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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 32 23
Rank change year-on-year -34 -9 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,688 3,236 3,775
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.59% 5.45% 8.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.18% 16.58% 20.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,094 1,985 2,991
10th Percentile £42,098 £41,294 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,188 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £75,554
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +5.89% +0.74%
75th Percentile £113,750 £113,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £136,250 £142,500 £127,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% +3.45%

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 10,435 19,518 18,771
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 22.20% 32.89% 41.03%
Number of salaries quoted 7,796 11,739 15,559
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025. 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 -7 979 £105,000 +5.00% 301
North of England -8 267 £65,000 +8.33% 85
South East -80 169 £62,500 -2.34% 262
North West -12 126 £67,500 +12.50% 56
Yorkshire +26 119 £67,500 +22.73% 21
South West -43 119 £65,000 +1.96% 111
Midlands +21 109 £60,000 +50.00% 54
West Midlands +33 81 £62,500 +17.72% 35
East of England -74 37 £42,500 -37.04% 40
East Midlands +10 28 £57,500 +64.29% 19
North East -8 24 £55,000 -5.11% 8
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 87 (5.15%) Apache
2 85 (5.04%) Apache Airflow
3 55 (3.26%) Apache Spark
4 37 (2.19%) Confluence
5 16 (0.95%) JBoss
6 9 (0.53%) WebSphere
7 8 (0.47%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.41%) IIS
8 7 (0.41%) nginx
9 6 (0.36%) Anypoint
9 6 (0.36%) Mule
10 5 (0.30%) BizTalk Server
10 5 (0.30%) Camunda
10 5 (0.30%) SharePoint
11 4 (0.24%) Appian
12 3 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
12 3 (0.18%) Luigi
12 3 (0.18%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.18%) Traefik
12 3 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (0.41%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.18%) Simulink
5 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.059%) Trello
6 1 (0.059%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
1 8 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.41%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.30%) Maximo
3 5 (0.30%) Shopify
4 4 (0.24%) Adaptiv
4 4 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.059%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.059%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.059%) Summit
6 1 (0.059%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 826 (48.93%) AWS
2 336 (19.91%) Azure
3 214 (12.68%) GCP
4 143 (8.47%) Serverless
5 103 (6.10%) Amazon EKS
6 93 (5.51%) SaaS
7 92 (5.45%) GitHub
8 81 (4.80%) AWS Lambda
9 74 (4.38%) Amazon ECS
10 73 (4.32%) Amazon S3
10 73 (4.32%) dbt
11 71 (4.21%) Amazon EC2
12 68 (4.03%) Snowflake
13 42 (2.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 40 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
14 40 (2.37%) OpenShift
15 31 (1.84%) Datadog
16 25 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
17 24 (1.42%) Amazon Kinesis
18 23 (1.36%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (2.01%) TCP/IP
2 26 (1.54%) HTTP
3 20 (1.18%) DNS
4 18 (1.07%) Firewall
5 16 (0.95%) SSH
6 14 (0.83%) FTP
6 14 (0.83%) SMTP
7 11 (0.65%) AMQP
7 11 (0.65%) VPN
8 10 (0.59%) Internet
9 9 (0.53%) Multicast
10 8 (0.47%) SAN
11 5 (0.30%) DHCP
12 4 (0.24%) Broadband
12 4 (0.24%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.24%) LAN
12 4 (0.24%) WAN
13 3 (0.18%) BGP
13 3 (0.18%) ICMP
13 3 (0.18%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (9.48%) PostgreSQL
2 150 (8.89%) Relational Database
3 109 (6.46%) NoSQL
