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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 34 32
Rank change year-on-year -24 -2 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,747 2,534 3,590
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.63% 5.91% 5.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.54% 22.62% 17.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,695 1,117 2,254
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +3.23%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £136,250 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +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 16,609 11,203 20,213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.89% 26.14% 31.80%
Number of salaries quoted 12,144 7,468 12,170
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,918 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -14 1,105 £85,000 -19.05% 1,770
North of England -19 789 £69,310 +2.68% 387
North West -31 421 £75,000 +7.14% 220
South West +13 350 £67,500 +1.89% 150
South East -46 224 £70,000 +7.69% 179
Midlands -32 211 £70,000 +12.00% 135
North East +21 192 £55,000 +7.32% 79
West Midlands -11 183 £70,000 +12.00% 106
Yorkshire +13 176 £72,500 +7.41% 90
East of England -85 43 £68,750 +61.76% 60
East Midlands -73 28 £60,000 -4.00% 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 57 (2.07%) Confluence
2 55 (2.00%) Apache
3 37 (1.35%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (0.76%) Camunda
6 19 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 12 (0.44%) Jupyter
7 12 (0.44%) WebLogic
8 9 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
9 8 (0.29%) Tomcat
10 7 (0.25%) CICS
10 7 (0.25%) Ethereum
10 7 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.18%) CMS
12 5 (0.18%) JBoss
12 5 (0.18%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.15%) SAS
13 4 (0.15%) SharePoint
13 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.55%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.33%) Simulink
4 7 (0.25%) Moqups
5 5 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (0.11%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.073%) PTC Creo
8 2 (0.073%) Windchill
9 1 (0.036%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.036%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.036%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
3 5 (0.18%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.11%) Maximo
5 3 (0.11%) R3 Corda
6 2 (0.073%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.073%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.073%) Quorum
6 2 (0.073%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
6 2 (0.073%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.036%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.036%) Infor SunSystems
7 1 (0.036%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.036%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,071 (38.99%) AWS
2 536 (19.51%) Azure
3 306 (11.14%) GCP
4 193 (7.03%) Serverless
5 188 (6.84%) GitHub
6 154 (5.61%) AWS CloudFormation
7 128 (4.66%) AWS Lambda
8 111 (4.04%) Amazon S3
8 111 (4.04%) GitHub Actions
9 109 (3.97%) SaaS
10 107 (3.90%) Amazon EKS
11 101 (3.68%) Amazon ECS
12 88 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
13 53 (1.93%) AWS Step Functions
14 50 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
15 41 (1.49%) Datadog
16 40 (1.46%) Anthropic Claude
17 39 (1.42%) GitHub Copilot
17 39 (1.42%) OpenShift
18 38 (1.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 34 (1.24%) HTTP
2 28 (1.02%) TCP/IP
3 24 (0.87%) Network Security
4 21 (0.76%) VPN
5 19 (0.69%) BGP
6 15 (0.55%) DMARC
7 13 (0.47%) Firewall
8 10 (0.36%) Wireshark
9 9 (0.33%) AMQP
9 9 (0.33%) DNS
10 8 (0.29%) MQTT
11 7 (0.25%) IPv4
11 7 (0.25%) Software-Defined Networking
12 6 (0.22%) Ethernet
12 6 (0.22%) IPsec
13 5 (0.18%) Broadband
14 4 (0.15%) Internet
14 4 (0.15%) Kerberos
14 4 (0.15%) RIP
14 4 (0.15%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (6.84%) PostgreSQL
