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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 26 34
Rank change year-on-year -31 +8 -14
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,323 3,042 4,727
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.71% 7.38% 5.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.75% 23.74% 16.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,524 1,451 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 £114,625 £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 15,751 12,813 28,521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.36% 31.10% 30.82%
Number of salaries quoted 11,437 8,655 22,670
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,500 £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 £112,000 £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 1 July 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 1 July 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 1,048 £85,000 -19.05% 503
North of England -23 656 £69,305 +2.67% 171
North West -37 291 £70,000 - 91
Yorkshire +22 230 £72,500 +3.57% 49
South East -53 213 £70,000 +7.69% 133
South West -31 209 £60,000 -4.00% 101
North East +2 135 £55,000 +22.22% 32
Midlands -92 112 £62,500 +8.70% 61
West Midlands -64 92 £62,500 +4.17% 44
East of England -60 58 £51,359 +16.73% 35
East Midlands -86 19 £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 46 (1.98%) Confluence
2 45 (1.94%) Apache
3 35 (1.51%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
6 12 (0.52%) JBoss
7 9 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.34%) Camunda
8 8 (0.34%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
9 5 (0.22%) CMS
9 5 (0.22%) GeoServer
9 5 (0.22%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.17%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.13%) CICS
11 3 (0.13%) SAS
11 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.086%) Documentum
12 2 (0.086%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.52%) 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 (0.22%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.22%) 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 (41.46%) AWS
2 458 (19.72%) Azure
3 291 (12.53%) GCP
4 188 (8.09%) Serverless
5 147 (6.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 121 (5.21%) AWS Lambda
7 118 (5.08%) Amazon S3
8 113 (4.86%) Amazon ECS
8 113 (4.86%) SaaS
9 110 (4.74%) GitHub
10 105 (4.52%) Amazon EKS
11 71 (3.06%) AWS Step Functions
12 66 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
13 52 (2.24%) GitHub Actions
14 45 (1.94%) Amazon ECR
15 43 (1.85%) Amazon SQS
15 43 (1.85%) Apigee
16 36 (1.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 36 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
17 35 (1.51%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 44 (1.89%) Broadband
2 32 (1.38%) HTTP
3 25 (1.08%) 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 (0.22%) BGP
8 5 (0.22%) 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
1 177 (7.62%) NoSQL
2 172 (7.40%) PostgreSQL
3 111 (4.78%) MongoDB
4 107 (4.61%) Relational Database
5 87 (3.75%) DynamoDB
6 81 (3.49%) MySQL
7 70 (3.01%) SQL Server
8 39 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
9 31 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
9 31 (1.33%) RDBMS
10 26 (1.12%) Db2
11 25 (1.08%) Big Data
11 25 (1.08%) BigQuery
12 21 (0.90%) Redis
13 18 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
14 15 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
14 15 (0.65%) Hadoop
14 15 (0.65%) Metadata
15 13 (0.56%) Power BI
16 12 (0.52%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 215 (9.26%) Git
2 177 (7.62%) Jenkins
3 164 (7.06%) GitLab
4 83 (3.57%) JIRA
5 80 (3.44%) Cucumber
6 75 (3.23%) Maven
7 64 (2.76%) JUnit
8 63 (2.71%) Cypress.io
8 63 (2.71%) Selenium
9 56 (2.41%) TeamCity
10 54 (2.32%) SonarQube
11 34 (1.46%) JMeter
12 33 (1.42%) Postman
13 30 (1.29%) Bitbucket
14 28 (1.21%) Mockito
15 27 (1.16%) Subversion
16 25 (1.08%) Claude Code
16 25 (1.08%) Gradle
17 24 (1.03%) Eclipse
18 23 (0.99%) REST Assured
General
1 580 (24.97%) Finance
2 341 (14.68%) Social Skills
3 215 (9.26%) Banking
4 212 (9.13%) Public Sector
5 159 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
6 143 (6.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 103 (4.43%) Front Office
8 101 (4.35%) Law
9 90 (3.87%) Retail
10 68 (2.93%) Financial Institution
11 47 (2.02%) Back Office
12 39 (1.68%) Investment Banking
13 30 (1.29%) Health Technology
14 28 (1.21%) 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
20 16 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 868 (37.37%) Developer
