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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 41 23
Rank change year-on-year -34 -18 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,568 2,713 3,645
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.98% 5.43% 7.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.17% 15.93% 20.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,070 1,631 2,833
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,750 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £107,500 £112,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £135,000 £137,500 £125,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £78,785 £72,500
% change year-on-year -4.80% +8.67% -

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 10,333 17,036 18,086
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.61% 34.07% 39.33%
Number of salaries quoted 7,807 10,161 15,091
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,125 £39,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,250 £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 £106,250 £110,556 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +2.36% -2.31%

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 27 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 27 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 -13 841 £100,000 - 790
North of England -7 268 £67,500 +13.45% 494
South East -66 186 £60,000 -14.29% 487
Yorkshire +37 142 £71,250 +29.55% 192
South West -38 121 £65,000 - 238
North West -21 113 £67,500 +12.50% 249
Midlands -2 100 £57,500 +24.32% 244
West Midlands +16 77 £57,500 - 130
East of England -81 32 £38,250 -41.15% 239
East Midlands -26 23 £57,500 +64.29% 99
North East -20 15 £60,100 -1.88% 56
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 73 (4.66%) Apache
2 61 (3.89%) Apache Airflow
3 56 (3.57%) Apache Spark
4 31 (1.98%) Confluence
5 16 (1.02%) JBoss
6 13 (0.83%) OpenStack
7 12 (0.77%) IIS
8 10 (0.64%) WebSphere
9 7 (0.45%) Anypoint
10 6 (0.38%) Camunda
10 6 (0.38%) Mule
11 5 (0.32%) SharePoint
12 4 (0.26%) Appian
12 4 (0.26%) nginx
12 4 (0.26%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.19%) Luigi
13 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
13 3 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 2 (0.13%) CMS
Applications
1 12 (0.77%) MS Visio
2 9 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.19%) Simulink
5 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.13%) Windchill
6 1 (0.064%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.064%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
1 7 (0.45%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.38%) Maximo
3 5 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.32%) Shopify
4 3 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.13%) Adaptiv
5 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.064%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.064%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 729 (46.49%) AWS
2 309 (19.71%) Azure
3 180 (11.48%) GCP
4 145 (9.25%) Serverless
5 102 (6.51%) SaaS
6 99 (6.31%) Amazon EKS
7 84 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
8 81 (5.17%) GitHub
9 78 (4.97%) Amazon S3
10 75 (4.78%) Amazon ECS
11 58 (3.70%) Snowflake
12 53 (3.38%) dbt
13 45 (2.87%) Amazon EC2
13 45 (2.87%) OpenShift
14 36 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
15 33 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
16 32 (2.04%) AWS Step Functions
17 31 (1.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 30 (1.91%) Datadog
19 27 (1.72%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 31 (1.98%) TCP/IP
2 24 (1.53%) HTTP
3 13 (0.83%) AMQP
4 11 (0.70%) Firewall
5 10 (0.64%) Broadband
5 10 (0.64%) DNS
5 10 (0.64%) Internet
6 9 (0.57%) SSH
7 8 (0.51%) Multicast
7 8 (0.51%) VPN
8 7 (0.45%) FTP
8 7 (0.45%) SMTP
9 6 (0.38%) SAN
10 4 (0.26%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.26%) LAN
10 4 (0.26%) WAN
11 3 (0.19%) BGP
11 3 (0.19%) PuTTY
11 3 (0.19%) VLAN
12 2 (0.13%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (8.86%) PostgreSQL
