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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 44 34
Rank change year-on-year -25 -10 -16
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,026 2,042 4,348
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.75% 5.59% 5.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.33% 16.50% 16.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,304 1,502 3,359
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,300 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -9.38%
75th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £125,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -9.68%

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 13,213 12,373 26,702
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.94% 33.86% 33.23%
Number of salaries quoted 9,430 9,346 22,473
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,529
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,683 £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 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £63,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.31% +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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -4 1,017 £90,000 -14.29% 325
North of England -20 450 £67,788 +4.29% 197
Yorkshire +6 209 £72,500 +3.57% 61
South East -51 207 £67,500 +3.85% 136
North West -24 189 £70,000 +4.42% 97
South West -19 175 £65,000 +4.00% 78
Midlands -64 96 £55,000 +15.79% 48
West Midlands -25 78 £55,000 +2.44% 22
North East -13 52 £53,750 -3.59% 39
East of England -83 44 £50,000 -2.91% 39
East Midlands -76 17 £44,500 -1.11% 26
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 45 (2.22%) Apache
2 41 (2.02%) Apache Spark
3 35 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (1.53%) Confluence
5 22 (1.09%) JBoss
6 15 (0.74%) OpenStack
7 13 (0.64%) WebSphere
8 12 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
9 9 (0.44%) Anypoint
10 6 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.25%) Appian
11 5 (0.25%) Camunda
11 5 (0.25%) GeoServer
11 5 (0.25%) IIS
12 4 (0.20%) Moodle
12 4 (0.20%) nginx
12 4 (0.20%) SharePoint
13 3 (0.15%) CICS
13 3 (0.15%) Liferay
14 2 (0.099%) CMS
Applications
1 12 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (0.54%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.099%) Windchill
6 1 (0.049%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.049%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 15 (0.74%) Maximo
2 7 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.25%) Shopify
4 3 (0.15%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.15%) SAP SD
4 3 (0.15%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.099%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.099%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.049%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.049%) Endur
6 1 (0.049%) Findur
6 1 (0.049%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.049%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.049%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.049%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.049%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.049%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.049%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.049%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 880 (43.44%) AWS
2 372 (18.36%) Azure
3 251 (12.39%) GCP
4 180 (8.88%) Serverless
5 136 (6.71%) SaaS
6 128 (6.32%) Amazon EKS
7 114 (5.63%) Amazon S3
7 114 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
8 109 (5.38%) AWS CloudFormation
9 108 (5.33%) Amazon ECS
10 93 (4.59%) GitHub
11 65 (3.21%) AWS Step Functions
12 48 (2.37%) OpenShift
13 47 (2.32%) Apigee
13 47 (2.32%) dbt
14 46 (2.27%) Amazon ECR
15 44 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
16 35 (1.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 35 (1.73%) Amazon EC2
17 31 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 49 (2.42%) Broadband
2 34 (1.68%) TCP/IP
3 25 (1.23%) HTTP
4 10 (0.49%) AMQP
5 9 (0.44%) Internet
6 6 (0.30%) BGP
6 6 (0.30%) Multicast
6 6 (0.30%) VLAN
6 6 (0.30%) VPN
