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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 28 34
Rank change year-on-year -42 +6 -16
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,118 2,721 4,430
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.61% 7.00% 5.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.99% 21.45% 16.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,334 1,477 3,402
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £39,044
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £73,805
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +1.62% -7.74%
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 14,130 12,688 27,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.39% 32.62% 32.41%
Number of salaries quoted 9,913 9,165 22,439
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,850 £35,225
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £112,500 £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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -7 1,042 £90,000 -16.28% 316
North of England -47 515 £68,076 +1.55% 188
Yorkshire +11 227 £72,500 +2.12% 57
South East -46 210 £67,500 +3.85% 153
North West -65 210 £70,000 +3.70% 79
South West -37 179 £65,000 +6.12% 85
Midlands -103 90 £50,000 -6.87% 52
North East -4 78 £53,750 -4.87% 52
West Midlands -55 73 £50,000 -6.87% 33
East of England -73 48 £50,000 - 39
East Midlands -95 16 £52,100 +12.65% 19
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 (1.94%) Apache
2 36 (1.70%) Apache Spark
3 33 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (1.56%) Confluence
4 19 (0.90%) JBoss
5 14 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
6 12 (0.57%) OpenStack
7 9 (0.42%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.24%) Appian
9 5 (0.24%) GeoServer
9 5 (0.24%) IIS
10 4 (0.19%) Anypoint
10 4 (0.19%) Camunda
10 4 (0.19%) Moodle
11 3 (0.14%) CICS
11 3 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.14%) Liferay
11 3 (0.14%) nginx
11 3 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (0.47%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.047%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.047%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.047%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 13 (0.61%) Maximo
2 4 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.14%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.14%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.14%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.094%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.047%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.047%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.047%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.047%) Endur
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.047%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.047%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 895 (42.26%) AWS
2 381 (17.99%) Azure
3 254 (11.99%) GCP
4 174 (8.22%) Serverless
5 126 (5.95%) AWS CloudFormation
6 121 (5.71%) SaaS
7 116 (5.48%) Amazon S3
8 111 (5.24%) AWS Lambda
9 107 (5.05%) Amazon ECS
10 106 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
11 94 (4.44%) GitHub
12 73 (3.45%) AWS Step Functions
13 53 (2.50%) Apigee
14 52 (2.46%) Amazon ECR
15 46 (2.17%) OpenShift
16 45 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
17 44 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
18 38 (1.79%) dbt
19 37 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 31 (1.46%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 52 (2.46%) Broadband
2 34 (1.61%) HTTP
3 29 (1.37%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.42%) AMQP
5 8 (0.38%) Internet
6 4 (0.19%) BGP
6 4 (0.19%) IPv4
6 4 (0.19%) Multicast
6 4 (0.19%) SAN
6 4 (0.19%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (0.19%) VLAN
6 4 (0.19%) VPN
7 3 (0.14%) LAN
7 3 (0.14%) Network Security
7 3 (0.14%) PuTTY
7 3 (0.14%) WAN
8 2 (0.094%) DHCP
8 2 (0.094%) DNS
8 2 (0.094%) Firewall
8 2 (0.094%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (7.98%) NoSQL
