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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 30 31
Rank change year-on-year -27 +1 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,692 2,716 3,742
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.60% 6.34% 5.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.97% 23.66% 18.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,696 1,162 2,322
10th Percentile £43,930 £41,250 £42,275
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +3.23%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +5.89%

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 16,852 11,480 20,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.27% 26.80% 31.05%
Number of salaries quoted 12,257 7,542 12,779
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,645
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% 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 29 September 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 29 September 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 -14 1,111 £85,000 -19.05% 1,717
North of England -25 757 £69,305 +6.62% 394
North West -33 387 £70,000 - 232
South West -1 325 £65,000 +8.33% 215
South East -38 240 £67,500 +3.85% 171
Midlands -48 193 £70,000 +16.67% 152
Yorkshire +27 186 £75,000 +15.38% 93
North East +17 184 £55,000 +15.79% 69
West Midlands -22 166 £70,000 +16.67% 118
East of England -78 48 £65,000 +47.73% 56
East Midlands -88 27 £60,000 +3.45% 34
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 61 (2.27%) Confluence
2 58 (2.15%) Apache
3 38 (1.41%) Apache Spark
4 27 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.67%) Camunda
6 15 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 11 (0.41%) Jupyter
8 9 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
9 8 (0.30%) Tomcat
10 7 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.22%) CMS
11 6 (0.22%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.22%) WebLogic
12 5 (0.19%) CICS
12 5 (0.19%) JBoss
13 4 (0.15%) SAS
13 4 (0.15%) SharePoint
13 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.11%) Documentum
Applications
1 21 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.56%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.33%) Simulink
4 7 (0.26%) Moqups
5 5 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.15%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.11%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.074%) PTC Creo
8 2 (0.074%) Windchill
9 1 (0.037%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.037%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.19%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
3 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.074%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.074%) Maximo
4 2 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.074%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 2 (0.074%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.037%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.037%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.037%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.037%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.037%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.037%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.037%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,080 (40.12%) AWS
2 536 (19.91%) Azure
3 308 (11.44%) GCP
4 207 (7.69%) Serverless
5 167 (6.20%) GitHub
6 159 (5.91%) AWS CloudFormation
7 137 (5.09%) AWS Lambda
8 112 (4.16%) Amazon EKS
9 109 (4.05%) Amazon S3
10 108 (4.01%) SaaS
11 107 (3.97%) Amazon ECS
12 95 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
13 85 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
14 56 (2.08%) AWS Step Functions
15 51 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
16 42 (1.56%) Datadog
17 40 (1.49%) OpenShift
18 38 (1.41%) Azure Service Bus
19 37 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 37 (1.37%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 40 (1.49%) HTTP
2 19 (0.71%) TCP/IP
3 16 (0.59%) Network Security
4 15 (0.56%) DMARC
5 11 (0.41%) VPN
