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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 35 34
Rank change year-on-year -34 -1 -16
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,072 2,387 4,386
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.69% 6.42% 5.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.16% 18.95% 16.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,312 1,494 3,373
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £39,658
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,073 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,627 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% +3.45% -9.38%
75th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £125,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 13,668 12,593 27,036
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.76% 33.88% 32.81%
Number of salaries quoted 9,605 9,329 22,594
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,475
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,683 £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 £64,266 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.13% +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 18 April 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 18 April 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 1,036 £90,000 -14.29% 317
North of England -44 464 £68,076 +3.12% 159
Yorkshire +4 213 £72,500 +3.57% 51
South East -47 212 £67,500 +3.85% 131
North West -62 190 £70,000 +4.42% 71
South West -34 184 £65,000 +8.33% 95
Midlands -64 94 £54,344 +14.41% 45
West Midlands -38 77 £54,344 +1.22% 17
North East -11 61 £52,130 -6.49% 37
East of England -75 46 £50,000 -3.85% 38
East Midlands -74 16 £49,000 +8.89% 28
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 43 (2.08%) Apache
2 41 (1.98%) Apache Spark
3 32 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (1.54%) Confluence
4 22 (1.06%) JBoss
5 12 (0.58%) OpenStack
5 12 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
5 12 (0.58%) WebSphere
6 8 (0.39%) Anypoint
7 6 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.24%) Appian
8 5 (0.24%) Camunda
8 5 (0.24%) GeoServer
8 5 (0.24%) IIS
9 4 (0.19%) Moodle
9 4 (0.19%) nginx
9 4 (0.19%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.14%) CICS
10 3 (0.14%) Liferay
11 2 (0.097%) CMS
Applications
1 12 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (0.53%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.097%) Windchill
6 1 (0.048%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.048%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 15 (0.72%) Maximo
2 6 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.19%) Shopify
4 3 (0.14%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.14%) SAP SD
4 3 (0.14%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.097%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.097%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.048%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.048%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.048%) Endur
6 1 (0.048%) Findur
6 1 (0.048%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.048%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.048%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.048%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.048%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.048%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.048%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.048%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 902 (43.53%) AWS
2 385 (18.58%) Azure
3 265 (12.79%) GCP
4 179 (8.64%) Serverless
5 141 (6.81%) SaaS
6 127 (6.13%) Amazon EKS
7 116 (5.60%) Amazon S3
7 116 (5.60%) AWS Lambda
8 114 (5.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 107 (5.16%) Amazon ECS
10 96 (4.63%) GitHub
11 67 (3.23%) AWS Step Functions
12 50 (2.41%) OpenShift
13 49 (2.36%) Apigee
14 48 (2.32%) Amazon ECR
15 44 (2.12%) Amazon SQS
16 43 (2.08%) dbt
17 35 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 34 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
18 34 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 49 (2.36%) Broadband
2 33 (1.59%) TCP/IP
3 29 (1.40%) HTTP
4 11 (0.53%) AMQP
5 8 (0.39%) Internet
