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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 30 31
Rank change year-on-year -25 +1 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,587 2,791 3,831
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.55% 6.46% 5.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.36% 23.60% 18.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,648 1,212 2,436
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 £116,250
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% +5.72%

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 16,837 11,828 21,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.56% 27.37% 30.72%
Number of salaries quoted 12,285 7,816 13,580
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,617 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +0.19% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,125 £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 18 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 18 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 -14 1,088 £85,000 -20.93% 2,184
North of England -28 724 £69,305 +6.62% 423
North West -36 347 £70,000 - 247
South West +2 299 £65,000 +8.33% 227
South East -46 226 £67,500 +3.85% 253
Yorkshire +28 197 £75,000 +15.38% 104
Midlands -52 184 £67,500 +12.50% 169
North East +10 180 £55,000 +15.79% 72
West Midlands -37 155 £69,310 +15.52% 122
East of England -79 51 £58,750 +30.56% 92
East Midlands -90 29 £60,000 +4.35% 47
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 (2.36%) Confluence
2 56 (2.16%) Apache
3 38 (1.47%) Apache Spark
4 24 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (0.62%) Camunda
6 15 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 12 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
8 10 (0.39%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
9 8 (0.31%) Tomcat
10 7 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.23%) CMS
11 6 (0.23%) JBoss
12 5 (0.19%) CICS
12 5 (0.19%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.15%) SAS
13 4 (0.15%) SharePoint
13 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.12%) Documentum
14 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 21 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.58%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.31%) Simulink
4 6 (0.23%) Moqups
5 5 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.15%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.12%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.077%) PTC Creo
8 2 (0.077%) Windchill
9 1 (0.039%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.039%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.039%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.19%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.19%) Temenos T24
3 4 (0.15%) Maximo
3 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.077%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.077%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.077%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 1 (0.039%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.039%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.039%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.039%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.039%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.039%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.039%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,063 (41.09%) AWS
2 535 (20.68%) Azure
3 299 (11.56%) GCP
4 212 (8.19%) Serverless
5 167 (6.46%) AWS CloudFormation
6 164 (6.34%) GitHub
7 146 (5.64%) AWS Lambda
8 116 (4.48%) Amazon S3
9 115 (4.45%) Amazon ECS
10 101 (3.90%) SaaS
11 100 (3.87%) Amazon EKS
12 92 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
13 84 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
14 66 (2.55%) AWS Step Functions
15 50 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
16 45 (1.74%) Datadog
17 41 (1.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 39 (1.51%) OpenShift
19 36 (1.39%) Azure Service Bus
20 35 (1.35%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 41 (1.58%) HTTP
2 16 (0.62%) Network Security
3 14 (0.54%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.50%) DMARC
