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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 30 30
Rank change year-on-year -27 0 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,583 2,783 3,810
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.55% 6.45% 5.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.34% 23.58% 18.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,643 1,202 2,421
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
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% +0.46%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £116,250
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 16,838 11,804 21,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.61% 27.35% 30.67%
Number of salaries quoted 12,286 7,778 13,531
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
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 17 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 17 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 1,090 £85,000 -20.93% 2,378
North of England -24 724 £67,500 +3.85% 457
North West -37 345 £70,000 - 267
South West 0 297 £65,000 +8.33% 242
South East -55 223 £67,500 +3.85% 237
Yorkshire +29 196 £75,000 +11.11% 113
Midlands -48 184 £67,500 +12.50% 198
North East +13 183 £55,000 +15.79% 77
West Midlands -33 154 £69,305 +15.51% 140
East of England -78 50 £57,500 +27.78% 105
East Midlands -90 30 £60,000 +4.35% 58
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 62 (2.40%) Confluence
2 56 (2.17%) Apache
3 38 (1.47%) Apache Spark
4 24 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (0.62%) Camunda
6 15 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 12 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
8 10 (0.39%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
10 7 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 7 (0.27%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.23%) CMS
11 6 (0.23%) JBoss
12 5 (0.19%) CICS
12 5 (0.19%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.15%) SAS
13 4 (0.15%) SharePoint
14 3 (0.12%) Documentum
14 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
14 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.58%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.31%) Simulink
4 6 (0.23%) Moqups
5 5 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.15%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.12%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.077%) PTC Creo
8 2 (0.077%) Windchill
9 1 (0.039%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.039%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.039%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.19%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.19%) Temenos T24
3 4 (0.15%) Maximo
3 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.077%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.077%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.077%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 1 (0.039%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.039%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.039%) Endur
5 1 (0.039%) Findur
5 1 (0.039%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.039%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.039%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.039%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.039%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,062 (41.11%) AWS
2 532 (20.60%) Azure
3 301 (11.65%) GCP
4 214 (8.28%) Serverless
5 167 (6.47%) AWS CloudFormation
6 162 (6.27%) GitHub
7 145 (5.61%) AWS Lambda
8 115 (4.45%) Amazon S3
9 113 (4.37%) Amazon ECS
10 102 (3.95%) SaaS
11 99 (3.83%) Amazon EKS
12 91 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
13 84 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
14 66 (2.56%) AWS Step Functions
15 50 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
16 45 (1.74%) Datadog
17 41 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 39 (1.51%) OpenShift
19 36 (1.39%) Azure Service Bus
20 35 (1.36%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 42 (1.63%) HTTP
2 17 (0.66%) Network Security
3 14 (0.54%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.50%) DMARC
