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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 30 31
Rank change year-on-year -28 +1 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,651 2,768 3,803
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.57% 6.43% 5.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.65% 23.57% 18.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,677 1,196 2,376
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% +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 16,939 11,742 20,996
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.44% 27.27% 30.86%
Number of salaries quoted 12,314 7,772 13,108
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,617 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -3.67% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £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 24 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 24 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 1,109 £82,500 -21.43% 2,180
North of England -26 741 £69,305 +6.62% 446
North West -34 367 £70,000 - 255
South West 0 314 £65,000 +8.33% 249
South East -59 235 £67,500 +3.85% 241
Yorkshire +25 193 £75,000 +15.38% 111
Midlands -54 187 £69,308 +15.51% 166
North East +10 181 £55,000 +15.79% 80
West Midlands -36 160 £70,000 +16.67% 126
East of England -79 49 £60,000 +26.32% 67
East Midlands -78 27 £60,000 +4.35% 40
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 (2.34%) Confluence
2 58 (2.19%) Apache
3 38 (1.43%) Apache Spark
4 26 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (0.64%) Camunda
6 15 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 10 (0.38%) Jupyter
7 10 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
8 8 (0.30%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.23%) CMS
10 6 (0.23%) JBoss
11 5 (0.19%) CICS
11 5 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.15%) SAS
12 4 (0.15%) SharePoint
12 4 (0.15%) WebLogic
12 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.11%) Documentum
Applications
1 21 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.57%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.34%) Simulink
4 7 (0.26%) Moqups
5 5 (0.19%) 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 (0.075%) PTC Creo
8 2 (0.075%) Windchill
9 1 (0.038%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.038%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.19%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
3 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.11%) Maximo
4 3 (0.11%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.075%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.075%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
6 1 (0.038%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.038%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.038%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.038%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.038%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.038%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.038%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.038%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,084 (40.89%) AWS
2 537 (20.26%) Azure
3 310 (11.69%) GCP
4 212 (8.00%) Serverless
5 167 (6.30%) GitHub
6 165 (6.22%) AWS CloudFormation
7 144 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
8 114 (4.30%) Amazon S3
9 112 (4.22%) Amazon ECS
10 109 (4.11%) SaaS
11 107 (4.04%) Amazon EKS
12 93 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
13 84 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
14 64 (2.41%) AWS Step Functions
15 51 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
16 45 (1.70%) Datadog
17 40 (1.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 40 (1.51%) OpenShift
18 37 (1.40%) Azure Service Bus
18 37 (1.40%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 42 (1.58%) HTTP
2 18 (0.68%) TCP/IP
3 17 (0.64%) Network Security
4 14 (0.53%) DMARC
5 11 (0.41%) VPN
6 10 (0.38%) BGP
7 9 (0.34%) DNS
7 9 (0.34%) IPv4
7 9 (0.34%) MQTT
7 9 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
7 9 (0.34%) Wireshark
8 8 (0.30%) AMQP
