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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 33 31
Rank change year-on-year -23 -2 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,708 2,679 3,688
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.60% 6.19% 5.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.32% 23.31% 18.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,696 1,130 2,279
10th Percentile £43,965 £41,250 £41,872
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% +3.23%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £135,125 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +6.67%

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 16,597 11,495 20,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.96% 26.54% 31.22%
Number of salaries quoted 12,116 7,536 12,420
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £84,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,875 £111,250
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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -15 1,112 £82,500 -21.43% 2,227
North of England -23 769 £69,310 +6.63% 430
North West -33 397 £73,750 +5.36% 251
South West +4 338 £65,600 +2.90% 197
South East -36 224 £67,500 +3.85% 257
Midlands -39 198 £69,308 +10.89% 162
North East +23 189 £55,000 +7.32% 82
Yorkshire +18 183 £73,750 +13.46% 98
West Midlands -22 170 £70,000 +12.00% 118
East of England -78 44 £65,000 +52.94% 82
East Midlands -76 28 £60,000 -0.41% 44
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 59 (2.18%) Confluence
2 54 (1.99%) Apache
3 36 (1.33%) Apache Spark
4 27 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (0.70%) Camunda
6 18 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 12 (0.44%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
8 8 (0.30%) Tomcat
8 8 (0.30%) WebLogic
9 7 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.22%) CICS
10 6 (0.22%) CMS
11 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.18%) JBoss
11 5 (0.18%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.15%) SAS
12 4 (0.15%) SharePoint
12 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.55%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.33%) Simulink
4 7 (0.26%) Moqups
5 5 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (0.11%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.074%) PTC Creo
8 2 (0.074%) Windchill
9 1 (0.037%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.037%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
2 5 (0.18%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.074%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.074%) Maximo
4 2 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.074%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 2 (0.074%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.037%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.037%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.037%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.037%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.037%) Quorum
5 1 (0.037%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.037%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.037%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,066 (39.36%) AWS
2 536 (19.79%) Azure
3 304 (11.23%) GCP
4 197 (7.27%) Serverless
5 180 (6.65%) GitHub
6 154 (5.69%) AWS CloudFormation
7 130 (4.80%) AWS Lambda
8 109 (4.03%) Amazon S3
9 103 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
10 102 (3.77%) Amazon ECS
10 102 (3.77%) SaaS
11 100 (3.69%) Amazon EKS
12 88 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
13 56 (2.07%) AWS Step Functions
14 50 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
15 42 (1.55%) Datadog
16 40 (1.48%) Anthropic Claude
17 39 (1.44%) OpenShift
18 38 (1.40%) Azure Service Bus
18 38 (1.40%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 35 (1.29%) HTTP
2 21 (0.78%) TCP/IP
3 17 (0.63%) Network Security
4 15 (0.55%) DMARC
5 13 (0.48%) VPN
6 12 (0.44%) BGP
7 9 (0.33%) DNS
7 9 (0.33%) MQTT
7 9 (0.33%) Wireshark
8 8 (0.30%) AMQP
8 8 (0.30%) IPv4
8 8 (0.30%) Software-Defined Networking