2 162 (7.65%) PostgreSQL
3 110 (5.19%) Relational Database
4 94 (4.44%) DynamoDB
5 88 (4.15%) MongoDB
6 82 (3.87%) SQL Server
7 61 (2.88%) MySQL
8 44 (2.08%) RDBMS
9 36 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
10 32 (1.51%) Amazon Athena
11 31 (1.46%) DB2
12 30 (1.42%) Big Data
13 25 (1.18%) Hadoop
14 23 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
15 21 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
15 21 (0.99%) Neo4j
16 18 (0.85%) BigQuery
17 17 (0.80%) Redis
18 15 (0.71%) Flink
19 14 (0.66%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 180 (8.50%) Jenkins
2 158 (7.46%) Git
3 147 (6.94%) GitLab
4 103 (4.86%) Selenium
5 90 (4.25%) JIRA
6 81 (3.82%) Cucumber
7 74 (3.49%) Cypress.io
7 74 (3.49%) Maven
8 65 (3.07%) SonarQube
9 61 (2.88%) TeamCity
10 52 (2.46%) JUnit
11 48 (2.27%) Postman
12 30 (1.42%) SoapUI
13 29 (1.37%) JMeter
14 28 (1.32%) Bitbucket
15 27 (1.27%) WebDriver
16 25 (1.18%) REST Assured
16 25 (1.18%) Team Foundation Server
17 22 (1.04%) Gradle
18 21 (0.99%) Claude Code
General
1 531 (25.07%) Finance
2 373 (17.61%) Social Skills
3 243 (11.47%) Banking
4 161 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
5 155 (7.32%) Public Sector
6 152 (7.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 115 (5.43%) Front Office
8 112 (5.29%) Law
9 96 (4.53%) Retail
10 67 (3.16%) Financial Institution
11 53 (2.50%) Back Office
12 50 (2.36%) Investment Banking
13 34 (1.61%) Games
14 30 (1.42%) Telecoms
15 24 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
15 24 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
16 23 (1.09%) Health Technology
17 22 (1.04%) Aerospace
18 21 (0.99%) Marketing
19 16 (0.76%) Billing
Job Titles
1 790 (37.30%) Developer
2 536 (25.31%) Senior
3 500 (23.61%) Java Developer
4 498 (23.51%) Software Engineer
5 346 (16.34%) Java Engineer
6 303 (14.31%) Lead
7 210 (9.92%) Senior Developer
8 178 (8.40%) Java Software Engineer
9 149 (7.03%) Senior Software Engineer
10 146 (6.89%) Full-Stack Developer
11 145 (6.85%) Senior Java Developer
12 119 (5.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 109 (5.15%) Senior Java Engineer
14 107 (5.05%) Software Developer
15 95 (4.49%) Lead Software Engineer
16 86 (4.06%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 83 (3.92%) Architect
18 58 (2.74%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 53 (2.50%) DevOps Engineer
20 52 (2.46%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 433 (20.44%) Spring
2 397 (18.74%) Spring Boot
3 307 (14.49%) React
4 235 (11.10%) REST
5 209 (9.87%) AngularJS
6 196 (9.25%) Node.js
7 180 (8.50%) Kafka
8 158 (7.46%) .NET
9 116 (5.48%) RESTful
10 104 (4.91%) HTML
11 88 (4.15%) SOAP
12 82 (3.87%) Web Services
13 81 (3.82%) CSS
14 74 (3.49%) Elastic Stack
15 71 (3.35%) GraphQL
16 60 (2.83%) JSON
17 58 (2.74%) Vue
18 56 (2.64%) Gherkin
19 50 (2.36%) Hibernate
20 48 (2.27%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 240 (11.33%) Cloud Native
2 164 (7.74%) Distributed Systems
3 119 (5.62%) Product Ownership
4 75 (3.54%) Public Cloud
5 54 (2.55%) Fixed Income
6 49 (2.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 44 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
8 41 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
9 40 (1.89%) Distributed Architecture
10 37 (1.75%) Equities
11 35 (1.65%) Blog
11 35 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
12 31 (1.46%) Data Structures
13 30 (1.42%) Mobile App
14 28 (1.32%) Virtual Team
15 26 (1.23%) e-Learning
16 23 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
17 21 (0.99%) FPGA
18 20 (0.94%) Derivative
18 20 (0.94%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 190 (8.97%) Linux
2 48 (2.27%) Android
3 47 (2.22%) Unix
4 43 (2.03%) Windows
5 14 (0.66%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.33%) CentOS
7 7 (0.33%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.28%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.24%) Debian
10 4 (0.19%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.094%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.047%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 748 (35.32%) Agile
