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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 29 35
Rank change year-on-year -28 +6 -14
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,465 2,972 3,829
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.65% 6.82% 5.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.79% 23.16% 17.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,589 1,371 2,667
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,400
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% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +3.23%

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 16,666 12,832 21,498
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.90% 29.46% 29.58%
Number of salaries quoted 12,143 8,567 16,041
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +4.92% -6.15%
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 7 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 7 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 -12 1,079 £85,000 -19.05% 1,263
North of England -26 686 £67,500 +0.69% 206
North West -37 309 £70,000 - 113
South West -13 265 £60,000 - 121
Yorkshire +43 222 £72,500 +9.43% 51
South East -58 212 £67,500 +3.85% 134
North East +6 155 £55,000 +15.79% 43
Midlands -74 142 £67,500 +12.50% 87
West Midlands -53 120 £67,500 +12.03% 64
East of England -67 57 £51,359 +16.73% 45
East Midlands -82 21 £60,000 +26.32% 23
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 60 (2.43%) Confluence
2 50 (2.03%) Apache
3 40 (1.62%) Apache Spark
4 29 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (0.69%) Camunda
6 14 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 14 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
7 9 (0.37%) JBoss
8 8 (0.32%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.20%) CICS
10 5 (0.20%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.16%) CMS
11 4 (0.16%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.16%) SAS
11 4 (0.16%) SharePoint
12 3 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
12 3 (0.12%) Documentum
12 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.65%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.12%) Moqups
7 2 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.081%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.081%) PTC Creo
7 2 (0.081%) Windchill
8 1 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.041%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 16 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.32%) Maximo
3 5 (0.20%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.20%) Temenos T24
4 4 (0.16%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.12%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.081%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.081%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 1 (0.041%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.041%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.041%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.041%) Endur
7 1 (0.041%) Findur
7 1 (0.041%) Infor SunSystems
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.041%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.041%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,029 (41.74%) AWS
2 513 (20.81%) Azure
3 304 (12.33%) GCP
4 198 (8.03%) Serverless
5 158 (6.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 134 (5.44%) GitHub
7 125 (5.07%) AWS Lambda
8 118 (4.79%) Amazon ECS
9 111 (4.50%) Amazon S3
10 94 (3.81%) SaaS
11 90 (3.65%) Amazon EKS
12 79 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
13 68 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
14 64 (2.60%) AWS Step Functions
15 41 (1.66%) Amazon ECR
16 40 (1.62%) OpenShift
17 37 (1.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 35 (1.42%) Azure Service Bus
19 34 (1.38%) Amazon SQS
19 34 (1.38%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 35 (1.42%) HTTP
2 31 (1.26%) 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 (0.32%) IPv4
7 8 (0.32%) 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 4 (0.16%) Ethernet
11 3 (0.12%) RIP
11 3 (0.12%) SAN
11 3 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
2 168 (6.82%) NoSQL
3 126 (5.11%) MongoDB
4 116 (4.71%) Relational Database
5 86 (3.49%) MySQL
6 82 (3.33%) DynamoDB
7 77 (3.12%) SQL Server
8 39 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
9 34 (1.38%) Big Data
10 28 (1.14%) Redis
11 27 (1.10%) Db2
12 24 (0.97%) BigQuery
13 23 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
14 22 (0.89%) Hadoop
15 21 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
16 16 (0.65%) Metadata
16 16 (0.65%) RDBMS
17 15 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
18 13 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
18 13 (0.53%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 259 (10.51%) Git
2 199 (8.07%) Jenkins
3 176 (7.14%) GitLab
4 93 (3.77%) JIRA
5 88 (3.57%) JUnit
6 86 (3.49%) Cucumber
7 75 (3.04%) Maven
7 75 (3.04%) Selenium
8 63 (2.56%) Cypress.io
9 50 (2.03%) SonarQube
10 47 (1.91%) TeamCity
11 42 (1.70%) Postman
12 40 (1.62%) JMeter
13 37 (1.50%) Eclipse
13 37 (1.50%) Mockito
14 34 (1.38%) Bitbucket
15 33 (1.34%) Subversion
16 24 (0.97%) Claude Code
17 23 (0.93%) REST Assured
18 19 (0.77%) Gradle
General
1 666 (27.02%) Finance
2 402 (16.31%) Social Skills
3 246 (9.98%) Public Sector
4 220 (8.92%) Banking
5 175 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
6 129 (5.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 110 (4.46%) Front Office
8 98 (3.98%) Law
9 75 (3.04%) Retail
10 60 (2.43%) Financial Institution
11 40 (1.62%) Investment Banking
12 35 (1.42%) Marketing
13 34 (1.38%) Health Technology
14 32 (1.30%) Back Office
15 29 (1.18%) Manufacturing
16 27 (1.10%) Legal
17 23 (0.93%) Games
18 20 (0.81%) Aerospace
