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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 28 35
Rank change year-on-year -28 +7 -14
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,360 3,069 4,258
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.66% 7.08% 5.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.64% 23.50% 17.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,551 1,460 3,056
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,425 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% -3.13% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -3.23%

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 16,117 13,060 24,771
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.15% 30.15% 30.31%
Number of salaries quoted 11,817 8,814 19,154
10th Percentile £37,650 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,700 £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 £101,250
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 22 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 22 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 -13 1,049 £85,000 -19.05% 585
North of England -25 663 £67,500 - 144
North West -35 299 £70,000 - 75
South West -26 230 £60,000 - 70
Yorkshire +33 224 £71,250 +3.64% 34
South East -54 211 £70,000 +7.69% 108
North East +2 140 £53,750 +19.44% 36
Midlands -84 125 £67,500 +12.50% 63
West Midlands -50 101 £69,305 +15.51% 47
East of England -57 52 £51,359 +16.73% 26
East Midlands -80 23 £60,000 +26.32% 16
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 56 (2.37%) Confluence
2 44 (1.86%) Apache
3 37 (1.57%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
6 14 (0.59%) Camunda
7 12 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 10 (0.42%) JBoss
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 3 (0.13%) CICS
11 3 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.13%) SAS
11 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.085%) Documentum
12 2 (0.085%) Moodle
Applications
1 19 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.68%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.38%) 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%) Moqups
6 1 (0.042%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 16 (0.68%) 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%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.042%) Bloomberg TOMS
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
1 974 (41.27%) AWS
2 470 (19.92%) Azure
3 291 (12.33%) GCP
4 201 (8.52%) Serverless
5 152 (6.44%) AWS CloudFormation
6 123 (5.21%) AWS Lambda
7 116 (4.92%) Amazon ECS
8 115 (4.87%) GitHub
9 114 (4.83%) Amazon S3
10 108 (4.58%) SaaS
11 105 (4.45%) Amazon EKS
12 70 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
13 65 (2.75%) AWS Step Functions
14 58 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
15 41 (1.74%) Amazon ECR
16 38 (1.61%) OpenShift
17 37 (1.57%) Apigee
18 36 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
18 36 (1.53%) Amazon SQS
19 35 (1.48%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 34 (1.44%) HTTP
2 32 (1.36%) Broadband
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 6 (0.25%) DNS
8 6 (0.25%) IPsec
9 5 (0.21%) AMQP
9 5 (0.21%) Internet
9 5 (0.21%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.13%) Firewall
10 3 (0.13%) VLAN
11 2 (0.085%) Ethernet
11 2 (0.085%) LAN
11 2 (0.085%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
2 172 (7.29%) NoSQL
3 120 (5.08%) MongoDB
4 101 (4.28%) Relational Database
5 82 (3.47%) DynamoDB
6 80 (3.39%) MySQL
7 72 (3.05%) SQL Server
8 37 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
9 32 (1.36%) Big Data
10 27 (1.14%) Db2
11 25 (1.06%) BigQuery
11 25 (1.06%) Redis
12 24 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
13 20 (0.85%) Hadoop
14 19 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
15 18 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
15 18 (0.76%) RDBMS
16 14 (0.59%) Metadata
17 13 (0.55%) Geospatial Data
17 13 (0.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 228 (9.66%) Git
2 179 (7.58%) Jenkins
3 172 (7.29%) GitLab
4 89 (3.77%) JIRA
5 84 (3.56%) Cucumber
6 71 (3.01%) JUnit
7 70 (2.97%) Maven
8 66 (2.80%) Selenium
9 58 (2.46%) Cypress.io
10 54 (2.29%) TeamCity
11 49 (2.08%) SonarQube
12 38 (1.61%) JMeter
13 34 (1.44%) Postman
14 31 (1.31%) Mockito
15 30 (1.27%) Bitbucket
15 30 (1.27%) Subversion
16 29 (1.23%) Eclipse
17 22 (0.93%) Claude Code
17 22 (0.93%) Gradle
18 21 (0.89%) REST Assured
General
1 620 (26.27%) Finance
2 355 (15.04%) Social Skills
3 227 (9.62%) Public Sector
4 224 (9.49%) Banking
5 173 (7.33%) Analytical Skills
6 130 (5.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 109 (4.62%) Front Office
8 97 (4.11%) Law
9 94 (3.98%) Retail
10 69 (2.92%) Financial Institution
11 45 (1.91%) Back Office
12 39 (1.65%) Investment Banking
13 33 (1.40%) Health Technology
14 24 (1.02%) Manufacturing
15 23 (0.97%) Games
16 21 (0.89%) Marketing
17 20 (0.85%) Legal
18 19 (0.81%) Aerospace
19 18 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
20 17 (0.72%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 852 (36.10%) Developer
2 582 (24.66%) Senior
3 560 (23.73%) Java Developer
4 538 (22.80%) Software Engineer
5 415 (17.58%) Java Engineer
6 334 (14.15%) Lead
7 203 (8.60%) Senior Developer
8 175 (7.42%) Senior Software Engineer
9 172 (7.29%) Java Software Engineer
10 146 (6.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 139 (5.89%) Full-Stack Developer
