Java Jobs in England

Java
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 32 19
Rank change year-on-year -2 -13 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 3,373 4,848 7,442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.48% 5.20% 9.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.26% 16.91% 22.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,544 3,550 4,891
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,590 £52,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £115,000 £102,688 £105,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £142,500 £130,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £73,805 £77,500
% change year-on-year -1.77% -4.77% +10.71%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 15,153 28,668 32,606
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.12% 30.78% 41.42%
Number of salaries quoted 9,740 22,455 23,210
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,250 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Java in England

Java
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java in England.

Salary trend for Java in England

Java
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in England over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Java in England

Java
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the England region over the 6 months to 5 July 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 -8 1,264 £105,000 +10.53% 3,594
North of England +37 1,040 £67,037 +7.26% 721
North West +25 887 £67,500 +8.00% 438
South East -35 346 £65,000 +8.33% 596
Midlands +53 262 £58,000 +10.48% 365
South West -3 219 £60,000 +4.35% 336
West Midlands +45 168 £60,000 +9.09% 231
East of England +45 157 £44,000 -32.31% 281
Yorkshire +37 110 £70,000 +16.67% 214
East Midlands +48 93 £47,500 -7.77% 132
North East +42 43 £45,000 -31.26% 69
Java
UK

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 191 (5.66%) Confluence
2 190 (5.63%) Apache Airflow
3 188 (5.57%) Apache
4 80 (2.37%) Apache Spark
5 27 (0.80%) Jupyter
6 23 (0.68%) Tomcat
7 19 (0.56%) JBoss
8 12 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
9 11 (0.33%) IIS
9 11 (0.33%) SharePoint
10 9 (0.27%) OpenStack
11 8 (0.24%) CMS
11 8 (0.24%) nginx
11 8 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.24%) WordPress
12 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.12%) GemFire
13 4 (0.12%) OpenEdge
13 4 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 20 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.21%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.15%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.089%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 3 (0.089%) Trello
5 2 (0.059%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
2 7 (0.21%) Shopify
3 6 (0.18%) Endur
4 5 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.12%) Adaptiv
5 4 (0.12%) Maximo
5 4 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
6 3 (0.089%) Orchestrade
7 2 (0.059%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.059%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 1 (0.030%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.030%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.030%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.030%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.030%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.030%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,711 (50.73%) AWS
2 970 (28.76%) Azure
3 605 (17.94%) GCP
4 227 (6.73%) Serverless
5 217 (6.43%) Pulumi
6 176 (5.22%) dbt
7 156 (4.62%) AWS Lambda
8 145 (4.30%) Amazon EKS
9 131 (3.88%) Snowflake
10 126 (3.74%) Amazon EC2
11 119 (3.53%) Amazon ECS
11 119 (3.53%) GitHub
12 97 (2.88%) Amazon S3
13 79 (2.34%) AWS CloudFormation
13 79 (2.34%) SaaS
14 64 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 55 (1.63%) OpenShift
16 49 (1.45%) Amazon SQS
17 47 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
18 45 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 420 (12.45%) DNS
2 404 (11.98%) VPN
3 217 (6.43%) Broadband
4 30 (0.89%) TCP/IP
5 24 (0.71%) HTTP
6 22 (0.65%) SSL
7 21 (0.62%) Network Security
8 20 (0.59%) Firewall
9 16 (0.47%) SSH
10 14 (0.42%) FTP
10 14 (0.42%) SMTP
