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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 26 35
Rank change year-on-year -40 +9 -15
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,257 2,826 4,527
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.71% 7.38% 5.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.09% 23.13% 16.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,454 1,376 3,429
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £39,351
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £73,805
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +5.01% -7.74%
75th Percentile £92,188 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £137,500 £138,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -9.68%

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 14,954 12,217 27,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.98% 31.90% 31.61%
Number of salaries quoted 10,658 8,297 22,538
10th Percentile £36,535 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,000 £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 £86,250 £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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -7 1,068 £85,000 -19.05% 391
North of England -39 602 £69,305 +2.67% 160
North West -51 256 £70,000 -9.68% 85
Yorkshire +15 236 £72,500 +0.71% 42
South East -48 220 £67,500 +3.85% 109
South West -38 179 £60,000 -2.04% 74
North East +4 110 £52,500 -5.83% 34
Midlands -95 108 £60,000 +9.09% 64
West Midlands -73 90 £58,750 -2.08% 35
East of England -65 52 £52,500 +16.67% 34
East Midlands -97 17 £60,000 +26.32% 29
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 43 (1.91%) Apache
2 39 (1.73%) Apache Spark
3 37 (1.64%) Confluence
4 29 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
6 13 (0.58%) JBoss
7 11 (0.49%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.35%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.22%) Camunda
10 5 (0.22%) CMS
10 5 (0.22%) GeoServer
10 5 (0.22%) IIS
11 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.13%) CICS
12 3 (0.13%) Liferay
12 3 (0.13%) SAS
12 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.44%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.13%) Windchill
6 2 (0.089%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.089%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.044%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 12 (0.53%) Maximo
2 8 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.13%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.089%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.089%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.044%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.044%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.044%) Endur
5 1 (0.044%) Findur
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.044%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.044%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 923 (40.89%) AWS
2 427 (18.92%) Azure
3 272 (12.05%) GCP
4 181 (8.02%) Serverless
5 136 (6.03%) AWS CloudFormation
6 122 (5.41%) SaaS
7 119 (5.27%) Amazon S3
8 114 (5.05%) AWS Lambda
9 111 (4.92%) Amazon ECS
10 106 (4.70%) Amazon EKS
11 97 (4.30%) GitHub
12 76 (3.37%) AWS Step Functions
13 62 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
14 50 (2.22%) Amazon ECR
14 50 (2.22%) Apigee
15 45 (1.99%) Amazon SQS
16 38 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
17 37 (1.64%) dbt
18 35 (1.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 34 (1.51%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.22%) Broadband
2 32 (1.42%) HTTP
3 27 (1.20%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.35%) AMQP
5 7 (0.31%) DMARC
5 7 (0.31%) IPv4
5 7 (0.31%) Software-Defined Networking
6 5 (0.22%) Internet
7 4 (0.18%) MQTT
8 3 (0.13%) BGP
8 3 (0.13%) Network Security
8 3 (0.13%) VLAN
8 3 (0.13%) VPN
9 2 (0.089%) Firewall
9 2 (0.089%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.089%) PuTTY
