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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 34 32
Rank change year-on-year -24 -2 -10
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,710 2,580 3,622
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.61% 6.02% 5.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.41% 23.00% 17.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,680 1,107 2,260
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +3.23%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £136,250 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +6.67%

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 16,511 11,215 20,384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.91% 26.17% 31.59%
Number of salaries quoted 12,026 7,435 12,257
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £63,112
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.97% -2.90%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -15 1,092 £85,000 -19.05% 1,588
North of England -20 781 £69,310 +2.68% 355
North West -31 415 £75,000 +7.14% 199
South West +13 345 £67,500 +1.89% 133
South East -45 218 £70,000 +7.69% 173
Midlands -37 207 £70,000 +12.00% 115
North East +14 189 £55,000 +7.32% 77
West Midlands -15 179 £70,000 +12.00% 91
Yorkshire +13 177 £72,500 +7.41% 80
East of England -83 43 £63,750 +50.00% 46
East Midlands -74 28 £60,000 -4.00% 24
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 58 (2.14%) Confluence
2 55 (2.03%) Apache
3 37 (1.37%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (0.74%) Camunda
6 18 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 12 (0.44%) Jupyter
8 11 (0.41%) WebLogic
9 9 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
10 8 (0.30%) Tomcat
11 7 (0.26%) CICS
11 7 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
13 5 (0.18%) CMS
13 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
13 5 (0.18%) JBoss
13 5 (0.18%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.15%) SAS
14 4 (0.15%) SharePoint
14 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.55%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.33%) Simulink
4 7 (0.26%) Moqups
5 5 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (0.11%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.074%) PTC Creo
8 2 (0.074%) Windchill
9 1 (0.037%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.037%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
2 5 (0.18%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.11%) Maximo
5 2 (0.074%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.074%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 2 (0.074%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.037%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.037%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.037%) Quorum
6 1 (0.037%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.037%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.037%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,061 (39.15%) AWS
2 529 (19.52%) Azure
3 302 (11.14%) GCP
4 192 (7.08%) Serverless
5 183 (6.75%) GitHub
6 151 (5.57%) AWS CloudFormation
7 127 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
8 109 (4.02%) Amazon S3
9 106 (3.91%) Amazon EKS
9 106 (3.91%) GitHub Actions
9 106 (3.91%) SaaS
10 100 (3.69%) Amazon ECS
11 88 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
12 53 (1.96%) AWS Step Functions
13 49 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
14 41 (1.51%) Anthropic Claude
15 40 (1.48%) Datadog
16 39 (1.44%) GitHub Copilot
16 39 (1.44%) OpenShift
17 37 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 35 (1.29%) HTTP
2 26 (0.96%) TCP/IP
3 23 (0.85%) Network Security
4 20 (0.74%) VPN
5 18 (0.66%) BGP
6 15 (0.55%) DMARC
7 12 (0.44%) Firewall
8 10 (0.37%) Wireshark
9 9 (0.33%) AMQP
9 9 (0.33%) DNS
10 8 (0.30%) IPv4
10 8 (0.30%) MQTT
10 8 (0.30%) Software-Defined Networking
11 6 (0.22%) Ethernet
11 6 (0.22%) IPsec
12 5 (0.18%) Broadband
13 4 (0.15%) Internet
13 4 (0.15%) Kerberos
