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 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 42 28
Rank change year-on-year -28 -14 -11
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,691 2,425 4,317
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.93% 5.34% 6.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.66% 15.62% 17.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,119 1,464 3,448
10th Percentile £41,925 £42,500 £41,227
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,176 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -6.45%
75th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £96,322
90th Percentile £130,000 £137,500 £120,375
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%

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 10,798 15,522 24,244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.73% 34.21% 36.68%
Number of salaries quoted 8,055 9,182 20,705
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £102,500
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 9 February 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 9 February 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 -8 894 £100,000 -2.44% 338
North of England -16 303 £68,750 +5.77% 169
South East -69 181 £60,000 -11.11% 190
Yorkshire +9 160 £72,500 +7.41% 45
South West -23 155 £65,000 - 108
North West -14 131 £67,500 +8.00% 98
Midlands -26 85 £50,000 +11.11% 56
West Midlands +3 67 £50,000 -5.83% 44
East of England -72 36 £57,500 +4.55% 23
East Midlands -40 18 £49,000 +40.00% 12
North East -38 12 £55,200 -8.00% 28
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 58 (3.43%) Apache
1 58 (3.43%) Apache Spark
2 40 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (1.42%) Confluence
4 19 (1.12%) JBoss
5 13 (0.77%) OpenStack
5 13 (0.77%) WebSphere
6 12 (0.71%) IIS
7 7 (0.41%) Anypoint
7 7 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.35%) Mule
9 5 (0.30%) SharePoint
10 4 (0.24%) Appian
10 4 (0.24%) nginx
11 3 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.18%) CMS
11 3 (0.18%) Liferay
11 3 (0.18%) Luigi
11 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 12 (0.71%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.18%) Simulink
5 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.12%) Windchill
6 1 (0.059%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.059%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.59%) Maximo
2 7 (0.41%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.30%) Shopify
5 2 (0.12%) Adaptiv
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.12%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.059%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.059%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 768 (45.42%) AWS
2 311 (18.39%) Azure
3 188 (11.12%) GCP
4 160 (9.46%) Serverless
5 120 (7.10%) SaaS
6 114 (6.74%) Amazon EKS
7 98 (5.80%) AWS Lambda
8 88 (5.20%) Amazon S3
9 84 (4.97%) Amazon ECS
10 83 (4.91%) GitHub
11 63 (3.73%) AWS CloudFormation
12 45 (2.66%) AWS Step Functions
12 45 (2.66%) OpenShift
13 37 (2.19%) Amazon SQS
14 35 (2.07%) Snowflake
15 34 (2.01%) dbt
16 33 (1.95%) GitHub Actions
17 32 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
18 31 (1.83%) Apigee
19 30 (1.77%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 33 (1.95%) TCP/IP
2 23 (1.36%) Broadband
3 17 (1.01%) HTTP
4 11 (0.65%) AMQP
4 11 (0.65%) Internet
4 11 (0.65%) VPN
5 8 (0.47%) Multicast
6 6 (0.35%) BGP
6 6 (0.35%) Firewall
6 6 (0.35%) VLAN
7 4 (0.24%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.24%) SAN
8 3 (0.18%) DNS
8 3 (0.18%) PuTTY
9 2 (0.12%) DHCP
9 2 (0.12%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.12%) LAN
9 2 (0.12%) NAS
9 2 (0.12%) SNMP
9 2 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (9.05%) PostgreSQL
2 137 (8.10%) NoSQL
3 122 (7.21%) Relational Database
4 81 (4.79%) SQL Server
5 66 (3.90%) MongoDB
6 61 (3.61%) DynamoDB
7 56 (3.31%) RDBMS
