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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 26 35
Rank change year-on-year -30 +9 -15
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,288 3,028 4,787
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.74% 7.61% 5.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.97% 23.90% 16.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,491 1,428 3,558
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,875 £38,925
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £137,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -6.67% +6.27% -8.93%

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 15,286 12,668 29,214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.30% 31.85% 30.64%
Number of salaries quoted 11,029 8,500 23,330
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 19 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 19 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 -13 1,043 £85,000 -19.05% 272
North of England -28 641 £69,305 +2.67% 127
North West -38 279 £70,000 -6.35% 64
Yorkshire +21 236 £72,500 +3.57% 38
South East -36 217 £70,000 +7.69% 100
South West -33 194 £60,000 - 71
North East +8 126 £52,500 +10.53% 27
Midlands -88 111 £60,000 +9.09% 45
West Midlands -54 90 £61,000 +1.67% 31
East of England -62 56 £57,500 +30.68% 32
East Midlands -83 20 £60,000 +26.32% 14
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 (1.97%) Apache
2 44 (1.92%) Confluence
3 35 (1.53%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
6 14 (0.61%) JBoss
7 9 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.35%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.26%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.22%) Camunda
11 5 (0.22%) CMS
11 5 (0.22%) GeoServer
11 5 (0.22%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.13%) CICS
12 3 (0.13%) SAS
12 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
13 2 (0.087%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.087%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.44%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.087%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.087%) PTC Creo
5 2 (0.087%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 13 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.48%) Maximo
3 5 (0.22%) Temenos T24
4 3 (0.13%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.087%) 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%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 935 (40.87%) AWS
2 436 (19.06%) Azure
3 276 (12.06%) GCP
4 182 (7.95%) Serverless
5 139 (6.08%) AWS CloudFormation
6 117 (5.11%) Amazon S3
6 117 (5.11%) SaaS
7 116 (5.07%) AWS Lambda
8 111 (4.85%) GitHub
9 109 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
10 98 (4.28%) Amazon EKS
11 73 (3.19%) AWS Step Functions
12 65 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
13 48 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
14 43 (1.88%) Amazon ECR
15 42 (1.84%) Amazon SQS
15 42 (1.84%) Apigee
16 39 (1.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 37 (1.62%) dbt
18 36 (1.57%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.19%) Broadband
2 32 (1.40%) HTTP
3 25 (1.09%) TCP/IP
4 11 (0.48%) DMARC
5 8 (0.35%) IPv4
5 8 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
6 7 (0.31%) AMQP
7 6 (0.26%) MQTT
8 5 (0.22%) Internet
8 5 (0.22%) Network Security
9 4 (0.17%) BGP
9 4 (0.17%) VPN
10 3 (0.13%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.13%) VLAN
11 2 (0.087%) Ethernet
11 2 (0.087%) Firewall
11 2 (0.087%) LAN
11 2 (0.087%) SAN
11 2 (0.087%) WAN
12 1 (0.044%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (8.13%) NoSQL
2 162 (7.08%) PostgreSQL
3 105 (4.59%) MongoDB
4 102 (4.46%) Relational Database
5 86 (3.76%) DynamoDB
6 73 (3.19%) MySQL
7 68 (2.97%) SQL Server
8 42 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
