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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 28 37
Rank change year-on-year -28 +9 -17
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,414 3,034 3,915
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.64% 6.97% 5.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.67% 23.43% 17.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,570 1,424 2,770
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £78,810 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.18% -1.49% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -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 16,459 12,949 22,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.03% 29.76% 29.58%
Number of salaries quoted 12,018 8,704 17,120
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,750 £46,250
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 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -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 31 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 31 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 -15 1,058 £85,000 -20.93% 744
North of England -25 683 £67,788 +0.43% 170
North West -33 311 £70,000 - 93
South West -17 250 £60,000 -2.04% 104
Yorkshire +39 226 £72,500 +7.41% 40
South East -59 209 £70,000 +7.69% 108
North East +6 146 £55,000 +18.92% 38
Midlands -84 137 £67,500 +12.50% 71
West Midlands -47 114 £67,500 +12.50% 56
East of England -59 54 £51,359 +16.73% 35
East Midlands -78 22 £60,000 +26.32% 15
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 59 (2.44%) Confluence
2 50 (2.07%) Apache
3 42 (1.74%) Apache Spark
4 30 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.62%) Camunda
5 15 (0.62%) Palantir Foundry
6 13 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 9 (0.37%) JBoss
8 8 (0.33%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
9 5 (0.21%) CMS
9 5 (0.21%) GeoServer
9 5 (0.21%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.17%) CICS
11 3 (0.12%) SAS
11 3 (0.12%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.083%) Documentum
12 2 (0.083%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.66%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.083%) Moqups
6 2 (0.083%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.083%) Windchill
7 1 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.041%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.041%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.041%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 15 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.33%) Maximo
3 5 (0.21%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.21%) Temenos T24
4 3 (0.12%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.12%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.083%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.041%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.041%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.041%) Endur
6 1 (0.041%) Findur
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.041%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 995 (41.22%) AWS
2 498 (20.63%) Azure
3 294 (12.18%) GCP
4 197 (8.16%) Serverless
5 154 (6.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 124 (5.14%) GitHub
7 123 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
8 117 (4.85%) Amazon ECS
9 111 (4.60%) Amazon S3
10 91 (3.77%) SaaS
11 90 (3.73%) Amazon EKS
12 75 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
13 64 (2.65%) AWS Step Functions
14 62 (2.57%) GitHub Actions
15 41 (1.70%) Amazon ECR
16 38 (1.57%) OpenShift
17 36 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 36 (1.49%) Apigee
18 35 (1.45%) Amazon SQS
18 35 (1.45%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 34 (1.41%) HTTP
2 32 (1.33%) Broadband
3 20 (0.83%) TCP/IP
4 17 (0.70%) Network Security
5 13 (0.54%) DMARC
6 8 (0.33%) IPv4
6 8 (0.33%) MQTT
6 8 (0.33%) Software-Defined Networking
7 6 (0.25%) BGP
7 6 (0.25%) DNS
7 6 (0.25%) IPsec
7 6 (0.25%) Kerberos
7 6 (0.25%) VPN
