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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 47 29
Rank change year-on-year -22 -18 -11
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,862 2,140 4,319
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.85% 5.46% 5.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.66% 15.65% 16.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,220 1,453 3,412
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -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 £70,576
% change year-on-year - +6.27% -5.90%

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 11,889 13,673 25,496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.23% 34.89% 34.45%
Number of salaries quoted 8,691 9,351 21,784
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £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 13 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 13 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 -3 952 £98,750 -5.95% 289
North of England -10 380 £70,000 +7.69% 176
South East -52 192 £67,500 +3.85% 127
Yorkshire +7 189 £70,000 +3.70% 56
South West -18 171 £65,000 -3.70% 64
North West -17 163 £70,000 +7.69% 87
Midlands -43 88 £55,000 +22.22% 43
West Midlands -10 75 £55,100 +4.95% 29
East of England -88 32 £48,750 -2.50% 18
North East -24 28 £52,500 -7.89% 33
East Midlands -58 12 £44,500 +27.14% 14
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 48 (2.58%) Apache Spark
2 43 (2.31%) Apache
3 37 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (1.40%) Confluence
5 22 (1.18%) JBoss
6 14 (0.75%) OpenStack
7 13 (0.70%) WebSphere
8 9 (0.48%) Anypoint
9 7 (0.38%) IIS
9 7 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.32%) SharePoint
11 5 (0.27%) Camunda
12 4 (0.21%) Appian
12 4 (0.21%) Moodle
12 4 (0.21%) Mule
12 4 (0.21%) nginx
13 3 (0.16%) GeoServer
13 3 (0.16%) Liferay
14 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 13 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 12 (0.64%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.11%) Windchill
6 1 (0.054%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.054%) Simulink
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
1 822 (44.15%) AWS
2 340 (18.26%) Azure
3 232 (12.46%) GCP
4 163 (8.75%) Serverless
5 132 (7.09%) SaaS
6 124 (6.66%) Amazon EKS
7 99 (5.32%) AWS Lambda
8 96 (5.16%) Amazon S3
9 92 (4.94%) GitHub
10 91 (4.89%) Amazon ECS
11 83 (4.46%) AWS CloudFormation
12 53 (2.85%) AWS Step Functions
13 51 (2.74%) OpenShift
14 44 (2.36%) dbt
15 40 (2.15%) Amazon SQS
16 39 (2.09%) Apigee
17 37 (1.99%) Amazon ECR
18 34 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
19 32 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
20 31 (1.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.36%) Broadband
2 37 (1.99%) TCP/IP
3 16 (0.86%) HTTP
4 11 (0.59%) AMQP
5 10 (0.54%) VPN
6 9 (0.48%) Internet
7 6 (0.32%) BGP
7 6 (0.32%) Multicast
7 6 (0.32%) VLAN
8 5 (0.27%) Firewall
8 5 (0.27%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.21%) SAN
10 3 (0.16%) DNS
10 3 (0.16%) PuTTY
11 2 (0.11%) DHCP
11 2 (0.11%) LAN
11 2 (0.11%) NAS
11 2 (0.11%) SNMP
11 2 (0.11%) WAN
12 1 (0.054%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (8.97%) PostgreSQL
2 151 (8.11%) NoSQL
3 125 (6.71%) Relational Database
4 71 (3.81%) DynamoDB
4 71 (3.81%) SQL Server
5 66 (3.54%) MongoDB
6 59 (3.17%) MySQL
7 53 (2.85%) RDBMS
8 42 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
9 40 (2.15%) Big Data
10 34 (1.83%) Hadoop
11 33 (1.77%) DB2
12 32 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
