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 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 46 29
Rank change year-on-year -25 -17 -11
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,871 2,106 4,286
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.83% 5.46% 5.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.57% 15.80% 16.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,228 1,459 3,389
10th Percentile £44,100 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -7.22%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year - +6.27% -5.90%

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 12,013 13,330 25,568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.16% 34.55% 34.25%
Number of salaries quoted 8,738 9,372 21,819
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,683 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 17 March 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 17 March 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 -4 955 £100,000 -4.76% 289
North of England -6 385 £70,000 +7.69% 177
South East -46 193 £67,500 +3.85% 120
Yorkshire +9 190 £70,000 +3.70% 57
South West -17 170 £65,000 - 67
North West -13 167 £70,000 +7.69% 82
Midlands -42 87 £55,000 +22.22% 39
West Midlands +3 73 £55,000 +4.76% 24
East of England -91 34 £50,000 - 24
North East -24 28 £52,500 -8.70% 38
East Midlands -59 13 £49,000 +40.00% 15
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 48 (2.57%) Apache Spark
2 43 (2.30%) Apache
3 36 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (1.50%) Confluence
5 22 (1.18%) JBoss
6 14 (0.75%) OpenStack
7 13 (0.69%) WebSphere
8 9 (0.48%) Anypoint
9 7 (0.37%) IIS
9 7 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.32%) SharePoint
11 5 (0.27%) Camunda
12 4 (0.21%) Appian
12 4 (0.21%) Moodle
12 4 (0.21%) nginx
13 3 (0.16%) GeoServer
13 3 (0.16%) Liferay
14 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.11%) CICS
Applications
1 13 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 12 (0.64%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.11%) Windchill
6 1 (0.053%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 13 (0.69%) Maximo
2 8 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.37%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.27%) Shopify
5 2 (0.11%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.11%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.053%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.053%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 825 (44.09%) AWS
2 347 (18.55%) Azure
3 237 (12.67%) GCP
4 161 (8.61%) Serverless
5 134 (7.16%) SaaS
6 122 (6.52%) Amazon EKS
7 97 (5.18%) AWS Lambda
8 95 (5.08%) Amazon S3
9 90 (4.81%) Amazon ECS
9 90 (4.81%) GitHub
10 83 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
11 52 (2.78%) AWS Step Functions
12 50 (2.67%) OpenShift
13 44 (2.35%) dbt
14 40 (2.14%) Amazon SQS
15 39 (2.08%) Apigee
16 37 (1.98%) Amazon ECR
17 32 (1.71%) Amazon EC2
17 32 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
18 30 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 49 (2.62%) Broadband
2 36 (1.92%) TCP/IP
3 16 (0.86%) HTTP
4 11 (0.59%) AMQP
5 10 (0.53%) VPN
6 8 (0.43%) Internet
7 6 (0.32%) BGP
7 6 (0.32%) Multicast
7 6 (0.32%) VLAN
8 5 (0.27%) Firewall
8 5 (0.27%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.21%) SAN
10 3 (0.16%) DNS
10 3 (0.16%) PuTTY
11 2 (0.11%) DHCP
11 2 (0.11%) LAN
11 2 (0.11%) NAS
11 2 (0.11%) SNMP
11 2 (0.11%) WAN
12 1 (0.053%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (8.77%) PostgreSQL
2 152 (8.12%) NoSQL
3 125 (6.68%) Relational Database
4 70 (3.74%) DynamoDB
5 69 (3.69%) SQL Server
6 66 (3.53%) MongoDB
7 60 (3.21%) MySQL
8 52 (2.78%) RDBMS
9 42 (2.24%) Elasticsearch
10 40 (2.14%) Big Data
11 34 (1.82%) Hadoop
12 33 (1.76%) DB2
13 31 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
