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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 25 34
Rank change year-on-year -28 +9 -14
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,293 3,009 4,711
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.78% 7.65% 5.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.22% 23.79% 16.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,493 1,411 3,514
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £39,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £137,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -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 15,068 12,650 28,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.28% 32.17% 30.63%
Number of salaries quoted 10,846 8,458 22,993
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
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 £85,000 £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 12 June 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 12 June 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 1,058 £85,000 -19.05% 168
North of England -30 632 £69,305 +2.67% 102
North West -34 272 £70,000 -8.98% 51
Yorkshire +24 237 £72,500 +3.57% 33
South East -31 222 £70,000 +7.69% 83
South West -34 191 £60,000 - 65
North East +5 123 £52,130 +9.75% 20
Midlands -86 109 £60,000 +9.09% 28
West Midlands -60 89 £59,250 -1.25% 22
East of England -59 56 £53,180 +20.86% 29
East Midlands -86 19 £60,000 +26.32% 6
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 45 (1.96%) Apache
2 40 (1.74%) Confluence
3 35 (1.53%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
6 14 (0.61%) JBoss
7 8 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.35%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.31%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.22%) CMS
9 5 (0.22%) GeoServer
9 5 (0.22%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.17%) Camunda
10 4 (0.17%) IIS
11 3 (0.13%) CICS
11 3 (0.13%) SAS
11 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.087%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (0.31%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.13%) Windchill
5 2 (0.087%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.087%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.044%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 11 (0.48%) Maximo
1 11 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.17%) Temenos T24
3 3 (0.13%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.087%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.044%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.044%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.044%) Endur
5 1 (0.044%) Findur
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.044%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.044%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 936 (40.82%) AWS
2 430 (18.75%) Azure
3 271 (11.82%) GCP
4 178 (7.76%) Serverless
5 136 (5.93%) AWS CloudFormation
6 120 (5.23%) SaaS
7 117 (5.10%) Amazon S3
8 112 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
9 108 (4.71%) Amazon ECS
10 105 (4.58%) GitHub
11 103 (4.49%) Amazon EKS
12 72 (3.14%) AWS Step Functions
13 65 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
14 45 (1.96%) Amazon ECR
15 44 (1.92%) Apigee
16 42 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
17 41 (1.79%) Amazon SQS
18 37 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 37 (1.61%) dbt
19 35 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.18%) Broadband
2 33 (1.44%) HTTP
3 26 (1.13%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.39%) DMARC
5 8 (0.35%) IPv4
5 8 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
6 7 (0.31%) AMQP
7 6 (0.26%) MQTT
8 4 (0.17%) Internet
9 3 (0.13%) BGP
9 3 (0.13%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.13%) Network Security
9 3 (0.13%) VLAN
9 3 (0.13%) VPN
10 2 (0.087%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.087%) Firewall
10 2 (0.087%) LAN
10 2 (0.087%) SAN
10 2 (0.087%) WAN
