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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 26 34
Rank change year-on-year -31 +8 -14
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,326 3,029 4,724
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.72% 7.37% 5.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.78% 23.74% 16.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,526 1,439 3,510
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £114,375 £137,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% -6.45%

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 15,741 12,759 28,517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.40% 31.05% 30.83%
Number of salaries quoted 11,425 8,606 22,670
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £47,500 £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 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 30 June 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 30 June 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 1,046 £85,000 -19.05% 287
North of England -26 657 £69,305 +2.67% 121
North West -37 289 £70,000 -6.04% 61
Yorkshire +27 233 £72,500 +3.57% 35
South East -46 215 £70,000 +7.69% 110
South West -29 210 £60,000 -4.00% 64
North East +6 135 £55,000 +22.22% 26
Midlands -94 113 £62,500 +8.70% 49
West Midlands -63 93 £62,500 +4.17% 37
East of England -56 58 £51,359 +14.13% 35
East Midlands -88 19 £60,000 +26.32% 12
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 (1.93%) Apache
1 45 (1.93%) Confluence
2 35 (1.50%) Apache Spark
3 28 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
5 12 (0.52%) JBoss
6 9 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.34%) Camunda
7 8 (0.34%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
8 5 (0.21%) CMS
8 5 (0.21%) GeoServer
8 5 (0.21%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.17%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.13%) CICS
10 3 (0.13%) SAS
10 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.086%) Documentum
11 2 (0.086%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.47%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.086%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.086%) PTC Creo
5 2 (0.086%) Windchill
6 1 (0.043%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 14 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.47%) Maximo
3 5 (0.21%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.21%) Temenos T24
4 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.086%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.043%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.043%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.043%) Endur
6 1 (0.043%) Findur
6 1 (0.043%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.043%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 963 (41.40%) AWS
2 457 (19.65%) Azure
3 289 (12.42%) GCP
4 191 (8.21%) Serverless
5 148 (6.36%) AWS CloudFormation
6 122 (5.25%) AWS Lambda
7 119 (5.12%) Amazon S3
8 114 (4.90%) Amazon ECS
9 113 (4.86%) GitHub
9 113 (4.86%) SaaS
10 105 (4.51%) Amazon EKS
11 73 (3.14%) AWS Step Functions
12 67 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
13 53 (2.28%) GitHub Actions
14 45 (1.93%) Amazon ECR
15 43 (1.85%) Amazon SQS
15 43 (1.85%) Apigee
16 38 (1.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 36 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
18 35 (1.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 44 (1.89%) Broadband
2 32 (1.38%) HTTP
3 24 (1.03%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.56%) DMARC
5 9 (0.39%) Network Security
6 8 (0.34%) IPv4
6 8 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
7 7 (0.30%) AMQP
7 7 (0.30%) MQTT
8 5 (0.21%) BGP
8 5 (0.21%) VPN
9 4 (0.17%) Internet
9 4 (0.17%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.13%) Firewall
10 3 (0.13%) VLAN
11 2 (0.086%) DNS
