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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 33 23
Rank change year-on-year -36 -10 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,622 3,163 3,703
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.44% 5.52% 8.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.83% 16.64% 19.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,077 1,945 2,933
10th Percentile £44,500 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,176 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £75,554
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +5.89% +0.74%
75th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £136,250 £142,500 £127,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% +3.45%

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 10,245 19,014 18,548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 21.72% 33.20% 41.05%
Number of salaries quoted 7,662 11,425 15,383
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,603 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,822 £108,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 -11 934 £102,500 +2.50% 307
North of England -10 260 £65,000 +8.33% 138
South East -90 165 £62,500 -3.85% 292
North West -10 120 £67,500 +12.50% 84
Yorkshire +28 119 £67,500 +22.73% 38
South West -44 112 £65,000 +1.96% 110
Midlands +16 107 £60,000 +50.00% 52
West Midlands +30 81 £62,500 +19.05% 36
East of England -79 34 £28,250 -58.15% 50
East Midlands +6 26 £57,500 +64.29% 14
North East -11 23 £55,000 -6.75% 17
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 87 (5.36%) Apache
2 83 (5.12%) Apache Airflow
3 55 (3.39%) Apache Spark
4 36 (2.22%) Confluence
5 15 (0.92%) JBoss
6 9 (0.55%) WebSphere
7 8 (0.49%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.43%) IIS
9 6 (0.37%) Anypoint
9 6 (0.37%) Mule
9 6 (0.37%) nginx
10 5 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
10 5 (0.31%) Camunda
10 5 (0.31%) SharePoint
11 4 (0.25%) Appian
12 3 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.18%) Luigi
12 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (0.18%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 7 (0.43%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.18%) Simulink
5 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.062%) Trello
6 1 (0.062%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (0.49%) Dynamics NAV
1 8 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.43%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.31%) Maximo
3 5 (0.31%) Shopify
4 4 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.18%) Adaptiv
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.062%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.062%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.062%) Summit
7 1 (0.062%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 790 (48.71%) AWS
2 330 (20.35%) Azure
3 206 (12.70%) GCP
4 140 (8.63%) Serverless
5 100 (6.17%) Amazon EKS
6 92 (5.67%) SaaS
7 88 (5.43%) GitHub
8 78 (4.81%) AWS Lambda
9 73 (4.50%) Amazon S3
10 71 (4.38%) dbt
11 70 (4.32%) Amazon ECS
12 68 (4.19%) Amazon EC2
12 68 (4.19%) Snowflake
13 42 (2.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 40 (2.47%) OpenShift
15 37 (2.28%) GitHub Actions
16 30 (1.85%) Datadog
17 25 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
18 23 (1.42%) Amazon Kinesis
19 22 (1.36%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (2.03%) TCP/IP
2 27 (1.66%) HTTP
3 19 (1.17%) DNS
4 18 (1.11%) Firewall
5 16 (0.99%) SSH
6 14 (0.86%) FTP
6 14 (0.86%) SMTP
7 11 (0.68%) AMQP
8 10 (0.62%) Internet
8 10 (0.62%) VPN
9 9 (0.55%) Multicast
10 7 (0.43%) SAN
11 4 (0.25%) Broadband
11 4 (0.25%) DHCP
11 4 (0.25%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.25%) LAN
11 4 (0.25%) WAN
12 3 (0.18%) BGP
12 3 (0.18%) PuTTY
12 3 (0.18%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (9.37%) PostgreSQL
