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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 26 35
Rank change year-on-year -32 +9 -15
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,309 3,027 4,769
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.74% 7.56% 5.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.92% 23.84% 16.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,507 1,432 3,533
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £137,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £71,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +4.90% -7.74%

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 15,477 12,697 29,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.37% 31.71% 30.61%
Number of salaries quoted 11,187 8,552 23,249
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,269 £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 £85,000 £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 23 June 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 23 June 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 1,048 £85,000 -19.05% 254
North of England -26 648 £69,305 +2.67% 122
North West -34 282 £70,000 -6.35% 57
Yorkshire +29 235 £72,500 +3.57% 38
South East -36 218 £70,000 +7.69% 96
South West -31 200 £60,000 -2.04% 56
North East +3 131 £52,500 +13.51% 29
Midlands -98 112 £61,000 +6.09% 44
West Midlands -61 91 £62,500 +4.17% 31
East of England -58 58 £53,180 +19.50% 33
East Midlands -81 20 £60,000 +26.32% 13
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 45 (1.95%) Apache
2 43 (1.86%) Confluence
3 35 (1.52%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
6 13 (0.56%) JBoss
7 9 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.35%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
9 6 (0.26%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.22%) Camunda
10 5 (0.22%) CMS
10 5 (0.22%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.17%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.13%) CICS
12 3 (0.13%) SAS
12 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
13 2 (0.087%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.087%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.43%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.087%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.087%) PTC Creo
5 2 (0.087%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 13 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.48%) Maximo
3 5 (0.22%) Temenos T24
4 4 (0.17%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.087%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.043%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.043%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.043%) Endur
7 1 (0.043%) Findur
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.043%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 949 (41.10%) AWS
2 444 (19.23%) Azure
3 283 (12.26%) GCP
4 190 (8.23%) Serverless
5 145 (6.28%) AWS CloudFormation
6 120 (5.20%) Amazon S3
7 119 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
8 116 (5.02%) SaaS
9 113 (4.89%) Amazon ECS
10 112 (4.85%) GitHub
11 103 (4.46%) Amazon EKS
12 74 (3.20%) AWS Step Functions
13 66 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
14 49 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
15 44 (1.91%) Amazon ECR
16 43 (1.86%) Amazon SQS
16 43 (1.86%) Apigee
17 39 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 36 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
19 35 (1.52%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.17%) Broadband
2 32 (1.39%) HTTP
3 25 (1.08%) TCP/IP
4 12 (0.52%) DMARC
5 8 (0.35%) IPv4
5 8 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
6 7 (0.30%) AMQP
6 7 (0.30%) MQTT
6 7 (0.30%) Network Security
7 5 (0.22%) BGP
7 5 (0.22%) Internet
7 5 (0.22%) VPN
8 3 (0.13%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.13%) VLAN
9 2 (0.087%) DNS
9 2 (0.087%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.087%) Firewall
9 2 (0.087%) LAN
9 2 (0.087%) SAN