2 127 (8.10%) Relational Database
3 105 (6.70%) NoSQL
4 96 (6.12%) SQL Server
5 72 (4.59%) MongoDB
6 59 (3.76%) Data Lake
7 56 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
8 55 (3.51%) Big Data
9 54 (3.44%) MySQL
10 51 (3.25%) Hadoop
11 49 (3.13%) DynamoDB
11 49 (3.13%) RDBMS
12 40 (2.55%) Amazon Athena
12 40 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
12 40 (2.55%) Apache Ignite
13 37 (2.36%) Apache Arrow
13 37 (2.36%) Apache Iceberg
13 37 (2.36%) Dremio
14 31 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
15 26 (1.66%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 178 (11.35%) Jenkins
2 123 (7.84%) Git
3 116 (7.40%) Selenium
4 97 (6.19%) JIRA
5 88 (5.61%) GitLab
6 67 (4.27%) JUnit
7 60 (3.83%) Cucumber
8 58 (3.70%) Cypress.io
9 56 (3.57%) Postman
10 47 (3.00%) WebDriver
11 41 (2.61%) Maven
11 41 (2.61%) SoapUI
12 37 (2.36%) TeamCity
13 36 (2.30%) Bitbucket
14 35 (2.23%) JMeter
15 32 (2.04%) Team Foundation Server
16 30 (1.91%) SonarQube
17 25 (1.59%) Mockito
18 18 (1.15%) REST Assured
19 17 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 477 (30.42%) Finance
2 434 (27.68%) Social Skills
3 238 (15.18%) Banking
4 149 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
5 127 (8.10%) Front Office
6 103 (6.57%) Investment Banking
7 98 (6.25%) Law
7 98 (6.25%) Public Sector
8 88 (5.61%) Financial Institution
9 68 (4.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 55 (3.51%) Retail
11 38 (2.42%) Marketing
12 36 (2.30%) Back Office
13 25 (1.59%) Games
14 23 (1.47%) Telecoms
15 21 (1.34%) Manufacturing
16 19 (1.21%) Aerospace
16 19 (1.21%) Billing
16 19 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
17 16 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 562 (35.84%) Developer
2 373 (23.79%) Senior
3 339 (21.62%) Software Engineer
4 287 (18.30%) Java Developer
5 200 (12.76%) Lead
6 194 (12.37%) Java Engineer
7 120 (7.65%) Java Software Engineer
8 117 (7.46%) Senior Software Engineer
9 113 (7.21%) Senior Developer
10 111 (7.08%) Full-Stack Developer
11 108 (6.89%) Architect
12 91 (5.80%) Senior Java Engineer
13 83 (5.29%) AWS Engineer
14 72 (4.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 70 (4.46%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 66 (4.21%) Senior Java Developer
17 62 (3.95%) Senior Java Software Engineer
18 49 (3.13%) Software Developer
19 45 (2.87%) Python Engineer
20 43 (2.74%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 346 (22.07%) Spring
2 290 (18.49%) React
3 284 (18.11%) Spring Boot
4 187 (11.93%) Kafka
5 182 (11.61%) REST
6 159 (10.14%) .NET
7 137 (8.74%) HTML
7 137 (8.74%) Node.js
8 129 (8.23%) AngularJS
9 128 (8.16%) RESTful
10 99 (6.31%) CSS
11 83 (5.29%) SOAP
12 69 (4.40%) Hibernate
13 54 (3.44%) Web Services
14 50 (3.19%) Elastic Stack
15 48 (3.06%) gRPC
15 48 (3.06%) Pandas
16 45 (2.87%) GraphQL
17 44 (2.81%) JSON
18 40 (2.55%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 234 (14.92%) Cloud Native
2 173 (11.03%) Distributed Systems
3 89 (5.68%) Equities
4 74 (4.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 66 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
6 65 (4.15%) Fixed Income
7 64 (4.08%) Product Ownership
8 62 (3.95%) Derivative
9 59 (3.76%) Algorithms
10 51 (3.25%) Hedge funds
11 42 (2.68%) Onboarding
12 39 (2.49%) Pricing Data
13 37 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
14 35 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
14 35 (2.23%) Management Information System
15 33 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
16 27 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
17 24 (1.53%) Data Structures
18 23 (1.47%) FPGA
18 23 (1.47%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 188 (11.99%) Linux
2 38 (2.42%) Windows
3 27 (1.72%) Unix
4 23 (1.47%) Android
5 12 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.45%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.45%) VMS
8 5 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (0.32%) CentOS
9 4 (0.26%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.19%) Debian
