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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 32 23
Rank change year-on-year -29 -9 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,772 3,258 3,843
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.87% 5.43% 8.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.82% 16.87% 19.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,121 1,975 3,053
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £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 £115,000 £115,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £136,250 £142,500 £130,000
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 10,535 19,318 19,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 23.03% 32.19% 41.17%
Number of salaries quoted 7,787 11,448 15,961
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,574 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £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 £111,075 £107,500
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 18 November 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 18 November 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 -8 1,040 £105,000 +5.00% 857
North of England -11 266 £65,000 +8.33% 203
South East -82 174 £62,500 -3.10% 250
North West -17 137 £67,500 +12.50% 141
Midlands +25 120 £62,500 +38.89% 68
South West -40 119 £65,000 - 136
Yorkshire +29 104 £67,500 +16.45% 42
West Midlands +33 91 £62,500 +16.41% 50
East of England -69 45 £42,500 -37.04% 57
East Midlands +10 29 £58,000 +65.71% 18
North East -5 27 £55,000 -20.27% 21
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 94 (5.30%) Apache
2 93 (5.25%) Apache Airflow
3 56 (3.16%) Apache Spark
4 44 (2.48%) Confluence
5 14 (0.79%) JBoss
6 8 (0.45%) IIS
7 6 (0.34%) Mule
7 6 (0.34%) nginx
7 6 (0.34%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.34%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.28%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
8 5 (0.28%) Camunda
8 5 (0.28%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.23%) Apache Pulsar
9 4 (0.23%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.23%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.23%) Traefik
10 3 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 6 (0.34%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.17%) Simulink
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.056%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.056%) Trello
6 1 (0.056%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
1 8 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.34%) Adaptiv
2 6 (0.34%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.34%) Shopify
3 5 (0.28%) Maximo
3 5 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.11%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.056%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.056%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.056%) Summit
5 1 (0.056%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 869 (49.04%) AWS
2 346 (19.53%) Azure
3 229 (12.92%) GCP
4 146 (8.24%) Serverless
5 101 (5.70%) Amazon EKS
6 94 (5.30%) SaaS
7 93 (5.25%) GitHub
8 84 (4.74%) AWS Lambda
9 82 (4.63%) dbt
10 79 (4.46%) Amazon EC2
11 77 (4.35%) Snowflake
12 69 (3.89%) Amazon ECS
13 68 (3.84%) Amazon S3
14 47 (2.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 41 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
16 39 (2.20%) OpenShift
17 30 (1.69%) Datadog
18 28 (1.58%) Amazon SQS
19 24 (1.35%) Amazon Kinesis
20 22 (1.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 35 (1.98%) TCP/IP
2 23 (1.30%) HTTP
3 21 (1.19%) DNS
4 19 (1.07%) Firewall
5 17 (0.96%) SSH
6 15 (0.85%) FTP
6 15 (0.85%) SMTP
7 12 (0.68%) VPN
8 10 (0.56%) AMQP
9 9 (0.51%) Internet
9 9 (0.51%) Multicast
10 7 (0.40%) SAN
11 5 (0.28%) DHCP
12 4 (0.23%) Broadband
12 4 (0.23%) ICMP
12 4 (0.23%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (0.23%) SSL
13 3 (0.17%) BGP
