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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 33 31
Rank change year-on-year -26 -2 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,685 2,676 3,699
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.59% 6.18% 5.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.30% 23.27% 18.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,685 1,125 2,288
10th Percentile £43,930 £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% +3.23%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £135,750 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +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 16,471 11,499 20,537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.91% 26.56% 31.31%
Number of salaries quoted 12,029 7,541 12,470
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £111,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -14 1,095 £85,000 -19.05% 2,209
North of England -22 768 £69,310 +6.63% 439
North West -33 398 £75,000 +7.14% 254
South West +7 336 £66,550 +2.38% 188
South East -45 220 £67,500 +3.85% 260
Midlands -43 198 £69,310 +10.90% 156
North East +24 190 £55,000 +7.32% 85
Yorkshire +21 180 £72,500 +11.54% 101
West Midlands -23 170 £70,000 +12.00% 118
East of England -75 44 £65,000 +52.94% 77
East Midlands -76 28 £60,000 -0.41% 38
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 58 (2.16%) Confluence
2 54 (2.01%) Apache
3 36 (1.34%) Apache Spark
4 27 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (0.71%) Camunda
6 18 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 12 (0.45%) Jupyter
8 10 (0.37%) WebLogic
9 8 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
9 8 (0.30%) Tomcat
10 7 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.22%) CICS
11 6 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.19%) CMS
12 5 (0.19%) Ethereum
12 5 (0.19%) JBoss
12 5 (0.19%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.15%) SAS
13 4 (0.15%) SharePoint
13 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.56%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.34%) Simulink
4 7 (0.26%) Moqups
5 5 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (0.11%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.074%) PTC Creo
8 2 (0.074%) Windchill
9 1 (0.037%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.037%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.19%) Distributed Ledger
2 5 (0.19%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.074%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.074%) Maximo
4 2 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.074%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 2 (0.074%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.037%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.037%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.037%) Quorum
5 1 (0.037%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.037%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.037%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,055 (39.29%) AWS
2 525 (19.55%) Azure
3 299 (11.14%) GCP
4 195 (7.26%) Serverless
5 180 (6.70%) GitHub
6 153 (5.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 129 (4.80%) AWS Lambda
8 108 (4.02%) Amazon S3
9 103 (3.84%) SaaS
10 102 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
11 101 (3.76%) Amazon EKS
12 100 (3.72%) Amazon ECS
13 88 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
14 55 (2.05%) AWS Step Functions
15 49 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
16 42 (1.56%) Datadog
17 41 (1.53%) Anthropic Claude
18 40 (1.49%) GitHub Copilot
19 38 (1.42%) Azure Service Bus
19 38 (1.42%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 35 (1.30%) HTTP
2 22 (0.82%) TCP/IP
3 19 (0.71%) Network Security
4 15 (0.56%) DMARC
4 15 (0.56%) VPN
5 14 (0.52%) BGP
6 9 (0.34%) DNS
6 9 (0.34%) Firewall
6 9 (0.34%) Wireshark
7 8 (0.30%) AMQP
7 8 (0.30%) IPv4
7 8 (0.30%) MQTT
7 8 (0.30%) Software-Defined Networking
8 6 (0.22%) IPsec
9 5 (0.19%) Broadband
9 5 (0.19%) Ethernet
