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 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 31 31
Rank change year-on-year -25 0 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,678 2,748 3,787
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.59% 6.34% 5.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.91% 23.57% 18.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,689 1,187 2,356
10th Percentile £43,100 £41,250 £42,125
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% +3.23%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +5.89%

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 16,836 11,659 21,010
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.27% 26.90% 31.04%
Number of salaries quoted 12,263 7,695 12,971
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,175 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,556
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 27 September 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 27 September 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 -13 1,110 £83,750 -20.24% 1,706
North of England -23 751 £69,305 +6.62% 404
North West -33 379 £70,000 - 228
South West -1 322 £65,000 +8.33% 206
South East -48 238 £67,500 +3.85% 174
Midlands -51 193 £69,308 +15.51% 149
Yorkshire +25 189 £75,000 +15.38% 102
North East +15 183 £55,000 +15.79% 74
West Midlands -24 166 £70,000 +16.67% 117
East of England -81 48 £60,000 +33.33% 54
East Midlands -83 27 £60,000 +3.90% 32
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 61 (2.28%) Confluence
2 58 (2.17%) Apache
3 38 (1.42%) Apache Spark
4 26 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.67%) Camunda
6 15 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 10 (0.37%) Jupyter
7 10 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
8 8 (0.30%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.22%) CMS
10 6 (0.22%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.19%) CICS
11 5 (0.19%) JBoss
11 5 (0.19%) WebLogic
12 4 (0.15%) SAS
12 4 (0.15%) SharePoint
12 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.11%) nginx
Applications
1 21 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.56%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.34%) Simulink
4 7 (0.26%) Moqups
5 5 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.15%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.11%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.075%) PTC Creo
8 2 (0.075%) Windchill
9 1 (0.037%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.037%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.19%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
3 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.11%) Maximo
5 2 (0.075%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.075%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 2 (0.075%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.037%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.037%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.037%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.037%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.037%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.037%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.037%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.037%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,084 (40.48%) AWS
2 541 (20.20%) Azure
3 307 (11.46%) GCP
4 208 (7.77%) Serverless
5 169 (6.31%) GitHub
6 159 (5.94%) AWS CloudFormation
7 139 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
8 111 (4.14%) Amazon S3
9 109 (4.07%) Amazon EKS
10 108 (4.03%) Amazon ECS
10 108 (4.03%) SaaS
11 96 (3.58%) GitHub Actions
12 86 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
13 58 (2.17%) AWS Step Functions
14 51 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
15 43 (1.61%) Datadog
16 40 (1.49%) OpenShift
17 38 (1.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 38 (1.42%) Azure Service Bus
18 37 (1.38%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 41 (1.53%) HTTP
2 18 (0.67%) TCP/IP
3 17 (0.63%) Network Security
4 15 (0.56%) DMARC
5 11 (0.41%) VPN
6 10 (0.37%) BGP
7 9 (0.34%) DNS
