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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 25 35
Rank change year-on-year -28 +10 -15
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,289 2,999 4,683
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.78% 7.64% 5.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.20% 23.69% 16.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,490 1,405 3,496
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £39,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £73,805
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +5.01% -7.74%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £137,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -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 15,061 12,658 28,531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.31% 32.24% 30.66%
Number of salaries quoted 10,798 8,465 22,961
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
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 £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 11 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 11 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 1,054 £85,000 -19.05% 239
North of England -28 630 £69,305 +2.67% 135
North West -39 271 £70,000 -8.98% 68
Yorkshire +21 237 £72,500 +3.57% 40
South East -28 227 £70,000 +7.69% 91
South West -35 190 £60,000 - 74
North East +2 122 £52,130 +9.75% 28
Midlands -87 107 £58,750 +6.82% 31
West Midlands -57 88 £57,500 -4.17% 24
East of England -62 55 £51,359 +16.73% 40
East Midlands -82 18 £60,000 +26.32% 7
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 (1.92%) Apache
2 39 (1.70%) Confluence
3 34 (1.49%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
6 14 (0.61%) JBoss
7 8 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.35%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.31%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.22%) CMS
9 5 (0.22%) GeoServer
9 5 (0.22%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.17%) Camunda
10 4 (0.17%) IIS
11 3 (0.13%) CICS
11 3 (0.13%) SAS
11 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.087%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.35%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.13%) Windchill
6 2 (0.087%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.087%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.044%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 11 (0.48%) Maximo
1 11 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.17%) Temenos T24
3 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.087%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.087%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.044%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.044%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.044%) Endur
5 1 (0.044%) Findur
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.044%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.044%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 932 (40.72%) AWS
2 430 (18.79%) Azure
3 271 (11.84%) GCP
4 177 (7.73%) Serverless
5 136 (5.94%) AWS CloudFormation
6 120 (5.24%) SaaS
7 115 (5.02%) Amazon S3
8 111 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
9 106 (4.63%) Amazon ECS
10 103 (4.50%) GitHub
11 102 (4.46%) Amazon EKS
12 72 (3.15%) AWS Step Functions
13 65 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
14 45 (1.97%) Amazon ECR
15 44 (1.92%) Apigee
16 42 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
17 41 (1.79%) Amazon SQS
18 37 (1.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 37 (1.62%) dbt
19 35 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.18%) Broadband
2 33 (1.44%) HTTP
3 26 (1.14%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.39%) DMARC
5 8 (0.35%) IPv4
5 8 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
6 7 (0.31%) AMQP
7 6 (0.26%) MQTT
8 3 (0.13%) BGP
8 3 (0.13%) Internet
8 3 (0.13%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.13%) Network Security
8 3 (0.13%) VLAN
8 3 (0.13%) VPN
9 2 (0.087%) Firewall
9 2 (0.087%) LAN
