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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 27 35
Rank change year-on-year -39 +8 -16
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,236 2,798 4,484
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.70% 7.34% 5.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.21% 23.13% 16.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,430 1,363 3,427
10th Percentile £44,375 £41,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £73,805
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +5.01% -7.74%
75th Percentile £93,750 £115,000 £99,375
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £137,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -9.68%

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 14,702 12,097 27,198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.78% 31.75% 32.04%
Number of salaries quoted 10,425 8,227 22,385
10th Percentile £36,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,552 £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 £87,500 £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 May 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 May 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 1,062 £90,000 -14.29% 277
North of England -42 596 £69,305 +0.81% 166
North West -51 247 £70,000 -9.68% 84
Yorkshire +27 245 £72,500 +0.71% 47
South East -41 217 £67,500 +3.85% 110
South West -37 180 £60,500 +0.83% 73
North East -1 104 £52,500 -7.08% 35
Midlands -103 104 £57,500 +7.10% 39
West Midlands -68 88 £57,500 - 22
East of England -62 50 £52,500 +16.67% 31
East Midlands -99 15 £60,000 +26.32% 17
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 (2.01%) Apache
2 39 (1.74%) Apache Spark
3 37 (1.65%) Confluence
4 30 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (0.72%) JBoss
6 15 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
7 13 (0.58%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.36%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.31%) Jupyter
9 7 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.31%) WebSphere
10 5 (0.22%) GeoServer
10 5 (0.22%) IIS
11 4 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.18%) Anypoint
11 4 (0.18%) Camunda
11 4 (0.18%) CMS
11 4 (0.18%) Moodle
12 3 (0.13%) Appian
12 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.40%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.13%) Windchill
6 2 (0.089%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.045%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.045%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 12 (0.54%) Maximo
2 6 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.13%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.13%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.089%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.045%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.045%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.045%) Endur
5 1 (0.045%) Findur
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.045%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.045%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 928 (41.50%) AWS
2 423 (18.92%) Azure
3 270 (12.08%) GCP
4 193 (8.63%) Serverless
5 139 (6.22%) AWS CloudFormation
6 129 (5.77%) Amazon S3
7 121 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
8 120 (5.37%) SaaS
9 117 (5.23%) Amazon ECS
10 111 (4.96%) Amazon EKS
11 95 (4.25%) GitHub
12 80 (3.58%) AWS Step Functions
13 63 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
14 55 (2.46%) Amazon ECR
14 55 (2.46%) Apigee
15 44 (1.97%) Amazon SQS
16 38 (1.70%) Amazon EC2
17 37 (1.65%) dbt
17 37 (1.65%) OpenShift
18 34 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.24%) Broadband
2 33 (1.48%) HTTP
3 27 (1.21%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.40%) AMQP
5 8 (0.36%) Internet
6 7 (0.31%) IPv4
6 7 (0.31%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (0.18%) MQTT
8 3 (0.13%) BGP
8 3 (0.13%) DMARC
8 3 (0.13%) Network Security
8 3 (0.13%) PuTTY
8 3 (0.13%) VLAN
8 3 (0.13%) VPN
9 2 (0.089%) Firewall
