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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 26 34
Rank change year-on-year -29 +8 -14
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,290 3,012 4,711
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.77% 7.64% 5.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.19% 23.79% 16.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,492 1,416 3,510
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £39,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,454
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £73,805
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +5.01% -7.74%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £137,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 15,077 12,661 28,808
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.26% 32.10% 30.68%
Number of salaries quoted 10,855 8,478 23,040
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,725 £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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -10 1,052 £85,000 -19.05% 262
North of England -27 634 £69,305 +2.67% 124
North West -37 272 £70,000 -6.67% 66
Yorkshire +25 238 £72,500 +3.57% 39
South East -31 221 £70,000 +7.69% 94
South West -35 192 £60,000 - 89
North East +7 124 £52,315 +10.14% 21
Midlands -83 110 £58,750 +6.82% 31
West Midlands -56 90 £57,500 -4.17% 23
East of England -52 56 £53,180 +20.86% 31
East Midlands -79 19 £60,000 +26.32% 8
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 (1.97%) Apache
2 40 (1.75%) Confluence
3 35 (1.53%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
6 14 (0.61%) JBoss
7 8 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.35%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.31%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.22%) CMS
9 5 (0.22%) GeoServer
9 5 (0.22%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.17%) Camunda
10 4 (0.17%) IIS
11 3 (0.13%) CICS
11 3 (0.13%) SAS
11 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.087%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (0.31%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.087%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.087%) PTC Creo
4 2 (0.087%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (0.48%) Maximo
1 11 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.17%) Temenos T24
3 3 (0.13%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.087%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.044%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.044%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.044%) Endur
5 1 (0.044%) Findur
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.044%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 939 (41.00%) AWS
2 433 (18.91%) Azure
3 272 (11.88%) GCP
4 180 (7.86%) Serverless
5 136 (5.94%) AWS CloudFormation
6 119 (5.20%) Amazon S3
7 118 (5.15%) SaaS
8 114 (4.98%) AWS Lambda
9 109 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
10 104 (4.54%) GitHub
11 99 (4.32%) Amazon EKS
12 73 (3.19%) AWS Step Functions
13 65 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
14 46 (2.01%) Amazon ECR
15 45 (1.97%) Apigee
16 42 (1.83%) Amazon SQS
17 41 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
18 38 (1.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 37 (1.62%) dbt
20 36 (1.57%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.18%) Broadband
2 33 (1.44%) HTTP
3 25 (1.09%) TCP/IP
4 10 (0.44%) DMARC
5 8 (0.35%) IPv4
5 8 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
6 7 (0.31%) AMQP
7 6 (0.26%) MQTT
8 4 (0.17%) Internet
9 3 (0.13%) BGP
9 3 (0.13%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.13%) Network Security
9 3 (0.13%) VLAN
9 3 (0.13%) VPN
10 2 (0.087%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.087%) Firewall
10 2 (0.087%) LAN
10 2 (0.087%) SAN
10 2 (0.087%) WAN
11 1 (0.044%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (8.17%) NoSQL
2 161 (7.03%) PostgreSQL
3 106 (4.63%) MongoDB
