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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 28 35
Rank change year-on-year -29 +7 -14
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,370 3,079 4,375
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.68% 7.08% 5.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.74% 23.49% 17.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,555 1,469 3,164
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,590 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% - -3.13%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -3.23%

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 16,078 13,109 25,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.15% 30.15% 30.60%
Number of salaries quoted 11,772 8,859 20,006
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,125
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 £85,000 £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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -13 1,051 £85,000 -19.05% 351
North of England -27 668 £67,500 - 119
North West -38 301 £70,000 - 61
South West -21 233 £60,000 - 57
Yorkshire +40 227 £72,500 +5.45% 33
South East -49 212 £70,000 +7.69% 100
North East +5 140 £53,750 +19.44% 26
Midlands -88 123 £67,500 +14.41% 51
West Midlands -55 99 £68,403 +14.00% 41
East of England -69 53 £51,359 +16.73% 23
East Midlands -75 23 £60,000 +26.32% 10
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 56 (2.36%) Confluence
2 42 (1.77%) Apache
3 37 (1.56%) Apache Spark
4 26 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
6 12 (0.51%) Camunda
7 11 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 10 (0.42%) JBoss
9 8 (0.34%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
10 5 (0.21%) CMS
10 5 (0.21%) GeoServer
10 5 (0.21%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.13%) CICS
11 3 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.13%) SAS
11 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.084%) Moodle
12 2 (0.084%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.68%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.084%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.084%) PTC Creo
5 2 (0.084%) Windchill
6 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.042%) Moqups
6 1 (0.042%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 16 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.42%) Maximo
3 5 (0.21%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.21%) Temenos T24
4 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.084%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.084%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.042%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.042%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.042%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.042%) Endur
6 1 (0.042%) Findur
6 1 (0.042%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.042%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 981 (41.39%) AWS
2 471 (19.87%) Azure
3 290 (12.24%) GCP
4 204 (8.61%) Serverless
5 153 (6.46%) AWS CloudFormation
6 126 (5.32%) AWS Lambda
7 119 (5.02%) Amazon ECS
8 117 (4.94%) Amazon S3
9 116 (4.89%) GitHub
10 109 (4.60%) SaaS
11 105 (4.43%) Amazon EKS
12 68 (2.87%) AWS Step Functions
12 68 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
13 57 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
14 42 (1.77%) Amazon ECR
15 38 (1.60%) Apigee
16 37 (1.56%) OpenShift
17 36 (1.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 36 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
17 36 (1.52%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (1.56%) Broadband
2 34 (1.43%) HTTP
3 24 (1.01%) TCP/IP
4 17 (0.72%) Network Security
5 13 (0.55%) DMARC
6 9 (0.38%) BGP
6 9 (0.38%) VPN
7 8 (0.34%) IPv4
7 8 (0.34%) MQTT
7 8 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
8 6 (0.25%) DNS
8 6 (0.25%) IPsec
9 5 (0.21%) AMQP
9 5 (0.21%) Internet
