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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 27 35
Rank change year-on-year -39 +8 -17
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,213 2,840 4,472
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.71% 7.19% 5.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.28% 22.26% 16.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,415 1,451 3,421
10th Percentile £43,950 £41,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,757 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £73,805
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +1.62% -7.74%
75th Percentile £93,750 £115,000 £98,474
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £137,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -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 14,485 12,758 27,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.73% 32.30% 32.07%
Number of salaries quoted 10,259 8,915 22,387
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 18 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 18 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 1,058 £90,000 -14.29% 360
North of England -39 582 £69,305 +2.67% 392
North West -51 243 £70,000 -6.04% 157
Yorkshire +18 242 £72,500 +2.12% 164
South East -44 214 £67,500 +3.85% 218
South West -40 180 £60,500 +0.83% 108
Midlands -103 99 £57,500 +7.10% 194
North East -1 97 £52,500 -4.55% 71
West Midlands -54 83 £56,250 +2.27% 107
East of England -70 50 £52,500 +5.00% 52
East Midlands -94 15 £54,500 +17.84% 87
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 (2.03%) Apache
2 38 (1.72%) Apache Spark
3 37 (1.67%) Confluence
4 32 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (0.77%) JBoss
6 15 (0.68%) Palantir Foundry
7 13 (0.59%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.32%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.23%) GeoServer
10 5 (0.23%) IIS
10 5 (0.23%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.18%) Anypoint
11 4 (0.18%) Appian
11 4 (0.18%) Camunda
11 4 (0.18%) CMS
11 4 (0.18%) Moodle
12 3 (0.14%) Liferay
Applications
1 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.45%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.090%) Windchill
6 1 (0.045%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.045%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.045%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 12 (0.54%) Maximo
2 5 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.14%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.14%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.14%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.090%) 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
1 915 (41.35%) AWS
2 409 (18.48%) Azure
3 265 (11.97%) GCP
4 187 (8.45%) Serverless
5 134 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
6 124 (5.60%) Amazon S3
7 119 (5.38%) SaaS
8 117 (5.29%) AWS Lambda
9 114 (5.15%) Amazon ECS
10 111 (5.02%) Amazon EKS
11 92 (4.16%) GitHub
12 77 (3.48%) AWS Step Functions
13 59 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
14 54 (2.44%) Amazon ECR
14 54 (2.44%) Apigee
15 44 (1.99%) Amazon SQS
16 38 (1.72%) dbt
16 38 (1.72%) OpenShift
17 37 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
18 32 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.26%) Broadband
2 34 (1.54%) HTTP
3 26 (1.17%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.41%) AMQP
5 8 (0.36%) Internet
6 6 (0.27%) IPv4
6 6 (0.27%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.14%) BGP
7 3 (0.14%) MQTT
7 3 (0.14%) Network Security
7 3 (0.14%) PuTTY
7 3 (0.14%) VLAN
7 3 (0.14%) VPN
8 2 (0.090%) DMARC
8 2 (0.090%) Firewall
8 2 (0.090%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.090%) LAN
8 2 (0.090%) SAN
8 2 (0.090%) WAN
9 1 (0.045%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (8.18%) NoSQL
2 164 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
