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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 30 30
Rank change year-on-year -27 0 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,541 2,777 3,786
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.53% 6.46% 5.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.25% 23.77% 18.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,629 1,199 2,428
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £116,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +5.57%

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 16,664 11,681 20,872
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.59% 27.19% 30.54%
Number of salaries quoted 12,202 7,668 13,605
10th Percentile £39,753 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +1.60% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -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 15 September 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 September 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 -13 1,068 £85,000 -20.93% 2,621
North of England -25 714 £67,500 +3.85% 469
North West -34 336 £70,000 - 274
South West -3 293 £65,000 +8.33% 256
South East -56 217 £67,500 +3.85% 259
Yorkshire +27 196 £75,000 +15.38% 120
Midlands -58 183 £62,500 +4.17% 196
North East +13 182 £55,000 +15.79% 76
West Midlands -33 153 £68,403 +14.00% 144
East of England -75 51 £57,500 +27.78% 116
East Midlands -78 30 £60,000 +4.35% 52
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 61 (2.40%) Confluence
2 56 (2.20%) Apache
3 38 (1.50%) Apache Spark
4 23 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (0.63%) Camunda
6 14 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 12 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
8 10 (0.39%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
10 7 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 7 (0.28%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.24%) CMS
11 6 (0.24%) JBoss
12 5 (0.20%) CICS
13 4 (0.16%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.16%) SAS
14 3 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.12%) nginx
14 3 (0.12%) SharePoint
14 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.59%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.31%) Simulink
4 5 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.20%) Moqups
5 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (0.12%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.079%) PTC Creo
7 2 (0.079%) Windchill
8 1 (0.039%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.039%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.039%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.20%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.20%) Temenos T24
3 4 (0.16%) Maximo
3 4 (0.16%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.079%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.079%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.079%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 1 (0.039%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.039%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.039%) Endur
5 1 (0.039%) Findur
5 1 (0.039%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.039%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.039%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.039%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.039%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,044 (41.09%) AWS
2 522 (20.54%) Azure
3 296 (11.65%) GCP
4 212 (8.34%) Serverless
5 164 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 157 (6.18%) GitHub
7 144 (5.67%) AWS Lambda
8 113 (4.45%) Amazon S3
9 110 (4.33%) Amazon ECS
10 97 (3.82%) SaaS
11 96 (3.78%) Amazon EKS
12 89 (3.50%) GitHub Actions
13 81 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
14 65 (2.56%) AWS Step Functions
15 50 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
16 42 (1.65%) Datadog
17 40 (1.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 39 (1.53%) OpenShift
19 36 (1.42%) Azure Service Bus
20 33 (1.30%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 41 (1.61%) HTTP
2 17 (0.67%) Network Security
3 13 (0.51%) DMARC
3 13 (0.51%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.35%) DNS
