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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 44 34
Rank change year-on-year -26 -10 -16
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,010 2,040 4,312
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.75% 5.56% 5.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.27% 16.41% 16.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,303 1,495 3,340
10th Percentile £44,375 £41,450 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £54,382 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -9.38%
75th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £125,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +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 13,160 12,435 26,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.00% 33.91% 33.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9,413 9,365 22,276
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,625
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 £112,500 £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 7 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 7 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 -4 1,008 £94,250 -10.24% 325
North of England -14 450 £70,000 +7.69% 197
Yorkshire +10 210 £72,500 +3.57% 61
South East -53 205 £67,500 +3.85% 136
North West -23 191 £70,000 +4.42% 97
South West -21 171 £65,000 +4.00% 78
Midlands -63 93 £55,000 +15.79% 48
West Midlands -15 76 £55,000 +2.44% 22
North East -14 49 £52,500 -5.83% 39
East of England -85 43 £50,000 -2.91% 39
East Midlands -73 16 £49,000 +8.89% 26
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 44 (2.19%) Apache
2 40 (1.99%) Apache Spark
3 35 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
4 30 (1.49%) Confluence
5 22 (1.09%) JBoss
6 15 (0.75%) OpenStack
7 13 (0.65%) WebSphere
8 11 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
9 9 (0.45%) Anypoint
10 6 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.25%) Camunda
11 5 (0.25%) GeoServer
11 5 (0.25%) IIS
12 4 (0.20%) Appian
12 4 (0.20%) Moodle
12 4 (0.20%) nginx
12 4 (0.20%) SharePoint
13 3 (0.15%) CICS
13 3 (0.15%) Liferay
14 2 (0.100%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 12 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (0.55%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.100%) Windchill
6 1 (0.050%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.050%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 15 (0.75%) Maximo
2 7 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.25%) Shopify
4 4 (0.20%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.15%) SAP SD
5 3 (0.15%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.100%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.050%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.050%) Endur
7 1 (0.050%) Findur
7 1 (0.050%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.050%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.050%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.050%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.050%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.050%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.050%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.050%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.050%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.050%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 876 (43.58%) AWS
2 362 (18.01%) Azure
3 247 (12.29%) GCP
4 180 (8.96%) Serverless
5 136 (6.77%) SaaS
6 129 (6.42%) Amazon EKS
7 114 (5.67%) Amazon S3
7 114 (5.67%) AWS Lambda
8 109 (5.42%) Amazon ECS
9 107 (5.32%) AWS CloudFormation
10 91 (4.53%) GitHub
11 65 (3.23%) AWS Step Functions
12 47 (2.34%) Apigee
12 47 (2.34%) dbt
13 46 (2.29%) Amazon ECR
13 46 (2.29%) OpenShift
14 44 (2.19%) Amazon SQS
15 36 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
16 35 (1.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 30 (1.49%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 49 (2.44%) Broadband
2 34 (1.69%) TCP/IP
3 24 (1.19%) HTTP
4 10 (0.50%) AMQP
5 8 (0.40%) Internet
6 6 (0.30%) BGP
6 6 (0.30%) Multicast
6 6 (0.30%) VLAN
6 6 (0.30%) VPN
