Java Jobs in England

Java
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 33 19
Rank change year-on-year -1 -14 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 3,364 4,826 7,431
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.54% 5.13% 9.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.34% 16.69% 22.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,540 3,541 4,868
10th Percentile £41,125 £40,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,438 £52,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £115,000 £103,750 £105,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £142,500 £130,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £73,805 £77,500
% change year-on-year -1.77% -4.77% +10.71%

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 15,057 28,912 32,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.25% 30.75% 41.55%
Number of salaries quoted 9,666 22,688 23,031
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,751 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Java in England

Java
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java in England.

Salary trend for Java in England

Java
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in England over the 6 months to 3 July 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 3 July 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 -7 1,255 £105,000 +7.69% 4,051
North of England +36 1,043 £67,037 +7.26% 914
North West +26 887 £67,500 +10.20% 551
South East -35 343 £65,000 +8.33% 902
Midlands +48 261 £57,750 +10.00% 468
South West -2 219 £60,000 +4.35% 441
West Midlands +51 166 £60,000 +9.09% 291
East of England +55 157 £44,000 -30.98% 403
Yorkshire +38 114 £70,000 +14.29% 280
East Midlands +50 94 £47,500 -7.77% 178
North East +43 42 £45,000 -31.26% 84
Java
UK

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 193 (5.74%) Apache Airflow
2 191 (5.68%) Apache
3 190 (5.65%) Confluence
4 83 (2.47%) Apache Spark
5 27 (0.80%) Jupyter
6 23 (0.68%) Tomcat
7 19 (0.56%) JBoss
8 12 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
9 11 (0.33%) IIS
9 11 (0.33%) SharePoint
10 9 (0.27%) CMS
10 9 (0.27%) WordPress
11 8 (0.24%) nginx
11 8 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 8 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.12%) GemFire
13 4 (0.12%) OpenEdge
13 4 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 20 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.21%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.15%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.089%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 3 (0.089%) Trello
5 2 (0.059%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
2 8 (0.24%) Shopify
3 6 (0.18%) Endur
4 4 (0.12%) Adaptiv
4 4 (0.12%) Maximo
4 4 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.089%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.089%) Orchestrade
6 2 (0.059%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.059%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 1 (0.030%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.030%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.030%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.030%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.030%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.030%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,699 (50.51%) AWS
2 972 (28.89%) Azure
3 605 (17.98%) GCP
4 229 (6.81%) Serverless
5 217 (6.45%) Pulumi
6 179 (5.32%) dbt
7 159 (4.73%) AWS Lambda
8 144 (4.28%) Amazon EKS
9 131 (3.89%) Snowflake
10 124 (3.69%) Amazon EC2
11 121 (3.60%) Amazon ECS
12 118 (3.51%) GitHub
13 94 (2.79%) Amazon S3
14 79 (2.35%) AWS CloudFormation
15 77 (2.29%) SaaS
16 62 (1.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 58 (1.72%) OpenShift
18 48 (1.43%) Amazon SQS
19 47 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
20 45 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 418 (12.43%) DNS
2 404 (12.01%) VPN
3 217 (6.45%) Broadband
4 29 (0.86%) TCP/IP
5 22 (0.65%) HTTP
5 22 (0.65%) SSL
6 21 (0.62%) Network Security
7 18 (0.54%) Firewall
8 14 (0.42%) SSH
9 12 (0.36%) FTP
9 12 (0.36%) SMTP
10 9 (0.27%) DMARC
11 7 (0.21%) HTTPS
11 7 (0.21%) SAN
12 6 (0.18%) Internet
12 6 (0.18%) Multicast
