Java Jobs in the City of London

Java
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 18 9
Rank change year-on-year -6 -9 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 184 324 776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 9.37% 9.76% 17.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.31% 21.40% 34.02%
Number of salaries quoted 151 284 680
10th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £74,375 £70,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £87,500 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -5.41% +2.78%
75th Percentile £120,000 £110,625 £112,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £122,500 £130,000
Central London median annual salary £97,500 £85,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year +14.71% -8.11% +2.78%

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 906 1,514 2,281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 46.13% 45.62% 51.11%
Number of salaries quoted 751 1,191 2,036
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £77,750
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -0.32% +3.67%
75th Percentile £109,375 £97,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £117,500
Central London median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -3.23% +3.33%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the City of London

Java
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java in the City of London.

Salary trend for Java in the City of London

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 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Java in the City of London

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.09%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.09%) Confluence
2 2 (1.09%) Ethereum
2 2 (1.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.09%) Solana
3 1 (0.54%) Alfresco
3 1 (0.54%) Apache
3 1 (0.54%) Camunda
3 1 (0.54%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.72%) Endur
2 4 (2.17%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (2.17%) SimCorp Dimension
3 3 (1.63%) Adaptiv
3 3 (1.63%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.54%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 65 (35.33%) AWS
2 60 (32.61%) Azure
3 27 (14.67%) GitHub
4 25 (13.59%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (13.04%) GCP
6 21 (11.41%) GitHub Actions
7 20 (10.87%) Datadog
8 13 (7.07%) Serverless
9 9 (4.89%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (4.89%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (4.35%) npm
11 7 (3.80%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (3.26%) SaaS
13 5 (2.72%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (2.17%) Amazon Kinesis
14 4 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (2.17%) AWS Step Functions
14 4 (2.17%) Power Platform
14 4 (2.17%) Pulumi
14 4 (2.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.63%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.09%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.59%) Relational Database
2 17 (9.24%) SQL Server
3 11 (5.98%) RDBMS
4 7 (3.80%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.26%) Big Data
6 4 (2.17%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.17%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.17%) Hadoop
6 4 (2.17%) OLAP
6 4 (2.17%) OLTP
6 4 (2.17%) Power BI
6 4 (2.17%) Tableau
7 3 (1.63%) ClickHouse
7 3 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.63%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.09%) Redis
8 2 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (4.35%) SonarQube
2 6 (3.26%) JIRA
3 5 (2.72%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.72%) JUnit
4 3 (1.63%) Git
4 3 (1.63%) Selenium
5 2 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.09%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.09%) Jaeger
5 2 (1.09%) JMeter
5 2 (1.09%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.09%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.54%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.54%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.54%) Gradle
6 1 (0.54%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.54%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.54%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 55 (29.89%) Finance
2 48 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 40 (21.74%) Banking
4 18 (9.78%) Front Office
5 15 (8.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (8.15%) Investment Banking
6 10 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (4.89%) Law
8 7 (3.80%) Billing
9 4 (2.17%) Advertising
9 4 (2.17%) Retail
10 3 (1.63%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.63%) French Language
10 3 (1.63%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.54%) Legal
