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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 30 33
Rank change year-on-year -29 +3 -11
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,462 2,859 3,846
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.53% 6.52% 5.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.73% 23.17% 17.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,569 1,283 2,565
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,350
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £116,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £135,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +3.23%

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 16,711 12,341 21,407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.19% 28.13% 30.03%
Number of salaries quoted 12,221 8,236 14,861
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 31 August 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 31 August 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 1,046 £85,000 -19.05% 1,119
North of England -24 693 £67,500 +0.69% 224
North West -34 315 £70,000 - 132
South West -7 280 £60,500 +0.83% 170
South East -58 213 £67,500 +3.85% 137
Yorkshire +24 203 £75,000 +15.38% 53
North East +7 175 £55,000 +15.79% 39
Midlands -56 164 £67,500 +12.50% 95
West Midlands -35 138 £67,500 +12.50% 64
East of England -58 54 £51,359 +15.41% 43
East Midlands -81 26 £57,500 +9.52% 31
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 62 (2.52%) Confluence
2 54 (2.19%) Apache
3 37 (1.50%) Apache Spark
4 23 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (0.69%) Camunda
6 16 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
7 14 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 10 (0.41%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
10 7 (0.28%) CICS
10 7 (0.28%) JBoss
10 7 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 7 (0.28%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.24%) CMS
12 5 (0.20%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.16%) GeoServer
13 4 (0.16%) SAS
14 3 (0.12%) Documentum
14 3 (0.12%) SharePoint
14 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 20 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.61%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.20%) Moqups
3 5 (0.20%) Simulink
4 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.081%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.081%) PTC Creo
5 2 (0.081%) Windchill
6 1 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.041%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.20%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.20%) Maximo
2 5 (0.20%) Temenos T24
3 4 (0.16%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.081%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.081%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.081%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 2 (0.081%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.041%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.041%) Endur
5 1 (0.041%) Findur
5 1 (0.041%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.041%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.041%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.041%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.041%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.041%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.041%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.041%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,017 (41.31%) AWS
2 534 (21.69%) Azure
3 295 (11.98%) GCP
4 193 (7.84%) Serverless
5 157 (6.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 155 (6.30%) GitHub
7 127 (5.16%) AWS Lambda
8 108 (4.39%) Amazon ECS
9 106 (4.31%) Amazon S3
10 101 (4.10%) SaaS
11 86 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
12 85 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
13 82 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
14 60 (2.44%) AWS Step Functions
15 40 (1.62%) Datadog
16 39 (1.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 38 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
17 38 (1.54%) OpenShift
18 37 (1.50%) Anthropic Claude
19 35 (1.42%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 40 (1.62%) HTTP