4 104 (4.54%) Relational Database
5 89 (3.89%) DynamoDB
6 73 (3.19%) MySQL
7 67 (2.93%) SQL Server
8 41 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
9 37 (1.62%) RDBMS
10 32 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
11 26 (1.14%) Big Data
12 24 (1.05%) Db2
13 23 (1.00%) BigQuery
13 23 (1.00%) Redis
14 18 (0.79%) Hadoop
15 17 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
16 15 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
16 15 (0.66%) Metadata
17 14 (0.61%) Neo4j
18 13 (0.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 199 (8.69%) Git
2 170 (7.42%) Jenkins
3 155 (6.77%) GitLab
4 91 (3.97%) JIRA
5 78 (3.41%) Maven
6 75 (3.28%) Selenium
7 74 (3.23%) Cucumber
8 66 (2.88%) Cypress.io
9 64 (2.79%) JUnit
10 56 (2.45%) TeamCity
11 55 (2.40%) SonarQube
12 40 (1.75%) Postman
13 34 (1.48%) JMeter
14 31 (1.35%) Mockito
15 28 (1.22%) Gradle
16 27 (1.18%) Bitbucket
17 25 (1.09%) Claude Code
18 24 (1.05%) REST Assured
19 20 (0.87%) Subversion
20 18 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 572 (24.98%) Finance
2 360 (15.72%) Social Skills
3 224 (9.78%) Banking
4 204 (8.91%) Public Sector
5 163 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
6 152 (6.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 105 (4.59%) Law
8 104 (4.54%) Front Office
9 95 (4.15%) Retail
10 71 (3.10%) Financial Institution
11 49 (2.14%) Back Office
12 41 (1.79%) Investment Banking
13 31 (1.35%) Games
14 28 (1.22%) Health Technology
15 22 (0.96%) Telecoms
16 21 (0.92%) Aerospace
17 19 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
17 19 (0.83%) Tech for Good
18 18 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
19 17 (0.74%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 853 (37.25%) Developer
2 574 (25.07%) Java Developer
3 565 (24.67%) Senior
4 539 (23.54%) Software Engineer
5 403 (17.60%) Java Engineer
6 332 (14.50%) Lead
7 211 (9.21%) Senior Developer
8 182 (7.95%) Java Software Engineer
9 178 (7.77%) Senior Software Engineer
10 153 (6.68%) Senior Java Developer
11 149 (6.51%) Full-Stack Developer
12 134 (5.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 124 (5.41%) Senior Java Engineer
14 114 (4.98%) Software Developer
15 111 (4.85%) Lead Software Engineer
16 96 (4.19%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 80 (3.49%) Architect
18 69 (3.01%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 66 (2.88%) Lead Developer
20 55 (2.40%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 505 (22.05%) Spring
2 428 (18.69%) Spring Boot
3 295 (12.88%) React
4 230 (10.04%) AngularJS
5 227 (9.91%) REST
6 206 (9.00%) Node.js
7 201 (8.78%) Kafka
8 147 (6.42%) .NET
9 143 (6.24%) RESTful
10 87 (3.80%) Web Services
11 84 (3.67%) HTML
12 77 (3.36%) CSS
13 68 (2.97%) Vue
14 65 (2.84%) SOAP
15 62 (2.71%) GraphQL
16 57 (2.49%) Elastic Stack
16 57 (2.49%) JSON
17 45 (1.97%) OAuth
17 45 (1.97%) Playwright
18 44 (1.92%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 261 (11.40%) Cloud Native
2 174 (7.60%) Distributed Systems
3 143 (6.24%) Product Ownership
4 95 (4.15%) Public Cloud
5 55 (2.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 49 (2.14%) Fixed Income
7 42 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
7 42 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
8 39 (1.70%) Distributed Architecture
8 39 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
9 37 (1.62%) Data Structures
10 34 (1.48%) e-Learning
11 33 (1.44%) Blog
11 33 (1.44%) Equities
11 33 (1.44%) Mobile App
12 30 (1.31%) Virtual Team
13 27 (1.18%) Onboarding
14 21 (0.92%) Algorithms
15 20 (0.87%) Social Media
16 19 (0.83%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 199 (8.69%) Linux
2 51 (2.23%) Unix
3 49 (2.14%) Android
4 47 (2.05%) Windows
5 14 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 14 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.52%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.22%) CentOS
7 5 (0.22%) Debian
