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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 28 18
Rank change year-on-year -15 -10 -8
Permanent jobs citing Java 146 154 351
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.51% 8.00% 11.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.08% 17.36% 23.51%
Number of salaries quoted 115 124 314
10th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £81,250 £75,000 £68,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £91,250 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% +1.39% -5.26%
75th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £122,800 £149,625 £122,500
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £97,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +2.56% +8.33% -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 968 887 1,493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 23.30% 46.08% 47.17%
Number of salaries quoted 755 738 1,217
10th Percentile £52,200 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £60,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - +0.63%
75th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £104,500 £127,500 £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 4 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 (0.68%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.68%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 52 (35.62%) AWS
2 18 (12.33%) Azure
3 16 (10.96%) GCP
4 4 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (2.74%) Pulumi
5 3 (2.05%) GitHub
6 2 (1.37%) SaaS
6 2 (1.37%) Serverless
7 1 (0.68%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.68%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.68%) Azure AI
7 1 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.68%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (0.68%) Cloud Functions
7 1 (0.68%) Cloud Run
7 1 (0.68%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (0.68%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.68%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.05%) Network Security
2 1 (0.68%) Broadband
2 1 (0.68%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (3.42%) Geospatial Data
3 3 (2.05%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.05%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.05%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.37%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.37%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.68%) Big Data
5 1 (0.68%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.68%) Cloud Spanner
5 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.68%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.68%) MySQL
5 1 (0.68%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.68%) Power BI
5 1 (0.68%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.68%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 8 (5.48%) Gradle
2 5 (3.42%) Git
3 4 (2.74%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.05%) JIRA
4 3 (2.05%) Selenium
5 2 (1.37%) GitLab
5 2 (1.37%) JUnit
5 2 (1.37%) Maven
5 2 (1.37%) Mockito
5 2 (1.37%) Spock
6 1 (0.68%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.68%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.68%) Katalon Studio
General
1 44 (30.14%) Finance
2 24 (16.44%) Social Skills
3 21 (14.38%) Front Office
4 16 (10.96%) Banking
5 12 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (7.53%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.74%) Marketing
7 4 (2.74%) Tech for Good
8 3 (2.05%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.37%) Advertising
9 2 (1.37%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.37%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.68%) Cantonese Language
10 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Law
10 1 (0.68%) Retail
10 1 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (34.93%) Developer
2 40 (27.40%) Java Engineer
3 37 (25.34%) Software Engineer
4 32 (21.92%) Java Developer
4 32 (21.92%) Senior
5 24 (16.44%) Java Software Engineer
6 15 (10.27%) AWS Engineer
6 15 (10.27%) Senior Developer
7 13 (8.90%) Lead
8 11 (7.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 11 (7.53%) Senior Software Engineer
9 10 (6.85%) AWS Software Engineer
10 9 (6.16%) Consultant
10 9 (6.16%) Java Consultant
11 8 (5.48%) Senior Java Developer
11 8 (5.48%) Senior Java Engineer
12 7 (4.79%) Development Consultant
12 7 (4.79%) Software Consultant
12 7 (4.79%) Software Development Consultant
12 7 (4.79%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (20.55%) Spring Boot
2 25 (17.12%) Spring
3 14 (9.59%) Kafka
4 12 (8.22%) React
5 10 (6.85%) FIX Protocol
6 8 (5.48%) .NET
7 5 (3.42%) REST
8 4 (2.74%) CSS
8 4 (2.74%) HTML
8 4 (2.74%) Node.js
9 3 (2.05%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (2.05%) Middleware
9 3 (2.05%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (2.05%) Web Services
10 2 (1.37%) AngularJS
10 2 (1.37%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (1.37%) Playwright
10 2 (1.37%) Vue
11 1 (0.68%) Ember.js
11 1 (0.68%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 26 (17.81%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (7.53%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.11%) Reinsurance
4 6 (4.11%) Virtual Team
5 5 (3.42%) Derivative
6 4 (2.74%) NHS
6 4 (2.74%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.05%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.05%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.05%) Equities
7 3 (2.05%) Fixed Income
7 3 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.05%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.05%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.37%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.37%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.68%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.16%) Linux
2 4 (2.74%) Windows
3 1 (0.68%) Unix
3 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (36.99%) Software Engineering
2 33 (22.60%) DevOps
3 26 (17.81%) Agile
4 23 (15.75%) Low Latency
4 23 (15.75%) Mentoring
5 22 (15.07%) CI/CD
6 21 (14.38%) Full-Stack Development
7 20 (13.70%) AI
8 19 (13.01%) Roadmaps
9 18 (12.33%) Code Quality
9 18 (12.33%) Computer Science
10 17 (11.64%) Mathematics
11 16 (10.96%) Microservices
12 14 (9.59%) Decision-Making
12 14 (9.59%) Fintech
13 12 (8.22%) Containerisation
13 12 (8.22%) Electronic Trading
13 12 (8.22%) Test Automation
14 11 (7.53%) Ultra-Low Latency
15 10 (6.85%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 37 (25.34%) Python
2 23 (15.75%) C#
3 20 (13.70%) SQL
4 15 (10.27%) C++
5 12 (8.22%) Go
6 9 (6.16%) JavaScript
7 8 (5.48%) TypeScript
8 7 (4.79%) R
8 7 (4.79%) Rust
9 6 (4.11%) Bash
9 6 (4.11%) Julia
9 6 (4.11%) MATLAB
10 4 (2.74%) C
10 4 (2.74%) PowerShell
11 3 (2.05%) Objective-C
11 3 (2.05%) Perl
11 3 (2.05%) Ruby
11 3 (2.05%) VBA
12 2 (1.37%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.68%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 20 (13.70%) Degree
2 14 (9.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (5.48%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.42%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.05%) CCSAM
5 3 (2.05%) CREST Certified
5 3 (2.05%) GPEN
5 3 (2.05%) GXPN
5 3 (2.05%) OSCE
5 3 (2.05%) OSCP
5 3 (2.05%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.37%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.48%) GDPR
2 3 (2.05%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (2.05%) QA
3 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.68%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (8.22%) Docker
2 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 19 (13.01%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.85%) Terraform
3 4 (2.74%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.05%) Ansible
4 3 (2.05%) Grafana
5 1 (0.68%) Argo
5 1 (0.68%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 8 (5.48%) Solace
2 5 (3.42%) Guidewire
3 4 (2.74%) Oracle
4 3 (2.05%) Google
4 3 (2.05%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.05%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.05%) Splunk
5 2 (1.37%) JDA
5 2 (1.37%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.37%) Palantir
6 1 (0.68%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.68%) Databricks
6 1 (0.68%) Pega
6 1 (0.68%) Temenos