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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 39 32
Rank change year-on-year -19 -7 -10
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,744 2,323 3,569
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.62% 5.46% 5.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.50% 21.19% 17.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,696 1,118 2,239
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,371 £78,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% -2.50% +3.23%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £136,250 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +6.67%

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 16,627 10,963 20,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.86% 25.75% 31.86%
Number of salaries quoted 12,152 7,458 12,088
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,329 £47,588
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 16 October 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 16 October 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 -15 1,102 £85,000 -19.05% 164
North of England -11 787 £69,310 +2.68% 106
North West -24 423 £75,000 +7.14% 58
South West +18 348 £67,750 +0.37% 70
South East -47 226 £70,000 +7.69% 63
Midlands -30 212 £70,000 +12.00% 44
North East +15 188 £55,000 +7.32% 24
West Midlands -16 184 £70,000 +12.00% 40
Yorkshire +13 176 £72,500 +7.41% 25
East of England -89 44 £68,750 +61.76% 10
East Midlands -79 28 £60,000 +3.45% 4
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 57 (2.08%) Confluence
2 53 (1.93%) Apache
3 37 (1.35%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (0.77%) Camunda
6 19 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 12 (0.44%) Jupyter
8 11 (0.40%) WebLogic
9 9 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
10 8 (0.29%) CICS
10 8 (0.29%) Tomcat
11 7 (0.26%) Ethereum
11 7 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 5 (0.18%) CMS
12 5 (0.18%) JBoss
12 5 (0.18%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
13 4 (0.15%) Hedera
13 4 (0.15%) SAS
13 4 (0.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.55%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.33%) Simulink
4 7 (0.26%) Moqups
5 5 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (0.11%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.073%) PTC Creo
8 2 (0.073%) Windchill
9 1 (0.036%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.036%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.036%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.29%) Distributed Ledger
3 5 (0.18%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.11%) Maximo
5 3 (0.11%) R3 Corda
6 2 (0.073%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.073%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.073%) Quorum
6 2 (0.073%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
6 2 (0.073%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.036%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.036%) Infor SunSystems
7 1 (0.036%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.036%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,066 (38.85%) AWS
2 534 (19.46%) Azure
3 301 (10.97%) GCP
4 195 (7.11%) Serverless
5 189 (6.89%) GitHub
6 153 (5.58%) AWS CloudFormation
7 131 (4.77%) AWS Lambda
8 113 (4.12%) Amazon S3
8 113 (4.12%) GitHub Actions
9 107 (3.90%) Amazon EKS
9 107 (3.90%) SaaS
10 104 (3.79%) Amazon ECS
11 89 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
12 53 (1.93%) AWS Step Functions
13 50 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
14 41 (1.49%) Datadog
15 40 (1.46%) Anthropic Claude
16 39 (1.42%) OpenShift
17 38 (1.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 38 (1.38%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 33 (1.20%) HTTP
2 28 (1.02%) TCP/IP
3 24 (0.87%) Network Security
4 21 (0.77%) VPN
5 19 (0.69%) BGP
6 15 (0.55%) DMARC
7 13 (0.47%) Firewall
8 10 (0.36%) Wireshark
9 9 (0.33%) AMQP
9 9 (0.33%) DNS
10 8 (0.29%) MQTT
11 7 (0.26%) IPv4
