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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 25 18
Rank change year-on-year -22 -7 -8
Permanent jobs citing Java 141 174 327
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.29% 9.03% 10.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.90% 19.64% 22.01%
Number of salaries quoted 114 144 286
10th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £65,000
25th Percentile £81,250 £74,688 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +2.86% -5.41%
75th Percentile £105,000 £120,625 £111,875
90th Percentile £130,250 £150,000 £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 946 886 1,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 22.07% 45.98% 46.63%
Number of salaries quoted 747 743 1,185
10th Percentile £51,900 £52,500 £47,343
25th Percentile £67,500 £61,375 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +3.23% -2.52%
75th Percentile £100,000 £106,875 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £130,000 £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 25 June 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%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (2.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 51 (36.17%) AWS
2 18 (12.77%) GCP
3 17 (12.06%) Azure
4 4 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (2.84%) GitHub
4 4 (2.84%) Pulumi
5 2 (1.42%) Cloud Functions
5 2 (1.42%) Cloud Run
5 2 (1.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (1.42%) Serverless
5 2 (1.42%) Vertex AI
6 1 (0.71%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (0.71%) Amazon S3
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%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.13%) Network Security
2 1 (0.71%) Broadband
2 1 (0.71%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.71%) Internet
2 1 (0.71%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.26%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (2.84%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.84%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.13%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.42%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.42%) Cloud Spanner
5 2 (1.42%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.42%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.71%) MySQL
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%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 7 (4.96%) Gradle
2 6 (4.26%) Git
3 5 (3.55%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.13%) JIRA
4 3 (2.13%) JUnit
4 3 (2.13%) Maven
4 3 (2.13%) Mockito
4 3 (2.13%) Spock
5 2 (1.42%) GitLab
5 2 (1.42%) Selenium
6 1 (0.71%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.71%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.71%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.71%) Katalon Studio
General
1 43 (30.50%) Finance
2 28 (19.86%) Social Skills
3 17 (12.06%) Front Office
4 14 (9.93%) Banking
5 12 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (7.09%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.13%) Advertising
7 3 (2.13%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.42%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.42%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.42%) Retail
8 2 (1.42%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.71%) Cantonese Language
9 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Law
9 1 (0.71%) Marketing
9 1 (0.71%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 53 (37.59%) Developer
2 32 (22.70%) Java Developer
2 32 (22.70%) Java Engineer
3 31 (21.99%) Software Engineer
4 30 (21.28%) Senior
5 17 (12.06%) Java Software Engineer
6 13 (9.22%) Senior Developer
7 12 (8.51%) Lead
8 11 (7.80%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (7.80%) Senior Software Engineer
9 10 (7.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 9 (6.38%) Consultant
10 9 (6.38%) Java Consultant
11 8 (5.67%) AWS Software Engineer
11 8 (5.67%) 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 32 (22.70%) Spring Boot
2 28 (19.86%) Spring
3 15 (10.64%) Kafka
4 12 (8.51%) React
5 9 (6.38%) FIX Protocol
6 7 (4.96%) .NET
6 7 (4.96%) REST
7 5 (3.55%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (2.84%) CSS
8 4 (2.84%) HTML
8 4 (2.84%) Node.js
8 4 (2.84%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (2.13%) Middleware
9 3 (2.13%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (2.13%) Web Services
10 2 (1.42%) AngularJS
10 2 (1.42%) Vue
11 1 (0.71%) Ember.js
11 1 (0.71%) SailPoint
11 1 (0.71%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 29 (20.57%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 13 (9.22%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.96%) Reinsurance
5 6 (4.26%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.84%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.84%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.84%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.84%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.84%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.84%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.13%) Equities
7 3 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.13%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.42%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.42%) NHS
9 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.71%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.80%) Linux
2 4 (2.84%) Windows
3 1 (0.71%) Unix
3 1 (0.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (36.88%) Software Engineering
2 36 (25.53%) DevOps
3 31 (21.99%) Agile
4 26 (18.44%) CI/CD
5 24 (17.02%) Mentoring
6 22 (15.60%) Low Latency
7 20 (14.18%) AI
8 19 (13.48%) Computer Science
8 19 (13.48%) Full-Stack Development
8 19 (13.48%) Microservices
8 19 (13.48%) Roadmaps
9 18 (12.77%) Code Quality
10 16 (11.35%) Containerisation
10 16 (11.35%) Mathematics
11 14 (9.93%) Decision-Making
12 12 (8.51%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (8.51%) Fintech
13 11 (7.80%) Electronic Trading
13 11 (7.80%) Test Automation
13 11 (7.80%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 40 (28.37%) Python
2 24 (17.02%) C#
3 21 (14.89%) SQL
4 16 (11.35%) C++
5 12 (8.51%) Go
6 11 (7.80%) JavaScript
7 9 (6.38%) Rust
7 9 (6.38%) TypeScript
8 8 (5.67%) Bash
8 8 (5.67%) R
9 7 (4.96%) Julia
9 7 (4.96%) MATLAB
10 4 (2.84%) C
10 4 (2.84%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.84%) Ruby
10 4 (2.84%) VBA
11 3 (2.13%) Objective-C
11 3 (2.13%) Perl
12 2 (1.42%) Groovy
12 2 (1.42%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 20 (14.18%) Degree
2 15 (10.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (6.38%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.55%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.84%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.13%) CCSAM
6 3 (2.13%) CREST Certified
6 3 (2.13%) GPEN
6 3 (2.13%) GXPN
6 3 (2.13%) OSCE
6 3 (2.13%) OSCP
7 2 (1.42%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.09%) GDPR
2 3 (2.13%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (2.13%) QA
3 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.71%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (11.35%) Docker
2 3 (2.13%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (18.44%) Kubernetes
2 13 (9.22%) Terraform
3 7 (4.96%) Prometheus
4 6 (4.26%) Grafana
5 5 (3.55%) Ansible
6 1 (0.71%) Argo
6 1 (0.71%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 7 (4.96%) Solace
2 6 (4.26%) Guidewire
3 5 (3.55%) Splunk
4 4 (2.84%) Google
4 4 (2.84%) Oracle
5 3 (2.13%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.42%) JDA
6 2 (1.42%) Palantir
7 1 (0.71%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.71%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.71%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.71%) Pega
7 1 (0.71%) Temenos