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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 29 36
Rank change year-on-year -28 +7 -15
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,478 2,967 3,807
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.66% 6.81% 5.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.81% 23.18% 17.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,590 1,367 2,648
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £135,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +3.23%

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 16,734 12,798 21,404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.93% 29.37% 29.63%
Number of salaries quoted 12,165 8,542 15,977
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,025 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +4.56% -5.84%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 8 August 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 8 August 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 -12 1,083 £85,000 -19.05% 1,262
North of England -27 688 £67,500 +0.69% 209
North West -35 310 £70,000 - 116
South West -11 268 £60,000 - 123
Yorkshire +41 223 £72,500 +9.43% 51
South East -59 213 £67,500 +3.85% 133
North East +5 155 £55,000 +15.79% 44
Midlands -68 145 £67,500 +12.50% 88
West Midlands -46 122 £67,500 +12.03% 63
East of England -67 57 £51,359 +16.73% 47
East Midlands -76 22 £60,000 +26.32% 25
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 62 (2.50%) Confluence
2 52 (2.10%) Apache
3 41 (1.65%) Apache Spark
4 30 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.73%) Camunda
6 14 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 14 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
7 9 (0.36%) JBoss
8 8 (0.32%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.20%) CICS
10 5 (0.20%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.16%) CMS
11 4 (0.16%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.16%) SAS
11 4 (0.16%) SharePoint
11 4 (0.16%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.12%) Documentum
12 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 19 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.65%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.16%) Moqups
6 2 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.081%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.081%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.081%) Windchill
7 1 (0.040%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.040%) Simulink
7 1 (0.040%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.28%) Maximo
3 5 (0.20%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.20%) Temenos T24
4 4 (0.16%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.12%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.081%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.081%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 1 (0.040%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.040%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.040%) Endur
7 1 (0.040%) Findur
7 1 (0.040%) Infor SunSystems
7 1 (0.040%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.040%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.040%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.040%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.040%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.040%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.040%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,036 (41.81%) AWS
2 521 (21.03%) Azure
3 308 (12.43%) GCP
4 199 (8.03%) Serverless
5 159 (6.42%) AWS CloudFormation
6 136 (5.49%) GitHub
7 126 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
8 119 (4.80%) Amazon ECS
9 113 (4.56%) Amazon S3
10 95 (3.83%) SaaS
11 90 (3.63%) Amazon EKS
12 80 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
13 69 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
14 65 (2.62%) AWS Step Functions
15 41 (1.65%) Amazon ECR
16 40 (1.61%) OpenShift
17 38 (1.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 35 (1.41%) Amazon SQS
18 35 (1.41%) Azure Service Bus
19 34 (1.37%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.45%) HTTP
