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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 28 35
Rank change year-on-year -40 +7 -17
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,140 2,777 4,446
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.65% 7.13% 5.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.96% 21.86% 16.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,356 1,481 3,398
10th Percentile £42,642 £41,250 £39,439
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,764 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,627 £75,000 £73,805
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% +1.62% -7.74%
75th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £132,875
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +3.57% -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 14,302 12,701 27,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.71% 32.60% 32.27%
Number of salaries quoted 10,060 9,133 22,450
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -6 1,056 £90,000 -16.28% 327
North of England -44 530 £68,076 +1.55% 181
Yorkshire +7 228 £72,500 +2.12% 55
North West -64 220 £70,000 +3.70% 82
South East -51 209 £67,500 +3.85% 137
South West -35 177 £62,500 +4.17% 66
Midlands -109 89 £52,500 -2.21% 48
North East -10 82 £52,500 -7.08% 44
West Midlands -67 73 £50,000 -6.87% 27
East of England -66 48 £50,000 - 33
East Midlands -77 15 £54,500 +14.74% 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 44 (2.06%) Apache
2 36 (1.68%) Apache Spark
2 36 (1.68%) Confluence
3 35 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (0.89%) JBoss
5 14 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
6 12 (0.56%) OpenStack
7 9 (0.42%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.23%) Appian
8 5 (0.23%) GeoServer
8 5 (0.23%) IIS
8 5 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.19%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.19%) Camunda
9 4 (0.19%) CMS
9 4 (0.19%) Moodle
10 3 (0.14%) CICS
10 3 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.14%) nginx
10 3 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 11 (0.51%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.047%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.047%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.047%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 12 (0.56%) Maximo
2 4 (0.19%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.14%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.14%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.093%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.047%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.047%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.047%) Endur
5 1 (0.047%) Findur
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.047%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.047%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 891 (41.64%) AWS
2 389 (18.18%) Azure
3 257 (12.01%) GCP
4 179 (8.36%) Serverless
5 129 (6.03%) AWS CloudFormation
6 121 (5.65%) SaaS
7 119 (5.56%) Amazon S3
8 114 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
9 108 (5.05%) Amazon ECS
10 104 (4.86%) Amazon EKS
11 94 (4.39%) GitHub
12 75 (3.50%) AWS Step Functions
13 53 (2.48%) Apigee
14 52 (2.43%) Amazon ECR
15 49 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
16 44 (2.06%) Amazon SQS
17 39 (1.82%) dbt
18 38 (1.78%) OpenShift
19 33 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
20 32 (1.50%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 51 (2.38%) Broadband
2 33 (1.54%) HTTP
3 28 (1.31%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.37%) AMQP
4 8 (0.37%) Internet
5 5 (0.23%) IPv4
5 5 (0.23%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (0.19%) Multicast
6 4 (0.19%) SAN
7 3 (0.14%) BGP
7 3 (0.14%) LAN
7 3 (0.14%) Network Security
7 3 (0.14%) PuTTY
7 3 (0.14%) VLAN
7 3 (0.14%) VPN
7 3 (0.14%) WAN
8 2 (0.093%) DHCP
8 2 (0.093%) DNS
8 2 (0.093%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.093%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (8.13%) NoSQL
2 154 (7.20%) PostgreSQL
3 110 (5.14%) Relational Database
