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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 25 35
Rank change year-on-year -27 +10 -15
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,274 2,999 4,683
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.78% 7.64% 5.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.22% 23.69% 16.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,477 1,405 3,496
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £39,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £73,805
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +5.01% -7.74%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £137,500 £142,500
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 14,938 12,658 28,531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.29% 32.24% 30.66%
Number of salaries quoted 10,693 8,465 22,961
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £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 £85,000 £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 10 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 10 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 -12 1,048 £85,000 -19.05% 223
North of England -28 629 £69,305 +2.67% 139
North West -40 271 £70,000 -8.98% 66
Yorkshire +21 237 £72,500 +3.57% 42
South East -30 223 £70,000 +7.69% 86
South West -31 188 £60,000 - 70
North East +2 121 £52,130 +9.75% 32
Midlands -85 106 £58,750 +6.82% 31
West Midlands -57 88 £57,500 -4.17% 25
East of England -59 54 £53,180 +20.86% 36
East Midlands -84 17 £60,000 +26.32% 6
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 (1.93%) Apache
2 38 (1.67%) Confluence
3 34 (1.50%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
6 14 (0.62%) JBoss
7 8 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.35%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.31%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.22%) CMS
9 5 (0.22%) GeoServer
9 5 (0.22%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.18%) Camunda
10 4 (0.18%) IIS
11 3 (0.13%) CICS
11 3 (0.13%) SAS
11 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.088%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.31%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.22%) 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 11 (0.48%) Maximo
2 10 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.18%) Temenos T24
4 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.088%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.088%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.044%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.044%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.044%) Endur
6 1 (0.044%) Findur
6 1 (0.044%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.044%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.044%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.044%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.044%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.044%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.044%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.044%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.044%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.044%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 927 (40.77%) AWS
2 427 (18.78%) Azure
3 270 (11.87%) GCP
4 177 (7.78%) Serverless
5 135 (5.94%) AWS CloudFormation
6 120 (5.28%) SaaS
7 115 (5.06%) Amazon S3
8 111 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
9 105 (4.62%) Amazon ECS
10 102 (4.49%) GitHub
11 101 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
12 72 (3.17%) AWS Step Functions
13 64 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
14 45 (1.98%) Amazon ECR
15 44 (1.93%) Apigee
16 42 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
17 40 (1.76%) Amazon SQS
18 37 (1.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 37 (1.63%) dbt
19 35 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.20%) Broadband
2 33 (1.45%) HTTP
3 26 (1.14%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.40%) DMARC
5 8 (0.35%) IPv4
5 8 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
6 7 (0.31%) AMQP
7 5 (0.22%) MQTT
8 3 (0.13%) BGP
