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 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 46 29
Rank change year-on-year -24 -17 -12
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,866 2,221 4,263
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.94% 5.40% 6.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.96% 15.59% 17.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,233 1,432 3,375
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -6.45%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £137,500 £122,500
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 11,693 14,245 24,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.43% 34.66% 35.28%
Number of salaries quoted 8,576 9,126 20,959
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £84,563 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 5 March 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 5 March 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 -6 963 £100,000 -4.76% 322
North of England -10 366 £70,000 +7.69% 210
South East -48 196 £63,750 -1.92% 163
Yorkshire +13 189 £70,000 +1.82% 72
South West -26 166 £65,000 -3.70% 96
North West -24 156 £70,000 +7.69% 108
Midlands -31 91 £50,000 +11.11% 67
West Midlands -6 75 £50,000 -6.87% 46
East of England -78 38 £55,000 +10.00% 48
North East -27 21 £55,000 -3.51% 30
East Midlands -48 15 £44,500 +27.14% 20
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 56 (3.00%) Apache Spark
2 48 (2.57%) Apache
3 40 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
4 27 (1.45%) Confluence
5 22 (1.18%) JBoss
6 13 (0.70%) OpenStack
6 13 (0.70%) WebSphere
7 10 (0.54%) IIS
8 9 (0.48%) Anypoint
9 7 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.38%) SharePoint
10 6 (0.32%) Mule
11 4 (0.21%) Appian
11 4 (0.21%) Camunda
11 4 (0.21%) Moodle
11 4 (0.21%) nginx
12 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.16%) GeoServer
12 3 (0.16%) Liferay
12 3 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 14 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 13 (0.70%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.16%) Simulink
6 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.11%) Windchill
7 1 (0.054%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.054%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (0.64%) Maximo
2 8 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.38%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.27%) Shopify
5 2 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.11%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.054%) Adaptiv
6 1 (0.054%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.054%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.054%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 830 (44.48%) AWS
2 332 (17.79%) Azure
3 225 (12.06%) GCP
4 170 (9.11%) Serverless
5 133 (7.13%) SaaS
6 125 (6.70%) Amazon EKS
7 103 (5.52%) AWS Lambda
8 98 (5.25%) Amazon S3
9 94 (5.04%) Amazon ECS
10 91 (4.88%) GitHub
11 81 (4.34%) AWS CloudFormation
12 53 (2.84%) AWS Step Functions
13 51 (2.73%) OpenShift
14 42 (2.25%) dbt
15 40 (2.14%) Amazon SQS
16 38 (2.04%) Apigee
17 35 (1.88%) Amazon ECR
18 33 (1.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 33 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
18 33 (1.77%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.04%) Broadband
2 36 (1.93%) TCP/IP
3 17 (0.91%) HTTP
4 11 (0.59%) AMQP
4 11 (0.59%) Internet
4 11 (0.59%) VPN
5 7 (0.38%) Multicast
6 6 (0.32%) BGP
6 6 (0.32%) Firewall
6 6 (0.32%) VLAN
7 5 (0.27%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.21%) SAN
9 3 (0.16%) DNS
9 3 (0.16%) PuTTY
10 2 (0.11%) DHCP
10 2 (0.11%) LAN
10 2 (0.11%) NAS
10 2 (0.11%) SNMP
10 2 (0.11%) SSH
10 2 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (8.79%) PostgreSQL
2 151 (8.09%) NoSQL
3 121 (6.48%) Relational Database
4 74 (3.97%) SQL Server
5 70 (3.75%) MongoDB
6 69 (3.70%) DynamoDB
