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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 32 23
Rank change year-on-year -25 -9 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,844 3,318 3,868
As % of all permanent jobs in England 4.01% 5.45% 8.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.36% 17.00% 19.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,133 2,025 3,069
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,517 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £75,554
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +5.89% +0.74%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £142,500 £130,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +4.17%

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 10,623 19,518 19,519
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 23.09% 32.06% 41.21%
Number of salaries quoted 7,853 11,640 16,057
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,566 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £111,250 £107,500
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 15 November 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 15 November 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 -10 1,046 £105,000 +5.00% 797
North of England -7 293 £65,000 +8.33% 216
South East -85 191 £62,500 - 262
North West -10 154 £70,000 +16.67% 152
Midlands +35 142 £62,500 +56.25% 65
South West -42 119 £65,000 - 132
Yorkshire +30 112 £67,500 +16.45% 43
West Midlands +33 102 £62,500 +20.48% 45
East of England -65 46 £42,500 -37.04% 58
East Midlands +21 40 £57,750 +65.00% 20
North East -2 29 £55,000 -20.27% 22
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 96 (5.21%) Apache Airflow
2 95 (5.15%) Apache
3 58 (3.15%) Apache Spark
4 49 (2.66%) Confluence
5 15 (0.81%) JBoss
6 9 (0.49%) IIS
7 6 (0.33%) Mule
7 6 (0.33%) nginx
7 6 (0.33%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.33%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.27%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
8 5 (0.27%) Camunda
8 5 (0.27%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.27%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
9 4 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
9 4 (0.22%) Traefik
Applications
1 6 (0.33%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.16%) Simulink
4 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.054%) Trello
5 1 (0.054%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
1 8 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.33%) Adaptiv
2 6 (0.33%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.33%) Maximo
2 6 (0.33%) Shopify
3 5 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.11%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.054%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.054%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.054%) Summit
5 1 (0.054%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 880 (47.72%) AWS
2 348 (18.87%) Azure
3 234 (12.69%) GCP
4 151 (8.19%) Serverless
5 104 (5.64%) Amazon EKS
6 96 (5.21%) GitHub
7 95 (5.15%) SaaS
8 88 (4.77%) AWS Lambda
9 84 (4.56%) dbt
10 82 (4.45%) Amazon EC2
11 77 (4.18%) Snowflake
12 72 (3.90%) Amazon ECS
13 71 (3.85%) Amazon S3
14 49 (2.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 41 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
16 40 (2.17%) OpenShift
17 31 (1.68%) Datadog
18 28 (1.52%) Amazon SQS
19 25 (1.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 24 (1.30%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.95%) TCP/IP
2 24 (1.30%) HTTP
3 23 (1.25%) DNS
4 21 (1.14%) Firewall
5 19 (1.03%) SSH
6 17 (0.92%) FTP
6 17 (0.92%) SMTP
7 12 (0.65%) VPN
8 10 (0.54%) AMQP
9 9 (0.49%) Internet
10 8 (0.43%) Multicast
11 7 (0.38%) SAN
12 5 (0.27%) DHCP
12 5 (0.27%) SSL
13 4 (0.22%) Broadband
13 4 (0.22%) ICMP
13 4 (0.22%) Kerberos
13 4 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
14 3 (0.16%) BGP
14 3 (0.16%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (10.03%) PostgreSQL
