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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 30 34
Rank change year-on-year -40 +4 -16
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,076 2,521 4,349
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.67% 6.75% 5.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.00% 19.80% 16.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,323 1,505 3,350
10th Percentile £42,557 £41,750 £39,636
25th Percentile £55,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £75,000 £73,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% +2.04% -8.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £126,375
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 13,837 12,735 26,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.77% 34.08% 32.69%
Number of salaries quoted 9,702 9,358 22,451
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,125
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,623 £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 £111,250 £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 21 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 21 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 -8 1,032 £90,000 -14.29% 318
North of England -45 470 £69,310 +4.99% 173
Yorkshire +2 217 £72,500 +3.57% 48
South East -60 210 £67,500 +3.85% 139
North West -65 191 £70,000 +4.42% 80
South West -33 186 £65,000 +6.12% 93
Midlands -67 94 £54,344 +3.57% 64
West Midlands -38 77 £54,344 +1.22% 31
North East -15 62 £52,130 -7.73% 47
East of England -83 47 £50,000 -3.85% 39
East Midlands -83 16 £49,000 +8.89% 32
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 42 (2.02%) Apache
2 40 (1.93%) Apache Spark
3 32 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (1.49%) Confluence
5 22 (1.06%) JBoss
6 12 (0.58%) OpenStack
6 12 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
6 12 (0.58%) WebSphere
7 7 (0.34%) Anypoint
8 6 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.24%) Appian
9 5 (0.24%) Camunda
9 5 (0.24%) GeoServer
9 5 (0.24%) IIS
10 4 (0.19%) Moodle
10 4 (0.19%) nginx
10 4 (0.19%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.14%) CICS
11 3 (0.14%) Liferay
12 2 (0.096%) CMS
Applications
1 12 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (0.53%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.096%) Windchill
6 1 (0.048%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.048%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 16 (0.77%) Maximo
2 6 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.14%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.14%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.14%) Shopify
3 3 (0.14%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.096%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.096%) Teamcenter
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
Cloud Services
1 896 (43.16%) AWS
2 380 (18.30%) Azure
3 258 (12.43%) GCP
4 180 (8.67%) Serverless
5 136 (6.55%) SaaS
6 121 (5.83%) Amazon EKS
7 117 (5.64%) Amazon S3
7 117 (5.64%) AWS Lambda
8 113 (5.44%) AWS CloudFormation
9 107 (5.15%) Amazon ECS
10 96 (4.62%) GitHub
11 69 (3.32%) AWS Step Functions
12 51 (2.46%) Apigee
13 50 (2.41%) Amazon ECR
14 48 (2.31%) OpenShift
15 45 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
16 43 (2.07%) dbt
17 35 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 35 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
18 33 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 49 (2.36%) Broadband
2 31 (1.49%) TCP/IP
3 29 (1.40%) HTTP
4 10 (0.48%) AMQP
5 8 (0.39%) Internet
6 5 (0.24%) BGP
6 5 (0.24%) Multicast
6 5 (0.24%) VLAN
6 5 (0.24%) VPN
7 3 (0.14%) IPv4
7 3 (0.14%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.14%) Network Security
7 3 (0.14%) PuTTY
7 3 (0.14%) SAN
7 3 (0.14%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.096%) DNS
8 2 (0.096%) Firewall
8 2 (0.096%) LAN
