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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 47 29
Rank change year-on-year -23 -18 -11
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,848 2,164 4,348
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.86% 5.50% 5.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.82% 15.74% 17.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,211 1,468 3,441
10th Percentile £44,375 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.66% +4.14% -7.22%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £138,750 £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 11,685 13,751 25,553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.11% 34.92% 34.62%
Number of salaries quoted 8,513 9,373 21,839
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £101,250
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 11 March 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 March 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 -3 948 £100,000 -4.76% 203
North of England -9 371 £70,000 +7.69% 158
South East -44 193 £66,250 +1.92% 140
Yorkshire +10 186 £70,000 +3.70% 45
South West -19 167 £65,000 -1.89% 69
North West -21 159 £70,000 +7.69% 82
Midlands -35 89 £55,000 +22.22% 47
West Midlands -7 75 £55,100 +3.78% 35
East of England -82 35 £50,000 - 27
North East -22 26 £53,750 -5.70% 31
East Midlands -60 13 £44,500 +27.14% 11
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 50 (2.71%) Apache Spark
2 43 (2.33%) Apache
3 37 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (1.41%) Confluence
5 21 (1.14%) JBoss
6 13 (0.70%) OpenStack
6 13 (0.70%) WebSphere
7 9 (0.49%) Anypoint
8 7 (0.38%) IIS
8 7 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 7 (0.38%) SharePoint
9 5 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.22%) Appian
10 4 (0.22%) Camunda
10 4 (0.22%) Moodle
10 4 (0.22%) Mule
10 4 (0.22%) nginx
11 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.16%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.16%) Liferay
Applications
1 13 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 12 (0.65%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.11%) Simulink
5 2 (0.11%) Windchill
6 1 (0.054%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.054%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.70%) Maximo
2 8 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.38%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.27%) Shopify
5 2 (0.11%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.11%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.054%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.054%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 816 (44.16%) AWS
2 332 (17.97%) Azure
3 227 (12.28%) GCP
4 163 (8.82%) Serverless
5 129 (6.98%) SaaS
6 124 (6.71%) Amazon EKS
7 101 (5.47%) AWS Lambda
8 97 (5.25%) Amazon S3
9 91 (4.92%) GitHub
10 90 (4.87%) Amazon ECS
11 81 (4.38%) AWS CloudFormation
12 53 (2.87%) AWS Step Functions
13 52 (2.81%) OpenShift
14 44 (2.38%) dbt
15 39 (2.11%) Amazon SQS
15 39 (2.11%) Apigee
16 36 (1.95%) Amazon ECR
17 33 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
18 32 (1.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 32 (1.73%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.38%) Broadband
2 36 (1.95%) TCP/IP
3 16 (0.87%) HTTP
4 11 (0.60%) AMQP
4 11 (0.60%) VPN
5 10 (0.54%) Internet
6 6 (0.32%) BGP
6 6 (0.32%) Firewall
6 6 (0.32%) Multicast
6 6 (0.32%) VLAN
7 5 (0.27%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.22%) SAN
9 3 (0.16%) DNS
9 3 (0.16%) 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
1 162 (8.77%) PostgreSQL
2 148 (8.01%) NoSQL
3 122 (6.60%) Relational Database
4 70 (3.79%) DynamoDB
5 69 (3.73%) SQL Server
6 66 (3.57%) MongoDB
7 55 (2.98%) MySQL
8 53 (2.87%) RDBMS
9 43 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
10 42 (2.27%) Big Data
11 36 (1.95%) Hadoop