13 4 (0.15%) RIP
13 4 (0.15%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (6.68%) PostgreSQL
2 163 (6.01%) NoSQL
3 128 (4.72%) Relational Database
4 126 (4.65%) MongoDB
5 70 (2.58%) MySQL
6 62 (2.29%) DynamoDB
7 57 (2.10%) SQL Server
8 50 (1.85%) Big Data
9 37 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
10 33 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
11 29 (1.07%) Redis
12 27 (1.00%) Power BI
13 24 (0.89%) Data Lake
13 24 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
14 23 (0.85%) Db2
14 23 (0.85%) Hadoop
15 22 (0.81%) BigQuery
16 21 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
17 17 (0.63%) Spark SQL
18 16 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 285 (10.52%) Git
2 207 (7.64%) Jenkins
3 200 (7.38%) GitLab
4 109 (4.02%) JUnit
5 89 (3.28%) JIRA
6 88 (3.25%) Cucumber
7 73 (2.69%) TeamCity
8 68 (2.51%) Maven
9 58 (2.14%) Selenium
10 52 (1.92%) Cypress.io
11 46 (1.70%) Eclipse
11 46 (1.70%) Mockito
12 44 (1.62%) Postman
13 40 (1.48%) Subversion
14 36 (1.33%) SonarQube
15 32 (1.18%) Bitbucket
16 31 (1.14%) JMeter
17 28 (1.03%) Claude Code
18 19 (0.70%) REST Assured
19 17 (0.63%) Spock
General
1 682 (25.17%) Finance
2 471 (17.38%) Social Skills
3 296 (10.92%) Banking
4 250 (9.23%) Public Sector
5 177 (6.53%) Analytical Skills
6 151 (5.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 127 (4.69%) Law
8 106 (3.91%) Retail
9 83 (3.06%) Financial Institution
10 71 (2.62%) Front Office
11 44 (1.62%) Back Office
12 40 (1.48%) Legal
13 38 (1.40%) Manufacturing
14 35 (1.29%) Marketing
15 34 (1.25%) Health Technology
16 32 (1.18%) Investment Banking
17 29 (1.07%) Publishing
18 23 (0.85%) Aerospace
19 21 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
19 21 (0.77%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 784 (28.93%) Developer
2 727 (26.83%) Senior
3 634 (23.39%) Software Engineer
4 587 (21.66%) Java Engineer
5 505 (18.63%) Java Developer
6 371 (13.69%) Lead
7 220 (8.12%) Senior Developer
8 217 (8.01%) Senior Java Engineer
9 215 (7.93%) Senior Software Engineer
10 197 (7.27%) Java Software Engineer
11 178 (6.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 136 (5.02%) Senior Java Developer
13 123 (4.54%) Full-Stack Developer
14 111 (4.10%) Software Developer
15 104 (3.84%) Lead Software Engineer
16 102 (3.76%) Principal Engineer
17 88 (3.25%) DevOps Engineer
18 86 (3.17%) Architect
19 78 (2.88%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 78 (2.88%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 626 (23.10%) Spring
2 524 (19.34%) Spring Boot
3 327 (12.07%) Terraform
4 282 (10.41%) Kafka
5 259 (9.56%) React
6 251 (9.26%) REST
7 206 (7.60%) AngularJS
8 197 (7.27%) Node.js
9 193 (7.12%) RESTful
10 163 (6.01%) .NET
11 64 (2.36%) Web Services
12 62 (2.29%) HTML
13 59 (2.18%) CSS
13 59 (2.18%) OAuth
14 56 (2.07%) Hibernate
15 51 (1.88%) Vue
16 49 (1.81%) RabbitMQ
17 44 (1.62%) Jakarta EE
18 40 (1.48%) XML
19 39 (1.44%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 387 (14.28%) Cloud Native
2 271 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 159 (5.87%) Product Ownership
4 123 (4.54%) Public Cloud
5 79 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
6 76 (2.80%) Onboarding
7 60 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
8 51 (1.88%) Blog
9 48 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 47 (1.73%) e-Learning
11 46 (1.70%) Data Structures
12 41 (1.51%) Algorithms
13 39 (1.44%) Distributed Architecture
14 35 (1.29%) Mobile App
15 34 (1.25%) Virtual Team
16 33 (1.22%) AI Agents
17 32 (1.18%) Equities
18 29 (1.07%) Fixed Income
18 29 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
19 28 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 223 (8.23%) Linux
2 70 (2.58%) Windows
3 40 (1.48%) Android
4 34 (1.25%) Unix
5 27 (1.00%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (0.48%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.30%) CentOS
9 7 (0.26%) Debian
9 7 (0.26%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.15%) VMS
