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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 26 35
Rank change year-on-year -31 +9 -15
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,305 3,025 4,752
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.73% 7.55% 5.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.85% 23.82% 16.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,512 1,433 3,526
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,250
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 £71,991
% change year-on-year -6.67% +4.18% -7.11%

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 15,523 12,700 29,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.36% 31.68% 30.74%
Number of salaries quoted 11,232 8,557 23,158
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 £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 24 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 24 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 1,045 £85,000 -19.05% 292
North of England -27 649 £69,305 +2.67% 124
North West -38 284 £70,000 -6.67% 64
Yorkshire +24 233 £72,500 +2.12% 34
South East -41 216 £70,000 +7.69% 101
South West -34 201 £60,000 -2.04% 55
North East +6 132 £52,500 +13.51% 28
Midlands -91 111 £62,500 +13.64% 45
West Midlands -59 91 £62,500 +4.17% 32
East of England -60 58 £53,180 +19.50% 34
East Midlands -85 19 £60,000 +26.32% 13
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 (1.95%) Apache
2 44 (1.91%) Confluence
3 35 (1.52%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
6 13 (0.56%) JBoss
7 9 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.35%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
9 6 (0.26%) Camunda
9 6 (0.26%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.22%) CMS
10 5 (0.22%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.17%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.13%) CICS
12 3 (0.13%) SAS
12 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
13 2 (0.087%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.087%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.48%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.087%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.087%) PTC Creo
5 2 (0.087%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 13 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.48%) Maximo
3 5 (0.22%) Temenos T24
4 4 (0.17%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.087%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.043%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.043%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.043%) Endur
7 1 (0.043%) Findur
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.043%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 944 (40.95%) AWS
2 448 (19.44%) Azure
3 287 (12.45%) GCP
4 187 (8.11%) Serverless
5 143 (6.20%) AWS CloudFormation
6 118 (5.12%) Amazon S3
6 118 (5.12%) AWS Lambda
7 115 (4.99%) SaaS
8 112 (4.86%) GitHub
9 111 (4.82%) Amazon ECS
10 103 (4.47%) Amazon EKS
11 72 (3.12%) AWS Step Functions
12 66 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
13 52 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
14 44 (1.91%) Amazon ECR
14 44 (1.91%) Amazon SQS
15 43 (1.87%) Apigee
16 37 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 36 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
18 35 (1.52%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 44 (1.91%) Broadband
2 31 (1.34%) HTTP
3 25 (1.08%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.56%) DMARC
5 8 (0.35%) IPv4
5 8 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
6 7 (0.30%) AMQP
6 7 (0.30%) MQTT
6 7 (0.30%) Network Security
7 5 (0.22%) BGP
7 5 (0.22%) Internet
7 5 (0.22%) VPN
8 3 (0.13%) Firewall
8 3 (0.13%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.13%) VLAN
9 2 (0.087%) DNS