12 33 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
12 33 (1.79%) DB2
13 30 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
14 25 (1.35%) Neo4j
15 23 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
16 19 (1.03%) Redis
17 17 (0.92%) Data Lake
18 14 (0.76%) BigQuery
19 13 (0.70%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 163 (8.82%) Jenkins
2 135 (7.31%) Git
3 103 (5.57%) GitLab
3 103 (5.57%) Selenium
4 79 (4.27%) JIRA
5 71 (3.84%) Cucumber
6 67 (3.63%) Cypress.io
7 66 (3.57%) TeamCity
8 62 (3.35%) Maven
9 59 (3.19%) JUnit
10 46 (2.49%) Postman
11 45 (2.44%) SonarQube
12 36 (1.95%) WebDriver
13 33 (1.79%) SoapUI
14 29 (1.57%) JMeter
15 25 (1.35%) Team Foundation Server
16 24 (1.30%) Bitbucket
17 20 (1.08%) Mockito
18 19 (1.03%) Jaeger
18 19 (1.03%) REST Assured
General
1 478 (25.87%) Finance
2 401 (21.70%) Social Skills
3 237 (12.82%) Banking
4 157 (8.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 136 (7.36%) Analytical Skills
6 132 (7.14%) Law
7 128 (6.93%) Public Sector
8 114 (6.17%) Front Office
9 106 (5.74%) Retail
10 95 (5.14%) Financial Institution
11 67 (3.63%) Investment Banking
12 54 (2.92%) Back Office
13 47 (2.54%) Games
14 36 (1.95%) Telecoms
15 27 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
16 24 (1.30%) Manufacturing
17 21 (1.14%) Health Technology
18 20 (1.08%) Aerospace
18 20 (1.08%) Billing
19 18 (0.97%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 682 (36.90%) Developer
2 463 (25.05%) Software Engineer
3 437 (23.65%) Senior
4 404 (21.86%) Java Developer
5 261 (14.12%) Java Engineer
6 257 (13.91%) Lead
7 156 (8.44%) Senior Developer
8 154 (8.33%) Java Software Engineer
9 149 (8.06%) Full-Stack Developer
10 135 (7.31%) Senior Software Engineer
11 109 (5.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 109 (5.90%) Senior Java Developer
12 99 (5.36%) Senior Java Engineer
13 95 (5.14%) Architect
13 95 (5.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 78 (4.22%) Software Developer
15 75 (4.06%) Lead Software Engineer
16 55 (2.98%) Lead Developer
17 52 (2.81%) AWS Engineer
18 51 (2.76%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 398 (21.54%) Spring
2 353 (19.10%) Spring Boot
3 327 (17.69%) React
4 213 (11.53%) REST
5 195 (10.55%) Kafka
6 186 (10.06%) Node.js
7 174 (9.42%) AngularJS
8 157 (8.50%) .NET
9 132 (7.14%) RESTful
10 109 (5.90%) HTML
11 96 (5.19%) SOAP
12 82 (4.44%) GraphQL
13 74 (4.00%) CSS
14 69 (3.73%) Web Services
15 66 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
16 64 (3.46%) Hibernate
17 51 (2.76%) Vue
18 50 (2.71%) Gherkin
18 50 (2.71%) JSON
19 45 (2.44%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 263 (14.23%) Cloud Native
2 173 (9.36%) Distributed Systems
3 77 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 61 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
5 57 (3.08%) Fixed Income
6 52 (2.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 48 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
8 41 (2.22%) Equities
9 38 (2.06%) Blog
10 34 (1.84%) Public Cloud
11 32 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
12 31 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
13 29 (1.57%) Mobile App
14 28 (1.52%) Algorithms
14 28 (1.52%) Data Structures
14 28 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
15 26 (1.41%) Derivative
16 24 (1.30%) Management Information System
17 23 (1.24%) FPGA
18 19 (1.03%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 196 (10.61%) Linux
2 46 (2.49%) Android
3 43 (2.33%) Unix
4 34 (1.84%) Windows
5 13 (0.70%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.38%) CentOS
6 7 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.32%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.27%) Debian
9 3 (0.16%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.054%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.054%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 704 (38.10%) Agile
