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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 47 29
Rank change year-on-year -24 -18 -11
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,857 2,147 4,341
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.85% 5.47% 5.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.67% 15.68% 17.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,219 1,456 3,425
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -7.22%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year - +6.27% -5.90%

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 11,848 13,691 25,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.21% 34.90% 34.58%
Number of salaries quoted 8,654 9,361 21,807
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 12 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 12 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 -3 950 £98,750 -5.95% 292
North of England -8 375 £70,000 +7.69% 183
South East -53 192 £67,500 +3.85% 128
Yorkshire +12 187 £70,000 +3.70% 56
South West -18 171 £65,000 -3.70% 65
North West -15 161 £70,000 +7.69% 91
Midlands -41 89 £55,000 +22.22% 43
West Midlands -2 75 £55,100 +4.95% 30
East of England -81 35 £50,000 - 22
North East -22 27 £53,750 -5.70% 36
East Midlands -61 13 £44,500 +27.14% 13
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 49 (2.64%) Apache Spark
2 42 (2.26%) Apache
3 37 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (1.40%) Confluence
5 22 (1.18%) JBoss
6 14 (0.75%) OpenStack
7 13 (0.70%) WebSphere
8 9 (0.48%) Anypoint
9 7 (0.38%) IIS
9 7 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.38%) SharePoint
10 5 (0.27%) Camunda
10 5 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.22%) Appian
11 4 (0.22%) Moodle
11 4 (0.22%) Mule
11 4 (0.22%) nginx
12 3 (0.16%) GeoServer
12 3 (0.16%) Liferay
13 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 13 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 12 (0.65%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.11%) Simulink
5 2 (0.11%) Windchill
6 1 (0.054%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 13 (0.70%) Maximo
2 8 (0.43%) 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
1 818 (44.05%) AWS
2 339 (18.26%) Azure
3 229 (12.33%) GCP
4 162 (8.72%) Serverless
5 130 (7.00%) SaaS
6 123 (6.62%) Amazon EKS
7 98 (5.28%) AWS Lambda
8 95 (5.12%) Amazon S3
9 92 (4.95%) GitHub
10 90 (4.85%) Amazon ECS
11 82 (4.42%) AWS CloudFormation
12 52 (2.80%) AWS Step Functions
12 52 (2.80%) OpenShift
13 44 (2.37%) dbt
14 40 (2.15%) Amazon SQS
15 38 (2.05%) Apigee
16 36 (1.94%) Amazon ECR
17 34 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
18 32 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 32 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.37%) Broadband
2 36 (1.94%) TCP/IP
3 16 (0.86%) HTTP
4 11 (0.59%) AMQP
4 11 (0.59%) VPN
5 10 (0.54%) Internet
6 6 (0.32%) BGP
6 6 (0.32%) Firewall
6 6 (0.32%) Multicast
6 6 (0.32%) VLAN
7 5 (0.27%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.22%) SAN
9 3 (0.16%) DNS
9 3 (0.16%) PuTTY
10 2 (0.11%) DHCP
10 2 (0.11%) LAN
10 2 (0.11%) NAS
10 2 (0.11%) SNMP
10 2 (0.11%) WAN
11 1 (0.054%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (8.94%) PostgreSQL
2 149 (8.02%) NoSQL
3 125 (6.73%) Relational Database
4 71 (3.82%) SQL Server
5 70 (3.77%) DynamoDB
6 65 (3.50%) MongoDB
7 58 (3.12%) MySQL
8 53 (2.85%) RDBMS
9 42 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
10 41 (2.21%) Big Data
11 35 (1.88%) Hadoop
12 33 (1.78%) DB2
13 32 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
14 29 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
15 25 (1.35%) Neo4j
