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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 30 35
Rank change year-on-year -28 +5 -14
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,454 2,889 3,840
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.58% 6.60% 5.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.65% 23.12% 17.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,563 1,315 2,631
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £135,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +3.23%

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 16,749 12,497 21,541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.62% 28.56% 29.68%
Number of salaries quoted 12,205 8,338 15,703
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £36,625
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +1.63% -5.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,625
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 19 August 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 19 August 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 1,059 £85,000 -19.05% 1,147
North of England -25 689 £68,076 +1.55% 263
North West -35 308 £70,000 +1.82% 139
South West -8 275 £60,000 - 120
Yorkshire +46 215 £75,000 +11.11% 72
South East -55 212 £67,500 +3.85% 167
North East +5 166 £55,000 +15.79% 54
Midlands -70 152 £67,500 +12.50% 112
West Midlands -40 130 £67,500 +8.00% 83
East of England -73 53 £51,359 +16.73% 66
East Midlands -77 22 £60,000 +26.32% 29
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 60 (2.44%) Confluence
2 54 (2.20%) Apache
3 39 (1.59%) Apache Spark
4 23 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.73%) Camunda
6 15 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
7 14 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.37%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.33%) JBoss
9 8 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
10 7 (0.29%) CICS
10 7 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 7 (0.29%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.20%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.16%) CMS
12 4 (0.16%) GeoServer
12 4 (0.16%) SAS
12 4 (0.16%) SharePoint
13 3 (0.12%) Documentum
13 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 19 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.65%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.20%) Moqups
5 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.12%) Simulink
7 2 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.081%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.081%) PTC Creo
7 2 (0.081%) Windchill
8 1 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.041%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.29%) Maximo
3 5 (0.20%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.20%) Temenos T24
4 4 (0.16%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.12%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.081%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.081%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 1 (0.041%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.041%) Endur
7 1 (0.041%) Findur
7 1 (0.041%) Infor SunSystems
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.041%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.041%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,013 (41.28%) AWS
2 523 (21.31%) Azure
3 295 (12.02%) GCP
4 193 (7.86%) Serverless
5 157 (6.40%) AWS CloudFormation
6 145 (5.91%) GitHub
7 123 (5.01%) AWS Lambda
8 111 (4.52%) Amazon ECS
9 108 (4.40%) Amazon S3
10 99 (4.03%) SaaS
11 83 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
12 81 (3.30%) Amazon EKS
13 76 (3.10%) GitHub Actions
14 61 (2.49%) AWS Step Functions
15 39 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 39 (1.59%) OpenShift
16 36 (1.47%) Datadog
17 35 (1.43%) Amazon ECR
17 35 (1.43%) Azure Service Bus
18 33 (1.34%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.47%) HTTP
2 23 (0.94%) Broadband
3 17 (0.69%) Network Security
4 16 (0.65%) TCP/IP
5 13 (0.53%) DMARC
6 9 (0.37%) MQTT
