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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 30 33
Rank change year-on-year -28 +3 -11
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,477 2,831 3,835
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.55% 6.50% 5.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.88% 23.17% 17.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,589 1,259 2,548
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,375 £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 £102,750 £135,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +5.26%

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 16,649 12,221 21,327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.11% 28.04% 30.05%
Number of salaries quoted 12,206 8,152 14,743
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £107,500
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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -14 1,052 £85,000 -19.05% 2,065
North of England -26 692 £67,500 +3.85% 345
North West -35 314 £70,000 - 207
South West -7 282 £60,500 +0.83% 219
South East -54 213 £67,500 +3.85% 198
Yorkshire +17 198 £75,000 +15.38% 87
North East +10 180 £55,000 +15.79% 51
Midlands -58 170 £62,500 +4.17% 139
West Midlands -31 144 £67,500 +12.03% 96
East of England -75 52 £54,430 +20.95% 78
East Midlands -76 26 £57,500 +9.52% 43
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 62 (2.50%) Confluence
2 54 (2.18%) Apache
3 36 (1.45%) Apache Spark
4 23 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (0.69%) Camunda
6 16 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
7 14 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 10 (0.40%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
10 7 (0.28%) JBoss
10 7 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 7 (0.28%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.24%) CMS
12 5 (0.20%) CICS
12 5 (0.20%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.16%) SAS
14 3 (0.12%) Documentum
14 3 (0.12%) SharePoint
14 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
14 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.61%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.20%) Moqups
3 5 (0.20%) Simulink
4 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.081%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.081%) PTC Creo
5 2 (0.081%) Windchill
6 1 (0.040%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.040%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.20%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.20%) Maximo
2 5 (0.20%) Temenos T24
3 4 (0.16%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.081%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.081%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 2 (0.081%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.040%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.040%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.040%) Endur
5 1 (0.040%) Findur
5 1 (0.040%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.040%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.040%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.040%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,023 (41.30%) AWS
2 530 (21.40%) Azure
3 294 (11.87%) GCP
4 199 (8.03%) Serverless
5 157 (6.34%) AWS CloudFormation
6 153 (6.18%) GitHub
7 133 (5.37%) AWS Lambda
8 106 (4.28%) Amazon ECS
9 105 (4.24%) Amazon S3
10 98 (3.96%) SaaS
11 86 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
12 84 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
13 83 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
14 58 (2.34%) AWS Step Functions
15 48 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
16 39 (1.57%) Datadog
17 38 (1.53%) OpenShift
18 37 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 35 (1.41%) Anthropic Claude
19 35 (1.41%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 40 (1.61%) HTTP
2 17 (0.69%) Network Security
3 16 (0.65%) Broadband
4 14 (0.57%) TCP/IP
5 13 (0.52%) DMARC
6 9 (0.36%) DNS
6 9 (0.36%) IPv4
6 9 (0.36%) MQTT
