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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 28 37
Rank change year-on-year -29 +9 -16
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,411 3,041 3,920
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.66% 7.00% 5.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.66% 23.47% 17.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,571 1,430 2,771
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £78,810 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.18% -1.49% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% -0.65% -

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 16,441 12,958 22,525
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.11% 29.83% 29.66%
Number of salaries quoted 11,971 8,708 17,187
10th Percentile £37,750 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,750 £46,250
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 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -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 30 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 30 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 -16 1,061 £85,000 -19.05% 680
North of England -25 678 £68,076 +0.85% 150
North West -36 307 £70,000 - 82
South West -21 248 £60,000 - 89
Yorkshire +41 226 £72,250 +7.04% 36
South East -57 211 £68,750 +5.77% 109
North East +5 145 £53,750 +16.22% 33
Midlands -84 135 £67,500 +12.50% 73
West Midlands -48 112 £67,500 +12.50% 59
East of England -68 54 £51,359 +16.73% 41
East Midlands -77 22 £60,000 +26.32% 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 58 (2.41%) Confluence
2 49 (2.03%) Apache
3 41 (1.70%) Apache Spark
4 30 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.62%) Camunda
5 15 (0.62%) Palantir Foundry
6 13 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 9 (0.37%) JBoss
8 8 (0.33%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
9 5 (0.21%) CMS
9 5 (0.21%) GeoServer
9 5 (0.21%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.17%) CICS
11 3 (0.12%) SAS
11 3 (0.12%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.083%) Documentum
12 2 (0.083%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.66%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.083%) Moqups
6 2 (0.083%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.083%) Windchill
7 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.041%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 15 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.33%) Maximo
3 5 (0.21%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.21%) Temenos T24
4 3 (0.12%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.12%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.083%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.041%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.041%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.041%) Endur
6 1 (0.041%) Findur
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.041%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 993 (41.19%) AWS
2 497 (20.61%) Azure
3 294 (12.19%) GCP
4 198 (8.21%) Serverless
5 154 (6.39%) AWS CloudFormation
6 123 (5.10%) GitHub
7 122 (5.06%) AWS Lambda
8 115 (4.77%) Amazon ECS
9 110 (4.56%) Amazon S3
10 92 (3.82%) SaaS
11 90 (3.73%) Amazon EKS
12 75 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
13 63 (2.61%) AWS Step Functions
14 61 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
15 41 (1.70%) Amazon ECR
16 39 (1.62%) OpenShift
17 36 (1.49%) Apigee
18 35 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 35 (1.45%) Amazon SQS
18 35 (1.45%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 34 (1.41%) HTTP
2 32 (1.33%) Broadband
3 20 (0.83%) TCP/IP
4 17 (0.71%) Network Security
5 13 (0.54%) DMARC
6 8 (0.33%) IPv4
6 8 (0.33%) MQTT
6 8 (0.33%) Software-Defined Networking
7 6 (0.25%) BGP
7 6 (0.25%) DNS
7 6 (0.25%) IPsec
7 6 (0.25%) VPN
8 5 (0.21%) AMQP
8 5 (0.21%) Internet
8 5 (0.21%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.17%) Firewall