2 169 (6.15%) NoSQL
3 131 (4.77%) Relational Database
4 129 (4.70%) MongoDB
5 71 (2.58%) MySQL
6 63 (2.29%) DynamoDB
7 58 (2.11%) SQL Server
8 50 (1.82%) Big Data
9 37 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
10 34 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
11 30 (1.09%) Redis
12 28 (1.02%) Power BI
13 25 (0.91%) Data Lake
14 24 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
15 23 (0.84%) Db2
15 23 (0.84%) Hadoop
16 22 (0.80%) BigQuery
16 22 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
17 17 (0.62%) Spark SQL
18 16 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 289 (10.52%) Git
2 211 (7.68%) Jenkins
3 204 (7.43%) GitLab
4 109 (3.97%) JUnit
5 91 (3.31%) JIRA
6 90 (3.28%) Cucumber
7 75 (2.73%) TeamCity
8 68 (2.48%) Maven
9 57 (2.07%) Selenium
10 51 (1.86%) Cypress.io
11 47 (1.71%) Mockito
12 46 (1.67%) Eclipse
13 43 (1.57%) Postman
14 40 (1.46%) Subversion
15 36 (1.31%) SonarQube
16 31 (1.13%) Bitbucket
16 31 (1.13%) JMeter
17 28 (1.02%) Claude Code
18 18 (0.66%) REST Assured
19 17 (0.62%) Gradle
General
1 697 (25.37%) Finance
2 486 (17.69%) Social Skills
3 302 (10.99%) Banking
4 252 (9.17%) Public Sector
5 179 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
6 152 (5.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 128 (4.66%) Law
8 107 (3.90%) Retail
9 85 (3.09%) Financial Institution
10 69 (2.51%) Front Office
11 45 (1.64%) Back Office
12 41 (1.49%) Legal
13 37 (1.35%) Manufacturing
14 35 (1.27%) Health Technology
14 35 (1.27%) Marketing
15 33 (1.20%) Investment Banking
16 29 (1.06%) Publishing
17 23 (0.84%) Retail Banking
18 22 (0.80%) Aerospace
19 21 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 796 (28.98%) Developer
2 746 (27.16%) Senior
3 645 (23.48%) Software Engineer
4 601 (21.88%) Java Engineer
5 513 (18.67%) Java Developer
6 372 (13.54%) Lead
7 225 (8.19%) Senior Java Engineer
8 224 (8.15%) Senior Developer
9 220 (8.01%) Senior Software Engineer
10 199 (7.24%) Java Software Engineer
11 181 (6.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 139 (5.06%) Senior Java Developer
13 121 (4.40%) Full-Stack Developer
14 110 (4.00%) Software Developer
15 105 (3.82%) Lead Software Engineer
15 105 (3.82%) Principal Engineer
16 90 (3.28%) DevOps Engineer
17 86 (3.13%) Architect
18 79 (2.88%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 78 (2.84%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 634 (23.08%) Spring
2 535 (19.48%) Spring Boot
3 332 (12.09%) Terraform
4 288 (10.48%) Kafka
5 262 (9.54%) React
6 258 (9.39%) REST
7 208 (7.57%) AngularJS
8 203 (7.39%) Node.js
9 198 (7.21%) RESTful
10 165 (6.01%) .NET
11 66 (2.40%) HTML
12 65 (2.37%) Web Services
13 63 (2.29%) CSS
14 60 (2.18%) OAuth
15 57 (2.07%) Hibernate
16 51 (1.86%) Vue
17 49 (1.78%) RabbitMQ
18 45 (1.64%) Jakarta EE
19 41 (1.49%) XML
20 39 (1.42%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 399 (14.52%) Cloud Native
2 274 (9.97%) Distributed Systems
3 160 (5.82%) Product Ownership
4 123 (4.48%) Public Cloud
5 82 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
6 78 (2.84%) Onboarding
7 60 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
8 52 (1.89%) Blog
9 49 (1.78%) Data Structures
9 49 (1.78%) e-Learning
9 49 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 42 (1.53%) Algorithms
11 40 (1.46%) Distributed Architecture
12 35 (1.27%) Mobile App
13 34 (1.24%) AI Agents
13 34 (1.24%) Virtual Team
14 32 (1.16%) Equities
15 29 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
16 28 (1.02%) Fixed Income
16 28 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 225 (8.19%) Linux
2 69 (2.51%) Windows
3 40 (1.46%) Android
4 35 (1.27%) Unix
5 27 (0.98%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.44%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.29%) CentOS
9 7 (0.25%) Debian
9 7 (0.25%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.15%) VMS
11 3 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.11%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.073%) macOS
