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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 32 22
Rank change year-on-year -26 -10 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,835 3,298 3,867
As % of all permanent jobs in England 4.03% 5.46% 8.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.14% 17.10% 19.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,126 2,004 3,061
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,361 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £75,554
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +5.89% +0.74%
75th Percentile £114,688 £115,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £136,250 £142,500 £130,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +4.17%

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 10,706 19,281 19,468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 23.51% 31.94% 41.29%
Number of salaries quoted 7,747 11,428 16,000
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £111,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 12 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 -10 1,031 £105,000 +5.00% 907
North of England -21 293 £65,000 +8.33% 282
South East -81 191 £62,500 +4.17% 263
North West -30 156 £70,000 +16.67% 193
Midlands +36 142 £62,500 +56.25% 82
South West -33 124 £65,000 - 123
Yorkshire +29 110 £66,250 +10.42% 64
West Midlands +36 103 £62,500 +21.95% 58
East of England -71 47 £42,500 -37.04% 52
East Midlands +23 39 £58,000 +65.71% 24
North East -2 29 £51,250 -25.71% 26
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 94 (5.12%) Apache
2 93 (5.07%) Apache Airflow
3 58 (3.16%) Apache Spark
4 48 (2.62%) Confluence
5 14 (0.76%) JBoss
6 9 (0.49%) IIS
7 6 (0.33%) Mule
7 6 (0.33%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.27%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
8 5 (0.27%) Camunda
8 5 (0.27%) nginx
8 5 (0.27%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.27%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.27%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
9 4 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
9 4 (0.22%) Traefik
Applications
1 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (0.27%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.16%) Simulink
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.054%) Trello
5 1 (0.054%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
1 8 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.33%) Adaptiv
2 6 (0.33%) Maximo
2 6 (0.33%) Shopify
3 5 (0.27%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.11%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.054%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.054%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.054%) Summit
5 1 (0.054%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 873 (47.57%) AWS
2 343 (18.69%) Azure
3 232 (12.64%) GCP
4 150 (8.17%) Serverless
5 102 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
6 93 (5.07%) SaaS
7 92 (5.01%) GitHub
8 88 (4.80%) AWS Lambda
9 82 (4.47%) Amazon EC2
9 82 (4.47%) dbt
10 77 (4.20%) Snowflake
11 71 (3.87%) Amazon ECS
11 71 (3.87%) Amazon S3
12 49 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 40 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
14 39 (2.13%) OpenShift
15 31 (1.69%) Datadog
16 29 (1.58%) Amazon SQS
17 25 (1.36%) AWS KMS
17 25 (1.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 34 (1.85%) TCP/IP
2 25 (1.36%) HTTP
3 22 (1.20%) DNS
4 21 (1.14%) Firewall
5 19 (1.04%) SSH
6 17 (0.93%) FTP
6 17 (0.93%) SMTP
7 12 (0.65%) VPN
8 10 (0.54%) AMQP
9 9 (0.49%) Internet
10 7 (0.38%) Multicast
11 5 (0.27%) SAN
11 5 (0.27%) SSL
12 4 (0.22%) Broadband
12 4 (0.22%) DHCP
12 4 (0.22%) ICMP
12 4 (0.22%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
13 3 (0.16%) BGP
13 3 (0.16%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (9.86%) PostgreSQL
2 160 (8.72%) Relational Database
