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 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 30 30
Rank change year-on-year -28 0 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,531 2,784 3,808
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.53% 6.44% 5.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.25% 23.66% 18.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,622 1,208 2,449
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £116,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +5.72%

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 16,598 11,766 20,964
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.58% 27.21% 30.53%
Number of salaries quoted 12,141 7,745 13,721
10th Percentile £39,000 £33,350 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,733 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.61% +0.37% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -11 1,062 £85,000 -20.93% 2,265
North of England -25 712 £67,500 +1.89% 360
North West -34 335 £70,000 - 214
South West -2 287 £63,500 +5.83% 190
South East -60 217 £67,500 +3.85% 215
Yorkshire +30 195 £75,000 +15.38% 93
Midlands -58 184 £62,500 +4.17% 151
North East +13 182 £55,000 +15.79% 54
West Midlands -28 154 £67,500 +12.50% 112
East of England -68 54 £57,500 +27.78% 98
East Midlands -79 30 £60,000 +4.35% 39
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 62 (2.45%) Confluence
2 55 (2.17%) Apache
3 37 (1.46%) Apache Spark
4 23 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (0.63%) Camunda
6 14 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 12 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
8 10 (0.40%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
10 7 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 7 (0.28%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.24%) CMS
11 6 (0.24%) JBoss
12 5 (0.20%) CICS
13 4 (0.16%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.16%) SAS
14 3 (0.12%) Documentum
14 3 (0.12%) SharePoint
14 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
14 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.59%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.32%) Simulink
4 5 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.20%) Moqups
5 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (0.12%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.079%) PTC Creo
7 2 (0.079%) Windchill
8 1 (0.040%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.040%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.20%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.20%) Temenos T24
3 4 (0.16%) Maximo
3 4 (0.16%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.079%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.079%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.079%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 1 (0.040%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.040%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.040%) Endur
5 1 (0.040%) Findur
5 1 (0.040%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.040%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.040%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.040%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.040%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,040 (41.09%) AWS
2 524 (20.70%) Azure
3 293 (11.58%) GCP
4 211 (8.34%) Serverless
5 162 (6.40%) AWS CloudFormation
6 157 (6.20%) GitHub
7 143 (5.65%) AWS Lambda
8 113 (4.46%) Amazon S3
9 110 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
10 97 (3.83%) SaaS
11 90 (3.56%) Amazon EKS
12 89 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
13 81 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
14 65 (2.57%) AWS Step Functions
15 50 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
16 42 (1.66%) Datadog
17 40 (1.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 37 (1.46%) OpenShift
19 36 (1.42%) Azure Service Bus
20 33 (1.30%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 41 (1.62%) HTTP
2 17 (0.67%) Network Security
3 13 (0.51%) DMARC
3 13 (0.51%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.36%) Broadband
4 9 (0.36%) DNS
