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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 45 25
Rank change year-on-year -28 -20 -8
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,560 2,550 3,641
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.97% 5.28% 7.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.24% 15.56% 19.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,055 1,521 2,827
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £130,000 £125,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year -3.23% +9.81% -2.65%

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 10,235 16,387 18,495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.47% 33.95% 38.37%
Number of salaries quoted 7,731 9,626 15,531
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 9 January 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 9 January 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 -11 823 £100,000 - 263
North of England -7 268 £70,000 +16.67% 195
South East -59 190 £60,000 -14.29% 264
Yorkshire +29 147 £72,500 +26.38% 78
South West -33 130 £65,000 +1.96% 123
North West -21 111 £70,000 +16.67% 87
Midlands -9 96 £55,200 +16.21% 77
West Midlands +8 76 £54,344 -5.49% 35
East of England -85 31 £45,000 -25.00% 89
East Midlands -28 20 £57,500 +64.29% 41
North East -30 12 £65,000 +8.33% 30
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 65 (4.17%) Apache
2 55 (3.53%) Apache Spark
3 53 (3.40%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (1.86%) Confluence
5 15 (0.96%) JBoss
6 13 (0.83%) OpenStack
7 12 (0.77%) IIS
8 10 (0.64%) WebSphere
9 7 (0.45%) Anypoint
10 6 (0.38%) Camunda
10 6 (0.38%) Mule
11 5 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.32%) SharePoint
12 4 (0.26%) Appian
12 4 (0.26%) nginx
13 3 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.19%) Liferay
13 3 (0.19%) Luigi
13 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
13 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (0.77%) MS Visio
2 9 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.19%) Simulink
5 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.13%) Windchill
6 1 (0.064%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.064%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.45%) Fidessa
1 7 (0.45%) Maximo
2 5 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.32%) Shopify
3 2 (0.13%) Adaptiv
3 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.064%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.064%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.064%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 702 (45.00%) AWS
2 304 (19.49%) Azure
3 180 (11.54%) GCP
4 144 (9.23%) Serverless
5 95 (6.09%) Amazon EKS
5 95 (6.09%) SaaS
6 83 (5.32%) AWS Lambda
7 79 (5.06%) GitHub
8 77 (4.94%) Amazon S3
9 74 (4.74%) Amazon ECS
10 50 (3.21%) Snowflake
11 45 (2.88%) dbt
12 43 (2.76%) OpenShift
13 40 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
14 38 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
15 32 (2.05%) AWS Step Functions
15 32 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
16 30 (1.92%) Datadog
17 29 (1.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 27 (1.73%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 31 (1.99%) TCP/IP
2 22 (1.41%) HTTP
3 14 (0.90%) AMQP
4 11 (0.71%) Internet
5 10 (0.64%) Broadband
6 9 (0.58%) Firewall
7 8 (0.51%) DNS
7 8 (0.51%) Multicast
7 8 (0.51%) VPN
8 7 (0.45%) SSH
9 5 (0.32%) FTP
9 5 (0.32%) SAN
9 5 (0.32%) SMTP
10 4 (0.26%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.19%) BGP
11 3 (0.19%) LAN
11 3 (0.19%) PuTTY
11 3 (0.19%) VLAN
11 3 (0.19%) WAN
12 2 (0.13%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (8.85%) PostgreSQL
2 121 (7.76%) Relational Database
3 102 (6.54%) NoSQL
4 87 (5.58%) SQL Server
5 67 (4.29%) MongoDB
6 55 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
7 52 (3.33%) Big Data
8 50 (3.21%) Data Lake
8 50 (3.21%) MySQL
9 49 (3.14%) Hadoop
10 48 (3.08%) DynamoDB
