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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 37 23
Rank change year-on-year -37 -14 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,551 2,869 3,584
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.01% 5.57% 8.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.03% 16.29% 20.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,076 1,761 2,818
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £135,000 £138,750 £125,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% +3.45%

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 10,320 17,613 17,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 20.04% 34.22% 40.77%
Number of salaries quoted 7,801 10,653 14,662
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,420 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 -15 852 £100,000 - 240
North of England -10 255 £67,500 +13.45% 192
South East -67 180 £60,000 -11.11% 237
Yorkshire +22 131 £68,750 +25.00% 74
South West -41 118 £65,000 - 113
North West -18 110 £67,500 +12.50% 93
Midlands -3 99 £58,000 +36.47% 68
West Midlands +11 76 £60,000 +4.35% 36
East of England -83 30 £28,250 -58.15% 87
East Midlands -16 23 £57,500 +64.29% 31
North East -27 16 £60,000 - 28
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 78 (5.03%) Apache
2 69 (4.45%) Apache Airflow
3 52 (3.35%) Apache Spark
4 35 (2.26%) Confluence
5 14 (0.90%) JBoss
6 13 (0.84%) OpenStack
7 10 (0.64%) IIS
8 9 (0.58%) WebSphere
9 7 (0.45%) Anypoint
10 6 (0.39%) Camunda
10 6 (0.39%) Mule
11 5 (0.32%) SharePoint
12 4 (0.26%) Appian
12 4 (0.26%) nginx
13 3 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
13 3 (0.19%) Luigi
13 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
13 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (0.71%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.19%) Simulink
5 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.13%) Windchill
6 1 (0.064%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.064%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
1 8 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.45%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.39%) Maximo
4 5 (0.32%) Shopify
5 3 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.13%) Adaptiv
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.064%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.064%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.064%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 743 (47.90%) AWS
2 308 (19.86%) Azure
3 181 (11.67%) GCP
4 141 (9.09%) Serverless
5 102 (6.58%) Amazon EKS
6 97 (6.25%) SaaS
7 79 (5.09%) Amazon S3
7 79 (5.09%) AWS Lambda
7 79 (5.09%) GitHub
8 73 (4.71%) Amazon ECS
9 63 (4.06%) Snowflake
10 59 (3.80%) dbt
11 56 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
12 43 (2.77%) OpenShift
13 36 (2.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 33 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
14 33 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
15 30 (1.93%) Datadog
16 28 (1.81%) AWS Step Functions
17 27 (1.74%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 32 (2.06%) TCP/IP
2 27 (1.74%) HTTP
3 16 (1.03%) Firewall
4 15 (0.97%) DNS
5 14 (0.90%) SSH
6 12 (0.77%) AMQP
6 12 (0.77%) FTP
6 12 (0.77%) SMTP
7 9 (0.58%) Internet
8 8 (0.52%) Multicast
8 8 (0.52%) VPN
9 7 (0.45%) SAN
10 4 (0.26%) Broadband
10 4 (0.26%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.26%) LAN
10 4 (0.26%) WAN
11 3 (0.19%) BGP
11 3 (0.19%) PuTTY
11 3 (0.19%) VLAN
12 2 (0.13%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (9.22%) PostgreSQL
2 124 (7.99%) Relational Database
3 96 (6.19%) NoSQL
4 95 (6.13%) SQL Server
5 74 (4.77%) MongoDB
6 66 (4.26%) Data Lake
7 56 (3.61%) MySQL
8 55 (3.55%) Data Warehouse
9 50 (3.22%) Big Data
10 48 (3.09%) Apache Ignite
