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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 30 31
Rank change year-on-year -27 +1 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,675 2,733 3,785
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.59% 6.35% 5.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.94% 23.62% 18.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,688 1,176 2,353
10th Percentile £43,930 £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% +3.23%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +5.92%

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 16,777 11,571 20,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.22% 26.88% 31.05%
Number of salaries quoted 12,207 7,618 12,955
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,125 £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 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
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 28 September 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 28 September 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 1,106 £83,750 -20.24% 1,702
North of England -24 752 £69,308 +6.63% 404
North West -34 384 £70,000 - 228
South West +2 324 £65,000 +8.33% 206
South East -46 239 £67,500 +3.85% 173
Midlands -47 191 £69,655 +16.09% 149
Yorkshire +24 186 £75,000 +15.38% 102
North East +16 182 £55,000 +15.79% 74
West Midlands -28 164 £70,000 +16.67% 117
East of England -74 47 £63,750 +43.26% 54
East Midlands -83 27 £60,000 +3.90% 32
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 61 (2.28%) Confluence
2 58 (2.17%) Apache
3 38 (1.42%) Apache Spark
4 27 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.67%) Camunda
6 15 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 11 (0.41%) Jupyter
8 10 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
9 8 (0.30%) Tomcat
10 7 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.22%) CMS
11 6 (0.22%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.19%) CICS
12 5 (0.19%) JBoss
12 5 (0.19%) WebLogic
13 4 (0.15%) SAS
13 4 (0.15%) SharePoint
13 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.11%) Documentum
Applications
1 21 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.56%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.34%) Simulink
4 7 (0.26%) Moqups
5 5 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.15%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.11%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.075%) PTC Creo
8 2 (0.075%) Windchill
9 1 (0.037%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.037%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.19%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
3 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.075%) Maximo
4 2 (0.075%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.075%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 2 (0.075%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.037%) Aladdin
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%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.037%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.037%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,074 (40.15%) AWS
2 535 (20.00%) Azure
3 305 (11.40%) GCP
4 206 (7.70%) Serverless
5 168 (6.28%) GitHub
6 158 (5.91%) AWS CloudFormation
7 137 (5.12%) AWS Lambda
8 109 (4.07%) Amazon EKS
8 109 (4.07%) Amazon S3
9 108 (4.04%) SaaS
10 106 (3.96%) Amazon ECS
11 95 (3.55%) GitHub Actions
12 85 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
13 56 (2.09%) AWS Step Functions
14 51 (1.91%) Amazon EC2
15 42 (1.57%) Datadog
16 40 (1.50%) OpenShift
17 38 (1.42%) Azure Service Bus
18 37 (1.38%) Anthropic Claude
18 37 (1.38%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 41 (1.53%) HTTP
2 18 (0.67%) TCP/IP
3 16 (0.60%) Network Security
4 15 (0.56%) DMARC
5 11 (0.41%) VPN
6 10 (0.37%) BGP
7 9 (0.34%) DNS
7 9 (0.34%) IPv4
7 9 (0.34%) MQTT
7 9 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
7 9 (0.34%) Wireshark