9 6 (0.23%) IPsec
10 5 (0.19%) Broadband
10 5 (0.19%) Ethernet
10 5 (0.19%) Firewall
10 5 (0.19%) Internet
10 5 (0.19%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.15%) RIP
12 3 (0.11%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (6.34%) PostgreSQL
2 167 (6.30%) NoSQL
3 129 (4.87%) MongoDB
4 127 (4.79%) Relational Database
5 76 (2.87%) DynamoDB
6 74 (2.79%) MySQL
7 67 (2.53%) SQL Server
8 48 (1.81%) Big Data
9 40 (1.51%) Amazon Athena
10 28 (1.06%) Redis
11 26 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
12 25 (0.94%) Hadoop
13 24 (0.91%) Power BI
14 23 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
14 23 (0.87%) Data Lake
15 22 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
15 22 (0.83%) Db2
16 21 (0.79%) BigQuery
17 17 (0.64%) Flink
17 17 (0.64%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 297 (11.20%) Git
2 215 (8.11%) Jenkins
3 205 (7.73%) GitLab
4 101 (3.81%) JUnit
5 98 (3.70%) JIRA
6 97 (3.66%) Cucumber
7 76 (2.87%) Maven
8 67 (2.53%) Selenium
9 59 (2.23%) Cypress.io
9 59 (2.23%) TeamCity
10 47 (1.77%) Eclipse
11 46 (1.74%) Postman
11 46 (1.74%) SonarQube
12 40 (1.51%) Mockito
12 40 (1.51%) Subversion
13 36 (1.36%) Bitbucket
14 35 (1.32%) JMeter
15 24 (0.91%) Claude Code
16 18 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 18 (0.68%) REST Assured
General
1 681 (25.69%) Finance
2 467 (17.62%) Social Skills
3 284 (10.71%) Banking
4 254 (9.58%) Public Sector
5 187 (7.05%) Analytical Skills
6 142 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 120 (4.53%) Law
8 98 (3.70%) Retail
9 76 (2.87%) Financial Institution
10 70 (2.64%) Front Office
11 40 (1.51%) Back Office
12 39 (1.47%) Legal
12 39 (1.47%) Manufacturing
13 36 (1.36%) Marketing
14 34 (1.28%) Investment Banking
15 33 (1.24%) Health Technology
16 27 (1.02%) Publishing
17 23 (0.87%) Aerospace
18 22 (0.83%) Tech for Good
19 21 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 813 (30.67%) Developer
2 683 (25.76%) Senior
3 604 (22.78%) Software Engineer
4 543 (20.48%) Java Engineer
5 522 (19.69%) Java Developer
6 362 (13.66%) Lead
7 223 (8.41%) Senior Developer
8 200 (7.54%) Senior Software Engineer
9 188 (7.09%) Senior Java Engineer
10 185 (6.98%) Java Software Engineer
11 166 (6.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 140 (5.28%) Senior Java Developer
13 134 (5.05%) Full-Stack Developer
14 124 (4.68%) Software Developer
15 110 (4.15%) Lead Software Engineer
16 92 (3.47%) Principal Engineer
17 87 (3.28%) DevOps Engineer
18 84 (3.17%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 83 (3.13%) Architect
20 75 (2.83%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 627 (23.65%) Spring
2 522 (19.69%) Spring Boot
3 324 (12.22%) Terraform
4 284 (10.71%) React
5 282 (10.64%) Kafka
6 264 (9.96%) REST
7 228 (8.60%) AngularJS
8 200 (7.54%) Node.js
9 197 (7.43%) RESTful
10 169 (6.37%) .NET
11 79 (2.98%) Web Services
12 68 (2.57%) HTML
13 67 (2.53%) CSS
14 59 (2.23%) Vue
15 58 (2.19%) OAuth
15 58 (2.19%) RabbitMQ
16 56 (2.11%) Hibernate
17 45 (1.70%) JSON
18 44 (1.66%) Jakarta EE
18 44 (1.66%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 358 (13.50%) Cloud Native
2 275 (10.37%) Distributed Systems
3 173 (6.53%) Product Ownership
4 131 (4.94%) Public Cloud
5 75 (2.83%) Onboarding
6 68 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
7 58 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
8 49 (1.85%) e-Learning
9 45 (1.70%) Data Structures
10 44 (1.66%) Distributed Architecture
11 42 (1.58%) Algorithms
12 41 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 41 (1.55%) Virtual Team
13 38 (1.43%) Blog
14 32 (1.21%) Mobile App
15 31 (1.17%) AI Agents
15 31 (1.17%) Equities
16 27 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
17 26 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
17 26 (0.98%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 226 (8.53%) Linux
2 70 (2.64%) Windows
3 41 (1.55%) Android
4 38 (1.43%) Unix
5 28 (1.06%) Apple iOS
6 22 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (0.57%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.30%) CentOS
9 7 (0.26%) Debian
9 7 (0.26%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.15%) Kali Linux
