Java Jobs in the City of London

Java
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 17 11
Rank change year-on-year -17 -6 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 149 388 802
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 7.16% 11.53% 16.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.94% 24.71% 32.48%
Number of salaries quoted 118 347 723
10th Percentile £67,125 £62,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £79,063 £68,750 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £96,250 £90,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.94% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £121,875 £112,500 £111,250
90th Percentile £150,750 £130,000 £128,750
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £90,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%

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 997 1,570 2,469
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 47.89% 46.67% 52.00%
Number of salaries quoted 834 1,295 2,239
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £49,950
25th Percentile £60,313 £60,750 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.67%
75th Percentile £103,750 £98,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £123,750 £115,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £79,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +1.27% +1.94% +3.33%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the City of London

Java
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java in the City of London.

Salary trend for Java in the City of London

Java
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Java in the City of London

Java
Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the City of London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge -2 1 £120,000 +65.52%
Java
Central London

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.01%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.34%) Confluence
2 2 (1.34%) Ethereum
2 2 (1.34%) Solana
3 1 (0.67%) Alfresco
3 1 (0.67%) Apache
3 1 (0.67%) Camunda
3 1 (0.67%) CMS
3 1 (0.67%) Liferay
Business Applications
1 5 (3.36%) Endur
2 3 (2.01%) Orchestrade
2 3 (2.01%) SimCorp Dimension
3 2 (1.34%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.67%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 57 (38.26%) AWS
2 44 (29.53%) Azure
3 20 (13.42%) GitHub
4 19 (12.75%) GCP
5 18 (12.08%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (8.72%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (8.72%) Serverless
7 11 (7.38%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (7.38%) Datadog
8 9 (6.04%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (5.37%) npm
10 6 (4.03%) Amazon S3
10 6 (4.03%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (3.36%) AWS Step Functions
11 5 (3.36%) SaaS
12 4 (2.68%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (2.68%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (2.68%) Power Platform
13 3 (2.01%) Amazon Kinesis
14 2 (1.34%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.68%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.07%) Relational Database
2 14 (9.40%) SQL Server
3 8 (5.37%) NoSQL
3 8 (5.37%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (5.37%) RDBMS
4 6 (4.03%) Big Data
5 5 (3.36%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.68%) MySQL
6 4 (2.68%) Power BI
6 4 (2.68%) Tableau
7 3 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.01%) Hadoop
7 3 (2.01%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.34%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.34%) OLAP
8 2 (1.34%) OLTP
8 2 (1.34%) Redis
8 2 (1.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (3.36%) JIRA
2 4 (2.68%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.01%) JUnit
4 2 (1.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (1.34%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.34%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.67%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.67%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.67%) Git
5 1 (0.67%) Gradle
5 1 (0.67%) JMeter
5 1 (0.67%) Maven
5 1 (0.67%) NeoLoad
5 1 (0.67%) Selenium
5 1 (0.67%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.67%) Vagrant
5 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.67%) WebDriver
General
1 38 (25.50%) Finance
2 34 (22.82%) Social Skills
3 29 (19.46%) Banking
4 21 (14.09%) Front Office
5 14 (9.40%) Investment Banking
6 13 (8.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (5.37%) Law
8 5 (3.36%) Advertising
8 5 (3.36%) Retail
