Java Developer Job Trends in England

Java Developer
UK > England

The median Java Developer salary in England is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 May 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 359 275
Rank change year-on-year +80 -84 -64
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 511 313 863
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.63% 0.80% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.90% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 375 226 728
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -9.38% -5.88%
75th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £103,000 £137,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -6.67% -6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 75,121 34,825 79,350
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.02% 89.40% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 50,043 21,141 60,357
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% +10.19% -11.18%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £52,777
% change year-on-year -5.17% +9.90% -12.04%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Java Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Java Developer job vacancy trend in England

Java Developer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in England

Java Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Java Developer in England

Java Developer
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 Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 9 May 2026. 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
North of England +90 197 £70,000 +3.70% 31
London -12 196 £80,000 -23.81% 30
Yorkshire +29 98 £75,000 +68.54% 9
South East -28 73 £80,000 +33.33% 19
North West +35 69 £67,500 - 6
North East -17 30 £50,000 - 16
South West -30 29 £65,000 +8.33% 6
West Midlands -37 16 £36,500 -39.17% 2
Midlands -55 16 £36,500 -39.17% 2
East of England -2 8 £50,000 -9.09% 10
Java Developer
UK

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 9 May 2026, Java Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 511 (100.00%) Java
2 174 (34.05%) Spring Boot
3 171 (33.46%) AWS
4 160 (31.31%) Spring
5 144 (28.18%) Agile
6 139 (27.20%) CI/CD
7 137 (26.81%) Full-Stack Development
8 124 (24.27%) DevOps
9 117 (22.90%) Docker
10 111 (21.72%) Microservices
11 97 (18.98%) AngularJS
12 94 (18.40%) Security Cleared
13 93 (18.20%) Kubernetes
14 92 (18.00%) Serverless
15 82 (16.05%) Jenkins
16 78 (15.26%) SQL
17 77 (15.07%) REST
17 77 (15.07%) SC Cleared
17 77 (15.07%) TypeScript
18 76 (14.87%) Software Engineering
19 75 (14.68%) React
20 74 (14.48%) Amazon S3
21 73 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
21 73 (14.29%) JavaScript
22 71 (13.89%) AWS Lambda
23 62 (12.13%) AWS CloudFormation
24 61 (11.94%) Git
25 59 (11.55%) Node.js
25 59 (11.55%) Scrum
26 56 (10.96%) DynamoDB