14 29 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
15 25 (1.34%) Neo4j
16 22 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
17 20 (1.07%) Redis
18 16 (0.86%) Data Lake
19 13 (0.69%) Apache Cassandra
19 13 (0.69%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 164 (8.77%) Jenkins
2 142 (7.59%) Git
3 107 (5.72%) Selenium
4 105 (5.61%) GitLab
5 79 (4.22%) JIRA
6 71 (3.79%) Cucumber
7 69 (3.69%) Cypress.io
8 68 (3.63%) TeamCity
9 61 (3.26%) Maven
10 60 (3.21%) JUnit
11 47 (2.51%) Postman
12 44 (2.35%) SonarQube
13 34 (1.82%) WebDriver
14 32 (1.71%) SoapUI
15 31 (1.66%) JMeter
16 24 (1.28%) Bitbucket
16 24 (1.28%) Team Foundation Server
17 23 (1.23%) REST Assured
18 22 (1.18%) Mockito
19 19 (1.02%) Jaeger
General
1 478 (25.55%) Finance
2 394 (21.06%) Social Skills
3 232 (12.40%) Banking
4 161 (8.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 141 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
6 134 (7.16%) Public Sector
7 131 (7.00%) Law
8 111 (5.93%) Front Office
9 108 (5.77%) Retail
10 96 (5.13%) Financial Institution
11 63 (3.37%) Investment Banking
12 56 (2.99%) Back Office
13 47 (2.51%) Games
14 35 (1.87%) Telecoms
15 26 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
16 22 (1.18%) Manufacturing
17 21 (1.12%) Health Technology
18 19 (1.02%) Billing
19 18 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
19 18 (0.96%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 691 (36.93%) Developer
2 470 (25.12%) Software Engineer
3 452 (24.16%) Senior
4 411 (21.97%) Java Developer
5 265 (14.16%) Java Engineer
6 260 (13.90%) Lead
7 161 (8.61%) Senior Developer
8 155 (8.28%) Java Software Engineer
9 149 (7.96%) Full-Stack Developer
10 139 (7.43%) Senior Software Engineer
11 110 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
12 108 (5.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 101 (5.40%) Senior Java Engineer
14 95 (5.08%) Architect
15 94 (5.02%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 80 (4.28%) Software Developer
17 77 (4.12%) Lead Software Engineer
18 54 (2.89%) Lead Developer
19 52 (2.78%) Senior Java Software Engineer
20 49 (2.62%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 400 (21.38%) Spring
2 355 (18.97%) Spring Boot
3 326 (17.42%) React
4 214 (11.44%) REST
5 192 (10.26%) Kafka
6 188 (10.05%) Node.js
7 176 (9.41%) AngularJS
8 160 (8.55%) .NET
9 135 (7.22%) RESTful
10 108 (5.77%) HTML
11 95 (5.08%) SOAP
12 80 (4.28%) GraphQL
13 74 (3.96%) CSS
14 70 (3.74%) Web Services
15 67 (3.58%) Elastic Stack
16 66 (3.53%) Hibernate
17 53 (2.83%) JSON
18 52 (2.78%) Vue
19 50 (2.67%) Gherkin
20 43 (2.30%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 265 (14.16%) Cloud Native
2 172 (9.19%) Distributed Systems
3 79 (4.22%) Product Ownership
4 57 (3.05%) Fixed Income
4 57 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
5 52 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 49 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
7 41 (2.19%) Equities
8 38 (2.03%) Blog
9 34 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
9 34 (1.82%) Public Cloud
10 31 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
11 29 (1.55%) Data Structures
11 29 (1.55%) Distributed Architecture
11 29 (1.55%) Mobile App
12 26 (1.39%) Derivative
13 25 (1.34%) Algorithms
14 23 (1.23%) FPGA
14 23 (1.23%) Management Information System
15 19 (1.02%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 197 (10.53%) Linux
2 46 (2.46%) Android
3 43 (2.30%) Unix
4 33 (1.76%) Windows
5 13 (0.69%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.37%) CentOS
6 7 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.32%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.27%) Debian
9 3 (0.16%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.053%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.053%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 716 (38.27%) Agile
2 659 (35.22%) Software Engineering
