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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 35 17
Rank change year-on-year -9 -18 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 141 143 364
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.43% 7.10% 11.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.78% 15.08% 24.14%
Number of salaries quoted 107 114 332
10th Percentile £64,000 £66,625 £62,500
25th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £91,250 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% +1.39% -5.26%
75th Percentile - £121,875 £112,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £151,750 £129,875
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £98,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +1.52% +9.44% -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 1,023 948 1,508
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 24.90% 47.05% 47.59%
Number of salaries quoted 803 801 1,260
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £67,000 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,750 £97,500
90th Percentile - £125,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% +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 15 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 1 (0.71%) Apache
1 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.71%) Confluence
1 1 (0.71%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 53 (37.59%) 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%) 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%) Anthropic Claude
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%) GitHub
6 1 (0.71%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (0.71%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.13%) Network Security
2 1 (0.71%) Broadband
2 1 (0.71%) DHCP
2 1 (0.71%) DNS
2 1 (0.71%) LAN
2 1 (0.71%) LTE
2 1 (0.71%) NAS
2 1 (0.71%) SAN
2 1 (0.71%) SNMP
2 1 (0.71%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.71%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.09%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (3.55%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.13%) DynamoDB
3 3 (2.13%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.13%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.42%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.42%) MySQL
5 1 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.71%) Big Data
5 1 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.71%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.71%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.71%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.71%) Pinecone
5 1 (0.71%) Power BI
5 1 (0.71%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 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 39 (27.66%) Finance
2 24 (17.02%) 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 51 (36.17%) Developer
2 38 (26.95%) Java Engineer
3 33 (23.40%) Senior
3 33 (23.40%) Software Engineer
4 32 (22.70%) Java Developer
5 25 (17.73%) Java Software Engineer
6 16 (11.35%) Senior Developer
7 15 (10.64%) AWS Engineer
8 14 (9.93%) Lead
9 11 (7.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 10 (7.09%) AWS Software Engineer
10 10 (7.09%) Senior Software Engineer
11 9 (6.38%) Consultant
11 9 (6.38%) Java Consultant
11 9 (6.38%) Senior Java Engineer
12 7 (4.96%) Development Consultant
12 7 (4.96%) Senior Java Developer
12 7 (4.96%) Software Consultant
12 7 (4.96%) Software Development Consultant
12 7 (4.96%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (19.86%) Spring Boot
2 24 (17.02%) Spring
3 15 (10.64%) Kafka
4 12 (8.51%) React
5 10 (7.09%) FIX Protocol
6 8 (5.67%) .NET
7 5 (3.55%) Node.js
7 5 (3.55%) REST
8 4 (2.84%) CSS
8 4 (2.84%) HTML
9 3 (2.13%) Middleware
9 3 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (2.13%) Vue
9 3 (2.13%) Web Services
10 2 (1.42%) AngularJS
10 2 (1.42%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.42%) Java Concurrency
10 2 (1.42%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (1.42%) Playwright
11 1 (0.71%) Ember.js
Miscellaneous
1 25 (17.73%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (7.80%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.96%) Derivative
5 5 (3.55%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.84%) Equities
6 4 (2.84%) NHS
6 4 (2.84%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
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%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.42%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.42%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.42%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.38%) Linux
2 4 (2.84%) Windows
3 1 (0.71%) CentOS
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.71%) Unix
3 1 (0.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (35.46%) Software Engineering
2 32 (22.70%) DevOps
3 23 (16.31%) CI/CD
3 23 (16.31%) Low Latency
4 22 (15.60%) Agile
4 22 (15.60%) Mentoring
5 20 (14.18%) Full-Stack Development
6 18 (12.77%) AI
7 17 (12.06%) Microservices
7 17 (12.06%) Roadmaps
8 15 (10.64%) Computer Science
8 15 (10.64%) Fintech
9 14 (9.93%) Test Automation
10 13 (9.22%) Code Quality
11 12 (8.51%) Electronic Trading
11 12 (8.51%) Mathematics
12 11 (7.80%) Containerisation
13 10 (7.09%) Market Making
13 10 (7.09%) Technical Leadership
13 10 (7.09%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 32 (22.70%) Python
2 18 (12.77%) C#
3 16 (11.35%) SQL
4 10 (7.09%) Go
5 9 (6.38%) JavaScript
6 8 (5.67%) C++
7 6 (4.26%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.55%) Bash
9 4 (2.84%) C
9 4 (2.84%) Perl
9 4 (2.84%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.84%) Rust
10 3 (2.13%) Objective-C
10 3 (2.13%) Ruby
11 2 (1.42%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.42%) R
11 2 (1.42%) VBA
12 1 (0.71%) Cypher
12 1 (0.71%) Elm
12 1 (0.71%) Julia
Qualifications
1 19 (13.48%) Degree
2 13 (9.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (7.09%) Security Cleared
4 8 (5.67%) 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
6 2 (1.42%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.42%) SC Cleared
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 18 (12.77%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.38%) Terraform
3 3 (2.13%) Ansible
3 3 (2.13%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.42%) Grafana
5 1 (0.71%) Argo
5 1 (0.71%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 7 (4.96%) Solace
2 5 (3.55%) Oracle
3 4 (2.84%) Guidewire
4 3 (2.13%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.13%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.42%) Google
5 2 (1.42%) JDA
5 2 (1.42%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.42%) Splunk
6 1 (0.71%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.71%) Databricks
6 1 (0.71%) Dell
6 1 (0.71%) HP
6 1 (0.71%) Pega
6 1 (0.71%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.71%) Temenos