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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 25 34
Rank change year-on-year -33 +9 -14
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,269 2,938 4,615
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.74% 7.52% 5.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.27% 23.48% 16.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,470 1,393 3,463
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,050 £39,439
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +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 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -9.68%

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 14,859 12,515 27,967
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.97% 32.05% 31.08%
Number of salaries quoted 10,619 8,434 22,691
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,750 £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 £85,750 £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 5 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 5 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 -9 1,052 £85,000 -19.05% 519
North of England -37 621 £69,305 +2.67% 209
North West -49 263 £70,000 -6.04% 107
Yorkshire +20 242 £72,500 +0.71% 58
South East -45 222 £70,000 +7.69% 100
South West -33 188 £60,000 - 91
North East -1 116 £52,130 -5.22% 45
Midlands -96 104 £60,000 +9.09% 67
West Midlands -71 86 £59,250 -1.25% 42
East of England -64 55 £51,359 +15.41% 39
East Midlands -89 17 £60,000 +26.32% 25
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 44 (1.94%) Apache
2 40 (1.76%) Confluence
3 35 (1.54%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
6 14 (0.62%) JBoss
7 10 (0.44%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.35%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.22%) CMS
10 5 (0.22%) GeoServer
10 5 (0.22%) IIS
10 5 (0.22%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.18%) Camunda
12 3 (0.13%) CICS
12 3 (0.13%) Liferay
12 3 (0.13%) SAS
12 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.35%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.13%) Windchill
6 2 (0.088%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.088%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.044%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 11 (0.48%) Maximo
2 8 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.13%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.088%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.088%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.044%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.044%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.044%) Endur
5 1 (0.044%) Findur
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.044%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.044%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 932 (41.08%) AWS
2 420 (18.51%) Azure
3 265 (11.68%) GCP
4 182 (8.02%) Serverless
5 138 (6.08%) AWS CloudFormation
6 119 (5.24%) Amazon S3
6 119 (5.24%) SaaS
7 114 (5.02%) AWS Lambda
8 111 (4.89%) Amazon ECS
9 104 (4.58%) Amazon EKS
10 95 (4.19%) GitHub
11 75 (3.31%) AWS Step Functions
12 62 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
13 49 (2.16%) Amazon ECR
14 48 (2.12%) Apigee
15 43 (1.90%) Amazon SQS
16 37 (1.63%) dbt
17 36 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 36 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
18 35 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.20%) Broadband
2 32 (1.41%) HTTP
3 27 (1.19%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.35%) IPv4
4 8 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
5 7 (0.31%) AMQP
5 7 (0.31%) DMARC
6 5 (0.22%) MQTT
7 3 (0.13%) BGP
7 3 (0.13%) Internet
7 3 (0.13%) Network Security
7 3 (0.13%) VLAN
7 3 (0.13%) VPN
8 2 (0.088%) Firewall
8 2 (0.088%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.088%) LAN
8 2 (0.088%) SAN
8 2 (0.088%) WAN