8 8 (0.30%) AMQP
9 6 (0.22%) IPsec
10 5 (0.19%) Broadband
10 5 (0.19%) Ethernet
10 5 (0.19%) Firewall
10 5 (0.19%) Internet
11 4 (0.15%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.15%) RIP
12 3 (0.11%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (6.24%) PostgreSQL
2 161 (6.02%) NoSQL
3 129 (4.82%) Relational Database
4 128 (4.79%) MongoDB
5 72 (2.69%) MySQL
6 68 (2.54%) DynamoDB
7 62 (2.32%) SQL Server
8 48 (1.79%) Big Data
9 37 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
10 28 (1.05%) Redis
11 26 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
12 25 (0.93%) Hadoop
12 25 (0.93%) Power BI
13 23 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
13 23 (0.86%) Data Lake
14 22 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
15 21 (0.79%) BigQuery
15 21 (0.79%) Db2
16 17 (0.64%) Spark SQL
17 16 (0.60%) Flink
Development Applications
1 293 (10.95%) Git
2 212 (7.93%) Jenkins
3 202 (7.55%) GitLab
4 102 (3.81%) JUnit
5 96 (3.59%) Cucumber
5 96 (3.59%) JIRA
6 72 (2.69%) Maven
7 63 (2.36%) Selenium
8 59 (2.21%) TeamCity
9 54 (2.02%) Cypress.io
10 47 (1.76%) Eclipse
11 45 (1.68%) Postman
12 42 (1.57%) SonarQube
13 41 (1.53%) Mockito
14 40 (1.50%) Subversion
15 36 (1.35%) Bitbucket
16 33 (1.23%) JMeter
17 25 (0.93%) Claude Code
18 18 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 18 (0.67%) REST Assured
General
1 675 (25.23%) Finance
2 467 (17.46%) Social Skills
3 283 (10.58%) Banking
4 256 (9.57%) Public Sector
5 184 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
6 141 (5.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 120 (4.49%) Law
8 98 (3.66%) Retail
9 76 (2.84%) Financial Institution
10 69 (2.58%) Front Office
11 40 (1.50%) Back Office
11 40 (1.50%) Legal
12 39 (1.46%) Manufacturing
13 36 (1.35%) Marketing
14 35 (1.31%) Investment Banking
15 34 (1.27%) Health Technology
16 27 (1.01%) Publishing
17 23 (0.86%) Tech for Good
18 22 (0.82%) Aerospace
19 21 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 807 (30.17%) Developer
2 700 (26.17%) Senior
3 616 (23.03%) Software Engineer
4 563 (21.05%) Java Engineer
5 522 (19.51%) Java Developer
6 364 (13.61%) Lead
7 225 (8.41%) Senior Developer
8 204 (7.63%) Senior Software Engineer
9 198 (7.40%) Senior Java Engineer
10 193 (7.21%) Java Software Engineer
11 172 (6.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 141 (5.27%) Senior Java Developer
13 130 (4.86%) Full-Stack Developer
14 120 (4.49%) Software Developer
15 108 (4.04%) Lead Software Engineer
16 98 (3.66%) Principal Engineer
17 87 (3.25%) DevOps Engineer
18 83 (3.10%) Architect
19 81 (3.03%) Full-Stack Java Developer
20 76 (2.84%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 630 (23.55%) Spring
2 525 (19.63%) Spring Boot
3 320 (11.96%) Terraform
4 284 (10.62%) Kafka
5 283 (10.58%) React
6 266 (9.94%) REST
7 218 (8.15%) AngularJS
8 199 (7.44%) Node.js
9 196 (7.33%) RESTful
10 168 (6.28%) .NET
11 77 (2.88%) Web Services
12 67 (2.50%) HTML
13 63 (2.36%) CSS
14 61 (2.28%) OAuth
15 58 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
16 56 (2.09%) Hibernate
16 56 (2.09%) Vue
17 45 (1.68%) JSON
18 44 (1.64%) Jakarta EE
19 43 (1.61%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 360 (13.46%) Cloud Native
2 274 (10.24%) Distributed Systems
3 169 (6.32%) Product Ownership
4 127 (4.75%) Public Cloud
5 73 (2.73%) Onboarding
6 71 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
7 58 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
8 49 (1.83%) e-Learning
9 46 (1.72%) Data Structures
10 43 (1.61%) Algorithms
10 43 (1.61%) Distributed Architecture
11 41 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 38 (1.42%) Blog
12 38 (1.42%) Virtual Team
13 32 (1.20%) Mobile App
14 31 (1.16%) AI Agents
14 31 (1.16%) Equities
15 27 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
16 26 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
16 26 (0.97%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 223 (8.34%) Linux
2 68 (2.54%) Windows
3 41 (1.53%) Android
4 38 (1.42%) Unix
5 28 (1.05%) Apple iOS