9 2 (0.089%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.089%) LAN
9 2 (0.089%) SAN
9 2 (0.089%) WAN
10 1 (0.045%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (8.45%) NoSQL
2 167 (7.47%) PostgreSQL
3 109 (4.87%) Relational Database
4 102 (4.56%) MongoDB
5 101 (4.52%) DynamoDB
6 70 (3.13%) SQL Server
7 69 (3.09%) MySQL
8 44 (1.97%) RDBMS
9 37 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
10 33 (1.48%) Big Data
11 32 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
12 26 (1.16%) DB2
13 24 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
13 24 (1.07%) Hadoop
14 21 (0.94%) BigQuery
15 19 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
15 19 (0.85%) Redis
16 17 (0.76%) Neo4j
17 14 (0.63%) Metadata
17 14 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 191 (8.54%) Jenkins
2 183 (8.18%) Git
3 162 (7.25%) GitLab
4 95 (4.25%) JIRA
5 88 (3.94%) Maven
5 88 (3.94%) Selenium
6 74 (3.31%) Cypress.io
7 73 (3.26%) Cucumber
8 66 (2.95%) SonarQube
9 62 (2.77%) JUnit
10 61 (2.73%) TeamCity
11 46 (2.06%) Postman
12 34 (1.52%) JMeter
13 31 (1.39%) Bitbucket
14 28 (1.25%) Mockito
15 27 (1.21%) SoapUI
15 27 (1.21%) WebDriver
16 26 (1.16%) Gradle
16 26 (1.16%) REST Assured
16 26 (1.16%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 553 (24.73%) Finance
2 363 (16.23%) Social Skills
3 236 (10.55%) Banking
4 198 (8.86%) Public Sector
5 160 (7.16%) Analytical Skills
6 153 (6.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 113 (5.05%) Front Office
7 113 (5.05%) Law
8 95 (4.25%) Retail
9 69 (3.09%) Financial Institution
10 50 (2.24%) Back Office
11 46 (2.06%) Investment Banking
12 32 (1.43%) Games
13 25 (1.12%) Aerospace
13 25 (1.12%) Telecoms
14 24 (1.07%) Health Technology
15 21 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
16 20 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
17 18 (0.81%) Marketing
17 18 (0.81%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 837 (37.43%) Developer
2 564 (25.22%) Senior
3 552 (24.69%) Java Developer
4 519 (23.21%) Software Engineer
5 364 (16.28%) Java Engineer
6 346 (15.47%) Lead
7 222 (9.93%) Senior Developer
8 177 (7.92%) Java Software Engineer
9 168 (7.51%) Senior Software Engineer
10 159 (7.11%) Senior Java Developer
11 156 (6.98%) Full-Stack Developer
12 129 (5.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 110 (4.92%) Lead Software Engineer
14 109 (4.87%) Senior Java Engineer
15 107 (4.79%) Software Developer
16 97 (4.34%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 79 (3.53%) Architect
18 65 (2.91%) Lead Developer
19 59 (2.64%) Senior Java Software Engineer
20 53 (2.37%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 482 (21.56%) Spring
2 429 (19.19%) Spring Boot
3 305 (13.64%) React
4 237 (10.60%) REST
5 229 (10.24%) AngularJS
6 202 (9.03%) Node.js
7 194 (8.68%) Kafka
8 168 (7.51%) .NET
9 133 (5.95%) RESTful
10 99 (4.43%) HTML
11 84 (3.76%) Web Services
12 81 (3.62%) SOAP
13 76 (3.40%) CSS
14 67 (3.00%) Elastic Stack
15 65 (2.91%) GraphQL
16 64 (2.86%) Vue
17 62 (2.77%) JSON
18 56 (2.50%) Gherkin
19 50 (2.24%) Hibernate
20 47 (2.10%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 250 (11.18%) Cloud Native
2 178 (7.96%) Distributed Systems
3 140 (6.26%) Product Ownership
4 86 (3.85%) Public Cloud
5 50 (2.24%) Fixed Income
6 48 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 44 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
8 41 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
9 40 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
10 37 (1.65%) Distributed Architecture
11 36 (1.61%) Blog
12 34 (1.52%) Equities
13 33 (1.48%) Data Structures
14 32 (1.43%) Mobile App
15 30 (1.34%) e-Learning
16 29 (1.30%) Virtual Team
17 21 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
17 21 (0.94%) Onboarding
18 20 (0.89%) FPGA
18 20 (0.89%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 199 (8.90%) Linux
2 50 (2.24%) Android
3 47 (2.10%) Unix
4 45 (2.01%) Windows
5 14 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.45%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.27%) CentOS
9 5 (0.22%) Debian