12 137 (5.81%) Senior Java Developer
13 126 (5.34%) Senior Java Engineer
14 124 (5.25%) Software Developer
15 117 (4.96%) Lead Software Engineer
16 88 (3.73%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 75 (3.18%) Architect
17 75 (3.18%) Consultant
18 71 (3.01%) Principal Engineer
19 70 (2.97%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 538 (22.80%) Spring
2 460 (19.49%) Spring Boot
3 274 (11.61%) React
4 247 (10.47%) Kafka
5 225 (9.53%) AngularJS
5 225 (9.53%) Node.js
6 223 (9.45%) REST
7 172 (7.29%) RESTful
8 154 (6.53%) .NET
9 85 (3.60%) Web Services
10 77 (3.26%) CSS
11 71 (3.01%) HTML
12 69 (2.92%) GraphQL
13 65 (2.75%) Vue
14 51 (2.16%) OAuth
15 49 (2.08%) Playwright
16 48 (2.03%) Hibernate
17 47 (1.99%) SOAP
18 46 (1.95%) JSON
19 41 (1.74%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 296 (12.54%) Cloud Native
2 199 (8.43%) Distributed Systems
3 148 (6.27%) Product Ownership
4 107 (4.53%) Public Cloud
5 57 (2.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 56 (2.37%) Onboarding
7 54 (2.29%) Fixed Income
8 51 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
9 46 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
10 41 (1.74%) Data Structures
11 39 (1.65%) Distributed Architecture
12 35 (1.48%) e-Learning
13 34 (1.44%) Equities
13 34 (1.44%) Mobile App
14 33 (1.40%) Virtual Team
15 32 (1.36%) Blog
16 29 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
17 25 (1.06%) Algorithms
18 20 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
18 20 (0.85%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 211 (8.94%) Linux
2 58 (2.46%) Windows
3 41 (1.74%) Android
4 39 (1.65%) Unix
5 15 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (0.59%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.47%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.17%) CentOS
8 4 (0.17%) Debian
8 4 (0.17%) Kali Linux
8 4 (0.17%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.085%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.042%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 816 (34.58%) Software Engineering
2 796 (33.73%) Agile
3 761 (32.25%) CI/CD
4 548 (23.22%) DevOps
5 547 (23.18%) Microservices
6 485 (20.55%) Test Automation
7 456 (19.32%) Full-Stack Development
8 406 (17.20%) Mentoring
9 378 (16.02%) Problem-Solving
10 314 (13.31%) AI
11 279 (11.82%) Containerisation
12 257 (10.89%) Infrastructure as Code
13 255 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
14 247 (10.47%) TDD
15 223 (9.45%) Technical Leadership
16 216 (9.15%) Roadmaps
17 214 (9.07%) Computer Science
18 203 (8.60%) Scrum
19 189 (8.01%) SDLC
20 175 (7.42%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 756 (32.03%) Python
2 451 (19.11%) SQL
3 411 (17.42%) JavaScript
4 250 (10.59%) TypeScript
5 241 (10.21%) C#
6 221 (9.36%) C++
7 139 (5.89%) Go
8 111 (4.70%) Bash
9 99 (4.19%) Kotlin
10 64 (2.71%) Scala
11 63 (2.67%) C
12 58 (2.46%) Groovy
13 57 (2.42%) PHP
14 54 (2.29%) Rust
15 40 (1.69%) Perl
16 35 (1.48%) PowerShell
17 31 (1.31%) Ruby
18 28 (1.19%) PL/SQL
19 19 (0.81%) Shell Script
20 14 (0.59%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 394 (16.69%) Security Cleared
2 259 (10.97%) Degree
3 233 (9.87%) SC Cleared
4 146 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 137 (5.81%) DV Cleared
6 96 (4.07%) AWS Certification
7 56 (2.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (1.23%) Master's Degree
9 22 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
10 20 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 19 (0.81%) OSCP
12 17 (0.72%) ISTQB
13 15 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
14 13 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
15 12 (0.51%) DBS Check
16 11 (0.47%) CREST Certified
17 9 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
17 9 (0.38%) PhD
18 8 (0.34%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (6.44%) QA
2 67 (2.84%) Accessibility
3 48 (2.03%) Data Quality
4 23 (0.97%) WCAG
5 22 (0.93%) GDPR
6 14 (0.59%) GRC
6 14 (0.59%) PCI DSS
7 13 (0.55%) 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
12 3 (0.13%) PSD2
13 2 (0.085%) Good Clinical Practice
13 2 (0.085%) MiFID
13 2 (0.085%) Software Quality Assurance
14 1 (0.042%) GxP
System Software
1 358 (15.17%) Docker
2 20 (0.85%) 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%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.21%) KVM
8 4 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.085%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.085%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 427 (18.09%) Kubernetes
2 277 (11.74%) Terraform
3 106 (4.49%) Grafana
4 102 (4.32%) Ansible
5 37 (1.57%) Prometheus
6 29 (1.23%) HP Fortify
7 28 (1.19%) Argo
7 28 (1.19%) Kibana
8 14 (0.59%) Packer
8 14 (0.59%) Puppet
9 11 (0.47%) Rancher
10 10 (0.42%) logstash
11 8 (0.34%) ZABBIX
12 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (0.25%) Hadoop YARN
13 6 (0.25%) yum
14 4 (0.17%) Control-M
14 4 (0.17%) FTK
14 4 (0.17%) Red Hat Satellite
15 3 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 95 (4.03%) Oracle
2 91 (3.86%) Microsoft
3 64 (2.71%) Google
4 57 (2.42%) Splunk
5 44 (1.86%) IBM
6 31 (1.31%) SAP
7 25 (1.06%) VMware
8 24 (1.02%) Palantir
9 23 (0.97%) Red Hat
10 22 (0.93%) Dynatrace
10 22 (0.93%) Salesforce
11 21 (0.89%) AppDynamics
12 20 (0.85%) ServiceNow
13 19 (0.81%) Adobe
13 19 (0.81%) Foundry
14 16 (0.68%) OpenAI
15 14 (0.59%) MuleSoft
16 13 (0.55%) SendGrid
17 11 (0.47%) Solace
18 10 (0.42%) Veracode