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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 27 33
Rank change year-on-year -30 +6 -12
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,354 3,066 4,612
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.69% 7.07% 5.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.72% 23.43% 16.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,536 1,463 3,381
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,289 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% +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 15,997 13,083 27,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.26% 30.19% 30.74%
Number of salaries quoted 11,643 8,853 21,362
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £48,663 £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 £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 15 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 15 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 1,046 £85,000 -19.05% 493
North of England -25 663 £69,305 +2.67% 254
North West -38 298 £70,000 - 134
South West -22 230 £60,000 - 122
Yorkshire +33 226 £72,500 +3.57% 80
South East -53 212 £70,000 +7.69% 219
North East +3 139 £53,750 +19.44% 41
Midlands -92 117 £67,500 +17.39% 131
West Midlands -64 95 £67,500 +12.50% 76
East of England -68 55 £51,359 +18.75% 103
East Midlands -83 21 £60,000 +26.32% 54
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 53 (2.25%) Confluence
2 44 (1.87%) Apache
3 38 (1.61%) Apache Spark
4 26 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
6 11 (0.47%) Camunda
6 11 (0.47%) JBoss
7 10 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.34%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
9 5 (0.21%) CMS
9 5 (0.21%) GeoServer
9 5 (0.21%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.13%) CICS
10 3 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.13%) SAS
10 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.085%) Documentum
Applications
1 18 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.68%) MS Visio
3 10 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.085%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.085%) PTC Creo
5 2 (0.085%) Windchill
6 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.042%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 15 (0.64%) 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 (0.085%) 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%) NEC Housing
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
1 986 (41.89%) AWS
2 474 (20.14%) Azure
3 297 (12.62%) GCP
4 207 (8.79%) Serverless
5 160 (6.80%) AWS CloudFormation
6 129 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
7 119 (5.06%) Amazon ECS
8 117 (4.97%) Amazon S3
9 115 (4.89%) GitHub
10 110 (4.67%) Amazon EKS
11 109 (4.63%) SaaS
12 69 (2.93%) AWS Step Functions
13 68 (2.89%) Azure DevOps
14 57 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
15 43 (1.83%) Amazon ECR
16 40 (1.70%) OpenShift
17 39 (1.66%) Apigee
18 37 (1.57%) Amazon SQS
19 36 (1.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 36 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 38 (1.61%) Broadband
2 33 (1.40%) HTTP
3 24 (1.02%) TCP/IP
4 17 (0.72%) Network Security
5 13 (0.55%) DMARC
6 9 (0.38%) BGP
6 9 (0.38%) VPN
7 8 (0.34%) IPv4
7 8 (0.34%) MQTT
7 8 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
8 7 (0.30%) AMQP
9 6 (0.25%) DNS
9 6 (0.25%) IPsec
10 5 (0.21%) Internet
10 5 (0.21%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.13%) Firewall
11 3 (0.13%) VLAN
12 2 (0.085%) LAN
12 2 (0.085%) SAN
12 2 (0.085%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 177 (7.52%) PostgreSQL
3 119 (5.06%) MongoDB
4 102 (4.33%) Relational Database
5 87 (3.70%) DynamoDB
