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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 33 30
Rank change year-on-year -24 -3 -8
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,695 2,674 3,689
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.59% 6.19% 5.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.18% 23.34% 18.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,690 1,125 2,280
10th Percentile £43,930 £41,250 £41,936
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 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +6.67%

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 16,661 11,455 20,464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.01% 26.51% 31.20%
Number of salaries quoted 12,101 7,505 12,430
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £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 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £111,250
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 6 October 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 6 October 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 1,106 £82,500 -21.43% 2,249
North of England -22 768 £69,310 +6.63% 521
North West -33 396 £72,000 +2.86% 291
South West +3 337 £65,550 +2.82% 258
South East -42 223 £67,500 +3.85% 322
Midlands -50 195 £69,308 +10.89% 219
North East +23 190 £55,000 +7.32% 104
Yorkshire +20 182 £73,750 +13.46% 127
West Midlands -19 167 £70,000 +12.00% 146
East of England -74 43 £63,750 +50.00% 139
East Midlands -75 28 £60,000 -0.41% 73
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 59 (2.19%) Confluence
2 54 (2.00%) Apache
3 36 (1.34%) Apache Spark
4 27 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (0.71%) Camunda
6 17 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 12 (0.45%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
8 8 (0.30%) Tomcat
8 8 (0.30%) WebLogic
9 7 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.22%) CICS
10 6 (0.22%) CMS
11 5 (0.19%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.19%) JBoss
11 5 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.15%) SAS
12 4 (0.15%) SharePoint
12 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (0.74%) 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
7 3 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
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%) Distributed Ledger
2 5 (0.19%) Fidessa
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%) Quorum
5 1 (0.037%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.037%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.037%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,063 (39.44%) AWS
2 535 (19.85%) Azure
3 304 (11.28%) GCP
4 196 (7.27%) Serverless
5 178 (6.60%) GitHub
6 151 (5.60%) AWS CloudFormation
7 129 (4.79%) AWS Lambda
8 107 (3.97%) Amazon S3
9 103 (3.82%) SaaS
10 102 (3.78%) GitHub Actions
11 101 (3.75%) Amazon ECS
12 100 (3.71%) Amazon EKS
13 88 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
14 55 (2.04%) AWS Step Functions
15 49 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
16 41 (1.52%) Datadog
17 40 (1.48%) Anthropic Claude
18 39 (1.45%) OpenShift
19 38 (1.41%) Azure Service Bus
19 38 (1.41%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 37 (1.37%) HTTP
2 21 (0.78%) TCP/IP
3 17 (0.63%) Network Security
4 15 (0.56%) DMARC
5 13 (0.48%) VPN
6 12 (0.45%) BGP
7 9 (0.33%) DNS
7 9 (0.33%) MQTT
7 9 (0.33%) Wireshark
8 8 (0.30%) AMQP
8 8 (0.30%) IPv4
8 8 (0.30%) Software-Defined Networking
9 7 (0.26%) Firewall
10 6 (0.22%) IPsec
11 5 (0.19%) Broadband
11 5 (0.19%) Ethernet
11 5 (0.19%) Internet
12 4 (0.15%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.15%) RIP