9 36 (1.57%) RDBMS
10 28 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
11 26 (1.14%) Db2
12 24 (1.05%) Big Data
12 24 (1.05%) BigQuery
13 22 (0.96%) Redis
14 17 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
15 15 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
15 15 (0.66%) Hadoop
15 15 (0.66%) Metadata
16 12 (0.52%) Power BI
17 11 (0.48%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 201 (8.78%) Git
2 176 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 157 (6.86%) GitLab
4 89 (3.89%) JIRA
5 77 (3.37%) Maven
6 75 (3.28%) Cucumber
7 74 (3.23%) Selenium
8 68 (2.97%) JUnit
9 62 (2.71%) Cypress.io
10 56 (2.45%) TeamCity
11 53 (2.32%) SonarQube
12 38 (1.66%) Postman
13 36 (1.57%) JMeter
14 31 (1.35%) Mockito
15 27 (1.18%) Bitbucket
15 27 (1.18%) Gradle
16 25 (1.09%) Claude Code
17 24 (1.05%) REST Assured
18 21 (0.92%) Subversion
19 18 (0.79%) Eclipse
General
1 572 (25.00%) Finance
2 354 (15.47%) Social Skills
3 217 (9.48%) Banking
4 207 (9.05%) Public Sector
5 156 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
6 148 (6.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 101 (4.41%) Law
8 100 (4.37%) Front Office
9 90 (3.93%) Retail
10 68 (2.97%) Financial Institution
11 47 (2.05%) Back Office
12 40 (1.75%) Investment Banking
13 31 (1.35%) Games
14 30 (1.31%) Health Technology
15 21 (0.92%) Aerospace
15 21 (0.92%) Telecoms
16 18 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
16 18 (0.79%) Tech for Good
17 16 (0.70%) Legal
17 16 (0.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 864 (37.76%) Developer
2 576 (25.17%) Java Developer
3 560 (24.48%) Senior
4 528 (23.08%) Software Engineer
5 395 (17.26%) Java Engineer
6 334 (14.60%) Lead
7 210 (9.18%) Senior Developer
8 177 (7.74%) Java Software Engineer
8 177 (7.74%) Senior Software Engineer
9 153 (6.69%) Full-Stack Developer
9 153 (6.69%) Senior Java Developer
10 131 (5.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 123 (5.38%) Senior Java Engineer
12 118 (5.16%) Software Developer
13 112 (4.90%) Lead Software Engineer
14 98 (4.28%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 85 (3.72%) Architect
16 68 (2.97%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 67 (2.93%) Lead Developer
18 60 (2.62%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 509 (22.25%) Spring
2 429 (18.75%) Spring Boot
3 288 (12.59%) React
4 228 (9.97%) AngularJS
5 227 (9.92%) REST
6 212 (9.27%) Node.js
7 201 (8.78%) Kafka
8 149 (6.51%) RESTful
9 146 (6.38%) .NET
10 86 (3.76%) Web Services
11 80 (3.50%) HTML
12 78 (3.41%) CSS
13 70 (3.06%) Vue
14 64 (2.80%) GraphQL
14 64 (2.80%) SOAP
15 58 (2.53%) Elastic Stack
16 55 (2.40%) JSON
17 47 (2.05%) OAuth
18 46 (2.01%) Playwright
19 45 (1.97%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 263 (11.49%) Cloud Native
2 170 (7.43%) Distributed Systems
3 145 (6.34%) Product Ownership
4 96 (4.20%) Public Cloud
5 54 (2.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 49 (2.14%) Fixed Income
7 47 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
8 40 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
9 38 (1.66%) Distributed Architecture
10 37 (1.62%) Data Structures
10 37 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
11 35 (1.53%) Mobile App
12 34 (1.49%) e-Learning
13 33 (1.44%) Onboarding
14 31 (1.35%) Blog
15 30 (1.31%) Virtual Team
16 29 (1.27%) Equities
17 20 (0.87%) Social Media
18 19 (0.83%) Algorithms
18 19 (0.83%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 205 (8.96%) Linux
2 51 (2.23%) Unix
3 50 (2.19%) Windows
4 47 (2.05%) Android
5 14 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.52%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.52%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.22%) CentOS
7 5 (0.22%) Debian
7 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.17%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 793 (34.66%) Agile
