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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 26 36
Rank change year-on-year -31 +10 -15
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,359 3,075 4,200
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.65% 7.11% 5.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.61% 23.54% 17.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,552 1,466 3,012
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,275 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £110,313
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 16,152 13,065 24,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.16% 30.19% 30.24%
Number of salaries quoted 11,823 8,807 18,886
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £101,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £64,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.78% +7.50% -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 23 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 23 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 1,041 £85,000 -19.05% 598
North of England -25 665 £67,500 - 148
North West -36 300 £70,000 - 78
South West -22 233 £60,000 -4.00% 72
Yorkshire +32 225 £70,000 +3.70% 33
South East -57 211 £70,000 +7.69% 116
North East +2 140 £53,750 +13.16% 38
Midlands -86 127 £67,500 +12.50% 73
West Midlands -57 103 £69,305 +15.51% 56
East of England -58 52 £51,359 +16.73% 28
East Midlands -83 23 £60,000 +26.32% 17
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 (2.37%) Confluence
2 44 (1.87%) Apache
3 37 (1.57%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
6 14 (0.59%) Camunda
7 12 (0.51%) 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 (0.085%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.085%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 19 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.68%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.085%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.085%) PTC Creo
5 2 (0.085%) 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 9 (0.38%) Maximo
3 5 (0.21%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.21%) Temenos T24
4 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.085%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.042%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.042%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.042%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.042%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle Cash Management
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
1 965 (40.91%) AWS
2 472 (20.01%) Azure
3 283 (12.00%) GCP
4 200 (8.48%) Serverless
5 152 (6.44%) AWS CloudFormation
6 123 (5.21%) AWS Lambda
7 117 (4.96%) Amazon ECS
8 116 (4.92%) GitHub
9 113 (4.79%) Amazon S3
10 99 (4.20%) SaaS
11 96 (4.07%) Amazon EKS
12 70 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
13 65 (2.76%) AWS Step Functions
14 58 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
15 41 (1.74%) Amazon ECR
16 38 (1.61%) OpenShift
17 37 (1.57%) Apigee
18 35 (1.48%) Amazon SQS
18 35 (1.48%) Azure Service Bus
19 34 (1.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 34 (1.44%) HTTP
2 32 (1.36%) Broadband
3 23 (0.97%) TCP/IP
4 17 (0.72%) Network Security
5 13 (0.55%) DMARC
6 8 (0.34%) BGP
6 8 (0.34%) IPv4
6 8 (0.34%) MQTT
6 8 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
6 8 (0.34%) VPN
7 6 (0.25%) DNS
7 6 (0.25%) IPsec
8 5 (0.21%) Internet
8 5 (0.21%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.17%) AMQP
10 3 (0.13%) Firewall
11 2 (0.085%) LAN
11 2 (0.085%) SAN
11 2 (0.085%) VLAN
11 2 (0.085%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (7.33%) PostgreSQL
2 172 (7.29%) NoSQL
3 121 (5.13%) MongoDB