4 9 (0.36%) IPv4
4 9 (0.36%) MQTT
4 9 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
5 8 (0.32%) VPN
5 8 (0.32%) Wireshark
6 7 (0.28%) AMQP
6 7 (0.28%) BGP
7 6 (0.24%) IPsec
8 5 (0.20%) Ethernet
8 5 (0.20%) Firewall
8 5 (0.20%) Internet
8 5 (0.20%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.16%) RIP
10 3 (0.12%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (6.48%) NoSQL
2 158 (6.24%) PostgreSQL
3 123 (4.86%) MongoDB
4 120 (4.74%) Relational Database
5 78 (3.08%) DynamoDB
6 72 (2.84%) MySQL
6 72 (2.84%) SQL Server
7 46 (1.82%) Big Data
8 42 (1.66%) Amazon Athena
9 28 (1.11%) Redis
10 24 (0.95%) Hadoop
11 23 (0.91%) Data Lake
11 23 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
12 22 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
12 22 (0.87%) Db2
13 20 (0.79%) Power BI
14 18 (0.71%) BigQuery
15 17 (0.67%) Spark SQL
16 16 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
17 15 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 285 (11.26%) Git
2 208 (8.22%) Jenkins
3 193 (7.63%) GitLab
4 99 (3.91%) JIRA
5 96 (3.79%) JUnit
6 92 (3.63%) Cucumber
7 76 (3.00%) Maven
8 65 (2.57%) Selenium
9 57 (2.25%) Cypress.io
10 46 (1.82%) SonarQube
10 46 (1.82%) TeamCity
11 45 (1.78%) Eclipse
11 45 (1.78%) Postman
12 38 (1.50%) Mockito
12 38 (1.50%) Subversion
13 35 (1.38%) Bitbucket
13 35 (1.38%) JMeter
14 21 (0.83%) Claude Code
15 18 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 18 (0.71%) REST Assured
General
1 663 (26.20%) Finance
2 436 (17.23%) Social Skills
3 256 (10.11%) Banking
4 250 (9.88%) Public Sector
5 193 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
6 124 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 101 (3.99%) Law
8 79 (3.12%) Retail
9 68 (2.69%) Front Office
10 65 (2.57%) Financial Institution
11 39 (1.54%) Manufacturing
12 37 (1.46%) Legal
13 36 (1.42%) Marketing
14 33 (1.30%) Investment Banking
15 31 (1.22%) Back Office
16 29 (1.15%) Health Technology
17 22 (0.87%) Aerospace
18 20 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
18 20 (0.79%) Publishing
19 19 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 792 (31.29%) Developer
2 643 (25.40%) Senior
3 568 (22.44%) Software Engineer
4 520 (20.55%) Java Developer
5 489 (19.32%) Java Engineer
6 353 (13.95%) Lead
7 217 (8.57%) Senior Developer
8 191 (7.55%) Senior Software Engineer
9 166 (6.56%) Senior Java Engineer
10 159 (6.28%) Java Software Engineer
11 155 (6.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 138 (5.45%) Senior Java Developer
13 129 (5.10%) Full-Stack Developer
14 125 (4.94%) Software Developer
15 108 (4.27%) Lead Software Engineer
16 84 (3.32%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 83 (3.28%) Principal Engineer
18 82 (3.24%) Architect
19 79 (3.12%) DevOps Engineer
20 76 (3.00%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 591 (23.35%) Spring
2 488 (19.28%) Spring Boot
3 289 (11.42%) Terraform
4 265 (10.47%) Kafka
5 263 (10.39%) React
6 255 (10.08%) REST
7 220 (8.69%) AngularJS
8 197 (7.78%) Node.js
9 186 (7.35%) RESTful
10 170 (6.72%) .NET
11 80 (3.16%) Web Services
12 68 (2.69%) CSS
13 64 (2.53%) HTML
14 58 (2.29%) Vue
15 55 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
16 54 (2.13%) OAuth
17 52 (2.05%) Hibernate
18 45 (1.78%) JSON
18 45 (1.78%) Playwright
19 43 (1.70%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 331 (13.08%) Cloud Native
2 255 (10.08%) Distributed Systems
3 168 (6.64%) Product Ownership
4 129 (5.10%) Public Cloud
5 75 (2.96%) Onboarding
6 64 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
7 58 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
8 48 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
9 45 (1.78%) e-Learning
10 43 (1.70%) Virtual Team
11 42 (1.66%) Data Structures
12 39 (1.54%) Algorithms
13 37 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 33 (1.30%) Mobile App
15 30 (1.19%) Blog
16 29 (1.15%) AI Agents
16 29 (1.15%) Equities
17 26 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
17 26 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
18 22 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 215 (8.49%) Linux
2 67 (2.65%) Windows
3 37 (1.46%) Unix
4 36 (1.42%) Android
5 24 (0.95%) Apple iOS
