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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 27 35
Rank change year-on-year -38 +8 -15
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,263 2,873 4,594
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.72% 7.40% 5.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.20% 23.17% 16.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,467 1,375 3,457
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £39,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £73,805
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +5.01% -7.74%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £137,500 £138,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -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 14,887 12,398 27,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.89% 31.94% 31.22%
Number of salaries quoted 10,611 8,396 22,732
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £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 £64,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.56% +6.67% -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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -7 1,052 £85,000 -19.05% 504
North of England -41 620 £68,690 +1.76% 187
North West -49 259 £70,000 -6.35% 102
Yorkshire +21 244 £72,500 +0.71% 46
South East -42 222 £67,500 +3.85% 99
South West -40 184 £60,000 - 89
North East -1 117 £52,315 -6.16% 40
Midlands -101 105 £60,000 +9.09% 58
West Midlands -73 87 £60,000 - 34
East of England -63 54 £50,680 +13.89% 39
East Midlands -79 17 £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 44 (1.94%) Apache
2 37 (1.63%) Confluence
3 35 (1.55%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
6 14 (0.62%) JBoss
7 11 (0.49%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.35%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.22%) Camunda
10 5 (0.22%) CMS
10 5 (0.22%) GeoServer
10 5 (0.22%) IIS
10 5 (0.22%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.13%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.13%) CICS
11 3 (0.13%) SAS
11 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.35%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.13%) Windchill
6 2 (0.088%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.088%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.044%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 12 (0.53%) Maximo
2 8 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.13%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.088%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.088%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.044%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.044%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.044%) Endur
5 1 (0.044%) Findur
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.044%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.044%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 931 (41.14%) AWS
2 425 (18.78%) Azure
3 264 (11.67%) GCP
4 183 (8.09%) Serverless
5 136 (6.01%) AWS CloudFormation
6 121 (5.35%) SaaS
7 120 (5.30%) Amazon S3
8 114 (5.04%) AWS Lambda
9 111 (4.90%) Amazon ECS
10 108 (4.77%) Amazon EKS
11 96 (4.24%) GitHub
12 75 (3.31%) AWS Step Functions
13 64 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
14 49 (2.17%) Amazon ECR
15 48 (2.12%) Apigee
16 45 (1.99%) Amazon SQS
17 38 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
18 37 (1.63%) dbt
19 36 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 36 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.21%) Broadband
2 31 (1.37%) HTTP
3 27 (1.19%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.35%) AMQP
4 8 (0.35%) IPv4
4 8 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
5 7 (0.31%) DMARC
6 5 (0.22%) MQTT
7 3 (0.13%) BGP
7 3 (0.13%) Internet
7 3 (0.13%) Network Security
7 3 (0.13%) VLAN
7 3 (0.13%) VPN
8 2 (0.088%) Firewall
8 2 (0.088%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.088%) LAN
