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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 31 31
Rank change year-on-year -26 0 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,701 2,714 3,763
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.60% 6.28% 5.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.11% 23.49% 18.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,700 1,158 2,340
10th Percentile £43,175 £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% +3.23%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +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 16,765 11,555 20,860
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.13% 26.72% 31.16%
Number of salaries quoted 12,230 7,598 12,802
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £84,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 1,106 £85,000 -19.05% 2,348
North of England -24 762 £69,310 +6.63% 475
North West -33 391 £72,500 +3.57% 287
South West +6 336 £65,000 +8.33% 277
South East -48 229 £67,500 +3.85% 262
Midlands -49 196 £70,000 +16.67% 196
North East +18 190 £55,000 +15.79% 81
Yorkshire +22 181 £75,000 +15.38% 107
West Midlands -25 168 £70,000 +16.67% 142
East of England -82 48 £65,000 +52.94% 79
East Midlands -84 28 £60,000 +3.45% 54
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 61 (2.26%) Confluence
2 58 (2.15%) Apache
3 38 (1.41%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.67%) Camunda
6 17 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 12 (0.44%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
8 8 (0.30%) Tomcat
8 8 (0.30%) WebLogic
9 7 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.22%) CICS
10 6 (0.22%) CMS
11 5 (0.19%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.19%) JBoss
11 5 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.15%) SAS
12 4 (0.15%) SharePoint
12 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.56%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.33%) Simulink
4 7 (0.26%) Moqups
5 5 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.15%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.11%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.074%) PTC Creo
8 2 (0.074%) Windchill
9 1 (0.037%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.037%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.19%) Distributed Ledger
2 5 (0.19%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.11%) Maximo
5 2 (0.074%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.074%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 2 (0.074%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.037%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.037%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.037%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.037%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.037%) Quorum
6 1 (0.037%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.037%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.037%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,074 (39.76%) AWS
2 541 (20.03%) Azure
3 311 (11.51%) GCP
4 197 (7.29%) Serverless
5 176 (6.52%) GitHub
6 158 (5.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 129 (4.78%) AWS Lambda
8 109 (4.04%) SaaS
9 106 (3.92%) Amazon S3
10 105 (3.89%) Amazon EKS
11 100 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
11 100 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
12 88 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
13 54 (2.00%) AWS Step Functions
14 50 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
15 41 (1.52%) Datadog
16 40 (1.48%) OpenShift
17 39 (1.44%) Anthropic Claude
17 39 (1.44%) GitHub Copilot
18 38 (1.41%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 37 (1.37%) HTTP
2 20 (0.74%) TCP/IP
3 17 (0.63%) Network Security
4 15 (0.56%) DMARC
5 13 (0.48%) VPN
6 12 (0.44%) BGP
7 9 (0.33%) DNS
7 9 (0.33%) IPv4
7 9 (0.33%) MQTT
7 9 (0.33%) Software-Defined Networking
7 9 (0.33%) Wireshark
8 8 (0.30%) AMQP
9 7 (0.26%) Firewall
10 6 (0.22%) IPsec
11 5 (0.19%) Broadband
11 5 (0.19%) Ethernet
