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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 28 35
Rank change year-on-year -29 +7 -14
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,456 3,003 3,835
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.65% 6.89% 5.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.75% 23.30% 17.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,585 1,403 2,671
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £78,810 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.18% -1.49% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £78,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -3.85% +0.65%

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 16,646 12,889 21,604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.99% 29.57% 29.61%
Number of salaries quoted 12,103 8,626 16,146
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,313 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £60,375
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +6.00% -7.12%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 5 August 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 5 August 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 -10 1,080 £85,000 -19.05% 1,320
North of England -24 683 £67,500 +0.69% 232
North West -37 307 £70,000 - 132
South West -15 258 £60,000 - 138
Yorkshire +40 221 £72,500 +7.41% 61
South East -58 214 £67,500 +3.85% 136
North East +3 155 £55,000 +18.92% 40
Midlands -80 141 £67,500 +12.50% 86
West Midlands -51 118 £68,403 +14.00% 67
East of England -69 56 £51,359 +16.73% 50
East Midlands -79 22 £60,000 +26.32% 19
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 (2.40%) Confluence
2 50 (2.04%) Apache
3 43 (1.75%) Apache Spark
4 31 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (0.65%) Camunda
6 14 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 14 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.33%) JBoss
7 8 (0.33%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.20%) CICS
9 5 (0.20%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.16%) CMS
10 4 (0.16%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.16%) SAS
11 3 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
11 3 (0.12%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.081%) Documentum
Applications
1 19 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.65%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.12%) Moqups
7 2 (0.081%) PTC Creo
7 2 (0.081%) Windchill
8 1 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.041%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.041%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.041%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 16 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.33%) Maximo
3 5 (0.20%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.20%) Temenos T24
4 3 (0.12%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.12%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.081%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.041%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.041%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.041%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.041%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.041%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.041%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,014 (41.29%) AWS
2 510 (20.77%) Azure
3 301 (12.26%) GCP
4 194 (7.90%) Serverless
5 155 (6.31%) AWS CloudFormation
6 134 (5.46%) GitHub
7 121 (4.93%) AWS Lambda
8 115 (4.68%) Amazon ECS
9 109 (4.44%) Amazon S3
10 94 (3.83%) SaaS
11 90 (3.66%) Amazon EKS
12 79 (3.22%) Azure DevOps
13 68 (2.77%) GitHub Actions
14 63 (2.57%) AWS Step Functions
15 40 (1.63%) Amazon ECR
15 40 (1.63%) OpenShift
16 35 (1.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 35 (1.43%) Azure Service Bus
17 34 (1.38%) Amazon SQS
17 34 (1.38%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 35 (1.43%) HTTP
2 32 (1.30%) Broadband
3 19 (0.77%) TCP/IP
4 17 (0.69%) Network Security
5 13 (0.53%) DMARC
6 9 (0.37%) MQTT