7 3 (0.15%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.15%) Network Security
7 3 (0.15%) PuTTY
7 3 (0.15%) SAN
8 2 (0.100%) DHCP
8 2 (0.100%) DNS
8 2 (0.100%) Firewall
8 2 (0.100%) LAN
8 2 (0.100%) NAS
8 2 (0.100%) SNMP
8 2 (0.100%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (8.16%) NoSQL
2 157 (7.81%) PostgreSQL
3 126 (6.27%) Relational Database
4 85 (4.23%) DynamoDB
5 77 (3.83%) SQL Server
6 62 (3.08%) MongoDB
6 62 (3.08%) MySQL
7 50 (2.49%) RDBMS
8 39 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
9 35 (1.74%) DB2
10 32 (1.59%) Big Data
11 31 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
12 30 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
13 29 (1.44%) Hadoop
14 26 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
15 24 (1.19%) Neo4j
16 21 (1.04%) Redis
17 15 (0.75%) Flink
18 13 (0.65%) BigQuery
19 12 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 172 (8.56%) Jenkins
2 158 (7.86%) Git
3 113 (5.62%) GitLab
4 108 (5.37%) Selenium
5 87 (4.33%) JIRA
6 84 (4.18%) Cucumber
7 70 (3.48%) Cypress.io
8 69 (3.43%) TeamCity
9 68 (3.38%) Maven
10 58 (2.89%) SonarQube
11 54 (2.69%) JUnit
12 48 (2.39%) Postman
13 33 (1.64%) JMeter
14 31 (1.54%) SoapUI
15 30 (1.49%) WebDriver
16 24 (1.19%) Team Foundation Server
17 23 (1.14%) Bitbucket
17 23 (1.14%) REST Assured
18 21 (1.04%) Gradle
19 19 (0.95%) Mockito
General
1 527 (26.22%) Finance
2 383 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 252 (12.54%) Banking
4 168 (8.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 153 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
6 147 (7.31%) Public Sector
7 133 (6.62%) Law
8 116 (5.77%) Front Office
9 113 (5.62%) Retail
10 89 (4.43%) Financial Institution
11 61 (3.03%) Back Office
12 60 (2.99%) Investment Banking
13 47 (2.34%) Games
14 32 (1.59%) Telecoms
15 26 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
16 23 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
17 21 (1.04%) Manufacturing
18 19 (0.95%) Aerospace
18 19 (0.95%) Health Technology
18 19 (0.95%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 752 (37.41%) Developer
2 511 (25.42%) Software Engineer
3 498 (24.78%) Senior
4 464 (23.08%) Java Developer
5 299 (14.88%) Java Engineer
6 283 (14.08%) Lead
7 189 (9.40%) Senior Developer
8 169 (8.41%) Java Software Engineer
9 150 (7.46%) Senior Software Engineer
10 148 (7.36%) Full-Stack Developer
11 126 (6.27%) Senior Java Developer
12 116 (5.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 106 (5.27%) Senior Java Engineer
14 102 (5.07%) Software Developer
15 96 (4.78%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 88 (4.38%) Architect
16 88 (4.38%) Lead Software Engineer
17 57 (2.84%) Senior Java Software Engineer
18 52 (2.59%) AWS Engineer
18 52 (2.59%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 415 (20.65%) Spring
2 373 (18.56%) Spring Boot
3 330 (16.42%) React
4 226 (11.24%) REST
5 199 (9.90%) AngularJS
6 192 (9.55%) Node.js
7 178 (8.86%) Kafka
8 163 (8.11%) .NET
9 136 (6.77%) RESTful
10 107 (5.32%) HTML
11 92 (4.58%) SOAP
12 84 (4.18%) Web Services
13 81 (4.03%) CSS
14 78 (3.88%) GraphQL
15 77 (3.83%) Elastic Stack
16 60 (2.99%) Hibernate
17 58 (2.89%) Gherkin
17 58 (2.89%) JSON
18 55 (2.74%) Vue
19 46 (2.29%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 255 (12.69%) Cloud Native
2 171 (8.51%) Distributed Systems
3 95 (4.73%) Product Ownership
4 57 (2.84%) Fixed Income
5 55 (2.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 53 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
7 51 (2.54%) Public Cloud
8 47 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
9 43 (2.14%) Equities
10 38 (1.89%) Blog
11 35 (1.74%) Distributed Architecture
12 34 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
13 31 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
13 31 (1.54%) Mobile App
14 30 (1.49%) Data Structures
15 27 (1.34%) Derivative
16 24 (1.19%) FPGA
16 24 (1.19%) Management Information System
16 24 (1.19%) Virtual Team
17 21 (1.04%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 192 (9.55%) Linux
2 46 (2.29%) Android
3 38 (1.89%) Unix
4 31 (1.54%) Windows
5 13 (0.65%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.35%) CentOS
8 6 (0.30%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.25%) Debian