7 9 (0.34%) IPv4
7 9 (0.34%) MQTT
7 9 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
7 9 (0.34%) Wireshark
8 8 (0.30%) AMQP
9 6 (0.22%) IPsec
10 5 (0.19%) Broadband
10 5 (0.19%) Ethernet
10 5 (0.19%) Firewall
10 5 (0.19%) Internet
11 4 (0.15%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.15%) RIP
12 3 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (6.24%) PostgreSQL
2 162 (6.05%) NoSQL
3 130 (4.85%) Relational Database
4 128 (4.78%) MongoDB
5 72 (2.69%) MySQL
6 70 (2.61%) DynamoDB
7 65 (2.43%) SQL Server
8 48 (1.79%) Big Data
9 38 (1.42%) Amazon Athena
10 28 (1.05%) Redis
11 26 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
12 25 (0.93%) Hadoop
12 25 (0.93%) Power BI
13 24 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
14 23 (0.86%) Data Lake
15 22 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
15 22 (0.82%) Db2
16 21 (0.78%) BigQuery
17 17 (0.63%) Flink
17 17 (0.63%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 294 (10.98%) Git
2 213 (7.95%) Jenkins
3 202 (7.54%) GitLab
4 102 (3.81%) JUnit
5 97 (3.62%) Cucumber
6 95 (3.55%) JIRA
7 72 (2.69%) Maven
8 64 (2.39%) Selenium
9 59 (2.20%) TeamCity
10 55 (2.05%) Cypress.io
11 47 (1.76%) Eclipse
12 46 (1.72%) Postman
13 43 (1.61%) SonarQube
14 41 (1.53%) Mockito
15 40 (1.49%) Subversion
16 36 (1.34%) Bitbucket
17 34 (1.27%) JMeter
18 25 (0.93%) Claude Code
19 19 (0.71%) REST Assured
20 18 (0.67%) Gatling
General
1 680 (25.39%) Finance
2 471 (17.59%) Social Skills
3 285 (10.64%) Banking
4 257 (9.60%) Public Sector
5 186 (6.95%) Analytical Skills
6 141 (5.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 121 (4.52%) Law
8 98 (3.66%) Retail
9 76 (2.84%) Financial Institution
10 69 (2.58%) Front Office
11 40 (1.49%) Back Office
11 40 (1.49%) Legal
12 39 (1.46%) Manufacturing
13 36 (1.34%) Marketing
14 35 (1.31%) Investment Banking
15 34 (1.27%) Health Technology
16 27 (1.01%) Publishing
17 23 (0.86%) Tech for Good
18 22 (0.82%) Aerospace
19 21 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 810 (30.25%) Developer
2 699 (26.10%) Senior
3 615 (22.96%) Software Engineer
4 562 (20.99%) Java Engineer
5 520 (19.42%) Java Developer
6 363 (13.55%) Lead
7 227 (8.48%) Senior Developer
8 203 (7.58%) Senior Software Engineer
9 196 (7.32%) Senior Java Engineer
10 192 (7.17%) Java Software Engineer
11 171 (6.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 142 (5.30%) Senior Java Developer
13 130 (4.85%) Full-Stack Developer
14 123 (4.59%) Software Developer
15 108 (4.03%) Lead Software Engineer
16 97 (3.62%) Principal Engineer
17 87 (3.25%) DevOps Engineer
18 83 (3.10%) Architect
19 80 (2.99%) Full-Stack Java Developer
20 76 (2.84%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 631 (23.56%) Spring
2 526 (19.64%) Spring Boot
3 320 (11.95%) Terraform
4 285 (10.64%) Kafka
5 283 (10.57%) React
6 266 (9.93%) REST
7 219 (8.18%) AngularJS
8 200 (7.47%) Node.js
9 197 (7.36%) RESTful
10 168 (6.27%) .NET
11 79 (2.95%) Web Services
12 67 (2.50%) HTML
13 66 (2.46%) CSS
14 61 (2.28%) OAuth
15 58 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
16 56 (2.09%) Hibernate
16 56 (2.09%) Vue
17 45 (1.68%) JSON
18 44 (1.64%) Jakarta EE
18 44 (1.64%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 360 (13.44%) Cloud Native
2 274 (10.23%) Distributed Systems
3 170 (6.35%) Product Ownership
4 128 (4.78%) Public Cloud
5 73 (2.73%) Onboarding
6 71 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
7 58 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
8 49 (1.83%) e-Learning
9 46 (1.72%) Data Structures
10 44 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
11 43 (1.61%) Algorithms
12 41 (1.53%) Virtual Team
13 40 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 38 (1.42%) Blog
15 33 (1.23%) Mobile App
16 31 (1.16%) AI Agents
16 31 (1.16%) Equities
17 27 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
18 26 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
18 26 (0.97%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 225 (8.40%) Linux
2 69 (2.58%) Windows
3 41 (1.53%) Android
4 38 (1.42%) Unix
5 28 (1.05%) Apple iOS
6 21 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 14 (0.52%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.30%) CentOS