13 1 (0.036%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,043 (37.97%) Software Engineering
2 936 (34.07%) CI/CD
3 805 (29.30%) Agile
4 666 (24.24%) Microservices
5 603 (21.95%) DevOps
6 554 (20.17%) Full-Stack Development
7 520 (18.93%) Test Automation
8 470 (17.11%) Mentoring
9 464 (16.89%) Problem-Solving
10 446 (16.24%) AI
11 364 (13.25%) Containerisation
12 344 (12.52%) Infrastructure as Code
13 335 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
14 311 (11.32%) Event-Driven
15 264 (9.61%) Technical Leadership
16 250 (9.10%) SDLC
17 241 (8.77%) Computer Science
18 232 (8.45%) Scrum
18 232 (8.45%) TDD
19 218 (7.94%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 843 (30.69%) Python
2 489 (17.80%) SQL
3 441 (16.05%) JavaScript
4 280 (10.19%) TypeScript
5 278 (10.12%) C++
6 254 (9.25%) C#
7 167 (6.08%) Go
8 122 (4.44%) Bash
8 122 (4.44%) Kotlin
9 81 (2.95%) Scala
10 79 (2.88%) C
11 70 (2.55%) Rust
12 47 (1.71%) Perl
13 45 (1.64%) PHP
14 41 (1.49%) PowerShell
15 39 (1.42%) Groovy
16 34 (1.24%) Ruby
17 31 (1.13%) PL/SQL
18 22 (0.80%) COBOL
18 22 (0.80%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 497 (18.09%) Security Cleared
2 273 (9.94%) Degree
3 258 (9.39%) SC Cleared
4 176 (6.41%) DV Cleared
5 156 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 106 (3.86%) AWS Certification
7 72 (2.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 34 (1.24%) Master's Degree
9 23 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
11 17 (0.62%) Azure Certification
11 17 (0.62%) CISSP
11 17 (0.62%) ISTQB
12 16 (0.58%) OSCP
13 13 (0.47%) PhD
14 12 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 12 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 12 (0.44%) CCSP
14 12 (0.44%) CISM
15 11 (0.40%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (5.90%) QA
2 86 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 83 (3.02%) Accessibility
4 28 (1.02%) GDPR
5 27 (0.98%) NIST
6 26 (0.95%) WCAG
7 23 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 20 (0.73%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.62%) ISO 20022
10 16 (0.58%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.15%) GRC
12 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 14443
12 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 7816
13 3 (0.11%) MiFID
13 3 (0.11%) MIL-STD-1553
13 3 (0.11%) PSD2
13 3 (0.11%) UCITS
14 2 (0.073%) Good Clinical Practice
14 2 (0.073%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 456 (16.60%) Docker
2 35 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (0.76%) VMware NSX
4 20 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (0.58%) Active Directory
6 14 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
6 14 (0.51%) Firmware
7 10 (0.36%) vSphere
8 8 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.22%) Squid
9 6 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.18%) KVM
11 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.073%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.036%) Oracle Clusterware
Systems Management
1 566 (20.60%) Kubernetes
2 150 (5.46%) Ansible
3 110 (4.00%) Grafana
4 38 (1.38%) Prometheus
4 38 (1.38%) Puppet
5 36 (1.31%) Argo
6 21 (0.76%) Kibana
7 15 (0.55%) vCenter Server
8 14 (0.51%) HP Fortify
9 12 (0.44%) Rancher
10 10 (0.36%) logstash
10 10 (0.36%) Packer
11 9 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
12 8 (0.29%) Cilium
12 8 (0.29%) EnCase
12 8 (0.29%) FTK
12 8 (0.29%) yum
13 6 (0.22%) Hadoop YARN
13 6 (0.22%) Kubeflow
13 6 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 121 (4.40%) Oracle
2 116 (4.22%) Microsoft
3 109 (3.97%) Google
4 66 (2.40%) Splunk
5 44 (1.60%) Red Hat
6 38 (1.38%) VMware
7 32 (1.16%) IBM
7 32 (1.16%) SAP
8 29 (1.06%) Adobe
9 22 (0.80%) OpenAI
10 21 (0.76%) Dynatrace
11 20 (0.73%) AppDynamics
12 18 (0.66%) Databricks
13 16 (0.58%) Salesforce
14 15 (0.55%) Palantir
14 15 (0.55%) SendGrid
14 15 (0.55%) ServiceNow
15 13 (0.47%) Atlassian
15 13 (0.47%) OutSystems
16 12 (0.44%) Bloomberg