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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 30 23
Rank change year-on-year 0 -7 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,780 3,805 4,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.45% 5.55% 8.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.70% 18.13% 20.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,198 2,418 3,695
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +0.46% +9.84%
75th Percentile £115,000 £116,250 £102,500
90th Percentile £135,000 £143,750 £130,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,611
% change year-on-year -6.25% +5.80% +8.02%

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 11,729 20,991 22,490
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.22% 30.62% 40.81%
Number of salaries quoted 7,707 13,468 18,503
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% -3.85% +1.56%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Java 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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 2025. 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 1,050 £107,500 +4.88% 464
North of England +45 952 £65,000 +4.00% 227
North West +37 823 £70,000 +12.00% 121
South East -57 271 £65,000 +13.04% 286
Midlands +77 241 £60,000 +20.00% 87
West Midlands +68 157 £60,000 +9.09% 55
South West -16 150 £60,000 - 95
East of England -7 118 £45,000 -47.06% 45
Yorkshire +30 93 £66,250 +10.42% 78
East Midlands +55 84 £57,500 +53.33% 30
North East +13 38 £47,500 -20.83% 30
Java
UK

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 169 (6.08%) Confluence
2 128 (4.60%) Apache Airflow
3 117 (4.21%) Apache
4 52 (1.87%) Apache Spark
5 16 (0.58%) Tomcat
6 14 (0.50%) IIS
7 12 (0.43%) JBoss
8 9 (0.32%) SharePoint
9 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
9 7 (0.25%) nginx
9 7 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
10 5 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
10 5 (0.18%) Camunda
10 5 (0.18%) Mule
11 4 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
11 4 (0.14%) CMS
11 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.14%) Traefik
12 3 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 13 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.18%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.11%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 3 (0.11%) Simulink
5 2 (0.072%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.072%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
2 8 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (0.22%) Adaptiv
4 4 (0.14%) Endur
4 4 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.11%) Shopify
6 2 (0.072%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.072%) Maximo
7 1 (0.036%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.036%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.036%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,327 (47.73%) AWS
2 814 (29.28%) Azure
3 544 (19.57%) GCP
4 183 (6.58%) Serverless
5 121 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
6 117 (4.21%) dbt
7 115 (4.14%) AWS Lambda
8 114 (4.10%) Amazon EC2
9 102 (3.67%) Snowflake
10 90 (3.24%) Amazon S3
11 84 (3.02%) GitHub
12 77 (2.77%) Amazon ECS
13 76 (2.73%) SaaS
14 74 (2.66%) AWS CloudFormation
15 71 (2.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 48 (1.73%) Amazon SQS
17 40 (1.44%) AWS KMS
18 38 (1.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 37 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
20 32 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 420 (15.11%) DNS
2 402 (14.46%) VPN
3 29 (1.04%) HTTP
4 27 (0.97%) TCP/IP
5 22 (0.79%) Firewall
6 20 (0.72%) SSH
7 19 (0.68%) FTP
7 19 (0.68%) SMTP
7 19 (0.68%) SSL
8 11 (0.40%) Network Security
9 9 (0.32%) DMARC
9 9 (0.32%) Internet
10 8 (0.29%) HTTPS
11 6 (0.22%) AMQP
11 6 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
12 5 (0.18%) Broadband
12 5 (0.18%) SAN
13 4 (0.14%) DHCP
13 4 (0.14%) ICMP
