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 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 44 28
Rank change year-on-year -27 -16 -11
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,655 2,453 4,359
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.94% 5.27% 6.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.58% 15.49% 18.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,094 1,454 3,460
10th Percentile £41,925 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,063 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -6.45%
75th Percentile £104,375 £113,250 £96,322
90th Percentile £125,000 £132,500 £121,318
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -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 10,625 15,836 24,179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.89% 34.01% 37.26%
Number of salaries quoted 7,926 9,220 20,620
10th Percentile £33,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,688 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,438 £86,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 2 February 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 2 February 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 -10 870 £100,000 - 372
North of England -13 292 £67,500 +8.00% 172
South East -66 180 £60,000 -11.11% 193
Yorkshire +15 156 £72,500 +7.41% 52
South West -26 155 £65,000 +4.00% 113
North West -12 124 £67,500 +8.00% 93
Midlands -30 86 £50,000 +11.11% 50
West Midlands -1 68 £50,000 -4.76% 35
East of England -77 36 £55,000 - 27
East Midlands -29 18 £52,100 +48.86% 15
North East -37 12 £55,200 -8.00% 29
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 59 (3.56%) Apache
2 56 (3.38%) Apache Spark
3 39 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
4 24 (1.45%) Confluence
5 18 (1.09%) JBoss
6 13 (0.79%) OpenStack
6 13 (0.79%) WebSphere
7 12 (0.73%) IIS
8 7 (0.42%) Anypoint
8 7 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.36%) Mule
10 5 (0.30%) SharePoint
11 4 (0.24%) Appian
11 4 (0.24%) nginx
12 3 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.18%) Liferay
12 3 (0.18%) Luigi
12 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 12 (0.73%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.18%) Simulink
4 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.12%) Windchill
5 1 (0.060%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.060%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (0.54%) Maximo
2 7 (0.42%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.30%) Shopify
5 2 (0.12%) Adaptiv
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.12%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.060%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.060%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 757 (45.74%) AWS
2 306 (18.49%) Azure
3 183 (11.06%) GCP
4 158 (9.55%) Serverless
5 121 (7.31%) SaaS
6 116 (7.01%) Amazon EKS
7 97 (5.86%) AWS Lambda
8 89 (5.38%) Amazon S3
9 84 (5.08%) Amazon ECS
10 81 (4.89%) GitHub
11 60 (3.63%) AWS CloudFormation
12 46 (2.78%) OpenShift
13 43 (2.60%) AWS Step Functions
14 37 (2.24%) Amazon EC2
15 36 (2.18%) Amazon SQS
16 35 (2.11%) Snowflake
17 33 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
18 32 (1.93%) dbt
19 30 (1.81%) Datadog
20 29 (1.75%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 33 (1.99%) TCP/IP
2 21 (1.27%) Broadband
3 19 (1.15%) HTTP
4 12 (0.73%) AMQP
5 11 (0.66%) Internet
5 11 (0.66%) VPN
6 8 (0.48%) Multicast
7 7 (0.42%) Firewall
8 6 (0.36%) BGP
8 6 (0.36%) VLAN
9 5 (0.30%) DNS
10 4 (0.24%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.24%) SAN
10 4 (0.24%) SSH
11 3 (0.18%) PuTTY
12 2 (0.12%) DHCP
12 2 (0.12%) FTP
12 2 (0.12%) LAN
12 2 (0.12%) NAS
12 2 (0.12%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (9.12%) PostgreSQL
2 131 (7.92%) NoSQL
3 123 (7.43%) Relational Database
4 85 (5.14%) SQL Server
5 63 (3.81%) MongoDB
6 59 (3.56%) DynamoDB
7 57 (3.44%) RDBMS
8 54 (3.26%) Big Data
