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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 32 22
Rank change year-on-year -14 -10 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,153 3,477 4,115
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.06% 5.59% 8.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.10% 17.57% 19.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,089 2,178 3,307
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,857 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +3.23% +4.73%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £142,500 £130,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% +7.14%

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 10,710 19,792 20,680
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.19% 31.82% 41.12%
Number of salaries quoted 7,355 11,938 16,941
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,000 £49,236
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%

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 19 October 2025.

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 19 October 2025. 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 -11 980 £105,000 +5.00% 405
North of England +33 560 £65,000 +8.33% 193
North West +35 438 £70,000 +12.00% 103
South East -83 210 £63,750 +8.97% 337
Midlands +49 207 £62,500 +38.89% 48
West Midlands +53 133 £63,250 +15.00% 35
South West -40 111 £65,000 +4.00% 118
Yorkshire +27 93 £67,500 +12.50% 53
East of England -49 82 £42,500 -37.04% 33
East Midlands +38 74 £58,000 +65.71% 13
North East -1 31 £51,250 -11.58% 37
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
1 162 (7.52%) Confluence
2 107 (4.97%) Apache Airflow
3 98 (4.55%) Apache
4 51 (2.37%) Apache Spark
5 16 (0.74%) IIS
6 12 (0.56%) Tomcat
7 11 (0.51%) JBoss
8 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.28%) Mule
8 6 (0.28%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.28%) SharePoint
9 5 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
9 5 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
10 4 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
10 4 (0.19%) Camunda
10 4 (0.19%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.19%) nginx
10 4 (0.19%) Traefik
10 4 (0.19%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 12 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.19%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.14%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.14%) Simulink
4 2 (0.093%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.093%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.046%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
2 6 (0.28%) Adaptiv
2 6 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.19%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.14%) Endur
4 3 (0.14%) Maximo
4 3 (0.14%) Shopify
5 2 (0.093%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.093%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.046%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.046%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.046%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,191 (55.32%) AWS
2 710 (32.98%) Azure
3 495 (22.99%) GCP
4 145 (6.73%) Serverless
5 95 (4.41%) dbt
6 94 (4.37%) Amazon EC2
7 89 (4.13%) Snowflake
8 86 (3.99%) AWS Lambda
9 77 (3.58%) Amazon EKS
9 77 (3.58%) GitHub
10 76 (3.53%) Amazon S3
11 72 (3.34%) Amazon ECS
12 67 (3.11%) SaaS
13 51 (2.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 38 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
15 32 (1.49%) AWS KMS
16 31 (1.44%) Datadog
17 30 (1.39%) Amazon SQS
18 28 (1.30%) OpenShift
18 28 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 28 (1.30%) TCP/IP
2 24 (1.11%) DNS
2 24 (1.11%) HTTP
3 23 (1.07%) Firewall
4 21 (0.98%) SSH
5 19 (0.88%) FTP
5 19 (0.88%) SMTP
6 13 (0.60%) SSL
7 9 (0.42%) DMARC
7 9 (0.42%) Internet
7 9 (0.42%) VPN
8 7 (0.33%) AMQP
9 5 (0.23%) Broadband
9 5 (0.23%) Multicast
9 5 (0.23%) SAN
10 4 (0.19%) DHCP
10 4 (0.19%) HTTPS
