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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 28 35
Rank change year-on-year -38 +7 -17
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,186 2,762 4,454
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.71% 7.11% 5.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.18% 21.57% 16.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,389 1,436 3,415
10th Percentile £44,150 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £73,805
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +1.62% -7.74%
75th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £117,500 £137,500 £137,500
UK median annual salary £70,079 £74,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.93% +6.43% -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 14,401 12,805 27,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.84% 32.96% 32.22%
Number of salaries quoted 10,144 8,979 22,382
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,475
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £87,500 £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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -4 1,055 £90,000 -14.29% 341
North of England -37 559 £69,310 +2.68% 174
Yorkshire +11 234 £72,500 +2.12% 55
North West -50 234 £70,000 -4.76% 81
South East -48 216 £67,500 +3.85% 128
South West -31 179 £62,500 +4.17% 75
Midlands -107 96 £55,000 +2.44% 55
North East +1 91 £52,500 -5.83% 38
West Midlands -61 81 £52,500 -4.55% 31
East of England -70 50 £50,000 - 36
East Midlands -86 14 £60,000 +26.32% 24
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 44 (2.01%) Apache
2 38 (1.74%) Apache Spark
3 35 (1.60%) Confluence
4 32 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.82%) JBoss
6 15 (0.69%) Palantir Foundry
7 13 (0.59%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.37%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.27%) SharePoint Server
10 5 (0.23%) GeoServer
10 5 (0.23%) IIS
10 5 (0.23%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.18%) Anypoint
11 4 (0.18%) Appian
11 4 (0.18%) Camunda
11 4 (0.18%) CMS
11 4 (0.18%) Moodle
12 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.14%) Liferay
Applications
1 10 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (0.41%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.091%) Windchill
5 1 (0.046%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.046%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.046%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 12 (0.55%) Maximo
2 5 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.14%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.14%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.14%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.091%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.046%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.046%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.046%) Endur
5 1 (0.046%) Findur
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.046%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.046%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 911 (41.67%) AWS
2 409 (18.71%) Azure
3 267 (12.21%) GCP
4 185 (8.46%) Serverless
5 131 (5.99%) AWS CloudFormation
6 122 (5.58%) Amazon S3
7 120 (5.49%) SaaS
8 115 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
9 112 (5.12%) Amazon ECS
10 109 (4.99%) Amazon EKS
11 92 (4.21%) GitHub
12 75 (3.43%) AWS Step Functions
13 58 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
14 53 (2.42%) Amazon ECR
14 53 (2.42%) Apigee
15 43 (1.97%) Amazon SQS
16 39 (1.78%) dbt
17 38 (1.74%) OpenShift
18 37 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
19 32 (1.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.29%) Broadband
2 34 (1.56%) HTTP
3 27 (1.24%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.41%) AMQP
5 8 (0.37%) Internet
6 5 (0.23%) IPv4
6 5 (0.23%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.14%) BGP
7 3 (0.14%) MQTT
7 3 (0.14%) Network Security
7 3 (0.14%) PuTTY
7 3 (0.14%) SAN
7 3 (0.14%) VLAN
7 3 (0.14%) VPN
8 2 (0.091%) Firewall
