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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 27 35
Rank change year-on-year -40 +8 -17
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,147 2,829 4,449
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.67% 7.21% 5.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.92% 22.03% 16.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,365 1,495 3,413
10th Percentile £42,990 £41,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £75,000 £73,805
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +1.62% -7.74%
75th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,250 £132,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +3.57% -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 14,392 12,844 27,125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.88% 32.74% 32.23%
Number of salaries quoted 10,159 9,198 22,455
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,475
25th Percentile £48,394 £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 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -5 1,054 £90,000 -16.28% 329
North of England -46 536 £68,076 +1.55% 194
Yorkshire +13 228 £72,500 +2.12% 64
North West -62 224 £70,000 +3.70% 89
South East -47 210 £67,500 +3.85% 136
South West -37 177 £62,500 +4.17% 69
Midlands -113 90 £50,000 -6.87% 50
North East -9 84 £52,500 -7.08% 41
West Midlands -66 74 £50,000 -9.09% 27
East of England -70 49 £50,000 - 33
East Midlands -86 15 £54,500 +14.74% 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 43 (2.00%) Apache
2 35 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (1.63%) Apache Spark
2 35 (1.63%) Confluence
3 19 (0.88%) JBoss
4 14 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
5 12 (0.56%) OpenStack
6 9 (0.42%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.23%) Appian
8 5 (0.23%) GeoServer
8 5 (0.23%) IIS
9 4 (0.19%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.19%) Camunda
9 4 (0.19%) CMS
9 4 (0.19%) Moodle
10 3 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.14%) Liferay
10 3 (0.14%) nginx
10 3 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 10 (0.47%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.047%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.047%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.047%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 12 (0.56%) Maximo
2 4 (0.19%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.14%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.14%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.093%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.047%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.047%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.047%) Endur
5 1 (0.047%) Findur
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.047%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.047%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 890 (41.45%) AWS
2 395 (18.40%) Azure
3 254 (11.83%) GCP
4 179 (8.34%) Serverless
5 129 (6.01%) AWS CloudFormation
6 119 (5.54%) Amazon S3
7 117 (5.45%) SaaS
8 114 (5.31%) AWS Lambda
9 108 (5.03%) Amazon ECS
10 100 (4.66%) Amazon EKS
11 97 (4.52%) GitHub
12 75 (3.49%) AWS Step Functions
13 53 (2.47%) Apigee
14 52 (2.42%) Amazon ECR
14 52 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
15 44 (2.05%) Amazon SQS
16 39 (1.82%) dbt
17 38 (1.77%) OpenShift
18 33 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
19 32 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.33%) Broadband
2 33 (1.54%) HTTP
3 28 (1.30%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.37%) AMQP
4 8 (0.37%) Internet
5 5 (0.23%) IPv4
5 5 (0.23%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (0.19%) Multicast
6 4 (0.19%) SAN
7 3 (0.14%) BGP
7 3 (0.14%) LAN
7 3 (0.14%) Network Security
7 3 (0.14%) PuTTY
7 3 (0.14%) VLAN
7 3 (0.14%) VPN
7 3 (0.14%) WAN
8 2 (0.093%) DHCP
8 2 (0.093%) DNS
8 2 (0.093%) Firewall
8 2 (0.093%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (8.15%) NoSQL
2 154 (7.17%) PostgreSQL
3 110 (5.12%) Relational Database
