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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 30 36
Rank change year-on-year -27 +6 -15
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,477 2,952 3,829
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.63% 6.76% 5.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.78% 23.21% 17.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,591 1,358 2,645
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £135,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +3.23%

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 16,755 12,719 21,573
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.81% 29.13% 29.66%
Number of salaries quoted 12,169 8,481 15,921
10th Percentile £38,000 £34,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,918
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.60% -6.28%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 11 August 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 August 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 -12 1,078 £85,000 -19.05% 1,281
North of England -25 693 £67,500 +0.69% 227
North West -35 309 £70,000 - 133
South West -13 267 £60,000 - 125
Yorkshire +47 222 £72,500 +9.43% 52
South East -64 214 £67,500 +3.85% 135
North East +5 162 £55,000 +15.79% 44
Midlands -78 147 £67,500 +12.50% 86
West Midlands -45 125 £67,500 +12.03% 62
East of England -75 57 £51,359 +16.73% 51
East Midlands -80 21 £60,000 +26.32% 24
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 63 (2.54%) Confluence
2 53 (2.14%) Apache
3 43 (1.74%) Apache Spark
4 30 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.73%) Camunda
6 15 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
7 14 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.36%) JBoss
9 8 (0.32%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
10 7 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.24%) CICS
11 6 (0.24%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.20%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.16%) CMS
13 4 (0.16%) GeoServer
13 4 (0.16%) SAS
13 4 (0.16%) SharePoint
14 3 (0.12%) Documentum
14 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 19 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.65%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.16%) Moqups
5 2 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.081%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.081%) PTC Creo
5 2 (0.081%) Simulink
5 2 (0.081%) Windchill
6 1 (0.040%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.040%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.28%) Maximo
3 5 (0.20%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.20%) Temenos T24
4 4 (0.16%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.12%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.081%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.081%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 1 (0.040%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.040%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.040%) Endur
7 1 (0.040%) Findur
7 1 (0.040%) Infor SunSystems
7 1 (0.040%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.040%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.040%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.040%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.040%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.040%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.040%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,034 (41.74%) AWS
2 524 (21.15%) Azure
3 304 (12.27%) GCP
4 198 (7.99%) Serverless
5 160 (6.46%) AWS CloudFormation
6 138 (5.57%) GitHub
7 126 (5.09%) AWS Lambda
8 118 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
9 112 (4.52%) Amazon S3
10 98 (3.96%) SaaS
11 85 (3.43%) Amazon EKS
12 81 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
13 70 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
14 65 (2.62%) AWS Step Functions
15 41 (1.66%) Amazon ECR
16 40 (1.61%) OpenShift
17 38 (1.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 35 (1.41%) Amazon SQS
18 35 (1.41%) Azure Service Bus
19 34 (1.37%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.45%) HTTP
2 31 (1.25%) Broadband
3 21 (0.85%) TCP/IP
4 17 (0.69%) Network Security