10 4 (0.19%) ICMP
10 4 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
11 3 (0.14%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 292 (13.56%) SQL Server
2 197 (9.15%) PostgreSQL
3 157 (7.29%) Relational Database
4 115 (5.34%) NoSQL
5 105 (4.88%) Data Lake
6 101 (4.69%) MongoDB
7 93 (4.32%) Apache Iceberg
8 92 (4.27%) Amazon Athena
9 89 (4.13%) Apache Arrow
9 89 (4.13%) Dremio
10 76 (3.53%) Apache Ignite
11 75 (3.48%) MySQL
12 57 (2.65%) Big Data
13 56 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
13 56 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
14 48 (2.23%) DynamoDB
15 47 (2.18%) RDBMS
16 35 (1.63%) Hadoop
17 31 (1.44%) BigQuery
18 27 (1.25%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 306 (14.21%) JIRA
2 285 (13.24%) Selenium
3 268 (12.45%) GitLab
4 243 (11.29%) Maven
5 237 (11.01%) Cucumber
6 231 (10.73%) SonarQube
7 225 (10.45%) Bitbucket
8 220 (10.22%) Sonatype Nexus
9 189 (8.78%) Jenkins
10 158 (7.34%) Git
11 88 (4.09%) JUnit
12 52 (2.42%) Mockito
13 37 (1.72%) Postman
14 35 (1.63%) Cypress.io
14 35 (1.63%) JMeter
15 30 (1.39%) WebDriver
16 23 (1.07%) SoapUI
17 20 (0.93%) Vagrant
18 16 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
19 15 (0.70%) TeamCity
General
1 909 (42.22%) Finance
2 612 (28.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 575 (26.71%) Banking
4 462 (21.46%) Social Skills
5 264 (12.26%) Law
6 248 (11.52%) Investment Banking
7 210 (9.75%) Front Office
8 165 (7.66%) Analytical Skills
9 134 (6.22%) Public Sector
10 121 (5.62%) Retail
11 91 (4.23%) Corporate Banking
12 82 (3.81%) Financial Institution
12 82 (3.81%) Marketing
13 36 (1.67%) Legal
14 31 (1.44%) Games
14 31 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
15 25 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
16 20 (0.93%) Billing
17 17 (0.79%) Manufacturing
18 15 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 885 (41.11%) Software Engineer
2 593 (27.54%) Senior
3 560 (26.01%) Developer
4 349 (16.21%) Senior Software Engineer
5 328 (15.23%) Java Engineer
6 285 (13.24%) Lead
7 277 (12.87%) Java Developer
8 248 (11.52%) Java Software Engineer
9 137 (6.36%) Lead Software Engineer
10 135 (6.27%) Senior Java Engineer
11 130 (6.04%) AWS Engineer
12 118 (5.48%) Python Engineer
13 116 (5.39%) Python Software Engineer
14 106 (4.92%) AWS Software Engineer
15 103 (4.78%) Senior Java Software Engineer
16 90 (4.18%) Senior Developer
17 87 (4.04%) Architect
18 74 (3.44%) Full-Stack Developer
19 62 (2.88%) Data Engineer
20 60 (2.79%) Lead Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 566 (26.29%) Spring
2 500 (23.22%) Spring Boot
3 488 (22.67%) React
4 476 (22.11%) Kafka
5 353 (16.40%) HTML
6 344 (15.98%) .NET
7 310 (14.40%) Node.js
8 284 (13.19%) CSS
9 275 (12.77%) RESTful
10 251 (11.66%) REST
11 239 (11.10%) Redux
12 227 (10.54%) JPA
13 188 (8.73%) Hibernate
14 113 (5.25%) Jest
15 112 (5.20%) AngularJS
16 109 (5.06%) HTML5
17 105 (4.88%) CSS3
18 102 (4.74%) Pandas
19 91 (4.23%) Sass
20 90 (4.18%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 285 (13.24%) Cloud Native
2 248 (11.52%) Self-Motivation
3 247 (11.47%) Product Ownership
4 237 (11.01%) Enterprise Software
5 184 (8.55%) Linux Command Line
6 181 (8.41%) Distributed Systems
7 178 (8.27%) Cyberattack
8 143 (6.64%) Equities
9 142 (6.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 132 (6.13%) Fixed Income
11 130 (6.04%) Derivative
12 97 (4.51%) Algorithms
13 90 (4.18%) Hedge funds
14 75 (3.48%) Pricing Data
15 64 (2.97%) Onboarding
16 62 (2.88%) Public Cloud
17 56 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
18 48 (2.23%) Management Information System
19 35 (1.63%) Data Structures
19 35 (1.63%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 375 (17.42%) Linux
2 41 (1.90%) Windows
3 39 (1.81%) Unix
4 34 (1.58%) Android
5 20 (0.93%) VMS
6 18 (0.84%) Amazon Linux
7 17 (0.79%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.093%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.046%) AIX
