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 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 42 29
Rank change year-on-year -26 -13 -12
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,767 2,421 4,297
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.98% 5.42% 6.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.92% 15.72% 17.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,171 1,465 3,421
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -6.45%
75th Percentile £103,750 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £131,250 £137,500 £121,927
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 11,101 15,405 24,261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.72% 34.48% 36.51%
Number of salaries quoted 8,256 9,218 20,746
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,026
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 £81,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £112,500 £102,500
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 15 February 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 15 February 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 -8 930 £100,000 -4.76% 242
North of England -15 327 £67,500 +8.00% 157
South East -62 185 £62,500 -3.85% 177
Yorkshire +12 170 £70,000 +3.70% 48
South West -23 163 £65,000 - 95
North West -17 140 £67,500 +5.88% 83
Midlands -32 87 £50,000 +11.11% 62
West Midlands -2 68 £50,000 -2.44% 46
East of England -72 36 £60,000 +11.63% 26
East Midlands -34 18 £52,100 +48.86% 16
North East -30 17 £55,000 -6.38% 26
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 55 (3.11%) Apache
2 54 (3.06%) Apache Spark
3 37 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (1.30%) Confluence
5 19 (1.08%) JBoss
6 13 (0.74%) OpenStack
6 13 (0.74%) WebSphere
7 12 (0.68%) IIS
8 7 (0.40%) Anypoint
8 7 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.34%) Mule
10 5 (0.28%) SharePoint
11 4 (0.23%) Appian
11 4 (0.23%) nginx
12 3 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.17%) CMS
12 3 (0.17%) Liferay
12 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
13 2 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 12 (0.68%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.17%) Simulink
5 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.11%) Windchill
6 1 (0.057%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.057%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.57%) Maximo
2 7 (0.40%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.28%) Shopify
5 2 (0.11%) Adaptiv
5 2 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.11%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.057%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.057%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 807 (45.67%) AWS
2 326 (18.45%) Azure
3 212 (12.00%) GCP
4 161 (9.11%) Serverless
5 129 (7.30%) SaaS
6 128 (7.24%) Amazon EKS
7 96 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
8 90 (5.09%) Amazon ECS
9 89 (5.04%) Amazon S3
10 84 (4.75%) GitHub
11 73 (4.13%) AWS CloudFormation
12 47 (2.66%) AWS Step Functions
12 47 (2.66%) OpenShift
13 37 (2.09%) Amazon SQS
14 35 (1.98%) dbt
15 33 (1.87%) Apigee
16 32 (1.81%) GitHub Actions
16 32 (1.81%) Snowflake
17 31 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
18 30 (1.70%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 37 (2.09%) TCP/IP
2 23 (1.30%) Broadband
3 17 (0.96%) HTTP
4 11 (0.62%) AMQP
4 11 (0.62%) Internet
4 11 (0.62%) VPN
5 8 (0.45%) Multicast
6 6 (0.34%) BGP
6 6 (0.34%) Firewall
6 6 (0.34%) VLAN
7 4 (0.23%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.23%) SAN
8 3 (0.17%) DNS
8 3 (0.17%) PuTTY
9 2 (0.11%) DHCP
9 2 (0.11%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.11%) LAN
9 2 (0.11%) NAS
9 2 (0.11%) SNMP
9 2 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (9.39%) PostgreSQL
2 147 (8.32%) NoSQL
3 120 (6.79%) Relational Database
4 77 (4.36%) SQL Server
5 75 (4.24%) MongoDB
6 62 (3.51%) DynamoDB
7 56 (3.17%) RDBMS
8 55 (3.11%) MySQL