10 3 (0.12%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.12%) LAN
10 3 (0.12%) SAN
10 3 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (7.18%) PostgreSQL
2 169 (7.01%) NoSQL
3 124 (5.14%) MongoDB
4 114 (4.73%) Relational Database
5 85 (3.53%) MySQL
6 81 (3.36%) DynamoDB
7 72 (2.99%) SQL Server
8 37 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
9 34 (1.41%) Big Data
10 26 (1.08%) Db2
10 26 (1.08%) Redis
11 25 (1.04%) BigQuery
12 21 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
12 21 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
12 21 (0.87%) Hadoop
13 17 (0.71%) RDBMS
14 15 (0.62%) Metadata
15 14 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
16 13 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
16 13 (0.54%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 241 (10.00%) Git
2 189 (7.84%) Jenkins
3 172 (7.13%) GitLab
4 91 (3.77%) JIRA
5 85 (3.53%) Cucumber
6 80 (3.32%) JUnit
7 73 (3.03%) Maven
8 72 (2.99%) Selenium
9 60 (2.49%) Cypress.io
10 48 (1.99%) SonarQube
11 45 (1.87%) TeamCity
12 40 (1.66%) JMeter
13 39 (1.62%) Postman
14 35 (1.45%) Eclipse
15 34 (1.41%) Mockito
16 32 (1.33%) Bitbucket
16 32 (1.33%) Subversion
17 24 (1.00%) Claude Code
18 22 (0.91%) REST Assured
19 21 (0.87%) Gradle
General
1 641 (26.59%) Finance
2 381 (15.80%) Social Skills
3 232 (9.62%) Public Sector
4 217 (9.00%) Banking
5 175 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
6 121 (5.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 111 (4.60%) Front Office
8 89 (3.69%) Law
9 75 (3.11%) Retail
10 59 (2.45%) Financial Institution
11 42 (1.74%) Investment Banking
12 35 (1.45%) Health Technology
13 32 (1.33%) Back Office
14 28 (1.16%) Marketing
15 25 (1.04%) Manufacturing
16 24 (1.00%) Legal
17 23 (0.95%) Games
18 19 (0.79%) Aerospace
18 19 (0.79%) Tech for Good
19 18 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 856 (35.50%) Developer
2 606 (25.13%) Senior
3 559 (23.19%) Java Developer
4 552 (22.90%) Software Engineer
5 420 (17.42%) Java Engineer
6 342 (14.18%) Lead
7 208 (8.63%) Senior Developer
8 184 (7.63%) Senior Software Engineer
9 164 (6.80%) Java Software Engineer
10 148 (6.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 142 (5.89%) Full-Stack Developer
12 136 (5.64%) Senior Java Developer
13 128 (5.31%) Senior Java Engineer
14 124 (5.14%) Software Developer
15 119 (4.94%) Lead Software Engineer
16 89 (3.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 80 (3.32%) Principal Engineer
18 76 (3.15%) DevOps Engineer
19 74 (3.07%) Architect
20 72 (2.99%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 563 (23.35%) Spring
2 472 (19.58%) Spring Boot
3 283 (11.74%) React
4 264 (10.95%) Kafka
5 232 (9.62%) AngularJS
6 229 (9.50%) REST
7 222 (9.21%) Node.js
8 180 (7.47%) RESTful
9 161 (6.68%) .NET
10 85 (3.53%) Web Services
11 79 (3.28%) CSS
12 72 (2.99%) HTML
13 70 (2.90%) GraphQL
14 65 (2.70%) Vue
15 54 (2.24%) OAuth
16 51 (2.12%) Playwright
17 49 (2.03%) Hibernate
18 48 (1.99%) JSON
19 46 (1.91%) RabbitMQ
19 46 (1.91%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 299 (12.40%) Cloud Native
2 219 (9.08%) Distributed Systems
3 153 (6.35%) Product Ownership
4 108 (4.48%) Public Cloud
5 63 (2.61%) Onboarding
6 56 (2.32%) Fixed Income
7 55 (2.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 55 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
8 52 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
9 41 (1.70%) Data Structures
9 41 (1.70%) Distributed Architecture
10 36 (1.49%) e-Learning
10 36 (1.49%) Mobile App
10 36 (1.49%) Virtual Team
11 33 (1.37%) Equities
12 31 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
13 27 (1.12%) Algorithms
14 22 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
15 21 (0.87%) Social Media
16 20 (0.83%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 215 (8.92%) Linux
2 60 (2.49%) Windows
3 44 (1.82%) Android
4 40 (1.66%) Unix
5 17 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (0.58%) Windows Server
7 13 (0.54%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.21%) CentOS