13 3 (0.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (9.88%) PostgreSQL
2 162 (9.14%) Relational Database
3 117 (6.60%) NoSQL
4 98 (5.53%) SQL Server
5 92 (5.19%) Data Lake
5 92 (5.19%) MongoDB
6 78 (4.40%) MySQL
7 73 (4.12%) Apache Iceberg
8 72 (4.06%) Amazon Athena
9 69 (3.89%) Apache Arrow
9 69 (3.89%) Dremio
10 64 (3.61%) Apache Ignite
11 60 (3.39%) Big Data
12 59 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
13 56 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
14 45 (2.54%) DynamoDB
15 44 (2.48%) RDBMS
16 40 (2.26%) Hadoop
17 30 (1.69%) BigQuery
18 25 (1.41%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 175 (9.88%) Jenkins
2 148 (8.35%) Git
3 98 (5.53%) JIRA
3 98 (5.53%) Selenium
4 84 (4.74%) JUnit
5 74 (4.18%) GitLab
6 56 (3.16%) Cucumber
7 44 (2.48%) Mockito
8 40 (2.26%) JMeter
8 40 (2.26%) Postman
9 36 (2.03%) Cypress.io
9 36 (2.03%) Maven
10 32 (1.81%) TeamCity
11 29 (1.64%) Bitbucket
11 29 (1.64%) WebDriver
12 26 (1.47%) SoapUI
13 25 (1.41%) SonarQube
14 19 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
15 16 (0.90%) REST Assured
15 16 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 746 (42.10%) Finance
2 496 (27.99%) Social Skills
3 400 (22.57%) Banking
4 294 (16.59%) Law
5 264 (14.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 192 (10.84%) Front Office
7 168 (9.48%) Analytical Skills
8 154 (8.69%) Investment Banking
9 127 (7.17%) Public Sector
10 106 (5.98%) Financial Institution
11 83 (4.68%) Marketing
12 47 (2.65%) Retail
13 37 (2.09%) Legal
14 33 (1.86%) Back Office
15 31 (1.75%) Games
16 22 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
17 20 (1.13%) Manufacturing
18 19 (1.07%) Billing
19 18 (1.02%) Telecoms
20 16 (0.90%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 583 (32.90%) Developer
2 540 (30.47%) Software Engineer
3 426 (24.04%) Senior
4 309 (17.44%) Java Engineer
5 290 (16.37%) Lead
6 280 (15.80%) Java Developer
7 228 (12.87%) Java Software Engineer
8 171 (9.65%) Senior Software Engineer
9 145 (8.18%) Lead Software Engineer
10 129 (7.28%) Senior Java Engineer
11 122 (6.88%) AWS Engineer
12 110 (6.21%) Python Engineer
13 104 (5.87%) Python Software Engineer
14 100 (5.64%) Architect
15 96 (5.42%) Senior Java Software Engineer
16 95 (5.36%) Senior Developer
17 93 (5.25%) Full-Stack Developer
18 86 (4.85%) AWS Software Engineer
19 63 (3.56%) Data Engineer
20 62 (3.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 388 (21.90%) Spring
2 319 (18.00%) React
3 301 (16.99%) Spring Boot
4 283 (15.97%) Kafka
5 186 (10.50%) RESTful
6 165 (9.31%) REST
7 164 (9.26%) .NET
8 147 (8.30%) Node.js
9 119 (6.72%) HTML
10 113 (6.38%) AngularJS
11 104 (5.87%) CSS
12 87 (4.91%) Hibernate
13 86 (4.85%) Pandas
14 76 (4.29%) Web Services
15 73 (4.12%) gRPC
16 70 (3.95%) NumPy
17 69 (3.89%) SciPy
17 69 (3.89%) SOAP
18 66 (3.72%) Protocol Buffers
19 56 (3.16%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 336 (18.96%) Cloud Native
2 200 (11.29%) Distributed Systems
3 129 (7.28%) Equities
4 122 (6.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 120 (6.77%) Fixed Income
6 114 (6.43%) Derivative
7 91 (5.14%) Algorithms
8 78 (4.40%) Hedge funds
9 66 (3.72%) Self-Motivation
10 65 (3.67%) Public Cloud
11 63 (3.56%) Pricing Data
12 61 (3.44%) Onboarding
13 59 (3.33%) Product Ownership
14 56 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
15 44 (2.48%) Management Information System
16 38 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
16 38 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
17 35 (1.98%) Data Structures
17 35 (1.98%) Mobile App
18 34 (1.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 195 (11.00%) Linux
2 39 (2.20%) Windows
3 28 (1.58%) Unix
4 25 (1.41%) Android
5 15 (0.85%) VMS
6 13 (0.73%) Amazon Linux
6 13 (0.73%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.34%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.17%) CentOS
9 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.11%) Debian
