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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 31 23
Rank change year-on-year -30 -8 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,783 3,266 3,802
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.88% 5.43% 8.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.82% 16.86% 19.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,128 1,981 3,013
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £75,554
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +5.89% +0.74%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £136,250 £142,500 £130,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% +3.45%

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 10,599 19,371 19,161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 23.06% 32.23% 41.11%
Number of salaries quoted 7,842 11,499 15,779
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,574 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £111,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 19 November 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 19 November 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 -10 1,046 £105,000 +5.00% 850
North of England -10 268 £65,000 +8.33% 201
South East -82 176 £62,500 -3.10% 248
North West -20 138 £67,500 +12.50% 138
Midlands +26 120 £62,500 +38.89% 67
South West -46 119 £65,000 - 136
Yorkshire +27 105 £67,500 +16.45% 42
West Midlands +27 91 £62,500 +16.41% 50
East of England -71 45 £42,500 -37.04% 57
East Midlands +10 29 £58,000 +65.71% 17
North East -9 27 £55,000 -24.14% 22
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 95 (5.33%) Apache
2 94 (5.27%) Apache Airflow
3 57 (3.20%) Apache Spark
4 44 (2.47%) Confluence
5 14 (0.79%) JBoss
6 8 (0.45%) IIS
7 6 (0.34%) Mule
7 6 (0.34%) nginx
7 6 (0.34%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.34%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.28%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
8 5 (0.28%) Camunda
8 5 (0.28%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
9 4 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.22%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.22%) Traefik
10 3 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 6 (0.34%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.17%) Simulink
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.056%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.056%) Trello
6 1 (0.056%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
1 8 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.34%) Adaptiv
2 6 (0.34%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.34%) Shopify
3 5 (0.28%) Maximo
3 5 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.11%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.056%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.056%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.056%) Summit
5 1 (0.056%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 874 (49.02%) AWS
2 348 (19.52%) Azure
3 231 (12.96%) GCP
4 146 (8.19%) Serverless
5 101 (5.66%) Amazon EKS
6 95 (5.33%) GitHub
7 94 (5.27%) SaaS
8 84 (4.71%) AWS Lambda
9 83 (4.66%) dbt
10 79 (4.43%) Amazon EC2
11 77 (4.32%) Snowflake
12 69 (3.87%) Amazon ECS
13 68 (3.81%) Amazon S3
14 47 (2.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 41 (2.30%) GitHub Actions
16 40 (2.24%) OpenShift
17 30 (1.68%) Datadog
18 28 (1.57%) Amazon SQS
19 24 (1.35%) Amazon Kinesis
20 22 (1.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 35 (1.96%) TCP/IP
2 23 (1.29%) HTTP
3 21 (1.18%) DNS
4 19 (1.07%) Firewall
5 17 (0.95%) SSH
6 15 (0.84%) FTP
6 15 (0.84%) SMTP
7 12 (0.67%) VPN
8 10 (0.56%) AMQP
9 9 (0.50%) Internet
9 9 (0.50%) Multicast
10 7 (0.39%) SAN
11 5 (0.28%) DHCP
12 4 (0.22%) Broadband
12 4 (0.22%) ICMP
12 4 (0.22%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (0.22%) SSL
13 3 (0.17%) BGP
13 3 (0.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (9.98%) PostgreSQL