7 8 (0.33%) IPv4
7 8 (0.33%) Software-Defined Networking
8 6 (0.24%) BGP
8 6 (0.24%) DNS
8 6 (0.24%) IPsec
8 6 (0.24%) Kerberos
8 6 (0.24%) VPN
9 5 (0.20%) AMQP
9 5 (0.20%) Firewall
9 5 (0.20%) Internet
10 3 (0.12%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.12%) LAN
10 3 (0.12%) SAN
10 3 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (7.00%) PostgreSQL
2 167 (6.80%) NoSQL
3 125 (5.09%) MongoDB
4 120 (4.89%) Relational Database
5 87 (3.54%) MySQL
6 81 (3.30%) DynamoDB
7 75 (3.05%) SQL Server
8 37 (1.51%) Amazon Athena
9 34 (1.38%) Big Data
10 27 (1.10%) Db2
10 27 (1.10%) Redis
11 25 (1.02%) BigQuery
12 23 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
13 22 (0.90%) Hadoop
14 21 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
15 17 (0.69%) Metadata
16 16 (0.65%) RDBMS
17 14 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
18 13 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
18 13 (0.53%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 252 (10.26%) Git
2 192 (7.82%) Jenkins
3 177 (7.21%) GitLab
4 92 (3.75%) JIRA
5 87 (3.54%) Cucumber
6 86 (3.50%) JUnit
7 75 (3.05%) Maven
7 75 (3.05%) Selenium
8 62 (2.52%) Cypress.io
9 50 (2.04%) SonarQube
10 47 (1.91%) TeamCity
11 42 (1.71%) Postman
12 40 (1.63%) JMeter
13 36 (1.47%) Eclipse
13 36 (1.47%) Mockito
14 33 (1.34%) Bitbucket
14 33 (1.34%) Subversion
15 25 (1.02%) Claude Code
16 23 (0.94%) REST Assured
17 20 (0.81%) Gradle
General
1 661 (26.91%) Finance
2 403 (16.41%) Social Skills
3 244 (9.93%) Public Sector
4 219 (8.92%) Banking
5 178 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
6 127 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 110 (4.48%) Front Office
8 95 (3.87%) Law
9 75 (3.05%) Retail
10 60 (2.44%) Financial Institution
11 40 (1.63%) Investment Banking
12 35 (1.43%) Health Technology
13 32 (1.30%) Back Office
13 32 (1.30%) Marketing
14 28 (1.14%) Manufacturing
15 25 (1.02%) Legal
16 24 (0.98%) Games
17 20 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
17 20 (0.81%) Tech for Good
18 19 (0.77%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 859 (34.98%) Developer
2 623 (25.37%) Senior
3 572 (23.29%) Software Engineer
4 558 (22.72%) Java Developer
5 422 (17.18%) Java Engineer
6 352 (14.33%) Lead
7 210 (8.55%) Senior Developer
8 194 (7.90%) Senior Software Engineer
9 162 (6.60%) Java Software Engineer
10 154 (6.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 140 (5.70%) Full-Stack Developer
12 138 (5.62%) Senior Java Developer
13 132 (5.37%) Senior Java Engineer
14 126 (5.13%) Lead Software Engineer
15 124 (5.05%) Software Developer
16 87 (3.54%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 81 (3.30%) Principal Engineer
18 77 (3.14%) Architect
19 74 (3.01%) DevOps Engineer
20 72 (2.93%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 566 (23.05%) Spring
2 472 (19.22%) Spring Boot
3 288 (11.73%) React
4 276 (11.24%) Kafka
5 236 (9.61%) AngularJS
6 235 (9.57%) REST
7 225 (9.16%) Node.js
8 186 (7.57%) RESTful
9 166 (6.76%) .NET
10 85 (3.46%) Web Services
11 76 (3.09%) CSS
12 71 (2.89%) GraphQL
13 69 (2.81%) HTML
14 65 (2.65%) Vue
15 54 (2.20%) OAuth
16 51 (2.08%) Playwright
17 49 (2.00%) Hibernate
18 48 (1.95%) RabbitMQ
19 47 (1.91%) SOAP
20 46 (1.87%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 311 (12.66%) Cloud Native
2 232 (9.45%) Distributed Systems
3 159 (6.47%) Product Ownership
4 111 (4.52%) Public Cloud
5 69 (2.81%) Onboarding
6 56 (2.28%) Fixed Income
6 56 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
7 55 (2.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 52 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
9 42 (1.71%) Data Structures
10 41 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
11 37 (1.51%) e-Learning
11 37 (1.51%) Virtual Team
12 36 (1.47%) Mobile App
13 35 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
14 32 (1.30%) Equities
15 29 (1.18%) Algorithms
16 22 (0.90%) AI Agents
17 21 (0.86%) Blog
17 21 (0.86%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 222 (9.04%) Linux
2 66 (2.69%) Windows
3 44 (1.79%) Android
4 40 (1.63%) Unix