9 52 (2.94%) Big Data
10 48 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
11 46 (2.60%) Hadoop
12 44 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
13 33 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
14 28 (1.58%) Data Lake
14 28 (1.58%) DB2
15 27 (1.53%) Neo4j
16 23 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
17 18 (1.02%) Redis
18 17 (0.96%) Apache Cassandra
18 17 (0.96%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 159 (9.00%) Jenkins
2 130 (7.36%) Git
3 110 (6.23%) Selenium
4 99 (5.60%) GitLab
5 86 (4.87%) JIRA
6 65 (3.68%) Cucumber
6 65 (3.68%) TeamCity
7 64 (3.62%) Cypress.io
8 61 (3.45%) JUnit
9 58 (3.28%) Maven
10 48 (2.72%) Postman
11 42 (2.38%) WebDriver
12 40 (2.26%) SonarQube
13 35 (1.98%) SoapUI
14 31 (1.75%) Bitbucket
15 28 (1.58%) JMeter
15 28 (1.58%) Team Foundation Server
16 22 (1.25%) Mockito
17 19 (1.08%) Jaeger
18 18 (1.02%) REST Assured
General
1 470 (26.60%) Finance
2 431 (24.39%) Social Skills
3 256 (14.49%) Banking
4 138 (7.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 130 (7.36%) Law
6 129 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
7 116 (6.56%) Public Sector
8 106 (6.00%) Financial Institution
9 105 (5.94%) Retail
10 104 (5.89%) Front Office
11 76 (4.30%) Investment Banking
12 53 (3.00%) Back Office
13 33 (1.87%) Games
14 32 (1.81%) Telecoms
15 24 (1.36%) Manufacturing
15 24 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
16 23 (1.30%) Aerospace
17 20 (1.13%) Billing
18 18 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
18 18 (1.02%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 618 (34.97%) Developer
2 429 (24.28%) Software Engineer
3 405 (22.92%) Senior
4 353 (19.98%) Java Developer
5 251 (14.20%) Java Engineer
6 229 (12.96%) Lead
7 152 (8.60%) Java Software Engineer
8 142 (8.04%) Full-Stack Developer
9 131 (7.41%) Senior Developer
10 118 (6.68%) Senior Software Engineer
11 99 (5.60%) Architect
11 99 (5.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 93 (5.26%) Senior Java Engineer
13 90 (5.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 89 (5.04%) Senior Java Developer
15 65 (3.68%) Software Developer
16 63 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
17 60 (3.40%) Lead Software Engineer
18 50 (2.83%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 45 (2.55%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 393 (22.24%) Spring
2 341 (19.30%) Spring Boot
3 317 (17.94%) React
4 210 (11.88%) REST
5 194 (10.98%) Kafka
6 160 (9.05%) Node.js
7 159 (9.00%) .NET
8 158 (8.94%) AngularJS
9 136 (7.70%) RESTful
10 117 (6.62%) HTML
11 91 (5.15%) SOAP
12 84 (4.75%) CSS
13 68 (3.85%) Hibernate
14 67 (3.79%) Elastic Stack
15 62 (3.51%) Web Services
16 57 (3.23%) GraphQL
17 49 (2.77%) JSON
18 48 (2.72%) Vue
19 44 (2.49%) Jest
20 42 (2.38%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 277 (15.68%) Cloud Native
2 183 (10.36%) Distributed Systems
3 76 (4.30%) Product Ownership
4 60 (3.40%) Self-Motivation
5 50 (2.83%) Equities
5 50 (2.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 48 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
7 44 (2.49%) Fixed Income
8 41 (2.32%) Algorithms
9 38 (2.15%) Blog
10 34 (1.92%) Derivative
11 33 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
12 32 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
13 30 (1.70%) Public Cloud
14 29 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
14 29 (1.64%) Management Information System
15 28 (1.58%) Onboarding
16 23 (1.30%) FPGA
17 22 (1.25%) e-Learning
18 21 (1.19%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 199 (11.26%) Linux
2 38 (2.15%) Unix
3 32 (1.81%) Android
4 31 (1.75%) Windows
5 13 (0.74%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.40%) CentOS
7 7 (0.40%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.34%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.28%) Debian
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.057%) AIX
11 1 (0.057%) SUSE