8 54 (3.19%) Big Data
9 50 (2.96%) Hadoop
9 50 (2.96%) MySQL
10 49 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
11 40 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
12 32 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
12 32 (1.89%) Data Lake
13 28 (1.66%) DB2
13 28 (1.66%) Neo4j
14 25 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
15 19 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
16 17 (1.01%) Apache Ignite
17 16 (0.95%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 158 (9.34%) Jenkins
2 128 (7.57%) Git
3 109 (6.45%) Selenium
4 96 (5.68%) GitLab
5 89 (5.26%) JIRA
6 64 (3.78%) Cucumber
7 62 (3.67%) Cypress.io
7 62 (3.67%) JUnit
8 55 (3.25%) Maven
9 53 (3.13%) TeamCity
10 48 (2.84%) Postman
11 42 (2.48%) WebDriver
12 38 (2.25%) SonarQube
13 35 (2.07%) SoapUI
14 32 (1.89%) Bitbucket
15 28 (1.66%) Team Foundation Server
16 26 (1.54%) JMeter
17 22 (1.30%) Mockito
18 19 (1.12%) Jaeger
19 17 (1.01%) REST Assured
General
1 452 (26.73%) Finance
2 436 (25.78%) Social Skills
3 242 (14.31%) Banking
4 133 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
5 119 (7.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 114 (6.74%) Law
7 104 (6.15%) Public Sector
8 99 (5.85%) Front Office
9 97 (5.74%) Financial Institution
10 88 (5.20%) Retail
11 80 (4.73%) Investment Banking
12 43 (2.54%) Back Office
13 31 (1.83%) Games
13 31 (1.83%) Telecoms
14 24 (1.42%) Manufacturing
14 24 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
15 22 (1.30%) Aerospace
16 19 (1.12%) Billing
17 18 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
17 18 (1.06%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 600 (35.48%) Developer
2 391 (23.12%) Senior
3 386 (22.83%) Software Engineer
4 343 (20.28%) Java Developer
5 224 (13.25%) Java Engineer
6 223 (13.19%) Lead
7 137 (8.10%) Full-Stack Developer
8 131 (7.75%) Java Software Engineer
9 130 (7.69%) Senior Developer
10 112 (6.62%) Senior Software Engineer
11 102 (6.03%) Architect
12 93 (5.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 90 (5.32%) Senior Java Engineer
14 89 (5.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 87 (5.14%) Senior Java Developer
16 68 (4.02%) AWS Engineer
17 58 (3.43%) Software Developer
18 51 (3.02%) Lead Software Engineer
19 50 (2.96%) Senior Java Software Engineer
20 41 (2.42%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 383 (22.65%) Spring
2 331 (19.57%) Spring Boot
3 306 (18.10%) React
4 209 (12.36%) REST
5 185 (10.94%) Kafka
6 158 (9.34%) .NET
7 156 (9.23%) Node.js
8 151 (8.93%) AngularJS
9 129 (7.63%) RESTful
10 120 (7.10%) HTML
11 91 (5.38%) CSS
11 91 (5.38%) SOAP
12 70 (4.14%) Hibernate
13 67 (3.96%) Elastic Stack
14 64 (3.78%) Web Services
15 49 (2.90%) GraphQL
16 48 (2.84%) JSON
17 47 (2.78%) Vue
18 43 (2.54%) Jest
19 40 (2.37%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 246 (14.55%) Cloud Native
2 181 (10.70%) Distributed Systems
3 72 (4.26%) Product Ownership
4 60 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
5 54 (3.19%) Equities
6 52 (3.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 47 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
8 44 (2.60%) Algorithms
9 40 (2.37%) Fixed Income
10 38 (2.25%) Derivative
11 33 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
11 33 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
12 32 (1.89%) Blog
13 30 (1.77%) Management Information System
14 29 (1.71%) Distributed Architecture
14 29 (1.71%) Onboarding
14 29 (1.71%) Public Cloud
15 24 (1.42%) Hedge funds
16 22 (1.30%) Data Structures
16 22 (1.30%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 193 (11.41%) Linux
2 35 (2.07%) Unix
3 32 (1.89%) Windows
4 27 (1.60%) Android
5 10 (0.59%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.41%) CentOS
7 7 (0.41%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.35%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.30%) Debian
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.059%) AIX