2 784 (34.27%) Software Engineering
3 695 (30.38%) CI/CD
4 533 (23.30%) DevOps
5 494 (21.59%) Microservices
6 466 (20.37%) Full-Stack Development
7 443 (19.36%) Test Automation
8 410 (17.92%) Mentoring
9 348 (15.21%) Problem-Solving
10 271 (11.84%) Containerisation
11 261 (11.41%) AI
12 235 (10.27%) Continuous Improvement
13 233 (10.18%) TDD
14 222 (9.70%) Infrastructure as Code
15 220 (9.62%) Technical Leadership
16 216 (9.44%) Roadmaps
17 208 (9.09%) Scrum
18 193 (8.44%) Computer Science
19 176 (7.69%) SDLC
20 158 (6.91%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 682 (29.81%) Python
2 438 (19.14%) SQL
3 418 (18.27%) JavaScript
4 260 (11.36%) TypeScript
5 235 (10.27%) C#
6 200 (8.74%) C++
7 158 (6.91%) Go
8 114 (4.98%) Bash
9 107 (4.68%) Kotlin
10 60 (2.62%) Groovy
11 59 (2.58%) C
12 54 (2.36%) Scala
13 50 (2.19%) Rust
14 44 (1.92%) PHP
15 32 (1.40%) PL/SQL
16 29 (1.27%) PowerShell
17 20 (0.87%) Perl
18 16 (0.70%) Apex Code
19 15 (0.66%) R
20 14 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 364 (15.91%) Security Cleared
2 244 (10.66%) Degree
3 232 (10.14%) SC Cleared
4 131 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 124 (5.42%) DV Cleared
6 96 (4.20%) AWS Certification
7 39 (1.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 25 (1.09%) Master's Degree
9 24 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
10 22 (0.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 22 (0.96%) ISTQB
11 20 (0.87%) OSCP
12 18 (0.79%) DBS Check
13 17 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.52%) Azure Certification
14 12 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (0.52%) CREST Certified
14 12 (0.52%) PhD
15 10 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (0.44%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (6.60%) QA
2 63 (2.75%) Accessibility
3 39 (1.70%) Data Quality
4 18 (0.79%) WCAG
5 16 (0.70%) GDPR
6 14 (0.61%) GRC
7 12 (0.52%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.44%) SOC 2
9 7 (0.31%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 4 (0.17%) NIST
12 2 (0.087%) Good Clinical Practice
12 2 (0.087%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.087%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.044%) MiFID
System Software
1 359 (15.69%) Docker
2 16 (0.70%) Active Directory
2 16 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.48%) vSphere
4 8 (0.35%) Squid
4 8 (0.35%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.22%) Firmware
5 5 (0.22%) KVM
6 4 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.087%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.087%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.087%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.044%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.044%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.044%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.044%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 419 (18.31%) Kubernetes
2 264 (11.54%) Terraform
3 105 (4.59%) Grafana
4 100 (4.37%) Ansible
5 51 (2.23%) Prometheus
6 44 (1.92%) Argo
7 31 (1.35%) HP Fortify
8 29 (1.27%) Kibana
9 18 (0.79%) Kustomize
10 14 (0.61%) Packer
11 12 (0.52%) Puppet
12 10 (0.44%) logstash
13 9 (0.39%) Rancher
14 8 (0.35%) ZABBIX
15 7 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
16 5 (0.22%) FTK
16 5 (0.22%) yum
17 3 (0.13%) AWS Copilot
17 3 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
17 3 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 87 (3.80%) Oracle
2 83 (3.63%) Microsoft
3 76 (3.32%) Google
4 48 (2.10%) Splunk
5 33 (1.44%) IBM
6 25 (1.09%) Salesforce
7 23 (1.01%) Palantir
8 21 (0.92%) Dynatrace
8 21 (0.92%) Red Hat
8 21 (0.92%) VMware
9 19 (0.83%) AppDynamics
9 19 (0.83%) Foundry
9 19 (0.83%) SAP
10 17 (0.74%) ServiceNow
11 15 (0.66%) MuleSoft
12 13 (0.57%) Adobe
13 11 (0.48%) Atlassian
13 11 (0.48%) SendGrid
13 11 (0.48%) Solace
14 8 (0.35%) iManage