8 5 (0.21%) AMQP
8 5 (0.21%) Firewall
8 5 (0.21%) Internet
9 3 (0.12%) Ethernet
9 3 (0.12%) LAN
9 3 (0.12%) SAN
9 3 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (7.17%) PostgreSQL
2 169 (7.00%) NoSQL
3 126 (5.22%) MongoDB
4 113 (4.68%) Relational Database
5 85 (3.52%) MySQL
6 82 (3.40%) DynamoDB
7 73 (3.02%) SQL Server
8 38 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
9 35 (1.45%) Big Data
10 27 (1.12%) Redis
11 26 (1.08%) Db2
12 25 (1.04%) BigQuery
13 22 (0.91%) Hadoop
14 21 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
14 21 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
15 16 (0.66%) RDBMS
16 15 (0.62%) Metadata
17 14 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
18 13 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
18 13 (0.54%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 244 (10.11%) Git
2 189 (7.83%) Jenkins
3 173 (7.17%) GitLab
4 93 (3.85%) JIRA
5 85 (3.52%) Cucumber
6 83 (3.44%) JUnit
7 74 (3.07%) Maven
8 72 (2.98%) Selenium
9 60 (2.49%) Cypress.io
10 48 (1.99%) SonarQube
11 45 (1.86%) TeamCity
12 40 (1.66%) JMeter
13 39 (1.62%) Postman
14 36 (1.49%) Eclipse
15 34 (1.41%) Mockito
16 33 (1.37%) Subversion
17 32 (1.33%) Bitbucket
18 23 (0.95%) Claude Code
18 23 (0.95%) REST Assured
19 20 (0.83%) Gradle
General
1 644 (26.68%) Finance
2 385 (15.95%) Social Skills
3 234 (9.69%) Public Sector
4 216 (8.95%) Banking
5 177 (7.33%) Analytical Skills
6 120 (4.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 111 (4.60%) Front Office
8 90 (3.73%) Law
9 75 (3.11%) Retail
10 59 (2.44%) Financial Institution
11 42 (1.74%) Investment Banking
12 35 (1.45%) Health Technology
13 32 (1.33%) Back Office
14 29 (1.20%) Marketing
15 28 (1.16%) Manufacturing
16 24 (0.99%) Legal
17 23 (0.95%) Games
18 19 (0.79%) Aerospace
18 19 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
18 19 (0.79%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 850 (35.21%) Developer
2 605 (25.06%) Senior
3 557 (23.07%) Java Developer
4 553 (22.91%) Software Engineer
5 416 (17.23%) Java Engineer
6 344 (14.25%) Lead
7 206 (8.53%) Senior Developer
8 183 (7.58%) Senior Software Engineer
9 161 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
10 152 (6.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 141 (5.84%) Full-Stack Developer
12 135 (5.59%) Senior Java Developer
13 127 (5.26%) Senior Java Engineer
14 122 (5.05%) Software Developer
15 120 (4.97%) Lead Software Engineer
16 88 (3.65%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 78 (3.23%) Principal Engineer
18 76 (3.15%) DevOps Engineer
19 74 (3.07%) Architect
20 72 (2.98%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 560 (23.20%) Spring
2 468 (19.39%) Spring Boot
3 283 (11.72%) React
4 264 (10.94%) Kafka
5 234 (9.69%) AngularJS
6 225 (9.32%) REST
7 223 (9.24%) Node.js
8 181 (7.50%) RESTful
9 158 (6.55%) .NET
10 86 (3.56%) Web Services
11 78 (3.23%) CSS
12 71 (2.94%) HTML
13 70 (2.90%) GraphQL
14 65 (2.69%) Vue
15 54 (2.24%) OAuth
16 51 (2.11%) Playwright
17 49 (2.03%) Hibernate
18 47 (1.95%) JSON
19 46 (1.91%) RabbitMQ
20 44 (1.82%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 300 (12.43%) Cloud Native
2 222 (9.20%) Distributed Systems
3 154 (6.38%) Product Ownership
4 107 (4.43%) Public Cloud
5 64 (2.65%) Onboarding
6 56 (2.32%) Fixed Income
7 55 (2.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 55 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
8 51 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
9 41 (1.70%) Data Structures
9 41 (1.70%) Distributed Architecture
10 36 (1.49%) Mobile App
10 36 (1.49%) Virtual Team
11 35 (1.45%) e-Learning
12 33 (1.37%) Equities
13 31 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
14 27 (1.12%) Algorithms
15 22 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
16 21 (0.87%) Social Media
17 20 (0.83%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 216 (8.95%) Linux
2 61 (2.53%) Windows
3 43 (1.78%) Android
4 40 (1.66%) Unix
5 18 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (0.62%) Windows Server
7 13 (0.54%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.21%) CentOS