4 96 (4.47%) DynamoDB
5 92 (4.29%) MongoDB
6 76 (3.54%) SQL Server
7 60 (2.79%) MySQL
8 43 (2.00%) RDBMS
9 34 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
9 34 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
10 30 (1.40%) Big Data
10 30 (1.40%) DB2
11 24 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
12 23 (1.07%) Hadoop
13 21 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
13 21 (0.98%) Neo4j
14 20 (0.93%) BigQuery
15 16 (0.75%) Redis
16 14 (0.65%) Flink
16 14 (0.65%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 178 (8.29%) Jenkins
2 160 (7.45%) Git
3 148 (6.89%) GitLab
4 95 (4.42%) Selenium
5 94 (4.38%) JIRA
6 80 (3.73%) Maven
7 75 (3.49%) Cucumber
8 74 (3.45%) Cypress.io
9 66 (3.07%) SonarQube
10 58 (2.70%) TeamCity
11 49 (2.28%) JUnit
12 48 (2.24%) Postman
13 31 (1.44%) Bitbucket
14 30 (1.40%) JMeter
14 30 (1.40%) SoapUI
15 27 (1.26%) WebDriver
16 25 (1.16%) Gradle
16 25 (1.16%) REST Assured
16 25 (1.16%) Team Foundation Server
17 24 (1.12%) Claude Code
General
1 537 (25.01%) Finance
2 368 (17.14%) Social Skills
3 235 (10.95%) Banking
4 161 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
5 158 (7.36%) Public Sector
6 144 (6.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 114 (5.31%) Front Office
8 106 (4.94%) Law
9 91 (4.24%) Retail
10 64 (2.98%) Financial Institution
11 48 (2.24%) Investment Banking
12 47 (2.19%) Back Office
13 33 (1.54%) Games
14 30 (1.40%) Telecoms
15 24 (1.12%) Health Technology
15 24 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
16 23 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
17 22 (1.02%) Aerospace
17 22 (1.02%) Marketing
18 18 (0.84%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 803 (37.40%) Developer
2 544 (25.34%) Senior
3 516 (24.03%) Java Developer
4 494 (23.01%) Software Engineer
5 352 (16.39%) Java Engineer
6 314 (14.63%) Lead
7 211 (9.83%) Senior Developer
8 177 (8.24%) Java Software Engineer
9 153 (7.13%) Senior Software Engineer
10 151 (7.03%) Full-Stack Developer
11 150 (6.99%) Senior Java Developer
12 126 (5.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 111 (5.17%) Senior Java Engineer
14 104 (4.84%) Software Developer
15 96 (4.47%) Lead Software Engineer
16 90 (4.19%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 82 (3.82%) Architect
18 58 (2.70%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 57 (2.65%) Lead Developer
20 54 (2.52%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 444 (20.68%) Spring
2 404 (18.82%) Spring Boot
3 316 (14.72%) React
4 236 (10.99%) REST
5 219 (10.20%) AngularJS
6 195 (9.08%) Node.js
7 185 (8.62%) Kafka
8 160 (7.45%) .NET
9 119 (5.54%) RESTful
10 102 (4.75%) HTML
11 87 (4.05%) SOAP
12 82 (3.82%) CSS
13 79 (3.68%) Web Services
14 70 (3.26%) GraphQL
15 66 (3.07%) Elastic Stack
16 62 (2.89%) JSON
17 60 (2.79%) Vue
18 55 (2.56%) Gherkin
19 51 (2.38%) Hibernate
20 47 (2.19%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 240 (11.18%) Cloud Native
2 168 (7.82%) Distributed Systems
3 124 (5.78%) Product Ownership
4 79 (3.68%) Public Cloud
5 52 (2.42%) Fixed Income
6 49 (2.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 43 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
8 40 (1.86%) Distributed Architecture
8 40 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
9 36 (1.68%) Equities
10 35 (1.63%) Blog
11 32 (1.49%) Mobile App
12 30 (1.40%) Data Structures
13 28 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
14 27 (1.26%) e-Learning
14 27 (1.26%) Virtual Team
15 22 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
16 21 (0.98%) FPGA
17 20 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
17 20 (0.93%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 193 (8.99%) Linux
2 50 (2.33%) Android
3 46 (2.14%) Unix
4 44 (2.05%) Windows
5 14 (0.65%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.37%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.28%) CentOS
9 4 (0.19%) Debian
9 4 (0.19%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.19%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.093%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.047%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 758 (35.31%) Agile