9 2 (0.087%) SAN
9 2 (0.087%) WAN
10 1 (0.044%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.044%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (8.21%) NoSQL
2 161 (7.03%) PostgreSQL
3 107 (4.67%) MongoDB
4 105 (4.59%) Relational Database
5 88 (3.84%) DynamoDB
6 74 (3.23%) MySQL
7 67 (2.93%) SQL Server
8 41 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
9 38 (1.66%) RDBMS
10 32 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
11 25 (1.09%) Big Data
12 24 (1.05%) Db2
13 23 (1.00%) BigQuery
14 22 (0.96%) Redis
15 18 (0.79%) Hadoop
16 16 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
17 15 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
17 15 (0.66%) Metadata
18 13 (0.57%) Neo4j
18 13 (0.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 198 (8.65%) Git
2 170 (7.43%) Jenkins
3 154 (6.73%) GitLab
4 92 (4.02%) JIRA
5 78 (3.41%) Maven
5 78 (3.41%) Selenium
6 73 (3.19%) Cucumber
7 64 (2.80%) Cypress.io
8 63 (2.75%) JUnit
9 57 (2.49%) TeamCity
10 54 (2.36%) SonarQube
11 41 (1.79%) Postman
12 33 (1.44%) JMeter
13 31 (1.35%) Mockito
14 28 (1.22%) Bitbucket
14 28 (1.22%) Gradle
15 25 (1.09%) Claude Code
16 24 (1.05%) REST Assured
17 21 (0.92%) Team Foundation Server
18 20 (0.87%) WebDriver
General
1 573 (25.03%) Finance
2 358 (15.64%) Social Skills
3 230 (10.05%) Banking
4 204 (8.91%) Public Sector
5 161 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
6 154 (6.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 107 (4.67%) Law
8 105 (4.59%) Front Office
9 94 (4.11%) Retail
10 71 (3.10%) Financial Institution
11 49 (2.14%) Back Office
12 43 (1.88%) Investment Banking
13 31 (1.35%) Games
14 28 (1.22%) Health Technology
15 23 (1.00%) Telecoms
16 22 (0.96%) Aerospace
17 19 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
17 19 (0.83%) Tech for Good
18 18 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
19 17 (0.74%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 852 (37.22%) Developer
2 570 (24.90%) Java Developer
3 564 (24.64%) Senior
4 534 (23.33%) Software Engineer
5 400 (17.47%) Java Engineer
6 338 (14.77%) Lead
7 216 (9.44%) Senior Developer
8 181 (7.91%) Java Software Engineer
9 171 (7.47%) Senior Software Engineer
10 155 (6.77%) Senior Java Developer
11 146 (6.38%) Full-Stack Developer
12 137 (5.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 123 (5.37%) Senior Java Engineer
14 113 (4.94%) Software Developer
15 112 (4.89%) Lead Software Engineer
16 93 (4.06%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 81 (3.54%) Architect
18 67 (2.93%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 66 (2.88%) Lead Developer
20 56 (2.45%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 501 (21.89%) Spring
2 423 (18.48%) Spring Boot
3 299 (13.06%) React
4 230 (10.05%) REST
5 228 (9.96%) AngularJS
6 206 (9.00%) Node.js
7 201 (8.78%) Kafka
8 153 (6.68%) .NET
9 142 (6.20%) RESTful
10 89 (3.89%) HTML
11 85 (3.71%) Web Services
12 78 (3.41%) CSS
13 70 (3.06%) SOAP
14 67 (2.93%) Vue
15 62 (2.71%) GraphQL
16 58 (2.53%) JSON
17 56 (2.45%) Elastic Stack
18 45 (1.97%) Playwright
19 44 (1.92%) Hibernate
19 44 (1.92%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 256 (11.18%) Cloud Native
2 173 (7.56%) Distributed Systems
3 143 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 95 (4.15%) Public Cloud
5 54 (2.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 49 (2.14%) Fixed Income
7 43 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
8 40 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
9 39 (1.70%) Distributed Architecture
9 39 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
10 37 (1.62%) Data Structures
11 34 (1.49%) Blog
11 34 (1.49%) e-Learning
12 33 (1.44%) Mobile App
13 32 (1.40%) Equities
14 30 (1.31%) Virtual Team
15 26 (1.14%) Onboarding
16 21 (0.92%) Algorithms
17 20 (0.87%) FPGA
17 20 (0.87%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 199 (8.69%) Linux
2 50 (2.18%) Android
2 50 (2.18%) Unix
3 46 (2.01%) Windows
4 14 (0.61%) Apple iOS
4 14 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (0.52%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.22%) CentOS