9 51 (3.08%) Hadoop
10 50 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
11 48 (2.90%) MySQL
12 40 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
13 37 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
14 33 (1.99%) Data Lake
15 28 (1.69%) Neo4j
16 27 (1.63%) DB2
17 25 (1.51%) Amazon Athena
18 18 (1.09%) Apache Cassandra
18 18 (1.09%) Apache Ignite
19 16 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 162 (9.79%) Jenkins
2 129 (7.79%) Git
3 112 (6.77%) Selenium
4 95 (5.74%) GitLab
5 89 (5.38%) JIRA
6 63 (3.81%) Cucumber
7 62 (3.75%) Cypress.io
7 62 (3.75%) JUnit
8 54 (3.26%) Maven
8 54 (3.26%) TeamCity
9 50 (3.02%) Postman
10 44 (2.66%) WebDriver
11 37 (2.24%) SoapUI
11 37 (2.24%) SonarQube
12 32 (1.93%) Bitbucket
13 30 (1.81%) Team Foundation Server
14 27 (1.63%) JMeter
15 23 (1.39%) Mockito
16 19 (1.15%) Jaeger
17 17 (1.03%) REST Assured
General
1 444 (26.83%) Finance
2 436 (26.34%) Social Skills
3 239 (14.44%) Banking
4 133 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
5 118 (7.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 113 (6.83%) Law
7 103 (6.22%) Public Sector
8 97 (5.86%) Financial Institution
9 92 (5.56%) Front Office
10 88 (5.32%) Retail
11 80 (4.83%) Investment Banking
12 43 (2.60%) Back Office
13 30 (1.81%) Games
13 30 (1.81%) Telecoms
14 24 (1.45%) Manufacturing
15 23 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
16 22 (1.33%) Aerospace
17 19 (1.15%) Billing
18 18 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
18 18 (1.09%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 579 (34.98%) Developer
2 389 (23.50%) Senior
3 371 (22.42%) Software Engineer
4 329 (19.88%) Java Developer
5 218 (13.17%) Lead
6 215 (12.99%) Java Engineer
7 128 (7.73%) Full-Stack Developer
7 128 (7.73%) Senior Developer
8 126 (7.61%) Java Software Engineer
9 114 (6.89%) Senior Software Engineer
10 102 (6.16%) Architect
11 90 (5.44%) Senior Java Engineer
12 87 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 84 (5.08%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 84 (5.08%) Senior Java Developer
14 68 (4.11%) AWS Engineer
15 55 (3.32%) Software Developer
16 51 (3.08%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 45 (2.72%) Lead Software Engineer
18 41 (2.48%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 369 (22.30%) Spring
2 317 (19.15%) Spring Boot
3 296 (17.89%) React
4 200 (12.08%) REST
5 173 (10.45%) Kafka
6 158 (9.55%) .NET
7 143 (8.64%) AngularJS
8 142 (8.58%) Node.js
9 128 (7.73%) RESTful
10 121 (7.31%) HTML
11 91 (5.50%) SOAP
12 90 (5.44%) CSS
13 71 (4.29%) Hibernate
14 67 (4.05%) Elastic Stack
15 61 (3.69%) Web Services
16 47 (2.84%) JSON
17 44 (2.66%) Vue
18 42 (2.54%) Jest
19 40 (2.42%) GraphQL
20 39 (2.36%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 243 (14.68%) Cloud Native
2 178 (10.76%) Distributed Systems
3 72 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 64 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
5 56 (3.38%) Equities
6 51 (3.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 46 (2.78%) Algorithms
8 42 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
9 38 (2.30%) Derivative
10 33 (1.99%) Fixed Income
11 32 (1.93%) Blog
11 32 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
11 32 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
12 31 (1.87%) Management Information System
12 31 (1.87%) Onboarding
13 28 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
13 28 (1.69%) Public Cloud
14 26 (1.57%) Hedge funds
15 22 (1.33%) e-Learning
15 22 (1.33%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 198 (11.96%) Linux
2 35 (2.11%) Unix
2 35 (2.11%) Windows
3 25 (1.51%) Android
4 10 (0.60%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.42%) CentOS
6 7 (0.42%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.36%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.30%) Debian
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.12%) VMS
10 1 (0.060%) AIX