2 31 (1.25%) Broadband
3 19 (0.77%) TCP/IP
4 17 (0.69%) Network Security
5 13 (0.52%) DMARC
6 9 (0.36%) MQTT
7 8 (0.32%) IPv4
7 8 (0.32%) Software-Defined Networking
8 6 (0.24%) BGP
8 6 (0.24%) DNS
8 6 (0.24%) Firewall
8 6 (0.24%) IPsec
8 6 (0.24%) Kerberos
8 6 (0.24%) VPN
9 5 (0.20%) AMQP
9 5 (0.20%) Internet
10 4 (0.16%) Ethernet
11 3 (0.12%) LAN
11 3 (0.12%) RIP
11 3 (0.12%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
2 170 (6.86%) NoSQL
3 127 (5.13%) MongoDB
4 119 (4.80%) Relational Database
5 86 (3.47%) MySQL
6 83 (3.35%) DynamoDB
7 77 (3.11%) SQL Server
8 40 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
9 35 (1.41%) Big Data
10 28 (1.13%) Redis
11 26 (1.05%) Db2
12 24 (0.97%) BigQuery
13 23 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
13 23 (0.93%) Hadoop
14 22 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
15 16 (0.65%) Metadata
15 16 (0.65%) RDBMS
16 15 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
17 14 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
18 13 (0.52%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 263 (10.61%) Git
2 201 (8.11%) Jenkins
3 176 (7.10%) GitLab
4 96 (3.87%) JIRA
5 88 (3.55%) JUnit
6 86 (3.47%) Cucumber
7 76 (3.07%) Maven
7 76 (3.07%) Selenium
8 64 (2.58%) Cypress.io
9 50 (2.02%) SonarQube
10 47 (1.90%) TeamCity
11 44 (1.78%) Postman
12 40 (1.61%) JMeter
13 37 (1.49%) Eclipse
13 37 (1.49%) Mockito
14 34 (1.37%) Bitbucket
15 33 (1.33%) Subversion
16 25 (1.01%) Claude Code
17 23 (0.93%) REST Assured
18 19 (0.77%) Gradle
General
1 668 (26.96%) Finance
2 411 (16.59%) Social Skills
3 250 (10.09%) Public Sector
4 222 (8.96%) Banking
5 177 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 132 (5.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 102 (4.12%) Front Office
8 101 (4.08%) Law
9 75 (3.03%) Retail
10 62 (2.50%) Financial Institution
11 40 (1.61%) Investment Banking
12 35 (1.41%) Marketing
13 34 (1.37%) Health Technology
14 32 (1.29%) Back Office
15 29 (1.17%) Legal
15 29 (1.17%) Manufacturing
16 23 (0.93%) Games
17 20 (0.81%) Aerospace
17 20 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
17 20 (0.81%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 853 (34.42%) Developer
2 629 (25.38%) Senior
3 576 (23.24%) Software Engineer
4 558 (22.52%) Java Developer
5 422 (17.03%) Java Engineer
6 354 (14.29%) Lead
7 214 (8.64%) Senior Developer
8 197 (7.95%) Senior Software Engineer
9 163 (6.58%) Java Software Engineer
10 149 (6.01%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 138 (5.57%) Full-Stack Developer
11 138 (5.57%) Senior Java Developer
12 132 (5.33%) Senior Java Engineer
13 123 (4.96%) Lead Software Engineer
14 122 (4.92%) Software Developer
15 87 (3.51%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 82 (3.31%) Principal Engineer
17 79 (3.19%) Architect
18 76 (3.07%) DevOps Engineer
19 71 (2.87%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 572 (23.08%) Spring
2 475 (19.17%) Spring Boot
3 284 (11.46%) React
4 268 (10.82%) Kafka
5 236 (9.52%) AngularJS
6 234 (9.44%) REST
7 218 (8.80%) Node.js
8 198 (7.99%) RESTful
9 169 (6.82%) .NET
10 85 (3.43%) Web Services
11 78 (3.15%) CSS
12 70 (2.82%) HTML
13 63 (2.54%) Vue
14 62 (2.50%) GraphQL
15 56 (2.26%) OAuth
16 51 (2.06%) Playwright
17 50 (2.02%) Hibernate
18 48 (1.94%) RabbitMQ
19 45 (1.82%) SOAP
20 44 (1.78%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 322 (12.99%) Cloud Native
2 239 (9.64%) Distributed Systems
3 162 (6.54%) Product Ownership
4 111 (4.48%) Public Cloud
5 72 (2.91%) Onboarding
6 59 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
7 55 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 54 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
9 49 (1.98%) Fixed Income
10 44 (1.78%) Distributed Architecture
11 41 (1.65%) Data Structures
12 39 (1.57%) Virtual Team
13 36 (1.45%) e-Learning
14 35 (1.41%) Mobile App
14 35 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
15 33 (1.33%) Equities
16 30 (1.21%) Algorithms
17 25 (1.01%) AI Agents
18 23 (0.93%) Blog
19 22 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 227 (9.16%) Linux
2 68 (2.74%) Windows
3 43 (1.74%) Android
3 43 (1.74%) Unix
