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

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 33 23
Rank change year-on-year -34 -10 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,707 3,277 3,763
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.66% 5.45% 8.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.19% 16.64% 20.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,105 1,999 2,981
10th Percentile £42,155 £41,361 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,219 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £75,554
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +5.89% +0.74%
75th Percentile £115,000 £113,865 £97,500
90th Percentile £136,250 £142,500 £127,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% +3.45%

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 10,542 19,696 18,751
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 22.61% 32.73% 41.01%
Number of salaries quoted 7,857 11,825 15,516
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 November 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 26 November 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 -9 988 £105,000 +5.00% 336
North of England -7 266 £65,000 +8.33% 123
South East -80 171 £62,500 - 313
North West -18 131 £67,500 +10.20% 75
Midlands +16 118 £62,500 +56.25% 81
South West -46 113 £65,000 +4.00% 117
Yorkshire +29 112 £67,500 +22.73% 37
West Midlands +38 90 £62,500 +19.05% 50
East of England -75 40 £43,750 -35.19% 69
East Midlands +9 28 £57,500 +64.29% 28
North East -2 25 £55,000 -5.11% 11
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 91 (5.33%) Apache
2 89 (5.21%) Apache Airflow
3 56 (3.28%) Apache Spark
4 40 (2.34%) Confluence
5 14 (0.82%) JBoss
6 7 (0.41%) IIS
7 6 (0.35%) Mule
7 6 (0.35%) nginx
7 6 (0.35%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.35%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.29%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.29%) BizTalk Server
8 5 (0.29%) Camunda
8 5 (0.29%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.18%) Appian
9 3 (0.18%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.18%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (0.41%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.18%) Simulink
5 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.059%) Trello
6 1 (0.059%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
1 8 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.35%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.35%) Shopify
3 5 (0.29%) Maximo
4 4 (0.23%) Adaptiv
4 4 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.059%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.059%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.059%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.059%) Summit
6 1 (0.059%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 836 (48.97%) AWS
2 339 (19.86%) Azure
3 217 (12.71%) GCP
4 143 (8.38%) Serverless
5 98 (5.74%) Amazon EKS
6 95 (5.57%) SaaS
7 88 (5.16%) GitHub
8 84 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
9 77 (4.51%) dbt
10 73 (4.28%) Snowflake
11 71 (4.16%) Amazon EC2
12 70 (4.10%) Amazon ECS
13 69 (4.04%) Amazon S3
14 45 (2.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 38 (2.23%) GitHub Actions
15 38 (2.23%) OpenShift
16 30 (1.76%) Datadog
17 24 (1.41%) Amazon SQS
18 23 (1.35%) Amazon Kinesis
18 23 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 34 (1.99%) TCP/IP
2 26 (1.52%) HTTP
3 20 (1.17%) DNS
4 19 (1.11%) Firewall
5 17 (1.00%) SSH
6 15 (0.88%) FTP
6 15 (0.88%) SMTP
7 11 (0.64%) AMQP
7 11 (0.64%) VPN
8 10 (0.59%) Multicast
9 9 (0.53%) Internet
10 7 (0.41%) SAN
11 4 (0.23%) Broadband
11 4 (0.23%) DHCP
11 4 (0.23%) Kerberos
12 3 (0.18%) BGP
12 3 (0.18%) ICMP
12 3 (0.18%) LAN
12 3 (0.18%) VLAN
12 3 (0.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (9.37%) PostgreSQL
2 149 (8.73%) Relational Database
3 110 (6.44%) NoSQL
