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 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 44 32
Rank change year-on-year -26 -12 -14
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,929 2,018 4,328
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.78% 5.49% 5.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.35% 16.01% 16.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,260 1,477 3,357
10th Percentile £43,705 £41,550 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,764 £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 £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £138,750 £125,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -7.63%

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 12,563 12,602 26,205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.08% 34.27% 33.63%
Number of salaries quoted 9,061 9,394 22,173
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,628
25th Percentile £46,446 £47,683 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 29 March 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 29 March 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 -3 982 £95,000 -9.52% 325
North of England -13 416 £68,690 +5.68% 197
Yorkshire +7 199 £70,000 - 61
South East -52 188 £67,500 +3.85% 136
North West -24 175 £70,000 +7.69% 97
South West -23 168 £65,000 - 78
Midlands -47 92 £55,000 +15.79% 48
West Midlands -13 75 £55,000 +2.44% 22
North East -15 42 £52,130 -8.54% 39
East of England -90 38 £47,500 -5.00% 39
East Midlands -62 16 £49,000 +40.00% 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 45 (2.33%) Apache Spark
2 41 (2.13%) Apache
3 34 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (1.50%) Confluence
5 22 (1.14%) JBoss
6 14 (0.73%) OpenStack
7 13 (0.67%) WebSphere
8 9 (0.47%) Anypoint
8 9 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
9 7 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.26%) Camunda
10 5 (0.26%) IIS
10 5 (0.26%) SharePoint
11 4 (0.21%) Appian
11 4 (0.21%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.21%) Moodle
11 4 (0.21%) nginx
12 3 (0.16%) CICS
12 3 (0.16%) Liferay
13 2 (0.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (0.57%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.10%) Windchill
6 1 (0.052%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.052%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 14 (0.73%) Maximo
2 7 (0.36%) Fidessa
2 7 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.26%) Shopify
4 3 (0.16%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.10%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.10%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.052%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.052%) Endur
6 1 (0.052%) Findur
6 1 (0.052%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.052%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.052%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.052%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.052%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.052%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.052%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.052%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.052%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.052%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 841 (43.60%) AWS
2 353 (18.30%) Azure
3 241 (12.49%) GCP
4 171 (8.86%) Serverless
5 133 (6.89%) SaaS
6 118 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
7 107 (5.55%) AWS Lambda
8 105 (5.44%) Amazon S3
9 101 (5.24%) Amazon ECS
10 95 (4.92%) AWS CloudFormation
11 88 (4.56%) GitHub
12 62 (3.21%) AWS Step Functions
13 50 (2.59%) OpenShift
14 45 (2.33%) Apigee
15 44 (2.28%) Amazon ECR
15 44 (2.28%) dbt
16 43 (2.23%) Amazon SQS
17 34 (1.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 31 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
19 29 (1.50%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 49 (2.54%) Broadband
2 34 (1.76%) TCP/IP
3 19 (0.98%) HTTP
4 10 (0.52%) AMQP
5 8 (0.41%) Internet
6 7 (0.36%) VPN
7 6 (0.31%) BGP
7 6 (0.31%) Kerberos
7 6 (0.31%) Multicast