10 4 (0.15%) Internet
10 4 (0.15%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.15%) RIP
11 3 (0.11%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (6.63%) PostgreSQL
2 166 (6.18%) NoSQL
3 129 (4.80%) MongoDB
4 127 (4.73%) Relational Database
5 73 (2.72%) MySQL
6 65 (2.42%) DynamoDB
7 60 (2.23%) SQL Server
8 50 (1.86%) Big Data
9 36 (1.34%) Amazon Athena
10 29 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
11 28 (1.04%) Redis
12 27 (1.01%) Power BI
13 24 (0.89%) Data Lake
13 24 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
14 23 (0.86%) Hadoop
15 21 (0.78%) BigQuery
15 21 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
15 21 (0.78%) Db2
16 17 (0.63%) Spark SQL
17 15 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 281 (10.47%) Git
2 203 (7.56%) GitLab
3 201 (7.49%) Jenkins
4 106 (3.95%) JUnit
5 88 (3.28%) JIRA
6 87 (3.24%) Cucumber
7 68 (2.53%) Maven
8 67 (2.50%) TeamCity
9 58 (2.16%) Selenium
10 52 (1.94%) Cypress.io
11 46 (1.71%) Eclipse
12 45 (1.68%) Mockito
13 44 (1.64%) Postman
14 41 (1.53%) Subversion
15 35 (1.30%) SonarQube
16 32 (1.19%) Bitbucket
17 31 (1.15%) JMeter
18 28 (1.04%) Claude Code
19 18 (0.67%) REST Assured
20 17 (0.63%) Gradle
General
1 671 (24.99%) Finance
2 469 (17.47%) Social Skills
3 285 (10.61%) Banking
4 249 (9.27%) Public Sector
5 176 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
6 142 (5.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 123 (4.58%) Law
8 100 (3.72%) Retail
9 80 (2.98%) Financial Institution
10 71 (2.64%) Front Office
11 41 (1.53%) Back Office
12 40 (1.49%) Legal
13 38 (1.42%) Manufacturing
14 35 (1.30%) Health Technology
14 35 (1.30%) Marketing
15 32 (1.19%) Investment Banking
16 28 (1.04%) Publishing
17 23 (0.86%) Tech for Good
18 21 (0.78%) Aerospace
18 21 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 789 (29.39%) Developer
2 714 (26.59%) Senior
3 627 (23.35%) Software Engineer
4 588 (21.90%) Java Engineer
5 506 (18.85%) Java Developer
6 372 (13.85%) Lead
7 218 (8.12%) Senior Developer
8 212 (7.90%) Senior Java Engineer
9 209 (7.78%) Senior Software Engineer
10 202 (7.52%) Java Software Engineer
11 174 (6.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 134 (4.99%) Senior Java Developer
13 128 (4.77%) Full-Stack Developer
14 116 (4.32%) Software Developer
15 105 (3.91%) Lead Software Engineer
16 101 (3.76%) Principal Engineer
17 86 (3.20%) DevOps Engineer
18 83 (3.09%) Architect
19 80 (2.98%) Full-Stack Java Developer
20 76 (2.83%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 622 (23.17%) Spring
2 521 (19.40%) Spring Boot
3 313 (11.66%) Terraform
4 283 (10.54%) Kafka
5 264 (9.83%) React
6 252 (9.39%) REST
7 210 (7.82%) AngularJS
8 201 (7.49%) Node.js
9 193 (7.19%) RESTful
10 165 (6.15%) .NET
11 66 (2.46%) Web Services
12 63 (2.35%) HTML
13 62 (2.31%) CSS
14 61 (2.27%) OAuth
15 57 (2.12%) Hibernate
16 52 (1.94%) Vue
17 49 (1.82%) RabbitMQ
18 41 (1.53%) Jakarta EE
19 40 (1.49%) Middleware
19 40 (1.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 378 (14.08%) Cloud Native
2 266 (9.91%) Distributed Systems
3 160 (5.96%) Product Ownership
4 125 (4.66%) Public Cloud
5 78 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
6 75 (2.79%) Onboarding
7 60 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
8 50 (1.86%) e-Learning
9 46 (1.71%) Data Structures
9 46 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 44 (1.64%) Blog
11 42 (1.56%) Algorithms
12 39 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
13 35 (1.30%) Virtual Team
14 33 (1.23%) Mobile App
15 32 (1.19%) AI Agents
16 31 (1.15%) Equities
17 30 (1.12%) Fixed Income
18 27 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
18 27 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 219 (8.16%) Linux
2 69 (2.57%) Windows
3 40 (1.49%) Android
4 37 (1.38%) Unix
5 27 (1.01%) Apple iOS
6 21 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (0.48%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.30%) CentOS
9 7 (0.26%) Debian
9 7 (0.26%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.15%) VMS
