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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 45 25
Rank change year-on-year -29 -20 -8
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,551 2,542 3,711
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.97% 5.26% 7.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.24% 15.56% 19.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,049 1,517 2,888
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £130,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £78,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -3.85% +10.52% -2.65%

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 10,176 16,338 18,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.47% 33.84% 38.25%
Number of salaries quoted 7,682 9,608 15,921
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £38,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 11 January 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 11 January 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 -13 819 £100,000 - 283
North of England 0 271 £70,000 +16.67% 248
South East -55 186 £60,000 -14.29% 339
Yorkshire +25 148 £71,250 +29.55% 99
South West -28 130 £65,000 +1.96% 170
North West -14 112 £70,000 +16.67% 108
Midlands -14 92 £55,200 +16.21% 114
West Midlands +14 72 £55,000 -4.35% 46
East of England -82 30 £47,500 -20.83% 141
East Midlands -30 20 £57,500 +64.29% 65
North East -27 13 £65,000 +4.00% 41
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 65 (4.19%) Apache
2 55 (3.55%) Apache Spark
3 53 (3.42%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (1.81%) Confluence
5 16 (1.03%) JBoss
6 13 (0.84%) OpenStack
7 12 (0.77%) IIS
8 11 (0.71%) WebSphere
9 7 (0.45%) Anypoint
10 6 (0.39%) Camunda
10 6 (0.39%) Mule
10 6 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.32%) SharePoint
12 4 (0.26%) Appian
12 4 (0.26%) nginx
13 3 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.19%) Liferay
13 3 (0.19%) Luigi
13 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
13 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (0.77%) MS Visio
2 9 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.19%) Simulink
5 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.13%) Windchill
6 1 (0.064%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.064%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.45%) Fidessa
1 7 (0.45%) Maximo
2 5 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.32%) Shopify
3 2 (0.13%) Adaptiv
3 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.064%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.064%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.064%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 703 (45.33%) AWS
2 296 (19.08%) Azure
3 167 (10.77%) GCP
4 145 (9.35%) Serverless
5 97 (6.25%) SaaS
6 96 (6.19%) Amazon EKS
7 84 (5.42%) AWS Lambda
8 79 (5.09%) GitHub
9 78 (5.03%) Amazon S3
10 74 (4.77%) Amazon ECS
11 50 (3.22%) Snowflake
12 44 (2.84%) dbt
13 43 (2.77%) OpenShift
14 40 (2.58%) Amazon EC2
15 38 (2.45%) AWS CloudFormation
16 32 (2.06%) AWS Step Functions
16 32 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
17 29 (1.87%) Datadog
18 28 (1.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 27 (1.74%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 30 (1.93%) TCP/IP
2 22 (1.42%) HTTP
3 15 (0.97%) Broadband
4 14 (0.90%) AMQP
5 11 (0.71%) Internet
6 9 (0.58%) Firewall
7 8 (0.52%) DNS
7 8 (0.52%) Multicast
7 8 (0.52%) VPN
8 7 (0.45%) SSH
9 5 (0.32%) FTP
9 5 (0.32%) SAN
9 5 (0.32%) SMTP
10 4 (0.26%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.19%) BGP
11 3 (0.19%) LAN
11 3 (0.19%) PuTTY
11 3 (0.19%) VLAN
11 3 (0.19%) WAN
12 2 (0.13%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (8.90%) PostgreSQL
2 127 (8.19%) Relational Database
3 108 (6.96%) NoSQL
4 85 (5.48%) SQL Server
5 67 (4.32%) MongoDB
6 53 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
7 52 (3.35%) Big Data
7 52 (3.35%) RDBMS
