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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 30 34
Rank change year-on-year -38 +4 -16
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,082 2,520 4,359
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.67% 6.72% 5.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.03% 19.79% 16.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,327 1,505 3,350
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £39,636
25th Percentile £55,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £73,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +2.04% -8.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £126,375
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 13,851 12,733 26,943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.76% 33.98% 32.70%
Number of salaries quoted 9,716 9,363 22,449
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,125
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,643 £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 £111,250 £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 22 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 22 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 -8 1,033 £90,000 -14.29% 349
North of England -44 475 £69,310 +6.63% 166
Yorkshire +3 218 £71,250 +1.79% 41
South East -58 209 £67,500 +3.85% 130
North West -65 193 £70,000 +4.42% 87
South West -34 187 £65,000 +6.12% 87
Midlands -80 93 £53,688 - 44
West Midlands -40 76 £53,688 - 23
North East -18 64 £52,315 -7.41% 38
East of England -82 47 £50,000 -2.91% 31
East Midlands -74 16 £49,000 +8.89% 20
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 42 (2.02%) Apache
2 40 (1.92%) Apache Spark
3 32 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (1.49%) Confluence
5 21 (1.01%) JBoss
6 12 (0.58%) OpenStack
6 12 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
7 11 (0.53%) WebSphere
8 7 (0.34%) 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%) nginx
11 4 (0.19%) SharePoint
12 3 (0.14%) CICS
12 3 (0.14%) Liferay
13 2 (0.096%) CMS
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 2 (0.096%) Windchill
6 1 (0.048%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.048%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 15 (0.72%) Maximo
2 6 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.14%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.14%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.14%) Shopify
3 3 (0.14%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.096%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.096%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.048%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.048%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.048%) Endur
5 1 (0.048%) Findur
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
Cloud Services
1 894 (42.94%) AWS
2 384 (18.44%) Azure
3 254 (12.20%) GCP
4 178 (8.55%) Serverless
5 131 (6.29%) SaaS
6 117 (5.62%) Amazon EKS
6 117 (5.62%) Amazon S3
6 117 (5.62%) AWS Lambda
7 113 (5.43%) AWS CloudFormation
8 106 (5.09%) Amazon ECS
9 96 (4.61%) GitHub
10 69 (3.31%) AWS Step Functions
11 51 (2.45%) Apigee
12 50 (2.40%) Amazon ECR
13 48 (2.31%) OpenShift
14 45 (2.16%) Amazon SQS
15 43 (2.07%) dbt
16 38 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
17 35 (1.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 32 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 49 (2.35%) Broadband
2 32 (1.54%) TCP/IP
3 29 (1.39%) HTTP
4 10 (0.48%) AMQP
5 8 (0.38%) Internet
6 5 (0.24%) BGP
6 5 (0.24%) Multicast
6 5 (0.24%) VLAN
6 5 (0.24%) VPN
7 4 (0.19%) SAN
8 3 (0.14%) IPv4
8 3 (0.14%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.14%) LAN
8 3 (0.14%) Network Security
8 3 (0.14%) PuTTY
8 3 (0.14%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.14%) WAN