11 1 (0.54%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 70 (38.04%) Developer
2 31 (16.85%) Lead
3 28 (15.22%) Senior
4 25 (13.59%) Java Developer
5 18 (9.78%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (9.78%) Software Engineer
6 13 (7.07%) Analyst
6 13 (7.07%) Java Engineer
7 10 (5.43%) Java Software Engineer
7 10 (5.43%) Platform Engineer
7 10 (5.43%) Python Developer
7 10 (5.43%) Senior Developer
8 8 (4.35%) Data Engineer
8 8 (4.35%) Electronic Trading Developer
8 8 (4.35%) Lead Data Engineer
8 8 (4.35%) Qualitative Analyst
8 8 (4.35%) Quantitative Analyst
9 7 (3.80%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
9 7 (3.80%) Front Office Developer
10 6 (3.26%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (17.93%) .NET
2 31 (16.85%) React
3 18 (9.78%) Spring
4 15 (8.15%) RESTful
5 14 (7.61%) Kafka
6 10 (5.43%) Spring Boot
7 9 (4.89%) ARM Templates
7 9 (4.89%) Node.js
8 7 (3.80%) Middleware
8 7 (3.80%) REST
9 6 (3.26%) FIX Protocol
10 5 (2.72%) JSON
10 5 (2.72%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (2.72%) Web Services
11 4 (2.17%) Django
11 4 (2.17%) Flask
11 4 (2.17%) Pandas
12 3 (1.63%) AngularJS
12 3 (1.63%) Elastic Stack
12 3 (1.63%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 38 (20.65%) Cloud Native
2 22 (11.96%) Onboarding
3 11 (5.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (5.43%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (4.89%) Algorithms
6 8 (4.35%) Fixed Income
7 7 (3.80%) Derivative
7 7 (3.80%) Product Ownership
8 6 (3.26%) Market Risk
9 5 (2.72%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.72%) Public Cloud
10 4 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (2.17%) Equities
10 4 (2.17%) Swaptions
11 3 (1.63%) Blockchain
11 3 (1.63%) Credit Risk
11 3 (1.63%) Cyberattack
11 3 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.63%) Video Conferencing
12 2 (1.09%) Bitcoin
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.52%) Linux
2 6 (3.26%) Unix
3 4 (2.17%) Windows
4 3 (1.63%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (45.65%) Agile
2 75 (40.76%) DevOps
3 60 (32.61%) CI/CD
4 47 (25.54%) Migration
5 41 (22.28%) Containerisation
6 36 (19.57%) Software Engineering
7 34 (18.48%) Microservices
8 29 (15.76%) Mentoring
9 28 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (14.67%) Infrastructure as Code
10 27 (14.67%) Platform Engineering
11 25 (13.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (13.59%) Low Latency
11 25 (13.59%) Stakeholder Management
12 23 (12.50%) Multithreading
13 22 (11.96%) Computer Science
13 22 (11.96%) Scrum
13 22 (11.96%) Software Delivery
14 21 (11.41%) Analytics
14 21 (11.41%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 92 (50.00%) Python
2 50 (27.17%) C#
3 36 (19.57%) SQL
4 24 (13.04%) C++
5 16 (8.70%) TypeScript
6 14 (7.61%) JavaScript
7 13 (7.07%) Go
8 12 (6.52%) Bash
9 11 (5.98%) PowerShell
10 10 (5.43%) Scala
11 8 (4.35%) Rust
12 4 (2.17%) MATLAB
12 4 (2.17%) VB
13 3 (1.63%) F#
13 3 (1.63%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.54%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.54%) Ruby
14 1 (0.54%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 30 (16.30%) Degree
2 19 (10.33%) Master's Degree
3 13 (7.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (7.07%) Security Cleared
4 9 (4.89%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.26%) CFA
5 6 (3.26%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (3.26%) PMI Certification
5 6 (3.26%) PMP
6 4 (2.17%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.63%) PhD
8 2 (1.09%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.54%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.98%) QA
2 6 (3.26%) GDPR
3 4 (2.17%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.17%) SLA
4 2 (1.09%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.54%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.54%) ITGC
System Software
1 36 (19.57%) Docker
2 1 (0.54%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 43 (23.37%) Kubernetes
2 29 (15.76%) Terraform
3 14 (7.61%) Prometheus
4 8 (4.35%) Ansible
5 4 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.63%) Grafana
7 2 (1.09%) Argo
7 2 (1.09%) Kustomize
7 2 (1.09%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.09%) Puppet
8 1 (0.54%) Consul
8 1 (0.54%) Istio
8 1 (0.54%) Packer
8 1 (0.54%) Salt
Vendors
1 19 (10.33%) Guidewire
2 18 (9.78%) Google
3 12 (6.52%) Microsoft
4 10 (5.43%) Oracle
5 7 (3.80%) Murex
5 7 (3.80%) Solace
6 5 (2.72%) OpenLink
7 4 (2.17%) Informatica
7 4 (2.17%) SimCorp
7 4 (2.17%) Sybase
7 4 (2.17%) TIBCO
8 3 (1.63%) Barracuda Networks
8 3 (1.63%) FIS
9 2 (1.09%) Databricks
9 2 (1.09%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.09%) Talend
10 1 (0.54%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.54%) SAP