12 6 (0.18%) Reverse Proxy
13 4 (0.12%) DHCP
13 4 (0.12%) ICMP
13 4 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 385 (11.44%) NoSQL
2 366 (10.88%) Relational Database
3 317 (9.42%) SQL Server
4 255 (7.58%) RDBMS
5 231 (6.87%) PostgreSQL
6 192 (5.71%) Amazon Athena
7 182 (5.41%) Apache Iceberg
8 177 (5.26%) Dremio
9 169 (5.02%) Apache Arrow
10 122 (3.63%) MySQL
11 117 (3.48%) Apache Ignite
12 113 (3.36%) MongoDB
13 111 (3.30%) Data Lake
14 106 (3.15%) Big Data
15 82 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
16 52 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
17 49 (1.46%) DynamoDB
18 39 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
19 31 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
20 29 (0.86%) Redis
Development Applications
1 326 (9.69%) JIRA
2 289 (8.59%) GitLab
3 272 (8.09%) Maven
4 259 (7.70%) Selenium
5 252 (7.49%) SonarQube
6 250 (7.43%) Git
7 249 (7.40%) Cucumber
8 225 (6.69%) Sonatype Nexus
9 221 (6.57%) Bitbucket
10 215 (6.39%) Jaeger
11 213 (6.33%) Jenkins
12 124 (3.69%) JUnit
13 70 (2.08%) Mockito
14 52 (1.55%) Artifactory
15 43 (1.28%) IntelliJ
16 31 (0.92%) JMeter
17 28 (0.83%) Eclipse
17 28 (0.83%) Postman
18 20 (0.59%) Gradle
19 18 (0.54%) Appium
General
1 1,545 (45.93%) Finance
2 1,332 (39.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 733 (21.79%) Banking
4 640 (19.02%) Analytical Skills
5 564 (16.77%) Social Skills
6 305 (9.07%) Front Office
7 282 (8.38%) Law
8 279 (8.29%) Investment Banking
9 157 (4.67%) Public Sector
10 139 (4.13%) Retail
11 90 (2.68%) Corporate Banking
12 82 (2.44%) Marketing
13 61 (1.81%) Financial Institution
14 39 (1.16%) Games
15 35 (1.04%) Legal
16 29 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
17 28 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
18 26 (0.77%) Electronics
19 25 (0.74%) Telecoms
20 21 (0.62%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1,115 (33.15%) Software Engineer
2 1,081 (32.13%) Developer
3 719 (21.37%) Senior
4 648 (19.26%) Lead
5 527 (15.67%) Software Developer
6 434 (12.90%) Java Engineer
7 419 (12.46%) Senior Software Engineer
8 328 (9.75%) Java Developer
9 306 (9.10%) Java Software Engineer
10 249 (7.40%) Team Leader
11 201 (5.98%) AWS Engineer
12 175 (5.20%) Python Engineer
13 169 (5.02%) Senior Java Engineer
14 163 (4.85%) Lead Software Engineer
15 143 (4.25%) AWS Software Engineer
16 127 (3.78%) Data Engineer
17 124 (3.69%) Python Software Engineer
18 110 (3.27%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 104 (3.09%) Senior Developer
20 96 (2.85%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 634 (18.85%) Spring
2 562 (16.71%) Spring Boot
3 553 (16.44%) Kafka
4 550 (16.35%) React
5 429 (12.75%) .NET
6 388 (11.53%) Node.js
7 365 (10.85%) HTML
8 323 (9.60%) RESTful
9 316 (9.39%) CSS
10 272 (8.09%) REST
11 247 (7.34%) Elastic Stack
12 245 (7.28%) JPA
13 226 (6.72%) OpenTelemetry
14 224 (6.66%) Redux
15 214 (6.36%) Hibernate
16 175 (5.20%) AngularJS
17 165 (4.90%) Pandas
18 111 (3.30%) PySpark
19 108 (3.21%) Jest
20 107 (3.18%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 647 (19.23%) Cyberattack
2 285 (8.47%) Product Ownership
3 245 (7.28%) Enterprise Software
4 239 (7.10%) Cloud Native
5 224 (6.66%) Self-Motivation
6 190 (5.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 182 (5.41%) Linux Command Line
8 178 (5.29%) Fixed Income
9 175 (5.20%) Derivative
10 171 (5.08%) Equities
11 154 (4.58%) Algorithms
11 154 (4.58%) Distributed Systems
12 117 (3.48%) Hedge funds
13 92 (2.73%) Public Cloud
14 76 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
14 76 (2.26%) Management Information System
15 62 (1.84%) Data Structures
16 60 (1.78%) Pricing Data
17 47 (1.40%) Mobile App
18 43 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1,078 (32.05%) Linux
2 509 (15.13%) Android
3 277 (8.23%) Unix
4 70 (2.08%) Windows
5 49 (1.46%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.48%) VMS
7 13 (0.39%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (0.15%) Rocky
9 4 (0.12%) AIX
9 4 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
9 4 (0.12%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.089%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.059%) Solaris
11 2 (0.059%) Windows Server
