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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 43 29
Rank change year-on-year -26 -14 -12
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,776 2,396 4,269
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.99% 5.43% 6.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.96% 15.69% 17.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,176 1,454 3,406
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -6.45%
75th Percentile £103,125 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £137,500 £121,927
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 11,130 15,271 24,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.71% 34.60% 36.32%
Number of salaries quoted 8,273 9,109 20,700
10th Percentile £33,750 £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 £83,750 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £112,500 £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 17 February 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 17 February 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 -8 932 £100,000 -4.76% 340
North of England -15 330 £67,500 +3.85% 154
South East -59 186 £62,500 -3.85% 205
Yorkshire +2 170 £70,000 +3.70% 46
South West -22 162 £65,000 - 113
North West -18 142 £67,500 +3.85% 88
Midlands -29 89 £50,000 +17.65% 72
West Midlands -1 70 £50,000 +5.26% 53
East of England -67 37 £60,000 +11.63% 35
East Midlands -30 18 £52,100 +48.86% 19
North East -32 18 £55,000 -6.38% 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 58 (3.27%) Apache Spark
2 54 (3.04%) Apache
3 41 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (1.24%) Confluence
5 19 (1.07%) JBoss
6 13 (0.73%) OpenStack
6 13 (0.73%) WebSphere
7 12 (0.68%) IIS
8 7 (0.39%) Anypoint
8 7 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.34%) Mule
10 5 (0.28%) SharePoint
11 4 (0.23%) Appian
11 4 (0.23%) nginx
12 3 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.17%) CMS
12 3 (0.17%) Liferay
12 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
13 2 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 12 (0.68%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.17%) Simulink
5 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.11%) Windchill
6 1 (0.056%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.056%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.56%) Maximo
2 7 (0.39%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.28%) Shopify
5 2 (0.11%) Adaptiv
5 2 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.11%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.056%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.056%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 814 (45.83%) AWS
2 324 (18.24%) Azure
3 214 (12.05%) GCP
4 163 (9.18%) Serverless
5 130 (7.32%) Amazon EKS
6 129 (7.26%) SaaS
7 98 (5.52%) AWS Lambda
8 91 (5.12%) Amazon S3
9 90 (5.07%) Amazon ECS
10 84 (4.73%) GitHub
11 73 (4.11%) AWS CloudFormation
12 47 (2.65%) AWS Step Functions
12 47 (2.65%) OpenShift
13 39 (2.20%) dbt
14 37 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
15 33 (1.86%) Amazon EC2
15 33 (1.86%) Apigee
16 32 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
16 32 (1.80%) Snowflake
17 30 (1.69%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 37 (2.08%) TCP/IP
2 27 (1.52%) Broadband
3 17 (0.96%) HTTP
4 11 (0.62%) AMQP
4 11 (0.62%) Internet
4 11 (0.62%) VPN
5 8 (0.45%) Multicast
6 6 (0.34%) BGP
6 6 (0.34%) Firewall
6 6 (0.34%) VLAN
7 4 (0.23%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.23%) SAN
8 3 (0.17%) DNS
8 3 (0.17%) PuTTY
9 2 (0.11%) DHCP
9 2 (0.11%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.11%) LAN
9 2 (0.11%) NAS
9 2 (0.11%) SNMP
9 2 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (9.35%) PostgreSQL
2 147 (8.28%) NoSQL
3 122 (6.87%) Relational Database
4 77 (4.34%) SQL Server
5 74 (4.17%) MongoDB
6 62 (3.49%) DynamoDB
7 56 (3.15%) RDBMS
8 55 (3.10%) MySQL
9 52 (2.93%) Big Data
