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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 30 30
Rank change year-on-year -28 0 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,530 2,790 3,814
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.53% 6.42% 5.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.04% 23.51% 18.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,619 1,219 2,456
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 £100,350 £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 16,823 11,869 21,049
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.79% 27.31% 30.43%
Number of salaries quoted 12,332 7,839 13,864
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +1.60% -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 11 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 11 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 -12 1,066 £85,000 -19.05% 1,005
North of England -26 713 £67,500 - 200
North West -34 337 £70,000 - 113
South West 0 291 £63,500 +5.83% 140
South East -62 215 £67,500 +3.85% 149
Yorkshire +22 195 £75,000 +13.21% 50
North East +13 181 £55,000 +15.79% 37
Midlands -60 175 £62,500 +4.17% 86
West Midlands -37 148 £67,500 +12.50% 60
East of England -72 54 £57,500 +27.78% 49
East Midlands -87 27 £60,000 +4.35% 26
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 (2.45%) Confluence
2 56 (2.21%) Apache
3 37 (1.46%) Apache Spark
4 23 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (0.67%) Camunda
6 14 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 14 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
7 10 (0.40%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.28%) JBoss
9 7 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.28%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.24%) CMS
11 5 (0.20%) CICS
11 5 (0.20%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.16%) SAS
13 3 (0.12%) Documentum
13 3 (0.12%) SharePoint
13 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.59%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.28%) Simulink
4 5 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.20%) Moqups
5 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (0.12%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.079%) PTC Creo
7 2 (0.079%) Windchill
8 1 (0.040%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.040%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.20%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.20%) Temenos T24
3 4 (0.16%) Maximo
3 4 (0.16%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.079%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.079%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 1 (0.040%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.040%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.040%) Endur
5 1 (0.040%) Findur
5 1 (0.040%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.040%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.040%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.040%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.040%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,042 (41.19%) AWS
2 532 (21.03%) Azure
3 298 (11.78%) GCP
4 209 (8.26%) Serverless
5 162 (6.40%) AWS CloudFormation
6 156 (6.17%) GitHub
7 140 (5.53%) AWS Lambda
8 110 (4.35%) Amazon S3
9 109 (4.31%) Amazon ECS
10 96 (3.79%) SaaS
11 90 (3.56%) Amazon EKS
12 88 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
13 82 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
14 62 (2.45%) AWS Step Functions
15 50 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
16 40 (1.58%) Datadog
17 38 (1.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 37 (1.46%) OpenShift
19 36 (1.42%) Azure Service Bus
20 35 (1.38%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 41 (1.62%) HTTP
2 17 (0.67%) Network Security
3 14 (0.55%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.51%) DMARC
5 10 (0.40%) Broadband
6 9 (0.36%) DNS
6 9 (0.36%) IPv4
6 9 (0.36%) MQTT
6 9 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
7 8 (0.32%) VPN
8 7 (0.28%) AMQP
8 7 (0.28%) BGP
8 7 (0.28%) Wireshark
9 6 (0.24%) IPsec
