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 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 30 30
Rank change year-on-year -28 0 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,517 2,782 3,785
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.53% 6.41% 5.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.93% 23.48% 18.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,614 1,213 2,431
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £116,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £135,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +5.57%

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 16,861 11,847 20,903
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.98% 27.29% 30.33%
Number of salaries quoted 12,345 7,815 13,761
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +2.40% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.81% -4.62%

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 9 September 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 9 September 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 -13 1,060 £85,000 -19.05% 2,056
North of England -26 709 £67,500 - 316
North West -34 327 £70,000 - 185
South West -4 288 £63,500 +5.83% 201
South East -48 214 £67,500 +3.85% 192
Yorkshire +21 199 £75,000 +13.21% 76
North East +9 183 £55,000 +15.79% 55
Midlands -50 177 £62,500 +4.17% 143
West Midlands -31 150 £67,500 +12.50% 98
East of England -74 53 £57,500 +30.68% 82
East Midlands -86 27 £60,000 +4.35% 45
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 62 (2.46%) Confluence
2 54 (2.15%) Apache
3 36 (1.43%) Apache Spark
4 23 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (0.68%) Camunda
6 16 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
7 14 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 10 (0.40%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
10 7 (0.28%) JBoss
10 7 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 7 (0.28%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.24%) CMS
12 5 (0.20%) CICS
12 5 (0.20%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.16%) SAS
14 3 (0.12%) Documentum
14 3 (0.12%) SharePoint
14 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
14 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.60%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.28%) Simulink
4 5 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.20%) Moqups
5 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.079%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.079%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.079%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.079%) Windchill
7 1 (0.040%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.040%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.20%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.20%) Temenos T24
3 4 (0.16%) Maximo
3 4 (0.16%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.079%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.079%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 1 (0.040%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.040%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.040%) Endur
5 1 (0.040%) Findur
5 1 (0.040%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.040%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.040%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.040%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.040%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,038 (41.24%) AWS
2 536 (21.30%) Azure
3 295 (11.72%) GCP
4 204 (8.10%) Serverless
5 160 (6.36%) AWS CloudFormation
6 155 (6.16%) GitHub
7 138 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
8 109 (4.33%) Amazon S3
9 108 (4.29%) Amazon ECS
10 96 (3.81%) SaaS
11 87 (3.46%) GitHub Actions
12 85 (3.38%) Amazon EKS
12 85 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
13 61 (2.42%) AWS Step Functions
14 49 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
15 40 (1.59%) Datadog
16 37 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 37 (1.47%) OpenShift
17 35 (1.39%) Anthropic Claude
17 35 (1.39%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 41 (1.63%) HTTP
2 17 (0.68%) Network Security
