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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 27 35
Rank change year-on-year -30 +8 -14
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,358 3,071 4,252
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.66% 7.09% 5.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.67% 23.53% 17.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,550 1,459 3,059
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,590 £53,750
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 £110,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -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 16,076 13,053 24,792
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.13% 30.12% 30.33%
Number of salaries quoted 11,781 8,803 19,184
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,289 £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 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £101,250
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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -12 1,046 £85,000 -19.05% 556
North of England -25 664 £67,500 - 131
North West -36 300 £70,000 - 72
South West -21 230 £60,000 - 58
Yorkshire +36 224 £71,250 +5.56% 30
South East -62 211 £70,000 +7.69% 105
North East +5 140 £53,750 +16.22% 30
Midlands -87 124 £67,500 +14.41% 62
West Midlands -55 100 £68,403 +14.00% 46
East of England -60 53 £51,359 +16.73% 28
East Midlands -77 23 £60,000 +26.32% 16
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 56 (2.37%) Confluence
2 42 (1.78%) Apache
3 37 (1.57%) Apache Spark
4 26 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
6 12 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 12 (0.51%) Camunda
7 10 (0.42%) JBoss
8 8 (0.34%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
9 5 (0.21%) CMS
9 5 (0.21%) GeoServer
9 5 (0.21%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.13%) CICS
10 3 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.13%) SAS
10 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.085%) Documentum
11 2 (0.085%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.68%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.085%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.085%) PTC Creo
5 2 (0.085%) Windchill
6 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.042%) Moqups
6 1 (0.042%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 16 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.42%) Maximo
3 5 (0.21%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.21%) Temenos T24
4 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.085%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.042%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.042%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.042%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.042%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.042%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 972 (41.22%) AWS
2 468 (19.85%) Azure
3 289 (12.26%) GCP
4 201 (8.52%) Serverless
5 152 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 123 (5.22%) AWS Lambda
7 116 (4.92%) Amazon ECS
8 115 (4.88%) GitHub
9 114 (4.83%) Amazon S3
10 109 (4.62%) SaaS
11 105 (4.45%) Amazon EKS
12 69 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
13 65 (2.76%) AWS Step Functions
14 57 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
15 41 (1.74%) Amazon ECR
16 37 (1.57%) Apigee
16 37 (1.57%) OpenShift
17 36 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
18 35 (1.48%) Amazon SQS
18 35 (1.48%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 34 (1.44%) HTTP
2 32 (1.36%) Broadband
3 24 (1.02%) TCP/IP
4 17 (0.72%) Network Security
5 13 (0.55%) DMARC
6 9 (0.38%) BGP
6 9 (0.38%) VPN
7 8 (0.34%) IPv4
7 8 (0.34%) MQTT
7 8 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
8 6 (0.25%) DNS
8 6 (0.25%) IPsec
9 5 (0.21%) AMQP
9 5 (0.21%) Internet