5 9 (0.35%) DNS
5 9 (0.35%) IPv4
5 9 (0.35%) MQTT
5 9 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
6 8 (0.31%) AMQP
6 8 (0.31%) VPN
6 8 (0.31%) Wireshark
7 7 (0.27%) BGP
8 6 (0.23%) IPsec
9 5 (0.19%) Broadband
9 5 (0.19%) Ethernet
9 5 (0.19%) Firewall
9 5 (0.19%) Internet
9 5 (0.19%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.15%) RIP
11 3 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (6.46%) NoSQL
2 165 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
3 130 (5.03%) MongoDB
4 125 (4.83%) Relational Database
5 80 (3.09%) DynamoDB
6 73 (2.82%) MySQL
6 73 (2.82%) SQL Server
7 48 (1.86%) Big Data
8 42 (1.62%) Amazon Athena
9 29 (1.12%) Redis
10 26 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
11 25 (0.97%) Hadoop
12 24 (0.93%) Power BI
13 23 (0.89%) Data Lake
13 23 (0.89%) Db2
14 22 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
15 19 (0.73%) BigQuery
16 18 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
17 17 (0.66%) Spark SQL
18 15 (0.58%) Flink
Development Applications
1 290 (11.21%) Git
2 214 (8.27%) Jenkins
3 201 (7.77%) GitLab
4 100 (3.87%) JIRA
5 99 (3.83%) JUnit
6 95 (3.67%) Cucumber
7 78 (3.02%) Maven
8 67 (2.59%) Selenium
9 60 (2.32%) Cypress.io
10 52 (2.01%) TeamCity
11 47 (1.82%) Postman
11 47 (1.82%) SonarQube
12 46 (1.78%) Eclipse
13 39 (1.51%) Mockito
13 39 (1.51%) Subversion
14 35 (1.35%) Bitbucket
14 35 (1.35%) JMeter
15 23 (0.89%) Claude Code
16 20 (0.77%) REST Assured
17 18 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 677 (26.17%) Finance
2 455 (17.59%) Social Skills
3 272 (10.51%) Banking
4 250 (9.66%) Public Sector
5 188 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
6 132 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 110 (4.25%) Law
8 87 (3.36%) Retail
9 72 (2.78%) Front Office
10 70 (2.71%) Financial Institution
11 39 (1.51%) Legal
11 39 (1.51%) Manufacturing
12 36 (1.39%) Marketing
13 35 (1.35%) Back Office
13 35 (1.35%) Investment Banking
14 29 (1.12%) Health Technology
15 23 (0.89%) Aerospace
16 22 (0.85%) Publishing
17 21 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
18 20 (0.77%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 808 (31.23%) Developer
2 656 (25.36%) Senior
3 583 (22.54%) Software Engineer
4 520 (20.10%) Java Developer
5 510 (19.71%) Java Engineer
6 358 (13.84%) Lead
7 218 (8.43%) Senior Developer
8 195 (7.54%) Senior Software Engineer
9 174 (6.73%) Senior Java Engineer
10 169 (6.53%) Java Software Engineer
11 156 (6.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 138 (5.33%) Senior Java Developer
13 131 (5.06%) Full-Stack Developer
13 131 (5.06%) Software Developer
14 110 (4.25%) Lead Software Engineer
15 90 (3.48%) Principal Engineer
16 83 (3.21%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 82 (3.17%) Architect
17 82 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
18 76 (2.94%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 610 (23.58%) Spring
2 504 (19.48%) Spring Boot
3 303 (11.71%) Terraform
4 276 (10.67%) Kafka
4 276 (10.67%) React
5 260 (10.05%) REST
6 226 (8.74%) AngularJS
7 203 (7.85%) Node.js
8 191 (7.38%) RESTful
9 172 (6.65%) .NET
10 81 (3.13%) Web Services
11 71 (2.74%) CSS
12 68 (2.63%) HTML
13 59 (2.28%) Vue
14 57 (2.20%) RabbitMQ
15 56 (2.16%) OAuth
16 54 (2.09%) Hibernate
17 47 (1.82%) Playwright
18 45 (1.74%) JSON
19 43 (1.66%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 341 (13.18%) Cloud Native
2 267 (10.32%) Distributed Systems
3 174 (6.73%) Product Ownership
4 130 (5.03%) Public Cloud
5 75 (2.90%) Onboarding
6 65 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
7 56 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
8 47 (1.82%) Distributed Architecture
8 47 (1.82%) e-Learning
9 45 (1.74%) Virtual Team
10 43 (1.66%) Data Structures
11 41 (1.58%) Algorithms
12 40 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 33 (1.28%) Blog
13 33 (1.28%) Mobile App
14 31 (1.20%) AI Agents
14 31 (1.20%) Equities
15 26 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
16 25 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
17 24 (0.93%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 219 (8.47%) Linux
2 67 (2.59%) Windows
3 38 (1.47%) Unix
4 37 (1.43%) Android
5 25 (0.97%) Apple iOS
