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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 33 22
Rank change year-on-year -34 -11 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,718 3,285 3,746
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.67% 5.46% 8.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.22% 16.64% 20.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,115 2,009 2,968
10th Percentile £42,155 £41,950 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,188 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £75,554
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +5.89% +0.74%
75th Percentile £115,000 £113,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £136,250 £142,500 £127,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% +3.45%

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 10,595 19,737 18,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 22.61% 32.81% 41.00%
Number of salaries quoted 7,907 11,856 15,399
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,683 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 27 November 2025.

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 27 November 2025. 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 -9 992 £105,000 +5.00% 334
North of England -8 271 £65,000 +8.33% 91
South East -79 171 £62,500 - 262
North West -12 132 £66,250 +8.16% 61
Midlands +19 117 £62,500 +56.25% 51
Yorkshire +25 116 £67,500 +22.73% 21
South West -47 116 £65,000 +4.00% 101
West Midlands +42 89 £62,500 +19.05% 34
East of England -73 40 £43,750 -35.19% 38
East Midlands +10 28 £57,500 +64.29% 17
North East -2 25 £55,000 -5.11% 9
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 92 (5.36%) Apache
2 90 (5.24%) Apache Airflow
3 56 (3.26%) Apache Spark
4 40 (2.33%) Confluence
5 16 (0.93%) JBoss
6 8 (0.47%) WebSphere
7 7 (0.41%) IIS
8 6 (0.35%) Mule
8 6 (0.35%) nginx
8 6 (0.35%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.29%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.29%) BizTalk Server
9 5 (0.29%) Camunda
9 5 (0.29%) SharePoint
10 4 (0.23%) Appian
11 3 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.17%) Luigi
11 3 (0.17%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.17%) Traefik
11 3 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (0.41%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.17%) Simulink
5 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.058%) Trello
6 1 (0.058%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
1 8 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.41%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.35%) Shopify
4 5 (0.29%) Maximo
5 4 (0.23%) Adaptiv
5 4 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.058%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.058%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.058%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.058%) Summit
7 1 (0.058%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 839 (48.84%) AWS
2 341 (19.85%) Azure
3 218 (12.69%) GCP
4 147 (8.56%) Serverless
5 100 (5.82%) Amazon EKS
6 95 (5.53%) SaaS
7 90 (5.24%) GitHub
8 85 (4.95%) AWS Lambda
9 77 (4.48%) dbt
10 73 (4.25%) Snowflake
11 72 (4.19%) Amazon EC2
11 72 (4.19%) Amazon ECS
12 71 (4.13%) Amazon S3
13 44 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 39 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
14 39 (2.27%) OpenShift
15 31 (1.80%) Datadog
16 24 (1.40%) Amazon SQS
16 24 (1.40%) AWS CloudFormation
17 23 (1.34%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 34 (1.98%) TCP/IP
2 25 (1.46%) HTTP
3 19 (1.11%) DNS
4 18 (1.05%) Firewall
5 16 (0.93%) SSH
6 14 (0.81%) FTP
6 14 (0.81%) SMTP
7 11 (0.64%) AMQP
7 11 (0.64%) VPN
8 10 (0.58%) Internet
8 10 (0.58%) Multicast
9 7 (0.41%) SAN
10 4 (0.23%) Broadband
10 4 (0.23%) DHCP
10 4 (0.23%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.17%) BGP
11 3 (0.17%) ICMP
11 3 (0.17%) LAN
11 3 (0.17%) VLAN
11 3 (0.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (9.20%) PostgreSQL
