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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 47 31
Rank change year-on-year -24 -16 -13
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,896 2,005 4,311
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.78% 5.45% 5.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.44% 15.86% 16.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,242 1,455 3,356
10th Percentile £44,263 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -9.38%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -7.35%

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 12,279 12,644 25,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.02% 34.35% 33.94%
Number of salaries quoted 8,857 9,284 22,045
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,683 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -6 965 £95,000 -9.52% 313
North of England -12 404 £68,076 +4.73% 191
Yorkshire +11 192 £70,000 - 62
South East -54 188 £66,250 +2.71% 127
North West -23 174 £70,000 +7.69% 97
South West -20 167 £65,000 - 71
Midlands -51 91 £55,100 +22.44% 41
West Midlands -1 74 £55,100 +2.63% 21
North East -19 38 £52,315 -8.22% 32
East of England -85 35 £48,750 -2.50% 33
East Midlands -64 16 £49,000 +40.00% 20
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 46 (2.43%) Apache Spark
2 41 (2.16%) Apache
3 34 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (1.48%) Confluence
5 22 (1.16%) JBoss
6 14 (0.74%) OpenStack
7 13 (0.69%) WebSphere
8 9 (0.47%) Anypoint
9 8 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.32%) SharePoint
12 5 (0.26%) Camunda
12 5 (0.26%) IIS
13 4 (0.21%) Appian
13 4 (0.21%) GeoServer
13 4 (0.21%) Moodle
13 4 (0.21%) nginx
14 3 (0.16%) Liferay
15 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (0.58%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.11%) Windchill
6 1 (0.053%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.053%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 14 (0.74%) Maximo
2 7 (0.37%) Fidessa
2 7 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.26%) Shopify
4 3 (0.16%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.11%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.11%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.053%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.053%) Endur
6 1 (0.053%) Findur
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 820 (43.25%) AWS
2 346 (18.25%) Azure
3 237 (12.50%) GCP
4 167 (8.81%) Serverless
5 131 (6.91%) SaaS
6 118 (6.22%) Amazon EKS
7 102 (5.38%) AWS Lambda
8 99 (5.22%) Amazon S3
9 94 (4.96%) Amazon ECS
10 89 (4.69%) AWS CloudFormation
11 83 (4.38%) GitHub
12 55 (2.90%) AWS Step Functions
13 49 (2.58%) OpenShift
14 43 (2.27%) dbt
15 42 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
16 41 (2.16%) Apigee
17 40 (2.11%) Amazon ECR
18 31 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 31 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
19 27 (1.42%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 49 (2.58%) Broadband
2 34 (1.79%) TCP/IP
3 17 (0.90%) HTTP
4 10 (0.53%) AMQP
5 8 (0.42%) Internet
5 8 (0.42%) VPN
6 6 (0.32%) BGP
6 6 (0.32%) Multicast
6 6 (0.32%) VLAN
7 5 (0.26%) Firewall
7 5 (0.26%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.16%) PuTTY
8 3 (0.16%) SAN
9 2 (0.11%) DHCP
9 2 (0.11%) DNS
9 2 (0.11%) LAN
9 2 (0.11%) NAS
9 2 (0.11%) SNMP
9 2 (0.11%) WAN
10 1 (0.053%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (8.39%) PostgreSQL
2 157 (8.28%) NoSQL
3 123 (6.49%) Relational Database
4 75 (3.96%) DynamoDB
5 72 (3.80%) SQL Server
6 65 (3.43%) MongoDB
7 61 (3.22%) MySQL
8 50 (2.64%) RDBMS
9 41 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
10 38 (2.00%) Big Data
11 33 (1.74%) Hadoop
12 32 (1.69%) DB2
13 29 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
13 29 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
14 25 (1.32%) Neo4j