6 82 (3.48%) MySQL
7 71 (3.02%) SQL Server
8 39 (1.66%) Amazon Athena
9 33 (1.40%) Big Data
10 31 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
11 27 (1.15%) Db2
12 25 (1.06%) BigQuery
12 25 (1.06%) RDBMS
13 24 (1.02%) Redis
14 21 (0.89%) Hadoop
15 18 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
16 17 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
17 15 (0.64%) Metadata
18 12 (0.51%) Neo4j
18 12 (0.51%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 228 (9.69%) Git
2 178 (7.56%) Jenkins
3 174 (7.39%) GitLab
4 85 (3.61%) Cucumber
4 85 (3.61%) JIRA
5 73 (3.10%) Maven
6 71 (3.02%) JUnit
7 63 (2.68%) Selenium
8 61 (2.59%) Cypress.io
9 57 (2.42%) TeamCity
10 52 (2.21%) SonarQube
11 37 (1.57%) JMeter
12 32 (1.36%) Postman
13 30 (1.27%) Bitbucket
13 30 (1.27%) Subversion
14 29 (1.23%) Mockito
15 28 (1.19%) Eclipse
16 25 (1.06%) Gradle
17 23 (0.98%) Claude Code
18 21 (0.89%) REST Assured
General
1 606 (25.74%) Finance
2 352 (14.95%) Social Skills
3 225 (9.56%) Public Sector
4 217 (9.22%) Banking
5 165 (7.01%) Analytical Skills
6 138 (5.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 106 (4.50%) Front Office
8 102 (4.33%) Law
9 94 (3.99%) Retail
10 70 (2.97%) Financial Institution
11 46 (1.95%) Back Office
12 37 (1.57%) Investment Banking
13 33 (1.40%) Health Technology
14 27 (1.15%) Games
15 23 (0.98%) Manufacturing
16 20 (0.85%) Aerospace
17 19 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
17 19 (0.81%) Legal
17 19 (0.81%) Marketing
18 17 (0.72%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 851 (36.15%) Developer
2 582 (24.72%) Senior
3 561 (23.83%) Java Developer
4 547 (23.24%) Software Engineer
5 404 (17.16%) Java Engineer
6 337 (14.32%) Lead
7 204 (8.67%) Senior Developer
8 179 (7.60%) Senior Software Engineer
9 176 (7.48%) Java Software Engineer
10 141 (5.99%) Senior Java Developer
11 140 (5.95%) Full-Stack Developer
12 136 (5.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 125 (5.31%) Senior Java Engineer
14 122 (5.18%) Software Developer
15 116 (4.93%) Lead Software Engineer
16 89 (3.78%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 79 (3.36%) Architect
18 74 (3.14%) Consultant
19 69 (2.93%) DevOps Engineer
20 68 (2.89%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 538 (22.85%) Spring
2 457 (19.41%) Spring Boot
3 282 (11.98%) React
4 235 (9.98%) AngularJS
5 234 (9.94%) Kafka
6 226 (9.60%) Node.js
7 223 (9.47%) REST
8 168 (7.14%) RESTful
9 153 (6.50%) .NET
10 86 (3.65%) Web Services
11 74 (3.14%) CSS
12 71 (3.02%) Vue
13 66 (2.80%) GraphQL
13 66 (2.80%) HTML
14 51 (2.17%) SOAP
15 50 (2.12%) Hibernate
16 49 (2.08%) OAuth
17 47 (2.00%) JSON
18 46 (1.95%) Elastic Stack
18 46 (1.95%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 294 (12.49%) Cloud Native
2 193 (8.20%) Distributed Systems
3 147 (6.24%) Product Ownership
4 107 (4.55%) Public Cloud
5 55 (2.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 55 (2.34%) Onboarding
6 51 (2.17%) Fixed Income
6 51 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
7 43 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
8 41 (1.74%) Data Structures
9 37 (1.57%) Distributed Architecture
10 35 (1.49%) e-Learning
11 33 (1.40%) Blog
11 33 (1.40%) Mobile App
11 33 (1.40%) Virtual Team
12 31 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
13 29 (1.23%) Equities
14 24 (1.02%) Algorithms
15 20 (0.85%) Social Media
16 18 (0.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 219 (9.30%) Linux
2 57 (2.42%) Windows
3 43 (1.83%) Android
3 43 (1.83%) Unix
4 17 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (0.59%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.51%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.25%) CentOS
7 6 (0.25%) Debian
