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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 27 32
Rank change year-on-year -31 +5 -12
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,332 3,078 4,744
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.72% 7.31% 5.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.80% 23.72% 16.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,532 1,479 3,530
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £73,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +2.04% -5.16%

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 15,758 12,979 28,267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.35% 30.84% 30.69%
Number of salaries quoted 11,434 8,788 22,444
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £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 £85,000 £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 4 July 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 4 July 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 1,047 £85,000 -19.05% 530
North of England -24 656 £69,305 +2.67% 180
North West -38 292 £70,000 - 102
Yorkshire +28 228 £72,500 +3.57% 52
South West -24 216 £60,000 -4.00% 98
South East -47 213 £70,000 +7.69% 137
North East +6 136 £53,750 +19.44% 27
Midlands -95 111 £62,500 +8.23% 67
West Midlands -65 91 £67,500 +12.50% 42
East of England -61 57 £51,359 +16.73% 35
East Midlands -80 19 £60,000 +26.32% 25
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 48 (2.06%) Confluence
2 46 (1.97%) Apache
3 36 (1.54%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
6 12 (0.51%) JBoss
7 9 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.34%) Camunda
8 8 (0.34%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
9 5 (0.21%) CMS
9 5 (0.21%) GeoServer
9 5 (0.21%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.17%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.13%) CICS
11 3 (0.13%) SAS
11 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.086%) Documentum
Applications
1 15 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.56%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.086%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.086%) PTC Creo
5 2 (0.086%) Windchill
6 1 (0.043%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 14 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.47%) Maximo
3 5 (0.21%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.21%) Temenos T24
4 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.086%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.043%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.043%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.043%) Endur
6 1 (0.043%) Findur
6 1 (0.043%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.043%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 971 (41.64%) AWS
2 463 (19.85%) Azure
3 295 (12.65%) GCP
4 196 (8.40%) Serverless
5 151 (6.48%) AWS CloudFormation
6 124 (5.32%) AWS Lambda
7 118 (5.06%) Amazon S3
8 115 (4.93%) Amazon ECS
9 112 (4.80%) SaaS
10 111 (4.76%) GitHub
11 106 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
12 72 (3.09%) AWS Step Functions
13 65 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
14 53 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
15 46 (1.97%) Amazon ECR
16 43 (1.84%) Apigee
17 42 (1.80%) Amazon SQS
18 36 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 36 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
18 36 (1.54%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 44 (1.89%) Broadband
2 32 (1.37%) HTTP
3 24 (1.03%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.56%) DMARC
5 11 (0.47%) Network Security
6 8 (0.34%) IPv4
6 8 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
7 7 (0.30%) AMQP
7 7 (0.30%) MQTT
8 6 (0.26%) BGP
8 6 (0.26%) VPN
9 4 (0.17%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.13%) DNS
10 3 (0.13%) Firewall
10 3 (0.13%) Internet
