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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 34 23
Rank change year-on-year -38 -11 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,593 3,106 3,689
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.28% 5.52% 8.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.43% 16.41% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,080 1,908 2,921
10th Percentile £44,875 £42,350 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,232 £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 £112,500 £113,807 £97,500
90th Percentile £136,250 £140,000 £127,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% +3.45%

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 10,325 18,925 18,444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 21.24% 33.64% 41.06%
Number of salaries quoted 7,754 11,409 15,304
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,750 £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 £110,000 £110,695 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 6 December 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 6 December 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 -13 905 £100,000 - 306
North of England -13 256 £65,000 +8.33% 298
South East -82 171 £62,500 -3.85% 406
Yorkshire +29 122 £67,500 +22.73% 122
North West -17 115 £67,500 +12.50% 147
South West -44 110 £65,000 +4.00% 172
Midlands +6 107 £60,000 +50.00% 172
West Midlands +14 81 £60,000 +14.29% 90
East of England -75 34 £28,250 -58.15% 175
East Midlands 0 26 £57,500 +64.29% 67
North East -16 21 £55,000 -6.75% 30
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 83 (5.21%) Apache
2 80 (5.02%) Apache Airflow
3 56 (3.52%) Apache Spark
4 35 (2.20%) Confluence
5 15 (0.94%) JBoss
6 9 (0.56%) OpenStack
6 9 (0.56%) WebSphere
7 7 (0.44%) Anypoint
7 7 (0.44%) IIS
8 6 (0.38%) Camunda
8 6 (0.38%) Mule
9 5 (0.31%) Appian
9 5 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
9 5 (0.31%) nginx
9 5 (0.31%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.19%) Luigi
10 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 9 (0.56%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.19%) Simulink
6 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.063%) Trello
7 1 (0.063%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (0.50%) Dynamics NAV
1 8 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.44%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.38%) Maximo
4 5 (0.31%) Shopify
5 4 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.19%) Adaptiv
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.063%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.063%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.063%) Summit
8 1 (0.063%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 770 (48.34%) AWS
2 328 (20.59%) Azure
3 200 (12.55%) GCP
4 142 (8.91%) Serverless
5 102 (6.40%) Amazon EKS
6 92 (5.78%) SaaS
7 89 (5.59%) GitHub
8 79 (4.96%) AWS Lambda
9 75 (4.71%) Amazon S3
10 72 (4.52%) Amazon ECS
11 67 (4.21%) dbt
12 65 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
12 65 (4.08%) Snowflake
13 41 (2.57%) OpenShift
14 40 (2.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 38 (2.39%) GitHub Actions
16 31 (1.95%) Datadog
17 27 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
18 24 (1.51%) Amazon Kinesis
19 23 (1.44%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 32 (2.01%) TCP/IP
2 27 (1.69%) HTTP
3 17 (1.07%) DNS
3 17 (1.07%) Firewall
4 15 (0.94%) SSH
5 13 (0.82%) FTP
5 13 (0.82%) SMTP
6 12 (0.75%) AMQP
7 10 (0.63%) Internet
8 9 (0.56%) Multicast
8 9 (0.56%) VPN
9 7 (0.44%) SAN
10 4 (0.25%) Broadband
10 4 (0.25%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.25%) LAN
10 4 (0.25%) PuTTY
10 4 (0.25%) WAN
11 3 (0.19%) BGP
11 3 (0.19%) DHCP
11 3 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (9.54%) PostgreSQL
2 135 (8.47%) Relational Database
