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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 30 33
Rank change year-on-year -28 +3 -11
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,480 2,832 3,862
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.55% 6.49% 5.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.88% 23.15% 18.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,582 1,259 2,572
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £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 £102,500 £135,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +5.26%

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 16,669 12,234 21,460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.14% 28.04% 30.08%
Number of salaries quoted 12,212 8,154 14,868
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 2 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 2 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 -12 1,052 £85,000 -19.05% 2,196
North of England -25 696 £67,500 +2.24% 354
North West -35 317 £70,000 - 214
South West -8 283 £60,500 +0.83% 220
South East -58 212 £67,500 +3.85% 197
Yorkshire +26 200 £75,000 +15.38% 84
North East +8 179 £55,000 +15.79% 56
Midlands -57 169 £62,500 +4.17% 149
West Midlands -32 143 £67,500 +12.03% 103
East of England -64 52 £54,430 +20.95% 82
East Midlands -81 26 £57,500 +9.52% 46
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 (2.50%) Confluence
2 54 (2.18%) Apache
3 37 (1.49%) Apache Spark
4 23 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (0.69%) Camunda
6 16 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
7 14 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 10 (0.40%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
10 7 (0.28%) CICS
10 7 (0.28%) JBoss
10 7 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 7 (0.28%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.24%) CMS
12 5 (0.20%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.16%) SAS
14 3 (0.12%) Documentum
14 3 (0.12%) nginx
14 3 (0.12%) SharePoint
14 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 20 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.60%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.20%) Moqups
3 5 (0.20%) Simulink
4 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.081%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.081%) PTC Creo
5 2 (0.081%) Windchill
6 1 (0.040%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.040%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.20%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.20%) Maximo
2 5 (0.20%) Temenos T24
3 4 (0.16%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.081%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.081%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 2 (0.081%) SAP SD
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%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,026 (41.37%) AWS
2 533 (21.49%) Azure
3 297 (11.98%) GCP
4 199 (8.02%) Serverless
5 157 (6.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 153 (6.17%) GitHub
7 133 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
8 106 (4.27%) Amazon ECS
9 105 (4.23%) Amazon S3
10 99 (3.99%) SaaS
11 86 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
11 86 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
12 84 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
13 58 (2.34%) AWS Step Functions
14 48 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
15 39 (1.57%) Datadog
16 38 (1.53%) OpenShift
17 37 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 35 (1.41%) Anthropic Claude
18 35 (1.41%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 40 (1.61%) HTTP
2 17 (0.69%) Network Security
3 16 (0.65%) Broadband
4 15 (0.60%) TCP/IP
5 13 (0.52%) DMARC
6 9 (0.36%) DNS
6 9 (0.36%) IPv4
6 9 (0.36%) MQTT
6 9 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
7 8 (0.32%) VPN
8 7 (0.28%) BGP
9 6 (0.24%) AMQP
