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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 43 29
Rank change year-on-year -26 -14 -12
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,807 2,311 4,265
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.94% 5.42% 6.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.83% 15.63% 17.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,182 1,450 3,378
10th Percentile £43,345 £42,500 £41,227
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -6.45%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £137,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -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 11,414 14,782 24,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.55% 34.69% 36.02%
Number of salaries quoted 8,396 9,178 20,608
10th Percentile £34,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 27 February 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 27 February 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 -7 939 £100,000 -4.76% 210
North of England -11 344 £67,500 +3.85% 128
South East -55 192 £62,500 -3.85% 78
Yorkshire +11 180 £70,000 +3.70% 36
South West -22 164 £65,000 -3.70% 69
North West -20 146 £67,500 +3.85% 70
Midlands -35 87 £50,000 +11.11% 34
West Midlands 0 71 £50,000 -5.83% 29
East of England -80 37 £60,000 +20.00% 12
North East -27 18 £55,000 -6.38% 22
East Midlands -51 15 £44,500 +27.14% 5
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 (3.21%) Apache Spark
2 50 (2.77%) Apache
3 41 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
4 27 (1.49%) Confluence
5 22 (1.22%) JBoss
6 13 (0.72%) OpenStack
6 13 (0.72%) WebSphere
7 10 (0.55%) IIS
8 9 (0.50%) Anypoint
9 7 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.39%) SharePoint
10 6 (0.33%) Mule
11 4 (0.22%) Appian
11 4 (0.22%) Camunda
11 4 (0.22%) Moodle
11 4 (0.22%) nginx
12 3 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.17%) Liferay
12 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 14 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 12 (0.66%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.17%) Simulink
5 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.11%) Windchill
6 1 (0.055%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.055%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.61%) Maximo
2 8 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.39%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.28%) Shopify
5 2 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.11%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.055%) Adaptiv
6 1 (0.055%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.055%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.055%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 812 (44.94%) AWS
2 328 (18.15%) Azure
3 222 (12.29%) GCP
4 170 (9.41%) Serverless
5 128 (7.08%) Amazon EKS
6 127 (7.03%) SaaS
7 102 (5.64%) AWS Lambda
8 97 (5.37%) Amazon S3
9 94 (5.20%) Amazon ECS
10 87 (4.81%) GitHub
11 79 (4.37%) AWS CloudFormation
12 52 (2.88%) AWS Step Functions
13 50 (2.77%) OpenShift
14 40 (2.21%) Amazon SQS
15 38 (2.10%) Apigee
15 38 (2.10%) dbt
16 35 (1.94%) Amazon ECR
17 32 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
17 32 (1.77%) GitHub Actions
18 31 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.10%) Broadband
2 37 (2.05%) TCP/IP
3 17 (0.94%) HTTP
4 11 (0.61%) AMQP
4 11 (0.61%) Internet
4 11 (0.61%) VPN
5 7 (0.39%) Multicast
6 6 (0.33%) BGP
6 6 (0.33%) Firewall
6 6 (0.33%) VLAN
7 5 (0.28%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.22%) SAN
9 3 (0.17%) DNS
9 3 (0.17%) PuTTY
10 2 (0.11%) DHCP
10 2 (0.11%) LAN
10 2 (0.11%) NAS
10 2 (0.11%) SNMP
10 2 (0.11%) SSH
10 2 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (9.08%) PostgreSQL
2 147 (8.14%) NoSQL
3 123 (6.81%) Relational Database
4 71 (3.93%) MongoDB
4 71 (3.93%) SQL Server
5 68 (3.76%) DynamoDB
6 54 (2.99%) RDBMS
