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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 26 35
Rank change year-on-year -30 +9 -15
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,301 3,027 4,790
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.75% 7.61% 5.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.99% 23.89% 16.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,499 1,430 3,555
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £137,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -6.67% +6.27% -8.93%

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 15,351 12,669 29,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.33% 31.84% 30.59%
Number of salaries quoted 11,084 8,509 23,334
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -11 1,047 £85,000 -19.05% 218
North of England -28 644 £69,305 +2.67% 122
North West -36 281 £70,000 -6.35% 55
Yorkshire +23 236 £72,500 +3.57% 41
South East -33 220 £70,000 +7.69% 98
South West -37 196 £60,000 - 58
North East +2 127 £52,500 +13.51% 28
Midlands -90 112 £60,500 +5.22% 45
West Midlands -54 91 £61,000 +1.67% 30
East of England -59 56 £57,500 +30.68% 31
East Midlands -91 20 £60,000 +26.32% 15
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 45 (1.96%) Apache
2 44 (1.91%) Confluence
3 35 (1.52%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
6 13 (0.56%) JBoss
7 9 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.35%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.26%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.22%) Camunda
11 5 (0.22%) CMS
11 5 (0.22%) GeoServer
12 4 (0.17%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.13%) CICS
13 3 (0.13%) SAS
13 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
14 2 (0.087%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.087%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.087%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.087%) PTC Creo
5 2 (0.087%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 13 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.48%) Maximo
3 5 (0.22%) Temenos T24
4 4 (0.17%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.087%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.043%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.043%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.043%) Endur
7 1 (0.043%) Findur
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.043%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 943 (40.98%) AWS
2 443 (19.25%) Azure
3 281 (12.21%) GCP
4 187 (8.13%) Serverless
5 141 (6.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 118 (5.13%) Amazon S3
7 117 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
7 117 (5.08%) SaaS
8 113 (4.91%) GitHub
9 110 (4.78%) Amazon ECS
10 99 (4.30%) Amazon EKS
11 73 (3.17%) AWS Step Functions
12 65 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
13 49 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
14 43 (1.87%) Amazon ECR
15 42 (1.83%) Amazon SQS
15 42 (1.83%) Apigee
16 39 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 37 (1.61%) dbt
18 36 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.17%) Broadband
2 33 (1.43%) HTTP
3 25 (1.09%) TCP/IP
4 12 (0.52%) DMARC
5 8 (0.35%) IPv4
5 8 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
6 7 (0.30%) AMQP
6 7 (0.30%) MQTT
7 5 (0.22%) Internet
7 5 (0.22%) Network Security
8 4 (0.17%) BGP
8 4 (0.17%) VPN
9 3 (0.13%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.13%) VLAN
10 2 (0.087%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.087%) Firewall
10 2 (0.087%) LAN
10 2 (0.087%) SAN
10 2 (0.087%) WAN
11 1 (0.043%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (8.17%) NoSQL
2 162 (7.04%) PostgreSQL
3 106 (4.61%) MongoDB
4 104 (4.52%) Relational Database
5 88 (3.82%) DynamoDB
6 74 (3.22%) MySQL
7 69 (3.00%) SQL Server
8 42 (1.83%) Amazon Athena
9 36 (1.56%) RDBMS