6 9 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
7 8 (0.33%) DNS
7 8 (0.33%) IPv4
7 8 (0.33%) VPN
8 6 (0.24%) AMQP
8 6 (0.24%) BGP
8 6 (0.24%) IPsec
8 6 (0.24%) Kerberos
9 5 (0.20%) Ethernet
9 5 (0.20%) Firewall
9 5 (0.20%) Internet
10 3 (0.12%) LAN
10 3 (0.12%) RIP
10 3 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (6.64%) PostgreSQL
2 161 (6.56%) NoSQL
3 124 (5.05%) Relational Database
4 120 (4.89%) MongoDB
5 81 (3.30%) DynamoDB
6 78 (3.18%) MySQL
7 77 (3.14%) SQL Server
8 40 (1.63%) Big Data
9 39 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
10 29 (1.18%) Db2
11 27 (1.10%) Redis
12 25 (1.02%) Hadoop
13 21 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
13 21 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
14 18 (0.73%) BigQuery
15 16 (0.65%) Data Lake
16 14 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
16 14 (0.57%) Flink
16 14 (0.57%) Power BI
16 14 (0.57%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 274 (11.17%) Git
2 204 (8.31%) Jenkins
3 176 (7.17%) GitLab
4 94 (3.83%) JUnit
5 93 (3.79%) JIRA
6 87 (3.55%) Cucumber
7 75 (3.06%) Selenium
8 73 (2.97%) Maven
9 63 (2.57%) Cypress.io
10 48 (1.96%) SonarQube
11 44 (1.79%) Postman
12 41 (1.67%) Eclipse
13 40 (1.63%) Mockito
13 40 (1.63%) TeamCity
14 38 (1.55%) JMeter
15 35 (1.43%) Bitbucket
16 34 (1.39%) Subversion
17 26 (1.06%) Claude Code
18 22 (0.90%) REST Assured
19 19 (0.77%) Gradle
General
1 667 (27.18%) Finance
2 422 (17.20%) Social Skills
3 249 (10.15%) Public Sector
4 222 (9.05%) Banking
5 176 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
6 128 (5.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 91 (3.71%) Front Office
8 87 (3.55%) Law
9 67 (2.73%) Retail
10 60 (2.44%) Financial Institution
11 39 (1.59%) Investment Banking
12 37 (1.51%) Marketing
13 32 (1.30%) Health Technology
14 31 (1.26%) Legal
15 30 (1.22%) Manufacturing
16 28 (1.14%) Back Office
17 22 (0.90%) Aerospace
18 21 (0.86%) Games
19 20 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
20 18 (0.73%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 826 (33.66%) Developer
2 623 (25.39%) Senior
3 561 (22.86%) Software Engineer
4 543 (22.13%) Java Developer
5 419 (17.07%) Java Engineer
6 356 (14.51%) Lead
7 208 (8.48%) Senior Developer
8 198 (8.07%) Senior Software Engineer
9 145 (5.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 143 (5.83%) Java Software Engineer
11 136 (5.54%) Full-Stack Developer
12 135 (5.50%) Senior Java Engineer
13 131 (5.34%) Senior Java Developer
14 120 (4.89%) Software Developer
15 116 (4.73%) Lead Software Engineer
16 87 (3.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 82 (3.34%) Principal Engineer
18 81 (3.30%) Architect
19 78 (3.18%) DevOps Engineer
20 73 (2.97%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 578 (23.55%) Spring
2 477 (19.44%) Spring Boot
3 280 (11.41%) React
4 263 (10.72%) Kafka
5 241 (9.82%) REST
6 229 (9.33%) AngularJS
7 218 (8.88%) Node.js
8 195 (7.95%) RESTful
9 169 (6.89%) .NET
10 87 (3.55%) Web Services
11 75 (3.06%) CSS
12 69 (2.81%) HTML
13 63 (2.57%) Vue
14 55 (2.24%) OAuth
14 55 (2.24%) RabbitMQ
15 54 (2.20%) GraphQL
16 53 (2.16%) Hibernate
17 51 (2.08%) Playwright
18 45 (1.83%) Jakarta EE
19 42 (1.71%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 306 (12.47%) Cloud Native
2 252 (10.27%) Distributed Systems
3 161 (6.56%) Product Ownership
4 113 (4.60%) Public Cloud
5 76 (3.10%) Onboarding
6 61 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
7 59 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
8 54 (2.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 44 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
10 40 (1.63%) Data Structures
10 40 (1.63%) Virtual Team
11 39 (1.59%) e-Learning
11 39 (1.59%) Fixed Income
12 38 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
13 35 (1.43%) Algorithms
14 34 (1.39%) Mobile App
15 32 (1.30%) Equities
16 30 (1.22%) AI Agents
17 23 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
17 23 (0.94%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 226 (9.21%) Linux
2 70 (2.85%) Windows
3 40 (1.63%) Android
3 40 (1.63%) Unix
4 20 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (0.69%) Apple iOS
