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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 26 36
Rank change year-on-year -29 +10 -16
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,282 3,022 4,720
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.75% 7.64% 4.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.06% 23.88% 16.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,488 1,425 3,499
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,500 £38,950
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £137,500 £142,500
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 15,152 12,655 28,964
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.25% 31.99% 30.59%
Number of salaries quoted 10,916 8,485 23,112
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £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 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 16 June 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 June 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 -12 1,039 £85,000 -19.05% 513
North of England -27 641 £69,305 +2.67% 176
North West -35 278 £70,000 -6.67% 90
Yorkshire +23 237 £72,500 +3.57% 48
South East -35 217 £70,000 +7.69% 106
South West -30 193 £60,000 - 94
North East +2 126 £52,500 +10.53% 40
Midlands -84 111 £60,000 +9.09% 68
West Midlands -56 91 £60,000 - 34
East of England -57 56 £53,180 +20.86% 46
East Midlands -79 19 £60,000 +26.32% 34
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 45 (1.97%) Apache
2 41 (1.80%) Confluence
3 35 (1.53%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
6 14 (0.61%) JBoss
7 9 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.35%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.26%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.22%) CMS
11 5 (0.22%) GeoServer
11 5 (0.22%) WebSphere
12 4 (0.18%) Camunda
13 3 (0.13%) CICS
13 3 (0.13%) SAS
13 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
14 2 (0.088%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.088%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (0.31%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.088%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.088%) PTC Creo
4 2 (0.088%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (0.48%) Maximo
1 11 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.18%) Temenos T24
3 3 (0.13%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.088%) 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%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 928 (40.67%) AWS
2 427 (18.71%) Azure
3 273 (11.96%) GCP
4 180 (7.89%) Serverless
5 138 (6.05%) AWS CloudFormation
6 120 (5.26%) Amazon S3
7 117 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
8 116 (5.08%) SaaS
9 110 (4.82%) Amazon ECS
10 107 (4.69%) GitHub
11 98 (4.29%) Amazon EKS
12 75 (3.29%) AWS Step Functions
13 65 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
14 46 (2.02%) Amazon ECR
15 45 (1.97%) Apigee
16 44 (1.93%) GitHub Actions
17 43 (1.88%) Amazon SQS
18 39 (1.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 37 (1.62%) dbt
20 36 (1.58%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.19%) Broadband
2 32 (1.40%) HTTP
3 25 (1.10%) TCP/IP
4 10 (0.44%) DMARC
5 8 (0.35%) IPv4
5 8 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
6 7 (0.31%) AMQP
7 6 (0.26%) MQTT
8 4 (0.18%) Internet
9 3 (0.13%) BGP
9 3 (0.13%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.13%) Network Security
9 3 (0.13%) VLAN
9 3 (0.13%) VPN
10 2 (0.088%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.088%) Firewall
10 2 (0.088%) LAN
10 2 (0.088%) SAN
10 2 (0.088%) WAN
11 1 (0.044%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (8.11%) NoSQL
2 160 (7.01%) PostgreSQL
3 106 (4.65%) MongoDB
4 103 (4.51%) Relational Database
5 89 (3.90%) DynamoDB
6 74 (3.24%) MySQL
7 66 (2.89%) SQL Server
