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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 33 23
Rank change year-on-year -34 -10 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,699 3,270 3,769
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.62% 5.46% 8.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.13% 16.62% 20.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,103 1,998 2,986
10th Percentile £42,040 £41,925 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,176 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £75,554
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +5.89% +0.74%
75th Percentile £113,750 £113,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £136,250 £142,500 £127,500
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 10,532 19,678 18,713
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 22.45% 32.87% 41.06%
Number of salaries quoted 7,860 11,802 15,499
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,683 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £107,500
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 28 November 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 28 November 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 -8 985 £105,000 +5.00% 301
North of England -10 268 £65,000 +8.33% 91
South East -79 169 £62,500 -2.34% 264
North West -16 129 £67,500 +10.20% 62
Yorkshire +38 117 £67,500 +22.73% 22
South West -50 117 £65,000 +4.00% 107
Midlands +25 112 £60,000 +50.00% 52
West Midlands +30 84 £62,500 +17.72% 35
East of England -73 38 £42,500 -37.04% 43
East Midlands +6 28 £57,500 +64.29% 17
North East -8 24 £55,000 -5.11% 7
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 89 (5.24%) Apache
2 86 (5.06%) Apache Airflow
3 56 (3.30%) Apache Spark
4 38 (2.24%) Confluence
5 17 (1.00%) JBoss
6 9 (0.53%) WebSphere
7 7 (0.41%) IIS
7 7 (0.41%) nginx
8 6 (0.35%) Anypoint
8 6 (0.35%) Mule
8 6 (0.35%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.29%) BizTalk Server
9 5 (0.29%) Camunda
9 5 (0.29%) SharePoint
10 4 (0.24%) Appian
11 3 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.18%) Luigi
11 3 (0.18%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.18%) Traefik
11 3 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (0.41%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.18%) Simulink
5 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.059%) Trello
6 1 (0.059%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
1 8 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.41%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.35%) Shopify
4 5 (0.29%) Maximo
5 4 (0.24%) Adaptiv
5 4 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.059%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.059%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.059%) Summit
7 1 (0.059%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 827 (48.68%) AWS
2 342 (20.13%) Azure
3 219 (12.89%) GCP
4 143 (8.42%) Serverless
5 100 (5.89%) Amazon EKS
6 94 (5.53%) SaaS
7 91 (5.36%) GitHub
8 81 (4.77%) AWS Lambda
9 73 (4.30%) dbt
10 72 (4.24%) Amazon ECS
11 69 (4.06%) Amazon EC2
11 69 (4.06%) Snowflake
12 68 (4.00%) Amazon S3
13 42 (2.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 40 (2.35%) OpenShift
15 39 (2.30%) GitHub Actions
16 31 (1.82%) Datadog
17 25 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
18 23 (1.35%) Amazon Kinesis
19 22 (1.29%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (2.06%) TCP/IP
2 25 (1.47%) HTTP
3 20 (1.18%) DNS
4 18 (1.06%) Firewall
5 16 (0.94%) SSH
6 14 (0.82%) FTP
6 14 (0.82%) SMTP
7 11 (0.65%) AMQP
7 11 (0.65%) VPN
8 10 (0.59%) Internet
9 9 (0.53%) Multicast
10 8 (0.47%) SAN
11 5 (0.29%) DHCP
12 4 (0.24%) Broadband
12 4 (0.24%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.24%) LAN
12 4 (0.24%) WAN
13 3 (0.18%) BGP
13 3 (0.18%) ICMP
13 3 (0.18%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
2 148 (8.71%) Relational Database
