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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 28 36
Rank change year-on-year -28 +8 -15
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,360 3,065 4,137
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.65% 7.08% 5.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.59% 23.50% 17.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,550 1,458 2,953
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £111,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -3.23%

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 16,173 13,044 23,999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.15% 30.14% 30.13%
Number of salaries quoted 11,813 8,795 18,501
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
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 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £64,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.78% +7.50% -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 24 July 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 24 July 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 1,040 £85,000 -19.05% 683
North of England -27 667 £67,500 - 184
North West -37 301 £70,000 - 106
South West -20 235 £60,000 -4.00% 89
Yorkshire +32 226 £71,250 +5.56% 33
South East -58 208 £70,000 +7.69% 122
North East +5 140 £53,750 +13.16% 46
Midlands -89 128 £67,500 +12.50% 89
West Midlands -65 105 £68,403 +14.00% 63
East of England -60 53 £51,359 +16.73% 27
East Midlands -86 22 £60,000 +26.32% 26
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 57 (2.42%) Confluence
2 43 (1.82%) Apache
3 37 (1.57%) Apache Spark
4 29 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
6 14 (0.59%) Camunda
7 13 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.38%) JBoss
9 8 (0.34%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
10 5 (0.21%) CMS
10 5 (0.21%) GeoServer
10 5 (0.21%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.13%) CICS
11 3 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.13%) SAS
11 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.085%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.085%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.68%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.13%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.085%) Moqups
6 2 (0.085%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.085%) Windchill
7 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.042%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 15 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.38%) Maximo
3 5 (0.21%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.21%) Temenos T24
4 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.085%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.042%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.042%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.042%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.042%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.042%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
6 1 (0.042%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 970 (41.10%) AWS
2 481 (20.38%) Azure
3 284 (12.03%) GCP
4 199 (8.43%) Serverless
5 150 (6.36%) AWS CloudFormation
6 122 (5.17%) AWS Lambda
7 118 (5.00%) GitHub
8 116 (4.92%) Amazon ECS
9 112 (4.75%) Amazon S3
10 94 (3.98%) SaaS
11 91 (3.86%) Amazon EKS
12 71 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
13 64 (2.71%) AWS Step Functions
14 58 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
15 41 (1.74%) Amazon ECR
16 37 (1.57%) Apigee
17 36 (1.53%) OpenShift
18 35 (1.48%) Amazon SQS
18 35 (1.48%) Azure Service Bus
19 34 (1.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 34 (1.44%) HTTP
2 32 (1.36%) Broadband
3 22 (0.93%) TCP/IP
4 17 (0.72%) Network Security
5 13 (0.55%) DMARC
6 8 (0.34%) IPv4
6 8 (0.34%) MQTT
6 8 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
7 7 (0.30%) BGP
7 7 (0.30%) VPN
8 6 (0.25%) DNS
8 6 (0.25%) IPsec
9 5 (0.21%) AMQP
9 5 (0.21%) Internet
