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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 29 35
Rank change year-on-year -41 +6 -17
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,118 2,725 4,446
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.62% 7.00% 5.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.95% 21.56% 16.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,335 1,477 3,411
10th Percentile £42,614 £41,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,301 £75,000 £73,805
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% +1.62% -7.74%
75th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £133,750
UK median annual salary £72,500 £74,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.68% +6.43% -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 14,165 12,641 27,062
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.54% 32.47% 32.31%
Number of salaries quoted 9,929 9,112 22,446
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,250
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 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,375 £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 8 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 8 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 -7 1,043 £90,000 -16.28% 309
North of England -48 521 £69,305 +3.38% 166
Yorkshire +7 224 £72,500 +2.12% 51
North West -59 218 £70,000 +3.70% 72
South East -56 209 £67,500 +3.85% 135
South West -37 176 £62,500 +4.17% 70
Midlands -99 88 £50,000 -6.87% 48
North East -3 79 £52,500 -7.08% 43
West Midlands -62 72 £50,000 -6.87% 28
East of England -70 49 £50,000 - 31
East Midlands -86 15 £54,500 +14.74% 20
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 42 (1.98%) Apache
2 36 (1.70%) Apache Spark
3 35 (1.65%) Confluence
4 33 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (0.90%) JBoss
6 14 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
7 12 (0.57%) OpenStack
8 9 (0.42%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.24%) Appian
9 5 (0.24%) GeoServer
9 5 (0.24%) IIS
9 5 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.19%) Anypoint
10 4 (0.19%) Camunda
10 4 (0.19%) CMS
10 4 (0.19%) Moodle
11 3 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.14%) Liferay
11 3 (0.14%) nginx
11 3 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (0.47%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.047%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.047%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.047%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 13 (0.61%) Maximo
2 4 (0.19%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.14%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.14%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.094%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.047%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.047%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.047%) Endur
5 1 (0.047%) Findur
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.047%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.047%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 882 (41.64%) AWS
2 381 (17.99%) Azure
3 254 (11.99%) GCP
4 174 (8.22%) Serverless
5 127 (6.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 122 (5.76%) SaaS
7 116 (5.48%) Amazon S3
8 111 (5.24%) AWS Lambda
9 107 (5.05%) Amazon ECS
10 106 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
11 88 (4.15%) GitHub
12 73 (3.45%) AWS Step Functions
13 53 (2.50%) Apigee
14 52 (2.46%) Amazon ECR
15 46 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
16 44 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
17 39 (1.84%) OpenShift
18 38 (1.79%) dbt
19 31 (1.46%) Amazon EC2
20 30 (1.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 52 (2.46%) Broadband
2 32 (1.51%) HTTP
3 29 (1.37%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.42%) AMQP
5 8 (0.38%) Internet
6 5 (0.24%) IPv4
6 5 (0.24%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (0.19%) BGP
7 4 (0.19%) Multicast
7 4 (0.19%) SAN
7 4 (0.19%) VLAN
7 4 (0.19%) VPN
8 3 (0.14%) LAN
8 3 (0.14%) Network Security
8 3 (0.14%) PuTTY
8 3 (0.14%) WAN
9 2 (0.094%) DHCP
