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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 26 35
Rank change year-on-year -40 +9 -15
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,260 2,879 4,542
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.72% 7.44% 5.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.11% 23.14% 16.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,456 1,390 3,429
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £39,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £73,805
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +5.01% -7.74%
75th Percentile £91,563 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £137,500 £138,750
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 14,953 12,439 27,661
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.98% 32.15% 31.54%
Number of salaries quoted 10,696 8,439 22,585
10th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,000 £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 £86,250 £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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -10 1,067 £85,000 -19.05% 398
North of England -40 607 £69,305 +2.67% 158
North West -50 258 £70,000 -6.04% 86
Yorkshire +25 237 £72,500 +0.71% 41
South East -39 217 £67,500 +3.85% 102
South West -37 181 £60,000 - 72
North East +1 112 £52,500 -5.83% 32
Midlands -101 108 £60,000 +9.09% 59
West Midlands -70 90 £58,750 -2.08% 28
East of England -62 52 £52,500 +17.98% 34
East Midlands -84 17 £60,000 +26.32% 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 45 (1.99%) Apache
2 40 (1.77%) Apache Spark
3 37 (1.64%) Confluence
4 30 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
6 13 (0.58%) JBoss
7 11 (0.49%) OpenStack
8 9 (0.40%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
10 7 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.22%) Camunda
11 5 (0.22%) CMS
11 5 (0.22%) GeoServer
11 5 (0.22%) IIS
12 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.13%) CICS
13 3 (0.13%) Liferay
13 3 (0.13%) SAS
13 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.44%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.13%) Windchill
6 2 (0.088%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.088%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.044%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 12 (0.53%) Maximo
2 8 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.13%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.088%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.088%) 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
1 927 (41.02%) AWS
2 429 (18.98%) Azure
3 272 (12.04%) GCP
4 182 (8.05%) Serverless
5 137 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
6 121 (5.35%) SaaS
7 120 (5.31%) Amazon S3
8 114 (5.04%) AWS Lambda
9 112 (4.96%) Amazon ECS
10 107 (4.73%) Amazon EKS
11 99 (4.38%) GitHub
12 76 (3.36%) AWS Step Functions
13 64 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
14 51 (2.26%) Amazon ECR
15 50 (2.21%) Apigee
16 45 (1.99%) Amazon SQS
17 39 (1.73%) GitHub Actions
18 37 (1.64%) dbt
19 36 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 35 (1.55%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.21%) Broadband
2 32 (1.42%) HTTP
3 27 (1.19%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.35%) AMQP
5 7 (0.31%) DMARC
5 7 (0.31%) IPv4
5 7 (0.31%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (0.18%) Internet
6 4 (0.18%) MQTT
7 3 (0.13%) BGP
7 3 (0.13%) Network Security
7 3 (0.13%) VLAN
7 3 (0.13%) VPN
8 2 (0.088%) Firewall
8 2 (0.088%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.088%) PuTTY
9 1 (0.044%) LTE
9 1 (0.044%) TCAP
9 1 (0.044%) VXLAN
9 1 (0.044%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (8.50%) NoSQL
2 164 (7.26%) PostgreSQL
3 109 (4.82%) Relational Database
4 101 (4.47%) MongoDB
5 96 (4.25%) DynamoDB