10 29 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
11 25 (1.09%) Db2
12 24 (1.04%) Big Data
12 24 (1.04%) BigQuery
13 22 (0.96%) Redis
14 17 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
15 15 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
15 15 (0.65%) Hadoop
15 15 (0.65%) Metadata
16 13 (0.56%) Power BI
17 12 (0.52%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 207 (9.00%) Git
2 175 (7.61%) Jenkins
3 159 (6.91%) GitLab
4 89 (3.87%) JIRA
5 77 (3.35%) Maven
6 75 (3.26%) Cucumber
7 72 (3.13%) Selenium
8 68 (2.96%) JUnit
9 62 (2.69%) Cypress.io
10 55 (2.39%) TeamCity
11 53 (2.30%) SonarQube
12 38 (1.65%) Postman
13 36 (1.56%) JMeter
14 31 (1.35%) Mockito
15 28 (1.22%) Bitbucket
16 27 (1.17%) Gradle
17 25 (1.09%) Claude Code
18 24 (1.04%) REST Assured
19 23 (1.00%) Subversion
20 19 (0.83%) Eclipse
General
1 572 (24.86%) Finance
2 353 (15.34%) Social Skills
3 217 (9.43%) Banking
4 206 (8.95%) Public Sector
5 157 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
6 148 (6.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 101 (4.39%) Front Office
7 101 (4.39%) Law
8 91 (3.95%) Retail
9 68 (2.96%) Financial Institution
10 47 (2.04%) Back Office
11 40 (1.74%) Investment Banking
12 31 (1.35%) Games
13 30 (1.30%) Health Technology
14 21 (0.91%) Aerospace
14 21 (0.91%) Telecoms
15 18 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
15 18 (0.78%) Tech for Good
16 17 (0.74%) Manufacturing
17 16 (0.70%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 869 (37.77%) Developer
2 579 (25.16%) Java Developer
3 560 (24.34%) Senior
4 529 (22.99%) Software Engineer
5 396 (17.21%) Java Engineer
6 335 (14.56%) Lead
7 211 (9.17%) Senior Developer
8 177 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
8 177 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
9 153 (6.65%) Senior Java Developer
10 152 (6.61%) Full-Stack Developer
11 132 (5.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 123 (5.35%) Senior Java Engineer
13 119 (5.17%) Software Developer
14 111 (4.82%) Lead Software Engineer
15 97 (4.22%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 85 (3.69%) Architect
17 68 (2.96%) Senior Java Software Engineer
18 67 (2.91%) Lead Developer
19 61 (2.65%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 513 (22.29%) Spring
2 433 (18.82%) Spring Boot
3 288 (12.52%) React
4 229 (9.95%) AngularJS
5 228 (9.91%) REST
6 214 (9.30%) Node.js
7 205 (8.91%) Kafka
8 153 (6.65%) RESTful
9 145 (6.30%) .NET
10 86 (3.74%) Web Services
11 78 (3.39%) HTML
12 77 (3.35%) CSS
13 71 (3.09%) Vue
14 63 (2.74%) GraphQL
15 62 (2.69%) SOAP
16 57 (2.48%) Elastic Stack
17 56 (2.43%) JSON
18 48 (2.09%) OAuth
19 46 (2.00%) Playwright
20 44 (1.91%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 267 (11.60%) Cloud Native
2 172 (7.48%) Distributed Systems
3 147 (6.39%) Product Ownership
4 98 (4.26%) Public Cloud
5 54 (2.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 49 (2.13%) Fixed Income
7 48 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
8 41 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
9 38 (1.65%) Distributed Architecture
10 37 (1.61%) Data Structures
10 37 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
11 35 (1.52%) Mobile App
12 33 (1.43%) e-Learning
12 33 (1.43%) Onboarding
13 31 (1.35%) Blog
14 30 (1.30%) Equities
14 30 (1.30%) Virtual Team
15 20 (0.87%) Social Media
16 19 (0.83%) Algorithms
16 19 (0.83%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 210 (9.13%) Linux
2 52 (2.26%) Unix
3 50 (2.17%) Windows
4 47 (2.04%) Android
5 14 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.52%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.52%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.22%) CentOS
7 5 (0.22%) Debian
7 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.17%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 797 (34.64%) Agile
2 788 (34.25%) Software Engineering
3 700 (30.42%) CI/CD
4 542 (23.55%) DevOps