2 149 (8.67%) Relational Database
3 109 (6.34%) NoSQL
4 97 (5.65%) SQL Server
5 85 (4.95%) Data Lake
5 85 (4.95%) MongoDB
6 72 (4.19%) MySQL
7 66 (3.84%) Amazon Athena
7 66 (3.84%) Apache Iceberg
8 63 (3.67%) Apache Arrow
8 63 (3.67%) Dremio
9 60 (3.49%) Apache Ignite
10 57 (3.32%) Big Data
11 55 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
12 51 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
13 45 (2.62%) DynamoDB
14 44 (2.56%) RDBMS
15 41 (2.39%) Hadoop
16 31 (1.80%) BigQuery
17 27 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 178 (10.36%) Jenkins
2 144 (8.38%) Git
3 96 (5.59%) Selenium
4 94 (5.47%) JIRA
5 79 (4.60%) GitLab
6 77 (4.48%) JUnit
7 55 (3.20%) Cucumber
8 46 (2.68%) Cypress.io
9 39 (2.27%) Postman
10 38 (2.21%) JMeter
10 38 (2.21%) Maven
10 38 (2.21%) Mockito
11 33 (1.92%) TeamCity
12 31 (1.80%) Bitbucket
13 30 (1.75%) WebDriver
14 28 (1.63%) SonarQube
15 25 (1.46%) SoapUI
16 20 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
17 16 (0.93%) Team Foundation Server
18 15 (0.87%) REST Assured
General
1 674 (39.23%) Finance
2 475 (27.65%) Social Skills
3 361 (21.01%) Banking
4 236 (13.74%) Law
5 206 (11.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 182 (10.59%) Front Office
7 156 (9.08%) Analytical Skills
8 144 (8.38%) Investment Banking
9 109 (6.34%) Public Sector
10 103 (6.00%) Financial Institution
11 67 (3.90%) Marketing
12 49 (2.85%) Retail
13 34 (1.98%) Back Office
14 32 (1.86%) Games
15 30 (1.75%) Legal
16 22 (1.28%) Manufacturing
17 20 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
18 18 (1.05%) Billing
18 18 (1.05%) Telecoms
19 17 (0.99%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 585 (34.05%) Developer
2 489 (28.46%) Software Engineer
3 410 (23.86%) Senior
4 276 (16.07%) Java Developer
5 273 (15.89%) Java Engineer
6 268 (15.60%) Lead
7 196 (11.41%) Java Software Engineer
8 157 (9.14%) Senior Software Engineer
9 116 (6.75%) Lead Software Engineer
9 116 (6.75%) Senior Java Engineer
10 113 (6.58%) AWS Engineer
11 102 (5.94%) Architect
12 101 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
13 99 (5.76%) Senior Developer
14 95 (5.53%) Python Engineer
15 88 (5.12%) Python Software Engineer
16 86 (5.01%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 76 (4.42%) AWS Software Engineer
18 63 (3.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 58 (3.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 369 (21.48%) Spring
2 320 (18.63%) React
3 290 (16.88%) Spring Boot
4 256 (14.90%) Kafka
5 169 (9.84%) RESTful
6 168 (9.78%) REST
7 164 (9.55%) .NET
8 150 (8.73%) Node.js
9 123 (7.16%) AngularJS
9 123 (7.16%) HTML
10 104 (6.05%) CSS
11 83 (4.83%) Hibernate
12 79 (4.60%) Pandas
13 69 (4.02%) gRPC
14 67 (3.90%) Web Services
15 66 (3.84%) SOAP
16 64 (3.73%) NumPy
17 63 (3.67%) SciPy
18 60 (3.49%) GraphQL
18 60 (3.49%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 310 (18.04%) Cloud Native
2 192 (11.18%) Distributed Systems
3 122 (7.10%) Equities
4 114 (6.64%) Fixed Income
5 113 (6.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 103 (6.00%) Derivative
7 79 (4.60%) Algorithms
8 74 (4.31%) Hedge funds
9 66 (3.84%) Self-Motivation
10 60 (3.49%) Product Ownership
11 59 (3.43%) Pricing Data
12 58 (3.38%) Onboarding
13 55 (3.20%) Greenfield Project
14 54 (3.14%) Public Cloud
15 42 (2.44%) Management Information System
16 38 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
17 36 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
18 31 (1.80%) Data Structures
18 31 (1.80%) Mobile App
19 30 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 197 (11.47%) Linux
2 43 (2.50%) Windows
3 27 (1.57%) Android
3 27 (1.57%) Unix
4 14 (0.81%) VMS
5 13 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.70%) Amazon Linux
7 7 (0.41%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.17%) CentOS
9 3 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.12%) Debian
10 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.058%) AIX
