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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 27 33
Rank change year-on-year -30 +6 -12
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,350 3,067 4,609
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.68% 7.08% 5.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.70% 23.41% 17.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,540 1,462 3,376
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,313 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £73,805
% change year-on-year -6.67% +1.62% -4.77%

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 15,984 13,103 27,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.25% 30.24% 30.68%
Number of salaries quoted 11,651 8,867 21,262
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £48,663 £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 £100,000
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 16 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 16 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 -11 1,046 £85,000 -19.05% 355
North of England -25 663 £69,305 +2.67% 112
North West -37 296 £70,000 - 64
Yorkshire +33 227 £72,500 +3.57% 29
South West -24 226 £60,000 - 58
South East -49 209 £70,000 +7.69% 109
North East +3 140 £53,750 +19.44% 20
Midlands -87 120 £67,500 +16.38% 60
West Midlands -67 98 £67,500 +12.50% 46
East of England -60 55 £51,359 +16.73% 30
East Midlands -93 21 £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 56 (2.38%) Confluence
2 41 (1.74%) Apache
3 36 (1.53%) Apache Spark
4 26 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
6 11 (0.47%) Camunda
6 11 (0.47%) JBoss
7 10 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
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%) SAS
10 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.085%) Documentum
11 2 (0.085%) Tomcat
Applications
1 18 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.68%) MS Visio
3 10 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.085%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.085%) PTC Creo
5 2 (0.085%) Windchill
6 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.043%) Moqups
6 1 (0.043%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 16 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.43%) Maximo
3 5 (0.21%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.21%) Temenos T24
4 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.043%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.043%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.043%) Endur
6 1 (0.043%) Findur
6 1 (0.043%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.043%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 982 (41.79%) AWS
2 470 (20.00%) Azure
3 290 (12.34%) GCP
4 206 (8.77%) Serverless
5 157 (6.68%) AWS CloudFormation
6 128 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
7 120 (5.11%) Amazon ECS
8 118 (5.02%) Amazon S3
9 116 (4.94%) GitHub
10 108 (4.60%) SaaS
11 105 (4.47%) Amazon EKS
12 70 (2.98%) AWS Step Functions
13 68 (2.89%) Azure DevOps
14 57 (2.43%) GitHub Actions
15 43 (1.83%) Amazon ECR
16 39 (1.66%) Apigee
17 37 (1.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 37 (1.57%) Amazon SQS
18 36 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
18 36 (1.53%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 38 (1.62%) Broadband
2 33 (1.40%) HTTP
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 (0.26%) DNS
8 6 (0.26%) 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%) Ethernet
11 2 (0.085%) LAN
11 2 (0.085%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (7.70%) NoSQL
2 176 (7.49%) PostgreSQL
3 119 (5.06%) MongoDB
4 102 (4.34%) Relational Database
5 87 (3.70%) DynamoDB
6 80 (3.40%) MySQL
7 71 (3.02%) SQL Server
8 40 (1.70%) Amazon Athena
9 31 (1.32%) Big Data
10 28 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
11 27 (1.15%) Db2
12 25 (1.06%) BigQuery
12 25 (1.06%) RDBMS
13 24 (1.02%) Redis
14 19 (0.81%) Hadoop
15 18 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
15 18 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
16 15 (0.64%) Metadata
17 12 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
17 12 (0.51%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 228 (9.70%) Git
2 178 (7.57%) Jenkins
3 173 (7.36%) GitLab
4 88 (3.74%) JIRA
5 85 (3.62%) Cucumber
6 70 (2.98%) Maven
7 69 (2.94%) JUnit
8 64 (2.72%) Selenium
9 61 (2.60%) Cypress.io
10 54 (2.30%) TeamCity
11 51 (2.17%) SonarQube
12 38 (1.62%) JMeter
13 34 (1.45%) Postman
14 29 (1.23%) Bitbucket
14 29 (1.23%) Mockito
14 29 (1.23%) Subversion
15 28 (1.19%) Eclipse
16 23 (0.98%) Claude Code
17 22 (0.94%) Gradle
18 21 (0.89%) REST Assured
General
1 606 (25.79%) Finance
2 351 (14.94%) Social Skills
3 228 (9.70%) Public Sector
4 216 (9.19%) Banking
5 167 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
6 137 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 105 (4.47%) Front Office
8 99 (4.21%) Law
9 91 (3.87%) Retail
10 68 (2.89%) Financial Institution
11 45 (1.91%) Back Office
12 38 (1.62%) Investment Banking
13 32 (1.36%) Health Technology
14 27 (1.15%) Games
15 23 (0.98%) Manufacturing
16 21 (0.89%) Marketing
17 20 (0.85%) Legal
18 19 (0.81%) Aerospace
19 18 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
20 17 (0.72%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 852 (36.26%) Developer
2 582 (24.77%) Senior
3 561 (23.87%) Java Developer
4 542 (23.06%) Software Engineer
5 407 (17.32%) Java Engineer
6 337 (14.34%) Lead
7 203 (8.64%) Senior Developer
