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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 30 36
Rank change year-on-year -27 +6 -15
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,459 2,934 3,827
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.61% 6.70% 5.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.75% 23.17% 17.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,574 1,346 2,647
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 £115,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £135,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +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 16,672 12,663 21,555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.71% 28.92% 29.68%
Number of salaries quoted 12,111 8,444 15,903
10th Percentile £38,500 £34,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.46% -6.15%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,875 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -14 1,070 £85,000 -19.05% 2,212
North of England -24 686 £68,076 +1.55% 330
North West -36 306 £70,000 - 189
South West -12 268 £60,000 - 166
Yorkshire +43 218 £75,000 +13.21% 77
South East -55 210 £67,500 +3.85% 194
North East +7 162 £53,750 +16.22% 66
Midlands -73 148 £67,500 +12.50% 125
West Midlands -40 127 £67,500 +11.57% 88
East of England -65 56 £51,359 +16.73% 83
East Midlands -84 21 £60,000 +26.32% 37
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 62 (2.52%) Confluence
2 53 (2.16%) Apache
3 42 (1.71%) Apache Spark
4 27 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.73%) Camunda
6 15 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
7 14 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.37%) JBoss
9 8 (0.33%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
10 7 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.24%) CICS
11 6 (0.24%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.20%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.16%) CMS
13 4 (0.16%) GeoServer
13 4 (0.16%) SAS
13 4 (0.16%) SharePoint
14 3 (0.12%) Documentum
14 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 19 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.65%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.16%) Moqups
6 2 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.081%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.081%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.081%) Simulink
6 2 (0.081%) Windchill
7 1 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.041%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.28%) Maximo
3 5 (0.20%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.20%) Temenos T24
4 4 (0.16%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.12%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.081%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.081%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 1 (0.041%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.041%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.041%) Endur
7 1 (0.041%) Findur
7 1 (0.041%) Infor SunSystems
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.041%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.041%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,023 (41.60%) AWS
2 519 (21.11%) Azure
3 300 (12.20%) GCP
4 196 (7.97%) Serverless
5 161 (6.55%) AWS CloudFormation
6 140 (5.69%) GitHub
7 127 (5.16%) AWS Lambda
8 116 (4.72%) Amazon ECS
9 111 (4.51%) Amazon S3
10 96 (3.90%) SaaS
11 85 (3.46%) Amazon EKS
12 82 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
13 73 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
14 63 (2.56%) AWS Step Functions
15 40 (1.63%) OpenShift
16 39 (1.59%) Amazon ECR
17 38 (1.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 35 (1.42%) Azure Service Bus
18 35 (1.42%) Datadog
19 34 (1.38%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.46%) HTTP
2 31 (1.26%) Broadband
3 20 (0.81%) TCP/IP
4 17 (0.69%) Network Security
5 13 (0.53%) DMARC
6 9 (0.37%) MQTT
6 9 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
7 8 (0.33%) DNS
7 8 (0.33%) IPv4
7 8 (0.33%) VPN
8 6 (0.24%) AMQP
8 6 (0.24%) BGP
8 6 (0.24%) IPsec
