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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 32 34
Rank change year-on-year -39 +2 -16
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,085 2,506 4,401
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.65% 6.66% 5.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.02% 19.78% 16.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,332 1,492 3,391
10th Percentile £42,528 £41,250 £39,439
25th Percentile £55,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% -9.38%
75th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £130,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 13,883 12,667 27,048
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.65% 33.66% 32.58%
Number of salaries quoted 9,741 9,313 22,530
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,125
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 £112,250 £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 25 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 25 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 -6 1,030 £90,000 -15.29% 274
North of England -41 481 £68,690 +2.47% 127
Yorkshire +2 219 £70,000 -1.40% 31
South East -60 210 £67,500 +3.85% 138
North West -59 195 £70,000 +3.70% 63
South West -37 185 £65,000 +6.12% 67
Midlands -72 94 £50,000 -6.87% 28
West Midlands -44 77 £50,000 -6.87% 17
North East -19 67 £52,500 -7.08% 33
East of England -77 48 £50,000 -2.91% 30
East Midlands -84 16 £49,000 +8.89% 10
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 41 (1.97%) Apache
2 38 (1.82%) Apache Spark
3 32 (1.53%) Confluence
4 31 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (1.01%) JBoss
6 13 (0.62%) Palantir Foundry
7 12 (0.58%) OpenStack
8 11 (0.53%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.29%) Anypoint
9 6 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.24%) Appian
10 5 (0.24%) Camunda
10 5 (0.24%) GeoServer
10 5 (0.24%) IIS
11 4 (0.19%) Moodle
11 4 (0.19%) SharePoint
12 3 (0.14%) CICS
12 3 (0.14%) CMS
12 3 (0.14%) Liferay
12 3 (0.14%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (0.53%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.048%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.048%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.048%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 14 (0.67%) Maximo
2 5 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.14%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.14%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.14%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.096%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.096%) Shopify
5 1 (0.048%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.048%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.048%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.048%) Endur
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.048%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 885 (42.45%) AWS
2 388 (18.61%) Azure
3 250 (11.99%) GCP
4 173 (8.30%) Serverless
5 123 (5.90%) SaaS
6 116 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 114 (5.47%) Amazon S3
8 113 (5.42%) AWS Lambda
9 110 (5.28%) Amazon EKS
10 104 (4.99%) Amazon ECS
11 95 (4.56%) GitHub
12 68 (3.26%) AWS Step Functions
13 51 (2.45%) Apigee
14 50 (2.40%) Amazon ECR
15 47 (2.25%) OpenShift
16 45 (2.16%) Amazon SQS
17 42 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
18 38 (1.82%) dbt
19 34 (1.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 31 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 49 (2.35%) Broadband
2 32 (1.53%) HTTP
3 31 (1.49%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.43%) AMQP
5 8 (0.38%) Internet
6 4 (0.19%) BGP
6 4 (0.19%) Multicast
6 4 (0.19%) SAN
6 4 (0.19%) VLAN
6 4 (0.19%) VPN
7 3 (0.14%) IPv4
7 3 (0.14%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.14%) LAN
7 3 (0.14%) Network Security
7 3 (0.14%) PuTTY
7 3 (0.14%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.14%) WAN
8 2 (0.096%) DHCP
8 2 (0.096%) Firewall