9 5 (0.21%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.13%) Firewall
11 2 (0.085%) Ethernet
11 2 (0.085%) LAN
11 2 (0.085%) SAN
11 2 (0.085%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (7.33%) PostgreSQL
2 171 (7.25%) NoSQL
3 122 (5.17%) MongoDB
4 107 (4.53%) Relational Database
5 83 (3.52%) MySQL
6 82 (3.47%) DynamoDB
7 71 (3.01%) SQL Server
8 37 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
9 32 (1.36%) Big Data
10 26 (1.10%) Db2
10 26 (1.10%) Redis
11 25 (1.06%) BigQuery
12 24 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
13 20 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
13 20 (0.85%) Hadoop
14 17 (0.72%) RDBMS
15 15 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
15 15 (0.64%) Metadata
16 13 (0.55%) Geospatial Data
16 13 (0.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 230 (9.75%) Git
2 182 (7.71%) Jenkins
3 170 (7.20%) GitLab
4 91 (3.86%) JIRA
5 84 (3.56%) Cucumber
6 74 (3.14%) JUnit
7 70 (2.97%) Maven
7 70 (2.97%) Selenium
8 60 (2.54%) Cypress.io
9 47 (1.99%) SonarQube
10 42 (1.78%) TeamCity
11 40 (1.69%) JMeter
12 37 (1.57%) Postman
13 31 (1.31%) Mockito
14 30 (1.27%) Bitbucket
14 30 (1.27%) Eclipse
14 30 (1.27%) Subversion
15 23 (0.97%) Claude Code
16 22 (0.93%) Gradle
16 22 (0.93%) REST Assured
General
1 626 (26.53%) Finance
2 362 (15.34%) Social Skills
3 230 (9.75%) Public Sector
4 214 (9.07%) Banking
5 171 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
6 117 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 112 (4.75%) Front Office
8 86 (3.64%) Law
9 76 (3.22%) Retail
10 59 (2.50%) Financial Institution
11 43 (1.82%) Investment Banking
12 34 (1.44%) Health Technology
13 33 (1.40%) Back Office
14 24 (1.02%) Manufacturing
14 24 (1.02%) Marketing
15 23 (0.97%) Games
15 23 (0.97%) Legal
16 18 (0.76%) Advertising
16 18 (0.76%) Aerospace
16 18 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 848 (35.93%) Developer
2 593 (25.13%) Senior
3 558 (23.64%) Java Developer
4 536 (22.71%) Software Engineer
5 412 (17.46%) Java Engineer
6 336 (14.24%) Lead
7 206 (8.73%) Senior Developer
8 178 (7.54%) Senior Software Engineer
9 167 (7.08%) Java Software Engineer
10 145 (6.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 137 (5.81%) Full-Stack Developer
11 137 (5.81%) Senior Java Developer
12 125 (5.30%) Senior Java Engineer
13 124 (5.25%) Software Developer
14 117 (4.96%) Lead Software Engineer
15 87 (3.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 73 (3.09%) Consultant
17 72 (3.05%) Architect
18 71 (3.01%) Principal Engineer
19 70 (2.97%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 542 (22.97%) Spring
2 461 (19.53%) Spring Boot
3 273 (11.57%) React
4 254 (10.76%) Kafka
5 228 (9.66%) AngularJS
6 223 (9.45%) Node.js
7 222 (9.41%) REST
8 172 (7.29%) RESTful
9 154 (6.53%) .NET
10 83 (3.52%) Web Services
11 78 (3.31%) CSS
12 72 (3.05%) HTML
13 68 (2.88%) GraphQL
14 64 (2.71%) Vue
15 53 (2.25%) OAuth
16 51 (2.16%) Playwright
17 48 (2.03%) JSON
18 46 (1.95%) Hibernate
18 46 (1.95%) SOAP
19 44 (1.86%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 289 (12.25%) Cloud Native
2 208 (8.81%) Distributed Systems
3 146 (6.19%) Product Ownership
4 105 (4.45%) Public Cloud
5 58 (2.46%) Onboarding
6 55 (2.33%) Fixed Income
6 55 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 51 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
8 46 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
9 41 (1.74%) Data Structures
10 40 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
11 35 (1.48%) Virtual Team
12 34 (1.44%) e-Learning
12 34 (1.44%) Equities
12 34 (1.44%) Mobile App
13 27 (1.14%) Algorithms
13 27 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
14 21 (0.89%) Blog
15 20 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
15 20 (0.85%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 210 (8.90%) Linux
2 57 (2.42%) Windows
3 40 (1.69%) Android
4 39 (1.65%) Unix
5 15 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (0.59%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.42%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.17%) CentOS
