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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 45 29
Rank change year-on-year -23 -16 -11
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,839 2,174 4,347
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.86% 5.51% 5.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.79% 15.74% 17.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,209 1,474 3,439
10th Percentile £44,150 £41,478 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -7.22%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £126,150 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%

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 11,643 13,810 25,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.10% 35.01% 34.65%
Number of salaries quoted 8,485 9,387 21,835
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £101,250
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 10 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 10 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 -5 944 £100,000 -4.76% 193
North of England -11 362 £70,000 +7.69% 178
South East -52 193 £66,250 +1.92% 147
Yorkshire +8 180 £70,000 +3.70% 66
South West -27 168 £65,000 -3.70% 78
North West -26 157 £70,000 +7.69% 80
Midlands -37 88 £53,688 +19.31% 64
West Midlands -5 74 £54,344 -1.19% 41
East of England -73 39 £55,000 +10.00% 47
North East -27 25 £52,500 -7.89% 32
East Midlands -54 13 £44,500 +27.14% 21
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 50 (2.72%) Apache Spark
2 44 (2.39%) Apache
3 37 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (1.41%) Confluence
5 21 (1.14%) JBoss
6 13 (0.71%) OpenStack
6 13 (0.71%) WebSphere
7 9 (0.49%) Anypoint
8 8 (0.44%) IIS
9 7 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.38%) SharePoint
10 4 (0.22%) Appian
10 4 (0.22%) Camunda
10 4 (0.22%) Moodle
10 4 (0.22%) Mule
10 4 (0.22%) nginx
11 3 (0.16%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.16%) Liferay
11 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 12 (0.65%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.16%) Simulink
5 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.11%) Windchill
6 1 (0.054%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.054%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.71%) Maximo
2 8 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.38%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.27%) Shopify
5 2 (0.11%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.11%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.054%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.054%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 809 (43.99%) AWS
2 327 (17.78%) Azure
3 223 (12.13%) GCP
4 162 (8.81%) Serverless
5 130 (7.07%) SaaS
6 124 (6.74%) Amazon EKS
7 100 (5.44%) AWS Lambda
8 96 (5.22%) Amazon S3
9 91 (4.95%) Amazon ECS
9 91 (4.95%) GitHub
10 79 (4.30%) AWS CloudFormation
11 52 (2.83%) AWS Step Functions
12 51 (2.77%) OpenShift
13 43 (2.34%) dbt
14 38 (2.07%) Amazon SQS
14 38 (2.07%) Apigee
15 35 (1.90%) Amazon ECR
16 33 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
17 32 (1.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 32 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.07%) Broadband
2 36 (1.96%) TCP/IP
3 16 (0.87%) HTTP
4 11 (0.60%) AMQP
4 11 (0.60%) Internet
4 11 (0.60%) VPN
5 6 (0.33%) BGP
5 6 (0.33%) Firewall
5 6 (0.33%) Multicast
5 6 (0.33%) VLAN
6 5 (0.27%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.22%) SAN
8 3 (0.16%) DNS
8 3 (0.16%) PuTTY
9 2 (0.11%) DHCP
9 2 (0.11%) LAN
9 2 (0.11%) NAS
9 2 (0.11%) SNMP
9 2 (0.11%) SSH
9 2 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
2 148 (8.05%) NoSQL
3 123 (6.69%) Relational Database
4 70 (3.81%) SQL Server
5 69 (3.75%) DynamoDB
6 66 (3.59%) MongoDB
7 54 (2.94%) MySQL
8 53 (2.88%) RDBMS
9 43 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
