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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 30 35
Rank change year-on-year -28 +5 -14
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,459 2,888 3,825
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.58% 6.60% 5.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.70% 23.13% 17.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,569 1,318 2,620
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 £115,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £135,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +3.23%

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 16,727 12,484 21,476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.58% 28.55% 29.64%
Number of salaries quoted 12,192 8,340 15,648
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £36,625
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +1.63% -5.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -14 1,059 £85,000 -19.05% 499
North of England -24 690 £68,076 +1.55% 172
North West -34 309 £70,000 - 86
South West -6 278 £60,000 - 90
Yorkshire +36 212 £75,000 +15.38% 51
South East -62 211 £67,500 +3.85% 128
North East +8 169 £55,000 +15.79% 37
Midlands -62 155 £67,500 +12.50% 75
West Midlands -39 131 £68,403 +9.44% 56
East of England -66 53 £51,359 +16.73% 43
East Midlands -79 24 £60,000 +26.32% 19
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 60 (2.44%) Confluence
2 54 (2.20%) Apache
3 38 (1.55%) Apache Spark
4 22 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.73%) Camunda
6 15 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
7 14 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.37%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.33%) JBoss
9 8 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
10 7 (0.28%) CICS
10 7 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 7 (0.28%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.20%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.16%) CMS
12 4 (0.16%) GeoServer
12 4 (0.16%) SAS
13 3 (0.12%) Documentum
13 3 (0.12%) SharePoint
13 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 20 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.65%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.20%) Moqups
5 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.12%) Simulink
7 2 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.081%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.081%) PTC Creo
7 2 (0.081%) Windchill
8 1 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.041%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.28%) Maximo
3 5 (0.20%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.20%) Temenos T24
4 4 (0.16%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.12%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.081%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.081%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 1 (0.041%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.041%) Endur
7 1 (0.041%) Findur
7 1 (0.041%) Infor SunSystems
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.041%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.041%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.041%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,019 (41.44%) AWS
2 528 (21.47%) Azure
3 297 (12.08%) GCP
4 194 (7.89%) Serverless
5 159 (6.47%) AWS CloudFormation
6 147 (5.98%) GitHub
7 124 (5.04%) AWS Lambda
8 112 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
9 109 (4.43%) Amazon S3
10 101 (4.11%) SaaS
11 84 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
12 81 (3.29%) Amazon EKS
13 78 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
14 62 (2.52%) AWS Step Functions
15 41 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 40 (1.63%) OpenShift
17 39 (1.59%) Datadog
18 35 (1.42%) Azure Service Bus
19 34 (1.38%) Amazon ECR
20 33 (1.34%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 37 (1.50%) HTTP
2 23 (0.94%) Broadband
3 17 (0.69%) Network Security
4 16 (0.65%) TCP/IP
5 13 (0.53%) DMARC
6 9 (0.37%) MQTT
6 9 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
7 8 (0.33%) DNS