3 109 (4.93%) Relational Database
4 98 (4.43%) DynamoDB
4 98 (4.43%) MongoDB
5 72 (3.25%) SQL Server
6 66 (2.98%) MySQL
7 44 (1.99%) RDBMS
8 35 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
9 34 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
10 31 (1.40%) Big Data
11 30 (1.36%) DB2
12 24 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
13 23 (1.04%) BigQuery
13 23 (1.04%) Hadoop
14 21 (0.95%) Neo4j
15 20 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
16 17 (0.77%) Redis
17 14 (0.63%) Metadata
17 14 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 186 (8.40%) Jenkins
2 173 (7.82%) Git
3 156 (7.05%) GitLab
4 94 (4.25%) JIRA
5 91 (4.11%) Selenium
6 84 (3.80%) Maven
7 76 (3.43%) Cypress.io
8 73 (3.30%) Cucumber
9 66 (2.98%) SonarQube
10 62 (2.80%) TeamCity
11 55 (2.49%) JUnit
12 45 (2.03%) Postman
13 33 (1.49%) JMeter
14 30 (1.36%) Bitbucket
15 27 (1.22%) SoapUI
15 27 (1.22%) WebDriver
16 26 (1.17%) Team Foundation Server
17 25 (1.13%) Claude Code
17 25 (1.13%) Gradle
17 25 (1.13%) REST Assured
General
1 546 (24.67%) Finance
2 358 (16.18%) Social Skills
3 239 (10.80%) Banking
4 188 (8.50%) Public Sector
5 162 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
6 153 (6.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 114 (5.15%) Law
8 113 (5.11%) Front Office
9 98 (4.43%) Retail
10 68 (3.07%) Financial Institution
11 51 (2.30%) Back Office
12 44 (1.99%) Investment Banking
13 33 (1.49%) Games
14 27 (1.22%) Telecoms
15 24 (1.08%) Aerospace
15 24 (1.08%) Health Technology
16 22 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
16 22 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
17 21 (0.95%) Marketing
18 17 (0.77%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 820 (37.05%) Developer
2 567 (25.62%) Senior
3 533 (24.08%) Java Developer
4 523 (23.63%) Software Engineer
5 363 (16.40%) Java Engineer
6 338 (15.27%) Lead
7 220 (9.94%) Senior Developer
8 179 (8.09%) Java Software Engineer
9 168 (7.59%) Senior Software Engineer
10 157 (7.09%) Senior Java Developer
11 154 (6.96%) Full-Stack Developer
12 127 (5.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 111 (5.02%) Senior Java Engineer
14 107 (4.84%) Lead Software Engineer
15 106 (4.79%) Software Developer
16 93 (4.20%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 79 (3.57%) Architect
18 61 (2.76%) Lead Developer
19 59 (2.67%) Senior Java Software Engineer
20 52 (2.35%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 465 (21.01%) Spring
2 418 (18.89%) Spring Boot
3 306 (13.83%) React
4 237 (10.71%) REST
5 227 (10.26%) AngularJS
6 201 (9.08%) Node.js
7 189 (8.54%) Kafka
8 168 (7.59%) .NET
9 128 (5.78%) RESTful
10 101 (4.56%) HTML
11 82 (3.71%) SOAP
11 82 (3.71%) Web Services
12 77 (3.48%) CSS
13 67 (3.03%) GraphQL
14 66 (2.98%) Elastic Stack
15 64 (2.89%) Vue
16 63 (2.85%) JSON
17 56 (2.53%) Gherkin
18 52 (2.35%) Hibernate
19 47 (2.12%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 245 (11.07%) Cloud Native
2 176 (7.95%) Distributed Systems
3 134 (6.06%) Product Ownership
4 81 (3.66%) Public Cloud
5 51 (2.30%) Fixed Income
6 47 (2.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 43 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
8 40 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
8 40 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
9 38 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
10 36 (1.63%) Blog
10 36 (1.63%) Equities
11 33 (1.49%) Data Structures
12 32 (1.45%) Mobile App
13 28 (1.27%) e-Learning
13 28 (1.27%) Virtual Team
14 20 (0.90%) Algorithms
14 20 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
14 20 (0.90%) Management Information System
14 20 (0.90%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 195 (8.81%) Linux
2 51 (2.30%) Android
3 46 (2.08%) Unix
3 46 (2.08%) Windows
4 15 (0.68%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.41%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.27%) CentOS
