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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 27 35
Rank change year-on-year -39 +8 -16
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,239 2,814 4,494
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.71% 7.35% 5.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.28% 23.11% 16.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,439 1,375 3,424
10th Percentile £44,150 £41,250 £39,132
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £73,805
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +5.01% -7.74%
75th Percentile £93,750 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £137,913
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 14,651 12,178 27,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.71% 31.81% 31.81%
Number of salaries quoted 10,429 8,281 22,463
10th Percentile £36,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 25 May 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 25 May 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 -6 1,057 £87,500 -16.67% 249
North of England -38 601 £69,305 +0.81% 157
North West -54 249 £70,000 -9.68% 79
Yorkshire +23 246 £72,500 +0.71% 43
South East -36 218 £67,500 +3.85% 107
South West -40 177 £60,250 +0.42% 70
Midlands -98 108 £60,000 +11.76% 38
North East +1 106 £52,500 -7.08% 35
West Midlands -60 90 £58,750 +6.82% 22
East of England -66 51 £55,000 +22.22% 29
East Midlands -91 17 £60,000 +26.32% 16
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 (2.01%) Apache
2 39 (1.74%) Apache Spark
3 37 (1.65%) Confluence
4 30 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (0.71%) JBoss
6 15 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
7 13 (0.58%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.36%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.31%) Jupyter
9 7 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.31%) WebSphere
10 5 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.22%) GeoServer
10 5 (0.22%) IIS
11 4 (0.18%) Anypoint
11 4 (0.18%) Camunda
11 4 (0.18%) CMS
11 4 (0.18%) Moodle
12 3 (0.13%) Appian
12 3 (0.13%) Liferay
Applications
1 13 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.40%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.13%) Windchill
6 2 (0.089%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.045%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.045%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 12 (0.54%) Maximo
2 8 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.13%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.13%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.089%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.045%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.045%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.045%) Endur
5 1 (0.045%) Findur
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.045%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.045%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 924 (41.27%) AWS
2 421 (18.80%) Azure
3 269 (12.01%) GCP
4 192 (8.58%) Serverless
5 139 (6.21%) AWS CloudFormation
6 128 (5.72%) Amazon S3
7 120 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
8 119 (5.31%) SaaS
9 116 (5.18%) Amazon ECS
10 111 (4.96%) Amazon EKS
11 95 (4.24%) GitHub
12 79 (3.53%) AWS Step Functions
13 63 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
14 54 (2.41%) Amazon ECR
14 54 (2.41%) Apigee
15 44 (1.97%) Amazon SQS
16 38 (1.70%) Amazon EC2
17 37 (1.65%) dbt
17 37 (1.65%) OpenShift
18 34 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.23%) Broadband
2 31 (1.38%) HTTP
3 27 (1.21%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.40%) AMQP
5 7 (0.31%) IPv4
5 7 (0.31%) Software-Defined Networking
6 6 (0.27%) Internet
7 4 (0.18%) MQTT
8 3 (0.13%) BGP
8 3 (0.13%) DMARC
8 3 (0.13%) Network Security
8 3 (0.13%) PuTTY
8 3 (0.13%) VLAN
8 3 (0.13%) VPN
9 2 (0.089%) Firewall
9 2 (0.089%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.089%) LAN
9 2 (0.089%) SAN
9 2 (0.089%) WAN