11 46 (2.97%) Amazon Athena
11 46 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
11 46 (2.97%) DynamoDB
11 46 (2.97%) Hadoop
12 45 (2.90%) Apache Arrow
12 45 (2.90%) Apache Iceberg
12 45 (2.90%) Dremio
12 45 (2.90%) RDBMS
13 30 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
14 26 (1.68%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 185 (11.93%) Jenkins
2 129 (8.32%) Git
3 109 (7.03%) Selenium
4 97 (6.25%) JIRA
5 86 (5.54%) GitLab
6 65 (4.19%) JUnit
7 60 (3.87%) Cucumber
8 53 (3.42%) Cypress.io
9 49 (3.16%) Postman
10 42 (2.71%) WebDriver
11 37 (2.39%) JMeter
11 37 (2.39%) Maven
11 37 (2.39%) TeamCity
12 36 (2.32%) Bitbucket
13 35 (2.26%) SoapUI
14 27 (1.74%) SonarQube
15 26 (1.68%) Mockito
15 26 (1.68%) Team Foundation Server
16 21 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
17 17 (1.10%) REST Assured
General
1 498 (32.11%) Finance
2 425 (27.40%) Social Skills
3 243 (15.67%) Banking
4 152 (9.80%) Front Office
5 147 (9.48%) Analytical Skills
6 111 (7.16%) Investment Banking
7 100 (6.45%) Public Sector
8 95 (6.13%) Law
9 90 (5.80%) Financial Institution
10 61 (3.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 53 (3.42%) Retail
12 37 (2.39%) Back Office
13 36 (2.32%) Marketing
14 27 (1.74%) Games
15 21 (1.35%) Manufacturing
16 19 (1.23%) Billing
16 19 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (1.16%) Aerospace
17 18 (1.16%) Telecoms
18 17 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 567 (36.56%) Developer
2 370 (23.86%) Senior
3 351 (22.63%) Software Engineer
4 276 (17.79%) Java Developer
5 198 (12.77%) Java Engineer
6 194 (12.51%) Lead
7 129 (8.32%) Java Software Engineer
8 121 (7.80%) Senior Software Engineer
9 110 (7.09%) Full-Stack Developer
10 109 (7.03%) Senior Developer
11 102 (6.58%) Architect
12 95 (6.13%) Senior Java Engineer
13 91 (5.87%) AWS Engineer
14 70 (4.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 69 (4.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 67 (4.32%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 61 (3.93%) Senior Java Developer
18 54 (3.48%) Python Engineer
19 51 (3.29%) AWS Software Engineer
20 47 (3.03%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 334 (21.53%) Spring
2 297 (19.15%) React
3 272 (17.54%) Spring Boot
4 203 (13.09%) Kafka
5 178 (11.48%) REST
6 157 (10.12%) .NET
7 148 (9.54%) Node.js
8 130 (8.38%) HTML
9 129 (8.32%) RESTful
10 122 (7.87%) AngularJS
11 94 (6.06%) CSS
12 75 (4.84%) SOAP
13 70 (4.51%) Hibernate
14 59 (3.80%) GraphQL
15 57 (3.68%) Web Services
16 56 (3.61%) Pandas
17 54 (3.48%) gRPC
18 45 (2.90%) NumPy
18 45 (2.90%) Protocol Buffers
18 45 (2.90%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 233 (15.02%) Cloud Native
2 174 (11.22%) Distributed Systems
3 97 (6.25%) Equities
4 90 (5.80%) Fixed Income
5 83 (5.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 69 (4.45%) Derivative
7 67 (4.32%) Self-Motivation
8 60 (3.87%) Algorithms
8 60 (3.87%) Hedge funds
9 59 (3.80%) Product Ownership
10 47 (3.03%) Pricing Data
11 46 (2.97%) Onboarding
12 40 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
13 35 (2.26%) Management Information System
14 33 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
14 33 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
15 26 (1.68%) Public Cloud
16 25 (1.61%) Distributed Architecture
17 24 (1.55%) Data Structures
18 23 (1.48%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 187 (12.06%) Linux
2 42 (2.71%) Windows
3 21 (1.35%) Unix
4 20 (1.29%) Android
5 12 (0.77%) VMS
6 10 (0.64%) Amazon Linux
6 10 (0.64%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.45%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.26%) CentOS
9 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.13%) Debian
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.064%) AIX