7 5 (0.23%) Debian
7 5 (0.23%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.18%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.045%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.045%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 786 (35.52%) Agile
2 753 (34.03%) Software Engineering
3 666 (30.09%) CI/CD
4 522 (23.59%) DevOps
5 466 (21.06%) Microservices
6 443 (20.02%) Full-Stack Development
7 396 (17.89%) Test Automation
8 389 (17.58%) Mentoring
9 323 (14.60%) Problem-Solving
10 248 (11.21%) AI
11 235 (10.62%) Containerisation
12 231 (10.44%) Scrum
13 220 (9.94%) Continuous Improvement
14 209 (9.44%) TDD
15 207 (9.35%) Roadmaps
16 202 (9.13%) Technical Leadership
17 197 (8.90%) Infrastructure as Code
18 186 (8.40%) Computer Science
19 181 (8.18%) SDLC
20 165 (7.46%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 664 (30.00%) Python
2 430 (19.43%) SQL
3 423 (19.11%) JavaScript
4 277 (12.52%) TypeScript
5 231 (10.44%) C#
6 167 (7.55%) C++
7 154 (6.96%) Go
8 113 (5.11%) Bash
9 103 (4.65%) Kotlin
10 71 (3.21%) C
11 66 (2.98%) Groovy
12 45 (2.03%) Scala
13 36 (1.63%) PHP
14 34 (1.54%) PL/SQL
14 34 (1.54%) Rust
15 22 (0.99%) PowerShell
16 17 (0.77%) Apex Code
17 16 (0.72%) R
18 12 (0.54%) Shell Script
18 12 (0.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 336 (15.18%) Security Cleared
2 257 (11.61%) Degree
3 211 (9.53%) SC Cleared
4 132 (5.96%) DV Cleared
5 124 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 96 (4.34%) AWS Certification
7 35 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 32 (1.45%) Master's Degree
9 30 (1.36%) ISTQB
10 25 (1.13%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 20 (0.90%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 20 (0.90%) OSCP
13 19 (0.86%) Azure Certification
13 19 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
14 17 (0.77%) DBS Check
15 14 (0.63%) CREST Certified
15 14 (0.63%) PhD
16 13 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
17 12 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (6.51%) QA
2 47 (2.12%) Accessibility
3 38 (1.72%) Data Quality
4 15 (0.68%) PCI DSS
5 14 (0.63%) GRC
6 12 (0.54%) SOC 2
7 9 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
8 8 (0.36%) GDPR
8 8 (0.36%) WCAG
9 5 (0.23%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 3 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 3 (0.14%) NIST
11 3 (0.14%) SLA
12 1 (0.045%) Good Clinical Practice
12 1 (0.045%) MiFID
12 1 (0.045%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 353 (15.95%) Docker
2 11 (0.50%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.36%) vSphere
4 6 (0.27%) Squid
4 6 (0.27%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.23%) Firmware
6 4 (0.18%) KVM
7 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.090%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.090%) 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%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 415 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 249 (11.25%) Terraform
3 95 (4.29%) Grafana
4 89 (4.02%) Ansible
5 53 (2.39%) Argo
6 45 (2.03%) HP Fortify
7 44 (1.99%) Prometheus
8 25 (1.13%) Kibana
9 18 (0.81%) Kustomize
10 13 (0.59%) Rancher
11 12 (0.54%) Packer
11 12 (0.54%) Puppet
12 9 (0.41%) logstash
13 7 (0.32%) yum
14 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (0.27%) ZABBIX
15 5 (0.23%) FTK
16 4 (0.18%) Progress Chef
17 3 (0.14%) AWS Copilot
17 3 (0.14%) Nagios
Vendors
1 85 (3.84%) Oracle
2 82 (3.71%) Microsoft
3 68 (3.07%) Google
4 33 (1.49%) IBM
5 31 (1.40%) Splunk
6 26 (1.17%) Salesforce
7 22 (0.99%) MuleSoft
8 19 (0.86%) Foundry
9 18 (0.81%) Palantir
10 17 (0.77%) AppDynamics
10 17 (0.77%) Dynatrace
10 17 (0.77%) Red Hat
11 15 (0.68%) VMware
12 14 (0.63%) Databricks
13 13 (0.59%) Atlassian
14 11 (0.50%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.50%) Solace
15 10 (0.45%) Informatica
15 10 (0.45%) ServiceNow
15 10 (0.45%) Talend