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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 30 36
Rank change year-on-year -29 +6 -15
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,448 2,866 3,847
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.55% 6.54% 5.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.66% 23.06% 17.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,569 1,295 2,617
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
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% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £107,750 £135,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +3.23%

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 16,697 12,426 21,636
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.40% 28.35% 29.68%
Number of salaries quoted 12,210 8,299 15,512
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.11% -5.84%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -14 1,051 £85,000 -19.05% 271
North of England -25 686 £68,690 +2.47% 155
North West -34 312 £70,000 - 83
South West -6 279 £60,250 +0.42% 124
South East -58 209 £67,500 +3.85% 104
Yorkshire +36 203 £75,000 +15.38% 37
North East +11 171 £55,000 +22.22% 36
Midlands -65 157 £67,500 +12.50% 61
West Midlands -32 133 £69,305 +14.55% 42
East of England -71 53 £51,359 +16.73% 24
East Midlands -76 24 £60,000 +14.29% 19
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 59 (2.41%) Confluence
2 54 (2.21%) Apache
3 38 (1.55%) Apache Spark
4 22 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (0.78%) Camunda
6 15 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
7 14 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.37%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
10 7 (0.29%) CICS
10 7 (0.29%) JBoss
10 7 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 7 (0.29%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.25%) CMS
12 5 (0.20%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.16%) GeoServer
13 4 (0.16%) SAS
14 3 (0.12%) Documentum
14 3 (0.12%) SharePoint
14 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 20 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.65%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.20%) Moqups
5 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.16%) Simulink
6 2 (0.082%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.082%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.082%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.082%) Windchill
7 1 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.041%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.25%) Maximo
3 5 (0.20%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.20%) Temenos T24
4 4 (0.16%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.12%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.082%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.082%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 1 (0.041%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.041%) Infor SunSystems
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.041%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.041%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.041%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,011 (41.30%) AWS
2 526 (21.49%) Azure
3 292 (11.93%) GCP
4 191 (7.80%) Serverless
5 156 (6.37%) AWS CloudFormation
6 148 (6.05%) GitHub
7 122 (4.98%) AWS Lambda
8 109 (4.45%) Amazon ECS
9 107 (4.37%) Amazon S3
10 101 (4.13%) SaaS
11 84 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
12 82 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
13 79 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
14 61 (2.49%) AWS Step Functions
15 40 (1.63%) Datadog
16 39 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 39 (1.59%) OpenShift
17 35 (1.43%) Azure Service Bus
18 34 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
19 33 (1.35%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 37 (1.51%) HTTP
2 17 (0.69%) Network Security
3 16 (0.65%) Broadband
3 16 (0.65%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.53%) DMARC
5 9 (0.37%) MQTT
5 9 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