10 5 (0.20%) Ethernet
10 5 (0.20%) Firewall
10 5 (0.20%) Internet
10 5 (0.20%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.16%) RIP
12 3 (0.12%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (6.52%) NoSQL
2 163 (6.44%) PostgreSQL
3 125 (4.94%) MongoDB
4 123 (4.86%) Relational Database
5 76 (3.00%) DynamoDB
5 76 (3.00%) MySQL
6 74 (2.92%) SQL Server
7 46 (1.82%) Big Data
8 39 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
9 29 (1.15%) Redis
10 24 (0.95%) Hadoop
11 23 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
12 22 (0.87%) Data Lake
12 22 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
12 22 (0.87%) Db2
13 21 (0.83%) Power BI
14 18 (0.71%) BigQuery
15 17 (0.67%) Spark SQL
16 16 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
17 15 (0.59%) Flink
Development Applications
1 287 (11.34%) Git
2 211 (8.34%) Jenkins
3 195 (7.71%) GitLab
4 99 (3.91%) JIRA
4 99 (3.91%) JUnit
5 93 (3.68%) Cucumber
6 75 (2.96%) Maven
7 70 (2.77%) Selenium
8 61 (2.41%) Cypress.io
9 47 (1.86%) Postman
10 45 (1.78%) SonarQube
11 44 (1.74%) Eclipse
11 44 (1.74%) TeamCity
12 40 (1.58%) Mockito
13 38 (1.50%) JMeter
13 38 (1.50%) Subversion
14 35 (1.38%) Bitbucket
15 23 (0.91%) Claude Code
16 22 (0.87%) REST Assured
17 18 (0.71%) Gatling
General
1 664 (26.25%) Finance
2 432 (17.08%) Social Skills
3 257 (10.16%) Public Sector
4 251 (9.92%) Banking
5 192 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
6 122 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 99 (3.91%) Law
8 77 (3.04%) Retail
9 70 (2.77%) Front Office
10 65 (2.57%) Financial Institution
11 38 (1.50%) Manufacturing
12 37 (1.46%) Marketing
13 36 (1.42%) Legal
14 34 (1.34%) Investment Banking
15 30 (1.19%) Back Office
16 29 (1.15%) Health Technology
17 23 (0.91%) Aerospace
18 20 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
19 19 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
19 19 (0.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 793 (31.34%) Developer
2 646 (25.53%) Senior
3 571 (22.57%) Software Engineer
4 520 (20.55%) Java Developer
5 481 (19.01%) Java Engineer
6 349 (13.79%) Lead
7 218 (8.62%) Senior Developer
8 193 (7.63%) Senior Software Engineer
9 162 (6.40%) Senior Java Engineer
10 161 (6.36%) Java Software Engineer
11 151 (5.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 137 (5.42%) Senior Java Developer
13 128 (5.06%) Full-Stack Developer
13 128 (5.06%) Software Developer
14 108 (4.27%) Lead Software Engineer
15 84 (3.32%) Principal Engineer
16 82 (3.24%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 81 (3.20%) Architect
17 81 (3.20%) DevOps Engineer
18 76 (3.00%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 602 (23.79%) Spring
2 494 (19.53%) Spring Boot
3 293 (11.58%) Terraform
4 268 (10.59%) Kafka
5 265 (10.47%) React
6 255 (10.08%) REST
7 221 (8.74%) AngularJS
8 197 (7.79%) Node.js
9 190 (7.51%) RESTful
10 174 (6.88%) .NET
11 81 (3.20%) Web Services
12 68 (2.69%) CSS
13 64 (2.53%) HTML
14 59 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
14 59 (2.33%) Vue
15 57 (2.25%) OAuth
16 55 (2.17%) Hibernate
17 51 (2.02%) Playwright
18 46 (1.82%) JSON
19 45 (1.78%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 333 (13.16%) Cloud Native
2 257 (10.16%) Distributed Systems
3 168 (6.64%) Product Ownership
4 129 (5.10%) Public Cloud
5 75 (2.96%) Onboarding
6 62 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
7 58 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
8 48 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
9 45 (1.78%) e-Learning
10 44 (1.74%) Virtual Team
11 43 (1.70%) Data Structures
12 40 (1.58%) Algorithms
13 39 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 34 (1.34%) Mobile App
15 31 (1.23%) Equities
16 30 (1.19%) AI Agents
16 30 (1.19%) Blog
17 27 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
18 25 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
19 22 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 220 (8.70%) Linux
2 67 (2.65%) Windows
3 37 (1.46%) Unix
4 36 (1.42%) Android
5 24 (0.95%) Apple iOS
6 21 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (0.59%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.28%) CentOS
