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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 31 31
Rank change year-on-year -25 0 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,709 2,722 3,747
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.61% 6.31% 5.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.11% 23.56% 18.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,706 1,168 2,326
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 £135,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +5.96%

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 16,817 11,554 20,759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.20% 26.77% 31.09%
Number of salaries quoted 12,275 7,605 12,720
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,250 £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 £110,556
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 1 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 1 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 -15 1,111 £85,000 -19.05% 2,343
North of England -22 767 £69,310 +6.63% 475
North West -32 396 £72,500 +3.57% 288
South West +7 333 £65,000 +8.33% 277
South East -43 239 £67,500 +3.85% 263
Midlands -45 193 £70,000 +16.67% 196
North East +18 187 £55,000 +15.79% 80
Yorkshire +23 184 £75,000 +15.38% 107
West Midlands -28 166 £70,000 +16.67% 143
East of England -73 48 £65,000 +52.94% 78
East Midlands -81 27 £60,000 +3.45% 53
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 61 (2.25%) Confluence
2 58 (2.14%) Apache
3 38 (1.40%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.66%) Camunda
6 17 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 12 (0.44%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
8 8 (0.30%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.22%) CMS
10 6 (0.22%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.22%) WebLogic
11 5 (0.18%) CICS
11 5 (0.18%) JBoss
12 4 (0.15%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.15%) SAS
12 4 (0.15%) SharePoint
12 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.55%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.33%) Simulink
4 7 (0.26%) Moqups
5 5 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.15%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
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 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
2 5 (0.18%) 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%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.037%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.037%) Oracle EBS
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 1,083 (39.98%) AWS
2 540 (19.93%) Azure
3 312 (11.52%) GCP
4 206 (7.60%) Serverless
5 172 (6.35%) GitHub
6 158 (5.83%) AWS CloudFormation
7 136 (5.02%) AWS Lambda
8 113 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
9 110 (4.06%) Amazon S3
10 109 (4.02%) SaaS
11 104 (3.84%) Amazon ECS
12 97 (3.58%) GitHub Actions
13 85 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
14 55 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
15 54 (1.99%) AWS Step Functions
16 41 (1.51%) Datadog
17 40 (1.48%) Anthropic Claude
17 40 (1.48%) OpenShift
18 39 (1.44%) GitHub Copilot
19 38 (1.40%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 37 (1.37%) HTTP
2 19 (0.70%) TCP/IP
3 17 (0.63%) Network Security
4 15 (0.55%) DMARC
5 12 (0.44%) VPN
6 11 (0.41%) BGP
7 9 (0.33%) DNS
7 9 (0.33%) IPv4
7 9 (0.33%) MQTT
7 9 (0.33%) Software-Defined Networking
7 9 (0.33%) Wireshark
8 8 (0.30%) AMQP
9 6 (0.22%) Firewall
9 6 (0.22%) IPsec
10 5 (0.18%) Broadband
10 5 (0.18%) Ethernet
10 5 (0.18%) Internet
11 4 (0.15%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.15%) RIP