8 49 (3.16%) Data Lake
8 49 (3.16%) Hadoop
9 48 (3.09%) DynamoDB
10 47 (3.03%) MySQL
11 39 (2.51%) Amazon RDS
12 34 (2.19%) Amazon Athena
13 32 (2.06%) Apache Ignite
14 31 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
15 29 (1.87%) Apache Arrow
15 29 (1.87%) Apache Iceberg
15 29 (1.87%) Dremio
16 26 (1.68%) DB2
Development Applications
1 172 (11.09%) Jenkins
2 119 (7.67%) Selenium
3 118 (7.61%) Git
4 98 (6.32%) JIRA
5 88 (5.67%) GitLab
6 65 (4.19%) JUnit
7 58 (3.74%) Cucumber
7 58 (3.74%) Cypress.io
7 58 (3.74%) Postman
8 48 (3.09%) WebDriver
9 43 (2.77%) SoapUI
10 42 (2.71%) Maven
11 36 (2.32%) Bitbucket
11 36 (2.32%) TeamCity
12 35 (2.26%) Team Foundation Server
13 32 (2.06%) JMeter
14 31 (2.00%) SonarQube
15 27 (1.74%) Mockito
16 19 (1.23%) REST Assured
17 14 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 446 (28.76%) Finance
2 431 (27.79%) Social Skills
3 226 (14.57%) Banking
4 142 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
5 106 (6.83%) Front Office
6 98 (6.32%) Public Sector
7 95 (6.13%) Investment Banking
8 92 (5.93%) Law
9 83 (5.35%) Financial Institution
10 74 (4.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 54 (3.48%) Retail
12 32 (2.06%) Marketing
13 28 (1.81%) Back Office
13 28 (1.81%) Telecoms
14 24 (1.55%) Games
15 21 (1.35%) Manufacturing
16 20 (1.29%) Billing
16 20 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
17 19 (1.23%) Aerospace
18 17 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 549 (35.40%) Developer
2 373 (24.05%) Senior
3 325 (20.95%) Software Engineer
4 297 (19.15%) Java Developer
5 195 (12.57%) Lead
6 191 (12.31%) Java Engineer
7 121 (7.80%) Full-Stack Developer
8 116 (7.48%) Senior Developer
9 112 (7.22%) Senior Software Engineer
10 109 (7.03%) Java Software Engineer
11 108 (6.96%) Architect
12 90 (5.80%) Senior Java Engineer
13 78 (5.03%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 75 (4.84%) AWS Engineer
14 75 (4.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 71 (4.58%) Senior Java Developer
16 55 (3.55%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 50 (3.22%) Software Developer
18 45 (2.90%) Analyst
19 39 (2.51%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 347 (22.37%) Spring
2 287 (18.50%) Spring Boot
3 283 (18.25%) React
4 189 (12.19%) REST
5 173 (11.15%) Kafka
6 155 (9.99%) .NET
7 137 (8.83%) HTML
8 129 (8.32%) Node.js
9 126 (8.12%) AngularJS
10 124 (7.99%) RESTful
11 94 (6.06%) CSS
12 87 (5.61%) SOAP
13 67 (4.32%) Hibernate
14 57 (3.68%) Elastic Stack
15 56 (3.61%) Web Services
16 45 (2.90%) JSON
17 40 (2.58%) gRPC
17 40 (2.58%) Pandas
18 38 (2.45%) GraphQL
18 38 (2.45%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 221 (14.25%) Cloud Native
2 168 (10.83%) Distributed Systems
3 76 (4.90%) Equities
4 68 (4.38%) Self-Motivation
5 63 (4.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 63 (4.06%) Product Ownership
6 56 (3.61%) Algorithms
7 53 (3.42%) Derivative
8 49 (3.16%) Fixed Income
9 43 (2.77%) Hedge funds
10 37 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
10 37 (2.39%) Onboarding
11 36 (2.32%) Management Information System
12 35 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
13 31 (2.00%) Pricing Data
14 30 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
15 27 (1.74%) Distributed Architecture
16 23 (1.48%) Data Structures
17 22 (1.42%) FPGA
18 21 (1.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 188 (12.12%) Linux
2 36 (2.32%) Windows
3 31 (2.00%) Unix
4 20 (1.29%) Android
5 7 (0.45%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.45%) Mac OS
5 7 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.32%) CentOS
6 5 (0.32%) VMS
7 4 (0.26%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.19%) Debian
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.064%) AIX
10 1 (0.064%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.064%) SUSE
10 1 (0.064%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 588 (37.91%) Agile
2 481 (31.01%) CI/CD
