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 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 32 35
Rank change year-on-year -38 +3 -17
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,089 2,493 4,404
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.64% 6.64% 5.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.03% 19.76% 16.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,334 1,486 3,388
10th Percentile £42,585 £41,250 £39,439
25th Percentile £55,688 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,250 £73,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +5.10% -8.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £130,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -9.68%

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 13,903 12,615 27,058
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.60% 33.60% 32.52%
Number of salaries quoted 9,755 9,267 22,508
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,683 £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 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 26 April 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 26 April 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 1,030 £90,000 -16.28% 261
North of England -43 481 £68,690 +2.47% 134
Yorkshire -2 219 £70,000 -1.40% 34
South East -58 213 £67,500 +3.85% 119
North West -62 195 £70,000 +3.70% 66
South West -30 186 £65,000 +6.12% 58
Midlands -73 94 £50,000 -6.87% 28
West Midlands -48 77 £50,000 -6.87% 17
North East -18 67 £52,500 -7.08% 34
East of England -81 48 £50,000 -2.91% 18
East Midlands -83 16 £49,000 +8.89% 10
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 41 (1.96%) Apache
2 38 (1.82%) Apache Spark
3 32 (1.53%) Confluence
4 31 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (1.01%) JBoss
6 13 (0.62%) Palantir Foundry
7 12 (0.57%) OpenStack
8 11 (0.53%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.24%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.24%) Appian
10 5 (0.24%) Camunda
10 5 (0.24%) GeoServer
10 5 (0.24%) IIS
11 4 (0.19%) Moodle
11 4 (0.19%) SharePoint
12 3 (0.14%) CICS
12 3 (0.14%) CMS
12 3 (0.14%) Liferay
12 3 (0.14%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (0.53%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.048%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.048%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.048%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 14 (0.67%) Maximo
2 5 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.14%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.14%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.14%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.096%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.048%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.048%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.048%) Endur
5 1 (0.048%) Findur
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.048%) Shopify
5 1 (0.048%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 886 (42.41%) AWS
2 388 (18.57%) Azure
3 250 (11.97%) GCP
4 174 (8.33%) Serverless
5 123 (5.89%) SaaS
6 116 (5.55%) AWS CloudFormation
7 114 (5.46%) Amazon S3
8 113 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
9 111 (5.31%) Amazon EKS
10 105 (5.03%) Amazon ECS
11 95 (4.55%) GitHub
12 68 (3.26%) AWS Step Functions
13 51 (2.44%) Apigee
14 50 (2.39%) Amazon ECR
15 47 (2.25%) OpenShift
16 45 (2.15%) Amazon SQS
17 42 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
18 38 (1.82%) dbt
19 34 (1.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 31 (1.48%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 49 (2.35%) Broadband
2 32 (1.53%) HTTP
3 31 (1.48%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.43%) AMQP
5 8 (0.38%) Internet
6 4 (0.19%) BGP
6 4 (0.19%) Multicast
6 4 (0.19%) SAN
6 4 (0.19%) VLAN
6 4 (0.19%) VPN
7 3 (0.14%) IPv4
7 3 (0.14%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.14%) LAN
7 3 (0.14%) Network Security
7 3 (0.14%) PuTTY
7 3 (0.14%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.14%) WAN
