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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 44 25
Rank change year-on-year -30 -19 -8
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,549 2,591 3,600
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.98% 5.30% 7.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.19% 15.62% 19.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,051 1,544 2,789
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,176 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £105,625 £110,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £130,000 £125,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year -3.23% +9.81% -2.65%

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 10,199 16,584 18,153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.63% 33.94% 38.96%
Number of salaries quoted 7,688 9,767 15,198
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,250 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,219 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.28% +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 4 January 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 4 January 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 -12 821 £100,000 - 489
North of England -4 265 £70,000 +16.67% 275
South East -60 189 £60,000 -14.29% 430
Yorkshire +31 145 £72,500 +25.08% 122
South West -30 125 £65,000 +1.96% 152
North West -17 108 £67,500 +12.50% 117
Midlands -13 97 £55,100 +22.44% 145
West Midlands +14 77 £53,688 -6.63% 77
East of England -81 31 £45,000 -30.77% 166
East Midlands -23 20 £57,500 +64.29% 60
North East -26 14 £60,100 +0.17% 38
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 69 (4.45%) Apache
2 57 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
3 56 (3.62%) Apache Spark
4 29 (1.87%) Confluence
5 15 (0.97%) JBoss
6 13 (0.84%) OpenStack
7 12 (0.77%) IIS
8 10 (0.65%) WebSphere
9 7 (0.45%) Anypoint
10 6 (0.39%) Camunda
10 6 (0.39%) Mule
11 5 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.32%) SharePoint
12 4 (0.26%) Appian
12 4 (0.26%) nginx
13 3 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.19%) Liferay
13 3 (0.19%) Luigi
13 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
13 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (0.77%) MS Visio
2 9 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.19%) Simulink
5 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.13%) Windchill
6 1 (0.065%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.065%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.45%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.39%) Maximo
3 5 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.32%) Shopify
4 3 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.13%) Adaptiv
5 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.065%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.065%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 707 (45.64%) AWS
2 305 (19.69%) Azure
3 178 (11.49%) GCP
4 145 (9.36%) Serverless
5 97 (6.26%) SaaS
6 96 (6.20%) Amazon EKS
7 83 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
8 80 (5.16%) GitHub
9 77 (4.97%) Amazon S3
10 75 (4.84%) Amazon ECS
11 54 (3.49%) Snowflake
12 49 (3.16%) dbt
13 43 (2.78%) OpenShift
14 41 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
15 38 (2.45%) AWS CloudFormation
16 32 (2.07%) AWS Step Functions
16 32 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
17 30 (1.94%) Datadog
18 29 (1.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 27 (1.74%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.00%) TCP/IP
2 22 (1.42%) HTTP
3 14 (0.90%) AMQP
4 11 (0.71%) Internet
5 10 (0.65%) Broadband
6 9 (0.58%) Firewall
7 8 (0.52%) DNS
7 8 (0.52%) Multicast
7 8 (0.52%) VPN
8 7 (0.45%) SSH
9 5 (0.32%) FTP
9 5 (0.32%) SAN
9 5 (0.32%) SMTP
10 4 (0.26%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.19%) BGP
11 3 (0.19%) LAN
11 3 (0.19%) PuTTY
11 3 (0.19%) VLAN
11 3 (0.19%) WAN
12 2 (0.13%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (8.97%) PostgreSQL
2 122 (7.88%) Relational Database