9 7 (0.26%) Firewall
10 6 (0.22%) IPsec
11 5 (0.18%) Broadband
11 5 (0.18%) Ethernet
11 5 (0.18%) Internet
12 4 (0.15%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.15%) RIP
13 3 (0.11%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (6.50%) PostgreSQL
2 167 (6.17%) NoSQL
3 131 (4.84%) MongoDB
4 129 (4.76%) Relational Database
5 74 (2.73%) MySQL
6 66 (2.44%) DynamoDB
7 61 (2.25%) SQL Server
8 51 (1.88%) Big Data
9 36 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
10 29 (1.07%) Redis
11 27 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
11 27 (1.00%) Power BI
12 24 (0.89%) Data Lake
12 24 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
12 24 (0.89%) Hadoop
13 21 (0.78%) BigQuery
13 21 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
13 21 (0.78%) Db2
14 17 (0.63%) Spark SQL
15 15 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 284 (10.49%) Git
2 206 (7.61%) Jenkins
3 203 (7.50%) GitLab
4 106 (3.91%) JUnit
5 89 (3.29%) Cucumber
6 88 (3.25%) JIRA
7 70 (2.58%) Maven
8 65 (2.40%) TeamCity
9 61 (2.25%) Selenium
10 53 (1.96%) Cypress.io
11 46 (1.70%) Eclipse
12 44 (1.62%) Mockito
12 44 (1.62%) Postman
13 41 (1.51%) Subversion
14 36 (1.33%) SonarQube
15 34 (1.26%) Bitbucket
16 33 (1.22%) JMeter
17 27 (1.00%) Claude Code
18 19 (0.70%) REST Assured
19 18 (0.66%) Gradle
General
1 675 (24.93%) Finance
2 473 (17.47%) Social Skills
3 287 (10.60%) Banking
4 255 (9.42%) Public Sector
5 183 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
6 142 (5.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 123 (4.54%) Law
8 100 (3.69%) Retail
9 78 (2.88%) Financial Institution
10 69 (2.55%) Front Office
11 42 (1.55%) Legal
12 39 (1.44%) Back Office
13 38 (1.40%) Manufacturing
14 35 (1.29%) Health Technology
14 35 (1.29%) Marketing
15 34 (1.26%) Investment Banking
16 28 (1.03%) Publishing
17 23 (0.85%) Tech for Good
18 21 (0.78%) Aerospace
18 21 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 797 (29.43%) Developer
2 720 (26.59%) Senior
3 626 (23.12%) Software Engineer
4 590 (21.79%) Java Engineer
5 510 (18.83%) Java Developer
6 368 (13.59%) Lead
7 222 (8.20%) Senior Developer
8 214 (7.90%) Senior Java Engineer
9 210 (7.75%) Senior Software Engineer
10 200 (7.39%) Java Software Engineer
11 174 (6.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 136 (5.02%) Senior Java Developer
13 130 (4.80%) Full-Stack Developer
14 116 (4.28%) Software Developer
15 104 (3.84%) Lead Software Engineer
16 101 (3.73%) Principal Engineer
17 86 (3.18%) DevOps Engineer
18 85 (3.14%) Architect
19 81 (2.99%) Full-Stack Java Developer
20 77 (2.84%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 630 (23.26%) Spring
2 526 (19.42%) Spring Boot
3 311 (11.48%) Terraform
4 286 (10.56%) Kafka
5 266 (9.82%) React
6 252 (9.31%) REST
7 212 (7.83%) AngularJS
8 201 (7.42%) Node.js
9 195 (7.20%) RESTful
10 170 (6.28%) .NET
11 69 (2.55%) Web Services
12 65 (2.40%) HTML
13 63 (2.33%) CSS
14 62 (2.29%) OAuth
15 58 (2.14%) Hibernate
16 52 (1.92%) Vue
17 50 (1.85%) RabbitMQ
18 42 (1.55%) Middleware
18 42 (1.55%) XML
19 41 (1.51%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 378 (13.96%) Cloud Native
2 271 (10.01%) Distributed Systems
3 163 (6.02%) Product Ownership
4 126 (4.65%) Public Cloud
5 77 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
6 76 (2.81%) Onboarding
7 60 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
8 50 (1.85%) e-Learning
9 46 (1.70%) Data Structures
10 43 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 42 (1.55%) Algorithms
11 42 (1.55%) Blog
12 40 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
13 36 (1.33%) Virtual Team
14 33 (1.22%) Mobile App
15 32 (1.18%) AI Agents
16 30 (1.11%) Equities
17 28 (1.03%) Fixed Income
18 27 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
18 27 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 221 (8.16%) Linux
2 69 (2.55%) Windows
3 40 (1.48%) Android
4 38 (1.40%) Unix
5 27 (1.00%) Apple iOS
6 21 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (0.48%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.30%) CentOS
9 7 (0.26%) Debian
9 7 (0.26%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.15%) VMS