5 13 (0.52%) DMARC
6 9 (0.36%) MQTT
7 8 (0.32%) DNS
7 8 (0.32%) IPv4
7 8 (0.32%) Software-Defined Networking
7 8 (0.32%) VPN
8 6 (0.24%) BGP
8 6 (0.24%) IPsec
8 6 (0.24%) Kerberos
9 5 (0.20%) AMQP
9 5 (0.20%) Firewall
9 5 (0.20%) Internet
10 4 (0.16%) Ethernet
11 3 (0.12%) LAN
11 3 (0.12%) RIP
11 3 (0.12%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (6.82%) NoSQL
1 169 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
2 125 (5.05%) MongoDB
3 120 (4.84%) Relational Database
4 85 (3.43%) MySQL
5 84 (3.39%) DynamoDB
6 79 (3.19%) SQL Server
7 39 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
8 37 (1.49%) Big Data
9 29 (1.17%) Redis
10 27 (1.09%) Db2
11 24 (0.97%) BigQuery
11 24 (0.97%) Hadoop
12 22 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
12 22 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
13 16 (0.65%) Metadata
13 16 (0.65%) RDBMS
14 15 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
14 15 (0.61%) Data Lake
15 14 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 264 (10.66%) Git
2 200 (8.07%) Jenkins
3 176 (7.11%) GitLab
4 96 (3.88%) JIRA
5 89 (3.59%) JUnit
6 88 (3.55%) Cucumber
7 76 (3.07%) Maven
7 76 (3.07%) Selenium
8 64 (2.58%) Cypress.io
9 50 (2.02%) SonarQube
10 44 (1.78%) Postman
11 42 (1.70%) TeamCity
12 40 (1.61%) JMeter
13 39 (1.57%) Eclipse
14 37 (1.49%) Mockito
15 34 (1.37%) Bitbucket
16 33 (1.33%) Subversion
17 25 (1.01%) Claude Code
18 23 (0.93%) REST Assured
19 19 (0.77%) Gradle
General
1 671 (27.09%) Finance
2 415 (16.75%) Social Skills
3 249 (10.05%) Public Sector
4 222 (8.96%) Banking
5 178 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
6 129 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 101 (4.08%) Front Office
8 96 (3.88%) Law
9 70 (2.83%) Retail
10 63 (2.54%) Financial Institution
11 41 (1.66%) Investment Banking
12 35 (1.41%) Marketing
13 34 (1.37%) Health Technology
14 30 (1.21%) Back Office
14 30 (1.21%) Legal
15 29 (1.17%) Manufacturing
16 21 (0.85%) Games
17 20 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
18 19 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
18 19 (0.77%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 848 (34.23%) Developer
2 633 (25.56%) Senior
3 570 (23.01%) Software Engineer
4 555 (22.41%) Java Developer
5 424 (17.12%) Java Engineer
6 354 (14.29%) Lead
7 215 (8.68%) Senior Developer
8 195 (7.87%) Senior Software Engineer
9 157 (6.34%) Java Software Engineer
10 147 (5.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 138 (5.57%) Senior Java Developer
12 136 (5.49%) Full-Stack Developer
13 134 (5.41%) Senior Java Engineer
14 122 (4.93%) Lead Software Engineer
15 121 (4.88%) Software Developer
16 87 (3.51%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 82 (3.31%) Principal Engineer
18 79 (3.19%) Architect
19 72 (2.91%) Consultant
19 72 (2.91%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 574 (23.17%) Spring
2 478 (19.30%) Spring Boot
3 282 (11.38%) React
4 271 (10.94%) Kafka
5 236 (9.53%) REST
6 234 (9.45%) AngularJS
7 220 (8.88%) Node.js
8 197 (7.95%) RESTful
9 169 (6.82%) .NET
10 86 (3.47%) Web Services
11 78 (3.15%) CSS
12 70 (2.83%) HTML
13 63 (2.54%) Vue
14 62 (2.50%) GraphQL
15 57 (2.30%) OAuth
16 51 (2.06%) Playwright
17 50 (2.02%) Hibernate
18 48 (1.94%) RabbitMQ
19 46 (1.86%) JSON
20 45 (1.82%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 320 (12.92%) Cloud Native
2 242 (9.77%) Distributed Systems
3 161 (6.50%) Product Ownership
4 114 (4.60%) Public Cloud
5 73 (2.95%) Onboarding
6 59 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
7 57 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
8 55 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 49 (1.98%) Fixed Income
10 44 (1.78%) Distributed Architecture
11 42 (1.70%) Data Structures
12 40 (1.61%) Virtual Team
13 38 (1.53%) e-Learning
14 36 (1.45%) Mobile App
15 35 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
16 34 (1.37%) Equities
17 32 (1.29%) Algorithms
18 26 (1.05%) AI Agents
19 21 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
19 21 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 228 (9.20%) Linux
2 71 (2.87%) Windows
3 43 (1.74%) Unix
4 42 (1.70%) Android
5 19 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 17 (0.69%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.69%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.20%) CentOS