11 5 (0.19%) Internet
12 4 (0.15%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.15%) RIP
13 3 (0.11%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (6.63%) PostgreSQL
2 166 (6.15%) NoSQL
3 130 (4.81%) MongoDB
3 130 (4.81%) Relational Database
4 74 (2.74%) MySQL
5 65 (2.41%) DynamoDB
6 62 (2.30%) SQL Server
7 49 (1.81%) Big Data
8 35 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
9 28 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
9 28 (1.04%) Redis
10 26 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
11 25 (0.93%) Hadoop
11 25 (0.93%) Power BI
12 24 (0.89%) Data Lake
13 23 (0.85%) Db2
14 22 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
15 21 (0.78%) BigQuery
16 17 (0.63%) Spark SQL
17 16 (0.59%) Flink
Development Applications
1 286 (10.59%) Git
2 211 (7.81%) Jenkins
3 202 (7.48%) GitLab
4 104 (3.85%) JUnit
5 92 (3.41%) Cucumber
6 91 (3.37%) JIRA
7 72 (2.67%) Maven
8 67 (2.48%) TeamCity
9 61 (2.26%) Selenium
10 53 (1.96%) Cypress.io
11 47 (1.74%) Eclipse
12 45 (1.67%) Postman
13 43 (1.59%) Mockito
14 41 (1.52%) Subversion
15 36 (1.33%) Bitbucket
15 36 (1.33%) SonarQube
16 33 (1.22%) JMeter
17 26 (0.96%) Claude Code
18 18 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 18 (0.67%) REST Assured
General
1 680 (25.18%) Finance
2 474 (17.55%) Social Skills
3 282 (10.44%) Banking
4 260 (9.63%) Public Sector
5 186 (6.89%) Analytical Skills
6 145 (5.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 124 (4.59%) Law
8 103 (3.81%) Retail
9 79 (2.92%) Financial Institution
10 71 (2.63%) Front Office
11 41 (1.52%) Back Office
12 40 (1.48%) Legal
13 39 (1.44%) Manufacturing
14 36 (1.33%) Marketing
15 34 (1.26%) Health Technology
16 32 (1.18%) Investment Banking
17 27 (1.00%) Publishing
18 23 (0.85%) Aerospace
18 23 (0.85%) Tech for Good
19 21 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 803 (29.73%) Developer
2 705 (26.10%) Senior
3 626 (23.18%) Software Engineer
4 580 (21.47%) Java Engineer
5 518 (19.18%) Java Developer
6 375 (13.88%) Lead
7 220 (8.15%) Senior Developer
8 208 (7.70%) Senior Java Engineer
9 207 (7.66%) Senior Software Engineer
10 201 (7.44%) Java Software Engineer
11 175 (6.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 136 (5.04%) Senior Java Developer
13 129 (4.78%) Full-Stack Developer
14 119 (4.41%) Software Developer
15 107 (3.96%) Lead Software Engineer
16 95 (3.52%) Principal Engineer
17 85 (3.15%) DevOps Engineer
18 83 (3.07%) Architect
19 81 (3.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
20 79 (2.92%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 630 (23.32%) Spring
2 524 (19.40%) Spring Boot
3 320 (11.85%) Terraform
4 288 (10.66%) Kafka
5 272 (10.07%) React
6 253 (9.37%) REST
7 212 (7.85%) AngularJS
8 200 (7.40%) Node.js
9 197 (7.29%) RESTful
10 170 (6.29%) .NET
11 74 (2.74%) Web Services
12 67 (2.48%) HTML
13 64 (2.37%) CSS
14 61 (2.26%) OAuth
15 58 (2.15%) Hibernate
16 55 (2.04%) Vue
17 51 (1.89%) RabbitMQ
18 42 (1.55%) Middleware
18 42 (1.55%) XML
19 41 (1.52%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 377 (13.96%) Cloud Native
2 269 (9.96%) Distributed Systems
3 165 (6.11%) Product Ownership
4 124 (4.59%) Public Cloud
5 75 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
5 75 (2.78%) Onboarding
6 60 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
7 51 (1.89%) e-Learning
8 47 (1.74%) Data Structures
9 43 (1.59%) Algorithms
9 43 (1.59%) Blog
9 43 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 40 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
11 39 (1.44%) Virtual Team
12 32 (1.18%) Mobile App
13 31 (1.15%) AI Agents
13 31 (1.15%) Equities
14 28 (1.04%) Fixed Income
15 27 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
15 27 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 217 (8.03%) Linux
2 67 (2.48%) Windows
3 40 (1.48%) Android
4 38 (1.41%) Unix
5 28 (1.04%) Apple iOS
6 21 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 14 (0.52%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.30%) CentOS
9 7 (0.26%) Debian
9 7 (0.26%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.15%) VMS
