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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 26 35
Rank change year-on-year -40 +9 -15
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,252 2,792 4,494
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.72% 7.35% 5.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.21% 23.17% 16.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,454 1,354 3,419
10th Percentile £42,939 £41,250 £39,000
25th Percentile £55,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £73,805
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +5.01% -7.74%
75th Percentile £93,750 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £114,625 £137,500 £138,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 14,806 12,050 27,394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.85% 31.74% 31.70%
Number of salaries quoted 10,557 8,181 22,505
10th Percentile £36,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £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 £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 27 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 27 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 -6 1,063 £87,500 -16.67% 418
North of England -37 601 £69,305 -0.99% 174
North West -51 256 £70,000 -10.43% 98
Yorkshire +23 238 £72,500 +0.71% 45
South East -32 222 £67,500 +3.85% 110
South West -37 180 £60,000 - 77
Midlands -100 108 £60,000 +11.76% 61
North East +2 107 £52,500 -7.08% 32
West Midlands -73 90 £58,750 +2.17% 31
East of England -74 51 £55,000 +25.00% 35
East Midlands -98 17 £60,000 +26.32% 30
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 45 (2.00%) Apache
2 39 (1.73%) Apache Spark
3 37 (1.64%) Confluence
4 29 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
6 14 (0.62%) JBoss
7 13 (0.58%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.36%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.36%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.22%) Camunda
10 5 (0.22%) GeoServer
10 5 (0.22%) IIS
10 5 (0.22%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.18%) Anypoint
11 4 (0.18%) CMS
11 4 (0.18%) Moodle
12 3 (0.13%) CICS
12 3 (0.13%) Liferay
Applications
1 12 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.40%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.13%) Windchill
6 2 (0.089%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.044%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.044%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 12 (0.53%) Maximo
2 8 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.13%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.089%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.089%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.044%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.044%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.044%) Endur
5 1 (0.044%) Findur
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.044%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.044%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 925 (41.07%) AWS
2 425 (18.87%) Azure
3 272 (12.08%) GCP
4 184 (8.17%) Serverless
5 135 (5.99%) AWS CloudFormation
6 123 (5.46%) Amazon S3
7 120 (5.33%) SaaS
8 115 (5.11%) AWS Lambda
9 111 (4.93%) Amazon ECS
10 109 (4.84%) Amazon EKS
11 99 (4.40%) GitHub
12 75 (3.33%) AWS Step Functions
13 62 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
14 50 (2.22%) Amazon ECR
14 50 (2.22%) Apigee
15 46 (2.04%) Amazon SQS
16 38 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
17 37 (1.64%) dbt
18 36 (1.60%) Amazon EC2
18 36 (1.60%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.22%) Broadband
2 32 (1.42%) HTTP
3 27 (1.20%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.36%) AMQP
5 7 (0.31%) DMARC
5 7 (0.31%) IPv4
5 7 (0.31%) Software-Defined Networking
6 5 (0.22%) Internet
7 4 (0.18%) MQTT
8 3 (0.13%) BGP
8 3 (0.13%) Network Security
8 3 (0.13%) VLAN
8 3 (0.13%) VPN
9 2 (0.089%) Firewall
9 2 (0.089%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.089%) LAN
