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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 18 27
Rank change year-on-year -22 +9 -19
Permanent jobs citing Java 105 187 219
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.69% 11.07% 7.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.10% 26.23% 16.48%
Number of salaries quoted 91 165 173
10th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £64,000
25th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -8.11%
75th Percentile £113,750 £118,750 £107,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £136,500 £125,500
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -5.56%

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 614 713 1,329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 21.57% 42.19% 46.36%
Number of salaries quoted 503 603 920
10th Percentile £56,150 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,625 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +3.23% -3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £132,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% -3.85%

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 1 October 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 1 (0.95%) Camunda
Applications
1 7 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.90%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.95%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 39 (37.14%) AWS
2 21 (20.00%) Azure
3 15 (14.29%) GCP
4 5 (4.76%) GitHub
5 4 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.81%) Serverless
6 3 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (2.86%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.86%) Vertex AI
7 2 (1.90%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (1.90%) Azure AI
7 2 (1.90%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 2 (1.90%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (1.90%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (1.90%) Cloud Run
7 2 (1.90%) Datadog
7 2 (1.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.95%) Amazon Neptune
8 1 (0.95%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.90%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.95%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.95%) Internet
2 1 (0.95%) LTE
2 1 (0.95%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.71%) Geospatial Data
2 5 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.81%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.86%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.90%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.90%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.95%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.95%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.95%) Power BI
6 1 (0.95%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.95%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.95%) SQLPlus
6 1 (0.95%) Stardog
6 1 (0.95%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 10 (9.52%) Git
2 6 (5.71%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.71%) JUnit
2 6 (5.71%) Maven
2 6 (5.71%) Mockito
3 3 (2.86%) GitLab
3 3 (2.86%) Gradle
3 3 (2.86%) Spock
4 2 (1.90%) Burp Suite
4 2 (1.90%) JIRA
4 2 (1.90%) Snyk
5 1 (0.95%) JMeter
5 1 (0.95%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (0.95%) Postman
General
1 38 (36.19%) Finance
2 27 (25.71%) Social Skills
3 13 (12.38%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (10.48%) Banking
5 7 (6.67%) Front Office
6 4 (3.81%) Financial Institution
6 4 (3.81%) Prime Brokerage
7 3 (2.86%) Back Office
7 3 (2.86%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.86%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.95%) Advertising
8 1 (0.95%) Games
8 1 (0.95%) iGaming
8 1 (0.95%) Private Banking
8 1 (0.95%) Retail
8 1 (0.95%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (34.29%) Developer
2 26 (24.76%) Java Developer
3 18 (17.14%) Senior
4 16 (15.24%) Java Engineer
4 16 (15.24%) Software Engineer
5 8 (7.62%) Consultant
5 8 (7.62%) Java Consultant
5 8 (7.62%) Lead
6 7 (6.67%) Development Consultant
6 7 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
6 7 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
6 7 (6.67%) Software Consultant
6 7 (6.67%) Software Development Consultant
6 7 (6.67%) Technical Consultant
7 6 (5.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 6 (5.71%) Python Engineer
7 6 (5.71%) Senior Developer
8 5 (4.76%) Architect
8 5 (4.76%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (29.52%) Spring Boot
2 27 (25.71%) Spring
3 16 (15.24%) Terraform
4 10 (9.52%) Kafka
4 10 (9.52%) REST
5 8 (7.62%) FIX Protocol
5 8 (7.62%) React
6 6 (5.71%) .NET
6 6 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (4.76%) LangChain
8 3 (2.86%) FIXML
8 3 (2.86%) FpML
8 3 (2.86%) OAuth
8 3 (2.86%) OpenID
9 2 (1.90%) Hibernate
9 2 (1.90%) JPA
9 2 (1.90%) LangGraph
9 2 (1.90%) Middleware
9 2 (1.90%) Node.js
9 2 (1.90%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 21 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 16 (15.24%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.67%) Reinsurance
4 6 (5.71%) Onboarding
4 6 (5.71%) Virtual Team
5 5 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.81%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.86%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.86%) Credit Risk
7 3 (2.86%) Equities
8 2 (1.90%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.90%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.90%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.90%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.95%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.95%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.95%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.52%) Linux
2 3 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (39.05%) Software Engineering
2 33 (31.43%) CI/CD
3 32 (30.48%) DevOps
4 31 (29.52%) Agile
5 23 (21.90%) Microservices
6 21 (20.00%) AI
7 19 (18.10%) Mentoring
8 17 (16.19%) Containerisation
8 17 (16.19%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (13.33%) Computer Science
10 13 (12.38%) Decision-Making
11 12 (11.43%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (11.43%) Migration
12 11 (10.48%) Full-Stack Development
12 11 (10.48%) Mathematics
13 10 (9.52%) Code Quality
13 10 (9.52%) Low Latency
13 10 (9.52%) Multithreading
13 10 (9.52%) Platform Engineering
13 10 (9.52%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 44 (41.90%) Python
2 23 (21.90%) C#
3 15 (14.29%) SQL
4 14 (13.33%) C++
5 12 (11.43%) JavaScript
6 10 (9.52%) TypeScript
7 9 (8.57%) Bash
7 9 (8.57%) Rust
8 8 (7.62%) R
9 7 (6.67%) Julia
9 7 (6.67%) MATLAB
10 6 (5.71%) VBA
11 3 (2.86%) Go
11 3 (2.86%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.90%) C
12 2 (1.90%) Groovy
12 2 (1.90%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.90%) Ruby
13 1 (0.95%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.95%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (12.38%) Degree
2 11 (10.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (6.67%) Security Cleared
4 5 (4.76%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.90%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.95%) CCSAM
6 1 (0.95%) CREST Certified
6 1 (0.95%) GPEN
6 1 (0.95%) GXPN
6 1 (0.95%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.95%) OSCE
6 1 (0.95%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.52%) GDPR
2 3 (2.86%) QA
3 1 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.95%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (15.24%) Docker
2 5 (4.76%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.95%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (20.95%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.62%) Ansible
3 7 (6.67%) Grafana
3 7 (6.67%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.95%) Puppet
4 1 (0.95%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (5.71%) Guidewire
1 6 (5.71%) Splunk
2 4 (3.81%) Google
2 4 (3.81%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.81%) OpenAI
3 3 (2.86%) Oracle
3 3 (2.86%) Solace
4 2 (1.90%) Checkmarx
4 2 (1.90%) Palantir
4 2 (1.90%) Veracode
5 1 (0.95%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.95%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.95%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.95%) JDA
5 1 (0.95%) Pega
5 1 (0.95%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.95%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.95%) VMware