3 16 (0.64%) Broadband
4 14 (0.56%) TCP/IP
5 13 (0.52%) DMARC
6 9 (0.36%) DNS
6 9 (0.36%) IPv4
6 9 (0.36%) MQTT
6 9 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
7 8 (0.32%) VPN
8 7 (0.28%) BGP
8 7 (0.28%) Wireshark
9 6 (0.24%) AMQP
9 6 (0.24%) IPsec
10 5 (0.20%) Ethernet
10 5 (0.20%) Firewall
10 5 (0.20%) Internet
10 5 (0.20%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.12%) RIP
11 3 (0.12%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (6.56%) NoSQL
2 161 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
3 125 (4.97%) MongoDB
4 119 (4.73%) Relational Database
5 77 (3.06%) MySQL
6 76 (3.02%) DynamoDB
7 74 (2.94%) SQL Server
8 45 (1.79%) Big Data
9 38 (1.51%) Amazon Athena
10 28 (1.11%) Redis
11 23 (0.91%) Hadoop
12 22 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
12 22 (0.87%) Db2
12 22 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
13 21 (0.83%) Data Lake
14 20 (0.79%) Power BI
15 18 (0.72%) BigQuery
16 17 (0.68%) Spark SQL
17 15 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
17 15 (0.60%) Flink
Development Applications
1 285 (11.32%) Git
2 213 (8.46%) Jenkins
3 198 (7.87%) GitLab
4 100 (3.97%) JIRA
5 99 (3.93%) JUnit
6 93 (3.69%) Cucumber
7 76 (3.02%) Maven
8 72 (2.86%) Selenium
9 64 (2.54%) Cypress.io
10 50 (1.99%) Postman
11 46 (1.83%) SonarQube
12 44 (1.75%) Eclipse
13 41 (1.63%) JMeter
13 41 (1.63%) TeamCity
14 40 (1.59%) Mockito
15 37 (1.47%) Subversion
16 35 (1.39%) Bitbucket
17 26 (1.03%) REST Assured
18 24 (0.95%) Claude Code
19 20 (0.79%) Gatling
General
1 661 (26.26%) Finance
2 427 (16.96%) Social Skills
3 260 (10.33%) Public Sector
4 241 (9.57%) Banking
5 191 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
6 122 (4.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 90 (3.58%) Law
8 70 (2.78%) Front Office
9 69 (2.74%) Retail
10 64 (2.54%) Financial Institution
11 37 (1.47%) Manufacturing
12 36 (1.43%) Marketing
13 35 (1.39%) Legal
14 33 (1.31%) Investment Banking
15 29 (1.15%) Back Office
15 29 (1.15%) Health Technology
16 22 (0.87%) Aerospace
17 20 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
18 19 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
18 19 (0.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 790 (31.39%) Developer
2 643 (25.55%) Senior
3 564 (22.41%) Software Engineer
4 515 (20.46%) Java Developer
5 475 (18.87%) Java Engineer
6 350 (13.91%) Lead
7 214 (8.50%) Senior Developer
8 195 (7.75%) Senior Software Engineer
9 160 (6.36%) Senior Java Engineer
10 156 (6.20%) Java Software Engineer
11 150 (5.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 134 (5.32%) Senior Java Developer
13 128 (5.09%) Software Developer
14 126 (5.01%) Full-Stack Developer
15 107 (4.25%) Lead Software Engineer
16 85 (3.38%) Principal Engineer
17 81 (3.22%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 80 (3.18%) Architect
18 80 (3.18%) DevOps Engineer
19 76 (3.02%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 595 (23.64%) Spring
2 488 (19.39%) Spring Boot
3 284 (11.28%) Terraform
4 267 (10.61%) Kafka
5 261 (10.37%) React
6 252 (10.01%) REST
7 220 (8.74%) AngularJS
8 194 (7.71%) Node.js
9 191 (7.59%) RESTful
10 177 (7.03%) .NET
11 81 (3.22%) Web Services
12 67 (2.66%) CSS
13 62 (2.46%) HTML
14 58 (2.30%) RabbitMQ
14 58 (2.30%) Vue
15 56 (2.22%) OAuth
16 55 (2.19%) Hibernate
16 55 (2.19%) Playwright
17 45 (1.79%) Jakarta EE
18 44 (1.75%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 323 (12.83%) Cloud Native
2 257 (10.21%) Distributed Systems
3 171 (6.79%) Product Ownership
4 128 (5.09%) Public Cloud
5 74 (2.94%) Onboarding
6 64 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
7 57 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
8 48 (1.91%) Distributed Architecture
9 45 (1.79%) e-Learning
10 43 (1.71%) Virtual Team
11 41 (1.63%) Data Structures
11 41 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 39 (1.55%) Algorithms
13 38 (1.51%) Mobile App
14 33 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
15 31 (1.23%) Equities
16 30 (1.19%) AI Agents
17 26 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
18 25 (0.99%) Blog
19 23 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 220 (8.74%) Linux
2 68 (2.70%) Windows
