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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 28 36
Rank change year-on-year -29 +8 -16
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,387 3,065 4,032
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.66% 7.06% 5.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.63% 23.46% 17.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,558 1,458 2,863
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £53,750
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 £112,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -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 16,311 13,067 23,298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.20% 30.08% 30.01%
Number of salaries quoted 11,881 8,816 17,886
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
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 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.56% +6.67% -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 July 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 July 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 -14 1,053 £85,000 -19.05% 596
North of England -27 672 £68,076 +0.85% 150
North West -36 304 £70,000 - 79
South West -21 239 £60,000 -2.04% 70
Yorkshire +34 225 £72,500 +7.41% 27
South East -54 209 £70,000 +7.69% 111
North East +2 143 £52,500 +10.53% 45
Midlands -85 132 £67,500 +12.50% 70
West Midlands -51 109 £67,500 +12.50% 61
East of England -61 53 £51,359 +16.73% 29
East Midlands -89 22 £60,000 +26.32% 9
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 57 (2.39%) Confluence
2 49 (2.05%) Apache
3 41 (1.72%) Apache Spark
4 30 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.63%) Camunda
5 15 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
6 13 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 10 (0.42%) JBoss
8 8 (0.34%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
9 5 (0.21%) CMS
9 5 (0.21%) GeoServer
9 5 (0.21%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.17%) CICS
10 4 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.13%) SAS
11 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.084%) Documentum
12 2 (0.084%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.67%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.13%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.084%) Moqups
6 2 (0.084%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.084%) Windchill
7 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.042%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 15 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.38%) Maximo
3 5 (0.21%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.21%) Temenos T24
4 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.084%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.084%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.042%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.042%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.042%) Endur
6 1 (0.042%) Findur
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.042%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 979 (41.01%) AWS
2 489 (20.49%) Azure
3 285 (11.94%) GCP
4 199 (8.34%) Serverless
5 152 (6.37%) AWS CloudFormation
6 122 (5.11%) AWS Lambda
6 122 (5.11%) GitHub
7 116 (4.86%) Amazon ECS
8 112 (4.69%) Amazon S3
9 93 (3.90%) SaaS
10 90 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
11 73 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
12 64 (2.68%) AWS Step Functions
13 60 (2.51%) GitHub Actions
14 41 (1.72%) Amazon ECR
15 38 (1.59%) OpenShift
16 37 (1.55%) Apigee
17 36 (1.51%) Amazon SQS
18 35 (1.47%) Azure Service Bus
19 34 (1.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 34 (1.42%) HTTP
2 32 (1.34%) Broadband
3 22 (0.92%) TCP/IP
4 17 (0.71%) Network Security
5 13 (0.54%) DMARC
6 8 (0.34%) IPv4
6 8 (0.34%) MQTT
6 8 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
7 7 (0.29%) BGP
7 7 (0.29%) VPN
8 6 (0.25%) DNS
8 6 (0.25%) IPsec
9 5 (0.21%) AMQP
9 5 (0.21%) Internet
