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 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 43 34
Rank change year-on-year -25 -9 -16
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,021 2,036 4,317
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.75% 5.57% 5.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.32% 16.43% 16.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,305 1,493 3,344
10th Percentile £44,375 £41,350 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -9.38%
75th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £125,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -9.68%

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 13,196 12,389 26,434
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.94% 33.89% 33.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9,427 9,342 22,283
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,628
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,683 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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 8 April 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 8 April 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 -3 1,012 £90,000 -14.29% 325
North of England -19 455 £70,000 +7.69% 197
Yorkshire +9 212 £72,500 +3.57% 61
South East -50 203 £67,500 +3.85% 136
North West -24 193 £70,000 +4.42% 97
South West -23 174 £65,000 +4.00% 78
Midlands -66 94 £55,000 +15.79% 48
West Midlands -13 77 £55,000 +2.44% 22
North East -13 50 £53,750 -3.59% 39
East of England -92 43 £50,000 -1.48% 39
East Midlands -81 16 £49,000 +8.89% 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 44 (2.18%) Apache
2 41 (2.03%) Apache Spark
3 35 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (1.53%) Confluence
5 22 (1.09%) JBoss
6 15 (0.74%) OpenStack
7 13 (0.64%) WebSphere
8 12 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
9 9 (0.45%) Anypoint
10 6 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.25%) Camunda
11 5 (0.25%) GeoServer
11 5 (0.25%) IIS
12 4 (0.20%) Appian
12 4 (0.20%) Moodle
12 4 (0.20%) nginx
12 4 (0.20%) SharePoint
13 3 (0.15%) CICS
13 3 (0.15%) Liferay
14 2 (0.099%) CMS
Applications
1 12 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (0.54%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.099%) Windchill
6 1 (0.049%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.049%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 15 (0.74%) Maximo
2 7 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.25%) Shopify
4 3 (0.15%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.15%) SAP SD
4 3 (0.15%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.099%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.099%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.049%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.049%) Endur
6 1 (0.049%) Findur
6 1 (0.049%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.049%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.049%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.049%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.049%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.049%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.049%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.049%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 881 (43.59%) AWS
2 368 (18.21%) Azure
3 250 (12.37%) GCP
4 179 (8.86%) Serverless
5 136 (6.73%) SaaS
6 128 (6.33%) Amazon EKS
7 114 (5.64%) Amazon S3
7 114 (5.64%) AWS Lambda
8 108 (5.34%) Amazon ECS
9 107 (5.29%) AWS CloudFormation
10 92 (4.55%) GitHub
11 65 (3.22%) AWS Step Functions
12 47 (2.33%) Apigee
12 47 (2.33%) dbt
12 47 (2.33%) OpenShift
13 46 (2.28%) Amazon ECR
14 44 (2.18%) Amazon SQS
15 35 (1.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 35 (1.73%) Amazon EC2
16 31 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 49 (2.42%) Broadband
2 34 (1.68%) TCP/IP
3 24 (1.19%) HTTP
4 10 (0.49%) AMQP
5 9 (0.45%) Internet
6 6 (0.30%) BGP
6 6 (0.30%) Multicast
6 6 (0.30%) VLAN
6 6 (0.30%) VPN
7 3 (0.15%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.15%) Network Security
