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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 27 35
Rank change year-on-year -37 +8 -15
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,266 2,899 4,569
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.72% 7.41% 5.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.19% 23.10% 16.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,466 1,394 3,442
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £39,044
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £73,805
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +5.01% -7.74%
75th Percentile £91,250 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £137,500 £138,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -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 14,922 12,550 27,810
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.91% 32.07% 31.37%
Number of salaries quoted 10,666 8,515 22,652
10th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,000 £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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -9 1,061 £85,000 -19.05% 420
North of England -38 617 £69,305 +2.67% 155
North West -52 260 £70,000 -6.35% 82
Yorkshire +20 242 £72,500 +0.71% 41
South East -43 219 £67,500 +3.85% 103
South West -36 183 £60,000 - 74
North East +3 115 £52,500 -5.83% 33
Midlands -103 107 £58,750 +6.82% 62
West Midlands -65 89 £57,500 -4.17% 31
East of England -63 52 £52,500 +17.98% 38
East Midlands -92 17 £60,000 +26.32% 31
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 (1.94%) Apache
2 38 (1.68%) Apache Spark
2 38 (1.68%) Confluence
3 29 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
5 13 (0.57%) JBoss
6 11 (0.49%) OpenStack
7 9 (0.40%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.22%) Camunda
10 5 (0.22%) CMS
10 5 (0.22%) GeoServer
10 5 (0.22%) IIS
11 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.13%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.13%) Liferay
12 3 (0.13%) Moodle
12 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.44%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.13%) Windchill
6 2 (0.088%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.088%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.044%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 12 (0.53%) Maximo
2 8 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.13%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.088%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.088%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.044%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.044%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.044%) Endur
5 1 (0.044%) Findur
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.044%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.044%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 926 (40.86%) AWS
2 423 (18.67%) Azure
3 268 (11.83%) GCP
4 183 (8.08%) Serverless
5 138 (6.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 122 (5.38%) Amazon S3
7 121 (5.34%) SaaS
8 116 (5.12%) AWS Lambda
9 113 (4.99%) Amazon ECS
10 108 (4.77%) Amazon EKS
11 98 (4.32%) GitHub
12 77 (3.40%) AWS Step Functions
13 64 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
14 51 (2.25%) Amazon ECR
15 50 (2.21%) Apigee
16 45 (1.99%) Amazon SQS
17 39 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
18 37 (1.63%) dbt
19 36 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 36 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.21%) Broadband
2 31 (1.37%) HTTP
3 27 (1.19%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.35%) AMQP
4 8 (0.35%) IPv4
4 8 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
5 7 (0.31%) DMARC
6 4 (0.18%) MQTT
7 3 (0.13%) BGP
7 3 (0.13%) Internet
7 3 (0.13%) Network Security
7 3 (0.13%) VLAN
7 3 (0.13%) VPN
8 2 (0.088%) Firewall
8 2 (0.088%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.088%) PuTTY
9 1 (0.044%) LTE
9 1 (0.044%) SAN
9 1 (0.044%) TCAP