3 599 (32.01%) CI/CD
4 450 (24.05%) DevOps
5 411 (21.97%) Microservices
6 392 (20.95%) Full-Stack Development
7 323 (17.26%) Test Automation
8 316 (16.89%) Problem-Solving
9 299 (15.98%) Mentoring
10 226 (12.08%) Containerisation
11 212 (11.33%) AI
12 208 (11.12%) Continuous Improvement
13 190 (10.15%) Scrum
14 187 (9.99%) Computer Science
15 178 (9.51%) TDD
16 159 (8.50%) Infrastructure as Code
17 150 (8.02%) SDLC
17 150 (8.02%) Technical Leadership
18 146 (7.80%) Clean Code
19 144 (7.70%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 605 (32.34%) Python
2 422 (22.55%) JavaScript
3 365 (19.51%) SQL
4 285 (15.23%) TypeScript
5 199 (10.64%) C#
6 157 (8.39%) Go
7 126 (6.73%) C++
8 114 (6.09%) Kotlin
9 87 (4.65%) Bash
10 80 (4.28%) C
11 45 (2.41%) Scala
12 42 (2.24%) Groovy
13 34 (1.82%) PHP
14 33 (1.76%) PL/SQL
14 33 (1.76%) Rust
15 21 (1.12%) Apex Code
15 21 (1.12%) Ruby
16 17 (0.91%) R
17 16 (0.86%) PowerShell
18 14 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 281 (15.02%) Security Cleared
2 262 (14.00%) Degree
3 165 (8.82%) SC Cleared
4 116 (6.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 112 (5.99%) DV Cleared
6 85 (4.54%) AWS Certification
7 42 (2.24%) Master's Degree
8 39 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 33 (1.76%) Azure Certification
10 28 (1.50%) ISTQB
11 26 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
12 23 (1.23%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 22 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
14 17 (0.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 17 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
14 17 (0.91%) PhD
15 11 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
15 11 (0.59%) CREST Certified
15 11 (0.59%) OSCP
16 9 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (6.47%) QA
2 35 (1.87%) Accessibility
3 19 (1.02%) Data Quality
3 19 (1.02%) GDPR
3 19 (1.02%) PCI DSS
4 16 (0.86%) SOC 2
5 12 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.37%) WCAG
8 5 (0.27%) NIST
9 4 (0.21%) EU AI Act
9 4 (0.21%) GRC
9 4 (0.21%) SLA
10 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.16%) NCSC
11 2 (0.11%) ECSS
11 2 (0.11%) MISRA
12 1 (0.053%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.053%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.053%) MiFID
System Software
1 329 (17.58%) Docker
2 14 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (0.64%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
4 5 (0.27%) Firmware
4 5 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.16%) HDFS
5 3 (0.16%) KVM
6 2 (0.11%) vSphere
7 1 (0.053%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.053%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.053%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.053%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.053%) Squid
Systems Management
1 435 (23.25%) Kubernetes
2 197 (10.53%) Terraform
3 103 (5.51%) Grafana
4 75 (4.01%) Ansible
5 47 (2.51%) Prometheus
6 42 (2.24%) Argo
7 34 (1.82%) HP Fortify
8 21 (1.12%) Kibana
9 19 (1.02%) Kustomize
10 10 (0.53%) Rancher
11 7 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (0.37%) Puppet
12 6 (0.32%) yum
13 5 (0.27%) FTK
13 5 (0.27%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.21%) logstash
14 4 (0.21%) Nagios
15 3 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
15 3 (0.16%) Control-M
15 3 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 87 (4.65%) Oracle
2 67 (3.58%) Google
3 60 (3.21%) Microsoft
4 34 (1.82%) MuleSoft
5 33 (1.76%) Salesforce
6 29 (1.55%) IBM
7 23 (1.23%) Atlassian
8 22 (1.18%) SAP
9 21 (1.12%) Splunk
10 19 (1.02%) Databricks
10 19 (1.02%) Informatica
11 16 (0.86%) Talend
12 13 (0.69%) Dell
13 12 (0.64%) Red Hat
14 11 (0.59%) Guidewire
14 11 (0.59%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.59%) Solace
15 10 (0.53%) Dynatrace
15 10 (0.53%) Foundry
16 9 (0.48%) Workday