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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 27 35
Rank change year-on-year -39 +8 -17
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,209 2,831 4,473
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.69% 7.19% 5.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.20% 22.32% 16.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,411 1,445 3,420
10th Percentile £44,375 £41,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £73,805
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +1.62% -7.74%
75th Percentile £93,750 £115,000 £98,474
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £137,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -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 14,535 12,684 27,156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.73% 32.23% 32.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10,296 8,857 22,386
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 19 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 19 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 -5 1,054 £90,000 -14.29% 350
North of England -40 582 £69,305 +2.67% 413
North West -50 243 £70,000 -6.04% 174
Yorkshire +18 242 £72,500 +2.12% 151
South East -45 214 £67,500 +3.85% 262
South West -37 180 £60,500 +0.83% 126
Midlands -96 100 £57,500 +7.10% 205
North East -1 97 £52,500 -4.55% 88
West Midlands -57 84 £56,250 +2.27% 109
East of England -69 50 £52,500 +5.00% 75
East Midlands -89 15 £54,500 +17.84% 96
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 44 (1.99%) Apache
2 37 (1.67%) Apache Spark
2 37 (1.67%) Confluence
3 31 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (0.77%) JBoss
5 15 (0.68%) Palantir Foundry
6 13 (0.59%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.32%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.23%) GeoServer
9 5 (0.23%) IIS
9 5 (0.23%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.18%) Anypoint
10 4 (0.18%) Appian
10 4 (0.18%) Camunda
10 4 (0.18%) CMS
10 4 (0.18%) Moodle
11 3 (0.14%) Liferay
Applications
1 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.45%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.091%) Windchill
6 1 (0.045%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.045%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.045%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 12 (0.54%) Maximo
2 5 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.14%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.14%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.14%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.091%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.045%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.045%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.045%) Endur
5 1 (0.045%) Findur
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.045%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.045%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 914 (41.38%) AWS
2 409 (18.52%) Azure
3 264 (11.95%) GCP
4 189 (8.56%) Serverless
5 135 (6.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 126 (5.70%) Amazon S3
7 119 (5.39%) SaaS
8 118 (5.34%) AWS Lambda
9 115 (5.21%) Amazon ECS
10 111 (5.02%) Amazon EKS
11 92 (4.16%) GitHub
12 78 (3.53%) AWS Step Functions
13 59 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
14 54 (2.44%) Amazon ECR
14 54 (2.44%) Apigee
15 44 (1.99%) Amazon SQS
16 37 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
16 37 (1.67%) dbt
16 37 (1.67%) OpenShift
17 33 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.26%) Broadband
2 34 (1.54%) HTTP
3 26 (1.18%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.41%) AMQP
5 8 (0.36%) Internet
6 6 (0.27%) IPv4
6 6 (0.27%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (0.18%) MQTT
8 3 (0.14%) BGP
8 3 (0.14%) Network Security
8 3 (0.14%) PuTTY
8 3 (0.14%) VLAN
8 3 (0.14%) VPN
9 2 (0.091%) DMARC
9 2 (0.091%) Firewall
9 2 (0.091%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.091%) LAN
9 2 (0.091%) SAN