8 2 (0.096%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (8.15%) NoSQL
2 158 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
3 111 (5.32%) Relational Database
4 92 (4.41%) DynamoDB
5 83 (3.98%) SQL Server
6 82 (3.93%) MongoDB
7 65 (3.12%) MySQL
8 45 (2.16%) RDBMS
9 41 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
10 33 (1.58%) Big Data
10 33 (1.58%) DB2
11 29 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
12 28 (1.34%) Hadoop
13 26 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
13 26 (1.25%) Neo4j
14 23 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
15 18 (0.86%) Redis
16 16 (0.77%) BigQuery
17 15 (0.72%) Flink
18 12 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 171 (8.20%) Jenkins
2 160 (7.67%) Git
3 137 (6.57%) GitLab
4 104 (4.99%) Selenium
5 87 (4.17%) JIRA
6 79 (3.79%) Cucumber
7 73 (3.50%) Maven
8 72 (3.45%) Cypress.io
9 65 (3.12%) SonarQube
10 61 (2.93%) TeamCity
11 52 (2.49%) JUnit
12 48 (2.30%) Postman
13 30 (1.44%) SoapUI
14 28 (1.34%) Bitbucket
14 28 (1.34%) JMeter
15 27 (1.29%) WebDriver
16 25 (1.20%) REST Assured
16 25 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
17 23 (1.10%) Gradle
18 19 (0.91%) Jaeger
General
1 524 (25.13%) Finance
2 374 (17.94%) Social Skills
3 240 (11.51%) Banking
4 163 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
5 152 (7.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 150 (7.19%) Public Sector
7 116 (5.56%) Law
8 114 (5.47%) Front Office
9 96 (4.60%) Retail
10 70 (3.36%) Financial Institution
11 52 (2.49%) Investment Banking
12 51 (2.45%) Back Office
13 36 (1.73%) Games
14 31 (1.49%) Telecoms
15 25 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
15 25 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
16 21 (1.01%) Health Technology
17 20 (0.96%) Aerospace
18 18 (0.86%) Marketing
19 17 (0.82%) Billing
Job Titles
1 777 (37.27%) Developer
2 530 (25.42%) Senior
3 512 (24.56%) Software Engineer
4 483 (23.17%) Java Developer
5 324 (15.54%) Java Engineer
6 293 (14.05%) Lead
7 203 (9.74%) Senior Developer
8 173 (8.30%) Java Software Engineer
9 151 (7.24%) Senior Software Engineer
10 148 (7.10%) Full-Stack Developer
11 136 (6.52%) Senior Java Developer
12 118 (5.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 107 (5.13%) Software Developer
14 106 (5.08%) Senior Java Engineer
15 94 (4.51%) Lead Software Engineer
16 89 (4.27%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 85 (4.08%) Architect
18 55 (2.64%) Lead Developer
18 55 (2.64%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 50 (2.40%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 428 (20.53%) Spring
2 386 (18.51%) Spring Boot
3 327 (15.68%) React
4 235 (11.27%) REST
5 209 (10.02%) AngularJS
6 197 (9.45%) Node.js
7 182 (8.73%) Kafka
8 165 (7.91%) .NET
9 120 (5.76%) RESTful
10 104 (4.99%) HTML
11 92 (4.41%) SOAP
12 86 (4.12%) Web Services
13 82 (3.93%) CSS
14 74 (3.55%) Elastic Stack
14 74 (3.55%) GraphQL
15 60 (2.88%) Vue
16 59 (2.83%) JSON
17 55 (2.64%) Gherkin
18 54 (2.59%) Hibernate
19 47 (2.25%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 246 (11.80%) Cloud Native
2 166 (7.96%) Distributed Systems
3 109 (5.23%) Product Ownership
4 68 (3.26%) Public Cloud
5 54 (2.59%) Fixed Income
6 47 (2.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 45 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
8 44 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
9 41 (1.97%) Distributed Architecture
10 37 (1.77%) Equities
11 36 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
12 35 (1.68%) Blog
13 30 (1.44%) Mobile App
14 29 (1.39%) Data Structures
15 26 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
16 25 (1.20%) e-Learning
16 25 (1.20%) Virtual Team
17 22 (1.06%) Management Information System
18 21 (1.01%) FPGA
19 20 (0.96%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 190 (9.11%) Linux
2 49 (2.35%) Android
3 46 (2.21%) Unix
4 39 (1.87%) Windows
5 14 (0.67%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.34%) CentOS