11 2 (0.059%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.059%) zOS
12 1 (0.030%) CentOS
12 1 (0.030%) Debian
12 1 (0.030%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,213 (65.78%) Agile
2 1,509 (44.86%) Software Engineering
3 975 (28.98%) Microservices
4 962 (28.60%) DevOps
5 935 (27.79%) CI/CD
6 775 (23.04%) Mentoring
7 770 (22.89%) Containerisation
8 608 (18.07%) Mathematics
9 607 (18.04%) OO
10 556 (16.53%) SDLC
11 533 (15.84%) OOP
12 532 (15.81%) Design Patterns
13 530 (15.76%) Test Automation
14 507 (15.07%) Line Management
15 481 (14.30%) Android Development
15 481 (14.30%) Problem-Solving
16 453 (13.47%) Performance Optimisation
17 440 (13.08%) Full-Stack Development
18 400 (11.89%) Computer Science
19 398 (11.83%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,845 (54.85%) Python
2 1,193 (35.46%) JavaScript
3 1,002 (29.79%) Go
4 907 (26.96%) C++
5 768 (22.83%) SQL
6 438 (13.02%) TypeScript
7 391 (11.62%) C#
8 380 (11.30%) Rust
9 262 (7.79%) Bash
10 125 (3.72%) C
11 116 (3.45%) PHP
12 112 (3.33%) Kotlin
13 68 (2.02%) PowerShell
14 66 (1.96%) Ruby
14 66 (1.96%) Scala
15 61 (1.81%) R
16 56 (1.66%) MATLAB
17 49 (1.46%) Dart
18 48 (1.43%) Shell Script
19 36 (1.07%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 871 (25.89%) Security Cleared
2 697 (20.72%) DV Cleared
3 477 (14.18%) AWS Certification
4 464 (13.79%) Degree
5 245 (7.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 222 (6.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 181 (5.38%) AWS Certified Developer
8 146 (4.34%) SC Cleared
9 79 (2.35%) Master's Degree
10 36 (1.07%) PhD
11 23 (0.68%) Azure Certification
12 18 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
13 17 (0.51%) ISTQB
14 16 (0.48%) HND
15 7 (0.21%) CFA
15 7 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.21%) PMI Certification
15 7 (0.21%) PMP
16 4 (0.12%) Numerate Degree
16 4 (0.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 333 (9.90%) QA
2 113 (3.36%) Accessibility
3 43 (1.28%) GDPR
4 30 (0.89%) HIPAA
5 27 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (0.71%) PCI DSS
7 20 (0.59%) NIST
8 18 (0.54%) SLA
9 13 (0.39%) Data Quality
9 13 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.15%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.12%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.089%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.059%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.059%) GRC
13 2 (0.059%) IEC 61508
13 2 (0.059%) ITGC
14 1 (0.030%) DICOM
14 1 (0.030%) HL7
System Software
1 1,401 (41.65%) Docker
2 30 (0.89%) Active Directory
3 21 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.27%) HDFS
5 8 (0.24%) Apache Flume
6 7 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
7 6 (0.18%) DFS Replication
8 4 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.12%) KVM
8 4 (0.12%) Postfix
8 4 (0.12%) Xen
9 3 (0.089%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.089%) vSphere
10 2 (0.059%) NFS
10 2 (0.059%) Squid
10 2 (0.059%) SRDF
10 2 (0.059%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 2 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.030%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.030%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1,095 (32.55%) Kubernetes
2 726 (21.58%) Ansible
3 531 (15.78%) Terraform
4 295 (8.77%) Prometheus
5 235 (6.99%) Argo
6 222 (6.60%) Kustomize
7 81 (2.41%) Grafana
8 34 (1.01%) Kibana
9 27 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (0.39%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.30%) Istio
12 9 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
13 8 (0.24%) Oozie
13 8 (0.24%) Puppet
14 5 (0.15%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.15%) Packer
15 4 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
15 4 (0.12%) HAProxy
15 4 (0.12%) logstash
15 4 (0.12%) Nagios
Vendors
1 336 (9.99%) Google
2 220 (6.54%) Solace
3 162 (4.82%) Microsoft
4 142 (4.22%) Oracle
5 55 (1.63%) IBM
6 52 (1.55%) Databricks
7 41 (1.22%) Splunk
8 34 (1.01%) ServiceNow
9 30 (0.89%) Dynatrace
9 30 (0.89%) SAP
10 27 (0.80%) Red Hat
11 26 (0.77%) Atlassian
12 24 (0.71%) Informatica
13 21 (0.62%) MuleSoft
14 20 (0.59%) Guidewire
15 18 (0.54%) Salesforce
16 15 (0.45%) Bloomberg
17 14 (0.42%) Foundry
18 13 (0.39%) Palantir
18 13 (0.39%) TIBCO