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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 30 31
Rank change year-on-year -26 +1 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,666 2,767 3,812
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.58% 6.42% 5.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.76% 23.62% 18.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,685 1,196 2,387
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
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 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +5.89%

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 16,912 11,715 21,127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.38% 27.16% 30.90%
Number of salaries quoted 12,320 7,744 13,185
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,250 £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 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,822
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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -13 1,109 £82,500 -21.43% 2,189
North of England -24 751 £69,305 +6.62% 447
North West -33 372 £70,000 - 258
South West -1 317 £65,000 +8.33% 248
South East -49 235 £67,500 +3.85% 240
Yorkshire +28 195 £75,000 +15.38% 108
Midlands -47 189 £69,308 +15.51% 162
North East +14 184 £55,000 +15.79% 81
West Midlands -31 162 £70,000 +16.67% 122
East of England -70 49 £60,000 +26.32% 66
East Midlands -82 27 £60,000 +3.90% 40
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 62 (2.33%) Confluence
2 58 (2.18%) Apache
3 38 (1.43%) Apache Spark
4 26 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (0.64%) Camunda
6 15 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 10 (0.38%) Jupyter
7 10 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
8 8 (0.30%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.23%) CICS
10 6 (0.23%) CMS
10 6 (0.23%) JBoss
10 6 (0.23%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.15%) SAS
11 4 (0.15%) SharePoint
11 4 (0.15%) WebLogic
11 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.11%) nginx
Applications
1 21 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.56%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.34%) Simulink
4 7 (0.26%) Moqups
5 5 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.15%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.11%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.075%) PTC Creo
8 2 (0.075%) Windchill
9 1 (0.038%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.038%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.19%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
3 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.11%) Maximo
5 2 (0.075%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.075%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 2 (0.075%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.038%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.038%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.038%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.038%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.038%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.038%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.038%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.038%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,086 (40.74%) AWS
2 540 (20.26%) Azure
3 308 (11.55%) GCP
4 212 (7.95%) Serverless
5 171 (6.41%) GitHub
6 164 (6.15%) AWS CloudFormation
7 143 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
8 115 (4.31%) Amazon S3
9 113 (4.24%) Amazon ECS
10 109 (4.09%) SaaS
11 108 (4.05%) Amazon EKS
12 96 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
13 86 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
14 63 (2.36%) AWS Step Functions
15 51 (1.91%) Amazon EC2
16 45 (1.69%) Datadog
17 40 (1.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 40 (1.50%) OpenShift
18 38 (1.43%) GitHub Copilot
19 37 (1.39%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 42 (1.58%) HTTP
2 18 (0.68%) TCP/IP
3 17 (0.64%) Network Security
4 14 (0.53%) DMARC
5 11 (0.41%) VPN
6 10 (0.38%) BGP
7 9 (0.34%) DNS
7 9 (0.34%) IPv4