3 120 (6.54%) NoSQL
4 94 (5.12%) MongoDB
5 93 (5.07%) SQL Server
6 92 (5.01%) Data Lake
7 79 (4.31%) MySQL
8 75 (4.09%) Apache Iceberg
9 74 (4.03%) Amazon Athena
10 71 (3.87%) Apache Arrow
10 71 (3.87%) Dremio
11 64 (3.49%) Apache Ignite
12 61 (3.32%) Big Data
13 60 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
14 57 (3.11%) Amazon RDS
15 46 (2.51%) DynamoDB
16 44 (2.40%) RDBMS
17 42 (2.29%) Hadoop
18 31 (1.69%) BigQuery
19 25 (1.36%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 180 (9.81%) Jenkins
2 155 (8.45%) Git
3 102 (5.56%) JIRA
4 98 (5.34%) Selenium
5 88 (4.80%) JUnit
6 77 (4.20%) GitLab
7 55 (3.00%) Cucumber
8 46 (2.51%) Mockito
9 40 (2.18%) JMeter
10 38 (2.07%) Maven
11 37 (2.02%) Cypress.io
11 37 (2.02%) Postman
12 30 (1.63%) TeamCity
12 30 (1.63%) WebDriver
13 27 (1.47%) Bitbucket
14 26 (1.42%) SonarQube
15 23 (1.25%) SoapUI
16 19 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
17 17 (0.93%) Vagrant
18 16 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 742 (40.44%) Finance
2 489 (26.65%) Social Skills
3 394 (21.47%) Banking
4 296 (16.13%) Law
5 266 (14.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 193 (10.52%) Front Office
7 173 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
8 153 (8.34%) Investment Banking
9 139 (7.57%) Public Sector
10 108 (5.89%) Financial Institution
11 82 (4.47%) Marketing
12 49 (2.67%) Retail
13 38 (2.07%) Legal
14 33 (1.80%) Back Office
14 33 (1.80%) Games
15 23 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
16 20 (1.09%) Billing
17 19 (1.04%) Manufacturing
18 16 (0.87%) Aerospace
19 15 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 587 (31.99%) Developer
2 538 (29.32%) Software Engineer
3 437 (23.81%) Senior
4 315 (17.17%) Java Engineer
5 289 (15.75%) Lead
6 283 (15.42%) Java Developer
7 232 (12.64%) Java Software Engineer
8 170 (9.26%) Senior Software Engineer
9 142 (7.74%) Lead Software Engineer
10 130 (7.08%) Senior Java Engineer
11 122 (6.65%) AWS Engineer
12 109 (5.94%) Python Engineer
13 104 (5.67%) Python Software Engineer
14 101 (5.50%) Senior Developer
15 100 (5.45%) Architect
16 95 (5.18%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 91 (4.96%) Full-Stack Developer
18 88 (4.80%) AWS Software Engineer
19 63 (3.43%) Data Engineer
20 60 (3.27%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 398 (21.69%) Spring
2 316 (17.22%) Spring Boot
3 310 (16.89%) React
4 287 (15.64%) Kafka
5 194 (10.57%) RESTful
6 168 (9.16%) .NET
7 165 (8.99%) HTML
8 164 (8.94%) REST
9 144 (7.85%) Node.js
10 118 (6.43%) AngularJS
11 97 (5.29%) CSS
12 88 (4.80%) Hibernate
12 88 (4.80%) Pandas
13 81 (4.41%) Web Services
14 74 (4.03%) gRPC
15 72 (3.92%) NumPy
16 71 (3.87%) SciPy
17 68 (3.71%) SOAP
18 66 (3.60%) Protocol Buffers
19 53 (2.89%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 332 (18.09%) Cloud Native
2 203 (11.06%) Distributed Systems
3 130 (7.08%) Equities
4 125 (6.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 121 (6.59%) Fixed Income
6 115 (6.27%) Derivative
7 92 (5.01%) Algorithms
8 79 (4.31%) Hedge funds
9 69 (3.76%) Self-Motivation
10 63 (3.43%) Onboarding
10 63 (3.43%) Pricing Data
10 63 (3.43%) Public Cloud
11 59 (3.22%) Product Ownership
12 56 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
13 46 (2.51%) Management Information System
14 40 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
15 38 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
16 35 (1.91%) Data Structures
16 35 (1.91%) Mobile App
17 34 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 199 (10.84%) Linux
2 40 (2.18%) Windows
3 32 (1.74%) Unix
4 26 (1.42%) Android
5 17 (0.93%) VMS
6 15 (0.82%) Amazon Linux
7 13 (0.71%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.33%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.11%) CentOS
12 2 (0.11%) Debian
12 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.054%) AIX
13 1 (0.054%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.054%) SUSE