10 3 (0.13%) IPsec
10 3 (0.13%) VLAN
11 2 (0.086%) Ethernet
11 2 (0.086%) LAN
11 2 (0.086%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (7.59%) NoSQL
2 172 (7.38%) PostgreSQL
3 114 (4.89%) MongoDB
4 107 (4.59%) Relational Database
5 88 (3.77%) DynamoDB
6 83 (3.56%) MySQL
7 70 (3.00%) SQL Server
8 39 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
9 31 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
9 31 (1.33%) RDBMS
10 27 (1.16%) Big Data
10 27 (1.16%) Db2
11 26 (1.11%) BigQuery
12 21 (0.90%) Redis
13 18 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
14 17 (0.73%) Hadoop
15 16 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
16 15 (0.64%) Metadata
17 13 (0.56%) Power BI
18 12 (0.51%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 216 (9.26%) Git
2 179 (7.68%) Jenkins
3 164 (7.03%) GitLab
4 82 (3.52%) JIRA
5 80 (3.43%) Cucumber
6 76 (3.26%) Maven
7 65 (2.79%) JUnit
8 64 (2.74%) Cypress.io
9 63 (2.70%) Selenium
10 56 (2.40%) TeamCity
11 55 (2.36%) SonarQube
12 34 (1.46%) JMeter
13 31 (1.33%) Bitbucket
13 31 (1.33%) Postman
14 28 (1.20%) Mockito
14 28 (1.20%) Subversion
15 25 (1.07%) Claude Code
15 25 (1.07%) Eclipse
15 25 (1.07%) Gradle
16 22 (0.94%) REST Assured
General
1 588 (25.21%) Finance
2 347 (14.88%) Social Skills
3 219 (9.39%) Public Sector
4 213 (9.13%) Banking
5 158 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
6 145 (6.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 104 (4.46%) Front Office
8 101 (4.33%) Law
9 91 (3.90%) Retail
10 68 (2.92%) Financial Institution
11 47 (2.02%) Back Office
12 38 (1.63%) Investment Banking
13 30 (1.29%) Health Technology
14 28 (1.20%) Games
15 22 (0.94%) Aerospace
15 22 (0.94%) Manufacturing
16 19 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
17 18 (0.77%) Legal
18 17 (0.73%) Advertising
19 15 (0.64%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 866 (37.14%) Developer
2 575 (24.66%) Java Developer
3 573 (24.57%) Senior
4 537 (23.03%) Software Engineer
5 397 (17.02%) Java Engineer
6 336 (14.41%) Lead
7 209 (8.96%) Senior Developer
8 179 (7.68%) Senior Software Engineer
9 176 (7.55%) Java Software Engineer
10 150 (6.43%) Full-Stack Developer
11 149 (6.39%) Senior Java Developer
12 130 (5.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 124 (5.32%) Senior Java Engineer
14 122 (5.23%) Software Developer
15 116 (4.97%) Lead Software Engineer
16 96 (4.12%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 83 (3.56%) Architect
18 70 (3.00%) Consultant
19 69 (2.96%) Senior Java Software Engineer
20 63 (2.70%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 514 (22.04%) Spring
2 436 (18.70%) Spring Boot
3 290 (12.44%) React
4 234 (10.03%) AngularJS
5 225 (9.65%) REST
6 218 (9.35%) Node.js
7 216 (9.26%) Kafka
8 160 (6.86%) RESTful
9 151 (6.48%) .NET
10 88 (3.77%) Web Services
11 74 (3.17%) Vue
12 73 (3.13%) CSS
13 66 (2.83%) HTML
14 62 (2.66%) GraphQL
15 54 (2.32%) SOAP
16 50 (2.14%) Elastic Stack
17 49 (2.10%) Hibernate
18 48 (2.06%) JSON
19 47 (2.02%) OAuth
20 46 (1.97%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 284 (12.18%) Cloud Native
2 179 (7.68%) Distributed Systems
3 145 (6.22%) Product Ownership
4 100 (4.29%) Public Cloud
5 54 (2.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 50 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
7 49 (2.10%) Fixed Income
8 43 (1.84%) Onboarding
9 41 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
10 40 (1.72%) Data Structures
11 38 (1.63%) Distributed Architecture
12 34 (1.46%) e-Learning
13 32 (1.37%) Blog
13 32 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
13 32 (1.37%) Virtual Team
14 31 (1.33%) Mobile App
15 30 (1.29%) Equities
16 23 (0.99%) Algorithms
17 20 (0.86%) Social Media
18 17 (0.73%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 218 (9.35%) Linux
2 52 (2.23%) Windows
3 49 (2.10%) Unix
4 43 (1.84%) Android
5 16 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.43%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.26%) CentOS
