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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 33 31
Rank change year-on-year -25 -2 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,693 2,668 3,672
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.60% 6.15% 5.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.35% 23.24% 18.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,677 1,121 2,280
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £78,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% +3.23%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £136,250 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +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 16,472 11,481 20,380
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.88% 26.46% 31.37%
Number of salaries quoted 11,995 7,531 12,358
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 £112,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £63,264
% change year-on-year +4.00% -1.21% -2.67%

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 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 9 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 -15 1,094 £82,500 -21.43% 2,361
North of England -20 775 £69,310 +2.68% 421
North West -33 405 £75,000 +7.14% 235
South West +7 339 £67,500 +3.85% 179
South East -44 218 £67,500 +3.85% 211
Midlands -37 200 £70,000 +12.00% 144
North East +24 189 £55,000 +7.32% 90
Yorkshire +18 181 £72,500 +7.41% 97
West Midlands -14 173 £70,000 +12.00% 108
East of England -85 43 £68,750 +61.76% 72
East Midlands -81 27 £60,000 -0.41% 36
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 (2.15%) Confluence
2 56 (2.08%) Apache
3 37 (1.37%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (0.71%) Camunda
6 18 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 12 (0.45%) Jupyter
8 10 (0.37%) WebLogic
9 8 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
9 8 (0.30%) Tomcat
10 7 (0.26%) CICS
10 7 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.19%) CMS
12 5 (0.19%) Ethereum
12 5 (0.19%) JBoss
12 5 (0.19%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.15%) SAS
13 4 (0.15%) SharePoint
13 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
7 3 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
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 2 (0.074%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.074%) Maximo
4 2 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.074%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 2 (0.074%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.037%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.037%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.037%) Quorum
5 1 (0.037%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.037%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.037%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,055 (39.18%) AWS
2 528 (19.61%) Azure
3 304 (11.29%) GCP
4 195 (7.24%) Serverless
5 182 (6.76%) GitHub
6 153 (5.68%) AWS CloudFormation
7 130 (4.83%) AWS Lambda
8 108 (4.01%) Amazon S3
9 106 (3.94%) Amazon EKS
9 106 (3.94%) SaaS
10 105 (3.90%) GitHub Actions
11 101 (3.75%) Amazon ECS
12 89 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
13 55 (2.04%) AWS Step Functions
14 49 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
15 42 (1.56%) Datadog
16 41 (1.52%) Anthropic Claude
17 40 (1.49%) OpenShift
18 39 (1.45%) GitHub Copilot
19 37 (1.37%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 34 (1.26%) HTTP
2 24 (0.89%) TCP/IP
3 20 (0.74%) Network Security
4 17 (0.63%) VPN
5 16 (0.59%) BGP
6 15 (0.56%) DMARC
7 10 (0.37%) Firewall
8 9 (0.33%) AMQP
8 9 (0.33%) DNS
8 9 (0.33%) Wireshark
9 8 (0.30%) IPv4
9 8 (0.30%) MQTT
9 8 (0.30%) Software-Defined Networking
10 6 (0.22%) IPsec
11 5 (0.19%) Broadband
11 5 (0.19%) Ethernet
12 4 (0.15%) Internet