16 23 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
17 19 (1.02%) Redis
18 17 (0.92%) Data Lake
19 14 (0.75%) BigQuery
20 13 (0.70%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 166 (8.94%) Jenkins
2 139 (7.49%) Git
3 105 (5.65%) GitLab
3 105 (5.65%) Selenium
4 77 (4.15%) JIRA
5 71 (3.82%) Cucumber
6 69 (3.72%) Cypress.io
7 66 (3.55%) TeamCity
8 61 (3.28%) JUnit
8 61 (3.28%) Maven
9 47 (2.53%) Postman
10 45 (2.42%) SonarQube
11 36 (1.94%) WebDriver
12 33 (1.78%) SoapUI
13 31 (1.67%) JMeter
14 25 (1.35%) Team Foundation Server
15 23 (1.24%) Bitbucket
16 22 (1.18%) Mockito
17 21 (1.13%) REST Assured
18 19 (1.02%) Jaeger
General
1 476 (25.63%) Finance
2 399 (21.49%) Social Skills
3 234 (12.60%) Banking
4 158 (8.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 136 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
6 132 (7.11%) Law
7 131 (7.05%) Public Sector
8 113 (6.09%) Front Office
9 106 (5.71%) Retail
10 93 (5.01%) Financial Institution
11 65 (3.50%) Investment Banking
12 54 (2.91%) Back Office
13 47 (2.53%) Games
14 36 (1.94%) Telecoms
15 26 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
16 24 (1.29%) Manufacturing
17 21 (1.13%) Aerospace
17 21 (1.13%) Health Technology
18 19 (1.02%) Billing
19 18 (0.97%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 686 (36.94%) Developer
2 465 (25.04%) Software Engineer
3 439 (23.64%) Senior
4 408 (21.97%) Java Developer
5 265 (14.27%) Java Engineer
6 256 (13.79%) Lead
7 156 (8.40%) Java Software Engineer
7 156 (8.40%) Senior Developer
8 149 (8.02%) Full-Stack Developer
9 137 (7.38%) Senior Software Engineer
10 109 (5.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 109 (5.87%) Senior Java Developer
11 101 (5.44%) Senior Java Engineer
12 95 (5.12%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 94 (5.06%) Architect
14 79 (4.25%) Software Developer
15 76 (4.09%) Lead Software Engineer
16 55 (2.96%) Lead Developer
17 53 (2.85%) Senior Java Software Engineer
18 51 (2.75%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 401 (21.59%) Spring
2 354 (19.06%) Spring Boot
3 327 (17.61%) React
4 213 (11.47%) REST
5 194 (10.45%) Kafka
6 189 (10.18%) Node.js
7 177 (9.53%) AngularJS
8 160 (8.62%) .NET
9 136 (7.32%) RESTful
10 108 (5.82%) HTML
11 96 (5.17%) SOAP
12 82 (4.42%) GraphQL
13 73 (3.93%) CSS
14 70 (3.77%) Web Services
15 67 (3.61%) Elastic Stack
15 67 (3.61%) Hibernate
16 52 (2.80%) JSON
16 52 (2.80%) Vue
17 50 (2.69%) Gherkin
18 44 (2.37%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 264 (14.22%) Cloud Native
2 172 (9.26%) Distributed Systems
3 77 (4.15%) Product Ownership
4 61 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
5 57 (3.07%) Fixed Income
6 51 (2.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 48 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
8 41 (2.21%) Equities
9 38 (2.05%) Blog
10 34 (1.83%) Public Cloud
11 32 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
12 30 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
13 29 (1.56%) Mobile App
14 28 (1.51%) Distributed Architecture
15 27 (1.45%) Algorithms
15 27 (1.45%) Data Structures
16 26 (1.40%) Derivative
17 24 (1.29%) Management Information System
18 23 (1.24%) FPGA
19 19 (1.02%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 198 (10.66%) Linux
2 46 (2.48%) Android
3 43 (2.32%) Unix
4 34 (1.83%) Windows
5 13 (0.70%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.38%) CentOS
6 7 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.32%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.27%) Debian
9 3 (0.16%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.054%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.054%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 708 (38.13%) Agile