12 3 (0.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (6.61%) PostgreSQL
2 166 (6.13%) NoSQL
3 132 (4.87%) Relational Database
4 130 (4.80%) MongoDB
5 75 (2.77%) MySQL
6 65 (2.40%) DynamoDB
7 62 (2.29%) SQL Server
8 48 (1.77%) Big Data
9 35 (1.29%) Amazon Athena
10 27 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
10 27 (1.00%) Redis
11 26 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
12 25 (0.92%) Hadoop
12 25 (0.92%) Power BI
13 24 (0.89%) Data Lake
14 22 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
15 21 (0.78%) BigQuery
15 21 (0.78%) Db2
16 17 (0.63%) Spark SQL
17 16 (0.59%) Flink
Development Applications
1 294 (10.85%) Git
2 216 (7.97%) Jenkins
3 204 (7.53%) GitLab
4 102 (3.77%) JUnit
5 98 (3.62%) Cucumber
6 96 (3.54%) JIRA
7 72 (2.66%) Maven
8 66 (2.44%) TeamCity
9 62 (2.29%) Selenium
10 53 (1.96%) Cypress.io
11 47 (1.73%) Eclipse
12 45 (1.66%) Postman
13 41 (1.51%) Mockito
13 41 (1.51%) SonarQube
13 41 (1.51%) Subversion
14 36 (1.33%) Bitbucket
15 33 (1.22%) JMeter
16 27 (1.00%) Claude Code
17 18 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 18 (0.66%) REST Assured
General
1 680 (25.10%) Finance
2 472 (17.42%) Social Skills
3 285 (10.52%) Banking
4 262 (9.67%) Public Sector
5 185 (6.83%) Analytical Skills
6 146 (5.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 124 (4.58%) Law
8 103 (3.80%) Retail
9 78 (2.88%) Financial Institution
10 71 (2.62%) Front Office
11 40 (1.48%) Back Office
11 40 (1.48%) Legal
12 39 (1.44%) Manufacturing
13 36 (1.33%) Marketing
14 34 (1.26%) Health Technology
14 34 (1.26%) Investment Banking
15 27 (1.00%) Publishing
16 23 (0.85%) Tech for Good
17 22 (0.81%) Aerospace
18 21 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 810 (29.90%) Developer
2 706 (26.06%) Senior
3 622 (22.96%) Software Engineer
4 579 (21.37%) Java Engineer
5 527 (19.45%) Java Developer
6 374 (13.81%) Lead
7 221 (8.16%) Senior Developer
8 207 (7.64%) Senior Software Engineer
9 206 (7.60%) Senior Java Engineer
10 197 (7.27%) Java Software Engineer
11 176 (6.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 138 (5.09%) Senior Java Developer
13 131 (4.84%) Full-Stack Developer
14 118 (4.36%) Software Developer
15 106 (3.91%) Lead Software Engineer
16 96 (3.54%) Principal Engineer
17 90 (3.32%) DevOps Engineer
18 83 (3.06%) Architect
19 82 (3.03%) Full-Stack Java Developer
20 78 (2.88%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 636 (23.48%) Spring
2 529 (19.53%) Spring Boot
3 329 (12.14%) Terraform
4 286 (10.56%) Kafka
5 278 (10.26%) React
6 262 (9.67%) REST
7 218 (8.05%) AngularJS
8 201 (7.42%) Node.js
9 199 (7.35%) RESTful
10 168 (6.20%) .NET
11 78 (2.88%) Web Services
12 68 (2.51%) HTML
13 64 (2.36%) CSS
14 61 (2.25%) OAuth
15 58 (2.14%) Hibernate
15 58 (2.14%) RabbitMQ
16 55 (2.03%) Vue
17 46 (1.70%) JSON
18 44 (1.62%) Jakarta EE
19 42 (1.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 375 (13.84%) Cloud Native
2 279 (10.30%) Distributed Systems
3 167 (6.16%) Product Ownership
4 125 (4.61%) Public Cloud
5 75 (2.77%) Onboarding
6 72 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
7 60 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
8 51 (1.88%) e-Learning
9 47 (1.73%) Data Structures
10 43 (1.59%) Algorithms
10 43 (1.59%) Distributed Architecture
10 43 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 42 (1.55%) Blog
12 40 (1.48%) Virtual Team
13 32 (1.18%) Mobile App
14 31 (1.14%) AI Agents
14 31 (1.14%) Equities
15 28 (1.03%) Fixed Income
16 27 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
17 25 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 224 (8.27%) Linux
2 68 (2.51%) Windows
3 40 (1.48%) Android
4 38 (1.40%) Unix
5 28 (1.03%) Apple iOS
