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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 45 29
Rank change year-on-year -24 -16 -12
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,854 2,209 4,286
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.94% 5.39% 6.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.95% 15.58% 17.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,225 1,425 3,389
10th Percentile £43,950 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% +6.21% -6.45%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £137,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -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 11,626 14,182 24,571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.47% 34.62% 35.32%
Number of salaries quoted 8,526 9,075 21,038
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £84,844 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 4 March 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 4 March 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 -7 959 £100,000 -4.76% 303
North of England -10 360 £70,000 +7.69% 230
South East -49 197 £63,750 -1.92% 203
Yorkshire +16 188 £70,000 +3.70% 87
South West -24 166 £65,000 -3.70% 120
North West -15 151 £70,000 +7.69% 108
Midlands -37 91 £50,000 +11.11% 85
West Midlands +2 75 £50,000 -6.87% 45
East of England -85 36 £57,500 +15.00% 78
North East -27 21 £55,000 -3.51% 35
East Midlands -54 15 £44,500 +27.14% 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 57 (3.07%) Apache Spark
2 48 (2.59%) Apache
3 40 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
4 27 (1.46%) Confluence
5 22 (1.19%) JBoss
6 13 (0.70%) OpenStack
6 13 (0.70%) WebSphere
7 10 (0.54%) IIS
8 9 (0.49%) Anypoint
9 7 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.38%) SharePoint
10 6 (0.32%) Mule
11 4 (0.22%) Appian
11 4 (0.22%) Camunda
11 4 (0.22%) Moodle
11 4 (0.22%) nginx
12 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.16%) Liferay
12 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 14 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 13 (0.70%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.16%) Simulink
6 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.11%) Windchill
7 1 (0.054%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.054%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (0.65%) Maximo
2 8 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.38%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.27%) Shopify
5 2 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.11%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.054%) Adaptiv
6 1 (0.054%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.054%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.054%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 825 (44.50%) AWS
2 327 (17.64%) Azure
3 226 (12.19%) GCP
4 169 (9.12%) Serverless
5 132 (7.12%) SaaS
6 126 (6.80%) Amazon EKS
7 103 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
8 98 (5.29%) Amazon S3
9 95 (5.12%) Amazon ECS
10 91 (4.91%) GitHub
11 81 (4.37%) AWS CloudFormation
12 53 (2.86%) AWS Step Functions
13 51 (2.75%) OpenShift
14 42 (2.27%) dbt
15 40 (2.16%) Amazon SQS
16 38 (2.05%) Apigee
17 35 (1.89%) Amazon ECR
18 34 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
19 33 (1.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 33 (1.78%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.05%) Broadband
2 36 (1.94%) TCP/IP
3 17 (0.92%) HTTP
4 11 (0.59%) AMQP
4 11 (0.59%) Internet
4 11 (0.59%) VPN
5 7 (0.38%) Multicast
6 6 (0.32%) BGP
6 6 (0.32%) Firewall
6 6 (0.32%) VLAN
7 5 (0.27%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.22%) SAN
9 3 (0.16%) DNS
9 3 (0.16%) PuTTY
10 2 (0.11%) DHCP
10 2 (0.11%) LAN
10 2 (0.11%) NAS
10 2 (0.11%) SNMP
10 2 (0.11%) SSH
10 2 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (8.90%) PostgreSQL
2 152 (8.20%) NoSQL
3 123 (6.63%) Relational Database