3 100 (6.28%) NoSQL
3 100 (6.28%) SQL Server
4 76 (4.77%) MongoDB
5 74 (4.65%) Data Lake
6 65 (4.08%) MySQL
7 58 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
8 56 (3.52%) Amazon Athena
9 54 (3.39%) Apache Iceberg
10 53 (3.33%) Apache Arrow
10 53 (3.33%) Dremio
11 52 (3.26%) Apache Ignite
11 52 (3.26%) Big Data
12 48 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
12 48 (3.01%) RDBMS
13 45 (2.82%) Hadoop
14 42 (2.64%) DynamoDB
15 29 (1.82%) BigQuery
16 24 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 178 (11.17%) Jenkins
2 131 (8.22%) Git
3 103 (6.47%) Selenium
4 93 (5.84%) JIRA
5 80 (5.02%) GitLab
6 71 (4.46%) JUnit
7 59 (3.70%) Cucumber
8 46 (2.89%) Cypress.io
9 45 (2.82%) Postman
10 40 (2.51%) JMeter
11 36 (2.26%) WebDriver
12 34 (2.13%) TeamCity
13 33 (2.07%) Bitbucket
13 33 (2.07%) Maven
14 32 (2.01%) Mockito
15 31 (1.95%) SoapUI
16 24 (1.51%) SonarQube
17 22 (1.38%) Team Foundation Server
18 21 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
19 16 (1.00%) REST Assured
General
1 570 (35.78%) Finance
2 447 (28.06%) Social Skills
3 279 (17.51%) Banking
4 162 (10.17%) Front Office
5 146 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
6 144 (9.04%) Law
7 125 (7.85%) Investment Banking
8 110 (6.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 101 (6.34%) Public Sector
10 96 (6.03%) Financial Institution
11 49 (3.08%) Retail
12 44 (2.76%) Marketing
13 35 (2.20%) Back Office
14 29 (1.82%) Games
15 20 (1.26%) Manufacturing
16 19 (1.19%) Billing
16 19 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (1.13%) Legal
18 17 (1.07%) Aerospace
19 16 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 573 (35.97%) Developer
2 395 (24.80%) Software Engineer
3 382 (23.98%) Senior
4 275 (17.26%) Java Developer
5 222 (13.94%) Java Engineer
6 216 (13.56%) Lead
7 151 (9.48%) Java Software Engineer
8 136 (8.54%) Senior Software Engineer
9 105 (6.59%) Full-Stack Developer
10 104 (6.53%) Senior Developer
11 102 (6.40%) Architect
12 101 (6.34%) Senior Java Engineer
13 97 (6.09%) AWS Engineer
14 73 (4.58%) Senior Java Software Engineer
15 68 (4.27%) Lead Software Engineer
16 67 (4.21%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 66 (4.14%) Python Engineer
18 62 (3.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 60 (3.77%) AWS Software Engineer
20 58 (3.64%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 346 (21.72%) Spring
2 298 (18.71%) React
3 278 (17.45%) Spring Boot
4 220 (13.81%) Kafka
5 173 (10.86%) REST
6 159 (9.98%) .NET
7 149 (9.35%) Node.js
8 143 (8.98%) RESTful
9 127 (7.97%) HTML
10 116 (7.28%) AngularJS
11 99 (6.21%) CSS
12 75 (4.71%) Hibernate
13 70 (4.39%) SOAP
14 66 (4.14%) Pandas
15 62 (3.89%) GraphQL
16 60 (3.77%) gRPC
17 57 (3.58%) Web Services
18 53 (3.33%) NumPy
18 53 (3.33%) SciPy
19 51 (3.20%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 262 (16.45%) Cloud Native
2 180 (11.30%) Distributed Systems
3 107 (6.72%) Equities
4 100 (6.28%) Fixed Income
5 95 (5.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 80 (5.02%) Derivative
7 67 (4.21%) Algorithms
8 65 (4.08%) Hedge funds
8 65 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
9 60 (3.77%) Product Ownership
10 52 (3.26%) Onboarding
11 51 (3.20%) Pricing Data
12 44 (2.76%) Greenfield Project
13 39 (2.45%) Public Cloud
14 38 (2.39%) Management Information System
15 35 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
16 33 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
17 27 (1.69%) Data Structures
18 24 (1.51%) Distributed Architecture
19 23 (1.44%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 190 (11.93%) Linux
2 42 (2.64%) Windows
3 23 (1.44%) Unix
4 21 (1.32%) Android
5 13 (0.82%) VMS
6 11 (0.69%) Amazon Linux
6 11 (0.69%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.44%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.25%) CentOS
9 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.13%) Debian
