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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 46 29
Rank change year-on-year -22 -17 -12
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,819 2,235 4,320
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.93% 5.37% 6.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.97% 15.50% 17.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,195 1,424 3,419
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £40,800
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £76,750 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.28% +5.86% -6.45%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £125,300 £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 11,389 14,419 24,649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.37% 34.61% 35.51%
Number of salaries quoted 8,361 9,108 21,105
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £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 2 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 2 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 -7 942 £100,000 -4.76% 301
North of England -11 347 £67,500 +3.85% 225
South East -54 195 £65,000 - 226
Yorkshire +14 181 £70,000 +3.70% 87
South West -22 165 £65,000 -3.70% 131
North West -15 145 £67,500 +3.85% 104
Midlands -35 90 £50,000 +11.11% 86
West Midlands 0 74 £50,000 -7.99% 46
East of England -85 36 £57,500 +15.00% 84
North East -20 21 £55,000 -3.51% 34
East Midlands -53 15 £44,500 +27.14% 38
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 57 (3.13%) Apache Spark
2 48 (2.64%) Apache
3 40 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
4 27 (1.48%) Confluence
5 22 (1.21%) JBoss
6 13 (0.71%) OpenStack
6 13 (0.71%) WebSphere
7 10 (0.55%) IIS
8 9 (0.49%) Anypoint
9 7 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.38%) SharePoint
10 6 (0.33%) Mule
11 4 (0.22%) Appian
11 4 (0.22%) Camunda
11 4 (0.22%) Moodle
11 4 (0.22%) nginx
12 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.16%) Liferay
12 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 14 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 12 (0.66%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.16%) Simulink
6 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.11%) Windchill
7 1 (0.055%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.055%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (0.66%) Maximo
2 8 (0.44%) 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%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.055%) Adaptiv
6 1 (0.055%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.055%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.055%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 808 (44.42%) AWS
2 325 (17.87%) Azure
3 223 (12.26%) GCP
4 165 (9.07%) Serverless
5 131 (7.20%) SaaS
6 125 (6.87%) Amazon EKS
7 99 (5.44%) AWS Lambda
8 96 (5.28%) Amazon S3
9 93 (5.11%) Amazon ECS
10 87 (4.78%) GitHub
11 79 (4.34%) AWS CloudFormation
12 51 (2.80%) AWS Step Functions
12 51 (2.80%) OpenShift
13 41 (2.25%) dbt
14 40 (2.20%) Amazon SQS
15 38 (2.09%) Apigee
16 35 (1.92%) Amazon ECR
17 33 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
18 32 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
19 31 (1.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.09%) Broadband
2 36 (1.98%) TCP/IP
3 17 (0.93%) HTTP
4 11 (0.60%) AMQP
4 11 (0.60%) Internet
4 11 (0.60%) VPN
5 7 (0.38%) Multicast
6 6 (0.33%) BGP
6 6 (0.33%) Firewall
6 6 (0.33%) VLAN
7 5 (0.27%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.22%) SAN
9 3 (0.16%) DNS
9 3 (0.16%) PuTTY
10 2 (0.11%) DHCP
10 2 (0.11%) LAN
10 2 (0.11%) NAS
10 2 (0.11%) SNMP
10 2 (0.11%) SSH
10 2 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (9.02%) PostgreSQL
2 148 (8.14%) NoSQL
3 122 (6.71%) Relational Database
4 72 (3.96%) SQL Server
5 71 (3.90%) MongoDB
6 68 (3.74%) DynamoDB
7 54 (2.97%) RDBMS
8 51 (2.80%) MySQL
9 49 (2.69%) Big Data