10 48 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
11 46 (2.59%) Hadoop
12 43 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
13 33 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
14 28 (1.58%) Data Lake
14 28 (1.58%) DB2
15 27 (1.52%) Neo4j
16 23 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
17 18 (1.01%) Redis
18 17 (0.96%) Apache Cassandra
18 17 (0.96%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 159 (8.95%) Jenkins
2 129 (7.26%) Git
3 110 (6.19%) Selenium
4 99 (5.57%) GitLab
5 85 (4.79%) JIRA
6 65 (3.66%) Cucumber
6 65 (3.66%) TeamCity
7 64 (3.60%) Cypress.io
8 60 (3.38%) JUnit
9 58 (3.27%) Maven
10 48 (2.70%) Postman
11 42 (2.36%) WebDriver
12 40 (2.25%) SonarQube
13 35 (1.97%) SoapUI
14 30 (1.69%) Bitbucket
15 28 (1.58%) JMeter
15 28 (1.58%) Team Foundation Server
16 22 (1.24%) Mockito
17 19 (1.07%) Jaeger
18 18 (1.01%) REST Assured
General
1 471 (26.52%) Finance
2 436 (24.55%) Social Skills
3 256 (14.41%) Banking
4 138 (7.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 134 (7.55%) Law
6 131 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
7 117 (6.59%) Public Sector
8 107 (6.02%) Financial Institution
9 106 (5.97%) Front Office
10 105 (5.91%) Retail
11 76 (4.28%) Investment Banking
12 53 (2.98%) Back Office
13 32 (1.80%) Games
13 32 (1.80%) Telecoms
14 24 (1.35%) Manufacturing
14 24 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
15 23 (1.30%) Aerospace
16 19 (1.07%) Billing
17 18 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
17 18 (1.01%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 618 (34.80%) Developer
2 431 (24.27%) Software Engineer
3 411 (23.14%) Senior
4 356 (20.05%) Java Developer
5 253 (14.25%) Java Engineer
6 229 (12.89%) Lead
7 154 (8.67%) Java Software Engineer
8 142 (8.00%) Full-Stack Developer
9 131 (7.38%) Senior Developer
10 119 (6.70%) Senior Software Engineer
11 99 (5.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 98 (5.52%) Architect
13 94 (5.29%) Senior Java Engineer
14 91 (5.12%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 89 (5.01%) Senior Java Developer
16 66 (3.72%) Software Developer
17 63 (3.55%) AWS Engineer
18 60 (3.38%) Lead Software Engineer
19 51 (2.87%) Senior Java Software Engineer
20 45 (2.53%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 396 (22.30%) Spring
2 344 (19.37%) Spring Boot
3 315 (17.74%) React
4 210 (11.82%) REST
5 200 (11.26%) Kafka
6 160 (9.01%) Node.js
7 159 (8.95%) .NET
8 157 (8.84%) AngularJS
9 135 (7.60%) RESTful
10 118 (6.64%) HTML
11 91 (5.12%) SOAP
12 85 (4.79%) CSS
13 67 (3.77%) Elastic Stack
13 67 (3.77%) Hibernate
14 62 (3.49%) Web Services
15 57 (3.21%) GraphQL
16 50 (2.82%) JSON
17 47 (2.65%) Vue
18 44 (2.48%) Jest
19 42 (2.36%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 276 (15.54%) Cloud Native
2 182 (10.25%) Distributed Systems
3 76 (4.28%) Product Ownership
4 59 (3.32%) Self-Motivation
5 50 (2.82%) Equities
5 50 (2.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 48 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
7 46 (2.59%) Fixed Income
8 41 (2.31%) Algorithms
9 38 (2.14%) Blog
10 34 (1.91%) Derivative
10 34 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
11 32 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
12 30 (1.69%) Public Cloud
13 29 (1.63%) Distributed Architecture
13 29 (1.63%) Management Information System
14 27 (1.52%) Onboarding
15 25 (1.41%) Data Structures
16 23 (1.30%) FPGA
17 22 (1.24%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 199 (11.20%) Linux
2 38 (2.14%) Unix
3 32 (1.80%) Android
3 32 (1.80%) Windows
4 13 (0.73%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.39%) CentOS
6 7 (0.39%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.34%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.28%) Debian
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.056%) AIX
10 1 (0.056%) SUSE
10 1 (0.056%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 660 (37.16%) Agile