9 2 (0.091%) WAN
10 1 (0.045%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (8.19%) NoSQL
2 162 (7.33%) PostgreSQL
3 109 (4.93%) Relational Database
4 99 (4.48%) DynamoDB
5 98 (4.44%) MongoDB
6 72 (3.26%) SQL Server
7 66 (2.99%) MySQL
8 44 (1.99%) RDBMS
9 35 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
9 35 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
10 32 (1.45%) Big Data
11 27 (1.22%) DB2
12 24 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
13 23 (1.04%) Hadoop
14 21 (0.95%) BigQuery
14 21 (0.95%) Neo4j
15 20 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
16 18 (0.81%) Redis
17 14 (0.63%) Metadata
17 14 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 184 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 172 (7.79%) Git
3 157 (7.11%) GitLab
4 93 (4.21%) JIRA
5 90 (4.07%) Selenium
6 85 (3.85%) Maven
7 75 (3.40%) Cypress.io
8 73 (3.30%) Cucumber
9 66 (2.99%) SonarQube
10 62 (2.81%) TeamCity
11 56 (2.54%) JUnit
12 45 (2.04%) Postman
13 33 (1.49%) JMeter
14 30 (1.36%) Bitbucket
15 27 (1.22%) SoapUI
15 27 (1.22%) WebDriver
16 26 (1.18%) Team Foundation Server
17 25 (1.13%) Gradle
17 25 (1.13%) Mockito
17 25 (1.13%) REST Assured
General
1 548 (24.81%) Finance
2 356 (16.12%) Social Skills
3 239 (10.82%) Banking
4 188 (8.51%) Public Sector
5 160 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
6 153 (6.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 114 (5.16%) Front Office
7 114 (5.16%) Law
8 97 (4.39%) Retail
9 68 (3.08%) Financial Institution
10 51 (2.31%) Back Office
11 44 (1.99%) Investment Banking
12 33 (1.49%) Games
13 27 (1.22%) Telecoms
14 24 (1.09%) Aerospace
14 24 (1.09%) Health Technology
15 22 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
16 21 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
17 19 (0.86%) Marketing
18 16 (0.72%) Billing
Job Titles
1 821 (37.17%) Developer
2 562 (25.44%) Senior
3 537 (24.31%) Java Developer
4 521 (23.59%) Software Engineer
5 362 (16.39%) Java Engineer
6 338 (15.30%) Lead
7 219 (9.91%) Senior Developer
8 179 (8.10%) Java Software Engineer
9 167 (7.56%) Senior Software Engineer
10 157 (7.11%) Senior Java Developer
11 153 (6.93%) Full-Stack Developer
12 126 (5.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 110 (4.98%) Senior Java Engineer
14 107 (4.84%) Lead Software Engineer
15 106 (4.80%) Software Developer
16 93 (4.21%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 77 (3.49%) Architect
18 62 (2.81%) Lead Developer
19 59 (2.67%) Senior Java Software Engineer
20 52 (2.35%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 467 (21.14%) Spring
2 418 (18.92%) Spring Boot
3 303 (13.72%) React
4 238 (10.77%) REST
5 226 (10.23%) AngularJS
6 198 (8.96%) Node.js
7 191 (8.65%) Kafka
8 165 (7.47%) .NET
9 128 (5.79%) RESTful
10 99 (4.48%) HTML
11 82 (3.71%) SOAP
11 82 (3.71%) Web Services
12 76 (3.44%) CSS
13 67 (3.03%) GraphQL
14 66 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
15 62 (2.81%) JSON
15 62 (2.81%) Vue
16 56 (2.54%) Gherkin
17 52 (2.35%) Hibernate
18 47 (2.13%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 244 (11.05%) Cloud Native
2 175 (7.92%) Distributed Systems
3 136 (6.16%) Product Ownership
4 83 (3.76%) Public Cloud
5 52 (2.35%) Fixed Income
6 48 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 43 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
8 40 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
9 39 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
10 38 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
11 36 (1.63%) Blog
11 36 (1.63%) Equities
12 31 (1.40%) Data Structures
12 31 (1.40%) Mobile App
13 28 (1.27%) e-Learning
13 28 (1.27%) Virtual Team
14 20 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
14 20 (0.91%) Management Information System
14 20 (0.91%) Onboarding
14 20 (0.91%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 196 (8.87%) Linux
2 50 (2.26%) Android
3 46 (2.08%) Unix
4 45 (2.04%) Windows
5 14 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.41%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.27%) CentOS