6 6 (0.29%) BGP
6 6 (0.29%) VLAN
6 6 (0.29%) VPN
7 5 (0.24%) Multicast
8 3 (0.14%) IPv4
8 3 (0.14%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.14%) Network Security
8 3 (0.14%) PuTTY
8 3 (0.14%) SAN
8 3 (0.14%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.097%) DHCP
9 2 (0.097%) DNS
9 2 (0.097%) LAN
9 2 (0.097%) SNMP
9 2 (0.097%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (8.25%) NoSQL
2 155 (7.48%) PostgreSQL
3 117 (5.65%) Relational Database
4 89 (4.30%) DynamoDB
5 81 (3.91%) SQL Server
6 70 (3.38%) MongoDB
7 65 (3.14%) MySQL
8 47 (2.27%) RDBMS
9 41 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
10 35 (1.69%) Big Data
11 33 (1.59%) DB2
12 30 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
12 30 (1.45%) Hadoop
13 28 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
14 25 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
14 25 (1.21%) Neo4j
15 21 (1.01%) Redis
16 16 (0.77%) BigQuery
16 16 (0.77%) Flink
17 12 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 174 (8.40%) Jenkins
2 160 (7.72%) Git
3 125 (6.03%) GitLab
4 105 (5.07%) Selenium
5 87 (4.20%) JIRA
6 83 (4.01%) Cucumber
7 71 (3.43%) TeamCity
8 70 (3.38%) Cypress.io
8 70 (3.38%) Maven
9 63 (3.04%) SonarQube
10 53 (2.56%) JUnit
11 48 (2.32%) Postman
12 33 (1.59%) JMeter
13 30 (1.45%) SoapUI
14 27 (1.30%) Bitbucket
14 27 (1.30%) WebDriver
15 25 (1.21%) REST Assured
15 25 (1.21%) Team Foundation Server
16 22 (1.06%) Gradle
17 19 (0.92%) Jaeger
General
1 526 (25.39%) Finance
2 388 (18.73%) Social Skills
3 255 (12.31%) Banking
4 172 (8.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 164 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
6 147 (7.09%) Public Sector
7 137 (6.61%) Law
8 114 (5.50%) Front Office
9 113 (5.45%) Retail
10 87 (4.20%) Financial Institution
11 65 (3.14%) Back Office
12 53 (2.56%) Investment Banking
13 37 (1.79%) Games
14 31 (1.50%) Telecoms
15 25 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
16 24 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
17 22 (1.06%) Aerospace
18 21 (1.01%) Health Technology
19 18 (0.87%) Marketing
20 17 (0.82%) Billing
Job Titles
1 763 (36.82%) Developer
2 514 (24.81%) Senior
2 514 (24.81%) Software Engineer
3 468 (22.59%) Java Developer
4 317 (15.30%) Java Engineer
5 288 (13.90%) Lead
6 193 (9.31%) Senior Developer
7 170 (8.20%) Java Software Engineer
8 150 (7.24%) Senior Software Engineer
9 149 (7.19%) Full-Stack Developer
10 128 (6.18%) Senior Java Developer
11 116 (5.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 107 (5.16%) Software Developer
13 103 (4.97%) Senior Java Engineer
14 90 (4.34%) Architect
14 90 (4.34%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 90 (4.34%) Lead Software Engineer
15 54 (2.61%) Lead Developer
16 53 (2.56%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 48 (2.32%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 428 (20.66%) Spring
2 381 (18.39%) Spring Boot
3 328 (15.83%) React
4 233 (11.25%) REST
5 206 (9.94%) AngularJS
6 192 (9.27%) Node.js
7 185 (8.93%) Kafka
8 170 (8.20%) .NET
9 129 (6.23%) RESTful
10 107 (5.16%) HTML
11 94 (4.54%) SOAP
12 85 (4.10%) Web Services
13 84 (4.05%) CSS
14 76 (3.67%) GraphQL
15 74 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
16 61 (2.94%) JSON
17 58 (2.80%) Gherkin
17 58 (2.80%) Vue
18 56 (2.70%) Hibernate
19 46 (2.22%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 260 (12.55%) Cloud Native
2 173 (8.35%) Distributed Systems
3 110 (5.31%) Product Ownership
4 62 (2.99%) Public Cloud
5 55 (2.65%) Fixed Income
6 48 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
6 48 (2.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 48 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
7 38 (1.83%) Distributed Architecture
8 37 (1.79%) Blog
8 37 (1.79%) Equities
9 35 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
10 31 (1.50%) Mobile App
11 29 (1.40%) Data Structures
12 28 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
13 26 (1.25%) Virtual Team
14 23 (1.11%) e-Learning
14 23 (1.11%) Management Information System
15 21 (1.01%) Derivative
15 21 (1.01%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 194 (9.36%) Linux
2 49 (2.36%) Android
3 42 (2.03%) Unix
4 39 (1.88%) Windows
5 14 (0.68%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.39%) CentOS
