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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 26 34
Rank change year-on-year -31 +8 -14
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,298 3,033 4,739
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.72% 7.54% 5.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.80% 23.84% 16.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,506 1,441 3,524
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £114,375 £137,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% -6.45%

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 15,532 12,720 28,689
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.39% 31.62% 30.81%
Number of salaries quoted 11,243 8,575 22,839
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £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 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -12 1,039 £85,000 -19.05% 323
North of England -27 645 £69,305 +2.67% 133
North West -36 283 £70,000 -6.67% 67
Yorkshire +25 230 £72,500 +3.57% 39
South East -44 217 £70,000 +7.69% 117
South West -35 202 £60,000 -2.04% 76
North East +2 132 £52,500 +13.51% 28
Midlands -87 111 £62,500 +13.64% 50
West Midlands -57 91 £62,500 +4.17% 36
East of England -60 58 £51,359 +15.41% 35
East Midlands -81 19 £60,000 +26.32% 14
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 45 (1.96%) Confluence
2 44 (1.91%) Apache
3 34 (1.48%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
6 12 (0.52%) JBoss
7 9 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.35%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
9 6 (0.26%) Camunda
9 6 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.22%) CMS
10 5 (0.22%) GeoServer
10 5 (0.22%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.17%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.13%) CICS
12 3 (0.13%) SAS
12 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
13 2 (0.087%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.087%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.48%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.087%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.087%) PTC Creo
5 2 (0.087%) Windchill
6 1 (0.044%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 13 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.48%) Maximo
3 5 (0.22%) Temenos T24
4 4 (0.17%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.087%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.044%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.044%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.044%) Endur
7 1 (0.044%) Findur
7 1 (0.044%) Infor SunSystems
7 1 (0.044%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.044%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.044%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.044%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.044%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.044%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.044%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.044%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.044%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 947 (41.21%) AWS
2 447 (19.45%) Azure
3 286 (12.45%) GCP
4 188 (8.18%) Serverless
5 144 (6.27%) AWS CloudFormation
6 120 (5.22%) AWS Lambda
7 119 (5.18%) Amazon S3
8 113 (4.92%) GitHub
8 113 (4.92%) SaaS
9 112 (4.87%) Amazon ECS
10 102 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
11 73 (3.18%) AWS Step Functions
12 65 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
13 53 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
14 45 (1.96%) Amazon ECR
15 44 (1.91%) Amazon SQS
16 43 (1.87%) Apigee
17 38 (1.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 36 (1.57%) Amazon EC2
19 35 (1.52%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 44 (1.91%) Broadband
2 32 (1.39%) HTTP
3 24 (1.04%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.57%) DMARC
5 8 (0.35%) IPv4
5 8 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