12 4 (0.15%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.15%) RIP
13 3 (0.11%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (6.68%) PostgreSQL
2 165 (6.13%) NoSQL
3 128 (4.75%) MongoDB
3 128 (4.75%) Relational Database
4 71 (2.64%) MySQL
5 65 (2.41%) DynamoDB
6 57 (2.12%) SQL Server
7 51 (1.89%) Big Data
8 36 (1.34%) Amazon Athena
9 31 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
10 28 (1.04%) Redis
11 27 (1.00%) Power BI
12 25 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
13 24 (0.89%) Data Lake
13 24 (0.89%) Hadoop
14 22 (0.82%) BigQuery
14 22 (0.82%) Db2
15 21 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
16 17 (0.63%) Spark SQL
17 15 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 286 (10.62%) Git
2 205 (7.61%) Jenkins
3 203 (7.54%) GitLab
4 107 (3.97%) JUnit
5 88 (3.27%) JIRA
6 87 (3.23%) Cucumber
7 70 (2.60%) TeamCity
8 68 (2.53%) Maven
9 57 (2.12%) Selenium
10 52 (1.93%) Cypress.io
11 46 (1.71%) Eclipse
12 45 (1.67%) Mockito
13 43 (1.60%) Postman
14 42 (1.56%) Subversion
15 36 (1.34%) SonarQube
16 32 (1.19%) Bitbucket
17 31 (1.15%) JMeter
18 28 (1.04%) Claude Code
19 18 (0.67%) REST Assured
20 17 (0.63%) Spock
General
1 675 (25.06%) Finance
2 471 (17.49%) Social Skills
3 291 (10.81%) Banking
4 250 (9.28%) Public Sector
5 177 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
6 144 (5.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 126 (4.68%) Law
8 104 (3.86%) Retail
9 82 (3.04%) Financial Institution
10 72 (2.67%) Front Office
11 43 (1.60%) Back Office
12 40 (1.49%) Legal
13 38 (1.41%) Manufacturing
14 35 (1.30%) Health Technology
14 35 (1.30%) Marketing
15 32 (1.19%) Investment Banking
16 28 (1.04%) Publishing
17 22 (0.82%) Aerospace
17 22 (0.82%) Tech for Good
18 21 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 787 (29.22%) Developer
2 717 (26.62%) Senior
3 627 (23.28%) Software Engineer
4 585 (21.72%) Java Engineer
5 505 (18.75%) Java Developer
6 374 (13.89%) Lead
7 222 (8.24%) Senior Developer
8 213 (7.91%) Senior Java Engineer
9 208 (7.72%) Senior Software Engineer
10 198 (7.35%) Java Software Engineer
11 174 (6.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 136 (5.05%) Senior Java Developer
13 128 (4.75%) Full-Stack Developer
14 113 (4.20%) Software Developer
15 105 (3.90%) Lead Software Engineer
16 101 (3.75%) Principal Engineer
17 87 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
18 84 (3.12%) Architect
19 80 (2.97%) Full-Stack Java Developer
20 76 (2.82%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 623 (23.13%) Spring
2 522 (19.38%) Spring Boot
3 321 (11.92%) Terraform
4 282 (10.47%) Kafka
5 265 (9.84%) React
6 253 (9.39%) REST
7 212 (7.87%) AngularJS
8 201 (7.46%) Node.js
9 194 (7.20%) RESTful
10 165 (6.13%) .NET
11 65 (2.41%) Web Services
12 63 (2.34%) HTML
13 61 (2.27%) OAuth
14 60 (2.23%) CSS
15 57 (2.12%) Hibernate
16 53 (1.97%) Vue
17 50 (1.86%) RabbitMQ
18 41 (1.52%) Jakarta EE
18 41 (1.52%) XML
19 40 (1.49%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 386 (14.33%) Cloud Native
2 267 (9.91%) Distributed Systems
3 160 (5.94%) Product Ownership
4 123 (4.57%) Public Cloud
5 79 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
6 76 (2.82%) Onboarding
7 60 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
8 49 (1.82%) e-Learning
8 49 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 48 (1.78%) Blog
10 47 (1.75%) Data Structures
11 42 (1.56%) Algorithms
12 39 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
13 34 (1.26%) Virtual Team
14 33 (1.23%) Mobile App
15 32 (1.19%) AI Agents
15 32 (1.19%) Equities
16 30 (1.11%) Fixed Income
17 29 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
18 27 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 223 (8.28%) Linux
2 68 (2.53%) Windows
3 41 (1.52%) Android
4 36 (1.34%) Unix
5 28 (1.04%) Apple iOS
6 22 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (0.48%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.33%) CentOS