10 1 (0.044%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.044%) LTE
10 1 (0.044%) TCAP
10 1 (0.044%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (8.42%) NoSQL
2 163 (7.22%) PostgreSQL
3 107 (4.74%) Relational Database
4 100 (4.43%) MongoDB
5 95 (4.21%) DynamoDB
6 70 (3.10%) MySQL
7 68 (3.01%) SQL Server
8 42 (1.86%) RDBMS
9 39 (1.73%) Amazon Athena
10 31 (1.37%) Big Data
11 30 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
12 26 (1.15%) DB2
13 24 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
14 23 (1.02%) Hadoop
15 22 (0.97%) BigQuery
16 19 (0.84%) Redis
17 17 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
18 15 (0.66%) Neo4j
19 14 (0.62%) Power BI
19 14 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 189 (8.37%) Git
2 179 (7.93%) Jenkins
3 155 (6.87%) GitLab
4 92 (4.08%) JIRA
5 84 (3.72%) Maven
6 83 (3.68%) Selenium
7 74 (3.28%) Cucumber
8 68 (3.01%) Cypress.io
9 64 (2.84%) JUnit
10 60 (2.66%) TeamCity
11 59 (2.61%) SonarQube
12 45 (1.99%) Postman
13 33 (1.46%) JMeter
14 29 (1.28%) Mockito
15 28 (1.24%) Gradle
16 27 (1.20%) Bitbucket
17 25 (1.11%) Claude Code
17 25 (1.11%) REST Assured
17 25 (1.11%) SoapUI
18 24 (1.06%) WebDriver
General
1 566 (25.08%) Finance
2 364 (16.13%) Social Skills
3 237 (10.50%) Banking
4 198 (8.77%) Public Sector
5 165 (7.31%) Analytical Skills
6 154 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 112 (4.96%) Law
8 110 (4.87%) Front Office
9 96 (4.25%) Retail
10 70 (3.10%) Financial Institution
11 50 (2.22%) Back Office
12 46 (2.04%) Investment Banking
13 32 (1.42%) Games
14 27 (1.20%) Health Technology
15 24 (1.06%) Telecoms
16 23 (1.02%) Aerospace
17 20 (0.89%) Marketing
17 20 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
18 19 (0.84%) Advertising
18 19 (0.84%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 849 (37.62%) Developer
2 564 (24.99%) Java Developer
3 561 (24.86%) Senior
4 522 (23.13%) Software Engineer
5 375 (16.61%) Java Engineer
6 344 (15.24%) Lead
7 220 (9.75%) Senior Developer
8 178 (7.89%) Java Software Engineer
9 166 (7.35%) Senior Software Engineer
10 157 (6.96%) Senior Java Developer
11 149 (6.60%) Full-Stack Developer
12 127 (5.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 112 (4.96%) Lead Software Engineer
14 111 (4.92%) Senior Java Engineer
15 109 (4.83%) Software Developer
16 94 (4.16%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 78 (3.46%) Architect
18 66 (2.92%) Lead Developer
19 60 (2.66%) Senior Java Software Engineer
20 57 (2.53%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 493 (21.84%) Spring
2 432 (19.14%) Spring Boot
3 303 (13.42%) React
4 234 (10.37%) REST
5 228 (10.10%) AngularJS
6 205 (9.08%) Node.js
7 200 (8.86%) Kafka
8 159 (7.04%) .NET
9 141 (6.25%) RESTful
10 95 (4.21%) HTML
11 86 (3.81%) Web Services
12 77 (3.41%) CSS
13 76 (3.37%) SOAP
14 64 (2.84%) GraphQL
15 63 (2.79%) Elastic Stack
16 62 (2.75%) Vue
17 61 (2.70%) JSON
18 50 (2.22%) Gherkin
19 46 (2.04%) Playwright
20 45 (1.99%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 250 (11.08%) Cloud Native
2 179 (7.93%) Distributed Systems
3 142 (6.29%) Product Ownership
4 88 (3.90%) Public Cloud
5 51 (2.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 49 (2.17%) Fixed Income
7 44 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
8 41 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
9 39 (1.73%) Distributed Architecture
9 39 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
10 35 (1.55%) Blog
10 35 (1.55%) Data Structures
11 33 (1.46%) Equities
12 32 (1.42%) Mobile App
13 31 (1.37%) e-Learning
14 29 (1.28%) Virtual Team
15 25 (1.11%) Onboarding
16 20 (0.89%) Algorithms
16 20 (0.89%) FPGA
16 20 (0.89%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 193 (8.55%) Linux
2 50 (2.22%) Android
3 48 (2.13%) Unix
4 42 (1.86%) Windows
5 14 (0.62%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.44%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.22%) CentOS
8 5 (0.22%) Debian