4 103 (4.37%) Relational Database
5 82 (3.48%) DynamoDB
6 81 (3.43%) MySQL
7 71 (3.01%) SQL Server
8 37 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
9 32 (1.36%) Big Data
10 26 (1.10%) Db2
11 25 (1.06%) Redis
12 24 (1.02%) BigQuery
12 24 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
13 20 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
13 20 (0.85%) Hadoop
14 18 (0.76%) RDBMS
15 16 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
16 15 (0.64%) Metadata
17 13 (0.55%) Geospatial Data
17 13 (0.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 231 (9.79%) Git
2 181 (7.67%) Jenkins
3 172 (7.29%) GitLab
4 89 (3.77%) JIRA
5 85 (3.60%) Cucumber
6 73 (3.09%) JUnit
7 69 (2.92%) Maven
8 67 (2.84%) Selenium
9 58 (2.46%) Cypress.io
10 48 (2.03%) SonarQube
11 46 (1.95%) TeamCity
12 39 (1.65%) JMeter
13 35 (1.48%) Postman
14 31 (1.31%) Mockito
15 30 (1.27%) Bitbucket
15 30 (1.27%) Eclipse
15 30 (1.27%) Subversion
16 22 (0.93%) Claude Code
16 22 (0.93%) Gradle
17 21 (0.89%) REST Assured
General
1 619 (26.24%) Finance
2 359 (15.22%) Social Skills
3 228 (9.67%) Public Sector
4 216 (9.16%) Banking
5 173 (7.33%) Analytical Skills
6 119 (5.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 111 (4.71%) Front Office
8 88 (3.73%) Law
9 83 (3.52%) Retail
10 62 (2.63%) Financial Institution
11 42 (1.78%) Investment Banking
12 37 (1.57%) Back Office
13 34 (1.44%) Health Technology
14 25 (1.06%) Manufacturing
15 24 (1.02%) Games
16 22 (0.93%) Marketing
17 21 (0.89%) Legal
18 19 (0.81%) Aerospace
19 18 (0.76%) Advertising
19 18 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 851 (36.07%) Developer
2 581 (24.63%) Senior
3 562 (23.82%) Java Developer
4 533 (22.59%) Software Engineer
5 411 (17.42%) Java Engineer
6 335 (14.20%) Lead
7 202 (8.56%) Senior Developer
8 174 (7.38%) Senior Software Engineer
9 166 (7.04%) Java Software Engineer
10 146 (6.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 138 (5.85%) Full-Stack Developer
12 136 (5.77%) Senior Java Developer
13 126 (5.34%) Software Developer
14 124 (5.26%) Senior Java Engineer
15 116 (4.92%) Lead Software Engineer
16 88 (3.73%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 74 (3.14%) Architect
18 73 (3.09%) Consultant
19 72 (3.05%) Principal Engineer
20 70 (2.97%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 540 (22.89%) Spring
2 461 (19.54%) Spring Boot
3 271 (11.49%) React
4 249 (10.56%) Kafka
5 228 (9.67%) AngularJS
6 222 (9.41%) Node.js
6 222 (9.41%) REST
7 170 (7.21%) RESTful
8 153 (6.49%) .NET
9 83 (3.52%) Web Services
10 76 (3.22%) CSS
11 70 (2.97%) HTML
12 68 (2.88%) GraphQL
13 65 (2.76%) Vue
14 51 (2.16%) OAuth
15 49 (2.08%) Playwright
16 47 (1.99%) Hibernate
16 47 (1.99%) JSON
17 46 (1.95%) SOAP
18 41 (1.74%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 288 (12.21%) Cloud Native
2 202 (8.56%) Distributed Systems
3 146 (6.19%) Product Ownership
4 107 (4.54%) Public Cloud
5 58 (2.46%) Onboarding
6 55 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 54 (2.29%) Fixed Income
8 51 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
9 46 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
10 42 (1.78%) Data Structures
11 39 (1.65%) Distributed Architecture
12 35 (1.48%) e-Learning
13 34 (1.44%) Equities
13 34 (1.44%) Mobile App
14 33 (1.40%) Virtual Team
15 28 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
16 27 (1.14%) Algorithms
17 25 (1.06%) Blog
18 20 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
18 20 (0.85%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 212 (8.99%) Linux
2 58 (2.46%) Windows
3 41 (1.74%) Android
4 39 (1.65%) Unix
5 15 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (0.59%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.47%) 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 (0.085%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.042%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 816 (34.59%) Software Engineering