7 3 (0.15%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.15%) Network Security
7 3 (0.15%) PuTTY
7 3 (0.15%) SAN
8 2 (0.099%) DHCP
8 2 (0.099%) DNS
8 2 (0.099%) Firewall
8 2 (0.099%) LAN
8 2 (0.099%) NAS
8 2 (0.099%) SNMP
8 2 (0.099%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (8.19%) NoSQL
2 154 (7.60%) PostgreSQL
3 125 (6.17%) Relational Database
4 85 (4.20%) DynamoDB
5 80 (3.95%) SQL Server
6 65 (3.21%) MySQL
7 63 (3.11%) MongoDB
8 49 (2.42%) RDBMS
9 39 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
10 34 (1.68%) Big Data
10 34 (1.68%) DB2
11 31 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
12 30 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
12 30 (1.48%) Hadoop
13 26 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
14 24 (1.18%) Neo4j
15 21 (1.04%) Redis
16 15 (0.74%) Flink
17 14 (0.69%) BigQuery
18 12 (0.59%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 171 (8.44%) Jenkins
2 160 (7.90%) Git
3 114 (5.63%) GitLab
4 108 (5.33%) Selenium
5 87 (4.29%) JIRA
6 85 (4.20%) Cucumber
7 71 (3.50%) Cypress.io
8 69 (3.41%) Maven
8 69 (3.41%) TeamCity
9 59 (2.91%) SonarQube
10 54 (2.67%) JUnit
11 47 (2.32%) Postman
12 33 (1.63%) JMeter
13 30 (1.48%) SoapUI
14 29 (1.43%) WebDriver
15 25 (1.23%) Bitbucket
16 24 (1.18%) REST Assured
16 24 (1.18%) Team Foundation Server
17 23 (1.14%) Gradle
18 19 (0.94%) Jaeger
General
1 526 (25.96%) Finance
2 385 (19.00%) Social Skills
3 253 (12.49%) Banking
4 169 (8.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 160 (7.90%) Analytical Skills
6 147 (7.26%) Public Sector
7 133 (6.56%) Law
8 115 (5.68%) Front Office
9 110 (5.43%) Retail
10 89 (4.39%) Financial Institution
11 61 (3.01%) Back Office
12 60 (2.96%) Investment Banking
13 38 (1.88%) Games
14 31 (1.53%) Telecoms
15 26 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
16 22 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
17 20 (0.99%) Health Technology
18 19 (0.94%) Aerospace
18 19 (0.94%) Manufacturing
19 18 (0.89%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 752 (37.12%) Developer
2 514 (25.37%) Software Engineer
3 508 (25.07%) Senior
4 464 (22.90%) Java Developer
5 305 (15.05%) Java Engineer
6 276 (13.62%) Lead
7 190 (9.38%) Senior Developer
8 171 (8.44%) Java Software Engineer
9 152 (7.50%) Senior Software Engineer
10 145 (7.16%) Full-Stack Developer
11 127 (6.27%) Senior Java Developer
12 117 (5.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 107 (5.28%) Senior Java Engineer
14 102 (5.03%) Software Developer
15 94 (4.64%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 89 (4.39%) Architect
17 85 (4.20%) Lead Software Engineer
18 57 (2.81%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 53 (2.62%) AWS Engineer
20 52 (2.57%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 418 (20.63%) Spring
2 374 (18.46%) Spring Boot
3 328 (16.19%) React
4 226 (11.15%) REST
5 200 (9.87%) AngularJS
6 190 (9.38%) Node.js
7 184 (9.08%) Kafka
8 168 (8.29%) .NET
9 128 (6.32%) RESTful
10 106 (5.23%) HTML
11 92 (4.54%) SOAP
12 86 (4.24%) Web Services
13 84 (4.15%) CSS
14 78 (3.85%) GraphQL
15 76 (3.75%) Elastic Stack
16 59 (2.91%) Hibernate
17 58 (2.86%) Gherkin
17 58 (2.86%) JSON
18 55 (2.71%) Vue
19 46 (2.27%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 256 (12.64%) Cloud Native
2 176 (8.69%) Distributed Systems
3 97 (4.79%) Product Ownership
4 57 (2.81%) Fixed Income
5 54 (2.67%) Public Cloud
6 53 (2.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 52 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
8 48 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
9 40 (1.97%) Equities
10 38 (1.88%) Blog
11 35 (1.73%) Distributed Architecture
12 34 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
13 31 (1.53%) Mobile App
14 30 (1.48%) Data Structures
14 30 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
15 27 (1.33%) Derivative
16 25 (1.23%) Virtual Team
17 24 (1.18%) FPGA
17 24 (1.18%) Management Information System
18 22 (1.09%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 193 (9.53%) Linux
2 46 (2.27%) Android
3 40 (1.97%) Unix
4 33 (1.63%) Windows
5 13 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.35%) CentOS
8 6 (0.30%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.25%) Debian