9 4 (0.17%) Debian
9 4 (0.17%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.17%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.083%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 851 (35.25%) Software Engineering
2 821 (34.01%) Agile
3 787 (32.60%) CI/CD
4 573 (23.74%) Microservices
5 568 (23.53%) DevOps
6 493 (20.42%) Test Automation
7 469 (19.43%) Full-Stack Development
8 422 (17.48%) Mentoring
9 396 (16.40%) Problem-Solving
10 346 (14.33%) AI
11 300 (12.43%) Containerisation
12 279 (11.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 276 (11.43%) Infrastructure as Code
14 251 (10.40%) TDD
15 230 (9.53%) Roadmaps
16 223 (9.24%) Computer Science
17 221 (9.15%) Technical Leadership
18 217 (8.99%) Scrum
19 202 (8.37%) SDLC
20 197 (8.16%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 788 (32.64%) Python
2 459 (19.01%) SQL
3 423 (17.52%) JavaScript
4 263 (10.89%) TypeScript
5 251 (10.40%) C#
6 230 (9.53%) C++
7 146 (6.05%) Go
8 112 (4.64%) Bash
9 106 (4.39%) Kotlin
10 71 (2.94%) Scala
11 67 (2.78%) C
12 59 (2.44%) Groovy
12 59 (2.44%) PHP
13 53 (2.20%) Rust
14 43 (1.78%) Perl
15 36 (1.49%) PowerShell
16 34 (1.41%) Ruby
17 31 (1.28%) PL/SQL
18 20 (0.83%) Shell Script
19 13 (0.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 415 (17.19%) Security Cleared
2 271 (11.23%) Degree
3 240 (9.94%) SC Cleared
4 154 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 145 (6.01%) DV Cleared
6 98 (4.06%) AWS Certification
7 57 (2.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 28 (1.16%) Master's Degree
9 21 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
10 20 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 18 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
11 18 (0.75%) ISTQB
11 18 (0.75%) OSCP
12 14 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.50%) DBS Check
15 10 (0.41%) CREST Certified
16 9 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
17 8 (0.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 8 (0.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (6.50%) QA
2 73 (3.02%) Accessibility
3 53 (2.20%) Data Quality
4 26 (1.08%) WCAG
5 21 (0.87%) GDPR
6 14 (0.58%) GRC
7 12 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.50%) NIST
8 9 (0.37%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.29%) ISO 20022
9 7 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.29%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 3 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.12%) PSD2
12 2 (0.083%) Good Clinical Practice
12 2 (0.083%) MiFID
12 2 (0.083%) Software Quality Assurance
12 2 (0.083%) UCITS
System Software
1 383 (15.87%) Docker
2 21 (0.87%) Active Directory
2 21 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.46%) vSphere
4 8 (0.33%) Squid
4 8 (0.33%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.25%) Firmware
5 6 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.21%) KVM
7 3 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.083%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 437 (18.10%) Kubernetes
2 275 (11.39%) Terraform
3 111 (4.60%) Ansible
4 92 (3.81%) Grafana
5 35 (1.45%) Prometheus
6 28 (1.16%) Argo
6 28 (1.16%) HP Fortify
6 28 (1.16%) Kibana
7 15 (0.62%) Puppet
8 13 (0.54%) Packer
9 11 (0.46%) Rancher
10 10 (0.41%) logstash
11 8 (0.33%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.25%) Hadoop YARN
12 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
12 6 (0.25%) yum
13 5 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
14 4 (0.17%) Control-M
15 3 (0.12%) Oracle RMAN
15 3 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 97 (4.02%) Microsoft
1 97 (4.02%) Oracle
2 71 (2.94%) Google
3 61 (2.53%) Splunk
4 43 (1.78%) IBM
5 32 (1.33%) SAP
6 26 (1.08%) Red Hat
7 25 (1.04%) VMware
8 24 (0.99%) AppDynamics
8 24 (0.99%) Palantir
9 23 (0.95%) Dynatrace
10 22 (0.91%) Adobe
11 21 (0.87%) ServiceNow
12 20 (0.83%) Salesforce
13 19 (0.79%) Foundry
14 18 (0.75%) OpenAI
15 13 (0.54%) Databricks
15 13 (0.54%) SendGrid
16 12 (0.50%) MuleSoft
17 11 (0.46%) Solace