9 1 (0.044%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (8.34%) NoSQL
2 162 (7.15%) PostgreSQL
3 108 (4.77%) Relational Database
4 101 (4.46%) MongoDB
5 95 (4.19%) DynamoDB
6 69 (3.05%) MySQL
7 67 (2.96%) SQL Server
8 41 (1.81%) RDBMS
9 40 (1.77%) Amazon Athena
10 30 (1.32%) Big Data
10 30 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
11 26 (1.15%) DB2
12 23 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
13 22 (0.97%) BigQuery
13 22 (0.97%) Hadoop
14 18 (0.79%) Redis
15 17 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
16 14 (0.62%) Metadata
16 14 (0.62%) Neo4j
16 14 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 191 (8.43%) Git
2 184 (8.12%) Jenkins
3 158 (6.97%) GitLab
4 93 (4.10%) JIRA
5 85 (3.75%) Maven
6 84 (3.71%) Selenium
7 74 (3.27%) Cucumber
8 69 (3.05%) Cypress.io
9 63 (2.78%) JUnit
10 60 (2.65%) TeamCity
11 59 (2.60%) SonarQube
12 46 (2.03%) Postman
13 33 (1.46%) JMeter
14 30 (1.32%) Mockito
15 29 (1.28%) Bitbucket
16 28 (1.24%) Gradle
17 26 (1.15%) REST Assured
18 25 (1.10%) Claude Code
18 25 (1.10%) SoapUI
19 24 (1.06%) WebDriver
General
1 565 (24.93%) Finance
2 365 (16.11%) Social Skills
3 237 (10.46%) Banking
4 202 (8.91%) Public Sector
5 165 (7.28%) Analytical Skills
6 154 (6.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 110 (4.85%) Front Office
7 110 (4.85%) Law
8 96 (4.24%) Retail
9 71 (3.13%) Financial Institution
10 50 (2.21%) Back Office
11 45 (1.99%) Investment Banking
12 31 (1.37%) Games
13 27 (1.19%) Health Technology
14 24 (1.06%) Aerospace
14 24 (1.06%) Telecoms
15 20 (0.88%) Marketing
15 20 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
16 19 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
16 19 (0.84%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 853 (37.64%) Developer
2 569 (25.11%) Java Developer
3 564 (24.89%) Senior
4 521 (22.99%) Software Engineer
5 380 (16.77%) Java Engineer
6 345 (15.23%) Lead
7 223 (9.84%) Senior Developer
8 178 (7.86%) Java Software Engineer
9 166 (7.33%) Senior Software Engineer
10 159 (7.02%) Senior Java Developer
11 148 (6.53%) Full-Stack Developer
12 130 (5.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 115 (5.08%) Senior Java Engineer
14 111 (4.90%) Lead Software Engineer
14 111 (4.90%) Software Developer
15 94 (4.15%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 76 (3.35%) Architect
17 66 (2.91%) Lead Developer
18 62 (2.74%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 56 (2.47%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 496 (21.89%) Spring
2 429 (18.93%) Spring Boot
3 300 (13.24%) React
4 232 (10.24%) REST
5 229 (10.11%) AngularJS
6 205 (9.05%) Node.js
7 199 (8.78%) Kafka
8 160 (7.06%) .NET
9 138 (6.09%) RESTful
10 94 (4.15%) HTML
11 86 (3.80%) Web Services
12 77 (3.40%) CSS
13 76 (3.35%) SOAP
14 63 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
14 63 (2.78%) GraphQL
14 63 (2.78%) Vue
15 61 (2.69%) JSON
16 51 (2.25%) Gherkin
17 47 (2.07%) Playwright
18 44 (1.94%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 252 (11.12%) Cloud Native
2 179 (7.90%) Distributed Systems
3 139 (6.13%) Product Ownership
4 88 (3.88%) Public Cloud
5 52 (2.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 49 (2.16%) Fixed Income
7 44 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
8 40 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
9 39 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
10 37 (1.63%) Distributed Architecture
11 35 (1.54%) Blog
12 34 (1.50%) Data Structures
13 33 (1.46%) Equities
14 32 (1.41%) e-Learning
14 32 (1.41%) Mobile App
15 30 (1.32%) Virtual Team
16 25 (1.10%) Onboarding
17 20 (0.88%) Algorithms
17 20 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
17 20 (0.88%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 193 (8.52%) Linux
2 50 (2.21%) Android
3 47 (2.07%) Unix
4 43 (1.90%) Windows
5 14 (0.62%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.49%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.22%) CentOS
7 5 (0.22%) Debian