11 1 (0.044%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (8.24%) NoSQL
2 162 (7.06%) PostgreSQL
3 107 (4.67%) MongoDB
4 104 (4.54%) Relational Database
5 89 (3.88%) DynamoDB
6 74 (3.23%) MySQL
7 67 (2.92%) SQL Server
8 41 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
9 37 (1.61%) RDBMS
10 32 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
11 26 (1.13%) Big Data
12 24 (1.05%) Db2
13 23 (1.00%) BigQuery
13 23 (1.00%) Redis
14 18 (0.78%) Hadoop
15 16 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
16 15 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
16 15 (0.65%) Metadata
17 13 (0.57%) Neo4j
17 13 (0.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 197 (8.59%) Git
2 169 (7.37%) Jenkins
3 155 (6.76%) GitLab
4 91 (3.97%) JIRA
5 77 (3.36%) Maven
6 75 (3.27%) Selenium
7 73 (3.18%) Cucumber
8 64 (2.79%) Cypress.io
9 63 (2.75%) JUnit
10 57 (2.49%) TeamCity
11 54 (2.35%) SonarQube
12 40 (1.74%) Postman
13 34 (1.48%) JMeter
14 31 (1.35%) Mockito
15 28 (1.22%) Bitbucket
15 28 (1.22%) Gradle
16 25 (1.09%) Claude Code
17 24 (1.05%) REST Assured
18 19 (0.83%) Subversion
19 18 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 573 (24.99%) Finance
2 358 (15.61%) Social Skills
3 228 (9.94%) Banking
4 204 (8.90%) Public Sector
5 161 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
6 153 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 106 (4.62%) Front Office
7 106 (4.62%) Law
8 95 (4.14%) Retail
9 71 (3.10%) Financial Institution
10 49 (2.14%) Back Office
11 42 (1.83%) Investment Banking
12 31 (1.35%) Games
13 28 (1.22%) Health Technology
14 22 (0.96%) Aerospace
14 22 (0.96%) Telecoms
15 19 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
15 19 (0.83%) Tech for Good
16 18 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
17 17 (0.74%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 852 (37.16%) Developer
2 570 (24.86%) Java Developer
3 563 (24.55%) Senior
4 537 (23.42%) Software Engineer
5 403 (17.58%) Java Engineer
6 337 (14.70%) Lead
7 213 (9.29%) Senior Developer
8 182 (7.94%) Java Software Engineer
9 173 (7.54%) Senior Software Engineer
10 154 (6.72%) Senior Java Developer
11 147 (6.41%) Full-Stack Developer
12 137 (5.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 124 (5.41%) Senior Java Engineer
14 114 (4.97%) Software Developer
15 113 (4.93%) Lead Software Engineer
16 93 (4.06%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 80 (3.49%) Architect
18 68 (2.97%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 66 (2.88%) Lead Developer
20 56 (2.44%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 505 (22.02%) Spring
2 426 (18.58%) Spring Boot
3 299 (13.04%) React
4 228 (9.94%) AngularJS
5 227 (9.90%) REST
6 207 (9.03%) Node.js
7 202 (8.81%) Kafka
8 150 (6.54%) .NET
9 142 (6.19%) RESTful
10 86 (3.75%) Web Services
11 85 (3.71%) HTML
12 78 (3.40%) CSS
13 67 (2.92%) Vue
14 66 (2.88%) SOAP
15 62 (2.70%) GraphQL
16 57 (2.49%) Elastic Stack
16 57 (2.49%) JSON
17 45 (1.96%) Hibernate
17 45 (1.96%) Playwright
18 44 (1.92%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 259 (11.30%) Cloud Native
2 174 (7.59%) Distributed Systems
3 143 (6.24%) Product Ownership
4 96 (4.19%) Public Cloud
5 55 (2.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 49 (2.14%) Fixed Income
7 42 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
8 40 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
9 39 (1.70%) Distributed Architecture
9 39 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
10 37 (1.61%) Data Structures
11 34 (1.48%) Blog
11 34 (1.48%) e-Learning
12 33 (1.44%) Equities
12 33 (1.44%) Mobile App
13 30 (1.31%) Virtual Team
14 27 (1.18%) Onboarding
15 21 (0.92%) Algorithms
16 20 (0.87%) FPGA
16 20 (0.87%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 199 (8.68%) Linux
2 50 (2.18%) Unix
3 49 (2.14%) Android
4 47 (2.05%) Windows
5 14 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 14 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.52%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.22%) CentOS
7 5 (0.22%) Debian