6 21 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 14 (0.52%) 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 (0.075%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.037%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,002 (37.46%) Software Engineering
2 896 (33.50%) CI/CD
3 814 (30.43%) Agile
4 651 (24.34%) Microservices
5 601 (22.47%) DevOps
6 533 (19.93%) Full-Stack Development
7 502 (18.77%) Test Automation
8 470 (17.57%) Mentoring
9 455 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
10 416 (15.55%) AI
11 352 (13.16%) Containerisation
12 327 (12.22%) Infrastructure as Code
13 318 (11.89%) Continuous Improvement
14 301 (11.25%) Event-Driven
15 250 (9.35%) Technical Leadership
16 245 (9.16%) Computer Science
17 238 (8.90%) Roadmaps
18 237 (8.86%) SDLC
19 236 (8.82%) Scrum
20 231 (8.64%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 832 (31.10%) Python
2 484 (18.09%) SQL
3 441 (16.49%) JavaScript
4 277 (10.36%) C++
5 269 (10.06%) C#
6 262 (9.79%) TypeScript
7 143 (5.35%) Go
8 115 (4.30%) Bash
9 107 (4.00%) Kotlin
10 79 (2.95%) Scala
11 76 (2.84%) C
12 57 (2.13%) Rust
13 49 (1.83%) Perl
14 48 (1.79%) PHP
15 46 (1.72%) Groovy
16 37 (1.38%) PowerShell
17 34 (1.27%) Ruby
18 31 (1.16%) PL/SQL
19 23 (0.86%) Shell Script
20 18 (0.67%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 498 (18.62%) Security Cleared
2 284 (10.62%) Degree
3 267 (9.98%) SC Cleared
4 172 (6.43%) DV Cleared
5 164 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 101 (3.78%) AWS Certification
7 67 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 30 (1.12%) Master's Degree
9 23 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (0.75%) ISTQB
10 20 (0.75%) OSCP
11 16 (0.60%) DBS Check
12 14 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
13 13 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 12 (0.45%) PhD
15 10 (0.37%) CREST Certified
16 8 (0.30%) Azure Certification
16 8 (0.30%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (6.54%) QA
2 84 (3.14%) Data Quality
3 78 (2.92%) Accessibility
4 26 (0.97%) GDPR
4 26 (0.97%) WCAG
5 17 (0.64%) ISO 20022
5 17 (0.64%) NIST
6 14 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.37%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.30%) GRC
9 7 (0.26%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 3 (0.11%) MiFID
12 3 (0.11%) MIL-STD-1553
12 3 (0.11%) PSD2
12 3 (0.11%) UCITS
13 2 (0.075%) Good Clinical Practice
13 2 (0.075%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 442 (16.52%) Docker
2 28 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (0.67%) Active Directory
4 15 (0.56%) VMware NSX
5 13 (0.49%) Firmware
6 12 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
7 11 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.41%) vSphere
8 8 (0.30%) Squid
9 7 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
10 6 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.19%) KVM
12 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
13 1 (0.037%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 528 (19.74%) Kubernetes
2 144 (5.38%) Ansible
3 100 (3.74%) Grafana
4 36 (1.35%) Prometheus
5 35 (1.31%) Argo
6 31 (1.16%) Puppet
7 29 (1.08%) Kibana
8 16 (0.60%) Packer
9 15 (0.56%) HP Fortify
10 14 (0.52%) Rancher
11 12 (0.45%) logstash
12 8 (0.30%) yum
12 8 (0.30%) ZABBIX
13 7 (0.26%) vCenter Server
14 6 (0.22%) Hadoop YARN
14 6 (0.22%) Kubeflow
14 6 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
15 5 (0.19%) FTK
15 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (0.19%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 114 (4.26%) Oracle
2 113 (4.22%) Microsoft
3 92 (3.44%) Google
4 65 (2.43%) Splunk
5 45 (1.68%) Red Hat
6 41 (1.53%) IBM
7 32 (1.20%) SAP
8 31 (1.16%) VMware
9 30 (1.12%) AppDynamics
10 26 (0.97%) Adobe
11 25 (0.93%) Dynatrace
12 22 (0.82%) OpenAI
13 19 (0.71%) Palantir
14 18 (0.67%) Databricks
15 15 (0.56%) SendGrid
15 15 (0.56%) ServiceNow
16 14 (0.52%) Salesforce
17 13 (0.49%) Foundry
18 12 (0.45%) Bloomberg
18 12 (0.45%) Solace