5 17 (0.69%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.24%) CentOS
7 5 (0.20%) Debian
7 5 (0.20%) Kali Linux
7 5 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.081%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.081%) VMS
10 1 (0.041%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 876 (35.70%) Software Engineering
2 819 (33.37%) CI/CD
3 809 (32.97%) Agile
4 591 (24.08%) Microservices
5 584 (23.80%) DevOps
6 492 (20.05%) Test Automation
7 462 (18.83%) Full-Stack Development
8 428 (17.44%) Mentoring
9 423 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
10 378 (15.40%) AI
11 321 (13.08%) Containerisation
12 306 (12.47%) Infrastructure as Code
13 293 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
14 250 (10.19%) Technical Leadership
15 243 (9.90%) Roadmaps
16 239 (9.74%) TDD
17 230 (9.37%) Event-Driven
18 226 (9.21%) Computer Science
19 220 (8.96%) Scrum
20 216 (8.80%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 816 (33.25%) Python
2 452 (18.42%) SQL
3 431 (17.56%) JavaScript
4 265 (10.80%) C#
5 259 (10.55%) TypeScript
6 239 (9.74%) C++
7 136 (5.54%) Go
8 113 (4.60%) Kotlin
9 112 (4.56%) Bash
10 75 (3.06%) C
11 71 (2.89%) Scala
12 59 (2.40%) PHP
13 58 (2.36%) Rust
14 54 (2.20%) Groovy
15 47 (1.92%) Perl
16 40 (1.63%) PowerShell
17 37 (1.51%) Ruby
18 33 (1.34%) PL/SQL
19 19 (0.77%) Shell Script
20 14 (0.57%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 455 (18.54%) Security Cleared
2 276 (11.25%) Degree
3 249 (10.15%) SC Cleared
4 160 (6.52%) DV Cleared
5 158 (6.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 98 (3.99%) AWS Certification
7 59 (2.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 26 (1.06%) Master's Degree
9 20 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 18 (0.73%) ISTQB
10 18 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
10 18 (0.73%) OSCP
11 13 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
12 12 (0.49%) DBS Check
13 10 (0.41%) CREST Certified
14 8 (0.33%) Azure Certification
14 8 (0.33%) CCNA
14 8 (0.33%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (6.68%) QA
2 83 (3.38%) Accessibility
3 58 (2.36%) Data Quality
4 29 (1.18%) WCAG
5 21 (0.86%) GDPR
6 15 (0.61%) NIST
7 14 (0.57%) GRC
8 13 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.37%) ISO 20022
10 7 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.24%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 14443
12 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 4 (0.16%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.12%) MiFID
13 3 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
13 3 (0.12%) PSD2
13 3 (0.12%) UCITS
14 2 (0.081%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 411 (16.75%) Docker
2 26 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (0.90%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.49%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.45%) vSphere
6 8 (0.33%) Firmware
6 8 (0.33%) Squid
6 8 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
8 5 (0.20%) KVM
9 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.081%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 458 (18.66%) Kubernetes
2 285 (11.61%) Terraform
3 128 (5.22%) Ansible
4 84 (3.42%) Grafana
5 32 (1.30%) Prometheus
6 28 (1.14%) Argo
7 27 (1.10%) Kibana
8 24 (0.98%) HP Fortify
9 22 (0.90%) Puppet
10 12 (0.49%) Packer
11 10 (0.41%) logstash
11 10 (0.41%) Rancher
12 8 (0.33%) ZABBIX
13 6 (0.24%) Hadoop YARN
13 6 (0.24%) Kubeflow
13 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
14 5 (0.20%) Red Hat Satellite
14 5 (0.20%) yum
15 4 (0.16%) Control-M
15 4 (0.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 109 (4.44%) Oracle
2 102 (4.16%) Microsoft
3 79 (3.22%) Google
4 61 (2.49%) Splunk
5 44 (1.79%) IBM
6 35 (1.43%) Red Hat
6 35 (1.43%) SAP
7 30 (1.22%) VMware
8 26 (1.06%) AppDynamics
9 24 (0.98%) Adobe
9 24 (0.98%) Dynatrace
9 24 (0.98%) Palantir
10 21 (0.86%) ServiceNow
11 20 (0.81%) OpenAI
12 18 (0.73%) Salesforce
13 16 (0.65%) Databricks
13 16 (0.65%) Foundry
14 13 (0.53%) SendGrid
15 12 (0.49%) Bloomberg
15 12 (0.49%) Solace