6 8 (0.33%) DNS
6 8 (0.33%) IPv4
6 8 (0.33%) VPN
7 6 (0.25%) AMQP
7 6 (0.25%) BGP
7 6 (0.25%) IPsec
7 6 (0.25%) Kerberos
8 5 (0.20%) Ethernet
8 5 (0.20%) Firewall
8 5 (0.20%) Internet
9 4 (0.16%) Wireshark
10 3 (0.12%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.12%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (6.62%) PostgreSQL
2 161 (6.58%) NoSQL
3 122 (4.98%) Relational Database
4 121 (4.94%) MongoDB
5 80 (3.27%) MySQL
6 79 (3.23%) DynamoDB
7 77 (3.15%) SQL Server
8 41 (1.67%) Big Data
9 38 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
10 28 (1.14%) Redis
11 27 (1.10%) Db2
12 25 (1.02%) Hadoop
13 22 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
13 22 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
14 18 (0.74%) BigQuery
15 17 (0.69%) Data Lake
16 16 (0.65%) Power BI
17 15 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
18 14 (0.57%) Flink
19 13 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 277 (11.32%) Git
2 203 (8.29%) Jenkins
3 177 (7.23%) GitLab
4 95 (3.88%) JUnit
5 93 (3.80%) JIRA
6 88 (3.59%) Cucumber
7 73 (2.98%) Selenium
8 72 (2.94%) Maven
9 61 (2.49%) Cypress.io
10 46 (1.88%) SonarQube
11 45 (1.84%) Postman
12 44 (1.80%) Eclipse
13 40 (1.63%) Mockito
13 40 (1.63%) TeamCity
14 39 (1.59%) JMeter
15 36 (1.47%) Subversion
16 35 (1.43%) Bitbucket
17 26 (1.06%) Claude Code
18 22 (0.90%) REST Assured
19 19 (0.78%) Gradle
General
1 662 (27.04%) Finance
2 416 (16.99%) Social Skills
3 250 (10.21%) Public Sector
4 226 (9.23%) Banking
5 173 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
6 123 (5.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 86 (3.51%) Law
8 82 (3.35%) Front Office
9 68 (2.78%) Retail
10 60 (2.45%) Financial Institution
11 38 (1.55%) Investment Banking
12 37 (1.51%) Marketing
13 32 (1.31%) Legal
14 31 (1.27%) Manufacturing
15 30 (1.23%) Health Technology
16 28 (1.14%) Back Office
17 22 (0.90%) Aerospace
18 20 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
19 18 (0.74%) Tech for Good
20 17 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 807 (32.97%) Developer
2 624 (25.49%) Senior
3 561 (22.92%) Software Engineer
4 534 (21.81%) Java Developer
5 427 (17.44%) Java Engineer
6 354 (14.46%) Lead
7 209 (8.54%) Senior Developer
8 199 (8.13%) Senior Software Engineer
9 147 (6.00%) Java Software Engineer
10 141 (5.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 139 (5.68%) Senior Java Engineer
12 132 (5.39%) Full-Stack Developer
12 132 (5.39%) Senior Java Developer
13 121 (4.94%) Software Developer
14 113 (4.62%) Lead Software Engineer
15 85 (3.47%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 83 (3.39%) Principal Engineer
17 80 (3.27%) Architect
18 78 (3.19%) DevOps Engineer
19 71 (2.90%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 576 (23.53%) Spring
2 474 (19.36%) Spring Boot
3 282 (11.52%) Terraform
4 270 (11.03%) React
5 257 (10.50%) Kafka
6 242 (9.89%) REST
7 225 (9.19%) AngularJS
8 211 (8.62%) Node.js
9 194 (7.92%) RESTful
10 168 (6.86%) .NET
11 85 (3.47%) Web Services
12 74 (3.02%) CSS
13 68 (2.78%) HTML
14 60 (2.45%) Vue
15 56 (2.29%) OAuth
15 56 (2.29%) RabbitMQ
16 54 (2.21%) Hibernate
17 51 (2.08%) Playwright
18 47 (1.92%) Jakarta EE
19 43 (1.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 306 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 250 (10.21%) Distributed Systems
3 163 (6.66%) Product Ownership
4 115 (4.70%) Public Cloud
5 76 (3.10%) Onboarding
6 61 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
7 59 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
8 51 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 46 (1.88%) Distributed Architecture
10 42 (1.72%) Virtual Team
11 41 (1.67%) Data Structures
12 39 (1.59%) e-Learning
13 36 (1.47%) Algorithms
14 33 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
15 32 (1.31%) Equities
16 31 (1.27%) Fixed Income
16 31 (1.27%) Mobile App
17 30 (1.23%) AI Agents
18 24 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
19 23 (0.94%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 222 (9.07%) Linux
2 69 (2.82%) Windows
3 40 (1.63%) Unix
4 36 (1.47%) Android
5 20 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (0.74%) Apple iOS
