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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 30 36
Rank change year-on-year -29 +6 -14
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,473 2,864 3,843
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.57% 6.54% 5.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.81% 23.14% 17.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,584 1,288 2,616
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,025 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £135,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +3.23%

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 16,699 12,379 21,645
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.32% 28.29% 29.65%
Number of salaries quoted 12,219 8,261 15,507
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.46% -6.15%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -15 1,060 £85,000 -19.05% 453
North of England -27 692 £67,500 +0.69% 155
North West -35 312 £70,000 - 79
South West -10 281 £60,500 +0.83% 144
South East -62 212 £67,500 +3.85% 57
Yorkshire +28 205 £75,000 +15.38% 37
North East +9 175 £55,000 +22.22% 39
Midlands -60 161 £67,500 +12.50% 57
West Midlands -40 137 £69,305 +15.03% 39
East of England -69 53 £51,359 +16.73% 27
East Midlands -75 24 £60,000 +14.29% 18
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 60 (2.43%) Confluence
2 54 (2.18%) Apache
3 37 (1.50%) Apache Spark
4 23 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (0.69%) Camunda
6 15 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
7 14 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 10 (0.40%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.32%) JBoss
9 8 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
10 7 (0.28%) CICS
10 7 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 7 (0.28%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.24%) CMS
12 5 (0.20%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.16%) GeoServer
13 4 (0.16%) SAS
14 3 (0.12%) Documentum
14 3 (0.12%) SharePoint
14 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 20 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.65%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.20%) Moqups
5 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.16%) Simulink
6 2 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.081%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.081%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.081%) Windchill
7 1 (0.040%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.040%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.24%) Maximo
3 5 (0.20%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.20%) Temenos T24
4 4 (0.16%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.12%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.081%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.081%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 1 (0.040%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.040%) Endur
7 1 (0.040%) Findur
7 1 (0.040%) Infor SunSystems
7 1 (0.040%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.040%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.040%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.040%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.040%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.040%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.040%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.040%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,025 (41.45%) AWS
2 527 (21.31%) Azure
3 295 (11.93%) GCP
4 194 (7.84%) Serverless
5 158 (6.39%) AWS CloudFormation
6 150 (6.07%) GitHub
7 128 (5.18%) AWS Lambda
8 109 (4.41%) Amazon ECS
9 107 (4.33%) Amazon S3
10 102 (4.12%) SaaS
11 84 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
12 83 (3.36%) Amazon EKS
13 82 (3.32%) GitHub Actions
14 61 (2.47%) AWS Step Functions
15 41 (1.66%) Datadog
16 40 (1.62%) Amazon EC2
17 39 (1.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 38 (1.54%) OpenShift
19 35 (1.42%) Azure Service Bus
20 33 (1.33%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 39 (1.58%) HTTP