18 20 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
18 20 (0.81%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 858 (34.81%) Developer
2 627 (25.44%) Senior
3 578 (23.45%) Software Engineer
4 559 (22.68%) Java Developer
5 421 (17.08%) Java Engineer
6 355 (14.40%) Lead
7 213 (8.64%) Senior Developer
8 196 (7.95%) Senior Software Engineer
9 163 (6.61%) Java Software Engineer
10 151 (6.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 139 (5.64%) Full-Stack Developer
12 138 (5.60%) Senior Java Developer
13 131 (5.31%) Senior Java Engineer
14 127 (5.15%) Lead Software Engineer
15 122 (4.95%) Software Developer
16 87 (3.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 82 (3.33%) Principal Engineer
18 78 (3.16%) Architect
19 75 (3.04%) DevOps Engineer
20 72 (2.92%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 566 (22.96%) Spring
2 471 (19.11%) Spring Boot
3 290 (11.76%) React
4 273 (11.08%) Kafka
5 236 (9.57%) AngularJS
6 231 (9.37%) REST
7 225 (9.13%) Node.js
8 190 (7.71%) RESTful
9 167 (6.77%) .NET
10 85 (3.45%) Web Services
11 78 (3.16%) CSS
12 70 (2.84%) HTML
13 69 (2.80%) GraphQL
14 65 (2.64%) Vue
15 54 (2.19%) OAuth
16 51 (2.07%) Playwright
17 48 (1.95%) Hibernate
17 48 (1.95%) RabbitMQ
18 45 (1.83%) SOAP
19 44 (1.78%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 314 (12.74%) Cloud Native
2 232 (9.41%) Distributed Systems
3 160 (6.49%) Product Ownership
4 111 (4.50%) Public Cloud
5 69 (2.80%) Onboarding
6 57 (2.31%) Fixed Income
6 57 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
7 55 (2.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 53 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
9 41 (1.66%) Data Structures
9 41 (1.66%) Distributed Architecture
10 37 (1.50%) Virtual Team
11 36 (1.46%) e-Learning
12 35 (1.42%) Mobile App
13 34 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
14 33 (1.34%) Equities
15 29 (1.18%) Algorithms
16 23 (0.93%) AI Agents
16 23 (0.93%) Blog
17 22 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 226 (9.17%) Linux
2 68 (2.76%) Windows
3 44 (1.78%) Android
4 43 (1.74%) Unix
5 18 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (0.65%) Apple iOS
7 15 (0.61%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.20%) CentOS
9 4 (0.16%) Debian
9 4 (0.16%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.16%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.081%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 884 (35.86%) Software Engineering
2 837 (33.96%) Agile
3 806 (32.70%) CI/CD
4 587 (23.81%) Microservices
5 581 (23.57%) DevOps
6 499 (20.24%) Test Automation
7 470 (19.07%) Full-Stack Development
8 431 (17.48%) Mentoring
9 412 (16.71%) Problem-Solving
10 359 (14.56%) AI
11 313 (12.70%) Containerisation
12 289 (11.72%) Infrastructure as Code
13 287 (11.64%) Continuous Improvement
14 253 (10.26%) TDD
15 240 (9.74%) Roadmaps
16 236 (9.57%) Technical Leadership
17 225 (9.13%) Computer Science
18 219 (8.88%) Scrum
19 210 (8.52%) SDLC
20 206 (8.36%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 810 (32.86%) Python
2 462 (18.74%) SQL
3 436 (17.69%) JavaScript
4 267 (10.83%) TypeScript
5 263 (10.67%) C#
6 239 (9.70%) C++
7 150 (6.09%) Go
8 116 (4.71%) Bash
9 110 (4.46%) Kotlin
10 74 (3.00%) C
11 73 (2.96%) Scala
12 60 (2.43%) PHP
13 58 (2.35%) Groovy
14 57 (2.31%) Rust
15 44 (1.78%) Perl
16 40 (1.62%) PowerShell
17 37 (1.50%) Ruby
18 33 (1.34%) PL/SQL
19 21 (0.85%) Shell Script
20 13 (0.53%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 440 (17.85%) Security Cleared
2 275 (11.16%) Degree
3 250 (10.14%) SC Cleared
4 156 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 156 (6.33%) DV Cleared
5 99 (4.02%) AWS Certification
6 57 (2.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 28 (1.14%) Master's Degree
8 20 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 20 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
9 19 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (0.73%) ISTQB
10 18 (0.73%) OSCP
11 14 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
13 12 (0.49%) DBS Check
14 10 (0.41%) CREST Certified
15 9 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
15 9 (0.37%) Azure Certification
16 8 (0.32%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (6.41%) QA
2 76 (3.08%) Accessibility
3 54 (2.19%) Data Quality
4 28 (1.14%) 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 (0.32%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.28%) ISO 20022
9 7 (0.28%) 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%) MIL-STD-1553
13 2 (0.081%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 401 (16.27%) Docker
2 25 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (0.89%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.49%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.45%) vSphere
6 8 (0.32%) Squid
7 7 (0.28%) 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
1 458 (18.58%) Kubernetes
2 285 (11.56%) Terraform
3 117 (4.75%) Ansible
4 91 (3.69%) Grafana
5 34 (1.38%) Prometheus
6 28 (1.14%) Argo
6 28 (1.14%) Kibana
7 27 (1.10%) HP Fortify
8 21 (0.85%) Puppet
9 13 (0.53%) Packer
10 11 (0.45%) Rancher
11 10 (0.41%) logstash
12 8 (0.32%) ZABBIX
13 6 (0.24%) Hadoop YARN
13 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (0.24%) yum
14 5 (0.20%) Kubeflow
14 5 (0.20%) Red Hat Satellite
15 4 (0.16%) Control-M
15 4 (0.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 105 (4.26%) Oracle
2 101 (4.10%) Microsoft
3 75 (3.04%) Google
4 61 (2.47%) Splunk
5 44 (1.78%) IBM
6 34 (1.38%) SAP
7 31 (1.26%) Red Hat
8 29 (1.18%) VMware
9 24 (0.97%) Adobe
9 24 (0.97%) AppDynamics
9 24 (0.97%) Dynatrace
10 23 (0.93%) Palantir
11 22 (0.89%) Salesforce
12 21 (0.85%) ServiceNow
13 18 (0.73%) Foundry
14 17 (0.69%) OpenAI
15 14 (0.57%) Databricks
16 13 (0.53%) MuleSoft
16 13 (0.53%) SendGrid
17 12 (0.49%) Bloomberg