6 70 (3.10%) MySQL
7 68 (3.01%) SQL Server
8 42 (1.86%) RDBMS
9 40 (1.77%) Amazon Athena
10 32 (1.42%) Big Data
11 30 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
12 26 (1.15%) DB2
13 24 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
14 23 (1.02%) Hadoop
15 22 (0.97%) BigQuery
16 19 (0.84%) Redis
17 17 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
18 15 (0.66%) Neo4j
19 14 (0.62%) Metadata
19 14 (0.62%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 192 (8.50%) Git
2 182 (8.05%) Jenkins
3 158 (6.99%) GitLab
4 93 (4.12%) JIRA
5 85 (3.76%) Maven
6 84 (3.72%) Selenium
7 74 (3.27%) Cucumber
8 69 (3.05%) Cypress.io
9 65 (2.88%) JUnit
10 60 (2.65%) TeamCity
11 59 (2.61%) SonarQube
12 46 (2.04%) Postman
13 33 (1.46%) JMeter
14 30 (1.33%) Mockito
15 28 (1.24%) Bitbucket
15 28 (1.24%) Gradle
16 26 (1.15%) REST Assured
17 25 (1.11%) Claude Code
17 25 (1.11%) SoapUI
18 24 (1.06%) WebDriver
General
1 569 (25.18%) Finance
2 366 (16.19%) Social Skills
3 238 (10.53%) Banking
4 201 (8.89%) Public Sector
5 166 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
6 155 (6.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 112 (4.96%) Law
8 110 (4.87%) Front Office
9 96 (4.25%) Retail
10 71 (3.14%) Financial Institution
11 50 (2.21%) Back Office
12 46 (2.04%) Investment Banking
13 31 (1.37%) Games
14 26 (1.15%) Health Technology
15 24 (1.06%) Telecoms
16 23 (1.02%) Aerospace
17 20 (0.88%) Marketing
17 20 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
18 19 (0.84%) Advertising
18 19 (0.84%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 849 (37.57%) Developer
2 563 (24.91%) Java Developer
3 561 (24.82%) Senior
4 520 (23.01%) Software Engineer
5 376 (16.64%) Java Engineer
6 344 (15.22%) Lead
7 220 (9.73%) Senior Developer
8 177 (7.83%) Java Software Engineer
9 166 (7.35%) Senior Software Engineer
10 157 (6.95%) Senior Java Developer
11 150 (6.64%) Full-Stack Developer
12 128 (5.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 113 (5.00%) Senior Java Engineer
14 111 (4.91%) Lead Software Engineer
15 109 (4.82%) Software Developer
16 94 (4.16%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 77 (3.41%) Architect
18 66 (2.92%) Lead Developer
19 61 (2.70%) Senior Java Software Engineer
20 57 (2.52%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 496 (21.95%) Spring
2 433 (19.16%) Spring Boot
3 303 (13.41%) React
4 234 (10.35%) REST
5 229 (10.13%) AngularJS
6 206 (9.12%) Node.js
7 202 (8.94%) Kafka
8 160 (7.08%) .NET
9 141 (6.24%) RESTful
10 96 (4.25%) HTML
11 86 (3.81%) Web Services
12 78 (3.45%) CSS
13 76 (3.36%) SOAP
14 64 (2.83%) GraphQL
15 63 (2.79%) Elastic Stack
16 62 (2.74%) Vue
17 61 (2.70%) JSON
18 50 (2.21%) Gherkin
19 47 (2.08%) Playwright
20 45 (1.99%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 252 (11.15%) Cloud Native
2 181 (8.01%) Distributed Systems
3 142 (6.28%) Product Ownership
4 89 (3.94%) Public Cloud
5 51 (2.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 49 (2.17%) Fixed Income
7 44 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
8 41 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
9 39 (1.73%) Distributed Architecture
9 39 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
10 35 (1.55%) Blog
10 35 (1.55%) Data Structures
11 33 (1.46%) Equities
12 32 (1.42%) e-Learning
12 32 (1.42%) Mobile App
13 29 (1.28%) Virtual Team
14 25 (1.11%) Onboarding
15 20 (0.88%) Algorithms
15 20 (0.88%) FPGA
15 20 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 193 (8.54%) Linux
2 50 (2.21%) Android
3 48 (2.12%) Unix
4 42 (1.86%) Windows
5 14 (0.62%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.44%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.22%) CentOS
8 5 (0.22%) Debian
8 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.18%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 807 (35.71%) Agile
2 760 (33.63%) Software Engineering
