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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 30 36
Rank change year-on-year -28 +6 -15
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,453 2,901 3,818
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.59% 6.62% 5.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.62% 23.05% 17.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,565 1,328 2,635
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 16,784 12,587 21,412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.74% 28.71% 29.67%
Number of salaries quoted 12,196 8,409 15,759
10th Percentile £38,469 £33,750 £36,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,733 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year +3.61% +2.49% -5.84%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 16 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 16 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 1,058 £85,000 -19.05% 1,319
North of England -28 687 £68,690 +2.47% 221
North West -34 307 £70,000 - 129
South West -13 270 £60,000 - 131
Yorkshire +40 217 £75,000 +13.21% 50
South East -60 211 £67,500 +3.85% 139
North East +3 163 £55,000 +18.92% 44
Midlands -70 151 £67,500 +12.50% 84
West Midlands -41 129 £67,500 +8.00% 58
East of England -71 56 £51,359 +16.73% 46
East Midlands -81 22 £60,000 +26.32% 26
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 (2.53%) Confluence
2 54 (2.20%) Apache
3 43 (1.75%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.14%) 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
8 9 (0.37%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
10 7 (0.29%) CICS
10 7 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 7 (0.29%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.20%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.20%) SharePoint
12 4 (0.16%) CMS
12 4 (0.16%) GeoServer
12 4 (0.16%) SAS
13 3 (0.12%) Documentum
13 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 (0.082%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.082%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.082%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.082%) Simulink
6 2 (0.082%) 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 (0.29%) 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 (0.082%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.082%) 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 1,010 (41.17%) AWS
2 521 (21.24%) Azure
3 295 (12.03%) GCP
4 196 (7.99%) Serverless
5 156 (6.36%) AWS CloudFormation
6 142 (5.79%) GitHub
7 127 (5.18%) AWS Lambda
8 113 (4.61%) Amazon ECS
9 112 (4.57%) Amazon S3
10 96 (3.91%) SaaS
11 83 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
12 82 (3.34%) Amazon EKS
13 75 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
14 63 (2.57%) AWS Step Functions
15 40 (1.63%) OpenShift
16 39 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 37 (1.51%) Amazon ECR
18 35 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
18 35 (1.43%) Azure Service Bus
18 35 (1.43%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.47%) HTTP
2 31 (1.26%) Broadband
3 17 (0.69%) Network Security
3 17 (0.69%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.53%) DMARC
5 9 (0.37%) MQTT
5 9 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
6 8 (0.33%) DNS
6 8 (0.33%) IPv4
6 8 (0.33%) VPN
7 6 (0.24%) AMQP
7 6 (0.24%) BGP
7 6 (0.24%) IPsec
7 6 (0.24%) Kerberos
8 5 (0.20%) Ethernet
8 5 (0.20%) Firewall
8 5 (0.20%) Internet
9 3 (0.12%) LAN
9 3 (0.12%) RIP
9 3 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
2 158 (6.44%) NoSQL
3 125 (5.10%) Relational Database
4 118 (4.81%) MongoDB
5 83 (3.38%) DynamoDB
6 80 (3.26%) MySQL
6 80 (3.26%) SQL Server
7 40 (1.63%) Big Data
8 39 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
9 29 (1.18%) Db2
10 27 (1.10%) Redis
11 25 (1.02%) Hadoop
12 23 (0.94%) BigQuery
13 21 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
13 21 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
14 16 (0.65%) Data Lake
14 16 (0.65%) Metadata
15 15 (0.61%) RDBMS
16 14 (0.57%) Power BI
17 13 (0.53%) Flink
Development Applications
1 270 (11.01%) Git
2 203 (8.28%) Jenkins
3 175 (7.13%) GitLab
4 96 (3.91%) JIRA
5 94 (3.83%) JUnit
6 88 (3.59%) Cucumber
7 74 (3.02%) Maven
7 74 (3.02%) Selenium
8 63 (2.57%) Cypress.io
9 49 (2.00%) SonarQube
10 42 (1.71%) Postman
11 40 (1.63%) Eclipse
11 40 (1.63%) Mockito
12 39 (1.59%) TeamCity
13 38 (1.55%) JMeter
14 35 (1.43%) Bitbucket
15 34 (1.39%) Subversion
16 25 (1.02%) Claude Code
17 21 (0.86%) REST Assured
18 19 (0.77%) Gradle
General
1 662 (26.99%) Finance
2 421 (17.16%) Social Skills
3 246 (10.03%) Public Sector
4 216 (8.81%) Banking
5 179 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
6 125 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 91 (3.71%) Front Office
8 90 (3.67%) Law
9 64 (2.61%) Retail
10 58 (2.36%) Financial Institution
11 40 (1.63%) Investment Banking
12 37 (1.51%) Marketing
13 32 (1.30%) Health Technology
13 32 (1.30%) Legal
14 29 (1.18%) Manufacturing
15 26 (1.06%) Back Office
16 22 (0.90%) Aerospace
16 22 (0.90%) Games
17 20 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
17 20 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 831 (33.88%) Developer
2 631 (25.72%) Senior
3 557 (22.71%) Software Engineer
4 544 (22.18%) Java Developer
5 417 (17.00%) Java Engineer
6 348 (14.19%) Lead
