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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 27 33
Rank change year-on-year -29 +6 -12
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,363 3,089 4,602
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.70% 7.11% 5.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.75% 23.48% 16.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,540 1,477 3,378
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £73,805
% change year-on-year -6.67% +1.62% -4.77%

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 16,018 13,155 27,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.28% 30.30% 30.75%
Number of salaries quoted 11,663 8,905 21,358
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £48,725 £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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -10 1,054 £85,000 -19.05% 688
North of England -23 662 £69,305 +2.67% 161
North West -36 297 £70,000 - 88
South West -21 230 £60,000 - 259
Yorkshire +26 226 £72,500 +3.57% 46
South East -47 213 £70,000 +7.69% 121
North East +2 139 £53,750 +19.44% 27
Midlands -90 116 £65,000 +13.04% 57
West Midlands -61 95 £67,500 +12.50% 37
East of England -60 57 £51,359 +16.73% 33
East Midlands -89 20 £60,000 +26.32% 20
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 52 (2.20%) Confluence
2 49 (2.07%) Apache
3 38 (1.61%) Apache Spark
4 27 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
6 11 (0.47%) Camunda
6 11 (0.47%) JBoss
7 9 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.34%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
9 5 (0.21%) CMS
9 5 (0.21%) GeoServer
9 5 (0.21%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.13%) CICS
10 3 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.13%) SAS
10 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.085%) Documentum
Applications
1 17 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.68%) MS Visio
3 10 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.085%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.085%) PTC Creo
5 2 (0.085%) Windchill
6 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.042%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 15 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.42%) Maximo
3 5 (0.21%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.21%) Temenos T24
4 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.042%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.042%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.042%) Endur
6 1 (0.042%) Findur
6 1 (0.042%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.042%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 990 (41.90%) AWS
2 475 (20.10%) Azure
3 302 (12.78%) GCP
4 208 (8.80%) Serverless
5 159 (6.73%) AWS CloudFormation
6 129 (5.46%) AWS Lambda
7 119 (5.04%) Amazon ECS
8 117 (4.95%) Amazon S3
9 116 (4.91%) GitHub
10 112 (4.74%) Amazon EKS
11 111 (4.70%) SaaS
12 69 (2.92%) AWS Step Functions
12 69 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
13 57 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
14 43 (1.82%) Amazon ECR
15 40 (1.69%) OpenShift
16 39 (1.65%) Apigee
17 38 (1.61%) Amazon SQS
18 36 (1.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 36 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 38 (1.61%) Broadband
2 32 (1.35%) HTTP
3 24 (1.02%) TCP/IP
4 17 (0.72%) Network Security
5 13 (0.55%) DMARC
6 9 (0.38%) BGP
6 9 (0.38%) VPN
7 8 (0.34%) IPv4
7 8 (0.34%) MQTT
7 8 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
8 7 (0.30%) AMQP
9 6 (0.25%) DNS
9 6 (0.25%) IPsec
10 5 (0.21%) Internet
11 4 (0.17%) Kerberos
12 3 (0.13%) Firewall
12 3 (0.13%) VLAN
13 2 (0.085%) LAN
13 2 (0.085%) SAN
13 2 (0.085%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (7.70%) NoSQL
2 179 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
3 121 (5.12%) MongoDB
4 103 (4.36%) Relational Database