2 711 (33.12%) Software Engineering
3 632 (29.44%) CI/CD
4 504 (23.47%) DevOps
5 445 (20.73%) Microservices
6 429 (19.98%) Full-Stack Development
7 372 (17.33%) Test Automation
8 357 (16.63%) Mentoring
9 319 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
10 248 (11.55%) AI
11 232 (10.81%) Containerisation
12 218 (10.15%) Continuous Improvement
13 217 (10.11%) Scrum
14 208 (9.69%) Roadmaps
15 195 (9.08%) Infrastructure as Code
16 194 (9.04%) Computer Science
16 194 (9.04%) TDD
17 192 (8.94%) Technical Leadership
18 177 (8.24%) SDLC
19 158 (7.36%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 660 (30.74%) Python
2 418 (19.47%) SQL
3 399 (18.58%) JavaScript
4 279 (12.99%) TypeScript
5 227 (10.57%) C#
6 156 (7.27%) Go
7 154 (7.17%) C++
8 108 (5.03%) Bash
9 106 (4.94%) Kotlin
10 73 (3.40%) C
11 61 (2.84%) Groovy
12 42 (1.96%) PHP
12 42 (1.96%) Scala
13 34 (1.58%) PL/SQL
14 29 (1.35%) Rust
15 22 (1.02%) PowerShell
16 17 (0.79%) Apex Code
17 15 (0.70%) R
18 14 (0.65%) Ruby
19 12 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 327 (15.23%) Security Cleared
2 264 (12.30%) Degree
3 207 (9.64%) SC Cleared
4 129 (6.01%) DV Cleared
5 128 (5.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 96 (4.47%) AWS Certification
7 37 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 35 (1.63%) Master's Degree
9 29 (1.35%) ISTQB
10 25 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (1.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 21 (0.98%) Azure Certification
13 20 (0.93%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 19 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
15 18 (0.84%) OSCP
16 16 (0.75%) DBS Check
17 14 (0.65%) PhD
17 14 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
18 13 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
18 13 (0.61%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (6.61%) QA
2 39 (1.82%) Accessibility
3 34 (1.58%) Data Quality
4 15 (0.70%) PCI DSS
5 13 (0.61%) GRC
6 12 (0.56%) SOC 2
7 9 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
8 7 (0.33%) GDPR
8 7 (0.33%) WCAG
9 5 (0.23%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.19%) SLA
11 3 (0.14%) NIST
12 2 (0.093%) ISO/IEC 14443
12 2 (0.093%) ISO/IEC 7816
13 1 (0.047%) Good Clinical Practice
13 1 (0.047%) MiFID
13 1 (0.047%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 344 (16.02%) Docker
2 10 (0.47%) Active Directory
2 10 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.37%) vSphere
4 5 (0.23%) Firmware
4 5 (0.23%) Squid
4 5 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.23%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.19%) KVM
6 2 (0.093%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.093%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.047%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.047%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.047%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.047%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.047%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 403 (18.77%) Kubernetes
2 240 (11.18%) Terraform
3 90 (4.19%) Grafana
4 87 (4.05%) Ansible
5 56 (2.61%) Argo
6 45 (2.10%) HP Fortify
7 43 (2.00%) Prometheus
8 20 (0.93%) Kibana
9 18 (0.84%) Kustomize
10 13 (0.61%) Rancher
11 11 (0.51%) Packer
12 10 (0.47%) Puppet
13 8 (0.37%) logstash
14 7 (0.33%) yum
15 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
16 5 (0.23%) FTK
16 5 (0.23%) ZABBIX
17 4 (0.19%) Progress Chef
18 3 (0.14%) Nagios
18 3 (0.14%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 82 (3.82%) Microsoft
1 82 (3.82%) Oracle
2 66 (3.07%) Google
3 32 (1.49%) IBM
4 27 (1.26%) Salesforce
5 25 (1.16%) Splunk
6 23 (1.07%) MuleSoft
7 18 (0.84%) Foundry
7 18 (0.84%) Red Hat
8 17 (0.79%) Atlassian
8 17 (0.79%) Palantir
9 16 (0.75%) AppDynamics
10 15 (0.70%) VMware
11 14 (0.65%) Databricks
11 14 (0.65%) Dynatrace
12 13 (0.61%) OpenAI
13 11 (0.51%) Informatica
13 11 (0.51%) SAP
13 11 (0.51%) Solace
14 10 (0.47%) ServiceNow