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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 46 26
Rank change year-on-year -27 -20 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,579 2,496 3,854
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.94% 5.22% 7.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.30% 15.45% 19.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,059 1,492 3,025
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -3.33%
75th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £127,000 £132,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £78,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -3.85% +10.52% -5.90%

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 10,322 16,151 19,963
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.24% 33.79% 37.75%
Number of salaries quoted 7,739 9,481 16,845
10th Percentile £32,750 £38,000 £37,500
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 £82,500 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £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 19 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 19 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 -12 826 £100,000 - 319
North of England -6 281 £70,000 +16.67% 191
South East -61 180 £60,000 -14.29% 284
Yorkshire +20 150 £72,500 +26.38% 75
South West -26 142 £65,000 - 147
North West -14 120 £70,000 +16.67% 87
Midlands -15 92 £53,688 +19.31% 81
West Midlands +9 73 £50,000 -11.11% 40
East of England -80 32 £47,500 -13.64% 87
East Midlands -32 19 £57,500 +64.29% 39
North East -27 13 £65,000 +4.00% 31
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 68 (4.31%) Apache
2 56 (3.55%) Apache Spark
3 49 (3.10%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (1.58%) Confluence
5 17 (1.08%) JBoss
6 13 (0.82%) OpenStack
7 12 (0.76%) IIS
7 12 (0.76%) WebSphere
8 7 (0.44%) Anypoint
8 7 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.38%) Mule
10 5 (0.32%) Camunda
10 5 (0.32%) SharePoint
11 4 (0.25%) Appian
11 4 (0.25%) nginx
12 3 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.19%) Liferay
12 3 (0.19%) Luigi
12 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (0.76%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.63%) 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 (0.063%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.063%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.44%) Fidessa
1 7 (0.44%) 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 (0.063%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.063%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.063%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 720 (45.60%) AWS
2 299 (18.94%) Azure
3 171 (10.83%) GCP
4 149 (9.44%) Serverless
5 103 (6.52%) Amazon EKS
5 103 (6.52%) SaaS
6 88 (5.57%) AWS Lambda
7 80 (5.07%) Amazon S3
7 80 (5.07%) GitHub
8 78 (4.94%) Amazon ECS
9 48 (3.04%) AWS CloudFormation
10 47 (2.98%) OpenShift
11 44 (2.79%) Snowflake
12 39 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
12 39 (2.47%) dbt
13 35 (2.22%) AWS Step Functions
14 32 (2.03%) GitHub Actions
15 31 (1.96%) Amazon SQS
16 28 (1.77%) Datadog
17 27 (1.71%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 30 (1.90%) TCP/IP
2 21 (1.33%) HTTP
3 15 (0.95%) AMQP
3 15 (0.95%) Broadband
4 11 (0.70%) Internet
5 8 (0.51%) Firewall
5 8 (0.51%) Multicast
5 8 (0.51%) VPN
6 7 (0.44%) DNS
7 6 (0.38%) SSH
8 5 (0.32%) SAN
9 4 (0.25%) FTP
9 4 (0.25%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.25%) SMTP
10 3 (0.19%) BGP
10 3 (0.19%) LAN
10 3 (0.19%) PuTTY
10 3 (0.19%) VLAN
10 3 (0.19%) WAN
11 2 (0.13%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (8.87%) PostgreSQL
2 125 (7.92%) Relational Database
3 114 (7.22%) NoSQL
4 84 (5.32%) SQL Server
5 69 (4.37%) MongoDB
6 55 (3.48%) Big Data
7 52 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
7 52 (3.29%) DynamoDB
7 52 (3.29%) RDBMS
8 51 (3.23%) Hadoop
9 49 (3.10%) MySQL
10 44 (2.79%) Data Lake