11 1 (0.046%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.046%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.046%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,234 (57.32%) Agile
2 1,041 (48.35%) Software Engineering
3 782 (36.32%) Microservices
4 724 (33.63%) CI/CD
5 554 (25.73%) DevOps
6 485 (22.53%) SDLC
7 472 (21.92%) Mentoring
8 432 (20.07%) Test Automation
9 414 (19.23%) Full-Stack Development
10 383 (17.79%) Machine Learning
11 379 (17.60%) User Experience
12 361 (16.77%) Containerisation
12 361 (16.77%) Problem-Solving
13 351 (16.30%) Scrum
14 346 (16.07%) Continuous Improvement
15 315 (14.63%) TDD
16 298 (13.84%) Computer Science
17 256 (11.89%) Performance Optimisation
18 251 (11.66%) Data Engineering
19 250 (11.61%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 957 (44.45%) Python
2 826 (38.37%) JavaScript
3 642 (29.82%) SQL
4 435 (20.20%) TypeScript
5 405 (18.81%) C++
6 310 (14.40%) Go
7 299 (13.89%) C#
8 254 (11.80%) Rust
9 123 (5.71%) C
10 116 (5.39%) Kotlin
11 93 (4.32%) PHP
12 71 (3.30%) Scala
13 67 (3.11%) Ruby
14 66 (3.07%) R
15 62 (2.88%) PowerShell
16 55 (2.55%) MATLAB
17 49 (2.28%) Dart
18 44 (2.04%) Groovy
18 44 (2.04%) Shell Script
19 35 (1.63%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 375 (17.42%) Security Cleared
2 318 (14.77%) Degree
3 265 (12.31%) AWS Certification
4 225 (10.45%) DV Cleared
5 219 (10.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 187 (8.69%) AWS Certified Developer
7 177 (8.22%) Computer Science Degree
8 140 (6.50%) SC Cleared
9 71 (3.30%) Master's Degree
10 38 (1.76%) PhD
11 33 (1.53%) Azure Certification
12 23 (1.07%) ISTQB
13 16 (0.74%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 15 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
16 11 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
17 9 (0.42%) HND
17 9 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
17 9 (0.42%) PMI Certification
17 9 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 293 (13.61%) QA
2 132 (6.13%) Accessibility
3 30 (1.39%) GDPR
4 21 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (0.84%) PCI DSS
6 16 (0.74%) HIPAA
7 14 (0.65%) Data Quality
8 13 (0.60%) NIST
8 13 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (0.46%) ISO 9001
10 9 (0.42%) SLA
11 4 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.19%) SEPA
11 4 (0.19%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.093%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.093%) GRC
12 2 (0.093%) ITGC
12 2 (0.093%) MISRA
12 2 (0.093%) NCSC
12 2 (0.093%) PSD2
System Software
1 493 (22.90%) Docker
2 38 (1.76%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.46%) HDFS
4 10 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
5 7 (0.33%) DFS Replication
6 5 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.14%) Apache Flume
7 3 (0.14%) Firmware
7 3 (0.14%) Postfix
7 3 (0.14%) vSphere
8 2 (0.093%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.093%) KVM
8 2 (0.093%) Squid
8 2 (0.093%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.093%) Xen
Systems Management
1 607 (28.19%) Kubernetes
2 124 (5.76%) Terraform
3 60 (2.79%) Grafana
4 53 (2.46%) Prometheus
5 49 (2.28%) Ansible
6 41 (1.90%) Kibana
7 25 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (0.88%) Progress Chef
9 15 (0.70%) Argo
10 13 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.28%) Control-M
11 6 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.23%) logstash
13 4 (0.19%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.19%) Kustomize
13 4 (0.19%) Puppet
14 3 (0.14%) Nagios
14 3 (0.14%) Oozie
15 2 (0.093%) Mesos
15 2 (0.093%) WSUS
Vendors
1 212 (9.85%) Solace
2 142 (6.60%) Oracle
3 110 (5.11%) Microsoft
4 82 (3.81%) Google
5 44 (2.04%) Guidewire
6 42 (1.95%) Splunk
7 35 (1.63%) Databricks
8 34 (1.58%) Atlassian
9 30 (1.39%) Dynatrace
10 28 (1.30%) IBM
11 24 (1.11%) SAP
12 23 (1.07%) ServiceNow
13 17 (0.79%) Red Hat
14 15 (0.70%) Foundry
14 15 (0.70%) Informatica
15 14 (0.65%) Palantir
16 12 (0.56%) MuleSoft
17 11 (0.51%) Bloomberg
17 11 (0.51%) Talend
18 10 (0.46%) ForgeRock