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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 46 29
Rank change year-on-year -25 -17 -11
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,868 2,086 4,302
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.82% 5.44% 5.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.59% 15.78% 16.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,221 1,450 3,389
10th Percentile £44,250 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £54,073 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -7.22%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year - +6.27% -5.90%

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 11,985 13,218 25,593
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.10% 34.45% 34.25%
Number of salaries quoted 8,704 9,317 21,822
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,683 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 18 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 18 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 -5 952 £96,000 -8.57% 298
North of England -10 387 £70,000 +7.69% 185
South East -45 192 £66,250 +1.92% 124
Yorkshire +7 190 £70,000 - 61
North West -18 170 £70,000 +7.69% 86
South West -22 168 £65,000 -1.89% 62
Midlands -41 88 £55,200 +22.67% 37
West Midlands -3 73 £55,200 +3.97% 19
East of England -95 34 £50,000 - 22
North East -23 27 £52,315 -8.22% 38
East Midlands -60 14 £49,000 +40.00% 18
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 47 (2.52%) Apache Spark
2 43 (2.30%) Apache
3 36 (1.93%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (1.55%) Confluence
5 22 (1.18%) JBoss
6 14 (0.75%) OpenStack
7 13 (0.70%) WebSphere
8 9 (0.48%) Anypoint
9 7 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.37%) SharePoint
10 6 (0.32%) IIS
10 6 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.27%) Camunda
12 4 (0.21%) Appian
12 4 (0.21%) Moodle
12 4 (0.21%) nginx
13 3 (0.16%) GeoServer
13 3 (0.16%) Liferay
14 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 12 (0.64%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.11%) Windchill
6 1 (0.054%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 13 (0.70%) Maximo
2 8 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.37%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.27%) Shopify
5 2 (0.11%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.11%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.054%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.054%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 820 (43.90%) AWS
2 344 (18.42%) Azure
3 236 (12.63%) GCP
4 163 (8.73%) Serverless
5 131 (7.01%) SaaS
6 122 (6.53%) Amazon EKS
7 97 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
8 94 (5.03%) Amazon S3
9 90 (4.82%) Amazon ECS
9 90 (4.82%) GitHub
10 83 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
11 52 (2.78%) AWS Step Functions
12 50 (2.68%) OpenShift
13 44 (2.36%) dbt
14 40 (2.14%) Amazon SQS
15 39 (2.09%) Apigee
16 37 (1.98%) Amazon ECR
17 32 (1.71%) Amazon EC2
17 32 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
18 30 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 49 (2.62%) Broadband
2 36 (1.93%) TCP/IP
3 17 (0.91%) HTTP
4 10 (0.54%) AMQP
4 10 (0.54%) VPN
5 8 (0.43%) Internet
6 6 (0.32%) BGP
6 6 (0.32%) Multicast
6 6 (0.32%) VLAN
7 5 (0.27%) Firewall
7 5 (0.27%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.16%) DNS
8 3 (0.16%) PuTTY
8 3 (0.16%) SAN
9 2 (0.11%) DHCP
9 2 (0.11%) LAN
9 2 (0.11%) NAS
9 2 (0.11%) SNMP
9 2 (0.11%) WAN
10 1 (0.054%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (8.73%) PostgreSQL
2 152 (8.14%) NoSQL
3 125 (6.69%) Relational Database
4 70 (3.75%) DynamoDB
5 67 (3.59%) SQL Server
6 66 (3.53%) MongoDB
7 60 (3.21%) MySQL
8 52 (2.78%) RDBMS
9 42 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
10 39 (2.09%) Big Data
11 33 (1.77%) DB2
11 33 (1.77%) Hadoop