7 51 (2.82%) MySQL
8 50 (2.77%) Big Data
9 44 (2.43%) Hadoop
10 43 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
11 42 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
12 32 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
13 29 (1.60%) DB2
14 25 (1.38%) Neo4j
15 23 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
15 23 (1.27%) Data Lake
16 19 (1.05%) Redis
17 18 (1.00%) Oracle Database
18 15 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 163 (9.02%) Jenkins
2 129 (7.14%) Git
3 107 (5.92%) Selenium
4 103 (5.70%) GitLab
5 86 (4.76%) JIRA
6 69 (3.82%) Cucumber
7 65 (3.60%) Cypress.io
7 65 (3.60%) TeamCity
8 61 (3.38%) Maven
9 59 (3.27%) JUnit
10 45 (2.49%) SonarQube
11 43 (2.38%) Postman
12 38 (2.10%) WebDriver
13 33 (1.83%) SoapUI
14 29 (1.60%) Bitbucket
15 27 (1.49%) JMeter
16 26 (1.44%) Team Foundation Server
17 21 (1.16%) Mockito
18 19 (1.05%) Jaeger
19 17 (0.94%) Gradle
General
1 471 (26.07%) Finance
2 423 (23.41%) Social Skills
3 244 (13.50%) Banking
4 144 (7.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 134 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
6 133 (7.36%) Law
7 118 (6.53%) Public Sector
8 109 (6.03%) Front Office
9 105 (5.81%) Retail
10 102 (5.64%) Financial Institution
11 71 (3.93%) Investment Banking
12 53 (2.93%) Back Office
13 40 (2.21%) Games
14 34 (1.88%) Telecoms
15 25 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
16 24 (1.33%) Manufacturing
17 23 (1.27%) Aerospace
18 20 (1.11%) Billing
18 20 (1.11%) Health Technology
19 18 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 648 (35.86%) Developer
2 442 (24.46%) Software Engineer
3 419 (23.19%) Senior
4 375 (20.75%) Java Developer
5 257 (14.22%) Java Engineer
6 234 (12.95%) Lead
7 156 (8.63%) Java Software Engineer
8 143 (7.91%) Full-Stack Developer
9 141 (7.80%) Senior Developer
10 121 (6.70%) Senior Software Engineer
11 107 (5.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 102 (5.64%) Architect
13 97 (5.37%) Senior Java Engineer
14 96 (5.31%) Senior Java Developer
15 91 (5.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 73 (4.04%) Software Developer
17 68 (3.76%) Lead Software Engineer
18 60 (3.32%) AWS Engineer
19 51 (2.82%) Senior Java Software Engineer
20 48 (2.66%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 403 (22.30%) Spring
2 357 (19.76%) Spring Boot
3 319 (17.65%) React
4 215 (11.90%) REST
5 208 (11.51%) Kafka
6 170 (9.41%) Node.js
7 164 (9.08%) AngularJS
8 152 (8.41%) .NET
9 134 (7.42%) RESTful
10 110 (6.09%) HTML
11 91 (5.04%) SOAP
12 74 (4.10%) CSS
13 71 (3.93%) GraphQL
14 67 (3.71%) Elastic Stack
15 66 (3.65%) Hibernate
16 64 (3.54%) Web Services
17 52 (2.88%) JSON
18 47 (2.60%) Gherkin
18 47 (2.60%) Jest
18 47 (2.60%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 275 (15.22%) Cloud Native
2 180 (9.96%) Distributed Systems
3 74 (4.10%) Product Ownership
4 60 (3.32%) Self-Motivation
5 50 (2.77%) Fixed Income
5 50 (2.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 49 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
7 44 (2.43%) Equities
8 38 (2.10%) Blog
9 36 (1.99%) Algorithms
9 36 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
10 34 (1.88%) Public Cloud
11 31 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
12 30 (1.66%) Distributed Architecture
13 29 (1.60%) Derivative
14 26 (1.44%) Data Structures
15 25 (1.38%) Management Information System
16 24 (1.33%) Mobile App
17 23 (1.27%) FPGA
17 23 (1.27%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 198 (10.96%) Linux
2 42 (2.32%) Unix
3 38 (2.10%) Android
4 31 (1.72%) Windows
5 13 (0.72%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.39%) CentOS
6 7 (0.39%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.28%) Debian
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.055%) SUSE
10 1 (0.055%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 682 (37.74%) Agile
2 635 (35.14%) Software Engineering
3 589 (32.60%) CI/CD
4 443 (24.52%) DevOps
