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

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 32 22
Rank change year-on-year -17 -10 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,941 3,343 3,889
As % of all permanent jobs in England 4.47% 5.50% 8.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.93% 17.20% 19.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,128 2,047 3,096
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,361 £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 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £142,500 £130,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +4.17%

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 10,825 19,441 19,503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 24.95% 31.98% 41.30%
Number of salaries quoted 7,680 11,602 16,066
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,250 £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 £111,250 £111,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +1.77%

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 5 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 5 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 -8 1,024 £105,000 +5.00% 1,308
North of England +8 383 £65,000 +8.33% 423
North West +4 250 £70,000 +14.29% 277
South East -68 199 £62,500 +4.17% 1,033
Midlands +37 153 £62,500 +56.25% 125
South West -33 123 £65,000 - 170
West Midlands +44 114 £62,500 +23.46% 78
Yorkshire +21 105 £67,500 +12.50% 93
East of England -57 54 £42,500 -37.04% 138
East Midlands +15 39 £58,000 +65.71% 39
North East -1 30 £47,500 -31.14% 55
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 98 (5.05%) Apache Airflow
2 95 (4.89%) Apache
3 56 (2.89%) Apache Spark
4 54 (2.78%) Confluence
5 14 (0.72%) JBoss
6 11 (0.57%) IIS
7 7 (0.36%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.31%) Mule
8 6 (0.31%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.26%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
9 5 (0.26%) Camunda
9 5 (0.26%) nginx
9 5 (0.26%) Red Hat Fuse
9 5 (0.26%) SharePoint
10 4 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
10 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.21%) Traefik
10 4 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.21%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.21%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.15%) Simulink
4 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.052%) Trello
5 1 (0.052%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
1 8 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.31%) Adaptiv
2 6 (0.31%) Maximo
2 6 (0.31%) Shopify
3 5 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.21%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.10%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.052%) Endur
6 1 (0.052%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.052%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.052%) Summit
6 1 (0.052%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 973 (50.13%) AWS
2 451 (23.24%) Azure
3 292 (15.04%) GCP
4 155 (7.99%) Serverless
5 98 (5.05%) Amazon EKS
6 93 (4.79%) AWS Lambda
7 92 (4.74%) SaaS
8 91 (4.69%) Amazon EC2
9 88 (4.53%) dbt
10 86 (4.43%) GitHub
11 83 (4.28%) Snowflake
12 79 (4.07%) Amazon S3
13 77 (3.97%) Amazon ECS
14 50 (2.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 41 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
16 32 (1.65%) Amazon SQS
16 32 (1.65%) AWS KMS
16 32 (1.65%) Datadog
16 32 (1.65%) OpenShift
17 27 (1.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 32 (1.65%) TCP/IP
2 25 (1.29%) HTTP
3 24 (1.24%) DNS
4 23 (1.18%) Firewall
5 21 (1.08%) SSH
6 19 (0.98%) FTP
6 19 (0.98%) SMTP
7 11 (0.57%) VPN
8 9 (0.46%) AMQP
8 9 (0.46%) Internet
9 7 (0.36%) SSL
10 6 (0.31%) Broadband
10 6 (0.31%) Multicast
11 5 (0.26%) SAN
12 4 (0.21%) DHCP
12 4 (0.21%) DMARC
12 4 (0.21%) ICMP
12 4 (0.21%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.21%) Reverse Proxy