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 11 (2.15%) OpenStack
2 8 (1.57%) Confluence
3 7 (1.37%) JBoss
4 5 (0.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.39%) CICS
6 1 (0.20%) Apache
6 1 (0.20%) PegaRULES
6 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.20%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.20%) WildFly
Applications
1 6 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (1.17%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 171 (33.46%) AWS
2 92 (18.00%) Serverless
3 74 (14.48%) Amazon S3
4 73 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
5 71 (13.89%) AWS Lambda
6 62 (12.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 50 (9.78%) AWS Step Functions
8 32 (6.26%) Amazon SQS
9 31 (6.07%) Azure
10 29 (5.68%) Amazon ECR
10 29 (5.68%) Apigee
11 26 (5.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 26 (5.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 26 (5.09%) GitHub
12 25 (4.89%) SaaS
13 20 (3.91%) Amazon EKS
14 14 (2.74%) Datadog
14 14 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (2.54%) OpenShift
16 12 (2.35%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.98%) Internet
2 2 (0.39%) AMQP
3 1 (0.20%) HTTP
3 1 (0.20%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (10.96%) DynamoDB
2 42 (8.22%) NoSQL
3 38 (7.44%) PostgreSQL
4 35 (6.85%) Relational Database
5 27 (5.28%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (2.74%) RDBMS
7 12 (2.35%) SQL Server
8 9 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (1.76%) DB2
8 9 (1.76%) MySQL
9 4 (0.78%) NonStop SQL
9 4 (0.78%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.59%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.39%) Hazelcast
12 1 (0.20%) CockroachDB
12 1 (0.20%) Electronic Patient Records
12 1 (0.20%) KDB
12 1 (0.20%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 82 (16.05%) Jenkins
2 61 (11.94%) Git
3 45 (8.81%) Maven
4 41 (8.02%) GitLab
5 33 (6.46%) SonarQube
6 29 (5.68%) Cypress.io
7 18 (3.52%) JUnit
8 17 (3.33%) JIRA
9 12 (2.35%) Gradle
10 11 (2.15%) Cucumber
11 10 (1.96%) Selenium
12 8 (1.57%) Mockito
13 7 (1.37%) Bitbucket
13 7 (1.37%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.78%) Eclipse
14 4 (0.78%) IntelliJ
15 2 (0.39%) Artifactory
15 2 (0.39%) Gatling
15 2 (0.39%) Spock
15 2 (0.39%) Subversion
General
1 95 (18.59%) Finance
2 49 (9.59%) Social Skills
3 38 (7.44%) Public Sector
4 30 (5.87%) Front Office
5 28 (5.48%) Banking
6 13 (2.54%) Telecoms
7 12 (2.35%) Billing
8 11 (2.15%) Health Technology
9 9 (1.76%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.37%) Advertising
10 7 (1.37%) Analytical Skills
11 6 (1.17%) Aviation
11 6 (1.17%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.98%) Digital Healthcare
12 5 (0.98%) Games
12 5 (0.98%) Tech for Good
13 4 (0.78%) Digital Health
13 4 (0.78%) Retail
14 2 (0.39%) Aeronautics
14 2 (0.39%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (34.05%) Spring Boot
2 160 (31.31%) Spring
3 97 (18.98%) AngularJS
4 77 (15.07%) REST
5 75 (14.68%) React
6 59 (11.55%) Node.js
7 36 (7.05%) Gherkin
8 34 (6.65%) Kafka
9 31 (6.07%) RESTful
10 30 (5.87%) Jest
11 28 (5.48%) Web Services
12 24 (4.70%) Elastic Stack
13 21 (4.11%) Hibernate
13 21 (4.11%) HTML
14 20 (3.91%) CSS
15 15 (2.94%) JSON
16 12 (2.35%) Bootstrap
16 12 (2.35%) JPA
16 12 (2.35%) SOAP
16 12 (2.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (5.68%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (3.72%) Cloud Native
3 15 (2.94%) Fixed Income
3 15 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (1.17%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (0.98%) IoT
7 5 (0.98%) NHS
8 4 (0.78%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.59%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.39%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.39%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.39%) Derivative
10 2 (0.39%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.39%) Equities
10 2 (0.39%) Equity Derivative
10 2 (0.39%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.13%) Linux
2 2 (0.39%) Android
2 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.39%) Windows
3 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (28.18%) Agile
2 139 (27.20%) CI/CD
3 137 (26.81%) Full-Stack Development
4 124 (24.27%) DevOps
5 111 (21.72%) Microservices
6 76 (14.87%) Software Engineering
7 59 (11.55%) Scrum
8 49 (9.59%) Containerisation
8 49 (9.59%) SDLC
9 46 (9.00%) TDD
10 38 (7.44%) Clean Code
11 36 (7.05%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (6.85%) Front End Development
12 35 (6.85%) Mentoring
13 34 (6.65%) Continuous Integration
14 29 (5.68%) Design Patterns
15 25 (4.89%) Test Automation
16 24 (4.70%) AI
16 24 (4.70%) Problem-Solving
16 24 (4.70%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 511 (100.00%) Java
2 78 (15.26%) SQL
3 77 (15.07%) TypeScript
4 73 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 43 (8.41%) Python
6 34 (6.65%) Bash
7 33 (6.46%) Groovy
8 32 (6.26%) Kotlin
9 15 (2.94%) C++
10 14 (2.74%) PL/SQL
11 11 (2.15%) Go
12 5 (0.98%) R
13 4 (0.78%) C
13 4 (0.78%) C#
14 2 (0.39%) Scala
15 1 (0.20%) Korn
15 1 (0.20%) PHP
15 1 (0.20%) RPG
15 1 (0.20%) Ruby
15 1 (0.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 94 (18.40%) Security Cleared
2 77 (15.07%) SC Cleared
3 30 (5.87%) Degree
4 28 (5.48%) AWS Certification
5 23 (4.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 23 (4.50%) ITIL Certification
6 18 (3.52%) DV Cleared
7 14 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.20%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.20%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (1.96%) QA
2 4 (0.78%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.20%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 117 (22.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 93 (18.20%) Kubernetes
2 29 (5.68%) HP Fortify
3 26 (5.09%) Terraform
4 15 (2.94%) Ansible
5 5 (0.98%) Kibana
6 2 (0.39%) HAProxy
6 2 (0.39%) Packer
Vendors
1 18 (3.52%) Oracle
2 10 (1.96%) AppDynamics
3 8 (1.57%) IBM
4 6 (1.17%) Atlassian
5 5 (0.98%) Microsoft
5 5 (0.98%) Solace
6 4 (0.78%) Pega
7 3 (0.59%) Dynatrace
7 3 (0.59%) OpenAI
7 3 (0.59%) Revolut
7 3 (0.59%) Splunk
8 2 (0.39%) Mercator
9 1 (0.20%) Cognos
9 1 (0.20%) Google
9 1 (0.20%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.20%) Veracode
9 1 (0.20%) VMware
9 1 (0.20%) WSO2