7 3 (0.15%) PuTTY
7 3 (0.15%) SAN
8 2 (0.099%) DHCP
8 2 (0.099%) DNS
8 2 (0.099%) Firewall
8 2 (0.099%) LAN
8 2 (0.099%) NAS
8 2 (0.099%) SNMP
8 2 (0.099%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (8.16%) NoSQL
2 155 (7.67%) PostgreSQL
3 125 (6.19%) Relational Database
4 85 (4.21%) DynamoDB
5 78 (3.86%) SQL Server
6 63 (3.12%) MongoDB
6 63 (3.12%) MySQL
7 49 (2.42%) RDBMS
8 39 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
9 35 (1.73%) DB2
10 33 (1.63%) Big Data
11 31 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
12 30 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
12 30 (1.48%) Hadoop
13 26 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
14 24 (1.19%) Neo4j
15 21 (1.04%) Redis
16 15 (0.74%) Flink
17 14 (0.69%) BigQuery
18 12 (0.59%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 173 (8.56%) Jenkins
2 160 (7.92%) Git
3 113 (5.59%) GitLab
4 108 (5.34%) Selenium
5 86 (4.26%) JIRA
6 85 (4.21%) Cucumber
7 71 (3.51%) Cypress.io
8 69 (3.41%) Maven
8 69 (3.41%) TeamCity
9 59 (2.92%) SonarQube
10 54 (2.67%) JUnit
11 46 (2.28%) Postman
12 33 (1.63%) JMeter
13 29 (1.43%) SoapUI
13 29 (1.43%) WebDriver
14 25 (1.24%) Bitbucket
15 24 (1.19%) REST Assured
16 23 (1.14%) Team Foundation Server
17 22 (1.09%) Gradle
18 19 (0.94%) Jaeger
General
1 528 (26.13%) Finance
2 384 (19.00%) Social Skills
3 252 (12.47%) Banking
4 168 (8.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 158 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
6 147 (7.27%) Public Sector
7 133 (6.58%) Law
8 115 (5.69%) Front Office
9 113 (5.59%) Retail
10 89 (4.40%) Financial Institution
11 61 (3.02%) Back Office
12 60 (2.97%) Investment Banking
13 47 (2.33%) Games
14 32 (1.58%) Telecoms
15 26 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
16 24 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
17 21 (1.04%) Manufacturing
18 19 (0.94%) Aerospace
18 19 (0.94%) Health Technology
18 19 (0.94%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 752 (37.21%) Developer
2 513 (25.38%) Software Engineer
3 506 (25.04%) Senior
4 463 (22.91%) Java Developer
5 303 (14.99%) Java Engineer
6 282 (13.95%) Lead
7 191 (9.45%) Senior Developer
8 170 (8.41%) Java Software Engineer
9 152 (7.52%) Senior Software Engineer
10 146 (7.22%) Full-Stack Developer
11 127 (6.28%) Senior Java Developer
12 116 (5.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 108 (5.34%) Senior Java Engineer
14 102 (5.05%) Software Developer
15 95 (4.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 90 (4.45%) Architect
17 88 (4.35%) Lead Software Engineer
18 58 (2.87%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 52 (2.57%) AWS Engineer
19 52 (2.57%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 416 (20.58%) Spring
2 373 (18.46%) Spring Boot
3 327 (16.18%) React
4 225 (11.13%) REST
5 200 (9.90%) AngularJS
6 191 (9.45%) Node.js
7 182 (9.01%) Kafka
8 165 (8.16%) .NET
9 137 (6.78%) RESTful
10 106 (5.24%) HTML
11 91 (4.50%) SOAP
12 85 (4.21%) Web Services
13 82 (4.06%) CSS
14 78 (3.86%) GraphQL
15 77 (3.81%) Elastic Stack
16 59 (2.92%) Hibernate
17 58 (2.87%) Gherkin
17 58 (2.87%) JSON
18 55 (2.72%) Vue
19 46 (2.28%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 256 (12.67%) Cloud Native
2 176 (8.71%) Distributed Systems
3 96 (4.75%) Product Ownership
4 57 (2.82%) Fixed Income
5 54 (2.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 53 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
7 51 (2.52%) Public Cloud
8 47 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
9 41 (2.03%) Equities
10 38 (1.88%) Blog
11 35 (1.73%) Distributed Architecture
12 34 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
13 31 (1.53%) Mobile App
14 30 (1.48%) Data Structures
14 30 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
15 27 (1.34%) Derivative
16 24 (1.19%) FPGA
16 24 (1.19%) Management Information System
16 24 (1.19%) Virtual Team
17 21 (1.04%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 192 (9.50%) Linux
2 46 (2.28%) Android
3 39 (1.93%) Unix
4 31 (1.53%) Windows
5 13 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.35%) CentOS