6 7 (0.30%) AMQP
6 7 (0.30%) MQTT
6 7 (0.30%) Network Security
7 5 (0.22%) BGP
7 5 (0.22%) VPN
8 4 (0.17%) Internet
8 4 (0.17%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.13%) Firewall
9 3 (0.13%) VLAN
10 2 (0.087%) DNS
10 2 (0.087%) IPsec
10 2 (0.087%) LAN
10 2 (0.087%) SAN
10 2 (0.087%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (7.75%) NoSQL
2 165 (7.18%) PostgreSQL
3 106 (4.61%) MongoDB
4 101 (4.40%) Relational Database
5 88 (3.83%) DynamoDB
6 77 (3.35%) MySQL
7 70 (3.05%) SQL Server
8 41 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
9 31 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
9 31 (1.35%) RDBMS
10 25 (1.09%) BigQuery
10 25 (1.09%) Db2
11 23 (1.00%) Big Data
12 22 (0.96%) Redis
13 19 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
14 15 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
14 15 (0.65%) Metadata
15 14 (0.61%) Hadoop
16 13 (0.57%) Power BI
17 12 (0.52%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 213 (9.27%) Git
2 179 (7.79%) Jenkins
3 164 (7.14%) GitLab
4 85 (3.70%) JIRA
5 78 (3.39%) Cucumber
6 77 (3.35%) Maven
7 69 (3.00%) Selenium
8 65 (2.83%) JUnit
9 63 (2.74%) Cypress.io
10 56 (2.44%) TeamCity
11 55 (2.39%) SonarQube
12 36 (1.57%) Postman
13 34 (1.48%) JMeter
14 29 (1.26%) Bitbucket
14 29 (1.26%) Mockito
15 26 (1.13%) Gradle
15 26 (1.13%) Subversion
16 25 (1.09%) Claude Code
17 24 (1.04%) Eclipse
18 23 (1.00%) REST Assured
General
1 575 (25.02%) Finance
2 348 (15.14%) Social Skills
3 215 (9.36%) Banking
4 206 (8.96%) Public Sector
5 161 (7.01%) Analytical Skills
6 144 (6.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 102 (4.44%) Front Office
8 101 (4.40%) Law
9 91 (3.96%) Retail
10 68 (2.96%) Financial Institution
11 47 (2.05%) Back Office
12 39 (1.70%) Investment Banking
13 30 (1.31%) Games
13 30 (1.31%) Health Technology
14 21 (0.91%) Aerospace
15 20 (0.87%) Manufacturing
16 19 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
17 17 (0.74%) Advertising
17 17 (0.74%) Telecoms
18 16 (0.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 861 (37.47%) Developer
2 574 (24.98%) Java Developer
3 561 (24.41%) Senior
4 532 (23.15%) Software Engineer
5 396 (17.23%) Java Engineer
6 327 (14.23%) Lead
7 210 (9.14%) Senior Developer
8 179 (7.79%) Java Software Engineer
8 179 (7.79%) Senior Software Engineer
9 151 (6.57%) Full-Stack Developer
9 151 (6.57%) Senior Java Developer
10 126 (5.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 122 (5.31%) Senior Java Engineer
12 120 (5.22%) Software Developer
13 111 (4.83%) Lead Software Engineer
14 98 (4.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 85 (3.70%) Architect
16 69 (3.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 64 (2.79%) Consultant
18 63 (2.74%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 506 (22.02%) Spring
2 428 (18.62%) Spring Boot
3 285 (12.40%) React
4 230 (10.01%) AngularJS
5 225 (9.79%) REST
6 211 (9.18%) Node.js
7 208 (9.05%) Kafka
8 159 (6.92%) RESTful
9 144 (6.27%) .NET
10 87 (3.79%) Web Services
11 75 (3.26%) CSS
12 73 (3.18%) HTML
12 73 (3.18%) Vue
13 62 (2.70%) GraphQL
14 61 (2.65%) SOAP
15 53 (2.31%) JSON
16 50 (2.18%) Elastic Stack
17 46 (2.00%) Hibernate
17 46 (2.00%) Middleware
17 46 (2.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 272 (11.84%) Cloud Native
2 169 (7.35%) Distributed Systems
3 145 (6.31%) Product Ownership
4 98 (4.26%) Public Cloud
5 54 (2.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 49 (2.13%) Fixed Income
7 47 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
8 40 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
9 39 (1.70%) Data Structures
10 37 (1.61%) Distributed Architecture
10 37 (1.61%) Onboarding
11 36 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
12 33 (1.44%) e-Learning
13 32 (1.39%) Blog
13 32 (1.39%) Mobile App
13 32 (1.39%) Virtual Team
14 29 (1.26%) Equities
15 22 (0.96%) Algorithms
16 20 (0.87%) Social Media
17 18 (0.78%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 210 (9.14%) Linux
2 51 (2.22%) Windows
3 48 (2.09%) Unix