8 3 (0.13%) Internet
8 3 (0.13%) Network Security
8 3 (0.13%) VLAN
8 3 (0.13%) VPN
9 2 (0.088%) Firewall
9 2 (0.088%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.088%) LAN
9 2 (0.088%) SAN
9 2 (0.088%) WAN
10 1 (0.044%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.044%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (8.18%) NoSQL
2 160 (7.04%) PostgreSQL
3 105 (4.62%) MongoDB
3 105 (4.62%) Relational Database
4 88 (3.87%) DynamoDB
5 73 (3.21%) MySQL
6 66 (2.90%) SQL Server
7 41 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
8 38 (1.67%) RDBMS
9 32 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
10 25 (1.10%) Big Data
11 24 (1.06%) Db2
12 23 (1.01%) BigQuery
13 21 (0.92%) Redis
14 18 (0.79%) Hadoop
15 16 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
16 15 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
16 15 (0.66%) Metadata
17 13 (0.57%) Neo4j
17 13 (0.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 196 (8.62%) Git
2 170 (7.48%) Jenkins
3 153 (6.73%) GitLab
4 91 (4.00%) JIRA
5 78 (3.43%) Maven
5 78 (3.43%) Selenium
6 72 (3.17%) Cucumber
7 64 (2.81%) Cypress.io
8 62 (2.73%) JUnit
9 57 (2.51%) TeamCity
10 54 (2.37%) SonarQube
11 41 (1.80%) Postman
12 33 (1.45%) JMeter
13 31 (1.36%) Mockito
14 28 (1.23%) Bitbucket
14 28 (1.23%) Gradle
15 25 (1.10%) Claude Code
16 24 (1.06%) REST Assured
17 21 (0.92%) Team Foundation Server
18 20 (0.88%) WebDriver
General
1 567 (24.93%) Finance
2 356 (15.66%) Social Skills
3 229 (10.07%) Banking
4 204 (8.97%) Public Sector
5 159 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
6 154 (6.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 106 (4.66%) Law
8 105 (4.62%) Front Office
9 94 (4.13%) Retail
10 71 (3.12%) Financial Institution
11 49 (2.15%) Back Office
12 43 (1.89%) Investment Banking
13 31 (1.36%) Games
14 28 (1.23%) Health Technology
15 23 (1.01%) Telecoms
16 22 (0.97%) Aerospace
17 19 (0.84%) Tech for Good
18 18 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
18 18 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
19 17 (0.75%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 846 (37.20%) Developer
2 566 (24.89%) Java Developer
3 564 (24.80%) Senior
4 532 (23.39%) Software Engineer
5 398 (17.50%) Java Engineer
6 336 (14.78%) Lead
7 216 (9.50%) Senior Developer
8 181 (7.96%) Java Software Engineer
9 171 (7.52%) Senior Software Engineer
10 155 (6.82%) Senior Java Developer
11 145 (6.38%) Full-Stack Developer
12 137 (6.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 123 (5.41%) Senior Java Engineer
14 113 (4.97%) Software Developer
15 112 (4.93%) Lead Software Engineer
16 92 (4.05%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 80 (3.52%) Architect
18 67 (2.95%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 66 (2.90%) Lead Developer
20 56 (2.46%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 498 (21.90%) Spring
2 420 (18.47%) Spring Boot
3 296 (13.02%) React
4 228 (10.03%) AngularJS
5 226 (9.94%) REST
6 204 (8.97%) Node.js
7 198 (8.71%) Kafka
8 152 (6.68%) .NET
9 141 (6.20%) RESTful
10 89 (3.91%) HTML
11 84 (3.69%) Web Services
12 78 (3.43%) CSS
13 69 (3.03%) SOAP
14 67 (2.95%) Vue
15 62 (2.73%) GraphQL
16 58 (2.55%) JSON
17 55 (2.42%) Elastic Stack
18 45 (1.98%) Playwright
19 44 (1.93%) Hibernate
20 43 (1.89%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 254 (11.17%) Cloud Native
2 171 (7.52%) Distributed Systems
3 143 (6.29%) Product Ownership
4 94 (4.13%) Public Cloud
5 53 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 49 (2.15%) Fixed Income
7 42 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
8 40 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
9 39 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
9 39 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
10 36 (1.58%) Data Structures
11 34 (1.50%) Blog
12 33 (1.45%) e-Learning
12 33 (1.45%) Mobile App
13 32 (1.41%) Equities
14 30 (1.32%) Virtual Team
15 24 (1.06%) Onboarding
16 20 (0.88%) Algorithms
16 20 (0.88%) FPGA
16 20 (0.88%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 195 (8.58%) Linux
2 50 (2.20%) Android
2 50 (2.20%) Unix
3 45 (1.98%) Windows
4 14 (0.62%) Apple iOS