10 42 (2.28%) Big Data
11 36 (1.96%) Hadoop
12 33 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
12 33 (1.79%) DB2
13 30 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
14 25 (1.36%) Neo4j
15 23 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
16 19 (1.03%) Redis
17 17 (0.92%) Data Lake
18 14 (0.76%) BigQuery
19 13 (0.71%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 159 (8.65%) Jenkins
2 135 (7.34%) Git
3 100 (5.44%) GitLab
3 100 (5.44%) Selenium
4 80 (4.35%) JIRA
5 69 (3.75%) Cucumber
6 65 (3.53%) TeamCity
7 63 (3.43%) Cypress.io
8 61 (3.32%) Maven
9 57 (3.10%) JUnit
10 44 (2.39%) Postman
11 43 (2.34%) SonarQube
12 36 (1.96%) WebDriver
13 32 (1.74%) SoapUI
14 25 (1.36%) JMeter
14 25 (1.36%) Team Foundation Server
15 24 (1.31%) Bitbucket
16 19 (1.03%) Jaeger
16 19 (1.03%) Mockito
17 18 (0.98%) Gradle
General
1 477 (25.94%) Finance
2 400 (21.75%) Social Skills
3 239 (13.00%) Banking
4 149 (8.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 135 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
6 132 (7.18%) Law
7 125 (6.80%) Public Sector
8 115 (6.25%) Front Office
9 106 (5.76%) Retail
10 96 (5.22%) Financial Institution
11 69 (3.75%) Investment Banking
12 54 (2.94%) Back Office
13 40 (2.18%) Games
14 36 (1.96%) Telecoms
15 27 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
16 24 (1.31%) Manufacturing
17 23 (1.25%) Aerospace
18 21 (1.14%) Health Technology
19 20 (1.09%) Billing
20 18 (0.98%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 679 (36.92%) Developer
2 461 (25.07%) Software Engineer
3 434 (23.60%) Senior
4 403 (21.91%) Java Developer
5 263 (14.30%) Java Engineer
6 252 (13.70%) Lead
7 157 (8.54%) Senior Developer
8 155 (8.43%) Java Software Engineer
9 149 (8.10%) Full-Stack Developer
10 132 (7.18%) Senior Software Engineer
11 109 (5.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 109 (5.93%) Senior Java Developer
12 100 (5.44%) Senior Java Engineer
13 95 (5.17%) Architect
13 95 (5.17%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 77 (4.19%) Software Developer
15 75 (4.08%) Lead Software Engineer
16 55 (2.99%) Lead Developer
17 52 (2.83%) AWS Engineer
17 52 (2.83%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 400 (21.75%) Spring
2 354 (19.25%) Spring Boot
3 329 (17.89%) React
4 213 (11.58%) REST
5 198 (10.77%) Kafka
6 186 (10.11%) Node.js
7 173 (9.41%) AngularJS
8 157 (8.54%) .NET
9 131 (7.12%) RESTful
10 110 (5.98%) HTML
11 96 (5.22%) SOAP
12 76 (4.13%) GraphQL
13 74 (4.02%) CSS
14 68 (3.70%) Web Services
15 66 (3.59%) Elastic Stack
16 63 (3.43%) Hibernate
17 51 (2.77%) Vue
18 50 (2.72%) JSON
19 48 (2.61%) Gherkin
20 45 (2.45%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 264 (14.36%) Cloud Native
2 174 (9.46%) Distributed Systems
3 74 (4.02%) Product Ownership
4 57 (3.10%) Fixed Income
5 56 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
6 53 (2.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 46 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
8 41 (2.23%) Equities
9 38 (2.07%) Blog
10 34 (1.85%) Public Cloud
11 32 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
12 30 (1.63%) Algorithms
12 30 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
13 28 (1.52%) Data Structures
13 28 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
14 27 (1.47%) Derivative
15 24 (1.31%) Management Information System
16 23 (1.25%) FPGA
16 23 (1.25%) Mobile App
17 19 (1.03%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 193 (10.49%) Linux
2 43 (2.34%) Unix
3 39 (2.12%) Android
4 33 (1.79%) Windows
5 13 (0.71%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.38%) CentOS
6 7 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.27%) Debian
9 3 (0.16%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.054%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 692 (37.63%) Agile
2 649 (35.29%) Software Engineering
3 581 (31.59%) CI/CD