4 44 (1.91%) Android
5 15 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.57%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.44%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.22%) CentOS
8 5 (0.22%) Debian
8 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.17%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 799 (34.77%) Software Engineering
2 791 (34.42%) Agile
3 703 (30.59%) CI/CD
4 534 (23.24%) DevOps
5 498 (21.67%) Microservices
6 457 (19.89%) Full-Stack Development
7 451 (19.63%) Test Automation
8 401 (17.45%) Mentoring
9 353 (15.36%) Problem-Solving
10 268 (11.66%) Containerisation
11 262 (11.40%) AI
12 237 (10.31%) Continuous Improvement
13 235 (10.23%) TDD
14 223 (9.70%) Infrastructure as Code
15 216 (9.40%) Technical Leadership
16 211 (9.18%) Roadmaps
17 205 (8.92%) Scrum
18 199 (8.66%) Computer Science
19 180 (7.83%) SDLC
20 162 (7.05%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 691 (30.07%) Python
2 434 (18.89%) SQL
3 412 (17.93%) JavaScript
4 256 (11.14%) TypeScript
5 235 (10.23%) C#
6 211 (9.18%) C++
7 156 (6.79%) Go
8 115 (5.00%) Bash
9 103 (4.48%) Kotlin
10 62 (2.70%) C
11 61 (2.65%) Groovy
12 55 (2.39%) Scala
13 54 (2.35%) Rust
14 45 (1.96%) PHP
15 32 (1.39%) PowerShell
16 31 (1.35%) PL/SQL
17 25 (1.09%) Perl
18 16 (0.70%) Apex Code
18 16 (0.70%) Ruby
18 16 (0.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 375 (16.32%) Security Cleared
2 248 (10.79%) Degree
3 235 (10.23%) SC Cleared
4 136 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 122 (5.31%) DV Cleared
6 95 (4.13%) AWS Certification
7 41 (1.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 27 (1.17%) Master's Degree
9 26 (1.13%) ITIL Certification
10 24 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 20 (0.87%) OSCP
12 18 (0.78%) ISTQB
13 16 (0.70%) DBS Check
14 15 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
15 14 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
16 12 (0.52%) CREST Certified
17 11 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
17 11 (0.48%) PhD
18 10 (0.44%) Azure Certification
19 9 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (6.70%) QA
2 62 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 40 (1.74%) Data Quality
4 19 (0.83%) WCAG
5 18 (0.78%) GDPR
6 14 (0.61%) GRC
7 12 (0.52%) SOC 2
8 11 (0.48%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.30%) ISO 20022
9 7 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.22%) NIST
11 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 4 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.087%) Good Clinical Practice
13 2 (0.087%) Software Quality Assurance
14 1 (0.044%) GxP
14 1 (0.044%) MiFID
System Software
1 356 (15.49%) Docker
2 17 (0.74%) Active Directory
2 17 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.48%) vSphere
4 8 (0.35%) Squid
4 8 (0.35%) VMware NSX
5 7 (0.30%) Firmware
6 5 (0.22%) KVM
7 4 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.087%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.087%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 421 (18.32%) Kubernetes
2 264 (11.49%) Terraform
3 106 (4.61%) Grafana
4 97 (4.22%) Ansible
5 44 (1.91%) Prometheus
6 40 (1.74%) Argo
7 33 (1.44%) HP Fortify
8 29 (1.26%) Kibana
9 14 (0.61%) Packer
9 14 (0.61%) Puppet
10 12 (0.52%) Kustomize
10 12 (0.52%) Rancher
11 11 (0.48%) logstash
12 8 (0.35%) ZABBIX
13 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (0.26%) yum
15 5 (0.22%) FTK
16 3 (0.13%) AWS Copilot
16 3 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
16 3 (0.13%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 87 (3.79%) Oracle
2 84 (3.66%) Microsoft
3 69 (3.00%) Google
4 49 (2.13%) Splunk
5 36 (1.57%) IBM
6 25 (1.09%) Salesforce
7 24 (1.04%) Palantir
8 22 (0.96%) Red Hat
8 22 (0.96%) VMware
9 21 (0.91%) Dynatrace
10 20 (0.87%) SAP
11 19 (0.83%) Foundry
12 18 (0.78%) AppDynamics
12 18 (0.78%) ServiceNow
13 15 (0.65%) MuleSoft
14 14 (0.61%) Adobe
15 13 (0.57%) SendGrid
16 11 (0.48%) Solace
17 9 (0.39%) Atlassian
17 9 (0.39%) Veracode