10 2 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.063%) AIX
11 1 (0.063%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.063%) SUSE
11 1 (0.063%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 680 (42.69%) Agile
2 555 (34.84%) Software Engineering
3 515 (32.33%) CI/CD
4 379 (23.79%) Microservices
5 355 (22.28%) DevOps
6 328 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
7 254 (15.94%) Full-Stack Development
8 248 (15.57%) Mentoring
9 240 (15.07%) Computer Science
10 239 (15.00%) Test Automation
11 229 (14.38%) Continuous Improvement
12 170 (10.67%) SDLC
13 162 (10.17%) Scrum
14 161 (10.11%) Containerisation
15 157 (9.86%) TDD
16 148 (9.29%) AI
17 134 (8.41%) Fintech
18 130 (8.16%) Clean Code
19 125 (7.85%) Roadmaps
20 116 (7.28%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 649 (40.74%) Python
2 407 (25.55%) JavaScript
3 353 (22.16%) SQL
4 284 (17.83%) TypeScript
5 238 (14.94%) C#
6 150 (9.42%) C++
7 131 (8.22%) Go
8 91 (5.71%) C
8 91 (5.71%) Kotlin
9 65 (4.08%) Scala
10 51 (3.20%) PHP
11 38 (2.39%) Bash
11 38 (2.39%) Groovy
12 35 (2.20%) Shell Script
13 32 (2.01%) PowerShell
14 31 (1.95%) PL/SQL
15 26 (1.63%) Perl
16 23 (1.44%) Rust
17 22 (1.38%) Ruby
18 19 (1.19%) R
Qualifications
1 295 (18.52%) Degree
2 208 (13.06%) Security Cleared
3 144 (9.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 130 (8.16%) SC Cleared
5 74 (4.65%) AWS Certification
6 69 (4.33%) Master's Degree
7 64 (4.02%) DV Cleared
8 44 (2.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 40 (2.51%) Azure Certification
10 32 (2.01%) PhD
11 27 (1.69%) ISTQB
12 23 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
13 21 (1.32%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 21 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
14 19 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
16 8 (0.50%) HND
17 5 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 4 (0.25%) OSCE
18 4 (0.25%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (6.28%) QA
2 46 (2.89%) Accessibility
3 27 (1.69%) GDPR
4 17 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (0.82%) Data Quality
6 10 (0.63%) ISO 9001
7 9 (0.56%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.50%) NIST
8 8 (0.50%) SLA
9 6 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.38%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.25%) EU AI Act
10 4 (0.25%) SEPA
10 4 (0.25%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.25%) WCAG
11 3 (0.19%) NCSC
12 2 (0.13%) ECSS
12 2 (0.13%) ITGC
12 2 (0.13%) PSD2
System Software
1 277 (17.39%) Docker
2 24 (1.51%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
5 11 (0.69%) HDFS
6 4 (0.25%) DFS Replication
6 4 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.19%) vSphere
8 2 (0.13%) Apache Flume
8 2 (0.13%) Firmware
8 2 (0.13%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.063%) KVM
9 1 (0.063%) Squid
Systems Management
1 385 (24.17%) Kubernetes
2 111 (6.97%) Terraform
3 65 (4.08%) Grafana
4 51 (3.20%) Ansible
5 38 (2.39%) Kibana
6 35 (2.20%) Prometheus
7 20 (1.26%) Argo
8 11 (0.69%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.56%) HP Fortify
10 7 (0.44%) Control-M
10 7 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.31%) logstash
12 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.31%) Nagios
13 4 (0.25%) Puppet
14 3 (0.19%) Rancher
15 2 (0.13%) Kustomize
15 2 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
15 2 (0.13%) yum
Vendors
1 107 (6.72%) Oracle
2 85 (5.34%) Microsoft
3 70 (4.39%) Google
4 35 (2.20%) Guidewire
5 32 (2.01%) Splunk
6 27 (1.69%) Atlassian
7 26 (1.63%) MuleSoft
8 24 (1.51%) Dynatrace
8 24 (1.51%) Informatica
9 23 (1.44%) Databricks
10 22 (1.38%) SAP
11 20 (1.26%) Talend
12 19 (1.19%) IBM
13 16 (1.00%) ServiceNow
14 14 (0.88%) Dell
15 13 (0.82%) Red Hat
16 12 (0.75%) Salesforce
17 11 (0.69%) Adobe
18 9 (0.56%) OpenAI
18 9 (0.56%) Solace