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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 32 31
Rank change year-on-year -27 -1 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,689 2,692 3,732
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.58% 6.20% 5.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.12% 23.29% 18.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,690 1,142 2,314
10th Percentile £43,175 £41,250 £42,500
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 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +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 16,676 11,558 20,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.03% 26.64% 31.21%
Number of salaries quoted 12,130 7,594 12,642
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £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 £111,250 £111,225
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 4 October 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 October 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 -14 1,099 £83,750 -20.24% 2,373
North of England -22 768 £69,310 +6.63% 569
North West -32 395 £72,500 +3.57% 320
South West +3 335 £65,250 +4.40% 318
South East -41 224 £67,500 +3.85% 343
Midlands -44 195 £69,308 +13.16% 256
North East +21 193 £55,000 +7.32% 112
Yorkshire +13 180 £75,000 +15.38% 139
West Midlands -21 167 £70,000 +12.00% 165
East of England -74 45 £63,750 +50.00% 134
East Midlands -91 28 £60,000 +3.45% 91
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 60 (2.23%) Confluence
2 54 (2.01%) Apache
3 36 (1.34%) Apache Spark
4 27 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.67%) Camunda
6 17 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 12 (0.45%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
8 8 (0.30%) Tomcat
8 8 (0.30%) WebLogic
9 7 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.22%) CICS
10 6 (0.22%) CMS
11 5 (0.19%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.19%) JBoss
11 5 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.15%) SAS
12 4 (0.15%) SharePoint
12 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.56%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.33%) 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 (0.074%) PTC Creo
8 2 (0.074%) Windchill
9 1 (0.037%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.037%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.19%) Distributed Ledger
2 5 (0.19%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.11%) Maximo
5 2 (0.074%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.074%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 2 (0.074%) Temenos T24
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%) Quorum
6 1 (0.037%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.037%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.037%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,061 (39.46%) AWS
2 533 (19.82%) Azure
3 303 (11.27%) GCP
4 196 (7.29%) Serverless
5 177 (6.58%) GitHub
6 152 (5.65%) AWS CloudFormation
7 129 (4.80%) AWS Lambda
8 107 (3.98%) Amazon S3
9 106 (3.94%) SaaS
10 101 (3.76%) Amazon EKS
10 101 (3.76%) GitHub Actions
11 100 (3.72%) Amazon ECS
12 88 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
13 54 (2.01%) AWS Step Functions
14 50 (1.86%) Amazon EC2
15 40 (1.49%) Anthropic Claude
15 40 (1.49%) Datadog
15 40 (1.49%) OpenShift
16 39 (1.45%) GitHub Copilot
17 38 (1.41%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 38 (1.41%) HTTP
2 20 (0.74%) TCP/IP
3 17 (0.63%) Network Security
4 15 (0.56%) DMARC
5 13 (0.48%) VPN
6 12 (0.45%) BGP
7 9 (0.33%) DNS
7 9 (0.33%) IPv4
7 9 (0.33%) MQTT
7 9 (0.33%) Software-Defined Networking
7 9 (0.33%) Wireshark
8 8 (0.30%) AMQP
9 7 (0.26%) Firewall
10 6 (0.22%) IPsec
11 5 (0.19%) Broadband
11 5 (0.19%) Ethernet
11 5 (0.19%) Internet
12 4 (0.15%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.15%) RIP