11 9 (0.27%) DMARC
12 7 (0.21%) HTTPS
12 7 (0.21%) SAN
13 6 (0.18%) Internet
13 6 (0.18%) Multicast
13 6 (0.18%) Reverse Proxy
14 4 (0.12%) DHCP
14 4 (0.12%) ICMP
14 4 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 383 (11.35%) NoSQL
2 368 (10.91%) Relational Database
3 319 (9.46%) SQL Server
4 255 (7.56%) RDBMS
5 229 (6.79%) PostgreSQL
6 189 (5.60%) Amazon Athena
7 179 (5.31%) Apache Iceberg
8 174 (5.16%) Dremio
9 166 (4.92%) Apache Arrow
10 121 (3.59%) MySQL
11 114 (3.38%) Apache Ignite
12 111 (3.29%) Data Lake
12 111 (3.29%) MongoDB
13 106 (3.14%) Big Data
14 82 (2.43%) Elasticsearch
15 54 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
16 49 (1.45%) DynamoDB
17 39 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
18 31 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
19 29 (0.86%) Redis
Development Applications
1 326 (9.66%) JIRA
2 289 (8.57%) GitLab
3 272 (8.06%) Maven
4 260 (7.71%) Selenium
5 251 (7.44%) Git
5 251 (7.44%) SonarQube
6 250 (7.41%) Cucumber
7 226 (6.70%) Sonatype Nexus
8 221 (6.55%) Bitbucket
9 215 (6.37%) Jaeger
9 215 (6.37%) Jenkins
10 124 (3.68%) JUnit
11 70 (2.08%) Mockito
12 49 (1.45%) Artifactory
13 43 (1.27%) IntelliJ
14 31 (0.92%) JMeter
15 29 (0.86%) Postman
16 28 (0.83%) Eclipse
17 20 (0.59%) Gradle
18 19 (0.56%) Vagrant
General
1 1,547 (45.86%) Finance
2 1,332 (39.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 730 (21.64%) Banking
4 641 (19.00%) Analytical Skills
5 562 (16.66%) Social Skills
6 310 (9.19%) Front Office
7 282 (8.36%) Law
8 280 (8.30%) Investment Banking
9 158 (4.68%) Public Sector
10 139 (4.12%) Retail
11 90 (2.67%) Corporate Banking
12 82 (2.43%) Marketing
13 61 (1.81%) Financial Institution
14 39 (1.16%) Games
15 35 (1.04%) Legal
16 31 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
17 29 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
18 26 (0.77%) Electronics
19 25 (0.74%) Telecoms
20 21 (0.62%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1,120 (33.20%) Software Engineer
2 1,092 (32.37%) Developer
3 718 (21.29%) Senior
4 656 (19.45%) Lead
5 527 (15.62%) Software Developer
6 437 (12.96%) Java Engineer
7 417 (12.36%) Senior Software Engineer
8 331 (9.81%) Java Developer
9 309 (9.16%) Java Software Engineer
10 249 (7.38%) Team Leader
11 198 (5.87%) AWS Engineer
12 171 (5.07%) Python Engineer
13 169 (5.01%) Lead Software Engineer
13 169 (5.01%) Senior Java Engineer
14 144 (4.27%) AWS Software Engineer
15 124 (3.68%) Data Engineer
16 123 (3.65%) Python Software Engineer
17 110 (3.26%) Senior Java Software Engineer
18 104 (3.08%) Senior Developer
19 94 (2.79%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 631 (18.71%) Spring
2 559 (16.57%) React
2 559 (16.57%) Spring Boot
3 558 (16.54%) Kafka
4 429 (12.72%) .NET
5 396 (11.74%) Node.js
6 365 (10.82%) HTML
7 323 (9.58%) RESTful
8 316 (9.37%) CSS
9 273 (8.09%) REST
10 248 (7.35%) Elastic Stack
11 245 (7.26%) JPA
12 232 (6.88%) Redux
13 226 (6.70%) OpenTelemetry
14 215 (6.37%) Hibernate
15 176 (5.22%) AngularJS
16 164 (4.86%) Pandas
17 108 (3.20%) Jest
17 108 (3.20%) PySpark
17 108 (3.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 647 (19.18%) Cyberattack
2 285 (8.45%) Product Ownership
3 245 (7.26%) Enterprise Software
4 240 (7.12%) Cloud Native
5 224 (6.64%) Self-Motivation
6 190 (5.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 186 (5.51%) Fixed Income
8 182 (5.40%) Linux Command Line
9 175 (5.19%) Derivative
10 171 (5.07%) Equities
11 155 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
12 154 (4.57%) Algorithms
13 117 (3.47%) Hedge funds
14 92 (2.73%) Public Cloud
15 77 (2.28%) Management Information System
16 76 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
17 62 (1.84%) Data Structures
18 60 (1.78%) Pricing Data
19 48 (1.42%) Mobile App
20 44 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1,081 (32.05%) Linux
2 511 (15.15%) Android
3 277 (8.21%) Unix
4 71 (2.10%) Windows
5 51 (1.51%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.53%) VMS
7 15 (0.44%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (0.15%) Rocky
9 4 (0.12%) AIX
9 4 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
9 4 (0.12%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.089%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.059%) Solaris