9 5 (0.21%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.13%) Firewall
10 3 (0.13%) VLAN
11 2 (0.084%) LAN
11 2 (0.084%) SAN
11 2 (0.084%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (7.47%) NoSQL
2 176 (7.43%) PostgreSQL
3 120 (5.06%) MongoDB
4 104 (4.39%) Relational Database
5 85 (3.59%) DynamoDB
6 80 (3.38%) MySQL
7 71 (3.00%) SQL Server
8 39 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
9 32 (1.35%) Big Data
10 28 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
11 27 (1.14%) Db2
12 25 (1.05%) BigQuery
12 25 (1.05%) Redis
13 23 (0.97%) RDBMS
14 20 (0.84%) Hadoop
15 19 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
16 18 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
17 15 (0.63%) Metadata
18 13 (0.55%) Geospatial Data
19 12 (0.51%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 229 (9.66%) Git
2 178 (7.51%) Jenkins
3 171 (7.22%) GitLab
4 88 (3.71%) JIRA
5 83 (3.50%) Cucumber
6 70 (2.95%) Maven
7 69 (2.91%) JUnit
8 66 (2.78%) Selenium
9 60 (2.53%) Cypress.io
10 54 (2.28%) TeamCity
11 50 (2.11%) SonarQube
12 38 (1.60%) JMeter
13 34 (1.43%) Postman
14 30 (1.27%) Mockito
15 29 (1.22%) Bitbucket
15 29 (1.22%) Subversion
16 28 (1.18%) Eclipse
17 22 (0.93%) Claude Code
17 22 (0.93%) Gradle
18 21 (0.89%) REST Assured
General
1 614 (25.91%) Finance
2 351 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 228 (9.62%) Public Sector
4 222 (9.37%) Banking
5 168 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
6 136 (5.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 110 (4.64%) Front Office
8 98 (4.14%) Law
9 93 (3.92%) Retail
10 68 (2.87%) Financial Institution
11 45 (1.90%) Back Office
12 39 (1.65%) Investment Banking
13 34 (1.43%) Health Technology
14 24 (1.01%) Games
14 24 (1.01%) Manufacturing
15 21 (0.89%) Marketing
16 20 (0.84%) Legal
17 19 (0.80%) Aerospace
18 18 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
19 17 (0.72%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 864 (36.46%) Developer
2 582 (24.56%) Senior
3 568 (23.97%) Java Developer
4 540 (22.78%) Software Engineer
5 410 (17.30%) Java Engineer
6 338 (14.26%) Lead
7 205 (8.65%) Senior Developer
8 175 (7.38%) Senior Software Engineer
9 173 (7.30%) Java Software Engineer
10 145 (6.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 141 (5.95%) Full-Stack Developer
12 140 (5.91%) Senior Java Developer
13 126 (5.32%) Software Developer
14 124 (5.23%) Senior Java Engineer
15 117 (4.94%) Lead Software Engineer
16 90 (3.80%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 75 (3.16%) Architect
18 74 (3.12%) Consultant
19 70 (2.95%) DevOps Engineer
20 69 (2.91%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 534 (22.53%) Spring
2 455 (19.20%) Spring Boot
3 279 (11.77%) React
4 241 (10.17%) Kafka
5 232 (9.79%) AngularJS
6 227 (9.58%) Node.js
7 224 (9.45%) REST
8 170 (7.17%) RESTful
9 154 (6.50%) .NET
10 84 (3.54%) Web Services
11 76 (3.21%) CSS
12 69 (2.91%) HTML
13 67 (2.83%) Vue
14 66 (2.78%) GraphQL
15 50 (2.11%) OAuth
16 49 (2.07%) Playwright
17 48 (2.03%) SOAP
18 46 (1.94%) Hibernate
18 46 (1.94%) JSON
19 44 (1.86%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 291 (12.28%) Cloud Native
2 197 (8.31%) Distributed Systems
3 148 (6.24%) Product Ownership
4 105 (4.43%) Public Cloud
5 57 (2.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 56 (2.36%) Onboarding
7 54 (2.28%) Fixed Income
8 49 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
9 43 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
10 41 (1.73%) Data Structures
11 38 (1.60%) Distributed Architecture
12 34 (1.43%) Equities
12 34 (1.43%) Mobile App
13 33 (1.39%) e-Learning
14 32 (1.35%) Blog
14 32 (1.35%) Virtual Team
15 29 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
16 25 (1.05%) Algorithms
17 20 (0.84%) Social Media
18 18 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 216 (9.11%) Linux
2 57 (2.41%) Windows
3 44 (1.86%) Unix
4 42 (1.77%) Android
5 15 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (0.59%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.46%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.17%) CentOS