9 5 (0.25%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.20%) Windows Server
11 2 (0.100%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.100%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.050%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 745 (37.06%) Agile
2 704 (35.02%) Software Engineering
3 622 (30.95%) CI/CD
4 464 (23.08%) DevOps
5 409 (20.35%) Full-Stack Development
6 404 (20.10%) Microservices
7 350 (17.41%) Test Automation
8 328 (16.32%) Mentoring
9 325 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
10 227 (11.29%) Containerisation
11 223 (11.09%) AI
12 219 (10.90%) Continuous Improvement
13 198 (9.85%) Scrum
14 193 (9.60%) Computer Science
15 182 (9.05%) TDD
16 180 (8.96%) Technical Leadership
17 177 (8.81%) Roadmaps
18 173 (8.61%) Infrastructure as Code
19 164 (8.16%) Clean Code
20 163 (8.11%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 623 (31.00%) Python
2 429 (21.34%) JavaScript
3 387 (19.25%) SQL
4 290 (14.43%) TypeScript
5 206 (10.25%) C#
6 156 (7.76%) Go
7 137 (6.82%) C++
8 119 (5.92%) Kotlin
9 98 (4.88%) Bash
10 80 (3.98%) C
11 53 (2.64%) Groovy
12 45 (2.24%) Scala
13 39 (1.94%) PHP
14 36 (1.79%) PL/SQL
15 29 (1.44%) Rust
16 21 (1.04%) Ruby
17 20 (1.00%) Apex Code
18 17 (0.85%) PowerShell
19 16 (0.80%) R
20 15 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 305 (15.17%) Security Cleared
2 266 (13.23%) Degree
3 190 (9.45%) SC Cleared
4 123 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 116 (5.77%) DV Cleared
6 90 (4.48%) AWS Certification
7 38 (1.89%) Master's Degree
8 36 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 31 (1.54%) Azure Certification
10 27 (1.34%) ISTQB
11 23 (1.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 23 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
12 21 (1.04%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 20 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
14 19 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (0.80%) OSCP
16 15 (0.75%) CREST Certified
16 15 (0.75%) PhD
17 12 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
18 11 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (6.42%) QA
2 41 (2.04%) Accessibility
3 21 (1.04%) Data Quality
4 18 (0.90%) GDPR
4 18 (0.90%) PCI DSS
5 15 (0.75%) SOC 2
6 13 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
7 12 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.45%) GRC
9 8 (0.40%) WCAG
10 5 (0.25%) NIST
11 4 (0.20%) EU AI Act
11 4 (0.20%) SLA
12 3 (0.15%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.100%) ECSS
13 2 (0.100%) MISRA
13 2 (0.100%) NCSC
14 1 (0.050%) MiFID
14 1 (0.050%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 337 (16.77%) Docker
2 8 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.30%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.30%) Firmware
3 6 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
3 6 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.15%) HDFS
5 3 (0.15%) KVM
6 2 (0.100%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.100%) vSphere
7 1 (0.050%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.050%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.050%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.050%) Squid
7 1 (0.050%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 425 (21.14%) Kubernetes
2 225 (11.19%) Terraform
3 104 (5.17%) Grafana
4 80 (3.98%) Ansible
5 44 (2.19%) Prometheus
6 42 (2.09%) HP Fortify
7 40 (1.99%) Argo
8 22 (1.09%) Kibana
9 19 (0.95%) Kustomize
10 10 (0.50%) Rancher
11 7 (0.35%) Packer
11 7 (0.35%) Puppet
12 6 (0.30%) yum
13 5 (0.25%) FTK
13 5 (0.25%) logstash
13 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (0.20%) Nagios
15 3 (0.15%) AWS Copilot
15 3 (0.15%) Progress Chef
15 3 (0.15%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 86 (4.28%) Oracle
2 65 (3.23%) Microsoft
3 60 (2.99%) Google
4 40 (1.99%) IBM
5 33 (1.64%) MuleSoft
6 32 (1.59%) Salesforce
7 22 (1.09%) SAP
8 18 (0.90%) Atlassian
8 18 (0.90%) Informatica
8 18 (0.90%) Splunk
9 17 (0.85%) Databricks
10 15 (0.75%) Foundry
10 15 (0.75%) Talend
11 13 (0.65%) Red Hat
12 12 (0.60%) AppDynamics
13 11 (0.55%) OpenAI
13 11 (0.55%) Palantir
14 9 (0.45%) Pega
14 9 (0.45%) Solace
14 9 (0.45%) Workday