4 96 (4.49%) DynamoDB
5 89 (4.16%) MongoDB
6 76 (3.55%) SQL Server
7 60 (2.80%) MySQL
8 44 (2.06%) RDBMS
9 35 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
10 34 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
11 31 (1.45%) Big Data
11 31 (1.45%) DB2
12 24 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
12 24 (1.12%) Hadoop
13 21 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
13 21 (0.98%) Neo4j
14 20 (0.93%) BigQuery
15 16 (0.75%) Redis
16 14 (0.65%) Flink
16 14 (0.65%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 177 (8.27%) Jenkins
2 156 (7.29%) Git
3 146 (6.82%) GitLab
4 96 (4.49%) Selenium
5 93 (4.35%) JIRA
6 77 (3.60%) Maven
7 76 (3.55%) Cucumber
8 75 (3.50%) Cypress.io
9 66 (3.08%) SonarQube
10 62 (2.90%) TeamCity
11 48 (2.24%) Postman
12 47 (2.20%) JUnit
13 31 (1.45%) Bitbucket
14 30 (1.40%) SoapUI
15 29 (1.36%) JMeter
16 27 (1.26%) WebDriver
17 25 (1.17%) Team Foundation Server
18 24 (1.12%) Gradle
18 24 (1.12%) REST Assured
19 23 (1.07%) Claude Code
General
1 538 (25.14%) Finance
2 369 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 242 (11.31%) Banking
4 163 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
5 157 (7.34%) Public Sector
6 150 (7.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 115 (5.37%) Front Office
8 111 (5.19%) Law
9 96 (4.49%) Retail
10 67 (3.13%) Financial Institution
11 52 (2.43%) Back Office
12 49 (2.29%) Investment Banking
13 33 (1.54%) Games
14 30 (1.40%) Telecoms
15 24 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
16 23 (1.07%) Health Technology
16 23 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
17 22 (1.03%) Aerospace
17 22 (1.03%) Marketing
18 17 (0.79%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 800 (37.38%) Developer
2 542 (25.33%) Senior
3 511 (23.88%) Java Developer
4 496 (23.18%) Software Engineer
5 350 (16.36%) Java Engineer
6 310 (14.49%) Lead
7 211 (9.86%) Senior Developer
8 178 (8.32%) Java Software Engineer
9 153 (7.15%) Senior Software Engineer
10 150 (7.01%) Senior Java Developer
11 148 (6.92%) Full-Stack Developer
12 122 (5.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 110 (5.14%) Senior Java Engineer
14 105 (4.91%) Software Developer
15 95 (4.44%) Lead Software Engineer
16 87 (4.07%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 82 (3.83%) Architect
18 59 (2.76%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 55 (2.57%) Lead Developer
20 53 (2.48%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 437 (20.42%) Spring
2 401 (18.74%) Spring Boot
3 313 (14.63%) React
4 235 (10.98%) REST
5 217 (10.14%) AngularJS
6 197 (9.21%) Node.js
7 184 (8.60%) Kafka
8 160 (7.48%) .NET
9 118 (5.51%) RESTful
10 104 (4.86%) HTML
11 88 (4.11%) SOAP
12 84 (3.93%) CSS
13 78 (3.64%) Web Services
14 72 (3.36%) GraphQL
15 68 (3.18%) Elastic Stack
16 60 (2.80%) JSON
17 59 (2.76%) Vue
18 56 (2.62%) Gherkin
19 50 (2.34%) Hibernate
20 48 (2.24%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 242 (11.31%) Cloud Native
2 168 (7.85%) Distributed Systems
3 123 (5.75%) Product Ownership
4 78 (3.64%) Public Cloud
5 53 (2.48%) Fixed Income
6 51 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 43 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
8 41 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
9 39 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
10 38 (1.78%) Equities
11 35 (1.64%) Blog
12 32 (1.50%) Mobile App
13 30 (1.40%) Data Structures
14 29 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
15 27 (1.26%) e-Learning
15 27 (1.26%) Virtual Team
16 23 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
17 21 (0.98%) FPGA
18 20 (0.93%) Algorithms
18 20 (0.93%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 193 (9.02%) Linux
2 50 (2.34%) Android
3 47 (2.20%) Unix
4 45 (2.10%) Windows
5 14 (0.65%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.37%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.28%) CentOS
9 4 (0.19%) Debian
9 4 (0.19%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.19%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.093%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.047%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 755 (35.28%) Agile
