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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 31 31
Rank change year-on-year -24 0 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,717 2,716 3,734
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.62% 6.32% 5.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.06% 23.62% 18.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,708 1,165 2,315
10th Percentile £43,979 £41,250 £42,350
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% +3.23%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +5.89%

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 16,919 11,499 20,675
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.29% 26.74% 31.04%
Number of salaries quoted 12,290 7,567 12,663
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,200 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £84,625 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £111,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +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 30 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 30 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 1,123 £85,000 -19.05% 1,741
North of England -23 769 £69,310 +6.63% 393
North West -33 396 £70,000 - 232
South West +1 326 £65,000 +8.33% 228
South East -39 240 £67,500 +3.85% 177
Midlands -50 193 £70,000 +16.67% 146
Yorkshire +25 188 £75,000 +15.38% 91
North East +18 185 £55,000 +15.79% 70
West Midlands -22 166 £70,000 +16.67% 114
East of England -79 48 £65,000 +50.29% 57
East Midlands -85 27 £60,000 +3.45% 32
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 61 (2.25%) Confluence
2 58 (2.13%) Apache
3 38 (1.40%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.66%) Camunda
6 16 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 12 (0.44%) Jupyter
8 9 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.29%) SharePoint Server
9 8 (0.29%) Tomcat
10 7 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.22%) CMS
11 6 (0.22%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.22%) WebLogic
12 5 (0.18%) CICS
12 5 (0.18%) JBoss
13 4 (0.15%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.15%) SAS
13 4 (0.15%) SharePoint
13 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.55%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.33%) Simulink
4 7 (0.26%) Moqups
5 5 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.15%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.11%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.074%) PTC Creo
8 2 (0.074%) Windchill
9 1 (0.037%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.037%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
2 5 (0.18%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.074%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.074%) Maximo
4 2 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.074%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 2 (0.074%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.037%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.037%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.037%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.037%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.037%) Quorum
5 1 (0.037%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.037%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.037%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.037%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,089 (40.08%) AWS
2 538 (19.80%) Azure
3 313 (11.52%) GCP
4 209 (7.69%) Serverless
5 171 (6.29%) GitHub
6 161 (5.93%) AWS CloudFormation
7 139 (5.12%) AWS Lambda
8 113 (4.16%) Amazon EKS
9 112 (4.12%) Amazon S3
10 109 (4.01%) SaaS
11 107 (3.94%) Amazon ECS
12 98 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
13 85 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
14 56 (2.06%) AWS Step Functions
15 54 (1.99%) Amazon EC2
16 42 (1.55%) Datadog
17 40 (1.47%) OpenShift
18 38 (1.40%) Azure Service Bus
19 37 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 37 (1.36%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 40 (1.47%) HTTP
2 20 (0.74%) TCP/IP
3 17 (0.63%) Network Security
4 15 (0.55%) DMARC
