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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 26 35
Rank change year-on-year -39 +9 -15
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,244 2,800 4,497
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.71% 7.37% 5.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.26% 23.17% 16.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,444 1,365 3,426
10th Percentile £43,435 £41,250 £39,000
25th Percentile £55,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £73,805
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +5.01% -7.74%
75th Percentile £93,750 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £137,913
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -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 14,709 12,085 27,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.77% 31.79% 31.74%
Number of salaries quoted 10,469 8,204 22,494
10th Percentile £36,450 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £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 26 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 26 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 1,059 £87,500 -16.67% 411
North of England -39 602 £69,305 -0.99% 174
North West -50 253 £70,000 -10.43% 100
Yorkshire +19 242 £72,500 +0.71% 43
South East -38 220 £67,500 +3.85% 108
South West -39 178 £60,000 - 73
North East +2 107 £52,500 -7.08% 31
Midlands -108 107 £60,000 +11.76% 60
West Midlands -74 89 £58,750 +6.82% 27
East of England -74 51 £55,000 +22.22% 31
East Midlands -94 17 £60,000 +26.32% 33
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 45 (2.01%) Apache
2 38 (1.69%) Apache Spark
3 37 (1.65%) Confluence
4 30 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (0.71%) JBoss
6 15 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
7 13 (0.58%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.36%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 7 (0.31%) Jupyter
9 7 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.31%) WebSphere
10 5 (0.22%) GeoServer
10 5 (0.22%) IIS
11 4 (0.18%) Anypoint
11 4 (0.18%) Camunda
11 4 (0.18%) CMS
11 4 (0.18%) Moodle
12 3 (0.13%) CICS
12 3 (0.13%) Liferay
Applications
1 12 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (0.36%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.13%) Windchill
5 2 (0.089%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.045%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.045%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 12 (0.53%) Maximo
2 8 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.13%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.13%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.089%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.045%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.045%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.045%) Endur
5 1 (0.045%) Findur
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.045%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.045%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 924 (41.18%) AWS
2 418 (18.63%) Azure
3 268 (11.94%) GCP
4 188 (8.38%) Serverless
5 135 (6.02%) AWS CloudFormation
6 125 (5.57%) Amazon S3
7 119 (5.30%) SaaS
8 116 (5.17%) AWS Lambda
9 112 (4.99%) Amazon ECS
10 111 (4.95%) Amazon EKS
11 97 (4.32%) GitHub
12 75 (3.34%) AWS Step Functions
13 62 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
14 50 (2.23%) Amazon ECR
14 50 (2.23%) Apigee
15 44 (1.96%) Amazon SQS
16 38 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
17 37 (1.65%) dbt
17 37 (1.65%) OpenShift
18 35 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.23%) Broadband
2 32 (1.43%) HTTP
3 27 (1.20%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.36%) AMQP
5 7 (0.31%) IPv4
5 7 (0.31%) Software-Defined Networking
6 6 (0.27%) Internet
7 4 (0.18%) DMARC
7 4 (0.18%) MQTT
8 3 (0.13%) BGP
8 3 (0.13%) Network Security
8 3 (0.13%) VLAN
8 3 (0.13%) VPN
9 2 (0.089%) Firewall
9 2 (0.089%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.089%) LAN
