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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 32 34
Rank change year-on-year -38 +2 -16
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,092 2,491 4,380
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.63% 6.58% 5.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.98% 19.80% 16.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,329 1,486 3,370
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £39,000
25th Percentile £55,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,250 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +6.55% -9.38%
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 13,964 12,578 26,974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.55% 33.25% 32.47%
Number of salaries quoted 9,798 9,268 22,404
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,250 £35,000
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 28 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 28 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 -6 1,031 £90,000 -16.28% 422
North of England -43 486 £69,308 +3.39% 173
Yorkshire +2 221 £70,000 -1.40% 33
South East -58 214 £67,500 +3.85% 176
North West -56 198 £70,000 +3.70% 103
South West -36 182 £65,000 +6.12% 79
Midlands -72 94 £50,000 -6.87% 44
West Midlands -42 77 £50,000 -6.87% 29
North East -16 67 £52,500 -7.08% 37
East of England -67 48 £50,000 -2.91% 31
East Midlands -70 16 £49,000 +8.89% 13
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 40 (1.91%) Apache
2 38 (1.82%) Apache Spark
3 33 (1.58%) Confluence
4 31 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (1.00%) JBoss
6 13 (0.62%) Palantir Foundry
7 12 (0.57%) OpenStack
8 11 (0.53%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.24%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.24%) Appian
10 5 (0.24%) Camunda
10 5 (0.24%) GeoServer
10 5 (0.24%) IIS
11 4 (0.19%) Moodle
11 4 (0.19%) SharePoint
12 3 (0.14%) CICS
12 3 (0.14%) CMS
12 3 (0.14%) Liferay
12 3 (0.14%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (0.53%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.048%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.048%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.048%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 14 (0.67%) Maximo
2 5 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.14%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.14%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.14%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.096%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.048%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.048%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.048%) Endur
5 1 (0.048%) Findur
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.048%) Shopify
5 1 (0.048%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 888 (42.45%) AWS
2 390 (18.64%) Azure
3 252 (12.05%) GCP
4 175 (8.37%) Serverless
5 122 (5.83%) SaaS
6 118 (5.64%) AWS CloudFormation
7 115 (5.50%) Amazon S3
8 114 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
9 110 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
10 105 (5.02%) Amazon ECS
11 95 (4.54%) GitHub
12 69 (3.30%) AWS Step Functions
13 52 (2.49%) Apigee
14 51 (2.44%) Amazon ECR
15 48 (2.29%) OpenShift
16 44 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
17 43 (2.06%) Amazon SQS
18 38 (1.82%) dbt
19 34 (1.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 31 (1.48%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 49 (2.34%) Broadband
2 33 (1.58%) HTTP
3 30 (1.43%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.43%) 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%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.14%) LAN
7 3 (0.14%) Network Security
7 3 (0.14%) PuTTY
7 3 (0.14%) WAN
8 2 (0.096%) DHCP
8 2 (0.096%) DNS
8 2 (0.096%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (8.08%) NoSQL
2 161 (7.70%) PostgreSQL
