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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 26 35
Rank change year-on-year -31 +9 -15
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,283 3,025 4,727
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.74% 7.65% 4.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.04% 23.91% 16.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,491 1,426 3,505
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,625 £38,850
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £137,500 £142,500
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 15,180 12,652 29,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.24% 31.99% 30.58%
Number of salaries quoted 10,948 8,485 23,144
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £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 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -12 1,037 £85,000 -19.05% 501
North of England -26 644 £69,305 +2.67% 317
North West -37 279 £70,000 -6.67% 149
Yorkshire +25 239 £72,500 +3.57% 100
South East -31 218 £70,000 +7.69% 250
South West -29 192 £60,000 - 136
North East +2 126 £52,500 +10.53% 70
Midlands -92 110 £60,000 +9.09% 166
West Midlands -56 90 £60,500 +0.83% 80
East of England -57 56 £57,500 +30.68% 166
East Midlands -88 19 £60,000 +26.32% 86
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 (1.97%) Apache
2 42 (1.84%) Confluence
3 36 (1.58%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
6 14 (0.61%) JBoss
7 9 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.35%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.26%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.22%) CMS
11 5 (0.22%) GeoServer
11 5 (0.22%) WebSphere
12 4 (0.18%) Camunda
13 3 (0.13%) CICS
13 3 (0.13%) SAS
13 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
14 2 (0.088%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.088%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.35%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.088%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.088%) PTC Creo
5 2 (0.088%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (0.48%) Maximo
1 11 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.18%) Temenos T24
3 3 (0.13%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.088%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.044%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.044%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.044%) Endur
5 1 (0.044%) Findur
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.044%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 930 (40.74%) AWS
2 433 (18.97%) Azure
3 276 (12.09%) GCP
4 181 (7.93%) Serverless
5 139 (6.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 120 (5.26%) Amazon S3
7 118 (5.17%) AWS Lambda
8 116 (5.08%) SaaS
9 111 (4.86%) GitHub
10 110 (4.82%) Amazon ECS
11 99 (4.34%) Amazon EKS
12 75 (3.29%) AWS Step Functions
13 65 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
14 48 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
15 46 (2.01%) Amazon ECR
16 45 (1.97%) Apigee
17 43 (1.88%) Amazon SQS
18 39 (1.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 37 (1.62%) dbt
20 36 (1.58%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.19%) Broadband
2 32 (1.40%) HTTP
3 25 (1.10%) TCP/IP
4 11 (0.48%) DMARC
5 8 (0.35%) AMQP
5 8 (0.35%) IPv4
5 8 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
6 6 (0.26%) MQTT
7 4 (0.18%) Internet
8 3 (0.13%) BGP
8 3 (0.13%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.13%) Network Security
8 3 (0.13%) VLAN
8 3 (0.13%) VPN
9 2 (0.088%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.088%) Firewall
9 2 (0.088%) LAN
9 2 (0.088%) SAN
9 2 (0.088%) WAN
10 1 (0.044%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (8.06%) NoSQL
2 161 (7.05%) PostgreSQL
3 104 (4.56%) MongoDB
4 103 (4.51%) Relational Database
5 89 (3.90%) DynamoDB
6 73 (3.20%) MySQL