6 9 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
7 8 (0.32%) VPN
8 7 (0.28%) BGP
9 6 (0.24%) AMQP
9 6 (0.24%) IPsec
10 5 (0.20%) Ethernet
10 5 (0.20%) Firewall
10 5 (0.20%) Internet
10 5 (0.20%) Kerberos
10 5 (0.20%) Wireshark
11 3 (0.12%) Intrusion Detection
11 3 (0.12%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (6.54%) PostgreSQL
2 161 (6.50%) NoSQL
3 125 (5.05%) MongoDB
4 118 (4.76%) Relational Database
5 77 (3.11%) MySQL
6 75 (3.03%) DynamoDB
7 74 (2.99%) SQL Server
8 43 (1.74%) Big Data
9 36 (1.45%) Amazon Athena
10 28 (1.13%) Redis
11 23 (0.93%) Db2
11 23 (0.93%) Hadoop
12 22 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
12 22 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
13 18 (0.73%) BigQuery
13 18 (0.73%) Data Lake
13 18 (0.73%) Power BI
14 16 (0.65%) Spark SQL
15 15 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
15 15 (0.61%) Flink
Development Applications
1 280 (11.30%) Git
2 210 (8.48%) Jenkins
3 193 (7.79%) GitLab
4 99 (4.00%) JUnit
5 97 (3.92%) JIRA
6 91 (3.67%) Cucumber
7 75 (3.03%) Maven
8 74 (2.99%) Selenium
9 63 (2.54%) Cypress.io
10 50 (2.02%) Postman
11 45 (1.82%) SonarQube
12 42 (1.70%) Eclipse
13 41 (1.66%) JMeter
13 41 (1.66%) Mockito
13 41 (1.66%) TeamCity
14 37 (1.49%) Subversion
15 35 (1.41%) Bitbucket
16 26 (1.05%) REST Assured
17 24 (0.97%) Claude Code
18 20 (0.81%) Gatling
General
1 653 (26.36%) Finance
2 418 (16.88%) Social Skills
3 261 (10.54%) Public Sector
4 233 (9.41%) Banking
5 186 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
6 122 (4.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 89 (3.59%) Law
8 71 (2.87%) Front Office
9 69 (2.79%) Retail
10 63 (2.54%) Financial Institution
11 36 (1.45%) Marketing
12 35 (1.41%) Manufacturing
13 33 (1.33%) Legal
14 32 (1.29%) Investment Banking
15 29 (1.17%) Back Office
15 29 (1.17%) Health Technology
16 22 (0.89%) Aerospace
17 19 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
17 19 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
18 18 (0.73%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 784 (31.65%) Developer
2 633 (25.56%) Senior
3 556 (22.45%) Software Engineer
4 518 (20.91%) Java Developer
5 458 (18.49%) Java Engineer
6 344 (13.89%) Lead
7 209 (8.44%) Senior Developer
8 195 (7.87%) Senior Software Engineer
9 155 (6.26%) Senior Java Engineer
10 152 (6.14%) Java Software Engineer
11 147 (5.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 132 (5.33%) Senior Java Developer
13 125 (5.05%) Full-Stack Developer
14 124 (5.01%) Software Developer
15 105 (4.24%) Lead Software Engineer
16 82 (3.31%) Principal Engineer
17 81 (3.27%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 80 (3.23%) Architect
19 79 (3.19%) DevOps Engineer
20 75 (3.03%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 590 (23.82%) Spring
2 484 (19.54%) Spring Boot
3 283 (11.43%) Terraform
4 261 (10.54%) Kafka
5 258 (10.42%) React
6 250 (10.09%) REST
7 218 (8.80%) AngularJS
8 192 (7.75%) Node.js
9 190 (7.67%) RESTful
10 175 (7.06%) .NET
11 83 (3.35%) Web Services
12 68 (2.75%) CSS
13 63 (2.54%) HTML
14 58 (2.34%) RabbitMQ
15 57 (2.30%) Vue
16 56 (2.26%) Hibernate
16 56 (2.26%) OAuth
17 55 (2.22%) Playwright
18 45 (1.82%) Jakarta EE
19 42 (1.70%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 317 (12.80%) Cloud Native
2 255 (10.29%) Distributed Systems
3 167 (6.74%) Product Ownership
4 123 (4.97%) Public Cloud
5 74 (2.99%) Onboarding
6 62 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
7 57 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
8 47 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
9 43 (1.74%) e-Learning
9 43 (1.74%) Virtual Team
10 42 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 41 (1.66%) Data Structures
12 38 (1.53%) Algorithms
13 35 (1.41%) Mobile App
14 33 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
15 31 (1.25%) Equities
16 30 (1.21%) AI Agents
17 25 (1.01%) Blog
18 24 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
19 23 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 218 (8.80%) Linux
2 68 (2.75%) Windows
3 37 (1.49%) Android
3 37 (1.49%) Unix