8 6 (0.29%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.29%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.24%) Debian
10 4 (0.19%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.096%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.048%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 751 (36.02%) Agile
2 720 (34.53%) Software Engineering
3 621 (29.78%) CI/CD
4 488 (23.41%) DevOps
5 418 (20.05%) Full-Stack Development
6 417 (20.00%) Microservices
7 352 (16.88%) Test Automation
8 346 (16.59%) Mentoring
9 339 (16.26%) Problem-Solving
10 235 (11.27%) AI
11 234 (11.22%) Containerisation
12 218 (10.46%) Continuous Improvement
13 209 (10.02%) Scrum
14 197 (9.45%) Computer Science
15 194 (9.30%) Roadmaps
16 187 (8.97%) TDD
17 186 (8.92%) Technical Leadership
18 178 (8.54%) Infrastructure as Code
19 174 (8.35%) SDLC
20 162 (7.77%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 644 (30.89%) Python
2 409 (19.62%) SQL
3 406 (19.47%) JavaScript
4 283 (13.57%) TypeScript
5 214 (10.26%) C#
6 155 (7.43%) Go
7 144 (6.91%) C++
8 105 (5.04%) Bash
9 104 (4.99%) Kotlin
10 78 (3.74%) C
11 57 (2.73%) Groovy
12 44 (2.11%) PHP
13 37 (1.77%) Scala
14 34 (1.63%) PL/SQL
15 27 (1.29%) Rust
16 20 (0.96%) PowerShell
17 19 (0.91%) Apex Code
18 16 (0.77%) R
19 14 (0.67%) Ruby
20 11 (0.53%) VBA
Qualifications
1 331 (15.88%) Security Cleared
2 270 (12.95%) Degree
3 203 (9.74%) SC Cleared
4 135 (6.47%) DV Cleared
5 131 (6.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 91 (4.36%) AWS Certification
7 37 (1.77%) Master's Degree
8 34 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 28 (1.34%) ISTQB
10 25 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 23 (1.10%) Azure Certification
13 20 (0.96%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 19 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (0.77%) OSCP
15 16 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
16 15 (0.72%) PhD
17 14 (0.67%) DBS Check
18 13 (0.62%) CREST Certified
19 12 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (6.52%) QA
2 35 (1.68%) Accessibility
3 24 (1.15%) Data Quality
4 16 (0.77%) PCI DSS
5 13 (0.62%) SOC 2
6 12 (0.58%) GRC
7 9 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
7 9 (0.43%) GDPR
8 6 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.19%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.19%) SLA
9 4 (0.19%) WCAG
10 3 (0.14%) NIST
11 2 (0.096%) ECSS
12 1 (0.048%) MiFID
12 1 (0.048%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 339 (16.26%) Docker
2 9 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.24%) Firmware
4 5 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.19%) vSphere
6 3 (0.14%) KVM
6 3 (0.14%) Squid
6 3 (0.14%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.096%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.096%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.048%) HDFS
8 1 (0.048%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.048%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.048%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.048%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 423 (20.29%) Kubernetes
2 234 (11.22%) Terraform
3 99 (4.75%) Grafana
4 85 (4.08%) Ansible
5 55 (2.64%) Argo
6 45 (2.16%) HP Fortify
6 45 (2.16%) Prometheus
7 21 (1.01%) Kibana
8 19 (0.91%) Kustomize
9 13 (0.62%) Rancher
10 10 (0.48%) Puppet
11 9 (0.43%) logstash
11 9 (0.43%) Packer
12 7 (0.34%) yum
13 5 (0.24%) FTK
13 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (0.19%) Nagios
14 4 (0.19%) Progress Chef
15 3 (0.14%) Red Hat Satellite
15 3 (0.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 87 (4.17%) Oracle
2 75 (3.60%) Microsoft
3 63 (3.02%) Google
4 35 (1.68%) IBM
5 31 (1.49%) Salesforce
6 29 (1.39%) MuleSoft
7 18 (0.86%) Splunk
8 17 (0.82%) Foundry
8 17 (0.82%) Red Hat
9 16 (0.77%) Atlassian
9 16 (0.77%) SAP
10 15 (0.72%) Databricks
10 15 (0.72%) Informatica
11 14 (0.67%) AppDynamics
12 13 (0.62%) OpenAI
12 13 (0.62%) Palantir
13 12 (0.58%) Dynatrace
13 12 (0.58%) Talend
14 11 (0.53%) VMware
15 10 (0.48%) ServiceNow