7 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.18%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 807 (35.61%) Agile
2 761 (33.58%) Software Engineering
3 690 (30.45%) CI/CD
4 533 (23.52%) DevOps
5 489 (21.58%) Microservices
6 457 (20.17%) Full-Stack Development
7 426 (18.80%) Test Automation
8 410 (18.09%) Mentoring
9 334 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
10 253 (11.17%) Containerisation
11 251 (11.08%) AI
12 231 (10.19%) TDD
13 229 (10.11%) Scrum
14 222 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
15 213 (9.40%) Technical Leadership
16 212 (9.36%) Infrastructure as Code
17 208 (9.18%) Roadmaps
18 193 (8.52%) Computer Science
19 176 (7.77%) SDLC
20 163 (7.19%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 667 (29.44%) Python
2 445 (19.64%) SQL
3 430 (18.98%) JavaScript
4 268 (11.83%) TypeScript
5 239 (10.55%) C#
6 175 (7.72%) C++
7 158 (6.97%) Go
8 115 (5.08%) Bash
9 109 (4.81%) Kotlin
10 66 (2.91%) Groovy
11 60 (2.65%) C
12 51 (2.25%) Scala
13 40 (1.77%) Rust
14 37 (1.63%) PHP
15 35 (1.54%) PL/SQL
16 27 (1.19%) PowerShell
17 17 (0.75%) Apex Code
17 17 (0.75%) R
18 13 (0.57%) Perl
18 13 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 356 (15.71%) Security Cleared
2 257 (11.34%) Degree
3 223 (9.84%) SC Cleared
4 136 (6.00%) DV Cleared
5 130 (5.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 97 (4.28%) AWS Certification
7 37 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 32 (1.41%) Master's Degree
9 28 (1.24%) ISTQB
10 26 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 22 (0.97%) OSCP
13 20 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
14 18 (0.79%) DBS Check
14 18 (0.79%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 16 (0.71%) Azure Certification
16 14 (0.62%) CREST Certified
16 14 (0.62%) PhD
17 12 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
18 10 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (6.58%) QA
2 54 (2.38%) Accessibility
3 39 (1.72%) Data Quality
4 14 (0.62%) GRC
4 14 (0.62%) PCI DSS
5 13 (0.57%) WCAG
6 12 (0.53%) SOC 2
7 10 (0.44%) GDPR
8 9 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.26%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 3 (0.13%) NIST
12 2 (0.088%) Good Clinical Practice
12 2 (0.088%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.044%) MiFID
13 1 (0.044%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.044%) SLA
System Software
1 356 (15.71%) Docker
2 13 (0.57%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (0.44%) vSphere
4 8 (0.35%) Squid
4 8 (0.35%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.22%) Firmware
6 4 (0.18%) KVM
7 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.088%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.044%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.044%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.044%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.044%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.044%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.044%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.044%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 417 (18.40%) Kubernetes
2 260 (11.47%) Terraform
3 100 (4.41%) Grafana
4 97 (4.28%) Ansible
5 48 (2.12%) Argo
6 46 (2.03%) Prometheus
7 39 (1.72%) HP Fortify
8 28 (1.24%) Kibana
9 18 (0.79%) Kustomize
10 14 (0.62%) Packer
11 12 (0.53%) Puppet
12 11 (0.49%) Rancher
13 9 (0.40%) logstash
14 8 (0.35%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
15 6 (0.26%) yum
16 5 (0.22%) FTK
17 3 (0.13%) AWS Copilot
17 3 (0.13%) Progress Chef
18 2 (0.088%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 89 (3.93%) Oracle
2 83 (3.66%) Microsoft
3 70 (3.09%) Google
4 40 (1.77%) Splunk
5 31 (1.37%) IBM
6 26 (1.15%) Salesforce
7 19 (0.84%) Dynatrace
7 19 (0.84%) Foundry
7 19 (0.84%) MuleSoft
7 19 (0.84%) Palantir
7 19 (0.84%) Red Hat
8 17 (0.75%) AppDynamics
8 17 (0.75%) VMware
9 13 (0.57%) Databricks
9 13 (0.57%) ServiceNow
10 12 (0.53%) Atlassian
10 12 (0.53%) SAP
10 12 (0.53%) Solace
11 11 (0.49%) Adobe
12 8 (0.35%) Informatica