9 6 (0.24%) IPsec
10 5 (0.20%) Ethernet
10 5 (0.20%) Firewall
10 5 (0.20%) Internet
10 5 (0.20%) Kerberos
10 5 (0.20%) Wireshark
11 3 (0.12%) LAN
11 3 (0.12%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (6.57%) NoSQL
1 163 (6.57%) PostgreSQL
2 126 (5.08%) MongoDB
3 121 (4.88%) Relational Database
4 78 (3.15%) MySQL
5 76 (3.06%) DynamoDB
6 74 (2.98%) SQL Server
7 44 (1.77%) Big Data
8 36 (1.45%) Amazon Athena
9 28 (1.13%) Redis
10 25 (1.01%) Db2
11 24 (0.97%) Hadoop
12 23 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
13 22 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
14 18 (0.73%) BigQuery
14 18 (0.73%) Data Lake
14 18 (0.73%) Power BI
15 16 (0.65%) Spark SQL
16 15 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
16 15 (0.60%) Flink
Development Applications
1 283 (11.41%) Git
2 214 (8.63%) Jenkins
3 193 (7.78%) GitLab
4 98 (3.95%) JUnit
5 97 (3.91%) JIRA
6 91 (3.67%) Cucumber
7 74 (2.98%) Maven
7 74 (2.98%) Selenium
8 63 (2.54%) Cypress.io
9 50 (2.02%) Postman
10 45 (1.81%) Eclipse
10 45 (1.81%) SonarQube
11 42 (1.69%) TeamCity
12 41 (1.65%) JMeter
13 40 (1.61%) Mockito
14 37 (1.49%) Subversion
15 35 (1.41%) Bitbucket
16 26 (1.05%) REST Assured
17 24 (0.97%) Claude Code
18 20 (0.81%) Gatling
General
1 658 (26.53%) Finance
2 421 (16.98%) Social Skills
3 261 (10.52%) Public Sector
4 236 (9.52%) Banking
5 188 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
6 122 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 90 (3.63%) Law
8 72 (2.90%) Front Office
9 69 (2.78%) Retail
10 63 (2.54%) Financial Institution
11 36 (1.45%) Marketing
12 35 (1.41%) Investment Banking
12 35 (1.41%) Manufacturing
13 33 (1.33%) Legal
14 29 (1.17%) Health Technology
15 28 (1.13%) Back Office
16 22 (0.89%) Aerospace
17 19 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
17 19 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
18 18 (0.73%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 790 (31.85%) Developer
2 631 (25.44%) Senior
3 555 (22.38%) Software Engineer
4 522 (21.05%) Java Developer
5 451 (18.19%) Java Engineer
6 345 (13.91%) Lead
7 209 (8.43%) Senior Developer
8 196 (7.90%) Senior Software Engineer
9 151 (6.09%) Senior Java Engineer
10 150 (6.05%) Java Software Engineer
11 146 (5.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 131 (5.28%) Senior Java Developer
13 127 (5.12%) Full-Stack Developer
14 123 (4.96%) Software Developer
15 105 (4.23%) Lead Software Engineer
16 83 (3.35%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 83 (3.35%) Principal Engineer
17 80 (3.23%) Architect
18 79 (3.19%) DevOps Engineer
19 75 (3.02%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 589 (23.75%) Spring
2 483 (19.48%) Spring Boot
3 282 (11.37%) Terraform
4 264 (10.65%) Kafka
5 262 (10.56%) React
6 250 (10.08%) REST
7 221 (8.91%) AngularJS
8 193 (7.78%) RESTful
9 192 (7.74%) Node.js
10 177 (7.14%) .NET
11 83 (3.35%) Web Services
12 70 (2.82%) CSS
13 65 (2.62%) HTML
14 58 (2.34%) RabbitMQ
15 57 (2.30%) Vue
16 56 (2.26%) Hibernate
16 56 (2.26%) OAuth
17 55 (2.22%) Playwright
18 48 (1.94%) Jakarta EE
19 42 (1.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 316 (12.74%) Cloud Native
2 255 (10.28%) Distributed Systems
3 168 (6.77%) Product Ownership
4 123 (4.96%) Public Cloud
5 74 (2.98%) Onboarding
6 63 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
7 57 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
8 47 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
9 44 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 43 (1.73%) e-Learning
10 43 (1.73%) Virtual Team
11 42 (1.69%) Data Structures
12 38 (1.53%) Algorithms
13 35 (1.41%) Mobile App
14 33 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
15 32 (1.29%) Equities
16 30 (1.21%) AI Agents
17 25 (1.01%) Blog
18 24 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
19 23 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 220 (8.87%) Linux
2 68 (2.74%) Windows
3 38 (1.53%) Unix
4 37 (1.49%) Android