4 19 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (0.65%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.61%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.20%) CentOS
8 4 (0.16%) Debian
8 4 (0.16%) Kali Linux
8 4 (0.16%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.081%) VMS
11 1 (0.040%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 886 (35.75%) Software Engineering
2 837 (33.78%) Agile
3 815 (32.89%) CI/CD
4 597 (24.09%) Microservices
5 591 (23.85%) DevOps
6 503 (20.30%) Test Automation
7 467 (18.85%) Full-Stack Development
8 436 (17.59%) Mentoring
9 414 (16.71%) Problem-Solving
10 368 (14.85%) AI
11 319 (12.87%) Containerisation
12 295 (11.90%) Infrastructure as Code
13 291 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
14 254 (10.25%) TDD
15 243 (9.81%) Roadmaps
16 241 (9.73%) Technical Leadership
17 226 (9.12%) Computer Science
18 221 (8.92%) Scrum
19 212 (8.56%) SDLC
20 211 (8.51%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 814 (32.85%) Python
2 470 (18.97%) SQL
3 432 (17.43%) JavaScript
4 266 (10.73%) C#
5 263 (10.61%) TypeScript
6 239 (9.64%) C++
7 143 (5.77%) Go
8 118 (4.76%) Bash
9 110 (4.44%) Kotlin
10 75 (3.03%) Scala
11 74 (2.99%) C
12 60 (2.42%) PHP
13 58 (2.34%) Groovy
14 57 (2.30%) Rust
15 44 (1.78%) Perl
16 40 (1.61%) PowerShell
17 38 (1.53%) Ruby
18 34 (1.37%) PL/SQL
19 21 (0.85%) Shell Script
20 13 (0.52%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 444 (17.92%) Security Cleared
2 277 (11.18%) Degree
3 253 (10.21%) SC Cleared
4 157 (6.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 155 (6.26%) DV Cleared
6 99 (4.00%) AWS Certification
7 57 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 28 (1.13%) Master's Degree
9 20 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 20 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
10 19 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
11 18 (0.73%) ISTQB
11 18 (0.73%) OSCP
12 14 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.48%) DBS Check
15 10 (0.40%) CREST Certified
16 9 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
16 9 (0.36%) Azure Certification
17 8 (0.32%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (6.58%) QA
2 77 (3.11%) Accessibility
3 55 (2.22%) Data Quality
4 28 (1.13%) WCAG
5 20 (0.81%) GDPR
6 15 (0.61%) NIST
7 14 (0.56%) GRC
8 13 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.32%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.28%) ISO 20022
10 7 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.24%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 14443
12 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 7816
13 3 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.12%) MiFID
13 3 (0.12%) PSD2
13 3 (0.12%) UCITS
14 2 (0.081%) MIL-STD-1553
14 2 (0.081%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 409 (16.51%) Docker
2 26 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (0.89%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.48%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.44%) vSphere
6 8 (0.32%) Squid
6 8 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.24%) Firmware
7 6 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.20%) KVM
9 3 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 464 (18.72%) Kubernetes
2 286 (11.54%) Terraform
3 119 (4.80%) Ansible
4 92 (3.71%) Grafana
5 34 (1.37%) Prometheus
6 28 (1.13%) Argo
6 28 (1.13%) Kibana
7 27 (1.09%) HP Fortify
8 21 (0.85%) Puppet
9 13 (0.52%) Packer
10 11 (0.44%) Rancher
11 10 (0.40%) logstash
12 8 (0.32%) ZABBIX
13 6 (0.24%) Hadoop YARN
13 6 (0.24%) Kubeflow
13 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (0.24%) yum
14 5 (0.20%) Red Hat Satellite
15 4 (0.16%) Control-M
15 4 (0.16%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 106 (4.28%) Oracle
2 103 (4.16%) Microsoft
3 78 (3.15%) Google
4 61 (2.46%) Splunk
5 44 (1.78%) IBM
6 34 (1.37%) SAP
7 32 (1.29%) Red Hat
8 30 (1.21%) VMware
9 24 (0.97%) Adobe
9 24 (0.97%) AppDynamics
9 24 (0.97%) Dynatrace
10 23 (0.93%) Palantir
11 22 (0.89%) Salesforce
12 21 (0.85%) ServiceNow
13 18 (0.73%) Foundry
13 18 (0.73%) OpenAI
14 16 (0.65%) Databricks
15 13 (0.52%) MuleSoft
15 13 (0.52%) SendGrid
15 13 (0.52%) Solace