11 1 (0.057%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 661 (37.41%) Agile
2 619 (35.03%) Software Engineering
3 579 (32.77%) CI/CD
4 424 (24.00%) DevOps
5 423 (23.94%) Microservices
6 361 (20.43%) Full-Stack Development
7 320 (18.11%) Problem-Solving
8 301 (17.03%) Mentoring
9 299 (16.92%) Test Automation
10 218 (12.34%) Computer Science
11 212 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 204 (11.54%) Containerisation
13 183 (10.36%) Scrum
14 179 (10.13%) AI
15 175 (9.90%) TDD
16 150 (8.49%) SDLC
17 149 (8.43%) Fintech
18 140 (7.92%) Infrastructure as Code
19 136 (7.70%) Roadmaps
20 133 (7.53%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 606 (34.30%) Python
2 413 (23.37%) JavaScript
3 353 (19.98%) SQL
4 276 (15.62%) TypeScript
5 211 (11.94%) C#
6 137 (7.75%) Go
7 123 (6.96%) C++
8 92 (5.21%) C
8 92 (5.21%) Kotlin
9 84 (4.75%) Bash
10 53 (3.00%) Scala
11 40 (2.26%) PHP
12 37 (2.09%) Groovy
13 32 (1.81%) Rust
14 30 (1.70%) PL/SQL
15 21 (1.19%) R
16 18 (1.02%) Ruby
17 17 (0.96%) PowerShell
18 16 (0.91%) Shell Script
19 15 (0.85%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 289 (16.36%) Degree
2 276 (15.62%) Security Cleared
3 160 (9.05%) SC Cleared
4 129 (7.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 103 (5.83%) DV Cleared
6 90 (5.09%) AWS Certification
7 59 (3.34%) Master's Degree
8 45 (2.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 36 (2.04%) Azure Certification
10 31 (1.75%) ISTQB
10 31 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
11 27 (1.53%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 25 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
13 20 (1.13%) PhD
14 18 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
15 15 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
16 13 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 12 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
18 11 (0.62%) CREST Certified
18 11 (0.62%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (6.56%) QA
2 44 (2.49%) Accessibility
3 23 (1.30%) GDPR
4 21 (1.19%) Data Quality
5 18 (1.02%) PCI DSS
6 16 (0.91%) SOC 2
7 12 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
8 9 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.23%) EU AI Act
9 4 (0.23%) SEPA
9 4 (0.23%) SLA
9 4 (0.23%) WCAG
10 3 (0.17%) NCSC
10 3 (0.17%) NIST
11 2 (0.11%) ECSS
11 2 (0.11%) MISRA
11 2 (0.11%) PSD2
12 1 (0.057%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.057%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 322 (18.22%) Docker
2 16 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
4 11 (0.62%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.45%) HDFS
6 5 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.23%) Firmware
7 4 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.11%) KVM
8 2 (0.11%) vSphere
9 1 (0.057%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.057%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.057%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.057%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.057%) Squid
Systems Management
1 432 (24.45%) Kubernetes
2 177 (10.02%) Terraform
3 92 (5.21%) Grafana
4 78 (4.41%) Ansible
5 43 (2.43%) Prometheus
6 42 (2.38%) Argo
7 27 (1.53%) HP Fortify
8 26 (1.47%) Kibana
9 19 (1.08%) Kustomize
10 10 (0.57%) Rancher
11 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (0.40%) Progress Chef
11 7 (0.40%) Puppet
11 7 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.34%) yum
13 5 (0.28%) FTK
13 5 (0.28%) logstash
14 3 (0.17%) AWS Copilot
14 3 (0.17%) Control-M
14 3 (0.17%) Nagios
Vendors
1 99 (5.60%) Oracle
2 68 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 65 (3.68%) Google
4 28 (1.58%) MuleSoft
5 26 (1.47%) Atlassian
6 25 (1.41%) Databricks
7 24 (1.36%) IBM
8 23 (1.30%) Salesforce
9 22 (1.25%) Informatica
10 21 (1.19%) Splunk
11 19 (1.08%) Guidewire
11 19 (1.08%) Talend
12 17 (0.96%) SAP
13 13 (0.74%) Dynatrace
13 13 (0.74%) Red Hat
14 12 (0.68%) Dell
15 11 (0.62%) OpenAI
16 10 (0.57%) Adobe
16 10 (0.57%) Solace
17 9 (0.51%) Siemens