4 73 (3.94%) SQL Server
5 71 (3.83%) MongoDB
6 70 (3.78%) DynamoDB
7 54 (2.91%) RDBMS
8 53 (2.86%) MySQL
9 49 (2.64%) Big Data
10 43 (2.32%) Elasticsearch
10 43 (2.32%) Hadoop
11 40 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
12 31 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
12 31 (1.67%) DB2
13 25 (1.35%) Neo4j
14 24 (1.29%) Amazon Athena
15 22 (1.19%) Data Lake
16 19 (1.02%) Oracle Database
16 19 (1.02%) Redis
17 15 (0.81%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 162 (8.74%) Jenkins
2 132 (7.12%) Git
3 109 (5.88%) Selenium
4 102 (5.50%) GitLab
5 86 (4.64%) JIRA
6 71 (3.83%) Cucumber
7 65 (3.51%) Cypress.io
7 65 (3.51%) TeamCity
8 61 (3.29%) Maven
9 60 (3.24%) JUnit
10 44 (2.37%) Postman
10 44 (2.37%) SonarQube
11 39 (2.10%) WebDriver
12 33 (1.78%) SoapUI
13 30 (1.62%) JMeter
14 28 (1.51%) Bitbucket
15 26 (1.40%) Team Foundation Server
16 21 (1.13%) Mockito
17 19 (1.02%) Jaeger
18 18 (0.97%) Gradle
General
1 483 (26.05%) Finance
2 421 (22.71%) Social Skills
3 243 (13.11%) Banking
4 148 (7.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 135 (7.28%) Analytical Skills
6 134 (7.23%) Law
7 121 (6.53%) Public Sector
8 116 (6.26%) Front Office
9 107 (5.77%) Retail
10 101 (5.45%) Financial Institution
11 68 (3.67%) Investment Banking
12 54 (2.91%) Back Office
13 41 (2.21%) Games
14 35 (1.89%) Telecoms
15 26 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
16 24 (1.29%) Manufacturing
17 23 (1.24%) Aerospace
18 21 (1.13%) Billing
18 21 (1.13%) Health Technology
19 18 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 676 (36.46%) Developer
2 458 (24.70%) Software Engineer
3 436 (23.52%) Senior
4 397 (21.41%) Java Developer
5 261 (14.08%) Java Engineer
6 247 (13.32%) Lead
7 158 (8.52%) Java Software Engineer
8 153 (8.25%) Senior Developer
9 146 (7.87%) Full-Stack Developer
10 128 (6.90%) Senior Software Engineer
11 109 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 107 (5.77%) Senior Java Developer
13 101 (5.45%) Architect
14 98 (5.29%) Senior Java Engineer
15 92 (4.96%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 74 (3.99%) Lead Software Engineer
16 74 (3.99%) Software Developer
17 56 (3.02%) AWS Engineer
18 54 (2.91%) Lead Developer
19 52 (2.80%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 406 (21.90%) Spring
2 361 (19.47%) Spring Boot
3 327 (17.64%) React
4 219 (11.81%) REST
5 214 (11.54%) Kafka
6 181 (9.76%) Node.js
7 170 (9.17%) AngularJS
8 156 (8.41%) .NET
9 135 (7.28%) RESTful
10 113 (6.09%) HTML
11 93 (5.02%) SOAP
12 78 (4.21%) GraphQL
13 75 (4.05%) CSS
14 68 (3.67%) Web Services
15 67 (3.61%) Elastic Stack
16 66 (3.56%) Hibernate
17 53 (2.86%) JSON
18 51 (2.75%) Vue
19 49 (2.64%) Gherkin
20 46 (2.48%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 275 (14.83%) Cloud Native
2 181 (9.76%) Distributed Systems
3 77 (4.15%) Product Ownership
4 58 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
5 57 (3.07%) Fixed Income
6 52 (2.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 49 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
8 43 (2.32%) Equities
9 38 (2.05%) Blog
10 35 (1.89%) Algorithms
10 35 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
11 34 (1.83%) Public Cloud
12 30 (1.62%) Distributed Architecture
12 30 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
13 28 (1.51%) Derivative
14 27 (1.46%) Data Structures
15 24 (1.29%) Mobile App
16 23 (1.24%) Management Information System
17 22 (1.19%) FPGA
18 21 (1.13%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 200 (10.79%) Linux
2 42 (2.27%) Unix
3 39 (2.10%) Android
4 34 (1.83%) Windows
5 13 (0.70%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.38%) CentOS
6 7 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.32%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.27%) Debian
9 3 (0.16%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.054%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 700 (37.76%) Agile