7 212 (8.64%) Senior Developer
8 199 (8.11%) Senior Software Engineer
9 147 (5.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 145 (5.91%) Java Software Engineer
11 135 (5.50%) Full-Stack Developer
12 134 (5.46%) Senior Java Developer
12 134 (5.46%) Senior Java Engineer
13 121 (4.93%) Software Developer
14 114 (4.65%) Lead Software Engineer
15 87 (3.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 80 (3.26%) Architect
16 80 (3.26%) Principal Engineer
17 74 (3.02%) DevOps Engineer
18 73 (2.98%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 576 (23.48%) Spring
2 477 (19.45%) Spring Boot
3 278 (11.33%) React
4 265 (10.80%) Kafka
5 239 (9.74%) REST
6 231 (9.42%) AngularJS
7 217 (8.85%) Node.js
8 192 (7.83%) RESTful
9 169 (6.89%) .NET
10 87 (3.55%) Web Services
11 80 (3.26%) CSS
12 71 (2.89%) HTML
13 63 (2.57%) Vue
14 56 (2.28%) OAuth
15 54 (2.20%) GraphQL
16 53 (2.16%) RabbitMQ
17 52 (2.12%) Hibernate
18 50 (2.04%) Playwright
19 45 (1.83%) Jakarta EE
19 45 (1.83%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 302 (12.31%) Cloud Native
2 243 (9.91%) Distributed Systems
3 162 (6.60%) Product Ownership
4 114 (4.65%) Public Cloud
5 76 (3.10%) Onboarding
6 60 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
7 59 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
8 53 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 44 (1.79%) Data Structures
9 44 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
10 41 (1.67%) Fixed Income
11 40 (1.63%) Virtual Team
12 38 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
13 37 (1.51%) e-Learning
14 35 (1.43%) Mobile App
15 34 (1.39%) Algorithms
16 33 (1.35%) Equities
17 29 (1.18%) AI Agents
18 22 (0.90%) Blog
19 21 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 226 (9.21%) Linux
2 71 (2.89%) Windows
3 40 (1.63%) Unix
4 39 (1.59%) Android
5 20 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 17 (0.69%) Windows Server
7 16 (0.65%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.24%) CentOS
9 5 (0.20%) Debian
9 5 (0.20%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.16%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.082%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.082%) VMS
13 1 (0.041%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 868 (35.39%) Software Engineering
2 809 (32.98%) Agile
3 805 (32.82%) CI/CD
4 585 (23.85%) Microservices
5 582 (23.73%) DevOps
6 485 (19.77%) Test Automation
7 457 (18.63%) Full-Stack Development
8 425 (17.33%) Mentoring
9 424 (17.28%) Problem-Solving
10 374 (15.25%) AI
11 317 (12.92%) Containerisation
12 298 (12.15%) Infrastructure as Code
13 291 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
14 247 (10.07%) Roadmaps
15 245 (9.99%) Technical Leadership
16 240 (9.78%) TDD
17 229 (9.34%) Computer Science
18 220 (8.97%) Event-Driven
19 219 (8.93%) Scrum
20 214 (8.72%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 816 (33.27%) Python
2 461 (18.79%) SQL
3 430 (17.53%) JavaScript
4 270 (11.01%) C#
5 255 (10.40%) TypeScript
6 246 (10.03%) C++
7 134 (5.46%) Go
8 115 (4.69%) Kotlin
9 114 (4.65%) Bash
10 76 (3.10%) Scala
11 75 (3.06%) C
12 62 (2.53%) PHP
13 58 (2.36%) Rust
14 56 (2.28%) Groovy
15 47 (1.92%) Perl
16 40 (1.63%) PowerShell
17 37 (1.51%) Ruby
18 33 (1.35%) PL/SQL
19 20 (0.82%) Shell Script
20 14 (0.57%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 454 (18.51%) Security Cleared
2 278 (11.33%) Degree
3 253 (10.31%) SC Cleared
4 160 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 158 (6.44%) DV Cleared
6 98 (4.00%) AWS Certification
7 58 (2.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 25 (1.02%) Master's Degree
9 20 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (0.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 19 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
11 18 (0.73%) ISTQB
12 17 (0.69%) OSCP
13 13 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.49%) DBS Check
15 9 (0.37%) CREST Certified
16 8 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
16 8 (0.33%) Azure Certification
16 8 (0.33%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (6.56%) QA
2 83 (3.38%) Accessibility
3 57 (2.32%) Data Quality
4 29 (1.18%) WCAG
5 21 (0.86%) 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 (0.29%) 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%) MIL-STD-1553
13 3 (0.12%) PSD2
13 3 (0.12%) UCITS
14 2 (0.082%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 407 (16.59%) Docker
2 26 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (0.90%) 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 (0.29%) 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 (0.082%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 451 (18.39%) Kubernetes
2 279 (11.37%) Terraform
3 123 (5.01%) Ansible
4 81 (3.30%) Grafana
5 32 (1.30%) Prometheus
6 27 (1.10%) Argo
6 27 (1.10%) Kibana
7 25 (1.02%) HP Fortify
8 22 (0.90%) 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
1 109 (4.44%) Oracle
2 104 (4.24%) Microsoft
3 79 (3.22%) Google
4 61 (2.49%) Splunk
5 45 (1.83%) IBM
6 35 (1.43%) Red Hat
6 35 (1.43%) SAP
7 30 (1.22%) VMware
8 26 (1.06%) AppDynamics
9 24 (0.98%) Adobe
9 24 (0.98%) Dynatrace
9 24 (0.98%) Palantir
10 21 (0.86%) ServiceNow
11 19 (0.77%) Foundry
11 19 (0.77%) OpenAI
11 19 (0.77%) Salesforce
12 16 (0.65%) Databricks
13 13 (0.53%) SendGrid
14 12 (0.49%) Bloomberg
14 12 (0.49%) MuleSoft