8 2 (0.096%) NAS
8 2 (0.096%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (8.24%) NoSQL
2 154 (7.42%) PostgreSQL
3 114 (5.49%) Relational Database
4 91 (4.38%) DynamoDB
5 82 (3.95%) SQL Server
6 72 (3.47%) MongoDB
7 65 (3.13%) MySQL
8 46 (2.22%) RDBMS
9 41 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
10 34 (1.64%) Big Data
10 34 (1.64%) DB2
11 29 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
11 29 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
11 29 (1.40%) Hadoop
12 26 (1.25%) Neo4j
13 25 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
14 20 (0.96%) Redis
15 16 (0.77%) BigQuery
15 16 (0.77%) Flink
16 12 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 172 (8.29%) Jenkins
2 159 (7.66%) Git
3 127 (6.12%) GitLab
4 104 (5.01%) Selenium
5 86 (4.14%) JIRA
6 81 (3.90%) Cucumber
7 72 (3.47%) Maven
8 71 (3.42%) Cypress.io
9 68 (3.28%) TeamCity
10 64 (3.08%) SonarQube
11 53 (2.55%) JUnit
12 47 (2.26%) Postman
13 32 (1.54%) JMeter
14 30 (1.45%) SoapUI
15 27 (1.30%) Bitbucket
15 27 (1.30%) WebDriver
16 25 (1.20%) REST Assured
16 25 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
17 22 (1.06%) Gradle
18 19 (0.92%) Jaeger
General
1 523 (25.19%) Finance
2 383 (18.45%) Social Skills
3 247 (11.90%) Banking
4 165 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
4 165 (7.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 146 (7.03%) Public Sector
6 129 (6.21%) Law
7 114 (5.49%) Front Office
8 107 (5.15%) Retail
9 81 (3.90%) Financial Institution
10 61 (2.94%) Back Office
11 51 (2.46%) Investment Banking
12 37 (1.78%) Games
13 31 (1.49%) Telecoms
14 26 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
15 24 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
16 21 (1.01%) Health Technology
17 20 (0.96%) Aerospace
18 18 (0.87%) Marketing
19 17 (0.82%) Billing
Job Titles
1 768 (36.99%) Developer
2 520 (25.05%) Senior
3 517 (24.90%) Software Engineer
4 473 (22.78%) Java Developer
5 318 (15.32%) Java Engineer
6 293 (14.11%) Lead
7 196 (9.44%) Senior Developer
8 172 (8.29%) Java Software Engineer
9 152 (7.32%) Senior Software Engineer
10 150 (7.23%) Full-Stack Developer
11 130 (6.26%) Senior Java Developer
12 117 (5.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 106 (5.11%) Software Developer
14 103 (4.96%) Senior Java Engineer
15 92 (4.43%) Lead Software Engineer
16 90 (4.34%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 89 (4.29%) Architect
18 55 (2.65%) Lead Developer
19 54 (2.60%) Senior Java Software Engineer
20 48 (2.31%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 427 (20.57%) Spring
2 384 (18.50%) Spring Boot
3 330 (15.90%) React
4 230 (11.08%) REST
5 207 (9.97%) AngularJS
6 193 (9.30%) Node.js
7 183 (8.82%) Kafka
8 168 (8.09%) .NET
9 125 (6.02%) RESTful
10 107 (5.15%) HTML
11 91 (4.38%) SOAP
12 86 (4.14%) Web Services
13 84 (4.05%) CSS
14 75 (3.61%) GraphQL
15 74 (3.56%) Elastic Stack
16 60 (2.89%) JSON
17 59 (2.84%) Gherkin
17 59 (2.84%) Vue
18 56 (2.70%) Hibernate
19 46 (2.22%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 257 (12.38%) Cloud Native
2 172 (8.29%) Distributed Systems
3 109 (5.25%) Product Ownership
4 62 (2.99%) Public Cloud
5 56 (2.70%) Fixed Income
6 48 (2.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 47 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
8 46 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
9 38 (1.83%) Distributed Architecture
10 37 (1.78%) Equities
11 36 (1.73%) Blog
11 36 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
12 30 (1.45%) Data Structures
12 30 (1.45%) Mobile App
13 28 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
14 26 (1.25%) Virtual Team
15 24 (1.16%) e-Learning
16 22 (1.06%) Management Information System
17 21 (1.01%) Derivative
18 20 (0.96%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 188 (9.06%) Linux
2 49 (2.36%) Android
3 42 (2.02%) Unix
4 37 (1.78%) Windows