5 9 (0.35%) DNS
5 9 (0.35%) IPv4
5 9 (0.35%) MQTT
5 9 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
6 8 (0.31%) AMQP
6 8 (0.31%) VPN
6 8 (0.31%) Wireshark
7 7 (0.27%) BGP
8 6 (0.23%) IPsec
9 5 (0.19%) Broadband
9 5 (0.19%) Ethernet
9 5 (0.19%) Firewall
9 5 (0.19%) Internet
9 5 (0.19%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.15%) RIP
11 3 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (6.50%) NoSQL
2 165 (6.39%) PostgreSQL
3 128 (4.96%) MongoDB
4 124 (4.80%) Relational Database
5 80 (3.10%) DynamoDB
6 73 (2.83%) MySQL
6 73 (2.83%) SQL Server
7 48 (1.86%) Big Data
8 42 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
9 29 (1.12%) Redis
10 25 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
10 25 (0.97%) Hadoop
11 24 (0.93%) Power BI
12 23 (0.89%) Data Lake
12 23 (0.89%) Db2
13 22 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
14 19 (0.74%) BigQuery
15 18 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
16 17 (0.66%) Spark SQL
17 15 (0.58%) Flink
Development Applications
1 289 (11.19%) Git
2 212 (8.21%) Jenkins
3 200 (7.74%) GitLab
4 101 (3.91%) JIRA
5 98 (3.79%) JUnit
6 95 (3.68%) Cucumber
7 77 (2.98%) Maven
8 67 (2.59%) Selenium
9 59 (2.28%) Cypress.io
10 52 (2.01%) TeamCity
11 47 (1.82%) Postman
11 47 (1.82%) SonarQube
12 46 (1.78%) Eclipse
13 39 (1.51%) Subversion
14 38 (1.47%) Mockito
15 36 (1.39%) JMeter
16 35 (1.36%) Bitbucket
17 23 (0.89%) Claude Code
18 20 (0.77%) REST Assured
19 18 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 680 (26.33%) Finance
2 453 (17.54%) Social Skills
3 274 (10.61%) Banking
4 251 (9.72%) Public Sector
5 190 (7.36%) Analytical Skills
6 130 (5.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 110 (4.26%) Law
8 87 (3.37%) Retail
9 72 (2.79%) Front Office
10 70 (2.71%) Financial Institution
11 39 (1.51%) Legal
11 39 (1.51%) Manufacturing
12 36 (1.39%) Investment Banking
12 36 (1.39%) Marketing
13 35 (1.36%) Back Office
14 29 (1.12%) Health Technology
15 23 (0.89%) Aerospace
16 22 (0.85%) Publishing
17 21 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
18 20 (0.77%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 805 (31.17%) Developer
2 657 (25.44%) Senior
3 583 (22.57%) Software Engineer
4 519 (20.09%) Java Developer
5 505 (19.55%) Java Engineer
6 360 (13.94%) Lead
7 218 (8.44%) Senior Developer
8 195 (7.55%) Senior Software Engineer
9 173 (6.70%) Senior Java Engineer
10 166 (6.43%) Java Software Engineer
11 157 (6.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 138 (5.34%) Senior Java Developer
13 132 (5.11%) Full-Stack Developer
14 130 (5.03%) Software Developer
15 112 (4.34%) Lead Software Engineer
16 86 (3.33%) Principal Engineer
17 84 (3.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 81 (3.14%) Architect
18 81 (3.14%) DevOps Engineer
19 76 (2.94%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 609 (23.58%) Spring
2 504 (19.51%) Spring Boot
3 304 (11.77%) Terraform
4 275 (10.65%) Kafka
5 274 (10.61%) React
6 260 (10.07%) REST
7 226 (8.75%) AngularJS
8 201 (7.78%) Node.js
9 190 (7.36%) RESTful
10 172 (6.66%) .NET
11 81 (3.14%) Web Services
12 71 (2.75%) CSS
13 68 (2.63%) HTML
14 59 (2.28%) Vue
15 57 (2.21%) RabbitMQ
16 55 (2.13%) OAuth
17 54 (2.09%) Hibernate
18 46 (1.78%) Playwright
19 45 (1.74%) JSON
20 43 (1.66%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 339 (13.12%) Cloud Native
2 264 (10.22%) Distributed Systems
3 174 (6.74%) Product Ownership
4 132 (5.11%) Public Cloud
5 75 (2.90%) Onboarding
6 65 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
7 56 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
8 47 (1.82%) Distributed Architecture
8 47 (1.82%) e-Learning
9 45 (1.74%) Virtual Team
10 43 (1.66%) Data Structures
11 41 (1.59%) Algorithms
12 40 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 34 (1.32%) Mobile App
14 33 (1.28%) Blog
15 31 (1.20%) Equities
16 29 (1.12%) AI Agents
17 26 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
18 25 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
19 24 (0.93%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 219 (8.48%) Linux
2 68 (2.63%) Windows
3 38 (1.47%) Unix
4 37 (1.43%) Android
5 25 (0.97%) Apple iOS