7 9 (0.34%) MQTT
7 9 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
7 9 (0.34%) Wireshark
8 8 (0.30%) AMQP
9 6 (0.23%) IPsec
10 5 (0.19%) Broadband
10 5 (0.19%) Ethernet
10 5 (0.19%) Firewall
10 5 (0.19%) Internet
10 5 (0.19%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.15%) RIP
12 3 (0.11%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (6.30%) PostgreSQL
2 166 (6.23%) NoSQL
3 130 (4.88%) MongoDB
3 130 (4.88%) Relational Database
4 75 (2.81%) DynamoDB
5 73 (2.74%) MySQL
6 66 (2.48%) SQL Server
7 48 (1.80%) Big Data
8 40 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
9 28 (1.05%) Redis
10 26 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
11 25 (0.94%) Hadoop
12 24 (0.90%) Power BI
13 23 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
13 23 (0.86%) Data Lake
13 23 (0.86%) Db2
14 22 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
15 21 (0.79%) BigQuery
16 17 (0.64%) Flink
16 17 (0.64%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 297 (11.14%) Git
2 218 (8.18%) Jenkins
3 205 (7.69%) GitLab
4 101 (3.79%) JUnit
5 99 (3.71%) Cucumber
6 97 (3.64%) JIRA
7 75 (2.81%) Maven
8 67 (2.51%) Selenium
9 59 (2.21%) TeamCity
10 58 (2.18%) Cypress.io
11 47 (1.76%) Eclipse
12 46 (1.73%) Postman
13 45 (1.69%) SonarQube
14 40 (1.50%) Mockito
14 40 (1.50%) Subversion
15 36 (1.35%) Bitbucket
16 35 (1.31%) JMeter
17 25 (0.94%) Claude Code
18 18 (0.68%) Gatling
18 18 (0.68%) REST Assured
General
1 683 (25.62%) Finance
2 470 (17.63%) Social Skills
3 284 (10.65%) Banking
4 257 (9.64%) Public Sector
5 187 (7.01%) Analytical Skills
6 142 (5.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 120 (4.50%) Law
8 97 (3.64%) Retail
9 76 (2.85%) Financial Institution
10 69 (2.59%) Front Office
11 40 (1.50%) Back Office
12 39 (1.46%) Legal
12 39 (1.46%) Manufacturing
13 36 (1.35%) Marketing
14 34 (1.28%) Investment Banking
15 33 (1.24%) Health Technology
16 27 (1.01%) Publishing
17 23 (0.86%) Aerospace
18 22 (0.83%) Tech for Good
19 21 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 815 (30.57%) Developer
2 686 (25.73%) Senior
3 607 (22.77%) Software Engineer
4 547 (20.52%) Java Engineer
5 527 (19.77%) Java Developer
6 364 (13.65%) Lead
7 224 (8.40%) Senior Developer
8 200 (7.50%) Senior Software Engineer
9 189 (7.09%) Senior Java Engineer
10 187 (7.01%) Java Software Engineer
11 167 (6.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 142 (5.33%) Senior Java Developer
13 133 (4.99%) Full-Stack Developer
14 125 (4.69%) Software Developer
15 109 (4.09%) Lead Software Engineer
16 94 (3.53%) Principal Engineer
17 87 (3.26%) DevOps Engineer
18 84 (3.15%) Architect
19 83 (3.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
20 76 (2.85%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 631 (23.67%) Spring
2 525 (19.69%) Spring Boot
3 323 (12.12%) Terraform
4 285 (10.69%) Kafka
5 284 (10.65%) React
6 266 (9.98%) REST
7 226 (8.48%) AngularJS
8 202 (7.58%) Node.js
9 196 (7.35%) RESTful
10 168 (6.30%) .NET
11 79 (2.96%) Web Services
12 67 (2.51%) HTML
13 66 (2.48%) CSS
14 58 (2.18%) OAuth
14 58 (2.18%) RabbitMQ
14 58 (2.18%) Vue
15 56 (2.10%) Hibernate
16 45 (1.69%) JSON
17 44 (1.65%) Jakarta EE
17 44 (1.65%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 358 (13.43%) Cloud Native
2 274 (10.28%) Distributed Systems
3 173 (6.49%) Product Ownership
4 131 (4.91%) Public Cloud
5 75 (2.81%) Onboarding
6 70 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
7 58 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
8 49 (1.84%) e-Learning
9 45 (1.69%) Data Structures
10 44 (1.65%) Distributed Architecture
11 42 (1.58%) Algorithms
12 41 (1.54%) Virtual Team
13 40 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 38 (1.43%) Blog
15 33 (1.24%) Mobile App
16 31 (1.16%) AI Agents
16 31 (1.16%) Equities
17 27 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
18 26 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
18 26 (0.98%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 226 (8.48%) Linux
2 70 (2.63%) Windows
3 41 (1.54%) Android
4 38 (1.43%) Unix
5 28 (1.05%) Apple iOS
6 22 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (0.56%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.30%) CentOS