11 1 (0.058%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.058%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.058%) SUSE
11 1 (0.058%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 784 (45.63%) Agile
2 651 (37.89%) Software Engineering
3 558 (32.48%) CI/CD
4 409 (23.81%) Microservices
5 365 (21.25%) Problem-Solving
6 359 (20.90%) DevOps
7 263 (15.31%) Computer Science
8 258 (15.02%) Full-Stack Development
9 253 (14.73%) Test Automation
10 246 (14.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 246 (14.32%) Mentoring
11 236 (13.74%) SDLC
12 184 (10.71%) AI
13 172 (10.01%) TDD
14 168 (9.78%) Containerisation
15 165 (9.60%) Fintech
16 164 (9.55%) Scrum
17 143 (8.32%) Machine Learning
18 134 (7.80%) Clean Code
19 125 (7.28%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 709 (41.27%) Python
2 417 (24.27%) JavaScript
3 374 (21.77%) SQL
4 307 (17.87%) TypeScript
5 253 (14.73%) C#
6 172 (10.01%) C++
7 139 (8.09%) Go
8 118 (6.87%) Kotlin
9 95 (5.53%) C
10 73 (4.25%) Scala
11 54 (3.14%) PHP
12 40 (2.33%) Groovy
13 39 (2.27%) Shell Script
14 38 (2.21%) Bash
14 38 (2.21%) PowerShell
15 36 (2.10%) PL/SQL
16 26 (1.51%) Rust
17 25 (1.46%) Perl
18 23 (1.34%) Ruby
19 19 (1.11%) R
Qualifications
1 303 (17.64%) Degree
2 215 (12.51%) Security Cleared
3 148 (8.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 134 (7.80%) SC Cleared
5 83 (4.83%) AWS Certification
6 72 (4.19%) Master's Degree
7 65 (3.78%) DV Cleared
8 46 (2.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 39 (2.27%) Azure Certification
10 31 (1.80%) PhD
11 23 (1.34%) ISTQB
12 21 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
13 19 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
13 19 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
14 16 (0.93%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 12 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
16 9 (0.52%) HND
17 6 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
17 6 (0.35%) PMI Certification
17 6 (0.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (5.70%) QA
2 45 (2.62%) Accessibility
3 31 (1.80%) GDPR
4 17 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (0.64%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.64%) PCI DSS
6 10 (0.58%) ISO 9001
6 10 (0.58%) NIST
7 9 (0.52%) HIPAA
8 8 (0.47%) SLA
9 6 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.29%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.23%) EU AI Act
11 4 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.23%) SEPA
11 4 (0.23%) WCAG
12 3 (0.17%) NCSC
13 2 (0.12%) ITGC
13 2 (0.12%) PSD2
System Software
1 293 (17.05%) Docker
2 25 (1.46%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
5 11 (0.64%) HDFS
6 5 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.23%) DFS Replication
7 4 (0.23%) vSphere
8 3 (0.17%) Firmware
9 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
9 2 (0.12%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.12%) Squid
9 2 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.058%) KVM
Systems Management
1 425 (24.74%) Kubernetes
2 128 (7.45%) Terraform
3 69 (4.02%) Grafana
4 50 (2.91%) Ansible
5 42 (2.44%) Kibana
6 37 (2.15%) Prometheus
7 20 (1.16%) Argo
8 12 (0.70%) Progress Chef
9 10 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.47%) Control-M
11 7 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
11 7 (0.41%) HP Fortify
12 5 (0.29%) logstash
12 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.23%) Nagios
13 4 (0.23%) Puppet
14 3 (0.17%) HAProxy
15 2 (0.12%) Kustomize
15 2 (0.12%) Oozie
15 2 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 127 (7.39%) Oracle
2 90 (5.24%) Microsoft
3 80 (4.66%) Google
4 37 (2.15%) Guidewire
5 35 (2.04%) Splunk
6 33 (1.92%) Atlassian
7 28 (1.63%) Databricks
8 25 (1.46%) Dynatrace
8 25 (1.46%) SAP
9 23 (1.34%) MuleSoft
10 18 (1.05%) Informatica
11 17 (0.99%) IBM
11 17 (0.99%) ServiceNow
12 14 (0.81%) Talend
13 13 (0.76%) Dell
14 12 (0.70%) Red Hat
14 12 (0.70%) Solace
15 10 (0.58%) Adobe
15 10 (0.58%) Foundry
15 10 (0.58%) Salesforce