10 4 (0.15%) VMS
11 3 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.075%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.038%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 983 (37.08%) Software Engineering
2 897 (33.84%) CI/CD
3 822 (31.01%) Agile
4 644 (24.29%) Microservices
5 603 (22.75%) DevOps
6 519 (19.58%) Full-Stack Development
7 501 (18.90%) Test Automation
8 479 (18.07%) Mentoring
9 455 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
10 412 (15.54%) AI
11 348 (13.13%) Containerisation
12 328 (12.37%) Infrastructure as Code
13 319 (12.03%) Continuous Improvement
14 298 (11.24%) Event-Driven
15 253 (9.54%) Technical Leadership
16 244 (9.20%) Computer Science
16 244 (9.20%) Roadmaps
17 241 (9.09%) SDLC
18 233 (8.79%) Scrum
19 229 (8.64%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 833 (31.42%) Python
2 488 (18.41%) SQL
3 440 (16.60%) JavaScript
4 277 (10.45%) C++
5 272 (10.26%) C#
6 267 (10.07%) TypeScript
7 142 (5.36%) Go
8 120 (4.53%) Bash
9 110 (4.15%) Kotlin
10 78 (2.94%) C
10 78 (2.94%) Scala
11 58 (2.19%) Rust
12 51 (1.92%) PHP
13 50 (1.89%) Groovy
13 50 (1.89%) Perl
14 39 (1.47%) PowerShell
15 35 (1.32%) Ruby
16 30 (1.13%) PL/SQL
17 23 (0.87%) Shell Script
18 17 (0.64%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 495 (18.67%) Security Cleared
2 284 (10.71%) Degree
3 265 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 170 (6.41%) DV Cleared
5 163 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 105 (3.96%) AWS Certification
7 68 (2.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 31 (1.17%) Master's Degree
9 23 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
10 21 (0.79%) OSCP
11 20 (0.75%) ISTQB
12 16 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
13 15 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 15 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
13 15 (0.57%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.45%) PhD
16 11 (0.41%) CREST Certified
17 9 (0.34%) CISSP
18 8 (0.30%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (6.56%) QA
2 83 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 79 (2.98%) Accessibility
4 27 (1.02%) GDPR
4 27 (1.02%) WCAG
5 18 (0.68%) NIST
6 16 (0.60%) ISO 20022
7 15 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.38%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.30%) GRC
10 7 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.26%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 3 (0.11%) MiFID
12 3 (0.11%) MIL-STD-1553
12 3 (0.11%) PSD2
12 3 (0.11%) UCITS
13 2 (0.075%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.075%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 444 (16.75%) Docker
2 29 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (0.72%) Active Directory
4 15 (0.57%) VMware NSX
5 14 (0.53%) Firmware
6 12 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
7 11 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.41%) vSphere
8 8 (0.30%) Squid
8 8 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.19%) KVM
11 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.038%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 525 (19.80%) Kubernetes
2 144 (5.43%) Ansible
3 102 (3.85%) Grafana
4 36 (1.36%) Prometheus
5 34 (1.28%) Argo
6 31 (1.17%) Puppet
7 29 (1.09%) Kibana
8 20 (0.75%) HP Fortify
9 16 (0.60%) Packer
10 14 (0.53%) Rancher
11 12 (0.45%) logstash
12 8 (0.30%) yum
12 8 (0.30%) ZABBIX
13 7 (0.26%) vCenter Server
14 6 (0.23%) Hadoop YARN
14 6 (0.23%) Kubeflow
14 6 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
15 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (0.19%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.19%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 116 (4.38%) Microsoft
1 116 (4.38%) Oracle
2 92 (3.47%) Google
3 65 (2.45%) Splunk
4 45 (1.70%) Red Hat
5 43 (1.62%) IBM
6 33 (1.24%) VMware
7 32 (1.21%) SAP
8 30 (1.13%) AppDynamics
9 26 (0.98%) Adobe
10 25 (0.94%) Dynatrace
11 22 (0.83%) OpenAI
12 19 (0.72%) Palantir
13 18 (0.68%) Databricks
14 17 (0.64%) ServiceNow
15 14 (0.53%) Salesforce
15 14 (0.53%) SendGrid
16 13 (0.49%) Foundry
17 12 (0.45%) Solace
17 12 (0.45%) Veracode