10 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.056%) AIX
11 1 (0.056%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.056%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.056%) SUSE
11 1 (0.056%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 852 (48.08%) Agile
2 702 (39.62%) Software Engineering
3 587 (33.13%) CI/CD
4 428 (24.15%) Microservices
5 383 (21.61%) Problem-Solving
6 366 (20.65%) DevOps
7 278 (15.69%) SDLC
8 272 (15.35%) Computer Science
9 265 (14.95%) Test Automation
10 261 (14.73%) Continuous Improvement
11 251 (14.16%) Full-Stack Development
12 245 (13.83%) Mentoring
13 204 (11.51%) AI
14 188 (10.61%) TDD
15 187 (10.55%) Fintech
16 178 (10.05%) Containerisation
17 167 (9.42%) Scrum
18 161 (9.09%) Machine Learning
19 134 (7.56%) Analytics
19 134 (7.56%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 735 (41.48%) Python
2 415 (23.42%) JavaScript
3 389 (21.95%) SQL
4 304 (17.16%) TypeScript
5 262 (14.79%) C#
6 178 (10.05%) C++
7 147 (8.30%) Go
8 132 (7.45%) Kotlin
9 86 (4.85%) C
10 78 (4.40%) Scala
11 56 (3.16%) PHP
12 43 (2.43%) PowerShell
13 42 (2.37%) Shell Script
14 37 (2.09%) Groovy
15 33 (1.86%) PL/SQL
16 32 (1.81%) Bash
17 29 (1.64%) Rust
18 25 (1.41%) Perl
19 22 (1.24%) Ruby
20 18 (1.02%) R
Qualifications
1 301 (16.99%) Degree
2 219 (12.36%) Security Cleared
3 147 (8.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 143 (8.07%) SC Cleared
5 87 (4.91%) AWS Certification
6 73 (4.12%) Master's Degree
7 62 (3.50%) DV Cleared
8 46 (2.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 37 (2.09%) Azure Certification
10 32 (1.81%) PhD
11 22 (1.24%) ISTQB
12 19 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
13 18 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
14 17 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (0.90%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 10 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
17 9 (0.51%) HND
17 9 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
17 9 (0.51%) PMI Certification
17 9 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (5.53%) QA
2 46 (2.60%) Accessibility
3 31 (1.75%) GDPR
4 18 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (0.73%) PCI DSS
6 12 (0.68%) Data Quality
7 10 (0.56%) ISO 9001
7 10 (0.56%) NIST
8 9 (0.51%) HIPAA
9 7 (0.40%) SLA
10 6 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.28%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.23%) EU AI Act
12 4 (0.23%) SEPA
12 4 (0.23%) WCAG
13 3 (0.17%) NCSC
14 2 (0.11%) GRC
14 2 (0.11%) ITGC
System Software
1 295 (16.65%) Docker
2 27 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
5 11 (0.62%) HDFS
6 5 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.23%) DFS Replication
7 4 (0.23%) vSphere
8 3 (0.17%) Firmware
9 2 (0.11%) Apache Flume
9 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.11%) Squid
9 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.056%) KVM
10 1 (0.056%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 453 (25.56%) Kubernetes
2 144 (8.13%) Terraform
3 75 (4.23%) Grafana
4 47 (2.65%) Ansible
5 42 (2.37%) Kibana
6 41 (2.31%) Prometheus
7 21 (1.19%) Argo
8 13 (0.73%) Progress Chef
9 12 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.45%) Control-M
11 7 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
12 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.28%) logstash
14 4 (0.23%) HAProxy
14 4 (0.23%) Nagios
14 4 (0.23%) Puppet
15 3 (0.17%) Kustomize
16 2 (0.11%) Mesos
16 2 (0.11%) Oozie
16 2 (0.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 135 (7.62%) Oracle
2 92 (5.19%) Microsoft
3 82 (4.63%) Google
4 39 (2.20%) Guidewire
4 39 (2.20%) Splunk
5 34 (1.92%) Atlassian
6 33 (1.86%) Databricks
7 28 (1.58%) SAP
8 27 (1.52%) Dynatrace
9 21 (1.19%) IBM
9 21 (1.19%) MuleSoft
10 18 (1.02%) ServiceNow
11 17 (0.96%) Informatica
12 16 (0.90%) Red Hat
13 15 (0.85%) Foundry
14 14 (0.79%) Palantir
15 13 (0.73%) Dell
15 13 (0.73%) Solace
15 13 (0.73%) Talend
16 10 (0.56%) Salesforce