13 3 (0.15%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (9.74%) PostgreSQL
2 163 (8.40%) Relational Database
3 126 (6.49%) SQL Server
4 121 (6.23%) NoSQL
5 97 (5.00%) Data Lake
5 97 (5.00%) MongoDB
6 81 (4.17%) Apache Iceberg
6 81 (4.17%) MySQL
7 80 (4.12%) Amazon Athena
8 77 (3.97%) Apache Arrow
8 77 (3.97%) Dremio
9 68 (3.50%) Apache Ignite
10 64 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
11 61 (3.14%) Big Data
11 61 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
12 51 (2.63%) DynamoDB
13 47 (2.42%) RDBMS
14 40 (2.06%) Hadoop
15 31 (1.60%) BigQuery
16 27 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 189 (9.74%) Jenkins
2 161 (8.29%) Git
3 143 (7.37%) JIRA
4 125 (6.44%) Selenium
5 104 (5.36%) GitLab
6 87 (4.48%) JUnit
7 82 (4.22%) Cucumber
8 80 (4.12%) Maven
9 67 (3.45%) SonarQube
10 62 (3.19%) Bitbucket
11 58 (2.99%) Sonatype Nexus
12 51 (2.63%) Mockito
13 41 (2.11%) JMeter
14 37 (1.91%) Cypress.io
14 37 (1.91%) Postman
15 30 (1.55%) WebDriver
16 27 (1.39%) TeamCity
17 23 (1.18%) SoapUI
18 20 (1.03%) Vagrant
19 16 (0.82%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 772 (39.77%) Finance
2 482 (24.83%) Social Skills
3 424 (21.84%) Banking
4 357 (18.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 289 (14.89%) Law
6 196 (10.10%) Front Office
7 188 (9.69%) Investment Banking
8 178 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
9 144 (7.42%) Public Sector
10 102 (5.26%) Financial Institution
11 84 (4.33%) Retail
12 82 (4.22%) Marketing
13 39 (2.01%) Legal
14 37 (1.91%) Corporate Banking
15 33 (1.70%) Games
16 27 (1.39%) Back Office
17 26 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
18 21 (1.08%) Billing
19 19 (0.98%) Manufacturing
20 17 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 630 (32.46%) Software Engineer
2 584 (30.09%) Developer
3 497 (25.61%) Senior
4 319 (16.43%) Java Engineer
5 294 (15.15%) Lead
6 292 (15.04%) Java Developer
7 237 (12.21%) Senior Software Engineer
8 236 (12.16%) Java Software Engineer
9 140 (7.21%) Lead Software Engineer
10 133 (6.85%) Senior Java Engineer
11 126 (6.49%) AWS Engineer
12 112 (5.77%) Python Engineer
13 108 (5.56%) Python Software Engineer
14 97 (5.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
15 95 (4.89%) Architect
16 94 (4.84%) Senior Developer
17 93 (4.79%) AWS Software Engineer
18 89 (4.59%) Full-Stack Developer
19 65 (3.35%) Data Engineer
20 63 (3.25%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 433 (22.31%) Spring
2 356 (18.34%) Spring Boot
3 346 (17.83%) React
4 321 (16.54%) Kafka
5 236 (12.16%) .NET
6 234 (12.06%) RESTful
7 206 (10.61%) Node.js
8 204 (10.51%) REST
9 196 (10.10%) HTML
10 130 (6.70%) CSS
11 122 (6.29%) AngularJS
12 92 (4.74%) Pandas
13 90 (4.64%) Hibernate
14 86 (4.43%) Web Services
15 78 (4.02%) NumPy
15 78 (4.02%) Redux
15 78 (4.02%) SOAP
16 77 (3.97%) gRPC
16 77 (3.97%) SciPy
17 70 (3.61%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 321 (16.54%) Cloud Native
2 206 (10.61%) Distributed Systems
3 134 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
4 133 (6.85%) Equities
5 129 (6.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 124 (6.39%) Fixed Income
7 117 (6.03%) Derivative
8 93 (4.79%) Algorithms
9 92 (4.74%) Product Ownership
10 83 (4.28%) Hedge funds
11 73 (3.76%) Enterprise Software
12 70 (3.61%) Linux Command Line
13 67 (3.45%) Cyberattack
13 67 (3.45%) Pricing Data
14 65 (3.35%) Onboarding
15 64 (3.30%) Public Cloud
16 57 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
17 46 (2.37%) Management Information System
18 35 (1.80%) Data Structures
18 35 (1.80%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 268 (13.81%) Linux
2 43 (2.22%) Windows
3 38 (1.96%) Unix
4 27 (1.39%) Android
5 20 (1.03%) VMS
6 18 (0.93%) Amazon Linux
7 14 (0.72%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.31%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
9 4 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.052%) AIX