11 3 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.11%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.074%) macOS
13 1 (0.037%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,024 (37.79%) Software Engineering
2 922 (34.02%) CI/CD
3 797 (29.41%) Agile
4 656 (24.21%) Microservices
5 593 (21.88%) DevOps
6 549 (20.26%) Full-Stack Development
7 511 (18.86%) Test Automation
8 460 (16.97%) Mentoring
9 457 (16.86%) Problem-Solving
10 434 (16.01%) AI
11 362 (13.36%) Containerisation
12 338 (12.47%) Infrastructure as Code
13 330 (12.18%) Continuous Improvement
14 304 (11.22%) Event-Driven
15 260 (9.59%) Technical Leadership
16 241 (8.89%) SDLC
17 237 (8.75%) Computer Science
18 230 (8.49%) Scrum
18 230 (8.49%) TDD
19 218 (8.04%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 831 (30.66%) Python
2 479 (17.68%) SQL
3 434 (16.01%) JavaScript
4 274 (10.11%) C++
4 274 (10.11%) TypeScript
5 251 (9.26%) C#
6 162 (5.98%) Go
7 123 (4.54%) Bash
8 115 (4.24%) Kotlin
9 80 (2.95%) Scala
10 78 (2.88%) C
11 66 (2.44%) Rust
12 47 (1.73%) Perl
13 45 (1.66%) PHP
14 42 (1.55%) PowerShell
15 39 (1.44%) Groovy
16 34 (1.25%) Ruby
17 31 (1.14%) PL/SQL
18 22 (0.81%) COBOL
18 22 (0.81%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 493 (18.19%) Security Cleared
2 270 (9.96%) Degree
3 253 (9.34%) SC Cleared
4 177 (6.53%) DV Cleared
5 154 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 104 (3.84%) AWS Certification
7 70 (2.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 34 (1.25%) Master's Degree
9 22 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (0.66%) ISTQB
12 17 (0.63%) OSCP
13 16 (0.59%) CISSP
14 14 (0.52%) Azure Certification
15 13 (0.48%) PhD
16 12 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 12 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
17 11 (0.41%) CCSP
17 11 (0.41%) CISM
17 11 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (5.98%) QA
2 85 (3.14%) Data Quality
3 83 (3.06%) Accessibility
4 27 (1.00%) GDPR
5 26 (0.96%) WCAG
6 25 (0.92%) NIST
7 22 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 19 (0.70%) PCI DSS
9 16 (0.59%) ISO 20022
10 15 (0.55%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.15%) GRC
12 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 14443
12 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 7816
13 3 (0.11%) MiFID
13 3 (0.11%) MIL-STD-1553
13 3 (0.11%) PSD2
13 3 (0.11%) UCITS
14 2 (0.074%) Good Clinical Practice
14 2 (0.074%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 449 (16.57%) Docker
2 36 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (0.81%) VMware NSX
4 20 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (0.63%) Active Directory
6 14 (0.52%) Embedded Firmware
6 14 (0.52%) Firmware
7 11 (0.41%) vSphere
8 8 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (0.26%) Squid
10 6 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.18%) KVM
12 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
13 2 (0.074%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.037%) Oracle Clusterware
Systems Management
1 556 (20.52%) Kubernetes
2 149 (5.50%) Ansible
3 109 (4.02%) Grafana
4 38 (1.40%) Prometheus
4 38 (1.40%) Puppet
5 35 (1.29%) Argo
6 21 (0.77%) Kibana
7 15 (0.55%) vCenter Server
8 14 (0.52%) HP Fortify
9 12 (0.44%) Rancher
10 11 (0.41%) Packer
11 10 (0.37%) logstash
12 9 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
13 8 (0.30%) yum
14 7 (0.26%) Cilium
14 7 (0.26%) EnCase
14 7 (0.26%) FTK
14 7 (0.26%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.22%) Hadoop YARN
15 6 (0.22%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 120 (4.43%) Oracle
2 116 (4.28%) Microsoft
3 105 (3.87%) Google
4 66 (2.44%) Splunk
5 45 (1.66%) Red Hat
6 39 (1.44%) VMware
7 32 (1.18%) IBM
7 32 (1.18%) SAP
8 28 (1.03%) Adobe
9 22 (0.81%) OpenAI
10 21 (0.77%) Dynatrace
11 19 (0.70%) AppDynamics
12 18 (0.66%) Databricks
13 15 (0.55%) Palantir
13 15 (0.55%) SendGrid
13 15 (0.55%) ServiceNow
14 14 (0.52%) Salesforce
15 13 (0.48%) Atlassian
15 13 (0.48%) OutSystems
16 12 (0.44%) Solace