3 110 (5.26%) Relational Database
4 93 (4.45%) DynamoDB
5 84 (4.02%) MongoDB
6 82 (3.92%) SQL Server
7 66 (3.15%) MySQL
8 45 (2.15%) RDBMS
9 40 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
10 33 (1.58%) Big Data
10 33 (1.58%) DB2
11 29 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
12 27 (1.29%) Hadoop
13 26 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
14 25 (1.20%) Neo4j
15 23 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
16 17 (0.81%) Redis
17 16 (0.76%) BigQuery
18 15 (0.72%) Flink
19 13 (0.62%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 174 (8.32%) Jenkins
2 159 (7.60%) Git
3 142 (6.79%) GitLab
4 104 (4.97%) Selenium
5 88 (4.21%) JIRA
6 79 (3.78%) Cucumber
7 74 (3.54%) Maven
8 73 (3.49%) Cypress.io
9 65 (3.11%) SonarQube
10 62 (2.96%) TeamCity
11 53 (2.53%) JUnit
12 48 (2.29%) Postman
13 30 (1.43%) SoapUI
14 29 (1.39%) Bitbucket
14 29 (1.39%) JMeter
15 27 (1.29%) WebDriver
16 25 (1.20%) REST Assured
16 25 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
17 22 (1.05%) Gradle
18 19 (0.91%) Jaeger
General
1 526 (25.14%) Finance
2 369 (17.64%) Social Skills
3 242 (11.57%) Banking
4 161 (7.70%) Analytical Skills
5 151 (7.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 151 (7.22%) Public Sector
6 115 (5.50%) Front Office
7 114 (5.45%) Law
8 96 (4.59%) Retail
9 68 (3.25%) Financial Institution
10 51 (2.44%) Back Office
10 51 (2.44%) Investment Banking
11 36 (1.72%) Games
12 31 (1.48%) Telecoms
13 25 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
13 25 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
14 22 (1.05%) Aerospace
15 21 (1.00%) Health Technology
16 19 (0.91%) Marketing
17 18 (0.86%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 778 (37.19%) Developer
2 531 (25.38%) Senior
3 507 (24.24%) Software Engineer
4 485 (23.18%) Java Developer
5 329 (15.73%) Java Engineer
6 299 (14.29%) Lead
7 203 (9.70%) Senior Developer
8 173 (8.27%) Java Software Engineer
9 149 (7.12%) Full-Stack Developer
9 149 (7.12%) Senior Software Engineer
10 137 (6.55%) Senior Java Developer
11 117 (5.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 107 (5.11%) Senior Java Engineer
13 106 (5.07%) Software Developer
14 95 (4.54%) Lead Software Engineer
15 89 (4.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 85 (4.06%) Architect
17 55 (2.63%) Lead Developer
17 55 (2.63%) Senior Java Software Engineer
18 52 (2.49%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 427 (20.41%) Spring
2 389 (18.59%) Spring Boot
3 323 (15.44%) React
4 237 (11.33%) REST
5 212 (10.13%) AngularJS
6 197 (9.42%) Node.js
7 180 (8.60%) Kafka
8 162 (7.74%) .NET
9 119 (5.69%) RESTful
10 105 (5.02%) HTML
11 92 (4.40%) SOAP
12 86 (4.11%) Web Services
13 82 (3.92%) CSS
14 75 (3.59%) GraphQL
15 74 (3.54%) Elastic Stack
16 60 (2.87%) JSON
16 60 (2.87%) Vue
17 56 (2.68%) Gherkin
18 53 (2.53%) Hibernate
19 48 (2.29%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 246 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 164 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
3 111 (5.31%) Product Ownership
4 71 (3.39%) Public Cloud
5 55 (2.63%) Fixed Income
6 46 (2.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 45 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
8 44 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
9 40 (1.91%) Distributed Architecture
10 37 (1.77%) Equities
11 36 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
12 35 (1.67%) Blog
13 30 (1.43%) Mobile App
14 28 (1.34%) Data Structures
15 25 (1.20%) e-Learning
15 25 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
15 25 (1.20%) Virtual Team
16 22 (1.05%) Management Information System
17 21 (1.00%) FPGA
18 20 (0.96%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 191 (9.13%) Linux
2 49 (2.34%) Android
3 46 (2.20%) Unix
4 42 (2.01%) Windows
5 14 (0.67%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.33%) CentOS
7 7 (0.33%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.29%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.24%) Debian