9 2 (0.089%) PuTTY
9 2 (0.089%) SAN
9 2 (0.089%) WAN
10 1 (0.044%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (8.44%) NoSQL
2 167 (7.42%) PostgreSQL
3 109 (4.84%) Relational Database
4 99 (4.40%) MongoDB
5 96 (4.26%) DynamoDB
6 69 (3.06%) MySQL
6 69 (3.06%) SQL Server
7 43 (1.91%) RDBMS
8 38 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
9 31 (1.38%) Big Data
9 31 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
10 26 (1.15%) DB2
11 24 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
12 23 (1.02%) Hadoop
13 22 (0.98%) BigQuery
14 19 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
14 19 (0.84%) Redis
15 15 (0.67%) Neo4j
16 14 (0.62%) Metadata
16 14 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 187 (8.30%) Git
2 184 (8.17%) Jenkins
3 155 (6.88%) GitLab
4 93 (4.13%) JIRA
5 87 (3.86%) Selenium
6 84 (3.73%) Maven
7 73 (3.24%) Cucumber
8 68 (3.02%) Cypress.io
9 63 (2.80%) JUnit
10 61 (2.71%) TeamCity
11 60 (2.66%) SonarQube
12 47 (2.09%) Postman
13 35 (1.55%) JMeter
14 30 (1.33%) Bitbucket
15 29 (1.29%) Mockito
16 27 (1.20%) Gradle
16 27 (1.20%) SoapUI
17 26 (1.15%) REST Assured
17 26 (1.15%) Team Foundation Server
17 26 (1.15%) WebDriver
General
1 562 (24.96%) Finance
2 366 (16.25%) Social Skills
3 235 (10.44%) Banking
4 200 (8.88%) Public Sector
5 164 (7.28%) Analytical Skills
6 153 (6.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 112 (4.97%) Front Office
7 112 (4.97%) Law
8 95 (4.22%) Retail
9 71 (3.15%) Financial Institution
10 50 (2.22%) Back Office
11 45 (2.00%) Investment Banking
12 31 (1.38%) Games
13 25 (1.11%) Health Technology
13 25 (1.11%) Telecoms
14 24 (1.07%) Aerospace
15 21 (0.93%) Marketing
16 20 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
17 19 (0.84%) Advertising
17 19 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 846 (37.57%) Developer
2 567 (25.18%) Senior
3 564 (25.04%) Java Developer
4 522 (23.18%) Software Engineer
5 369 (16.39%) Java Engineer
6 345 (15.32%) Lead
7 222 (9.86%) Senior Developer
8 176 (7.82%) Java Software Engineer
9 168 (7.46%) Senior Software Engineer
10 160 (7.10%) Senior Java Developer
11 152 (6.75%) Full-Stack Developer
12 128 (5.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 111 (4.93%) Lead Software Engineer
14 109 (4.84%) Senior Java Engineer
15 108 (4.80%) Software Developer
16 97 (4.31%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 77 (3.42%) Architect
18 64 (2.84%) Lead Developer
19 58 (2.58%) Senior Java Software Engineer
20 55 (2.44%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 494 (21.94%) Spring
2 434 (19.27%) Spring Boot
3 302 (13.41%) React
4 236 (10.48%) REST
5 227 (10.08%) AngularJS
6 206 (9.15%) Node.js
7 200 (8.88%) Kafka
8 164 (7.28%) .NET
9 141 (6.26%) RESTful
10 97 (4.31%) HTML
11 85 (3.77%) Web Services
12 80 (3.55%) SOAP
13 77 (3.42%) CSS
14 67 (2.98%) Elastic Stack
15 65 (2.89%) GraphQL
16 62 (2.75%) Vue
17 61 (2.71%) JSON
18 51 (2.26%) Gherkin
19 48 (2.13%) Hibernate
20 47 (2.09%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 252 (11.19%) Cloud Native
2 178 (7.90%) Distributed Systems
3 139 (6.17%) Product Ownership
4 87 (3.86%) Public Cloud
5 50 (2.22%) Fixed Income
5 50 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 43 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
7 40 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
8 39 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
9 38 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
10 35 (1.55%) Blog
10 35 (1.55%) Data Structures
11 33 (1.47%) Equities
12 31 (1.38%) Mobile App
13 30 (1.33%) e-Learning
14 29 (1.29%) Virtual Team
15 24 (1.07%) Onboarding
16 20 (0.89%) Algorithms
16 20 (0.89%) FPGA
16 20 (0.89%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 194 (8.61%) Linux
2 49 (2.18%) Android
3 47 (2.09%) Unix
4 42 (1.87%) Windows
5 14 (0.62%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.44%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.27%) CentOS
9 5 (0.22%) Debian