7 6 (0.31%) VLAN
8 3 (0.16%) Firewall
8 3 (0.16%) PuTTY
8 3 (0.16%) SAN
9 2 (0.10%) DHCP
9 2 (0.10%) DNS
9 2 (0.10%) LAN
9 2 (0.10%) NAS
9 2 (0.10%) Network Security
9 2 (0.10%) SNMP
9 2 (0.10%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (8.29%) NoSQL
2 156 (8.09%) PostgreSQL
3 122 (6.32%) Relational Database
4 81 (4.20%) DynamoDB
5 75 (3.89%) SQL Server
6 65 (3.37%) MongoDB
7 61 (3.16%) MySQL
8 50 (2.59%) RDBMS
9 39 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
10 37 (1.92%) Big Data
11 33 (1.71%) DB2
12 32 (1.66%) Hadoop
13 30 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
14 28 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
15 27 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
16 24 (1.24%) Neo4j
17 20 (1.04%) Redis
18 14 (0.73%) Data Lake
19 13 (0.67%) BigQuery
19 13 (0.67%) Flink
Development Applications
1 161 (8.35%) Jenkins
2 146 (7.57%) Git
3 110 (5.70%) GitLab
4 108 (5.60%) Selenium
5 83 (4.30%) JIRA
6 73 (3.78%) Cucumber
7 71 (3.68%) Cypress.io
8 67 (3.47%) Maven
8 67 (3.47%) TeamCity
9 58 (3.01%) JUnit
10 50 (2.59%) SonarQube
11 48 (2.49%) Postman
12 33 (1.71%) JMeter
12 33 (1.71%) WebDriver
13 31 (1.61%) SoapUI
14 24 (1.24%) REST Assured
15 23 (1.19%) Team Foundation Server
16 22 (1.14%) Bitbucket
17 21 (1.09%) Mockito
18 20 (1.04%) Gradle
General
1 499 (25.87%) Finance
2 384 (19.91%) Social Skills
3 236 (12.23%) Banking
4 163 (8.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 148 (7.67%) Analytical Skills
6 139 (7.21%) Public Sector
7 131 (6.79%) Law
8 116 (6.01%) Front Office
9 109 (5.65%) Retail
10 93 (4.82%) Financial Institution
11 59 (3.06%) Investment Banking
12 58 (3.01%) Back Office
13 47 (2.44%) Games
14 33 (1.71%) Telecoms
15 27 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
16 21 (1.09%) Health Technology
16 21 (1.09%) Manufacturing
17 20 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
18 18 (0.93%) Marketing
19 17 (0.88%) Billing
Job Titles
1 722 (37.43%) Developer
2 490 (25.40%) Software Engineer
3 472 (24.47%) Senior
4 433 (22.45%) Java Developer
5 274 (14.20%) Java Engineer
6 270 (14.00%) Lead
7 174 (9.02%) Senior Developer
8 158 (8.19%) Java Software Engineer
9 152 (7.88%) Full-Stack Developer
10 144 (7.47%) Senior Software Engineer
11 116 (6.01%) Senior Java Developer
12 109 (5.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 101 (5.24%) Senior Java Engineer
14 98 (5.08%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 97 (5.03%) Software Developer
16 90 (4.67%) Architect
17 82 (4.25%) Lead Software Engineer
18 54 (2.80%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 52 (2.70%) Lead Developer
20 49 (2.54%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 396 (20.53%) Spring
2 355 (18.40%) Spring Boot
3 324 (16.80%) React
4 210 (10.89%) REST
5 193 (10.01%) Node.js
6 188 (9.75%) AngularJS
7 179 (9.28%) Kafka
8 162 (8.40%) .NET
9 131 (6.79%) RESTful
10 107 (5.55%) HTML
11 91 (4.72%) SOAP
12 82 (4.25%) CSS
13 79 (4.10%) GraphQL
14 74 (3.84%) Web Services
15 65 (3.37%) Elastic Stack
16 62 (3.21%) Hibernate
17 56 (2.90%) Gherkin
18 54 (2.80%) Vue
19 51 (2.64%) JSON
20 46 (2.38%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 258 (13.37%) Cloud Native
2 167 (8.66%) Distributed Systems
3 82 (4.25%) Product Ownership
4 57 (2.95%) Fixed Income
5 55 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
6 53 (2.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 47 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
8 43 (2.23%) Equities
9 41 (2.13%) Public Cloud
10 38 (1.97%) Blog
11 33 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
12 32 (1.66%) Distributed Architecture
12 32 (1.66%) Mobile App
13 31 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
14 28 (1.45%) Data Structures
14 28 (1.45%) Derivative
15 24 (1.24%) Algorithms
15 24 (1.24%) Management Information System
16 23 (1.19%) FPGA
17 19 (0.98%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 194 (10.06%) Linux
2 45 (2.33%) Android
3 43 (2.23%) Unix
4 32 (1.66%) Windows
5 13 (0.67%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.36%) CentOS