4 97 (5.68%) SQL Server
5 87 (5.10%) MongoDB
6 85 (4.98%) Data Lake
7 72 (4.22%) MySQL
8 66 (3.87%) Amazon Athena
8 66 (3.87%) Apache Iceberg
9 63 (3.69%) Apache Arrow
9 63 (3.69%) Dremio
10 60 (3.51%) Apache Ignite
11 57 (3.34%) Big Data
12 55 (3.22%) Data Warehouse
13 51 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
14 44 (2.58%) DynamoDB
14 44 (2.58%) RDBMS
15 41 (2.40%) Hadoop
16 31 (1.82%) BigQuery
17 26 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 176 (10.31%) Jenkins
2 143 (8.38%) Git
3 96 (5.62%) Selenium
4 94 (5.51%) JIRA
5 76 (4.45%) GitLab
5 76 (4.45%) JUnit
6 55 (3.22%) Cucumber
7 45 (2.64%) Cypress.io
8 39 (2.28%) Postman
9 38 (2.23%) JMeter
9 38 (2.23%) Mockito
10 37 (2.17%) Maven
11 33 (1.93%) TeamCity
12 30 (1.76%) Bitbucket
12 30 (1.76%) WebDriver
13 27 (1.58%) SonarQube
14 25 (1.46%) SoapUI
15 20 (1.17%) Sonatype Nexus
16 16 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
17 15 (0.88%) Vagrant
General
1 673 (39.43%) Finance
2 472 (27.65%) Social Skills
3 360 (21.09%) Banking
4 236 (13.83%) Law
5 206 (12.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 180 (10.54%) Front Office
7 156 (9.14%) Analytical Skills
8 143 (8.38%) Investment Banking
9 112 (6.56%) Public Sector
10 103 (6.03%) Financial Institution
11 69 (4.04%) Marketing
12 48 (2.81%) Retail
13 34 (1.99%) Back Office
14 32 (1.87%) Games
15 30 (1.76%) Legal
16 23 (1.35%) Manufacturing
17 20 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
17 20 (1.17%) Telecoms
18 18 (1.05%) Billing
19 16 (0.94%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 583 (34.15%) Developer
2 489 (28.65%) Software Engineer
3 409 (23.96%) Senior
4 275 (16.11%) Java Developer
5 274 (16.05%) Java Engineer
6 266 (15.58%) Lead
7 198 (11.60%) Java Software Engineer
8 157 (9.20%) Senior Software Engineer
9 116 (6.80%) Lead Software Engineer
9 116 (6.80%) Senior Java Engineer
10 113 (6.62%) AWS Engineer
11 99 (5.80%) Architect
12 98 (5.74%) Full-Stack Developer
12 98 (5.74%) Senior Developer
13 97 (5.68%) Python Engineer
14 90 (5.27%) Python Software Engineer
15 86 (5.04%) Senior Java Software Engineer
16 76 (4.45%) AWS Software Engineer
17 62 (3.63%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 58 (3.40%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 367 (21.50%) Spring
2 315 (18.45%) React
3 288 (16.87%) Spring Boot
4 256 (15.00%) Kafka
5 170 (9.96%) RESTful
6 163 (9.55%) REST
7 162 (9.49%) .NET
8 151 (8.85%) Node.js
9 122 (7.15%) HTML
10 120 (7.03%) AngularJS
11 104 (6.09%) CSS
12 80 (4.69%) Hibernate
13 79 (4.63%) Pandas
14 69 (4.04%) gRPC
15 65 (3.81%) Web Services
16 64 (3.75%) NumPy
16 64 (3.75%) SOAP
17 63 (3.69%) SciPy
18 60 (3.51%) Protocol Buffers
19 59 (3.46%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 311 (18.22%) Cloud Native
2 191 (11.19%) Distributed Systems
3 121 (7.09%) Equities
4 114 (6.68%) Fixed Income
5 113 (6.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 102 (5.98%) Derivative
7 80 (4.69%) Algorithms
8 74 (4.34%) Hedge funds
9 66 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
10 60 (3.51%) Product Ownership
11 59 (3.46%) Pricing Data
12 58 (3.40%) Onboarding
13 55 (3.22%) Greenfield Project
14 54 (3.16%) Public Cloud
15 42 (2.46%) Management Information System
16 38 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
17 34 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
18 31 (1.82%) Data Structures
18 31 (1.82%) Mobile App
19 30 (1.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 193 (11.31%) Linux
2 41 (2.40%) Windows
3 27 (1.58%) Android
3 27 (1.58%) Unix
4 15 (0.88%) VMS
5 13 (0.76%) Amazon Linux
5 13 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.41%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.18%) CentOS
8 3 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.12%) Debian
9 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.059%) AIX
10 1 (0.059%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.059%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.059%) SUSE