2 138 (8.51%) Relational Database
3 104 (6.41%) NoSQL
4 95 (5.86%) SQL Server
5 79 (4.87%) Data Lake
6 78 (4.81%) MongoDB
7 66 (4.07%) MySQL
8 60 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
9 59 (3.64%) Apache Iceberg
10 57 (3.51%) Apache Arrow
10 57 (3.51%) Dremio
11 56 (3.45%) Apache Ignite
12 54 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
13 52 (3.21%) Big Data
14 50 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
15 45 (2.77%) RDBMS
16 42 (2.59%) DynamoDB
16 42 (2.59%) Hadoop
17 30 (1.85%) BigQuery
18 25 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 175 (10.79%) Jenkins
2 137 (8.45%) Git
3 99 (6.10%) Selenium
4 89 (5.49%) JIRA
5 78 (4.81%) GitLab
6 71 (4.38%) JUnit
7 57 (3.51%) Cucumber
8 44 (2.71%) Cypress.io
9 40 (2.47%) JMeter
9 40 (2.47%) Postman
10 33 (2.03%) Maven
10 33 (2.03%) Mockito
10 33 (2.03%) TeamCity
10 33 (2.03%) WebDriver
11 32 (1.97%) Bitbucket
12 26 (1.60%) SoapUI
13 24 (1.48%) SonarQube
14 20 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
15 18 (1.11%) Team Foundation Server
16 15 (0.92%) REST Assured
General
1 607 (37.42%) Finance
2 448 (27.62%) Social Skills
3 306 (18.87%) Banking
4 183 (11.28%) Law
5 167 (10.30%) Front Office
6 152 (9.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 148 (9.12%) Analytical Skills
8 133 (8.20%) Investment Banking
9 106 (6.54%) Public Sector
10 99 (6.10%) Financial Institution
11 54 (3.33%) Marketing
12 49 (3.02%) Retail
13 34 (2.10%) Back Office
14 32 (1.97%) Games
15 23 (1.42%) Legal
16 19 (1.17%) Manufacturing
16 19 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (1.11%) Billing
18 16 (0.99%) Aerospace
19 15 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 561 (34.59%) Developer
2 439 (27.07%) Software Engineer
3 396 (24.41%) Senior
4 269 (16.58%) Java Developer
5 241 (14.86%) Java Engineer
6 236 (14.55%) Lead
7 168 (10.36%) Java Software Engineer
8 150 (9.25%) Senior Software Engineer
9 108 (6.66%) Senior Java Engineer
10 105 (6.47%) AWS Engineer
11 103 (6.35%) Full-Stack Developer
12 101 (6.23%) Architect
13 97 (5.98%) Senior Developer
14 90 (5.55%) Lead Software Engineer
15 79 (4.87%) Python Engineer
15 79 (4.87%) Senior Java Software Engineer
16 71 (4.38%) Python Software Engineer
17 67 (4.13%) AWS Software Engineer
18 66 (4.07%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 61 (3.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 354 (21.82%) Spring
2 309 (19.05%) React
3 279 (17.20%) Spring Boot
4 233 (14.36%) Kafka
5 168 (10.36%) REST
6 156 (9.62%) .NET
7 152 (9.37%) RESTful
8 147 (9.06%) Node.js
9 122 (7.52%) HTML
10 117 (7.21%) AngularJS
11 98 (6.04%) CSS
12 78 (4.81%) Hibernate
13 70 (4.32%) Pandas
14 64 (3.95%) gRPC
14 64 (3.95%) SOAP
15 61 (3.76%) GraphQL
16 58 (3.58%) Web Services
17 57 (3.51%) NumPy
17 57 (3.51%) SciPy
18 55 (3.39%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 282 (17.39%) Cloud Native
2 184 (11.34%) Distributed Systems
3 113 (6.97%) Equities
4 106 (6.54%) Fixed Income
5 101 (6.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 88 (5.43%) Derivative
7 71 (4.38%) Algorithms
8 69 (4.25%) Hedge funds
9 65 (4.01%) Self-Motivation
10 59 (3.64%) Product Ownership
11 55 (3.39%) Pricing Data
12 54 (3.33%) Onboarding
13 46 (2.84%) Greenfield Project
13 46 (2.84%) Public Cloud
14 39 (2.40%) Management Information System
15 35 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
16 33 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
17 29 (1.79%) Data Structures
18 24 (1.48%) Virtual Team
19 23 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 191 (11.78%) Linux
2 42 (2.59%) Windows
3 24 (1.48%) Unix
4 21 (1.29%) Android
5 14 (0.86%) VMS
6 12 (0.74%) Amazon Linux
6 12 (0.74%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.43%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.25%) CentOS
9 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.12%) Debian
