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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 34 32
Rank change year-on-year -24 -2 -10
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,708 2,625 3,638
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.60% 6.10% 5.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.34% 23.23% 17.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,682 1,115 2,271
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 16,570 11,301 20,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.94% 26.26% 31.56%
Number of salaries quoted 12,018 7,475 12,292
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,987 £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 £84,563 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.79% -3.08%

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 11 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 11 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 1,091 £85,000 -19.05% 2,395
North of England -21 781 £69,310 +2.68% 472
North West -30 414 £75,000 +7.14% 282
South West +10 345 £67,500 +1.89% 208
South East -47 218 £70,000 +7.69% 235
Midlands -41 206 £69,655 +11.45% 171
North East +19 190 £55,000 +7.32% 88
West Midlands -18 178 £70,000 +12.00% 127
Yorkshire +14 177 £72,500 +7.41% 104
East of England -85 43 £63,750 +50.00% 85
East Midlands -75 28 £60,000 -0.41% 44
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 (2.14%) Confluence
2 55 (2.03%) Apache
3 36 (1.33%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (0.74%) Camunda
6 18 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 12 (0.44%) Jupyter
8 11 (0.41%) WebLogic
9 9 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
10 8 (0.30%) Tomcat
11 7 (0.26%) CICS
11 7 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
13 5 (0.18%) CMS
13 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
13 5 (0.18%) JBoss
13 5 (0.18%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.15%) SAS
14 4 (0.15%) SharePoint
14 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.55%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.33%) Simulink
4 7 (0.26%) Moqups
5 5 (0.18%) 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 14 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
2 5 (0.18%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.11%) Maximo
5 2 (0.074%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.074%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 2 (0.074%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.037%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.037%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.037%) Quorum
6 1 (0.037%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.037%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.037%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,055 (38.96%) AWS
2 527 (19.46%) Azure
3 301 (11.12%) GCP
4 192 (7.09%) Serverless
5 183 (6.76%) GitHub
6 151 (5.58%) AWS CloudFormation
7 127 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
8 107 (3.95%) Amazon S3
9 106 (3.91%) GitHub Actions
10 105 (3.88%) Amazon EKS
10 105 (3.88%) SaaS
11 100 (3.69%) Amazon ECS
12 88 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
13 53 (1.96%) AWS Step Functions
14 49 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
15 41 (1.51%) Anthropic Claude
16 40 (1.48%) Datadog
17 39 (1.44%) GitHub Copilot
17 39 (1.44%) OpenShift
18 37 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 34 (1.26%) HTTP
2 25 (0.92%) TCP/IP
3 22 (0.81%) Network Security
4 19 (0.70%) VPN
5 17 (0.63%) BGP
6 15 (0.55%) DMARC
7 11 (0.41%) Firewall
8 10 (0.37%) Wireshark
9 9 (0.33%) DNS
10 8 (0.30%) AMQP
10 8 (0.30%) IPv4
10 8 (0.30%) MQTT
10 8 (0.30%) Software-Defined Networking
11 6 (0.22%) Ethernet
11 6 (0.22%) IPsec
12 5 (0.18%) Broadband
13 4 (0.15%) Internet
