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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 27 33
Rank change year-on-year -30 +6 -12
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,378 3,084 4,668
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.74% 7.14% 5.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.86% 23.56% 16.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,553 1,482 3,448
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% +3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £73,805
% change year-on-year -6.67% +1.62% -4.77%

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 15,999 13,089 27,567
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.41% 30.29% 30.85%
Number of salaries quoted 11,622 8,861 21,741
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 £112,500 £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 10 July 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 10 July 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 -11 1,057 £85,000 -19.05% 499
North of England -23 676 £69,305 +2.67% 153
North West -36 305 £70,000 - 85
Yorkshire +29 231 £72,500 +3.57% 41
South West -20 229 £60,000 -4.00% 169
South East -50 212 £70,000 +7.69% 116
North East +2 140 £53,750 +19.44% 27
Midlands -91 116 £62,500 +8.70% 60
West Midlands -53 95 £65,000 +8.33% 40
East of England -55 57 £51,359 +16.73% 32
East Midlands -81 20 £60,000 +26.32% 20
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 52 (2.19%) Confluence
2 50 (2.10%) Apache
3 38 (1.60%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
6 11 (0.46%) JBoss
7 10 (0.42%) Camunda
8 9 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.34%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
10 5 (0.21%) CMS
10 5 (0.21%) GeoServer
10 5 (0.21%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.13%) CICS
12 3 (0.13%) SAS
12 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
12 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.084%) Documentum
Applications
1 17 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.67%) MS Visio
3 10 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.084%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.084%) PTC Creo
5 2 (0.084%) Windchill
6 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.042%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 15 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.42%) Maximo
3 5 (0.21%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.21%) Temenos T24
4 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.084%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.042%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.042%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.042%) Endur
6 1 (0.042%) Findur
6 1 (0.042%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.042%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 994 (41.80%) AWS
2 477 (20.06%) Azure
3 302 (12.70%) GCP
4 208 (8.75%) Serverless
5 160 (6.73%) AWS CloudFormation
6 131 (5.51%) AWS Lambda
7 121 (5.09%) Amazon ECS
7 121 (5.09%) Amazon S3
8 116 (4.88%) GitHub
9 111 (4.67%) SaaS
10 110 (4.63%) Amazon EKS
11 73 (3.07%) AWS Step Functions
12 68 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
13 57 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
14 46 (1.93%) Amazon ECR
15 42 (1.77%) Apigee
16 41 (1.72%) Amazon SQS
17 39 (1.64%) OpenShift
18 37 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 36 (1.51%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 43 (1.81%) Broadband
2 31 (1.30%) HTTP
3 24 (1.01%) TCP/IP
4 15 (0.63%) Network Security
5 13 (0.55%) DMARC
6 8 (0.34%) BGP
6 8 (0.34%) IPv4
6 8 (0.34%) MQTT
6 8 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
6 8 (0.34%) VPN
7 7 (0.29%) AMQP
8 5 (0.21%) DNS
8 5 (0.21%) IPsec
9 4 (0.17%) Internet
9 4 (0.17%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.13%) Firewall
10 3 (0.13%) VLAN
11 2 (0.084%) LAN
11 2 (0.084%) SAN