8 6 (0.26%) Debian
8 6 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.17%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.086%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 814 (34.91%) Software Engineering
2 805 (34.52%) Agile
3 720 (30.87%) CI/CD
4 547 (23.46%) DevOps
5 517 (22.17%) Microservices
6 461 (19.77%) Test Automation
7 457 (19.60%) Full-Stack Development
8 402 (17.24%) Mentoring
9 357 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
10 277 (11.88%) Containerisation
11 273 (11.71%) AI
12 245 (10.51%) Continuous Improvement
13 242 (10.38%) Infrastructure as Code
14 238 (10.21%) TDD
15 219 (9.39%) Technical Leadership
16 218 (9.35%) Roadmaps
17 204 (8.75%) Computer Science
18 203 (8.70%) Scrum
19 182 (7.80%) SDLC
20 165 (7.08%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 725 (31.09%) Python
2 435 (18.65%) SQL
3 421 (18.05%) JavaScript
4 255 (10.93%) TypeScript
5 235 (10.08%) C#
6 215 (9.22%) C++
7 157 (6.73%) Go
8 121 (5.19%) Bash
9 97 (4.16%) Kotlin
10 64 (2.74%) C
11 62 (2.66%) Groovy
12 58 (2.49%) Scala
13 55 (2.36%) Rust
14 48 (2.06%) PHP
15 33 (1.42%) PowerShell
16 30 (1.29%) Perl
17 29 (1.24%) PL/SQL
18 21 (0.90%) Ruby
19 18 (0.77%) Shell Script
20 15 (0.64%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 395 (16.94%) Security Cleared
2 248 (10.63%) Degree
3 241 (10.33%) SC Cleared
4 139 (5.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 133 (5.70%) DV Cleared
6 100 (4.29%) AWS Certification
7 44 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 30 (1.29%) Master's Degree
9 27 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
10 25 (1.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 20 (0.86%) OSCP
12 16 (0.69%) DBS Check
13 15 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
14 13 (0.56%) ISTQB
14 13 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.51%) CREST Certified
15 12 (0.51%) PhD
16 11 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
17 9 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
18 8 (0.34%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (6.69%) QA
2 62 (2.66%) Accessibility
3 42 (1.80%) Data Quality
4 20 (0.86%) WCAG
5 18 (0.77%) GDPR
6 14 (0.60%) GRC
7 12 (0.51%) SOC 2
8 11 (0.47%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.30%) ISO 20022
9 7 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.21%) NIST
10 5 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.086%) Good Clinical Practice
13 2 (0.086%) Software Quality Assurance
14 1 (0.043%) GxP
14 1 (0.043%) MiFID
System Software
1 362 (15.52%) Docker
2 17 (0.73%) Active Directory
2 17 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.47%) vSphere
4 8 (0.34%) Squid
4 8 (0.34%) VMware NSX
5 7 (0.30%) Firmware
6 5 (0.21%) KVM
6 5 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.086%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.086%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 430 (18.44%) Kubernetes
2 278 (11.92%) Terraform
3 106 (4.55%) Grafana
4 105 (4.50%) Ansible
5 44 (1.89%) Prometheus
6 41 (1.76%) Argo
7 34 (1.46%) HP Fortify
8 29 (1.24%) Kibana
9 16 (0.69%) Puppet
10 14 (0.60%) Packer
11 13 (0.56%) Rancher
12 12 (0.51%) Kustomize
13 11 (0.47%) logstash
14 8 (0.34%) ZABBIX
15 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
15 7 (0.30%) yum
16 5 (0.21%) FTK
17 3 (0.13%) AWS Copilot
17 3 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
17 3 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 90 (3.86%) Oracle
2 84 (3.60%) Microsoft
3 74 (3.17%) Google
4 51 (2.19%) Splunk
5 40 (1.72%) IBM
6 24 (1.03%) Palantir
6 24 (1.03%) Salesforce
7 23 (0.99%) Red Hat
8 22 (0.94%) Dynatrace
8 22 (0.94%) SAP
8 22 (0.94%) VMware
9 19 (0.81%) Foundry
9 19 (0.81%) ServiceNow
10 18 (0.77%) AppDynamics
11 15 (0.64%) Adobe
11 15 (0.64%) MuleSoft
12 13 (0.56%) SendGrid
13 11 (0.47%) OpenAI
13 11 (0.47%) Solace
14 9 (0.39%) Veracode