3 40 (1.59%) Android
4 37 (1.47%) Unix
5 21 (0.83%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (0.60%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.24%) CentOS
9 5 (0.20%) Debian
9 5 (0.20%) Kali Linux
9 5 (0.20%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.16%) VMS
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.079%) Embedded Linux
12 2 (0.079%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.040%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 904 (35.92%) Software Engineering
2 845 (33.57%) CI/CD
3 806 (32.02%) Agile
4 605 (24.04%) Microservices
5 581 (23.08%) DevOps
6 503 (19.98%) Test Automation
7 474 (18.83%) Full-Stack Development
8 464 (18.43%) Mentoring
9 443 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
10 387 (15.38%) AI
11 320 (12.71%) Containerisation
12 308 (12.24%) Infrastructure as Code
13 304 (12.08%) Continuous Improvement
14 270 (10.73%) Event-Driven
15 254 (10.09%) Roadmaps
16 253 (10.05%) Technical Leadership
17 237 (9.42%) TDD
18 235 (9.34%) Computer Science
19 228 (9.06%) SDLC
20 227 (9.02%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 806 (32.02%) Python
2 477 (18.95%) SQL
3 429 (17.04%) JavaScript
4 275 (10.93%) C#
5 258 (10.25%) C++
6 245 (9.73%) TypeScript
7 125 (4.97%) Go
8 113 (4.49%) Bash
9 107 (4.25%) Kotlin
10 78 (3.10%) C
11 74 (2.94%) Scala
12 58 (2.30%) PHP
13 57 (2.26%) Rust
14 53 (2.11%) Groovy
15 51 (2.03%) Perl
16 37 (1.47%) PowerShell
16 37 (1.47%) Ruby
17 30 (1.19%) PL/SQL
18 20 (0.79%) Shell Script
19 17 (0.68%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 468 (18.59%) Security Cleared
2 287 (11.40%) Degree
3 254 (10.09%) SC Cleared
4 162 (6.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 159 (6.32%) DV Cleared
6 101 (4.01%) AWS Certification
7 64 (2.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (1.15%) Master's Degree
9 23 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (0.79%) ISTQB
11 19 (0.75%) OSCP
12 17 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
13 16 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 13 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
14 13 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.48%) DBS Check
16 11 (0.44%) CREST Certified
17 10 (0.40%) PhD
18 8 (0.32%) CCNA
18 8 (0.32%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (6.67%) QA
2 84 (3.34%) Accessibility
3 80 (3.18%) Data Quality
4 27 (1.07%) WCAG
5 22 (0.87%) GDPR
6 14 (0.56%) GRC
6 14 (0.56%) ISO 20022
7 13 (0.52%) NIST
8 10 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.20%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 4 (0.16%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.12%) MiFID
12 3 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
12 3 (0.12%) PSD2
12 3 (0.12%) UCITS
13 2 (0.079%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 417 (16.57%) Docker
2 26 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (0.75%) Active Directory
4 13 (0.52%) Firmware
5 12 (0.48%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.44%) vSphere
7 10 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
8 8 (0.32%) Squid
8 8 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.20%) KVM
11 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.079%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 464 (18.43%) Kubernetes
2 132 (5.24%) Ansible
3 85 (3.38%) Grafana
4 31 (1.23%) Prometheus
5 30 (1.19%) Argo
6 27 (1.07%) Kibana
7 24 (0.95%) Puppet
8 22 (0.87%) HP Fortify
9 12 (0.48%) Packer
10 11 (0.44%) Rancher
11 10 (0.40%) logstash
12 8 (0.32%) ZABBIX
13 6 (0.24%) Hadoop YARN
13 6 (0.24%) Kubeflow
13 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (0.24%) yum
14 5 (0.20%) Red Hat Satellite
15 4 (0.16%) Control-M
15 4 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 113 (4.49%) Oracle
2 108 (4.29%) Microsoft
3 83 (3.30%) Google
4 61 (2.42%) Splunk
5 43 (1.71%) IBM
6 39 (1.55%) Red Hat
7 32 (1.27%) SAP
8 30 (1.19%) VMware
9 29 (1.15%) AppDynamics
10 25 (0.99%) Palantir
11 24 (0.95%) Adobe
11 24 (0.95%) Dynatrace
12 21 (0.83%) OpenAI
13 18 (0.72%) ServiceNow
14 17 (0.68%) Databricks
15 16 (0.64%) Foundry
16 14 (0.56%) Salesforce
17 13 (0.52%) SendGrid
18 12 (0.48%) Bloomberg
18 12 (0.48%) Veracode