10 2 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.062%) AIX
11 1 (0.062%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.062%) SUSE
11 1 (0.062%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 716 (44.14%) Agile
2 594 (36.62%) Software Engineering
3 530 (32.68%) CI/CD
4 388 (23.92%) Microservices
5 352 (21.70%) DevOps
6 340 (20.96%) Problem-Solving
7 255 (15.72%) Full-Stack Development
8 247 (15.23%) Mentoring
9 246 (15.17%) Test Automation
10 242 (14.92%) Computer Science
11 235 (14.49%) Continuous Improvement
12 197 (12.15%) SDLC
13 163 (10.05%) AI
13 163 (10.05%) Containerisation
14 160 (9.86%) TDD
15 159 (9.80%) Scrum
16 145 (8.94%) Fintech
17 131 (8.08%) Clean Code
18 123 (7.58%) Roadmaps
19 120 (7.40%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 666 (41.06%) Python
2 407 (25.09%) JavaScript
3 350 (21.58%) SQL
4 294 (18.13%) TypeScript
5 233 (14.36%) C#
6 155 (9.56%) C++
7 133 (8.20%) Go
8 103 (6.35%) Kotlin
9 93 (5.73%) C
10 69 (4.25%) Scala
11 51 (3.14%) PHP
12 38 (2.34%) Groovy
13 37 (2.28%) Bash
13 37 (2.28%) Shell Script
14 34 (2.10%) PowerShell
15 33 (2.03%) PL/SQL
16 27 (1.66%) Perl
17 24 (1.48%) Rust
18 22 (1.36%) Ruby
19 18 (1.11%) R
Qualifications
1 288 (17.76%) Degree
2 208 (12.82%) Security Cleared
3 141 (8.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 131 (8.08%) SC Cleared
5 75 (4.62%) AWS Certification
6 66 (4.07%) Master's Degree
7 61 (3.76%) DV Cleared
8 44 (2.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 39 (2.40%) Azure Certification
10 30 (1.85%) PhD
11 24 (1.48%) ISTQB
12 21 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
13 19 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
13 19 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
14 18 (1.11%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 11 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
16 8 (0.49%) HND
17 5 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 4 (0.25%) OSCE
18 4 (0.25%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (6.10%) QA
2 46 (2.84%) Accessibility
3 28 (1.73%) GDPR
4 17 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (0.74%) Data Quality
6 10 (0.62%) ISO 9001
7 9 (0.55%) NIST
7 9 (0.55%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.43%) HIPAA
8 7 (0.43%) SLA
9 6 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.25%) EU AI Act
10 4 (0.25%) SEPA
10 4 (0.25%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.25%) WCAG
11 3 (0.18%) NCSC
12 2 (0.12%) ITGC
12 2 (0.12%) MISRA
12 2 (0.12%) PSD2
System Software
1 276 (17.02%) Docker
2 25 (1.54%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.86%) Virtual Servers
5 11 (0.68%) HDFS
6 4 (0.25%) DFS Replication
6 4 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.18%) vSphere
8 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
8 2 (0.12%) Firmware
8 2 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.062%) KVM
9 1 (0.062%) Squid
Systems Management
1 398 (24.54%) Kubernetes
2 117 (7.21%) Terraform
3 67 (4.13%) Grafana
4 50 (3.08%) Ansible
5 39 (2.40%) Kibana
6 37 (2.28%) Prometheus
7 20 (1.23%) Argo
8 12 (0.74%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.43%) Control-M
10 7 (0.43%) HP Fortify
11 6 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.31%) logstash
12 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.31%) Nagios
13 4 (0.25%) Puppet
14 3 (0.18%) Rancher
15 2 (0.12%) Kustomize
15 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
15 2 (0.12%) yum
Vendors
1 112 (6.91%) Oracle
2 84 (5.18%) Microsoft
3 73 (4.50%) Google
4 35 (2.16%) Guidewire
5 32 (1.97%) Splunk
6 28 (1.73%) Atlassian
7 25 (1.54%) Databricks
7 25 (1.54%) Dynatrace
8 24 (1.48%) MuleSoft
9 22 (1.36%) SAP
10 19 (1.17%) Informatica
11 18 (1.11%) IBM
12 17 (1.05%) ServiceNow
13 15 (0.92%) Talend
14 14 (0.86%) Dell
15 13 (0.80%) Red Hat
16 11 (0.68%) Adobe
16 11 (0.68%) Salesforce
17 10 (0.62%) Foundry
17 10 (0.62%) Solace