5 87 (3.68%) DynamoDB
6 83 (3.51%) MySQL
7 70 (2.96%) SQL Server
8 39 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
9 34 (1.44%) Big Data
10 32 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
11 27 (1.14%) Db2
12 26 (1.10%) BigQuery
13 25 (1.06%) RDBMS
14 24 (1.02%) Redis
15 20 (0.85%) Hadoop
16 18 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
17 17 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
18 15 (0.63%) Metadata
19 12 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
19 12 (0.51%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 231 (9.78%) Git
2 181 (7.66%) Jenkins
3 171 (7.24%) GitLab
4 84 (3.55%) Cucumber
4 84 (3.55%) JIRA
5 72 (3.05%) Maven
6 69 (2.92%) JUnit
7 64 (2.71%) Selenium
8 61 (2.58%) Cypress.io
9 59 (2.50%) TeamCity
10 53 (2.24%) SonarQube
11 37 (1.57%) JMeter
12 32 (1.35%) Bitbucket
13 31 (1.31%) Postman
14 30 (1.27%) Subversion
15 29 (1.23%) Mockito
16 26 (1.10%) Eclipse
17 25 (1.06%) Gradle
18 23 (0.97%) Claude Code
19 22 (0.93%) REST Assured
General
1 608 (25.73%) Finance
2 351 (14.85%) Social Skills
3 225 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 220 (9.31%) Banking
5 162 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
6 144 (6.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 107 (4.53%) Law
8 106 (4.49%) Front Office
9 98 (4.15%) Retail
10 71 (3.00%) Financial Institution
11 48 (2.03%) Back Office
12 37 (1.57%) Investment Banking
13 34 (1.44%) Health Technology
14 28 (1.18%) Games
15 22 (0.93%) Aerospace
15 22 (0.93%) Manufacturing
16 19 (0.80%) Legal
16 19 (0.80%) Marketing
17 18 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
18 17 (0.72%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 854 (36.14%) Developer
2 577 (24.42%) Senior
3 562 (23.78%) Java Developer
4 547 (23.15%) Software Engineer
5 401 (16.97%) Java Engineer
6 340 (14.39%) Lead
7 203 (8.59%) Senior Developer
8 178 (7.53%) Senior Software Engineer
9 176 (7.45%) Java Software Engineer
10 142 (6.01%) Senior Java Developer
11 140 (5.92%) Full-Stack Developer
12 136 (5.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 123 (5.21%) Senior Java Engineer
13 123 (5.21%) Software Developer
14 118 (4.99%) Lead Software Engineer
15 89 (3.77%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 81 (3.43%) Architect
17 73 (3.09%) Consultant
18 72 (3.05%) DevOps Engineer
19 68 (2.88%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 538 (22.77%) Spring
2 457 (19.34%) Spring Boot
3 286 (12.10%) React
4 237 (10.03%) Kafka
5 234 (9.90%) AngularJS
6 225 (9.52%) Node.js
6 225 (9.52%) REST
7 168 (7.11%) RESTful
8 154 (6.52%) .NET
9 86 (3.64%) Web Services
10 73 (3.09%) CSS
10 73 (3.09%) Vue
11 65 (2.75%) GraphQL
12 64 (2.71%) HTML
13 52 (2.20%) Hibernate
13 52 (2.20%) SOAP
14 49 (2.07%) OAuth
15 47 (1.99%) JSON
16 46 (1.95%) Elastic Stack
16 46 (1.95%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 297 (12.57%) Cloud Native
2 191 (8.08%) Distributed Systems
3 149 (6.31%) Product Ownership
4 105 (4.44%) Public Cloud
5 55 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 54 (2.29%) Onboarding
7 52 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
8 51 (2.16%) Fixed Income
9 42 (1.78%) Data Structures
9 42 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
10 38 (1.61%) Distributed Architecture
11 36 (1.52%) Blog
12 35 (1.48%) e-Learning
13 33 (1.40%) Mobile App
14 32 (1.35%) Virtual Team
15 31 (1.31%) Equities
16 29 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
17 24 (1.02%) Algorithms
18 20 (0.85%) Social Media
19 17 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 221 (9.35%) Linux
2 56 (2.37%) Windows
3 43 (1.82%) Unix
4 42 (1.78%) Android
5 16 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.55%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.47%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.25%) CentOS
8 6 (0.25%) Debian