6 21 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 14 (0.52%) 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 1,016 (37.50%) Software Engineering
2 916 (33.81%) CI/CD
3 831 (30.68%) Agile
4 662 (24.44%) Microservices
5 605 (22.33%) DevOps
6 550 (20.30%) Full-Stack Development
7 514 (18.97%) Test Automation
8 476 (17.57%) Mentoring
9 459 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
10 419 (15.47%) AI
11 359 (13.25%) Containerisation
12 334 (12.33%) Infrastructure as Code
13 328 (12.11%) Continuous Improvement
14 304 (11.22%) Event-Driven
15 252 (9.30%) Technical Leadership
16 247 (9.12%) Computer Science
17 245 (9.04%) SDLC
18 241 (8.90%) Scrum
19 233 (8.60%) TDD
20 229 (8.45%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 841 (31.04%) Python
2 492 (18.16%) SQL
3 445 (16.43%) JavaScript
4 277 (10.23%) C++
5 267 (9.86%) C#
6 265 (9.78%) TypeScript
7 149 (5.50%) Go
8 115 (4.25%) Bash
9 105 (3.88%) Kotlin
10 79 (2.92%) Scala
11 76 (2.81%) C
12 59 (2.18%) Rust
13 49 (1.81%) Perl
14 48 (1.77%) PHP
15 45 (1.66%) Groovy
16 37 (1.37%) PowerShell
17 34 (1.26%) Ruby
18 32 (1.18%) PL/SQL
19 23 (0.85%) Shell Script
20 18 (0.66%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 502 (18.53%) Security Cleared
2 284 (10.48%) Degree
3 270 (9.97%) SC Cleared
4 173 (6.39%) DV Cleared
5 165 (6.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 104 (3.84%) AWS Certification
7 69 (2.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 30 (1.11%) Master's Degree
9 22 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (0.74%) ISTQB
10 20 (0.74%) OSCP
11 16 (0.59%) DBS Check
12 15 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
14 12 (0.44%) PhD
15 11 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 10 (0.37%) Azure Certification
16 10 (0.37%) CREST Certified
17 9 (0.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (6.42%) QA
2 86 (3.17%) Data Quality
3 81 (2.99%) Accessibility
4 26 (0.96%) GDPR
4 26 (0.96%) WCAG
5 20 (0.74%) NIST
6 16 (0.59%) ISO 20022
7 15 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (0.44%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.30%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.22%) GRC
10 6 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
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
1 445 (16.43%) Docker
2 28 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (0.66%) Active Directory
4 15 (0.55%) VMware NSX
5 13 (0.48%) Firmware
6 12 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
7 11 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.41%) vSphere
8 8 (0.30%) Squid
8 8 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.18%) KVM
11 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.037%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 546 (20.16%) Kubernetes
2 148 (5.46%) Ansible
3 105 (3.88%) Grafana
4 38 (1.40%) Argo
5 37 (1.37%) Prometheus
6 31 (1.14%) Puppet
7 29 (1.07%) Kibana
8 16 (0.59%) Packer
9 14 (0.52%) HP Fortify
9 14 (0.52%) Rancher
10 12 (0.44%) logstash
11 8 (0.30%) yum
11 8 (0.30%) ZABBIX
12 7 (0.26%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.22%) Hadoop YARN
13 6 (0.22%) Kubeflow
13 6 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.18%) EnCase
14 5 (0.18%) FTK
14 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 116 (4.28%) Oracle
2 113 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 94 (3.47%) Google
4 67 (2.47%) Splunk
5 45 (1.66%) Red Hat
6 41 (1.51%) IBM
7 31 (1.14%) SAP
7 31 (1.14%) VMware
8 30 (1.11%) AppDynamics
9 28 (1.03%) Adobe
10 26 (0.96%) Dynatrace
11 22 (0.81%) OpenAI
12 18 (0.66%) Databricks
13 17 (0.63%) Palantir
14 16 (0.59%) ServiceNow
15 15 (0.55%) SendGrid
16 14 (0.52%) Salesforce
17 12 (0.44%) Bloomberg
17 12 (0.44%) Foundry
17 12 (0.44%) Solace