8 4 (0.17%) Debian
8 4 (0.17%) Kali Linux
8 4 (0.17%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.084%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.042%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 816 (34.43%) Software Engineering
2 802 (33.84%) Agile
3 757 (31.94%) CI/CD
4 551 (23.25%) DevOps
5 539 (22.74%) Microservices
6 482 (20.34%) Test Automation
7 459 (19.37%) Full-Stack Development
8 407 (17.17%) Mentoring
9 373 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
10 309 (13.04%) AI
11 280 (11.81%) Containerisation
12 260 (10.97%) Infrastructure as Code
13 252 (10.63%) TDD
14 250 (10.55%) Continuous Improvement
15 222 (9.37%) Roadmaps
16 221 (9.32%) Technical Leadership
17 212 (8.95%) Computer Science
18 203 (8.57%) Scrum
19 186 (7.85%) SDLC
20 171 (7.22%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 760 (32.07%) Python
2 448 (18.90%) SQL
3 419 (17.68%) JavaScript
4 252 (10.63%) TypeScript
5 240 (10.13%) C#
6 218 (9.20%) C++
7 147 (6.20%) Go
8 117 (4.94%) Bash
9 100 (4.22%) Kotlin
10 66 (2.78%) C
11 64 (2.70%) Scala
12 58 (2.45%) Groovy
12 58 (2.45%) PHP
13 55 (2.32%) Rust
14 39 (1.65%) Perl
15 35 (1.48%) PowerShell
16 31 (1.31%) Ruby
17 28 (1.18%) PL/SQL
18 19 (0.80%) Shell Script
19 15 (0.63%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 403 (17.00%) Security Cleared
2 258 (10.89%) Degree
3 235 (9.92%) SC Cleared
4 145 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 140 (5.91%) DV Cleared
6 100 (4.22%) AWS Certification
7 54 (2.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 30 (1.27%) Master's Degree
9 23 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
10 21 (0.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 19 (0.80%) OSCP
12 17 (0.72%) ISTQB
13 15 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
14 13 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
15 12 (0.51%) DBS Check
16 11 (0.46%) CREST Certified
17 10 (0.42%) PhD
18 9 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
19 8 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (6.41%) QA
2 66 (2.78%) Accessibility
3 47 (1.98%) Data Quality
4 22 (0.93%) WCAG
5 21 (0.89%) GDPR
6 14 (0.59%) GRC
7 13 (0.55%) PCI DSS
7 13 (0.55%) SOC 2
8 9 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.30%) ISO 20022
9 7 (0.30%) NIST
10 6 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.084%) Good Clinical Practice
13 2 (0.084%) MiFID
13 2 (0.084%) PSD2
13 2 (0.084%) Software Quality Assurance
14 1 (0.042%) GxP
System Software
1 366 (15.44%) Docker
2 20 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (0.76%) Active Directory
4 11 (0.46%) vSphere
5 8 (0.34%) Squid
5 8 (0.34%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.25%) Firmware
6 6 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.21%) KVM
8 4 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.084%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.084%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.084%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 430 (18.14%) Kubernetes
2 283 (11.94%) Terraform
3 107 (4.51%) Ansible
4 105 (4.43%) Grafana
5 41 (1.73%) Prometheus
6 33 (1.39%) Argo
7 30 (1.27%) HP Fortify
8 28 (1.18%) Kibana
9 14 (0.59%) Packer
9 14 (0.59%) Puppet
10 11 (0.46%) Rancher
11 10 (0.42%) logstash
12 8 (0.34%) ZABBIX
13 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (0.25%) Hadoop YARN
14 6 (0.25%) yum
15 5 (0.21%) Kustomize
16 4 (0.17%) Control-M
16 4 (0.17%) FTK
16 4 (0.17%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 95 (4.01%) Oracle
2 91 (3.84%) Microsoft
3 68 (2.87%) Google
4 57 (2.41%) Splunk
5 44 (1.86%) IBM
6 31 (1.31%) SAP
7 25 (1.05%) VMware
8 24 (1.01%) Palantir
9 23 (0.97%) Red Hat
9 23 (0.97%) Salesforce
10 22 (0.93%) Dynatrace
11 21 (0.89%) AppDynamics
12 20 (0.84%) ServiceNow
13 19 (0.80%) Foundry
14 18 (0.76%) Adobe
15 16 (0.68%) OpenAI
16 15 (0.63%) MuleSoft
17 13 (0.55%) SendGrid
18 11 (0.46%) Atlassian
18 11 (0.46%) Solace