5 14 (0.67%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.43%) 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 3 (0.14%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.096%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.048%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 747 (35.98%) Agile
2 727 (35.02%) Software Engineering
3 632 (30.44%) CI/CD
4 487 (23.46%) DevOps
5 421 (20.28%) Microservices
6 417 (20.09%) Full-Stack Development
7 357 (17.20%) Test Automation
8 343 (16.52%) Mentoring
9 340 (16.38%) Problem-Solving
10 238 (11.46%) Containerisation
11 232 (11.18%) AI
12 223 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
13 204 (9.83%) Scrum
14 202 (9.73%) Computer Science
15 192 (9.25%) Roadmaps
16 185 (8.91%) Technical Leadership
17 184 (8.86%) TDD
18 183 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
19 172 (8.29%) SDLC
20 170 (8.19%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 653 (31.45%) Python
2 416 (20.04%) JavaScript
3 406 (19.56%) SQL
4 291 (14.02%) TypeScript
5 218 (10.50%) C#
6 161 (7.76%) Go
7 143 (6.89%) C++
8 107 (5.15%) Kotlin
9 105 (5.06%) Bash
10 78 (3.76%) C
11 55 (2.65%) Groovy
12 44 (2.12%) PHP
13 40 (1.93%) Scala
14 34 (1.64%) PL/SQL
15 29 (1.40%) Rust
16 20 (0.96%) PowerShell
17 19 (0.92%) Apex Code
18 15 (0.72%) R
19 14 (0.67%) Ruby
20 11 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 331 (15.94%) Security Cleared
2 275 (13.25%) Degree
3 203 (9.78%) SC Cleared
4 134 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 134 (6.45%) DV Cleared
5 92 (4.43%) AWS Certification
6 38 (1.83%) Master's Degree
7 35 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (1.40%) ISTQB
9 28 (1.35%) Azure Certification
10 25 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 20 (0.96%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 20 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
13 19 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
14 18 (0.87%) OSCP
15 15 (0.72%) CREST Certified
15 15 (0.72%) PhD
16 14 (0.67%) DBS Check
17 12 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (6.79%) QA
2 39 (1.88%) Accessibility
3 24 (1.16%) Data Quality
4 17 (0.82%) PCI DSS
5 14 (0.67%) SOC 2
6 13 (0.63%) GDPR
7 11 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
7 11 (0.53%) GRC
8 9 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.39%) WCAG
10 4 (0.19%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.19%) SLA
11 3 (0.14%) NIST
12 2 (0.096%) ECSS
12 2 (0.096%) EU AI Act
13 1 (0.048%) MiFID
13 1 (0.048%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 344 (16.57%) Docker
2 8 (0.39%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.24%) Firmware
4 5 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
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%) HDFS
7 2 (0.096%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.048%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.048%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.048%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 438 (21.10%) Kubernetes
2 239 (11.51%) Terraform
3 109 (5.25%) Grafana
4 85 (4.09%) Ansible
5 49 (2.36%) Argo
6 45 (2.17%) Prometheus
7 44 (2.12%) HP Fortify
8 22 (1.06%) Kibana
9 19 (0.92%) Kustomize
10 13 (0.63%) Rancher
11 10 (0.48%) Puppet
12 9 (0.43%) Packer
13 8 (0.39%) logstash
14 7 (0.34%) yum
15 5 (0.24%) FTK
15 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
16 4 (0.19%) Nagios
16 4 (0.19%) Progress Chef
17 3 (0.14%) Red Hat Satellite
17 3 (0.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 84 (4.05%) Oracle
2 73 (3.52%) Microsoft
3 63 (3.03%) Google
4 38 (1.83%) IBM
5 31 (1.49%) Salesforce
6 30 (1.45%) MuleSoft
7 19 (0.92%) Splunk
8 18 (0.87%) SAP
9 16 (0.77%) Atlassian
9 16 (0.77%) Databricks
9 16 (0.77%) Foundry
9 16 (0.77%) Informatica
9 16 (0.77%) Red Hat
10 14 (0.67%) AppDynamics
11 13 (0.63%) Dynatrace
11 13 (0.63%) Talend
12 12 (0.58%) OpenAI
12 12 (0.58%) Palantir
13 11 (0.53%) VMware
14 9 (0.43%) Solace