2 164 (8.89%) Relational Database
3 123 (6.67%) NoSQL
4 96 (5.21%) SQL Server
5 95 (5.15%) MongoDB
6 93 (5.04%) Data Lake
7 79 (4.28%) MySQL
8 75 (4.07%) Amazon Athena
8 75 (4.07%) Apache Iceberg
9 71 (3.85%) Apache Arrow
9 71 (3.85%) Dremio
10 64 (3.47%) Apache Ignite
11 62 (3.36%) Big Data
12 61 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
13 58 (3.15%) Amazon RDS
14 45 (2.44%) DynamoDB
15 44 (2.39%) RDBMS
16 43 (2.33%) Hadoop
17 31 (1.68%) BigQuery
18 25 (1.36%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 181 (9.82%) Jenkins
2 156 (8.46%) Git
3 103 (5.59%) JIRA
4 102 (5.53%) Selenium
5 86 (4.66%) JUnit
6 79 (4.28%) GitLab
7 60 (3.25%) Cucumber
8 45 (2.44%) Mockito
9 40 (2.17%) JMeter
9 40 (2.17%) Postman
10 37 (2.01%) Cypress.io
10 37 (2.01%) Maven
11 32 (1.74%) TeamCity
12 30 (1.63%) WebDriver
13 29 (1.57%) Bitbucket
14 26 (1.41%) SoapUI
15 25 (1.36%) SonarQube
16 19 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
17 17 (0.92%) Vagrant
18 16 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 747 (40.51%) Finance
2 503 (27.28%) Social Skills
3 399 (21.64%) Banking
4 295 (16.00%) Law
5 266 (14.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 194 (10.52%) Front Office
7 174 (9.44%) Analytical Skills
8 154 (8.35%) Investment Banking
9 133 (7.21%) Public Sector
10 107 (5.80%) Financial Institution
11 82 (4.45%) Marketing
12 49 (2.66%) Retail
13 38 (2.06%) Legal
14 33 (1.79%) Back Office
15 31 (1.68%) Games
16 23 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
17 20 (1.08%) Billing
17 20 (1.08%) Manufacturing
18 17 (0.92%) Telecoms
19 16 (0.87%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 588 (31.89%) Developer
2 540 (29.28%) Software Engineer
3 430 (23.32%) Senior
4 313 (16.97%) Java Engineer
5 289 (15.67%) Lead
6 286 (15.51%) Java Developer
7 231 (12.53%) Java Software Engineer
8 170 (9.22%) Senior Software Engineer
9 145 (7.86%) Lead Software Engineer
10 127 (6.89%) Senior Java Engineer
11 125 (6.78%) AWS Engineer
12 110 (5.97%) Python Engineer
13 104 (5.64%) Python Software Engineer
14 102 (5.53%) Architect
15 97 (5.26%) Senior Developer
16 95 (5.15%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 93 (5.04%) Full-Stack Developer
18 89 (4.83%) AWS Software Engineer
19 65 (3.52%) Data Engineer
20 62 (3.36%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 402 (21.80%) Spring
2 321 (17.41%) React
3 315 (17.08%) Spring Boot
4 287 (15.56%) Kafka
5 194 (10.52%) RESTful
6 168 (9.11%) HTML
7 167 (9.06%) .NET
8 166 (9.00%) REST
9 148 (8.03%) Node.js
10 115 (6.24%) AngularJS
11 100 (5.42%) CSS
12 88 (4.77%) Hibernate
12 88 (4.77%) Pandas
13 80 (4.34%) Web Services
14 73 (3.96%) gRPC
15 72 (3.90%) NumPy
16 71 (3.85%) SciPy
16 71 (3.85%) SOAP
17 66 (3.58%) Protocol Buffers
18 55 (2.98%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 337 (18.28%) Cloud Native
2 202 (10.95%) Distributed Systems
3 131 (7.10%) Equities
4 124 (6.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 122 (6.62%) Fixed Income
6 114 (6.18%) Derivative
7 92 (4.99%) Algorithms
8 78 (4.23%) Hedge funds
9 69 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
10 66 (3.58%) Public Cloud
11 63 (3.42%) Pricing Data
12 62 (3.36%) Onboarding
13 58 (3.15%) Product Ownership
14 57 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
15 46 (2.49%) Management Information System
16 40 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
17 38 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
18 35 (1.90%) Data Structures
18 35 (1.90%) Mobile App
19 34 (1.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 202 (10.95%) Linux
2 41 (2.22%) Windows
3 32 (1.74%) Unix
4 26 (1.41%) Android
5 17 (0.92%) VMS
6 15 (0.81%) Amazon Linux
7 13 (0.70%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.33%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.16%) CentOS
10 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.11%) Debian
11 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.054%) AIX
