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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 33 23
Rank change year-on-year -33 -10 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,708 3,327 3,812
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.69% 5.43% 8.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.26% 16.74% 19.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,112 2,041 3,021
10th Percentile £41,318 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,188 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £75,554
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +5.89% +0.74%
75th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £142,500 £130,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% +3.45%

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 10,502 19,873 19,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 22.67% 32.42% 41.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,846 11,963 15,831
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 2025. 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 -9 991 £105,000 +5.00% 843
North of England -8 264 £65,000 +8.33% 214
South East -83 173 £62,500 - 271
North West -15 135 £67,500 +12.50% 154
Midlands +29 118 £62,500 +56.25% 80
South West -46 112 £65,000 +4.00% 153
Yorkshire +25 106 £66,250 +20.45% 40
West Midlands +34 89 £62,500 +19.05% 56
East of England -73 41 £42,500 -37.04% 59
East Midlands +13 29 £57,750 +65.00% 24
North East -3 25 £55,000 -5.11% 21
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 91 (5.33%) Apache
1 91 (5.33%) Apache Airflow
2 55 (3.22%) Apache Spark
3 43 (2.52%) Confluence
4 15 (0.88%) JBoss
5 7 (0.41%) IIS
6 6 (0.35%) Mule
6 6 (0.35%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.35%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.29%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.29%) BizTalk Server
7 5 (0.29%) Camunda
7 5 (0.29%) nginx
7 5 (0.29%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
8 3 (0.18%) Appian
8 3 (0.18%) Luigi
8 3 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
8 3 (0.18%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.18%) Traefik
Applications
1 7 (0.41%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.18%) Simulink
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.059%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.059%) Trello
5 1 (0.059%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
1 8 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.35%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.35%) Shopify
3 5 (0.29%) Adaptiv
3 5 (0.29%) Maximo
3 5 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.059%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.059%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.059%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.059%) Summit
5 1 (0.059%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 836 (48.95%) AWS
2 338 (19.79%) Azure
3 218 (12.76%) GCP
4 141 (8.26%) Serverless
5 100 (5.85%) Amazon EKS
6 94 (5.50%) SaaS
7 91 (5.33%) GitHub
8 80 (4.68%) AWS Lambda
9 79 (4.63%) dbt
10 73 (4.27%) Snowflake
11 72 (4.22%) Amazon EC2
12 68 (3.98%) Amazon ECS
13 64 (3.75%) Amazon S3
14 45 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 39 (2.28%) GitHub Actions
15 39 (2.28%) OpenShift
16 30 (1.76%) Datadog
17 24 (1.41%) Amazon Kinesis
17 24 (1.41%) Amazon SQS
18 22 (1.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 34 (1.99%) TCP/IP
2 24 (1.41%) HTTP
3 20 (1.17%) DNS
4 19 (1.11%) Firewall
5 17 (1.00%) SSH
6 15 (0.88%) FTP
6 15 (0.88%) SMTP
7 11 (0.64%) VPN
8 10 (0.59%) AMQP
8 10 (0.59%) Multicast
9 7 (0.41%) Internet
9 7 (0.41%) SAN
10 4 (0.23%) Broadband
10 4 (0.23%) DHCP
10 4 (0.23%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.18%) BGP
11 3 (0.18%) ICMP
11 3 (0.18%) LAN
11 3 (0.18%) VLAN
11 3 (0.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (9.72%) PostgreSQL
2 153 (8.96%) Relational Database