8 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.18%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 801 (35.49%) Agile
2 762 (33.76%) Software Engineering
3 690 (30.57%) CI/CD
4 531 (23.53%) DevOps
5 487 (21.58%) Microservices
6 452 (20.03%) Full-Stack Development
7 422 (18.70%) Test Automation
8 407 (18.03%) Mentoring
9 334 (14.80%) Problem-Solving
10 252 (11.17%) Containerisation
11 250 (11.08%) AI
12 229 (10.15%) Scrum
12 229 (10.15%) TDD
13 219 (9.70%) Continuous Improvement
14 213 (9.44%) Technical Leadership
15 210 (9.30%) Roadmaps
16 209 (9.26%) Infrastructure as Code
17 193 (8.55%) Computer Science
18 176 (7.80%) SDLC
19 164 (7.27%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 664 (29.42%) Python
2 443 (19.63%) SQL
3 429 (19.01%) JavaScript
4 272 (12.05%) TypeScript
5 238 (10.54%) C#
6 176 (7.80%) C++
7 157 (6.96%) Go
8 112 (4.96%) Bash
9 109 (4.83%) Kotlin
10 64 (2.84%) Groovy
11 62 (2.75%) C
12 52 (2.30%) Scala
13 40 (1.77%) Rust
14 37 (1.64%) PHP
15 35 (1.55%) PL/SQL
16 25 (1.11%) PowerShell
17 17 (0.75%) Apex Code
17 17 (0.75%) R
18 14 (0.62%) Perl
19 13 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 352 (15.60%) Security Cleared
2 257 (11.39%) Degree
3 221 (9.79%) SC Cleared
4 134 (5.94%) DV Cleared
5 130 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 95 (4.21%) AWS Certification
7 36 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 32 (1.42%) Master's Degree
9 27 (1.20%) ISTQB
10 25 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 21 (0.93%) OSCP
13 19 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
14 18 (0.80%) DBS Check
14 18 (0.80%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 17 (0.75%) Azure Certification
16 14 (0.62%) CREST Certified
16 14 (0.62%) PhD
17 12 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
18 10 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (6.51%) QA
2 53 (2.35%) Accessibility
3 39 (1.73%) Data Quality
4 14 (0.62%) GRC
4 14 (0.62%) PCI DSS
5 13 (0.58%) WCAG
6 12 (0.53%) SOC 2
7 10 (0.44%) GDPR
8 9 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.27%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 3 (0.13%) NIST
12 2 (0.089%) Good Clinical Practice
12 2 (0.089%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.044%) MiFID
13 1 (0.044%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.044%) SLA
System Software
1 357 (15.82%) Docker
2 12 (0.53%) Active Directory
2 12 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (0.40%) vSphere
4 7 (0.31%) Squid
4 7 (0.31%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.22%) Firmware
6 4 (0.18%) KVM
7 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.089%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.044%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.044%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.044%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.044%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.044%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.044%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.044%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 419 (18.56%) Kubernetes
2 258 (11.43%) Terraform
3 99 (4.39%) Grafana
4 94 (4.16%) Ansible
5 48 (2.13%) Argo
6 46 (2.04%) Prometheus
7 39 (1.73%) HP Fortify
8 28 (1.24%) Kibana
9 18 (0.80%) Kustomize
10 13 (0.58%) Packer
11 12 (0.53%) Puppet
12 11 (0.49%) Rancher
13 9 (0.40%) logstash
14 7 (0.31%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
15 6 (0.27%) yum
16 5 (0.22%) FTK
17 3 (0.13%) AWS Copilot
17 3 (0.13%) Nagios
17 3 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 89 (3.94%) Oracle
2 82 (3.63%) Microsoft
3 70 (3.10%) Google
4 38 (1.68%) Splunk
5 32 (1.42%) IBM
6 26 (1.15%) Salesforce
7 19 (0.84%) Dynatrace
7 19 (0.84%) Foundry
7 19 (0.84%) MuleSoft
7 19 (0.84%) Palantir
8 18 (0.80%) Red Hat
9 17 (0.75%) AppDynamics
10 16 (0.71%) VMware
11 14 (0.62%) Databricks
12 12 (0.53%) Atlassian
12 12 (0.53%) SAP
12 12 (0.53%) ServiceNow
12 12 (0.53%) Solace
13 11 (0.49%) Adobe
14 9 (0.40%) Informatica