11 46 (2.95%) RDBMS
12 39 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
13 34 (2.18%) Amazon Athena
14 32 (2.05%) Apache Ignite
14 32 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
15 29 (1.86%) Apache Arrow
15 29 (1.86%) Apache Iceberg
15 29 (1.86%) Dremio
16 26 (1.67%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 173 (11.09%) Jenkins
2 119 (7.63%) Git
2 119 (7.63%) Selenium
3 98 (6.28%) JIRA
4 89 (5.71%) GitLab
5 64 (4.10%) JUnit
6 58 (3.72%) Cucumber
6 58 (3.72%) Cypress.io
6 58 (3.72%) Postman
7 49 (3.14%) WebDriver
8 43 (2.76%) SoapUI
9 41 (2.63%) Maven
10 36 (2.31%) Bitbucket
10 36 (2.31%) TeamCity
11 35 (2.24%) Team Foundation Server
12 32 (2.05%) JMeter
13 31 (1.99%) SonarQube
14 26 (1.67%) Mockito
15 19 (1.22%) REST Assured
16 15 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 456 (29.23%) Finance
2 429 (27.50%) Social Skills
3 228 (14.62%) Banking
4 145 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
5 107 (6.86%) Front Office
6 99 (6.35%) Public Sector
7 98 (6.28%) Law
8 96 (6.15%) Investment Banking
9 86 (5.51%) Financial Institution
10 68 (4.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 54 (3.46%) Retail
12 38 (2.44%) Marketing
13 28 (1.79%) Back Office
13 28 (1.79%) Telecoms
14 24 (1.54%) Games
15 21 (1.35%) Manufacturing
16 20 (1.28%) Billing
16 20 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
17 19 (1.22%) Aerospace
18 17 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 554 (35.51%) Developer
2 374 (23.97%) Senior
3 326 (20.90%) Software Engineer
4 297 (19.04%) Java Developer
5 192 (12.31%) Java Engineer
6 188 (12.05%) Lead
7 119 (7.63%) Full-Stack Developer
8 116 (7.44%) Architect
8 116 (7.44%) Senior Developer
9 114 (7.31%) Senior Software Engineer
10 112 (7.18%) Java Software Engineer
11 89 (5.71%) Senior Java Engineer
12 77 (4.94%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 75 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
14 73 (4.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 70 (4.49%) Senior Java Developer
16 56 (3.59%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 49 (3.14%) Software Developer
18 44 (2.82%) Analyst
19 41 (2.63%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 346 (22.18%) Spring
2 288 (18.46%) Spring Boot
3 282 (18.08%) React
4 185 (11.86%) REST
5 177 (11.35%) Kafka
6 156 (10.00%) .NET
7 137 (8.78%) HTML
8 128 (8.21%) AngularJS
8 128 (8.21%) Node.js
9 124 (7.95%) RESTful
10 96 (6.15%) CSS
11 86 (5.51%) SOAP
12 66 (4.23%) Hibernate
13 54 (3.46%) Web Services
14 51 (3.27%) Elastic Stack
15 44 (2.82%) JSON
16 40 (2.56%) gRPC
16 40 (2.56%) Pandas
17 38 (2.44%) Vue
18 37 (2.37%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 227 (14.55%) Cloud Native
2 171 (10.96%) Distributed Systems
3 80 (5.13%) Equities
4 68 (4.36%) Self-Motivation
5 63 (4.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 62 (3.97%) Product Ownership
7 58 (3.72%) Algorithms
8 53 (3.40%) Derivative
9 49 (3.14%) Fixed Income
10 43 (2.76%) Hedge funds
11 38 (2.44%) Onboarding
12 37 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
13 36 (2.31%) Management Information System
14 35 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
15 31 (1.99%) Pricing Data
16 30 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
17 27 (1.73%) Distributed Architecture
18 24 (1.54%) Data Structures
19 23 (1.47%) FPGA
20 22 (1.41%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 182 (11.67%) Linux
2 36 (2.31%) Windows
3 25 (1.60%) Unix
4 21 (1.35%) Android
5 8 (0.51%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.45%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.32%) CentOS
7 5 (0.32%) VMS
8 4 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.19%) Debian
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.064%) AIX
11 1 (0.064%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.064%) SUSE
11 1 (0.064%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 587 (37.63%) Agile
2 482 (30.90%) CI/CD