13 29 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
14 25 (1.34%) Neo4j
15 23 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
16 19 (1.02%) Redis
17 17 (0.91%) Data Lake
18 14 (0.75%) BigQuery
19 13 (0.70%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 165 (8.86%) Jenkins
2 139 (7.47%) Git
3 106 (5.69%) Selenium
4 105 (5.64%) GitLab
5 77 (4.14%) JIRA
6 72 (3.87%) Cucumber
7 70 (3.76%) Cypress.io
8 68 (3.65%) TeamCity
9 61 (3.28%) JUnit
9 61 (3.28%) Maven
10 47 (2.52%) Postman
11 44 (2.36%) SonarQube
12 36 (1.93%) WebDriver
13 33 (1.77%) SoapUI
14 32 (1.72%) JMeter
15 25 (1.34%) Team Foundation Server
16 23 (1.24%) Bitbucket
17 22 (1.18%) Mockito
17 22 (1.18%) REST Assured
18 19 (1.02%) Jaeger
General
1 483 (25.94%) Finance
2 398 (21.37%) Social Skills
3 237 (12.73%) Banking
4 160 (8.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 136 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
6 134 (7.20%) Law
7 133 (7.14%) Public Sector
8 112 (6.02%) Front Office
9 108 (5.80%) Retail
10 94 (5.05%) Financial Institution
11 65 (3.49%) Investment Banking
12 56 (3.01%) Back Office
13 47 (2.52%) Games
14 35 (1.88%) Telecoms
15 26 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
16 24 (1.29%) Manufacturing
17 21 (1.13%) Health Technology
18 19 (1.02%) Aerospace
18 19 (1.02%) Billing
19 18 (0.97%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 688 (36.95%) Developer
2 468 (25.13%) Software Engineer
3 447 (24.01%) Senior
4 406 (21.80%) Java Developer
5 264 (14.18%) Java Engineer
6 257 (13.80%) Lead
7 158 (8.49%) Senior Developer
8 155 (8.32%) Java Software Engineer
9 150 (8.06%) Full-Stack Developer
10 139 (7.47%) Senior Software Engineer
11 109 (5.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 109 (5.85%) Senior Java Developer
12 102 (5.48%) Senior Java Engineer
13 95 (5.10%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 94 (5.05%) Architect
15 80 (4.30%) Software Developer
16 77 (4.14%) Lead Software Engineer
17 54 (2.90%) Lead Developer
18 53 (2.85%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 51 (2.74%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 403 (21.64%) Spring
2 356 (19.12%) Spring Boot
3 326 (17.51%) React
4 213 (11.44%) REST
5 195 (10.47%) Kafka
6 189 (10.15%) Node.js
7 178 (9.56%) AngularJS
8 161 (8.65%) .NET
9 137 (7.36%) RESTful
10 108 (5.80%) HTML
11 96 (5.16%) SOAP
12 82 (4.40%) GraphQL
13 73 (3.92%) CSS
14 70 (3.76%) Web Services
15 67 (3.60%) Elastic Stack
15 67 (3.60%) Hibernate
16 52 (2.79%) JSON
16 52 (2.79%) Vue
17 50 (2.69%) Gherkin
18 44 (2.36%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 266 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 173 (9.29%) Distributed Systems
3 78 (4.19%) Product Ownership
4 60 (3.22%) Self-Motivation
5 57 (3.06%) Fixed Income
6 52 (2.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 48 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
8 42 (2.26%) Equities
9 38 (2.04%) Blog
10 34 (1.83%) Public Cloud
11 32 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
12 30 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
12 30 (1.61%) Mobile App
13 28 (1.50%) Data Structures
13 28 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
14 27 (1.45%) Derivative
15 26 (1.40%) Algorithms
16 24 (1.29%) FPGA
16 24 (1.29%) Management Information System
17 19 (1.02%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 198 (10.63%) Linux
2 46 (2.47%) Android
3 43 (2.31%) Unix
4 33 (1.77%) 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
1 711 (38.18%) Agile
2 658 (35.34%) Software Engineering