9 8 (0.30%) Debian
9 8 (0.30%) 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 1,018 (37.80%) Software Engineering
2 914 (33.94%) CI/CD
3 800 (29.71%) Agile
4 658 (24.43%) Microservices
5 595 (22.09%) DevOps
6 551 (20.46%) Full-Stack Development
7 506 (18.79%) Test Automation
8 462 (17.16%) Mentoring
9 453 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
10 433 (16.08%) AI
11 355 (13.18%) Containerisation
12 332 (12.33%) Infrastructure as Code
13 327 (12.14%) Continuous Improvement
14 302 (11.21%) Event-Driven
15 252 (9.36%) Technical Leadership
16 243 (9.02%) SDLC
17 238 (8.84%) Computer Science
18 232 (8.61%) Scrum
19 227 (8.43%) TDD
20 219 (8.13%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 826 (30.67%) Python
2 479 (17.79%) SQL
3 436 (16.19%) JavaScript
4 271 (10.06%) C++
4 271 (10.06%) TypeScript
5 250 (9.28%) C#
6 164 (6.09%) Go
7 118 (4.38%) Bash
8 112 (4.16%) Kotlin
9 80 (2.97%) Scala
10 74 (2.75%) C
11 64 (2.38%) Rust
12 46 (1.71%) Perl
13 45 (1.67%) PHP
14 39 (1.45%) Groovy
15 37 (1.37%) PowerShell
16 33 (1.23%) Ruby
17 30 (1.11%) PL/SQL
18 22 (0.82%) COBOL
18 22 (0.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 489 (18.16%) Security Cleared
2 271 (10.06%) Degree
3 255 (9.47%) SC Cleared
4 173 (6.42%) DV Cleared
5 155 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 104 (3.86%) AWS Certification
7 70 (2.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 33 (1.23%) Master's Degree
9 22 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
10 18 (0.67%) ISTQB
10 18 (0.67%) OSCP
11 14 (0.52%) CISSP
12 13 (0.48%) Azure Certification
12 13 (0.48%) DBS Check
12 13 (0.48%) PhD
13 12 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 12 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (0.37%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (6.20%) QA
2 85 (3.16%) Data Quality
3 80 (2.97%) Accessibility
4 26 (0.97%) GDPR
4 26 (0.97%) WCAG
5 24 (0.89%) NIST
6 20 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 17 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 16 (0.59%) ISO 20022
9 13 (0.48%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.15%) GRC
11 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 3 (0.11%) MiFID
12 3 (0.11%) MIL-STD-1553
12 3 (0.11%) PSD2
12 3 (0.11%) UCITS
13 2 (0.074%) Good Clinical Practice
13 2 (0.074%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 439 (16.30%) Docker
2 31 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (0.67%) VMware NSX
4 17 (0.63%) Active Directory
5 15 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (0.52%) Embedded Firmware
6 14 (0.52%) Firmware
7 10 (0.37%) vSphere
8 8 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (0.26%) Squid
10 6 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.19%) KVM
12 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
13 1 (0.037%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 543 (20.16%) Kubernetes
2 141 (5.24%) Ansible
3 106 (3.94%) Grafana
4 39 (1.45%) Argo
5 37 (1.37%) Prometheus
5 37 (1.37%) Puppet
6 21 (0.78%) Kibana
7 15 (0.56%) Rancher
8 14 (0.52%) HP Fortify
9 11 (0.41%) Packer
9 11 (0.41%) vCenter Server
10 10 (0.37%) logstash
11 9 (0.33%) yum
12 8 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.26%) EnCase
13 7 (0.26%) FTK
13 7 (0.26%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.22%) Cilium
14 6 (0.22%) Hadoop YARN
14 6 (0.22%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 116 (4.31%) Oracle
2 113 (4.20%) Microsoft
3 104 (3.86%) Google
4 66 (2.45%) Splunk
5 47 (1.75%) Red Hat
6 34 (1.26%) VMware
7 32 (1.19%) IBM
8 31 (1.15%) SAP
9 28 (1.04%) Adobe
10 23 (0.85%) Dynatrace
11 22 (0.82%) OpenAI
12 21 (0.78%) AppDynamics
13 18 (0.67%) Databricks
14 15 (0.56%) Palantir
14 15 (0.56%) SendGrid
15 14 (0.52%) Salesforce
15 14 (0.52%) ServiceNow
16 13 (0.48%) OutSystems
17 12 (0.45%) Bloomberg
17 12 (0.45%) Solace