2 162 (9.09%) Relational Database
3 118 (6.62%) NoSQL
4 98 (5.50%) SQL Server
5 93 (5.22%) Data Lake
6 92 (5.16%) MongoDB
7 78 (4.37%) MySQL
8 73 (4.09%) Apache Iceberg
9 72 (4.04%) Amazon Athena
10 69 (3.87%) Apache Arrow
10 69 (3.87%) Dremio
11 64 (3.59%) Apache Ignite
12 60 (3.37%) Big Data
13 59 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
14 56 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
15 45 (2.52%) DynamoDB
16 44 (2.47%) RDBMS
17 40 (2.24%) Hadoop
18 32 (1.79%) BigQuery
19 25 (1.40%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 177 (9.93%) Jenkins
2 151 (8.47%) Git
3 99 (5.55%) JIRA
3 99 (5.55%) Selenium
4 84 (4.71%) JUnit
5 74 (4.15%) GitLab
6 56 (3.14%) Cucumber
7 44 (2.47%) Mockito
8 40 (2.24%) JMeter
8 40 (2.24%) Postman
9 37 (2.08%) Cypress.io
10 36 (2.02%) Maven
11 32 (1.79%) TeamCity
12 29 (1.63%) Bitbucket
12 29 (1.63%) WebDriver
13 26 (1.46%) SoapUI
14 25 (1.40%) SonarQube
15 19 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
16 16 (0.90%) REST Assured
16 16 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 746 (41.84%) Finance
2 499 (27.99%) Social Skills
3 400 (22.43%) Banking
4 294 (16.49%) Law
5 264 (14.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 192 (10.77%) Front Office
7 170 (9.53%) Analytical Skills
8 154 (8.64%) Investment Banking
9 126 (7.07%) Public Sector
10 106 (5.95%) Financial Institution
11 85 (4.77%) Marketing
12 48 (2.69%) Retail
13 37 (2.08%) Legal
14 33 (1.85%) Back Office
15 31 (1.74%) Games
16 22 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
17 21 (1.18%) Manufacturing
18 19 (1.07%) Billing
19 18 (1.01%) Telecoms
20 16 (0.90%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 586 (32.87%) Developer
2 544 (30.51%) Software Engineer
3 430 (24.12%) Senior
4 309 (17.33%) Java Engineer
5 294 (16.49%) Lead
6 280 (15.70%) Java Developer
7 228 (12.79%) Java Software Engineer
8 172 (9.65%) Senior Software Engineer
9 146 (8.19%) Lead Software Engineer
10 129 (7.23%) Senior Java Engineer
11 122 (6.84%) AWS Engineer
12 110 (6.17%) Python Engineer
13 104 (5.83%) Python Software Engineer
14 102 (5.72%) Architect
15 96 (5.38%) Senior Developer
15 96 (5.38%) Senior Java Software Engineer
16 94 (5.27%) Full-Stack Developer
17 86 (4.82%) AWS Software Engineer
18 64 (3.59%) Data Engineer
19 62 (3.48%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 389 (21.82%) Spring
2 323 (18.12%) React
3 301 (16.88%) Spring Boot
4 283 (15.87%) Kafka
5 186 (10.43%) RESTful
6 167 (9.37%) .NET
7 165 (9.25%) REST
8 151 (8.47%) Node.js
9 121 (6.79%) HTML
10 115 (6.45%) AngularJS
11 105 (5.89%) CSS
12 87 (4.88%) Hibernate
13 86 (4.82%) Pandas
14 76 (4.26%) Web Services
15 73 (4.09%) gRPC
16 70 (3.93%) NumPy
17 69 (3.87%) SciPy
17 69 (3.87%) SOAP
18 66 (3.70%) Protocol Buffers
19 56 (3.14%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 337 (18.90%) Cloud Native
2 202 (11.33%) Distributed Systems
3 129 (7.23%) Equities
4 122 (6.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 120 (6.73%) Fixed Income
6 114 (6.39%) Derivative
7 93 (5.22%) Algorithms
8 78 (4.37%) Hedge funds
9 67 (3.76%) Self-Motivation
10 65 (3.65%) Public Cloud
11 63 (3.53%) Pricing Data
12 61 (3.42%) Onboarding
13 59 (3.31%) Product Ownership
14 56 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
15 44 (2.47%) Management Information System
16 38 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
16 38 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
17 37 (2.08%) Data Structures
18 36 (2.02%) Mobile App
19 34 (1.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 196 (10.99%) Linux
2 40 (2.24%) Windows
3 28 (1.57%) Unix
4 26 (1.46%) Android
5 15 (0.84%) VMS
6 14 (0.79%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.73%) Amazon Linux
8 7 (0.39%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.17%) CentOS
11 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.11%) Debian
12 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.056%) AIX