8 6 (0.30%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.25%) Debian
9 5 (0.25%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.20%) Windows Server
11 2 (0.099%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.099%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.049%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 750 (37.11%) Agile
2 713 (35.28%) Software Engineering
3 626 (30.97%) CI/CD
4 468 (23.16%) DevOps
5 409 (20.24%) Microservices
6 407 (20.14%) Full-Stack Development
7 353 (17.47%) Test Automation
8 331 (16.38%) Mentoring
8 331 (16.38%) Problem-Solving
9 230 (11.38%) Containerisation
10 225 (11.13%) AI
11 223 (11.03%) Continuous Improvement
12 198 (9.80%) Scrum
13 192 (9.50%) Computer Science
14 183 (9.05%) TDD
15 180 (8.91%) Roadmaps
15 180 (8.91%) Technical Leadership
16 175 (8.66%) Infrastructure as Code
17 164 (8.11%) SDLC
18 162 (8.02%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 626 (30.97%) Python
2 428 (21.18%) JavaScript
3 391 (19.35%) SQL
4 287 (14.20%) TypeScript
5 206 (10.19%) C#
6 156 (7.72%) Go
7 138 (6.83%) C++
8 117 (5.79%) Kotlin
9 98 (4.85%) Bash
10 82 (4.06%) C
11 54 (2.67%) Groovy
12 46 (2.28%) Scala
13 38 (1.88%) PHP
14 36 (1.78%) PL/SQL
15 29 (1.43%) Rust
16 22 (1.09%) Ruby
17 20 (0.99%) Apex Code
18 18 (0.89%) PowerShell
19 16 (0.79%) R
20 14 (0.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 307 (15.19%) Security Cleared
2 264 (13.06%) Degree
3 193 (9.55%) SC Cleared
4 123 (6.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 117 (5.79%) DV Cleared
6 90 (4.45%) AWS Certification
7 38 (1.88%) Master's Degree
8 36 (1.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 31 (1.53%) Azure Certification
10 27 (1.34%) ISTQB
11 24 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
12 23 (1.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 20 (0.99%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 20 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
14 19 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (0.79%) OSCP
16 15 (0.74%) CREST Certified
16 15 (0.74%) PhD
17 12 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
17 12 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (6.43%) QA
2 41 (2.03%) Accessibility
3 21 (1.04%) Data Quality
4 18 (0.89%) GDPR
4 18 (0.89%) PCI DSS
5 15 (0.74%) SOC 2
6 13 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
7 12 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.49%) GRC
9 8 (0.40%) WCAG
10 4 (0.20%) EU AI Act
10 4 (0.20%) NIST
10 4 (0.20%) SLA
11 3 (0.15%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.099%) ECSS
12 2 (0.099%) MISRA
13 1 (0.049%) MiFID
13 1 (0.049%) NCSC
13 1 (0.049%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 341 (16.87%) Docker
2 8 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.35%) Firmware
4 6 (0.30%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.15%) HDFS
6 3 (0.15%) KVM
7 2 (0.099%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.099%) vSphere
8 1 (0.049%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.049%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.049%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.049%) Squid
8 1 (0.049%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 429 (21.23%) Kubernetes
2 224 (11.08%) Terraform
3 106 (5.24%) Grafana
4 81 (4.01%) Ansible
5 45 (2.23%) Prometheus
6 42 (2.08%) HP Fortify
7 40 (1.98%) Argo
8 23 (1.14%) Kibana
9 19 (0.94%) Kustomize
10 10 (0.49%) Rancher
11 7 (0.35%) Packer
11 7 (0.35%) Puppet
12 6 (0.30%) logstash
12 6 (0.30%) yum
13 5 (0.25%) FTK
13 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (0.20%) Nagios
15 3 (0.15%) AWS Copilot
15 3 (0.15%) Progress Chef
15 3 (0.15%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 88 (4.35%) Oracle
2 68 (3.36%) Microsoft
3 61 (3.02%) Google
4 40 (1.98%) IBM
5 33 (1.63%) MuleSoft
6 32 (1.58%) Salesforce
7 22 (1.09%) SAP
8 18 (0.89%) Atlassian
8 18 (0.89%) Informatica
8 18 (0.89%) Splunk
9 17 (0.84%) Databricks
10 16 (0.79%) Foundry
11 15 (0.74%) Talend
12 13 (0.64%) Red Hat
13 12 (0.59%) AppDynamics
13 12 (0.59%) Palantir
14 11 (0.54%) OpenAI
15 9 (0.45%) Dynatrace
15 9 (0.45%) Pega
15 9 (0.45%) Workday