3 695 (30.75%) CI/CD
4 536 (23.72%) DevOps
5 490 (21.68%) Microservices
6 455 (20.13%) Full-Stack Development
7 425 (18.81%) Test Automation
8 410 (18.14%) Mentoring
9 335 (14.82%) Problem-Solving
10 254 (11.24%) Containerisation
11 251 (11.11%) AI
12 230 (10.18%) TDD
13 229 (10.13%) Scrum
14 222 (9.82%) Continuous Improvement
15 214 (9.47%) Technical Leadership
16 212 (9.38%) Infrastructure as Code
17 210 (9.29%) Roadmaps
18 193 (8.54%) Computer Science
19 176 (7.79%) SDLC
20 164 (7.26%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 667 (29.51%) Python
2 448 (19.82%) SQL
3 432 (19.12%) JavaScript
4 271 (11.99%) TypeScript
5 238 (10.53%) C#
6 176 (7.79%) C++
7 157 (6.95%) Go
8 114 (5.04%) Bash
9 109 (4.82%) Kotlin
10 65 (2.88%) Groovy
11 62 (2.74%) C
12 52 (2.30%) Scala
13 40 (1.77%) Rust
14 37 (1.64%) PHP
15 35 (1.55%) PL/SQL
16 26 (1.15%) PowerShell
17 17 (0.75%) Apex Code
17 17 (0.75%) R
18 14 (0.62%) Perl
19 13 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 355 (15.71%) Security Cleared
2 257 (11.37%) Degree
3 223 (9.87%) SC Cleared
4 135 (5.97%) DV Cleared
5 130 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 96 (4.25%) AWS Certification
7 37 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 32 (1.42%) Master's Degree
9 27 (1.19%) ISTQB
10 26 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 21 (0.93%) OSCP
13 19 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
14 18 (0.80%) DBS Check
14 18 (0.80%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 17 (0.75%) Azure Certification
16 14 (0.62%) CREST Certified
16 14 (0.62%) PhD
17 12 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
18 10 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (6.59%) QA
2 54 (2.39%) Accessibility
3 40 (1.77%) Data Quality
4 14 (0.62%) GRC
4 14 (0.62%) PCI DSS
5 13 (0.58%) WCAG
6 12 (0.53%) SOC 2
7 10 (0.44%) GDPR
8 9 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.27%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 3 (0.13%) NIST
12 2 (0.088%) Good Clinical Practice
12 2 (0.088%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.044%) MiFID
13 1 (0.044%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.044%) SLA
System Software
1 358 (15.84%) Docker
2 12 (0.53%) Active Directory
2 12 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (0.40%) vSphere
4 7 (0.31%) Squid
4 7 (0.31%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.22%) Firmware
6 4 (0.18%) KVM
7 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.088%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.044%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.044%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.044%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.044%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.044%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.044%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.044%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 419 (18.54%) Kubernetes
2 259 (11.46%) Terraform
3 100 (4.42%) Grafana
4 96 (4.25%) Ansible
5 48 (2.12%) Argo
6 47 (2.08%) Prometheus
7 39 (1.73%) HP Fortify
8 28 (1.24%) Kibana
9 18 (0.80%) Kustomize
10 13 (0.58%) Packer
11 12 (0.53%) Puppet
12 11 (0.49%) Rancher
13 9 (0.40%) logstash
14 7 (0.31%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
15 6 (0.27%) yum
16 5 (0.22%) FTK
17 3 (0.13%) AWS Copilot
17 3 (0.13%) Nagios
17 3 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 89 (3.94%) Oracle
2 82 (3.63%) Microsoft
3 70 (3.10%) Google
4 39 (1.73%) Splunk
5 32 (1.42%) IBM
6 26 (1.15%) Salesforce
7 19 (0.84%) Dynatrace
7 19 (0.84%) Foundry
7 19 (0.84%) MuleSoft
7 19 (0.84%) Palantir
8 18 (0.80%) Red Hat
9 17 (0.75%) AppDynamics
10 16 (0.71%) VMware
11 14 (0.62%) Databricks
12 13 (0.58%) ServiceNow
13 12 (0.53%) Atlassian
13 12 (0.53%) SAP
13 12 (0.53%) Solace
14 11 (0.49%) Adobe
15 9 (0.40%) Informatica