11 2 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.064%) AIX
12 1 (0.064%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.064%) SUSE
12 1 (0.064%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 618 (39.41%) Agile
2 487 (31.06%) CI/CD
3 481 (30.68%) Software Engineering
4 361 (23.02%) DevOps
5 359 (22.90%) Microservices
6 313 (19.96%) Problem-Solving
7 280 (17.86%) Full-Stack Development
8 265 (16.90%) Mentoring
9 239 (15.24%) Computer Science
10 236 (15.05%) Test Automation
11 212 (13.52%) Continuous Improvement
12 173 (11.03%) Scrum
13 165 (10.52%) Containerisation
14 146 (9.31%) TDD
15 144 (9.18%) AI
16 140 (8.93%) SDLC
17 134 (8.55%) Roadmaps
18 121 (7.72%) Technical Leadership
18 121 (7.72%) User Experience
19 119 (7.59%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 607 (38.71%) Python
2 400 (25.51%) JavaScript
3 346 (22.07%) SQL
4 269 (17.16%) TypeScript
5 235 (14.99%) C#
6 122 (7.78%) C++
7 118 (7.53%) Go
8 90 (5.74%) C
9 83 (5.29%) Kotlin
10 70 (4.46%) Scala
11 50 (3.19%) Bash
12 47 (3.00%) PHP
13 37 (2.36%) Groovy
14 30 (1.91%) PL/SQL
15 28 (1.79%) Shell Script
16 24 (1.53%) PowerShell
17 23 (1.47%) R
18 21 (1.34%) Perl
19 20 (1.28%) Ruby
19 20 (1.28%) Rust
Qualifications
1 310 (19.77%) Degree
2 212 (13.52%) Security Cleared
3 147 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 123 (7.84%) SC Cleared
5 79 (5.04%) DV Cleared
6 73 (4.66%) AWS Certification
6 73 (4.66%) Master's Degree
7 43 (2.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 38 (2.42%) Azure Certification
9 36 (2.30%) ISTQB
10 31 (1.98%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 28 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
12 27 (1.72%) PhD
13 25 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
14 18 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
15 13 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
16 8 (0.51%) HND
17 6 (0.38%) CREST Certified
17 6 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 6 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (6.38%) QA
2 46 (2.93%) Accessibility
3 24 (1.53%) GDPR
4 16 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (0.83%) Data Quality
6 12 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
7 9 (0.57%) ISO 9001
7 9 (0.57%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.38%) NIST
8 6 (0.38%) SLA
8 6 (0.38%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.26%) EU AI Act
9 4 (0.26%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.26%) SEPA
9 4 (0.26%) WCAG
10 3 (0.19%) NCSC
11 2 (0.13%) ECSS
11 2 (0.13%) MISRA
11 2 (0.13%) PSD2
System Software
1 275 (17.54%) Docker
2 18 (1.15%) Active Directory
2 18 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
4 9 (0.57%) HDFS
5 3 (0.19%) Firmware
5 3 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.13%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.13%) vSphere
7 1 (0.064%) DFS Replication
7 1 (0.064%) KVM
7 1 (0.064%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.064%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.064%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.064%) Squid
Systems Management
1 365 (23.28%) Kubernetes
2 101 (6.44%) Terraform
3 60 (3.83%) Ansible
4 59 (3.76%) Grafana
5 32 (2.04%) Prometheus
6 31 (1.98%) Kibana
7 26 (1.66%) Argo
8 17 (1.08%) HP Fortify
9 11 (0.70%) Progress Chef
10 8 (0.51%) Kustomize
11 7 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.38%) Control-M
13 5 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.32%) Puppet
13 5 (0.32%) Rancher
14 4 (0.26%) Nagios
15 3 (0.19%) logstash
15 3 (0.19%) yum
16 2 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 107 (6.82%) Oracle
2 80 (5.10%) Microsoft
3 70 (4.46%) Google
4 30 (1.91%) Guidewire
5 29 (1.85%) Atlassian
5 29 (1.85%) Splunk
6 25 (1.59%) Databricks
7 24 (1.53%) Informatica
7 24 (1.53%) MuleSoft
8 22 (1.40%) Talend
9 20 (1.28%) IBM
10 19 (1.21%) Dynatrace
11 18 (1.15%) SAP
12 14 (0.89%) Dell
12 14 (0.89%) Salesforce
13 13 (0.83%) Red Hat
14 11 (0.70%) Adobe
15 9 (0.57%) OpenAI
15 9 (0.57%) ServiceNow
15 9 (0.57%) Siemens