7 67 (2.93%) SQL Server
8 42 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
9 37 (1.62%) RDBMS
10 27 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
11 25 (1.10%) Big Data
11 25 (1.10%) Db2
12 23 (1.01%) BigQuery
13 22 (0.96%) Redis
14 17 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
14 17 (0.74%) Hadoop
15 15 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
15 15 (0.66%) Metadata
16 12 (0.53%) Power BI
17 11 (0.48%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 200 (8.76%) Git
2 177 (7.75%) Jenkins
3 159 (6.96%) GitLab
4 91 (3.99%) JIRA
5 80 (3.50%) Maven
6 75 (3.29%) Selenium
7 74 (3.24%) Cucumber
8 67 (2.93%) JUnit
9 65 (2.85%) Cypress.io
10 56 (2.45%) TeamCity
11 55 (2.41%) SonarQube
12 40 (1.75%) Postman
13 36 (1.58%) JMeter
14 31 (1.36%) Mockito
15 28 (1.23%) Gradle
16 27 (1.18%) Bitbucket
17 25 (1.10%) Claude Code
18 24 (1.05%) REST Assured
19 20 (0.88%) Subversion
20 18 (0.79%) Jaeger
General
1 567 (24.84%) Finance
2 356 (15.59%) Social Skills
3 218 (9.55%) Banking
4 205 (8.98%) Public Sector
5 158 (6.92%) Analytical Skills
6 150 (6.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 101 (4.42%) Law
8 100 (4.38%) Front Office
9 92 (4.03%) Retail
10 69 (3.02%) Financial Institution
11 47 (2.06%) Back Office
12 40 (1.75%) Investment Banking
13 31 (1.36%) Games
14 30 (1.31%) Health Technology
15 22 (0.96%) Aerospace
15 22 (0.96%) Telecoms
16 18 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
16 18 (0.79%) Tech for Good
17 16 (0.70%) Advertising
17 16 (0.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 865 (37.89%) Developer
2 581 (25.45%) Java Developer
3 562 (24.62%) Senior
4 527 (23.08%) Software Engineer
5 395 (17.30%) Java Engineer
6 335 (14.67%) Lead
7 212 (9.29%) Senior Developer
8 177 (7.75%) Senior Software Engineer
9 176 (7.71%) Java Software Engineer
10 155 (6.79%) Senior Java Developer
11 152 (6.66%) Full-Stack Developer
12 133 (5.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 122 (5.34%) Senior Java Engineer
14 117 (5.12%) Software Developer
15 111 (4.86%) Lead Software Engineer
16 97 (4.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 79 (3.46%) Architect
18 68 (2.98%) Lead Developer
18 68 (2.98%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 57 (2.50%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 509 (22.30%) Spring
2 432 (18.92%) Spring Boot
3 291 (12.75%) React
4 232 (10.16%) AngularJS
5 226 (9.90%) REST
6 209 (9.15%) Node.js
7 198 (8.67%) Kafka
8 147 (6.44%) .NET
8 147 (6.44%) RESTful
9 85 (3.72%) Web Services
10 82 (3.59%) HTML
11 78 (3.42%) CSS
12 69 (3.02%) Vue
13 64 (2.80%) SOAP
14 63 (2.76%) GraphQL
15 56 (2.45%) Elastic Stack
16 55 (2.41%) JSON
17 46 (2.01%) OAuth
17 46 (2.01%) Playwright
18 44 (1.93%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 262 (11.48%) Cloud Native
2 171 (7.49%) Distributed Systems
3 143 (6.26%) Product Ownership
4 94 (4.12%) Public Cloud
5 55 (2.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 49 (2.15%) Fixed Income
7 45 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
8 40 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
9 37 (1.62%) Data Structures
9 37 (1.62%) Distributed Architecture
9 37 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
10 34 (1.49%) e-Learning
10 34 (1.49%) Mobile App
11 30 (1.31%) Blog
11 30 (1.31%) Equities
11 30 (1.31%) Virtual Team
12 27 (1.18%) Onboarding
13 20 (0.88%) Social Media
14 19 (0.83%) Algorithms
14 19 (0.83%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 203 (8.89%) Linux
2 51 (2.23%) Unix
3 49 (2.15%) Android
4 48 (2.10%) Windows
5 15 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.57%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.53%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.26%) CentOS
8 6 (0.26%) Debian
8 6 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.18%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 799 (35.00%) Agile