9 7 (0.26%) Debian
9 7 (0.26%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.15%) Kali Linux
10 4 (0.15%) VMS
11 3 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.075%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.037%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,000 (37.34%) Software Engineering
2 899 (33.57%) CI/CD
3 817 (30.51%) Agile
4 650 (24.27%) Microservices
5 603 (22.52%) DevOps
6 530 (19.79%) Full-Stack Development
7 504 (18.82%) Test Automation
8 476 (17.77%) Mentoring
9 454 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
10 414 (15.46%) AI
11 352 (13.14%) Containerisation
12 327 (12.21%) Infrastructure as Code
13 320 (11.95%) Continuous Improvement
14 302 (11.28%) Event-Driven
15 251 (9.37%) Technical Leadership
16 247 (9.22%) Computer Science
17 240 (8.96%) Roadmaps
18 238 (8.89%) SDLC
19 236 (8.81%) Scrum
20 231 (8.63%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 835 (31.18%) Python
2 486 (18.15%) SQL
3 440 (16.43%) JavaScript
4 281 (10.49%) C++
5 274 (10.23%) C#
6 262 (9.78%) TypeScript
7 144 (5.38%) Go
8 116 (4.33%) Bash
9 107 (4.00%) Kotlin
10 79 (2.95%) Scala
11 77 (2.88%) C
12 58 (2.17%) Rust
13 51 (1.90%) PHP
14 50 (1.87%) Perl
15 46 (1.72%) Groovy
16 38 (1.42%) PowerShell
17 35 (1.31%) Ruby
18 30 (1.12%) PL/SQL
19 23 (0.86%) Shell Script
20 18 (0.67%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 497 (18.56%) Security Cleared
2 287 (10.72%) Degree
3 267 (9.97%) SC Cleared
4 173 (6.46%) DV Cleared
5 166 (6.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 101 (3.77%) AWS Certification
7 67 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 31 (1.16%) Master's Degree
9 23 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
10 21 (0.78%) OSCP
11 20 (0.75%) ISTQB
12 16 (0.60%) DBS Check
13 14 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
14 13 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
14 13 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 12 (0.45%) PhD
16 11 (0.41%) CREST Certified
17 8 (0.30%) RHCE
17 8 (0.30%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (6.61%) QA
2 83 (3.10%) Data Quality
3 78 (2.91%) Accessibility
4 26 (0.97%) GDPR
4 26 (0.97%) WCAG
5 17 (0.63%) ISO 20022
5 17 (0.63%) NIST
6 14 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.37%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.30%) GRC
9 7 (0.26%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 3 (0.11%) MiFID
12 3 (0.11%) MIL-STD-1553
12 3 (0.11%) PSD2
12 3 (0.11%) UCITS
13 2 (0.075%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.075%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 443 (16.54%) Docker
2 28 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (0.67%) Active Directory
4 15 (0.56%) VMware NSX
5 13 (0.49%) Firmware
6 12 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
7 11 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.41%) vSphere
8 8 (0.30%) Squid
9 7 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
10 6 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.19%) KVM
12 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
13 1 (0.037%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 529 (19.75%) Kubernetes
2 144 (5.38%) Ansible
3 101 (3.77%) Grafana
4 36 (1.34%) Prometheus
5 35 (1.31%) Argo
6 31 (1.16%) Puppet
7 29 (1.08%) Kibana
8 16 (0.60%) HP Fortify
8 16 (0.60%) Packer
9 14 (0.52%) Rancher
10 12 (0.45%) logstash
11 8 (0.30%) yum
11 8 (0.30%) ZABBIX
12 7 (0.26%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.22%) Hadoop YARN
13 6 (0.22%) Kubeflow
13 6 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.19%) FTK
14 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
14 5 (0.19%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 116 (4.33%) Microsoft
2 113 (4.22%) Oracle
3 91 (3.40%) Google
4 65 (2.43%) Splunk
5 45 (1.68%) Red Hat
6 42 (1.57%) IBM
7 32 (1.19%) SAP
8 31 (1.16%) VMware
9 30 (1.12%) AppDynamics
10 26 (0.97%) Adobe
11 25 (0.93%) Dynatrace
12 22 (0.82%) OpenAI
13 19 (0.71%) Palantir
14 18 (0.67%) Databricks
15 15 (0.56%) SendGrid
15 15 (0.56%) ServiceNow
16 14 (0.52%) Salesforce
17 13 (0.49%) Foundry
18 12 (0.45%) Bloomberg
18 12 (0.45%) Solace