4 96 (5.69%) SQL Server
5 80 (4.74%) Data Lake
6 79 (4.68%) MongoDB
7 71 (4.21%) MySQL
8 62 (3.67%) Amazon Athena
8 62 (3.67%) Apache Iceberg
9 59 (3.50%) Apache Arrow
9 59 (3.50%) Dremio
10 56 (3.32%) Apache Ignite
11 55 (3.26%) Big Data
11 55 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
12 51 (3.02%) Amazon RDS
13 44 (2.61%) RDBMS
14 43 (2.55%) DynamoDB
15 41 (2.43%) Hadoop
16 31 (1.84%) BigQuery
17 25 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 181 (10.72%) Jenkins
2 143 (8.47%) Git
3 100 (5.92%) Selenium
4 91 (5.39%) JIRA
5 77 (4.56%) GitLab
6 73 (4.32%) JUnit
7 56 (3.32%) Cucumber
8 46 (2.73%) Cypress.io
9 41 (2.43%) Postman
10 40 (2.37%) JMeter
11 36 (2.13%) Maven
12 35 (2.07%) Mockito
13 34 (2.01%) TeamCity
14 33 (1.95%) Bitbucket
14 33 (1.95%) WebDriver
15 27 (1.60%) SoapUI
16 26 (1.54%) SonarQube
17 20 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
18 18 (1.07%) Team Foundation Server
19 16 (0.95%) REST Assured
General
1 660 (39.10%) Finance
2 473 (28.02%) Social Skills
3 346 (20.50%) Banking
4 230 (13.63%) Law
5 201 (11.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 176 (10.43%) Front Office
7 157 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
8 139 (8.23%) Investment Banking
9 107 (6.34%) Public Sector
10 104 (6.16%) Financial Institution
11 65 (3.85%) Marketing
12 51 (3.02%) Retail
13 34 (2.01%) Back Office
14 31 (1.84%) Games
15 28 (1.66%) Legal
16 19 (1.13%) Billing
16 19 (1.13%) Manufacturing
16 19 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
17 17 (1.01%) Aerospace
18 16 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 577 (34.18%) Developer
2 479 (28.38%) Software Engineer
3 407 (24.11%) Senior
4 271 (16.05%) Java Developer
5 265 (15.70%) Lead
6 260 (15.40%) Java Engineer
7 185 (10.96%) Java Software Engineer
8 156 (9.24%) Senior Software Engineer
9 113 (6.69%) Lead Software Engineer
10 111 (6.58%) Senior Java Engineer
11 110 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
12 103 (6.10%) Full-Stack Developer
13 100 (5.92%) Architect
14 99 (5.86%) Senior Developer
15 89 (5.27%) Python Engineer
16 81 (4.80%) Python Software Engineer
16 81 (4.80%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 72 (4.27%) AWS Software Engineer
18 65 (3.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 61 (3.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 370 (21.92%) Spring
2 321 (19.02%) React
3 287 (17.00%) Spring Boot
4 250 (14.81%) Kafka
5 170 (10.07%) REST
6 166 (9.83%) RESTful
7 163 (9.66%) .NET
8 152 (9.00%) Node.js
9 125 (7.41%) HTML
10 122 (7.23%) AngularJS
11 101 (5.98%) CSS
12 81 (4.80%) Hibernate
13 73 (4.32%) Pandas
14 66 (3.91%) SOAP
15 65 (3.85%) gRPC
15 65 (3.85%) Web Services
16 60 (3.55%) GraphQL
17 59 (3.50%) NumPy
17 59 (3.50%) SciPy
18 56 (3.32%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 305 (18.07%) Cloud Native
2 195 (11.55%) Distributed Systems
3 117 (6.93%) Equities
4 109 (6.46%) Fixed Income
5 107 (6.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 96 (5.69%) Derivative
7 79 (4.68%) Algorithms
8 69 (4.09%) Hedge funds
9 67 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
10 60 (3.55%) Product Ownership
11 58 (3.44%) Onboarding
12 56 (3.32%) Public Cloud
13 55 (3.26%) Pricing Data
14 49 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
15 41 (2.43%) Management Information System
16 36 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
17 35 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
18 32 (1.90%) Data Structures
19 28 (1.66%) Mobile App
19 28 (1.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 195 (11.55%) Linux
2 43 (2.55%) Windows
3 25 (1.48%) Android
4 24 (1.42%) Unix
5 14 (0.83%) VMS
6 13 (0.77%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.71%) Amazon Linux
8 7 (0.41%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.24%) CentOS
10 3 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.12%) Debian