11 7 (0.26%) Software-Defined Networking
12 6 (0.22%) Ethernet
12 6 (0.22%) IPsec
13 5 (0.18%) Broadband
14 4 (0.15%) Internet
14 4 (0.15%) Kerberos
14 4 (0.15%) RIP
14 4 (0.15%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
2 166 (6.05%) NoSQL
3 132 (4.81%) Relational Database
4 127 (4.63%) MongoDB
5 71 (2.59%) MySQL
6 64 (2.33%) DynamoDB
7 58 (2.11%) SQL Server
8 49 (1.79%) Big Data
9 37 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
10 34 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
11 30 (1.09%) Redis
12 27 (0.98%) Power BI
13 25 (0.91%) Data Lake
14 24 (0.87%) Db2
15 23 (0.84%) Hadoop
16 22 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
16 22 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
17 21 (0.77%) BigQuery
18 17 (0.62%) Spark SQL
19 16 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 289 (10.53%) Git
2 209 (7.62%) Jenkins
3 199 (7.25%) GitLab
4 109 (3.97%) JUnit
5 90 (3.28%) JIRA
6 87 (3.17%) Cucumber
7 73 (2.66%) TeamCity
8 67 (2.44%) Maven
9 57 (2.08%) Selenium
10 51 (1.86%) Cypress.io
11 47 (1.71%) Mockito
12 46 (1.68%) Eclipse
13 42 (1.53%) Postman
14 40 (1.46%) Subversion
15 33 (1.20%) SonarQube
16 32 (1.17%) JMeter
17 31 (1.13%) Bitbucket
18 28 (1.02%) Claude Code
19 18 (0.66%) REST Assured
20 17 (0.62%) Spock
General
1 695 (25.33%) Finance
2 486 (17.71%) Social Skills
3 298 (10.86%) Banking
4 251 (9.15%) Public Sector
5 180 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
6 150 (5.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 126 (4.59%) Law
8 105 (3.83%) Retail
9 83 (3.02%) Financial Institution
10 70 (2.55%) Front Office
11 43 (1.57%) Back Office
12 41 (1.49%) Legal
13 37 (1.35%) Manufacturing
14 35 (1.28%) Health Technology
14 35 (1.28%) Marketing
15 32 (1.17%) Investment Banking
16 29 (1.06%) Publishing
17 23 (0.84%) Retail Banking
18 22 (0.80%) Aerospace
19 21 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 796 (29.01%) Developer
2 750 (27.33%) Senior
3 644 (23.47%) Software Engineer
4 598 (21.79%) Java Engineer
5 513 (18.70%) Java Developer
6 372 (13.56%) Lead
7 226 (8.24%) Senior Developer
8 225 (8.20%) Senior Java Engineer
9 221 (8.05%) Senior Software Engineer
10 199 (7.25%) Java Software Engineer
11 183 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 141 (5.14%) Senior Java Developer
13 119 (4.34%) Full-Stack Developer
14 111 (4.05%) Software Developer
15 105 (3.83%) Principal Engineer
16 104 (3.79%) Lead Software Engineer
17 89 (3.24%) DevOps Engineer
18 88 (3.21%) Architect
19 79 (2.88%) Senior Java Software Engineer
20 78 (2.84%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 634 (23.10%) Spring
2 536 (19.53%) Spring Boot
3 328 (11.95%) Terraform
4 288 (10.50%) Kafka
5 261 (9.51%) React
6 260 (9.48%) REST
7 205 (7.47%) AngularJS
8 200 (7.29%) Node.js
9 197 (7.18%) RESTful
10 165 (6.01%) .NET
11 65 (2.37%) HTML
12 64 (2.33%) Web Services
13 63 (2.30%) CSS
14 60 (2.19%) OAuth
15 57 (2.08%) Hibernate
16 49 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
16 49 (1.79%) Vue
17 45 (1.64%) Jakarta EE
18 41 (1.49%) XML
19 39 (1.42%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 396 (14.43%) Cloud Native
2 274 (9.99%) Distributed Systems
3 157 (5.72%) Product Ownership
4 121 (4.41%) Public Cloud
5 83 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
6 78 (2.84%) Onboarding
7 60 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
8 52 (1.90%) Blog
9 50 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 49 (1.79%) Data Structures
11 47 (1.71%) e-Learning
12 42 (1.53%) Algorithms
13 40 (1.46%) Distributed Architecture
14 35 (1.28%) Mobile App
15 34 (1.24%) AI Agents
15 34 (1.24%) Virtual Team
16 32 (1.17%) Equities
17 31 (1.13%) Legacy Applications
18 28 (1.02%) Fixed Income
18 28 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 226 (8.24%) Linux
2 69 (2.51%) Windows
3 40 (1.46%) Android
4 36 (1.31%) Unix
5 27 (0.98%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.44%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.29%) CentOS
9 7 (0.26%) Debian