9 2 (0.087%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (8.10%) NoSQL
2 163 (7.06%) PostgreSQL
3 105 (4.55%) MongoDB
3 105 (4.55%) Relational Database
4 89 (3.85%) DynamoDB
5 75 (3.25%) MySQL
6 68 (2.94%) SQL Server
7 43 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
8 36 (1.56%) RDBMS
9 31 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
10 24 (1.04%) Big Data
10 24 (1.04%) BigQuery
10 24 (1.04%) Db2
11 22 (0.95%) Redis
12 19 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
13 15 (0.65%) Hadoop
13 15 (0.65%) Metadata
14 14 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
15 13 (0.56%) Power BI
16 12 (0.52%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 209 (9.05%) Git
2 174 (7.54%) Jenkins
3 160 (6.93%) GitLab
4 87 (3.77%) JIRA
5 78 (3.38%) Cucumber
6 76 (3.29%) Maven
7 71 (3.07%) Selenium
8 65 (2.82%) JUnit
9 63 (2.73%) Cypress.io
10 56 (2.43%) TeamCity
11 54 (2.34%) SonarQube
12 38 (1.65%) Postman
13 35 (1.52%) JMeter
14 29 (1.26%) Mockito
15 28 (1.21%) Bitbucket
16 26 (1.13%) Gradle
16 26 (1.13%) Subversion
17 25 (1.08%) Claude Code
18 24 (1.04%) REST Assured
19 21 (0.91%) Eclipse
General
1 576 (24.95%) Finance
2 353 (15.29%) Social Skills
3 217 (9.40%) Banking
4 206 (8.92%) Public Sector
5 158 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
6 149 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 102 (4.42%) Front Office
7 102 (4.42%) Law
8 92 (3.98%) Retail
9 68 (2.94%) Financial Institution
10 47 (2.04%) Back Office
11 39 (1.69%) Investment Banking
12 30 (1.30%) Games
12 30 (1.30%) Health Technology
13 21 (0.91%) Aerospace
14 20 (0.87%) Telecoms
15 19 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
15 19 (0.82%) Manufacturing
16 18 (0.78%) Tech for Good
17 17 (0.74%) Legal
Job Titles
1 868 (37.59%) Developer
2 582 (25.21%) Java Developer
3 562 (24.34%) Senior
4 531 (23.00%) Software Engineer
5 395 (17.11%) Java Engineer
6 335 (14.51%) Lead
7 212 (9.18%) Senior Developer
8 176 (7.62%) Java Software Engineer
8 176 (7.62%) Senior Software Engineer
9 154 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
10 149 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
11 127 (5.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 121 (5.24%) Senior Java Engineer
13 120 (5.20%) Software Developer
14 112 (4.85%) Lead Software Engineer
15 98 (4.24%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 87 (3.77%) Architect
17 66 (2.86%) Lead Developer
17 66 (2.86%) Senior Java Software Engineer
18 64 (2.77%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 510 (22.09%) Spring
2 432 (18.71%) Spring Boot
3 286 (12.39%) React
4 230 (9.96%) AngularJS
5 227 (9.83%) REST
6 212 (9.18%) Node.js
7 205 (8.88%) Kafka
8 155 (6.71%) RESTful
9 146 (6.32%) .NET
10 88 (3.81%) Web Services
11 75 (3.25%) HTML
12 74 (3.20%) CSS
13 72 (3.12%) Vue
14 62 (2.69%) GraphQL
14 62 (2.69%) SOAP
15 57 (2.47%) Elastic Stack
16 56 (2.43%) JSON
17 47 (2.04%) OAuth
18 46 (1.99%) Hibernate
18 46 (1.99%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 267 (11.56%) Cloud Native
2 170 (7.36%) Distributed Systems
3 144 (6.24%) Product Ownership
4 99 (4.29%) Public Cloud
5 54 (2.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 49 (2.12%) Fixed Income
7 46 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
8 42 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
9 37 (1.60%) Data Structures
10 36 (1.56%) Distributed Architecture
10 36 (1.56%) Onboarding
10 36 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
11 35 (1.52%) Mobile App
12 34 (1.47%) e-Learning
13 32 (1.39%) Blog
14 30 (1.30%) Equities
14 30 (1.30%) Virtual Team
15 20 (0.87%) Social Media
16 19 (0.82%) FPGA
17 18 (0.78%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 214 (9.27%) Linux
2 54 (2.34%) Unix
3 50 (2.17%) Windows
4 47 (2.04%) Android
5 14 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.52%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.52%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.22%) CentOS
7 5 (0.22%) Debian
