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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 30 31
Rank change year-on-year -28 +1 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,595 2,769 3,809
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.53% 6.45% 5.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.39% 23.64% 18.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,650 1,196 2,420
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,936
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% +0.46%
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 16,860 11,713 21,134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.47% 27.28% 30.75%
Number of salaries quoted 12,251 7,740 13,470
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 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
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 21 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 21 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 -14 1,085 £82,500 -23.26% 2,756
North of England -25 725 £69,305 +6.62% 495
North West -36 348 £70,000 - 294
South West +2 302 £65,000 +8.33% 269
South East -47 232 £67,500 +3.85% 244
Yorkshire +29 196 £75,000 +15.38% 122
Midlands -57 186 £69,305 +15.51% 216
North East +14 181 £55,000 +15.79% 80
West Midlands -40 158 £69,655 +16.09% 156
East of England -78 50 £60,000 +33.33% 101
East Midlands -84 28 £60,000 +4.35% 60
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 61 (2.35%) Confluence
2 56 (2.16%) Apache
3 38 (1.46%) Apache Spark
4 24 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (0.66%) Camunda
6 15 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 10 (0.39%) Jupyter
7 10 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
8 8 (0.31%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.23%) CMS
10 6 (0.23%) JBoss
11 5 (0.19%) CICS
11 5 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.15%) SAS
12 4 (0.15%) SharePoint
12 4 (0.15%) WebLogic
12 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.12%) Documentum
Applications
1 21 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.58%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.35%) Simulink
4 6 (0.23%) Moqups
5 5 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.15%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.12%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.077%) PTC Creo
8 2 (0.077%) Windchill
9 1 (0.039%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.039%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.039%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.19%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.15%) Temenos T24
4 3 (0.12%) Maximo
5 2 (0.077%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.077%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.077%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
6 1 (0.039%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.039%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.039%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.039%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.039%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.039%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.039%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.039%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,056 (40.69%) AWS
2 527 (20.31%) Azure
3 296 (11.41%) GCP
4 210 (8.09%) Serverless
5 165 (6.36%) AWS CloudFormation
5 165 (6.36%) GitHub
6 145 (5.59%) AWS Lambda
7 115 (4.43%) Amazon S3
8 113 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
9 101 (3.89%) Amazon EKS
9 101 (3.89%) SaaS
10 93 (3.58%) GitHub Actions
11 82 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
12 65 (2.50%) AWS Step Functions
13 50 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
14 45 (1.73%) Datadog
15 40 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 40 (1.54%) OpenShift
16 37 (1.43%) Azure Service Bus
17 35 (1.35%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 42 (1.62%) HTTP
2 16 (0.62%) Network Security
3 14 (0.54%) DMARC
4 13 (0.50%) TCP/IP
5 9 (0.35%) DNS
5 9 (0.35%) IPv4
5 9 (0.35%) MQTT
5 9 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