4 444 (24.14%) DevOps
5 409 (22.24%) Microservices
6 391 (21.26%) Full-Stack Development
7 307 (16.69%) Test Automation
8 305 (16.59%) Problem-Solving
9 290 (15.77%) Mentoring
10 216 (11.75%) Containerisation
11 204 (11.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 200 (10.88%) AI
13 189 (10.28%) Computer Science
14 188 (10.22%) Scrum
15 170 (9.24%) TDD
16 150 (8.16%) Infrastructure as Code
17 146 (7.94%) Technical Leadership
18 142 (7.72%) Fintech
19 140 (7.61%) SDLC
20 137 (7.45%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 594 (32.30%) Python
2 427 (23.22%) JavaScript
3 361 (19.63%) SQL
4 288 (15.66%) TypeScript
5 196 (10.66%) C#
6 155 (8.43%) Go
7 130 (7.07%) C++
8 105 (5.71%) Kotlin
9 86 (4.68%) Bash
10 81 (4.40%) C
11 46 (2.50%) Scala
12 42 (2.28%) Groovy
13 33 (1.79%) PL/SQL
14 32 (1.74%) PHP
14 32 (1.74%) Rust
15 20 (1.09%) Apex Code
15 20 (1.09%) Ruby
16 18 (0.98%) R
17 17 (0.92%) PowerShell
18 14 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 284 (15.44%) Security Cleared
2 263 (14.30%) Degree
3 171 (9.30%) SC Cleared
4 116 (6.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 107 (5.82%) DV Cleared
6 84 (4.57%) AWS Certification
7 42 (2.28%) Master's Degree
8 39 (2.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 33 (1.79%) Azure Certification
10 28 (1.52%) ISTQB
11 27 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
12 24 (1.31%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 22 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
14 18 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
15 17 (0.92%) PhD
16 16 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 16 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
17 11 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
17 11 (0.60%) CREST Certified
17 11 (0.60%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (6.31%) QA
2 31 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 20 (1.09%) GDPR
4 19 (1.03%) PCI DSS
5 17 (0.92%) Data Quality
6 16 (0.87%) SOC 2
7 12 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.33%) WCAG
10 5 (0.27%) NIST
11 4 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.22%) EU AI Act
11 4 (0.22%) SLA
12 3 (0.16%) NCSC
13 2 (0.11%) ECSS
13 2 (0.11%) MISRA
14 1 (0.054%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.054%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.054%) MiFID
System Software
1 322 (17.51%) Docker
2 14 (0.76%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
4 5 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.22%) Firmware
5 4 (0.22%) HDFS
5 4 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.11%) KVM
6 2 (0.11%) vSphere
7 1 (0.054%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.054%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.054%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.054%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.054%) Squid
Systems Management
1 428 (23.27%) Kubernetes
2 190 (10.33%) Terraform
3 97 (5.27%) Grafana
4 75 (4.08%) Ansible
5 47 (2.56%) Prometheus
6 42 (2.28%) Argo
7 32 (1.74%) HP Fortify
8 22 (1.20%) Kibana
9 19 (1.03%) Kustomize
10 10 (0.54%) Rancher
11 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (0.38%) Puppet
12 6 (0.33%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.33%) yum
13 5 (0.27%) FTK
13 5 (0.27%) logstash
14 4 (0.22%) Nagios
14 4 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
15 3 (0.16%) Control-M
Vendors
1 89 (4.84%) Oracle
2 66 (3.59%) Google
3 61 (3.32%) Microsoft
4 33 (1.79%) MuleSoft
5 31 (1.69%) Salesforce
6 28 (1.52%) IBM
7 23 (1.25%) Atlassian
8 22 (1.20%) Databricks
8 22 (1.20%) SAP
9 20 (1.09%) Splunk
10 19 (1.03%) Informatica
11 16 (0.87%) Talend
12 13 (0.71%) Dell
13 12 (0.65%) Guidewire
13 12 (0.65%) Red Hat
14 11 (0.60%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.60%) Solace
15 10 (0.54%) Dynatrace
16 9 (0.49%) Workday
17 8 (0.44%) VMware