3 113 (6.62%) NoSQL
4 95 (5.56%) SQL Server
5 88 (5.15%) MongoDB
6 87 (5.09%) Data Lake
7 73 (4.27%) MySQL
8 68 (3.98%) Amazon Athena
8 68 (3.98%) Apache Iceberg
9 65 (3.81%) Apache Arrow
9 65 (3.81%) Dremio
10 60 (3.51%) Apache Ignite
11 57 (3.34%) Data Warehouse
12 56 (3.28%) Big Data
13 51 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
14 44 (2.58%) RDBMS
15 40 (2.34%) Hadoop
16 37 (2.17%) DynamoDB
17 31 (1.81%) BigQuery
18 26 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 173 (10.13%) Jenkins
2 144 (8.43%) Git
3 98 (5.74%) Selenium
4 97 (5.68%) JIRA
5 78 (4.57%) JUnit
6 73 (4.27%) GitLab
7 57 (3.34%) Cucumber
8 40 (2.34%) JMeter
8 40 (2.34%) Mockito
9 39 (2.28%) Postman
10 38 (2.22%) Cypress.io
11 33 (1.93%) TeamCity
12 31 (1.81%) Maven
13 30 (1.76%) Bitbucket
14 29 (1.70%) WebDriver
15 25 (1.46%) SoapUI
16 21 (1.23%) SonarQube
17 19 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
18 16 (0.94%) REST Assured
18 16 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 684 (40.05%) Finance
2 479 (28.04%) Social Skills
3 364 (21.31%) Banking
4 238 (13.93%) Law
5 209 (12.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 182 (10.66%) Front Office
7 159 (9.31%) Analytical Skills
8 143 (8.37%) Investment Banking
9 119 (6.97%) Public Sector
10 104 (6.09%) Financial Institution
11 71 (4.16%) Marketing
12 50 (2.93%) Retail
13 34 (1.99%) Back Office
14 31 (1.81%) Games
15 30 (1.76%) Legal
16 23 (1.35%) Manufacturing
17 21 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
18 20 (1.17%) Telecoms
19 19 (1.11%) Billing
20 16 (0.94%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 581 (34.02%) Developer
2 490 (28.69%) Software Engineer
3 407 (23.83%) Senior
4 280 (16.39%) Java Engineer
5 277 (16.22%) Java Developer
6 260 (15.22%) Lead
7 202 (11.83%) Java Software Engineer
8 154 (9.02%) Senior Software Engineer
9 117 (6.85%) Lead Software Engineer
10 116 (6.79%) AWS Engineer
11 115 (6.73%) Senior Java Engineer
12 100 (5.85%) Architect
13 97 (5.68%) Python Engineer
13 97 (5.68%) Senior Developer
14 95 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
15 90 (5.27%) Python Software Engineer
16 85 (4.98%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 79 (4.63%) AWS Software Engineer
18 62 (3.63%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 61 (3.57%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 367 (21.49%) Spring
2 314 (18.38%) React
3 287 (16.80%) Spring Boot
4 262 (15.34%) Kafka
5 173 (10.13%) RESTful
6 163 (9.54%) .NET
7 162 (9.48%) REST
8 150 (8.78%) Node.js
9 121 (7.08%) HTML
10 113 (6.62%) AngularJS
11 103 (6.03%) CSS
12 81 (4.74%) Hibernate
12 81 (4.74%) Pandas
13 68 (3.98%) gRPC
13 68 (3.98%) Web Services
14 66 (3.86%) NumPy
15 65 (3.81%) SciPy
15 65 (3.81%) SOAP
16 61 (3.57%) Protocol Buffers
17 58 (3.40%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 311 (18.21%) Cloud Native
2 190 (11.12%) Distributed Systems
3 123 (7.20%) Equities
4 118 (6.91%) Fixed Income
5 116 (6.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 102 (5.97%) Derivative
7 81 (4.74%) Algorithms
8 74 (4.33%) Hedge funds
9 66 (3.86%) Self-Motivation
10 59 (3.45%) Onboarding
10 59 (3.45%) Pricing Data
11 56 (3.28%) Product Ownership
11 56 (3.28%) Public Cloud
12 54 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
13 40 (2.34%) Management Information System
14 37 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
15 35 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
16 33 (1.93%) Data Structures
17 30 (1.76%) Mobile App
17 30 (1.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 192 (11.24%) Linux
2 40 (2.34%) Windows
3 27 (1.58%) Unix
4 26 (1.52%) Android
5 15 (0.88%) VMS
6 13 (0.76%) Amazon Linux
6 13 (0.76%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.41%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.18%) CentOS
9 3 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.12%) Debian
10 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.059%) AIX