7 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.17%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 796 (34.47%) Agile
2 792 (34.30%) Software Engineering
3 702 (30.40%) CI/CD
4 544 (23.56%) DevOps
5 501 (21.70%) Microservices
6 458 (19.84%) Full-Stack Development
7 447 (19.36%) Test Automation
8 412 (17.84%) Mentoring
9 351 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
10 270 (11.69%) Containerisation
11 260 (11.26%) AI
12 241 (10.44%) Continuous Improvement
13 236 (10.22%) TDD
14 230 (9.96%) Infrastructure as Code
15 218 (9.44%) Roadmaps
16 217 (9.40%) Technical Leadership
17 207 (8.96%) Scrum
18 199 (8.62%) Computer Science
19 181 (7.84%) SDLC
20 160 (6.93%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 690 (29.88%) Python
2 441 (19.10%) SQL
3 420 (18.19%) JavaScript
4 258 (11.17%) TypeScript
5 238 (10.31%) C#
6 205 (8.88%) C++
7 161 (6.97%) Go
8 118 (5.11%) Bash
9 107 (4.63%) Kotlin
10 61 (2.64%) C
10 61 (2.64%) Groovy
11 54 (2.34%) Rust
11 54 (2.34%) Scala
12 46 (1.99%) PHP
13 31 (1.34%) PL/SQL
14 30 (1.30%) PowerShell
15 24 (1.04%) Perl
16 16 (0.69%) Apex Code
16 16 (0.69%) Ruby
17 15 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 374 (16.20%) Security Cleared
2 250 (10.83%) Degree
3 236 (10.22%) SC Cleared
4 137 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 122 (5.28%) DV Cleared
6 102 (4.42%) AWS Certification
7 43 (1.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 26 (1.13%) Master's Degree
9 25 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
10 23 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 21 (0.91%) ISTQB
12 20 (0.87%) OSCP
13 17 (0.74%) DBS Check
13 17 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
14 14 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (0.52%) Azure Certification
15 12 (0.52%) CREST Certified
16 11 (0.48%) PhD
17 10 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
18 9 (0.39%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (6.63%) QA
2 62 (2.69%) Accessibility
3 39 (1.69%) Data Quality
4 18 (0.78%) WCAG
5 17 (0.74%) GDPR
6 14 (0.61%) GRC
7 12 (0.52%) SOC 2
8 11 (0.48%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.30%) ISO 20022
10 6 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 4 (0.17%) NIST
12 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.087%) Good Clinical Practice
13 2 (0.087%) Software Quality Assurance
14 1 (0.043%) GxP
14 1 (0.043%) MiFID
System Software
1 362 (15.68%) Docker
2 16 (0.69%) Active Directory
2 16 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.48%) vSphere
4 8 (0.35%) Squid
4 8 (0.35%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.22%) Firmware
5 5 (0.22%) KVM
6 4 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.087%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.087%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.087%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.043%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.043%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.043%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.043%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 426 (18.45%) Kubernetes
2 271 (11.74%) Terraform
3 106 (4.59%) Grafana
4 103 (4.46%) Ansible
5 50 (2.17%) Prometheus
6 46 (1.99%) Argo
7 32 (1.39%) HP Fortify
8 29 (1.26%) Kibana
9 18 (0.78%) Kustomize
10 14 (0.61%) Packer
10 14 (0.61%) Puppet
11 12 (0.52%) Rancher
12 11 (0.48%) logstash
13 8 (0.35%) ZABBIX
14 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
15 6 (0.26%) yum
16 5 (0.22%) FTK
17 3 (0.13%) AWS Copilot
17 3 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
17 3 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 86 (3.72%) Microsoft
1 86 (3.72%) Oracle
2 75 (3.25%) Google
3 47 (2.04%) Splunk
4 35 (1.52%) IBM
5 25 (1.08%) Salesforce
6 24 (1.04%) Palantir
7 21 (0.91%) Red Hat
7 21 (0.91%) VMware
8 20 (0.87%) Dynatrace
8 20 (0.87%) SAP
9 19 (0.82%) Foundry
10 18 (0.78%) AppDynamics
11 17 (0.74%) ServiceNow
12 15 (0.65%) MuleSoft
13 14 (0.61%) Adobe
14 12 (0.52%) SendGrid
15 11 (0.48%) Solace
16 9 (0.39%) Atlassian
17 8 (0.35%) Guidewire