11 1 (0.059%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.059%) SUSE
11 1 (0.059%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 633 (37.43%) Agile
2 572 (33.83%) Software Engineering
3 551 (32.58%) CI/CD
4 404 (23.89%) DevOps
5 393 (23.24%) Microservices
6 343 (20.28%) Full-Stack Development
7 318 (18.81%) Problem-Solving
8 276 (16.32%) Mentoring
9 270 (15.97%) Test Automation
10 223 (13.19%) Computer Science
11 201 (11.89%) Continuous Improvement
12 190 (11.24%) Containerisation
13 182 (10.76%) Scrum
14 173 (10.23%) AI
15 162 (9.58%) TDD
16 150 (8.87%) SDLC
17 139 (8.22%) Fintech
18 136 (8.04%) Roadmaps
19 133 (7.87%) Technical Leadership
20 131 (7.75%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 596 (35.25%) Python
2 406 (24.01%) JavaScript
3 342 (20.22%) SQL
4 266 (15.73%) TypeScript
5 211 (12.48%) C#
6 125 (7.39%) Go
7 122 (7.21%) C++
8 91 (5.38%) Kotlin
9 90 (5.32%) C
10 80 (4.73%) Bash
11 58 (3.43%) Scala
12 43 (2.54%) PHP
13 36 (2.13%) Groovy
14 30 (1.77%) Rust
15 29 (1.71%) PL/SQL
16 20 (1.18%) R
17 18 (1.06%) PowerShell
18 17 (1.01%) Ruby
19 15 (0.89%) Shell Script
20 14 (0.83%) Perl
Qualifications
1 292 (17.27%) Degree
2 269 (15.91%) Security Cleared
3 153 (9.05%) SC Cleared
4 134 (7.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 101 (5.97%) DV Cleared
6 88 (5.20%) AWS Certification
7 58 (3.43%) Master's Degree
8 45 (2.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 35 (2.07%) Azure Certification
10 31 (1.83%) ISTQB
10 31 (1.83%) TOGAF Certification
11 27 (1.60%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 24 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
13 19 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
13 19 (1.12%) PhD
14 14 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
15 12 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
15 12 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 8 (0.47%) CREST Certified
16 8 (0.47%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (6.62%) QA
2 44 (2.60%) Accessibility
3 23 (1.36%) GDPR
4 19 (1.12%) Data Quality
5 16 (0.95%) PCI DSS
6 14 (0.83%) SOC 2
7 12 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
8 9 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.24%) EU AI Act
9 4 (0.24%) SEPA
9 4 (0.24%) SLA
9 4 (0.24%) WCAG
10 3 (0.18%) NCSC
10 3 (0.18%) NIST
11 2 (0.12%) ECSS
11 2 (0.12%) MISRA
11 2 (0.12%) PSD2
12 1 (0.059%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.059%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 309 (18.27%) Docker
2 16 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
4 11 (0.65%) Active Directory
5 9 (0.53%) HDFS
6 5 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.24%) Firmware
7 4 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.12%) KVM
8 2 (0.12%) vSphere
9 1 (0.059%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.059%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.059%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.059%) Squid
Systems Management
1 402 (23.77%) Kubernetes
2 155 (9.17%) Terraform
3 77 (4.55%) Ansible
4 76 (4.49%) Grafana
5 41 (2.42%) Argo
6 39 (2.31%) Prometheus
7 25 (1.48%) HP Fortify
7 25 (1.48%) Kibana
8 19 (1.12%) Kustomize
9 9 (0.53%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.53%) Puppet
9 9 (0.53%) Rancher
10 7 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.30%) logstash
11 5 (0.30%) yum
12 4 (0.24%) FTK
13 3 (0.18%) Control-M
13 3 (0.18%) Nagios
14 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 101 (5.97%) Oracle
2 69 (4.08%) Microsoft
3 61 (3.61%) Google
4 28 (1.66%) MuleSoft
5 27 (1.60%) Atlassian
6 25 (1.48%) IBM
7 24 (1.42%) Databricks
8 23 (1.36%) Informatica
8 23 (1.36%) Splunk
9 22 (1.30%) Salesforce
10 20 (1.18%) Guidewire
10 20 (1.18%) Talend
11 18 (1.06%) SAP
12 13 (0.77%) Dynatrace
12 13 (0.77%) Red Hat
13 12 (0.71%) Dell
14 11 (0.65%) Adobe
14 11 (0.65%) OpenAI
15 9 (0.53%) Siemens
16 8 (0.47%) VMware