2 17 (0.69%) Network Security
3 16 (0.65%) Broadband
3 16 (0.65%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.53%) DMARC
5 9 (0.36%) MQTT
5 9 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
6 8 (0.32%) DNS
6 8 (0.32%) IPv4
6 8 (0.32%) VPN
7 6 (0.24%) AMQP
7 6 (0.24%) BGP
7 6 (0.24%) IPsec
8 5 (0.20%) Ethernet
8 5 (0.20%) Firewall
8 5 (0.20%) Internet
8 5 (0.20%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.16%) Wireshark
10 3 (0.12%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.12%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (6.63%) NoSQL
2 162 (6.55%) PostgreSQL
3 123 (4.97%) Relational Database
4 122 (4.93%) MongoDB
5 80 (3.23%) MySQL
6 79 (3.19%) DynamoDB
7 77 (3.11%) SQL Server
8 40 (1.62%) Big Data
9 38 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
10 27 (1.09%) Db2
10 27 (1.09%) Redis
11 24 (0.97%) Hadoop
12 22 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
12 22 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
13 18 (0.73%) BigQuery
14 17 (0.69%) Data Lake
14 17 (0.69%) Power BI
15 16 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
16 15 (0.61%) Flink
17 13 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 283 (11.44%) Git
2 208 (8.41%) Jenkins
3 183 (7.40%) GitLab
4 97 (3.92%) JUnit
5 96 (3.88%) JIRA
6 90 (3.64%) Cucumber
7 74 (2.99%) Maven
8 73 (2.95%) Selenium
9 62 (2.51%) Cypress.io
10 46 (1.86%) Postman
10 46 (1.86%) SonarQube
11 44 (1.78%) Eclipse
12 41 (1.66%) TeamCity
13 40 (1.62%) JMeter
13 40 (1.62%) Mockito
14 36 (1.46%) Subversion
15 35 (1.42%) Bitbucket
16 25 (1.01%) Claude Code
17 23 (0.93%) REST Assured
18 18 (0.73%) Gradle
General
1 670 (27.09%) Finance
2 417 (16.86%) Social Skills
3 256 (10.35%) Public Sector
4 228 (9.22%) Banking
5 179 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
6 124 (5.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 89 (3.60%) Law
8 85 (3.44%) Front Office
9 70 (2.83%) Retail
10 62 (2.51%) Financial Institution
11 38 (1.54%) Investment Banking
12 37 (1.50%) Marketing
13 32 (1.29%) Legal
14 31 (1.25%) Manufacturing
15 30 (1.21%) Health Technology
16 29 (1.17%) Back Office
17 22 (0.89%) Aerospace
18 20 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
19 18 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
19 18 (0.73%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 811 (32.79%) Developer
2 631 (25.52%) Senior
3 567 (22.93%) Software Engineer
4 537 (21.71%) Java Developer
5 435 (17.59%) Java Engineer
6 352 (14.23%) Lead
7 211 (8.53%) Senior Developer
8 199 (8.05%) Senior Software Engineer
9 150 (6.07%) Java Software Engineer
10 145 (5.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 144 (5.82%) Senior Java Engineer
12 132 (5.34%) Full-Stack Developer
12 132 (5.34%) Senior Java Developer
13 123 (4.97%) Software Developer
14 111 (4.49%) Lead Software Engineer
15 86 (3.48%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 84 (3.40%) Principal Engineer
17 78 (3.15%) Architect
17 78 (3.15%) DevOps Engineer
18 72 (2.91%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 583 (23.57%) Spring
2 479 (19.37%) Spring Boot
3 283 (11.44%) Terraform
4 269 (10.88%) React
5 264 (10.68%) Kafka
6 246 (9.95%) REST
7 226 (9.14%) AngularJS
8 210 (8.49%) Node.js
9 195 (7.89%) RESTful
10 173 (7.00%) .NET
11 86 (3.48%) Web Services
12 74 (2.99%) CSS
13 68 (2.75%) HTML
14 60 (2.43%) Vue
15 57 (2.30%) RabbitMQ
16 55 (2.22%) OAuth
17 54 (2.18%) Hibernate
18 52 (2.10%) Playwright
19 48 (1.94%) Jakarta EE
20 42 (1.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 314 (12.70%) Cloud Native
2 255 (10.31%) Distributed Systems
3 165 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 118 (4.77%) Public Cloud
5 75 (3.03%) Onboarding
6 64 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
7 58 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
8 50 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 45 (1.82%) Distributed Architecture
10 42 (1.70%) Virtual Team
11 41 (1.66%) Data Structures
11 41 (1.66%) e-Learning
12 36 (1.46%) Algorithms
13 34 (1.37%) Mobile App
14 33 (1.33%) Equities
14 33 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