9 5 (0.21%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.13%) Firewall
10 3 (0.13%) VLAN
11 2 (0.085%) LAN
11 2 (0.085%) SAN
11 2 (0.085%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (7.42%) PostgreSQL
2 172 (7.29%) NoSQL
3 120 (5.09%) MongoDB
4 100 (4.24%) Relational Database
5 82 (3.48%) DynamoDB
6 80 (3.39%) MySQL
7 72 (3.05%) SQL Server
8 37 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
9 32 (1.36%) Big Data
10 28 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
11 27 (1.15%) Db2
12 25 (1.06%) BigQuery
12 25 (1.06%) Redis
13 20 (0.85%) Hadoop
14 19 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
15 18 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
15 18 (0.76%) RDBMS
16 14 (0.59%) Metadata
17 13 (0.55%) Geospatial Data
18 12 (0.51%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 227 (9.63%) Git
2 178 (7.55%) Jenkins
3 172 (7.29%) GitLab
4 89 (3.77%) JIRA
5 85 (3.60%) Cucumber
6 70 (2.97%) Maven
7 69 (2.93%) JUnit
8 66 (2.80%) Selenium
9 59 (2.50%) Cypress.io
10 54 (2.29%) TeamCity
11 49 (2.08%) SonarQube
12 38 (1.61%) JMeter
13 34 (1.44%) Postman
14 30 (1.27%) Bitbucket
14 30 (1.27%) Mockito
15 29 (1.23%) Subversion
16 28 (1.19%) Eclipse
17 22 (0.93%) Claude Code
17 22 (0.93%) Gradle
18 21 (0.89%) REST Assured
General
1 616 (26.12%) Finance
2 353 (14.97%) Social Skills
3 227 (9.63%) Public Sector
4 222 (9.41%) Banking
5 171 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
6 130 (5.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 110 (4.66%) Front Office
8 97 (4.11%) Law
9 93 (3.94%) Retail
10 69 (2.93%) Financial Institution
11 45 (1.91%) Back Office
12 39 (1.65%) Investment Banking
13 33 (1.40%) Health Technology
14 24 (1.02%) Games
14 24 (1.02%) Manufacturing
15 21 (0.89%) Marketing
16 20 (0.85%) Legal
17 19 (0.81%) Aerospace
18 18 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
19 17 (0.72%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 855 (36.26%) Developer
2 582 (24.68%) Senior
3 562 (23.83%) Java Developer
4 540 (22.90%) Software Engineer
5 411 (17.43%) Java Engineer
6 332 (14.08%) Lead
7 204 (8.65%) Senior Developer
8 176 (7.46%) Senior Software Engineer
9 172 (7.29%) Java Software Engineer
10 145 (6.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 141 (5.98%) Full-Stack Developer
12 138 (5.85%) Senior Java Developer
13 125 (5.30%) Senior Java Engineer
13 125 (5.30%) Software Developer
14 117 (4.96%) Lead Software Engineer
15 90 (3.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 75 (3.18%) Architect
16 75 (3.18%) Consultant
17 70 (2.97%) DevOps Engineer
18 69 (2.93%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 535 (22.69%) Spring
2 455 (19.30%) Spring Boot
3 276 (11.70%) React
4 243 (10.31%) Kafka
5 230 (9.75%) AngularJS
6 226 (9.58%) Node.js
7 221 (9.37%) REST
8 170 (7.21%) RESTful
9 154 (6.53%) .NET
10 84 (3.56%) Web Services
11 77 (3.27%) CSS
12 70 (2.97%) HTML
13 67 (2.84%) GraphQL
14 66 (2.80%) Vue
15 50 (2.12%) OAuth
16 49 (2.08%) Playwright
17 47 (1.99%) SOAP
18 46 (1.95%) Hibernate
18 46 (1.95%) JSON
19 41 (1.74%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 292 (12.38%) Cloud Native
2 199 (8.44%) Distributed Systems
3 148 (6.28%) Product Ownership
4 107 (4.54%) Public Cloud
5 57 (2.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 56 (2.37%) Onboarding
7 54 (2.29%) Fixed Income
8 49 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
9 45 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
10 41 (1.74%) Data Structures
11 38 (1.61%) Distributed Architecture
12 35 (1.48%) e-Learning
13 34 (1.44%) Equities
13 34 (1.44%) Mobile App
14 33 (1.40%) Virtual Team
15 32 (1.36%) Blog
16 29 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
17 25 (1.06%) Algorithms
18 20 (0.85%) Social Media
19 18 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 211 (8.95%) Linux
2 57 (2.42%) Windows
3 41 (1.74%) Android
4 39 (1.65%) Unix
5 15 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (0.59%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.47%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.17%) CentOS