9 2 (0.096%) DHCP
9 2 (0.096%) Firewall
9 2 (0.096%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (8.21%) NoSQL
2 156 (7.49%) PostgreSQL
3 113 (5.43%) Relational Database
4 91 (4.37%) DynamoDB
5 84 (4.03%) SQL Server
6 76 (3.65%) MongoDB
7 65 (3.12%) MySQL
8 45 (2.16%) RDBMS
9 41 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
10 34 (1.63%) Big Data
10 34 (1.63%) DB2
11 29 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
11 29 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
11 29 (1.39%) Hadoop
12 26 (1.25%) Neo4j
13 25 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
14 20 (0.96%) Redis
15 16 (0.77%) BigQuery
15 16 (0.77%) Flink
16 12 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 171 (8.21%) Jenkins
2 159 (7.64%) Git
3 130 (6.24%) GitLab
4 104 (5.00%) Selenium
5 86 (4.13%) JIRA
6 81 (3.89%) Cucumber
7 73 (3.51%) Maven
8 72 (3.46%) Cypress.io
9 65 (3.12%) TeamCity
10 64 (3.07%) SonarQube
11 51 (2.45%) JUnit
12 47 (2.26%) Postman
13 31 (1.49%) JMeter
14 30 (1.44%) SoapUI
15 27 (1.30%) Bitbucket
15 27 (1.30%) WebDriver
16 25 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
17 24 (1.15%) REST Assured
18 23 (1.10%) Gradle
19 19 (0.91%) Jaeger
General
1 525 (25.22%) Finance
2 381 (18.30%) Social Skills
3 245 (11.77%) Banking
4 167 (8.02%) Analytical Skills
5 162 (7.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 146 (7.01%) Public Sector
7 126 (6.05%) Law
8 115 (5.52%) Front Office
9 104 (5.00%) Retail
10 78 (3.75%) Financial Institution
11 58 (2.79%) Back Office
12 52 (2.50%) Investment Banking
13 37 (1.78%) Games
14 32 (1.54%) Telecoms
15 26 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
16 24 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
17 21 (1.01%) Health Technology
18 20 (0.96%) Aerospace
19 18 (0.86%) Marketing
20 17 (0.82%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 774 (37.18%) Developer
2 523 (25.12%) Senior
3 513 (24.64%) Software Engineer
4 478 (22.96%) Java Developer
5 319 (15.32%) Java Engineer
6 292 (14.02%) Lead
7 198 (9.51%) Senior Developer
8 173 (8.31%) Java Software Engineer
9 151 (7.25%) Senior Software Engineer
10 149 (7.16%) Full-Stack Developer
11 131 (6.29%) Senior Java Developer
12 118 (5.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 106 (5.09%) Software Developer
14 104 (5.00%) Senior Java Engineer
15 91 (4.37%) Lead Software Engineer
16 89 (4.27%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 87 (4.18%) Architect
18 55 (2.64%) Lead Developer
18 55 (2.64%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 48 (2.31%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 427 (20.51%) Spring
2 385 (18.49%) Spring Boot
3 329 (15.80%) React
4 229 (11.00%) REST
5 207 (9.94%) AngularJS
6 196 (9.41%) Node.js
7 184 (8.84%) Kafka
8 168 (8.07%) .NET
9 125 (6.00%) RESTful
10 106 (5.09%) HTML
11 90 (4.32%) SOAP
12 87 (4.18%) Web Services
13 84 (4.03%) CSS
14 74 (3.55%) Elastic Stack
14 74 (3.55%) GraphQL
15 59 (2.83%) Gherkin
15 59 (2.83%) JSON
15 59 (2.83%) Vue
16 55 (2.64%) Hibernate
17 46 (2.21%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 250 (12.01%) Cloud Native
2 169 (8.12%) Distributed Systems
3 108 (5.19%) Product Ownership
4 63 (3.03%) Public Cloud
5 56 (2.69%) Fixed Income
6 48 (2.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 46 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
7 46 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
8 39 (1.87%) Distributed Architecture
9 38 (1.83%) Equities
10 36 (1.73%) Blog
10 36 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
11 30 (1.44%) Data Structures
11 30 (1.44%) Mobile App
12 28 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
13 26 (1.25%) Virtual Team
14 24 (1.15%) e-Learning
15 22 (1.06%) Management Information System
16 21 (1.01%) Derivative