3 477 (30.75%) Software Engineering
4 362 (23.34%) DevOps
5 355 (22.89%) Microservices
6 305 (19.66%) Problem-Solving
7 294 (18.96%) Full-Stack Development
8 262 (16.89%) Mentoring
9 230 (14.83%) Test Automation
10 225 (14.51%) Computer Science
11 210 (13.54%) Continuous Improvement
12 176 (11.35%) Scrum
13 174 (11.22%) Containerisation
14 150 (9.67%) AI
15 142 (9.16%) SDLC
16 141 (9.09%) TDD
17 131 (8.45%) Roadmaps
18 125 (8.06%) User Experience
19 121 (7.80%) Technical Leadership
20 110 (7.09%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 576 (37.14%) Python
2 384 (24.76%) JavaScript
3 338 (21.79%) SQL
4 256 (16.51%) TypeScript
5 223 (14.38%) C#
6 116 (7.48%) C++
7 108 (6.96%) Go
8 87 (5.61%) C
9 83 (5.35%) Kotlin
10 66 (4.26%) Scala
11 60 (3.87%) Bash
12 44 (2.84%) PHP
13 33 (2.13%) Groovy
14 32 (2.06%) PL/SQL
15 23 (1.48%) R
15 23 (1.48%) Shell Script
16 22 (1.42%) PowerShell
17 20 (1.29%) Rust
18 19 (1.23%) Perl
18 19 (1.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 295 (19.02%) Degree
2 220 (14.18%) Security Cleared
3 134 (8.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 127 (8.19%) SC Cleared
5 87 (5.61%) DV Cleared
6 75 (4.84%) AWS Certification
7 66 (4.26%) Master's Degree
8 40 (2.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 39 (2.51%) ISTQB
10 36 (2.32%) Azure Certification
11 34 (2.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 30 (1.93%) TOGAF Certification
13 25 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
14 24 (1.55%) PhD
15 18 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
16 13 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
17 8 (0.52%) HND
18 7 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
19 6 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
19 6 (0.39%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (6.58%) QA
2 45 (2.90%) Accessibility
3 21 (1.35%) GDPR
4 13 (0.84%) Data Quality
5 12 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
6 10 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.52%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.39%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.32%) SLA
10 4 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.26%) EU AI Act
10 4 (0.26%) NIST
10 4 (0.26%) SEPA
10 4 (0.26%) WCAG
11 3 (0.19%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.19%) NCSC
12 2 (0.13%) ECSS
12 2 (0.13%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.13%) MISRA
12 2 (0.13%) PSD2
System Software
1 280 (18.05%) Docker
2 16 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (0.97%) Active Directory
4 14 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
5 9 (0.58%) HDFS
6 4 (0.26%) Firmware
7 3 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.13%) vSphere
9 1 (0.064%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.064%) KVM
9 1 (0.064%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.064%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.064%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.064%) Squid
9 1 (0.064%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 365 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 105 (6.77%) Terraform
3 65 (4.19%) Ansible
4 56 (3.61%) Grafana
5 33 (2.13%) Prometheus
6 32 (2.06%) Argo
7 29 (1.87%) Kibana
8 17 (1.10%) HP Fortify
9 13 (0.84%) Kustomize
10 11 (0.71%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.32%) Puppet
12 5 (0.32%) Rancher
13 4 (0.26%) Control-M
13 4 (0.26%) Nagios
14 3 (0.19%) logstash
14 3 (0.19%) yum
15 2 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 107 (6.90%) Oracle
2 72 (4.64%) Microsoft
3 66 (4.26%) Google
4 29 (1.87%) Atlassian
5 28 (1.81%) Guidewire
6 27 (1.74%) Splunk
7 25 (1.61%) Databricks
8 23 (1.48%) Informatica
8 23 (1.48%) MuleSoft
9 21 (1.35%) IBM
9 21 (1.35%) Talend
10 18 (1.16%) SAP
11 17 (1.10%) Dynatrace
12 15 (0.97%) Salesforce
13 13 (0.84%) Dell
14 11 (0.71%) Adobe
14 11 (0.71%) Red Hat
15 9 (0.58%) Siemens
16 8 (0.52%) Allen-Bradley
16 8 (0.52%) Toshiba