8 4 (0.16%) Debian
8 4 (0.16%) Kali Linux
8 4 (0.16%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.081%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.081%) VMS
11 1 (0.040%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 879 (35.49%) Software Engineering
2 836 (33.75%) Agile
3 811 (32.74%) CI/CD
4 597 (24.10%) Microservices
5 585 (23.62%) DevOps
6 497 (20.06%) Test Automation
7 463 (18.69%) Full-Stack Development
8 435 (17.56%) Mentoring
9 415 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
10 372 (15.02%) AI
11 319 (12.88%) Containerisation
12 298 (12.03%) Infrastructure as Code
13 292 (11.79%) Continuous Improvement
14 250 (10.09%) TDD
15 246 (9.93%) Roadmaps
16 243 (9.81%) Technical Leadership
17 226 (9.12%) Computer Science
18 220 (8.88%) Scrum
19 218 (8.80%) Event-Driven
20 213 (8.60%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 813 (32.82%) Python
2 468 (18.89%) SQL
3 432 (17.44%) JavaScript
4 265 (10.70%) C#
5 263 (10.62%) TypeScript
6 243 (9.81%) C++
7 143 (5.77%) Go
8 115 (4.64%) Bash
9 111 (4.48%) Kotlin
10 75 (3.03%) C
10 75 (3.03%) Scala
11 61 (2.46%) PHP
12 58 (2.34%) Groovy
13 57 (2.30%) Rust
14 45 (1.82%) Perl
15 40 (1.61%) PowerShell
16 37 (1.49%) Ruby
17 33 (1.33%) PL/SQL
18 20 (0.81%) Shell Script
19 13 (0.52%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 444 (17.92%) Security Cleared
2 277 (11.18%) Degree
3 249 (10.05%) SC Cleared
4 158 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 155 (6.26%) DV Cleared
6 101 (4.08%) AWS Certification
7 59 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 26 (1.05%) Master's Degree
9 20 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 20 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
10 19 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
11 18 (0.73%) ISTQB
11 18 (0.73%) OSCP
12 13 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (0.48%) DBS Check
14 10 (0.40%) CREST Certified
15 9 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
16 8 (0.32%) Azure Certification
16 8 (0.32%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (6.50%) QA
2 80 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 58 (2.34%) Data Quality
4 28 (1.13%) WCAG
5 20 (0.81%) GDPR
6 15 (0.61%) NIST
7 14 (0.57%) GRC
8 13 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.32%) ISO 20022
10 7 (0.28%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.20%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 14443
12 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 7816
13 3 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.12%) MiFID
13 3 (0.12%) PSD2
13 3 (0.12%) UCITS
14 2 (0.081%) MIL-STD-1553
14 2 (0.081%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 408 (16.47%) Docker
2 26 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (0.89%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.48%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.44%) vSphere
6 8 (0.32%) Squid
6 8 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.28%) Firmware
8 6 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.20%) KVM
10 4 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
11 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.081%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 456 (18.41%) Kubernetes
2 280 (11.30%) Terraform
3 116 (4.68%) Ansible
4 86 (3.47%) Grafana
5 33 (1.33%) Prometheus
6 28 (1.13%) Kibana
7 27 (1.09%) Argo
7 27 (1.09%) HP Fortify
8 21 (0.85%) Puppet
9 13 (0.52%) Packer
10 10 (0.40%) logstash
10 10 (0.40%) Rancher
11 8 (0.32%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.24%) Hadoop YARN
12 6 (0.24%) Kubeflow
12 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.20%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (0.20%) yum
14 4 (0.16%) Control-M
14 4 (0.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 105 (4.24%) Oracle
2 103 (4.16%) Microsoft
3 79 (3.19%) Google
4 61 (2.46%) Splunk
5 44 (1.78%) IBM
6 34 (1.37%) SAP
7 33 (1.33%) Red Hat
8 30 (1.21%) VMware
9 25 (1.01%) AppDynamics
10 24 (0.97%) Adobe
10 24 (0.97%) Dynatrace
10 24 (0.97%) Palantir
11 21 (0.85%) Salesforce
11 21 (0.85%) ServiceNow
12 19 (0.77%) Foundry
13 18 (0.73%) OpenAI
14 16 (0.65%) Databricks
15 13 (0.52%) MuleSoft
15 13 (0.52%) SendGrid
16 12 (0.48%) Solace