15 24 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
16 20 (1.05%) Redis
17 14 (0.74%) Data Lake
18 13 (0.69%) Apache Cassandra
18 13 (0.69%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 158 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 143 (7.54%) Git
3 108 (5.70%) GitLab
4 105 (5.54%) Selenium
5 82 (4.32%) JIRA
6 71 (3.74%) Cucumber
7 67 (3.53%) Cypress.io
7 67 (3.53%) TeamCity
8 64 (3.38%) Maven
9 58 (3.06%) JUnit
10 47 (2.48%) Postman
11 46 (2.43%) SonarQube
12 33 (1.74%) WebDriver
13 31 (1.64%) JMeter
13 31 (1.64%) SoapUI
14 24 (1.27%) REST Assured
15 23 (1.21%) Team Foundation Server
16 22 (1.16%) Bitbucket
17 21 (1.11%) Mockito
18 20 (1.05%) Gradle
General
1 485 (25.58%) Finance
2 385 (20.31%) Social Skills
3 229 (12.08%) Banking
4 163 (8.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 145 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
6 139 (7.33%) Public Sector
7 132 (6.96%) Law
8 114 (6.01%) Front Office
9 109 (5.75%) Retail
10 93 (4.91%) Financial Institution
11 59 (3.11%) Investment Banking
12 58 (3.06%) Back Office
13 47 (2.48%) Games
14 34 (1.79%) Telecoms
15 26 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
16 21 (1.11%) Health Technology
16 21 (1.11%) Manufacturing
17 18 (0.95%) Marketing
18 17 (0.90%) Billing
18 17 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 704 (37.13%) Developer
2 485 (25.58%) Software Engineer
3 462 (24.37%) Senior
4 418 (22.05%) Java Developer
5 270 (14.24%) Java Engineer
6 268 (14.14%) Lead
7 168 (8.86%) Senior Developer
8 157 (8.28%) Java Software Engineer
9 148 (7.81%) Full-Stack Developer
10 143 (7.54%) Senior Software Engineer
11 112 (5.91%) Senior Java Developer
12 109 (5.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 101 (5.33%) Senior Java Engineer
14 95 (5.01%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 91 (4.80%) Architect
16 90 (4.75%) Software Developer
17 82 (4.32%) Lead Software Engineer
18 54 (2.85%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 53 (2.80%) Lead Developer
20 48 (2.53%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 392 (20.68%) Spring
2 350 (18.46%) Spring Boot
3 322 (16.98%) React
4 210 (11.08%) REST
5 192 (10.13%) Node.js
6 180 (9.49%) Kafka
7 178 (9.39%) AngularJS
8 164 (8.65%) .NET
9 131 (6.91%) RESTful
10 107 (5.64%) HTML
11 93 (4.91%) SOAP
12 79 (4.17%) CSS
12 79 (4.17%) GraphQL
13 72 (3.80%) Web Services
14 65 (3.43%) Elastic Stack
15 62 (3.27%) Hibernate
16 53 (2.80%) Vue
17 52 (2.74%) Gherkin
18 51 (2.69%) JSON
19 43 (2.27%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 261 (13.77%) Cloud Native
2 169 (8.91%) Distributed Systems
3 80 (4.22%) Product Ownership
4 57 (3.01%) Fixed Income
5 55 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
6 52 (2.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 48 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
8 42 (2.22%) Equities
9 38 (2.00%) Blog
10 36 (1.90%) Public Cloud
11 33 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
12 31 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
12 31 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
12 31 (1.64%) Mobile App
13 28 (1.48%) Data Structures
14 27 (1.42%) Derivative
15 24 (1.27%) Algorithms
15 24 (1.27%) Management Information System
16 23 (1.21%) FPGA
17 19 (1.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 193 (10.18%) Linux
2 45 (2.37%) Android
3 43 (2.27%) Unix
4 31 (1.64%) Windows
5 13 (0.69%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.37%) CentOS
6 7 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.32%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.32%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.26%) Debian
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.11%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.053%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.053%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 722 (38.08%) Agile