9 1 (0.044%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.044%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (8.37%) NoSQL
2 164 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
3 105 (4.63%) Relational Database
4 104 (4.58%) MongoDB
5 92 (4.05%) DynamoDB
6 73 (3.22%) MySQL
7 66 (2.91%) SQL Server
8 40 (1.76%) Amazon Athena
9 38 (1.67%) RDBMS
10 31 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
11 27 (1.19%) Big Data
12 26 (1.15%) Db2
13 23 (1.01%) BigQuery
14 21 (0.93%) Redis
15 19 (0.84%) Hadoop
16 18 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
17 16 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
18 14 (0.62%) Metadata
19 13 (0.57%) Neo4j
19 13 (0.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 196 (8.64%) Git
2 178 (7.84%) Jenkins
3 159 (7.01%) GitLab
4 91 (4.01%) JIRA
5 82 (3.61%) Maven
5 82 (3.61%) Selenium
6 74 (3.26%) Cucumber
7 68 (3.00%) Cypress.io
8 62 (2.73%) JUnit
9 58 (2.56%) TeamCity
10 57 (2.51%) SonarQube
11 41 (1.81%) Postman
12 33 (1.45%) JMeter
13 30 (1.32%) Mockito
14 29 (1.28%) Bitbucket
15 28 (1.23%) Gradle
16 25 (1.10%) Claude Code
16 25 (1.10%) REST Assured
17 21 (0.93%) WebDriver
18 20 (0.88%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 562 (24.77%) Finance
2 358 (15.78%) Social Skills
3 233 (10.27%) Banking
4 202 (8.90%) Public Sector
5 162 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 153 (6.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 106 (4.67%) Front Office
7 106 (4.67%) Law
8 96 (4.23%) Retail
9 70 (3.09%) Financial Institution
10 49 (2.16%) Back Office
11 44 (1.94%) Investment Banking
12 31 (1.37%) Games
13 27 (1.19%) Health Technology
14 24 (1.06%) Telecoms
15 22 (0.97%) Aerospace
16 20 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
17 19 (0.84%) Marketing
17 19 (0.84%) Tech for Good
18 18 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 846 (37.29%) Developer
2 569 (25.08%) Java Developer
3 561 (24.72%) Senior
4 531 (23.40%) Software Engineer
5 392 (17.28%) Java Engineer
6 339 (14.94%) Lead
7 217 (9.56%) Senior Developer
8 180 (7.93%) Java Software Engineer
9 169 (7.45%) Senior Software Engineer
10 156 (6.88%) Senior Java Developer
11 148 (6.52%) Full-Stack Developer
12 135 (5.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 119 (5.24%) Senior Java Engineer
14 112 (4.94%) Lead Software Engineer
15 110 (4.85%) Software Developer
16 95 (4.19%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 78 (3.44%) Architect
18 67 (2.95%) Lead Developer
19 65 (2.86%) Senior Java Software Engineer
20 55 (2.42%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 500 (22.04%) Spring
2 425 (18.73%) Spring Boot
3 300 (13.22%) React
4 230 (10.14%) AngularJS
4 230 (10.14%) REST
5 204 (8.99%) Node.js
6 198 (8.73%) Kafka
7 153 (6.74%) .NET
8 138 (6.08%) RESTful
9 92 (4.05%) HTML
10 86 (3.79%) Web Services
11 81 (3.57%) CSS
12 69 (3.04%) SOAP
13 64 (2.82%) Vue
14 62 (2.73%) GraphQL
15 60 (2.64%) Elastic Stack
15 60 (2.64%) JSON
16 48 (2.12%) Gherkin
17 47 (2.07%) Playwright
18 44 (1.94%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 252 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 176 (7.76%) Distributed Systems
3 141 (6.21%) Product Ownership
4 94 (4.14%) Public Cloud
5 52 (2.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 49 (2.16%) Fixed Income
7 43 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
8 39 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
8 39 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
9 37 (1.63%) Data Structures
9 37 (1.63%) Distributed Architecture
10 35 (1.54%) Blog
11 33 (1.45%) e-Learning
12 32 (1.41%) Equities
12 32 (1.41%) Mobile App
13 30 (1.32%) Virtual Team
14 24 (1.06%) Onboarding
15 21 (0.93%) Algorithms
16 20 (0.88%) FPGA
16 20 (0.88%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 195 (8.59%) Linux
2 49 (2.16%) Android
2 49 (2.16%) Unix
3 43 (1.90%) Windows
4 14 (0.62%) Apple iOS
5 12 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.48%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.22%) CentOS
7 5 (0.22%) Debian