4 20 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.61%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.24%) CentOS
8 5 (0.20%) Debian
8 5 (0.20%) Kali Linux
8 5 (0.20%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.16%) VMS
10 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.081%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.040%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 887 (35.81%) Software Engineering
2 832 (33.59%) CI/CD
3 794 (32.05%) Agile
4 600 (24.22%) Microservices
5 576 (23.25%) DevOps
6 499 (20.15%) Test Automation
7 467 (18.85%) Full-Stack Development
8 455 (18.37%) Mentoring
9 427 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
10 376 (15.18%) AI
11 319 (12.88%) Containerisation
12 305 (12.31%) Infrastructure as Code
13 297 (11.99%) Continuous Improvement
14 263 (10.62%) Event-Driven
15 250 (10.09%) Technical Leadership
16 245 (9.89%) Roadmaps
17 235 (9.49%) TDD
18 231 (9.33%) Computer Science
19 224 (9.04%) Scrum
20 223 (9.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 801 (32.34%) Python
2 466 (18.81%) SQL
3 425 (17.16%) JavaScript
4 270 (10.90%) C#
5 249 (10.05%) C++
6 240 (9.69%) TypeScript
7 125 (5.05%) Go
8 112 (4.52%) Bash
9 106 (4.28%) Kotlin
10 76 (3.07%) C
11 73 (2.95%) Scala
12 58 (2.34%) PHP
12 58 (2.34%) Rust
13 52 (2.10%) Groovy
14 51 (2.06%) Perl
15 38 (1.53%) Ruby
16 37 (1.49%) PowerShell
17 30 (1.21%) PL/SQL
18 20 (0.81%) Shell Script
19 16 (0.65%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 461 (18.61%) Security Cleared
2 283 (11.43%) Degree
3 248 (10.01%) SC Cleared
4 161 (6.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 159 (6.42%) DV Cleared
6 99 (4.00%) AWS Certification
7 62 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (1.17%) Master's Degree
9 22 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (0.81%) ISTQB
11 19 (0.77%) OSCP
12 16 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 16 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
13 13 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.48%) DBS Check
15 11 (0.44%) CREST Certified
16 10 (0.40%) PhD
17 8 (0.32%) CCNA
17 8 (0.32%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (6.74%) QA
2 82 (3.31%) Accessibility
3 76 (3.07%) Data Quality
4 27 (1.09%) WCAG
5 22 (0.89%) GDPR
6 14 (0.57%) GRC
6 14 (0.57%) ISO 20022
7 13 (0.52%) NIST
8 10 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.20%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 4 (0.16%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.12%) MiFID
12 3 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
12 3 (0.12%) PSD2
12 3 (0.12%) UCITS
13 2 (0.081%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 414 (16.71%) Docker
2 26 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (0.77%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.48%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.44%) Firmware
5 11 (0.44%) vSphere
6 8 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
6 8 (0.32%) Squid
6 8 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.20%) KVM
9 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.081%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 463 (18.69%) Kubernetes
2 131 (5.29%) Ansible
3 85 (3.43%) Grafana
4 31 (1.25%) Prometheus
5 30 (1.21%) Argo
6 27 (1.09%) Kibana
7 24 (0.97%) Puppet
8 21 (0.85%) HP Fortify
9 12 (0.48%) Packer
10 11 (0.44%) Rancher
11 10 (0.40%) logstash
12 8 (0.32%) ZABBIX
13 6 (0.24%) Hadoop YARN
13 6 (0.24%) Kubeflow
13 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (0.24%) yum
14 5 (0.20%) Red Hat Satellite
15 4 (0.16%) Control-M
15 4 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 111 (4.48%) Oracle
2 106 (4.28%) Microsoft
3 80 (3.23%) Google
4 61 (2.46%) Splunk
5 44 (1.78%) IBM
6 38 (1.53%) Red Hat
7 33 (1.33%) SAP
8 30 (1.21%) VMware
9 29 (1.17%) AppDynamics
10 25 (1.01%) Palantir
11 24 (0.97%) Adobe
11 24 (0.97%) Dynatrace
12 21 (0.85%) OpenAI
13 18 (0.73%) ServiceNow
14 16 (0.65%) Databricks
14 16 (0.65%) Foundry
15 15 (0.61%) Salesforce
16 13 (0.52%) SendGrid
17 12 (0.48%) Bloomberg
17 12 (0.48%) Veracode