8 179 (7.62%) Senior Software Engineer
9 175 (7.45%) Java Software Engineer
10 141 (6.00%) Full-Stack Developer
11 140 (5.96%) Senior Java Developer
12 139 (5.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 124 (5.28%) Senior Java Engineer
14 123 (5.23%) Software Developer
15 115 (4.89%) Lead Software Engineer
16 90 (3.83%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 77 (3.28%) Architect
18 74 (3.15%) Consultant
19 68 (2.89%) DevOps Engineer
19 68 (2.89%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 533 (22.68%) Spring
2 453 (19.28%) Spring Boot
3 278 (11.83%) React
4 236 (10.04%) Kafka
5 234 (9.96%) AngularJS
6 228 (9.70%) Node.js
7 222 (9.45%) REST
8 165 (7.02%) RESTful
9 153 (6.51%) .NET
10 84 (3.57%) Web Services
11 74 (3.15%) CSS
12 69 (2.94%) Vue
13 66 (2.81%) GraphQL
13 66 (2.81%) HTML
14 51 (2.17%) SOAP
15 50 (2.13%) OAuth
16 48 (2.04%) Hibernate
17 47 (2.00%) Playwright
18 46 (1.96%) JSON
19 45 (1.91%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 290 (12.34%) Cloud Native
2 196 (8.34%) Distributed Systems
3 148 (6.30%) Product Ownership
4 104 (4.43%) Public Cloud
5 55 (2.34%) Onboarding
6 53 (2.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 51 (2.17%) Fixed Income
8 50 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
9 43 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
10 41 (1.74%) Data Structures
11 38 (1.62%) Distributed Architecture
12 35 (1.49%) e-Learning
13 34 (1.45%) Virtual Team
14 33 (1.40%) Mobile App
15 32 (1.36%) Blog
16 30 (1.28%) Equities
17 29 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
18 24 (1.02%) Algorithms
19 20 (0.85%) Social Media
20 18 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 214 (9.11%) Linux
2 56 (2.38%) Windows
3 43 (1.83%) Unix
4 42 (1.79%) Android
5 15 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (0.60%) 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 (0.043%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 814 (34.64%) Software Engineering
2 799 (34.00%) Agile
3 751 (31.96%) CI/CD
4 550 (23.40%) DevOps
5 536 (22.81%) Microservices
6 477 (20.30%) Test Automation
7 452 (19.23%) Full-Stack Development
8 407 (17.32%) Mentoring
9 372 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
10 303 (12.89%) AI
11 276 (11.74%) Containerisation
12 259 (11.02%) Infrastructure as Code
13 248 (10.55%) Continuous Improvement
14 247 (10.51%) TDD
15 222 (9.45%) Roadmaps
16 220 (9.36%) Technical Leadership
17 214 (9.11%) Computer Science
18 203 (8.64%) Scrum
19 183 (7.79%) SDLC
20 171 (7.28%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 754 (32.09%) Python
2 445 (18.94%) SQL
3 416 (17.70%) JavaScript
4 253 (10.77%) TypeScript
5 242 (10.30%) C#
6 218 (9.28%) C++
7 151 (6.43%) Go
8 117 (4.98%) Bash
9 100 (4.26%) Kotlin
10 65 (2.77%) C
11 62 (2.64%) Scala
12 59 (2.51%) Groovy
13 58 (2.47%) Rust
14 57 (2.43%) PHP
15 38 (1.62%) Perl
16 34 (1.45%) PowerShell
17 30 (1.28%) Ruby
18 26 (1.11%) PL/SQL
19 18 (0.77%) Shell Script
20 14 (0.60%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 397 (16.89%) Security Cleared
2 260 (11.06%) Degree
3 232 (9.87%) SC Cleared
4 144 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 137 (5.83%) DV Cleared
6 103 (4.38%) AWS Certification
7 55 (2.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 31 (1.32%) Master's Degree
9 24 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
10 22 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 19 (0.81%) OSCP
12 17 (0.72%) ISTQB
13 15 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
14 13 (0.55%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
15 12 (0.51%) PhD
16 11 (0.47%) CREST Certified
17 9 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
18 8 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (6.64%) QA
2 65 (2.77%) Accessibility
3 44 (1.87%) Data Quality
4 21 (0.89%) GDPR
4 21 (0.89%) WCAG
5 14 (0.60%) GRC
6 13 (0.55%) PCI DSS
7 12 (0.51%) SOC 2
8 9 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.30%) ISO 20022
9 7 (0.30%) NIST
10 6 (0.26%) 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%) PSD2
13 2 (0.085%) Software Quality Assurance
14 1 (0.043%) GxP
14 1 (0.043%) MiFID
System Software
1 365 (15.53%) Docker
2 20 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (0.77%) Active Directory
4 11 (0.47%) vSphere
5 8 (0.34%) Squid
5 8 (0.34%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.26%) Firmware
6 6 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.21%) KVM
8 4 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.085%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.085%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 424 (18.04%) Kubernetes
2 283 (12.04%) Terraform
3 105 (4.47%) Ansible
3 105 (4.47%) Grafana
4 41 (1.74%) Prometheus
5 34 (1.45%) Argo
6 31 (1.32%) HP Fortify
7 28 (1.19%) Kibana
8 14 (0.60%) Packer
8 14 (0.60%) Puppet
9 11 (0.47%) Rancher
10 10 (0.43%) logstash
11 8 (0.34%) ZABBIX
12 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (0.26%) Hadoop YARN
13 6 (0.26%) Kustomize
13 6 (0.26%) yum
14 5 (0.21%) FTK
15 4 (0.17%) Red Hat Satellite
16 3 (0.13%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 92 (3.91%) Oracle
2 91 (3.87%) Microsoft
3 69 (2.94%) Google
4 56 (2.38%) Splunk
5 43 (1.83%) IBM
6 31 (1.32%) SAP
7 25 (1.06%) VMware
8 24 (1.02%) Palantir
9 23 (0.98%) Red Hat
10 22 (0.94%) Dynatrace
10 22 (0.94%) Salesforce
11 21 (0.89%) AppDynamics
12 20 (0.85%) ServiceNow
13 19 (0.81%) Foundry
14 16 (0.68%) Adobe
14 16 (0.68%) OpenAI
15 15 (0.64%) MuleSoft
16 13 (0.55%) SendGrid
17 11 (0.47%) Atlassian
18 10 (0.43%) Solace