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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 48 29
Rank change year-on-year -24 -19 -11
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,876 2,066 4,304
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.81% 5.45% 5.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.58% 15.81% 16.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,225 1,457 3,370
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -7.22%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £124,000 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year - +6.27% -5.90%

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 12,043 13,066 25,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.05% 34.47% 34.16%
Number of salaries quoted 8,746 9,288 21,834
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,683 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £84,688 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
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 20 March 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 20 March 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 -4 954 £95,500 -9.05% 286
North of England -10 392 £69,305 +6.62% 181
South East -46 192 £66,250 +2.71% 118
Yorkshire +6 186 £70,000 - 54
North West -22 173 £70,000 +7.69% 93
South West -21 168 £65,000 - 62
Midlands -44 89 £55,100 +22.44% 32
West Midlands +4 73 £55,200 +2.82% 18
East of England -87 35 £48,750 -2.50% 22
North East -22 33 £53,750 -5.70% 34
East Midlands -74 15 £44,500 +27.14% 14
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 46 (2.45%) Apache Spark
2 41 (2.19%) Apache
3 35 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (1.55%) Confluence
5 22 (1.17%) JBoss
6 14 (0.75%) OpenStack
7 13 (0.69%) WebSphere
8 9 (0.48%) Anypoint
9 7 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.32%) SharePoint
11 5 (0.27%) Camunda
11 5 (0.27%) IIS
12 4 (0.21%) Appian
12 4 (0.21%) GeoServer
12 4 (0.21%) Moodle
12 4 (0.21%) nginx
13 3 (0.16%) Liferay
14 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 12 (0.64%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.11%) Windchill
6 1 (0.053%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.053%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 13 (0.69%) Maximo
2 8 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.37%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.27%) Shopify
5 2 (0.11%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.11%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.053%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.053%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.053%) Endur
6 1 (0.053%) Findur
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 822 (43.82%) AWS
2 346 (18.44%) Azure
3 235 (12.53%) GCP
4 164 (8.74%) Serverless
5 130 (6.93%) SaaS
6 120 (6.40%) Amazon EKS
7 98 (5.22%) AWS Lambda
8 95 (5.06%) Amazon S3
9 91 (4.85%) Amazon ECS
10 87 (4.64%) GitHub
11 84 (4.48%) AWS CloudFormation
12 53 (2.83%) AWS Step Functions
13 50 (2.67%) OpenShift
14 43 (2.29%) dbt
15 41 (2.19%) Amazon SQS
16 39 (2.08%) Apigee
17 38 (2.03%) Amazon ECR
18 32 (1.71%) Amazon EC2
19 30 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 29 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 49 (2.61%) Broadband
2 35 (1.87%) TCP/IP
3 17 (0.91%) HTTP
4 10 (0.53%) AMQP
5 8 (0.43%) Internet
5 8 (0.43%) VPN
6 6 (0.32%) BGP
6 6 (0.32%) Multicast
6 6 (0.32%) VLAN
7 5 (0.27%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.21%) Firewall
9 3 (0.16%) PuTTY
9 3 (0.16%) SAN
10 2 (0.11%) DHCP
10 2 (0.11%) DNS
10 2 (0.11%) LAN
10 2 (0.11%) NAS
10 2 (0.11%) SNMP
10 2 (0.11%) WAN
11 1 (0.053%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (8.64%) PostgreSQL
2 154 (8.21%) NoSQL
3 124 (6.61%) Relational Database
4 71 (3.78%) DynamoDB
5 70 (3.73%) SQL Server
6 65 (3.46%) MongoDB
7 60 (3.20%) MySQL
8 52 (2.77%) RDBMS
9 41 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
10 39 (2.08%) Big Data
11 33 (1.76%) DB2