11 2 (0.086%) Ethernet
11 2 (0.086%) IPsec
11 2 (0.086%) LAN
11 2 (0.086%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (7.70%) NoSQL
2 171 (7.35%) PostgreSQL
3 111 (4.77%) MongoDB
4 107 (4.60%) Relational Database
5 88 (3.78%) DynamoDB
6 81 (3.48%) MySQL
7 71 (3.05%) SQL Server
8 41 (1.76%) Amazon Athena
9 31 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
9 31 (1.33%) RDBMS
10 25 (1.07%) Big Data
10 25 (1.07%) BigQuery
10 25 (1.07%) Db2
11 21 (0.90%) Redis
12 18 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
13 15 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
13 15 (0.64%) Hadoop
13 15 (0.64%) Metadata
14 13 (0.56%) Power BI
15 12 (0.52%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 217 (9.33%) Git
2 179 (7.70%) Jenkins
3 165 (7.09%) GitLab
4 84 (3.61%) JIRA
5 80 (3.44%) Cucumber
6 76 (3.27%) Maven
7 66 (2.84%) Selenium
8 65 (2.79%) JUnit
9 64 (2.75%) Cypress.io
10 56 (2.41%) TeamCity
11 55 (2.36%) SonarQube
12 34 (1.46%) JMeter
12 34 (1.46%) Postman
13 29 (1.25%) Bitbucket
13 29 (1.25%) Mockito
14 27 (1.16%) Subversion
15 26 (1.12%) Gradle
16 25 (1.07%) Claude Code
17 24 (1.03%) Eclipse
18 23 (0.99%) REST Assured
General
1 580 (24.94%) Finance
2 345 (14.83%) Social Skills
3 215 (9.24%) Banking
4 212 (9.11%) Public Sector
5 159 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
6 143 (6.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 103 (4.43%) Front Office
8 101 (4.34%) Law
9 91 (3.91%) Retail
10 68 (2.92%) Financial Institution
11 47 (2.02%) Back Office
12 39 (1.68%) Investment Banking
13 30 (1.29%) Health Technology
14 28 (1.20%) Games
15 22 (0.95%) Aerospace
16 21 (0.90%) Manufacturing
17 19 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
18 18 (0.77%) Legal
19 17 (0.73%) Advertising
19 17 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 871 (37.45%) Developer
2 578 (24.85%) Java Developer
3 568 (24.42%) Senior
4 535 (23.00%) Software Engineer
5 396 (17.02%) Java Engineer
6 335 (14.40%) Lead
7 214 (9.20%) Senior Developer
8 177 (7.61%) Java Software Engineer
8 177 (7.61%) Senior Software Engineer
9 153 (6.58%) Senior Java Developer
10 151 (6.49%) Full-Stack Developer
11 127 (5.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 124 (5.33%) Software Developer
13 121 (5.20%) Senior Java Engineer
14 115 (4.94%) Lead Software Engineer
15 97 (4.17%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 85 (3.65%) Architect
17 68 (2.92%) Consultant
17 68 (2.92%) Senior Java Software Engineer
18 63 (2.71%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 513 (22.06%) Spring
2 436 (18.74%) Spring Boot
3 287 (12.34%) React
4 232 (9.97%) AngularJS
5 230 (9.89%) REST
6 215 (9.24%) Node.js
7 210 (9.03%) Kafka
8 159 (6.84%) RESTful
9 145 (6.23%) .NET
10 86 (3.70%) Web Services
11 76 (3.27%) CSS
12 74 (3.18%) Vue
13 72 (3.10%) HTML
14 62 (2.67%) GraphQL
15 57 (2.45%) SOAP
16 51 (2.19%) JSON
17 50 (2.15%) Elastic Stack
18 49 (2.11%) OAuth
19 47 (2.02%) Hibernate
20 44 (1.89%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 277 (11.91%) Cloud Native
2 171 (7.35%) Distributed Systems
3 145 (6.23%) Product Ownership
4 99 (4.26%) Public Cloud
5 54 (2.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 49 (2.11%) Fixed Income
7 48 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
8 43 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
9 40 (1.72%) Data Structures
10 39 (1.68%) Onboarding
11 37 (1.59%) Distributed Architecture
12 34 (1.46%) e-Learning
12 34 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
13 32 (1.38%) Blog
13 32 (1.38%) Mobile App
13 32 (1.38%) Virtual Team
14 30 (1.29%) Equities
15 22 (0.95%) Algorithms
16 20 (0.86%) Social Media
17 18 (0.77%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 214 (9.20%) Linux
2 52 (2.24%) Windows
3 49 (2.11%) Unix
4 44 (1.89%) Android
5 16 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.43%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.26%) CentOS