9 2 (0.094%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.094%) NAS
9 2 (0.094%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (8.03%) NoSQL
2 153 (7.22%) PostgreSQL
3 109 (5.15%) Relational Database
4 95 (4.49%) DynamoDB
5 88 (4.15%) MongoDB
6 77 (3.64%) SQL Server
7 60 (2.83%) MySQL
8 44 (2.08%) RDBMS
9 35 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
10 32 (1.51%) Amazon Athena
11 31 (1.46%) Big Data
11 31 (1.46%) DB2
12 25 (1.18%) Hadoop
13 23 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
14 21 (0.99%) Neo4j
15 20 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
16 18 (0.85%) BigQuery
17 17 (0.80%) Redis
18 14 (0.66%) Flink
18 14 (0.66%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 175 (8.26%) Jenkins
2 152 (7.18%) Git
3 145 (6.85%) GitLab
4 96 (4.53%) Selenium
5 94 (4.44%) JIRA
6 77 (3.64%) Maven
7 75 (3.54%) Cucumber
7 75 (3.54%) Cypress.io
8 66 (3.12%) SonarQube
9 62 (2.93%) TeamCity
10 48 (2.27%) Postman
11 47 (2.22%) JUnit
12 31 (1.46%) Bitbucket
13 30 (1.42%) SoapUI
14 29 (1.37%) JMeter
15 27 (1.27%) WebDriver
16 25 (1.18%) Team Foundation Server
17 24 (1.13%) REST Assured
18 23 (1.09%) Claude Code
19 22 (1.04%) Gradle
General
1 534 (25.21%) Finance
2 366 (17.28%) Social Skills
3 240 (11.33%) Banking
4 162 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
5 154 (7.27%) Public Sector
6 149 (7.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 115 (5.43%) Front Office
8 112 (5.29%) Law
9 96 (4.53%) Retail
10 67 (3.16%) Financial Institution
11 53 (2.50%) Back Office
12 49 (2.31%) Investment Banking
13 33 (1.56%) Games
14 30 (1.42%) Telecoms
15 24 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
15 24 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
16 23 (1.09%) Aerospace
16 23 (1.09%) Health Technology
17 21 (0.99%) Marketing
18 17 (0.80%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 789 (37.25%) Developer
2 533 (25.17%) Senior
3 503 (23.75%) Java Developer
4 493 (23.28%) Software Engineer
5 346 (16.34%) Java Engineer
6 308 (14.54%) Lead
7 206 (9.73%) Senior Developer
8 177 (8.36%) Java Software Engineer
9 151 (7.13%) Senior Software Engineer
10 147 (6.94%) Full-Stack Developer
10 147 (6.94%) Senior Java Developer
11 121 (5.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 109 (5.15%) Senior Java Engineer
13 104 (4.91%) Software Developer
14 95 (4.49%) Lead Software Engineer
15 86 (4.06%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 81 (3.82%) Architect
17 59 (2.79%) Senior Java Software Engineer
18 55 (2.60%) Lead Developer
19 53 (2.50%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 432 (20.40%) Spring
2 395 (18.65%) Spring Boot
3 312 (14.73%) React
4 235 (11.10%) REST
5 212 (10.01%) AngularJS
6 193 (9.11%) Node.js
7 183 (8.64%) Kafka
8 158 (7.46%) .NET
9 116 (5.48%) RESTful
10 103 (4.86%) HTML
11 88 (4.15%) SOAP
12 83 (3.92%) CSS
13 80 (3.78%) Web Services
14 72 (3.40%) GraphQL
15 68 (3.21%) Elastic Stack
16 60 (2.83%) JSON
17 59 (2.79%) Vue
18 56 (2.64%) Gherkin
19 50 (2.36%) Hibernate
20 48 (2.27%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 239 (11.28%) Cloud Native
2 168 (7.93%) Distributed Systems
3 119 (5.62%) Product Ownership
4 76 (3.59%) Public Cloud
5 53 (2.50%) Fixed Income
6 50 (2.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 43 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
8 39 (1.84%) Distributed Architecture
8 39 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
9 38 (1.79%) Equities
10 35 (1.65%) Blog
11 31 (1.46%) Data Structures
12 30 (1.42%) Mobile App
13 28 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
13 28 (1.32%) Virtual Team
14 27 (1.27%) e-Learning
15 23 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
16 21 (0.99%) FPGA
16 21 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
17 20 (0.94%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 194 (9.16%) Linux
2 48 (2.27%) Android
3 47 (2.22%) Unix
4 45 (2.12%) Windows
5 14 (0.66%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.38%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.33%) CentOS
9 6 (0.28%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.24%) Debian
11 4 (0.19%) Kali Linux