7 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.17%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 804 (35.06%) Agile
2 780 (34.02%) Software Engineering
3 687 (29.96%) CI/CD
4 526 (22.94%) DevOps
5 490 (21.37%) Microservices
6 470 (20.50%) Full-Stack Development
7 439 (19.15%) Test Automation
8 408 (17.79%) Mentoring
9 345 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
10 261 (11.38%) Containerisation
11 259 (11.30%) AI
12 232 (10.12%) Continuous Improvement
13 231 (10.07%) TDD
14 219 (9.55%) Technical Leadership
15 217 (9.46%) Infrastructure as Code
16 216 (9.42%) Roadmaps
17 212 (9.25%) Scrum
18 199 (8.68%) Computer Science
19 177 (7.72%) SDLC
20 161 (7.02%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 676 (29.48%) Python
2 441 (19.23%) SQL
3 420 (18.32%) JavaScript
4 262 (11.43%) TypeScript
5 235 (10.25%) C#
6 190 (8.29%) C++
7 159 (6.93%) Go
8 111 (4.84%) Bash
9 107 (4.67%) Kotlin
10 61 (2.66%) C
10 61 (2.66%) Groovy
11 53 (2.31%) Scala
12 46 (2.01%) Rust
13 40 (1.74%) PHP
14 33 (1.44%) PL/SQL
15 29 (1.26%) PowerShell
16 17 (0.74%) Perl
16 17 (0.74%) R
17 16 (0.70%) Apex Code
18 14 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 361 (15.74%) Security Cleared
2 255 (11.12%) Degree
3 228 (9.94%) SC Cleared
4 134 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 134 (5.84%) DV Cleared
5 94 (4.10%) AWS Certification
6 36 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 30 (1.31%) Master's Degree
8 24 (1.05%) ISTQB
8 24 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
9 22 (0.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 22 (0.96%) OSCP
10 19 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
11 18 (0.78%) DBS Check
12 14 (0.61%) CREST Certified
13 13 (0.57%) Azure Certification
13 13 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (0.52%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 12 (0.52%) PhD
15 10 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (6.45%) QA
2 59 (2.57%) Accessibility
3 39 (1.70%) Data Quality
4 15 (0.65%) GDPR
4 15 (0.65%) WCAG
5 14 (0.61%) GRC
5 14 (0.61%) PCI DSS
6 12 (0.52%) SOC 2
7 8 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
8 7 (0.31%) ISO 20022
9 5 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 4 (0.17%) NIST
11 2 (0.087%) Good Clinical Practice
11 2 (0.087%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.087%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.044%) MiFID
System Software
1 350 (15.26%) Docker
2 16 (0.70%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.48%) vSphere
5 8 (0.35%) Squid
5 8 (0.35%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.22%) Firmware
7 4 (0.17%) KVM
8 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.087%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.087%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.087%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.044%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.044%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.044%) OpenDJ
10 1 (0.044%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 419 (18.27%) Kubernetes
2 263 (11.47%) Terraform
3 103 (4.49%) Grafana
4 98 (4.27%) Ansible
5 49 (2.14%) Prometheus
6 47 (2.05%) Argo
7 33 (1.44%) HP Fortify
8 28 (1.22%) Kibana
9 18 (0.78%) Kustomize
10 14 (0.61%) Packer
11 12 (0.52%) Puppet
12 11 (0.48%) Rancher
13 9 (0.39%) logstash
14 8 (0.35%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
15 6 (0.26%) yum
16 5 (0.22%) FTK
17 3 (0.13%) AWS Copilot
17 3 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
17 3 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 87 (3.79%) Oracle
2 84 (3.66%) Microsoft
3 73 (3.18%) Google
4 44 (1.92%) Splunk
5 30 (1.31%) IBM
6 26 (1.13%) Salesforce
7 22 (0.96%) Palantir
8 21 (0.92%) Red Hat
9 20 (0.87%) Dynatrace
10 19 (0.83%) Foundry
10 19 (0.83%) VMware
11 17 (0.74%) AppDynamics
11 17 (0.74%) ServiceNow
12 15 (0.65%) MuleSoft
12 15 (0.65%) SAP
13 12 (0.52%) Adobe
13 12 (0.52%) Databricks
13 12 (0.52%) Solace
14 11 (0.48%) Atlassian
15 9 (0.39%) SendGrid