8 7 (0.34%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.29%) Debian
9 6 (0.29%) Windows Server
10 5 (0.24%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.14%) Kali Linux
12 2 (0.097%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.048%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 749 (36.15%) Agile
2 727 (35.09%) Software Engineering
3 634 (30.60%) CI/CD
4 483 (23.31%) DevOps
5 423 (20.42%) Microservices
6 414 (19.98%) Full-Stack Development
7 359 (17.33%) Test Automation
8 345 (16.65%) Mentoring
9 342 (16.51%) Problem-Solving
10 239 (11.53%) Containerisation
11 231 (11.15%) AI
12 225 (10.86%) Continuous Improvement
13 203 (9.80%) Scrum
14 202 (9.75%) Computer Science
15 192 (9.27%) Roadmaps
16 187 (9.03%) Infrastructure as Code
17 185 (8.93%) Technical Leadership
18 184 (8.88%) TDD
19 170 (8.20%) Clean Code
19 170 (8.20%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 647 (31.23%) Python
2 418 (20.17%) JavaScript
3 406 (19.59%) SQL
4 287 (13.85%) TypeScript
5 219 (10.57%) C#
6 160 (7.72%) Go
7 143 (6.90%) C++
8 109 (5.26%) Kotlin
9 104 (5.02%) Bash
10 78 (3.76%) C
11 54 (2.61%) Groovy
12 43 (2.08%) PHP
13 38 (1.83%) Scala
14 34 (1.64%) PL/SQL
15 29 (1.40%) Rust
16 20 (0.97%) Apex Code
16 20 (0.97%) PowerShell
17 15 (0.72%) R
18 14 (0.68%) Ruby
19 12 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 326 (15.73%) Security Cleared
2 277 (13.37%) Degree
3 201 (9.70%) SC Cleared
4 135 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 129 (6.23%) DV Cleared
6 92 (4.44%) AWS Certification
7 38 (1.83%) Master's Degree
8 36 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 30 (1.45%) Azure Certification
10 29 (1.40%) ISTQB
11 24 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
12 23 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 20 (0.97%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 20 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
13 20 (0.97%) OSCP
14 19 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
15 17 (0.82%) CREST Certified
16 15 (0.72%) PhD
17 13 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
17 13 (0.63%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (6.71%) QA
2 39 (1.88%) Accessibility
3 24 (1.16%) Data Quality
4 18 (0.87%) PCI DSS
5 16 (0.77%) GDPR
6 15 (0.72%) SOC 2
7 13 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
8 12 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 11 (0.53%) GRC
10 8 (0.39%) WCAG
11 4 (0.19%) EU AI Act
11 4 (0.19%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.19%) NIST
11 4 (0.19%) SLA
12 2 (0.097%) ECSS
13 1 (0.048%) MiFID
13 1 (0.048%) NCSC
13 1 (0.048%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 345 (16.65%) Docker
2 9 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.39%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.24%) Firmware
5 5 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.19%) KVM
6 4 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (0.19%) vSphere
7 3 (0.14%) Squid
7 3 (0.14%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.097%) HDFS
8 2 (0.097%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.048%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.048%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.048%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 442 (21.33%) Kubernetes
2 243 (11.73%) Terraform
3 113 (5.45%) Grafana
4 86 (4.15%) Ansible
5 48 (2.32%) Argo
6 45 (2.17%) Prometheus
7 43 (2.08%) HP Fortify
8 23 (1.11%) Kibana
9 19 (0.92%) Kustomize
10 13 (0.63%) Rancher
11 11 (0.53%) Puppet
12 9 (0.43%) Packer
13 8 (0.39%) logstash
14 7 (0.34%) yum
15 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
16 5 (0.24%) FTK
17 4 (0.19%) Nagios
17 4 (0.19%) Progress Chef
18 3 (0.14%) Red Hat Satellite
18 3 (0.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 86 (4.15%) Oracle
2 73 (3.52%) Microsoft
3 65 (3.14%) Google
4 38 (1.83%) IBM
5 32 (1.54%) MuleSoft
5 32 (1.54%) Salesforce
6 20 (0.97%) Splunk
7 19 (0.92%) SAP
8 17 (0.82%) Informatica
8 17 (0.82%) Red Hat
9 16 (0.77%) Atlassian
9 16 (0.77%) Databricks
9 16 (0.77%) Foundry
10 14 (0.68%) AppDynamics
10 14 (0.68%) Talend
11 12 (0.58%) Dynatrace
11 12 (0.58%) Palantir
11 12 (0.58%) VMware
12 11 (0.53%) OpenAI
13 9 (0.43%) Solace