11 1 (0.064%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.064%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.064%) SUSE
11 1 (0.064%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 630 (40.62%) Agile
2 499 (32.17%) Software Engineering
3 486 (31.33%) CI/CD
4 362 (23.34%) DevOps
5 358 (23.08%) Microservices
6 309 (19.92%) Problem-Solving
7 269 (17.34%) Full-Stack Development
8 246 (15.86%) Mentoring
9 235 (15.15%) Computer Science
10 234 (15.09%) Test Automation
11 206 (13.28%) Continuous Improvement
12 164 (10.57%) Scrum
13 157 (10.12%) Containerisation
14 152 (9.80%) TDD
15 135 (8.70%) SDLC
16 134 (8.64%) AI
17 127 (8.19%) Clean Code
18 123 (7.93%) Roadmaps
19 117 (7.54%) Technical Leadership
20 113 (7.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 624 (40.23%) Python
2 411 (26.50%) JavaScript
3 338 (21.79%) SQL
4 281 (18.12%) TypeScript
5 236 (15.22%) C#
6 130 (8.38%) C++
7 126 (8.12%) Go
8 91 (5.87%) C
9 79 (5.09%) Kotlin
10 65 (4.19%) Scala
11 45 (2.90%) PHP
12 42 (2.71%) Bash
13 41 (2.64%) Groovy
14 32 (2.06%) PL/SQL
14 32 (2.06%) PowerShell
15 31 (2.00%) Shell Script
16 26 (1.68%) Perl
17 21 (1.35%) Ruby
18 20 (1.29%) R
18 20 (1.29%) Rust
Qualifications
1 302 (19.47%) Degree
2 210 (13.54%) Security Cleared
3 145 (9.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 123 (7.93%) SC Cleared
5 74 (4.77%) DV Cleared
6 73 (4.71%) Master's Degree
7 69 (4.45%) AWS Certification
8 43 (2.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 40 (2.58%) Azure Certification
10 31 (2.00%) ISTQB
11 28 (1.81%) PhD
12 26 (1.68%) TOGAF Certification
13 25 (1.61%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 23 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
15 19 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
16 12 (0.77%) AWS Certified Developer
17 8 (0.52%) HND
18 5 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 5 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
18 5 (0.32%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (6.13%) QA
2 44 (2.84%) Accessibility
3 25 (1.61%) GDPR
4 17 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (0.71%) Data Quality
6 10 (0.64%) ISO 9001
7 9 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
8 8 (0.52%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.45%) NIST
10 6 (0.39%) SLA
10 6 (0.39%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.32%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.26%) EU AI Act
12 4 (0.26%) SEPA
12 4 (0.26%) WCAG
13 3 (0.19%) NCSC
14 2 (0.13%) ECSS
14 2 (0.13%) MISRA
14 2 (0.13%) PSD2
System Software
1 274 (17.67%) Docker
2 23 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
5 9 (0.58%) HDFS
6 4 (0.26%) DFS Replication
6 4 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.19%) Firmware
7 3 (0.19%) vSphere
8 2 (0.13%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.064%) KVM
9 1 (0.064%) Squid
Systems Management
1 361 (23.28%) Kubernetes
2 100 (6.45%) Terraform
3 63 (4.06%) Grafana
4 54 (3.48%) Ansible
5 33 (2.13%) Kibana
6 32 (2.06%) Prometheus
7 20 (1.29%) Argo
8 14 (0.90%) HP Fortify
9 11 (0.71%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.45%) Control-M
11 6 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
11 6 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.32%) Rancher
13 4 (0.26%) Nagios
13 4 (0.26%) Puppet
14 3 (0.19%) logstash
14 3 (0.19%) yum
15 2 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
15 2 (0.13%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 108 (6.96%) Oracle
2 82 (5.29%) Microsoft
3 63 (4.06%) Google
4 33 (2.13%) Guidewire
5 30 (1.93%) Splunk
6 28 (1.81%) Atlassian
7 25 (1.61%) MuleSoft
8 24 (1.55%) Informatica
9 22 (1.42%) Databricks
9 22 (1.42%) Talend
10 21 (1.35%) Dynatrace
11 20 (1.29%) IBM
11 20 (1.29%) SAP
12 15 (0.97%) ServiceNow
13 14 (0.90%) Dell
13 14 (0.90%) Salesforce
14 12 (0.77%) Red Hat
15 11 (0.71%) Adobe
16 9 (0.58%) OpenAI
16 9 (0.58%) Siemens