5 13 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.48%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.22%) CentOS
7 5 (0.22%) Debian
7 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.18%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 799 (35.14%) Agile
2 771 (33.91%) Software Engineering
3 684 (30.08%) CI/CD
4 520 (22.87%) DevOps
5 484 (21.28%) Microservices
6 464 (20.40%) Full-Stack Development
7 431 (18.95%) Test Automation
8 406 (17.85%) Mentoring
9 335 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
10 260 (11.43%) Containerisation
11 255 (11.21%) AI
12 228 (10.03%) TDD
13 226 (9.94%) Continuous Improvement
14 220 (9.67%) Technical Leadership
15 215 (9.45%) Scrum
16 214 (9.41%) Roadmaps
17 213 (9.37%) Infrastructure as Code
18 195 (8.58%) Computer Science
19 175 (7.70%) SDLC
20 160 (7.04%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 666 (29.29%) Python
2 437 (19.22%) SQL
3 419 (18.43%) JavaScript
4 260 (11.43%) TypeScript
5 235 (10.33%) C#
6 185 (8.14%) C++
7 158 (6.95%) Go
8 109 (4.79%) Bash
9 108 (4.75%) Kotlin
10 60 (2.64%) C
10 60 (2.64%) Groovy
11 51 (2.24%) Scala
12 42 (1.85%) Rust
13 40 (1.76%) PHP
14 34 (1.50%) PL/SQL
15 28 (1.23%) PowerShell
16 17 (0.75%) R
17 16 (0.70%) Apex Code
17 16 (0.70%) Perl
18 13 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 359 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 253 (11.13%) Degree
3 225 (9.89%) SC Cleared
4 133 (5.85%) DV Cleared
5 131 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 93 (4.09%) AWS Certification
7 36 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (1.28%) Master's Degree
9 26 (1.14%) ISTQB
10 24 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
11 22 (0.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 22 (0.97%) OSCP
12 19 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
13 18 (0.79%) DBS Check
14 15 (0.66%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 14 (0.62%) Azure Certification
15 14 (0.62%) CREST Certified
16 12 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
16 12 (0.53%) PhD
17 9 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (6.46%) QA
2 58 (2.55%) Accessibility
3 39 (1.72%) Data Quality
4 15 (0.66%) WCAG
5 14 (0.62%) GDPR
5 14 (0.62%) GRC
5 14 (0.62%) PCI DSS
6 12 (0.53%) SOC 2
7 8 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.26%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 14443
9 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 3 (0.13%) NIST
11 2 (0.088%) Good Clinical Practice
11 2 (0.088%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.044%) MiFID
12 1 (0.044%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 346 (15.22%) Docker
2 15 (0.66%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.48%) vSphere
5 8 (0.35%) Squid
5 8 (0.35%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.18%) Firmware
6 4 (0.18%) KVM
7 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.088%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.088%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.044%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.044%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.044%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.044%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.044%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 415 (18.25%) Kubernetes
2 260 (11.43%) Terraform
3 101 (4.44%) Grafana
4 96 (4.22%) Ansible
5 47 (2.07%) Argo
5 47 (2.07%) Prometheus
6 33 (1.45%) HP Fortify
7 28 (1.23%) Kibana
8 18 (0.79%) Kustomize
9 14 (0.62%) Packer
10 12 (0.53%) Puppet
11 11 (0.48%) Rancher
12 9 (0.40%) logstash
13 8 (0.35%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (0.26%) yum
15 5 (0.22%) FTK
16 3 (0.13%) AWS Copilot
16 3 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
16 3 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 86 (3.78%) Oracle
2 82 (3.61%) Microsoft
3 72 (3.17%) Google
4 40 (1.76%) Splunk
5 29 (1.28%) IBM
6 25 (1.10%) Salesforce
7 21 (0.92%) Palantir
8 20 (0.88%) Dynatrace
8 20 (0.88%) Red Hat
9 19 (0.84%) Foundry
10 18 (0.79%) VMware
11 17 (0.75%) AppDynamics
12 16 (0.70%) MuleSoft
13 15 (0.66%) ServiceNow
14 14 (0.62%) SAP
15 12 (0.53%) Adobe
15 12 (0.53%) Databricks
15 12 (0.53%) Solace
16 11 (0.48%) Atlassian
17 9 (0.40%) SendGrid