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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 34 23
Rank change year-on-year -35 -11 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,618 3,182 3,739
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.44% 5.48% 8.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.86% 16.61% 20.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,075 1,956 2,964
10th Percentile £43,000 £41,306 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,235 £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 £113,750 £113,984 £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 10,203 19,160 18,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 21.69% 32.97% 41.10%
Number of salaries quoted 7,625 11,526 15,448
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £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 1 December 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 1 December 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 -11 930 £102,500 +2.50% 293
North of England -2 260 £65,000 +8.33% 74
South East -87 165 £62,500 -2.34% 264
North West -13 120 £67,500 +12.50% 46
Yorkshire +28 119 £67,500 +22.73% 19
South West -44 112 £65,000 +1.96% 103
Midlands +20 107 £60,000 +50.00% 55
West Midlands +28 81 £62,500 +17.72% 34
East of England -81 35 £31,500 -53.33% 43
East Midlands +6 26 £57,500 +64.29% 19
North East -9 23 £55,000 -6.75% 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 86 (5.32%) Apache
2 82 (5.07%) Apache Airflow
3 53 (3.28%) Apache Spark
4 36 (2.22%) Confluence
5 15 (0.93%) JBoss
6 9 (0.56%) WebSphere
7 8 (0.49%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.43%) IIS
9 6 (0.37%) Anypoint
9 6 (0.37%) Mule
9 6 (0.37%) nginx
10 5 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
10 5 (0.31%) Camunda
10 5 (0.31%) SharePoint
11 4 (0.25%) Appian
12 3 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.19%) Luigi
12 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 7 (0.43%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.19%) Simulink
5 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.062%) Trello
6 1 (0.062%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (0.49%) Dynamics NAV
1 8 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.43%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.31%) Maximo
3 5 (0.31%) Shopify
4 4 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.19%) Adaptiv
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.062%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.062%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.062%) Summit
7 1 (0.062%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 788 (48.70%) AWS
2 327 (20.21%) Azure
3 203 (12.55%) GCP
4 140 (8.65%) Serverless
5 100 (6.18%) Amazon EKS
6 92 (5.69%) SaaS
7 88 (5.44%) GitHub
8 80 (4.94%) AWS Lambda
9 73 (4.51%) Amazon S3
10 72 (4.45%) Amazon ECS
11 71 (4.39%) dbt
12 68 (4.20%) Amazon EC2
13 67 (4.14%) Snowflake
14 42 (2.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 40 (2.47%) OpenShift
16 38 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
17 30 (1.85%) Datadog
18 25 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
19 23 (1.42%) Amazon Kinesis
20 21 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 33 (2.04%) TCP/IP
2 27 (1.67%) HTTP
3 19 (1.17%) DNS
4 18 (1.11%) Firewall
5 16 (0.99%) SSH
6 14 (0.87%) FTP
6 14 (0.87%) SMTP
7 11 (0.68%) AMQP
8 10 (0.62%) VPN
9 9 (0.56%) Internet
9 9 (0.56%) Multicast
10 7 (0.43%) SAN
11 4 (0.25%) Broadband
11 4 (0.25%) DHCP
11 4 (0.25%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.25%) LAN
11 4 (0.25%) WAN
12 3 (0.19%) BGP
12 3 (0.19%) PuTTY
12 3 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (9.27%) PostgreSQL
2 138 (8.53%) Relational Database
3 103 (6.37%) NoSQL
4 94 (5.81%) SQL Server