9 4 (0.17%) Debian
9 4 (0.17%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.17%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.041%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 849 (35.21%) Software Engineering
2 823 (34.14%) Agile
3 788 (32.68%) CI/CD
4 573 (23.77%) Microservices
5 566 (23.48%) DevOps
6 494 (20.49%) Test Automation
7 466 (19.33%) Full-Stack Development
8 423 (17.54%) Mentoring
9 395 (16.38%) Problem-Solving
10 345 (14.31%) AI
11 300 (12.44%) Containerisation
12 277 (11.49%) Infrastructure as Code
13 275 (11.41%) Continuous Improvement
14 252 (10.45%) TDD
15 229 (9.50%) Roadmaps
16 222 (9.21%) Technical Leadership
17 220 (9.12%) Computer Science
18 216 (8.96%) Scrum
19 200 (8.30%) SDLC
20 196 (8.13%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 786 (32.60%) Python
2 461 (19.12%) SQL
3 424 (17.59%) JavaScript
4 260 (10.78%) TypeScript
5 253 (10.49%) C#
6 229 (9.50%) C++
7 145 (6.01%) Go
8 112 (4.65%) Bash
9 106 (4.40%) Kotlin
10 70 (2.90%) Scala
11 67 (2.78%) C
12 59 (2.45%) PHP
13 58 (2.41%) Groovy
14 53 (2.20%) Rust
15 42 (1.74%) Perl
16 35 (1.45%) PowerShell
17 34 (1.41%) Ruby
18 31 (1.29%) PL/SQL
19 20 (0.83%) Shell Script
20 13 (0.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 416 (17.25%) Security Cleared
2 269 (11.16%) Degree
3 242 (10.04%) SC Cleared
4 152 (6.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 145 (6.01%) DV Cleared
6 99 (4.11%) AWS Certification
7 58 (2.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 28 (1.16%) Master's Degree
9 21 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
10 20 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 18 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
11 18 (0.75%) ISTQB
11 18 (0.75%) OSCP
12 14 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
13 12 (0.50%) DBS Check
14 10 (0.41%) CREST Certified
15 9 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
16 8 (0.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 8 (0.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (6.51%) QA
2 71 (2.94%) Accessibility
3 52 (2.16%) Data Quality
4 25 (1.04%) WCAG
5 20 (0.83%) GDPR
6 14 (0.58%) GRC
7 10 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.41%) NIST
8 9 (0.37%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.29%) ISO 20022
9 7 (0.29%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 3 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.12%) PSD2
13 2 (0.083%) Good Clinical Practice
13 2 (0.083%) MiFID
13 2 (0.083%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.083%) UCITS
System Software
1 380 (15.76%) Docker
2 20 (0.83%) Active Directory
2 20 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.46%) vSphere
4 8 (0.33%) Squid
4 8 (0.33%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.25%) Firmware
5 6 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.21%) KVM
6 5 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.083%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 438 (18.17%) Kubernetes
2 276 (11.45%) Terraform
3 111 (4.60%) Ansible
4 92 (3.82%) Grafana
5 35 (1.45%) Prometheus
6 28 (1.16%) Argo
6 28 (1.16%) HP Fortify
6 28 (1.16%) Kibana
7 15 (0.62%) Puppet
8 14 (0.58%) Packer
9 11 (0.46%) Rancher
10 10 (0.41%) logstash
11 8 (0.33%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.25%) Hadoop YARN
12 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
12 6 (0.25%) yum
13 4 (0.17%) Control-M
13 4 (0.17%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (0.12%) Oracle RMAN
14 3 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 98 (4.06%) Oracle
2 96 (3.98%) Microsoft
3 71 (2.94%) Google
4 58 (2.41%) Splunk
5 43 (1.78%) IBM
6 32 (1.33%) SAP
7 25 (1.04%) Red Hat
8 24 (1.00%) Palantir
8 24 (1.00%) VMware
9 23 (0.95%) Dynatrace
10 22 (0.91%) AppDynamics
11 21 (0.87%) Salesforce
12 20 (0.83%) Adobe
12 20 (0.83%) ServiceNow
13 19 (0.79%) Foundry
14 18 (0.75%) OpenAI
15 13 (0.54%) Databricks
15 13 (0.54%) MuleSoft
15 13 (0.54%) SendGrid
16 11 (0.46%) Solace