3 104 (6.71%) NoSQL
4 90 (5.81%) SQL Server
5 70 (4.52%) MongoDB
6 56 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
7 54 (3.49%) Data Lake
8 53 (3.42%) Big Data
9 51 (3.29%) MySQL
10 50 (3.23%) Hadoop
11 49 (3.16%) DynamoDB
12 48 (3.10%) RDBMS
13 39 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
14 38 (2.45%) Amazon Athena
15 36 (2.32%) Apache Ignite
16 33 (2.13%) Apache Arrow
16 33 (2.13%) Apache Iceberg
16 33 (2.13%) Dremio
17 32 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
18 26 (1.68%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 174 (11.23%) Jenkins
2 120 (7.75%) Git
3 119 (7.68%) Selenium
4 98 (6.33%) JIRA
5 90 (5.81%) GitLab
6 65 (4.20%) JUnit
7 58 (3.74%) Cucumber
7 58 (3.74%) Cypress.io
8 57 (3.68%) Postman
9 49 (3.16%) WebDriver
10 43 (2.78%) SoapUI
11 42 (2.71%) Maven
12 36 (2.32%) Bitbucket
12 36 (2.32%) TeamCity
13 35 (2.26%) Team Foundation Server
14 33 (2.13%) JMeter
15 31 (2.00%) SonarQube
16 27 (1.74%) Mockito
17 19 (1.23%) REST Assured
18 15 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 457 (29.50%) Finance
2 433 (27.95%) Social Skills
3 232 (14.98%) Banking
4 147 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
5 113 (7.30%) Front Office
6 100 (6.46%) Investment Banking
7 99 (6.39%) Law
8 98 (6.33%) Public Sector
9 86 (5.55%) Financial Institution
10 68 (4.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 55 (3.55%) Retail
12 38 (2.45%) Marketing
13 31 (2.00%) Back Office
14 25 (1.61%) Games
14 25 (1.61%) Telecoms
15 21 (1.36%) Manufacturing
16 20 (1.29%) Billing
17 19 (1.23%) Aerospace
17 19 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
18 16 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 550 (35.51%) Developer
2 369 (23.82%) Senior
3 326 (21.05%) Software Engineer
4 290 (18.72%) Java Developer
5 192 (12.40%) Java Engineer
6 190 (12.27%) Lead
7 116 (7.49%) Full-Stack Developer
8 115 (7.42%) Java Software Engineer
8 115 (7.42%) Senior Developer
9 114 (7.36%) Senior Software Engineer
10 113 (7.30%) Architect
11 88 (5.68%) Senior Java Engineer
12 77 (4.97%) AWS Engineer
13 76 (4.91%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 74 (4.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 68 (4.39%) Senior Java Developer
16 58 (3.74%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 50 (3.23%) Software Developer
18 44 (2.84%) Analyst
19 41 (2.65%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 344 (22.21%) Spring
2 285 (18.40%) Spring Boot
3 282 (18.21%) React
4 186 (12.01%) REST
5 176 (11.36%) Kafka
6 158 (10.20%) .NET
7 139 (8.97%) HTML
8 130 (8.39%) Node.js
9 128 (8.26%) AngularJS
10 124 (8.01%) RESTful
11 96 (6.20%) CSS
12 86 (5.55%) SOAP
13 67 (4.33%) Hibernate
14 54 (3.49%) Web Services
15 51 (3.29%) Elastic Stack
16 45 (2.91%) JSON
17 44 (2.84%) gRPC
17 44 (2.84%) Pandas
18 37 (2.39%) GraphQL
18 37 (2.39%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 227 (14.65%) Cloud Native
2 172 (11.10%) Distributed Systems
3 85 (5.49%) Equities
4 69 (4.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 69 (4.45%) Self-Motivation
5 62 (4.00%) Product Ownership
6 58 (3.74%) Algorithms
7 57 (3.68%) Derivative
8 53 (3.42%) Fixed Income
9 47 (3.03%) Hedge funds
10 39 (2.52%) Onboarding
11 37 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
12 36 (2.32%) Management Information System
13 35 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
13 35 (2.26%) Pricing Data
14 30 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
15 26 (1.68%) Distributed Architecture
16 24 (1.55%) Data Structures
17 23 (1.48%) FPGA
18 22 (1.42%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 184 (11.88%) Linux
2 36 (2.32%) Windows
3 26 (1.68%) Unix
4 20 (1.29%) Android
5 8 (0.52%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.45%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.32%) CentOS
7 5 (0.32%) VMS
8 4 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.19%) Debian
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.065%) AIX
11 1 (0.065%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.065%) SUSE