4 9 (0.35%) IPv4
4 9 (0.35%) MQTT
4 9 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
5 8 (0.31%) AMQP
5 8 (0.31%) VPN
5 8 (0.31%) Wireshark
6 7 (0.28%) BGP
7 6 (0.24%) IPsec
8 5 (0.20%) Broadband
8 5 (0.20%) Ethernet
8 5 (0.20%) Firewall
8 5 (0.20%) Internet
8 5 (0.20%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.16%) RIP
10 3 (0.12%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (6.49%) NoSQL
2 162 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
3 124 (4.88%) MongoDB
4 121 (4.76%) Relational Database
5 79 (3.11%) DynamoDB
6 73 (2.87%) MySQL
7 72 (2.83%) SQL Server
8 48 (1.89%) Big Data
9 42 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
10 28 (1.10%) Redis
11 25 (0.98%) Hadoop
12 24 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
13 23 (0.91%) Data Lake
14 22 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
14 22 (0.87%) Db2
15 20 (0.79%) Power BI
16 18 (0.71%) BigQuery
17 17 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
17 17 (0.67%) Spark SQL
18 15 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 285 (11.22%) Git
2 208 (8.19%) Jenkins
3 195 (7.67%) GitLab
4 98 (3.86%) JIRA
5 96 (3.78%) JUnit
6 92 (3.62%) Cucumber
7 76 (2.99%) Maven
8 65 (2.56%) Selenium
9 57 (2.24%) Cypress.io
10 50 (1.97%) TeamCity
11 46 (1.81%) SonarQube
12 45 (1.77%) Eclipse
12 45 (1.77%) Postman
13 38 (1.50%) Mockito
13 38 (1.50%) Subversion
14 35 (1.38%) Bitbucket
14 35 (1.38%) JMeter
15 21 (0.83%) Claude Code
16 18 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 18 (0.71%) REST Assured
General
1 666 (26.21%) Finance
2 441 (17.36%) Social Skills
3 263 (10.35%) Banking
4 250 (9.84%) Public Sector
5 189 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
6 129 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 106 (4.17%) Law
8 84 (3.31%) Retail
9 69 (2.72%) Front Office
10 67 (2.64%) Financial Institution
11 39 (1.53%) Manufacturing
12 37 (1.46%) Legal
13 36 (1.42%) Marketing
14 33 (1.30%) Back Office
14 33 (1.30%) Investment Banking
15 29 (1.14%) Health Technology
16 23 (0.91%) Aerospace
17 20 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
17 20 (0.79%) Publishing
17 20 (0.79%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 793 (31.21%) Developer
2 646 (25.42%) Senior
3 575 (22.63%) Software Engineer
4 519 (20.43%) Java Developer
5 496 (19.52%) Java Engineer
6 353 (13.89%) Lead
7 216 (8.50%) Senior Developer
8 194 (7.63%) Senior Software Engineer
9 170 (6.69%) Senior Java Engineer
10 165 (6.49%) Java Software Engineer
11 154 (6.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 137 (5.39%) Senior Java Developer
13 129 (5.08%) Full-Stack Developer
14 127 (5.00%) Software Developer
15 109 (4.29%) Lead Software Engineer
16 84 (3.31%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 83 (3.27%) Principal Engineer
18 82 (3.23%) Architect
19 79 (3.11%) DevOps Engineer
20 76 (2.99%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 593 (23.34%) Spring
2 490 (19.28%) Spring Boot
3 297 (11.69%) Terraform
4 265 (10.43%) Kafka
4 265 (10.43%) React
5 256 (10.07%) REST
6 223 (8.78%) AngularJS
7 198 (7.79%) Node.js
8 187 (7.36%) RESTful
9 171 (6.73%) .NET
10 80 (3.15%) Web Services
11 68 (2.68%) CSS
12 64 (2.52%) HTML
13 59 (2.32%) Vue
14 56 (2.20%) RabbitMQ
15 54 (2.13%) OAuth
16 52 (2.05%) Hibernate
17 45 (1.77%) Playwright
18 44 (1.73%) JSON
19 43 (1.69%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 336 (13.22%) Cloud Native
2 256 (10.07%) Distributed Systems
3 169 (6.65%) Product Ownership
4 130 (5.12%) Public Cloud
5 75 (2.95%) Onboarding
6 64 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
7 57 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
8 48 (1.89%) Distributed Architecture
9 45 (1.77%) e-Learning
10 43 (1.69%) Virtual Team
11 42 (1.65%) Data Structures
12 39 (1.53%) Algorithms
13 38 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 34 (1.34%) Mobile App
15 33 (1.30%) Blog
16 29 (1.14%) AI Agents
16 29 (1.14%) Equities
17 26 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
17 26 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
18 22 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 217 (8.54%) Linux
2 67 (2.64%) Windows
3 37 (1.46%) Android
3 37 (1.46%) Unix
4 25 (0.98%) Apple iOS