11 3 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.11%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.074%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.037%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,018 (37.91%) Software Engineering
2 906 (33.74%) CI/CD
3 801 (29.83%) Agile
4 656 (24.43%) Microservices
5 591 (22.01%) DevOps
6 547 (20.37%) Full-Stack Development
7 502 (18.70%) Test Automation
8 466 (17.36%) Mentoring
9 448 (16.69%) Problem-Solving
10 426 (15.87%) AI
11 349 (13.00%) Containerisation
12 327 (12.18%) Infrastructure as Code
13 322 (11.99%) Continuous Improvement
14 301 (11.21%) Event-Driven
15 251 (9.35%) Technical Leadership
16 244 (9.09%) SDLC
17 243 (9.05%) Computer Science
18 232 (8.64%) Scrum
19 227 (8.45%) TDD
20 219 (8.16%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 818 (30.47%) Python
2 479 (17.84%) SQL
3 434 (16.16%) JavaScript
4 275 (10.24%) C++
5 266 (9.91%) TypeScript
6 258 (9.61%) C#
7 154 (5.74%) Go
8 114 (4.25%) Bash
9 109 (4.06%) Kotlin
10 78 (2.91%) Scala
11 73 (2.72%) C
12 60 (2.23%) Rust
13 48 (1.79%) PHP
14 46 (1.71%) Perl
15 39 (1.45%) Groovy
16 37 (1.38%) PowerShell
17 33 (1.23%) Ruby
18 30 (1.12%) PL/SQL
19 21 (0.78%) Shell Script
20 20 (0.74%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 488 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 277 (10.32%) Degree
3 258 (9.61%) SC Cleared
4 170 (6.33%) DV Cleared
5 161 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 105 (3.91%) AWS Certification
7 71 (2.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 31 (1.15%) Master's Degree
9 21 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (0.67%) ISTQB
10 18 (0.67%) OSCP
11 17 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (0.48%) CISSP
12 13 (0.48%) DBS Check
13 12 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 12 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (0.45%) PhD
14 11 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (0.37%) Azure Certification
16 9 (0.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (6.11%) QA
2 84 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 78 (2.91%) Accessibility
4 26 (0.97%) GDPR
4 26 (0.97%) WCAG
5 23 (0.86%) NIST
6 18 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (0.60%) ISO 20022
8 15 (0.56%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.41%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.15%) GRC
11 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 3 (0.11%) MiFID
12 3 (0.11%) MIL-STD-1553
12 3 (0.11%) PSD2
12 3 (0.11%) UCITS
13 2 (0.074%) Good Clinical Practice
13 2 (0.074%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 436 (16.24%) Docker
2 31 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (0.67%) VMware NSX
4 17 (0.63%) Active Directory
5 15 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
6 13 (0.48%) Firmware
7 10 (0.37%) vSphere
8 8 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (0.26%) Squid
10 6 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.19%) KVM
12 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
13 1 (0.037%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 534 (19.89%) Kubernetes
2 138 (5.14%) Ansible
3 102 (3.80%) Grafana
4 39 (1.45%) Argo
5 36 (1.34%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.30%) Puppet
7 20 (0.74%) Kibana
8 14 (0.52%) HP Fortify
8 14 (0.52%) Rancher
9 11 (0.41%) Packer
9 11 (0.41%) vCenter Server
10 9 (0.34%) logstash
11 8 (0.30%) yum
12 7 (0.26%) EnCase
12 7 (0.26%) FTK
12 7 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (0.26%) ZABBIX
13 6 (0.22%) Hadoop YARN
13 6 (0.22%) Kubeflow
14 5 (0.19%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 116 (4.32%) Oracle
2 114 (4.25%) Microsoft
3 97 (3.61%) Google
4 64 (2.38%) Splunk
5 46 (1.71%) Red Hat
6 34 (1.27%) VMware
7 32 (1.19%) IBM
8 31 (1.15%) SAP
9 28 (1.04%) Adobe
10 23 (0.86%) Dynatrace
11 22 (0.82%) OpenAI
12 21 (0.78%) AppDynamics
13 18 (0.67%) Databricks
14 15 (0.56%) Palantir
14 15 (0.56%) SendGrid
15 14 (0.52%) Salesforce
15 14 (0.52%) ServiceNow
16 13 (0.48%) OutSystems
17 12 (0.45%) Bloomberg
17 12 (0.45%) Solace