8 2 (0.096%) DHCP
8 2 (0.096%) DNS
8 2 (0.096%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (8.14%) NoSQL
2 159 (7.61%) PostgreSQL
3 111 (5.31%) Relational Database
4 92 (4.40%) DynamoDB
5 83 (3.97%) SQL Server
6 82 (3.93%) MongoDB
7 65 (3.11%) MySQL
8 46 (2.20%) RDBMS
9 41 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
10 33 (1.58%) Big Data
10 33 (1.58%) DB2
11 29 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
12 28 (1.34%) Hadoop
13 26 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
13 26 (1.24%) Neo4j
14 23 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
15 18 (0.86%) Redis
16 16 (0.77%) BigQuery
17 15 (0.72%) Flink
18 12 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 172 (8.23%) Jenkins
2 160 (7.66%) Git
3 137 (6.56%) GitLab
4 104 (4.98%) Selenium
5 87 (4.16%) JIRA
6 79 (3.78%) Cucumber
7 73 (3.49%) Maven
8 72 (3.45%) Cypress.io
9 65 (3.11%) SonarQube
10 61 (2.92%) TeamCity
11 53 (2.54%) JUnit
12 48 (2.30%) Postman
13 30 (1.44%) SoapUI
14 29 (1.39%) JMeter
15 28 (1.34%) Bitbucket
16 27 (1.29%) WebDriver
17 25 (1.20%) REST Assured
17 25 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
18 23 (1.10%) Gradle
19 19 (0.91%) Jaeger
General
1 524 (25.08%) Finance
2 373 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 240 (11.49%) Banking
4 164 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
5 152 (7.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 151 (7.23%) Public Sector
7 115 (5.51%) Law
8 114 (5.46%) Front Office
9 96 (4.60%) Retail
10 70 (3.35%) Financial Institution
11 52 (2.49%) Investment Banking
12 51 (2.44%) Back Office
13 36 (1.72%) Games
14 31 (1.48%) Telecoms
15 25 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
15 25 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
16 21 (1.01%) Health Technology
17 20 (0.96%) Aerospace
18 18 (0.86%) Marketing
19 17 (0.81%) Billing
Job Titles
1 780 (37.34%) Developer
2 530 (25.37%) Senior
3 512 (24.51%) Software Engineer
4 485 (23.22%) Java Developer
5 325 (15.56%) Java Engineer
6 293 (14.03%) Lead
7 203 (9.72%) Senior Developer
8 173 (8.28%) Java Software Engineer
9 151 (7.23%) Senior Software Engineer
10 149 (7.13%) Full-Stack Developer
11 136 (6.51%) Senior Java Developer
12 118 (5.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 107 (5.12%) Software Developer
14 106 (5.07%) Senior Java Engineer
15 94 (4.50%) Lead Software Engineer
16 89 (4.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 86 (4.12%) Architect
18 55 (2.63%) Lead Developer
18 55 (2.63%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 50 (2.39%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 430 (20.58%) Spring
2 388 (18.57%) Spring Boot
3 327 (15.65%) React
4 236 (11.30%) REST
5 210 (10.05%) AngularJS
6 197 (9.43%) Node.js
7 183 (8.76%) Kafka
8 165 (7.90%) .NET
9 120 (5.74%) RESTful
10 105 (5.03%) HTML
11 92 (4.40%) SOAP
12 86 (4.12%) Web Services
13 82 (3.93%) CSS
14 74 (3.54%) Elastic Stack
14 74 (3.54%) GraphQL
15 60 (2.87%) JSON
15 60 (2.87%) Vue
16 55 (2.63%) Gherkin
16 55 (2.63%) Hibernate
17 48 (2.30%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 247 (11.82%) Cloud Native
2 168 (8.04%) Distributed Systems
3 110 (5.27%) Product Ownership
4 68 (3.26%) Public Cloud
5 54 (2.58%) Fixed Income
6 47 (2.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 45 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
8 44 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
9 41 (1.96%) Distributed Architecture
10 37 (1.77%) Equities
10 37 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
11 35 (1.68%) Blog
12 30 (1.44%) Mobile App
13 29 (1.39%) Data Structures
14 26 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
15 25 (1.20%) e-Learning
15 25 (1.20%) Virtual Team
16 22 (1.05%) Management Information System
17 21 (1.01%) FPGA
18 20 (0.96%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 189 (9.05%) Linux
2 49 (2.35%) Android
3 45 (2.15%) Unix
4 39 (1.87%) Windows
5 14 (0.67%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.34%) CentOS