11 2 (0.084%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (7.91%) NoSQL
2 177 (7.44%) PostgreSQL
3 120 (5.05%) MongoDB
4 108 (4.54%) Relational Database
5 91 (3.83%) DynamoDB
6 83 (3.49%) MySQL
7 70 (2.94%) SQL Server
8 40 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
9 32 (1.35%) Big Data
9 32 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
10 30 (1.26%) RDBMS
11 27 (1.14%) BigQuery
11 27 (1.14%) Db2
12 24 (1.01%) Redis
13 19 (0.80%) Hadoop
14 18 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
14 18 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
15 15 (0.63%) Metadata
16 13 (0.55%) Power BI
17 12 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 231 (9.71%) Git
2 185 (7.78%) Jenkins
3 173 (7.28%) GitLab
4 84 (3.53%) Cucumber
4 84 (3.53%) JIRA
5 76 (3.20%) Maven
6 70 (2.94%) JUnit
7 64 (2.69%) Cypress.io
7 64 (2.69%) Selenium
8 59 (2.48%) TeamCity
9 56 (2.35%) SonarQube
10 37 (1.56%) JMeter
11 32 (1.35%) Bitbucket
12 31 (1.30%) Postman
13 30 (1.26%) Subversion
14 29 (1.22%) Mockito
15 26 (1.09%) Eclipse
16 25 (1.05%) Gradle
17 24 (1.01%) Claude Code
18 22 (0.93%) REST Assured
General
1 604 (25.40%) Finance
2 353 (14.84%) Social Skills
3 222 (9.34%) Public Sector
4 219 (9.21%) Banking
5 164 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
6 149 (6.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 107 (4.50%) Law
8 106 (4.46%) Front Office
9 98 (4.12%) Retail
10 71 (2.99%) Financial Institution
11 48 (2.02%) Back Office
12 38 (1.60%) Investment Banking
13 33 (1.39%) Health Technology
14 28 (1.18%) Games
15 22 (0.93%) Aerospace
15 22 (0.93%) Manufacturing
16 19 (0.80%) Legal
17 18 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
17 18 (0.76%) Marketing
18 17 (0.71%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 863 (36.29%) Developer
2 582 (24.47%) Senior
3 572 (24.05%) Java Developer
4 547 (23.00%) Software Engineer
5 403 (16.95%) Java Engineer
6 347 (14.59%) Lead
7 206 (8.66%) Senior Developer
8 178 (7.49%) Senior Software Engineer
9 176 (7.40%) Java Software Engineer
10 145 (6.10%) Senior Java Developer
11 143 (6.01%) Full-Stack Developer
12 139 (5.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 126 (5.30%) Senior Java Engineer
14 124 (5.21%) Software Developer
15 119 (5.00%) Lead Software Engineer
16 92 (3.87%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 81 (3.41%) Architect
18 72 (3.03%) Consultant
18 72 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
19 68 (2.86%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 535 (22.50%) Spring
2 458 (19.26%) Spring Boot
3 290 (12.20%) React
4 239 (10.05%) AngularJS
5 233 (9.80%) Kafka
6 228 (9.59%) REST
7 226 (9.50%) Node.js
8 167 (7.02%) RESTful
9 152 (6.39%) .NET
10 87 (3.66%) Web Services
11 74 (3.11%) Vue
12 73 (3.07%) CSS
13 65 (2.73%) GraphQL
14 64 (2.69%) HTML
15 53 (2.23%) SOAP
16 51 (2.14%) Elastic Stack
17 50 (2.10%) Hibernate
18 49 (2.06%) JSON
19 48 (2.02%) OAuth
20 46 (1.93%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 294 (12.36%) Cloud Native
2 188 (7.91%) Distributed Systems
3 146 (6.14%) Product Ownership
4 103 (4.33%) Public Cloud
5 55 (2.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 52 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
7 51 (2.14%) Fixed Income
8 50 (2.10%) Onboarding
9 42 (1.77%) Data Structures
9 42 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
10 37 (1.56%) Distributed Architecture
11 35 (1.47%) Blog
11 35 (1.47%) e-Learning
12 33 (1.39%) Virtual Team
13 32 (1.35%) Mobile App
14 31 (1.30%) Equities
14 31 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
15 24 (1.01%) Algorithms
16 20 (0.84%) Social Media
17 17 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 226 (9.50%) Linux
2 55 (2.31%) Windows
3 48 (2.02%) Unix
4 43 (1.81%) Android
5 16 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.55%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.46%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.25%) CentOS
