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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 39 10
Rank change year-on-year -1 -29 +2
Permanent jobs citing Java 127 152 450
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 4.55% 6.04% 14.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.48% 12.81% 29.78%
Number of salaries quoted 105 113 412
10th Percentile £68,500 £56,250 £60,000
25th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +2.70% -2.63%
75th Percentile £106,250 £116,250 £112,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £137,500 £122,500
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £98,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year +2.04% +5.95% -1.60%

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 877 1,187 1,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 31.41% 47.18% 48.90%
Number of salaries quoted 701 891 1,374
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -3.13% +1.91%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,750 £115,875
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +9.68% -3.13% +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 19 February 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 (1.57%) Apache
1 2 (1.57%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.57%) nginx
2 1 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.79%) Confluence
2 1 (0.79%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.57%) Adaptiv
Cloud Services
1 45 (35.43%) AWS
2 15 (11.81%) Azure
3 10 (7.87%) Datadog
3 10 (7.87%) SaaS
4 9 (7.09%) GCP
5 3 (2.36%) GitHub
5 3 (2.36%) Snowflake
6 2 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.57%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.57%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.57%) Serverless
7 1 (0.79%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.79%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (0.79%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (0.79%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.79%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (0.79%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.57%) DHCP
1 2 (1.57%) DNS
1 2 (1.57%) LAN
1 2 (1.57%) NAS
1 2 (1.57%) SAN
1 2 (1.57%) SNMP
1 2 (1.57%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.57%) WAN
2 1 (0.79%) Broadband
2 1 (0.79%) HTTP
2 1 (0.79%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.79%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.45%) Relational Database
2 9 (7.09%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.36%) Big Data
3 3 (2.36%) DynamoDB
3 3 (2.36%) Hadoop
3 3 (2.36%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.57%) ClickHouse
4 2 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.57%) KDB
4 2 (1.57%) Power BI
5 1 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.79%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.79%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.79%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.79%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.79%) Kdb+
5 1 (0.79%) MySQL
5 1 (0.79%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.79%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 4 (3.15%) Gradle
2 3 (2.36%) Selenium
3 2 (1.57%) GitLab
3 2 (1.57%) JIRA
4 1 (0.79%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.79%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.79%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.79%) Git
4 1 (0.79%) Jaeger
4 1 (0.79%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.79%) JMeter
4 1 (0.79%) JUnit
4 1 (0.79%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (0.79%) MLflow
4 1 (0.79%) WebDriver
General
1 28 (22.05%) Front Office
2 27 (21.26%) Finance
3 23 (18.11%) Social Skills
4 16 (12.60%) Banking
5 7 (5.51%) Financial Institution
6 6 (4.72%) Investment Banking
7 5 (3.94%) Billing
8 4 (3.15%) Marketing
8 4 (3.15%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.57%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.57%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.79%) Advertising
10 1 (0.79%) French Language
10 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.79%) Law
10 1 (0.79%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (40.16%) Developer
2 40 (31.50%) Senior
3 34 (26.77%) Java Engineer
4 24 (18.90%) Java Developer
5 19 (14.96%) Senior Developer
5 19 (14.96%) Software Engineer
6 16 (12.60%) Java Software Engineer
7 13 (10.24%) Lead
7 13 (10.24%) Senior Java Engineer
8 10 (7.87%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (4.72%) Architect
9 6 (4.72%) DV Cleared Java Developer
9 6 (4.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (3.94%) Front Office Developer
10 5 (3.94%) Senior Java Developer
11 4 (3.15%) AWS Software Engineer
11 4 (3.15%) Java Applications Architect
11 4 (3.15%) Java Architect
11 4 (3.15%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 4 (3.15%) Web Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (17.32%) Spring
2 20 (15.75%) Spring Boot
3 18 (14.17%) Kafka
4 12 (9.45%) FIX Protocol
5 8 (6.30%) Java Concurrency
5 8 (6.30%) React
6 7 (5.51%) .NET
7 5 (3.94%) Node.js
7 5 (3.94%) RESTful
8 4 (3.15%) HTML
8 4 (3.15%) REST
9 3 (2.36%) CSS
9 3 (2.36%) LDAP
9 3 (2.36%) Vue
10 2 (1.57%) AngularJS
10 2 (1.57%) GraphQL
10 2 (1.57%) HTML5
10 2 (1.57%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (1.57%) Playwright
10 2 (1.57%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 25 (19.69%) Cloud Native
2 16 (12.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 15 (11.81%) Onboarding
4 14 (11.02%) Derivative
5 11 (8.66%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (7.87%) Algorithms
7 9 (7.09%) Equities
8 4 (3.15%) Credit Risk
8 4 (3.15%) Data Structures
8 4 (3.15%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (3.15%) NHS
9 2 (1.57%) FPGA
9 2 (1.57%) Market Risk
9 2 (1.57%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.79%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.79%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.94%) Linux
2 2 (1.57%) CentOS
2 2 (1.57%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (25.98%) CI/CD
1 33 (25.98%) Software Engineering
2 28 (22.05%) DevOps
2 28 (22.05%) Test Automation
3 22 (17.32%) Low Latency
4 20 (15.75%) Agile
5 19 (14.96%) Electronic Trading
5 19 (14.96%) Microservices
6 17 (13.39%) Computer Science
7 16 (12.60%) Mentoring
7 16 (12.60%) Migration
8 15 (11.81%) Mathematics
9 13 (10.24%) AI
10 12 (9.45%) Analytics
10 12 (9.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (9.45%) Event-Driven
10 12 (9.45%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 12 (9.45%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (8.66%) Code Quality
11 11 (8.66%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 37 (29.13%) Python
2 23 (18.11%) C#
3 17 (13.39%) SQL
4 11 (8.66%) Kotlin
5 9 (7.09%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.15%) C++
7 3 (2.36%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.57%) Go
8 2 (1.57%) Perl
9 1 (0.79%) Bash
9 1 (0.79%) COBOL
9 1 (0.79%) Groovy
9 1 (0.79%) Korn
9 1 (0.79%) R
9 1 (0.79%) Ruby
9 1 (0.79%) Scala
9 1 (0.79%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (13.39%) Degree
2 13 (10.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (9.45%) Security Cleared
4 10 (7.87%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.36%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.57%) CFA
6 2 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.57%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.57%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.57%) PMP
6 2 (1.57%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.79%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.36%) QA
System Software
1 10 (7.87%) Docker
2 1 (0.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (17.32%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.15%) Ansible
2 4 (3.15%) Terraform
3 2 (1.57%) Argo
3 2 (1.57%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.57%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (1.57%) Red Hat Spacewalk
4 1 (0.79%) Grafana
4 1 (0.79%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.79%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 15 (11.81%) Guidewire
2 4 (3.15%) Solace
3 3 (2.36%) Databricks
3 3 (2.36%) Dell
3 3 (2.36%) Google
3 3 (2.36%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.57%) FIS
4 2 (1.57%) HP
4 2 (1.57%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.57%) Murex
4 2 (1.57%) Oracle
5 1 (0.79%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.79%) Foundry
5 1 (0.79%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.79%) Palantir
5 1 (0.79%) Pega