7 8 (0.33%) IPv4
7 8 (0.33%) VPN
8 6 (0.24%) AMQP
8 6 (0.24%) BGP
8 6 (0.24%) IPsec
8 6 (0.24%) Kerberos
9 5 (0.20%) Ethernet
9 5 (0.20%) Firewall
9 5 (0.20%) Internet
10 3 (0.12%) LAN
10 3 (0.12%) RIP
10 3 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (6.63%) PostgreSQL
2 162 (6.59%) NoSQL
3 124 (5.04%) Relational Database
4 121 (4.92%) MongoDB
5 82 (3.33%) DynamoDB
6 79 (3.21%) MySQL
7 77 (3.13%) SQL Server
8 40 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
8 40 (1.63%) Big Data
9 29 (1.18%) Db2
10 28 (1.14%) Redis
11 25 (1.02%) Hadoop
12 22 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
13 21 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
14 18 (0.73%) BigQuery
15 16 (0.65%) Data Lake
16 15 (0.61%) Power BI
17 14 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
17 14 (0.57%) Flink
17 14 (0.57%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 279 (11.35%) Git
2 204 (8.30%) Jenkins
3 177 (7.20%) GitLab
4 96 (3.90%) JUnit
5 93 (3.78%) JIRA
6 88 (3.58%) Cucumber
7 75 (3.05%) Selenium
8 72 (2.93%) Maven
9 62 (2.52%) Cypress.io
10 47 (1.91%) SonarQube
11 45 (1.83%) Postman
12 43 (1.75%) Eclipse
13 40 (1.63%) Mockito
13 40 (1.63%) TeamCity
14 39 (1.59%) JMeter
15 36 (1.46%) Subversion
16 35 (1.42%) Bitbucket
17 26 (1.06%) Claude Code
18 22 (0.89%) REST Assured
19 19 (0.77%) Gradle
General
1 668 (27.17%) Finance
2 423 (17.20%) Social Skills
3 251 (10.21%) Public Sector
4 224 (9.11%) Banking
5 176 (7.16%) Analytical Skills
6 129 (5.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 90 (3.66%) Front Office
8 87 (3.54%) Law
9 68 (2.77%) Retail
10 60 (2.44%) Financial Institution
11 38 (1.55%) Investment Banking
12 37 (1.50%) Marketing
13 32 (1.30%) Health Technology
14 31 (1.26%) Legal
14 31 (1.26%) Manufacturing
15 28 (1.14%) Back Office
16 22 (0.89%) Aerospace
17 21 (0.85%) Games
18 20 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
19 18 (0.73%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 825 (33.55%) Developer
2 625 (25.42%) Senior
3 562 (22.85%) Software Engineer
4 541 (22.00%) Java Developer
5 422 (17.16%) Java Engineer
6 359 (14.60%) Lead
7 210 (8.54%) Senior Developer
8 197 (8.01%) Senior Software Engineer
9 145 (5.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 143 (5.82%) Java Software Engineer
11 135 (5.49%) Senior Java Engineer
12 134 (5.45%) Full-Stack Developer
13 133 (5.41%) Senior Java Developer
14 122 (4.96%) Software Developer
15 118 (4.80%) Lead Software Engineer
16 85 (3.46%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 82 (3.33%) Principal Engineer
18 81 (3.29%) Architect
19 78 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
20 72 (2.93%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 577 (23.46%) Spring
2 475 (19.32%) Spring Boot
3 285 (11.59%) Terraform
4 280 (11.39%) React
5 262 (10.65%) Kafka
6 242 (9.84%) REST
7 229 (9.31%) AngularJS
8 221 (8.99%) Node.js
9 197 (8.01%) RESTful
10 170 (6.91%) .NET
11 89 (3.62%) Web Services
12 75 (3.05%) CSS
13 69 (2.81%) HTML
14 62 (2.52%) Vue
15 55 (2.24%) OAuth
15 55 (2.24%) RabbitMQ
16 54 (2.20%) GraphQL
16 54 (2.20%) Hibernate
17 52 (2.11%) Playwright
18 47 (1.91%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 307 (12.48%) Cloud Native
2 253 (10.29%) Distributed Systems
3 162 (6.59%) Product Ownership
4 114 (4.64%) Public Cloud
5 76 (3.09%) Onboarding
6 61 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
7 59 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
8 52 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 44 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
10 42 (1.71%) Virtual Team
11 40 (1.63%) Data Structures
12 39 (1.59%) e-Learning
12 39 (1.59%) Fixed Income
13 38 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
14 35 (1.42%) Algorithms
14 35 (1.42%) Mobile App
15 32 (1.30%) Equities
16 30 (1.22%) AI Agents
17 23 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
17 23 (0.94%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 226 (9.19%) Linux
2 70 (2.85%) Windows
3 41 (1.67%) Android
4 40 (1.63%) Unix
5 20 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 17 (0.69%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.69%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.24%) CentOS