8 2 (0.088%) SAN
8 2 (0.088%) WAN
9 1 (0.044%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.044%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (8.26%) NoSQL
2 161 (7.11%) PostgreSQL
3 107 (4.73%) Relational Database
4 100 (4.42%) MongoDB
5 91 (4.02%) DynamoDB
6 70 (3.09%) MySQL
7 67 (2.96%) SQL Server
8 40 (1.77%) Amazon Athena
9 39 (1.72%) RDBMS
10 30 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
11 27 (1.19%) Big Data
12 26 (1.15%) DB2
13 22 (0.97%) BigQuery
14 19 (0.84%) Hadoop
15 18 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
15 18 (0.80%) Redis
16 17 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
17 14 (0.62%) Metadata
18 13 (0.57%) Power BI
19 12 (0.53%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 193 (8.53%) Git
2 181 (8.00%) Jenkins
3 156 (6.89%) GitLab
4 91 (4.02%) JIRA
5 82 (3.62%) Maven
5 82 (3.62%) Selenium
6 73 (3.23%) Cucumber
7 67 (2.96%) Cypress.io
8 64 (2.83%) JUnit
9 59 (2.61%) TeamCity
10 57 (2.52%) SonarQube
11 44 (1.94%) Postman
12 33 (1.46%) JMeter
13 30 (1.33%) Mockito
14 28 (1.24%) Bitbucket
14 28 (1.24%) Gradle
15 26 (1.15%) REST Assured
16 25 (1.10%) Claude Code
17 23 (1.02%) SoapUI
17 23 (1.02%) WebDriver
General
1 565 (24.97%) Finance
2 361 (15.95%) Social Skills
3 233 (10.30%) Banking
4 204 (9.01%) Public Sector
5 159 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
6 154 (6.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 108 (4.77%) Front Office
8 107 (4.73%) Law
9 96 (4.24%) Retail
10 71 (3.14%) Financial Institution
11 50 (2.21%) Back Office
12 44 (1.94%) Investment Banking
13 31 (1.37%) Games
14 27 (1.19%) Health Technology
15 25 (1.10%) Telecoms
16 22 (0.97%) Aerospace
17 20 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
18 19 (0.84%) Marketing
18 19 (0.84%) Tech for Good
19 18 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 846 (37.38%) Developer
2 569 (25.14%) Java Developer
3 559 (24.70%) Senior
4 527 (23.29%) Software Engineer
5 385 (17.01%) Java Engineer
6 343 (15.16%) Lead
7 219 (9.68%) Senior Developer
8 178 (7.87%) Java Software Engineer
9 166 (7.34%) Senior Software Engineer
10 158 (6.98%) Senior Java Developer
11 146 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
12 132 (5.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 115 (5.08%) Senior Java Engineer
14 112 (4.95%) Lead Software Engineer
15 111 (4.90%) Software Developer
16 93 (4.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 78 (3.45%) Architect
18 66 (2.92%) Lead Developer
19 62 (2.74%) Senior Java Software Engineer
20 54 (2.39%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 500 (22.09%) Spring
2 429 (18.96%) Spring Boot
3 301 (13.30%) React
4 233 (10.30%) REST
5 228 (10.08%) AngularJS
6 202 (8.93%) Node.js
7 200 (8.84%) Kafka
8 157 (6.94%) .NET
9 137 (6.05%) RESTful
10 92 (4.07%) HTML
11 87 (3.84%) Web Services
12 79 (3.49%) CSS
13 73 (3.23%) SOAP
14 63 (2.78%) Vue
15 62 (2.74%) Elastic Stack
15 62 (2.74%) GraphQL
16 61 (2.70%) JSON
17 48 (2.12%) Gherkin
18 47 (2.08%) Playwright
19 45 (1.99%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 251 (11.09%) Cloud Native
2 174 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 140 (6.19%) Product Ownership
4 90 (3.98%) Public Cloud
5 52 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 49 (2.17%) Fixed Income
7 44 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
8 39 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
8 39 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
9 36 (1.59%) Distributed Architecture
10 35 (1.55%) Blog
10 35 (1.55%) Data Structures
11 32 (1.41%) e-Learning
11 32 (1.41%) Equities
11 32 (1.41%) Mobile App
12 30 (1.33%) Virtual Team
13 24 (1.06%) Onboarding
14 20 (0.88%) FPGA
14 20 (0.88%) Social Media
15 19 (0.84%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 195 (8.62%) Linux
2 49 (2.17%) Android
3 48 (2.12%) Unix
4 43 (1.90%) Windows
