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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 27 35
Rank change year-on-year -40 +8 -17
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,213 2,820 4,479
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.69% 7.16% 5.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.21% 22.23% 16.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,410 1,433 3,420
10th Percentile £44,200 £41,050 £39,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £73,805
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +1.62% -7.74%
75th Percentile £93,750 £115,000 £98,474
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £137,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £74,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.04% +6.43% -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 14,550 12,686 27,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.70% 32.20% 32.07%
Number of salaries quoted 10,297 8,850 22,385
10th Percentile £36,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £86,250 £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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -5 1,057 £90,000 -14.29% 340
North of England -38 585 £69,305 +2.67% 410
North West -51 245 £70,000 -6.04% 161
Yorkshire +23 241 £72,500 +0.71% 164
South East -43 215 £67,500 +3.85% 255
South West -38 179 £60,500 +0.83% 137
Midlands -103 101 £56,250 +4.77% 195
North East -3 99 £52,500 -4.55% 85
West Midlands -65 84 £55,000 - 107
East of England -70 50 £52,500 +5.00% 72
East Midlands -92 16 £54,500 +17.84% 80
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 43 (1.94%) Apache
2 37 (1.67%) Apache Spark
2 37 (1.67%) Confluence
3 29 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (0.72%) JBoss
5 15 (0.68%) Palantir Foundry
6 13 (0.59%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.32%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.23%) GeoServer
9 5 (0.23%) IIS
9 5 (0.23%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.18%) Anypoint
10 4 (0.18%) Camunda
10 4 (0.18%) CMS
10 4 (0.18%) Moodle
11 3 (0.14%) CICS
11 3 (0.14%) Liferay
Applications
1 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.45%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.14%) Windchill
6 2 (0.090%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.045%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.045%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 12 (0.54%) Maximo
2 5 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.14%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.14%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.14%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.090%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.045%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.045%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.045%) Endur
5 1 (0.045%) Findur
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.045%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.045%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 911 (41.17%) AWS
2 410 (18.53%) Azure
3 266 (12.02%) GCP
4 190 (8.59%) Serverless
5 135 (6.10%) AWS CloudFormation
6 125 (5.65%) Amazon S3
7 120 (5.42%) SaaS
8 118 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
9 115 (5.20%) Amazon ECS
10 111 (5.02%) Amazon EKS
11 93 (4.20%) GitHub
12 78 (3.52%) AWS Step Functions
13 60 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
14 54 (2.44%) Amazon ECR
14 54 (2.44%) Apigee
15 43 (1.94%) Amazon SQS
16 37 (1.67%) dbt
17 36 (1.63%) Amazon EC2
17 36 (1.63%) OpenShift
18 33 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.26%) Broadband
2 34 (1.54%) HTTP
3 27 (1.22%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.41%) AMQP
5 8 (0.36%) Internet
6 6 (0.27%) IPv4
6 6 (0.27%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (0.18%) MQTT
8 3 (0.14%) BGP
8 3 (0.14%) Network Security
8 3 (0.14%) PuTTY
8 3 (0.14%) VLAN
8 3 (0.14%) VPN
9 2 (0.090%) DMARC
9 2 (0.090%) Firewall
9 2 (0.090%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.090%) LAN