2 652 (35.17%) Software Engineering
3 598 (32.25%) CI/CD
4 446 (24.06%) DevOps
5 426 (22.98%) Microservices
6 381 (20.55%) Full-Stack Development
7 317 (17.10%) Problem-Solving
8 313 (16.88%) Test Automation
9 296 (15.97%) Mentoring
10 217 (11.70%) Containerisation
11 212 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
12 203 (10.95%) AI
13 202 (10.90%) Computer Science
14 182 (9.82%) Scrum
15 178 (9.60%) TDD
16 153 (8.25%) Infrastructure as Code
17 149 (8.04%) Fintech
18 146 (7.87%) SDLC
18 146 (7.87%) Technical Leadership
19 140 (7.55%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 609 (32.85%) Python
2 427 (23.03%) JavaScript
3 369 (19.90%) SQL
4 296 (15.97%) TypeScript
5 207 (11.17%) C#
6 153 (8.25%) Go
7 128 (6.90%) C++
8 106 (5.72%) Kotlin
9 87 (4.69%) Bash
10 85 (4.58%) C
11 50 (2.70%) Scala
12 41 (2.21%) Groovy
13 33 (1.78%) PHP
13 33 (1.78%) Rust
14 31 (1.67%) PL/SQL
15 19 (1.02%) R
15 19 (1.02%) Ruby
16 18 (0.97%) Apex Code
17 17 (0.92%) PowerShell
18 16 (0.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 291 (15.70%) Security Cleared
2 273 (14.72%) Degree
3 175 (9.44%) SC Cleared
4 123 (6.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 107 (5.77%) DV Cleared
6 88 (4.75%) AWS Certification
7 48 (2.59%) Master's Degree
8 43 (2.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 36 (1.94%) Azure Certification
10 30 (1.62%) TOGAF Certification
11 29 (1.56%) ISTQB
12 25 (1.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 24 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
14 18 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
15 17 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
15 17 (0.92%) PhD
16 16 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 12 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
18 11 (0.59%) CREST Certified
18 11 (0.59%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (6.47%) QA
2 39 (2.10%) Accessibility
3 21 (1.13%) GDPR
4 19 (1.02%) Data Quality
4 19 (1.02%) PCI DSS
5 16 (0.86%) SOC 2
6 12 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.32%) WCAG
9 5 (0.27%) NIST
10 4 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.22%) EU AI Act
10 4 (0.22%) SLA
11 3 (0.16%) NCSC
11 3 (0.16%) SEPA
12 2 (0.11%) ECSS
12 2 (0.11%) MISRA
13 1 (0.054%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.054%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.054%) MiFID
System Software
1 337 (18.18%) Docker
2 16 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (0.76%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (0.32%) HDFS
5 5 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.22%) Firmware
6 4 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.11%) KVM
7 2 (0.11%) vSphere
8 1 (0.054%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.054%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.054%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.054%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.054%) Squid
Systems Management
1 441 (23.79%) Kubernetes
2 188 (10.14%) Terraform
3 97 (5.23%) Grafana
4 76 (4.10%) Ansible
5 47 (2.54%) Prometheus
6 42 (2.27%) Argo
7 32 (1.73%) HP Fortify
8 24 (1.29%) Kibana
9 19 (1.02%) Kustomize
10 10 (0.54%) Rancher
11 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (0.38%) Puppet
12 6 (0.32%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.32%) yum
13 5 (0.27%) FTK
13 5 (0.27%) logstash
14 4 (0.22%) Nagios
14 4 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
15 3 (0.16%) Control-M
Vendors
1 97 (5.23%) Oracle
2 69 (3.72%) Google
3 68 (3.67%) Microsoft
4 31 (1.67%) MuleSoft
5 28 (1.51%) Salesforce
6 27 (1.46%) IBM
7 24 (1.29%) Atlassian
7 24 (1.29%) Databricks
8 22 (1.19%) Splunk
9 21 (1.13%) SAP
10 20 (1.08%) Informatica
11 17 (0.92%) Talend
12 15 (0.81%) Guidewire
13 13 (0.70%) Dell
14 12 (0.65%) Dynatrace
14 12 (0.65%) Red Hat
15 11 (0.59%) OpenAI
15 11 (0.59%) Solace
16 9 (0.49%) Workday
17 8 (0.43%) Adobe