13 3 (0.11%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (6.49%) PostgreSQL
2 164 (6.09%) NoSQL
3 130 (4.82%) MongoDB
4 128 (4.75%) Relational Database
5 73 (2.71%) MySQL
6 65 (2.41%) DynamoDB
7 60 (2.23%) SQL Server
8 50 (1.86%) Big Data
9 35 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
10 29 (1.08%) Redis
11 27 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
12 26 (0.96%) Power BI
13 24 (0.89%) Data Lake
13 24 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
13 24 (0.89%) Hadoop
14 21 (0.78%) BigQuery
14 21 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
14 21 (0.78%) Db2
15 17 (0.63%) Spark SQL
16 15 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 282 (10.46%) Git
2 205 (7.61%) Jenkins
3 201 (7.46%) GitLab
4 105 (3.90%) JUnit
5 88 (3.27%) JIRA
6 87 (3.23%) Cucumber
7 69 (2.56%) Maven
8 65 (2.41%) TeamCity
9 60 (2.23%) Selenium
10 53 (1.97%) Cypress.io
11 46 (1.71%) Eclipse
12 44 (1.63%) Postman
13 43 (1.60%) Mockito
14 41 (1.52%) Subversion
15 35 (1.30%) SonarQube
16 34 (1.26%) Bitbucket
17 33 (1.22%) JMeter
18 27 (1.00%) Claude Code
19 19 (0.71%) REST Assured
20 17 (0.63%) Gradle
General
1 673 (24.97%) Finance
2 469 (17.40%) Social Skills
3 286 (10.61%) Banking
4 255 (9.46%) Public Sector
5 181 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
6 142 (5.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 122 (4.53%) Law
8 100 (3.71%) Retail
9 77 (2.86%) Financial Institution
10 70 (2.60%) Front Office
11 41 (1.52%) Legal
12 39 (1.45%) Back Office
13 38 (1.41%) Manufacturing
14 36 (1.34%) Marketing
15 35 (1.30%) Health Technology
16 33 (1.22%) Investment Banking
17 28 (1.04%) Publishing
18 23 (0.85%) Tech for Good
19 21 (0.78%) Aerospace
19 21 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 795 (29.50%) Developer
2 714 (26.49%) Senior
3 626 (23.23%) Software Engineer
4 586 (21.74%) Java Engineer
5 507 (18.81%) Java Developer
6 371 (13.77%) Lead
7 222 (8.24%) Senior Developer
8 210 (7.79%) Senior Java Engineer
9 209 (7.76%) Senior Software Engineer
10 200 (7.42%) Java Software Engineer
11 175 (6.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 135 (5.01%) Senior Java Developer
13 128 (4.75%) Full-Stack Developer
14 116 (4.30%) Software Developer
15 105 (3.90%) Lead Software Engineer
16 100 (3.71%) Principal Engineer
17 86 (3.19%) DevOps Engineer
18 83 (3.08%) Architect
19 79 (2.93%) Full-Stack Java Developer
20 76 (2.82%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 626 (23.23%) Spring
2 523 (19.41%) Spring Boot
3 307 (11.39%) Terraform
4 284 (10.54%) Kafka
5 266 (9.87%) React
6 252 (9.35%) REST
7 210 (7.79%) AngularJS
8 199 (7.38%) Node.js
9 194 (7.20%) RESTful
10 170 (6.31%) .NET
11 69 (2.56%) Web Services
12 64 (2.37%) HTML
13 62 (2.30%) CSS
13 62 (2.30%) OAuth
14 58 (2.15%) Hibernate
15 52 (1.93%) Vue
16 50 (1.86%) RabbitMQ
17 42 (1.56%) XML
18 41 (1.52%) Jakarta EE
18 41 (1.52%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 374 (13.88%) Cloud Native
2 269 (9.98%) Distributed Systems
3 162 (6.01%) Product Ownership
4 126 (4.68%) Public Cloud
5 76 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
6 75 (2.78%) Onboarding
7 60 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
8 48 (1.78%) e-Learning
9 46 (1.71%) Data Structures
10 43 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 42 (1.56%) Algorithms
11 42 (1.56%) Blog
12 40 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
13 36 (1.34%) Virtual Team
14 33 (1.22%) Mobile App
15 32 (1.19%) AI Agents
16 31 (1.15%) Equities
17 28 (1.04%) Fixed Income
18 27 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
18 27 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 216 (8.01%) Linux
2 65 (2.41%) Windows
3 40 (1.48%) Android
4 38 (1.41%) Unix