7 17 (0.69%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.25%) CentOS
9 5 (0.20%) Debian
9 5 (0.20%) Kali Linux
9 5 (0.20%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.082%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.082%) VMS
12 1 (0.041%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 875 (35.74%) Software Engineering
2 809 (33.05%) CI/CD
3 794 (32.43%) Agile
4 590 (24.10%) Microservices
5 579 (23.65%) DevOps
6 491 (20.06%) Test Automation
7 455 (18.59%) Full-Stack Development
8 429 (17.52%) Mentoring
9 421 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
10 368 (15.03%) AI
11 317 (12.95%) Containerisation
12 303 (12.38%) Infrastructure as Code
13 290 (11.85%) Continuous Improvement
14 248 (10.13%) Technical Leadership
15 244 (9.97%) Roadmaps
16 239 (9.76%) TDD
17 231 (9.44%) Event-Driven
18 226 (9.23%) Computer Science
19 223 (9.11%) Scrum
20 215 (8.78%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 814 (33.25%) Python
2 454 (18.55%) SQL
3 423 (17.28%) JavaScript
4 260 (10.62%) C#
5 252 (10.29%) TypeScript
6 237 (9.68%) C++
7 129 (5.27%) Go
8 110 (4.49%) Bash
9 108 (4.41%) Kotlin
10 77 (3.15%) C
11 72 (2.94%) Scala
12 60 (2.45%) PHP
13 58 (2.37%) Rust
14 52 (2.12%) Groovy
15 50 (2.04%) Perl
16 40 (1.63%) PowerShell
17 38 (1.55%) Ruby
18 33 (1.35%) PL/SQL
19 19 (0.78%) Shell Script
20 15 (0.61%) R
Qualifications
1 453 (18.50%) Security Cleared
2 278 (11.36%) Degree
3 247 (10.09%) SC Cleared
4 160 (6.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 156 (6.37%) DV Cleared
6 96 (3.92%) AWS Certification
7 58 (2.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 25 (1.02%) Master's Degree
9 20 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (0.78%) ISTQB
10 19 (0.78%) OSCP
11 17 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 17 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
12 13 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (0.49%) DBS Check
14 11 (0.45%) CREST Certified
15 8 (0.33%) Azure Certification
15 8 (0.33%) CCNA
15 8 (0.33%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (6.62%) QA
2 83 (3.39%) Accessibility
3 58 (2.37%) Data Quality
4 29 (1.18%) WCAG
5 22 (0.90%) GDPR
6 15 (0.61%) NIST
7 14 (0.57%) GRC
8 13 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.37%) ISO 20022
10 7 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.25%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 14443
12 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 4 (0.16%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.12%) MiFID
13 3 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
13 3 (0.12%) PSD2
13 3 (0.12%) UCITS
14 2 (0.082%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 409 (16.71%) Docker
2 26 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (0.90%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.49%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.45%) vSphere
6 9 (0.37%) Firmware
7 8 (0.33%) Squid
7 8 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
8 6 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.20%) KVM
10 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.082%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 458 (18.71%) Kubernetes
2 128 (5.23%) Ansible
3 84 (3.43%) Grafana
4 32 (1.31%) Prometheus
5 28 (1.14%) Argo
6 27 (1.10%) Kibana
7 22 (0.90%) HP Fortify
7 22 (0.90%) Puppet
8 12 (0.49%) Packer
9 10 (0.41%) logstash
9 10 (0.41%) Rancher
10 8 (0.33%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.25%) Hadoop YARN
11 6 (0.25%) Kubeflow
11 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.20%) Red Hat Satellite
12 5 (0.20%) yum
13 4 (0.16%) Control-M
13 4 (0.16%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 111 (4.53%) Oracle
2 103 (4.21%) Microsoft
3 79 (3.23%) Google
4 61 (2.49%) Splunk
5 44 (1.80%) IBM
6 36 (1.47%) SAP
7 35 (1.43%) Red Hat
8 30 (1.23%) VMware
9 27 (1.10%) AppDynamics
10 24 (0.98%) Adobe
10 24 (0.98%) Dynatrace
10 24 (0.98%) Palantir
11 21 (0.86%) OpenAI
12 20 (0.82%) ServiceNow
13 17 (0.69%) Salesforce
14 16 (0.65%) Databricks
15 15 (0.61%) Foundry
16 13 (0.53%) SendGrid
17 12 (0.49%) Solace
17 12 (0.49%) Veracode