9 7 (0.26%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (0.15%) VMS
11 3 (0.11%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.073%) macOS
13 1 (0.036%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,043 (38.01%) Software Engineering
2 934 (34.04%) CI/CD
3 800 (29.15%) Agile
4 664 (24.20%) Microservices
5 601 (21.90%) DevOps
6 553 (20.15%) Full-Stack Development
7 516 (18.80%) Test Automation
8 463 (16.87%) Mentoring
9 462 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
10 445 (16.22%) AI
11 362 (13.19%) Containerisation
12 345 (12.57%) Infrastructure as Code
13 334 (12.17%) Continuous Improvement
14 312 (11.37%) Event-Driven
15 267 (9.73%) Technical Leadership
16 250 (9.11%) SDLC
17 241 (8.78%) Computer Science
18 234 (8.53%) TDD
19 230 (8.38%) Scrum
20 217 (7.91%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 837 (30.50%) Python
2 487 (17.75%) SQL
3 440 (16.03%) JavaScript
4 279 (10.17%) TypeScript
5 277 (10.09%) C++
6 253 (9.22%) C#
7 166 (6.05%) Go
8 122 (4.45%) Kotlin
9 120 (4.37%) Bash
10 81 (2.95%) Scala
11 79 (2.88%) C
12 68 (2.48%) Rust
13 47 (1.71%) Perl
14 45 (1.64%) PHP
15 41 (1.49%) PowerShell
16 39 (1.42%) Groovy
17 34 (1.24%) Ruby
18 31 (1.13%) PL/SQL
19 24 (0.87%) COBOL
20 22 (0.80%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 493 (17.97%) Security Cleared
2 273 (9.95%) Degree
3 258 (9.40%) SC Cleared
4 174 (6.34%) DV Cleared
5 156 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 105 (3.83%) AWS Certification
7 71 (2.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 34 (1.24%) Master's Degree
9 23 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
11 17 (0.62%) Azure Certification
11 17 (0.62%) CISSP
11 17 (0.62%) ISTQB
12 16 (0.58%) OSCP
13 13 (0.47%) PhD
14 12 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 12 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 12 (0.44%) CCSP
14 12 (0.44%) CISM
15 11 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (5.83%) QA
2 86 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 83 (3.02%) Accessibility
4 28 (1.02%) GDPR
5 27 (0.98%) NIST
6 26 (0.95%) WCAG
7 23 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 20 (0.73%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.62%) ISO 20022
10 16 (0.58%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 14443
12 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 7816
13 3 (0.11%) GRC
13 3 (0.11%) MiFID
13 3 (0.11%) MIL-STD-1553
13 3 (0.11%) PSD2
13 3 (0.11%) UCITS
14 2 (0.073%) Good Clinical Practice
14 2 (0.073%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 453 (16.51%) Docker
2 35 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (0.77%) VMware NSX
4 20 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (0.58%) Active Directory
6 14 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
6 14 (0.51%) Firmware
7 10 (0.36%) vSphere
8 8 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.22%) Squid
9 6 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.18%) KVM
11 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.073%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.036%) Oracle Clusterware
Systems Management
1 559 (20.37%) Kubernetes
2 147 (5.36%) Ansible
3 106 (3.86%) Grafana
4 38 (1.38%) Prometheus
5 37 (1.35%) Puppet
6 35 (1.28%) Argo
7 19 (0.69%) Kibana
8 15 (0.55%) vCenter Server
9 14 (0.51%) HP Fortify
10 12 (0.44%) Rancher
11 10 (0.36%) Packer
12 9 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
13 8 (0.29%) Cilium
13 8 (0.29%) EnCase
13 8 (0.29%) FTK
13 8 (0.29%) logstash
13 8 (0.29%) yum
14 6 (0.22%) Hadoop YARN
14 6 (0.22%) Kubeflow
14 6 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 121 (4.41%) Oracle
2 115 (4.19%) Microsoft
3 108 (3.94%) Google
4 66 (2.41%) Splunk
5 44 (1.60%) Red Hat
6 38 (1.38%) VMware
7 32 (1.17%) IBM
7 32 (1.17%) SAP
8 29 (1.06%) Adobe
9 22 (0.80%) OpenAI
10 21 (0.77%) Dynatrace
11 20 (0.73%) AppDynamics
12 18 (0.66%) Databricks
13 16 (0.58%) Salesforce
14 15 (0.55%) SendGrid
14 15 (0.55%) ServiceNow
15 14 (0.51%) Palantir
16 13 (0.47%) Atlassian
16 13 (0.47%) OutSystems
17 12 (0.44%) Bloomberg