11 37 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
12 35 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
13 30 (1.90%) Amazon Athena
14 27 (1.71%) Apache Ignite
15 25 (1.58%) DB2
16 24 (1.52%) Apache Arrow
16 24 (1.52%) Dremio
16 24 (1.52%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 172 (10.89%) Jenkins
2 125 (7.92%) Git
3 117 (7.41%) Selenium
4 94 (5.95%) GitLab
5 93 (5.89%) JIRA
6 67 (4.24%) JUnit
7 61 (3.86%) Cypress.io
8 60 (3.80%) Cucumber
9 55 (3.48%) Postman
10 48 (3.04%) Maven
11 46 (2.91%) WebDriver
12 41 (2.60%) SoapUI
13 40 (2.53%) TeamCity
14 38 (2.41%) Bitbucket
15 35 (2.22%) SonarQube
16 33 (2.09%) Team Foundation Server
17 31 (1.96%) JMeter
18 27 (1.71%) Mockito
19 18 (1.14%) REST Assured
20 13 (0.82%) Jaeger
General
1 446 (28.25%) Finance
2 432 (27.36%) Social Skills
3 226 (14.31%) Banking
4 137 (8.68%) Analytical Skills
5 101 (6.40%) Front Office
6 98 (6.21%) Public Sector
7 94 (5.95%) Law
8 89 (5.64%) Investment Banking
9 85 (5.38%) Financial Institution
10 83 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 62 (3.93%) Retail
12 30 (1.90%) Back Office
13 28 (1.77%) Telecoms
14 27 (1.71%) Games
15 24 (1.52%) Marketing
16 22 (1.39%) Aerospace
17 21 (1.33%) Manufacturing
17 21 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
18 19 (1.20%) Billing
19 18 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 554 (35.09%) Developer
2 372 (23.56%) Senior
3 339 (21.47%) Software Engineer
4 306 (19.38%) Java Developer
5 198 (12.54%) Java Engineer
5 198 (12.54%) Lead
6 123 (7.79%) Full-Stack Developer
7 118 (7.47%) Senior Developer
8 112 (7.09%) Java Software Engineer
9 110 (6.97%) Senior Software Engineer
10 105 (6.65%) Architect
11 91 (5.76%) Senior Java Engineer
12 80 (5.07%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 79 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 73 (4.62%) Senior Java Developer
15 72 (4.56%) AWS Engineer
16 53 (3.36%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 51 (3.23%) Software Developer
18 43 (2.72%) Analyst
19 42 (2.66%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 359 (22.74%) Spring
2 302 (19.13%) Spring Boot
3 290 (18.37%) React
4 194 (12.29%) REST
5 175 (11.08%) Kafka
6 152 (9.63%) .NET
7 133 (8.42%) AngularJS
8 131 (8.30%) HTML
9 128 (8.11%) Node.js
10 126 (7.98%) RESTful
11 91 (5.76%) CSS
12 88 (5.57%) SOAP
13 71 (4.50%) Hibernate
14 60 (3.80%) Web Services
15 59 (3.74%) Elastic Stack
16 47 (2.98%) JSON
17 42 (2.66%) Vue
18 39 (2.47%) GraphQL
18 39 (2.47%) RabbitMQ
19 38 (2.41%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 222 (14.06%) Cloud Native
2 174 (11.02%) Distributed Systems
3 70 (4.43%) Equities
4 69 (4.37%) Self-Motivation
5 68 (4.31%) Product Ownership
6 59 (3.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 53 (3.36%) Algorithms
8 48 (3.04%) Derivative
9 42 (2.66%) Fixed Income
10 39 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
11 38 (2.41%) Hedge funds
12 35 (2.22%) Onboarding
13 34 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
13 34 (2.15%) Management Information System
14 31 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
15 28 (1.77%) Distributed Architecture
16 26 (1.65%) Pricing Data
17 25 (1.58%) Public Cloud
18 23 (1.46%) Data Structures
19 22 (1.39%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 194 (12.29%) Linux
2 36 (2.28%) Windows
3 31 (1.96%) Unix
4 23 (1.46%) Android
5 9 (0.57%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.44%) CentOS
6 7 (0.44%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.38%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.32%) Debian
9 4 (0.25%) VMS
10 2 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.063%) AIX
11 1 (0.063%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.063%) SUSE
11 1 (0.063%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.063%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 599 (37.94%) Agile
2 500 (31.67%) CI/CD
3 498 (31.54%) Software Engineering
4 382 (24.19%) DevOps