8 2 (0.091%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.091%) LAN
8 2 (0.091%) Multicast
8 2 (0.091%) WAN
9 1 (0.046%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (8.14%) NoSQL
2 161 (7.37%) PostgreSQL
3 111 (5.08%) Relational Database
4 97 (4.44%) DynamoDB
5 95 (4.35%) MongoDB
6 74 (3.39%) SQL Server
7 65 (2.97%) MySQL
8 44 (2.01%) RDBMS
9 35 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
10 34 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
11 31 (1.42%) Big Data
12 29 (1.33%) DB2
13 24 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
14 23 (1.05%) Hadoop
15 22 (1.01%) BigQuery
16 21 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
16 21 (0.96%) Neo4j
17 17 (0.78%) Redis
18 14 (0.64%) Metadata
18 14 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 183 (8.37%) Jenkins
2 170 (7.78%) Git
3 153 (7.00%) GitLab
4 94 (4.30%) JIRA
5 91 (4.16%) Selenium
6 84 (3.84%) Maven
7 75 (3.43%) Cypress.io
8 72 (3.29%) Cucumber
9 67 (3.06%) SonarQube
10 62 (2.84%) TeamCity
11 55 (2.52%) JUnit
12 45 (2.06%) Postman
13 33 (1.51%) JMeter
14 30 (1.37%) Bitbucket
15 27 (1.24%) SoapUI
15 27 (1.24%) WebDriver
16 26 (1.19%) Team Foundation Server
17 25 (1.14%) Claude Code
17 25 (1.14%) Gradle
17 25 (1.14%) REST Assured
General
1 547 (25.02%) Finance
2 363 (16.61%) Social Skills
3 238 (10.89%) Banking
4 180 (8.23%) Public Sector
5 161 (7.37%) Analytical Skills
6 152 (6.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 113 (5.17%) Front Office
7 113 (5.17%) Law
8 97 (4.44%) Retail
9 66 (3.02%) Financial Institution
10 50 (2.29%) Back Office
11 46 (2.10%) Investment Banking
12 33 (1.51%) Games
13 29 (1.33%) Telecoms
14 24 (1.10%) Health Technology
14 24 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
15 23 (1.05%) Aerospace
16 22 (1.01%) Marketing
16 22 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
17 17 (0.78%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 810 (37.05%) Developer
2 557 (25.48%) Senior
3 523 (23.92%) Java Developer
4 517 (23.65%) Software Engineer
5 359 (16.42%) Java Engineer
6 332 (15.19%) Lead
7 212 (9.70%) Senior Developer
8 180 (8.23%) Java Software Engineer
9 165 (7.55%) Senior Software Engineer
10 152 (6.95%) Full-Stack Developer
11 151 (6.91%) Senior Java Developer
12 128 (5.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 112 (5.12%) Senior Java Engineer
14 106 (4.85%) Software Developer
15 103 (4.71%) Lead Software Engineer
16 92 (4.21%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 81 (3.71%) Architect
18 60 (2.74%) Lead Developer
18 60 (2.74%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 53 (2.42%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 458 (20.95%) Spring
2 412 (18.85%) Spring Boot
3 310 (14.18%) React
4 239 (10.93%) REST
5 223 (10.20%) AngularJS
6 198 (9.06%) Node.js
7 185 (8.46%) Kafka
8 169 (7.73%) .NET
9 125 (5.72%) RESTful
10 101 (4.62%) HTML
11 83 (3.80%) SOAP
12 82 (3.75%) Web Services
13 79 (3.61%) CSS
14 69 (3.16%) GraphQL
15 67 (3.06%) Elastic Stack
16 64 (2.93%) Vue
17 63 (2.88%) JSON
18 54 (2.47%) Gherkin
19 52 (2.38%) Hibernate
20 47 (2.15%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 245 (11.21%) Cloud Native
2 171 (7.82%) Distributed Systems
3 132 (6.04%) Product Ownership
4 80 (3.66%) Public Cloud
5 51 (2.33%) Fixed Income
6 47 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 43 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
8 40 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
9 38 (1.74%) Distributed Architecture
9 38 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
10 37 (1.69%) Blog
11 36 (1.65%) Equities
12 33 (1.51%) Data Structures
13 32 (1.46%) Mobile App
14 28 (1.28%) Virtual Team
15 27 (1.24%) e-Learning
16 20 (0.91%) Algorithms
16 20 (0.91%) FPGA
16 20 (0.91%) Management Information System
16 20 (0.91%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 196 (8.97%) Linux
2 51 (2.33%) Android
3 46 (2.10%) Unix
3 46 (2.10%) Windows
4 15 (0.69%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.37%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.27%) CentOS
8 5 (0.23%) Debian