7 6 (0.25%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.17%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.085%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.042%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 818 (34.75%) Software Engineering
2 803 (34.11%) Agile
3 752 (31.95%) CI/CD
4 556 (23.62%) DevOps
5 540 (22.94%) Microservices
6 483 (20.52%) Test Automation
7 449 (19.07%) Full-Stack Development
8 406 (17.25%) Mentoring
9 373 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
10 303 (12.87%) AI
11 279 (11.85%) Containerisation
12 264 (11.21%) Infrastructure as Code
13 249 (10.58%) Continuous Improvement
14 248 (10.54%) TDD
15 220 (9.35%) Roadmaps
16 219 (9.30%) Technical Leadership
17 215 (9.13%) Computer Science
18 205 (8.71%) Scrum
19 184 (7.82%) SDLC
20 169 (7.18%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 761 (32.33%) Python
2 445 (18.90%) SQL
3 420 (17.84%) JavaScript
4 253 (10.75%) TypeScript
5 243 (10.32%) C#
6 218 (9.26%) C++
7 155 (6.58%) Go
8 119 (5.06%) Bash
9 99 (4.21%) Kotlin
10 64 (2.72%) C
11 62 (2.63%) Scala
12 59 (2.51%) Groovy
12 59 (2.51%) Rust
13 57 (2.42%) PHP
14 38 (1.61%) Perl
15 34 (1.44%) PowerShell
16 30 (1.27%) Ruby
17 27 (1.15%) PL/SQL
18 18 (0.76%) Shell Script
19 14 (0.59%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 404 (17.16%) Security Cleared
2 260 (11.05%) Degree
3 233 (9.90%) SC Cleared
4 145 (6.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 138 (5.86%) DV Cleared
6 104 (4.42%) AWS Certification
7 56 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 31 (1.32%) Master's Degree
9 24 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
10 22 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 20 (0.85%) OSCP
12 16 (0.68%) ISTQB
13 15 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
14 13 (0.55%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
15 12 (0.51%) CREST Certified
15 12 (0.51%) PhD
16 10 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
17 8 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (6.54%) QA
2 64 (2.72%) Accessibility
3 43 (1.83%) Data Quality
4 21 (0.89%) GDPR
4 21 (0.89%) WCAG
5 14 (0.59%) GRC
6 13 (0.55%) PCI DSS
7 12 (0.51%) SOC 2
8 9 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.30%) ISO 20022
9 7 (0.30%) NIST
10 6 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.085%) Good Clinical Practice
13 2 (0.085%) PSD2
13 2 (0.085%) Software Quality Assurance
14 1 (0.042%) GxP
14 1 (0.042%) MiFID
System Software
1 362 (15.38%) Docker
2 21 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (0.76%) Active Directory
4 11 (0.47%) vSphere
5 8 (0.34%) Squid
5 8 (0.34%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.25%) Firmware
6 6 (0.25%) KVM
6 6 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.085%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.085%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 432 (18.35%) Kubernetes
2 289 (12.28%) Terraform
3 110 (4.67%) Ansible
3 110 (4.67%) Grafana
4 42 (1.78%) Prometheus
5 35 (1.49%) Argo
6 31 (1.32%) HP Fortify
7 29 (1.23%) Kibana
8 17 (0.72%) Puppet
9 14 (0.59%) Packer
10 13 (0.55%) Rancher
11 11 (0.47%) logstash
12 8 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
12 8 (0.34%) ZABBIX
13 6 (0.25%) Hadoop YARN
13 6 (0.25%) Kustomize
13 6 (0.25%) yum
14 5 (0.21%) FTK
15 4 (0.17%) Red Hat Satellite
16 3 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 94 (3.99%) Oracle
2 91 (3.87%) Microsoft
3 71 (3.02%) Google
4 57 (2.42%) Splunk
5 43 (1.83%) IBM
6 29 (1.23%) SAP
7 26 (1.10%) VMware
8 25 (1.06%) Red Hat
9 24 (1.02%) Palantir
10 22 (0.93%) Dynatrace
10 22 (0.93%) Salesforce
11 21 (0.89%) AppDynamics
12 20 (0.85%) ServiceNow
13 19 (0.81%) Foundry
14 16 (0.68%) Adobe
14 16 (0.68%) OpenAI
15 15 (0.64%) MuleSoft
16 13 (0.55%) SendGrid
17 11 (0.47%) Atlassian
17 11 (0.47%) Solace