11 1 (0.059%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.059%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.059%) SUSE
11 1 (0.059%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 789 (46.19%) Agile
2 651 (38.11%) Software Engineering
3 554 (32.44%) CI/CD
4 402 (23.54%) Microservices
5 362 (21.19%) Problem-Solving
6 359 (21.02%) DevOps
7 260 (15.22%) Computer Science
8 255 (14.93%) Test Automation
9 246 (14.40%) Continuous Improvement
9 246 (14.40%) Full-Stack Development
10 245 (14.34%) Mentoring
11 235 (13.76%) SDLC
12 184 (10.77%) AI
13 177 (10.36%) TDD
14 170 (9.95%) Containerisation
15 165 (9.66%) Fintech
16 164 (9.60%) Scrum
17 144 (8.43%) Machine Learning
18 133 (7.79%) Clean Code
19 126 (7.38%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 710 (41.57%) Python
2 418 (24.47%) JavaScript
3 377 (22.07%) SQL
4 298 (17.45%) TypeScript
5 253 (14.81%) C#
6 176 (10.30%) C++
7 139 (8.14%) Go
8 117 (6.85%) Kotlin
9 92 (5.39%) C
10 74 (4.33%) Scala
11 54 (3.16%) PHP
12 41 (2.40%) Shell Script
13 40 (2.34%) PowerShell
14 36 (2.11%) Groovy
14 36 (2.11%) PL/SQL
15 32 (1.87%) Bash
16 27 (1.58%) Rust
17 25 (1.46%) Perl
18 23 (1.35%) Ruby
19 19 (1.11%) R
Qualifications
1 296 (17.33%) Degree
2 221 (12.94%) Security Cleared
3 144 (8.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 139 (8.14%) SC Cleared
5 81 (4.74%) AWS Certification
6 71 (4.16%) Master's Degree
7 66 (3.86%) DV Cleared
8 45 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 37 (2.17%) Azure Certification
10 31 (1.81%) PhD
11 23 (1.35%) ISTQB
12 19 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
13 18 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
14 17 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (0.94%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 9 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
16 9 (0.53%) HND
17 8 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
17 8 (0.47%) PMI Certification
17 8 (0.47%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (5.68%) QA
2 45 (2.63%) Accessibility
3 31 (1.81%) GDPR
4 17 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (0.76%) PCI DSS
6 12 (0.70%) Data Quality
7 10 (0.59%) ISO 9001
7 10 (0.59%) NIST
8 9 (0.53%) HIPAA
9 8 (0.47%) SLA
10 6 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.29%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.23%) EU AI Act
12 4 (0.23%) SEPA
12 4 (0.23%) WCAG
13 3 (0.18%) NCSC
14 2 (0.12%) ITGC
14 2 (0.12%) PSD2
System Software
1 290 (16.98%) Docker
2 26 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.82%) Virtual Servers
5 11 (0.64%) HDFS
6 5 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.23%) DFS Replication
7 4 (0.23%) vSphere
8 3 (0.18%) Firmware
9 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
9 2 (0.12%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.12%) Squid
9 2 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.059%) KVM
Systems Management
1 430 (25.18%) Kubernetes
2 130 (7.61%) Terraform
3 71 (4.16%) Grafana
4 48 (2.81%) Ansible
5 42 (2.46%) Kibana
6 38 (2.22%) Prometheus
7 21 (1.23%) Argo
8 12 (0.70%) Progress Chef
9 10 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.47%) Control-M
11 7 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.29%) logstash
12 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.23%) Nagios
13 4 (0.23%) Puppet
14 3 (0.18%) HAProxy
14 3 (0.18%) Kustomize
15 2 (0.12%) Oozie
15 2 (0.12%) WSUS
16 1 (0.059%) CA Service Virtualization
Vendors
1 127 (7.44%) Oracle
2 89 (5.21%) Microsoft
3 81 (4.74%) Google
4 38 (2.22%) Guidewire
4 38 (2.22%) Splunk
5 32 (1.87%) Atlassian
6 29 (1.70%) Databricks
7 27 (1.58%) Dynatrace
7 27 (1.58%) SAP
8 22 (1.29%) MuleSoft
9 18 (1.05%) ServiceNow
10 17 (1.00%) Informatica
11 16 (0.94%) IBM
12 15 (0.88%) Foundry
13 14 (0.82%) Palantir
14 13 (0.76%) Dell
14 13 (0.76%) Solace
14 13 (0.76%) Talend
15 12 (0.70%) Red Hat
16 10 (0.59%) Salesforce