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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 23 18
Rank change year-on-year -21 -5 -8
Permanent jobs citing Java 139 185 311
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.46% 9.63% 10.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.98% 21.09% 21.51%
Number of salaries quoted 113 153 273
10th Percentile £61,250 £64,000 £65,000
25th Percentile £81,250 £75,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -8.11%
75th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £124,500 £149,750 £122,500
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £97,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +2.56% +14.71% -8.11%

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 870 877 1,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 21.64% 45.63% 46.77%
Number of salaries quoted 692 734 1,159
10th Percentile £50,050 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £58,750
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 £108,438 £97,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £130,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +10.00% -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 16 July 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 (0.72%) Camunda
1 1 (0.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (5.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 49 (35.25%) AWS
2 21 (15.11%) Azure
3 18 (12.95%) GCP
4 5 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.88%) GitHub
6 3 (2.16%) Pulumi
6 3 (2.16%) Serverless
6 3 (2.16%) Vertex AI
7 2 (1.44%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.44%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.44%) Azure AI
7 2 (1.44%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 2 (1.44%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (1.44%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (1.44%) Cloud Run
7 2 (1.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.72%) Amazon Neptune
8 1 (0.72%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.72%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.16%) Network Security
2 2 (1.44%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.72%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.72%) Internet
3 1 (0.72%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.76%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.32%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (2.88%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.88%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.16%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.44%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.44%) Cloud Spanner
5 2 (1.44%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.72%) MySQL
6 1 (0.72%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.72%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.72%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.72%) SQLPlus
6 1 (0.72%) Stardog
6 1 (0.72%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 8 (5.76%) Git
2 6 (4.32%) Gradle
2 6 (4.32%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.16%) JIRA
3 3 (2.16%) JUnit
3 3 (2.16%) Maven
3 3 (2.16%) Mockito
3 3 (2.16%) Spock
4 2 (1.44%) GitLab
5 1 (0.72%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.72%) JMeter
5 1 (0.72%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (0.72%) Postman
5 1 (0.72%) Selenium
General
1 41 (29.50%) Finance
2 29 (20.86%) Social Skills
3 16 (11.51%) Front Office
4 14 (10.07%) Banking
5 13 (9.35%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (6.47%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.16%) Advertising
7 3 (2.16%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.44%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.44%) Retail
9 1 (0.72%) Cantonese Language
9 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Law
9 1 (0.72%) Marketing
9 1 (0.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (35.25%) Developer
2 31 (22.30%) Senior
3 30 (21.58%) Java Engineer
3 30 (21.58%) Software Engineer
4 29 (20.86%) Java Developer
5 16 (11.51%) Java Software Engineer
6 13 (9.35%) Senior Developer
7 11 (7.91%) Senior Software Engineer
8 10 (7.19%) Lead
9 9 (6.47%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (6.47%) Consultant
9 9 (6.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 9 (6.47%) Java Consultant
9 9 (6.47%) Senior Java Engineer
10 8 (5.76%) AWS Software Engineer
10 8 (5.76%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (5.04%) Development Consultant
11 7 (5.04%) Software Consultant
11 7 (5.04%) Software Development Consultant
11 7 (5.04%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (24.46%) Spring Boot
2 30 (21.58%) Spring
3 16 (11.51%) Kafka
4 12 (8.63%) React
5 8 (5.76%) .NET
5 8 (5.76%) FIX Protocol
5 8 (5.76%) REST
6 6 (4.32%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (3.60%) Node.js
8 4 (2.88%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (2.16%) AngularJS
9 3 (2.16%) CSS
9 3 (2.16%) HTML
9 3 (2.16%) LangChain
9 3 (2.16%) Middleware
9 3 (2.16%) Web Services
10 2 (1.44%) FastAPI
10 2 (1.44%) LangGraph
10 2 (1.44%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (1.44%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 32 (23.02%) Cloud Native
2 16 (11.51%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (9.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (5.04%) Reinsurance
5 6 (4.32%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.32%) Virtual Team
6 5 (3.60%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.88%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.88%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.88%) Equities
7 4 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.88%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.88%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.16%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.16%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.44%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.72%) Linked Data
10 1 (0.72%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.63%) Linux
2 5 (3.60%) Windows
3 1 (0.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (36.69%) Software Engineering
2 37 (26.62%) DevOps
3 35 (25.18%) Agile
4 30 (21.58%) CI/CD
5 25 (17.99%) AI
6 24 (17.27%) Mentoring
7 23 (16.55%) Microservices
8 20 (14.39%) Low Latency
9 19 (13.67%) Computer Science
10 18 (12.95%) Roadmaps
11 17 (12.23%) Code Quality
11 17 (12.23%) Containerisation
12 16 (11.51%) Full-Stack Development
13 15 (10.79%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (10.79%) Mathematics
14 14 (10.07%) Decision-Making
15 13 (9.35%) Infrastructure as Code
16 12 (8.63%) Migration
17 11 (7.91%) Process Improvement
17 11 (7.91%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 47 (33.81%) Python
2 26 (18.71%) C#
3 22 (15.83%) SQL
4 16 (11.51%) C++
5 11 (7.91%) Go
5 11 (7.91%) Rust
6 10 (7.19%) Bash
7 9 (6.47%) JavaScript
7 9 (6.47%) TypeScript
8 8 (5.76%) R
9 7 (5.04%) Julia
9 7 (5.04%) MATLAB
10 6 (4.32%) VBA
11 5 (3.60%) PowerShell
12 4 (2.88%) C
12 4 (2.88%) Ruby
13 3 (2.16%) Objective-C
13 3 (2.16%) Perl
14 2 (1.44%) Groovy
14 2 (1.44%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 20 (14.39%) Degree
2 15 (10.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.32%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.60%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.16%) CCSAM
5 3 (2.16%) CREST Certified
5 3 (2.16%) GPEN
5 3 (2.16%) GXPN
5 3 (2.16%) OSCE
5 3 (2.16%) OSCP
6 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.72%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.19%) GDPR
2 3 (2.16%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (2.16%) QA
3 1 (0.72%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.72%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (12.23%) Docker
2 5 (3.60%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (19.42%) Kubernetes
2 16 (11.51%) Terraform
3 8 (5.76%) Grafana
3 8 (5.76%) Prometheus
4 7 (5.04%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (5.04%) Splunk
2 6 (4.32%) Guidewire
2 6 (4.32%) Solace
3 5 (3.60%) Oracle
4 4 (2.88%) Google
4 4 (2.88%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.88%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.16%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.44%) JDA
6 2 (1.44%) Palantir
7 1 (0.72%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.72%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.72%) Pega
7 1 (0.72%) Temenos