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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 30 32
Rank change year-on-year -28 +2 -10
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,485 2,777 3,808
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.55% 6.47% 5.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.93% 23.58% 18.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,594 1,216 2,510
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,225
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 £103,375 £135,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +5.57%

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 16,640 11,779 21,010
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.08% 27.43% 30.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12,201 7,775 14,399
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +2.40% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £108,750
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 4 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 4 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 -13 1,051 £85,000 -19.05% 2,081
North of England -24 700 £67,500 +3.85% 344
North West -35 320 £70,000 - 210
South West -7 283 £60,500 +0.83% 216
South East -57 211 £67,500 +3.85% 196
Yorkshire +25 198 £75,000 +15.38% 83
North East +9 182 £55,000 +15.79% 51
Midlands -50 172 £62,500 +4.17% 147
West Midlands -28 145 £67,500 +12.50% 103
East of England -61 52 £57,500 +29.21% 75
East Midlands -80 27 £60,000 +4.35% 44
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 (2.49%) Confluence
2 54 (2.17%) Apache
3 36 (1.45%) Apache Spark
4 23 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (0.68%) Camunda
6 16 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
7 14 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 10 (0.40%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
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%) CICS
12 5 (0.20%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.16%) SAS
14 3 (0.12%) Documentum
14 3 (0.12%) SharePoint
14 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
14 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.60%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.24%) Simulink
4 5 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.20%) Moqups
5 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.080%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.080%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.080%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.080%) Windchill
7 1 (0.040%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Project
7 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 (0.080%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.080%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
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%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.040%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,025 (41.25%) AWS
2 530 (21.33%) Azure
3 294 (11.83%) GCP
4 200 (8.05%) Serverless
5 157 (6.32%) AWS CloudFormation
6 154 (6.20%) GitHub
7 134 (5.39%) AWS Lambda
8 107 (4.31%) Amazon ECS
9 106 (4.27%) Amazon S3
10 97 (3.90%) SaaS
11 86 (3.46%) GitHub Actions
12 85 (3.42%) Amazon EKS
13 83 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
14 58 (2.33%) AWS Step Functions
15 48 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
16 39 (1.57%) Datadog
17 37 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 37 (1.49%) OpenShift
18 35 (1.41%) Anthropic Claude
18 35 (1.41%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 40 (1.61%) HTTP
2 17 (0.68%) Network Security
3 16 (0.64%) Broadband
4 14 (0.56%) 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
9 6 (0.24%) Wireshark
10 5 (0.20%) Ethernet
10 5 (0.20%) Firewall
10 5 (0.20%) Internet
10 5 (0.20%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.12%) RIP
11 3 (0.12%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (6.48%) NoSQL
1 161 (6.48%) PostgreSQL
2 124 (4.99%) MongoDB
3 117 (4.71%) Relational Database
4 77 (3.10%) MySQL
5 75 (3.02%) DynamoDB
6 74 (2.98%) SQL Server
7 43 (1.73%) Big Data
8 36 (1.45%) Amazon Athena
9 28 (1.13%) Redis
10 23 (0.93%) Db2
10 23 (0.93%) Hadoop
11 22 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
11 22 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
12 18 (0.72%) BigQuery
12 18 (0.72%) Data Lake
12 18 (0.72%) Power BI
13 16 (0.64%) Spark SQL
14 15 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
14 15 (0.60%) Flink
Development Applications
1 281 (11.31%) Git
2 210 (8.45%) Jenkins
3 193 (7.77%) GitLab
4 98 (3.94%) JUnit
5 97 (3.90%) JIRA
6 91 (3.66%) Cucumber
7 75 (3.02%) Maven
8 72 (2.90%) Selenium
9 63 (2.54%) Cypress.io
10 50 (2.01%) Postman
11 45 (1.81%) SonarQube
12 43 (1.73%) Eclipse
13 41 (1.65%) JMeter
13 41 (1.65%) TeamCity
14 40 (1.61%) Mockito
15 37 (1.49%) Subversion
16 35 (1.41%) Bitbucket
17 26 (1.05%) REST Assured
18 24 (0.97%) Claude Code
19 20 (0.80%) Gatling
General
1 649 (26.12%) Finance
2 420 (16.90%) Social Skills
3 260 (10.46%) Public Sector
4 235 (9.46%) Banking
5 187 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
6 121 (4.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 89 (3.58%) Law
8 71 (2.86%) Front Office
9 69 (2.78%) Retail
10 63 (2.54%) Financial Institution
11 36 (1.45%) Manufacturing
11 36 (1.45%) Marketing
12 33 (1.33%) Legal
13 32 (1.29%) Investment Banking
14 29 (1.17%) Back Office
14 29 (1.17%) Health Technology