7 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.17%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 802 (35.02%) Agile
2 784 (34.24%) Software Engineering
3 686 (29.96%) CI/CD
4 525 (22.93%) DevOps
5 491 (21.44%) Microservices
6 470 (20.52%) Full-Stack Development
7 441 (19.26%) Test Automation
8 410 (17.90%) Mentoring
9 346 (15.11%) Problem-Solving
10 263 (11.48%) Containerisation
11 259 (11.31%) AI
12 235 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
13 230 (10.04%) TDD
14 218 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
15 216 (9.43%) Infrastructure as Code
15 216 (9.43%) Roadmaps
16 210 (9.17%) Scrum
17 200 (8.73%) Computer Science
18 178 (7.77%) SDLC
19 161 (7.03%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 675 (29.48%) Python
2 441 (19.26%) SQL
3 418 (18.25%) JavaScript
4 263 (11.48%) TypeScript
5 236 (10.31%) C#
6 191 (8.34%) C++
7 156 (6.81%) Go
8 112 (4.89%) Bash
9 106 (4.63%) Kotlin
10 62 (2.71%) Groovy
11 60 (2.62%) C
12 53 (2.31%) Scala
13 46 (2.01%) Rust
14 40 (1.75%) PHP
15 33 (1.44%) PL/SQL
16 29 (1.27%) PowerShell
17 18 (0.79%) R
18 17 (0.74%) Perl
19 16 (0.70%) Apex Code
20 14 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 362 (15.81%) Security Cleared
2 256 (11.18%) Degree
3 229 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 135 (5.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 133 (5.81%) DV Cleared
6 95 (4.15%) AWS Certification
7 36 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (1.27%) Master's Degree
9 25 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
10 24 (1.05%) ISTQB
11 23 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 22 (0.96%) OSCP
13 19 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
14 18 (0.79%) DBS Check
15 14 (0.61%) CREST Certified
16 13 (0.57%) Azure Certification
17 12 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
17 12 (0.52%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
17 12 (0.52%) PhD
18 10 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (6.51%) QA
2 61 (2.66%) Accessibility
3 39 (1.70%) Data Quality
4 16 (0.70%) GDPR
5 15 (0.66%) WCAG
6 14 (0.61%) GRC
6 14 (0.61%) PCI DSS
7 12 (0.52%) SOC 2
8 8 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (0.31%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 4 (0.17%) NIST
12 2 (0.087%) Good Clinical Practice
12 2 (0.087%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.087%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.044%) MiFID
System Software
1 356 (15.55%) Docker
2 16 (0.70%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.48%) vSphere
5 8 (0.35%) Squid
5 8 (0.35%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.22%) Firmware
7 4 (0.17%) KVM
8 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.087%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.087%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.087%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.044%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.044%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.044%) OpenDJ
10 1 (0.044%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 421 (18.38%) Kubernetes
2 260 (11.35%) Terraform
3 102 (4.45%) Grafana
4 98 (4.28%) Ansible
5 49 (2.14%) Prometheus
6 44 (1.92%) Argo
7 34 (1.48%) HP Fortify
8 28 (1.22%) Kibana
9 18 (0.79%) Kustomize
10 14 (0.61%) Packer
11 12 (0.52%) Puppet
12 9 (0.39%) logstash
12 9 (0.39%) Rancher
13 8 (0.35%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (0.22%) FTK
15 5 (0.22%) yum
16 3 (0.13%) AWS Copilot
16 3 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
16 3 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 87 (3.80%) Oracle
2 84 (3.67%) Microsoft
3 73 (3.19%) Google
4 44 (1.92%) Splunk
5 30 (1.31%) IBM
6 26 (1.14%) Salesforce
7 22 (0.96%) Palantir
8 21 (0.92%) Red Hat
9 20 (0.87%) Dynatrace
10 19 (0.83%) Foundry
10 19 (0.83%) VMware
11 17 (0.74%) AppDynamics
11 17 (0.74%) ServiceNow
12 15 (0.66%) MuleSoft
12 15 (0.66%) SAP
13 12 (0.52%) Adobe
13 12 (0.52%) Databricks
13 12 (0.52%) Solace
14 11 (0.48%) Atlassian
15 10 (0.44%) SendGrid