8 4 (0.17%) Debian
8 4 (0.17%) Kali Linux
8 4 (0.17%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.085%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.042%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 815 (34.56%) Software Engineering
2 792 (33.59%) Agile
3 756 (32.06%) CI/CD
4 543 (23.03%) DevOps
5 541 (22.94%) Microservices
6 485 (20.57%) Test Automation
7 459 (19.47%) Full-Stack Development
8 404 (17.13%) Mentoring
9 376 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
10 309 (13.10%) AI
11 275 (11.66%) Containerisation
12 256 (10.86%) Infrastructure as Code
13 252 (10.69%) Continuous Improvement
14 249 (10.56%) TDD
15 222 (9.41%) Technical Leadership
16 216 (9.16%) Roadmaps
17 213 (9.03%) Computer Science
18 203 (8.61%) Scrum
19 187 (7.93%) SDLC
20 173 (7.34%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 753 (31.93%) Python
2 449 (19.04%) SQL
3 413 (17.51%) JavaScript
4 253 (10.73%) TypeScript
5 240 (10.18%) C#
6 220 (9.33%) C++
7 141 (5.98%) Go
8 111 (4.71%) Bash
9 97 (4.11%) Kotlin
10 67 (2.84%) C
11 64 (2.71%) Scala
12 58 (2.46%) PHP
13 57 (2.42%) Groovy
14 55 (2.33%) Rust
15 39 (1.65%) Perl
16 35 (1.48%) PowerShell
17 31 (1.31%) Ruby
18 28 (1.19%) PL/SQL
19 19 (0.81%) Shell Script
20 14 (0.59%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 397 (16.84%) Security Cleared
2 258 (10.94%) Degree
3 234 (9.92%) SC Cleared
4 145 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 139 (5.89%) DV Cleared
6 96 (4.07%) AWS Certification
7 56 (2.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 30 (1.27%) Master's Degree
9 22 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
10 20 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 19 (0.81%) OSCP
12 17 (0.72%) ISTQB
13 15 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
14 13 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
15 12 (0.51%) DBS Check
16 11 (0.47%) CREST Certified
17 10 (0.42%) PhD
18 9 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
19 8 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (6.45%) QA
2 67 (2.84%) Accessibility
3 47 (1.99%) Data Quality
4 23 (0.98%) WCAG
5 21 (0.89%) GDPR
6 14 (0.59%) GRC
7 13 (0.55%) PCI DSS
7 13 (0.55%) SOC 2
8 9 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.30%) ISO 20022
9 7 (0.30%) NIST
10 6 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.085%) Good Clinical Practice
13 2 (0.085%) MiFID
13 2 (0.085%) PSD2
13 2 (0.085%) Software Quality Assurance
14 1 (0.042%) GxP
System Software
1 359 (15.22%) Docker
2 20 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (0.76%) Active Directory
4 11 (0.47%) vSphere
5 8 (0.34%) Squid
5 8 (0.34%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.25%) Firmware
6 6 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.21%) KVM
8 4 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.085%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.085%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 426 (18.07%) Kubernetes
2 277 (11.75%) Terraform
3 105 (4.45%) Grafana
4 102 (4.33%) Ansible
5 36 (1.53%) Prometheus
6 29 (1.23%) HP Fortify
7 28 (1.19%) Argo
7 28 (1.19%) Kibana
8 14 (0.59%) Packer
8 14 (0.59%) Puppet
9 11 (0.47%) Rancher
10 10 (0.42%) logstash
11 8 (0.34%) ZABBIX
12 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (0.25%) Hadoop YARN
13 6 (0.25%) yum
14 4 (0.17%) Control-M
14 4 (0.17%) FTK
14 4 (0.17%) Red Hat Satellite
15 3 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 95 (4.03%) Oracle
2 91 (3.86%) Microsoft
3 63 (2.67%) Google
4 57 (2.42%) Splunk
5 44 (1.87%) IBM
6 31 (1.31%) SAP
7 25 (1.06%) VMware
8 24 (1.02%) Palantir
9 23 (0.98%) Red Hat
10 22 (0.93%) Dynatrace
10 22 (0.93%) Salesforce
11 21 (0.89%) AppDynamics
12 20 (0.85%) ServiceNow
13 19 (0.81%) Adobe
13 19 (0.81%) Foundry
14 15 (0.64%) OpenAI
15 14 (0.59%) MuleSoft
16 13 (0.55%) SendGrid
17 11 (0.47%) Solace
18 10 (0.42%) Veracode