15 22 (0.89%) Aerospace
16 19 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
16 19 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
17 18 (0.72%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 784 (31.55%) Developer
2 634 (25.51%) Senior
3 558 (22.45%) Software Engineer
4 515 (20.72%) Java Developer
5 464 (18.67%) Java Engineer
6 347 (13.96%) Lead
7 209 (8.41%) Senior Developer
8 194 (7.81%) Senior Software Engineer
9 158 (6.36%) Senior Java Engineer
10 152 (6.12%) Java Software Engineer
11 148 (5.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 131 (5.27%) Senior Java Developer
13 125 (5.03%) Full-Stack Developer
14 123 (4.95%) Software Developer
15 106 (4.27%) Lead Software Engineer
16 83 (3.34%) Principal Engineer
17 80 (3.22%) Architect
17 80 (3.22%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 79 (3.18%) DevOps Engineer
19 75 (3.02%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 589 (23.70%) Spring
2 483 (19.44%) Spring Boot
3 283 (11.39%) Terraform
4 263 (10.58%) Kafka
5 260 (10.46%) React
6 250 (10.06%) REST
7 218 (8.77%) AngularJS
8 194 (7.81%) Node.js
9 190 (7.65%) RESTful
10 175 (7.04%) .NET
11 82 (3.30%) Web Services
12 68 (2.74%) CSS
13 63 (2.54%) HTML
14 58 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
14 58 (2.33%) Vue
15 56 (2.25%) OAuth
16 55 (2.21%) Hibernate
16 55 (2.21%) Playwright
17 45 (1.81%) Jakarta EE
18 42 (1.69%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 318 (12.80%) Cloud Native
2 255 (10.26%) Distributed Systems
3 167 (6.72%) Product Ownership
4 123 (4.95%) Public Cloud
5 73 (2.94%) Onboarding
6 62 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
7 57 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
8 47 (1.89%) Distributed Architecture
9 43 (1.73%) e-Learning
9 43 (1.73%) Virtual Team
10 42 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 40 (1.61%) Data Structures
12 38 (1.53%) Algorithms
13 36 (1.45%) Mobile App
14 33 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
15 31 (1.25%) Equities
16 30 (1.21%) AI Agents
17 25 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
17 25 (1.01%) Blog
18 23 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 218 (8.77%) Linux
2 68 (2.74%) Windows
3 38 (1.53%) Android
4 37 (1.49%) Unix
5 20 (0.80%) Apple iOS
5 20 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (0.60%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.24%) CentOS
8 5 (0.20%) Debian
8 5 (0.20%) Kali Linux
8 5 (0.20%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.16%) VMS
10 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.080%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.040%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.040%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 891 (35.86%) Software Engineering
2 834 (33.56%) CI/CD
3 795 (31.99%) Agile
4 599 (24.10%) Microservices
5 575 (23.14%) DevOps
6 497 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 469 (18.87%) Full-Stack Development
8 455 (18.31%) Mentoring
9 431 (17.34%) Problem-Solving
10 379 (15.25%) AI
11 319 (12.84%) Containerisation
12 306 (12.31%) Infrastructure as Code
13 300 (12.07%) Continuous Improvement
14 265 (10.66%) Event-Driven
15 248 (9.98%) Technical Leadership
16 247 (9.94%) Roadmaps
17 235 (9.46%) TDD
18 231 (9.30%) Computer Science
19 225 (9.05%) Scrum
20 224 (9.01%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 803 (32.31%) Python
2 467 (18.79%) SQL
3 426 (17.14%) JavaScript
4 271 (10.91%) C#
5 249 (10.02%) C++
6 243 (9.78%) TypeScript
7 125 (5.03%) Go
8 112 (4.51%) Bash
9 106 (4.27%) Kotlin
10 77 (3.10%) C
11 74 (2.98%) Scala
12 58 (2.33%) PHP
13 57 (2.29%) Rust
14 52 (2.09%) Groovy
15 51 (2.05%) Perl
16 38 (1.53%) Ruby
17 37 (1.49%) PowerShell
18 30 (1.21%) PL/SQL
19 20 (0.80%) Shell Script
20 16 (0.64%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 462 (18.59%) Security Cleared
2 283 (11.39%) Degree
3 248 (9.98%) SC Cleared
4 161 (6.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 160 (6.44%) DV Cleared
6 99 (3.98%) AWS Certification
7 62 (2.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 28 (1.13%) Master's Degree
9 22 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (0.80%) ISTQB
11 19 (0.76%) OSCP
12 16 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 16 (0.64%) 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 9 (0.36%) PhD
17 8 (0.32%) CCNA
17 8 (0.32%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (6.72%) QA
2 82 (3.30%) 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 (0.080%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 415 (16.70%) Docker
2 26 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (0.76%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.48%) Firmware
4 12 (0.48%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.44%) vSphere
6 9 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
7 8 (0.32%) Squid
7 8 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.20%) KVM
10 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.080%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 463 (18.63%) Kubernetes
2 131 (5.27%) Ansible
3 85 (3.42%) 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
1 111 (4.47%) Oracle
2 106 (4.27%) Microsoft
3 81 (3.26%) Google
4 61 (2.45%) Splunk
5 44 (1.77%) IBM
6 38 (1.53%) Red Hat
7 32 (1.29%) 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 (0.72%) ServiceNow
14 16 (0.64%) Databricks
14 16 (0.64%) Foundry
15 14 (0.56%) Salesforce
16 13 (0.52%) SendGrid
17 12 (0.48%) Bloomberg
17 12 (0.48%) Veracode