11 2 (0.059%) Windows Server
11 2 (0.059%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.059%) zOS
12 1 (0.030%) CentOS
12 1 (0.030%) Debian
12 1 (0.030%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,215 (65.67%) Agile
2 1,511 (44.80%) Software Engineering
3 974 (28.88%) Microservices
4 958 (28.40%) DevOps
5 929 (27.54%) CI/CD
6 777 (23.04%) Mentoring
7 766 (22.71%) Containerisation
8 608 (18.03%) Mathematics
8 608 (18.03%) OO
9 555 (16.45%) SDLC
10 536 (15.89%) OOP
11 533 (15.80%) Design Patterns
12 527 (15.62%) Test Automation
13 507 (15.03%) Line Management
14 483 (14.32%) Problem-Solving
15 481 (14.26%) Android Development
16 453 (13.43%) Performance Optimisation
17 445 (13.19%) Full-Stack Development
18 403 (11.95%) Computer Science
19 399 (11.83%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,850 (54.85%) Python
2 1,204 (35.70%) JavaScript
3 1,008 (29.88%) Go
4 907 (26.89%) C++
5 769 (22.80%) SQL
6 447 (13.25%) TypeScript
7 394 (11.68%) C#
8 380 (11.27%) Rust
9 262 (7.77%) Bash
10 128 (3.79%) C
11 116 (3.44%) PHP
12 114 (3.38%) Kotlin
13 70 (2.08%) PowerShell
14 66 (1.96%) Ruby
14 66 (1.96%) Scala
15 61 (1.81%) R
16 55 (1.63%) MATLAB
17 49 (1.45%) Dart
18 48 (1.42%) Shell Script
19 38 (1.13%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 870 (25.79%) Security Cleared
2 695 (20.60%) DV Cleared
3 479 (14.20%) AWS Certification
4 467 (13.85%) Degree
5 248 (7.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 223 (6.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 181 (5.37%) AWS Certified Developer
8 147 (4.36%) SC Cleared
9 80 (2.37%) Master's Degree
10 36 (1.07%) PhD
11 25 (0.74%) Azure Certification
12 18 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
13 17 (0.50%) ISTQB
14 16 (0.47%) HND
15 7 (0.21%) CFA
15 7 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.21%) PMI Certification
15 7 (0.21%) PMP
16 4 (0.12%) Numerate Degree
16 4 (0.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 334 (9.90%) QA
2 113 (3.35%) Accessibility
3 44 (1.30%) GDPR
4 31 (0.92%) HIPAA
5 29 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (0.71%) PCI DSS
7 21 (0.62%) NIST
8 18 (0.53%) SLA
9 13 (0.39%) Data Quality
9 13 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.18%) ISO 9001
11 5 (0.15%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.089%) Software Quality Assurance
14 2 (0.059%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.059%) GRC
14 2 (0.059%) IEC 61508
14 2 (0.059%) ITGC
15 1 (0.030%) DICOM
15 1 (0.030%) HL7
System Software
1 1,395 (41.36%) Docker
2 32 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 21 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.27%) HDFS
5 8 (0.24%) Apache Flume
6 7 (0.21%) DFS Replication
6 7 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.12%) KVM
7 4 (0.12%) Postfix
7 4 (0.12%) Xen
8 3 (0.089%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.089%) vSphere
9 2 (0.059%) NFS
9 2 (0.059%) Squid
9 2 (0.059%) SRDF
9 2 (0.059%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 2 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.030%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.030%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1,087 (32.23%) Kubernetes
2 726 (21.52%) Ansible
3 528 (15.65%) Terraform
4 297 (8.81%) Prometheus
5 235 (6.97%) Argo
6 222 (6.58%) Kustomize
7 83 (2.46%) Grafana
8 34 (1.01%) Kibana
9 27 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (0.39%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.30%) Istio
12 9 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
13 8 (0.24%) Oozie
13 8 (0.24%) Puppet
14 5 (0.15%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.15%) Packer
15 4 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
15 4 (0.12%) HAProxy
15 4 (0.12%) logstash
15 4 (0.12%) Nagios
Vendors
1 336 (9.96%) Google
2 220 (6.52%) Solace
3 165 (4.89%) Microsoft
4 142 (4.21%) Oracle
5 55 (1.63%) IBM
6 52 (1.54%) Databricks
7 41 (1.22%) Splunk
8 37 (1.10%) ServiceNow
9 30 (0.89%) Dynatrace
9 30 (0.89%) SAP
10 27 (0.80%) Red Hat
11 26 (0.77%) Atlassian
12 24 (0.71%) Informatica
13 21 (0.62%) MuleSoft
14 20 (0.59%) Guidewire
15 18 (0.53%) Salesforce
16 15 (0.44%) Bloomberg
17 14 (0.42%) Foundry
18 13 (0.39%) Palantir
18 13 (0.39%) TIBCO