13 4 (0.14%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 309 (11.12%) SQL Server
2 216 (7.77%) PostgreSQL
3 153 (5.50%) Relational Database
4 134 (4.82%) NoSQL
5 119 (4.28%) Data Lake
6 118 (4.24%) Amazon Athena
7 116 (4.17%) Apache Iceberg
8 112 (4.03%) Apache Arrow
8 112 (4.03%) Dremio
9 104 (3.74%) MongoDB
10 92 (3.31%) MySQL
11 90 (3.24%) Apache Ignite
12 74 (2.66%) Big Data
12 74 (2.66%) Elasticsearch
13 67 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
14 50 (1.80%) RDBMS
15 49 (1.76%) DynamoDB
16 48 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
17 32 (1.15%) BigQuery
17 32 (1.15%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 312 (11.22%) JIRA
2 282 (10.14%) Selenium
3 273 (9.82%) GitLab
4 255 (9.17%) Maven
5 243 (8.74%) SonarQube
6 231 (8.31%) Cucumber
7 227 (8.17%) Bitbucket
8 226 (8.13%) Sonatype Nexus
9 204 (7.34%) Jenkins
10 181 (6.51%) Git
11 109 (3.92%) JUnit
12 63 (2.27%) Mockito
13 42 (1.51%) JMeter
14 38 (1.37%) Postman
15 26 (0.94%) Cypress.io
16 24 (0.86%) Vagrant
17 22 (0.79%) WebDriver
18 20 (0.72%) IntelliJ
18 20 (0.72%) SoapUI
19 16 (0.58%) Appium
General
1 1,348 (48.49%) Finance
2 1,075 (38.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 622 (22.37%) Analytical Skills
4 608 (21.87%) Banking
5 474 (17.05%) Social Skills
6 292 (10.50%) Law
7 260 (9.35%) Investment Banking
8 242 (8.71%) Front Office
9 166 (5.97%) Public Sector
10 122 (4.39%) Retail
11 90 (3.24%) Corporate Banking
12 89 (3.20%) Marketing
13 80 (2.88%) Financial Institution
14 38 (1.37%) Legal
15 35 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
16 30 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
17 24 (0.86%) Games
18 20 (0.72%) Telecoms
19 18 (0.65%) Billing
20 16 (0.58%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,030 (37.05%) Developer
2 947 (34.06%) Software Engineer
3 659 (23.71%) Senior
4 488 (17.55%) Software Developer
5 399 (14.35%) Java Engineer
6 382 (13.74%) Senior Software Engineer
7 325 (11.69%) Lead
8 305 (10.97%) Java Developer
9 294 (10.58%) Java Software Engineer
10 175 (6.29%) Senior Java Engineer
11 155 (5.58%) AWS Engineer
12 142 (5.11%) Lead Software Engineer
13 135 (4.86%) Python Engineer
14 133 (4.78%) Python Software Engineer
15 130 (4.68%) AWS Software Engineer
16 124 (4.46%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 98 (3.53%) Senior Developer
18 90 (3.24%) Architect
19 71 (2.55%) Data Engineer
20 65 (2.34%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 590 (21.22%) Spring
2 522 (18.78%) Spring Boot
3 502 (18.06%) React
4 486 (17.48%) Kafka
5 424 (15.25%) .NET
6 367 (13.20%) HTML
7 350 (12.59%) Node.js
8 301 (10.83%) RESTful
9 297 (10.68%) CSS
10 257 (9.24%) REST
11 235 (8.45%) Redux
12 233 (8.38%) JPA
13 207 (7.45%) Hibernate
14 174 (6.26%) Pandas
15 131 (4.71%) AngularJS
16 114 (4.10%) NumPy
17 112 (4.03%) SciPy
18 108 (3.88%) Jest
19 107 (3.85%) HTML5
20 104 (3.74%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 624 (22.45%) Cyberattack
2 269 (9.68%) Cloud Native
3 259 (9.32%) Product Ownership
4 248 (8.92%) Self-Motivation
5 236 (8.49%) Enterprise Software
6 182 (6.55%) Linux Command Line
7 162 (5.83%) Distributed Systems
8 161 (5.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 158 (5.68%) Equities
10 157 (5.65%) Fixed Income
11 155 (5.58%) Derivative
12 103 (3.71%) Hedge funds
13 102 (3.67%) Algorithms
14 90 (3.24%) Pricing Data
15 67 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
16 62 (2.23%) Public Cloud
17 59 (2.12%) Onboarding
18 55 (1.98%) Management Information System
19 43 (1.55%) Mobile App
20 42 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 824 (29.64%) Linux
2 487 (17.52%) Android
3 43 (1.55%) Unix
4 41 (1.47%) Windows
5 23 (0.83%) Apple iOS
5 23 (0.83%) VMS
6 18 (0.65%) Amazon Linux
7 5 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.14%) Rocky
8 4 (0.14%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.072%) zOS
11 1 (0.036%) AIX
11 1 (0.036%) CentOS
11 1 (0.036%) Debian
11 1 (0.036%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,765 (63.49%) Agile