5 78 (4.82%) Data Lake
6 77 (4.76%) MongoDB
7 65 (4.02%) MySQL
8 60 (3.71%) Amazon Athena
9 59 (3.65%) Apache Iceberg
10 57 (3.52%) Apache Arrow
10 57 (3.52%) Dremio
11 56 (3.46%) Apache Ignite
12 53 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
13 50 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
13 50 (3.09%) Big Data
14 44 (2.72%) RDBMS
15 41 (2.53%) DynamoDB
15 41 (2.53%) Hadoop
16 30 (1.85%) BigQuery
17 25 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 175 (10.82%) Jenkins
2 136 (8.41%) Git
3 99 (6.12%) Selenium
4 89 (5.50%) JIRA
5 77 (4.76%) GitLab
6 72 (4.45%) JUnit
7 57 (3.52%) Cucumber
8 44 (2.72%) Cypress.io
9 40 (2.47%) JMeter
9 40 (2.47%) Postman
10 34 (2.10%) Mockito
11 33 (2.04%) Maven
11 33 (2.04%) TeamCity
11 33 (2.04%) WebDriver
12 32 (1.98%) Bitbucket
13 26 (1.61%) SoapUI
14 24 (1.48%) SonarQube
15 20 (1.24%) Sonatype Nexus
16 18 (1.11%) Team Foundation Server
17 15 (0.93%) REST Assured
General
1 606 (37.45%) Finance
2 447 (27.63%) Social Skills
3 306 (18.91%) Banking
4 183 (11.31%) Law
5 167 (10.32%) Front Office
6 153 (9.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 147 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
8 132 (8.16%) Investment Banking
9 106 (6.55%) Public Sector
10 99 (6.12%) Financial Institution
11 55 (3.40%) Marketing
12 51 (3.15%) Retail
13 34 (2.10%) Back Office
14 32 (1.98%) Games
15 23 (1.42%) Legal
16 19 (1.17%) Manufacturing
16 19 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (1.11%) Billing
18 16 (0.99%) Aerospace
19 15 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 557 (34.43%) Developer
2 440 (27.19%) Software Engineer
3 396 (24.47%) Senior
4 267 (16.50%) Java Developer
5 242 (14.96%) Java Engineer
6 237 (14.65%) Lead
7 169 (10.44%) Java Software Engineer
8 151 (9.33%) Senior Software Engineer
9 109 (6.74%) Senior Java Engineer
10 105 (6.49%) AWS Engineer
11 101 (6.24%) Full-Stack Developer
12 100 (6.18%) Architect
13 97 (6.00%) Senior Developer
14 91 (5.62%) Lead Software Engineer
15 80 (4.94%) Senior Java Software Engineer
16 79 (4.88%) Python Engineer
17 71 (4.39%) Python Software Engineer
18 67 (4.14%) AWS Software Engineer
19 65 (4.02%) Full-Stack Java Developer
20 61 (3.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 354 (21.88%) Spring
2 308 (19.04%) React
3 279 (17.24%) Spring Boot
4 233 (14.40%) Kafka
5 167 (10.32%) REST
6 158 (9.77%) .NET
7 151 (9.33%) RESTful
8 146 (9.02%) Node.js
9 122 (7.54%) HTML
10 117 (7.23%) AngularJS
11 98 (6.06%) CSS
12 77 (4.76%) Hibernate
13 69 (4.26%) Pandas
14 65 (4.02%) gRPC
15 64 (3.96%) SOAP
16 60 (3.71%) GraphQL
17 58 (3.58%) Web Services
18 57 (3.52%) NumPy
18 57 (3.52%) SciPy
19 56 (3.46%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 282 (17.43%) Cloud Native
2 183 (11.31%) Distributed Systems
3 113 (6.98%) Equities
4 106 (6.55%) Fixed Income
5 101 (6.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 88 (5.44%) Derivative
7 71 (4.39%) Algorithms
8 69 (4.26%) Hedge funds
9 65 (4.02%) Self-Motivation
10 57 (3.52%) Product Ownership
11 55 (3.40%) Pricing Data
12 54 (3.34%) Onboarding
13 46 (2.84%) Greenfield Project
13 46 (2.84%) Public Cloud
14 38 (2.35%) Management Information System
15 34 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
15 34 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
16 29 (1.79%) Data Structures
17 24 (1.48%) Virtual Team
18 23 (1.42%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 191 (11.80%) Linux
2 42 (2.60%) Windows
3 23 (1.42%) Unix
4 21 (1.30%) Android
5 14 (0.87%) VMS
6 12 (0.74%) Amazon Linux
6 12 (0.74%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.43%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.25%) CentOS
9 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.12%) Debian
10 2 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.062%) AIX