9 2 (0.090%) SAN
9 2 (0.090%) WAN
10 1 (0.045%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (8.18%) NoSQL
2 164 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
3 108 (4.88%) Relational Database
4 99 (4.47%) DynamoDB
4 99 (4.47%) MongoDB
5 72 (3.25%) SQL Server
6 65 (2.94%) MySQL
7 44 (1.99%) RDBMS
8 35 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
9 32 (1.45%) Big Data
10 31 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
11 27 (1.22%) DB2
12 24 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
13 23 (1.04%) Hadoop
14 21 (0.95%) BigQuery
15 19 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
15 19 (0.86%) Redis
16 17 (0.77%) Neo4j
17 14 (0.63%) Metadata
17 14 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 186 (8.40%) Jenkins
2 174 (7.86%) Git
3 157 (7.09%) GitLab
4 93 (4.20%) JIRA
5 89 (4.02%) Selenium
6 85 (3.84%) Maven
7 73 (3.30%) Cypress.io
8 72 (3.25%) Cucumber
9 66 (2.98%) SonarQube
10 62 (2.80%) TeamCity
11 57 (2.58%) JUnit
12 45 (2.03%) Postman
13 33 (1.49%) JMeter
14 30 (1.36%) Bitbucket
15 27 (1.22%) SoapUI
15 27 (1.22%) WebDriver
16 26 (1.17%) Gradle
16 26 (1.17%) Team Foundation Server
17 25 (1.13%) Mockito
17 25 (1.13%) REST Assured
General
1 549 (24.81%) Finance
2 356 (16.09%) Social Skills
3 241 (10.89%) Banking
4 188 (8.50%) Public Sector
5 159 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
6 153 (6.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 115 (5.20%) Front Office
8 113 (5.11%) Law
9 95 (4.29%) Retail
10 68 (3.07%) Financial Institution
11 50 (2.26%) Back Office
12 46 (2.08%) Investment Banking
13 32 (1.45%) Games
14 25 (1.13%) Telecoms
15 24 (1.08%) Aerospace
15 24 (1.08%) Health Technology
16 22 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
17 20 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
18 18 (0.81%) Marketing
19 16 (0.72%) Billing
Job Titles
1 827 (37.37%) Developer
2 561 (25.35%) Senior
3 542 (24.49%) Java Developer
4 519 (23.45%) Software Engineer
5 362 (16.36%) Java Engineer
6 341 (15.41%) Lead
7 219 (9.90%) Senior Developer
8 179 (8.09%) Java Software Engineer
9 168 (7.59%) Senior Software Engineer
10 156 (7.05%) Senior Java Developer
11 152 (6.87%) Full-Stack Developer
12 128 (5.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 109 (4.93%) Senior Java Engineer
14 108 (4.88%) Lead Software Engineer
15 107 (4.84%) Software Developer
16 93 (4.20%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 79 (3.57%) Architect
18 64 (2.89%) Lead Developer
19 59 (2.67%) Senior Java Software Engineer
20 52 (2.35%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 473 (21.37%) Spring
2 421 (19.02%) Spring Boot
3 300 (13.56%) React
4 236 (10.66%) REST
5 225 (10.17%) AngularJS
6 197 (8.90%) Node.js
7 190 (8.59%) Kafka
8 164 (7.41%) .NET
9 128 (5.78%) RESTful
10 98 (4.43%) HTML
11 84 (3.80%) Web Services
12 81 (3.66%) SOAP
13 75 (3.39%) CSS
14 66 (2.98%) Elastic Stack
15 65 (2.94%) GraphQL
16 63 (2.85%) Vue
17 62 (2.80%) JSON
18 56 (2.53%) Gherkin
19 50 (2.26%) Hibernate
20 46 (2.08%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 243 (10.98%) Cloud Native
2 174 (7.86%) Distributed Systems
3 139 (6.28%) Product Ownership
4 85 (3.84%) Public Cloud
5 51 (2.30%) Fixed Income
6 48 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 43 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
8 39 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
8 39 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
9 37 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
10 36 (1.63%) Blog
11 34 (1.54%) Equities
12 32 (1.45%) Data Structures
12 32 (1.45%) Mobile App
13 28 (1.27%) e-Learning
13 28 (1.27%) Virtual Team
14 20 (0.90%) FPGA
14 20 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
14 20 (0.90%) Management Information System
14 20 (0.90%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 195 (8.81%) Linux
2 51 (2.30%) Android
3 46 (2.08%) Unix
4 44 (1.99%) Windows
5 14 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.41%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.27%) CentOS