9 5 (0.21%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.17%) Firewall
11 2 (0.084%) Ethernet
11 2 (0.084%) LAN
11 2 (0.084%) SAN
11 2 (0.084%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (7.21%) NoSQL
2 171 (7.16%) PostgreSQL
3 124 (5.19%) MongoDB
4 109 (4.57%) Relational Database
5 85 (3.56%) MySQL
6 82 (3.44%) DynamoDB
7 73 (3.06%) SQL Server
8 37 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
9 34 (1.42%) Big Data
10 27 (1.13%) Db2
11 26 (1.09%) Redis
12 25 (1.05%) BigQuery
13 23 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
14 22 (0.92%) Hadoop
15 21 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
16 17 (0.71%) RDBMS
17 15 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
17 15 (0.63%) Metadata
18 13 (0.54%) Geospatial Data
18 13 (0.54%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 234 (9.80%) Git
2 187 (7.83%) Jenkins
3 171 (7.16%) GitLab
4 91 (3.81%) JIRA
5 84 (3.52%) Cucumber
6 77 (3.23%) JUnit
7 72 (3.02%) Maven
8 71 (2.97%) Selenium
9 61 (2.56%) Cypress.io
10 49 (2.05%) SonarQube
11 43 (1.80%) TeamCity
12 40 (1.68%) JMeter
13 38 (1.59%) Postman
14 32 (1.34%) Mockito
15 31 (1.30%) Bitbucket
15 31 (1.30%) Eclipse
16 30 (1.26%) Subversion
17 24 (1.01%) Claude Code
18 22 (0.92%) Gradle
18 22 (0.92%) REST Assured
General
1 633 (26.52%) Finance
2 371 (15.54%) Social Skills
3 234 (9.80%) Public Sector
4 213 (8.92%) Banking
5 173 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
6 117 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 112 (4.69%) Front Office
8 85 (3.56%) Law
9 73 (3.06%) Retail
10 59 (2.47%) Financial Institution
11 43 (1.80%) Investment Banking
12 34 (1.42%) Health Technology
13 32 (1.34%) Back Office
14 26 (1.09%) Marketing
15 24 (1.01%) Manufacturing
16 23 (0.96%) Games
16 23 (0.96%) Legal
17 18 (0.75%) Advertising
17 18 (0.75%) Aerospace
17 18 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 855 (35.82%) Developer
2 600 (25.14%) Senior
3 561 (23.50%) Java Developer
4 543 (22.75%) Software Engineer
5 412 (17.26%) Java Engineer
6 340 (14.24%) Lead
7 207 (8.67%) Senior Developer
8 182 (7.62%) Senior Software Engineer
9 165 (6.91%) Java Software Engineer
10 144 (6.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 139 (5.82%) Full-Stack Developer
12 138 (5.78%) Senior Java Developer
13 126 (5.28%) Software Developer
14 125 (5.24%) Senior Java Engineer
15 117 (4.90%) Lead Software Engineer
16 89 (3.73%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 73 (3.06%) Architect
17 73 (3.06%) Consultant
17 73 (3.06%) Principal Engineer
18 72 (3.02%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 552 (23.13%) Spring
2 466 (19.52%) Spring Boot
3 277 (11.60%) React
4 260 (10.89%) Kafka
5 230 (9.64%) AngularJS
6 225 (9.43%) REST
7 224 (9.38%) Node.js
8 174 (7.29%) RESTful
9 159 (6.66%) .NET
10 83 (3.48%) Web Services
11 78 (3.27%) CSS
12 72 (3.02%) HTML
13 69 (2.89%) GraphQL
14 65 (2.72%) Vue
15 53 (2.22%) OAuth
16 51 (2.14%) Playwright
17 49 (2.05%) JSON
18 47 (1.97%) Hibernate
18 47 (1.97%) SOAP
19 46 (1.93%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 291 (12.19%) Cloud Native
2 211 (8.84%) Distributed Systems
3 149 (6.24%) Product Ownership
4 105 (4.40%) Public Cloud
5 62 (2.60%) Onboarding
6 55 (2.30%) Fixed Income
6 55 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 53 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
8 47 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
9 42 (1.76%) Distributed Architecture
10 41 (1.72%) Data Structures
11 35 (1.47%) Mobile App
11 35 (1.47%) Virtual Team
12 34 (1.42%) e-Learning
12 34 (1.42%) Equities
13 29 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
14 27 (1.13%) Algorithms
15 21 (0.88%) Social Media
16 20 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
17 19 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 212 (8.88%) Linux
2 59 (2.47%) Windows
3 43 (1.80%) Android
4 39 (1.63%) Unix
5 16 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (0.59%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.50%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.21%) CentOS
9 4 (0.17%) Debian
