 1 (0.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.29%) Network Security
2 2 (1.53%) DHCP
2 2 (1.53%) DNS
2 2 (1.53%) LAN
2 2 (1.53%) NAS
2 2 (1.53%) SAN
2 2 (1.53%) SNMP
2 2 (1.53%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.53%) WAN
3 1 (0.76%) Broadband
3 1 (0.76%) LTE
3 1 (0.76%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.87%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (3.82%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.05%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.53%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.53%) MySQL
4 2 (1.53%) Power BI
4 2 (1.53%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.76%) Big Data
5 1 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.76%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.76%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.76%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.76%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (4.58%) Gradle
2 3 (2.29%) Git
2 3 (2.29%) JIRA
2 3 (2.29%) Selenium
3 1 (0.76%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.76%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.76%) GitLab
3 1 (0.76%) Jaeger
3 1 (0.76%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.76%) MLflow
General
1 35 (26.72%) Finance
2 26 (19.85%) Front Office
3 17 (12.98%) Banking
4 15 (11.45%) Social Skills
5 9 (6.87%) Financial Institution
6 5 (3.82%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.82%) Marketing
7 4 (3.05%) Tech for Good
8 3 (2.29%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.53%) Advertising
9 2 (1.53%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.53%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.76%) Billing
10 1 (0.76%) Cantonese Language
10 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Law
10 1 (0.76%) Retail
10 1 (0.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (34.35%) Developer
2 38 (29.01%) Java Engineer
3 35 (26.72%) Senior
4 33 (25.19%) Software Engineer
5 28 (21.37%) Java Developer
6 23 (17.56%) Java Software Engineer
7 16 (12.21%) Senior Developer
8 14 (10.69%) AWS Engineer
9 11 (8.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 11 (8.40%) Lead
9 11 (8.40%) Senior Java Engineer
10 9 (6.87%) AWS Software Engineer
10 9 (6.87%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (6.11%) Front Office Developer
12 7 (5.34%) Architect
12 7 (5.34%) Senior Java Developer
13 6 (4.58%) DV Cleared Java Developer
13 6 (4.58%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 5 (3.82%) Senior Java Software Engineer
15 4 (3.05%) Web Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (18.32%) Spring Boot
2 22 (16.79%) Spring
3 13 (9.92%) Kafka
4 12 (9.16%) React
5 11 (8.40%) FIX Protocol
6 8 (6.11%) .NET
7 5 (3.82%) CSS
7 5 (3.82%) HTML
7 5 (3.82%) Node.js
8 4 (3.05%) REST
8 4 (3.05%) Vue
9 3 (2.29%) AngularJS
9 3 (2.29%) Java Concurrency
9 3 (2.29%) Middleware
10 2 (1.53%) LDAP
10 2 (1.53%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (1.53%) Playwright
10 2 (1.53%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.53%) RESTful
10 2 (1.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (17.56%) Cloud Native
2 18 (13.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (8.40%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (6.87%) Derivative
5 5 (3.82%) Equities
6 4 (3.05%) NHS
6 4 (3.05%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.29%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.29%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.29%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (2.29%) Fixed Income
7 3 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.29%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.29%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.29%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.53%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.53%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.53%) FPGA
8 2 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.87%) Linux
2 4 (3.05%) Windows
3 2 (1.53%) CentOS
3 2 (1.53%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.76%) Unix
4 1 (0.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (36.64%) Software Engineering
2 24 (18.32%) DevOps
3 23 (17.56%) CI/CD
3 23 (17.56%) Low Latency
4 18 (13.74%) Mentoring
5 17 (12.98%) Full-Stack Development
6 16 (12.21%) Agile
6 16 (12.21%) Fintech
6 16 (12.21%) Microservices
6 16 (12.21%) Roadmaps
6 16 (12.21%) Test Automation
7 15 (11.45%) AI
7 15 (11.45%) Computer Science
7 15 (11.45%) Electronic Trading
8 12 (9.16%) Code Quality
8 12 (9.16%) Ultra-Low Latency
9 11 (8.40%) Mathematics
10 10 (7.63%) Market Making
11 9 (6.87%) Technical Leadership
12 8 (6.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 30 (22.90%) Python
2 17 (12.98%) C#
3 14 (10.69%) SQL
4 12 (9.16%) JavaScript
5 10 (7.63%) Go
6 7 (5.34%) Kotlin
7 6 (4.58%) C++
8 5 (3.82%) Perl
8 5 (3.82%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.05%) Bash
9 4 (3.05%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.05%) Ruby
10 3 (2.29%) C
10 3 (2.29%) Objective-C
10 3 (2.29%) Rust
11 1 (0.76%) Cypher
11 1 (0.76%) Elm
11 1 (0.76%) Korn
11 1 (0.76%) Scala
11 1 (0.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (14.50%) Degree
2 13 (9.92%) Computer Science Degree
2 13 (9.92%) Security Cleared
3 10 (7.63%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.29%) CCSAM
4 3 (2.29%) CREST Certified
4 3 (2.29%) GPEN
4 3 (2.29%) GXPN
4 3 (2.29%) OSCE
4 3 (2.29%) OSCP
4 3 (2.29%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.53%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.29%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (1.53%) QA
3 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.76%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (8.40%) Docker
2 1 (0.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (16.03%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.11%) Terraform
3 3 (2.29%) Ansible
4 2 (1.53%) Argo
4 2 (1.53%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.53%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (1.53%) Red Hat Spacewalk
5 1 (0.76%) Grafana
5 1 (0.76%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 6 (4.58%) Solace
2 4 (3.05%) Guidewire
2 4 (3.05%) Oracle
3 3 (2.29%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.29%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.53%) Dell
4 2 (1.53%) Google
4 2 (1.53%) HP
4 2 (1.53%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.76%) Databricks
5 1 (0.76%) JDA
5 1 (0.76%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.76%) Splunk
5 1 (0.76%) Temenos