11 3 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.11%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.074%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.037%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,021 (37.80%) Software Engineering
2 912 (33.77%) CI/CD
3 821 (30.40%) Agile
4 657 (24.32%) Microservices
5 601 (22.25%) DevOps
6 549 (20.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 510 (18.88%) Test Automation
8 473 (17.51%) Mentoring
9 458 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
10 422 (15.62%) AI
11 357 (13.22%) Containerisation
12 330 (12.22%) Infrastructure as Code
13 327 (12.11%) Continuous Improvement
14 303 (11.22%) Event-Driven
15 252 (9.33%) Technical Leadership
16 248 (9.18%) Computer Science
17 246 (9.11%) SDLC
18 238 (8.81%) Scrum
19 230 (8.52%) TDD
20 228 (8.44%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 838 (31.03%) Python
2 488 (18.07%) SQL
3 445 (16.48%) JavaScript
4 277 (10.26%) C++
5 268 (9.92%) TypeScript
6 264 (9.77%) C#
7 151 (5.59%) Go
8 114 (4.22%) Bash
9 106 (3.92%) Kotlin
10 80 (2.96%) Scala
11 74 (2.74%) C
12 60 (2.22%) Rust
13 48 (1.78%) PHP
14 45 (1.67%) Perl
15 40 (1.48%) Groovy
16 36 (1.33%) PowerShell
17 33 (1.22%) Ruby
18 29 (1.07%) PL/SQL
19 22 (0.81%) Shell Script
20 20 (0.74%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 497 (18.40%) Security Cleared
2 283 (10.48%) Degree
3 266 (9.85%) SC Cleared
4 173 (6.41%) DV Cleared
5 167 (6.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 104 (3.85%) AWS Certification
7 69 (2.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 31 (1.15%) Master's Degree
9 22 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (0.74%) ISTQB
11 19 (0.70%) OSCP
12 16 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (0.59%) DBS Check
13 13 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.44%) Azure Certification
14 12 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
15 11 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 11 (0.41%) PhD
16 10 (0.37%) CISSP
17 9 (0.33%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (6.29%) QA
2 86 (3.18%) Data Quality
3 80 (2.96%) Accessibility
4 26 (0.96%) GDPR
4 26 (0.96%) WCAG
5 21 (0.78%) NIST
6 16 (0.59%) ISO 20022
6 16 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (0.48%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.33%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.22%) GRC
9 6 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 3 (0.11%) MiFID
11 3 (0.11%) MIL-STD-1553
11 3 (0.11%) PSD2
11 3 (0.11%) UCITS
12 2 (0.074%) Good Clinical Practice
12 2 (0.074%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 443 (16.40%) Docker
2 28 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (0.67%) Active Directory
4 15 (0.56%) VMware NSX
5 14 (0.52%) Firmware
6 13 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
7 11 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.41%) vSphere
8 8 (0.30%) Squid
8 8 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.19%) KVM
11 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.037%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 540 (19.99%) Kubernetes
2 139 (5.15%) Ansible
3 106 (3.92%) Grafana
4 38 (1.41%) Argo
5 37 (1.37%) Prometheus
6 31 (1.15%) Puppet
7 26 (0.96%) Kibana
8 14 (0.52%) HP Fortify
8 14 (0.52%) Rancher
9 12 (0.44%) logstash
9 12 (0.44%) Packer
10 8 (0.30%) yum
10 8 (0.30%) ZABBIX
11 7 (0.26%) vCenter Server
12 6 (0.22%) Hadoop YARN
12 6 (0.22%) Kubeflow
12 6 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.19%) FTK
13 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.19%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 116 (4.29%) Oracle
2 112 (4.15%) Microsoft
3 97 (3.59%) Google
4 67 (2.48%) Splunk
5 45 (1.67%) Red Hat
6 34 (1.26%) IBM
7 31 (1.15%) SAP
7 31 (1.15%) VMware
8 28 (1.04%) Adobe
9 26 (0.96%) Dynatrace
10 23 (0.85%) AppDynamics
11 22 (0.81%) OpenAI
12 18 (0.67%) Databricks
13 17 (0.63%) Palantir
14 16 (0.59%) ServiceNow
15 15 (0.56%) SendGrid
16 14 (0.52%) Salesforce
17 12 (0.44%) Bloomberg
17 12 (0.44%) Foundry
17 12 (0.44%) Solace