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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 27 32
Rank change year-on-year -29 +5 -12
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,359 3,065 4,692
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.73% 7.21% 5.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.79% 23.54% 16.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,544 1,467 3,468
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,545 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% +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 15,945 13,022 27,860
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.43% 30.62% 30.98%
Number of salaries quoted 11,583 8,821 22,048
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £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 8 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 8 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 1,049 £85,000 -19.05% 364
North of England -26 665 £69,305 +2.67% 159
North West -37 298 £70,000 - 89
Yorkshire +31 229 £72,500 +3.57% 43
South West -21 226 £60,000 -4.00% 71
South East -44 215 £70,000 +7.69% 125
North East +7 138 £55,000 +25.71% 27
Midlands -92 114 £62,500 +8.70% 74
West Midlands -56 93 £67,500 +12.50% 47
East of England -69 58 £51,359 +16.73% 43
East Midlands -83 20 £60,000 +26.32% 27
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 50 (2.12%) Confluence
2 48 (2.03%) Apache
3 37 (1.57%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.64%) 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 (0.085%) Documentum
Applications
1 15 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.59%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.085%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.085%) PTC Creo
5 2 (0.085%) Windchill
6 1 (0.042%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 15 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.47%) 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%) 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
1 982 (41.63%) AWS
2 471 (19.97%) Azure
3 299 (12.67%) GCP
4 204 (8.65%) Serverless
5 156 (6.61%) AWS CloudFormation
6 129 (5.47%) AWS Lambda
7 121 (5.13%) Amazon S3
8 119 (5.04%) Amazon ECS
9 113 (4.79%) GitHub
10 112 (4.75%) SaaS
11 108 (4.58%) Amazon EKS
12 73 (3.09%) AWS Step Functions
13 68 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
14 55 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
15 46 (1.95%) Amazon ECR
16 43 (1.82%) Apigee
17 42 (1.78%) Amazon SQS
18 37 (1.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 37 (1.57%) OpenShift
19 36 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 44 (1.87%) Broadband
2 31 (1.31%) HTTP
3 24 (1.02%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.55%) DMARC
4 13 (0.55%) Network Security
5 8 (0.34%) IPv4
5 8 (0.34%) MQTT
5 8 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
6 7 (0.30%) AMQP
6 7 (0.30%) BGP
6 7 (0.30%) VPN
7 4 (0.17%) DNS
7 4 (0.17%) IPsec
7 4 (0.17%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.13%) Firewall
8 3 (0.13%) Internet
8 3 (0.13%) VLAN
9 2 (0.085%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.085%) LAN
9 2 (0.085%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (7.84%) NoSQL
2 178 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
3 118 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 109 (4.62%) Relational Database
5 90 (3.82%) DynamoDB
6 83 (3.52%) MySQL
7 70 (2.97%) SQL Server
8 40 (1.70%) Amazon Athena
9 31 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
9 31 (1.31%) RDBMS
10 30 (1.27%) Big Data
11 28 (1.19%) Db2
12 26 (1.10%) BigQuery
13 23 (0.97%) Redis
14 18 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
14 18 (0.76%) Hadoop
15 16 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
16 15 (0.64%) Metadata
17 13 (0.55%) Power BI
18 12 (0.51%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 223 (9.45%) Git
2 179 (7.59%) Jenkins
3 170 (7.21%) GitLab
4 84 (3.56%) JIRA
5 82 (3.48%) Cucumber
6 76 (3.22%) Maven
7 68 (2.88%) JUnit
8 64 (2.71%) Cypress.io
8 64 (2.71%) Selenium
9 56 (2.37%) TeamCity
10 55 (2.33%) SonarQube
11 34 (1.44%) JMeter
12 31 (1.31%) Bitbucket
12 31 (1.31%) Postman
13 29 (1.23%) Mockito
14 28 (1.19%) Subversion
15 25 (1.06%) Eclipse
15 25 (1.06%) Gradle
16 24 (1.02%) Claude Code
17 22 (0.93%) REST Assured
General
1 595 (25.22%) Finance
2 352 (14.92%) Social Skills
3 219 (9.28%) Public Sector
4 215 (9.11%) Banking
5 160 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
6 146 (6.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 105 (4.45%) Front Office
8 103 (4.37%) Law
9 93 (3.94%) Retail
10 69 (2.92%) Financial Institution
11 47 (1.99%) Back Office
12 38 (1.61%) Investment Banking
13 30 (1.27%) Health Technology
14 28 (1.19%) Games
15 22 (0.93%) Aerospace
15 22 (0.93%) Manufacturing
16 19 (0.81%) Legal
17 18 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
18 17 (0.72%) Advertising
18 17 (0.72%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 863 (36.58%) Developer
2 579 (24.54%) Senior
3 570 (24.16%) Java Developer
4 544 (23.06%) Software Engineer
5 399 (16.91%) Java Engineer
6 347 (14.71%) Lead
7 207 (8.77%) Senior Developer
8 179 (7.59%) Senior Software Engineer
9 176 (7.46%) Java Software Engineer
10 146 (6.19%) Senior Java Developer
11 145 (6.15%) Full-Stack Developer
12 140 (5.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 124 (5.26%) Senior Java Engineer
