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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 42 23
Rank change year-on-year -32 -19 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,571 2,775 3,568
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.02% 5.50% 8.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.20% 16.10% 20.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,071 1,686 2,785
10th Percentile £41,925 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £107,500 £114,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £135,000 £138,750 £125,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £73,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +8.84% +1.38%

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 10,335 17,231 17,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.87% 34.17% 39.99%
Number of salaries quoted 7,792 10,323 14,526
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,524 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £112,050 £110,000
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 24 December 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 24 December 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 -12 850 £100,000 - 522
North of England -9 265 £67,500 +14.41% 368
South East -69 183 £60,000 -14.29% 400
Yorkshire +36 140 £70,000 +27.27% 138
South West -38 120 £65,000 - 182
North West -14 111 £67,500 +12.50% 188
Midlands -3 101 £57,500 +27.78% 176
West Midlands +21 78 £57,500 - 90
East of England -87 31 £31,500 -51.54% 158
East Midlands -26 23 £57,500 +64.29% 78
North East -24 16 £60,000 - 45
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 76 (4.84%) Apache
2 65 (4.14%) Apache Airflow
3 55 (3.50%) Apache Spark
4 33 (2.10%) Confluence
5 15 (0.95%) JBoss
6 13 (0.83%) OpenStack
7 12 (0.76%) IIS
8 10 (0.64%) WebSphere
9 7 (0.45%) Anypoint
10 6 (0.38%) Camunda
10 6 (0.38%) Mule
11 5 (0.32%) SharePoint
12 4 (0.25%) Appian
12 4 (0.25%) nginx
13 3 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
13 3 (0.19%) Luigi
13 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
13 3 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (0.76%) MS Visio
2 9 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.19%) Simulink
5 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.13%) Windchill
6 1 (0.064%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.064%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
1 7 (0.45%) Fidessa
1 7 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.38%) Maximo
3 5 (0.32%) Shopify
4 3 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.13%) Adaptiv
5 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.064%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.064%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 743 (47.29%) AWS
2 310 (19.73%) Azure
3 183 (11.65%) GCP
4 148 (9.42%) Serverless
5 101 (6.43%) Amazon EKS
6 100 (6.37%) SaaS
7 85 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
8 82 (5.22%) GitHub
9 81 (5.16%) Amazon S3
10 77 (4.90%) Amazon ECS
11 62 (3.95%) Snowflake
12 57 (3.63%) dbt
13 50 (3.18%) Amazon EC2
14 45 (2.86%) OpenShift
15 36 (2.29%) AWS CloudFormation
16 33 (2.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 33 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
17 32 (2.04%) AWS Step Functions
18 31 (1.97%) Datadog
19 27 (1.72%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 31 (1.97%) TCP/IP
2 26 (1.65%) HTTP
3 13 (0.83%) AMQP
3 13 (0.83%) Firewall
4 12 (0.76%) DNS
5 11 (0.70%) SSH
6 10 (0.64%) Broadband
7 9 (0.57%) FTP
7 9 (0.57%) Internet
7 9 (0.57%) SMTP
8 8 (0.51%) Multicast
8 8 (0.51%) VPN
9 7 (0.45%) SAN
10 4 (0.25%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.25%) LAN
10 4 (0.25%) WAN
11 3 (0.19%) BGP
11 3 (0.19%) PuTTY
11 3 (0.19%) VLAN
12 2 (0.13%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (8.91%) PostgreSQL
2 130 (8.27%) Relational Database
3 106 (6.75%) NoSQL