8 6 (0.26%) Debian
8 6 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.17%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.086%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 805 (34.61%) Software Engineering
2 799 (34.35%) Agile
3 714 (30.70%) CI/CD
4 545 (23.43%) DevOps
5 510 (21.93%) Microservices
6 458 (19.69%) Full-Stack Development
7 454 (19.52%) Test Automation
8 405 (17.41%) Mentoring
9 355 (15.26%) Problem-Solving
10 273 (11.74%) Containerisation
11 267 (11.48%) AI
12 244 (10.49%) Continuous Improvement
13 239 (10.28%) TDD
14 234 (10.06%) Infrastructure as Code
15 217 (9.33%) Technical Leadership
16 213 (9.16%) Roadmaps
17 204 (8.77%) Scrum
18 200 (8.60%) Computer Science
19 180 (7.74%) SDLC
20 162 (6.96%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 709 (30.48%) Python
2 436 (18.74%) SQL
3 420 (18.06%) JavaScript
4 258 (11.09%) TypeScript
5 235 (10.10%) C#
6 211 (9.07%) C++
7 157 (6.75%) Go
8 117 (5.03%) Bash
9 103 (4.43%) Kotlin
10 62 (2.67%) C
11 61 (2.62%) Groovy
12 57 (2.45%) Scala
13 54 (2.32%) Rust
14 47 (2.02%) PHP
15 32 (1.38%) PowerShell
16 30 (1.29%) PL/SQL
17 27 (1.16%) Perl
18 18 (0.77%) Ruby
19 17 (0.73%) Shell Script
20 15 (0.64%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 390 (16.77%) Security Cleared
2 246 (10.58%) Degree
3 239 (10.28%) SC Cleared
4 136 (5.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 131 (5.63%) DV Cleared
6 98 (4.21%) AWS Certification
7 44 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 28 (1.20%) Master's Degree
9 26 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
10 24 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 20 (0.86%) OSCP
12 16 (0.69%) DBS Check
12 16 (0.69%) ISTQB
13 15 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
13 15 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.52%) CREST Certified
15 11 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
15 11 (0.47%) PhD
16 10 (0.43%) Azure Certification
17 9 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (6.53%) QA
2 62 (2.67%) Accessibility
3 41 (1.76%) Data Quality
4 19 (0.82%) WCAG
5 18 (0.77%) GDPR
6 14 (0.60%) GRC
7 12 (0.52%) SOC 2
8 11 (0.47%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.30%) ISO 20022
9 7 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.21%) NIST
11 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 4 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.086%) Good Clinical Practice
13 2 (0.086%) Software Quality Assurance
14 1 (0.043%) GxP
14 1 (0.043%) MiFID
System Software
1 361 (15.52%) Docker
2 17 (0.73%) Active Directory
2 17 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.47%) vSphere
4 8 (0.34%) Squid
4 8 (0.34%) VMware NSX
5 7 (0.30%) Firmware
6 5 (0.21%) KVM
7 4 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.086%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.086%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 428 (18.40%) Kubernetes
2 273 (11.74%) Terraform
3 106 (4.56%) Grafana
4 104 (4.47%) Ansible
5 44 (1.89%) Prometheus
6 41 (1.76%) Argo
7 33 (1.42%) HP Fortify
8 29 (1.25%) Kibana
9 16 (0.69%) Puppet
10 14 (0.60%) Packer
11 13 (0.56%) Rancher
12 12 (0.52%) Kustomize
13 11 (0.47%) logstash
14 8 (0.34%) ZABBIX
15 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
15 7 (0.30%) yum
16 5 (0.21%) FTK
17 3 (0.13%) AWS Copilot
17 3 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
17 3 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 89 (3.83%) Oracle
2 84 (3.61%) Microsoft
3 74 (3.18%) Google
4 49 (2.11%) Splunk
5 37 (1.59%) IBM
6 24 (1.03%) Palantir
6 24 (1.03%) Salesforce
7 23 (0.99%) Red Hat
8 22 (0.95%) Dynatrace
8 22 (0.95%) VMware
9 21 (0.90%) SAP
10 19 (0.82%) Foundry
11 18 (0.77%) AppDynamics
11 18 (0.77%) ServiceNow
12 14 (0.60%) Adobe
12 14 (0.60%) MuleSoft
13 13 (0.56%) SendGrid
14 11 (0.47%) Solace
15 9 (0.39%) Atlassian
15 9 (0.39%) Veracode