9 5 (0.25%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.20%) Windows Server
11 2 (0.099%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.099%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.049%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 748 (36.92%) Agile
2 711 (35.09%) Software Engineering
3 619 (30.55%) CI/CD
4 469 (23.15%) DevOps
5 412 (20.34%) Microservices
6 406 (20.04%) Full-Stack Development
7 353 (17.42%) Test Automation
8 333 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
9 328 (16.19%) Mentoring
10 229 (11.30%) Containerisation
11 227 (11.20%) AI
12 220 (10.86%) Continuous Improvement
13 198 (9.77%) Computer Science
14 195 (9.62%) Scrum
15 183 (9.03%) TDD
16 182 (8.98%) Roadmaps
17 176 (8.69%) Infrastructure as Code
17 176 (8.69%) Technical Leadership
18 165 (8.14%) SDLC
19 162 (8.00%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 628 (31.00%) Python
2 427 (21.08%) JavaScript
3 395 (19.50%) SQL
4 287 (14.17%) TypeScript
5 215 (10.61%) C#
6 156 (7.70%) Go
7 144 (7.11%) C++
8 116 (5.73%) Kotlin
9 98 (4.84%) Bash
10 82 (4.05%) C
11 54 (2.67%) Groovy
12 43 (2.12%) Scala
13 41 (2.02%) PHP
14 36 (1.78%) PL/SQL
15 29 (1.43%) Rust
16 20 (0.99%) Apex Code
16 20 (0.99%) Ruby
17 18 (0.89%) PowerShell
18 16 (0.79%) R
19 14 (0.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 308 (15.20%) Security Cleared
2 272 (13.43%) Degree
3 195 (9.62%) SC Cleared
4 130 (6.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 116 (5.73%) DV Cleared
6 92 (4.54%) AWS Certification
7 38 (1.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 38 (1.88%) Master's Degree
8 31 (1.53%) Azure Certification
9 27 (1.33%) ISTQB
10 24 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
11 23 (1.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 20 (0.99%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 20 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
13 19 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
14 16 (0.79%) OSCP
15 15 (0.74%) CREST Certified
15 15 (0.74%) PhD
16 13 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
17 12 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (6.37%) QA
2 41 (2.02%) Accessibility
3 21 (1.04%) Data Quality
4 18 (0.89%) GDPR
4 18 (0.89%) PCI DSS
5 15 (0.74%) SOC 2
6 13 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
7 12 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.49%) GRC
9 8 (0.39%) WCAG
10 4 (0.20%) EU AI Act
10 4 (0.20%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.20%) NIST
10 4 (0.20%) SLA
11 2 (0.099%) ECSS
11 2 (0.099%) MISRA
12 1 (0.049%) MiFID
12 1 (0.049%) NCSC
12 1 (0.049%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 339 (16.73%) Docker
2 8 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.35%) Firmware
3 7 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.30%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.20%) KVM
7 3 (0.15%) HDFS
8 2 (0.099%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.099%) vSphere
9 1 (0.049%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.049%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.049%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.049%) Squid
9 1 (0.049%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 428 (21.13%) Kubernetes
2 226 (11.15%) Terraform
3 107 (5.28%) Grafana
4 81 (4.00%) Ansible
5 45 (2.22%) Prometheus
6 42 (2.07%) HP Fortify
7 41 (2.02%) Argo
8 23 (1.14%) Kibana
9 19 (0.94%) Kustomize
10 10 (0.49%) Rancher
11 7 (0.35%) Packer
11 7 (0.35%) Puppet
12 6 (0.30%) logstash
12 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
12 6 (0.30%) yum
13 5 (0.25%) FTK
14 4 (0.20%) Nagios
15 3 (0.15%) AWS Copilot
15 3 (0.15%) Progress Chef
15 3 (0.15%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 87 (4.29%) Oracle
2 70 (3.46%) Microsoft
3 62 (3.06%) Google
4 40 (1.97%) IBM
5 33 (1.63%) MuleSoft
6 32 (1.58%) Salesforce
7 21 (1.04%) SAP
8 18 (0.89%) Informatica
8 18 (0.89%) Splunk
9 17 (0.84%) Atlassian
9 17 (0.84%) Databricks
10 16 (0.79%) Foundry
11 15 (0.74%) Talend
12 13 (0.64%) Red Hat
13 12 (0.59%) AppDynamics
13 12 (0.59%) Palantir
14 11 (0.54%) OpenAI
15 10 (0.49%) VMware
16 9 (0.44%) Dell
16 9 (0.44%) Dynatrace