13 1 (0.054%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 865 (47.14%) Agile
2 709 (38.64%) Software Engineering
3 586 (31.93%) CI/CD
4 436 (23.76%) Microservices
5 384 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
6 377 (20.54%) DevOps
7 313 (17.06%) Computer Science
8 283 (15.42%) SDLC
9 265 (14.44%) Test Automation
10 263 (14.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 253 (13.79%) AI
12 244 (13.30%) Full-Stack Development
13 239 (13.02%) Mentoring
14 211 (11.50%) Machine Learning
15 199 (10.84%) TDD
16 187 (10.19%) Fintech
17 178 (9.70%) Containerisation
18 171 (9.32%) Scrum
19 136 (7.41%) Analytics
20 135 (7.36%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 788 (42.94%) Python
2 457 (24.90%) JavaScript
3 439 (23.92%) SQL
4 349 (19.02%) TypeScript
5 302 (16.46%) C#
6 228 (12.43%) C++
7 142 (7.74%) Go
8 135 (7.36%) C
9 129 (7.03%) Kotlin
10 97 (5.29%) PHP
11 78 (4.25%) Rust
11 78 (4.25%) Scala
12 68 (3.71%) R
13 67 (3.65%) Ruby
14 55 (3.00%) MATLAB
15 49 (2.67%) Dart
16 48 (2.62%) PowerShell
17 43 (2.34%) Shell Script
18 39 (2.13%) Groovy
19 35 (1.91%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 338 (18.42%) Degree
2 222 (12.10%) Security Cleared
3 189 (10.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 147 (8.01%) SC Cleared
5 88 (4.80%) AWS Certification
6 71 (3.87%) Master's Degree
7 64 (3.49%) DV Cleared
8 44 (2.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 38 (2.07%) Azure Certification
10 33 (1.80%) PhD
11 22 (1.20%) ISTQB
12 18 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
13 17 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
14 16 (0.87%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 15 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
16 10 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
17 9 (0.49%) HND
17 9 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
17 9 (0.49%) PMI Certification
17 9 (0.49%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (5.45%) QA
2 46 (2.51%) Accessibility
3 35 (1.91%) GDPR
4 20 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (0.82%) PCI DSS
6 13 (0.71%) Data Quality
6 13 (0.71%) HIPAA
7 11 (0.60%) NIST
8 10 (0.54%) ISO 9001
9 8 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.38%) SLA
11 6 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.33%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.22%) EU AI Act
12 4 (0.22%) SEPA
12 4 (0.22%) WCAG
13 3 (0.16%) NCSC
14 2 (0.11%) GRC
14 2 (0.11%) ITGC
System Software
1 305 (16.62%) Docker
2 30 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
5 12 (0.65%) HDFS
6 6 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.22%) DFS Replication
8 3 (0.16%) Apache Flume
8 3 (0.16%) Firmware
8 3 (0.16%) vSphere
9 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.11%) KVM
9 2 (0.11%) Squid
9 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.054%) Postfix
10 1 (0.054%) Xen
Systems Management
1 459 (25.01%) Kubernetes
2 145 (7.90%) Terraform
3 76 (4.14%) Grafana
4 46 (2.51%) Ansible
5 43 (2.34%) Kibana
5 43 (2.34%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.98%) Argo
7 15 (0.82%) Progress Chef
7 15 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.38%) Control-M
8 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
9 6 (0.33%) logstash
10 5 (0.27%) Puppet
11 4 (0.22%) HAProxy
11 4 (0.22%) Nagios
12 3 (0.16%) Kustomize
12 3 (0.16%) Oozie
13 2 (0.11%) Mesos
13 2 (0.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 139 (7.57%) Oracle
2 94 (5.12%) Microsoft
3 83 (4.52%) Google
4 41 (2.23%) Guidewire
5 40 (2.18%) Splunk
6 35 (1.91%) Databricks
7 31 (1.69%) Atlassian
8 29 (1.58%) IBM
9 28 (1.53%) Dynatrace
9 28 (1.53%) SAP
10 20 (1.09%) MuleSoft
10 20 (1.09%) ServiceNow
11 18 (0.98%) Informatica
12 17 (0.93%) Red Hat
13 15 (0.82%) Foundry
14 14 (0.76%) Palantir
14 14 (0.76%) Solace
14 14 (0.76%) Talend
15 12 (0.65%) Dell
16 11 (0.60%) Bloomberg