13 4 (0.15%) Kerberos
13 4 (0.15%) RIP
13 4 (0.15%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (6.61%) PostgreSQL
2 163 (6.02%) NoSQL
3 128 (4.73%) Relational Database
4 126 (4.65%) MongoDB
5 70 (2.58%) MySQL
6 62 (2.29%) DynamoDB
7 57 (2.10%) SQL Server
8 50 (1.85%) Big Data
9 36 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
10 32 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
11 28 (1.03%) Redis
12 27 (1.00%) Power BI
13 24 (0.89%) Data Lake
13 24 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
14 23 (0.85%) Db2
14 23 (0.85%) Hadoop
15 22 (0.81%) BigQuery
16 21 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
17 17 (0.63%) Spark SQL
18 15 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 285 (10.52%) Git
2 206 (7.61%) Jenkins
3 201 (7.42%) GitLab
4 108 (3.99%) JUnit
5 89 (3.29%) JIRA
6 88 (3.25%) Cucumber
7 72 (2.66%) TeamCity
8 68 (2.51%) Maven
9 58 (2.14%) Selenium
10 52 (1.92%) Cypress.io
11 46 (1.70%) Eclipse
11 46 (1.70%) Mockito
12 44 (1.62%) Postman
13 40 (1.48%) Subversion
14 36 (1.33%) SonarQube
15 32 (1.18%) Bitbucket
16 31 (1.14%) JMeter
17 28 (1.03%) Claude Code
18 19 (0.70%) REST Assured
19 17 (0.63%) Spock
General
1 679 (25.07%) Finance
2 471 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 293 (10.82%) Banking
4 251 (9.27%) Public Sector
5 178 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
6 149 (5.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 127 (4.69%) Law
8 106 (3.91%) Retail
9 82 (3.03%) Financial Institution
10 71 (2.62%) Front Office
11 43 (1.59%) Back Office
12 40 (1.48%) Legal
13 38 (1.40%) Manufacturing
14 35 (1.29%) Health Technology
14 35 (1.29%) Marketing
15 32 (1.18%) Investment Banking
16 29 (1.07%) Publishing
17 23 (0.85%) Aerospace
18 22 (0.81%) Tech for Good
19 21 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 786 (29.03%) Developer
2 726 (26.81%) Senior
3 634 (23.41%) Software Engineer
4 591 (21.82%) Java Engineer
5 509 (18.80%) Java Developer
6 370 (13.66%) Lead
7 221 (8.16%) Senior Developer
8 217 (8.01%) Senior Java Engineer
9 214 (7.90%) Senior Software Engineer
10 200 (7.39%) Java Software Engineer
11 178 (6.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 138 (5.10%) Senior Java Developer
13 124 (4.58%) Full-Stack Developer
14 111 (4.10%) Software Developer
15 103 (3.80%) Lead Software Engineer
16 100 (3.69%) Principal Engineer
17 86 (3.18%) Architect
18 85 (3.14%) DevOps Engineer
19 79 (2.92%) Full-Stack Java Developer
20 78 (2.88%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 625 (23.08%) Spring
2 523 (19.31%) Spring Boot
3 323 (11.93%) Terraform
4 280 (10.34%) Kafka
5 261 (9.64%) React
6 251 (9.27%) REST
7 208 (7.68%) AngularJS
8 197 (7.27%) Node.js
9 193 (7.13%) RESTful
10 163 (6.02%) .NET
11 64 (2.36%) Web Services
12 62 (2.29%) HTML
13 59 (2.18%) CSS
13 59 (2.18%) OAuth
14 56 (2.07%) Hibernate
15 53 (1.96%) Vue
16 49 (1.81%) RabbitMQ
17 43 (1.59%) Jakarta EE
18 40 (1.48%) XML
19 39 (1.44%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 386 (14.25%) Cloud Native
2 270 (9.97%) Distributed Systems
3 158 (5.83%) Product Ownership
4 121 (4.47%) Public Cloud
5 79 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
6 76 (2.81%) Onboarding
7 60 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
8 50 (1.85%) Blog
9 48 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 47 (1.74%) e-Learning
11 46 (1.70%) Data Structures
12 41 (1.51%) Algorithms
13 39 (1.44%) Distributed Architecture
14 34 (1.26%) Mobile App
14 34 (1.26%) Virtual Team
15 33 (1.22%) AI Agents
16 32 (1.18%) Equities
17 29 (1.07%) Fixed Income
17 29 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
18 28 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 222 (8.20%) Linux
2 69 (2.55%) Windows
3 39 (1.44%) Android
4 34 (1.26%) Unix