9 2 (0.087%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.087%) LAN
9 2 (0.087%) SAN
9 2 (0.087%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (7.77%) NoSQL
2 166 (7.20%) PostgreSQL
3 105 (4.56%) MongoDB
4 100 (4.34%) Relational Database
5 87 (3.77%) DynamoDB
6 75 (3.25%) MySQL
7 68 (2.95%) SQL Server
8 41 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
9 31 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
10 30 (1.30%) RDBMS
11 25 (1.08%) BigQuery
11 25 (1.08%) Db2
12 24 (1.04%) Big Data
13 22 (0.95%) Redis
14 19 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
15 15 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
15 15 (0.65%) Hadoop
15 15 (0.65%) Metadata
16 13 (0.56%) Power BI
17 12 (0.52%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 211 (9.15%) Git
2 176 (7.64%) Jenkins
3 163 (7.07%) GitLab
4 87 (3.77%) JIRA
5 78 (3.38%) Cucumber
6 76 (3.30%) Maven
7 70 (3.04%) Selenium
8 65 (2.82%) JUnit
9 63 (2.73%) Cypress.io
10 56 (2.43%) TeamCity
11 54 (2.34%) SonarQube
12 39 (1.69%) Postman
13 35 (1.52%) JMeter
14 29 (1.26%) Mockito
15 28 (1.21%) Bitbucket
16 26 (1.13%) Gradle
16 26 (1.13%) Subversion
17 25 (1.08%) Claude Code
18 24 (1.04%) REST Assured
19 22 (0.95%) Eclipse
General
1 574 (24.90%) Finance
2 353 (15.31%) Social Skills
3 216 (9.37%) Banking
4 207 (8.98%) Public Sector
5 159 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
6 144 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 102 (4.43%) Front Office
7 102 (4.43%) Law
8 91 (3.95%) Retail
9 68 (2.95%) Financial Institution
10 47 (2.04%) Back Office
11 39 (1.69%) Investment Banking
12 30 (1.30%) Games
12 30 (1.30%) Health Technology
13 21 (0.91%) Aerospace
14 20 (0.87%) Manufacturing
15 19 (0.82%) Telecoms
16 18 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
16 18 (0.78%) Tech for Good
17 17 (0.74%) Legal
Job Titles
1 867 (37.61%) Developer
2 580 (25.16%) Java Developer
3 559 (24.25%) Senior
4 530 (22.99%) Software Engineer
5 396 (17.18%) Java Engineer
6 331 (14.36%) Lead
7 210 (9.11%) Senior Developer
8 176 (7.64%) Java Software Engineer
9 175 (7.59%) Senior Software Engineer
10 153 (6.64%) Senior Java Developer
11 151 (6.55%) Full-Stack Developer
12 127 (5.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 121 (5.25%) Senior Java Engineer
14 120 (5.21%) Software Developer
15 112 (4.86%) Lead Software Engineer
16 98 (4.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 86 (3.73%) Architect
18 66 (2.86%) Lead Developer
18 66 (2.86%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 65 (2.82%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 515 (22.34%) Spring
2 437 (18.96%) Spring Boot
3 287 (12.45%) React
4 230 (9.98%) AngularJS
5 227 (9.85%) REST
6 213 (9.24%) Node.js
7 207 (8.98%) Kafka
8 159 (6.90%) RESTful
9 145 (6.29%) .NET
10 89 (3.86%) Web Services
11 75 (3.25%) CSS
12 74 (3.21%) HTML
13 73 (3.17%) Vue
14 62 (2.69%) GraphQL
15 61 (2.65%) SOAP
16 55 (2.39%) JSON
17 51 (2.21%) Elastic Stack
18 49 (2.13%) OAuth
19 48 (2.08%) Hibernate
20 46 (2.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 268 (11.63%) Cloud Native
2 171 (7.42%) Distributed Systems
3 145 (6.29%) Product Ownership
4 98 (4.25%) Public Cloud
5 54 (2.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 49 (2.13%) Fixed Income
7 47 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
8 41 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
9 37 (1.61%) Data Structures
10 36 (1.56%) Distributed Architecture
10 36 (1.56%) Onboarding
10 36 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
11 35 (1.52%) Mobile App
12 34 (1.48%) e-Learning
13 32 (1.39%) Blog
14 31 (1.34%) Virtual Team
15 30 (1.30%) Equities
16 20 (0.87%) Social Media
17 19 (0.82%) Algorithms
17 19 (0.82%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 209 (9.07%) Linux
2 50 (2.17%) Windows
3 48 (2.08%) Unix
4 47 (2.04%) Android