5 14 (0.62%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.49%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.22%) CentOS
8 5 (0.22%) Debian
8 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.18%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 805 (35.57%) Agile
2 762 (33.67%) Software Engineering
3 686 (30.31%) CI/CD
4 526 (23.24%) DevOps
5 487 (21.52%) Microservices
6 459 (20.28%) Full-Stack Development
7 427 (18.87%) Test Automation
8 407 (17.98%) Mentoring
9 335 (14.80%) Problem-Solving
10 254 (11.22%) Containerisation
11 248 (10.96%) AI
12 230 (10.16%) TDD
13 224 (9.90%) Scrum
14 221 (9.77%) Continuous Improvement
15 216 (9.54%) Technical Leadership
16 212 (9.37%) Infrastructure as Code
17 208 (9.19%) Roadmaps
18 195 (8.62%) Computer Science
19 176 (7.78%) SDLC
20 163 (7.20%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 660 (29.16%) Python
2 440 (19.44%) SQL
3 430 (19.00%) JavaScript
4 266 (11.75%) TypeScript
5 239 (10.56%) C#
6 179 (7.91%) C++
7 159 (7.03%) Go
8 113 (4.99%) Bash
9 108 (4.77%) Kotlin
10 64 (2.83%) Groovy
11 60 (2.65%) C
12 51 (2.25%) Scala
13 41 (1.81%) Rust
14 40 (1.77%) PHP
15 35 (1.55%) PL/SQL
16 27 (1.19%) PowerShell
17 17 (0.75%) Apex Code
18 16 (0.71%) R
19 15 (0.66%) Perl
20 13 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 355 (15.69%) Security Cleared
2 258 (11.40%) Degree
3 223 (9.85%) SC Cleared
4 134 (5.92%) DV Cleared
5 132 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 95 (4.20%) AWS Certification
7 37 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (1.28%) Master's Degree
9 27 (1.19%) ISTQB
10 26 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 22 (0.97%) OSCP
13 21 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
14 18 (0.80%) DBS Check
15 17 (0.75%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 16 (0.71%) Azure Certification
17 14 (0.62%) CREST Certified
18 12 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
18 12 (0.53%) PhD
19 10 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (6.54%) QA
2 54 (2.39%) Accessibility
3 38 (1.68%) Data Quality
4 14 (0.62%) GRC
4 14 (0.62%) PCI DSS
5 13 (0.57%) WCAG
6 12 (0.53%) SOC 2
7 10 (0.44%) GDPR
8 9 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.27%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 3 (0.13%) NIST
12 2 (0.088%) Good Clinical Practice
12 2 (0.088%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.044%) MiFID
13 1 (0.044%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 353 (15.60%) Docker
2 14 (0.62%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.44%) vSphere
5 8 (0.35%) Squid
5 8 (0.35%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.22%) Firmware
7 4 (0.18%) KVM
8 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.088%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.088%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.044%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.044%) OpenDJ
10 1 (0.044%) OpenIDM
10 1 (0.044%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.044%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 416 (18.38%) Kubernetes
2 259 (11.44%) Terraform
3 100 (4.42%) Grafana
4 96 (4.24%) Ansible
5 48 (2.12%) Argo
6 46 (2.03%) Prometheus
7 37 (1.63%) HP Fortify
8 28 (1.24%) Kibana
9 18 (0.80%) Kustomize
10 14 (0.62%) Packer
11 12 (0.53%) Puppet
12 11 (0.49%) Rancher
13 9 (0.40%) logstash
14 8 (0.35%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
15 6 (0.27%) yum
16 5 (0.22%) FTK
17 3 (0.13%) AWS Copilot
17 3 (0.13%) Progress Chef
18 2 (0.088%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 88 (3.89%) Oracle
2 82 (3.62%) Microsoft
3 70 (3.09%) Google
4 40 (1.77%) Splunk
5 31 (1.37%) IBM
6 27 (1.19%) Salesforce
7 20 (0.88%) Palantir
7 20 (0.88%) Red Hat
8 19 (0.84%) Dynatrace
8 19 (0.84%) Foundry
9 18 (0.80%) MuleSoft
10 17 (0.75%) AppDynamics
10 17 (0.75%) VMware
11 14 (0.62%) ServiceNow
12 13 (0.57%) Databricks
13 12 (0.53%) SAP
13 12 (0.53%) Solace
14 11 (0.49%) Adobe
14 11 (0.49%) Atlassian
15 7 (0.31%) SendGrid