8 5 (3.36%) Retail Banking
9 4 (2.68%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (2.01%) French Language
11 1 (0.67%) Back Office
11 1 (0.67%) Legal
11 1 (0.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 57 (38.26%) Developer
2 31 (20.81%) Lead
3 26 (17.45%) Java Developer
4 24 (16.11%) Senior
5 19 (12.75%) Software Engineer
6 13 (8.72%) Java Engineer
7 11 (7.38%) Data Engineer
7 11 (7.38%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (7.38%) Java Software Engineer
7 11 (7.38%) Python Developer
8 10 (6.71%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (6.04%) Lead Developer
9 9 (6.04%) Senior Developer
10 8 (5.37%) Analyst
10 8 (5.37%) Lead Data Engineer
11 7 (4.70%) Architect
11 7 (4.70%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 7 (4.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 6 (4.03%) C# Developer
12 6 (4.03%) Front Office Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (18.79%) React
2 23 (15.44%) .NET
3 18 (12.08%) Spring
4 14 (9.40%) AngularJS
5 10 (6.71%) Node.js
6 9 (6.04%) ARM Templates
6 9 (6.04%) Spring Boot
6 9 (6.04%) Web Services
7 8 (5.37%) Kafka
7 8 (5.37%) REST
8 6 (4.03%) FIX Protocol
8 6 (4.03%) RESTful
9 5 (3.36%) .NET Core
9 5 (3.36%) Middleware
9 5 (3.36%) Pandas
10 4 (2.68%) Hibernate
10 4 (2.68%) OpenTelemetry
11 3 (2.01%) Django
11 3 (2.01%) Flask
11 3 (2.01%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 25 (16.78%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (6.71%) Algorithms
4 9 (6.04%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (6.04%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (4.70%) Data Structures
5 7 (4.70%) Fixed Income
6 6 (4.03%) Product Ownership
7 5 (3.36%) Derivative
8 4 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.68%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (2.01%) Blockchain
9 3 (2.01%) Cyberattack
9 3 (2.01%) Swaptions
10 2 (1.34%) Bitcoin
10 2 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.34%) Equities
10 2 (1.34%) Hedge funds
10 2 (1.34%) IoT
10 2 (1.34%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.04%) Linux
2 5 (3.36%) Unix
2 5 (3.36%) Windows
3 3 (2.01%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (42.28%) Agile
2 43 (28.86%) DevOps
2 43 (28.86%) Software Engineering
3 36 (24.16%) Microservices
4 34 (22.82%) CI/CD
5 30 (20.13%) Containerisation
6 26 (17.45%) Mentoring
6 26 (17.45%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (16.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 23 (15.44%) Computer Science
9 22 (14.77%) Analytics
10 21 (14.09%) Migration
10 21 (14.09%) Multithreading
10 21 (14.09%) Platform Engineering
11 20 (13.42%) Low Latency
12 19 (12.75%) SDLC
13 16 (10.74%) Concurrent Programming
14 15 (10.07%) Software Delivery
15 14 (9.40%) Data Science
15 14 (9.40%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 73 (48.99%) Python
2 33 (22.15%) SQL
3 30 (20.13%) C#
4 17 (11.41%) C++
4 17 (11.41%) JavaScript
5 11 (7.38%) PowerShell
6 10 (6.71%) Bash
6 10 (6.71%) Scala
7 9 (6.04%) Rust
7 9 (6.04%) TypeScript
8 8 (5.37%) Go
9 4 (2.68%) T-SQL
10 3 (2.01%) F#
10 3 (2.01%) VB
11 2 (1.34%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.34%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.67%) Ruby
12 1 (0.67%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 31 (20.81%) Degree
2 18 (12.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (8.72%) Master's Degree
4 12 (8.05%) Security Cleared
5 7 (4.70%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.36%) SC Cleared
7 3 (2.01%) PhD
8 1 (0.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.70%) QA
2 4 (2.68%) GDPR
3 2 (1.34%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.34%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.34%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (20.13%) Docker
2 1 (0.67%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 36 (24.16%) Kubernetes
2 21 (14.09%) Terraform
3 13 (8.72%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.36%) Ansible
5 4 (2.68%) Grafana
6 3 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.34%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.34%) Puppet
8 1 (0.67%) Consul
8 1 (0.67%) Istio
8 1 (0.67%) Packer
8 1 (0.67%) Salt
Vendors
1 15 (10.07%) Google
2 9 (6.04%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.04%) Oracle
3 5 (3.36%) OpenLink
3 5 (3.36%) Solace
4 4 (2.68%) Informatica
5 3 (2.01%) Barracuda Networks
5 3 (2.01%) SimCorp
5 3 (2.01%) Sybase
5 3 (2.01%) TIBCO
6 2 (1.34%) Databricks
6 2 (1.34%) Guidewire
6 2 (1.34%) Talend
7 1 (0.67%) Murex
7 1 (0.67%) SAP