3 598 (32.12%) CI/CD
4 449 (24.11%) DevOps
5 413 (22.18%) Microservices
6 393 (21.11%) Full-Stack Development
7 320 (17.19%) Test Automation
8 313 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
9 298 (16.00%) Mentoring
10 224 (12.03%) Containerisation
11 209 (11.22%) AI
12 208 (11.17%) Continuous Improvement
13 189 (10.15%) Scrum
14 187 (10.04%) Computer Science
15 176 (9.45%) TDD
16 156 (8.38%) Infrastructure as Code
17 150 (8.06%) Technical Leadership
18 145 (7.79%) Clean Code
19 142 (7.63%) Fintech
20 141 (7.57%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 597 (32.06%) Python
2 425 (22.82%) JavaScript
3 366 (19.66%) SQL
4 286 (15.36%) TypeScript
5 202 (10.85%) C#
6 157 (8.43%) Go
7 129 (6.93%) C++
8 114 (6.12%) Kotlin
9 87 (4.67%) Bash
10 81 (4.35%) C
11 45 (2.42%) Scala
12 43 (2.31%) Groovy
13 33 (1.77%) PHP
13 33 (1.77%) PL/SQL
13 33 (1.77%) Rust
14 20 (1.07%) Apex Code
14 20 (1.07%) Ruby
15 17 (0.91%) R
16 16 (0.86%) PowerShell
17 14 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 283 (15.20%) Security Cleared
2 263 (14.12%) Degree
3 167 (8.97%) SC Cleared
4 115 (6.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 111 (5.96%) DV Cleared
6 85 (4.56%) AWS Certification
7 42 (2.26%) Master's Degree
8 39 (2.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 33 (1.77%) Azure Certification
10 29 (1.56%) ISTQB
11 26 (1.40%) TOGAF Certification
12 24 (1.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 22 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
14 17 (0.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 17 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
14 17 (0.91%) PhD
15 12 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
16 11 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
16 11 (0.59%) CREST Certified
16 11 (0.59%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (6.44%) QA
2 36 (1.93%) Accessibility
3 19 (1.02%) Data Quality
3 19 (1.02%) GDPR
3 19 (1.02%) PCI DSS
4 16 (0.86%) SOC 2
5 12 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.38%) WCAG
8 5 (0.27%) NIST
9 4 (0.21%) EU AI Act
9 4 (0.21%) SLA
10 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.16%) GRC
10 3 (0.16%) NCSC
11 2 (0.11%) ECSS
11 2 (0.11%) MISRA
12 1 (0.054%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.054%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.054%) MiFID
System Software
1 328 (17.62%) Docker
2 14 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (0.70%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.27%) Firmware
5 5 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.16%) 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
1 436 (23.42%) Kubernetes
2 198 (10.63%) Terraform
3 103 (5.53%) Grafana
4 77 (4.14%) Ansible
5 47 (2.52%) Prometheus
6 42 (2.26%) Argo
7 34 (1.83%) HP Fortify
8 22 (1.18%) Kibana
9 19 (1.02%) Kustomize
10 10 (0.54%) Rancher
11 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (0.38%) Puppet
12 6 (0.32%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.32%) yum
13 5 (0.27%) FTK
14 4 (0.21%) logstash
14 4 (0.21%) Nagios
14 4 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
15 3 (0.16%) Control-M
Vendors
1 89 (4.78%) Oracle
2 64 (3.44%) Google
3 61 (3.28%) Microsoft
4 34 (1.83%) MuleSoft
5 32 (1.72%) Salesforce
6 29 (1.56%) IBM
7 23 (1.24%) Atlassian
8 22 (1.18%) SAP
9 21 (1.13%) Splunk
10 20 (1.07%) Databricks
11 19 (1.02%) Informatica
12 16 (0.86%) Talend
13 13 (0.70%) Dell
14 12 (0.64%) Red Hat
15 11 (0.59%) Guidewire
15 11 (0.59%) OpenAI
16 10 (0.54%) Dynatrace
16 10 (0.54%) Foundry
16 10 (0.54%) Solace
17 9 (0.48%) VMware