10 1 (0.060%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.060%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.060%) SUSE
10 1 (0.060%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 612 (36.98%) Agile
2 547 (33.05%) Software Engineering
3 539 (32.57%) CI/CD
4 405 (24.47%) DevOps
5 380 (22.96%) Microservices
6 325 (19.64%) Full-Stack Development
7 317 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
8 270 (16.31%) Mentoring
9 263 (15.89%) Test Automation
10 226 (13.66%) Computer Science
11 200 (12.08%) Continuous Improvement
12 185 (11.18%) Containerisation
13 178 (10.76%) Scrum
14 163 (9.85%) AI
15 155 (9.37%) TDD
16 146 (8.82%) SDLC
17 134 (8.10%) Roadmaps
18 133 (8.04%) Fintech
19 131 (7.92%) Technical Leadership
20 128 (7.73%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 583 (35.23%) Python
2 389 (23.50%) JavaScript
3 338 (20.42%) SQL
4 257 (15.53%) TypeScript
5 217 (13.11%) C#
6 122 (7.37%) C++
7 116 (7.01%) Go
8 90 (5.44%) C
9 89 (5.38%) Kotlin
10 80 (4.83%) Bash
11 61 (3.69%) Scala
12 44 (2.66%) PHP
13 38 (2.30%) Groovy
14 30 (1.81%) PL/SQL
15 29 (1.75%) Rust
16 20 (1.21%) PowerShell
16 20 (1.21%) R
17 17 (1.03%) Ruby
17 17 (1.03%) Shell Script
18 16 (0.97%) Perl
Qualifications
1 295 (17.82%) Degree
2 267 (16.13%) Security Cleared
3 151 (9.12%) SC Cleared
4 136 (8.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 100 (6.04%) DV Cleared
6 89 (5.38%) AWS Certification
7 60 (3.63%) Master's Degree
8 44 (2.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 35 (2.11%) Azure Certification
10 33 (1.99%) ISTQB
11 31 (1.87%) TOGAF Certification
12 29 (1.75%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 24 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
14 21 (1.27%) PhD
15 18 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
16 13 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
17 12 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
18 11 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 8 (0.48%) CREST Certified
19 8 (0.48%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (6.59%) QA
2 43 (2.60%) Accessibility
3 22 (1.33%) GDPR
4 16 (0.97%) Data Quality
5 15 (0.91%) PCI DSS
6 13 (0.79%) SOC 2
7 12 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
8 9 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.24%) EU AI Act
9 4 (0.24%) SEPA
9 4 (0.24%) SLA
9 4 (0.24%) WCAG
10 3 (0.18%) NCSC
10 3 (0.18%) NIST
11 2 (0.12%) ECSS
11 2 (0.12%) MISRA
11 2 (0.12%) PSD2
12 1 (0.060%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.060%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 304 (18.37%) Docker
2 16 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
4 12 (0.73%) Active Directory
5 9 (0.54%) HDFS
6 5 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.24%) Firmware
7 4 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.12%) KVM
8 2 (0.12%) vSphere
9 1 (0.060%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.060%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.060%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.060%) Squid
Systems Management
1 399 (24.11%) Kubernetes
2 153 (9.24%) Terraform
3 79 (4.77%) Ansible
4 76 (4.59%) Grafana
5 41 (2.48%) Argo
6 38 (2.30%) Prometheus
7 26 (1.57%) Kibana
8 24 (1.45%) HP Fortify
9 19 (1.15%) Kustomize
10 10 (0.60%) Progress Chef
11 9 (0.54%) Puppet
11 9 (0.54%) Rancher
12 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.30%) logstash
14 5 (0.30%) yum
15 4 (0.24%) Nagios
16 3 (0.18%) Control-M
16 3 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
16 3 (0.18%) FTK
Vendors
1 102 (6.16%) Oracle
2 67 (4.05%) Microsoft
3 60 (3.63%) Google
4 28 (1.69%) Atlassian
5 27 (1.63%) MuleSoft
6 24 (1.45%) Databricks
6 24 (1.45%) IBM
6 24 (1.45%) Splunk
7 23 (1.39%) Informatica
8 22 (1.33%) Guidewire
9 20 (1.21%) Salesforce
9 20 (1.21%) Talend
10 18 (1.09%) SAP
11 14 (0.85%) Dynatrace
12 13 (0.79%) Red Hat
13 12 (0.73%) Dell
14 11 (0.66%) Adobe
15 9 (0.54%) OpenAI
15 9 (0.54%) Siemens
16 8 (0.48%) Workday