13 1 (0.056%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.056%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.056%) SUSE
13 1 (0.056%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 855 (47.95%) Agile
2 709 (39.76%) Software Engineering
3 590 (33.09%) CI/CD
4 430 (24.12%) Microservices
5 384 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
6 367 (20.58%) DevOps
7 278 (15.59%) SDLC
8 275 (15.42%) Computer Science
9 266 (14.92%) Test Automation
10 261 (14.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 253 (14.19%) Full-Stack Development
12 245 (13.74%) Mentoring
13 204 (11.44%) AI
14 188 (10.54%) TDD
15 187 (10.49%) Fintech
16 180 (10.10%) Containerisation
17 170 (9.53%) Scrum
18 161 (9.03%) Machine Learning
19 136 (7.63%) Clean Code
20 135 (7.57%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 743 (41.67%) Python
2 418 (23.44%) JavaScript
3 393 (22.04%) SQL
4 307 (17.22%) TypeScript
5 262 (14.69%) C#
6 180 (10.10%) C++
7 149 (8.36%) Go
8 132 (7.40%) Kotlin
9 88 (4.94%) C
10 78 (4.37%) Scala
11 56 (3.14%) PHP
12 43 (2.41%) PowerShell
13 42 (2.36%) Shell Script
14 37 (2.08%) Groovy
15 35 (1.96%) PL/SQL
16 33 (1.85%) Bash
17 29 (1.63%) Rust
18 25 (1.40%) Perl
19 23 (1.29%) Ruby
20 18 (1.01%) R
Qualifications
1 305 (17.11%) Degree
2 219 (12.28%) Security Cleared
3 150 (8.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 143 (8.02%) SC Cleared
5 87 (4.88%) AWS Certification
6 73 (4.09%) Master's Degree
7 62 (3.48%) DV Cleared
8 46 (2.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 37 (2.08%) Azure Certification
10 32 (1.79%) PhD
11 23 (1.29%) ISTQB
12 19 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
13 18 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
14 17 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (0.90%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 10 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
17 9 (0.50%) HND
17 9 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
17 9 (0.50%) PMI Certification
17 9 (0.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (5.55%) QA
2 46 (2.58%) Accessibility
3 31 (1.74%) GDPR
4 18 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (0.73%) Data Quality
5 13 (0.73%) PCI DSS
6 10 (0.56%) ISO 9001
6 10 (0.56%) NIST
7 9 (0.50%) HIPAA
8 7 (0.39%) SLA
9 6 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.28%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.22%) EU AI Act
11 4 (0.22%) SEPA
11 4 (0.22%) WCAG
12 3 (0.17%) NCSC
13 2 (0.11%) GRC
13 2 (0.11%) ITGC
System Software
1 297 (16.66%) Docker
2 27 (1.51%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
5 11 (0.62%) HDFS
6 5 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.22%) DFS Replication
7 4 (0.22%) vSphere
8 3 (0.17%) Firmware
9 2 (0.11%) Apache Flume
9 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.11%) Squid
9 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.056%) KVM
10 1 (0.056%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 454 (25.46%) Kubernetes
2 144 (8.08%) Terraform
3 75 (4.21%) Grafana
4 47 (2.64%) Ansible
5 42 (2.36%) Kibana
6 41 (2.30%) Prometheus
7 22 (1.23%) Argo
8 13 (0.73%) Progress Chef
9 12 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.45%) Control-M
11 7 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
12 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.28%) logstash
14 4 (0.22%) HAProxy
14 4 (0.22%) Nagios
14 4 (0.22%) Puppet
15 3 (0.17%) Kustomize
16 2 (0.11%) Mesos
16 2 (0.11%) Oozie
16 2 (0.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 136 (7.63%) Oracle
2 92 (5.16%) Microsoft
3 83 (4.66%) Google
4 39 (2.19%) Guidewire
4 39 (2.19%) Splunk
5 34 (1.91%) Atlassian
6 33 (1.85%) Databricks
7 28 (1.57%) SAP
8 27 (1.51%) Dynatrace
9 21 (1.18%) MuleSoft
10 20 (1.12%) IBM
11 18 (1.01%) ServiceNow
12 17 (0.95%) Informatica
13 16 (0.90%) Red Hat
14 15 (0.84%) Foundry
15 14 (0.79%) Palantir
16 13 (0.73%) Dell
16 13 (0.73%) Solace
16 13 (0.73%) Talend
17 10 (0.56%) Salesforce