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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 43 29
Rank change year-on-year -26 -14 -11
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,864 2,270 4,349
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.92% 5.46% 6.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.86% 15.53% 17.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,224 1,483 3,451
10th Percentile £44,288 £42,500 £41,227
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £137,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%

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 11,751 14,613 25,124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.38% 35.12% 35.13%
Number of salaries quoted 8,604 9,506 21,519
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 7 March 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 7 March 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 -6 957 £100,000 -4.76% 295
North of England -8 371 £70,000 +7.69% 173
South East -47 196 £65,000 - 137
Yorkshire +8 188 £70,000 +3.70% 54
South West -20 168 £65,000 -3.70% 71
North West -19 161 £70,000 +7.69% 88
Midlands -33 89 £50,000 +11.11% 46
West Midlands -3 74 £51,844 -5.74% 31
East of England -70 39 £55,000 +10.00% 60
North East -24 22 £53,565 -6.03% 31
East Midlands -48 14 £44,500 +27.14% 15
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 (3.00%) Apache Spark
2 47 (2.52%) Apache
3 39 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (1.39%) Confluence
5 21 (1.13%) JBoss
6 13 (0.70%) OpenStack
6 13 (0.70%) WebSphere
7 9 (0.48%) Anypoint
7 9 (0.48%) IIS
8 7 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 7 (0.38%) SharePoint
9 6 (0.32%) Mule
10 4 (0.21%) Appian
10 4 (0.21%) Camunda
10 4 (0.21%) Moodle
10 4 (0.21%) nginx
11 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.16%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.16%) Liferay
11 3 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 12 (0.64%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.16%) Simulink
5 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.11%) Windchill
6 1 (0.054%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.054%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (0.64%) Maximo
2 8 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.38%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.27%) Shopify
5 2 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.11%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.11%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.054%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.054%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 832 (44.64%) AWS
2 336 (18.03%) Azure
3 229 (12.29%) GCP
4 170 (9.12%) Serverless
5 132 (7.08%) SaaS
6 125 (6.71%) Amazon EKS
7 103 (5.53%) AWS Lambda
8 98 (5.26%) Amazon S3
9 94 (5.04%) Amazon ECS
10 91 (4.88%) GitHub
11 81 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
12 53 (2.84%) AWS Step Functions
13 52 (2.79%) OpenShift
14 43 (2.31%) dbt
15 39 (2.09%) Amazon SQS
16 38 (2.04%) Apigee
17 35 (1.88%) Amazon ECR
18 33 (1.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 33 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
18 33 (1.77%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.04%) Broadband
2 37 (1.98%) TCP/IP
3 17 (0.91%) HTTP
4 11 (0.59%) AMQP
4 11 (0.59%) Internet
4 11 (0.59%) VPN
5 6 (0.32%) BGP
5 6 (0.32%) Firewall
5 6 (0.32%) Multicast
5 6 (0.32%) VLAN
6 5 (0.27%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.21%) SAN
8 3 (0.16%) DNS
8 3 (0.16%) PuTTY
9 2 (0.11%) DHCP
9 2 (0.11%) LAN
9 2 (0.11%) NAS
9 2 (0.11%) SNMP
9 2 (0.11%) SSH
9 2 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (8.85%) PostgreSQL
2 154 (8.26%) NoSQL
3 125 (6.71%) Relational Database
4 73 (3.92%) SQL Server
5 72 (3.86%) MongoDB
6 70 (3.76%) DynamoDB
7 55 (2.95%) MySQL