7 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.18%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 803 (35.39%) Agile
2 769 (33.89%) Software Engineering
3 688 (30.32%) CI/CD
4 523 (23.05%) DevOps
5 486 (21.42%) Microservices
6 467 (20.58%) Full-Stack Development
7 432 (19.04%) Test Automation
8 404 (17.81%) Mentoring
9 339 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
10 255 (11.24%) Containerisation
11 252 (11.11%) AI
12 230 (10.14%) TDD
13 223 (9.83%) Continuous Improvement
14 219 (9.65%) Scrum
15 218 (9.61%) Technical Leadership
16 213 (9.39%) Infrastructure as Code
17 212 (9.34%) Roadmaps
18 196 (8.64%) Computer Science
19 178 (7.84%) SDLC
20 162 (7.14%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 665 (29.31%) Python
2 442 (19.48%) SQL
3 427 (18.82%) JavaScript
4 267 (11.77%) TypeScript
5 235 (10.36%) C#
6 184 (8.11%) C++
7 159 (7.01%) Go
8 113 (4.98%) Bash
9 108 (4.76%) Kotlin
10 64 (2.82%) Groovy
11 61 (2.69%) C
12 51 (2.25%) Scala
13 42 (1.85%) Rust
14 40 (1.76%) PHP
15 35 (1.54%) PL/SQL
16 27 (1.19%) PowerShell
17 18 (0.79%) R
18 17 (0.75%) Apex Code
19 16 (0.71%) Perl
20 13 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 357 (15.73%) Security Cleared
2 258 (11.37%) Degree
3 223 (9.83%) SC Cleared
4 133 (5.86%) DV Cleared
5 132 (5.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 95 (4.19%) AWS Certification
7 36 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 32 (1.41%) Master's Degree
9 26 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
10 25 (1.10%) ISTQB
11 24 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 22 (0.97%) OSCP
13 19 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
14 18 (0.79%) DBS Check
15 15 (0.66%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 14 (0.62%) Azure Certification
16 14 (0.62%) CREST Certified
17 13 (0.57%) PhD
18 12 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
19 9 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (6.48%) QA
2 56 (2.47%) Accessibility
3 38 (1.67%) Data Quality
4 14 (0.62%) GRC
4 14 (0.62%) PCI DSS
5 13 (0.57%) GDPR
5 13 (0.57%) WCAG
6 12 (0.53%) SOC 2
7 9 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.26%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 14443
9 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 3 (0.13%) NIST
11 2 (0.088%) Good Clinical Practice
11 2 (0.088%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.044%) MiFID
12 1 (0.044%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 353 (15.56%) Docker
2 14 (0.62%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.44%) vSphere
5 8 (0.35%) Squid
5 8 (0.35%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.22%) Firmware
7 4 (0.18%) KVM
8 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.088%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.088%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.044%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.044%) OpenDJ
10 1 (0.044%) OpenIDM
10 1 (0.044%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.044%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 416 (18.33%) Kubernetes
2 258 (11.37%) Terraform
3 99 (4.36%) Grafana
4 96 (4.23%) Ansible
5 47 (2.07%) Argo
6 46 (2.03%) Prometheus
7 37 (1.63%) HP Fortify
8 28 (1.23%) Kibana
9 18 (0.79%) Kustomize
10 14 (0.62%) Packer
11 12 (0.53%) Puppet
12 11 (0.48%) Rancher
13 9 (0.40%) logstash
14 8 (0.35%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
15 6 (0.26%) yum
16 5 (0.22%) FTK
17 3 (0.13%) AWS Copilot
17 3 (0.13%) Progress Chef
18 2 (0.088%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 87 (3.83%) Oracle
2 80 (3.53%) Microsoft
3 72 (3.17%) Google
4 40 (1.76%) Splunk
5 30 (1.32%) IBM
6 26 (1.15%) Salesforce
7 21 (0.93%) Palantir
8 20 (0.88%) Red Hat
9 19 (0.84%) Dynatrace
9 19 (0.84%) Foundry
10 17 (0.75%) AppDynamics
10 17 (0.75%) MuleSoft
10 17 (0.75%) VMware
11 14 (0.62%) ServiceNow
12 13 (0.57%) Databricks
13 12 (0.53%) SAP
13 12 (0.53%) Solace
14 11 (0.48%) Adobe
14 11 (0.48%) Atlassian
15 7 (0.31%) SendGrid