2 655 (35.27%) Software Engineering
3 598 (32.20%) CI/CD
4 448 (24.12%) DevOps
5 411 (22.13%) Microservices
6 393 (21.16%) Full-Stack Development
7 314 (16.91%) Test Automation
8 312 (16.80%) Problem-Solving
9 293 (15.78%) Mentoring
10 224 (12.06%) Containerisation
11 209 (11.25%) AI
12 205 (11.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 189 (10.18%) Scrum
14 186 (10.02%) Computer Science
15 176 (9.48%) TDD
16 156 (8.40%) Infrastructure as Code
17 149 (8.02%) Technical Leadership
18 141 (7.59%) Clean Code
18 141 (7.59%) SDLC
19 140 (7.54%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 598 (32.20%) Python
2 427 (22.99%) JavaScript
3 364 (19.60%) SQL
4 287 (15.46%) TypeScript
5 201 (10.82%) C#
6 158 (8.51%) Go
7 130 (7.00%) C++
8 113 (6.09%) Kotlin
9 87 (4.68%) Bash
10 81 (4.36%) C
11 45 (2.42%) Scala
12 42 (2.26%) Groovy
13 33 (1.78%) PHP
13 33 (1.78%) PL/SQL
13 33 (1.78%) Rust
14 20 (1.08%) Apex Code
14 20 (1.08%) Ruby
15 17 (0.92%) PowerShell
15 17 (0.92%) R
16 14 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 286 (15.40%) Security Cleared
2 263 (14.16%) Degree
3 171 (9.21%) SC Cleared
4 114 (6.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 110 (5.92%) DV Cleared
6 85 (4.58%) AWS Certification
7 42 (2.26%) Master's Degree
8 39 (2.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 33 (1.78%) Azure Certification
10 29 (1.56%) ISTQB
11 26 (1.40%) TOGAF Certification
12 24 (1.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 22 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
14 17 (0.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 17 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
14 17 (0.92%) PhD
15 15 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
16 11 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
16 11 (0.59%) CREST Certified
16 11 (0.59%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (6.46%) QA
2 35 (1.88%) Accessibility
3 19 (1.02%) GDPR
3 19 (1.02%) PCI DSS
4 17 (0.92%) Data Quality
5 16 (0.86%) SOC 2
6 12 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
8 7 (0.38%) WCAG
9 5 (0.27%) NIST
10 4 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.22%) EU AI Act
10 4 (0.22%) SLA
11 3 (0.16%) NCSC
12 2 (0.11%) ECSS
12 2 (0.11%) GRC
12 2 (0.11%) MISRA
13 1 (0.054%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.054%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.054%) MiFID
System Software
1 330 (17.77%) Docker
2 14 (0.75%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
4 5 (0.27%) Firmware
4 5 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.16%) HDFS
5 3 (0.16%) 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
1 436 (23.48%) Kubernetes
2 196 (10.55%) Terraform
3 101 (5.44%) Grafana
4 77 (4.15%) Ansible
5 47 (2.53%) Prometheus
6 42 (2.26%) Argo
7 34 (1.83%) HP Fortify
8 22 (1.18%) Kibana
9 19 (1.02%) Kustomize
10 10 (0.54%) Rancher
11 8 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
12 7 (0.38%) Puppet
13 6 (0.32%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.32%) yum
14 5 (0.27%) FTK
15 4 (0.22%) logstash
15 4 (0.22%) Nagios
15 4 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
16 3 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
16 3 (0.16%) Control-M
Vendors
1 89 (4.79%) Oracle
2 65 (3.50%) Google
3 62 (3.34%) Microsoft
4 34 (1.83%) MuleSoft
5 32 (1.72%) Salesforce
6 29 (1.56%) IBM
7 23 (1.24%) Atlassian
8 22 (1.18%) SAP
9 21 (1.13%) Databricks
9 21 (1.13%) Splunk
10 19 (1.02%) Informatica
11 16 (0.86%) Talend
12 13 (0.70%) Dell
13 12 (0.65%) Red Hat
14 11 (0.59%) Guidewire
14 11 (0.59%) OpenAI
15 10 (0.54%) Dynatrace
15 10 (0.54%) Solace
16 9 (0.48%) Foundry
16 9 (0.48%) VMware