5 9 (0.35%) Wireshark
6 8 (0.31%) AMQP
6 8 (0.31%) VPN
7 7 (0.27%) BGP
8 6 (0.23%) IPsec
9 5 (0.19%) Broadband
9 5 (0.19%) Ethernet
9 5 (0.19%) Firewall
9 5 (0.19%) Internet
9 5 (0.19%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.15%) RIP
11 3 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (6.40%) NoSQL
2 164 (6.32%) PostgreSQL
3 130 (5.01%) MongoDB
4 125 (4.82%) Relational Database
5 78 (3.01%) DynamoDB
6 73 (2.81%) MySQL
7 68 (2.62%) SQL Server
8 48 (1.85%) Big Data
9 41 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
10 29 (1.12%) Redis
11 26 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
12 25 (0.96%) Hadoop
13 24 (0.92%) Power BI
14 23 (0.89%) Data Lake
15 22 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
15 22 (0.85%) Db2
16 19 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
16 19 (0.73%) BigQuery
17 17 (0.66%) Spark SQL
18 15 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 289 (11.14%) Git
2 212 (8.17%) Jenkins
3 201 (7.75%) GitLab
4 100 (3.85%) JUnit
5 98 (3.78%) JIRA
6 95 (3.66%) Cucumber
7 77 (2.97%) Maven
8 67 (2.58%) Selenium
9 59 (2.27%) Cypress.io
10 52 (2.00%) TeamCity
11 47 (1.81%) Eclipse
11 47 (1.81%) SonarQube
12 45 (1.73%) Postman
13 40 (1.54%) Mockito
14 39 (1.50%) Subversion
15 35 (1.35%) Bitbucket
15 35 (1.35%) JMeter
16 22 (0.85%) Claude Code
17 18 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 18 (0.69%) REST Assured
General
1 668 (25.74%) Finance
2 454 (17.50%) Social Skills
3 269 (10.37%) Banking
4 246 (9.48%) Public Sector
5 187 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
6 132 (5.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 110 (4.24%) Law
8 86 (3.31%) Retail
9 69 (2.66%) Financial Institution
9 69 (2.66%) Front Office
10 39 (1.50%) Legal
10 39 (1.50%) Manufacturing
11 36 (1.39%) Marketing
12 34 (1.31%) Back Office
12 34 (1.31%) Investment Banking
13 31 (1.19%) Health Technology
14 23 (0.89%) Aerospace
15 22 (0.85%) Publishing
16 21 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
16 21 (0.81%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 801 (30.87%) Developer
2 660 (25.43%) Senior
3 585 (22.54%) Software Engineer
4 522 (20.12%) Java Engineer
5 519 (20.00%) Java Developer
6 362 (13.95%) Lead
7 220 (8.48%) Senior Developer
8 193 (7.44%) Senior Software Engineer
9 178 (6.86%) Senior Java Engineer
10 173 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
11 162 (6.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 140 (5.39%) Senior Java Developer
13 131 (5.05%) Full-Stack Developer
14 125 (4.82%) Software Developer
15 109 (4.20%) Lead Software Engineer
16 92 (3.55%) Principal Engineer
17 85 (3.28%) DevOps Engineer
18 83 (3.20%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 82 (3.16%) Architect
20 75 (2.89%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 617 (23.78%) Spring
2 511 (19.69%) Spring Boot
3 306 (11.79%) Terraform
4 276 (10.64%) Kafka
5 275 (10.60%) React
6 259 (9.98%) REST
7 227 (8.75%) AngularJS
8 200 (7.71%) Node.js
9 191 (7.36%) RESTful
10 170 (6.55%) .NET
11 80 (3.08%) Web Services
12 68 (2.62%) HTML
13 67 (2.58%) CSS
14 58 (2.24%) OAuth
14 58 (2.24%) Vue
15 57 (2.20%) RabbitMQ
16 54 (2.08%) Hibernate
17 45 (1.73%) JSON
17 45 (1.73%) Playwright
18 43 (1.66%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 341 (13.14%) Cloud Native
2 265 (10.21%) Distributed Systems
3 173 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 130 (5.01%) Public Cloud
5 75 (2.89%) Onboarding
6 65 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
7 57 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
8 47 (1.81%) e-Learning
9 46 (1.77%) Distributed Architecture
10 44 (1.70%) Data Structures
11 42 (1.62%) Algorithms
12 41 (1.58%) Virtual Team
13 40 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 33 (1.27%) Blog
15 32 (1.23%) Mobile App
16 31 (1.19%) AI Agents
17 30 (1.16%) Equities
18 26 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
18 26 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
19 24 (0.92%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 218 (8.40%) Linux
2 67 (2.58%) Windows
3 38 (1.46%) Unix
4 37 (1.43%) Android
5 25 (0.96%) Apple iOS