5 12 (0.44%) VPN
6 11 (0.40%) BGP
7 9 (0.33%) DNS
7 9 (0.33%) IPv4
7 9 (0.33%) MQTT
7 9 (0.33%) Software-Defined Networking
7 9 (0.33%) Wireshark
8 8 (0.29%) AMQP
9 6 (0.22%) Firewall
9 6 (0.22%) IPsec
10 5 (0.18%) Broadband
10 5 (0.18%) Ethernet
10 5 (0.18%) Internet
11 4 (0.15%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.15%) RIP
12 3 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
2 167 (6.15%) NoSQL
3 131 (4.82%) Relational Database
4 129 (4.75%) MongoDB
5 73 (2.69%) MySQL
6 68 (2.50%) DynamoDB
7 62 (2.28%) SQL Server
8 48 (1.77%) Big Data
9 37 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
10 28 (1.03%) Redis
11 27 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
12 26 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
13 25 (0.92%) Hadoop
13 25 (0.92%) Power BI
14 23 (0.85%) Data Lake
15 22 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
16 21 (0.77%) BigQuery
16 21 (0.77%) Db2
17 17 (0.63%) Spark SQL
18 16 (0.59%) Flink
Development Applications
1 294 (10.82%) Git
2 217 (7.99%) Jenkins
3 205 (7.55%) GitLab
4 102 (3.75%) JUnit
5 98 (3.61%) Cucumber
6 96 (3.53%) JIRA
7 72 (2.65%) Maven
8 66 (2.43%) TeamCity
9 63 (2.32%) Selenium
10 54 (1.99%) Cypress.io
11 47 (1.73%) Eclipse
12 45 (1.66%) Postman
13 42 (1.55%) SonarQube
14 41 (1.51%) Mockito
15 40 (1.47%) Subversion
16 36 (1.32%) Bitbucket
17 33 (1.21%) JMeter
18 25 (0.92%) Claude Code
19 18 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
19 18 (0.66%) REST Assured
General
1 685 (25.21%) Finance
2 473 (17.41%) Social Skills
3 289 (10.64%) Banking
4 260 (9.57%) Public Sector
5 186 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
6 145 (5.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 124 (4.56%) Law
8 104 (3.83%) Retail
9 78 (2.87%) Financial Institution
10 70 (2.58%) Front Office
11 41 (1.51%) Back Office
12 40 (1.47%) Legal
13 39 (1.44%) Manufacturing
14 36 (1.32%) Investment Banking
14 36 (1.32%) Marketing
15 34 (1.25%) Health Technology
16 27 (0.99%) Publishing
17 23 (0.85%) Tech for Good
18 22 (0.81%) Aerospace
19 21 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 818 (30.11%) Developer
2 712 (26.21%) Senior
3 623 (22.93%) Software Engineer
4 579 (21.31%) Java Engineer
5 530 (19.51%) Java Developer
6 372 (13.69%) Lead
7 227 (8.35%) Senior Developer
8 207 (7.62%) Senior Software Engineer
9 204 (7.51%) Senior Java Engineer
10 198 (7.29%) Java Software Engineer
11 176 (6.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 141 (5.19%) Senior Java Developer
13 132 (4.86%) Full-Stack Developer
14 120 (4.42%) Software Developer
15 108 (3.97%) Lead Software Engineer
16 98 (3.61%) Principal Engineer
17 90 (3.31%) DevOps Engineer
18 83 (3.05%) Architect
18 83 (3.05%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 78 (2.87%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 640 (23.56%) Spring
2 535 (19.69%) Spring Boot
3 328 (12.07%) Terraform
4 287 (10.56%) Kafka
5 283 (10.42%) React
6 267 (9.83%) REST
7 220 (8.10%) AngularJS
8 201 (7.40%) Node.js
9 198 (7.29%) RESTful
10 168 (6.18%) .NET
11 78 (2.87%) Web Services
12 67 (2.47%) HTML
13 63 (2.32%) CSS
14 61 (2.25%) OAuth
15 58 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
16 57 (2.10%) Hibernate
17 56 (2.06%) Vue
18 46 (1.69%) JSON
19 44 (1.62%) Jakarta EE
20 43 (1.58%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 376 (13.84%) Cloud Native
2 280 (10.31%) Distributed Systems
3 170 (6.26%) Product Ownership
4 129 (4.75%) Public Cloud
5 74 (2.72%) Onboarding
6 72 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
7 60 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
8 51 (1.88%) e-Learning
9 47 (1.73%) Data Structures
10 43 (1.58%) Algorithms
10 43 (1.58%) Distributed Architecture
11 42 (1.55%) Blog
12 41 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 39 (1.44%) Virtual Team
14 32 (1.18%) Mobile App
15 31 (1.14%) AI Agents
16 30 (1.10%) Equities
17 27 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
18 26 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
18 26 (0.96%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 224 (8.24%) Linux
2 68 (2.50%) Windows
3 41 (1.51%) Android
4 38 (1.40%) Unix
5 28 (1.03%) Apple iOS