8 42 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
9 37 (1.62%) RDBMS
10 28 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
11 24 (1.05%) Big Data
11 24 (1.05%) Db2
12 23 (1.01%) BigQuery
13 22 (0.96%) Redis
14 17 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
15 16 (0.70%) Hadoop
16 15 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
16 15 (0.66%) Metadata
17 12 (0.53%) Power BI
18 11 (0.48%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 198 (8.68%) Git
2 174 (7.62%) Jenkins
3 158 (6.92%) GitLab
4 92 (4.03%) JIRA
5 79 (3.46%) Maven
6 76 (3.33%) Selenium
7 74 (3.24%) Cucumber
8 67 (2.94%) JUnit
9 65 (2.85%) Cypress.io
10 56 (2.45%) TeamCity
11 55 (2.41%) SonarQube
12 41 (1.80%) Postman
13 35 (1.53%) JMeter
14 31 (1.36%) Mockito
15 28 (1.23%) Gradle
16 27 (1.18%) Bitbucket
17 25 (1.10%) Claude Code
18 24 (1.05%) REST Assured
19 20 (0.88%) Subversion
20 18 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 569 (24.93%) Finance
2 356 (15.60%) Social Skills
3 220 (9.64%) Banking
4 205 (8.98%) Public Sector
5 160 (7.01%) Analytical Skills
6 151 (6.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 103 (4.51%) Front Office
7 103 (4.51%) Law
8 93 (4.08%) Retail
9 70 (3.07%) Financial Institution
10 48 (2.10%) Back Office
11 40 (1.75%) Investment Banking
12 31 (1.36%) Games
13 28 (1.23%) Health Technology
14 22 (0.96%) Telecoms
15 21 (0.92%) Aerospace
16 19 (0.83%) Tech for Good
17 18 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
18 17 (0.74%) Advertising
19 16 (0.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 858 (37.60%) Developer
2 578 (25.33%) Java Developer
3 561 (24.58%) Senior
4 531 (23.27%) Software Engineer
5 398 (17.44%) Java Engineer
6 334 (14.64%) Lead
7 211 (9.25%) Senior Developer
8 179 (7.84%) Java Software Engineer
9 177 (7.76%) Senior Software Engineer
10 154 (6.75%) Senior Java Developer
11 151 (6.62%) Full-Stack Developer
12 135 (5.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 122 (5.35%) Senior Java Engineer
14 115 (5.04%) Software Developer
15 111 (4.86%) Lead Software Engineer
16 97 (4.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 78 (3.42%) Architect
18 68 (2.98%) Lead Developer
18 68 (2.98%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 55 (2.41%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 506 (22.17%) Spring
2 429 (18.80%) Spring Boot
3 291 (12.75%) React
4 232 (10.17%) AngularJS
5 225 (9.86%) REST
6 206 (9.03%) Node.js
7 199 (8.72%) Kafka
8 147 (6.44%) .NET
9 145 (6.35%) RESTful
10 85 (3.72%) Web Services
11 84 (3.68%) HTML
12 78 (3.42%) CSS
13 69 (3.02%) Vue
14 65 (2.85%) SOAP
15 63 (2.76%) GraphQL
16 56 (2.45%) Elastic Stack
17 55 (2.41%) JSON
18 45 (1.97%) OAuth
18 45 (1.97%) Playwright
19 44 (1.93%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 260 (11.39%) Cloud Native
2 170 (7.45%) Distributed Systems
3 142 (6.22%) Product Ownership
4 94 (4.12%) Public Cloud
5 55 (2.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 49 (2.15%) Fixed Income
7 42 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
8 40 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
9 38 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
9 38 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
10 37 (1.62%) Data Structures
11 34 (1.49%) e-Learning
12 33 (1.45%) Mobile App
13 32 (1.40%) Equities
14 31 (1.36%) Blog
15 30 (1.31%) Virtual Team
16 27 (1.18%) Onboarding
17 20 (0.88%) Social Media
18 19 (0.83%) Algorithms
18 19 (0.83%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 200 (8.76%) Linux
2 51 (2.23%) Unix
3 48 (2.10%) Android
3 48 (2.10%) Windows
4 14 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.53%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.22%) CentOS
7 5 (0.22%) Debian
7 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.18%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 799 (35.01%) Agile
2 781 (34.22%) Software Engineering