8 6 (0.25%) Debian
8 6 (0.25%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.17%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.084%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.042%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 823 (34.61%) Agile
2 821 (34.52%) Software Engineering
3 757 (31.83%) CI/CD
4 573 (24.10%) DevOps
5 538 (22.62%) Microservices
6 479 (20.14%) Test Automation
7 458 (19.26%) Full-Stack Development
8 407 (17.12%) Mentoring
9 372 (15.64%) Problem-Solving
10 297 (12.49%) AI
11 290 (12.20%) Containerisation
12 266 (11.19%) Infrastructure as Code
13 252 (10.60%) TDD
14 251 (10.56%) Continuous Improvement
15 220 (9.25%) Roadmaps
16 217 (9.13%) Technical Leadership
17 212 (8.92%) Computer Science
18 206 (8.66%) Scrum
19 184 (7.74%) SDLC
20 173 (7.28%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 769 (32.34%) Python
2 448 (18.84%) SQL
3 428 (18.00%) JavaScript
4 260 (10.93%) TypeScript
5 242 (10.18%) C#
6 217 (9.13%) C++
7 162 (6.81%) Go
8 128 (5.38%) Bash
9 103 (4.33%) Kotlin
10 65 (2.73%) C
10 65 (2.73%) Groovy
11 62 (2.61%) Scala
12 58 (2.44%) Rust
13 53 (2.23%) PHP
14 35 (1.47%) Perl
15 34 (1.43%) PowerShell
16 28 (1.18%) PL/SQL
17 27 (1.14%) Ruby
18 18 (0.76%) Shell Script
19 15 (0.63%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 414 (17.41%) Security Cleared
2 258 (10.85%) Degree
3 241 (10.13%) SC Cleared
4 143 (6.01%) DV Cleared
5 142 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 108 (4.54%) AWS Certification
7 52 (2.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 31 (1.30%) Master's Degree
9 27 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
10 25 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 20 (0.84%) OSCP
12 16 (0.67%) ISTQB
13 15 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
13 15 (0.63%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.50%) CREST Certified
15 12 (0.50%) PhD
16 11 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
17 10 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
18 8 (0.34%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (6.77%) QA
2 63 (2.65%) Accessibility
3 45 (1.89%) Data Quality
4 20 (0.84%) GDPR
4 20 (0.84%) WCAG
5 14 (0.59%) GRC
5 14 (0.59%) PCI DSS
6 13 (0.55%) SOC 2
7 8 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.29%) ISO 20022
9 6 (0.25%) NIST
10 5 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.084%) Good Clinical Practice
13 2 (0.084%) PSD2
13 2 (0.084%) Software Quality Assurance
14 1 (0.042%) GxP
14 1 (0.042%) MiFID
System Software
1 377 (15.85%) Docker
2 19 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (0.71%) Active Directory
4 11 (0.46%) vSphere
5 8 (0.34%) Squid
5 8 (0.34%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.25%) Firmware
6 6 (0.25%) KVM
7 5 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.084%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.084%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.084%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 446 (18.76%) Kubernetes
2 299 (12.57%) Terraform
3 118 (4.96%) Ansible
4 113 (4.75%) Grafana
5 47 (1.98%) Prometheus
6 41 (1.72%) Argo
7 34 (1.43%) HP Fortify
8 30 (1.26%) Kibana
9 17 (0.71%) Puppet
10 14 (0.59%) Packer
10 14 (0.59%) Rancher
11 12 (0.50%) logstash
12 11 (0.46%) Kustomize
13 8 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
13 8 (0.34%) yum
13 8 (0.34%) ZABBIX
14 5 (0.21%) FTK
14 5 (0.21%) Hadoop YARN
15 3 (0.13%) Oracle Flashback
15 3 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 93 (3.91%) Oracle
2 90 (3.78%) Microsoft
3 75 (3.15%) Google
4 54 (2.27%) Splunk
5 42 (1.77%) IBM
6 27 (1.14%) SAP
7 24 (1.01%) Palantir
7 24 (1.01%) Red Hat
7 24 (1.01%) Salesforce
7 24 (1.01%) VMware
8 22 (0.93%) Dynatrace
9 20 (0.84%) AppDynamics
10 19 (0.80%) Foundry
10 19 (0.80%) ServiceNow
11 15 (0.63%) Adobe
11 15 (0.63%) MuleSoft
12 14 (0.59%) OpenAI
13 13 (0.55%) SendGrid
14 11 (0.46%) Atlassian
14 11 (0.46%) Solace