15 32 (1.29%) Fixed Income
16 30 (1.21%) AI Agents
17 24 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
17 24 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 222 (8.98%) Linux
2 70 (2.83%) Windows
3 38 (1.54%) Unix
4 37 (1.50%) Android
5 20 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (0.77%) Apple iOS
7 17 (0.69%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.24%) CentOS
9 5 (0.20%) Debian
9 5 (0.20%) Kali Linux
9 5 (0.20%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.12%) VMS
10 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.081%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.040%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 890 (35.99%) Software Engineering
2 824 (33.32%) CI/CD
3 803 (32.47%) Agile
4 597 (24.14%) Microservices
5 582 (23.53%) DevOps
6 498 (20.14%) Test Automation
7 468 (18.92%) Full-Stack Development
8 438 (17.71%) Mentoring
9 424 (17.15%) Problem-Solving
10 372 (15.04%) AI
11 319 (12.90%) Containerisation
12 303 (12.25%) Infrastructure as Code
13 293 (11.85%) Continuous Improvement
14 251 (10.15%) Technical Leadership
15 245 (9.91%) Event-Driven
16 242 (9.79%) Roadmaps
17 238 (9.62%) TDD
18 230 (9.30%) Computer Science
19 223 (9.02%) Scrum
20 220 (8.90%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 820 (33.16%) Python
2 464 (18.76%) SQL
3 428 (17.31%) JavaScript
4 267 (10.80%) C#
5 251 (10.15%) TypeScript
6 245 (9.91%) C++
7 131 (5.30%) Go
8 112 (4.53%) Bash
9 109 (4.41%) Kotlin
10 77 (3.11%) C
11 72 (2.91%) Scala
12 60 (2.43%) PHP
13 58 (2.35%) Rust
14 53 (2.14%) Groovy
15 51 (2.06%) Perl
16 40 (1.62%) PowerShell
17 38 (1.54%) Ruby
18 33 (1.33%) PL/SQL
19 19 (0.77%) Shell Script
20 15 (0.61%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 459 (18.56%) Security Cleared
2 280 (11.32%) Degree
3 249 (10.07%) SC Cleared
4 162 (6.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 160 (6.47%) DV Cleared
6 98 (3.96%) AWS Certification
7 60 (2.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 27 (1.09%) Master's Degree
9 20 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (0.77%) ISTQB
10 19 (0.77%) OSCP
11 17 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 17 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
12 13 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (0.49%) DBS Check
14 11 (0.44%) CREST Certified
15 8 (0.32%) CCNA
15 8 (0.32%) PhD
15 8 (0.32%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (6.63%) QA
2 83 (3.36%) Accessibility
3 66 (2.67%) Data Quality
4 29 (1.17%) WCAG
5 22 (0.89%) GDPR
6 15 (0.61%) NIST
7 14 (0.57%) GRC
8 12 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 10 (0.40%) ISO 20022
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 (0.081%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 412 (16.66%) Docker
2 26 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (0.85%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.49%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.44%) vSphere
6 10 (0.40%) Firmware
7 8 (0.32%) Squid
7 8 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
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 (0.081%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 461 (18.64%) Kubernetes
2 129 (5.22%) Ansible
3 87 (3.52%) Grafana
4 32 (1.29%) Prometheus
5 29 (1.17%) Argo
6 27 (1.09%) Kibana
7 22 (0.89%) HP Fortify
7 22 (0.89%) Puppet
8 12 (0.49%) Packer
9 10 (0.40%) logstash
9 10 (0.40%) Rancher
10 8 (0.32%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.24%) Hadoop YARN
11 6 (0.24%) Kubeflow
11 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.20%) Red Hat Satellite
12 5 (0.20%) yum
13 4 (0.16%) Control-M
13 4 (0.16%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 113 (4.57%) Oracle
2 105 (4.25%) Microsoft
3 80 (3.23%) Google
4 62 (2.51%) Splunk
5 45 (1.82%) IBM
6 36 (1.46%) Red Hat
7 34 (1.37%) SAP
8 30 (1.21%) VMware
9 28 (1.13%) AppDynamics
10 24 (0.97%) Adobe
10 24 (0.97%) Dynatrace
10 24 (0.97%) Palantir
11 21 (0.85%) OpenAI
12 20 (0.81%) ServiceNow
13 16 (0.65%) Databricks
14 15 (0.61%) Foundry
14 15 (0.61%) Salesforce
15 13 (0.53%) SendGrid
16 12 (0.49%) Bloomberg
16 12 (0.49%) Solace