13 3 (0.11%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (6.51%) PostgreSQL
2 163 (6.06%) NoSQL
3 130 (4.83%) MongoDB
3 130 (4.83%) Relational Database
4 73 (2.71%) MySQL
5 65 (2.42%) DynamoDB
6 60 (2.23%) SQL Server
7 48 (1.79%) Big Data
8 35 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
9 28 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
9 28 (1.04%) Redis
10 26 (0.97%) Power BI
11 24 (0.89%) Data Lake
11 24 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
11 24 (0.89%) Hadoop
12 22 (0.82%) Db2
13 21 (0.78%) BigQuery
13 21 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
14 17 (0.63%) Spark SQL
15 15 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 284 (10.56%) Git
2 207 (7.70%) Jenkins
3 201 (7.47%) GitLab
4 104 (3.87%) JUnit
5 89 (3.31%) JIRA
6 87 (3.24%) Cucumber
7 71 (2.64%) Maven
8 65 (2.42%) TeamCity
9 60 (2.23%) Selenium
10 53 (1.97%) Cypress.io
11 47 (1.75%) Eclipse
12 44 (1.64%) Postman
13 43 (1.60%) Mockito
14 41 (1.52%) Subversion
15 35 (1.30%) Bitbucket
15 35 (1.30%) SonarQube
16 33 (1.23%) JMeter
17 27 (1.00%) Claude Code
18 18 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 18 (0.67%) REST Assured
General
1 671 (24.95%) Finance
2 468 (17.40%) Social Skills
3 281 (10.45%) Banking
4 257 (9.56%) Public Sector
5 182 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
6 140 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 122 (4.54%) Law
8 100 (3.72%) Retail
9 77 (2.86%) Financial Institution
10 69 (2.57%) Front Office
11 41 (1.52%) Legal
12 39 (1.45%) Back Office
12 39 (1.45%) Manufacturing
13 36 (1.34%) Marketing
14 34 (1.26%) Health Technology
15 33 (1.23%) Investment Banking
16 28 (1.04%) Publishing
17 23 (0.86%) Tech for Good
18 22 (0.82%) Aerospace
19 21 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 800 (29.75%) Developer
2 706 (26.26%) Senior
3 621 (23.09%) Software Engineer
4 581 (21.61%) Java Engineer
5 513 (19.08%) Java Developer
6 371 (13.80%) Lead
7 222 (8.26%) Senior Developer
8 207 (7.70%) Senior Software Engineer
9 206 (7.66%) Senior Java Engineer
10 199 (7.40%) Java Software Engineer
11 177 (6.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 136 (5.06%) Senior Java Developer
13 128 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
14 118 (4.39%) Software Developer
15 105 (3.90%) Lead Software Engineer
16 96 (3.57%) Principal Engineer
17 86 (3.20%) DevOps Engineer
18 82 (3.05%) Architect
19 80 (2.98%) Full-Stack Java Developer
20 77 (2.86%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 625 (23.24%) Spring
2 521 (19.38%) Spring Boot
3 309 (11.49%) Terraform
4 284 (10.56%) Kafka
5 267 (9.93%) React
6 251 (9.33%) REST
7 209 (7.77%) AngularJS
8 198 (7.36%) Node.js
9 195 (7.25%) RESTful
10 168 (6.25%) .NET
11 71 (2.64%) Web Services
12 65 (2.42%) HTML
13 63 (2.34%) CSS
14 61 (2.27%) OAuth
15 58 (2.16%) Hibernate
16 52 (1.93%) Vue
17 50 (1.86%) RabbitMQ
18 42 (1.56%) XML
19 41 (1.52%) Middleware
20 40 (1.49%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 373 (13.87%) Cloud Native
2 266 (9.89%) Distributed Systems
3 163 (6.06%) Product Ownership
4 125 (4.65%) Public Cloud
5 75 (2.79%) Onboarding
6 74 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
7 60 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
8 49 (1.82%) e-Learning
9 46 (1.71%) Data Structures
10 42 (1.56%) Blog
10 42 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 41 (1.52%) Algorithms
12 40 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
13 36 (1.34%) Virtual Team
14 32 (1.19%) AI Agents
14 32 (1.19%) Mobile App
15 31 (1.15%) Equities
16 28 (1.04%) Fixed Income
17 27 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
17 27 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 216 (8.03%) Linux
2 66 (2.45%) Windows
3 39 (1.45%) Android
4 38 (1.41%) Unix
5 27 (1.00%) 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%) VMS