11 1 (0.052%) CentOS
11 1 (0.052%) Debian
11 1 (0.052%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.052%) SUSE
11 1 (0.052%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.052%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 977 (50.33%) Agile
2 794 (40.91%) Software Engineering
3 614 (31.63%) CI/CD
4 531 (27.36%) Microservices
5 413 (21.28%) DevOps
6 384 (19.78%) Problem-Solving
7 330 (17.00%) SDLC
8 328 (16.90%) Mentoring
9 308 (15.87%) Computer Science
10 298 (15.35%) Test Automation
11 275 (14.17%) Full-Stack Development
12 274 (14.12%) Machine Learning
13 266 (13.70%) Continuous Improvement
14 255 (13.14%) AI
15 242 (12.47%) Scrum
16 220 (11.33%) User Experience
17 211 (10.87%) Containerisation
18 205 (10.56%) TDD
19 188 (9.69%) Fintech
20 140 (7.21%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 855 (44.05%) Python
2 555 (28.59%) JavaScript
3 488 (25.14%) SQL
4 389 (20.04%) TypeScript
5 304 (15.66%) C#
6 292 (15.04%) C++
7 205 (10.56%) Go
8 141 (7.26%) Rust
9 132 (6.80%) C
10 124 (6.39%) Kotlin
11 96 (4.95%) PHP
12 76 (3.92%) Scala
13 67 (3.45%) R
13 67 (3.45%) Ruby
14 57 (2.94%) PowerShell
15 55 (2.83%) MATLAB
16 49 (2.52%) Dart
17 46 (2.37%) Shell Script
18 44 (2.27%) Groovy
19 34 (1.75%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 336 (17.31%) Degree
2 287 (14.79%) Security Cleared
3 187 (9.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 153 (7.88%) SC Cleared
5 152 (7.83%) AWS Certification
6 123 (6.34%) DV Cleared
7 105 (5.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 73 (3.76%) AWS Certified Developer
9 72 (3.71%) Master's Degree
10 38 (1.96%) Azure Certification
11 35 (1.80%) PhD
12 22 (1.13%) ISTQB
13 18 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
14 16 (0.82%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 15 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
16 13 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
17 9 (0.46%) CFA
17 9 (0.46%) HND
17 9 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
17 9 (0.46%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (6.90%) QA
2 82 (4.22%) Accessibility
3 35 (1.80%) GDPR
4 22 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (0.98%) PCI DSS
6 14 (0.72%) Data Quality
7 13 (0.67%) HIPAA
7 13 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 12 (0.62%) NIST
9 10 (0.52%) ISO 9001
10 8 (0.41%) SLA
11 6 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.26%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.21%) EU AI Act
13 4 (0.21%) SEPA
13 4 (0.21%) WCAG
14 3 (0.15%) NCSC
15 2 (0.10%) ITGC
15 2 (0.10%) PSD2
System Software
1 349 (17.98%) Docker
2 34 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
5 12 (0.62%) HDFS
6 7 (0.36%) DFS Replication
7 6 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
8 3 (0.15%) Apache Flume
8 3 (0.15%) Firmware
8 3 (0.15%) KVM
8 3 (0.15%) Postfix
8 3 (0.15%) vSphere
9 2 (0.10%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.10%) Squid
9 2 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.10%) Xen
Systems Management
1 483 (24.88%) Kubernetes
2 146 (7.52%) Terraform
3 76 (3.92%) Grafana
4 53 (2.73%) Prometheus
5 46 (2.37%) Ansible
6 43 (2.22%) Kibana
7 18 (0.93%) Argo
7 18 (0.93%) Progress Chef
7 18 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.36%) Control-M
10 6 (0.31%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.26%) logstash
11 5 (0.26%) Puppet
12 4 (0.21%) HAProxy
12 4 (0.21%) Kustomize
13 3 (0.15%) Nagios
13 3 (0.15%) Oozie
14 2 (0.10%) CFEngine
14 2 (0.10%) WSUS
Vendors
1 137 (7.06%) Oracle
2 99 (5.10%) Microsoft
3 81 (4.17%) Google
4 50 (2.58%) Solace
5 43 (2.22%) Guidewire
5 43 (2.22%) Splunk
6 35 (1.80%) Atlassian
6 35 (1.80%) Databricks
7 32 (1.65%) IBM
8 31 (1.60%) Dynatrace
9 29 (1.49%) SAP
10 23 (1.18%) ServiceNow
11 19 (0.98%) Informatica
11 19 (0.98%) MuleSoft
12 18 (0.93%) Red Hat
13 15 (0.77%) Foundry
14 14 (0.72%) Palantir
14 14 (0.72%) Talend
15 12 (0.62%) Dell
16 11 (0.57%) Bloomberg