6 22 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (0.58%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.31%) CentOS
9 7 (0.27%) Debian
9 7 (0.27%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.15%) Kali Linux
10 4 (0.15%) VMS
11 3 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.077%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.039%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 941 (36.43%) Software Engineering
2 865 (33.49%) CI/CD
3 808 (31.28%) Agile
4 623 (24.12%) Microservices
5 588 (22.76%) DevOps
6 500 (19.36%) Test Automation
7 497 (19.24%) Full-Stack Development
8 473 (18.31%) Mentoring
9 443 (17.15%) Problem-Solving
10 395 (15.29%) AI
11 324 (12.54%) Containerisation
12 314 (12.16%) Infrastructure as Code
13 309 (11.96%) Continuous Improvement
14 283 (10.96%) Event-Driven
15 254 (9.83%) Technical Leadership
16 247 (9.56%) Roadmaps
17 245 (9.49%) Computer Science
18 233 (9.02%) Scrum
19 231 (8.94%) SDLC
20 229 (8.87%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 815 (31.55%) Python
2 487 (18.85%) SQL
3 441 (17.07%) JavaScript
4 275 (10.65%) C#
5 271 (10.49%) C++
6 258 (9.99%) TypeScript
7 130 (5.03%) Go
8 117 (4.53%) Bash
9 107 (4.14%) Kotlin
10 79 (3.06%) C
11 75 (2.90%) Scala
12 58 (2.25%) Rust
13 55 (2.13%) PHP
14 53 (2.05%) Groovy
15 51 (1.97%) Perl
16 37 (1.43%) PowerShell
17 36 (1.39%) Ruby
18 30 (1.16%) PL/SQL
19 22 (0.85%) Shell Script
20 17 (0.66%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 479 (18.54%) Security Cleared
2 288 (11.15%) Degree
3 262 (10.14%) SC Cleared
4 167 (6.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 162 (6.27%) DV Cleared
6 104 (4.03%) AWS Certification
7 66 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 30 (1.16%) Master's Degree
9 25 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (0.77%) OSCP
11 19 (0.74%) ISTQB
12 18 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
13 17 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 14 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
14 14 (0.54%) DBS Check
15 13 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
16 12 (0.46%) PhD
17 11 (0.43%) CREST Certified
18 8 (0.31%) CCNA
18 8 (0.31%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (6.58%) QA
2 82 (3.17%) Accessibility
2 82 (3.17%) Data Quality
3 26 (1.01%) GDPR
3 26 (1.01%) WCAG
4 16 (0.62%) ISO 20022
5 15 (0.58%) NIST
6 11 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.39%) GRC
8 7 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.23%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 4 (0.15%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.12%) MiFID
11 3 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
11 3 (0.12%) PSD2
11 3 (0.12%) UCITS
12 2 (0.077%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 427 (16.53%) Docker
2 26 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (0.74%) Active Directory
4 13 (0.50%) Firmware
5 12 (0.46%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
6 11 (0.43%) vSphere
7 8 (0.31%) Squid
7 8 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.19%) KVM
11 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.077%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 487 (18.85%) Kubernetes
2 137 (5.30%) Ansible
3 95 (3.68%) Grafana
4 33 (1.28%) Prometheus
5 32 (1.24%) Argo
6 29 (1.12%) Kibana
7 27 (1.05%) Puppet
8 22 (0.85%) HP Fortify
9 14 (0.54%) Packer
10 13 (0.50%) Rancher
11 12 (0.46%) logstash
12 8 (0.31%) ZABBIX
13 7 (0.27%) yum
14 6 (0.23%) Hadoop YARN
14 6 (0.23%) Kubeflow
15 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (0.19%) Red Hat Satellite
16 4 (0.15%) Control-M
16 4 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
16 4 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 116 (4.49%) Oracle
2 113 (4.37%) Microsoft
3 82 (3.17%) Google
4 62 (2.40%) Splunk
5 44 (1.70%) Red Hat
6 43 (1.66%) IBM
7 32 (1.24%) SAP
8 30 (1.16%) AppDynamics
8 30 (1.16%) VMware
9 26 (1.01%) Adobe
10 25 (0.97%) Dynatrace
11 21 (0.81%) OpenAI
11 21 (0.81%) Palantir
12 18 (0.70%) Databricks
12 18 (0.70%) ServiceNow
13 14 (0.54%) Foundry
13 14 (0.54%) Salesforce
14 13 (0.50%) SendGrid
15 12 (0.46%) Bloomberg
15 12 (0.46%) Solace