2 623 (35.08%) Software Engineering
3 578 (32.55%) CI/CD
4 428 (24.10%) DevOps
5 424 (23.87%) Microservices
6 361 (20.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 319 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
8 301 (16.95%) Mentoring
8 301 (16.95%) Test Automation
9 218 (12.27%) Computer Science
10 212 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
11 205 (11.54%) Containerisation
12 184 (10.36%) Scrum
13 179 (10.08%) AI
14 177 (9.97%) TDD
15 152 (8.56%) SDLC
16 149 (8.39%) Fintech
17 143 (8.05%) Infrastructure as Code
18 137 (7.71%) Roadmaps
19 133 (7.49%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 610 (34.35%) Python
2 412 (23.20%) JavaScript
3 361 (20.33%) SQL
4 274 (15.43%) TypeScript
5 209 (11.77%) C#
6 136 (7.66%) Go
7 124 (6.98%) C++
8 93 (5.24%) Kotlin
9 92 (5.18%) C
10 84 (4.73%) Bash
11 57 (3.21%) Scala
12 40 (2.25%) PHP
13 37 (2.08%) Groovy
14 32 (1.80%) Rust
15 30 (1.69%) PL/SQL
16 21 (1.18%) R
17 19 (1.07%) Ruby
18 17 (0.96%) PowerShell
19 16 (0.90%) Apex Code
19 16 (0.90%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 290 (16.33%) Degree
2 280 (15.77%) Security Cleared
3 161 (9.07%) SC Cleared
4 129 (7.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 105 (5.91%) DV Cleared
6 90 (5.07%) AWS Certification
7 59 (3.32%) Master's Degree
8 45 (2.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 36 (2.03%) Azure Certification
10 31 (1.75%) ISTQB
10 31 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
11 27 (1.52%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 25 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
13 20 (1.13%) PhD
14 18 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
15 15 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
16 13 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 12 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
18 11 (0.62%) CREST Certified
18 11 (0.62%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (6.59%) QA
2 44 (2.48%) Accessibility
3 23 (1.30%) GDPR
4 21 (1.18%) Data Quality
5 18 (1.01%) PCI DSS
6 16 (0.90%) SOC 2
7 12 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
8 9 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.23%) EU AI Act
9 4 (0.23%) SEPA
9 4 (0.23%) SLA
9 4 (0.23%) WCAG
10 3 (0.17%) NCSC
10 3 (0.17%) NIST
11 2 (0.11%) ECSS
11 2 (0.11%) MISRA
11 2 (0.11%) PSD2
12 1 (0.056%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.056%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 323 (18.19%) Docker
2 16 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
4 11 (0.62%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.45%) HDFS
6 5 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.23%) Firmware
7 4 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.11%) KVM
8 2 (0.11%) vSphere
9 1 (0.056%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.056%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.056%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.056%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.056%) Squid
Systems Management
1 433 (24.38%) Kubernetes
2 177 (9.97%) Terraform
3 92 (5.18%) Grafana
4 78 (4.39%) Ansible
5 43 (2.42%) Prometheus
6 42 (2.36%) Argo
7 27 (1.52%) HP Fortify
8 25 (1.41%) Kibana
9 19 (1.07%) Kustomize
10 10 (0.56%) Rancher
11 7 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (0.39%) Progress Chef
11 7 (0.39%) Puppet
11 7 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.34%) yum
13 5 (0.28%) FTK
13 5 (0.28%) logstash
14 3 (0.17%) AWS Copilot
14 3 (0.17%) Control-M
14 3 (0.17%) Nagios
Vendors
1 98 (5.52%) Oracle
2 68 (3.83%) Microsoft
3 65 (3.66%) Google
4 28 (1.58%) MuleSoft
5 25 (1.41%) Atlassian
5 25 (1.41%) Databricks
6 24 (1.35%) IBM
6 24 (1.35%) Salesforce
7 22 (1.24%) Informatica
8 21 (1.18%) Splunk
9 19 (1.07%) Talend
10 18 (1.01%) Guidewire
11 17 (0.96%) SAP
12 13 (0.73%) Dynatrace
12 13 (0.73%) Red Hat
13 12 (0.68%) Dell
14 11 (0.62%) OpenAI
15 10 (0.56%) Adobe
15 10 (0.56%) Solace
16 9 (0.51%) Siemens