6 21 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (0.59%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.28%) CentOS
9 6 (0.24%) Debian
9 6 (0.24%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.16%) Kali Linux
10 4 (0.16%) VMS
11 3 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.079%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.040%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 915 (36.15%) Software Engineering
2 843 (33.31%) CI/CD
3 793 (31.33%) Agile
4 605 (23.90%) Microservices
5 576 (22.76%) DevOps
6 492 (19.44%) Test Automation
7 485 (19.16%) Full-Stack Development
8 459 (18.14%) Mentoring
9 441 (17.42%) Problem-Solving
10 380 (15.01%) AI
11 315 (12.45%) Containerisation
12 307 (12.13%) Infrastructure as Code
13 303 (11.97%) Continuous Improvement
14 272 (10.75%) Event-Driven
15 248 (9.80%) Technical Leadership
16 247 (9.76%) Roadmaps
17 235 (9.28%) Computer Science
18 230 (9.09%) TDD
19 229 (9.05%) SDLC
20 227 (8.97%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 800 (31.61%) Python
2 477 (18.85%) SQL
3 431 (17.03%) JavaScript
4 269 (10.63%) C#
5 261 (10.31%) C++
6 252 (9.96%) TypeScript
7 127 (5.02%) Go
8 116 (4.58%) Bash
9 105 (4.15%) Kotlin
10 77 (3.04%) C
11 74 (2.92%) Scala
12 57 (2.25%) Rust
13 55 (2.17%) PHP
14 52 (2.05%) Groovy
15 51 (2.02%) Perl
16 37 (1.46%) PowerShell
16 37 (1.46%) Ruby
17 30 (1.19%) PL/SQL
18 21 (0.83%) Shell Script
19 17 (0.67%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 467 (18.45%) Security Cleared
2 280 (11.06%) Degree
3 255 (10.08%) SC Cleared
4 162 (6.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 156 (6.16%) DV Cleared
6 101 (3.99%) AWS Certification
7 64 (2.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 28 (1.11%) Master's Degree
9 24 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (0.79%) OSCP
11 19 (0.75%) ISTQB
12 17 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
13 16 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 14 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (0.51%) DBS Check
15 13 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
16 11 (0.43%) CREST Certified
17 9 (0.36%) PhD
18 8 (0.32%) CCNA
18 8 (0.32%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (6.60%) QA
2 82 (3.24%) Accessibility
3 80 (3.16%) Data Quality
4 26 (1.03%) WCAG
5 24 (0.95%) GDPR
6 15 (0.59%) ISO 20022
6 15 (0.59%) NIST
7 11 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.40%) GRC
9 7 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.24%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 4 (0.16%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.12%) MiFID
12 3 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
12 3 (0.12%) PSD2
12 3 (0.12%) UCITS
13 2 (0.079%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 414 (16.36%) Docker
2 26 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (0.75%) Active Directory
4 13 (0.51%) Firmware
5 12 (0.47%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
6 11 (0.43%) vSphere
7 8 (0.32%) Squid
7 8 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.20%) KVM
11 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.079%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 463 (18.29%) Kubernetes
2 132 (5.22%) Ansible
3 88 (3.48%) Grafana
4 32 (1.26%) Prometheus
5 31 (1.22%) Argo
6 29 (1.15%) Kibana
7 26 (1.03%) Puppet
8 21 (0.83%) HP Fortify
9 14 (0.55%) Packer
10 12 (0.47%) Rancher
11 11 (0.43%) logstash
12 8 (0.32%) ZABBIX
13 7 (0.28%) yum
14 6 (0.24%) Hadoop YARN
14 6 (0.24%) Kubeflow
15 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (0.20%) Red Hat Satellite
16 4 (0.16%) Control-M
16 4 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
16 4 (0.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 115 (4.54%) Oracle
2 109 (4.31%) Microsoft
3 84 (3.32%) Google
4 61 (2.41%) Splunk
5 43 (1.70%) Red Hat
6 42 (1.66%) IBM
7 32 (1.26%) SAP
8 30 (1.19%) VMware
9 29 (1.15%) AppDynamics
10 25 (0.99%) Adobe
10 25 (0.99%) Dynatrace
11 21 (0.83%) OpenAI
11 21 (0.83%) Palantir
12 18 (0.71%) ServiceNow
13 17 (0.67%) Databricks
14 14 (0.55%) Salesforce
15 13 (0.51%) Foundry
15 13 (0.51%) SendGrid
16 12 (0.47%) Bloomberg
17 11 (0.43%) Atlassian