3 689 (30.19%) CI/CD
4 531 (23.27%) DevOps
5 489 (21.43%) Microservices
6 473 (20.73%) Full-Stack Development
7 442 (19.37%) Test Automation
8 408 (17.88%) Mentoring
9 343 (15.03%) Problem-Solving
10 265 (11.61%) Containerisation
11 259 (11.35%) AI
12 235 (10.30%) Continuous Improvement
13 232 (10.17%) TDD
14 217 (9.51%) Technical Leadership
15 216 (9.47%) Infrastructure as Code
16 212 (9.29%) Roadmaps
16 212 (9.29%) Scrum
17 194 (8.50%) Computer Science
18 178 (7.80%) SDLC
19 159 (6.97%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 669 (29.32%) Python
2 439 (19.24%) SQL
3 413 (18.10%) JavaScript
4 261 (11.44%) TypeScript
5 236 (10.34%) C#
6 193 (8.46%) C++
7 157 (6.88%) Go
8 112 (4.91%) Bash
9 107 (4.69%) Kotlin
10 63 (2.76%) Groovy
11 58 (2.54%) C
12 53 (2.32%) Scala
13 48 (2.10%) Rust
14 40 (1.75%) PHP
15 32 (1.40%) PL/SQL
16 29 (1.27%) PowerShell
17 17 (0.74%) Perl
18 16 (0.70%) Apex Code
18 16 (0.70%) R
19 14 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 358 (15.69%) Security Cleared
2 247 (10.82%) Degree
3 229 (10.04%) SC Cleared
4 132 (5.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 127 (5.57%) DV Cleared
6 93 (4.08%) AWS Certification
7 34 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 26 (1.14%) Master's Degree
9 25 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
10 24 (1.05%) ISTQB
11 23 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 21 (0.92%) OSCP
13 18 (0.79%) DBS Check
14 17 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
15 13 (0.57%) CREST Certified
16 12 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
16 12 (0.53%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 12 (0.53%) PhD
17 11 (0.48%) Azure Certification
18 10 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (6.53%) QA
2 63 (2.76%) Accessibility
3 39 (1.71%) Data Quality
4 17 (0.74%) WCAG
5 16 (0.70%) GDPR
6 14 (0.61%) GRC
7 13 (0.57%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.48%) SOC 2
9 7 (0.31%) ISO 20022
10 6 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 14443
12 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 4 (0.18%) NIST
13 2 (0.088%) Good Clinical Practice
13 2 (0.088%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.088%) Software Quality Assurance
14 1 (0.044%) MiFID
System Software
1 357 (15.64%) Docker
2 16 (0.70%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.48%) vSphere
5 8 (0.35%) Squid
5 8 (0.35%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.22%) Firmware
7 4 (0.18%) KVM
8 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.088%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.088%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.088%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.044%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.044%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.044%) OpenDJ
10 1 (0.044%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 417 (18.27%) Kubernetes
2 260 (11.39%) Terraform
3 103 (4.51%) Grafana
4 98 (4.29%) Ansible
5 50 (2.19%) Prometheus
6 44 (1.93%) Argo
7 34 (1.49%) HP Fortify
8 28 (1.23%) Kibana
9 18 (0.79%) Kustomize
10 14 (0.61%) Packer
11 12 (0.53%) Puppet
12 9 (0.39%) logstash
12 9 (0.39%) Rancher
13 8 (0.35%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (0.22%) FTK
15 5 (0.22%) yum
16 3 (0.13%) AWS Copilot
16 3 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
16 3 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 86 (3.77%) Oracle
2 81 (3.55%) Microsoft
3 73 (3.20%) Google
4 47 (2.06%) Splunk
5 30 (1.31%) IBM
6 25 (1.10%) Salesforce
7 23 (1.01%) Palantir
8 21 (0.92%) Dynatrace
8 21 (0.92%) Red Hat
9 19 (0.83%) AppDynamics
9 19 (0.83%) Foundry
9 19 (0.83%) VMware
10 17 (0.74%) ServiceNow
11 15 (0.66%) MuleSoft
11 15 (0.66%) SAP
12 13 (0.57%) Adobe
13 12 (0.53%) Solace
14 11 (0.48%) Atlassian
15 10 (0.44%) Databricks
15 10 (0.44%) SendGrid