5 14 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.52%) Apple iOS
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
1 795 (34.49%) Software Engineering
2 793 (34.40%) Agile
3 705 (30.59%) CI/CD
4 537 (23.30%) DevOps
5 505 (21.91%) Microservices
6 458 (19.87%) Full-Stack Development
7 451 (19.57%) Test Automation
8 404 (17.53%) Mentoring
9 351 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
10 269 (11.67%) Containerisation
11 262 (11.37%) AI
12 241 (10.46%) Continuous Improvement
13 238 (10.33%) TDD
14 225 (9.76%) Infrastructure as Code
15 217 (9.41%) Technical Leadership
16 211 (9.15%) Roadmaps
17 207 (8.98%) Scrum
18 198 (8.59%) Computer Science
19 181 (7.85%) SDLC
20 161 (6.98%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 688 (29.85%) Python
2 439 (19.05%) SQL
3 412 (17.87%) JavaScript
4 254 (11.02%) TypeScript
5 236 (10.24%) C#
6 207 (8.98%) C++
7 156 (6.77%) Go
8 114 (4.95%) Bash
9 106 (4.60%) Kotlin
10 62 (2.69%) C
11 61 (2.65%) Groovy
12 56 (2.43%) Scala
13 54 (2.34%) Rust
14 46 (2.00%) PHP
15 31 (1.34%) PL/SQL
16 30 (1.30%) PowerShell
17 24 (1.04%) Perl
18 16 (0.69%) Apex Code
18 16 (0.69%) Ruby
18 16 (0.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 373 (16.18%) Security Cleared
2 247 (10.72%) Degree
3 235 (10.20%) SC Cleared
4 136 (5.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 121 (5.25%) DV Cleared
6 94 (4.08%) AWS Certification
7 41 (1.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 27 (1.17%) Master's Degree
9 25 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
10 23 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 20 (0.87%) ISTQB
11 20 (0.87%) OSCP
12 17 (0.74%) DBS Check
13 15 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
14 14 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (0.52%) CREST Certified
16 11 (0.48%) PhD
17 10 (0.43%) Azure Certification
17 10 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
18 9 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (6.68%) QA
2 63 (2.73%) Accessibility
3 40 (1.74%) Data Quality
4 19 (0.82%) WCAG
5 17 (0.74%) GDPR
6 14 (0.61%) GRC
7 12 (0.52%) SOC 2
8 11 (0.48%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.30%) ISO 20022
10 6 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 4 (0.17%) NIST
12 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.087%) Good Clinical Practice
13 2 (0.087%) Software Quality Assurance
14 1 (0.043%) GxP
14 1 (0.043%) MiFID
System Software
1 358 (15.53%) Docker
2 16 (0.69%) Active Directory
2 16 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.48%) vSphere
4 8 (0.35%) Squid
4 8 (0.35%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.26%) Firmware
6 5 (0.22%) KVM
7 4 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.087%) Embedded Firmware
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 (0.043%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.043%) OpenDJ
10 1 (0.043%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 424 (18.39%) Kubernetes
2 266 (11.54%) Terraform
3 106 (4.60%) Grafana
4 98 (4.25%) Ansible
5 44 (1.91%) Prometheus
6 40 (1.74%) Argo
7 32 (1.39%) HP Fortify
8 29 (1.26%) Kibana
9 14 (0.61%) Packer
9 14 (0.61%) Puppet
10 12 (0.52%) Kustomize
10 12 (0.52%) Rancher
11 11 (0.48%) logstash
12 8 (0.35%) ZABBIX
13 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (0.26%) yum
15 5 (0.22%) FTK
16 3 (0.13%) AWS Copilot
16 3 (0.13%) Data Guard
16 3 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 86 (3.73%) Oracle
2 84 (3.64%) Microsoft
3 69 (2.99%) Google
4 48 (2.08%) Splunk
5 36 (1.56%) IBM
6 25 (1.08%) Salesforce
7 24 (1.04%) Palantir
8 21 (0.91%) Dynatrace
8 21 (0.91%) Red Hat
8 21 (0.91%) VMware
9 20 (0.87%) SAP
10 19 (0.82%) Foundry
11 18 (0.78%) AppDynamics
12 17 (0.74%) ServiceNow
13 15 (0.65%) MuleSoft
14 14 (0.61%) Adobe
15 13 (0.56%) SendGrid
16 11 (0.48%) Solace
17 9 (0.39%) Atlassian
18 8 (0.35%) iManage