16 21 (1.01%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 191 (9.17%) Linux
2 49 (2.35%) Android
3 45 (2.16%) 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 3 (0.14%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.096%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.048%) SUSE
12 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 750 (36.02%) Agile
2 726 (34.87%) Software Engineering
3 632 (30.36%) CI/CD
4 492 (23.63%) DevOps
5 421 (20.22%) Microservices
6 417 (20.03%) Full-Stack Development
7 357 (17.15%) Test Automation
8 343 (16.47%) Mentoring
8 343 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
9 239 (11.48%) Containerisation
10 231 (11.10%) AI
11 225 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 207 (9.94%) Scrum
13 202 (9.70%) Computer Science
14 192 (9.22%) Roadmaps
15 184 (8.84%) TDD
16 183 (8.79%) Infrastructure as Code
16 183 (8.79%) Technical Leadership
17 172 (8.26%) SDLC
18 167 (8.02%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 653 (31.36%) Python
2 412 (19.79%) JavaScript
3 408 (19.60%) SQL
4 290 (13.93%) TypeScript
5 217 (10.42%) C#
6 158 (7.59%) Go
7 143 (6.87%) C++
8 106 (5.09%) Kotlin
9 105 (5.04%) Bash
10 77 (3.70%) C
11 57 (2.74%) Groovy
12 44 (2.11%) PHP
13 39 (1.87%) Scala
14 34 (1.63%) PL/SQL
15 27 (1.30%) Rust
16 20 (0.96%) PowerShell
17 19 (0.91%) Apex Code
18 15 (0.72%) R
19 14 (0.67%) Ruby
20 11 (0.53%) VBA
Qualifications
1 332 (15.95%) Security Cleared
2 275 (13.21%) Degree
3 205 (9.85%) SC Cleared
4 135 (6.48%) DV Cleared
5 133 (6.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 91 (4.37%) AWS Certification
7 38 (1.83%) Master's Degree
8 34 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 29 (1.39%) ISTQB
10 27 (1.30%) Azure Certification
11 25 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
12 24 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 20 (0.96%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 20 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
14 18 (0.86%) OSCP
14 18 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
15 15 (0.72%) CREST Certified
15 15 (0.72%) PhD
16 14 (0.67%) DBS Check
17 12 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (6.87%) QA
2 39 (1.87%) Accessibility
3 24 (1.15%) Data Quality
4 17 (0.82%) PCI DSS
5 14 (0.67%) SOC 2
6 13 (0.62%) GDPR
7 11 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
7 11 (0.53%) GRC
8 9 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.38%) WCAG
10 4 (0.19%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.19%) SLA
11 3 (0.14%) NIST
12 2 (0.096%) ECSS
12 2 (0.096%) EU AI Act
13 1 (0.048%) MiFID
13 1 (0.048%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 345 (16.57%) 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%) HDFS
7 2 (0.096%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.096%) Virtual Servers
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
1 433 (20.80%) Kubernetes
2 239 (11.48%) Terraform
3 106 (5.09%) Grafana
4 85 (4.08%) Ansible
5 52 (2.50%) Argo
6 45 (2.16%) Prometheus
7 44 (2.11%) HP Fortify
8 22 (1.06%) Kibana
9 19 (0.91%) Kustomize
10 13 (0.62%) Rancher
11 10 (0.48%) Puppet
12 9 (0.43%) logstash
12 9 (0.43%) Packer
13 7 (0.34%) yum
14 5 (0.24%) FTK
14 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
15 4 (0.19%) Nagios
15 4 (0.19%) Progress Chef
16 3 (0.14%) Red Hat Satellite
16 3 (0.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 85 (4.08%) Oracle
2 73 (3.51%) Microsoft
3 63 (3.03%) Google
4 37 (1.78%) IBM
5 31 (1.49%) Salesforce
6 30 (1.44%) MuleSoft
7 18 (0.86%) SAP
7 18 (0.86%) Splunk
8 17 (0.82%) Red Hat
9 16 (0.77%) Atlassian
9 16 (0.77%) Databricks
9 16 (0.77%) Foundry
9 16 (0.77%) Informatica
10 14 (0.67%) AppDynamics
11 13 (0.62%) Talend
12 12 (0.58%) Dynatrace
12 12 (0.58%) OpenAI
12 12 (0.58%) Palantir
13 11 (0.53%) VMware
14 9 (0.43%) ServiceNow