2 17 (0.69%) Network Security
3 16 (0.65%) Broadband
4 15 (0.61%) TCP/IP
5 13 (0.53%) DMARC
6 9 (0.37%) DNS
6 9 (0.37%) IPv4
6 9 (0.37%) MQTT
6 9 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
7 8 (0.32%) VPN
8 7 (0.28%) BGP
9 6 (0.24%) AMQP
9 6 (0.24%) IPsec
10 5 (0.20%) Ethernet
10 5 (0.20%) Firewall
10 5 (0.20%) Internet
10 5 (0.20%) Kerberos
10 5 (0.20%) Wireshark
11 3 (0.12%) Intrusion Detection
11 3 (0.12%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (6.62%) PostgreSQL
2 162 (6.58%) NoSQL
3 123 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 120 (4.87%) Relational Database
5 81 (3.29%) MySQL
6 78 (3.17%) DynamoDB
7 77 (3.13%) SQL Server
8 42 (1.71%) Big Data
9 38 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
10 27 (1.10%) Redis
11 25 (1.02%) Db2
12 24 (0.97%) Hadoop
13 23 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
14 22 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
15 18 (0.73%) BigQuery
16 17 (0.69%) Data Lake
16 17 (0.69%) Power BI
17 15 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
17 15 (0.61%) Flink
18 13 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 285 (11.58%) Git
2 214 (8.69%) Jenkins
3 188 (7.64%) GitLab
4 98 (3.98%) JIRA
4 98 (3.98%) JUnit
5 89 (3.61%) Cucumber
6 75 (3.05%) Selenium
7 73 (2.97%) Maven
8 63 (2.56%) Cypress.io
9 50 (2.03%) Postman
10 45 (1.83%) Eclipse
10 45 (1.83%) SonarQube
11 41 (1.67%) JMeter
11 41 (1.67%) TeamCity
12 40 (1.62%) Mockito
13 36 (1.46%) Subversion
14 35 (1.42%) Bitbucket
15 26 (1.06%) Claude Code
15 26 (1.06%) REST Assured
16 20 (0.81%) Gatling
General
1 661 (26.85%) Finance
2 418 (16.98%) Social Skills
3 255 (10.36%) Public Sector
4 234 (9.50%) Banking
5 179 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
6 123 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 89 (3.61%) Law
8 75 (3.05%) Front Office
9 69 (2.80%) Retail
10 62 (2.52%) Financial Institution
11 37 (1.50%) Marketing
12 36 (1.46%) Investment Banking
13 33 (1.34%) Manufacturing
14 32 (1.30%) Legal
15 29 (1.18%) Health Technology
16 28 (1.14%) Back Office
17 22 (0.89%) Aerospace
18 20 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
19 18 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
19 18 (0.73%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 796 (32.33%) Developer
2 630 (25.59%) Senior
3 558 (22.66%) Software Engineer
4 527 (21.41%) Java Developer
5 439 (17.83%) Java Engineer
6 344 (13.97%) Lead
7 210 (8.53%) Senior Developer
8 198 (8.04%) Senior Software Engineer
9 150 (6.09%) Java Software Engineer
10 149 (6.05%) Senior Java Engineer
11 143 (5.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 132 (5.36%) Senior Java Developer
13 129 (5.24%) Full-Stack Developer
14 124 (5.04%) Software Developer
15 106 (4.31%) Lead Software Engineer
16 85 (3.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 83 (3.37%) Principal Engineer
18 80 (3.25%) Architect
19 78 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
20 72 (2.92%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 582 (23.64%) Spring
2 476 (19.33%) Spring Boot
3 280 (11.37%) Terraform
4 260 (10.56%) React
5 256 (10.40%) Kafka
6 249 (10.11%) REST
7 223 (9.06%) AngularJS
8 201 (8.16%) Node.js
9 194 (7.88%) RESTful
10 169 (6.86%) .NET
11 82 (3.33%) Web Services
12 73 (2.97%) CSS
13 66 (2.68%) HTML
14 58 (2.36%) Vue
15 57 (2.32%) RabbitMQ
16 56 (2.27%) OAuth
17 55 (2.23%) Hibernate
17 55 (2.23%) Playwright
18 48 (1.95%) Jakarta EE
19 42 (1.71%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 313 (12.71%) Cloud Native
2 254 (10.32%) Distributed Systems
3 166 (6.74%) Product Ownership
4 120 (4.87%) Public Cloud
5 74 (3.01%) Onboarding
6 62 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
7 57 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
8 47 (1.91%) Distributed Architecture
9 44 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 43 (1.75%) Virtual Team
11 41 (1.67%) Data Structures
11 41 (1.67%) e-Learning
12 37 (1.50%) Algorithms
13 35 (1.42%) Mobile App
14 33 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
15 32 (1.30%) Equities
16 30 (1.22%) AI Agents
17 25 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
18 24 (0.97%) Fixed Income
18 24 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 218 (8.85%) Linux