11 1 (0.062%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.062%) SUSE
11 1 (0.062%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 716 (44.25%) Agile
2 593 (36.65%) Software Engineering
3 526 (32.51%) CI/CD
4 386 (23.86%) Microservices
5 349 (21.57%) DevOps
6 339 (20.95%) Problem-Solving
7 253 (15.64%) Full-Stack Development
8 247 (15.27%) Test Automation
9 246 (15.20%) Mentoring
10 242 (14.96%) Computer Science
11 236 (14.59%) Continuous Improvement
12 198 (12.24%) SDLC
13 162 (10.01%) AI
13 162 (10.01%) Containerisation
14 160 (9.89%) TDD
15 159 (9.83%) Scrum
16 144 (8.90%) Fintech
17 130 (8.03%) Clean Code
18 121 (7.48%) Roadmaps
19 118 (7.29%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 663 (40.98%) Python
2 407 (25.15%) JavaScript
3 350 (21.63%) SQL
4 292 (18.05%) TypeScript
5 233 (14.40%) C#
6 155 (9.58%) C++
7 134 (8.28%) Go
8 103 (6.37%) Kotlin
9 91 (5.62%) C
10 68 (4.20%) Scala
11 51 (3.15%) PHP
12 38 (2.35%) Groovy
13 37 (2.29%) Bash
13 37 (2.29%) Shell Script
14 34 (2.10%) PowerShell
15 33 (2.04%) PL/SQL
16 26 (1.61%) Perl
17 25 (1.55%) Rust
18 22 (1.36%) Ruby
19 18 (1.11%) R
Qualifications
1 288 (17.80%) Degree
2 208 (12.86%) Security Cleared
3 141 (8.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 131 (8.10%) SC Cleared
5 76 (4.70%) AWS Certification
6 66 (4.08%) Master's Degree
7 61 (3.77%) DV Cleared
8 44 (2.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 38 (2.35%) Azure Certification
10 30 (1.85%) PhD
11 24 (1.48%) ISTQB
12 21 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
13 19 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
13 19 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
14 18 (1.11%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 11 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
16 8 (0.49%) HND
17 5 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 4 (0.25%) OSCE
18 4 (0.25%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (6.12%) QA
2 46 (2.84%) Accessibility
3 28 (1.73%) GDPR
4 17 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (0.68%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.68%) PCI DSS
6 10 (0.62%) ISO 9001
7 9 (0.56%) NIST
8 7 (0.43%) HIPAA
8 7 (0.43%) SLA
9 6 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.25%) EU AI Act
10 4 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.25%) SEPA
10 4 (0.25%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.25%) WCAG
11 3 (0.19%) NCSC
12 2 (0.12%) ITGC
12 2 (0.12%) PSD2
System Software
1 273 (16.87%) Docker
2 25 (1.55%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
5 11 (0.68%) HDFS
6 4 (0.25%) DFS Replication
6 4 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.19%) vSphere
8 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
8 2 (0.12%) Firmware
8 2 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.062%) KVM
9 1 (0.062%) Squid
Systems Management
1 397 (24.54%) Kubernetes
2 117 (7.23%) Terraform
3 67 (4.14%) Grafana
4 50 (3.09%) Ansible
5 39 (2.41%) Kibana
6 36 (2.22%) Prometheus
7 21 (1.30%) Argo
8 12 (0.74%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.43%) Control-M
10 7 (0.43%) HP Fortify
11 6 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.31%) logstash
12 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.25%) Nagios
13 4 (0.25%) Puppet
14 3 (0.19%) Rancher
15 2 (0.12%) Kustomize
15 2 (0.12%) WSUS
15 2 (0.12%) yum
Vendors
1 111 (6.86%) Oracle
2 86 (5.32%) Microsoft
3 74 (4.57%) Google
4 35 (2.16%) Guidewire
5 32 (1.98%) Splunk
6 28 (1.73%) Atlassian
7 25 (1.55%) Dynatrace
8 24 (1.48%) Databricks
8 24 (1.48%) MuleSoft
9 22 (1.36%) SAP
10 18 (1.11%) Informatica
11 17 (1.05%) IBM
11 17 (1.05%) ServiceNow
12 14 (0.87%) Dell
12 14 (0.87%) Talend
13 13 (0.80%) Red Hat
14 11 (0.68%) Adobe
14 11 (0.68%) Salesforce
15 10 (0.62%) Foundry
15 10 (0.62%) Solace