3 109 (6.42%) NoSQL
4 98 (5.77%) SQL Server
5 81 (4.77%) MongoDB
6 80 (4.71%) Data Lake
7 74 (4.36%) MySQL
8 62 (3.65%) Amazon Athena
8 62 (3.65%) Apache Iceberg
9 59 (3.47%) Apache Arrow
9 59 (3.47%) Dremio
10 56 (3.30%) Apache Ignite
10 56 (3.30%) Big Data
11 55 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
12 49 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
13 44 (2.59%) DynamoDB
14 43 (2.53%) RDBMS
15 41 (2.41%) Hadoop
16 31 (1.82%) BigQuery
17 26 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 178 (10.48%) Jenkins
2 142 (8.36%) Git
3 97 (5.71%) Selenium
4 91 (5.36%) JIRA
5 78 (4.59%) GitLab
6 74 (4.36%) JUnit
7 56 (3.30%) Cucumber
8 46 (2.71%) Cypress.io
9 39 (2.30%) JMeter
9 39 (2.30%) Postman
10 36 (2.12%) Maven
10 36 (2.12%) Mockito
11 34 (2.00%) TeamCity
12 32 (1.88%) Bitbucket
13 31 (1.82%) WebDriver
14 26 (1.53%) SonarQube
15 25 (1.47%) SoapUI
16 20 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
17 16 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
18 15 (0.88%) REST Assured
General
1 665 (39.14%) Finance
2 476 (28.02%) Social Skills
3 351 (20.66%) Banking
4 234 (13.77%) Law
5 205 (12.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 175 (10.30%) Front Office
7 156 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
8 140 (8.24%) Investment Banking
9 105 (6.18%) Public Sector
10 104 (6.12%) Financial Institution
11 65 (3.83%) Marketing
12 51 (3.00%) Retail
13 34 (2.00%) Back Office
14 31 (1.82%) Games
15 29 (1.71%) Legal
16 20 (1.18%) Manufacturing
16 20 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (1.06%) Billing
18 17 (1.00%) Aerospace
19 16 (0.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 579 (34.08%) Developer
2 482 (28.37%) Software Engineer
3 408 (24.01%) Senior
4 267 (15.72%) Java Developer
5 264 (15.54%) Java Engineer
5 264 (15.54%) Lead
6 188 (11.07%) Java Software Engineer
7 155 (9.12%) Senior Software Engineer
8 115 (6.77%) Lead Software Engineer
9 112 (6.59%) Senior Java Engineer
10 109 (6.42%) AWS Engineer
11 102 (6.00%) Architect
11 102 (6.00%) Full-Stack Developer
12 98 (5.77%) Senior Developer
13 88 (5.18%) Python Engineer
14 82 (4.83%) Senior Java Software Engineer
15 81 (4.77%) Python Software Engineer
16 72 (4.24%) AWS Software Engineer
17 63 (3.71%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 60 (3.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 368 (21.66%) Spring
2 321 (18.89%) React
3 287 (16.89%) Spring Boot
4 255 (15.01%) Kafka
5 170 (10.01%) REST
6 169 (9.95%) RESTful
7 162 (9.54%) .NET
8 149 (8.77%) Node.js
9 124 (7.30%) HTML
10 121 (7.12%) AngularJS
11 105 (6.18%) CSS
12 82 (4.83%) Hibernate
13 75 (4.41%) Pandas
14 65 (3.83%) gRPC
14 65 (3.83%) SOAP
14 65 (3.83%) Web Services
15 61 (3.59%) GraphQL
16 60 (3.53%) NumPy
17 59 (3.47%) SciPy
18 56 (3.30%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 308 (18.13%) Cloud Native
2 193 (11.36%) Distributed Systems
3 117 (6.89%) Equities
4 108 (6.36%) Fixed Income
5 107 (6.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 96 (5.65%) Derivative
7 80 (4.71%) Algorithms
8 69 (4.06%) Hedge funds
9 67 (3.94%) Self-Motivation
10 61 (3.59%) Product Ownership
11 58 (3.41%) Onboarding
12 55 (3.24%) Pricing Data
12 55 (3.24%) Public Cloud
13 51 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
14 42 (2.47%) Management Information System
15 37 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
16 36 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
17 32 (1.88%) Data Structures
18 31 (1.82%) Mobile App
19 30 (1.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 195 (11.48%) Linux
2 43 (2.53%) Windows
3 26 (1.53%) Android
4 25 (1.47%) Unix
5 14 (0.82%) VMS
6 13 (0.77%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.71%) Amazon Linux
8 7 (0.41%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.24%) CentOS
10 3 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.12%) Debian
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.059%) AIX