8 4 (0.17%) Debian
8 4 (0.17%) Kali Linux
8 4 (0.17%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.085%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.042%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 819 (34.70%) Software Engineering
2 804 (34.07%) Agile
3 759 (32.16%) CI/CD
4 548 (23.22%) Microservices
5 546 (23.14%) DevOps
6 481 (20.38%) Test Automation
7 453 (19.19%) Full-Stack Development
8 406 (17.20%) Mentoring
9 382 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
10 332 (14.07%) AI
11 283 (11.99%) Containerisation
12 258 (10.93%) Infrastructure as Code
13 257 (10.89%) Continuous Improvement
14 247 (10.47%) TDD
15 219 (9.28%) Roadmaps
16 218 (9.24%) Technical Leadership
17 217 (9.19%) Computer Science
18 209 (8.86%) Scrum
19 192 (8.14%) SDLC
20 181 (7.67%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 763 (32.33%) Python
2 453 (19.19%) SQL
3 413 (17.50%) JavaScript
4 254 (10.76%) TypeScript
5 242 (10.25%) C#
6 223 (9.45%) C++
7 141 (5.97%) Go
8 110 (4.66%) Bash
9 100 (4.24%) Kotlin
10 68 (2.88%) Scala
11 64 (2.71%) C
12 58 (2.46%) Groovy
13 57 (2.42%) PHP
14 52 (2.20%) Rust
15 40 (1.69%) Perl
16 34 (1.44%) PowerShell
17 31 (1.31%) Ruby
18 29 (1.23%) PL/SQL
19 19 (0.81%) Shell Script
20 13 (0.55%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 397 (16.82%) Security Cleared
2 263 (11.14%) Degree
3 235 (9.96%) SC Cleared
4 149 (6.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 135 (5.72%) DV Cleared
6 96 (4.07%) AWS Certification
7 56 (2.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 28 (1.19%) Master's Degree
9 22 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
10 20 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 18 (0.76%) ISTQB
11 18 (0.76%) OSCP
12 15 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.51%) DBS Check
15 10 (0.42%) CREST Certified
16 9 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
17 8 (0.34%) RHCE
17 8 (0.34%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (6.53%) QA
2 69 (2.92%) Accessibility
3 49 (2.08%) Data Quality
4 24 (1.02%) WCAG
5 21 (0.89%) GDPR
6 14 (0.59%) GRC
7 11 (0.47%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.42%) SOC 2
9 9 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 7 (0.30%) ISO 20022
10 7 (0.30%) NIST
11 6 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 14443
12 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 7816
13 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.13%) PSD2
14 2 (0.085%) Good Clinical Practice
14 2 (0.085%) MiFID
14 2 (0.085%) Software Quality Assurance
14 2 (0.085%) UCITS
System Software
1 362 (15.34%) Docker
2 20 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (0.76%) Active Directory
4 11 (0.47%) vSphere
5 8 (0.34%) Squid
5 8 (0.34%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.25%) Firmware
6 6 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.21%) KVM
8 4 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.085%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.085%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 420 (17.80%) Kubernetes
2 265 (11.23%) Terraform
3 103 (4.36%) Ansible
4 92 (3.90%) Grafana
5 35 (1.48%) Prometheus
6 29 (1.23%) HP Fortify
7 28 (1.19%) Argo
7 28 (1.19%) Kibana
8 14 (0.59%) Packer
8 14 (0.59%) Puppet
9 11 (0.47%) Rancher
10 10 (0.42%) logstash
11 8 (0.34%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.25%) Hadoop YARN
12 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
12 6 (0.25%) yum
13 4 (0.17%) Control-M
13 4 (0.17%) FTK
13 4 (0.17%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (0.13%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 97 (4.11%) Oracle
2 93 (3.94%) Microsoft
3 66 (2.80%) Google
4 58 (2.46%) Splunk
5 45 (1.91%) IBM
6 31 (1.31%) SAP
7 25 (1.06%) VMware
8 24 (1.02%) Palantir
9 23 (0.97%) Dynatrace
9 23 (0.97%) Red Hat
10 22 (0.93%) AppDynamics
11 21 (0.89%) Salesforce
12 20 (0.85%) Adobe
12 20 (0.85%) ServiceNow
13 19 (0.81%) Foundry
14 17 (0.72%) OpenAI
15 13 (0.55%) MuleSoft
15 13 (0.55%) SendGrid
16 12 (0.51%) Solace
17 11 (0.47%) Bloomberg