6 10 (0.37%) BGP
7 9 (0.33%) DNS
7 9 (0.33%) IPv4
7 9 (0.33%) MQTT
7 9 (0.33%) Software-Defined Networking
7 9 (0.33%) Wireshark
8 8 (0.30%) AMQP
9 6 (0.22%) IPsec
10 5 (0.19%) Broadband
10 5 (0.19%) Ethernet
10 5 (0.19%) Firewall
10 5 (0.19%) Internet
11 4 (0.15%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.15%) RIP
12 3 (0.11%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
2 162 (6.02%) NoSQL
3 131 (4.87%) Relational Database
4 128 (4.75%) MongoDB
5 72 (2.67%) MySQL
6 68 (2.53%) DynamoDB
7 62 (2.30%) SQL Server
8 48 (1.78%) Big Data
9 37 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
10 28 (1.04%) Redis
11 26 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
12 25 (0.93%) Hadoop
12 25 (0.93%) Power BI
13 24 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
14 23 (0.85%) Data Lake
15 22 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
16 21 (0.78%) BigQuery
16 21 (0.78%) Db2
17 17 (0.63%) Spark SQL
18 16 (0.59%) Flink
Development Applications
1 294 (10.92%) Git
2 213 (7.91%) Jenkins
3 202 (7.50%) GitLab
4 102 (3.79%) JUnit
5 96 (3.57%) Cucumber
5 96 (3.57%) JIRA
6 72 (2.67%) Maven
7 63 (2.34%) Selenium
8 61 (2.27%) TeamCity
9 54 (2.01%) Cypress.io
10 47 (1.75%) Eclipse
11 45 (1.67%) Postman
12 42 (1.56%) SonarQube
13 41 (1.52%) Mockito
14 40 (1.49%) Subversion
15 36 (1.34%) Bitbucket
16 33 (1.23%) JMeter
17 25 (0.93%) Claude Code
18 18 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 18 (0.67%) REST Assured
General
1 676 (25.11%) Finance
2 469 (17.42%) Social Skills
3 287 (10.66%) Banking
4 257 (9.55%) Public Sector
5 185 (6.87%) Analytical Skills
6 144 (5.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 123 (4.57%) Law
8 102 (3.79%) Retail
9 76 (2.82%) Financial Institution
10 70 (2.60%) Front Office
11 40 (1.49%) Back Office
11 40 (1.49%) Legal
12 39 (1.45%) Manufacturing
13 36 (1.34%) Investment Banking
13 36 (1.34%) Marketing
14 34 (1.26%) Health Technology
15 27 (1.00%) Publishing
16 23 (0.85%) Tech for Good
17 22 (0.82%) Aerospace
18 21 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 812 (30.16%) Developer
2 707 (26.26%) Senior
3 618 (22.96%) Software Engineer
4 571 (21.21%) Java Engineer
5 526 (19.54%) Java Developer
6 368 (13.67%) Lead
7 226 (8.40%) Senior Developer
8 206 (7.65%) Senior Software Engineer
9 203 (7.54%) Senior Java Engineer
10 195 (7.24%) Java Software Engineer
11 173 (6.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 141 (5.24%) Senior Java Developer
13 131 (4.87%) Full-Stack Developer
14 120 (4.46%) Software Developer
15 108 (4.01%) Lead Software Engineer
16 97 (3.60%) Principal Engineer
17 87 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
18 83 (3.08%) Architect
19 82 (3.05%) Full-Stack Java Developer
20 78 (2.90%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 634 (23.55%) Spring
2 529 (19.65%) Spring Boot
3 324 (12.04%) Terraform
4 285 (10.59%) Kafka
5 283 (10.51%) React
6 267 (9.92%) REST
7 218 (8.10%) AngularJS
8 199 (7.39%) Node.js
9 197 (7.32%) RESTful
10 168 (6.24%) .NET
11 78 (2.90%) Web Services
12 67 (2.49%) HTML
13 63 (2.34%) CSS
14 61 (2.27%) OAuth
15 58 (2.15%) RabbitMQ
16 57 (2.12%) Hibernate
17 56 (2.08%) Vue
18 46 (1.71%) JSON
19 44 (1.63%) Jakarta EE
20 43 (1.60%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 366 (13.60%) Cloud Native
2 277 (10.29%) Distributed Systems
3 169 (6.28%) Product Ownership
4 127 (4.72%) Public Cloud
5 73 (2.71%) Onboarding
6 71 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
7 60 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
8 49 (1.82%) e-Learning
9 47 (1.75%) Data Structures
10 43 (1.60%) Algorithms
10 43 (1.60%) Distributed Architecture
11 41 (1.52%) Blog
12 40 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 39 (1.45%) Virtual Team
14 32 (1.19%) Mobile App
15 31 (1.15%) AI Agents
16 30 (1.11%) Equities
17 27 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
18 26 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
18 26 (0.97%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 224 (8.32%) Linux
2 68 (2.53%) Windows
3 41 (1.52%) Android
4 38 (1.41%) Unix
5 28 (1.04%) Apple iOS