7 55 (2.95%) RDBMS
8 47 (2.52%) Big Data
9 43 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
10 41 (2.20%) Hadoop
11 38 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
12 32 (1.72%) DB2
13 31 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
14 26 (1.39%) Neo4j
15 24 (1.29%) Amazon Athena
16 20 (1.07%) Data Lake
17 19 (1.02%) Redis
18 18 (0.97%) Oracle Database
19 15 (0.80%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 165 (8.85%) Jenkins
2 137 (7.35%) Git
3 107 (5.74%) Selenium
4 102 (5.47%) GitLab
5 85 (4.56%) JIRA
6 69 (3.70%) Cucumber
7 65 (3.49%) TeamCity
8 64 (3.43%) Cypress.io
9 61 (3.27%) Maven
10 59 (3.17%) JUnit
11 44 (2.36%) Postman
11 44 (2.36%) SonarQube
12 37 (1.98%) WebDriver
13 33 (1.77%) SoapUI
14 28 (1.50%) JMeter
15 27 (1.45%) Bitbucket
16 26 (1.39%) Team Foundation Server
17 21 (1.13%) Mockito
18 19 (1.02%) Jaeger
19 18 (0.97%) Gradle
General
1 487 (26.13%) Finance
2 413 (22.16%) Social Skills
3 244 (13.09%) Banking
4 149 (7.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 136 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
6 133 (7.14%) Law
7 126 (6.76%) Public Sector
8 118 (6.33%) Front Office
9 107 (5.74%) Retail
10 100 (5.36%) Financial Institution
11 71 (3.81%) Investment Banking
12 54 (2.90%) Back Office
13 42 (2.25%) Games
14 36 (1.93%) Telecoms
15 26 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
16 24 (1.29%) Manufacturing
17 23 (1.23%) Aerospace
18 21 (1.13%) Billing
18 21 (1.13%) Health Technology
19 19 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 682 (36.59%) Developer
2 464 (24.89%) Software Engineer
3 435 (23.34%) Senior
4 403 (21.62%) Java Developer
5 263 (14.11%) Java Engineer
6 252 (13.52%) Lead
7 160 (8.58%) Java Software Engineer
8 155 (8.32%) Senior Developer
9 149 (7.99%) Full-Stack Developer
10 130 (6.97%) Senior Software Engineer
11 110 (5.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 110 (5.90%) Senior Java Developer
12 101 (5.42%) Architect
13 98 (5.26%) Senior Java Engineer
14 95 (5.10%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 76 (4.08%) Lead Software Engineer
15 76 (4.08%) Software Developer
16 56 (3.00%) AWS Engineer
17 55 (2.95%) Lead Developer
18 53 (2.84%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 408 (21.89%) Spring
2 362 (19.42%) Spring Boot
3 332 (17.81%) React
4 220 (11.80%) REST
5 215 (11.53%) Kafka
6 186 (9.98%) Node.js
7 174 (9.33%) AngularJS
8 161 (8.64%) .NET
9 137 (7.35%) RESTful
10 113 (6.06%) HTML
11 97 (5.20%) SOAP
12 78 (4.18%) GraphQL
13 75 (4.02%) CSS
14 68 (3.65%) Web Services
15 66 (3.54%) Elastic Stack
16 65 (3.49%) Hibernate
17 51 (2.74%) JSON
17 51 (2.74%) Vue
18 48 (2.58%) Gherkin
19 46 (2.47%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 270 (14.48%) Cloud Native
2 180 (9.66%) Distributed Systems
3 77 (4.13%) Product Ownership
4 58 (3.11%) Fixed Income
5 57 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
6 52 (2.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 49 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
8 44 (2.36%) Equities
9 38 (2.04%) Blog
10 34 (1.82%) Algorithms
10 34 (1.82%) Public Cloud
11 33 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
12 31 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
13 29 (1.56%) Data Structures
13 29 (1.56%) Derivative
13 29 (1.56%) Distributed Architecture
14 25 (1.34%) Management Information System
15 23 (1.23%) FPGA
15 23 (1.23%) Mobile App
16 20 (1.07%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 196 (10.52%) Linux
2 43 (2.31%) Unix
3 39 (2.09%) Android
4 34 (1.82%) Windows
5 13 (0.70%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.38%) CentOS
6 7 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.32%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.27%) Debian
9 3 (0.16%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.054%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 709 (38.04%) Agile