12 1 (0.059%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.059%) SUSE
12 1 (0.059%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 771 (45.38%) Agile
2 644 (37.90%) Software Engineering
3 562 (33.08%) CI/CD
4 407 (23.96%) Microservices
5 368 (21.66%) Problem-Solving
6 360 (21.19%) DevOps
7 262 (15.42%) Computer Science
8 259 (15.24%) Full-Stack Development
9 253 (14.89%) Test Automation
10 248 (14.60%) Mentoring
11 246 (14.48%) Continuous Improvement
12 235 (13.83%) SDLC
13 183 (10.77%) AI
14 166 (9.77%) TDD
15 165 (9.71%) Fintech
16 164 (9.65%) Containerisation
17 162 (9.54%) Scrum
18 141 (8.30%) Machine Learning
19 135 (7.95%) Clean Code
20 125 (7.36%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 700 (41.20%) Python
2 413 (24.31%) JavaScript
3 376 (22.13%) SQL
4 299 (17.60%) TypeScript
5 250 (14.71%) C#
6 170 (10.01%) C++
7 140 (8.24%) Go
8 117 (6.89%) Kotlin
9 95 (5.59%) C
10 73 (4.30%) Scala
11 54 (3.18%) PHP
12 40 (2.35%) Groovy
13 39 (2.30%) Shell Script
14 37 (2.18%) Bash
14 37 (2.18%) PowerShell
15 35 (2.06%) PL/SQL
16 26 (1.53%) Perl
16 26 (1.53%) Rust
17 23 (1.35%) Ruby
18 19 (1.12%) R
Qualifications
1 304 (17.89%) Degree
2 208 (12.24%) Security Cleared
3 149 (8.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 131 (7.71%) SC Cleared
5 83 (4.89%) AWS Certification
6 71 (4.18%) Master's Degree
7 61 (3.59%) DV Cleared
8 46 (2.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 39 (2.30%) Azure Certification
10 31 (1.82%) PhD
11 22 (1.29%) ISTQB
12 21 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
13 19 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
13 19 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
14 16 (0.94%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 12 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
16 9 (0.53%) HND
17 6 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
17 6 (0.35%) PMI Certification
17 6 (0.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (5.77%) QA
2 46 (2.71%) Accessibility
3 31 (1.82%) GDPR
4 17 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (0.65%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.65%) PCI DSS
6 10 (0.59%) ISO 9001
6 10 (0.59%) NIST
7 9 (0.53%) HIPAA
8 8 (0.47%) SLA
9 6 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.29%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.24%) EU AI Act
11 4 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.24%) SEPA
11 4 (0.24%) WCAG
12 3 (0.18%) NCSC
13 2 (0.12%) ITGC
13 2 (0.12%) PSD2
System Software
1 287 (16.89%) Docker
2 25 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.82%) Virtual Servers
5 11 (0.65%) HDFS
6 5 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.24%) DFS Replication
7 4 (0.24%) vSphere
8 3 (0.18%) Firmware
9 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
9 2 (0.12%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.059%) KVM
10 1 (0.059%) Squid
Systems Management
1 424 (24.96%) Kubernetes
2 128 (7.53%) Terraform
3 69 (4.06%) Grafana
4 52 (3.06%) Ansible
5 40 (2.35%) Kibana
6 37 (2.18%) Prometheus
7 20 (1.18%) Argo
8 12 (0.71%) Progress Chef
9 10 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.47%) Control-M
11 7 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
11 7 (0.41%) HP Fortify
12 5 (0.29%) logstash
12 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.24%) Nagios
13 4 (0.24%) Puppet
14 3 (0.18%) HAProxy
15 2 (0.12%) Oozie
15 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
15 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 124 (7.30%) Oracle
2 90 (5.30%) Microsoft
3 80 (4.71%) Google
4 37 (2.18%) Guidewire
5 34 (2.00%) Splunk
6 30 (1.77%) Atlassian
7 28 (1.65%) Databricks
8 25 (1.47%) Dynatrace
9 24 (1.41%) MuleSoft
10 23 (1.35%) SAP
11 18 (1.06%) IBM
11 18 (1.06%) Informatica
12 17 (1.00%) ServiceNow
13 14 (0.82%) Dell
13 14 (0.82%) Talend
14 13 (0.77%) Red Hat
15 11 (0.65%) Adobe
15 11 (0.65%) Salesforce
15 11 (0.65%) Solace
16 10 (0.59%) Foundry