10 43 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
10 43 (2.36%) Hadoop
11 40 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
12 31 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
12 31 (1.70%) DB2
13 25 (1.37%) Neo4j
14 22 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
14 22 (1.21%) Data Lake
15 19 (1.04%) Oracle Database
15 19 (1.04%) Redis
16 15 (0.82%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 161 (8.85%) Jenkins
2 127 (6.98%) Git
3 109 (5.99%) Selenium
4 102 (5.61%) GitLab
5 85 (4.67%) JIRA
6 71 (3.90%) Cucumber
7 65 (3.57%) Cypress.io
7 65 (3.57%) TeamCity
8 60 (3.30%) Maven
9 59 (3.24%) JUnit
10 44 (2.42%) Postman
10 44 (2.42%) SonarQube
11 39 (2.14%) WebDriver
12 33 (1.81%) SoapUI
13 30 (1.65%) JMeter
14 28 (1.54%) Bitbucket
15 26 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
16 21 (1.15%) Mockito
17 19 (1.04%) Jaeger
18 17 (0.93%) REST Assured
General
1 468 (25.73%) Finance
2 417 (22.92%) Social Skills
3 242 (13.30%) Banking
4 147 (8.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 134 (7.37%) Analytical Skills
5 134 (7.37%) Law
6 118 (6.49%) Public Sector
7 106 (5.83%) Front Office
8 105 (5.77%) Retail
9 101 (5.55%) Financial Institution
10 68 (3.74%) Investment Banking
11 53 (2.91%) Back Office
12 41 (2.25%) Games
13 35 (1.92%) Telecoms
14 26 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
15 24 (1.32%) Manufacturing
16 23 (1.26%) Aerospace
17 21 (1.15%) Billing
17 21 (1.15%) Health Technology
18 18 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 654 (35.95%) Developer
2 446 (24.52%) Software Engineer
3 422 (23.20%) Senior
4 383 (21.06%) Java Developer
5 256 (14.07%) Java Engineer
6 238 (13.08%) Lead
7 154 (8.47%) Java Software Engineer
8 144 (7.92%) Senior Developer
9 142 (7.81%) Full-Stack Developer
10 124 (6.82%) Senior Software Engineer
11 107 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 101 (5.55%) Architect
13 100 (5.50%) Senior Java Developer
14 96 (5.28%) Senior Java Engineer
15 90 (4.95%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 73 (4.01%) Software Developer
17 69 (3.79%) Lead Software Engineer
18 56 (3.08%) AWS Engineer
19 50 (2.75%) Senior Java Software Engineer
20 49 (2.69%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 401 (22.05%) Spring
2 356 (19.57%) Spring Boot
3 317 (17.43%) React
4 218 (11.98%) REST
5 205 (11.27%) Kafka
6 168 (9.24%) Node.js
7 164 (9.02%) AngularJS
8 155 (8.52%) .NET
9 134 (7.37%) RESTful
10 110 (6.05%) HTML
11 92 (5.06%) SOAP
12 74 (4.07%) CSS
13 70 (3.85%) GraphQL
14 67 (3.68%) Elastic Stack
14 67 (3.68%) Web Services
15 66 (3.63%) Hibernate
16 53 (2.91%) JSON
17 49 (2.69%) Gherkin
18 47 (2.58%) Vue
19 46 (2.53%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 274 (15.06%) Cloud Native
2 179 (9.84%) Distributed Systems
3 76 (4.18%) Product Ownership
4 58 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
5 51 (2.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 49 (2.69%) Fixed Income
7 47 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
8 43 (2.36%) Equities
9 38 (2.09%) Blog
10 35 (1.92%) Algorithms
10 35 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
11 34 (1.87%) Public Cloud
12 30 (1.65%) Distributed Architecture
12 30 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
13 28 (1.54%) Derivative
14 26 (1.43%) Data Structures
15 24 (1.32%) Mobile App
16 23 (1.26%) Management Information System
17 22 (1.21%) FPGA
17 22 (1.21%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 200 (11.00%) Linux
2 42 (2.31%) Unix
3 38 (2.09%) Android
4 33 (1.81%) Windows
5 13 (0.71%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.38%) CentOS
6 7 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.27%) Debian
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.11%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.055%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 682 (37.49%) Agile
2 635 (34.91%) Software Engineering
3 586 (32.22%) CI/CD