8 6 (0.31%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.31%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.26%) Debian
10 3 (0.16%) Windows Server
11 2 (0.10%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.10%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.052%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 725 (37.58%) Agile
2 669 (34.68%) Software Engineering
3 604 (31.31%) CI/CD
4 448 (23.22%) DevOps
5 399 (20.68%) Microservices
6 398 (20.63%) Full-Stack Development
7 330 (17.11%) Test Automation
8 319 (16.54%) Mentoring
9 317 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
10 222 (11.51%) AI
11 221 (11.46%) Containerisation
12 208 (10.78%) Continuous Improvement
13 191 (9.90%) Computer Science
14 189 (9.80%) Scrum
15 174 (9.02%) TDD
16 166 (8.61%) Technical Leadership
17 161 (8.35%) Infrastructure as Code
18 159 (8.24%) Roadmaps
19 158 (8.19%) Clean Code
20 157 (8.14%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 605 (31.36%) Python
2 425 (22.03%) JavaScript
3 378 (19.60%) SQL
4 287 (14.88%) TypeScript
5 198 (10.26%) C#
6 157 (8.14%) Go
7 133 (6.89%) C++
8 116 (6.01%) Kotlin
9 95 (4.92%) Bash
10 79 (4.10%) C
11 48 (2.49%) Groovy
12 44 (2.28%) Scala
13 40 (2.07%) PHP
14 34 (1.76%) PL/SQL
15 30 (1.56%) Rust
16 22 (1.14%) Ruby
17 20 (1.04%) Apex Code
18 16 (0.83%) R
19 15 (0.78%) PowerShell
20 14 (0.73%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 286 (14.83%) Security Cleared
2 265 (13.74%) Degree
3 173 (8.97%) SC Cleared
4 122 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 113 (5.86%) DV Cleared
6 88 (4.56%) AWS Certification
7 41 (2.13%) Master's Degree
8 37 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 30 (1.56%) Azure Certification
10 27 (1.40%) ISTQB
11 22 (1.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 22 (1.14%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 22 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
12 21 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
13 19 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
14 16 (0.83%) PhD
15 13 (0.67%) CREST Certified
15 13 (0.67%) OSCP
16 12 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
17 11 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (6.27%) QA
2 41 (2.13%) Accessibility
3 20 (1.04%) Data Quality
4 18 (0.93%) GDPR
4 18 (0.93%) PCI DSS
5 15 (0.78%) SOC 2
6 13 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
7 12 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.41%) WCAG
9 7 (0.36%) GRC
10 5 (0.26%) NIST
11 4 (0.21%) EU AI Act
11 4 (0.21%) SLA
12 2 (0.10%) ECSS
12 2 (0.10%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.10%) MISRA
12 2 (0.10%) NCSC
13 1 (0.052%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.052%) MiFID
13 1 (0.052%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 327 (16.95%) Docker
2 11 (0.57%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (0.31%) Firmware
5 5 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.16%) HDFS
6 3 (0.16%) KVM
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.052%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.052%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.052%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.052%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 421 (21.82%) Kubernetes
2 204 (10.58%) Terraform
3 103 (5.34%) Grafana
4 74 (3.84%) Ansible
5 45 (2.33%) Prometheus
6 41 (2.13%) Argo
6 41 (2.13%) HP Fortify
7 19 (0.98%) Kustomize
8 18 (0.93%) Kibana
9 10 (0.52%) Rancher
10 7 (0.36%) Puppet
11 6 (0.31%) yum
12 5 (0.26%) FTK
12 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.21%) Nagios
13 4 (0.21%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
14 3 (0.16%) logstash
14 3 (0.16%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 86 (4.46%) Oracle
2 64 (3.32%) Google
3 61 (3.16%) Microsoft
4 33 (1.71%) MuleSoft
5 32 (1.66%) Salesforce
6 31 (1.61%) IBM
7 21 (1.09%) SAP
8 20 (1.04%) Atlassian
9 19 (0.98%) Databricks
9 19 (0.98%) Splunk
10 18 (0.93%) Informatica
11 15 (0.78%) Talend
12 13 (0.67%) Dell
12 13 (0.67%) Foundry
12 13 (0.67%) Red Hat
13 11 (0.57%) OpenAI
14 10 (0.52%) Solace
15 9 (0.47%) Dynatrace
15 9 (0.47%) Palantir
15 9 (0.47%) Workday