2 68 (2.76%) Windows
3 37 (1.50%) Android
3 37 (1.50%) Unix
4 20 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.61%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.24%) CentOS
8 5 (0.20%) Debian
8 5 (0.20%) Kali Linux
8 5 (0.20%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.16%) VMS
10 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.081%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.041%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 888 (36.07%) Software Engineering
2 822 (33.39%) CI/CD
3 787 (31.97%) Agile
4 596 (24.21%) Microservices
5 579 (23.52%) DevOps
6 499 (20.27%) Test Automation
7 460 (18.68%) Full-Stack Development
8 441 (17.91%) Mentoring
9 424 (17.22%) Problem-Solving
10 377 (15.31%) AI
11 314 (12.75%) Containerisation
12 298 (12.10%) Infrastructure as Code
13 291 (11.82%) Continuous Improvement
14 249 (10.11%) Technical Leadership
15 247 (10.03%) Event-Driven
16 245 (9.95%) Roadmaps
17 238 (9.67%) TDD
18 231 (9.38%) Computer Science
19 225 (9.14%) Scrum
20 220 (8.94%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 809 (32.86%) Python
2 463 (18.81%) SQL
3 423 (17.18%) JavaScript
4 265 (10.76%) C#
5 243 (9.87%) C++
6 241 (9.79%) TypeScript
7 127 (5.16%) Go
8 111 (4.51%) Bash
9 108 (4.39%) Kotlin
10 77 (3.13%) C
11 73 (2.97%) Scala
12 60 (2.44%) PHP
13 58 (2.36%) Rust
14 53 (2.15%) Groovy
15 51 (2.07%) Perl
16 38 (1.54%) PowerShell
16 38 (1.54%) Ruby
17 33 (1.34%) PL/SQL
18 20 (0.81%) Shell Script
19 15 (0.61%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 458 (18.60%) Security Cleared
2 283 (11.49%) Degree
3 246 (9.99%) SC Cleared
4 163 (6.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 159 (6.46%) DV Cleared
6 97 (3.94%) AWS Certification
7 60 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 28 (1.14%) Master's Degree
9 20 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 20 (0.81%) ISTQB
10 19 (0.77%) OSCP
11 16 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 16 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
12 13 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (0.49%) DBS Check
14 11 (0.45%) CREST Certified
15 9 (0.37%) PhD
16 8 (0.32%) CCNA
16 8 (0.32%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (6.78%) QA
2 81 (3.29%) Accessibility
3 65 (2.64%) Data Quality
4 27 (1.10%) WCAG
5 22 (0.89%) GDPR
6 14 (0.57%) GRC
6 14 (0.57%) ISO 20022
7 13 (0.53%) NIST
8 10 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.20%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 4 (0.16%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.12%) MiFID
12 3 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
12 3 (0.12%) PSD2
12 3 (0.12%) UCITS
13 2 (0.081%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 409 (16.61%) Docker
2 26 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (0.77%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.49%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.45%) Firmware
5 11 (0.45%) vSphere
6 8 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
6 8 (0.32%) Squid
6 8 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.20%) KVM
9 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.081%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 455 (18.48%) Kubernetes
2 130 (5.28%) Ansible
3 84 (3.41%) Grafana
4 31 (1.26%) Prometheus
5 29 (1.18%) Argo
6 27 (1.10%) Kibana
7 23 (0.93%) Puppet
8 21 (0.85%) HP Fortify
9 12 (0.49%) Packer
10 10 (0.41%) logstash
10 10 (0.41%) Rancher
11 8 (0.32%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.24%) Hadoop YARN
12 6 (0.24%) Kubeflow
12 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.20%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (0.20%) yum
14 4 (0.16%) Control-M
14 4 (0.16%) vCenter Server
15 3 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 112 (4.55%) Oracle
2 103 (4.18%) Microsoft
3 81 (3.29%) Google
4 61 (2.48%) Splunk
5 44 (1.79%) IBM
6 36 (1.46%) Red Hat
7 34 (1.38%) SAP
8 30 (1.22%) VMware
9 29 (1.18%) AppDynamics
10 25 (1.02%) Palantir
11 24 (0.97%) Adobe
11 24 (0.97%) Dynatrace
12 21 (0.85%) OpenAI
13 18 (0.73%) ServiceNow
14 16 (0.65%) Databricks
14 16 (0.65%) Foundry
15 15 (0.61%) Salesforce
16 13 (0.53%) SendGrid
17 12 (0.49%) Bloomberg
17 12 (0.49%) Veracode