9 4 (0.17%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.17%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.084%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.042%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 834 (34.94%) Software Engineering
2 819 (34.31%) Agile
3 775 (32.47%) CI/CD
4 559 (23.42%) Microservices
5 557 (23.33%) DevOps
6 486 (20.36%) Test Automation
7 456 (19.10%) Full-Stack Development
8 411 (17.22%) Mentoring
9 386 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
10 337 (14.12%) AI
11 292 (12.23%) Containerisation
12 267 (11.19%) Continuous Improvement
12 267 (11.19%) Infrastructure as Code
13 251 (10.52%) TDD
14 226 (9.47%) Roadmaps
15 220 (9.22%) Technical Leadership
16 218 (9.13%) Computer Science
17 215 (9.01%) Scrum
18 196 (8.21%) SDLC
19 186 (7.79%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 779 (32.64%) Python
2 455 (19.06%) SQL
3 420 (17.60%) JavaScript
4 254 (10.64%) TypeScript
5 246 (10.31%) C#
6 226 (9.47%) C++
7 145 (6.07%) Go
8 111 (4.65%) Bash
9 103 (4.32%) Kotlin
10 69 (2.89%) Scala
11 65 (2.72%) C
12 59 (2.47%) Groovy
13 57 (2.39%) PHP
14 54 (2.26%) Rust
15 40 (1.68%) Perl
16 34 (1.42%) PowerShell
17 31 (1.30%) Ruby
18 30 (1.26%) PL/SQL
19 20 (0.84%) Shell Script
20 14 (0.59%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 409 (17.13%) Security Cleared
2 266 (11.14%) Degree
3 240 (10.05%) SC Cleared
4 151 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 140 (5.87%) DV Cleared
6 97 (4.06%) AWS Certification
7 56 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 28 (1.17%) Master's Degree
9 22 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
10 20 (0.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 18 (0.75%) ISTQB
11 18 (0.75%) OSCP
12 17 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.50%) DBS Check
15 10 (0.42%) CREST Certified
16 9 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
17 8 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 8 (0.34%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (6.58%) QA
2 71 (2.97%) Accessibility
3 52 (2.18%) Data Quality
4 25 (1.05%) WCAG
5 21 (0.88%) GDPR
6 14 (0.59%) GRC
7 10 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.42%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.38%) NIST
8 9 (0.38%) SOC 2
9 7 (0.29%) ISO 20022
10 6 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.13%) PSD2
13 2 (0.084%) Good Clinical Practice
13 2 (0.084%) MiFID
13 2 (0.084%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.084%) UCITS
System Software
1 372 (15.58%) Docker
2 20 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (0.75%) Active Directory
4 11 (0.46%) vSphere
5 8 (0.34%) Squid
5 8 (0.34%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.25%) Firmware
6 6 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.21%) KVM
8 4 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.084%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.084%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.084%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 429 (17.97%) Kubernetes
2 269 (11.27%) Terraform
3 107 (4.48%) Ansible
4 92 (3.85%) Grafana
5 36 (1.51%) Prometheus
6 29 (1.21%) HP Fortify
7 28 (1.17%) Argo
7 28 (1.17%) Kibana
8 14 (0.59%) Packer
8 14 (0.59%) Puppet
9 11 (0.46%) Rancher
10 10 (0.42%) logstash
11 8 (0.34%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.25%) Hadoop YARN
12 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
12 6 (0.25%) yum
13 4 (0.17%) Control-M
13 4 (0.17%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (0.13%) Data Guard
14 3 (0.13%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 100 (4.19%) Oracle
2 94 (3.94%) Microsoft
3 68 (2.85%) Google
4 58 (2.43%) Splunk
5 45 (1.89%) IBM
6 31 (1.30%) SAP
7 25 (1.05%) VMware
8 24 (1.01%) Palantir
8 24 (1.01%) Red Hat
9 23 (0.96%) Dynatrace
10 22 (0.92%) AppDynamics
10 22 (0.92%) Salesforce
11 20 (0.84%) Adobe
11 20 (0.84%) ServiceNow
12 19 (0.80%) Foundry
13 17 (0.71%) OpenAI
14 14 (0.59%) MuleSoft
15 13 (0.54%) SendGrid
16 12 (0.50%) Databricks
16 12 (0.50%) Solace