6 5 (0.22%) Debian
6 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.17%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 803 (35.08%) Agile
2 776 (33.90%) Software Engineering
3 686 (29.97%) CI/CD
4 522 (22.80%) DevOps
5 488 (21.32%) Microservices
6 468 (20.45%) Full-Stack Development
7 432 (18.87%) Test Automation
8 408 (17.82%) Mentoring
9 341 (14.90%) Problem-Solving
10 261 (11.40%) Containerisation
11 259 (11.31%) AI
12 230 (10.05%) Continuous Improvement
13 229 (10.00%) TDD
14 220 (9.61%) Technical Leadership
15 216 (9.44%) Roadmaps
16 215 (9.39%) Infrastructure as Code
16 215 (9.39%) Scrum
17 198 (8.65%) Computer Science
18 176 (7.69%) SDLC
19 160 (6.99%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 673 (29.40%) Python
2 441 (19.27%) SQL
3 421 (18.39%) JavaScript
4 263 (11.49%) TypeScript
5 239 (10.44%) C#
6 189 (8.26%) C++
7 159 (6.95%) Go
8 110 (4.81%) Bash
9 108 (4.72%) Kotlin
10 60 (2.62%) C
10 60 (2.62%) Groovy
11 51 (2.23%) Scala
12 44 (1.92%) Rust
13 40 (1.75%) PHP
14 34 (1.49%) PL/SQL
15 29 (1.27%) PowerShell
16 17 (0.74%) Perl
16 17 (0.74%) R
17 16 (0.70%) Apex Code
18 14 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 359 (15.68%) Security Cleared
2 257 (11.23%) Degree
3 225 (9.83%) SC Cleared
4 133 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 133 (5.81%) DV Cleared
5 94 (4.11%) AWS Certification
6 37 (1.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 29 (1.27%) Master's Degree
8 26 (1.14%) ISTQB
9 24 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
10 22 (0.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 22 (0.96%) OSCP
11 19 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
12 18 (0.79%) DBS Check
13 15 (0.66%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 14 (0.61%) Azure Certification
14 14 (0.61%) CREST Certified
15 12 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (0.52%) PhD
16 10 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (6.42%) QA
2 58 (2.53%) Accessibility
3 39 (1.70%) Data Quality
4 15 (0.66%) GDPR
4 15 (0.66%) WCAG
5 14 (0.61%) GRC
5 14 (0.61%) PCI DSS
6 12 (0.52%) SOC 2
7 8 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
8 7 (0.31%) ISO 20022
9 5 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 4 (0.17%) NIST
11 2 (0.087%) Good Clinical Practice
11 2 (0.087%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.087%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.044%) MiFID
System Software
1 348 (15.20%) Docker
2 16 (0.70%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.48%) vSphere
5 8 (0.35%) Squid
5 8 (0.35%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.17%) Firmware
6 4 (0.17%) KVM
7 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.087%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.087%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.087%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.087%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.044%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.044%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.044%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 417 (18.22%) Kubernetes
2 262 (11.45%) Terraform
3 102 (4.46%) Grafana
4 97 (4.24%) Ansible
5 48 (2.10%) Prometheus
6 47 (2.05%) Argo
7 33 (1.44%) HP Fortify
8 28 (1.22%) Kibana
9 18 (0.79%) Kustomize
10 14 (0.61%) Packer
11 12 (0.52%) Puppet
12 11 (0.48%) Rancher
13 9 (0.39%) logstash
14 8 (0.35%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
15 6 (0.26%) yum
16 5 (0.22%) FTK
17 3 (0.13%) AWS Copilot
17 3 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
17 3 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 88 (3.84%) Oracle
2 85 (3.71%) Microsoft
3 73 (3.19%) Google
4 42 (1.83%) Splunk
5 29 (1.27%) IBM
6 26 (1.14%) Salesforce
7 22 (0.96%) Palantir
8 21 (0.92%) Red Hat
9 20 (0.87%) Dynatrace
10 19 (0.83%) Foundry
10 19 (0.83%) VMware
11 17 (0.74%) AppDynamics
12 16 (0.70%) MuleSoft
12 16 (0.70%) ServiceNow
13 15 (0.66%) SAP
14 12 (0.52%) Adobe
14 12 (0.52%) Databricks
14 12 (0.52%) Solace
15 11 (0.48%) Atlassian
16 9 (0.39%) SendGrid