13 124 (5.26%) Software Developer
14 120 (5.09%) Lead Software Engineer
15 92 (3.90%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 84 (3.56%) Architect
17 69 (2.92%) Consultant
17 69 (2.92%) Senior Java Software Engineer
18 66 (2.80%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 533 (22.59%) Spring
2 452 (19.16%) Spring Boot
3 290 (12.29%) React
4 238 (10.09%) AngularJS
5 230 (9.75%) Kafka
6 227 (9.62%) REST
7 225 (9.54%) Node.js
8 165 (6.99%) RESTful
9 153 (6.49%) .NET
10 88 (3.73%) Web Services
11 73 (3.09%) CSS
11 73 (3.09%) Vue
12 66 (2.80%) HTML
13 65 (2.76%) GraphQL
14 55 (2.33%) SOAP
15 51 (2.16%) Hibernate
16 50 (2.12%) Elastic Stack
16 50 (2.12%) OAuth
17 48 (2.03%) JSON
18 47 (1.99%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 291 (12.34%) Cloud Native
2 185 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
3 146 (6.19%) Product Ownership
4 103 (4.37%) Public Cloud
5 54 (2.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 51 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
7 50 (2.12%) Fixed Income
8 46 (1.95%) Onboarding
9 42 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
10 40 (1.70%) Data Structures
11 37 (1.57%) Distributed Architecture
12 36 (1.53%) e-Learning
13 33 (1.40%) Virtual Team
14 32 (1.36%) Blog
15 31 (1.31%) Equities
15 31 (1.31%) Mobile App
15 31 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
16 23 (0.97%) Algorithms
17 20 (0.85%) Social Media
18 17 (0.72%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 219 (9.28%) Linux
2 51 (2.16%) Windows
3 49 (2.08%) Unix
4 42 (1.78%) Android
5 16 (0.68%) 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 (0.085%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.042%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 819 (34.72%) Agile
2 814 (34.51%) Software Engineering
3 743 (31.50%) CI/CD
4 563 (23.87%) DevOps
5 538 (22.81%) Microservices
6 472 (20.01%) Test Automation
7 462 (19.58%) Full-Stack Development
8 407 (17.25%) Mentoring
9 363 (15.39%) Problem-Solving
10 286 (12.12%) AI
11 285 (12.08%) Containerisation
12 255 (10.81%) Infrastructure as Code
13 252 (10.68%) Continuous Improvement
14 248 (10.51%) TDD
15 219 (9.28%) Roadmaps
15 219 (9.28%) Technical Leadership
16 207 (8.77%) Scrum
17 206 (8.73%) Computer Science
18 183 (7.76%) SDLC
19 169 (7.16%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 749 (31.75%) Python
2 443 (18.78%) SQL
3 428 (18.14%) JavaScript
4 260 (11.02%) TypeScript
5 241 (10.22%) C#
6 214 (9.07%) C++
7 157 (6.66%) Go
8 121 (5.13%) Bash
9 100 (4.24%) Kotlin
10 64 (2.71%) C
10 64 (2.71%) Groovy
11 60 (2.54%) Scala
12 56 (2.37%) Rust
13 51 (2.16%) PHP
14 32 (1.36%) Perl
14 32 (1.36%) PowerShell
15 28 (1.19%) PL/SQL
16 24 (1.02%) Ruby
17 18 (0.76%) Shell Script
18 15 (0.64%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 403 (17.08%) Security Cleared
2 252 (10.68%) Degree
3 242 (10.26%) SC Cleared
4 140 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 137 (5.81%) DV Cleared
6 104 (4.41%) AWS Certification
7 48 (2.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 30 (1.27%) Master's Degree
9 27 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
10 25 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 20 (0.85%) OSCP
12 16 (0.68%) DBS Check
13 15 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
14 14 (0.59%) ISTQB
15 13 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
16 12 (0.51%) CREST Certified
16 12 (0.51%) PhD
17 11 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
18 9 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
19 8 (0.34%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (6.66%) QA
2 62 (2.63%) Accessibility
3 43 (1.82%) Data Quality
4 20 (0.85%) GDPR
4 20 (0.85%) WCAG
5 14 (0.59%) GRC
6 13 (0.55%) PCI DSS
7 12 (0.51%) SOC 2
8 7 (0.30%) ISO 20022
8 7 (0.30%) 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 (0.085%) Good Clinical Practice
12 2 (0.085%) PSD2
12 2 (0.085%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.042%) GxP
13 1 (0.042%) MiFID
System Software
1 374 (15.85%) Docker
2 17 (0.72%) Active Directory
2 17 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.47%) vSphere
4 8 (0.34%) Squid
4 8 (0.34%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.25%) Firmware
6 5 (0.21%) KVM
6 5 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.085%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.085%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 440 (18.65%) Kubernetes
2 288 (12.21%) Terraform
3 112 (4.75%) Ansible
4 108 (4.58%) Grafana
5 46 (1.95%) Prometheus
6 41 (1.74%) Argo
7 34 (1.44%) HP Fortify
8 29 (1.23%) Kibana
9 16 (0.68%) Puppet
10 14 (0.59%) Packer
11 13 (0.55%) Rancher
12 12 (0.51%) Kustomize
13 11 (0.47%) logstash
14 8 (0.34%) ZABBIX
15 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
15 7 (0.30%) yum
16 5 (0.21%) FTK
17 4 (0.17%) Hadoop YARN
18 3 (0.13%) HAProxy
18 3 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 90 (3.82%) Oracle
2 86 (3.65%) Microsoft
3 76 (3.22%) Google
4 53 (2.25%) Splunk
5 42 (1.78%) IBM
6 24 (1.02%) Palantir
6 24 (1.02%) Salesforce
6 24 (1.02%) SAP
7 23 (0.97%) Red Hat
8 22 (0.93%) Dynatrace
8 22 (0.93%) VMware
9 20 (0.85%) AppDynamics
10 19 (0.81%) Foundry
10 19 (0.81%) ServiceNow
11 15 (0.64%) Adobe
11 15 (0.64%) MuleSoft
12 14 (0.59%) OpenAI
13 13 (0.55%) SendGrid
14 11 (0.47%) Atlassian
14 11 (0.47%) Solace