8 6 (0.24%) Kerberos
9 5 (0.20%) Firewall
9 5 (0.20%) Internet
10 4 (0.16%) Ethernet
11 3 (0.12%) LAN
11 3 (0.12%) RIP
11 3 (0.12%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (6.71%) PostgreSQL
2 163 (6.63%) NoSQL
3 123 (5.00%) Relational Database
4 120 (4.88%) MongoDB
5 82 (3.33%) DynamoDB
5 82 (3.33%) MySQL
6 79 (3.21%) SQL Server
7 38 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
7 38 (1.55%) Big Data
8 30 (1.22%) Redis
9 28 (1.14%) Db2
10 25 (1.02%) Hadoop
11 23 (0.94%) BigQuery
12 22 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
13 21 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
14 16 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
14 16 (0.65%) Metadata
14 16 (0.65%) RDBMS
15 14 (0.57%) Data Lake
16 13 (0.53%) Flink
Development Applications
1 267 (10.86%) Git
2 201 (8.17%) Jenkins
3 175 (7.12%) GitLab
4 96 (3.90%) JIRA
5 92 (3.74%) JUnit
6 89 (3.62%) Cucumber
7 75 (3.05%) Selenium
8 73 (2.97%) Maven
9 61 (2.48%) Cypress.io
10 49 (1.99%) SonarQube
11 43 (1.75%) Postman
12 41 (1.67%) TeamCity
13 40 (1.63%) Eclipse
14 39 (1.59%) JMeter
15 38 (1.55%) Mockito
16 35 (1.42%) Bitbucket
17 34 (1.38%) Subversion
18 25 (1.02%) Claude Code
19 22 (0.89%) REST Assured
20 19 (0.77%) Gradle
General
1 669 (27.21%) Finance
2 420 (17.08%) Social Skills
3 248 (10.09%) Public Sector
4 221 (8.99%) Banking
5 178 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
6 130 (5.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 99 (4.03%) Front Office
8 93 (3.78%) Law
9 68 (2.77%) Retail
10 59 (2.40%) Financial Institution
11 40 (1.63%) Investment Banking
12 36 (1.46%) Marketing
13 32 (1.30%) Health Technology
14 31 (1.26%) Legal
15 29 (1.18%) Manufacturing
16 27 (1.10%) Back Office
17 22 (0.89%) Games
18 20 (0.81%) Aerospace
18 20 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
19 19 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 840 (34.16%) Developer
2 632 (25.70%) Senior
3 561 (22.81%) Software Engineer
4 547 (22.24%) Java Developer
5 418 (17.00%) Java Engineer
6 351 (14.27%) Lead
7 212 (8.62%) Senior Developer
8 197 (8.01%) Senior Software Engineer
9 148 (6.02%) Java Software Engineer
10 146 (5.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 136 (5.53%) Full-Stack Developer
12 135 (5.49%) Senior Java Developer
13 132 (5.37%) Senior Java Engineer
14 120 (4.88%) Lead Software Engineer
14 120 (4.88%) Software Developer
15 87 (3.54%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 79 (3.21%) Architect
16 79 (3.21%) Principal Engineer
17 73 (2.97%) DevOps Engineer
18 72 (2.93%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 570 (23.18%) Spring
2 473 (19.24%) Spring Boot
3 282 (11.47%) React
4 273 (11.10%) Kafka
5 239 (9.72%) REST
6 233 (9.48%) AngularJS
7 223 (9.07%) Node.js
8 195 (7.93%) RESTful
9 172 (6.99%) .NET
10 87 (3.54%) Web Services
11 79 (3.21%) CSS
12 70 (2.85%) HTML
13 64 (2.60%) Vue
14 62 (2.52%) GraphQL
15 56 (2.28%) OAuth
16 53 (2.16%) RabbitMQ
17 51 (2.07%) Hibernate
18 50 (2.03%) Playwright
19 46 (1.87%) JSON
20 45 (1.83%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 309 (12.57%) Cloud Native
2 241 (9.80%) Distributed Systems
3 160 (6.51%) Product Ownership
4 114 (4.64%) Public Cloud
5 75 (3.05%) Onboarding
6 59 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
7 58 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
8 54 (2.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 49 (1.99%) Fixed Income
10 44 (1.79%) Data Structures
10 44 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
11 40 (1.63%) Virtual Team
12 38 (1.55%) e-Learning
13 37 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
14 35 (1.42%) Mobile App
15 34 (1.38%) Algorithms
16 33 (1.34%) Equities
17 27 (1.10%) AI Agents
18 22 (0.89%) Blog
19 21 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 229 (9.31%) Linux
2 71 (2.89%) Windows
3 42 (1.71%) Android
3 42 (1.71%) Unix
4 20 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (0.73%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.69%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.24%) CentOS
8 5 (0.20%) Debian