9 6 (0.24%) Debian
9 6 (0.24%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.16%) Kali Linux
10 4 (0.16%) VMS
11 3 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.079%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.040%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 914 (36.13%) Software Engineering
2 844 (33.36%) CI/CD
3 803 (31.74%) Agile
4 609 (24.07%) Microservices
5 579 (22.89%) DevOps
6 502 (19.84%) Test Automation
7 478 (18.89%) Full-Stack Development
8 464 (18.34%) Mentoring
9 442 (17.47%) Problem-Solving
10 384 (15.18%) AI
11 321 (12.69%) Containerisation
12 310 (12.25%) Infrastructure as Code
13 306 (12.09%) Continuous Improvement
14 272 (10.75%) Event-Driven
15 252 (9.96%) Roadmaps
16 250 (9.88%) Technical Leadership
17 237 (9.37%) Computer Science
18 236 (9.33%) TDD
19 231 (9.13%) SDLC
20 229 (9.05%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 809 (31.98%) Python
2 480 (18.97%) SQL
3 429 (16.96%) JavaScript
4 273 (10.79%) C#
5 262 (10.36%) C++
6 247 (9.76%) TypeScript
7 126 (4.98%) Go
8 114 (4.51%) Bash
9 103 (4.07%) Kotlin
10 78 (3.08%) C
11 74 (2.92%) Scala
12 57 (2.25%) Rust
13 56 (2.21%) PHP
14 52 (2.06%) Groovy
15 51 (2.02%) Perl
16 37 (1.46%) PowerShell
16 37 (1.46%) Ruby
17 30 (1.19%) PL/SQL
18 21 (0.83%) Shell Script
19 17 (0.67%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 473 (18.70%) Security Cleared
2 286 (11.30%) Degree
3 258 (10.20%) SC Cleared
4 164 (6.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 162 (6.40%) DV Cleared
6 100 (3.95%) AWS Certification
7 64 (2.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 28 (1.11%) Master's Degree
9 24 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (0.79%) ISTQB
11 19 (0.75%) OSCP
12 16 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
13 15 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 14 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (0.51%) DBS Check
15 13 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
16 11 (0.43%) CREST Certified
17 9 (0.36%) PhD
18 8 (0.32%) CCNA
18 8 (0.32%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (6.68%) QA
2 85 (3.36%) Accessibility
3 81 (3.20%) Data Quality
4 26 (1.03%) WCAG
5 23 (0.91%) GDPR
6 15 (0.59%) ISO 20022
7 13 (0.51%) NIST
8 12 (0.47%) GRC
9 10 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 7 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.20%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 14443
12 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 4 (0.16%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.12%) MiFID
13 3 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
13 3 (0.12%) PSD2
13 3 (0.12%) UCITS
14 2 (0.079%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 415 (16.40%) Docker
2 26 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (0.75%) Active Directory
4 13 (0.51%) Firmware
5 12 (0.47%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.43%) vSphere
7 10 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
8 8 (0.32%) Squid
8 8 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.20%) KVM
11 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.079%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 467 (18.46%) Kubernetes
2 134 (5.30%) Ansible
3 87 (3.44%) Grafana
4 32 (1.26%) Prometheus
5 31 (1.23%) Argo
6 29 (1.15%) Kibana
7 26 (1.03%) Puppet
8 20 (0.79%) HP Fortify
9 14 (0.55%) Packer
10 12 (0.47%) Rancher
11 11 (0.43%) logstash
12 8 (0.32%) ZABBIX
13 7 (0.28%) yum
14 6 (0.24%) Hadoop YARN
14 6 (0.24%) Kubeflow
15 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (0.20%) Red Hat Satellite
16 4 (0.16%) Control-M
16 4 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
16 4 (0.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 113 (4.47%) Oracle
2 108 (4.27%) Microsoft
3 84 (3.32%) Google
4 61 (2.41%) Splunk
5 43 (1.70%) IBM
6 40 (1.58%) Red Hat
7 32 (1.26%) SAP
8 30 (1.19%) VMware
9 29 (1.15%) AppDynamics
10 25 (0.99%) Adobe
10 25 (0.99%) Dynatrace
11 23 (0.91%) Palantir
12 21 (0.83%) OpenAI
13 18 (0.71%) ServiceNow
14 17 (0.67%) Databricks
15 14 (0.55%) Foundry
16 13 (0.51%) Salesforce
16 13 (0.51%) SendGrid
17 12 (0.47%) Bloomberg
18 11 (0.43%) Apple