10 4 (0.19%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.096%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.048%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 751 (35.90%) Agile
2 721 (34.46%) Software Engineering
3 620 (29.64%) CI/CD
4 487 (23.28%) DevOps
5 418 (19.98%) Full-Stack Development
5 418 (19.98%) Microservices
6 348 (16.63%) Test Automation
7 344 (16.44%) Mentoring
8 334 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
9 236 (11.28%) Containerisation
10 235 (11.23%) AI
11 213 (10.18%) Continuous Improvement
12 211 (10.09%) Scrum
13 199 (9.51%) Roadmaps
14 197 (9.42%) Computer Science
15 188 (8.99%) TDD
16 185 (8.84%) Technical Leadership
17 177 (8.46%) Infrastructure as Code
18 176 (8.41%) SDLC
19 159 (7.60%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 649 (31.02%) Python
2 410 (19.60%) SQL
3 405 (19.36%) JavaScript
4 280 (13.38%) TypeScript
5 211 (10.09%) C#
6 155 (7.41%) Go
7 145 (6.93%) C++
8 106 (5.07%) Bash
9 104 (4.97%) Kotlin
10 81 (3.87%) C
11 58 (2.77%) Groovy
12 44 (2.10%) PHP
13 37 (1.77%) Scala
14 34 (1.63%) PL/SQL
15 27 (1.29%) Rust
16 21 (1.00%) PowerShell
17 19 (0.91%) Apex Code
18 16 (0.76%) R
19 14 (0.67%) Ruby
20 11 (0.53%) Perl
Qualifications
1 333 (15.92%) Security Cleared
2 269 (12.86%) Degree
3 203 (9.70%) SC Cleared
4 135 (6.45%) DV Cleared
5 132 (6.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 95 (4.54%) AWS Certification
7 37 (1.77%) Master's Degree
8 35 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 29 (1.39%) ISTQB
10 25 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 23 (1.10%) Azure Certification
13 20 (0.96%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 20 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
14 17 (0.81%) OSCP
15 16 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
16 15 (0.72%) PhD
17 14 (0.67%) DBS Check
18 13 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
18 13 (0.62%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (6.55%) QA
2 34 (1.63%) Accessibility
3 25 (1.20%) Data Quality
4 16 (0.76%) PCI DSS
5 13 (0.62%) SOC 2
6 12 (0.57%) GRC
7 9 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
8 8 (0.38%) GDPR
9 6 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.19%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.19%) SLA
10 4 (0.19%) WCAG
11 3 (0.14%) NIST
12 2 (0.096%) ECSS
13 1 (0.048%) MiFID
13 1 (0.048%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 340 (16.25%) Docker
2 10 (0.48%) Active Directory
2 10 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.24%) Firmware
3 5 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (0.24%) vSphere
4 4 (0.19%) KVM
4 4 (0.19%) Squid
4 4 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.19%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.096%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.096%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.048%) HDFS
6 1 (0.048%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.048%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.048%) OpenDJ
6 1 (0.048%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 423 (20.22%) Kubernetes
2 237 (11.33%) Terraform
3 100 (4.78%) Grafana
4 86 (4.11%) Ansible
5 57 (2.72%) Argo
6 45 (2.15%) HP Fortify
6 45 (2.15%) Prometheus
7 22 (1.05%) Kibana
8 19 (0.91%) Kustomize
9 13 (0.62%) Rancher
10 11 (0.53%) Puppet
11 10 (0.48%) Packer
12 9 (0.43%) logstash
13 7 (0.33%) yum
14 6 (0.29%) 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 87 (4.16%) Oracle
2 78 (3.73%) Microsoft
3 63 (3.01%) Google
4 34 (1.63%) IBM
5 31 (1.48%) Salesforce
6 28 (1.34%) MuleSoft
7 20 (0.96%) Splunk
8 18 (0.86%) Red Hat
9 17 (0.81%) Foundry
10 16 (0.76%) Atlassian
11 15 (0.72%) Databricks
11 15 (0.72%) SAP
12 14 (0.67%) AppDynamics
12 14 (0.67%) Informatica
13 13 (0.62%) Dynatrace
13 13 (0.62%) OpenAI
13 13 (0.62%) Palantir
13 13 (0.62%) VMware
14 11 (0.53%) Talend
15 10 (0.48%) Solace