8 5 (0.20%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.16%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.081%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.081%) VMS
12 1 (0.041%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 872 (35.46%) Software Engineering
2 827 (33.63%) Agile
3 806 (32.78%) CI/CD
4 591 (24.03%) Microservices
5 582 (23.67%) DevOps
6 489 (19.89%) Test Automation
7 458 (18.63%) Full-Stack Development
8 428 (17.41%) Mentoring
9 417 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
10 370 (15.05%) AI
11 320 (13.01%) Containerisation
12 299 (12.16%) Infrastructure as Code
13 288 (11.71%) Continuous Improvement
14 246 (10.00%) TDD
15 244 (9.92%) Roadmaps
16 243 (9.88%) Technical Leadership
17 229 (9.31%) Computer Science
18 221 (8.99%) Scrum
19 219 (8.91%) Event-Driven
20 214 (8.70%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 818 (33.27%) Python
2 463 (18.83%) SQL
3 436 (17.73%) JavaScript
4 269 (10.94%) C#
5 259 (10.53%) TypeScript
6 244 (9.92%) C++
7 143 (5.82%) Go
8 114 (4.64%) Kotlin
9 113 (4.60%) Bash
10 76 (3.09%) Scala
11 74 (3.01%) C
12 62 (2.52%) PHP
13 56 (2.28%) Groovy
13 56 (2.28%) Rust
14 46 (1.87%) Perl
15 40 (1.63%) PowerShell
16 38 (1.55%) Ruby
17 33 (1.34%) PL/SQL
18 20 (0.81%) Shell Script
19 13 (0.53%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 451 (18.34%) Security Cleared
2 280 (11.39%) Degree
3 253 (10.29%) SC Cleared
4 160 (6.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 157 (6.38%) DV Cleared
6 99 (4.03%) AWS Certification
7 59 (2.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 25 (1.02%) Master's Degree
9 20 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (0.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 19 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
11 18 (0.73%) ISTQB
11 18 (0.73%) OSCP
12 13 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (0.49%) DBS Check
14 10 (0.41%) CREST Certified
15 8 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
15 8 (0.33%) Azure Certification
15 8 (0.33%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (6.55%) QA
2 81 (3.29%) Accessibility
3 56 (2.28%) Data Quality
4 28 (1.14%) WCAG
5 21 (0.85%) GDPR
6 15 (0.61%) NIST
7 14 (0.57%) GRC
8 13 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.37%) ISO 20022
10 7 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.24%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 14443
12 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 4 (0.16%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.12%) MiFID
13 3 (0.12%) PSD2
13 3 (0.12%) UCITS
14 2 (0.081%) Good Clinical Practice
14 2 (0.081%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 404 (16.43%) Docker
2 26 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (0.89%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.49%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.45%) vSphere
6 8 (0.33%) Squid
6 8 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.28%) Firmware
8 6 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.20%) KVM
10 4 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
11 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.081%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 451 (18.34%) Kubernetes
2 279 (11.35%) Terraform
3 119 (4.84%) Ansible
4 83 (3.38%) Grafana
5 32 (1.30%) Prometheus
6 27 (1.10%) Argo
6 27 (1.10%) Kibana
7 25 (1.02%) HP Fortify
8 22 (0.89%) Puppet
9 12 (0.49%) Packer
10 10 (0.41%) logstash
10 10 (0.41%) Rancher
11 8 (0.33%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.24%) Hadoop YARN
12 6 (0.24%) Kubeflow
12 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.20%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (0.20%) yum
14 4 (0.16%) Control-M
14 4 (0.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 108 (4.39%) Oracle
2 104 (4.23%) Microsoft
3 81 (3.29%) Google
4 61 (2.48%) Splunk
5 44 (1.79%) IBM
6 35 (1.42%) Red Hat
7 34 (1.38%) SAP
8 30 (1.22%) VMware
9 26 (1.06%) AppDynamics
10 24 (0.98%) Adobe
10 24 (0.98%) Dynatrace
10 24 (0.98%) Palantir
11 21 (0.85%) Salesforce
11 21 (0.85%) ServiceNow
12 19 (0.77%) Foundry
12 19 (0.77%) OpenAI
13 15 (0.61%) Databricks
14 13 (0.53%) MuleSoft
14 13 (0.53%) SendGrid
15 12 (0.49%) Bloomberg