11 33 (1.76%) Hadoop
12 30 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
13 29 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
14 25 (1.33%) Neo4j
15 22 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
16 19 (1.01%) Redis
17 14 (0.75%) Data Lake
18 13 (0.69%) Apache Cassandra
18 13 (0.69%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 163 (8.69%) Jenkins
2 142 (7.57%) Git
3 108 (5.76%) Selenium
4 106 (5.65%) GitLab
5 80 (4.26%) JIRA
6 72 (3.84%) Cucumber
7 68 (3.62%) Cypress.io
8 67 (3.57%) TeamCity
9 62 (3.30%) Maven
10 60 (3.20%) JUnit
11 47 (2.51%) Postman
12 44 (2.35%) SonarQube
13 34 (1.81%) WebDriver
14 32 (1.71%) JMeter
14 32 (1.71%) SoapUI
15 24 (1.28%) Team Foundation Server
16 23 (1.23%) Bitbucket
16 23 (1.23%) REST Assured
17 22 (1.17%) Mockito
18 19 (1.01%) Gradle
General
1 483 (25.75%) Finance
2 388 (20.68%) Social Skills
3 231 (12.31%) Banking
4 161 (8.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 141 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
6 137 (7.30%) Public Sector
7 131 (6.98%) Law
8 112 (5.97%) Front Office
9 108 (5.76%) Retail
10 92 (4.90%) Financial Institution
11 61 (3.25%) Investment Banking
12 56 (2.99%) Back Office
13 47 (2.51%) Games
14 34 (1.81%) Telecoms
15 26 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
16 22 (1.17%) Manufacturing
17 21 (1.12%) Health Technology
18 18 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
18 18 (0.96%) Marketing
19 17 (0.91%) Billing
Job Titles
1 693 (36.94%) Developer
2 477 (25.43%) Software Engineer
3 452 (24.09%) Senior
4 413 (22.01%) Java Developer
5 268 (14.29%) Java Engineer
6 265 (14.13%) Lead
7 160 (8.53%) Senior Developer
8 156 (8.32%) Java Software Engineer
9 149 (7.94%) Full-Stack Developer
10 140 (7.46%) Senior Software Engineer
11 110 (5.86%) Senior Java Developer
12 109 (5.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 102 (5.44%) Senior Java Engineer
14 95 (5.06%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 91 (4.85%) Architect
16 84 (4.48%) Software Developer
17 80 (4.26%) Lead Software Engineer
18 54 (2.88%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 53 (2.83%) Lead Developer
20 49 (2.61%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 398 (21.22%) Spring
2 355 (18.92%) Spring Boot
3 324 (17.27%) React
4 213 (11.35%) REST
5 189 (10.07%) Node.js
6 188 (10.02%) Kafka
7 177 (9.43%) AngularJS
8 162 (8.64%) .NET
9 133 (7.09%) RESTful
10 109 (5.81%) HTML
11 95 (5.06%) SOAP
12 80 (4.26%) GraphQL
13 79 (4.21%) CSS
14 70 (3.73%) Web Services
15 66 (3.52%) Elastic Stack
15 66 (3.52%) Hibernate
16 52 (2.77%) JSON
16 52 (2.77%) Vue
17 51 (2.72%) Gherkin
18 42 (2.24%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 260 (13.86%) Cloud Native
2 168 (8.96%) Distributed Systems
3 78 (4.16%) Product Ownership
4 57 (3.04%) Fixed Income
4 57 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
5 51 (2.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 47 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
7 40 (2.13%) Equities
8 38 (2.03%) Blog
9 36 (1.92%) Public Cloud
10 34 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
11 32 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
12 30 (1.60%) Distributed Architecture
12 30 (1.60%) Mobile App
13 28 (1.49%) Data Structures
14 26 (1.39%) Derivative
15 25 (1.33%) Management Information System
16 24 (1.28%) Algorithms
17 23 (1.23%) FPGA
18 19 (1.01%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 195 (10.39%) Linux
2 46 (2.45%) Android
3 43 (2.29%) Unix
4 31 (1.65%) Windows
5 13 (0.69%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.37%) CentOS
6 7 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.32%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.32%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.27%) Debian
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.11%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.053%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.053%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 725 (38.65%) Agile
