Java Job Trends in England

Java
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 26 34
Rank change year-on-year -39 +8 -14
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,260 2,812 4,500
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.72% 7.37% 5.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.15% 23.19% 16.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,456 1,370 3,421
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £39,000
25th Percentile £55,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £73,805
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +5.01% -7.74%
75th Percentile £92,813 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £137,500 £138,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -9.68%

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 14,920 12,127 27,394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.94% 31.80% 31.62%
Number of salaries quoted 10,634 8,243 22,503
10th Percentile £36,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Java relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Java job vacancy trend in England

Java
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2026.

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 28 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
London -7 1,066 £85,000 -19.05% 384
North of England -40 602 £69,305 +2.67% 162
North West -49 258 £70,000 -9.68% 86
Yorkshire +19 237 £72,500 +0.71% 44
South East -32 225 £67,500 +3.85% 104
South West -37 180 £60,000 -2.04% 71
Midlands -99 108 £60,000 +9.09% 63
North East -2 107 £52,500 -5.83% 33
West Midlands -68 90 £58,750 -2.08% 35
East of England -71 52 £52,500 +17.98% 33
East Midlands -90 17 £60,000 +26.32% 28
Java
UK

Java
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 43 (1.90%) Apache
2 39 (1.73%) Apache Spark
3 37 (1.64%) Confluence
4 29 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
6 13 (0.58%) JBoss
6 13 (0.58%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.35%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.22%) Camunda
9 5 (0.22%) CMS
9 5 (0.22%) GeoServer
9 5 (0.22%) IIS
10 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.13%) CICS
11 3 (0.13%) Liferay
11 3 (0.13%) SAS
11 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.44%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.13%) Windchill
6 2 (0.088%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.088%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.044%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 12 (0.53%) Maximo
2 8 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.13%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.088%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.088%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.044%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.044%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.044%) Endur
5 1 (0.044%) Findur
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.044%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.044%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 929 (41.11%) AWS
2 427 (18.89%) Azure
3 272 (12.04%) GCP
4 185 (8.19%) Serverless
5 136 (6.02%) AWS CloudFormation
6 124 (5.49%) Amazon S3
7 122 (5.40%) SaaS
8 116 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
9 113 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
10 109 (4.82%) Amazon EKS
11 99 (4.38%) GitHub
12 76 (3.36%) AWS Step Functions
13 61 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
14 50 (2.21%) Amazon ECR
14 50 (2.21%) Apigee
15 47 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
16 39 (1.73%) GitHub Actions
17 37 (1.64%) dbt
18 36 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
19 35 (1.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.21%) Broadband
2 32 (1.42%) HTTP
3 26 (1.15%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.35%) AMQP
5 7 (0.31%) DMARC
5 7 (0.31%) IPv4
5 7 (0.31%) Software-Defined Networking
6 5 (0.22%) Internet
7 4 (0.18%) MQTT
8 3 (0.13%) BGP
8 3 (0.13%) Network Security
8 3 (0.13%) VLAN
8 3 (0.13%) VPN
9 2 (0.088%) Firewall