2 803 (34.04%) Agile
3 757 (32.09%) CI/CD
4 546 (23.15%) DevOps
5 544 (23.06%) Microservices
6 480 (20.35%) Test Automation
7 457 (19.37%) Full-Stack Development
8 404 (17.13%) Mentoring
9 379 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
10 322 (13.65%) AI
11 281 (11.91%) Containerisation
12 256 (10.85%) Continuous Improvement
13 255 (10.81%) Infrastructure as Code
14 248 (10.51%) TDD
15 221 (9.37%) Technical Leadership
16 218 (9.24%) Computer Science
16 218 (9.24%) Roadmaps
17 206 (8.73%) Scrum
18 190 (8.05%) SDLC
19 178 (7.55%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 759 (32.17%) Python
2 451 (19.12%) SQL
3 410 (17.38%) JavaScript
4 251 (10.64%) TypeScript
5 242 (10.26%) C#
6 223 (9.45%) C++
7 140 (5.93%) Go
8 111 (4.71%) Bash
9 98 (4.15%) Kotlin
10 66 (2.80%) Scala
11 64 (2.71%) C
12 58 (2.46%) Groovy
13 57 (2.42%) PHP
14 54 (2.29%) Rust
15 40 (1.70%) Perl
16 35 (1.48%) PowerShell
17 31 (1.31%) Ruby
18 29 (1.23%) PL/SQL
19 19 (0.81%) Shell Script
20 13 (0.55%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 396 (16.79%) Security Cleared
2 263 (11.15%) Degree
3 233 (9.88%) SC Cleared
4 148 (6.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 137 (5.81%) DV Cleared
6 96 (4.07%) AWS Certification
7 56 (2.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (1.23%) Master's Degree
9 22 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
10 20 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 19 (0.81%) OSCP
12 18 (0.76%) ISTQB
13 15 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
14 13 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
15 12 (0.51%) DBS Check
16 11 (0.47%) CREST Certified
17 9 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
17 9 (0.38%) PhD
18 8 (0.34%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (6.44%) QA
2 67 (2.84%) Accessibility
3 49 (2.08%) Data Quality
4 23 (0.97%) WCAG
5 22 (0.93%) GDPR
6 14 (0.59%) GRC
7 12 (0.51%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.47%) SOC 2
9 9 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 7 (0.30%) ISO 20022
10 7 (0.30%) NIST
11 6 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 14443
12 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 7816
13 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.13%) MiFID
13 3 (0.13%) PSD2
14 2 (0.085%) Good Clinical Practice
14 2 (0.085%) Software Quality Assurance
14 2 (0.085%) UCITS
System Software
1 358 (15.18%) Docker
2 20 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (0.76%) Active Directory
4 11 (0.47%) 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
10 2 (0.085%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.085%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 418 (17.72%) Kubernetes
2 266 (11.28%) Terraform
3 102 (4.32%) Ansible
4 98 (4.15%) Grafana
5 36 (1.53%) Prometheus
6 29 (1.23%) HP Fortify
7 28 (1.19%) Argo
7 28 (1.19%) Kibana
8 14 (0.59%) Packer
8 14 (0.59%) Puppet
9 11 (0.47%) Rancher
10 10 (0.42%) logstash
11 8 (0.34%) ZABBIX
12 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (0.25%) Hadoop YARN
13 6 (0.25%) yum
14 4 (0.17%) Control-M
14 4 (0.17%) FTK
14 4 (0.17%) Red Hat Satellite
15 3 (0.13%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 95 (4.03%) Oracle
2 92 (3.90%) Microsoft
3 65 (2.76%) Google
4 58 (2.46%) Splunk
5 44 (1.87%) IBM
6 32 (1.36%) SAP
7 25 (1.06%) VMware
8 24 (1.02%) Palantir
9 23 (0.97%) Red Hat
10 22 (0.93%) AppDynamics
10 22 (0.93%) Dynatrace
11 21 (0.89%) Salesforce
12 20 (0.85%) ServiceNow
13 19 (0.81%) Adobe
13 19 (0.81%) Foundry
14 16 (0.68%) OpenAI
15 13 (0.55%) MuleSoft
15 13 (0.55%) SendGrid
16 11 (0.47%) Solace
17 9 (0.38%) Veracode