9 5 (0.23%) Debian
9 5 (0.23%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.18%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.045%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 785 (35.54%) Agile
2 749 (33.91%) Software Engineering
3 668 (30.24%) CI/CD
4 523 (23.68%) DevOps
5 467 (21.14%) Microservices
6 441 (19.96%) Full-Stack Development
7 396 (17.93%) Test Automation
8 390 (17.66%) Mentoring
9 324 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
10 247 (11.18%) AI
11 235 (10.64%) Containerisation
12 230 (10.41%) Scrum
13 220 (9.96%) Continuous Improvement
14 211 (9.55%) TDD
15 208 (9.42%) Roadmaps
16 204 (9.23%) Technical Leadership
17 197 (8.92%) Infrastructure as Code
18 183 (8.28%) Computer Science
19 180 (8.15%) SDLC
20 164 (7.42%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 657 (29.74%) Python
2 428 (19.38%) SQL
3 422 (19.10%) JavaScript
4 275 (12.45%) TypeScript
5 231 (10.46%) C#
6 165 (7.47%) C++
7 152 (6.88%) Go
8 112 (5.07%) Bash
9 105 (4.75%) Kotlin
10 69 (3.12%) C
11 66 (2.99%) Groovy
12 46 (2.08%) Scala
13 36 (1.63%) PHP
14 35 (1.58%) Rust
15 33 (1.49%) PL/SQL
16 22 (1.00%) PowerShell
17 17 (0.77%) Apex Code
18 16 (0.72%) R
19 12 (0.54%) Shell Script
19 12 (0.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 338 (15.30%) Security Cleared
2 254 (11.50%) Degree
3 212 (9.60%) SC Cleared
4 132 (5.98%) DV Cleared
5 121 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 96 (4.35%) AWS Certification
7 35 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 32 (1.45%) Master's Degree
9 29 (1.31%) ISTQB
10 25 (1.13%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 20 (0.91%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 20 (0.91%) OSCP
13 19 (0.86%) Azure Certification
13 19 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
14 17 (0.77%) DBS Check
15 14 (0.63%) CREST Certified
15 14 (0.63%) PhD
16 13 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
17 12 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (6.47%) QA
2 47 (2.13%) Accessibility
3 37 (1.67%) Data Quality
4 15 (0.68%) PCI DSS
5 14 (0.63%) GRC
6 12 (0.54%) SOC 2
7 9 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
8 8 (0.36%) GDPR
8 8 (0.36%) WCAG
9 5 (0.23%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 3 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 3 (0.14%) NIST
11 3 (0.14%) SLA
12 1 (0.045%) Good Clinical Practice
12 1 (0.045%) MiFID
12 1 (0.045%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 355 (16.07%) Docker
2 11 (0.50%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.36%) vSphere
4 6 (0.27%) Squid
4 6 (0.27%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.23%) Firmware
6 4 (0.18%) KVM
7 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.091%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.091%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.045%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.045%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.045%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.045%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.045%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 417 (18.88%) Kubernetes
2 250 (11.32%) Terraform
3 95 (4.30%) Grafana
4 90 (4.07%) Ansible
5 52 (2.35%) Argo
6 45 (2.04%) HP Fortify
7 44 (1.99%) Prometheus
8 25 (1.13%) Kibana
9 18 (0.81%) Kustomize
10 13 (0.59%) Rancher
11 12 (0.54%) Packer
11 12 (0.54%) Puppet
12 9 (0.41%) logstash
13 7 (0.32%) yum
14 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (0.27%) ZABBIX
15 5 (0.23%) FTK
16 4 (0.18%) Progress Chef
17 3 (0.14%) AWS Copilot
17 3 (0.14%) Nagios
Vendors
1 85 (3.85%) Oracle
2 82 (3.71%) Microsoft
3 67 (3.03%) Google
4 33 (1.49%) IBM
5 31 (1.40%) Splunk
6 26 (1.18%) Salesforce
7 22 (1.00%) MuleSoft
8 19 (0.86%) Foundry
9 18 (0.81%) Palantir
10 17 (0.77%) AppDynamics
10 17 (0.77%) Dynatrace
10 17 (0.77%) Red Hat
11 15 (0.68%) VMware
12 14 (0.63%) Atlassian
12 14 (0.63%) Databricks
13 11 (0.50%) OpenAI
13 11 (0.50%) Solace
14 10 (0.45%) Informatica
14 10 (0.45%) ServiceNow
14 10 (0.45%) Talend