2 662 (35.29%) Software Engineering
3 599 (31.93%) CI/CD
4 444 (23.67%) DevOps
5 408 (21.75%) Microservices
6 394 (21.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 327 (17.43%) Test Automation
8 310 (16.52%) Problem-Solving
9 302 (16.10%) Mentoring
10 225 (11.99%) Containerisation
11 214 (11.41%) AI
12 209 (11.14%) Continuous Improvement
13 194 (10.34%) Scrum
14 184 (9.81%) Computer Science
15 179 (9.54%) TDD
16 158 (8.42%) Infrastructure as Code
17 154 (8.21%) SDLC
17 154 (8.21%) Technical Leadership
18 150 (8.00%) Clean Code
19 147 (7.84%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 603 (32.14%) Python
2 423 (22.55%) JavaScript
3 369 (19.67%) SQL
4 281 (14.98%) TypeScript
5 202 (10.77%) C#
6 157 (8.37%) Go
7 129 (6.88%) C++
8 113 (6.02%) Kotlin
9 89 (4.74%) Bash
10 79 (4.21%) C
11 45 (2.40%) Scala
12 43 (2.29%) Groovy
13 37 (1.97%) PHP
14 33 (1.76%) PL/SQL
15 32 (1.71%) Rust
16 22 (1.17%) Ruby
17 21 (1.12%) Apex Code
18 16 (0.85%) R
19 15 (0.80%) PowerShell
20 14 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 281 (14.98%) Security Cleared
2 260 (13.86%) Degree
3 165 (8.80%) SC Cleared
4 115 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 112 (5.97%) DV Cleared
6 84 (4.48%) AWS Certification
7 41 (2.19%) Master's Degree
8 37 (1.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 31 (1.65%) Azure Certification
10 28 (1.49%) ISTQB
11 23 (1.23%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 23 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
12 20 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
13 18 (0.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 18 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
14 17 (0.91%) PhD
15 12 (0.64%) CREST Certified
15 12 (0.64%) OSCP
16 11 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
17 10 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (6.50%) QA
2 38 (2.03%) Accessibility
3 19 (1.01%) Data Quality
3 19 (1.01%) PCI DSS
4 18 (0.96%) GDPR
5 15 (0.80%) SOC 2
6 12 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
7 11 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.37%) WCAG
9 5 (0.27%) NIST
10 4 (0.21%) EU AI Act
10 4 (0.21%) GRC
10 4 (0.21%) SLA
11 3 (0.16%) NCSC
12 2 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.11%) ECSS
12 2 (0.11%) MISRA
13 1 (0.053%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.053%) MiFID
System Software
1 327 (17.43%) Docker
2 12 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (0.59%) Active Directory
4 10 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.27%) Firmware
5 5 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.16%) HDFS
7 3 (0.16%) KVM
8 1 (0.053%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.053%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.053%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.053%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.053%) Squid
8 1 (0.053%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 429 (22.87%) Kubernetes
2 197 (10.50%) Terraform
3 101 (5.38%) Grafana
4 74 (3.94%) Ansible
5 45 (2.40%) Prometheus
6 41 (2.19%) Argo
7 35 (1.87%) HP Fortify
8 21 (1.12%) Kibana
9 19 (1.01%) Kustomize
10 10 (0.53%) Rancher
11 7 (0.37%) Puppet
12 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
12 6 (0.32%) yum
13 5 (0.27%) FTK
13 5 (0.27%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.21%) Nagios
15 3 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
15 3 (0.16%) logstash
15 3 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
16 2 (0.11%) Packer
Vendors
1 86 (4.58%) Oracle
2 63 (3.36%) Google
3 59 (3.14%) Microsoft
4 34 (1.81%) MuleSoft
5 33 (1.76%) Salesforce
6 29 (1.55%) IBM
7 22 (1.17%) Atlassian
7 22 (1.17%) SAP
8 21 (1.12%) Splunk
9 19 (1.01%) Databricks
9 19 (1.01%) Informatica
10 16 (0.85%) Talend
11 13 (0.69%) Dell
12 12 (0.64%) Red Hat
13 11 (0.59%) OpenAI
14 10 (0.53%) Dynatrace
14 10 (0.53%) Foundry
14 10 (0.53%) Solace
15 9 (0.48%) Guidewire
15 9 (0.48%) Workday