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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 30 30
Rank change year-on-year -28 0 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,532 2,789 3,799
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.54% 6.41% 5.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.04% 23.47% 18.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,621 1,220 2,442
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,425 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £116,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £135,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +5.72%

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 16,830 11,883 20,943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.87% 27.32% 30.35%
Number of salaries quoted 12,340 7,856 13,800
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +2.40% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,400
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.16% -4.00%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -13 1,065 £85,000 -19.05% 993
North of England -27 715 £67,500 - 194
North West -35 332 £70,000 - 111
South West -3 290 £63,500 +5.83% 141
South East -48 214 £67,500 +3.85% 152
Yorkshire +23 201 £75,000 +13.21% 48
North East +13 182 £55,000 +15.79% 35
Midlands -49 178 £62,500 +4.17% 85
West Midlands -29 151 £67,500 +12.50% 58
East of England -68 54 £57,500 +30.68% 45
East Midlands -79 27 £60,000 +4.35% 27
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 62 (2.45%) Confluence
2 56 (2.21%) Apache
3 37 (1.46%) Apache Spark
4 23 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (0.67%) Camunda
6 16 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
7 14 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 10 (0.39%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
10 7 (0.28%) JBoss
10 7 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 7 (0.28%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.24%) CMS
12 5 (0.20%) CICS
12 5 (0.20%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.16%) SAS
14 3 (0.12%) Documentum
14 3 (0.12%) SharePoint
14 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
14 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.59%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.28%) Simulink
4 5 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.20%) Moqups
5 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.079%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.079%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.079%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.079%) Windchill
7 1 (0.039%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.039%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.039%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.20%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.20%) Temenos T24
3 4 (0.16%) Maximo
3 4 (0.16%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.079%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.079%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 1 (0.039%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.039%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.039%) Endur
5 1 (0.039%) Findur
5 1 (0.039%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.039%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.039%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.039%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.039%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,042 (41.15%) AWS
2 537 (21.21%) Azure
3 297 (11.73%) GCP
4 206 (8.14%) Serverless
5 164 (6.48%) AWS CloudFormation
6 156 (6.16%) GitHub
7 140 (5.53%) AWS Lambda
8 110 (4.34%) Amazon S3
9 109 (4.30%) Amazon ECS
10 97 (3.83%) SaaS
11 88 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
12 86 (3.40%) Amazon EKS
13 84 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
14 62 (2.45%) AWS Step Functions
15 49 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
16 42 (1.66%) Datadog
17 38 (1.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 38 (1.50%) OpenShift
18 35 (1.38%) Anthropic Claude
18 35 (1.38%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 41 (1.62%) HTTP
2 17 (0.67%) Network Security
3 16 (0.63%) Broadband