3 476 (30.51%) Software Engineering
4 359 (23.01%) DevOps
5 356 (22.82%) Microservices
6 306 (19.62%) Problem-Solving
7 289 (18.53%) Full-Stack Development
8 264 (16.92%) Mentoring
9 230 (14.74%) Computer Science
10 229 (14.68%) Test Automation
11 215 (13.78%) Continuous Improvement
12 175 (11.22%) Scrum
13 170 (10.90%) Containerisation
14 150 (9.62%) AI
15 143 (9.17%) SDLC
16 142 (9.10%) TDD
17 132 (8.46%) Roadmaps
18 123 (7.88%) User Experience
19 120 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
20 112 (7.18%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 585 (37.50%) Python
2 377 (24.17%) JavaScript
3 341 (21.86%) SQL
4 255 (16.35%) TypeScript
5 227 (14.55%) C#
6 120 (7.69%) C++
7 108 (6.92%) Go
8 87 (5.58%) C
9 84 (5.38%) Kotlin
10 68 (4.36%) Scala
11 55 (3.53%) Bash
12 46 (2.95%) PHP
13 35 (2.24%) Groovy
14 31 (1.99%) PL/SQL
15 24 (1.54%) R
16 23 (1.47%) PowerShell
16 23 (1.47%) Shell Script
17 20 (1.28%) Ruby
17 20 (1.28%) Rust
18 19 (1.22%) Perl
Qualifications
1 302 (19.36%) Degree
2 219 (14.04%) Security Cleared
3 138 (8.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 126 (8.08%) SC Cleared
5 87 (5.58%) DV Cleared
6 71 (4.55%) AWS Certification
7 70 (4.49%) Master's Degree
8 42 (2.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 40 (2.56%) ISTQB
10 38 (2.44%) Azure Certification
11 35 (2.24%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 30 (1.92%) TOGAF Certification
13 27 (1.73%) PhD
14 26 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
15 18 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
16 13 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
17 8 (0.51%) HND
18 7 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
19 6 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
19 6 (0.38%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (6.41%) QA
2 45 (2.88%) Accessibility
3 22 (1.41%) GDPR
4 13 (0.83%) Data Quality
5 12 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
6 10 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.51%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.38%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.32%) NIST
9 5 (0.32%) SLA
10 4 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.26%) EU AI Act
10 4 (0.26%) SEPA
10 4 (0.26%) WCAG
11 3 (0.19%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.19%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.19%) NCSC
12 2 (0.13%) ECSS
12 2 (0.13%) MISRA
12 2 (0.13%) PSD2
System Software
1 277 (17.76%) Docker
2 16 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (0.96%) Active Directory
4 14 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
5 9 (0.58%) HDFS
6 4 (0.26%) Firmware
7 3 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.13%) vSphere
9 1 (0.064%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.064%) KVM
9 1 (0.064%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.064%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.064%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.064%) Squid
9 1 (0.064%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 368 (23.59%) Kubernetes
2 98 (6.28%) Terraform
3 59 (3.78%) Ansible
4 57 (3.65%) Grafana
5 29 (1.86%) Kibana
6 28 (1.79%) Prometheus
7 26 (1.67%) Argo
8 17 (1.09%) HP Fortify
9 11 (0.71%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.45%) Kustomize
11 6 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.32%) Puppet
12 5 (0.32%) Rancher
13 4 (0.26%) Control-M
13 4 (0.26%) Nagios
14 3 (0.19%) logstash
14 3 (0.19%) yum
15 2 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 106 (6.79%) Oracle
2 74 (4.74%) Microsoft
3 71 (4.55%) Google
4 29 (1.86%) Atlassian
4 29 (1.86%) Guidewire
5 27 (1.73%) Splunk
6 25 (1.60%) Databricks
7 23 (1.47%) Informatica
7 23 (1.47%) MuleSoft
8 21 (1.35%) IBM
8 21 (1.35%) Talend
9 18 (1.15%) SAP
10 17 (1.09%) Dynatrace
11 14 (0.90%) Salesforce
12 13 (0.83%) Dell
13 11 (0.71%) Adobe
13 11 (0.71%) Red Hat
14 9 (0.58%) Siemens
15 8 (0.51%) Allen-Bradley
15 8 (0.51%) Toshiba