10 1 (0.059%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 785 (45.99%) Agile
2 649 (38.02%) Software Engineering
3 552 (32.34%) CI/CD
4 401 (23.49%) Microservices
5 365 (21.38%) Problem-Solving
6 357 (20.91%) DevOps
7 261 (15.29%) Computer Science
8 254 (14.88%) Test Automation
9 253 (14.82%) Full-Stack Development
10 245 (14.35%) Continuous Improvement
11 243 (14.24%) Mentoring
12 233 (13.65%) SDLC
13 181 (10.60%) AI
14 172 (10.08%) TDD
15 168 (9.84%) Containerisation
16 164 (9.61%) Fintech
16 164 (9.61%) Scrum
17 143 (8.38%) Machine Learning
18 135 (7.91%) Clean Code
19 124 (7.26%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 704 (41.24%) Python
2 415 (24.31%) JavaScript
3 371 (21.73%) SQL
4 304 (17.81%) TypeScript
5 251 (14.70%) C#
6 171 (10.02%) C++
7 137 (8.03%) Go
8 118 (6.91%) Kotlin
9 93 (5.45%) C
10 73 (4.28%) Scala
11 54 (3.16%) PHP
12 40 (2.34%) Groovy
13 39 (2.28%) PowerShell
13 39 (2.28%) Shell Script
14 37 (2.17%) Bash
15 35 (2.05%) PL/SQL
16 26 (1.52%) Perl
16 26 (1.52%) Rust
17 23 (1.35%) Ruby
18 19 (1.11%) R
Qualifications
1 300 (17.57%) Degree
2 219 (12.83%) Security Cleared
3 145 (8.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 137 (8.03%) SC Cleared
5 80 (4.69%) AWS Certification
6 72 (4.22%) Master's Degree
7 66 (3.87%) DV Cleared
8 44 (2.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 37 (2.17%) Azure Certification
10 31 (1.82%) PhD
11 23 (1.35%) ISTQB
12 19 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
13 18 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
14 17 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (0.94%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 11 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
17 9 (0.53%) HND
18 6 (0.35%) CFA
18 6 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
18 6 (0.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (5.80%) QA
2 45 (2.64%) Accessibility
3 31 (1.82%) GDPR
4 17 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (0.64%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.64%) PCI DSS
6 10 (0.59%) ISO 9001
6 10 (0.59%) NIST
7 9 (0.53%) HIPAA
8 7 (0.41%) SLA
9 6 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.29%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.23%) EU AI Act
11 4 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.23%) SEPA
11 4 (0.23%) WCAG
12 3 (0.18%) NCSC
13 2 (0.12%) ECSS
13 2 (0.12%) MISRA
System Software
1 291 (17.05%) Docker
2 26 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.82%) Virtual Servers
5 11 (0.64%) HDFS
6 5 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.23%) DFS Replication
7 4 (0.23%) vSphere
8 3 (0.18%) Firmware
9 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
9 2 (0.12%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.12%) Squid
9 2 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.059%) KVM
Systems Management
1 423 (24.78%) Kubernetes
2 127 (7.44%) Terraform
3 69 (4.04%) Grafana
4 47 (2.75%) Ansible
5 41 (2.40%) Kibana
6 37 (2.17%) Prometheus
7 20 (1.17%) Argo
8 11 (0.64%) Progress Chef
9 10 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.47%) Control-M
11 7 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
12 6 (0.35%) HP Fortify
13 5 (0.29%) logstash
13 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (0.23%) Nagios
14 4 (0.23%) Puppet
15 3 (0.18%) HAProxy
16 2 (0.12%) Kustomize
16 2 (0.12%) Oozie
16 2 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 128 (7.50%) Oracle
2 88 (5.16%) Microsoft
3 80 (4.69%) Google
4 37 (2.17%) Guidewire
5 35 (2.05%) Splunk
6 32 (1.87%) Atlassian
7 28 (1.64%) Databricks
8 27 (1.58%) SAP
9 25 (1.46%) Dynatrace
10 23 (1.35%) MuleSoft
11 18 (1.05%) Informatica
11 18 (1.05%) ServiceNow
12 17 (1.00%) IBM
13 14 (0.82%) Talend
14 13 (0.76%) Dell
15 12 (0.70%) Red Hat
15 12 (0.70%) Solace
16 10 (0.59%) Adobe
16 10 (0.59%) Foundry
16 10 (0.59%) Salesforce