2 779 (34.12%) Software Engineering
3 693 (30.35%) CI/CD
4 532 (23.30%) DevOps
5 492 (21.55%) Microservices
6 469 (20.54%) Full-Stack Development
7 443 (19.40%) Test Automation
8 408 (17.87%) Mentoring
9 343 (15.02%) Problem-Solving
10 269 (11.78%) Containerisation
11 257 (11.26%) AI
12 235 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 233 (10.21%) TDD
14 217 (9.51%) Infrastructure as Code
14 217 (9.51%) Technical Leadership
15 213 (9.33%) Roadmaps
16 212 (9.29%) Scrum
17 191 (8.37%) Computer Science
18 177 (7.75%) SDLC
19 159 (6.96%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 671 (29.39%) Python
2 438 (19.19%) SQL
3 415 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 261 (11.43%) TypeScript
5 233 (10.21%) C#
6 193 (8.45%) C++
7 157 (6.88%) Go
8 113 (4.95%) Bash
9 107 (4.69%) Kotlin
10 62 (2.72%) Groovy
11 58 (2.54%) C
12 55 (2.41%) Scala
13 48 (2.10%) Rust
14 41 (1.80%) PHP
15 32 (1.40%) PL/SQL
16 29 (1.27%) PowerShell
17 17 (0.74%) Perl
18 16 (0.70%) Apex Code
18 16 (0.70%) R
19 14 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 361 (15.81%) Security Cleared
2 243 (10.64%) Degree
3 232 (10.16%) SC Cleared
4 130 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 127 (5.56%) DV Cleared
6 93 (4.07%) AWS Certification
7 34 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 26 (1.14%) Master's Degree
9 25 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
10 23 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 23 (1.01%) ISTQB
11 21 (0.92%) OSCP
12 18 (0.79%) DBS Check
13 17 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
14 13 (0.57%) CREST Certified
15 12 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (0.53%) PhD
16 11 (0.48%) Azure Certification
16 11 (0.48%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
17 10 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (6.57%) QA
2 63 (2.76%) Accessibility
3 39 (1.71%) Data Quality
4 18 (0.79%) WCAG
5 16 (0.70%) GDPR
6 14 (0.61%) GRC
7 12 (0.53%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.44%) SOC 2
9 7 (0.31%) ISO 20022
10 6 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 14443
12 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 4 (0.18%) NIST
13 2 (0.088%) Good Clinical Practice
13 2 (0.088%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.088%) Software Quality Assurance
14 1 (0.044%) MiFID
System Software
1 358 (15.68%) Docker
2 16 (0.70%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.48%) vSphere
5 8 (0.35%) Squid
5 8 (0.35%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.22%) Firmware
7 4 (0.18%) KVM
8 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.088%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.088%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.088%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.044%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.044%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.044%) OpenDJ
10 1 (0.044%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 419 (18.35%) Kubernetes
2 261 (11.43%) Terraform
3 103 (4.51%) Grafana
4 99 (4.34%) Ansible
5 50 (2.19%) Prometheus
6 44 (1.93%) Argo
7 34 (1.49%) HP Fortify
8 28 (1.23%) Kibana
9 18 (0.79%) Kustomize
10 14 (0.61%) Packer
11 13 (0.57%) Puppet
12 9 (0.39%) logstash
12 9 (0.39%) Rancher
13 8 (0.35%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (0.22%) FTK
15 5 (0.22%) yum
16 3 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
16 3 (0.13%) HAProxy
16 3 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 86 (3.77%) Oracle
2 81 (3.55%) Microsoft
3 74 (3.24%) Google
4 47 (2.06%) Splunk
5 31 (1.36%) IBM
6 25 (1.10%) Salesforce
7 23 (1.01%) Palantir
8 22 (0.96%) Red Hat
9 21 (0.92%) Dynatrace
10 19 (0.83%) AppDynamics
10 19 (0.83%) Foundry
10 19 (0.83%) VMware
11 17 (0.74%) ServiceNow
12 15 (0.66%) MuleSoft
12 15 (0.66%) SAP
13 13 (0.57%) Adobe
14 12 (0.53%) Solace
15 11 (0.48%) Atlassian
15 11 (0.48%) SendGrid
16 9 (0.39%) Databricks