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 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 37 17
Rank change year-on-year -6 -20 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 141 142 369
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.47% 6.88% 11.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.68% 14.64% 24.42%
Number of salaries quoted 105 113 336
10th Percentile £65,000 £65,250 £62,500
25th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £92,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +2.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile - £125,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £152,000 £129,375
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £99,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +1.01% +10.00% -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 1,031 970 1,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 25.38% 47.02% 47.52%
Number of salaries quoted 805 819 1,266
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £66,500 £60,000 £60,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £98,438
90th Percentile - £125,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £79,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% +1.27% +1.94%

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 10 May 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 (1.42%) Apache
1 2 (1.42%) nginx
2 1 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 54 (38.30%) AWS
2 19 (13.48%) Azure
3 18 (12.77%) GCP
4 4 (2.84%) Pulumi
5 2 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.42%) GitHub
5 2 (1.42%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.42%) SaaS
5 2 (1.42%) Serverless
6 1 (0.71%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (0.71%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.71%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (0.71%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.71%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.71%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.71%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (0.71%) Datadog
6 1 (0.71%) dbt
6 1 (0.71%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.13%) Network Security
2 2 (1.42%) DHCP
2 2 (1.42%) DNS
2 2 (1.42%) LAN
2 2 (1.42%) NAS
2 2 (1.42%) SAN
2 2 (1.42%) SNMP
2 2 (1.42%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.42%) WAN
3 1 (0.71%) Broadband
3 1 (0.71%) LTE
3 1 (0.71%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.80%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (3.55%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.84%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.13%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.13%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.42%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.42%) MySQL
5 2 (1.42%) Power BI
6 1 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.71%) Big Data
6 1 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.71%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.71%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.71%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.71%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.71%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.71%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.71%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.71%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 7 (4.96%) Gradle
2 3 (2.13%) Git
2 3 (2.13%) JIRA
2 3 (2.13%) Selenium
3 2 (1.42%) GitLab
3 2 (1.42%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.71%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.71%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.71%) Jaeger
4 1 (0.71%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (0.71%) MLflow
General
1 40 (28.37%) Finance
2 25 (17.73%) Front Office
3 18 (12.77%) Banking
3 18 (12.77%) Social Skills
4 10 (7.09%) Financial Institution
5 7 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.55%) Marketing
7 4 (2.84%) Tech for Good
8 3 (2.13%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.42%) Advertising
9 2 (1.42%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.42%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.71%) Cantonese Language
10 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Law
10 1 (0.71%) Retail
10 1 (0.71%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (34.75%) Developer
2 37 (26.24%) Java Engineer
3 35 (24.82%) Software Engineer
4 34 (24.11%) Senior
5 31 (21.99%) Java Developer
6 25 (17.73%) Java Software Engineer
7 16 (11.35%) Senior Developer
8 15 (10.64%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (8.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 11 (7.80%) Lead
11 10 (7.09%) AWS Software Engineer
11 10 (7.09%) Senior Software Engineer
12 9 (6.38%) Senior Java Engineer
13 8 (5.67%) Consultant
13 8 (5.67%) Java Consultant
14 7 (4.96%) Senior Java Developer
15 6 (4.26%) Front Office Developer
15 6 (4.26%) Software Consultant
15 6 (4.26%) Software Development Consultant
15 6 (4.26%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (18.44%) Spring Boot
2 22 (15.60%) Spring
3 14 (9.93%) Kafka
4 13 (9.22%) React
5 12 (8.51%) FIX Protocol
6 8 (5.67%) .NET
7 6 (4.26%) Node.js
8 5 (3.55%) CSS
8 5 (3.55%) HTML
9 4 (2.84%) REST
9 4 (2.84%) Vue
10 3 (2.13%) AngularJS
10 3 (2.13%) Java Concurrency
10 3 (2.13%) Middleware
10 3 (2.13%) Web Services
11 2 (1.42%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (1.42%) LDAP
11 2 (1.42%) OpenTelemetry
11 2 (1.42%) Playwright
11 2 (1.42%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 25 (17.73%) Cloud Native
2 17 (12.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.67%) Derivative
5 5 (3.55%) Equities
6 4 (2.84%) NHS
6 4 (2.84%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.84%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.13%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.13%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (2.13%) Fixed Income
7 3 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.13%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.13%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.42%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.42%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.42%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.42%) FPGA
8 2 (1.42%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.80%) Linux
2 4 (2.84%) Windows
3 2 (1.42%) CentOS
3 2 (1.42%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.71%) Unix
4 1 (0.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (37.59%) Software Engineering
2 30 (21.28%) DevOps
3 24 (17.02%) Low Latency
4 23 (16.31%) CI/CD
5 20 (14.18%) Agile
5 20 (14.18%) Full-Stack Development
5 20 (14.18%) Mentoring
6 18 (12.77%) Roadmaps
7 17 (12.06%) AI
7 17 (12.06%) Computer Science
8 16 (11.35%) Fintech
8 16 (11.35%) Microservices
9 15 (10.64%) Test Automation
10 14 (9.93%) Electronic Trading
11 13 (9.22%) Code Quality
11 13 (9.22%) Mathematics
12 11 (7.80%) Containerisation
12 11 (7.80%) Market Making
12 11 (7.80%) Ultra-Low Latency
13 9 (6.38%) Algorithmic Trading
Programming Languages
1 35 (24.82%) Python
2 18 (12.77%) C#
3 16 (11.35%) SQL
4 12 (8.51%) JavaScript
5 10 (7.09%) Go
6 8 (5.67%) C++
7 6 (4.26%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.55%) Bash
8 5 (3.55%) Perl
9 4 (2.84%) C
9 4 (2.84%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.84%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.84%) Ruby
9 4 (2.84%) Rust
10 3 (2.13%) Objective-C
11 2 (1.42%) R
11 2 (1.42%) VBA
12 1 (0.71%) Groovy
12 1 (0.71%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.71%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (14.89%) Degree
2 15 (10.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (9.22%) Security Cleared
4 10 (7.09%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.13%) CCSAM
5 3 (2.13%) CREST Certified
5 3 (2.13%) GPEN
5 3 (2.13%) GXPN
5 3 (2.13%) OSCE
5 3 (2.13%) OSCP
5 3 (2.13%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.42%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.13%) Actionable Recommendations
1 3 (2.13%) QA
2 1 (0.71%) GDPR
2 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.71%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (9.22%) Docker
2 1 (0.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (14.18%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.38%) Terraform
3 4 (2.84%) Ansible
4 3 (2.13%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.42%) Argo
5 2 (1.42%) Grafana
5 2 (1.42%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (1.42%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 1 (0.71%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 7 (4.96%) Solace
2 6 (4.26%) Oracle
3 3 (2.13%) Guidewire
3 3 (2.13%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.13%) Red Hat
3 3 (2.13%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.42%) Dell
4 2 (1.42%) Google
4 2 (1.42%) HP
4 2 (1.42%) JDA
4 2 (1.42%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.42%) Splunk
5 1 (0.71%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.71%) Databricks
5 1 (0.71%) Pega
5 1 (0.71%) Temenos