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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 37 11
Rank change year-on-year -7 -26 +1
Permanent jobs citing Java 121 136 434
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.83% 6.36% 13.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.90% 13.05% 28.72%
Number of salaries quoted 91 109 389
10th Percentile £70,000 £56,250 £62,500
25th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £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 £120,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £119,500 £140,750 £125,750
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year - +8.11% -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 938 1,042 1,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 29.67% 48.69% 48.29%
Number of salaries quoted 729 861 1,326
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £57,500 £61,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £101,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £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 20 March 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 (1.65%) Apache
1 2 (1.65%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.65%) nginx
2 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.83%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 47 (38.84%) AWS
2 15 (12.40%) Azure
3 11 (9.09%) GCP
4 8 (6.61%) SaaS
5 6 (4.96%) Datadog
6 3 (2.48%) Pulumi
7 2 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.65%) GitHub
7 2 (1.65%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.65%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.83%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.83%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.83%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.83%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.83%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.83%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (0.83%) dbt
8 1 (0.83%) Serverless
8 1 (0.83%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.65%) DHCP
1 2 (1.65%) DNS
1 2 (1.65%) LAN
1 2 (1.65%) NAS
1 2 (1.65%) SAN
1 2 (1.65%) SNMP
1 2 (1.65%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.65%) WAN
2 1 (0.83%) Broadband
2 1 (0.83%) HTTP
2 1 (0.83%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.83%) Multicast
2 1 (0.83%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.44%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (6.61%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.48%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.65%) Big Data
4 2 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.65%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.65%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.65%) Power BI
5 1 (0.83%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.83%) DB2
5 1 (0.83%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.83%) MySQL
5 1 (0.83%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.83%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (4.96%) Gradle
2 3 (2.48%) Selenium
3 2 (1.65%) GitLab
3 2 (1.65%) JIRA
4 1 (0.83%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.83%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.83%) Git
4 1 (0.83%) Jaeger
4 1 (0.83%) MLflow
General
1 29 (23.97%) Finance
2 27 (22.31%) Front Office
3 17 (14.05%) Social Skills
4 14 (11.57%) Banking
5 10 (8.26%) Financial Institution
6 5 (4.13%) Marketing
7 4 (3.31%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.31%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.65%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.65%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.83%) Advertising
9 1 (0.83%) Billing
9 1 (0.83%) French Language
9 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Law
9 1 (0.83%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (33.88%) Developer
2 39 (32.23%) Senior
3 38 (31.40%) Java Engineer
4 26 (21.49%) Software Engineer
5 24 (19.83%) Java Developer
6 18 (14.88%) Java Software Engineer
7 17 (14.05%) Senior Developer
8 14 (11.57%) Senior Java Engineer
9 12 (9.92%) Lead
10 11 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 10 (8.26%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (5.79%) Front Office Developer
12 7 (5.79%) Senior Software Engineer
13 6 (4.96%) Architect
13 6 (4.96%) DV Cleared Java Developer
13 6 (4.96%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 6 (4.96%) Senior Java Developer
14 5 (4.13%) AWS Software Engineer
15 4 (3.31%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 4 (3.31%) Web Applications Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (18.18%) Spring
2 19 (15.70%) Spring Boot
3 14 (11.57%) Kafka
4 13 (10.74%) FIX Protocol
5 11 (9.09%) React
6 6 (4.96%) .NET
7 5 (4.13%) Java Concurrency
7 5 (4.13%) Node.js
8 4 (3.31%) CSS
8 4 (3.31%) HTML
8 4 (3.31%) REST
9 3 (2.48%) LDAP
9 3 (2.48%) Vue
10 2 (1.65%) AngularJS
10 2 (1.65%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (1.65%) Playwright
10 2 (1.65%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.65%) Web Services
11 1 (0.83%) CSS3
11 1 (0.83%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 25 (20.66%) Cloud Native
2 19 (15.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (9.92%) Derivative
4 11 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (5.79%) Onboarding
6 5 (4.13%) Algorithms
6 5 (4.13%) Equities
7 4 (3.31%) Data Structures
7 4 (3.31%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (3.31%) NHS
8 3 (2.48%) Fixed Income
8 3 (2.48%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.65%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.65%) FPGA
9 2 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.83%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.83%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.79%) Linux
2 2 (1.65%) CentOS
2 2 (1.65%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.65%) Unix
2 2 (1.65%) Windows
3 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (32.23%) Software Engineering
2 26 (21.49%) CI/CD
3 24 (19.83%) DevOps
3 24 (19.83%) Low Latency
4 22 (18.18%) Test Automation
5 17 (14.05%) Electronic Trading
6 16 (13.22%) Computer Science
6 16 (13.22%) Full-Stack Development
6 16 (13.22%) Mentoring
7 15 (12.40%) AI
8 14 (11.57%) Fintech
8 14 (11.57%) Mathematics
8 14 (11.57%) Microservices
9 12 (9.92%) Market Making
9 12 (9.92%) Ultra-Low Latency
10 11 (9.09%) Agile
10 11 (9.09%) Code Quality
10 11 (9.09%) Roadmaps
11 10 (8.26%) Event-Driven
11 10 (8.26%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 31 (25.62%) Python
2 17 (14.05%) C#
3 14 (11.57%) SQL
4 9 (7.44%) JavaScript
4 9 (7.44%) Kotlin
5 6 (4.96%) Go
6 3 (2.48%) C++
6 3 (2.48%) Perl
6 3 (2.48%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.65%) Bash
7 2 (1.65%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.65%) Ruby
8 1 (0.83%) C
8 1 (0.83%) COBOL
8 1 (0.83%) Cypher
8 1 (0.83%) Korn
8 1 (0.83%) Objective-C
8 1 (0.83%) Rust
8 1 (0.83%) Scala
8 1 (0.83%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (14.88%) Degree
2 14 (11.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (9.92%) Security Cleared
4 10 (8.26%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.48%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.65%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.83%) CCSAM
7 1 (0.83%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.83%) GPEN
7 1 (0.83%) GXPN
7 1 (0.83%) OSCE
7 1 (0.83%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.65%) QA
2 1 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.83%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (8.26%) Docker
2 2 (1.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.13%) Terraform
3 4 (3.31%) Ansible
4 2 (1.65%) Argo
4 2 (1.65%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.65%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (1.65%) Red Hat Spacewalk
5 1 (0.83%) Grafana
5 1 (0.83%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.83%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (5.79%) Guidewire
2 6 (4.96%) Solace
3 3 (2.48%) Dell
3 3 (2.48%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.48%) Oracle
3 3 (2.48%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.65%) Databricks
4 2 (1.65%) HP
5 1 (0.83%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.83%) Google
5 1 (0.83%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.83%) Splunk