6 21 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 14 (0.52%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.30%) CentOS
9 7 (0.26%) Debian
9 7 (0.26%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.15%) VMS
11 3 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.11%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.074%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.037%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,009 (37.48%) Software Engineering
2 903 (33.54%) CI/CD
3 823 (30.57%) Agile
4 656 (24.37%) Microservices
5 605 (22.47%) DevOps
6 539 (20.02%) Full-Stack Development
7 507 (18.83%) Test Automation
8 470 (17.46%) Mentoring
9 457 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
10 414 (15.38%) AI
11 355 (13.19%) Containerisation
12 328 (12.18%) Infrastructure as Code
13 324 (12.04%) Continuous Improvement
14 302 (11.22%) Event-Driven
15 252 (9.36%) Technical Leadership
16 245 (9.10%) Computer Science
17 240 (8.92%) SDLC
18 239 (8.88%) Scrum
19 236 (8.77%) Roadmaps
20 235 (8.73%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 832 (30.91%) Python
2 486 (18.05%) SQL
3 441 (16.38%) JavaScript
4 278 (10.33%) C++
5 269 (9.99%) C#
6 262 (9.73%) TypeScript
7 144 (5.35%) Go
8 115 (4.27%) Bash
9 107 (3.97%) Kotlin
10 79 (2.93%) Scala
11 76 (2.82%) C
12 58 (2.15%) Rust
13 49 (1.82%) Perl
14 48 (1.78%) PHP
15 46 (1.71%) Groovy
16 37 (1.37%) PowerShell
17 34 (1.26%) Ruby
18 32 (1.19%) PL/SQL
19 23 (0.85%) Shell Script
20 18 (0.67%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 501 (18.61%) Security Cleared
2 283 (10.51%) Degree
3 269 (9.99%) SC Cleared
4 172 (6.39%) DV Cleared
5 163 (6.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 101 (3.75%) AWS Certification
7 67 (2.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 30 (1.11%) Master's Degree
9 23 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (0.74%) ISTQB
10 20 (0.74%) OSCP
11 16 (0.59%) DBS Check
12 14 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
13 13 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 12 (0.45%) PhD
15 10 (0.37%) CREST Certified
16 8 (0.30%) Azure Certification
16 8 (0.30%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (6.50%) QA
2 84 (3.12%) Data Quality
3 80 (2.97%) Accessibility
4 26 (0.97%) GDPR
4 26 (0.97%) WCAG
5 17 (0.63%) ISO 20022
5 17 (0.63%) NIST
6 14 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.37%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.26%) GRC
8 7 (0.26%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 3 (0.11%) MiFID
11 3 (0.11%) MIL-STD-1553
11 3 (0.11%) PSD2
11 3 (0.11%) UCITS
12 2 (0.074%) Good Clinical Practice
12 2 (0.074%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 445 (16.53%) Docker
2 28 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (0.67%) Active Directory
4 15 (0.56%) VMware NSX
5 13 (0.48%) Firmware
6 12 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
7 11 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.41%) vSphere
8 8 (0.30%) Squid
9 7 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
10 6 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.19%) KVM
12 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
13 1 (0.037%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 535 (19.87%) Kubernetes
2 145 (5.39%) Ansible
3 104 (3.86%) Grafana
4 37 (1.37%) Prometheus
5 35 (1.30%) Argo
6 31 (1.15%) Puppet
7 29 (1.08%) Kibana
8 16 (0.59%) Packer
9 15 (0.56%) HP Fortify
10 14 (0.52%) Rancher
11 12 (0.45%) logstash
12 8 (0.30%) yum
12 8 (0.30%) ZABBIX
13 7 (0.26%) vCenter Server
14 6 (0.22%) Hadoop YARN
14 6 (0.22%) Kubeflow
14 6 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
15 5 (0.19%) EnCase
15 5 (0.19%) FTK
15 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 115 (4.27%) Oracle
2 113 (4.20%) Microsoft
3 92 (3.42%) Google
4 66 (2.45%) Splunk
5 45 (1.67%) Red Hat
6 41 (1.52%) IBM
7 32 (1.19%) SAP
8 31 (1.15%) VMware
9 30 (1.11%) AppDynamics
10 26 (0.97%) Adobe
10 26 (0.97%) Dynatrace
11 22 (0.82%) OpenAI
12 18 (0.67%) Databricks
12 18 (0.67%) Palantir
13 16 (0.59%) ServiceNow
14 15 (0.56%) SendGrid
15 14 (0.52%) Salesforce
16 12 (0.45%) Bloomberg
16 12 (0.45%) Foundry
16 12 (0.45%) Solace