11 3 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.11%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.074%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.037%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,014 (37.71%) Software Engineering
2 904 (33.62%) CI/CD
3 808 (30.05%) Agile
4 654 (24.32%) Microservices
5 597 (22.20%) DevOps
6 546 (20.30%) Full-Stack Development
7 505 (18.78%) Test Automation
8 470 (17.48%) Mentoring
9 453 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
10 423 (15.73%) AI
11 352 (13.09%) Containerisation
12 324 (12.05%) Infrastructure as Code
13 322 (11.97%) Continuous Improvement
14 303 (11.27%) Event-Driven
15 254 (9.45%) Technical Leadership
16 242 (9.00%) Computer Science
17 238 (8.85%) SDLC
18 231 (8.59%) Scrum
19 229 (8.52%) Roadmaps
19 229 (8.52%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 825 (30.68%) Python
2 479 (17.81%) SQL
3 437 (16.25%) JavaScript
4 277 (10.30%) C++
5 261 (9.71%) TypeScript
6 260 (9.67%) C#
7 151 (5.62%) Go
8 112 (4.17%) Bash
9 105 (3.90%) Kotlin
10 77 (2.86%) Scala
11 75 (2.79%) C
12 58 (2.16%) Rust
13 48 (1.79%) PHP
14 46 (1.71%) Perl
15 40 (1.49%) Groovy
16 35 (1.30%) PowerShell
17 34 (1.26%) Ruby
18 29 (1.08%) PL/SQL
19 22 (0.82%) Shell Script
20 20 (0.74%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 492 (18.30%) Security Cleared
2 277 (10.30%) Degree
3 265 (9.85%) SC Cleared
4 171 (6.36%) DV Cleared
5 162 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 104 (3.87%) AWS Certification
7 69 (2.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 30 (1.12%) Master's Degree
9 22 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (0.74%) ISTQB
11 19 (0.71%) OSCP
12 16 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
13 14 (0.52%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 12 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
16 11 (0.41%) Azure Certification
16 11 (0.41%) CISSP
16 11 (0.41%) PhD
17 9 (0.33%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (6.14%) QA
2 84 (3.12%) Data Quality
3 77 (2.86%) Accessibility
4 26 (0.97%) GDPR
4 26 (0.97%) WCAG
5 21 (0.78%) NIST
6 16 (0.60%) ISO 20022
6 16 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (0.48%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.33%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.22%) GRC
9 6 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 3 (0.11%) MiFID
11 3 (0.11%) MIL-STD-1553
11 3 (0.11%) PSD2
11 3 (0.11%) UCITS
12 2 (0.074%) Good Clinical Practice
12 2 (0.074%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 437 (16.25%) Docker
2 28 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (0.67%) Active Directory
4 15 (0.56%) VMware NSX
5 14 (0.52%) Firmware
6 13 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
7 11 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.41%) vSphere
8 8 (0.30%) Squid
8 8 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.19%) KVM
11 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.037%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 532 (19.78%) Kubernetes
2 136 (5.06%) Ansible
3 102 (3.79%) Grafana
4 39 (1.45%) Argo
5 37 (1.38%) Prometheus
6 31 (1.15%) Puppet
7 23 (0.86%) Kibana
8 14 (0.52%) HP Fortify
8 14 (0.52%) Rancher
9 12 (0.45%) Packer
10 10 (0.37%) logstash
11 8 (0.30%) yum
11 8 (0.30%) ZABBIX
12 7 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (0.26%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.22%) EnCase
13 6 (0.22%) FTK
13 6 (0.22%) Hadoop YARN
13 6 (0.22%) Kubeflow
14 5 (0.19%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 115 (4.28%) Oracle
2 111 (4.13%) Microsoft
3 96 (3.57%) Google
4 67 (2.49%) Splunk
5 45 (1.67%) Red Hat
6 33 (1.23%) IBM
7 31 (1.15%) SAP
7 31 (1.15%) VMware
8 28 (1.04%) Adobe
9 25 (0.93%) Dynatrace
10 22 (0.82%) OpenAI
11 21 (0.78%) AppDynamics
12 18 (0.67%) Databricks
13 17 (0.63%) Palantir
14 16 (0.60%) ServiceNow
15 15 (0.56%) SendGrid
16 14 (0.52%) Salesforce
17 12 (0.45%) Bloomberg
17 12 (0.45%) Foundry
17 12 (0.45%) Solace