6 22 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (0.58%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.31%) CentOS
9 7 (0.27%) Debian
9 7 (0.27%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.15%) Kali Linux
10 4 (0.15%) VMS
11 3 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.077%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.039%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 946 (36.57%) Software Engineering
2 867 (33.51%) CI/CD
3 806 (31.16%) Agile
4 623 (24.08%) Microservices
5 587 (22.69%) DevOps
6 496 (19.17%) Full-Stack Development
7 494 (19.10%) Test Automation
8 468 (18.09%) Mentoring
9 445 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
10 397 (15.35%) AI
11 326 (12.60%) Containerisation
12 313 (12.10%) Infrastructure as Code
13 307 (11.87%) Continuous Improvement
14 285 (11.02%) Event-Driven
15 253 (9.78%) Technical Leadership
16 247 (9.55%) Computer Science
16 247 (9.55%) Roadmaps
17 230 (8.89%) Scrum
18 229 (8.85%) SDLC
19 228 (8.81%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 818 (31.62%) Python
2 485 (18.75%) SQL
3 442 (17.09%) JavaScript
4 272 (10.51%) C#
4 272 (10.51%) C++
5 260 (10.05%) TypeScript
6 132 (5.10%) Go
7 116 (4.48%) Bash
8 107 (4.14%) Kotlin
9 78 (3.02%) C
10 76 (2.94%) Scala
11 57 (2.20%) Rust
12 55 (2.13%) PHP
13 53 (2.05%) Groovy
14 50 (1.93%) Perl
15 36 (1.39%) PowerShell
16 35 (1.35%) Ruby
17 30 (1.16%) PL/SQL
18 22 (0.85%) Shell Script
19 17 (0.66%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 487 (18.82%) Security Cleared
2 288 (11.13%) Degree
3 267 (10.32%) SC Cleared
4 168 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 165 (6.38%) DV Cleared
6 105 (4.06%) AWS Certification
7 66 (2.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 31 (1.20%) Master's Degree
9 25 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (0.73%) ISTQB
10 19 (0.73%) OSCP
11 18 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
12 17 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 14 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
13 14 (0.54%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.46%) PhD
16 10 (0.39%) CREST Certified
17 8 (0.31%) CCNA
17 8 (0.31%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (6.49%) QA
2 82 (3.17%) Data Quality
3 81 (3.13%) Accessibility
4 27 (1.04%) WCAG
5 26 (1.01%) GDPR
6 17 (0.66%) ISO 20022
7 15 (0.58%) NIST
8 11 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 10 (0.39%) GRC
10 7 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.23%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 14443
12 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 4 (0.15%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.12%) MiFID
13 3 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
13 3 (0.12%) PSD2
13 3 (0.12%) UCITS
14 2 (0.077%) Good Clinical Practice
14 2 (0.077%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 428 (16.54%) Docker
2 26 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (0.73%) Active Directory
4 13 (0.50%) Firmware
5 12 (0.46%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
6 11 (0.43%) vSphere
7 8 (0.31%) Squid
7 8 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.19%) KVM
11 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.077%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 487 (18.82%) Kubernetes
2 138 (5.33%) Ansible
3 95 (3.67%) Grafana
4 33 (1.28%) Prometheus
5 32 (1.24%) Argo
6 29 (1.12%) Kibana
7 27 (1.04%) Puppet
8 22 (0.85%) HP Fortify
9 14 (0.54%) Packer
10 13 (0.50%) Rancher
11 12 (0.46%) logstash
12 8 (0.31%) ZABBIX
13 7 (0.27%) yum
14 6 (0.23%) Hadoop YARN
14 6 (0.23%) Kubeflow
15 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (0.19%) Red Hat Satellite
16 4 (0.15%) Control-M
16 4 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
16 4 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 116 (4.48%) Oracle
2 114 (4.41%) Microsoft
3 82 (3.17%) Google
4 62 (2.40%) Splunk
5 44 (1.70%) IBM
5 44 (1.70%) Red Hat
6 32 (1.24%) SAP
7 30 (1.16%) AppDynamics
7 30 (1.16%) VMware
8 26 (1.01%) Adobe
9 25 (0.97%) Dynatrace
10 22 (0.85%) OpenAI
11 21 (0.81%) Palantir
12 18 (0.70%) Databricks
13 17 (0.66%) ServiceNow
14 14 (0.54%) Foundry
14 14 (0.54%) Salesforce
15 13 (0.50%) SendGrid
16 12 (0.46%) Bloomberg
16 12 (0.46%) Solace