5 500 (21.73%) Microservices
6 465 (20.21%) Full-Stack Development
7 446 (19.38%) Test Automation
8 410 (17.82%) Mentoring
9 351 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
10 276 (11.99%) Containerisation
11 260 (11.30%) AI
12 238 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
13 235 (10.21%) TDD
14 224 (9.73%) Infrastructure as Code
15 219 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
16 217 (9.43%) Roadmaps
17 206 (8.95%) Scrum
18 196 (8.52%) Computer Science
19 179 (7.78%) SDLC
20 160 (6.95%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 688 (29.90%) Python
2 439 (19.08%) SQL
3 420 (18.25%) JavaScript
4 260 (11.30%) TypeScript
5 234 (10.17%) C#
6 201 (8.74%) C++
7 159 (6.91%) Go
8 115 (5.00%) Bash
9 107 (4.65%) Kotlin
10 60 (2.61%) Groovy
11 59 (2.56%) C
12 55 (2.39%) Scala
13 51 (2.22%) Rust
14 44 (1.91%) PHP
15 32 (1.39%) PL/SQL
16 30 (1.30%) PowerShell
17 21 (0.91%) Perl
18 16 (0.70%) Apex Code
19 15 (0.65%) R
20 14 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 368 (15.99%) Security Cleared
2 247 (10.73%) Degree
3 234 (10.17%) SC Cleared
4 133 (5.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 124 (5.39%) DV Cleared
6 97 (4.22%) AWS Certification
7 39 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 27 (1.17%) Master's Degree
9 24 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
10 22 (0.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 21 (0.91%) ISTQB
12 20 (0.87%) OSCP
13 17 (0.74%) DBS Check
13 17 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.52%) Azure Certification
14 12 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (0.52%) CREST Certified
14 12 (0.52%) PhD
15 10 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
16 9 (0.39%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (6.56%) QA
2 63 (2.74%) Accessibility
3 40 (1.74%) Data Quality
4 18 (0.78%) WCAG
5 17 (0.74%) GDPR
6 14 (0.61%) GRC
7 12 (0.52%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.48%) SOC 2
9 7 (0.30%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 4 (0.17%) NIST
12 2 (0.087%) Good Clinical Practice
12 2 (0.087%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.087%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.043%) MiFID
System Software
1 362 (15.73%) Docker
2 16 (0.70%) Active Directory
2 16 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.48%) vSphere
4 8 (0.35%) Squid
4 8 (0.35%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.22%) Firmware
5 5 (0.22%) KVM
6 4 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.087%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.087%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.087%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.043%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.043%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.043%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.043%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 423 (18.38%) Kubernetes
2 266 (11.56%) Terraform
3 105 (4.56%) Grafana
4 102 (4.43%) Ansible
5 51 (2.22%) Prometheus
6 45 (1.96%) Argo
7 31 (1.35%) HP Fortify
8 29 (1.26%) Kibana
9 18 (0.78%) Kustomize
10 14 (0.61%) Packer
11 13 (0.56%) Puppet
12 11 (0.48%) Rancher
13 10 (0.43%) logstash
14 8 (0.35%) ZABBIX
15 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
16 5 (0.22%) FTK
16 5 (0.22%) yum
17 3 (0.13%) AWS Copilot
17 3 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
17 3 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 88 (3.82%) Oracle
2 84 (3.65%) Microsoft
3 76 (3.30%) Google
4 49 (2.13%) Splunk
5 34 (1.48%) IBM
6 25 (1.09%) Salesforce
7 23 (1.00%) Palantir
8 21 (0.91%) Dynatrace
8 21 (0.91%) Red Hat
8 21 (0.91%) VMware
9 19 (0.83%) AppDynamics
9 19 (0.83%) Foundry
9 19 (0.83%) SAP
10 17 (0.74%) ServiceNow
11 15 (0.65%) MuleSoft
12 14 (0.61%) Adobe
13 12 (0.52%) SendGrid
14 11 (0.48%) Solace
15 10 (0.43%) Atlassian
16 8 (0.35%) iManage