2 712 (33.27%) Software Engineering
3 628 (29.35%) CI/CD
4 499 (23.32%) DevOps
5 439 (20.51%) Microservices
6 422 (19.72%) Full-Stack Development
7 374 (17.48%) Test Automation
8 354 (16.54%) Mentoring
9 322 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
10 241 (11.26%) AI
11 231 (10.79%) Containerisation
12 217 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
13 215 (10.05%) Scrum
14 208 (9.72%) Roadmaps
15 194 (9.07%) Computer Science
16 193 (9.02%) Infrastructure as Code
17 191 (8.93%) TDD
18 187 (8.74%) Technical Leadership
19 175 (8.18%) SDLC
20 162 (7.57%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 663 (30.98%) Python
2 418 (19.53%) SQL
3 401 (18.74%) JavaScript
4 280 (13.08%) TypeScript
5 224 (10.47%) C#
6 157 (7.34%) Go
7 151 (7.06%) C++
8 109 (5.09%) Bash
9 108 (5.05%) Kotlin
10 72 (3.36%) C
11 61 (2.85%) Groovy
12 42 (1.96%) PHP
12 42 (1.96%) Scala
13 32 (1.50%) PL/SQL
14 28 (1.31%) Rust
15 21 (0.98%) PowerShell
16 18 (0.84%) Apex Code
17 16 (0.75%) R
18 14 (0.65%) Ruby
19 12 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 326 (15.23%) Security Cleared
2 263 (12.29%) Degree
3 203 (9.49%) SC Cleared
4 130 (6.07%) DV Cleared
5 128 (5.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 97 (4.53%) AWS Certification
7 37 (1.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 35 (1.64%) Master's Degree
9 30 (1.40%) ISTQB
10 25 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (1.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 21 (0.98%) Azure Certification
13 20 (0.93%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 19 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
15 18 (0.84%) OSCP
16 15 (0.70%) DBS Check
16 15 (0.70%) PhD
17 14 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
18 13 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
18 13 (0.61%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (6.73%) QA
2 38 (1.78%) Accessibility
3 34 (1.59%) Data Quality
4 15 (0.70%) PCI DSS
5 13 (0.61%) GRC
6 12 (0.56%) SOC 2
7 9 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
8 7 (0.33%) GDPR
8 7 (0.33%) WCAG
9 4 (0.19%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.19%) SLA
10 3 (0.14%) NIST
11 2 (0.093%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 2 (0.093%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 1 (0.047%) Good Clinical Practice
12 1 (0.047%) MiFID
12 1 (0.047%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 338 (15.79%) Docker
2 10 (0.47%) Active Directory
2 10 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.33%) vSphere
4 5 (0.23%) Firmware
4 5 (0.23%) Squid
4 5 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.23%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.19%) KVM
6 2 (0.093%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.093%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.047%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.047%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.047%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.047%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.047%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 405 (18.93%) Kubernetes
2 242 (11.31%) Terraform
3 94 (4.39%) Grafana
4 87 (4.07%) Ansible
5 57 (2.66%) Argo
6 45 (2.10%) HP Fortify
7 44 (2.06%) Prometheus
8 21 (0.98%) Kibana
9 19 (0.89%) Kustomize
10 13 (0.61%) Rancher
11 11 (0.51%) Packer
12 10 (0.47%) Puppet
13 9 (0.42%) logstash
14 7 (0.33%) yum
15 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
16 5 (0.23%) FTK
16 5 (0.23%) ZABBIX
17 4 (0.19%) Progress Chef
18 3 (0.14%) Nagios
18 3 (0.14%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 81 (3.79%) Microsoft
2 80 (3.74%) Oracle
3 68 (3.18%) Google
4 32 (1.50%) IBM
5 28 (1.31%) Salesforce
6 25 (1.17%) Splunk
7 24 (1.12%) MuleSoft
8 18 (0.84%) Foundry
8 18 (0.84%) Red Hat
9 17 (0.79%) Atlassian
9 17 (0.79%) Palantir
10 16 (0.75%) AppDynamics
11 14 (0.65%) Databricks
11 14 (0.65%) Dynatrace
11 14 (0.65%) VMware
12 13 (0.61%) OpenAI
13 11 (0.51%) Informatica
13 11 (0.51%) SAP
13 11 (0.51%) Solace
14 10 (0.47%) ServiceNow