11 1 (0.065%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 595 (38.41%) Agile
2 484 (31.25%) CI/CD
3 470 (30.34%) Software Engineering
4 357 (23.05%) Microservices
5 356 (22.98%) DevOps
6 308 (19.88%) Problem-Solving
7 287 (18.53%) Full-Stack Development
8 265 (17.11%) Mentoring
9 234 (15.11%) Computer Science
10 232 (14.98%) Test Automation
11 214 (13.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 174 (11.23%) Scrum
13 169 (10.91%) Containerisation
14 148 (9.55%) AI
15 144 (9.30%) SDLC
15 144 (9.30%) TDD
16 131 (8.46%) Roadmaps
17 122 (7.88%) User Experience
18 118 (7.62%) Technical Leadership
19 113 (7.30%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 589 (38.02%) Python
2 383 (24.73%) JavaScript
3 345 (22.27%) SQL
4 259 (16.72%) TypeScript
5 231 (14.91%) C#
6 117 (7.55%) C++
7 108 (6.97%) Go
8 88 (5.68%) C
9 84 (5.42%) Kotlin
10 68 (4.39%) Scala
11 54 (3.49%) Bash
12 45 (2.91%) PHP
13 35 (2.26%) Groovy
14 32 (2.07%) PL/SQL
15 25 (1.61%) Shell Script
16 24 (1.55%) R
17 22 (1.42%) PowerShell
18 20 (1.29%) Ruby
18 20 (1.29%) Rust
19 19 (1.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 305 (19.69%) Degree
2 213 (13.75%) Security Cleared
3 140 (9.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 124 (8.01%) SC Cleared
5 81 (5.23%) DV Cleared
6 71 (4.58%) AWS Certification
7 70 (4.52%) Master's Degree
8 42 (2.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 40 (2.58%) ISTQB
10 38 (2.45%) Azure Certification
11 35 (2.26%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 30 (1.94%) TOGAF Certification
13 27 (1.74%) PhD
14 26 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
15 18 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
16 13 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
17 8 (0.52%) HND
18 7 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
19 6 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
19 6 (0.39%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (6.52%) QA
2 45 (2.91%) Accessibility
3 22 (1.42%) GDPR
4 13 (0.84%) Data Quality
5 12 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
5 12 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.52%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.39%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.32%) ISO 9001
8 5 (0.32%) NIST
8 5 (0.32%) SLA
9 4 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.26%) EU AI Act
9 4 (0.26%) SEPA
9 4 (0.26%) WCAG
10 3 (0.19%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.19%) NCSC
11 2 (0.13%) ECSS
11 2 (0.13%) MISRA
11 2 (0.13%) PSD2
System Software
1 277 (17.88%) Docker
2 17 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (0.97%) Active Directory
4 14 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
5 9 (0.58%) HDFS
6 3 (0.19%) Firmware
6 3 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.13%) vSphere
8 1 (0.065%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.065%) KVM
8 1 (0.065%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.065%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.065%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.065%) Squid
8 1 (0.065%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 368 (23.76%) Kubernetes
2 99 (6.39%) Terraform
3 60 (3.87%) Ansible
4 58 (3.74%) Grafana
5 30 (1.94%) Kibana
6 29 (1.87%) Prometheus
7 26 (1.68%) Argo
8 17 (1.10%) HP Fortify
9 11 (0.71%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.45%) Kustomize
10 7 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.32%) Control-M
11 5 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.32%) Puppet
11 5 (0.32%) Rancher
12 4 (0.26%) Nagios
13 3 (0.19%) logstash
13 3 (0.19%) yum
14 2 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 108 (6.97%) Oracle
2 76 (4.91%) Microsoft
3 70 (4.52%) Google
4 30 (1.94%) Guidewire
5 29 (1.87%) Atlassian
5 29 (1.87%) Splunk
6 25 (1.61%) Databricks
7 24 (1.55%) Informatica
8 23 (1.48%) MuleSoft
9 22 (1.42%) Talend
10 20 (1.29%) IBM
11 18 (1.16%) Dynatrace
11 18 (1.16%) SAP
12 14 (0.90%) Salesforce
13 13 (0.84%) Dell
14 11 (0.71%) Adobe
14 11 (0.71%) Red Hat
15 9 (0.58%) Siemens
16 8 (0.52%) Allen-Bradley
16 8 (0.52%) Toshiba