4 14 (0.55%) TCP/IP
5 13 (0.51%) DMARC
6 9 (0.36%) DNS
6 9 (0.36%) IPv4
6 9 (0.36%) MQTT
6 9 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
7 8 (0.32%) VPN
8 7 (0.28%) AMQP
8 7 (0.28%) BGP
8 7 (0.28%) Wireshark
9 6 (0.24%) IPsec
10 5 (0.20%) Ethernet
10 5 (0.20%) Firewall
10 5 (0.20%) Internet
10 5 (0.20%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.12%) RIP
11 3 (0.12%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (6.52%) NoSQL
2 162 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
3 125 (4.94%) MongoDB
4 121 (4.78%) Relational Database
5 77 (3.04%) DynamoDB
5 77 (3.04%) MySQL
6 74 (2.92%) SQL Server
7 46 (1.82%) Big Data
8 38 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
9 29 (1.15%) Redis
10 24 (0.95%) Hadoop
11 23 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
12 22 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
12 22 (0.87%) Db2
13 21 (0.83%) Data Lake
13 21 (0.83%) Power BI
14 18 (0.71%) BigQuery
15 17 (0.67%) Spark SQL
16 16 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
17 15 (0.59%) Flink
Development Applications
1 286 (11.30%) Git
2 214 (8.45%) Jenkins
3 199 (7.86%) GitLab
4 99 (3.91%) JIRA
4 99 (3.91%) JUnit
5 95 (3.75%) Cucumber
6 76 (3.00%) Maven
7 73 (2.88%) Selenium
8 65 (2.57%) Cypress.io
9 49 (1.94%) Postman
10 47 (1.86%) SonarQube
11 44 (1.74%) Eclipse
12 41 (1.62%) JMeter
12 41 (1.62%) TeamCity
13 40 (1.58%) Mockito
14 38 (1.50%) Subversion
15 35 (1.38%) Bitbucket
16 25 (0.99%) REST Assured
17 24 (0.95%) Claude Code
18 20 (0.79%) Gatling
General
1 664 (26.22%) Finance
2 431 (17.02%) Social Skills
3 259 (10.23%) Public Sector
4 246 (9.72%) Banking
5 193 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
6 124 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 93 (3.67%) Law
8 71 (2.80%) Retail
9 70 (2.76%) Front Office
10 64 (2.53%) Financial Institution
11 37 (1.46%) Manufacturing
12 36 (1.42%) Legal
12 36 (1.42%) Marketing
13 34 (1.34%) Investment Banking
14 29 (1.15%) Back Office
14 29 (1.15%) Health Technology
15 23 (0.91%) Aerospace
16 20 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
17 19 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
17 19 (0.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 793 (31.32%) Developer
2 648 (25.59%) Senior
3 569 (22.47%) Software Engineer
4 518 (20.46%) Java Developer
5 476 (18.80%) Java Engineer
6 353 (13.94%) Lead
7 215 (8.49%) Senior Developer
8 196 (7.74%) Senior Software Engineer
9 161 (6.36%) Senior Java Engineer
10 158 (6.24%) Java Software Engineer
11 151 (5.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 136 (5.37%) Senior Java Developer
13 128 (5.06%) Software Developer
14 127 (5.02%) Full-Stack Developer
15 107 (4.23%) Lead Software Engineer
16 85 (3.36%) Principal Engineer
17 81 (3.20%) Architect
17 81 (3.20%) DevOps Engineer
17 81 (3.20%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 76 (3.00%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 598 (23.62%) Spring
2 491 (19.39%) Spring Boot
3 288 (11.37%) Terraform
4 267 (10.55%) Kafka
5 262 (10.35%) React
6 253 (9.99%) REST
7 222 (8.77%) AngularJS
8 197 (7.78%) Node.js
9 191 (7.54%) RESTful
10 176 (6.95%) .NET
11 81 (3.20%) Web Services
12 67 (2.65%) CSS
13 62 (2.45%) HTML
14 59 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
14 59 (2.33%) Vue
15 56 (2.21%) OAuth
16 55 (2.17%) Hibernate
17 54 (2.13%) Playwright
18 45 (1.78%) Jakarta EE
19 44 (1.74%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 325 (12.84%) Cloud Native
2 257 (10.15%) Distributed Systems
3 171 (6.75%) Product Ownership
4 129 (5.09%) Public Cloud
5 75 (2.96%) Onboarding
6 64 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
7 57 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
8 48 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
9 45 (1.78%) e-Learning
10 44 (1.74%) Virtual Team
11 42 (1.66%) Data Structures
12 40 (1.58%) Mobile App
13 39 (1.54%) Algorithms
13 39 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 33 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
15 31 (1.22%) Equities
16 30 (1.18%) AI Agents
17 26 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
17 26 (1.03%) Blog
18 23 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 224 (8.85%) Linux
2 68 (2.69%) Windows
3 42 (1.66%) Android