6 22 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (0.58%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.31%) CentOS
9 7 (0.27%) Debian
9 7 (0.27%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.15%) Kali Linux
10 4 (0.15%) VMS
11 3 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.077%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.039%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 952 (36.69%) Software Engineering
2 868 (33.45%) CI/CD
3 799 (30.79%) Agile
4 625 (24.08%) Microservices
5 587 (22.62%) DevOps
6 505 (19.46%) Full-Stack Development
7 494 (19.04%) Test Automation
8 464 (17.88%) Mentoring
9 446 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
10 398 (15.34%) AI
11 331 (12.76%) Containerisation
12 317 (12.22%) Infrastructure as Code
13 306 (11.79%) Continuous Improvement
14 286 (11.02%) Event-Driven
15 252 (9.71%) Technical Leadership
16 243 (9.36%) Computer Science
16 243 (9.36%) Roadmaps
17 229 (8.82%) SDLC
18 227 (8.75%) Scrum
18 227 (8.75%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 816 (31.45%) Python
2 480 (18.50%) SQL
3 439 (16.92%) JavaScript
4 269 (10.37%) C#
4 269 (10.37%) C++
5 260 (10.02%) TypeScript
6 133 (5.13%) Go
7 115 (4.43%) Bash
8 107 (4.12%) Kotlin
9 78 (3.01%) C
10 76 (2.93%) Scala
11 57 (2.20%) Rust
12 52 (2.00%) Groovy
13 51 (1.97%) PHP
14 50 (1.93%) Perl
15 36 (1.39%) PowerShell
16 35 (1.35%) Ruby
17 30 (1.16%) PL/SQL
18 22 (0.85%) Shell Script
19 17 (0.66%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 487 (18.77%) Security Cleared
2 285 (10.98%) Degree
3 263 (10.13%) SC Cleared
4 167 (6.44%) DV Cleared
5 164 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 104 (4.01%) AWS Certification
7 66 (2.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 31 (1.19%) Master's Degree
9 24 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (0.73%) ISTQB
10 19 (0.73%) OSCP
11 17 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
12 16 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 15 (0.58%) DBS Check
14 14 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
16 12 (0.46%) PhD
17 10 (0.39%) CREST Certified
18 8 (0.31%) CCNA
18 8 (0.31%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (6.55%) QA
2 82 (3.16%) Data Quality
3 80 (3.08%) Accessibility
4 27 (1.04%) WCAG
5 26 (1.00%) GDPR
6 17 (0.66%) ISO 20022
7 15 (0.58%) NIST
8 11 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.31%) GRC
10 7 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.23%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 14443
12 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 4 (0.15%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.12%) MiFID
13 3 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
13 3 (0.12%) PSD2
13 3 (0.12%) UCITS
14 2 (0.077%) Good Clinical Practice
14 2 (0.077%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 432 (16.65%) Docker
2 26 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (0.73%) Active Directory
4 14 (0.54%) Firmware
5 12 (0.46%) Embedded Firmware
5 12 (0.46%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.42%) vSphere
7 8 (0.31%) Squid
7 8 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.19%) KVM
11 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.077%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 493 (19.00%) Kubernetes
2 141 (5.43%) Ansible
3 95 (3.66%) Grafana
4 33 (1.27%) Argo
4 33 (1.27%) Prometheus
5 29 (1.12%) Kibana
6 27 (1.04%) Puppet
7 21 (0.81%) HP Fortify
8 14 (0.54%) Packer
9 13 (0.50%) Rancher
10 12 (0.46%) logstash
11 8 (0.31%) ZABBIX
12 7 (0.27%) yum
13 6 (0.23%) Hadoop YARN
13 6 (0.23%) Kubeflow
14 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
14 5 (0.19%) Red Hat Satellite
15 4 (0.15%) Control-M
15 4 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 116 (4.47%) Oracle
2 110 (4.24%) Microsoft
3 83 (3.20%) Google
4 62 (2.39%) Splunk
5 45 (1.73%) Red Hat
6 43 (1.66%) IBM
7 32 (1.23%) SAP
8 30 (1.16%) AppDynamics
8 30 (1.16%) VMware
9 26 (1.00%) Adobe
10 25 (0.96%) Dynatrace
11 22 (0.85%) OpenAI
12 19 (0.73%) Palantir
13 18 (0.69%) Databricks
14 17 (0.66%) ServiceNow
15 14 (0.54%) Salesforce
15 14 (0.54%) SendGrid
16 12 (0.46%) Bloomberg
16 12 (0.46%) Foundry
16 12 (0.46%) Solace