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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 34 9
Rank change year-on-year +6 -25 +2
Permanent jobs citing Java 149 194 484
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 8.13% 6.82% 16.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.26% 14.64% 31.82%
Number of salaries quoted 131 149 445
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £74,375 £68,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -8.11% -
75th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £137,500 £127,500
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £85,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -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 701 1,325 1,521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 38.24% 46.59% 50.70%
Number of salaries quoted 580 962 1,392
10th Percentile £52,475 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £106,250 £96,188 £102,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £120,000 £116,250
Central London median annual salary £83,500 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +11.33% -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 29 November 2025.

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 3 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (2.01%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.34%) Apache
2 2 (1.34%) Luigi
2 2 (1.34%) nginx
Business Applications
1 4 (2.68%) Adaptiv
2 2 (1.34%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 43 (28.86%) AWS
2 24 (16.11%) Azure
3 21 (14.09%) Datadog
4 15 (10.07%) GCP
5 11 (7.38%) SaaS
6 6 (4.03%) GitHub
7 5 (3.36%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (3.36%) Serverless
8 3 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.01%) Google App Engine
8 3 (2.01%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.34%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.34%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.34%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.67%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (0.67%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (0.67%) dbt
10 1 (0.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.34%) DHCP
1 2 (1.34%) DNS
1 2 (1.34%) LAN
1 2 (1.34%) NAS
1 2 (1.34%) SAN
1 2 (1.34%) SNMP
1 2 (1.34%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.34%) WAN
2 1 (0.67%) HTTP
2 1 (0.67%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.67%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (15.44%) Relational Database
2 8 (5.37%) ClickHouse
3 6 (4.03%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.36%) Hadoop
5 4 (2.68%) Big Data
5 4 (2.68%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.01%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.01%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.34%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.34%) KDB
7 2 (1.34%) OLAP
7 2 (1.34%) OLTP
8 1 (0.67%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.67%) DB2
8 1 (0.67%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.67%) Kdb+
8 1 (0.67%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.67%) MySQL
8 1 (0.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (2.01%) Git
1 3 (2.01%) JUnit
2 2 (1.34%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.34%) JMeter
2 2 (1.34%) Selenium
2 2 (1.34%) SonarQube
2 2 (1.34%) TeamCity
2 2 (1.34%) WebDriver
3 1 (0.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.67%) GitLab
3 1 (0.67%) Katalon Studio
General
1 50 (33.56%) Social Skills
2 36 (24.16%) Finance
3 24 (16.11%) Front Office
4 23 (15.44%) Banking
5 16 (10.74%) Billing
6 10 (6.71%) Financial Institution
7 7 (4.70%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (3.36%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.01%) Advertising
10 1 (0.67%) French Language
10 1 (0.67%) Law
10 1 (0.67%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.67%) Retail
10 1 (0.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 69 (46.31%) Developer
2 38 (25.50%) Senior
3 19 (12.75%) Lead
4 18 (12.08%) Java Engineer
5 14 (9.40%) Senior Developer
6 12 (8.05%) Java Developer
6 12 (8.05%) Senior Java Engineer
7 10 (6.71%) Software Engineer
8 8 (5.37%) Architect
9 6 (4.03%) Head of IT
10 5 (3.36%) Development Team Leader
10 5 (3.36%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 5 (3.36%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
10 5 (3.36%) Front Office Developer
10 5 (3.36%) Java Architect
10 5 (3.36%) Team Leader
11 4 (2.68%) Java Development Team Leader
11 4 (2.68%) Technical Leader
11 4 (2.68%) Web Applications Architect
11 4 (2.68%) Web Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (16.78%) .NET
2 20 (13.42%) Kafka
3 19 (12.75%) React
4 18 (12.08%) RESTful
5 16 (10.74%) Spring
6 13 (8.72%) Spring Boot
7 7 (4.70%) Java Concurrency
7 7 (4.70%) Node.js
8 5 (3.36%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (2.68%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (2.01%) LDAP
11 2 (1.34%) Apache Thrift
11 2 (1.34%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (1.34%) HTML
11 2 (1.34%) JSON
11 2 (1.34%) Middleware
11 2 (1.34%) REST
11 2 (1.34%) Vue
12 1 (0.67%) Flutter
12 1 (0.67%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 40 (26.85%) Onboarding
2 32 (21.48%) Cloud Native
3 17 (11.41%) Algorithms
4 15 (10.07%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (9.40%) Equities
6 12 (8.05%) Derivative
7 10 (6.71%) Market Risk
8 7 (4.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (3.36%) Data Structures
10 4 (2.68%) Credit Risk
10 4 (2.68%) Public Cloud
11 3 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (1.34%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (1.34%) Fixed Income
12 2 (1.34%) FPGA
12 2 (1.34%) Mobile App
13 1 (0.67%) Distributed Computing
13 1 (0.67%) Mainframe
13 1 (0.67%) PKI
13 1 (0.67%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.03%) Linux
2 2 (1.34%) CentOS
2 2 (1.34%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (33.56%) CI/CD
2 49 (32.89%) Agile
3 40 (26.85%) Migration
4 38 (25.50%) Test Automation
5 37 (24.83%) DevOps
6 35 (23.49%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (20.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 30 (20.13%) Microservices
8 28 (18.79%) Low Latency
8 28 (18.79%) Stakeholder Management
9 27 (18.12%) Scrum
10 23 (15.44%) Computer Science
11 21 (14.09%) Document Management
11 21 (14.09%) Error Analysis
11 21 (14.09%) Requirements Gathering
12 19 (12.75%) Analytics
13 18 (12.08%) Code Quality
13 18 (12.08%) Electronic Trading
14 17 (11.41%) Collaborative Working
14 17 (11.41%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 66 (44.30%) Python
2 51 (34.23%) C#
3 28 (18.79%) SQL
4 14 (9.40%) C++
5 12 (8.05%) Kotlin
6 8 (5.37%) TypeScript
7 6 (4.03%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.68%) Go
9 3 (2.01%) Scala
10 2 (1.34%) Perl
10 2 (1.34%) Ruby
11 1 (0.67%) COBOL
11 1 (0.67%) Groovy
11 1 (0.67%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.67%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (14.09%) Degree
2 12 (8.05%) Master's Degree
3 11 (7.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (4.70%) Security Cleared
5 6 (4.03%) CFA
5 6 (4.03%) DV Cleared
5 6 (4.03%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (4.03%) PhD
5 6 (4.03%) PMI Certification
5 6 (4.03%) PMP
6 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.01%) QA
2 2 (1.34%) GDPR
2 2 (1.34%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.34%) SLA
3 1 (0.67%) ITGC
System Software
1 9 (6.04%) Docker
2 1 (0.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (14.77%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.70%) Terraform
3 5 (3.36%) Ansible
4 3 (2.01%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.34%) Puppet
5 2 (1.34%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (1.34%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 1 (0.67%) Argo
Vendors
1 37 (24.83%) Guidewire
2 6 (4.03%) Murex
3 4 (2.68%) FIS
3 4 (2.68%) Google
4 3 (2.01%) Databricks
4 3 (2.01%) Dell
4 3 (2.01%) Red Hat
4 3 (2.01%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.01%) Solace
5 2 (1.34%) HP
5 2 (1.34%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.34%) Oracle
6 1 (0.67%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.67%) Foundry
6 1 (0.67%) Palantir
6 1 (0.67%) Pega