11 3 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.11%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.074%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.037%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,025 (37.85%) Software Engineering
2 913 (33.71%) CI/CD
3 810 (29.91%) Agile
4 661 (24.41%) Microservices
5 596 (22.01%) DevOps
6 547 (20.20%) Full-Stack Development
7 509 (18.80%) Test Automation
8 471 (17.39%) Mentoring
9 454 (16.77%) Problem-Solving
10 426 (15.73%) AI
11 353 (13.04%) Containerisation
12 329 (12.15%) Infrastructure as Code
13 326 (12.04%) Continuous Improvement
14 305 (11.26%) Event-Driven
15 255 (9.42%) Technical Leadership
16 244 (9.01%) Computer Science
16 244 (9.01%) SDLC
17 232 (8.57%) Scrum
18 229 (8.46%) TDD
19 228 (8.42%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 825 (30.47%) Python
2 483 (17.84%) SQL
3 436 (16.10%) JavaScript
4 277 (10.23%) C++
5 266 (9.82%) TypeScript
6 262 (9.68%) C#
7 153 (5.65%) Go
8 115 (4.25%) Bash
9 109 (4.03%) Kotlin
10 79 (2.92%) Scala
11 75 (2.77%) C
12 60 (2.22%) Rust
13 48 (1.77%) PHP
14 46 (1.70%) Perl
15 40 (1.48%) Groovy
16 38 (1.40%) PowerShell
17 34 (1.26%) Ruby
18 30 (1.11%) PL/SQL
19 22 (0.81%) Shell Script
20 20 (0.74%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 491 (18.13%) Security Cleared
2 278 (10.27%) Degree
3 261 (9.64%) SC Cleared
4 171 (6.31%) DV Cleared
5 162 (5.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 106 (3.91%) AWS Certification
7 71 (2.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 31 (1.14%) Master's Degree
9 22 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (0.70%) ISTQB
11 18 (0.66%) OSCP
12 15 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (0.48%) DBS Check
14 12 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 12 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
14 12 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.44%) PhD
15 11 (0.41%) Azure Certification
15 11 (0.41%) CISSP
16 9 (0.33%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (6.17%) QA
2 84 (3.10%) Data Quality
3 78 (2.88%) Accessibility
4 26 (0.96%) GDPR
4 26 (0.96%) WCAG
5 21 (0.78%) NIST
6 16 (0.59%) ISO 20022
6 16 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (0.48%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.33%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.22%) GRC
9 6 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 3 (0.11%) MiFID
11 3 (0.11%) MIL-STD-1553
11 3 (0.11%) PSD2
11 3 (0.11%) UCITS
12 2 (0.074%) Good Clinical Practice
12 2 (0.074%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 441 (16.29%) Docker
2 31 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (0.66%) VMware NSX
4 17 (0.63%) Active Directory
5 15 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (0.52%) Firmware
7 13 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
8 10 (0.37%) vSphere
9 8 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
10 7 (0.26%) Squid
11 6 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.18%) KVM
13 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
14 1 (0.037%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 536 (19.79%) Kubernetes
2 139 (5.13%) Ansible
3 102 (3.77%) Grafana
4 39 (1.44%) Argo
5 37 (1.37%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.29%) Puppet
7 23 (0.85%) Kibana
8 14 (0.52%) HP Fortify
8 14 (0.52%) Rancher
9 11 (0.41%) Packer
9 11 (0.41%) vCenter Server
10 10 (0.37%) logstash
11 8 (0.30%) yum
12 7 (0.26%) EnCase
12 7 (0.26%) FTK
12 7 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (0.26%) ZABBIX
13 6 (0.22%) Hadoop YARN
13 6 (0.22%) Kubeflow
14 5 (0.18%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 117 (4.32%) Microsoft
2 116 (4.28%) Oracle
3 96 (3.55%) Google
4 66 (2.44%) Splunk
5 46 (1.70%) Red Hat
6 34 (1.26%) VMware
7 32 (1.18%) IBM
8 31 (1.14%) SAP
9 28 (1.03%) Adobe
10 25 (0.92%) Dynatrace
11 22 (0.81%) OpenAI
12 21 (0.78%) AppDynamics
13 18 (0.66%) Databricks
14 17 (0.63%) Palantir
15 16 (0.59%) ServiceNow
16 15 (0.55%) SendGrid
17 14 (0.52%) Salesforce
18 13 (0.48%) OutSystems
19 12 (0.44%) Foundry
19 12 (0.44%) Solace