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.059%) AIX
12 1 (0.059%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.059%) SUSE
12 1 (0.059%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 765 (45.32%) Agile
2 639 (37.86%) Software Engineering
3 562 (33.29%) CI/CD
4 402 (23.82%) Microservices
5 363 (21.50%) Problem-Solving
6 358 (21.21%) DevOps
7 260 (15.40%) Full-Stack Development
8 259 (15.34%) Computer Science
9 254 (15.05%) Test Automation
10 251 (14.87%) Continuous Improvement
10 251 (14.87%) Mentoring
11 235 (13.92%) SDLC
12 179 (10.60%) AI
13 167 (9.89%) TDD
14 166 (9.83%) Containerisation
15 165 (9.77%) Scrum
16 161 (9.54%) Fintech
17 138 (8.18%) Machine Learning
18 135 (8.00%) Clean Code
19 124 (7.35%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 693 (41.05%) Python
2 417 (24.70%) JavaScript
3 369 (21.86%) SQL
4 299 (17.71%) TypeScript
5 245 (14.51%) C#
6 164 (9.72%) C++
7 139 (8.23%) Go
8 116 (6.87%) Kotlin
9 94 (5.57%) C
10 72 (4.27%) Scala
11 51 (3.02%) PHP
12 40 (2.37%) Groovy
13 39 (2.31%) Shell Script
14 38 (2.25%) Bash
15 37 (2.19%) PowerShell
16 35 (2.07%) PL/SQL
17 26 (1.54%) Perl
17 26 (1.54%) Rust
18 23 (1.36%) Ruby
19 18 (1.07%) R
Qualifications
1 301 (17.83%) Degree
2 209 (12.38%) Security Cleared
3 147 (8.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 131 (7.76%) SC Cleared
5 81 (4.80%) AWS Certification
6 69 (4.09%) Master's Degree
7 62 (3.67%) DV Cleared
8 45 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 38 (2.25%) Azure Certification
10 31 (1.84%) PhD
11 24 (1.42%) ISTQB
12 21 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
13 19 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
13 19 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
14 18 (1.07%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 12 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
16 9 (0.53%) HND
17 6 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
17 6 (0.36%) PMI Certification
17 6 (0.36%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (5.92%) QA
2 46 (2.73%) Accessibility
3 28 (1.66%) GDPR
4 17 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (0.65%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.65%) PCI DSS
6 10 (0.59%) ISO 9001
7 9 (0.53%) NIST
8 8 (0.47%) SLA
9 7 (0.41%) HIPAA
10 6 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.24%) EU AI Act
11 4 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.24%) SEPA
11 4 (0.24%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.24%) WCAG
12 3 (0.18%) NCSC
13 2 (0.12%) ITGC
13 2 (0.12%) PSD2
System Software
1 286 (16.94%) Docker
2 25 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
5 11 (0.65%) HDFS
6 5 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.24%) DFS Replication
7 4 (0.24%) vSphere
8 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
8 2 (0.12%) Firmware
8 2 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.059%) KVM
9 1 (0.059%) Squid
Systems Management
1 426 (25.24%) Kubernetes
2 128 (7.58%) Terraform
3 70 (4.15%) Grafana
4 52 (3.08%) Ansible
5 39 (2.31%) Kibana
6 38 (2.25%) Prometheus
7 23 (1.36%) Argo
8 12 (0.71%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.47%) Control-M
11 7 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
11 7 (0.41%) HP Fortify
12 5 (0.30%) logstash
12 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.24%) Nagios
13 4 (0.24%) Puppet
14 3 (0.18%) HAProxy
14 3 (0.18%) Rancher
15 2 (0.12%) Kustomize
15 2 (0.12%) Oozie
Vendors
1 120 (7.11%) Oracle
2 89 (5.27%) Microsoft
3 77 (4.56%) Google
4 37 (2.19%) Guidewire
5 34 (2.01%) Splunk
6 29 (1.72%) Atlassian
7 26 (1.54%) Databricks
7 26 (1.54%) Dynatrace
8 24 (1.42%) MuleSoft
9 23 (1.36%) SAP
10 18 (1.07%) IBM
10 18 (1.07%) Informatica
11 17 (1.01%) ServiceNow
12 14 (0.83%) Dell
12 14 (0.83%) Talend
13 13 (0.77%) Red Hat
14 11 (0.65%) Adobe
14 11 (0.65%) Salesforce
14 11 (0.65%) Solace
15 10 (0.59%) Foundry