12 31 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
13 29 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
14 25 (1.34%) Neo4j
15 22 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
16 20 (1.07%) Redis
17 15 (0.80%) Data Lake
18 13 (0.70%) Apache Cassandra
18 13 (0.70%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 163 (8.73%) Jenkins
2 142 (7.60%) Git
3 108 (5.78%) Selenium
4 105 (5.62%) GitLab
5 79 (4.23%) JIRA
6 72 (3.85%) Cucumber
7 69 (3.69%) Cypress.io
8 67 (3.59%) TeamCity
9 61 (3.27%) Maven
10 60 (3.21%) JUnit
11 47 (2.52%) Postman
12 43 (2.30%) SonarQube
13 34 (1.82%) WebDriver
14 32 (1.71%) JMeter
14 32 (1.71%) SoapUI
15 24 (1.28%) Team Foundation Server
16 23 (1.23%) Bitbucket
16 23 (1.23%) REST Assured
17 22 (1.18%) Mockito
18 19 (1.02%) Gradle
General
1 477 (25.54%) Finance
2 391 (20.93%) Social Skills
3 231 (12.37%) Banking
4 161 (8.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 143 (7.66%) Analytical Skills
6 134 (7.17%) Public Sector
7 131 (7.01%) Law
8 110 (5.89%) Front Office
9 108 (5.78%) Retail
10 95 (5.09%) Financial Institution
11 61 (3.27%) Investment Banking
12 56 (3.00%) Back Office
13 47 (2.52%) Games
14 35 (1.87%) Telecoms
15 26 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
16 22 (1.18%) Manufacturing
17 21 (1.12%) Health Technology
18 19 (1.02%) Billing
19 18 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
19 18 (0.96%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 689 (36.88%) Developer
2 474 (25.37%) Software Engineer
3 452 (24.20%) Senior
4 409 (21.90%) Java Developer
5 264 (14.13%) Java Engineer
6 262 (14.03%) Lead
7 162 (8.67%) Senior Developer
8 156 (8.35%) Java Software Engineer
9 148 (7.92%) Full-Stack Developer
10 140 (7.49%) Senior Software Engineer
11 111 (5.94%) Senior Java Developer
12 109 (5.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 100 (5.35%) Senior Java Engineer
14 93 (4.98%) Architect
14 93 (4.98%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 80 (4.28%) Software Developer
16 79 (4.23%) Lead Software Engineer
17 53 (2.84%) Lead Developer
17 53 (2.84%) Senior Java Software Engineer
18 49 (2.62%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 400 (21.41%) Spring
2 355 (19.00%) Spring Boot
3 324 (17.34%) React
4 212 (11.35%) REST
5 190 (10.17%) Kafka
6 188 (10.06%) Node.js
7 176 (9.42%) AngularJS
8 160 (8.57%) .NET
9 135 (7.23%) RESTful
10 108 (5.78%) HTML
11 95 (5.09%) SOAP
12 80 (4.28%) GraphQL
13 74 (3.96%) CSS
14 70 (3.75%) Web Services
15 66 (3.53%) Elastic Stack
15 66 (3.53%) Hibernate
16 53 (2.84%) JSON
17 52 (2.78%) Vue
18 50 (2.68%) Gherkin
19 43 (2.30%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 264 (14.13%) Cloud Native
2 172 (9.21%) Distributed Systems
3 80 (4.28%) Product Ownership
4 57 (3.05%) Fixed Income
4 57 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
5 51 (2.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 49 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
7 40 (2.14%) Equities
8 38 (2.03%) Blog
9 35 (1.87%) Public Cloud
10 34 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
11 31 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
12 30 (1.61%) Mobile App
13 29 (1.55%) Data Structures
13 29 (1.55%) Distributed Architecture
14 26 (1.39%) Derivative
15 25 (1.34%) Algorithms
16 23 (1.23%) FPGA
16 23 (1.23%) Management Information System
17 19 (1.02%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 196 (10.49%) Linux
2 46 (2.46%) Android
3 43 (2.30%) Unix
4 32 (1.71%) Windows
5 13 (0.70%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.37%) CentOS
6 7 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.32%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.27%) Debian
9 3 (0.16%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.054%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.054%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 717 (38.38%) Agile
2 661 (35.39%) Software Engineering