5 22 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (0.59%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.31%) CentOS
8 7 (0.28%) Debian
8 7 (0.28%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.16%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.16%) VMS
10 3 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.079%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.039%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 924 (36.36%) Software Engineering
2 849 (33.41%) CI/CD
3 795 (31.29%) Agile
4 608 (23.93%) Microservices
5 579 (22.79%) DevOps
6 494 (19.44%) Test Automation
7 487 (19.17%) Full-Stack Development
8 459 (18.06%) Mentoring
9 438 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
10 379 (14.92%) AI
11 317 (12.48%) Containerisation
12 310 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
13 304 (11.96%) Continuous Improvement
14 272 (10.70%) Event-Driven
15 248 (9.76%) Technical Leadership
16 247 (9.72%) Roadmaps
17 237 (9.33%) Computer Science
18 230 (9.05%) TDD
19 229 (9.01%) Scrum
20 227 (8.93%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 799 (31.44%) Python
2 479 (18.85%) SQL
3 432 (17.00%) JavaScript
4 270 (10.63%) C#
5 263 (10.35%) C++
6 251 (9.88%) TypeScript
7 128 (5.04%) Go
8 116 (4.57%) Bash
9 105 (4.13%) Kotlin
10 77 (3.03%) C
11 74 (2.91%) Scala
12 58 (2.28%) Rust
13 55 (2.16%) PHP
14 52 (2.05%) Groovy
15 51 (2.01%) Perl
16 37 (1.46%) PowerShell
16 37 (1.46%) Ruby
17 30 (1.18%) PL/SQL
18 21 (0.83%) Shell Script
19 17 (0.67%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 471 (18.54%) Security Cleared
2 282 (11.10%) Degree
3 257 (10.11%) SC Cleared
4 162 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 158 (6.22%) DV Cleared
6 101 (3.97%) AWS Certification
7 64 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (1.14%) Master's Degree
9 24 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (0.79%) OSCP
11 19 (0.75%) ISTQB
12 17 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
13 16 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 14 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (0.51%) DBS Check
15 13 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
16 11 (0.43%) CREST Certified
17 10 (0.39%) PhD
18 8 (0.31%) CCNA
18 8 (0.31%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (6.61%) QA
2 82 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 80 (3.15%) Data Quality
4 26 (1.02%) WCAG
5 24 (0.94%) GDPR
6 15 (0.59%) ISO 20022
6 15 (0.59%) NIST
7 11 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.39%) GRC
9 7 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.24%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 4 (0.16%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.12%) MiFID
12 3 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
12 3 (0.12%) PSD2
12 3 (0.12%) UCITS
13 2 (0.079%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 414 (16.29%) Docker
2 26 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (0.75%) Active Directory
4 13 (0.51%) Firmware
5 12 (0.47%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
6 11 (0.43%) vSphere
7 8 (0.31%) Squid
7 8 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.20%) KVM
11 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.079%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 470 (18.50%) Kubernetes
2 135 (5.31%) Ansible
3 93 (3.66%) Grafana
4 33 (1.30%) Prometheus
5 31 (1.22%) Argo
6 29 (1.14%) Kibana
7 27 (1.06%) Puppet
8 21 (0.83%) HP Fortify
9 14 (0.55%) Packer
10 13 (0.51%) Rancher
11 11 (0.43%) logstash
12 8 (0.31%) ZABBIX
13 7 (0.28%) yum
14 6 (0.24%) Hadoop YARN
14 6 (0.24%) Kubeflow
15 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (0.20%) Red Hat Satellite
16 4 (0.16%) Control-M
16 4 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
16 4 (0.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 115 (4.53%) Oracle
2 109 (4.29%) Microsoft
3 81 (3.19%) Google
4 61 (2.40%) Splunk
5 44 (1.73%) Red Hat
6 42 (1.65%) IBM
7 32 (1.26%) SAP
8 30 (1.18%) VMware
9 29 (1.14%) AppDynamics
10 25 (0.98%) Adobe
10 25 (0.98%) Dynatrace
11 21 (0.83%) OpenAI
11 21 (0.83%) Palantir
12 18 (0.71%) ServiceNow
13 17 (0.67%) Databricks
14 14 (0.55%) Salesforce
15 13 (0.51%) Foundry
15 13 (0.51%) SendGrid
16 12 (0.47%) Bloomberg
17 11 (0.43%) Atlassian