9 2 (0.088%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.088%) PuTTY
10 1 (0.044%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.044%) LTE
10 1 (0.044%) TCAP
10 1 (0.044%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (8.50%) NoSQL
2 164 (7.26%) PostgreSQL
3 109 (4.82%) Relational Database
4 99 (4.38%) MongoDB
5 95 (4.20%) DynamoDB
6 69 (3.05%) MySQL
7 68 (3.01%) SQL Server
8 43 (1.90%) RDBMS
9 39 (1.73%) Amazon Athena
10 31 (1.37%) Big Data
11 30 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
12 26 (1.15%) DB2
13 24 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
14 23 (1.02%) Hadoop
15 22 (0.97%) BigQuery
16 19 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
16 19 (0.84%) Redis
17 15 (0.66%) Neo4j
18 14 (0.62%) Power BI
18 14 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 189 (8.36%) Git
2 181 (8.01%) Jenkins
3 155 (6.86%) GitLab
4 93 (4.12%) JIRA
5 86 (3.81%) Selenium
6 84 (3.72%) Maven
7 74 (3.27%) Cucumber
8 68 (3.01%) Cypress.io
9 64 (2.83%) JUnit
10 60 (2.65%) SonarQube
10 60 (2.65%) TeamCity
11 47 (2.08%) Postman
12 34 (1.50%) JMeter
13 29 (1.28%) Mockito
14 28 (1.24%) Bitbucket
15 27 (1.19%) Gradle
15 27 (1.19%) SoapUI
16 26 (1.15%) REST Assured
16 26 (1.15%) Team Foundation Server
16 26 (1.15%) WebDriver
General
1 562 (24.87%) Finance
2 366 (16.19%) Social Skills
3 235 (10.40%) Banking
4 199 (8.81%) Public Sector
5 165 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
6 153 (6.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 112 (4.96%) Law
8 111 (4.91%) Front Office
9 96 (4.25%) Retail
10 70 (3.10%) Financial Institution
11 50 (2.21%) Back Office
12 45 (1.99%) Investment Banking
13 32 (1.42%) Games
14 26 (1.15%) Health Technology
15 25 (1.11%) Telecoms
16 24 (1.06%) Aerospace
17 20 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
17 20 (0.88%) Marketing
18 19 (0.84%) Advertising
18 19 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 850 (37.61%) Developer
2 567 (25.09%) Java Developer
3 566 (25.04%) Senior
4 522 (23.10%) Software Engineer
5 372 (16.46%) Java Engineer
6 347 (15.35%) Lead
7 223 (9.87%) Senior Developer
8 178 (7.88%) Java Software Engineer
9 168 (7.43%) Senior Software Engineer
10 160 (7.08%) Senior Java Developer
11 151 (6.68%) Full-Stack Developer
12 127 (5.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 111 (4.91%) Lead Software Engineer
13 111 (4.91%) Senior Java Engineer
14 109 (4.82%) Software Developer
15 96 (4.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 78 (3.45%) Architect
17 66 (2.92%) Lead Developer
18 60 (2.65%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 57 (2.52%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 496 (21.95%) Spring
2 437 (19.34%) Spring Boot
3 303 (13.41%) React
4 237 (10.49%) REST
5 228 (10.09%) AngularJS
6 208 (9.20%) Node.js
7 203 (8.98%) Kafka
8 163 (7.21%) .NET
9 139 (6.15%) RESTful
10 97 (4.29%) HTML
11 86 (3.81%) Web Services
12 78 (3.45%) SOAP
13 77 (3.41%) CSS
14 66 (2.92%) Elastic Stack
15 64 (2.83%) GraphQL
16 62 (2.74%) Vue
17 61 (2.70%) JSON
18 50 (2.21%) Gherkin
19 47 (2.08%) Playwright
20 46 (2.04%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 253 (11.19%) Cloud Native
2 181 (8.01%) Distributed Systems
3 138 (6.11%) Product Ownership
4 87 (3.85%) Public Cloud
5 51 (2.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 50 (2.21%) Fixed Income
7 44 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
8 41 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
9 39 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
10 38 (1.68%) Distributed Architecture
11 35 (1.55%) Blog
11 35 (1.55%) Data Structures
12 33 (1.46%) Equities
13 31 (1.37%) e-Learning
13 31 (1.37%) Mobile App
14 29 (1.28%) Virtual Team
15 25 (1.11%) Onboarding
16 20 (0.88%) Algorithms
16 20 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
16 20 (0.88%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 194 (8.58%) Linux
2 49 (2.17%) Android
3 48 (2.12%) Unix
4 42 (1.86%) Windows
5 14 (0.62%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.44%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.22%) CentOS