9 7 (0.26%) Debian
9 7 (0.26%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.15%) Kali Linux
10 4 (0.15%) VMS
11 3 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.075%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.038%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 987 (37.02%) Software Engineering
2 902 (33.83%) CI/CD
3 821 (30.80%) Agile
4 647 (24.27%) Microservices
5 605 (22.69%) DevOps
6 525 (19.69%) Full-Stack Development
7 503 (18.87%) Test Automation
8 477 (17.89%) Mentoring
9 456 (17.10%) Problem-Solving
10 412 (15.45%) AI
11 350 (13.13%) Containerisation
12 327 (12.27%) Infrastructure as Code
13 322 (12.08%) Continuous Improvement
14 300 (11.25%) Event-Driven
15 253 (9.49%) Technical Leadership
16 245 (9.19%) Roadmaps
17 244 (9.15%) Computer Science
18 242 (9.08%) SDLC
19 235 (8.81%) Scrum
20 231 (8.66%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 837 (31.40%) Python
2 487 (18.27%) SQL
3 440 (16.50%) JavaScript
4 280 (10.50%) C++
5 273 (10.24%) C#
6 265 (9.94%) TypeScript
7 143 (5.36%) Go
8 119 (4.46%) Bash
9 110 (4.13%) Kotlin
10 78 (2.93%) C
10 78 (2.93%) Scala
11 58 (2.18%) Rust
12 51 (1.91%) PHP
13 50 (1.88%) Perl
14 49 (1.84%) Groovy
15 39 (1.46%) PowerShell
16 35 (1.31%) Ruby
17 31 (1.16%) PL/SQL
18 23 (0.86%) Shell Script
19 19 (0.71%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 498 (18.68%) Security Cleared
2 284 (10.65%) Degree
3 267 (10.02%) SC Cleared
4 172 (6.45%) DV Cleared
5 163 (6.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 104 (3.90%) AWS Certification
7 68 (2.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 31 (1.16%) Master's Degree
9 23 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
10 21 (0.79%) OSCP
11 20 (0.75%) ISTQB
12 15 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (0.56%) DBS Check
12 15 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
13 14 (0.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 13 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.45%) PhD
16 11 (0.41%) CREST Certified
17 9 (0.34%) CISSP
18 8 (0.30%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (6.60%) QA
2 83 (3.11%) Data Quality
3 79 (2.96%) Accessibility
4 27 (1.01%) GDPR
4 27 (1.01%) WCAG
5 18 (0.68%) NIST
6 17 (0.64%) ISO 20022
7 15 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.38%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.30%) GRC
10 7 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.26%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 3 (0.11%) MiFID
12 3 (0.11%) MIL-STD-1553
12 3 (0.11%) PSD2
12 3 (0.11%) UCITS
13 2 (0.075%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.075%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 446 (16.73%) Docker
2 29 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (0.71%) Active Directory
4 15 (0.56%) VMware NSX
5 14 (0.53%) Firmware
6 12 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
7 11 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.41%) vSphere
8 8 (0.30%) Squid
8 8 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.19%) KVM
11 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.038%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 526 (19.73%) Kubernetes
2 144 (5.40%) Ansible
3 102 (3.83%) Grafana
4 36 (1.35%) Prometheus
5 34 (1.28%) Argo
6 31 (1.16%) Puppet
7 29 (1.09%) Kibana
8 19 (0.71%) HP Fortify
9 16 (0.60%) Packer
10 14 (0.53%) Rancher
11 12 (0.45%) logstash
12 8 (0.30%) yum
12 8 (0.30%) ZABBIX
13 7 (0.26%) vCenter Server
14 6 (0.23%) Hadoop YARN
14 6 (0.23%) Kubeflow
14 6 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
15 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (0.19%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.19%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 116 (4.35%) Microsoft
2 115 (4.31%) Oracle
3 92 (3.45%) Google
4 65 (2.44%) Splunk
5 45 (1.69%) Red Hat
6 43 (1.61%) IBM
7 33 (1.24%) VMware
8 32 (1.20%) SAP
9 30 (1.13%) AppDynamics
10 26 (0.98%) Adobe
11 25 (0.94%) Dynatrace
12 22 (0.83%) OpenAI
13 19 (0.71%) Palantir
14 18 (0.68%) Databricks
15 16 (0.60%) ServiceNow
16 14 (0.53%) Salesforce
16 14 (0.53%) SendGrid
17 13 (0.49%) Foundry
18 12 (0.45%) Solace
18 12 (0.45%) Veracode