9 5 (0.23%) Debian
9 5 (0.23%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.18%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.045%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 788 (35.61%) Agile
2 748 (33.80%) Software Engineering
3 670 (30.28%) CI/CD
4 521 (23.54%) DevOps
5 468 (21.15%) Microservices
6 446 (20.15%) Full-Stack Development
7 401 (18.12%) Test Automation
8 392 (17.71%) Mentoring
9 327 (14.78%) Problem-Solving
10 246 (11.12%) AI
11 234 (10.57%) Containerisation
12 231 (10.44%) Scrum
13 220 (9.94%) Continuous Improvement
14 214 (9.67%) TDD
15 209 (9.44%) Roadmaps
16 208 (9.40%) Technical Leadership
17 197 (8.90%) Infrastructure as Code
18 184 (8.31%) Computer Science
19 178 (8.04%) SDLC
20 165 (7.46%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 651 (29.42%) Python
2 425 (19.20%) SQL
3 418 (18.89%) JavaScript
4 273 (12.34%) TypeScript
5 232 (10.48%) C#
6 165 (7.46%) C++
7 152 (6.87%) Go
8 112 (5.06%) Bash
9 106 (4.79%) Kotlin
10 66 (2.98%) Groovy
11 65 (2.94%) C
12 46 (2.08%) Scala
13 36 (1.63%) PHP
13 36 (1.63%) Rust
14 32 (1.45%) PL/SQL
15 23 (1.04%) PowerShell
16 16 (0.72%) Apex Code
17 15 (0.68%) R
18 12 (0.54%) Shell Script
18 12 (0.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 333 (15.05%) Security Cleared
2 254 (11.48%) Degree
3 211 (9.53%) SC Cleared
4 126 (5.69%) DV Cleared
5 122 (5.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 96 (4.34%) AWS Certification
7 35 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 32 (1.45%) Master's Degree
9 28 (1.27%) ISTQB
10 25 (1.13%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 20 (0.90%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 20 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
12 20 (0.90%) OSCP
13 19 (0.86%) Azure Certification
14 17 (0.77%) DBS Check
15 14 (0.63%) CREST Certified
15 14 (0.63%) PhD
16 13 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
17 12 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (6.42%) QA
2 48 (2.17%) Accessibility
3 37 (1.67%) Data Quality
4 15 (0.68%) PCI DSS
5 14 (0.63%) GRC
6 12 (0.54%) SOC 2
7 9 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
7 9 (0.41%) GDPR
7 9 (0.41%) WCAG
8 5 (0.23%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 3 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 3 (0.14%) NIST
11 2 (0.090%) SLA
12 1 (0.045%) Good Clinical Practice
12 1 (0.045%) MiFID
12 1 (0.045%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 353 (15.95%) Docker
2 11 (0.50%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.36%) vSphere
4 6 (0.27%) Squid
4 6 (0.27%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.23%) Firmware
6 4 (0.18%) KVM
7 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.090%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.090%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.045%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.045%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.045%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.045%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.045%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 415 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 251 (11.34%) Terraform
3 95 (4.29%) Grafana
4 89 (4.02%) Ansible
5 52 (2.35%) Argo
6 45 (2.03%) HP Fortify
7 44 (1.99%) Prometheus
8 25 (1.13%) Kibana
9 18 (0.81%) Kustomize
10 13 (0.59%) Rancher
11 12 (0.54%) Packer
11 12 (0.54%) Puppet
12 9 (0.41%) logstash
13 7 (0.32%) yum
14 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (0.27%) ZABBIX
15 5 (0.23%) FTK
16 4 (0.18%) Progress Chef
17 3 (0.14%) AWS Copilot
17 3 (0.14%) Nagios
Vendors
1 85 (3.84%) Oracle
2 83 (3.75%) Microsoft
3 69 (3.12%) Google
4 33 (1.49%) IBM
5 31 (1.40%) Splunk
6 25 (1.13%) Salesforce
7 21 (0.95%) MuleSoft
8 19 (0.86%) Foundry
9 18 (0.81%) Dynatrace
9 18 (0.81%) Palantir
9 18 (0.81%) Red Hat
10 17 (0.77%) AppDynamics
11 15 (0.68%) VMware
12 14 (0.63%) Atlassian
12 14 (0.63%) Databricks
13 11 (0.50%) Solace
14 10 (0.45%) Informatica
14 10 (0.45%) OpenAI
14 10 (0.45%) ServiceNow
14 10 (0.45%) Talend