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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 41 10
Rank change year-on-year +5 -31 +2
Permanent jobs citing Java 131 154 452
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 4.84% 6.06% 14.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.95% 12.94% 29.62%
Number of salaries quoted 107 114 413
10th Percentile £67,500 £56,250 £56,500
25th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £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 £111,875 £115,000 £111,250
90th Percentile £140,400 £137,500 £122,000
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £92,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +8.11% +2.78% -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 876 1,190 1,526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 32.36% 46.80% 49.32%
Number of salaries quoted 700 886 1,391
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £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% +1.27%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £117,625 £118,125 £115,000
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 12 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 4 (3.05%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.53%) Apache
3 2 (1.53%) Luigi
3 2 (1.53%) nginx
4 1 (0.76%) Confluence
4 1 (0.76%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.53%) Adaptiv
Cloud Services
1 45 (34.35%) AWS
2 13 (9.92%) Azure
3 11 (8.40%) Datadog
4 10 (7.63%) GCP
4 10 (7.63%) SaaS
5 3 (2.29%) GitHub
5 3 (2.29%) Snowflake
6 2 (1.53%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.53%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.53%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.53%) Serverless
7 1 (0.76%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.76%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (0.76%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (0.76%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.76%) dbt
7 1 (0.76%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.53%) DHCP
1 2 (1.53%) DNS
1 2 (1.53%) LAN
1 2 (1.53%) NAS
1 2 (1.53%) SAN
1 2 (1.53%) SNMP
1 2 (1.53%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.53%) WAN
2 1 (0.76%) Broadband
2 1 (0.76%) HTTP
2 1 (0.76%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.76%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.69%) Relational Database
2 11 (8.40%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.82%) Hadoop
3 5 (3.82%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.05%) ClickHouse
5 3 (2.29%) Big Data
5 3 (2.29%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.53%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.53%) KDB
6 2 (1.53%) Power BI
7 1 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.76%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.76%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.76%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.76%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.76%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.76%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.76%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 4 (3.05%) Gradle
2 3 (2.29%) Selenium
3 1 (0.76%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.76%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.76%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.76%) Git
3 1 (0.76%) GitLab
3 1 (0.76%) Jaeger
3 1 (0.76%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.76%) JIRA
3 1 (0.76%) JMeter
3 1 (0.76%) JUnit
3 1 (0.76%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (0.76%) MLflow
3 1 (0.76%) WebDriver
General
1 28 (21.37%) Front Office
2 27 (20.61%) Finance
3 25 (19.08%) Social Skills
4 17 (12.98%) Banking
5 7 (5.34%) Financial Institution
6 6 (4.58%) Billing
6 6 (4.58%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.05%) Marketing
7 4 (3.05%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.53%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.53%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.76%) French Language
9 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.76%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.76%) Retail
9 1 (0.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 55 (41.98%) Developer
2 41 (31.30%) Senior
3 33 (25.19%) Java Engineer
4 23 (17.56%) Java Developer
5 20 (15.27%) Senior Developer
6 18 (13.74%) Software Engineer
7 15 (11.45%) Java Software Engineer
8 13 (9.92%) Senior Java Engineer
9 12 (9.16%) Lead
10 9 (6.87%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (5.34%) Architect
12 6 (4.58%) DV Cleared Java Developer
12 6 (4.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 5 (3.82%) Front Office Developer
13 5 (3.82%) Senior Java Developer
14 4 (3.05%) Applications Architect
14 4 (3.05%) Data Engineer
14 4 (3.05%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 4 (3.05%) Senior Software Engineer
14 4 (3.05%) Web Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (14.50%) Kafka
1 19 (14.50%) Spring
2 17 (12.98%) Spring Boot
3 11 (8.40%) FIX Protocol
4 8 (6.11%) .NET
4 8 (6.11%) Java Concurrency
4 8 (6.11%) React
5 6 (4.58%) Node.js
5 6 (4.58%) RESTful
6 3 (2.29%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (2.29%) HTML
6 3 (2.29%) LDAP
6 3 (2.29%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (2.29%) REST
6 3 (2.29%) Vue
7 2 (1.53%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.53%) CSS
7 2 (1.53%) GraphQL
7 2 (1.53%) HTML5
7 2 (1.53%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 25 (19.08%) Cloud Native
2 17 (12.98%) Onboarding
3 16 (12.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 14 (10.69%) Derivative
5 13 (9.92%) Algorithms
5 13 (9.92%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (7.63%) Equities
7 6 (4.58%) Data Structures
8 4 (3.05%) Credit Risk
8 4 (3.05%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (3.05%) Market Risk
8 4 (3.05%) NHS
9 2 (1.53%) FPGA
9 2 (1.53%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.76%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.76%) PKI
10 1 (0.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.82%) Linux
2 2 (1.53%) CentOS
2 2 (1.53%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (25.95%) Software Engineering
2 32 (24.43%) CI/CD
3 29 (22.14%) Test Automation
4 26 (19.85%) DevOps
5 24 (18.32%) Low Latency
6 21 (16.03%) Agile
7 19 (14.50%) Computer Science
7 19 (14.50%) Electronic Trading
7 19 (14.50%) Microservices
8 18 (13.74%) Migration
9 17 (12.98%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (12.21%) Mathematics
10 16 (12.21%) Mentoring
11 13 (9.92%) AI
11 13 (9.92%) Code Quality
12 12 (9.16%) Analytics
12 12 (9.16%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (9.16%) Scrum
12 12 (9.16%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (8.40%) Algorithmic Trading
Programming Languages
1 43 (32.82%) Python
2 25 (19.08%) C#
3 18 (13.74%) SQL
4 11 (8.40%) Kotlin
5 9 (6.87%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.58%) C++
7 3 (2.29%) Go
7 3 (2.29%) Scala
7 3 (2.29%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.53%) Perl
9 1 (0.76%) Bash
9 1 (0.76%) COBOL
9 1 (0.76%) Groovy
9 1 (0.76%) Korn
9 1 (0.76%) R
9 1 (0.76%) Ruby
9 1 (0.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (14.50%) Degree
2 14 (10.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (9.16%) Security Cleared
4 10 (7.63%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.29%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.29%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.53%) CFA
6 2 (1.53%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.53%) PhD
6 2 (1.53%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.53%) PMP
6 2 (1.53%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.29%) QA
System Software
1 9 (6.87%) Docker
2 1 (0.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (16.03%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.58%) Ansible
3 4 (3.05%) Terraform
4 3 (2.29%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.53%) Argo
5 2 (1.53%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.53%) Puppet
5 2 (1.53%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (1.53%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 1 (0.76%) Grafana
6 1 (0.76%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 17 (12.98%) Guidewire
2 4 (3.05%) Solace
3 3 (2.29%) Databricks
3 3 (2.29%) Dell
3 3 (2.29%) Google
3 3 (2.29%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.53%) FIS
4 2 (1.53%) HP
4 2 (1.53%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.53%) Murex
4 2 (1.53%) Oracle
5 1 (0.76%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.76%) Foundry
5 1 (0.76%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.76%) Palantir
5 1 (0.76%) Pega