8 5 (0.22%) Debian
8 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.18%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 809 (35.80%) Agile
2 761 (33.67%) Software Engineering
3 694 (30.71%) CI/CD
4 534 (23.63%) DevOps
5 488 (21.59%) Microservices
6 451 (19.96%) Full-Stack Development
7 420 (18.58%) Test Automation
8 411 (18.19%) Mentoring
9 334 (14.78%) Problem-Solving
10 257 (11.37%) Containerisation
11 250 (11.06%) AI
12 234 (10.35%) Scrum
13 230 (10.18%) TDD
14 225 (9.96%) Continuous Improvement
15 213 (9.42%) Technical Leadership
16 211 (9.34%) Infrastructure as Code
17 209 (9.25%) Roadmaps
18 193 (8.54%) Computer Science
19 178 (7.88%) SDLC
20 165 (7.30%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 666 (29.47%) Python
2 445 (19.69%) SQL
3 434 (19.20%) JavaScript
4 271 (11.99%) TypeScript
5 240 (10.62%) C#
6 173 (7.65%) C++
7 157 (6.95%) Go
8 113 (5.00%) Bash
9 107 (4.73%) Kotlin
10 64 (2.83%) Groovy
11 61 (2.70%) C
12 52 (2.30%) Scala
13 39 (1.73%) Rust
14 37 (1.64%) PHP
15 35 (1.55%) PL/SQL
16 25 (1.11%) PowerShell
17 17 (0.75%) Apex Code
17 17 (0.75%) R
18 13 (0.58%) Perl
18 13 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 353 (15.62%) Security Cleared
2 259 (11.46%) Degree
3 221 (9.78%) SC Cleared
4 135 (5.97%) DV Cleared
5 129 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 95 (4.20%) AWS Certification
7 36 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 32 (1.42%) Master's Degree
9 29 (1.28%) ISTQB
10 25 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 21 (0.93%) OSCP
13 20 (0.88%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 19 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
15 18 (0.80%) DBS Check
16 17 (0.75%) Azure Certification
17 14 (0.62%) CREST Certified
17 14 (0.62%) PhD
18 12 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
19 10 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (6.55%) QA
2 52 (2.30%) Accessibility
3 39 (1.73%) Data Quality
4 14 (0.62%) GRC
4 14 (0.62%) PCI DSS
5 12 (0.53%) SOC 2
5 12 (0.53%) WCAG
6 10 (0.44%) GDPR
7 9 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.27%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 14443
9 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 3 (0.13%) NIST
11 2 (0.088%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.044%) Good Clinical Practice
12 1 (0.044%) MiFID
12 1 (0.044%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.044%) SLA
System Software
1 362 (16.02%) Docker
2 12 (0.53%) Active Directory
2 12 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (0.40%) vSphere
4 7 (0.31%) Squid
4 7 (0.31%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.22%) Firmware
6 4 (0.18%) KVM
7 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.088%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.044%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.044%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.044%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.044%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.044%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.044%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.044%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 427 (18.89%) Kubernetes
2 259 (11.46%) Terraform
3 100 (4.42%) Grafana
4 93 (4.12%) Ansible
5 51 (2.26%) Argo
6 47 (2.08%) Prometheus
7 39 (1.73%) HP Fortify
8 28 (1.24%) Kibana
9 18 (0.80%) Kustomize
10 13 (0.58%) Packer
11 12 (0.53%) Puppet
11 12 (0.53%) Rancher
12 9 (0.40%) logstash
13 7 (0.31%) yum
13 7 (0.31%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (0.22%) FTK
16 3 (0.13%) AWS Copilot
16 3 (0.13%) Nagios
16 3 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 89 (3.94%) Oracle
2 82 (3.63%) Microsoft
3 69 (3.05%) Google
4 38 (1.68%) Splunk
5 32 (1.42%) IBM
6 26 (1.15%) Salesforce
7 19 (0.84%) Dynatrace
7 19 (0.84%) Foundry
7 19 (0.84%) MuleSoft
8 18 (0.80%) Palantir
8 18 (0.80%) Red Hat
9 17 (0.75%) AppDynamics
10 16 (0.71%) VMware
11 14 (0.62%) Databricks
12 12 (0.53%) Atlassian
12 12 (0.53%) SAP
12 12 (0.53%) ServiceNow
12 12 (0.53%) Solace
13 11 (0.49%) Adobe
14 9 (0.40%) Informatica