9 2 (0.089%) PuTTY
9 2 (0.089%) SAN
9 2 (0.089%) WAN
10 1 (0.045%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (8.38%) NoSQL
2 166 (7.40%) PostgreSQL
3 109 (4.86%) Relational Database
4 100 (4.46%) MongoDB
5 96 (4.28%) DynamoDB
6 69 (3.07%) MySQL
6 69 (3.07%) SQL Server
7 43 (1.92%) RDBMS
8 38 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
9 32 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
10 31 (1.38%) Big Data
11 25 (1.11%) DB2
12 23 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
12 23 (1.02%) Hadoop
13 21 (0.94%) BigQuery
14 20 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
15 19 (0.85%) Redis
16 15 (0.67%) Neo4j
17 14 (0.62%) Metadata
17 14 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 184 (8.20%) Jenkins
2 183 (8.16%) Git
3 157 (7.00%) GitLab
4 94 (4.19%) JIRA
5 86 (3.83%) Selenium
6 82 (3.65%) Maven
7 72 (3.21%) Cucumber
8 68 (3.03%) Cypress.io
9 61 (2.72%) JUnit
9 61 (2.72%) TeamCity
10 60 (2.67%) SonarQube
11 46 (2.05%) Postman
12 34 (1.52%) JMeter
13 31 (1.38%) Bitbucket
14 28 (1.25%) Mockito
15 27 (1.20%) Gradle
15 27 (1.20%) SoapUI
16 26 (1.16%) REST Assured
16 26 (1.16%) Team Foundation Server
16 26 (1.16%) WebDriver
General
1 561 (25.00%) Finance
2 367 (16.35%) Social Skills
3 236 (10.52%) Banking
4 199 (8.87%) Public Sector
5 162 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
6 153 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 114 (5.08%) Front Office
8 112 (4.99%) Law
9 95 (4.23%) Retail
10 70 (3.12%) Financial Institution
11 50 (2.23%) Back Office
12 46 (2.05%) Investment Banking
13 31 (1.38%) Games
14 25 (1.11%) Aerospace
14 25 (1.11%) Health Technology
14 25 (1.11%) Telecoms
15 21 (0.94%) Marketing
16 20 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
16 20 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
17 18 (0.80%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 842 (37.52%) Developer
2 565 (25.18%) Senior
3 558 (24.87%) Java Developer
4 519 (23.13%) Software Engineer
5 365 (16.27%) Java Engineer
6 341 (15.20%) Lead
7 222 (9.89%) Senior Developer
8 175 (7.80%) Java Software Engineer
9 167 (7.44%) Senior Software Engineer
10 160 (7.13%) Senior Java Developer
11 155 (6.91%) Full-Stack Developer
12 126 (5.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 111 (4.95%) Lead Software Engineer
14 108 (4.81%) Senior Java Engineer
14 108 (4.81%) Software Developer
15 98 (4.37%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 80 (3.57%) Architect
17 63 (2.81%) Lead Developer
18 57 (2.54%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 52 (2.32%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 482 (21.48%) Spring
2 425 (18.94%) Spring Boot
3 303 (13.50%) React
4 238 (10.61%) REST
5 227 (10.12%) AngularJS
6 205 (9.14%) Node.js
7 194 (8.65%) Kafka
8 165 (7.35%) .NET
9 135 (6.02%) RESTful
10 98 (4.37%) HTML
11 85 (3.79%) Web Services
12 82 (3.65%) SOAP
13 77 (3.43%) CSS
14 67 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
15 65 (2.90%) GraphQL
16 64 (2.85%) Vue
17 61 (2.72%) JSON
18 51 (2.27%) Gherkin
19 50 (2.23%) Hibernate
20 47 (2.09%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 247 (11.01%) Cloud Native
2 175 (7.80%) Distributed Systems
3 138 (6.15%) Product Ownership
4 87 (3.88%) Public Cloud
5 50 (2.23%) Fixed Income
5 50 (2.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 45 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
7 39 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
7 39 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
8 37 (1.65%) Distributed Architecture
9 35 (1.56%) Blog
10 34 (1.52%) Data Structures
10 34 (1.52%) Equities
11 31 (1.38%) Mobile App
12 30 (1.34%) e-Learning
13 29 (1.29%) Virtual Team
14 23 (1.02%) Onboarding
15 20 (0.89%) FPGA
15 20 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
15 20 (0.89%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 198 (8.82%) Linux
2 49 (2.18%) Android
3 46 (2.05%) Unix
4 44 (1.96%) Windows
5 14 (0.62%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.45%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.27%) CentOS