2 665 (35.07%) Software Engineering
3 599 (31.59%) CI/CD
4 447 (23.58%) DevOps
5 401 (21.15%) Microservices
6 393 (20.73%) Full-Stack Development
7 328 (17.30%) Test Automation
8 313 (16.51%) Problem-Solving
9 307 (16.19%) Mentoring
10 221 (11.66%) Containerisation
11 217 (11.45%) AI
12 207 (10.92%) Continuous Improvement
13 192 (10.13%) Scrum
14 186 (9.81%) Computer Science
15 173 (9.12%) TDD
16 160 (8.44%) Infrastructure as Code
17 159 (8.39%) Technical Leadership
18 152 (8.02%) Roadmaps
18 152 (8.02%) SDLC
19 151 (7.96%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 603 (31.80%) Python
2 427 (22.52%) JavaScript
3 374 (19.73%) SQL
4 284 (14.98%) TypeScript
5 197 (10.39%) C#
6 157 (8.28%) Go
7 129 (6.80%) C++
8 112 (5.91%) Kotlin
9 92 (4.85%) Bash
10 79 (4.17%) C
11 45 (2.37%) Groovy
12 44 (2.32%) Scala
13 37 (1.95%) PHP
14 33 (1.74%) PL/SQL
15 31 (1.64%) Rust
16 21 (1.11%) Apex Code
16 21 (1.11%) Ruby
17 16 (0.84%) R
18 15 (0.79%) PowerShell
19 14 (0.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 284 (14.98%) Security Cleared
2 262 (13.82%) Degree
3 170 (8.97%) SC Cleared
4 118 (6.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 114 (6.01%) DV Cleared
6 86 (4.54%) AWS Certification
7 40 (2.11%) Master's Degree
8 37 (1.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 31 (1.64%) Azure Certification
10 27 (1.42%) ISTQB
11 22 (1.16%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 22 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
12 20 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 20 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
12 20 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
13 16 (0.84%) PhD
14 12 (0.63%) CREST Certified
14 12 (0.63%) OSCP
15 11 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
15 11 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (6.38%) QA
2 41 (2.16%) Accessibility
3 20 (1.05%) Data Quality
4 19 (1.00%) PCI DSS
5 18 (0.95%) GDPR
6 15 (0.79%) SOC 2
7 12 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
8 11 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.37%) WCAG
10 6 (0.32%) GRC
11 4 (0.21%) EU AI Act
11 4 (0.21%) NIST
11 4 (0.21%) SLA
12 2 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.11%) ECSS
12 2 (0.11%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.11%) MISRA
12 2 (0.11%) NCSC
13 1 (0.053%) MiFID
System Software
1 323 (17.04%) Docker
2 12 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (0.58%) Active Directory
4 10 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.26%) Firmware
5 5 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.16%) HDFS
7 3 (0.16%) KVM
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.053%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.053%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.053%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.053%) Squid
9 1 (0.053%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 424 (22.36%) Kubernetes
2 200 (10.55%) Terraform
3 101 (5.33%) Grafana
4 74 (3.90%) Ansible
5 45 (2.37%) Prometheus
6 41 (2.16%) Argo
7 37 (1.95%) HP Fortify
8 19 (1.00%) Kibana
8 19 (1.00%) Kustomize
9 10 (0.53%) Rancher
10 7 (0.37%) Puppet
11 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.32%) yum
12 5 (0.26%) FTK
13 4 (0.21%) Nagios
13 4 (0.21%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
14 3 (0.16%) logstash
14 3 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
15 2 (0.11%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 86 (4.54%) Oracle
2 63 (3.32%) Google
3 59 (3.11%) Microsoft
4 34 (1.79%) MuleSoft
5 33 (1.74%) Salesforce
6 30 (1.58%) IBM
7 21 (1.11%) Atlassian
7 21 (1.11%) SAP
8 19 (1.00%) Databricks
8 19 (1.00%) Informatica
8 19 (1.00%) Splunk
9 16 (0.84%) Talend
10 13 (0.69%) Dell
11 12 (0.63%) Foundry
11 12 (0.63%) Red Hat
12 11 (0.58%) OpenAI
13 10 (0.53%) Solace
14 9 (0.47%) Dynatrace
14 9 (0.47%) Guidewire
14 9 (0.47%) Workday