2 717 (33.85%) Software Engineering
3 619 (29.23%) CI/CD
4 493 (23.28%) DevOps
5 428 (20.21%) Microservices
6 416 (19.64%) Full-Stack Development
7 366 (17.28%) Test Automation
8 350 (16.53%) Mentoring
9 328 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
10 231 (10.91%) Containerisation
11 230 (10.86%) AI
12 214 (10.10%) Continuous Improvement
13 209 (9.87%) Scrum
14 205 (9.68%) Roadmaps
15 193 (9.11%) Computer Science
15 193 (9.11%) TDD
16 188 (8.88%) Infrastructure as Code
17 186 (8.78%) Technical Leadership
18 171 (8.07%) SDLC
19 159 (7.51%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 662 (31.26%) Python
2 408 (19.26%) SQL
3 396 (18.70%) JavaScript
4 277 (13.08%) TypeScript
5 216 (10.20%) C#
6 156 (7.37%) Go
7 142 (6.70%) C++
8 109 (5.15%) Bash
9 106 (5.00%) Kotlin
10 72 (3.40%) C
11 59 (2.79%) Groovy
12 43 (2.03%) PHP
13 41 (1.94%) Scala
14 32 (1.51%) PL/SQL
15 27 (1.27%) Rust
16 19 (0.90%) PowerShell
17 18 (0.85%) Apex Code
18 15 (0.71%) R
19 14 (0.66%) Ruby
20 12 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 327 (15.44%) Security Cleared
2 263 (12.42%) Degree
3 203 (9.58%) SC Cleared
4 130 (6.14%) DV Cleared
5 129 (6.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 96 (4.53%) AWS Certification
7 37 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 36 (1.70%) Master's Degree
9 29 (1.37%) ISTQB
10 25 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (1.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 23 (1.09%) Azure Certification
13 20 (0.94%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 20 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
14 17 (0.80%) OSCP
15 16 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
16 15 (0.71%) DBS Check
16 15 (0.71%) PhD
17 13 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
17 13 (0.61%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (6.70%) QA
2 35 (1.65%) Accessibility
3 32 (1.51%) Data Quality
4 16 (0.76%) PCI DSS
5 13 (0.61%) GRC
5 13 (0.61%) SOC 2
6 9 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.28%) GDPR
8 5 (0.24%) 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 1 (0.047%) Good Clinical Practice
11 1 (0.047%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 1 (0.047%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 1 (0.047%) MiFID
11 1 (0.047%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 333 (15.72%) Docker
2 10 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (0.42%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.24%) Firmware
4 5 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.24%) vSphere
5 4 (0.19%) KVM
5 4 (0.19%) Squid
5 4 (0.19%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.094%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.094%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.047%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.047%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.047%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.047%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.047%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 410 (19.36%) Kubernetes
2 239 (11.28%) Terraform
3 100 (4.72%) Grafana
4 87 (4.11%) Ansible
5 58 (2.74%) Argo
6 45 (2.12%) HP Fortify
6 45 (2.12%) Prometheus
7 21 (0.99%) Kibana
8 19 (0.90%) Kustomize
9 13 (0.61%) Rancher
10 11 (0.52%) Puppet
11 10 (0.47%) Packer
12 9 (0.42%) logstash
13 7 (0.33%) yum
14 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (0.24%) FTK
16 4 (0.19%) Nagios
16 4 (0.19%) Progress Chef
16 4 (0.19%) ZABBIX
17 3 (0.14%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 86 (4.06%) Oracle
2 81 (3.82%) Microsoft
3 66 (3.12%) Google
4 31 (1.46%) IBM
5 28 (1.32%) Salesforce
6 24 (1.13%) MuleSoft
7 22 (1.04%) Splunk
8 18 (0.85%) Foundry
8 18 (0.85%) Red Hat
9 16 (0.76%) Atlassian
9 16 (0.76%) Palantir
10 14 (0.66%) AppDynamics
10 14 (0.66%) Databricks
11 13 (0.61%) OpenAI
11 13 (0.61%) VMware
12 12 (0.57%) Dynatrace
13 11 (0.52%) Informatica
13 11 (0.52%) SAP
13 11 (0.52%) Solace
14 10 (0.47%) Talend