2 1,183 (42.55%) Software Engineering
3 827 (29.75%) Microservices
4 805 (28.96%) CI/CD
5 610 (21.94%) DevOps
6 559 (20.11%) OO
7 529 (19.03%) SDLC
8 523 (18.81%) Mathematics
9 517 (18.60%) OOP
10 511 (18.38%) Design Patterns
11 476 (17.12%) Mentoring
12 470 (16.91%) Line Management
13 464 (16.69%) Android Development
14 446 (16.04%) Containerisation
15 432 (15.54%) Test Automation
16 413 (14.86%) Full-Stack Development
17 390 (14.03%) User Experience
18 385 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
19 379 (13.63%) Machine Learning
20 352 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,478 (53.17%) Python
2 936 (33.67%) JavaScript
3 864 (31.08%) C++
4 763 (27.45%) Go
5 673 (24.21%) SQL
6 444 (15.97%) TypeScript
7 333 (11.98%) C#
8 306 (11.01%) Rust
9 121 (4.35%) C
10 107 (3.85%) Kotlin
11 100 (3.60%) PHP
12 71 (2.55%) Scala
13 65 (2.34%) R
14 63 (2.27%) PowerShell
15 59 (2.12%) Ruby
16 56 (2.01%) MATLAB
17 55 (1.98%) Shell Script
18 49 (1.76%) Dart
18 49 (1.76%) Groovy
19 36 (1.29%) Bash
Qualifications
1 842 (30.29%) Security Cleared
2 674 (24.24%) DV Cleared
3 338 (12.16%) Degree
4 268 (9.64%) AWS Certification
5 221 (7.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 192 (6.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 187 (6.73%) AWS Certified Developer
8 146 (5.25%) SC Cleared
9 84 (3.02%) Master's Degree
10 42 (1.51%) PhD
11 30 (1.08%) Azure Certification
12 26 (0.94%) ISTQB
13 12 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
13 12 (0.43%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 9 (0.32%) CFA
14 9 (0.32%) HND
14 9 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
14 9 (0.32%) PMI Certification
14 9 (0.32%) PMP
15 8 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 303 (10.90%) QA
2 123 (4.42%) Accessibility
3 38 (1.37%) GDPR
4 27 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (0.83%) HIPAA
6 22 (0.79%) PCI DSS
7 19 (0.68%) NIST
8 13 (0.47%) Data Quality
8 13 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 12 (0.43%) SLA
10 11 (0.40%) ISO 9001
11 5 (0.18%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.14%) SEPA
13 2 (0.072%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.072%) GRC
13 2 (0.072%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.072%) ITGC
13 2 (0.072%) PSD2
14 1 (0.036%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.036%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 1,017 (36.58%) Docker
2 34 (1.22%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.36%) HDFS
4 7 (0.25%) DFS Replication
4 7 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.14%) Postfix
5 4 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.11%) Apache Flume
6 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.072%) KVM
7 2 (0.072%) Squid
7 2 (0.072%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.072%) vSphere
7 2 (0.072%) Xen
8 1 (0.036%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.036%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 708 (25.47%) Kubernetes
2 495 (17.81%) Ansible
3 206 (7.41%) Terraform
4 65 (2.34%) Grafana
5 64 (2.30%) Prometheus
6 41 (1.47%) Kibana
7 30 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (0.68%) Progress Chef
9 17 (0.61%) Argo
10 10 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (0.32%) Istio
12 7 (0.25%) Kustomize
13 6 (0.22%) Nagios
14 5 (0.18%) Control-M
14 5 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.18%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.18%) Puppet
15 4 (0.14%) HAProxy
15 4 (0.14%) logstash
15 4 (0.14%) Packer
Vendors
1 211 (7.59%) Solace
2 145 (5.22%) Oracle
3 127 (4.57%) Microsoft
4 94 (3.38%) Google
5 47 (1.69%) Splunk
6 40 (1.44%) ServiceNow
7 39 (1.40%) Guidewire
8 37 (1.33%) Databricks
9 34 (1.22%) Dynatrace
10 29 (1.04%) IBM
11 28 (1.01%) Atlassian
12 27 (0.97%) Informatica
12 27 (0.97%) Red Hat
13 23 (0.83%) MuleSoft
14 20 (0.72%) SAP
15 19 (0.68%) Salesforce
16 14 (0.50%) Bloomberg
16 14 (0.50%) Foundry
17 13 (0.47%) Palantir
18 11 (0.40%) Cisco