4 97 (6.17%) SQL Server
5 74 (4.71%) MongoDB
6 63 (4.01%) Data Lake
7 56 (3.56%) Data Warehouse
8 54 (3.44%) Big Data
8 54 (3.44%) MySQL
9 51 (3.25%) RDBMS
10 50 (3.18%) DynamoDB
10 50 (3.18%) Hadoop
11 44 (2.80%) Amazon Athena
11 44 (2.80%) Apache Ignite
12 43 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
13 41 (2.61%) Apache Arrow
13 41 (2.61%) Apache Iceberg
13 41 (2.61%) Dremio
14 30 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
15 26 (1.65%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 184 (11.71%) Jenkins
2 127 (8.08%) Git
3 114 (7.26%) Selenium
4 99 (6.30%) JIRA
5 87 (5.54%) GitLab
6 68 (4.33%) JUnit
7 60 (3.82%) Cucumber
8 57 (3.63%) Cypress.io
9 53 (3.37%) Postman
10 45 (2.86%) WebDriver
11 41 (2.61%) Maven
12 39 (2.48%) SoapUI
13 38 (2.42%) TeamCity
14 37 (2.36%) Bitbucket
14 37 (2.36%) JMeter
15 31 (1.97%) SonarQube
16 30 (1.91%) Team Foundation Server
17 27 (1.72%) Mockito
18 18 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
19 17 (1.08%) REST Assured
General
1 488 (31.06%) Finance
2 432 (27.50%) Social Skills
3 242 (15.40%) Banking
4 149 (9.48%) Analytical Skills
5 140 (8.91%) Front Office
6 107 (6.81%) Investment Banking
7 101 (6.43%) Public Sector
8 97 (6.17%) Law
9 88 (5.60%) Financial Institution
10 68 (4.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 57 (3.63%) Retail
12 38 (2.42%) Marketing
13 36 (2.29%) Back Office
14 25 (1.59%) Games
15 21 (1.34%) Manufacturing
15 21 (1.34%) Telecoms
16 20 (1.27%) Billing
17 19 (1.21%) Aerospace
17 19 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
18 17 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 570 (36.28%) Developer
2 377 (24.00%) Senior
3 346 (22.02%) Software Engineer
4 286 (18.20%) Java Developer
5 199 (12.67%) Lead
6 194 (12.35%) Java Engineer
7 123 (7.83%) Java Software Engineer
8 121 (7.70%) Senior Software Engineer
9 114 (7.26%) Full-Stack Developer
10 113 (7.19%) Senior Developer
11 107 (6.81%) Architect
12 92 (5.86%) Senior Java Engineer
13 86 (5.47%) AWS Engineer
14 74 (4.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 71 (4.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 65 (4.14%) Senior Java Developer
16 65 (4.14%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 49 (3.12%) Python Engineer
18 47 (2.99%) AWS Software Engineer
18 47 (2.99%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 341 (21.71%) Spring
2 294 (18.71%) React
3 278 (17.70%) Spring Boot
4 197 (12.54%) Kafka
5 183 (11.65%) REST
6 160 (10.18%) .NET
7 144 (9.17%) Node.js
8 136 (8.66%) HTML
9 129 (8.21%) AngularJS
9 129 (8.21%) RESTful
10 97 (6.17%) CSS
11 80 (5.09%) SOAP
12 69 (4.39%) Hibernate
13 56 (3.56%) Web Services
14 53 (3.37%) GraphQL
15 52 (3.31%) gRPC
15 52 (3.31%) Pandas
16 51 (3.25%) Elastic Stack
17 44 (2.80%) JSON
18 41 (2.61%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 236 (15.02%) Cloud Native
2 174 (11.08%) Distributed Systems
3 94 (5.98%) Equities
4 80 (5.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 77 (4.90%) Fixed Income
6 66 (4.20%) Derivative
6 66 (4.20%) Self-Motivation
7 63 (4.01%) Product Ownership
8 60 (3.82%) Algorithms
9 56 (3.56%) Hedge funds
10 44 (2.80%) Onboarding
11 43 (2.74%) Pricing Data
12 39 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
13 36 (2.29%) Management Information System
14 34 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
14 34 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
15 27 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
16 24 (1.53%) Data Structures
17 23 (1.46%) FPGA
17 23 (1.46%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 191 (12.16%) Linux
2 40 (2.55%) Windows
3 27 (1.72%) Unix
4 20 (1.27%) Android
5 10 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.57%) VMS
7 8 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
8 7 (0.45%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.32%) CentOS
10 4 (0.25%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.19%) Debian