9 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.18%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.044%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 808 (35.88%) Agile
2 759 (33.70%) Software Engineering
3 697 (30.95%) CI/CD
4 536 (23.80%) DevOps
5 486 (21.58%) Microservices
6 451 (20.03%) Full-Stack Development
7 423 (18.78%) Test Automation
8 409 (18.16%) Mentoring
9 334 (14.83%) Problem-Solving
10 256 (11.37%) Containerisation
11 247 (10.97%) AI
12 234 (10.39%) Scrum
13 229 (10.17%) TDD
14 223 (9.90%) Continuous Improvement
15 215 (9.55%) Technical Leadership
16 210 (9.33%) Infrastructure as Code
17 209 (9.28%) Roadmaps
18 189 (8.39%) Computer Science
19 178 (7.90%) SDLC
20 165 (7.33%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 660 (29.31%) Python
2 444 (19.72%) SQL
3 432 (19.18%) JavaScript
4 268 (11.90%) TypeScript
5 237 (10.52%) C#
6 171 (7.59%) C++
7 157 (6.97%) Go
8 113 (5.02%) Bash
9 106 (4.71%) Kotlin
10 63 (2.80%) Groovy
11 61 (2.71%) C
12 52 (2.31%) Scala
13 39 (1.73%) Rust
14 35 (1.55%) PHP
14 35 (1.55%) PL/SQL
15 25 (1.11%) PowerShell
16 17 (0.75%) Apex Code
17 16 (0.71%) R
18 13 (0.58%) Perl
18 13 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 351 (15.59%) Security Cleared
2 258 (11.46%) Degree
3 221 (9.81%) SC Cleared
4 133 (5.91%) DV Cleared
5 128 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 94 (4.17%) AWS Certification
7 35 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 31 (1.38%) Master's Degree
9 29 (1.29%) ISTQB
10 25 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (1.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 21 (0.93%) OSCP
13 20 (0.89%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 19 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
15 18 (0.80%) DBS Check
16 17 (0.75%) Azure Certification
17 14 (0.62%) CREST Certified
17 14 (0.62%) PhD
18 12 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
19 10 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (6.57%) QA
2 53 (2.35%) Accessibility
3 39 (1.73%) Data Quality
4 15 (0.67%) PCI DSS
5 14 (0.62%) GRC
6 12 (0.53%) SOC 2
6 12 (0.53%) WCAG
7 10 (0.44%) GDPR
8 9 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.22%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 3 (0.13%) NIST
12 1 (0.044%) Good Clinical Practice
12 1 (0.044%) MiFID
12 1 (0.044%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.044%) SLA
System Software
1 361 (16.03%) Docker
2 12 (0.53%) Active Directory
2 12 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (0.40%) vSphere
4 7 (0.31%) Squid
4 7 (0.31%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.22%) Firmware
6 4 (0.18%) KVM
7 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.089%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.044%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.044%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.044%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.044%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.044%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.044%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.044%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 427 (18.96%) Kubernetes
2 258 (11.46%) Terraform
3 100 (4.44%) Grafana
4 94 (4.17%) Ansible
5 51 (2.26%) Argo
6 47 (2.09%) Prometheus
7 39 (1.73%) HP Fortify
8 28 (1.24%) Kibana
9 18 (0.80%) Kustomize
10 13 (0.58%) Packer
10 13 (0.58%) Rancher
11 12 (0.53%) Puppet
12 9 (0.40%) logstash
13 7 (0.31%) yum
13 7 (0.31%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (0.22%) FTK
16 3 (0.13%) AWS Copilot
16 3 (0.13%) Nagios
16 3 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 90 (4.00%) Oracle
2 81 (3.60%) Microsoft
3 69 (3.06%) Google
4 38 (1.69%) Splunk
5 32 (1.42%) IBM
6 27 (1.20%) Salesforce
7 20 (0.89%) MuleSoft
8 19 (0.84%) Dynatrace
8 19 (0.84%) Foundry
8 19 (0.84%) Red Hat
9 18 (0.80%) Palantir
10 17 (0.75%) AppDynamics
11 16 (0.71%) VMware
12 14 (0.62%) Databricks
13 12 (0.53%) Adobe
13 12 (0.53%) Atlassian
13 12 (0.53%) SAP
13 12 (0.53%) ServiceNow
13 12 (0.53%) Solace
14 9 (0.40%) Talend