5 424 (23.46%) Microservices
6 371 (20.53%) Full-Stack Development
7 317 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
8 306 (16.93%) Test Automation
9 300 (16.60%) Mentoring
10 214 (11.84%) Containerisation
11 208 (11.51%) Continuous Improvement
12 205 (11.34%) Computer Science
13 195 (10.79%) AI
14 182 (10.07%) Scrum
15 176 (9.74%) TDD
16 149 (8.25%) Infrastructure as Code
17 146 (8.08%) SDLC
18 145 (8.02%) Fintech
19 140 (7.75%) Technical Leadership
20 139 (7.69%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 599 (33.15%) Python
2 417 (23.08%) JavaScript
3 360 (19.92%) SQL
4 283 (15.66%) TypeScript
5 206 (11.40%) C#
6 142 (7.86%) Go
7 128 (7.08%) C++
8 102 (5.64%) Kotlin
9 88 (4.87%) C
10 87 (4.81%) Bash
11 52 (2.88%) Scala
12 41 (2.27%) Groovy
13 34 (1.88%) Rust
14 33 (1.83%) PHP
15 30 (1.66%) PL/SQL
16 19 (1.05%) R
16 19 (1.05%) Ruby
17 18 (1.00%) Apex Code
18 16 (0.89%) Shell Script
19 15 (0.83%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 289 (15.99%) Security Cleared
2 277 (15.33%) Degree
3 173 (9.57%) SC Cleared
4 125 (6.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 105 (5.81%) DV Cleared
6 92 (5.09%) AWS Certification
7 49 (2.71%) Master's Degree
8 45 (2.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 38 (2.10%) Azure Certification
10 31 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
11 29 (1.60%) ISTQB
12 25 (1.38%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 25 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
13 18 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
14 17 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
14 17 (0.94%) PhD
15 16 (0.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 13 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
17 11 (0.61%) CREST Certified
17 11 (0.61%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (6.42%) QA
2 38 (2.10%) Accessibility
3 22 (1.22%) GDPR
4 19 (1.05%) Data Quality
4 19 (1.05%) PCI DSS
5 16 (0.89%) SOC 2
6 11 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
7 10 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.22%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.22%) SLA
8 4 (0.22%) WCAG
9 3 (0.17%) NCSC
9 3 (0.17%) NIST
9 3 (0.17%) SEPA
10 2 (0.11%) ECSS
10 2 (0.11%) MISRA
11 1 (0.055%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.055%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.055%) MiFID
System Software
1 334 (18.48%) Docker
2 16 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
4 12 (0.66%) Active Directory
5 7 (0.39%) HDFS
6 5 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.22%) Firmware
7 4 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.11%) KVM
8 2 (0.11%) vSphere
9 1 (0.055%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.055%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.055%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.055%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.055%) Squid
Systems Management
1 437 (24.18%) Kubernetes
2 185 (10.24%) Terraform
3 95 (5.26%) Grafana
4 76 (4.21%) Ansible
5 47 (2.60%) Prometheus
6 42 (2.32%) Argo
7 32 (1.77%) HP Fortify
8 24 (1.33%) Kibana
9 19 (1.05%) Kustomize
10 10 (0.55%) Rancher
11 7 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (0.39%) Puppet
12 6 (0.33%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.33%) yum
13 5 (0.28%) FTK
13 5 (0.28%) logstash
14 4 (0.22%) Nagios
14 4 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.17%) AWS Copilot
15 3 (0.17%) Control-M
Vendors
1 93 (5.15%) Oracle
2 69 (3.82%) Google
3 67 (3.71%) Microsoft
4 31 (1.72%) MuleSoft
5 29 (1.60%) Salesforce
6 26 (1.44%) IBM
7 25 (1.38%) Databricks
8 24 (1.33%) Atlassian
9 20 (1.11%) Informatica
9 20 (1.11%) Splunk
10 19 (1.05%) SAP
11 17 (0.94%) Talend
12 16 (0.89%) Guidewire
13 13 (0.72%) Dell
14 12 (0.66%) Dynatrace
14 12 (0.66%) Red Hat
15 11 (0.61%) OpenAI
15 11 (0.61%) Solace
16 8 (0.44%) Adobe
16 8 (0.44%) Workday