5 27 (1.00%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (0.48%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.30%) CentOS
9 7 (0.26%) Debian
9 7 (0.26%) 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%) macOS
13 1 (0.037%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,024 (37.81%) Software Engineering
2 918 (33.90%) CI/CD
3 798 (29.47%) Agile
4 655 (24.19%) Microservices
5 594 (21.94%) DevOps
6 550 (20.31%) Full-Stack Development
7 509 (18.80%) Test Automation
8 459 (16.95%) Mentoring
9 455 (16.80%) Problem-Solving
10 436 (16.10%) AI
11 358 (13.22%) Containerisation
12 334 (12.33%) Infrastructure as Code
13 329 (12.15%) Continuous Improvement
14 303 (11.19%) Event-Driven
15 257 (9.49%) Technical Leadership
16 241 (8.90%) SDLC
17 238 (8.79%) Computer Science
18 230 (8.49%) Scrum
19 228 (8.42%) TDD
20 217 (8.01%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 826 (30.50%) Python
2 476 (17.58%) SQL
3 433 (15.99%) JavaScript
4 276 (10.19%) C++
5 272 (10.04%) TypeScript
6 251 (9.27%) C#
7 160 (5.91%) Go
8 122 (4.51%) Bash
9 115 (4.25%) Kotlin
10 80 (2.95%) Scala
11 78 (2.88%) C
12 66 (2.44%) Rust
13 47 (1.74%) Perl
14 45 (1.66%) PHP
15 41 (1.51%) PowerShell
16 39 (1.44%) Groovy
17 34 (1.26%) Ruby
18 31 (1.14%) PL/SQL
19 22 (0.81%) COBOL
19 22 (0.81%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 492 (18.17%) Security Cleared
2 272 (10.04%) Degree
3 256 (9.45%) SC Cleared
4 176 (6.50%) DV Cleared
5 155 (5.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 104 (3.84%) AWS Certification
7 70 (2.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 34 (1.26%) Master's Degree
9 22 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
10 18 (0.66%) ISTQB
11 17 (0.63%) OSCP
12 15 (0.55%) CISSP
13 14 (0.52%) Azure Certification
14 13 (0.48%) PhD
15 12 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 12 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
16 11 (0.41%) DBS Check
16 11 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
17 10 (0.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (6.02%) QA
2 85 (3.14%) Data Quality
3 83 (3.06%) Accessibility
4 26 (0.96%) GDPR
4 26 (0.96%) WCAG
5 24 (0.89%) NIST
6 21 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (0.66%) PCI DSS
8 16 (0.59%) ISO 20022
9 14 (0.52%) 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
1 444 (16.40%) Docker
2 35 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (0.78%) VMware NSX
4 19 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (0.63%) Active Directory
6 14 (0.52%) Embedded Firmware
6 14 (0.52%) Firmware
7 11 (0.41%) vSphere
8 8 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (0.26%) Squid
10 6 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.18%) KVM
12 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
13 2 (0.074%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.037%) Oracle Clusterware
Systems Management
1 549 (20.27%) Kubernetes
2 146 (5.39%) Ansible
3 108 (3.99%) Grafana
4 38 (1.40%) Prometheus
5 37 (1.37%) Puppet
6 35 (1.29%) Argo
7 21 (0.78%) Kibana
8 14 (0.52%) HP Fortify
8 14 (0.52%) vCenter Server
9 12 (0.44%) Rancher
10 11 (0.41%) Packer
11 10 (0.37%) logstash
12 9 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
13 8 (0.30%) yum
14 7 (0.26%) EnCase
14 7 (0.26%) FTK
14 7 (0.26%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.22%) Cilium
15 6 (0.22%) Hadoop YARN
15 6 (0.22%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 120 (4.43%) Oracle
2 115 (4.25%) Microsoft
3 104 (3.84%) Google
4 66 (2.44%) Splunk
5 45 (1.66%) Red Hat
6 38 (1.40%) VMware
7 32 (1.18%) IBM
7 32 (1.18%) SAP
8 28 (1.03%) Adobe
9 22 (0.81%) OpenAI
10 21 (0.78%) Dynatrace
11 19 (0.70%) AppDynamics
12 18 (0.66%) Databricks
13 15 (0.55%) Palantir
13 15 (0.55%) SendGrid
13 15 (0.55%) ServiceNow
14 14 (0.52%) Salesforce
15 13 (0.48%) Atlassian
15 13 (0.48%) OutSystems
16 12 (0.44%) Solace