5 369 (23.37%) Microservices
6 305 (19.32%) Full-Stack Development
6 305 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
7 256 (16.21%) Mentoring
8 237 (15.01%) Test Automation
9 225 (14.25%) Computer Science
10 209 (13.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 179 (11.34%) Containerisation
12 177 (11.21%) Scrum
13 152 (9.63%) AI
14 148 (9.37%) TDD
15 142 (8.99%) SDLC
16 127 (8.04%) User Experience
17 125 (7.92%) Roadmaps
18 124 (7.85%) Technical Leadership
19 118 (7.47%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 571 (36.16%) Python
2 380 (24.07%) JavaScript
3 337 (21.34%) SQL
4 258 (16.34%) TypeScript
5 218 (13.81%) C#
6 118 (7.47%) C++
7 108 (6.84%) Go
8 87 (5.51%) C
9 86 (5.45%) Kotlin
10 68 (4.31%) Bash
11 65 (4.12%) Scala
12 44 (2.79%) PHP
13 36 (2.28%) Groovy
14 32 (2.03%) PL/SQL
15 23 (1.46%) Shell Script
16 22 (1.39%) Rust
17 21 (1.33%) PowerShell
17 21 (1.33%) R
18 18 (1.14%) Perl
18 18 (1.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 293 (18.56%) Degree
2 243 (15.39%) Security Cleared
3 138 (8.74%) SC Cleared
4 134 (8.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 94 (5.95%) DV Cleared
6 80 (5.07%) AWS Certification
7 62 (3.93%) Master's Degree
8 42 (2.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 37 (2.34%) ISTQB
10 36 (2.28%) Azure Certification
11 32 (2.03%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 31 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
13 25 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
14 22 (1.39%) PhD
15 18 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
16 14 (0.89%) AWS Certified Developer
17 9 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
18 8 (0.51%) HND
19 7 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
19 7 (0.44%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (6.71%) QA
2 44 (2.79%) Accessibility
3 20 (1.27%) GDPR
4 15 (0.95%) Data Quality
5 12 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
6 10 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.57%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.44%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.25%) EU AI Act
9 4 (0.25%) SEPA
9 4 (0.25%) SLA
9 4 (0.25%) WCAG
10 3 (0.19%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.19%) NCSC
10 3 (0.19%) NIST
11 2 (0.13%) ECSS
11 2 (0.13%) MISRA
11 2 (0.13%) PSD2
12 1 (0.063%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 290 (18.37%) Docker
2 16 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (0.89%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
4 9 (0.57%) HDFS
5 4 (0.25%) Firmware
5 4 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.13%) KVM
6 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.13%) vSphere
7 1 (0.063%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.063%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.063%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.063%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.063%) Squid
7 1 (0.063%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 375 (23.75%) Kubernetes
2 120 (7.60%) Terraform
3 73 (4.62%) Ansible
4 63 (3.99%) Grafana
5 35 (2.22%) Argo
6 32 (2.03%) Prometheus
7 31 (1.96%) Kibana
8 20 (1.27%) HP Fortify
9 13 (0.82%) Kustomize
10 11 (0.70%) Progress Chef
11 9 (0.57%) Puppet
11 9 (0.57%) Rancher
12 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
12 6 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (0.32%) logstash
13 5 (0.32%) yum
14 4 (0.25%) Nagios
15 3 (0.19%) Control-M
16 2 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 104 (6.59%) Oracle
2 73 (4.62%) Microsoft
3 59 (3.74%) Google
4 28 (1.77%) Atlassian
4 28 (1.77%) Splunk
5 26 (1.65%) Guidewire
6 25 (1.58%) Databricks
7 24 (1.52%) MuleSoft
8 23 (1.46%) Informatica
9 21 (1.33%) IBM
9 21 (1.33%) Talend
10 17 (1.08%) Dynatrace
10 17 (1.08%) SAP
11 16 (1.01%) Salesforce
12 13 (0.82%) Dell
12 13 (0.82%) Red Hat
13 11 (0.70%) Adobe
14 9 (0.57%) Siemens
15 8 (0.51%) Allen-Bradley
15 8 (0.51%) Toshiba