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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 27 33
Rank change year-on-year -30 +6 -12
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,375 3,081 4,698
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.74% 7.15% 5.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.84% 23.51% 16.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,554 1,480 3,471
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,438 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £73,805
% change year-on-year -6.67% +1.62% -4.77%

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 16,001 13,106 27,763
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.45% 30.43% 30.88%
Number of salaries quoted 11,620 8,884 21,924
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,738 £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 £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 9 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 9 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 -12 1,056 £85,000 -19.05% 514
North of England -25 671 £69,305 +2.67% 162
North West -36 303 £70,000 - 89
Yorkshire +29 230 £72,500 +3.57% 48
South West -22 229 £60,000 -4.00% 99
South East -52 213 £70,000 +7.69% 118
North East +4 138 £55,000 +22.22% 25
Midlands -89 116 £62,500 +8.70% 68
West Midlands -61 95 £65,000 +8.33% 46
East of England -59 58 £51,359 +16.73% 33
East Midlands -81 20 £60,000 +26.32% 22
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 51 (2.15%) Confluence
2 50 (2.11%) Apache
3 38 (1.60%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
6 12 (0.51%) JBoss
7 10 (0.42%) Camunda
8 9 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
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 4 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.17%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.13%) CICS
12 3 (0.13%) SAS
12 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
12 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
13 2 (0.084%) Documentum
Applications
1 17 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.67%) MS Visio
3 10 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.084%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.084%) PTC Creo
5 2 (0.084%) Windchill
6 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.042%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 15 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.42%) Maximo
3 5 (0.21%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.21%) Temenos T24
4 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.084%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.042%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.042%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.042%) Endur
6 1 (0.042%) Findur
6 1 (0.042%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle Assets
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%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 993 (41.81%) AWS
2 474 (19.96%) Azure
3 301 (12.67%) GCP
4 208 (8.76%) Serverless
5 159 (6.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 131 (5.52%) AWS Lambda
7 121 (5.09%) Amazon ECS
7 121 (5.09%) Amazon S3
8 115 (4.84%) GitHub
9 113 (4.76%) SaaS
10 111 (4.67%) Amazon EKS
11 73 (3.07%) AWS Step Functions
12 68 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
13 57 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
14 46 (1.94%) Amazon ECR
15 42 (1.77%) Amazon SQS
15 42 (1.77%) Apigee
16 39 (1.64%) OpenShift
17 37 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 36 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 44 (1.85%) Broadband
2 31 (1.31%) HTTP
3 24 (1.01%) TCP/IP
4 15 (0.63%) Network Security
5 13 (0.55%) DMARC
6 8 (0.34%) BGP
6 8 (0.34%) IPv4
6 8 (0.34%) MQTT
6 8 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
6 8 (0.34%) VPN
7 7 (0.29%) AMQP
8 5 (0.21%) DNS
8 5 (0.21%) IPsec
9 4 (0.17%) Internet
9 4 (0.17%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.13%) Firewall