7 54 (2.89%) MySQL
8 52 (2.79%) RDBMS
9 48 (2.57%) Big Data
10 43 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
11 42 (2.25%) Hadoop
12 39 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
13 31 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
13 31 (1.66%) DB2
14 24 (1.29%) Amazon Athena
14 24 (1.29%) Neo4j
15 22 (1.18%) Data Lake
16 19 (1.02%) Oracle Database
16 19 (1.02%) Redis
17 14 (0.75%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 163 (8.74%) Jenkins
2 133 (7.13%) Git
3 110 (5.89%) Selenium
4 102 (5.47%) GitLab
5 86 (4.61%) JIRA
6 71 (3.80%) Cucumber
7 65 (3.48%) Cypress.io
7 65 (3.48%) TeamCity
8 61 (3.27%) Maven
9 59 (3.16%) JUnit
10 44 (2.36%) Postman
10 44 (2.36%) SonarQube
11 39 (2.09%) WebDriver
12 33 (1.77%) SoapUI
13 29 (1.55%) JMeter
14 28 (1.50%) Bitbucket
15 26 (1.39%) Team Foundation Server
16 20 (1.07%) Mockito
17 19 (1.02%) Jaeger
18 18 (0.96%) Gradle
General
1 484 (25.94%) Finance
2 421 (22.56%) Social Skills
3 245 (13.13%) Banking
4 149 (7.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 134 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
6 133 (7.13%) Law
7 126 (6.75%) Public Sector
8 118 (6.32%) Front Office
9 107 (5.73%) Retail
10 101 (5.41%) Financial Institution
11 69 (3.70%) Investment Banking
12 54 (2.89%) Back Office
13 41 (2.20%) Games
14 35 (1.88%) Telecoms
15 26 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
16 24 (1.29%) Manufacturing
17 23 (1.23%) Aerospace
18 21 (1.13%) Billing
18 21 (1.13%) Health Technology
19 19 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 680 (36.44%) Developer
2 465 (24.92%) Software Engineer
3 438 (23.47%) Senior
4 398 (21.33%) Java Developer
5 264 (14.15%) Java Engineer
6 251 (13.45%) Lead
7 160 (8.57%) Java Software Engineer
8 154 (8.25%) Senior Developer
9 145 (7.77%) Full-Stack Developer
10 129 (6.91%) Senior Software Engineer
11 110 (5.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 108 (5.79%) Senior Java Developer
13 101 (5.41%) Architect
14 99 (5.31%) Senior Java Engineer
15 91 (4.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 77 (4.13%) Lead Software Engineer
17 76 (4.07%) Software Developer
18 56 (3.00%) AWS Engineer
19 54 (2.89%) Lead Developer
20 53 (2.84%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 406 (21.76%) Spring
2 361 (19.35%) Spring Boot
3 329 (17.63%) React
4 219 (11.74%) REST
5 214 (11.47%) Kafka
6 187 (10.02%) Node.js
7 170 (9.11%) AngularJS
8 161 (8.63%) .NET
9 136 (7.29%) RESTful
10 112 (6.00%) HTML
11 94 (5.04%) SOAP
12 78 (4.18%) GraphQL
13 77 (4.13%) CSS
14 67 (3.59%) Elastic Stack
14 67 (3.59%) Web Services
15 65 (3.48%) Hibernate
16 52 (2.79%) JSON
17 51 (2.73%) Vue
18 49 (2.63%) Gherkin
19 46 (2.47%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 276 (14.79%) Cloud Native
2 179 (9.59%) Distributed Systems
3 76 (4.07%) Product Ownership
4 58 (3.11%) Fixed Income
4 58 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
5 52 (2.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 49 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
7 43 (2.30%) Equities
8 38 (2.04%) Blog
9 35 (1.88%) Algorithms
9 35 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
10 34 (1.82%) Public Cloud
11 32 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
12 30 (1.61%) Distributed Architecture
13 29 (1.55%) Derivative
14 27 (1.45%) Data Structures
15 24 (1.29%) Management Information System
15 24 (1.29%) Mobile App
16 22 (1.18%) FPGA
17 21 (1.13%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 200 (10.72%) Linux
2 42 (2.25%) Unix
3 39 (2.09%) Android
4 34 (1.82%) Windows
5 13 (0.70%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.38%) CentOS
6 7 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.32%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.27%) Debian
9 3 (0.16%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.054%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 706 (37.83%) Agile