8 5 (0.23%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.18%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.046%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.046%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 780 (35.68%) Agile
2 740 (33.85%) Software Engineering
3 656 (30.01%) CI/CD
4 517 (23.65%) DevOps
5 459 (21.00%) Microservices
6 441 (20.17%) Full-Stack Development
7 385 (17.61%) Test Automation
8 381 (17.43%) Mentoring
9 326 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
10 248 (11.34%) AI
11 234 (10.70%) Containerisation
12 228 (10.43%) Scrum
13 219 (10.02%) Continuous Improvement
14 208 (9.52%) Roadmaps
15 204 (9.33%) TDD
16 199 (9.10%) Technical Leadership
17 194 (8.87%) Infrastructure as Code
18 193 (8.83%) Computer Science
19 182 (8.33%) SDLC
20 163 (7.46%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 663 (30.33%) Python
2 425 (19.44%) SQL
3 419 (19.17%) JavaScript
4 278 (12.72%) TypeScript
5 231 (10.57%) C#
6 165 (7.55%) C++
7 153 (7.00%) Go
8 112 (5.12%) Bash
9 105 (4.80%) Kotlin
10 71 (3.25%) C
11 64 (2.93%) Groovy
12 43 (1.97%) Scala
13 38 (1.74%) PHP
14 34 (1.56%) PL/SQL
15 33 (1.51%) Rust
16 22 (1.01%) PowerShell
17 17 (0.78%) Apex Code
18 15 (0.69%) R
19 12 (0.55%) Shell Script
19 12 (0.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 337 (15.42%) Security Cleared
2 264 (12.08%) Degree
3 213 (9.74%) SC Cleared
4 131 (5.99%) DV Cleared
5 130 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 96 (4.39%) AWS Certification
7 36 (1.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 34 (1.56%) Master's Degree
9 29 (1.33%) ISTQB
10 25 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (1.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 20 (0.91%) Azure Certification
12 20 (0.91%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 19 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
13 19 (0.87%) OSCP
14 16 (0.73%) DBS Check
15 14 (0.64%) CREST Certified
15 14 (0.64%) PhD
16 13 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
16 13 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (6.50%) QA
2 43 (1.97%) Accessibility
3 37 (1.69%) Data Quality
4 15 (0.69%) PCI DSS
5 14 (0.64%) GRC
6 12 (0.55%) SOC 2
7 9 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
8 8 (0.37%) WCAG
9 7 (0.32%) GDPR
10 5 (0.23%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 3 (0.14%) NIST
12 3 (0.14%) SLA
13 2 (0.091%) ISO/IEC 14443
13 2 (0.091%) ISO/IEC 7816
14 1 (0.046%) Good Clinical Practice
14 1 (0.046%) MiFID
14 1 (0.046%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 352 (16.10%) Docker
2 10 (0.46%) Active Directory
2 10 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.37%) vSphere
4 5 (0.23%) Firmware
4 5 (0.23%) Squid
4 5 (0.23%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.18%) KVM
6 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.091%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.091%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.046%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.046%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.046%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.046%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.046%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 414 (18.94%) Kubernetes
2 248 (11.34%) Terraform
3 95 (4.35%) Grafana
4 89 (4.07%) Ansible
5 54 (2.47%) Argo
6 45 (2.06%) HP Fortify
7 43 (1.97%) Prometheus
8 25 (1.14%) Kibana
9 18 (0.82%) Kustomize
10 13 (0.59%) Rancher
11 12 (0.55%) Puppet
12 11 (0.50%) Packer
13 9 (0.41%) logstash
14 7 (0.32%) yum
15 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
16 5 (0.23%) FTK
16 5 (0.23%) ZABBIX
17 4 (0.18%) Progress Chef
18 3 (0.14%) Control-M
18 3 (0.14%) Nagios
Vendors
1 83 (3.80%) Microsoft
2 82 (3.75%) Oracle
3 68 (3.11%) Google
4 32 (1.46%) IBM
5 29 (1.33%) Splunk
6 27 (1.24%) Salesforce
7 23 (1.05%) MuleSoft
8 19 (0.87%) Foundry
9 18 (0.82%) Palantir
10 17 (0.78%) AppDynamics
10 17 (0.78%) Dynatrace
10 17 (0.78%) Red Hat
11 15 (0.69%) VMware
12 14 (0.64%) Atlassian
12 14 (0.64%) Databricks
13 12 (0.55%) SAP
14 11 (0.50%) Informatica
14 11 (0.50%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.50%) Solace
15 10 (0.46%) Talend