2 652 (35.28%) Software Engineering
3 592 (32.03%) CI/CD
4 448 (24.24%) DevOps
5 409 (22.13%) Microservices
6 392 (21.21%) Full-Stack Development
7 311 (16.83%) Problem-Solving
8 310 (16.77%) Test Automation
9 294 (15.91%) Mentoring
10 218 (11.80%) Containerisation
11 205 (11.09%) AI
11 205 (11.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 188 (10.17%) Computer Science
12 188 (10.17%) Scrum
13 173 (9.36%) TDD
14 153 (8.28%) Infrastructure as Code
15 149 (8.06%) Technical Leadership
16 141 (7.63%) Fintech
16 141 (7.63%) SDLC
17 138 (7.47%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 592 (32.03%) Python
2 426 (23.05%) JavaScript
3 359 (19.43%) SQL
4 287 (15.53%) TypeScript
5 196 (10.61%) C#
6 156 (8.44%) Go
7 129 (6.98%) C++
8 113 (6.11%) Kotlin
9 87 (4.71%) Bash
10 80 (4.33%) C
11 46 (2.49%) Scala
12 42 (2.27%) Groovy
13 33 (1.79%) PL/SQL
13 33 (1.79%) Rust
14 32 (1.73%) PHP
15 20 (1.08%) Apex Code
15 20 (1.08%) Ruby
16 17 (0.92%) PowerShell
16 17 (0.92%) R
17 14 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 282 (15.26%) Security Cleared
2 262 (14.18%) Degree
3 170 (9.20%) SC Cleared
4 115 (6.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 106 (5.74%) DV Cleared
6 86 (4.65%) AWS Certification
7 42 (2.27%) Master's Degree
8 40 (2.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 33 (1.79%) Azure Certification
10 28 (1.52%) ISTQB
11 27 (1.46%) TOGAF Certification
12 24 (1.30%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 22 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
14 18 (0.97%) PhD
15 17 (0.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 17 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
16 15 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
17 12 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
18 11 (0.60%) CREST Certified
18 11 (0.60%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (6.44%) QA
2 33 (1.79%) Accessibility
3 20 (1.08%) GDPR
4 19 (1.03%) PCI DSS
5 17 (0.92%) Data Quality
6 16 (0.87%) SOC 2
7 12 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (0.38%) WCAG
10 5 (0.27%) NIST
11 4 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.22%) EU AI Act
11 4 (0.22%) SLA
12 3 (0.16%) NCSC
13 2 (0.11%) ECSS
13 2 (0.11%) GRC
13 2 (0.11%) MISRA
14 1 (0.054%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.054%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.054%) MiFID
System Software
1 327 (17.69%) Docker
2 14 (0.76%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
4 5 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.22%) Firmware
5 4 (0.22%) HDFS
6 3 (0.16%) KVM
7 2 (0.11%) vSphere
8 1 (0.054%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.054%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.054%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.054%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.054%) Squid
Systems Management
1 431 (23.32%) Kubernetes
2 191 (10.34%) Terraform
3 101 (5.47%) Grafana
4 75 (4.06%) Ansible
5 48 (2.60%) Prometheus
6 42 (2.27%) Argo
7 34 (1.84%) HP Fortify
8 22 (1.19%) Kibana
9 19 (1.03%) Kustomize
10 10 (0.54%) Rancher
11 8 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
12 7 (0.38%) Puppet
13 6 (0.32%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.32%) yum
14 5 (0.27%) FTK
14 5 (0.27%) logstash
15 4 (0.22%) Nagios
15 4 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
16 3 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
16 3 (0.16%) Control-M
Vendors
1 88 (4.76%) Oracle
2 66 (3.57%) Google
3 60 (3.25%) Microsoft
4 33 (1.79%) MuleSoft
5 32 (1.73%) Salesforce
6 28 (1.52%) IBM
7 23 (1.24%) Atlassian
8 22 (1.19%) Databricks
8 22 (1.19%) SAP
9 21 (1.14%) Splunk
10 19 (1.03%) Informatica
11 16 (0.87%) Talend
12 13 (0.70%) Dell
13 12 (0.65%) Red Hat
14 11 (0.60%) Guidewire
14 11 (0.60%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.60%) Solace
15 10 (0.54%) Dynatrace
16 9 (0.49%) Foundry
16 9 (0.49%) VMware