8 5 (0.20%) Debian
8 5 (0.20%) Kali Linux
8 5 (0.20%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.081%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.081%) VMS
11 1 (0.041%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 876 (35.62%) Software Engineering
2 821 (33.39%) CI/CD
3 806 (32.78%) Agile
4 592 (24.07%) Microservices
5 584 (23.75%) DevOps
6 491 (19.97%) Test Automation
7 463 (18.83%) Full-Stack Development
8 432 (17.57%) Mentoring
9 427 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
10 377 (15.33%) AI
11 320 (13.01%) Containerisation
12 306 (12.44%) Infrastructure as Code
13 292 (11.87%) Continuous Improvement
14 251 (10.21%) Technical Leadership
15 243 (9.88%) Roadmaps
16 240 (9.76%) TDD
17 232 (9.43%) Event-Driven
18 227 (9.23%) Computer Science
19 221 (8.99%) Scrum
20 215 (8.74%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 818 (33.27%) Python
2 456 (18.54%) SQL
3 435 (17.69%) JavaScript
4 265 (10.78%) C#
5 261 (10.61%) TypeScript
6 240 (9.76%) C++
7 137 (5.57%) Go
8 117 (4.76%) Kotlin
9 111 (4.51%) Bash
10 75 (3.05%) C
11 71 (2.89%) Scala
12 60 (2.44%) PHP
13 57 (2.32%) Rust
14 53 (2.16%) Groovy
15 49 (1.99%) Perl
16 40 (1.63%) PowerShell
17 37 (1.50%) Ruby
18 33 (1.34%) PL/SQL
19 19 (0.77%) Shell Script
20 14 (0.57%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 454 (18.46%) Security Cleared
2 277 (11.26%) Degree
3 249 (10.13%) SC Cleared
4 159 (6.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 159 (6.47%) DV Cleared
5 97 (3.94%) AWS Certification
6 59 (2.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 26 (1.06%) Master's Degree
8 20 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (0.77%) ISTQB
10 18 (0.73%) OSCP
11 17 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 17 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
12 13 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (0.49%) DBS Check
14 10 (0.41%) CREST Certified
15 8 (0.33%) Azure Certification
15 8 (0.33%) CCNA
15 8 (0.33%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (6.67%) QA
2 83 (3.38%) Accessibility
3 57 (2.32%) Data Quality
4 29 (1.18%) WCAG
5 22 (0.89%) GDPR
6 15 (0.61%) NIST
7 14 (0.57%) GRC
8 13 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 10 (0.41%) ISO 20022
10 7 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.24%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 14443
12 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 4 (0.16%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.12%) MiFID
13 3 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
13 3 (0.12%) PSD2
13 3 (0.12%) UCITS
14 2 (0.081%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 412 (16.75%) Docker
2 26 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (0.89%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.49%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.45%) vSphere
6 8 (0.33%) Firmware
6 8 (0.33%) Squid
6 8 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
8 5 (0.20%) KVM
9 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.081%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 459 (18.67%) Kubernetes
2 128 (5.21%) Ansible
3 83 (3.38%) Grafana
4 31 (1.26%) Prometheus
5 28 (1.14%) Argo
6 27 (1.10%) Kibana
7 23 (0.94%) HP Fortify
8 22 (0.89%) Puppet
9 12 (0.49%) Packer
10 10 (0.41%) logstash
10 10 (0.41%) Rancher
11 8 (0.33%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.24%) Hadoop YARN
12 6 (0.24%) Kubeflow
12 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.20%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (0.20%) yum
14 4 (0.16%) Control-M
14 4 (0.16%) vCenter Server
15 3 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 110 (4.47%) Oracle
2 104 (4.23%) Microsoft
3 79 (3.21%) Google
4 61 (2.48%) Splunk
5 44 (1.79%) IBM
6 36 (1.46%) SAP
7 35 (1.42%) Red Hat
8 30 (1.22%) VMware
9 27 (1.10%) AppDynamics
10 24 (0.98%) Adobe
10 24 (0.98%) Dynatrace
10 24 (0.98%) Palantir
11 20 (0.81%) OpenAI
11 20 (0.81%) ServiceNow
12 18 (0.73%) Salesforce
13 16 (0.65%) Foundry
14 15 (0.61%) Databricks
15 13 (0.53%) SendGrid
16 12 (0.49%) Bloomberg
16 12 (0.49%) Solace