9 5 (0.22%) Debian
9 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.18%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.045%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 800 (35.65%) Agile
2 754 (33.60%) Software Engineering
3 686 (30.57%) CI/CD
4 530 (23.62%) DevOps
5 484 (21.57%) Microservices
6 449 (20.01%) Full-Stack Development
7 414 (18.45%) Test Automation
8 405 (18.05%) Mentoring
9 332 (14.80%) Problem-Solving
10 249 (11.10%) AI
11 247 (11.01%) Containerisation
12 234 (10.43%) Scrum
13 226 (10.07%) TDD
14 221 (9.85%) Continuous Improvement
15 213 (9.49%) Technical Leadership
16 211 (9.40%) Roadmaps
17 206 (9.18%) Infrastructure as Code
18 187 (8.33%) Computer Science
19 177 (7.89%) SDLC
20 164 (7.31%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 662 (29.50%) Python
2 443 (19.74%) SQL
3 432 (19.25%) JavaScript
4 269 (11.99%) TypeScript
5 238 (10.61%) C#
6 169 (7.53%) C++
7 156 (6.95%) Go
8 113 (5.04%) Bash
9 105 (4.68%) Kotlin
10 63 (2.81%) C
10 63 (2.81%) Groovy
11 49 (2.18%) Scala
12 38 (1.69%) Rust
13 35 (1.56%) PHP
14 34 (1.52%) PL/SQL
15 25 (1.11%) PowerShell
16 17 (0.76%) Apex Code
17 16 (0.71%) R
18 13 (0.58%) VBA
19 12 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 346 (15.42%) Security Cleared
2 256 (11.41%) Degree
3 220 (9.80%) SC Cleared
4 129 (5.75%) DV Cleared
5 126 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 97 (4.32%) AWS Certification
7 37 (1.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 31 (1.38%) Master's Degree
9 29 (1.29%) ISTQB
10 25 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (1.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 21 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
12 21 (0.94%) OSCP
13 20 (0.89%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 19 (0.85%) Azure Certification
15 18 (0.80%) DBS Check
16 14 (0.62%) CREST Certified
16 14 (0.62%) PhD
17 13 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
18 12 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (6.46%) QA
2 52 (2.32%) Accessibility
3 38 (1.69%) Data Quality
4 15 (0.67%) PCI DSS
5 14 (0.62%) GRC
6 12 (0.53%) SOC 2
7 11 (0.49%) WCAG
8 10 (0.45%) GDPR
9 9 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.22%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 3 (0.13%) NIST
13 2 (0.089%) SLA
14 1 (0.045%) Good Clinical Practice
14 1 (0.045%) MiFID
14 1 (0.045%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 356 (15.86%) Docker
2 12 (0.53%) Active Directory
2 12 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (0.40%) vSphere
4 7 (0.31%) Squid
4 7 (0.31%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.22%) Firmware
6 4 (0.18%) KVM
7 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.089%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.089%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.045%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.045%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.045%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.045%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.045%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.045%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 421 (18.76%) Kubernetes
2 256 (11.41%) Terraform
3 100 (4.46%) Grafana
4 94 (4.19%) Ansible
5 51 (2.27%) Argo
6 48 (2.14%) Prometheus
7 39 (1.74%) HP Fortify
8 27 (1.20%) Kibana
9 18 (0.80%) Kustomize
10 13 (0.58%) Packer
10 13 (0.58%) Rancher
11 12 (0.53%) Puppet
12 9 (0.40%) logstash
13 7 (0.31%) yum
13 7 (0.31%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (0.22%) FTK
16 4 (0.18%) Progress Chef
17 3 (0.13%) AWS Copilot
17 3 (0.13%) Nagios
Vendors
1 89 (3.97%) Oracle
2 83 (3.70%) Microsoft
3 69 (3.07%) Google
4 36 (1.60%) Splunk
5 31 (1.38%) IBM
6 27 (1.20%) Salesforce
7 20 (0.89%) MuleSoft
8 19 (0.85%) Foundry
8 19 (0.85%) Red Hat
9 18 (0.80%) Dynatrace
9 18 (0.80%) Palantir
10 17 (0.76%) AppDynamics
11 16 (0.71%) VMware
12 14 (0.62%) Databricks
13 13 (0.58%) Atlassian
14 12 (0.53%) SAP
14 12 (0.53%) ServiceNow
14 12 (0.53%) Solace
15 11 (0.49%) Adobe
16 9 (0.40%) Informatica