2 576 (24.80%) Java Developer
3 566 (24.37%) Senior
4 535 (23.03%) Software Engineer
5 395 (17.00%) Java Engineer
6 335 (14.42%) Lead
7 212 (9.13%) Senior Developer
8 177 (7.62%) Java Software Engineer
8 177 (7.62%) Senior Software Engineer
9 152 (6.54%) Senior Java Developer
10 151 (6.50%) Full-Stack Developer
11 126 (5.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 124 (5.34%) Software Developer
13 121 (5.21%) Senior Java Engineer
14 115 (4.95%) Lead Software Engineer
15 97 (4.18%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 84 (3.62%) Architect
17 69 (2.97%) Consultant
18 68 (2.93%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 63 (2.71%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 513 (22.08%) Spring
2 436 (18.77%) Spring Boot
3 287 (12.35%) React
4 231 (9.94%) AngularJS
5 229 (9.86%) REST
6 215 (9.26%) Node.js
7 211 (9.08%) Kafka
8 159 (6.84%) RESTful
9 144 (6.20%) .NET
10 86 (3.70%) Web Services
11 76 (3.27%) CSS
12 74 (3.19%) Vue
13 70 (3.01%) HTML
14 62 (2.67%) GraphQL
15 56 (2.41%) SOAP
16 50 (2.15%) Elastic Stack
16 50 (2.15%) JSON
17 48 (2.07%) OAuth
18 47 (2.02%) Hibernate
19 45 (1.94%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 277 (11.92%) Cloud Native
2 173 (7.45%) Distributed Systems
3 145 (6.24%) Product Ownership
4 99 (4.26%) Public Cloud
5 54 (2.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 49 (2.11%) Fixed Income
6 49 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
7 41 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
8 40 (1.72%) Data Structures
8 40 (1.72%) Onboarding
9 37 (1.59%) Distributed Architecture
10 34 (1.46%) e-Learning
11 33 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
12 32 (1.38%) Blog
12 32 (1.38%) Mobile App
12 32 (1.38%) Virtual Team
13 30 (1.29%) Equities
14 23 (0.99%) Algorithms
15 20 (0.86%) Social Media
16 18 (0.77%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 216 (9.30%) 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
1 807 (34.74%) Software Engineering
2 799 (34.40%) Agile
3 712 (30.65%) CI/CD
4 543 (23.37%) DevOps
5 510 (21.95%) Microservices
6 456 (19.63%) Full-Stack Development
7 453 (19.50%) Test Automation
8 401 (17.26%) Mentoring
9 354 (15.24%) Problem-Solving
10 274 (11.80%) Containerisation
11 270 (11.62%) AI
12 242 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
13 240 (10.33%) TDD
14 235 (10.12%) Infrastructure as Code
15 216 (9.30%) Technical Leadership
16 214 (9.21%) Roadmaps
17 203 (8.74%) Scrum
18 200 (8.61%) Computer Science
19 179 (7.71%) SDLC
20 162 (6.97%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 711 (30.61%) Python
2 431 (18.55%) SQL
3 418 (17.99%) JavaScript
4 255 (10.98%) TypeScript
5 233 (10.03%) C#
6 212 (9.13%) C++
7 157 (6.76%) Go
8 118 (5.08%) Bash
9 101 (4.35%) Kotlin
10 62 (2.67%) C
11 61 (2.63%) Groovy
12 57 (2.45%) Scala
13 55 (2.37%) Rust
14 47 (2.02%) PHP
15 32 (1.38%) PowerShell
16 29 (1.25%) PL/SQL
17 27 (1.16%) Perl
18 18 (0.77%) Ruby
19 17 (0.73%) Shell Script
20 15 (0.65%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 390 (16.79%) Security Cleared
2 244 (10.50%) Degree
3 238 (10.25%) SC Cleared
4 136 (5.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 131 (5.64%) DV Cleared
6 97 (4.18%) AWS Certification
7 42 (1.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 30 (1.29%) 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
13 15 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
13 15 (0.65%) ISTQB
14 13 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.52%) CREST Certified
16 11 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
16 11 (0.47%) PhD
17 9 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
18 8 (0.34%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (6.50%) 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 (0.22%) 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
1 359 (15.45%) 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 (0.22%) KVM
6 5 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.086%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.086%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 428 (18.42%) Kubernetes
2 274 (11.80%) Terraform
3 106 (4.56%) Grafana
4 105 (4.52%) 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 (0.22%) FTK
17 3 (0.13%) AWS Copilot
17 3 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
17 3 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 87 (3.75%) Oracle
2 83 (3.57%) Microsoft
3 73 (3.14%) Google
4 50 (2.15%) Splunk
5 38 (1.64%) 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 15 (0.65%) Adobe
13 14 (0.60%) MuleSoft
14 13 (0.56%) SendGrid
15 11 (0.47%) Solace
16 10 (0.43%) OpenAI
17 9 (0.39%) Veracode