4 439 (24.13%) DevOps
5 423 (23.25%) Microservices
6 370 (20.34%) Full-Stack Development
7 316 (17.37%) Problem-Solving
8 310 (17.04%) Test Automation
9 294 (16.16%) Mentoring
10 215 (11.82%) Containerisation
11 210 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
12 203 (11.16%) Computer Science
13 198 (10.89%) AI
14 181 (9.95%) Scrum
15 173 (9.51%) TDD
16 152 (8.36%) Infrastructure as Code
17 148 (8.14%) Fintech
18 145 (7.97%) Technical Leadership
19 143 (7.86%) SDLC
20 137 (7.53%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 599 (32.93%) Python
2 414 (22.76%) JavaScript
3 361 (19.85%) SQL
4 282 (15.50%) TypeScript
5 204 (11.21%) C#
6 144 (7.92%) Go
7 128 (7.04%) C++
8 102 (5.61%) Kotlin
9 87 (4.78%) Bash
10 86 (4.73%) C
11 50 (2.75%) Scala
12 41 (2.25%) Groovy
13 33 (1.81%) PHP
13 33 (1.81%) Rust
14 30 (1.65%) PL/SQL
15 19 (1.04%) R
15 19 (1.04%) Ruby
16 18 (0.99%) Apex Code
17 16 (0.88%) PowerShell
17 16 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 289 (15.89%) Security Cleared
2 273 (15.01%) Degree
3 173 (9.51%) SC Cleared
4 123 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 106 (5.83%) DV Cleared
6 88 (4.84%) AWS Certification
7 49 (2.69%) Master's Degree
8 43 (2.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 36 (1.98%) Azure Certification
10 30 (1.65%) TOGAF Certification
11 29 (1.59%) ISTQB
12 25 (1.37%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 24 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
14 18 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
15 17 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
15 17 (0.93%) PhD
16 16 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 12 (0.66%) AWS Certified Developer
18 11 (0.60%) CREST Certified
18 11 (0.60%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (6.49%) QA
2 39 (2.14%) Accessibility
3 21 (1.15%) GDPR
4 19 (1.04%) Data Quality
4 19 (1.04%) PCI DSS
5 16 (0.88%) SOC 2
6 11 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
6 11 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.33%) WCAG
8 4 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.22%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.22%) NIST
8 4 (0.22%) SLA
9 3 (0.16%) NCSC
9 3 (0.16%) SEPA
10 2 (0.11%) ECSS
10 2 (0.11%) MISRA
11 1 (0.055%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.055%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.055%) MiFID
System Software
1 334 (18.36%) Docker
2 16 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
4 13 (0.71%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.33%) HDFS
6 5 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.22%) Firmware
7 4 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.11%) KVM
8 2 (0.11%) vSphere
9 1 (0.055%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.055%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.055%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.055%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.055%) Squid
Systems Management
1 439 (24.13%) Kubernetes
2 188 (10.34%) Terraform
3 97 (5.33%) Grafana
4 76 (4.18%) Ansible
5 47 (2.58%) Prometheus
6 42 (2.31%) Argo
7 32 (1.76%) HP Fortify
8 24 (1.32%) Kibana
9 19 (1.04%) Kustomize
10 10 (0.55%) Rancher
11 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (0.38%) Puppet
12 6 (0.33%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.33%) yum
13 5 (0.27%) FTK
13 5 (0.27%) logstash
14 4 (0.22%) Nagios
14 4 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
15 3 (0.16%) Control-M
Vendors
1 95 (5.22%) Oracle
2 68 (3.74%) Google
3 66 (3.63%) Microsoft
4 31 (1.70%) MuleSoft
5 28 (1.54%) Salesforce
6 27 (1.48%) IBM
7 24 (1.32%) Atlassian
7 24 (1.32%) Databricks
8 21 (1.15%) Splunk
9 20 (1.10%) Informatica
10 19 (1.04%) SAP
11 17 (0.93%) Talend
12 15 (0.82%) Guidewire
13 13 (0.71%) Dell
14 12 (0.66%) Dynatrace
14 12 (0.66%) Red Hat
15 11 (0.60%) OpenAI
16 10 (0.55%) Solace
17 8 (0.44%) VMware
17 8 (0.44%) Workday