10 3 (0.13%) VLAN
11 2 (0.084%) Ethernet
11 2 (0.084%) LAN
11 2 (0.084%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (7.92%) NoSQL
2 178 (7.49%) PostgreSQL
3 119 (5.01%) MongoDB
4 109 (4.59%) Relational Database
5 90 (3.79%) DynamoDB
6 83 (3.49%) MySQL
7 70 (2.95%) SQL Server
8 40 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
9 32 (1.35%) Big Data
9 32 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
10 31 (1.31%) RDBMS
11 27 (1.14%) Db2
12 26 (1.09%) BigQuery
13 23 (0.97%) Redis
14 19 (0.80%) Hadoop
15 18 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
16 17 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
17 15 (0.63%) Metadata
18 13 (0.55%) Power BI
19 12 (0.51%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 229 (9.64%) Git
2 184 (7.75%) Jenkins
3 173 (7.28%) GitLab
4 85 (3.58%) JIRA
5 84 (3.54%) Cucumber
6 76 (3.20%) Maven
7 69 (2.91%) JUnit
8 65 (2.74%) Selenium
9 64 (2.69%) Cypress.io
10 59 (2.48%) TeamCity
11 56 (2.36%) SonarQube
12 37 (1.56%) JMeter
13 33 (1.39%) Postman
14 31 (1.31%) Bitbucket
15 29 (1.22%) Mockito
15 29 (1.22%) Subversion
16 26 (1.09%) Eclipse
17 25 (1.05%) Gradle
18 24 (1.01%) Claude Code
19 22 (0.93%) REST Assured
General
1 602 (25.35%) Finance
2 356 (14.99%) Social Skills
3 222 (9.35%) Public Sector
4 217 (9.14%) Banking
5 162 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
6 148 (6.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 106 (4.46%) Front Office
8 105 (4.42%) Law
9 95 (4.00%) Retail
10 70 (2.95%) Financial Institution
11 48 (2.02%) Back Office
12 38 (1.60%) Investment Banking
13 30 (1.26%) Health Technology
14 28 (1.18%) Games
15 22 (0.93%) Aerospace
15 22 (0.93%) Manufacturing
16 19 (0.80%) Legal
17 18 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
17 18 (0.76%) Marketing
18 17 (0.72%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 863 (36.34%) Developer
2 584 (24.59%) Senior
3 571 (24.04%) Java Developer
4 547 (23.03%) Software Engineer
5 401 (16.88%) Java Engineer
6 348 (14.65%) Lead
7 207 (8.72%) Senior Developer
8 178 (7.49%) Senior Software Engineer
9 175 (7.37%) Java Software Engineer
10 146 (6.15%) Senior Java Developer
11 144 (6.06%) Full-Stack Developer
12 140 (5.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 125 (5.26%) Senior Java Engineer
14 124 (5.22%) Software Developer
15 120 (5.05%) Lead Software Engineer
16 92 (3.87%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 82 (3.45%) Architect
18 72 (3.03%) Consultant
19 71 (2.99%) DevOps Engineer
20 68 (2.86%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 535 (22.53%) Spring
2 454 (19.12%) Spring Boot
3 291 (12.25%) React
4 238 (10.02%) AngularJS
5 231 (9.73%) Kafka
6 227 (9.56%) Node.js
6 227 (9.56%) REST
7 167 (7.03%) RESTful
8 154 (6.48%) .NET
9 88 (3.71%) Web Services
10 74 (3.12%) Vue
11 73 (3.07%) CSS
12 66 (2.78%) GraphQL
12 66 (2.78%) HTML
13 56 (2.36%) SOAP
14 52 (2.19%) Elastic Stack
15 51 (2.15%) Hibernate
16 48 (2.02%) JSON
16 48 (2.02%) OAuth
17 47 (1.98%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 295 (12.42%) Cloud Native
2 186 (7.83%) Distributed Systems
3 147 (6.19%) Product Ownership
4 103 (4.34%) Public Cloud
5 55 (2.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 51 (2.15%) Fixed Income
6 51 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
7 50 (2.11%) Onboarding
8 42 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
9 40 (1.68%) Data Structures
10 37 (1.56%) Distributed Architecture
11 36 (1.52%) e-Learning
12 34 (1.43%) Blog
13 33 (1.39%) Virtual Team
14 32 (1.35%) Mobile App
15 31 (1.31%) Equities
15 31 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
16 23 (0.97%) Algorithms
17 20 (0.84%) Social Media
18 17 (0.72%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 225 (9.47%) Linux
2 55 (2.32%) Windows
3 49 (2.06%) Unix
4 42 (1.77%) Android
5 16 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.55%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.42%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.25%) CentOS
8 6 (0.25%) Debian