12 2 (0.094%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.047%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 748 (35.32%) Agile
2 707 (33.38%) Software Engineering
3 618 (29.18%) CI/CD
4 490 (23.14%) DevOps
5 432 (20.40%) Microservices
6 420 (19.83%) Full-Stack Development
7 366 (17.28%) Test Automation
8 351 (16.57%) Mentoring
9 325 (15.34%) Problem-Solving
10 239 (11.28%) AI
11 227 (10.72%) Containerisation
12 214 (10.10%) Scrum
13 213 (10.06%) Continuous Improvement
14 205 (9.68%) Roadmaps
15 193 (9.11%) Computer Science
16 192 (9.07%) Infrastructure as Code
17 187 (8.83%) TDD
18 184 (8.69%) Technical Leadership
19 173 (8.17%) SDLC
20 158 (7.46%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 659 (31.11%) Python
2 412 (19.45%) SQL
3 398 (18.79%) JavaScript
4 278 (13.13%) TypeScript
5 219 (10.34%) C#
6 158 (7.46%) Go
7 148 (6.99%) C++
8 110 (5.19%) Bash
9 104 (4.91%) Kotlin
10 72 (3.40%) C
11 61 (2.88%) Groovy
12 42 (1.98%) PHP
12 42 (1.98%) Scala
13 32 (1.51%) PL/SQL
14 28 (1.32%) Rust
15 21 (0.99%) PowerShell
16 18 (0.85%) Apex Code
17 15 (0.71%) R
18 14 (0.66%) Ruby
19 12 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 327 (15.44%) Security Cleared
2 262 (12.37%) Degree
3 204 (9.63%) SC Cleared
4 131 (6.19%) DV Cleared
5 128 (6.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 96 (4.53%) AWS Certification
7 36 (1.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 36 (1.70%) Master's Degree
8 30 (1.42%) ISTQB
9 25 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
10 24 (1.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 21 (0.99%) Azure Certification
12 20 (0.94%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 19 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
14 18 (0.85%) OSCP
15 15 (0.71%) DBS Check
15 15 (0.71%) PhD
16 14 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
17 13 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
17 13 (0.61%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (6.70%) QA
2 36 (1.70%) Accessibility
3 32 (1.51%) Data Quality
4 16 (0.76%) PCI DSS
5 13 (0.61%) GRC
5 13 (0.61%) SOC 2
6 9 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.28%) GDPR
8 5 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.24%) WCAG
9 4 (0.19%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.19%) SLA
10 3 (0.14%) NIST
11 2 (0.094%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 2 (0.094%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 1 (0.047%) Good Clinical Practice
12 1 (0.047%) MiFID
12 1 (0.047%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 331 (15.63%) Docker
2 11 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (0.47%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.33%) vSphere
5 5 (0.24%) Firmware
5 5 (0.24%) Squid
5 5 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.24%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.19%) KVM
7 2 (0.094%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.094%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.047%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.047%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.047%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.047%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.047%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 402 (18.98%) Kubernetes
2 243 (11.47%) Terraform
3 94 (4.44%) Grafana
4 89 (4.20%) Ansible
5 57 (2.69%) Argo
6 45 (2.12%) HP Fortify
6 45 (2.12%) Prometheus
7 21 (0.99%) Kibana
8 19 (0.90%) Kustomize
9 13 (0.61%) Rancher
10 11 (0.52%) Packer
10 11 (0.52%) Puppet
11 9 (0.42%) logstash
12 7 (0.33%) yum
13 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
14 5 (0.24%) FTK
14 5 (0.24%) ZABBIX
15 4 (0.19%) Nagios
15 4 (0.19%) Progress Chef
16 3 (0.14%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 81 (3.82%) Microsoft
2 80 (3.78%) Oracle
3 65 (3.07%) Google
4 32 (1.51%) IBM
5 28 (1.32%) Salesforce
6 25 (1.18%) Splunk
7 24 (1.13%) MuleSoft
8 19 (0.90%) Red Hat
9 18 (0.85%) Foundry
10 17 (0.80%) Atlassian
10 17 (0.80%) Palantir
11 16 (0.76%) AppDynamics
12 15 (0.71%) VMware
13 14 (0.66%) Databricks
14 13 (0.61%) OpenAI
15 12 (0.57%) Dynatrace
16 11 (0.52%) Informatica
16 11 (0.52%) SAP
16 11 (0.52%) Solace
17 10 (0.47%) ServiceNow