5 18 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.61%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.20%) CentOS
8 4 (0.16%) Debian
8 4 (0.16%) Kali Linux
8 4 (0.16%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.081%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 875 (35.63%) Software Engineering
2 831 (33.84%) Agile
3 805 (32.78%) CI/CD
4 587 (23.90%) Microservices
5 577 (23.49%) DevOps
6 499 (20.32%) Test Automation
7 471 (19.18%) Full-Stack Development
8 431 (17.55%) Mentoring
9 409 (16.65%) Problem-Solving
10 360 (14.66%) AI
11 310 (12.62%) Containerisation
12 288 (11.73%) Continuous Improvement
13 287 (11.69%) Infrastructure as Code
14 249 (10.14%) TDD
15 243 (9.89%) Roadmaps
16 237 (9.65%) Technical Leadership
17 224 (9.12%) Computer Science
18 218 (8.88%) Scrum
19 206 (8.39%) Event-Driven
19 206 (8.39%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 806 (32.82%) Python
2 464 (18.89%) SQL
3 434 (17.67%) JavaScript
4 265 (10.79%) TypeScript
5 256 (10.42%) C#
6 232 (9.45%) C++
7 150 (6.11%) Go
8 115 (4.68%) Bash
9 109 (4.44%) Kotlin
10 74 (3.01%) Scala
11 66 (2.69%) C
12 59 (2.40%) PHP
13 58 (2.36%) Groovy
14 55 (2.24%) Rust
15 43 (1.75%) Perl
16 39 (1.59%) PowerShell
17 35 (1.43%) Ruby
18 32 (1.30%) PL/SQL
19 21 (0.86%) Shell Script
20 14 (0.57%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 432 (17.59%) Security Cleared
2 275 (11.20%) Degree
3 248 (10.10%) SC Cleared
4 156 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 150 (6.11%) DV Cleared
6 99 (4.03%) AWS Certification
7 58 (2.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 28 (1.14%) Master's Degree
9 20 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
10 19 (0.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 18 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
11 18 (0.73%) ISTQB
11 18 (0.73%) OSCP
12 14 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.49%) DBS Check
15 10 (0.41%) CREST Certified
16 9 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
17 8 (0.33%) Azure Certification
17 8 (0.33%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (6.43%) QA
2 74 (3.01%) Accessibility
3 56 (2.28%) Data Quality
4 27 (1.10%) WCAG
5 20 (0.81%) GDPR
6 14 (0.57%) GRC
6 14 (0.57%) NIST
7 12 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.33%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.29%) ISO 20022
9 7 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.24%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 3 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.12%) MiFID
12 3 (0.12%) PSD2
12 3 (0.12%) UCITS
13 2 (0.081%) Good Clinical Practice
13 2 (0.081%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 393 (16.00%) Docker
2 25 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (0.86%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.49%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.45%) vSphere
6 8 (0.33%) Squid
7 7 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.24%) Firmware
8 6 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.20%) KVM
10 3 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.081%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 450 (18.32%) Kubernetes
2 281 (11.44%) Terraform
3 116 (4.72%) Ansible
4 93 (3.79%) Grafana
5 36 (1.47%) Prometheus
6 28 (1.14%) Argo
6 28 (1.14%) Kibana
7 27 (1.10%) HP Fortify
8 20 (0.81%) Puppet
9 13 (0.53%) Packer
10 11 (0.45%) Rancher
11 10 (0.41%) logstash
12 8 (0.33%) ZABBIX
13 6 (0.24%) Hadoop YARN
13 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (0.24%) yum
14 5 (0.20%) Red Hat Satellite
15 4 (0.16%) Control-M
15 4 (0.16%) Kubeflow
15 4 (0.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 101 (4.11%) Microsoft
1 101 (4.11%) Oracle
2 74 (3.01%) Google
3 61 (2.48%) Splunk
4 43 (1.75%) IBM
5 34 (1.38%) SAP
6 29 (1.18%) Red Hat
6 29 (1.18%) VMware
7 24 (0.98%) AppDynamics
8 23 (0.94%) Adobe
8 23 (0.94%) Dynatrace
8 23 (0.94%) Palantir
8 23 (0.94%) Salesforce
9 21 (0.86%) ServiceNow
10 18 (0.73%) Foundry
11 16 (0.65%) OpenAI
12 14 (0.57%) MuleSoft
13 13 (0.53%) Databricks
13 13 (0.53%) SendGrid
14 11 (0.45%) Solace