10 1 (0.045%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (8.40%) NoSQL
2 166 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
3 109 (4.87%) Relational Database
4 101 (4.51%) MongoDB
5 100 (4.47%) DynamoDB
6 71 (3.17%) SQL Server
7 69 (3.08%) MySQL
8 44 (1.97%) RDBMS
9 37 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
10 32 (1.43%) Big Data
10 32 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
11 25 (1.12%) DB2
12 24 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
12 24 (1.07%) Hadoop
13 21 (0.94%) BigQuery
14 19 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
14 19 (0.85%) Redis
15 16 (0.71%) Neo4j
16 14 (0.63%) Metadata
16 14 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 190 (8.49%) Jenkins
2 183 (8.17%) Git
3 161 (7.19%) GitLab
4 94 (4.20%) JIRA
5 87 (3.89%) Selenium
6 86 (3.84%) Maven
7 73 (3.26%) Cypress.io
8 72 (3.22%) Cucumber
9 64 (2.86%) SonarQube
10 61 (2.72%) TeamCity
11 60 (2.68%) JUnit
12 46 (2.05%) Postman
13 34 (1.52%) JMeter
14 31 (1.38%) Bitbucket
15 28 (1.25%) Mockito
16 27 (1.21%) SoapUI
16 27 (1.21%) WebDriver
17 26 (1.16%) Gradle
17 26 (1.16%) REST Assured
17 26 (1.16%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 554 (24.74%) Finance
2 365 (16.30%) Social Skills
3 235 (10.50%) Banking
4 199 (8.89%) Public Sector
5 162 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
6 152 (6.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 114 (5.09%) Law
8 113 (5.05%) Front Office
9 95 (4.24%) Retail
10 69 (3.08%) Financial Institution
11 50 (2.23%) Back Office
12 46 (2.05%) Investment Banking
13 31 (1.38%) Games
14 25 (1.12%) Aerospace
14 25 (1.12%) Health Technology
14 25 (1.12%) Telecoms
15 20 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
15 20 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
16 19 (0.85%) Marketing
17 18 (0.80%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 840 (37.52%) Developer
2 563 (25.15%) Senior
3 553 (24.70%) Java Developer
4 516 (23.05%) Software Engineer
5 365 (16.30%) Java Engineer
6 345 (15.41%) Lead
7 224 (10.00%) Senior Developer
8 175 (7.82%) Java Software Engineer
9 165 (7.37%) Senior Software Engineer
10 160 (7.15%) Senior Java Developer
11 157 (7.01%) Full-Stack Developer
12 127 (5.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 111 (4.96%) Lead Software Engineer
14 108 (4.82%) Senior Java Engineer
15 107 (4.78%) Software Developer
16 98 (4.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 80 (3.57%) Architect
18 63 (2.81%) Lead Developer
19 57 (2.55%) Senior Java Software Engineer
20 53 (2.37%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 480 (21.44%) Spring
2 426 (19.03%) Spring Boot
3 303 (13.53%) React
4 236 (10.54%) REST
5 228 (10.18%) AngularJS
6 203 (9.07%) Node.js
7 194 (8.66%) Kafka
8 167 (7.46%) .NET
9 132 (5.90%) RESTful
10 98 (4.38%) HTML
11 84 (3.75%) Web Services
12 83 (3.71%) SOAP
13 76 (3.39%) CSS
14 67 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
15 65 (2.90%) GraphQL
16 64 (2.86%) Vue
17 62 (2.77%) JSON
18 55 (2.46%) Gherkin
19 50 (2.23%) Hibernate
20 47 (2.10%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 249 (11.12%) Cloud Native
2 178 (7.95%) Distributed Systems
3 137 (6.12%) Product Ownership
4 84 (3.75%) Public Cloud
5 50 (2.23%) Fixed Income
6 49 (2.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 45 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
8 41 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
9 40 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
10 36 (1.61%) Distributed Architecture
11 35 (1.56%) Blog
12 34 (1.52%) Equities
13 33 (1.47%) Data Structures
14 32 (1.43%) Mobile App
15 30 (1.34%) e-Learning
16 29 (1.30%) Virtual Team
17 22 (0.98%) Onboarding
18 21 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
19 20 (0.89%) FPGA
19 20 (0.89%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 198 (8.84%) Linux
2 50 (2.23%) Android
3 46 (2.05%) Unix
4 45 (2.01%) Windows
5 14 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.45%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.27%) CentOS
9 5 (0.22%) Debian