8 6 (0.25%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.17%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.085%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.042%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 819 (34.66%) Software Engineering
2 810 (34.28%) Agile
3 758 (32.08%) CI/CD
4 565 (23.91%) DevOps
5 537 (22.73%) Microservices
6 481 (20.36%) Test Automation
7 451 (19.09%) Full-Stack Development
8 405 (17.14%) Mentoring
9 371 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
10 301 (12.74%) AI
11 282 (11.93%) Containerisation
12 265 (11.21%) Infrastructure as Code
13 252 (10.66%) Continuous Improvement
14 246 (10.41%) TDD
15 221 (9.35%) Technical Leadership
16 219 (9.27%) Roadmaps
17 212 (8.97%) Computer Science
18 205 (8.68%) Scrum
19 181 (7.66%) SDLC
20 169 (7.15%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 765 (32.37%) Python
2 444 (18.79%) SQL
3 424 (17.94%) JavaScript
4 254 (10.75%) TypeScript
5 243 (10.28%) C#
6 217 (9.18%) C++
7 157 (6.64%) Go
8 120 (5.08%) Bash
9 99 (4.19%) Kotlin
10 65 (2.75%) C
11 62 (2.62%) Groovy
11 62 (2.62%) Scala
12 58 (2.45%) Rust
13 56 (2.37%) PHP
14 37 (1.57%) Perl
15 34 (1.44%) PowerShell
16 30 (1.27%) Ruby
17 27 (1.14%) PL/SQL
18 18 (0.76%) Shell Script
19 15 (0.63%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 412 (17.44%) Security Cleared
2 259 (10.96%) Degree
3 236 (9.99%) SC Cleared
4 142 (6.01%) Computer Science Degree
4 142 (6.01%) DV Cleared
5 103 (4.36%) AWS Certification
6 55 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 31 (1.31%) Master's Degree
8 24 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
9 22 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 20 (0.85%) OSCP
11 16 (0.68%) ISTQB
12 15 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (0.63%) DBS Check
13 13 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.51%) CREST Certified
14 12 (0.51%) PhD
15 11 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
16 10 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
17 8 (0.34%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (6.73%) QA
2 63 (2.67%) Accessibility
3 44 (1.86%) Data Quality
4 20 (0.85%) GDPR
4 20 (0.85%) WCAG
5 14 (0.59%) GRC
5 14 (0.59%) PCI DSS
6 13 (0.55%) SOC 2
7 8 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.30%) ISO 20022
9 6 (0.25%) NIST
10 5 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.085%) Good Clinical Practice
13 2 (0.085%) PSD2
13 2 (0.085%) Software Quality Assurance
14 1 (0.042%) GxP
14 1 (0.042%) MiFID
System Software
1 364 (15.40%) Docker
2 20 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (0.72%) Active Directory
4 11 (0.47%) vSphere
5 8 (0.34%) Squid
5 8 (0.34%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.25%) Firmware
6 6 (0.25%) KVM
7 5 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.085%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.085%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 438 (18.54%) Kubernetes
2 295 (12.48%) Terraform
3 112 (4.74%) Ansible
3 112 (4.74%) Grafana
4 41 (1.74%) Prometheus
5 36 (1.52%) Argo
6 31 (1.31%) HP Fortify
7 30 (1.27%) Kibana
8 17 (0.72%) Puppet
9 14 (0.59%) Packer
9 14 (0.59%) Rancher
10 12 (0.51%) logstash
11 8 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.34%) yum
11 8 (0.34%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.25%) Hadoop YARN
12 6 (0.25%) Kustomize
13 5 (0.21%) FTK
14 3 (0.13%) Data Guard
14 3 (0.13%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 93 (3.94%) Oracle
2 91 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 71 (3.00%) Google
4 54 (2.29%) Splunk
5 43 (1.82%) IBM
6 29 (1.23%) SAP
7 25 (1.06%) VMware
8 24 (1.02%) Palantir
8 24 (1.02%) Red Hat
9 23 (0.97%) Salesforce
10 22 (0.93%) Dynatrace
11 20 (0.85%) AppDynamics
12 19 (0.80%) Foundry
12 19 (0.80%) ServiceNow
13 16 (0.68%) OpenAI
14 15 (0.63%) Adobe
14 15 (0.63%) MuleSoft
15 13 (0.55%) SendGrid
16 11 (0.47%) Atlassian
16 11 (0.47%) Solace