6 21 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 14 (0.52%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.29%) CentOS
9 7 (0.26%) Debian
9 7 (0.26%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.15%) VMS
11 3 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.11%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.074%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.037%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,016 (37.39%) Software Engineering
2 916 (33.71%) CI/CD
3 831 (30.59%) Agile
4 663 (24.40%) Microservices
5 608 (22.38%) DevOps
6 548 (20.17%) Full-Stack Development
7 512 (18.84%) Test Automation
8 478 (17.59%) Mentoring
9 461 (16.97%) Problem-Solving
10 418 (15.38%) AI
11 359 (13.21%) Containerisation
12 334 (12.29%) Infrastructure as Code
13 331 (12.18%) Continuous Improvement
14 304 (11.19%) Event-Driven
15 255 (9.39%) Technical Leadership
16 247 (9.09%) Computer Science
17 246 (9.05%) SDLC
18 240 (8.83%) Scrum
19 236 (8.69%) Roadmaps
19 236 (8.69%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 840 (30.92%) Python
2 492 (18.11%) SQL
3 444 (16.34%) JavaScript
4 278 (10.23%) C++
5 269 (9.90%) C#
6 266 (9.79%) TypeScript
7 148 (5.45%) Go
8 116 (4.27%) Bash
9 107 (3.94%) Kotlin
10 79 (2.91%) Scala
11 77 (2.83%) C
12 58 (2.13%) Rust
13 49 (1.80%) Perl
14 48 (1.77%) PHP
15 46 (1.69%) Groovy
16 37 (1.36%) PowerShell
17 34 (1.25%) Ruby
18 32 (1.18%) PL/SQL
19 23 (0.85%) Shell Script
20 18 (0.66%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 501 (18.44%) Security Cleared
2 285 (10.49%) Degree
3 269 (9.90%) SC Cleared
4 172 (6.33%) DV Cleared
5 165 (6.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 104 (3.83%) AWS Certification
7 69 (2.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 30 (1.10%) Master's Degree
9 23 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (0.74%) ISTQB
10 20 (0.74%) OSCP
11 16 (0.59%) DBS Check
12 15 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
13 13 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 12 (0.44%) PhD
15 10 (0.37%) CREST Certified
16 9 (0.33%) CISSP
17 8 (0.29%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (6.44%) QA
2 85 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 81 (2.98%) Accessibility
4 26 (0.96%) GDPR
4 26 (0.96%) WCAG
5 20 (0.74%) NIST
6 17 (0.63%) ISO 20022
7 15 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (0.44%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.29%) SOC 2
10 7 (0.26%) GRC
11 6 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 14443
12 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 7816
13 3 (0.11%) MiFID
13 3 (0.11%) MIL-STD-1553
13 3 (0.11%) PSD2
13 3 (0.11%) UCITS
14 2 (0.074%) Good Clinical Practice
14 2 (0.074%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 447 (16.45%) Docker
2 28 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (0.66%) Active Directory
4 15 (0.55%) VMware NSX
5 13 (0.48%) Firmware
6 12 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
7 11 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.40%) vSphere
8 8 (0.29%) Squid
8 8 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.18%) KVM
11 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.037%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 544 (20.02%) Kubernetes
2 148 (5.45%) Ansible
3 105 (3.86%) Grafana
4 38 (1.40%) Argo
5 37 (1.36%) Prometheus
6 31 (1.14%) Puppet
7 29 (1.07%) Kibana
8 16 (0.59%) Packer
9 15 (0.55%) HP Fortify
10 14 (0.52%) Rancher
11 12 (0.44%) logstash
12 8 (0.29%) yum
12 8 (0.29%) ZABBIX
13 7 (0.26%) vCenter Server
14 6 (0.22%) Hadoop YARN
14 6 (0.22%) Kubeflow
14 6 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
15 5 (0.18%) EnCase
15 5 (0.18%) FTK
15 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 116 (4.27%) Oracle
2 113 (4.16%) Microsoft
3 93 (3.42%) Google
4 67 (2.47%) Splunk
5 45 (1.66%) Red Hat
6 41 (1.51%) IBM
7 32 (1.18%) SAP
8 31 (1.14%) VMware
9 30 (1.10%) AppDynamics
10 27 (0.99%) Adobe
11 26 (0.96%) Dynatrace
12 22 (0.81%) OpenAI
13 18 (0.66%) Databricks
13 18 (0.66%) Palantir
14 16 (0.59%) ServiceNow
15 15 (0.55%) SendGrid
16 14 (0.52%) Salesforce
17 13 (0.48%) Foundry
18 12 (0.44%) Bloomberg
18 12 (0.44%) Solace