9 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.18%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.045%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 803 (35.86%) Agile
2 750 (33.50%) Software Engineering
3 686 (30.64%) CI/CD
4 533 (23.81%) DevOps
5 483 (21.57%) Microservices
6 451 (20.14%) Full-Stack Development
7 411 (18.36%) Test Automation
8 403 (18.00%) Mentoring
9 330 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
10 248 (11.08%) AI
11 245 (10.94%) Containerisation
12 234 (10.45%) Scrum
13 226 (10.09%) Continuous Improvement
14 224 (10.00%) TDD
15 210 (9.38%) Technical Leadership
16 207 (9.25%) Roadmaps
17 205 (9.16%) Infrastructure as Code
18 188 (8.40%) Computer Science
19 180 (8.04%) SDLC
20 164 (7.32%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 660 (29.48%) Python
2 442 (19.74%) SQL
3 428 (19.12%) JavaScript
4 274 (12.24%) TypeScript
5 237 (10.59%) C#
6 167 (7.46%) C++
7 156 (6.97%) Go
8 117 (5.23%) Bash
9 106 (4.73%) Kotlin
10 67 (2.99%) Groovy
11 63 (2.81%) C
12 49 (2.19%) Scala
13 38 (1.70%) Rust
14 35 (1.56%) PHP
14 35 (1.56%) PL/SQL
15 25 (1.12%) PowerShell
16 16 (0.71%) Apex Code
17 15 (0.67%) R
18 13 (0.58%) VBA
19 12 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 344 (15.36%) Security Cleared
2 258 (11.52%) Degree
3 220 (9.83%) SC Cleared
4 128 (5.72%) DV Cleared
5 127 (5.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 98 (4.38%) AWS Certification
7 37 (1.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 31 (1.38%) Master's Degree
9 29 (1.30%) ISTQB
10 25 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (1.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 21 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
12 21 (0.94%) OSCP
13 20 (0.89%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 19 (0.85%) Azure Certification
15 18 (0.80%) DBS Check
16 14 (0.63%) CREST Certified
16 14 (0.63%) PhD
17 13 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
18 12 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (6.52%) QA
2 51 (2.28%) Accessibility
3 37 (1.65%) Data Quality
4 15 (0.67%) PCI DSS
5 14 (0.63%) GRC
6 12 (0.54%) SOC 2
7 10 (0.45%) WCAG
8 9 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 9 (0.40%) GDPR
9 5 (0.22%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 3 (0.13%) NIST
12 2 (0.089%) SLA
13 1 (0.045%) Good Clinical Practice
13 1 (0.045%) MiFID
13 1 (0.045%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 360 (16.08%) Docker
2 12 (0.54%) Active Directory
2 12 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (0.40%) vSphere
4 7 (0.31%) Squid
4 7 (0.31%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.22%) Firmware
6 4 (0.18%) KVM
7 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.089%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.089%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.045%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.045%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.045%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.045%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.045%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.045%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 421 (18.80%) Kubernetes
2 255 (11.39%) Terraform
3 100 (4.47%) Grafana
4 93 (4.15%) Ansible
5 51 (2.28%) Argo
6 48 (2.14%) Prometheus
7 43 (1.92%) HP Fortify
8 27 (1.21%) Kibana
9 18 (0.80%) Kustomize
10 13 (0.58%) Packer
10 13 (0.58%) Rancher
11 12 (0.54%) Puppet
12 9 (0.40%) logstash
13 7 (0.31%) yum
13 7 (0.31%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (0.22%) FTK
16 4 (0.18%) Progress Chef
17 3 (0.13%) AWS Copilot
17 3 (0.13%) Nagios
Vendors
1 93 (4.15%) Oracle
2 85 (3.80%) Microsoft
3 69 (3.08%) Google
4 36 (1.61%) Splunk
5 32 (1.43%) IBM
6 25 (1.12%) Salesforce
7 21 (0.94%) MuleSoft
8 19 (0.85%) Foundry
8 19 (0.85%) Red Hat
9 18 (0.80%) Dynatrace
9 18 (0.80%) Palantir
10 17 (0.76%) AppDynamics
11 16 (0.71%) VMware
12 14 (0.63%) Databricks
13 13 (0.58%) Atlassian
14 12 (0.54%) SAP
14 12 (0.54%) ServiceNow
15 11 (0.49%) Solace
16 10 (0.45%) Adobe
16 10 (0.45%) Talend