5 20 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (0.77%) Apple iOS
7 15 (0.60%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.24%) CentOS
9 5 (0.20%) Debian
9 5 (0.20%) Kali Linux
9 5 (0.20%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.16%) VMS
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.081%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.040%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 884 (35.65%) Software Engineering
2 835 (33.67%) CI/CD
3 799 (32.22%) Agile
4 599 (24.15%) Microservices
5 581 (23.43%) DevOps
6 502 (20.24%) Test Automation
7 468 (18.87%) Full-Stack Development
8 454 (18.31%) Mentoring
9 429 (17.30%) Problem-Solving
10 377 (15.20%) AI
11 319 (12.86%) Containerisation
12 305 (12.30%) Infrastructure as Code
13 298 (12.02%) Continuous Improvement
14 263 (10.60%) Event-Driven
15 251 (10.12%) Technical Leadership
16 247 (9.96%) Roadmaps
17 234 (9.44%) TDD
18 231 (9.31%) Computer Science
19 226 (9.11%) Scrum
20 224 (9.03%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 806 (32.50%) Python
2 471 (18.99%) SQL
3 431 (17.38%) JavaScript
4 273 (11.01%) C#
5 251 (10.12%) C++
6 239 (9.64%) TypeScript
7 126 (5.08%) Go
8 112 (4.52%) Bash
9 106 (4.27%) Kotlin
10 77 (3.10%) C
11 73 (2.94%) Scala
12 59 (2.38%) Rust
13 58 (2.34%) PHP
14 53 (2.14%) Groovy
15 51 (2.06%) Perl
16 38 (1.53%) PowerShell
16 38 (1.53%) Ruby
17 33 (1.33%) PL/SQL
18 20 (0.81%) Shell Script
19 16 (0.65%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 461 (18.59%) Security Cleared
2 282 (11.37%) Degree
3 248 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 161 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 159 (6.41%) DV Cleared
6 99 (3.99%) AWS Certification
7 62 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (1.17%) Master's Degree
9 22 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (0.81%) ISTQB
11 19 (0.77%) OSCP
12 16 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 16 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
13 13 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.48%) DBS Check
15 11 (0.44%) CREST Certified
16 10 (0.40%) PhD
17 8 (0.32%) CCNA
17 8 (0.32%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (6.77%) QA
2 82 (3.31%) Accessibility
3 76 (3.06%) Data Quality
4 27 (1.09%) WCAG
5 22 (0.89%) GDPR
6 14 (0.56%) GRC
6 14 (0.56%) ISO 20022
7 13 (0.52%) NIST
8 10 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.20%) 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 (0.081%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 414 (16.69%) Docker
2 26 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (0.77%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.48%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.44%) Firmware
5 11 (0.44%) vSphere
6 8 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
6 8 (0.32%) Squid
6 8 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.20%) KVM
9 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.081%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 463 (18.67%) Kubernetes
2 131 (5.28%) Ansible
3 85 (3.43%) Grafana
4 31 (1.25%) Prometheus
5 30 (1.21%) Argo
6 27 (1.09%) Kibana
7 24 (0.97%) Puppet
8 21 (0.85%) HP Fortify
9 12 (0.48%) Packer
10 11 (0.44%) Rancher
11 10 (0.40%) logstash
12 8 (0.32%) ZABBIX
13 6 (0.24%) Hadoop YARN
13 6 (0.24%) Kubeflow
13 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (0.24%) yum
14 5 (0.20%) Red Hat Satellite
15 4 (0.16%) Control-M
15 4 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 113 (4.56%) Oracle
2 104 (4.19%) Microsoft
3 80 (3.23%) Google
4 61 (2.46%) Splunk
5 44 (1.77%) IBM
6 37 (1.49%) Red Hat
7 33 (1.33%) SAP
8 30 (1.21%) VMware
9 29 (1.17%) AppDynamics
10 25 (1.01%) Palantir
11 24 (0.97%) Adobe
11 24 (0.97%) Dynatrace
12 21 (0.85%) OpenAI
13 18 (0.73%) ServiceNow
14 17 (0.69%) Databricks
15 16 (0.65%) Foundry
16 15 (0.60%) Salesforce
17 13 (0.52%) SendGrid
18 12 (0.48%) Bloomberg
18 12 (0.48%) Veracode