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.064%) AIX
13 1 (0.064%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.064%) SUSE
13 1 (0.064%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 633 (40.29%) Agile
2 490 (31.19%) Software Engineering
3 489 (31.13%) CI/CD
4 363 (23.11%) DevOps
5 360 (22.92%) Microservices
6 313 (19.92%) Problem-Solving
7 283 (18.01%) Full-Stack Development
8 259 (16.49%) Mentoring
9 239 (15.21%) Computer Science
10 236 (15.02%) Test Automation
11 207 (13.18%) Continuous Improvement
12 174 (11.08%) Scrum
13 167 (10.63%) Containerisation
14 148 (9.42%) TDD
15 139 (8.85%) AI
16 138 (8.78%) SDLC
17 135 (8.59%) Roadmaps
18 122 (7.77%) Technical Leadership
19 120 (7.64%) Clean Code
20 117 (7.45%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 619 (39.40%) Python
2 412 (26.23%) JavaScript
3 346 (22.02%) SQL
4 279 (17.76%) TypeScript
5 237 (15.09%) C#
6 127 (8.08%) Go
7 124 (7.89%) C++
8 90 (5.73%) C
9 81 (5.16%) Kotlin
10 69 (4.39%) Scala
11 50 (3.18%) Bash
12 46 (2.93%) PHP
13 39 (2.48%) Groovy
14 32 (2.04%) PL/SQL
15 30 (1.91%) Shell Script
16 27 (1.72%) PowerShell
17 23 (1.46%) Perl
17 23 (1.46%) R
18 20 (1.27%) Ruby
18 20 (1.27%) Rust
Qualifications
1 308 (19.61%) Degree
2 216 (13.75%) Security Cleared
3 147 (9.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 125 (7.96%) SC Cleared
5 79 (5.03%) DV Cleared
6 75 (4.77%) AWS Certification
7 73 (4.65%) Master's Degree
8 44 (2.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 40 (2.55%) Azure Certification
10 34 (2.16%) ISTQB
11 28 (1.78%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 28 (1.78%) TOGAF Certification
12 27 (1.72%) PhD
13 25 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
14 18 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
15 13 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
16 8 (0.51%) HND
17 6 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
17 6 (0.38%) MBA
17 6 (0.38%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (6.24%) QA
2 45 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 25 (1.59%) GDPR
4 16 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (0.83%) Data Quality
6 12 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
7 9 (0.57%) ISO 9001
7 9 (0.57%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.45%) NIST
9 6 (0.38%) SLA
9 6 (0.38%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.32%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.25%) EU AI Act
11 4 (0.25%) SEPA
11 4 (0.25%) WCAG
12 3 (0.19%) NCSC
13 2 (0.13%) ECSS
13 2 (0.13%) MISRA
13 2 (0.13%) PSD2
System Software
1 280 (17.82%) Docker
2 20 (1.27%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
5 9 (0.57%) HDFS
6 4 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.19%) Firmware
7 3 (0.19%) vSphere
8 2 (0.13%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.13%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.064%) KVM
9 1 (0.064%) Squid
Systems Management
1 368 (23.42%) Kubernetes
2 102 (6.49%) Terraform
3 62 (3.95%) Grafana
4 59 (3.76%) Ansible
5 34 (2.16%) Prometheus
6 33 (2.10%) Kibana
7 26 (1.65%) Argo
8 17 (1.08%) HP Fortify
9 11 (0.70%) Progress Chef
10 8 (0.51%) Kustomize
11 7 (0.45%) Control-M
12 6 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
12 6 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.32%) Puppet
13 5 (0.32%) Rancher
14 4 (0.25%) Nagios
15 3 (0.19%) logstash
15 3 (0.19%) yum
16 2 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 111 (7.07%) Oracle
2 81 (5.16%) Microsoft
3 71 (4.52%) Google
4 31 (1.97%) Guidewire
4 31 (1.97%) Splunk
5 30 (1.91%) Atlassian
6 25 (1.59%) Databricks
6 25 (1.59%) MuleSoft
7 24 (1.53%) Informatica
8 22 (1.40%) Talend
9 21 (1.34%) Dynatrace
10 20 (1.27%) IBM
10 20 (1.27%) SAP
11 14 (0.89%) Dell
11 14 (0.89%) Salesforce
12 13 (0.83%) Red Hat
13 11 (0.70%) Adobe
13 11 (0.70%) ServiceNow
14 9 (0.57%) OpenAI
14 9 (0.57%) Siemens