4 37 (1.46%) Unix
5 23 (0.91%) Apple iOS
6 21 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (0.59%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.28%) CentOS
9 6 (0.24%) Debian
9 6 (0.24%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.20%) Kali Linux
11 4 (0.16%) VMS
12 3 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
12 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.079%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.039%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 912 (36.02%) Software Engineering
2 849 (33.53%) CI/CD
3 812 (32.07%) Agile
4 607 (23.97%) Microservices
5 584 (23.06%) DevOps
6 502 (19.83%) Test Automation
7 479 (18.92%) Full-Stack Development
8 467 (18.44%) Mentoring
9 448 (17.69%) Problem-Solving
10 392 (15.48%) AI
11 322 (12.72%) Containerisation
12 311 (12.28%) Infrastructure as Code
13 305 (12.05%) Continuous Improvement
14 271 (10.70%) Event-Driven
15 255 (10.07%) Roadmaps
16 253 (9.99%) Technical Leadership
17 238 (9.40%) Computer Science
18 237 (9.36%) TDD
19 230 (9.08%) SDLC
20 228 (9.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 810 (31.99%) Python
2 479 (18.92%) SQL
3 431 (17.02%) JavaScript
4 277 (10.94%) C#
5 263 (10.39%) C++
6 247 (9.76%) TypeScript
7 126 (4.98%) Go
8 115 (4.54%) Bash
9 110 (4.34%) Kotlin
10 78 (3.08%) C
11 74 (2.92%) Scala
12 58 (2.29%) Rust
13 57 (2.25%) PHP
14 53 (2.09%) Groovy
15 51 (2.01%) Perl
16 37 (1.46%) PowerShell
16 37 (1.46%) Ruby
17 30 (1.18%) PL/SQL
18 20 (0.79%) Shell Script
19 17 (0.67%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 473 (18.68%) Security Cleared
2 289 (11.41%) Degree
3 257 (10.15%) SC Cleared
4 163 (6.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 162 (6.40%) DV Cleared
6 102 (4.03%) AWS Certification
7 65 (2.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (1.15%) Master's Degree
9 23 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (0.79%) ISTQB
11 19 (0.75%) OSCP
12 17 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
13 16 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 14 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
16 12 (0.47%) DBS Check
17 11 (0.43%) CREST Certified
18 10 (0.39%) PhD
19 8 (0.32%) CCNA
19 8 (0.32%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (6.71%) QA
2 85 (3.36%) Accessibility
3 80 (3.16%) Data Quality
4 27 (1.07%) WCAG
5 23 (0.91%) GDPR
6 15 (0.59%) ISO 20022
7 14 (0.55%) GRC
8 13 (0.51%) NIST
9 10 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 7 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.20%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 14443
12 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 4 (0.16%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.12%) MiFID
13 3 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
13 3 (0.12%) PSD2
13 3 (0.12%) UCITS
14 2 (0.079%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 418 (16.51%) Docker
2 27 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (0.75%) Active Directory
4 13 (0.51%) Firmware
5 12 (0.47%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.43%) vSphere
7 10 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
8 8 (0.32%) Squid
8 8 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.24%) KVM
9 6 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.079%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 466 (18.40%) Kubernetes
2 134 (5.29%) Ansible
3 87 (3.44%) Grafana
4 32 (1.26%) Prometheus
5 31 (1.22%) Argo
6 28 (1.11%) Kibana
7 26 (1.03%) Puppet
8 22 (0.87%) HP Fortify
9 12 (0.47%) Packer
9 12 (0.47%) Rancher
10 11 (0.43%) logstash
11 8 (0.32%) ZABBIX
12 7 (0.28%) yum
13 6 (0.24%) Hadoop YARN
13 6 (0.24%) Kubeflow
13 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
14 5 (0.20%) Red Hat Satellite
15 4 (0.16%) Control-M
15 4 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 113 (4.46%) Oracle
2 109 (4.30%) Microsoft
3 85 (3.36%) Google
4 61 (2.41%) Splunk
5 43 (1.70%) IBM
6 40 (1.58%) Red Hat
7 32 (1.26%) SAP
8 31 (1.22%) VMware
9 30 (1.18%) AppDynamics
10 25 (0.99%) Palantir
11 24 (0.95%) Adobe
11 24 (0.95%) Dynatrace
12 21 (0.83%) OpenAI
13 18 (0.71%) ServiceNow
14 17 (0.67%) Databricks
15 16 (0.63%) Foundry
16 14 (0.55%) Salesforce
17 13 (0.51%) SendGrid
18 12 (0.47%) Bloomberg
18 12 (0.47%) Veracode