2 658 (35.26%) Software Engineering
3 599 (32.10%) CI/CD
4 449 (24.06%) DevOps
5 428 (22.94%) Microservices
6 386 (20.69%) Full-Stack Development
7 318 (17.04%) Problem-Solving
8 314 (16.83%) Test Automation
9 300 (16.08%) Mentoring
10 217 (11.63%) Containerisation
11 211 (11.31%) Continuous Improvement
12 204 (10.93%) AI
12 204 (10.93%) Computer Science
13 186 (9.97%) Scrum
14 181 (9.70%) TDD
15 153 (8.20%) Infrastructure as Code
16 149 (7.98%) Technical Leadership
17 148 (7.93%) Fintech
18 145 (7.77%) SDLC
19 140 (7.50%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 613 (32.85%) Python
2 431 (23.10%) JavaScript
3 371 (19.88%) SQL
4 298 (15.97%) TypeScript
5 211 (11.31%) C#
6 154 (8.25%) Go
7 130 (6.97%) C++
8 106 (5.68%) Kotlin
9 87 (4.66%) Bash
10 85 (4.56%) C
11 50 (2.68%) Scala
12 41 (2.20%) Groovy
13 35 (1.88%) PHP
14 33 (1.77%) Rust
15 31 (1.66%) PL/SQL
16 19 (1.02%) Apex Code
16 19 (1.02%) R
16 19 (1.02%) Ruby
17 17 (0.91%) PowerShell
18 15 (0.80%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 292 (15.65%) Security Cleared
2 276 (14.79%) Degree
3 176 (9.43%) SC Cleared
4 125 (6.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 108 (5.79%) DV Cleared
6 88 (4.72%) AWS Certification
7 48 (2.57%) Master's Degree
8 43 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 36 (1.93%) Azure Certification
10 30 (1.61%) TOGAF Certification
11 29 (1.55%) ISTQB
12 25 (1.34%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 24 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
14 18 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
15 17 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
15 17 (0.91%) PhD
16 16 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 12 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
18 11 (0.59%) CREST Certified
18 11 (0.59%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (6.48%) QA
2 39 (2.09%) Accessibility
3 21 (1.13%) GDPR
4 19 (1.02%) Data Quality
4 19 (1.02%) PCI DSS
5 16 (0.86%) SOC 2
6 12 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.32%) WCAG
9 5 (0.27%) NIST
10 4 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.21%) EU AI Act
10 4 (0.21%) SLA
11 3 (0.16%) NCSC
11 3 (0.16%) SEPA
12 2 (0.11%) ECSS
12 2 (0.11%) MISRA
13 1 (0.054%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.054%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.054%) MiFID
System Software
1 336 (18.01%) Docker
2 16 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (0.75%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (0.32%) HDFS
5 5 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.21%) Firmware
6 4 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.11%) KVM
7 2 (0.11%) vSphere
8 1 (0.054%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.054%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.054%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.054%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.054%) Squid
Systems Management
1 440 (23.58%) Kubernetes
2 190 (10.18%) Terraform
3 97 (5.20%) Grafana
4 76 (4.07%) Ansible
5 47 (2.52%) Prometheus
6 42 (2.25%) Argo
7 32 (1.71%) HP Fortify
8 23 (1.23%) Kibana
9 19 (1.02%) Kustomize
10 10 (0.54%) Rancher
11 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (0.38%) Puppet
12 6 (0.32%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.32%) yum
13 5 (0.27%) FTK
13 5 (0.27%) logstash
14 4 (0.21%) Nagios
14 4 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
15 3 (0.16%) Control-M
Vendors
1 96 (5.14%) Oracle
2 69 (3.70%) Google
3 68 (3.64%) Microsoft
4 32 (1.71%) MuleSoft
5 29 (1.55%) Salesforce
6 27 (1.45%) IBM
7 24 (1.29%) Atlassian
7 24 (1.29%) Databricks
8 21 (1.13%) SAP
8 21 (1.13%) Splunk
9 19 (1.02%) Informatica
10 16 (0.86%) Talend
11 15 (0.80%) Guidewire
12 13 (0.70%) Dell
13 12 (0.64%) Red Hat
14 11 (0.59%) Dynatrace
14 11 (0.59%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.59%) Solace
15 9 (0.48%) Workday
16 8 (0.43%) Adobe