3 598 (32.01%) CI/CD
4 448 (23.98%) DevOps
5 408 (21.84%) Microservices
6 390 (20.88%) Full-Stack Development
7 326 (17.45%) Test Automation
8 314 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
9 300 (16.06%) Mentoring
10 226 (12.10%) Containerisation
11 211 (11.30%) AI
12 210 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 191 (10.22%) Scrum
14 185 (9.90%) Computer Science
15 180 (9.64%) TDD
16 159 (8.51%) Infrastructure as Code
17 152 (8.14%) SDLC
17 152 (8.14%) Technical Leadership
18 146 (7.82%) Clean Code
18 146 (7.82%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 600 (32.12%) Python
2 420 (22.48%) JavaScript
3 364 (19.49%) SQL
4 283 (15.15%) TypeScript
5 198 (10.60%) C#
6 158 (8.46%) Go
7 126 (6.75%) C++
8 113 (6.05%) Kotlin
9 87 (4.66%) Bash
10 80 (4.28%) C
11 45 (2.41%) Scala
12 42 (2.25%) Groovy
13 33 (1.77%) PHP
13 33 (1.77%) PL/SQL
13 33 (1.77%) Rust
14 21 (1.12%) Apex Code
14 21 (1.12%) Ruby
15 17 (0.91%) R
16 15 (0.80%) PowerShell
17 14 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 279 (14.94%) Security Cleared
2 260 (13.92%) Degree
3 163 (8.73%) SC Cleared
4 114 (6.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 112 (6.00%) DV Cleared
6 85 (4.55%) AWS Certification
7 41 (2.19%) Master's Degree
8 39 (2.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 33 (1.77%) Azure Certification
10 28 (1.50%) ISTQB
11 25 (1.34%) TOGAF Certification
12 23 (1.23%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 22 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
14 17 (0.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 17 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
14 17 (0.91%) PhD
15 11 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
15 11 (0.59%) CREST Certified
15 11 (0.59%) OSCP
16 9 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (6.53%) QA
2 36 (1.93%) Accessibility
3 19 (1.02%) Data Quality
3 19 (1.02%) GDPR
3 19 (1.02%) PCI DSS
4 16 (0.86%) SOC 2
5 12 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.37%) WCAG
8 5 (0.27%) NIST
9 4 (0.21%) EU AI Act
9 4 (0.21%) GRC
9 4 (0.21%) SLA
10 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.16%) NCSC
11 2 (0.11%) ECSS
11 2 (0.11%) MISRA
12 1 (0.054%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.054%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.054%) MiFID
System Software
1 329 (17.61%) Docker
2 14 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (0.64%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
4 5 (0.27%) Firmware
4 5 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.16%) HDFS
6 3 (0.16%) KVM
7 1 (0.054%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.054%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.054%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.054%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.054%) Squid
7 1 (0.054%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 434 (23.23%) Kubernetes
2 197 (10.55%) Terraform
3 102 (5.46%) Grafana
4 74 (3.96%) Ansible
5 47 (2.52%) Prometheus
6 42 (2.25%) Argo
7 34 (1.82%) HP Fortify
8 21 (1.12%) Kibana
9 19 (1.02%) Kustomize
10 10 (0.54%) Rancher
11 7 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (0.37%) Puppet
12 6 (0.32%) yum
13 5 (0.27%) FTK
13 5 (0.27%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.21%) logstash
14 4 (0.21%) Nagios
15 3 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
15 3 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
16 2 (0.11%) Control-M
Vendors
1 86 (4.60%) Oracle
2 66 (3.53%) Google
3 58 (3.10%) Microsoft
4 34 (1.82%) MuleSoft
5 33 (1.77%) Salesforce
6 29 (1.55%) IBM
7 22 (1.18%) Atlassian
7 22 (1.18%) SAP
8 21 (1.12%) Splunk
9 19 (1.02%) Databricks
9 19 (1.02%) Informatica
10 16 (0.86%) Talend
11 13 (0.70%) Dell
12 12 (0.64%) Red Hat
13 11 (0.59%) Guidewire
13 11 (0.59%) OpenAI
13 11 (0.59%) Solace
14 10 (0.54%) Dynatrace
14 10 (0.54%) Foundry
15 9 (0.48%) Workday