2 656 (35.19%) Software Engineering
3 599 (32.14%) CI/CD
4 452 (24.25%) DevOps
5 427 (22.91%) Microservices
6 393 (21.08%) Full-Stack Development
7 311 (16.68%) Problem-Solving
8 310 (16.63%) Test Automation
9 299 (16.04%) Mentoring
10 218 (11.70%) Containerisation
11 208 (11.16%) Continuous Improvement
12 205 (11.00%) AI
13 198 (10.62%) Computer Science
14 188 (10.09%) Scrum
15 181 (9.71%) TDD
16 151 (8.10%) Infrastructure as Code
16 151 (8.10%) Technical Leadership
17 147 (7.89%) Fintech
18 146 (7.83%) SDLC
19 139 (7.46%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 610 (32.73%) Python
2 435 (23.34%) JavaScript
3 369 (19.80%) SQL
4 298 (15.99%) TypeScript
5 210 (11.27%) C#
6 154 (8.26%) Go
7 130 (6.97%) C++
8 105 (5.63%) Kotlin
9 87 (4.67%) Bash
10 81 (4.35%) C
11 48 (2.58%) Scala
12 42 (2.25%) Groovy
13 34 (1.82%) PL/SQL
14 33 (1.77%) PHP
14 33 (1.77%) Rust
15 19 (1.02%) Apex Code
15 19 (1.02%) R
15 19 (1.02%) Ruby
16 18 (0.97%) PowerShell
17 15 (0.80%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 289 (15.50%) Security Cleared
2 272 (14.59%) Degree
3 174 (9.33%) SC Cleared
4 122 (6.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 108 (5.79%) DV Cleared
6 88 (4.72%) AWS Certification
7 45 (2.41%) Master's Degree
8 43 (2.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 35 (1.88%) Azure Certification
10 30 (1.61%) TOGAF Certification
11 29 (1.56%) ISTQB
12 25 (1.34%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 24 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
14 18 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
14 18 (0.97%) PhD
15 16 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 16 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
16 12 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
17 11 (0.59%) CREST Certified
17 11 (0.59%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (6.38%) QA
2 37 (1.98%) Accessibility
3 21 (1.13%) GDPR
4 19 (1.02%) PCI DSS
5 18 (0.97%) Data Quality
6 16 (0.86%) SOC 2
7 12 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.32%) WCAG
10 5 (0.27%) NIST
11 4 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.21%) EU AI Act
11 4 (0.21%) SLA
12 3 (0.16%) NCSC
12 3 (0.16%) SEPA
13 2 (0.11%) ECSS
13 2 (0.11%) MISRA
14 1 (0.054%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.054%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.054%) MiFID
System Software
1 334 (17.92%) Docker
2 14 (0.75%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
4 5 (0.27%) HDFS
4 5 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.21%) Firmware
5 4 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.11%) KVM
6 2 (0.11%) vSphere
7 1 (0.054%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.054%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.054%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.054%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.054%) Squid
Systems Management
1 437 (23.44%) Kubernetes
2 190 (10.19%) Terraform
3 97 (5.20%) Grafana
4 76 (4.08%) Ansible
5 47 (2.52%) Prometheus
6 42 (2.25%) Argo
7 32 (1.72%) HP Fortify
8 23 (1.23%) Kibana
9 19 (1.02%) Kustomize
10 10 (0.54%) Rancher
11 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (0.38%) Puppet
12 6 (0.32%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.32%) yum
13 5 (0.27%) FTK
13 5 (0.27%) logstash
14 4 (0.21%) Nagios
14 4 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
15 3 (0.16%) Control-M
Vendors
1 97 (5.20%) Oracle
2 69 (3.70%) Google
3 66 (3.54%) Microsoft
4 32 (1.72%) MuleSoft
5 30 (1.61%) Salesforce
6 27 (1.45%) IBM
7 24 (1.29%) Databricks
8 23 (1.23%) Atlassian
9 22 (1.18%) SAP
10 21 (1.13%) Splunk
11 20 (1.07%) Informatica
12 17 (0.91%) Talend
13 13 (0.70%) Dell
13 13 (0.70%) Guidewire
14 12 (0.64%) Red Hat
15 11 (0.59%) Dynatrace
15 11 (0.59%) OpenAI
15 11 (0.59%) Solace
16 9 (0.48%) Workday
17 8 (0.43%) VMware