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

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 40 10
Rank change year-on-year +8 -30 +1
Permanent jobs citing Java 135 163 438
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 6.25% 6.12% 15.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.07% 13.03% 30.69%
Number of salaries quoted 114 124 405
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £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% -2.63%

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 747 1,251 1,427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 34.60% 46.96% 50.75%
Number of salaries quoted 608 914 1,309
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,150 £51,250
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% +1.27%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £102,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £119,625 £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 5 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 37 (27.41%) AWS
2 17 (12.59%) Azure
3 16 (11.85%) Datadog
4 11 (8.15%) GCP
5 10 (7.41%) SaaS
6 3 (2.22%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.48%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (1.48%) GitHub
7 2 (1.48%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.48%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.74%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.74%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.74%) dbt
8 1 (0.74%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.74%) Google App Engine
8 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%) HTTP
2 1 (0.74%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.74%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.33%) Relational Database
2 8 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.70%) ClickHouse
3 5 (3.70%) Hadoop
4 4 (2.96%) NoSQL
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%) Amazon Redshift
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%) 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%) 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 33 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 27 (20.00%) Front Office
3 26 (19.26%) Finance
4 17 (12.59%) Banking
5 12 (8.89%) Billing
6 8 (5.93%) Financial Institution
7 6 (4.44%) Investment Banking
8 5 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.96%) Marketing
10 3 (2.22%) Tech for Good
11 2 (1.48%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.74%) French Language
12 1 (0.74%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.74%) Law
12 1 (0.74%) Retail
12 1 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (45.93%) Developer
2 38 (28.15%) Senior
3 27 (20.00%) Java Engineer
4 17 (12.59%) Senior Developer
5 16 (11.85%) Java Developer
5 16 (11.85%) Lead
6 15 (11.11%) Software Engineer
7 13 (9.63%) Senior Java Engineer
8 12 (8.89%) Java Software Engineer
9 7 (5.19%) Architect
10 5 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (3.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 4 (2.96%) Applications Architect
11 4 (2.96%) Data Engineer
11 4 (2.96%) Development Team Leader
11 4 (2.96%) DV Cleared Java Developer
11 4 (2.96%) Java Architect
11 4 (2.96%) Team Leader
11 4 (2.96%) Web Applications Architect
11 4 (2.96%) Web Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (14.07%) Kafka
2 15 (11.11%) .NET
3 13 (9.63%) Spring
4 12 (8.89%) RESTful
5 11 (8.15%) Spring Boot
6 10 (7.41%) React
7 9 (6.67%) Java Concurrency
8 8 (5.93%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (2.96%) Node.js
10 3 (2.22%) LDAP
11 2 (1.48%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (1.48%) HTML
11 2 (1.48%) Playwright
11 2 (1.48%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (1.48%) Vue
12 1 (0.74%) Apache Thrift
12 1 (0.74%) Flutter
12 1 (0.74%) GraphQL
12 1 (0.74%) PyTorch
12 1 (0.74%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 28 (20.74%) Onboarding
2 22 (16.30%) Cloud Native
3 18 (13.33%) Algorithms
4 15 (11.11%) Derivative
4 15 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (10.37%) Equities
6 10 (7.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (3.70%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.70%) Market Risk
8 4 (2.96%) Credit Risk
8 4 (2.96%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (2.22%) NHS
10 2 (1.48%) FPGA
10 2 (1.48%) Public Cloud
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
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.70%) Linux
2 2 (1.48%) CentOS
2 2 (1.48%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (25.19%) CI/CD
1 34 (25.19%) Test Automation
2 30 (22.22%) DevOps
3 29 (21.48%) Migration
4 26 (19.26%) Software Engineering
5 25 (18.52%) Agile
5 25 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (17.78%) Low Latency
6 24 (17.78%) Microservices
7 21 (15.56%) Computer Science
8 20 (14.81%) Electronic Trading
8 20 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
9 18 (13.33%) Mathematics
10 17 (12.59%) Analytics
10 17 (12.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (12.59%) Scrum
11 16 (11.85%) Code Quality
11 16 (11.85%) Document Management
11 16 (11.85%) Error Analysis
11 16 (11.85%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 53 (39.26%) Python
2 37 (27.41%) C#
3 23 (17.04%) SQL
4 12 (8.89%) Kotlin
5 8 (5.93%) C++
6 6 (4.44%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.96%) Scala
8 2 (1.48%) Go
8 2 (1.48%) Perl
8 2 (1.48%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.74%) COBOL
9 1 (0.74%) Groovy
9 1 (0.74%) Korn
9 1 (0.74%) R
9 1 (0.74%) Ruby
9 1 (0.74%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (14.07%) Degree
2 11 (8.15%) Computer Science Degree
2 11 (8.15%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.67%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.93%) Master's Degree
5 6 (4.44%) PhD
6 2 (1.48%) CFA
6 2 (1.48%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.48%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.48%) PMP
6 2 (1.48%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 5 (3.70%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.70%) Ansible
3 3 (2.22%) Progress Chef
3 3 (2.22%) Terraform
4 2 (1.48%) Puppet
4 2 (1.48%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (1.48%) Red Hat Spacewalk
5 1 (0.74%) Argo
Vendors
1 28 (20.74%) Guidewire
2 4 (2.96%) Databricks
3 3 (2.22%) Dell
3 3 (2.22%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.48%) FIS
4 2 (1.48%) Google
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%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.74%) Solace