8 6 (0.25%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.17%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.084%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.042%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 822 (34.61%) Agile
2 819 (34.48%) Software Engineering
3 754 (31.75%) CI/CD
4 572 (24.08%) DevOps
5 538 (22.65%) Microservices
6 480 (20.21%) Test Automation
7 462 (19.45%) Full-Stack Development
8 407 (17.14%) Mentoring
9 372 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
10 294 (12.38%) AI
11 290 (12.21%) Containerisation
12 265 (11.16%) Infrastructure as Code
13 251 (10.57%) Continuous Improvement
13 251 (10.57%) TDD
14 221 (9.31%) Roadmaps
15 218 (9.18%) Technical Leadership
16 209 (8.80%) Computer Science
17 208 (8.76%) Scrum
18 183 (7.71%) SDLC
19 172 (7.24%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 764 (32.17%) Python
2 448 (18.86%) SQL
3 431 (18.15%) JavaScript
4 261 (10.99%) TypeScript
5 243 (10.23%) C#
6 216 (9.09%) C++
7 161 (6.78%) Go
8 128 (5.39%) Bash
9 101 (4.25%) Kotlin
10 65 (2.74%) C
10 65 (2.74%) Groovy
11 61 (2.57%) Scala
12 57 (2.40%) Rust
13 53 (2.23%) PHP
14 35 (1.47%) Perl
15 34 (1.43%) PowerShell
16 28 (1.18%) PL/SQL
17 27 (1.14%) Ruby
18 18 (0.76%) Shell Script
19 15 (0.63%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 413 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 257 (10.82%) Degree
3 241 (10.15%) SC Cleared
4 142 (5.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 142 (5.98%) DV Cleared
5 108 (4.55%) AWS Certification
6 52 (2.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 30 (1.26%) Master's Degree
8 27 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
9 25 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 20 (0.84%) OSCP
11 17 (0.72%) ISTQB
12 16 (0.67%) DBS Check
13 15 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
14 13 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.51%) CREST Certified
15 12 (0.51%) PhD
16 11 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
17 10 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
18 8 (0.34%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (6.78%) QA
2 62 (2.61%) Accessibility
3 43 (1.81%) Data Quality
4 20 (0.84%) GDPR
4 20 (0.84%) WCAG
5 14 (0.59%) GRC
6 13 (0.55%) PCI DSS
7 12 (0.51%) SOC 2
8 7 (0.29%) ISO 20022
8 7 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.21%) NIST
9 5 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.084%) Good Clinical Practice
12 2 (0.084%) PSD2
12 2 (0.084%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.042%) GxP
13 1 (0.042%) MiFID
System Software
1 378 (15.92%) Docker
2 19 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (0.72%) Active Directory
4 11 (0.46%) vSphere
5 8 (0.34%) Squid
5 8 (0.34%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.25%) Firmware
6 6 (0.25%) KVM
7 5 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.084%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.084%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.084%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 446 (18.78%) Kubernetes
2 300 (12.63%) Terraform
3 119 (5.01%) Ansible
4 113 (4.76%) Grafana
5 48 (2.02%) Prometheus
6 41 (1.73%) Argo
7 34 (1.43%) HP Fortify
8 30 (1.26%) Kibana
9 16 (0.67%) Puppet
10 14 (0.59%) Packer
11 13 (0.55%) Rancher
12 12 (0.51%) Kustomize
12 12 (0.51%) logstash
13 8 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
13 8 (0.34%) ZABBIX
14 7 (0.29%) yum
15 5 (0.21%) FTK
15 5 (0.21%) Hadoop YARN
16 3 (0.13%) AWS Copilot
16 3 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 93 (3.92%) Oracle
2 89 (3.75%) Microsoft
3 76 (3.20%) Google
4 53 (2.23%) Splunk
5 42 (1.77%) IBM
6 27 (1.14%) SAP
7 24 (1.01%) Palantir
7 24 (1.01%) Salesforce
7 24 (1.01%) VMware
8 23 (0.97%) Red Hat
9 22 (0.93%) Dynatrace
10 20 (0.84%) AppDynamics
11 19 (0.80%) Foundry
11 19 (0.80%) ServiceNow
12 15 (0.63%) Adobe
12 15 (0.63%) MuleSoft
13 14 (0.59%) OpenAI
14 13 (0.55%) SendGrid
15 11 (0.46%) Atlassian
15 11 (0.46%) Solace