5 27 (1.00%) Apple iOS
6 21 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (0.48%) 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 1,021 (37.88%) Software Engineering
2 907 (33.65%) CI/CD
3 807 (29.94%) Agile
4 656 (24.34%) Microservices
5 593 (22.00%) DevOps
6 545 (20.22%) Full-Stack Development
7 506 (18.78%) Test Automation
8 471 (17.48%) Mentoring
9 454 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
10 423 (15.70%) AI
11 352 (13.06%) Containerisation
12 323 (11.99%) Continuous Improvement
12 323 (11.99%) Infrastructure as Code
13 303 (11.24%) Event-Driven
14 254 (9.42%) Technical Leadership
15 244 (9.05%) Computer Science
16 241 (8.94%) SDLC
17 230 (8.53%) Scrum
17 230 (8.53%) TDD
18 229 (8.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 819 (30.39%) Python
2 479 (17.77%) SQL
3 436 (16.18%) JavaScript
4 276 (10.24%) C++
5 263 (9.76%) TypeScript
6 260 (9.65%) C#
7 152 (5.64%) Go
8 111 (4.12%) Bash
9 108 (4.01%) Kotlin
10 78 (2.89%) Scala
11 75 (2.78%) C
12 59 (2.19%) Rust
13 48 (1.78%) PHP
14 46 (1.71%) Perl
15 40 (1.48%) Groovy
16 34 (1.26%) PowerShell
16 34 (1.26%) Ruby
17 30 (1.11%) PL/SQL
18 22 (0.82%) Shell Script
19 20 (0.74%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 487 (18.07%) Security Cleared
2 279 (10.35%) Degree
3 262 (9.72%) SC Cleared
4 167 (6.20%) DV Cleared
5 163 (6.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 103 (3.82%) AWS Certification
7 69 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 31 (1.15%) Master's Degree
9 22 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (0.71%) ISTQB
11 18 (0.67%) OSCP
12 15 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (0.48%) DBS Check
14 12 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 12 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
14 12 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.45%) PhD
15 11 (0.41%) Azure Certification
15 11 (0.41%) CISSP
16 9 (0.33%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (6.16%) QA
2 84 (3.12%) Data Quality
3 77 (2.86%) Accessibility
4 26 (0.96%) GDPR
4 26 (0.96%) WCAG
5 21 (0.78%) NIST
6 16 (0.59%) ISO 20022
6 16 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (0.48%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.33%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.22%) GRC
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
1 439 (16.29%) Docker
2 27 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (0.63%) Active Directory
4 14 (0.52%) Firmware
4 14 (0.52%) VMware NSX
5 13 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
6 11 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.37%) vSphere
8 8 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (0.26%) Squid
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
1 531 (19.70%) Kubernetes
2 135 (5.01%) Ansible
3 102 (3.78%) Grafana
4 39 (1.45%) Argo
5 37 (1.37%) Prometheus
6 31 (1.15%) Puppet
7 23 (0.85%) Kibana
8 14 (0.52%) HP Fortify
8 14 (0.52%) Rancher
9 11 (0.41%) Packer
10 10 (0.37%) logstash
11 8 (0.30%) yum
12 7 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (0.26%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.26%) ZABBIX
13 6 (0.22%) EnCase
13 6 (0.22%) FTK
13 6 (0.22%) Hadoop YARN
13 6 (0.22%) Kubeflow
14 5 (0.19%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 114 (4.23%) Oracle
2 110 (4.08%) Microsoft
3 96 (3.56%) Google
4 66 (2.45%) Splunk
5 45 (1.67%) Red Hat
6 32 (1.19%) IBM
7 31 (1.15%) SAP
8 30 (1.11%) VMware
9 28 (1.04%) Adobe
10 25 (0.93%) Dynatrace
11 22 (0.82%) OpenAI
12 21 (0.78%) AppDynamics
13 18 (0.67%) Databricks
14 17 (0.63%) Palantir
15 16 (0.59%) ServiceNow
16 15 (0.56%) SendGrid
17 14 (0.52%) Salesforce
18 12 (0.45%) Bloomberg
18 12 (0.45%) Foundry
18 12 (0.45%) Solace