12 1 (0.054%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.054%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.054%) SUSE
12 1 (0.054%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 865 (46.91%) Agile
2 709 (38.45%) Software Engineering
3 596 (32.32%) CI/CD
4 442 (23.97%) Microservices
5 388 (21.04%) Problem-Solving
6 380 (20.61%) DevOps
7 319 (17.30%) Computer Science
8 280 (15.18%) SDLC
9 270 (14.64%) Test Automation
10 265 (14.37%) Continuous Improvement
11 254 (13.77%) AI
12 251 (13.61%) Full-Stack Development
13 243 (13.18%) Mentoring
14 210 (11.39%) Machine Learning
15 196 (10.63%) TDD
16 189 (10.25%) Fintech
17 183 (9.92%) Containerisation
18 169 (9.16%) Scrum
19 138 (7.48%) Analytics
20 134 (7.27%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 796 (43.17%) Python
2 468 (25.38%) JavaScript
3 444 (24.08%) SQL
4 355 (19.25%) TypeScript
5 309 (16.76%) C#
6 226 (12.26%) C++
7 148 (8.03%) Go
8 137 (7.43%) C
9 131 (7.10%) Kotlin
10 101 (5.48%) PHP
11 79 (4.28%) Scala
12 78 (4.23%) Rust
13 71 (3.85%) Ruby
14 68 (3.69%) R
15 55 (2.98%) MATLAB
16 49 (2.66%) Dart
16 49 (2.66%) PowerShell
17 43 (2.33%) Shell Script
18 39 (2.11%) Groovy
19 35 (1.90%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 346 (18.76%) Degree
2 226 (12.26%) Security Cleared
3 194 (10.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 151 (8.19%) SC Cleared
5 91 (4.93%) AWS Certification
6 71 (3.85%) Master's Degree
7 62 (3.36%) DV Cleared
8 48 (2.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 40 (2.17%) Azure Certification
10 32 (1.74%) PhD
11 22 (1.19%) ISTQB
12 19 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
13 18 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
14 17 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (0.87%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 10 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
17 9 (0.49%) HND
17 9 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
17 9 (0.49%) PMI Certification
17 9 (0.49%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (5.53%) QA
2 47 (2.55%) Accessibility
3 34 (1.84%) GDPR
4 20 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (0.81%) PCI DSS
6 13 (0.70%) Data Quality
7 12 (0.65%) HIPAA
8 11 (0.60%) NIST
9 10 (0.54%) ISO 9001
10 8 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.43%) SLA
11 6 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.33%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.22%) EU AI Act
12 4 (0.22%) SEPA
12 4 (0.22%) WCAG
13 3 (0.16%) NCSC
14 2 (0.11%) GRC
14 2 (0.11%) ITGC
System Software
1 304 (16.49%) Docker
2 30 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
5 12 (0.65%) HDFS
6 6 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.22%) DFS Replication
7 4 (0.22%) vSphere
8 3 (0.16%) Apache Flume
8 3 (0.16%) Firmware
9 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.11%) KVM
9 2 (0.11%) Squid
9 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.054%) Postfix
10 1 (0.054%) Xen
Systems Management
1 462 (25.05%) Kubernetes
2 148 (8.03%) Terraform
3 78 (4.23%) Grafana
4 49 (2.66%) Ansible
5 43 (2.33%) Kibana
5 43 (2.33%) Prometheus
6 21 (1.14%) Argo
7 15 (0.81%) Progress Chef
8 14 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.43%) Control-M
10 7 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
10 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.33%) logstash
12 5 (0.27%) Puppet
13 4 (0.22%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.22%) Nagios
14 3 (0.16%) Kustomize
14 3 (0.16%) Oozie
15 2 (0.11%) Mesos
15 2 (0.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 139 (7.54%) Oracle
2 97 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 83 (4.50%) Google
4 41 (2.22%) Splunk
5 40 (2.17%) Guidewire
6 35 (1.90%) Databricks
7 34 (1.84%) Atlassian
8 29 (1.57%) SAP
9 28 (1.52%) Dynatrace
10 25 (1.36%) IBM
11 20 (1.08%) MuleSoft
11 20 (1.08%) ServiceNow
12 18 (0.98%) Informatica
13 16 (0.87%) Red Hat
14 15 (0.81%) Foundry
15 14 (0.76%) Palantir
15 14 (0.76%) Talend
16 13 (0.70%) Dell
16 13 (0.70%) Solace
17 10 (0.54%) Bloomberg