9 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.18%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.045%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 807 (36.09%) Agile
2 752 (33.63%) Software Engineering
3 688 (30.77%) CI/CD
4 533 (23.84%) DevOps
5 482 (21.56%) Microservices
6 453 (20.26%) Full-Stack Development
7 410 (18.34%) Test Automation
8 405 (18.11%) Mentoring
9 328 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
10 249 (11.14%) AI
11 246 (11.00%) Containerisation
12 236 (10.55%) Scrum
13 224 (10.02%) Continuous Improvement
14 223 (9.97%) TDD
15 213 (9.53%) Technical Leadership
16 209 (9.35%) Roadmaps
17 205 (9.17%) Infrastructure as Code
18 189 (8.45%) Computer Science
19 180 (8.05%) SDLC
20 165 (7.38%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 659 (29.47%) Python
2 440 (19.68%) SQL
3 430 (19.23%) JavaScript
4 276 (12.34%) TypeScript
5 234 (10.47%) C#
6 165 (7.38%) C++
7 155 (6.93%) Go
8 118 (5.28%) Bash
9 107 (4.79%) Kotlin
10 67 (3.00%) Groovy
11 63 (2.82%) C
12 48 (2.15%) Scala
13 37 (1.65%) Rust
14 35 (1.57%) PHP
14 35 (1.57%) PL/SQL
15 25 (1.12%) PowerShell
16 16 (0.72%) Apex Code
17 15 (0.67%) R
18 13 (0.58%) VBA
19 12 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 341 (15.25%) Security Cleared
2 259 (11.58%) Degree
3 217 (9.70%) SC Cleared
4 127 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 127 (5.68%) DV Cleared
5 99 (4.43%) AWS Certification
6 37 (1.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 32 (1.43%) Master's Degree
8 29 (1.30%) ISTQB
9 25 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
10 24 (1.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 21 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
11 21 (0.94%) OSCP
12 20 (0.89%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 19 (0.85%) Azure Certification
14 17 (0.76%) DBS Check
15 14 (0.63%) CREST Certified
15 14 (0.63%) PhD
16 13 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
17 12 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (6.48%) QA
2 51 (2.28%) Accessibility
3 37 (1.65%) Data Quality
4 15 (0.67%) PCI DSS
5 14 (0.63%) GRC
6 12 (0.54%) SOC 2
7 10 (0.45%) WCAG
8 9 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 9 (0.40%) GDPR
9 5 (0.22%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 3 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 3 (0.13%) NIST
12 2 (0.089%) SLA
13 1 (0.045%) Good Clinical Practice
13 1 (0.045%) MiFID
13 1 (0.045%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 362 (16.19%) Docker
2 12 (0.54%) Active Directory
2 12 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (0.40%) vSphere
4 7 (0.31%) Squid
4 7 (0.31%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.22%) Firmware
6 4 (0.18%) KVM
7 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.089%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.089%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.045%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.045%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.045%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.045%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.045%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.045%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 423 (18.92%) Kubernetes
2 255 (11.40%) Terraform
3 100 (4.47%) Grafana
4 93 (4.16%) Ansible
5 51 (2.28%) Argo
6 48 (2.15%) Prometheus
7 45 (2.01%) HP Fortify
8 27 (1.21%) Kibana
9 18 (0.81%) Kustomize
10 13 (0.58%) Packer
10 13 (0.58%) Rancher
11 12 (0.54%) Puppet
12 9 (0.40%) logstash
13 7 (0.31%) yum
13 7 (0.31%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (0.22%) FTK
16 4 (0.18%) Progress Chef
17 3 (0.13%) AWS Copilot
17 3 (0.13%) Nagios
Vendors
1 92 (4.11%) Oracle
2 85 (3.80%) Microsoft
3 69 (3.09%) Google
4 36 (1.61%) Splunk
5 33 (1.48%) IBM
6 25 (1.12%) Salesforce
7 21 (0.94%) MuleSoft
8 19 (0.85%) Foundry
8 19 (0.85%) Red Hat
9 18 (0.81%) Dynatrace
9 18 (0.81%) Palantir
10 17 (0.76%) AppDynamics
11 16 (0.72%) VMware
12 14 (0.63%) Databricks
13 13 (0.58%) Atlassian
14 12 (0.54%) ServiceNow
15 11 (0.49%) Solace
16 10 (0.45%) Informatica
16 10 (0.45%) SAP
16 10 (0.45%) Talend