8 6 (0.29%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.29%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.24%) Debian
10 4 (0.19%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.096%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.048%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 752 (36.00%) Agile
2 722 (34.56%) Software Engineering
3 623 (29.82%) CI/CD
4 489 (23.41%) DevOps
5 419 (20.06%) Full-Stack Development
5 419 (20.06%) Microservices
6 353 (16.90%) Test Automation
7 346 (16.56%) Mentoring
8 339 (16.23%) Problem-Solving
9 235 (11.25%) AI
10 234 (11.20%) Containerisation
11 217 (10.39%) Continuous Improvement
12 209 (10.00%) Scrum
13 198 (9.48%) Computer Science
14 194 (9.29%) Roadmaps
15 188 (9.00%) TDD
16 186 (8.90%) Technical Leadership
17 178 (8.52%) Infrastructure as Code
18 175 (8.38%) SDLC
19 162 (7.75%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 644 (30.83%) Python
2 410 (19.63%) SQL
3 406 (19.44%) JavaScript
4 283 (13.55%) TypeScript
5 213 (10.20%) C#
6 155 (7.42%) Go
7 144 (6.89%) C++
8 105 (5.03%) Bash
9 104 (4.98%) Kotlin
10 78 (3.73%) C
11 57 (2.73%) Groovy
12 44 (2.11%) PHP
13 37 (1.77%) Scala
14 34 (1.63%) PL/SQL
15 27 (1.29%) Rust
16 20 (0.96%) PowerShell
17 19 (0.91%) Apex Code
18 16 (0.77%) R
19 14 (0.67%) Ruby
20 11 (0.53%) Perl
Qualifications
1 332 (15.89%) Security Cleared
2 271 (12.97%) Degree
3 204 (9.77%) SC Cleared
4 135 (6.46%) DV Cleared
5 132 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 91 (4.36%) AWS Certification
7 37 (1.77%) Master's Degree
8 34 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 28 (1.34%) ISTQB
10 25 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 23 (1.10%) Azure Certification
13 20 (0.96%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 19 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (0.77%) OSCP
15 16 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
16 15 (0.72%) PhD
17 14 (0.67%) DBS Check
18 13 (0.62%) CREST Certified
19 12 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (6.56%) QA
2 35 (1.68%) Accessibility
3 24 (1.15%) Data Quality
4 16 (0.77%) PCI DSS
5 13 (0.62%) SOC 2
6 12 (0.57%) GRC
7 9 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
8 8 (0.38%) GDPR
9 6 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.19%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.19%) SLA
10 4 (0.19%) WCAG
11 3 (0.14%) NIST
12 2 (0.096%) ECSS
13 1 (0.048%) MiFID
13 1 (0.048%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 340 (16.28%) Docker
2 9 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.24%) Firmware
4 5 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.19%) vSphere
6 3 (0.14%) KVM
6 3 (0.14%) Squid
6 3 (0.14%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.096%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.096%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.048%) HDFS
8 1 (0.048%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.048%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.048%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.048%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 424 (20.30%) Kubernetes
2 234 (11.20%) Terraform
3 99 (4.74%) Grafana
4 85 (4.07%) Ansible
5 55 (2.63%) Argo
6 45 (2.15%) HP Fortify
6 45 (2.15%) Prometheus
7 22 (1.05%) Kibana
8 19 (0.91%) Kustomize
9 13 (0.62%) Rancher
10 10 (0.48%) Puppet
11 9 (0.43%) logstash
11 9 (0.43%) Packer
12 7 (0.34%) yum
13 5 (0.24%) FTK
13 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (0.19%) Nagios
14 4 (0.19%) Progress Chef
15 3 (0.14%) Red Hat Satellite
15 3 (0.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 86 (4.12%) Oracle
2 76 (3.64%) Microsoft
3 63 (3.02%) Google
4 34 (1.63%) IBM
5 31 (1.48%) Salesforce
6 28 (1.34%) MuleSoft
7 19 (0.91%) Splunk
8 17 (0.81%) Foundry
8 17 (0.81%) Red Hat
9 16 (0.77%) Atlassian
10 15 (0.72%) Databricks
10 15 (0.72%) SAP
11 14 (0.67%) AppDynamics
11 14 (0.67%) Informatica
12 13 (0.62%) Dynatrace
12 13 (0.62%) OpenAI
12 13 (0.62%) Palantir
13 11 (0.53%) Talend
13 11 (0.53%) VMware
14 10 (0.48%) Solace