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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 30 36
Rank change year-on-year -28 +6 -16
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,451 2,902 3,820
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.58% 6.60% 5.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.60% 23.03% 17.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,566 1,329 2,632
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 £115,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £135,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +3.23%

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 16,784 12,601 21,363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.70% 28.65% 29.61%
Number of salaries quoted 12,203 8,420 15,711
10th Percentile £38,250 £33,750 £36,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,617 £61,305
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +2.14% -5.68%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,625
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -14 1,053 £85,000 -19.05% 1,158
North of England -28 687 £68,076 +1.55% 257
North West -36 308 £70,000 - 144
South West -11 274 £60,000 - 126
Yorkshire +45 217 £75,000 +13.21% 60
South East -59 213 £67,500 +3.85% 163
North East +3 162 £55,000 +18.92% 55
Midlands -67 150 £67,500 +12.50% 111
West Midlands -32 128 £67,500 +8.00% 79
East of England -63 55 £51,359 +16.73% 65
East Midlands -79 22 £60,000 +26.32% 32
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 (2.53%) Confluence
2 54 (2.20%) Apache
3 39 (1.59%) Apache Spark
4 24 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.73%) Camunda
6 15 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
7 14 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.37%) JBoss
8 9 (0.37%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
10 7 (0.29%) CICS
10 7 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 7 (0.29%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.20%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.20%) SharePoint
12 4 (0.16%) CMS
12 4 (0.16%) GeoServer
12 4 (0.16%) SAS
13 3 (0.12%) nginx
13 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.65%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.16%) Moqups
6 3 (0.12%) Simulink
7 2 (0.082%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.082%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.082%) PTC Creo
7 2 (0.082%) Windchill
8 1 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.041%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.29%) Maximo
3 5 (0.20%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.20%) Temenos T24
4 4 (0.16%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.12%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.082%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.082%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 1 (0.041%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.041%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.041%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.041%) Endur
7 1 (0.041%) Findur
7 1 (0.041%) Infor SunSystems
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.041%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.041%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,003 (40.92%) AWS
2 522 (21.30%) Azure
3 292 (11.91%) GCP
4 194 (7.92%) Serverless
5 156 (6.36%) AWS CloudFormation
6 142 (5.79%) GitHub
7 125 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
8 113 (4.61%) Amazon ECS
9 110 (4.49%) Amazon S3
10 96 (3.92%) SaaS
11 83 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
12 80 (3.26%) Amazon EKS
13 75 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
14 63 (2.57%) AWS Step Functions
15 40 (1.63%) OpenShift
16 39 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 37 (1.51%) Amazon ECR
18 35 (1.43%) Azure Service Bus
18 35 (1.43%) Datadog
19 34 (1.39%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.47%) HTTP
2 27 (1.10%) Broadband
3 17 (0.69%) Network Security
3 17 (0.69%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.53%) DMARC
5 9 (0.37%) MQTT
5 9 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
6 8 (0.33%) DNS
6 8 (0.33%) IPv4
6 8 (0.33%) VPN
7 6 (0.24%) AMQP
7 6 (0.24%) BGP
7 6 (0.24%) IPsec
7 6 (0.24%) Kerberos
8 5 (0.20%) Ethernet
8 5 (0.20%) Firewall
8 5 (0.20%) Internet
9 3 (0.12%) LAN
9 3 (0.12%) RIP
9 3 (0.12%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (6.57%) PostgreSQL
2 158 (6.45%) NoSQL
3 123 (5.02%) Relational Database
4 119 (4.86%) MongoDB
5 83 (3.39%) DynamoDB
6 80 (3.26%) MySQL
6 80 (3.26%) SQL Server
7 40 (1.63%) Big Data
8 39 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
9 29 (1.18%) Db2
10 27 (1.10%) Redis
11 25 (1.02%) Hadoop
12 21 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
12 21 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
13 19 (0.78%) BigQuery
14 16 (0.65%) Data Lake
15 15 (0.61%) RDBMS
16 14 (0.57%) Power BI
17 13 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
17 13 (0.53%) Flink
Development Applications
1 270 (11.02%) Git
2 203 (8.28%) Jenkins
3 174 (7.10%) GitLab
4 96 (3.92%) JIRA
5 94 (3.84%) JUnit
6 88 (3.59%) Cucumber
7 74 (3.02%) Maven
7 74 (3.02%) Selenium
8 63 (2.57%) Cypress.io
9 49 (2.00%) SonarQube
10 42 (1.71%) Postman
11 41 (1.67%) Eclipse
12 40 (1.63%) Mockito
13 39 (1.59%) TeamCity
14 38 (1.55%) JMeter
15 35 (1.43%) Bitbucket
16 34 (1.39%) Subversion
17 25 (1.02%) Claude Code
18 21 (0.86%) REST Assured
19 19 (0.78%) Gradle
General
1 661 (26.97%) Finance
2 417 (17.01%) Social Skills
3 245 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 216 (8.81%) Banking
5 179 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
6 125 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 89 (3.63%) Front Office
8 86 (3.51%) Law
9 64 (2.61%) Retail
10 57 (2.33%) Financial Institution
11 40 (1.63%) Investment Banking
12 37 (1.51%) Marketing
13 32 (1.31%) Health Technology
14 31 (1.26%) Legal
15 29 (1.18%) Manufacturing
16 26 (1.06%) Back Office
17 22 (0.90%) Aerospace
17 22 (0.90%) Games
18 20 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
18 20 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 831 (33.90%) Developer
2 625 (25.50%) Senior
3 557 (22.73%) Software Engineer
4 544 (22.20%) Java Developer
5 416 (16.97%) Java Engineer
6 351 (14.32%) Lead
7 211 (8.61%) Senior Developer
8 198 (8.08%) Senior Software Engineer
9 147 (6.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 144 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
11 136 (5.55%) Full-Stack Developer
12 134 (5.47%) Senior Java Developer
13 133 (5.43%) Senior Java Engineer
14 122 (4.98%) Software Developer
15 114 (4.65%) Lead Software Engineer
16 87 (3.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 81 (3.30%) Principal Engineer
18 80 (3.26%) Architect
19 77 (3.14%) DevOps Engineer
20 71 (2.90%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 577 (23.54%) Spring
2 478 (19.50%) Spring Boot
3 279 (11.38%) React
4 259 (10.57%) Kafka
5 240 (9.79%) REST
6 232 (9.47%) AngularJS
7 218 (8.89%) Node.js
8 192 (7.83%) RESTful
9 169 (6.90%) .NET
10 87 (3.55%) Web Services
11 79 (3.22%) CSS
12 70 (2.86%) HTML
13 63 (2.57%) Vue
14 55 (2.24%) OAuth
15 54 (2.20%) GraphQL
16 53 (2.16%) RabbitMQ
17 52 (2.12%) Hibernate
18 50 (2.04%) Playwright
19 45 (1.84%) Jakarta EE
20 44 (1.80%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 301 (12.28%) Cloud Native
2 244 (9.96%) Distributed Systems
3 162 (6.61%) Product Ownership
4 114 (4.65%) Public Cloud
5 76 (3.10%) Onboarding
6 59 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
6 59 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
7 53 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 44 (1.80%) Distributed Architecture
9 40 (1.63%) Data Structures
9 40 (1.63%) Virtual Team
10 39 (1.59%) Fixed Income
11 38 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
12 37 (1.51%) e-Learning
13 34 (1.39%) Algorithms
13 34 (1.39%) Mobile App
14 33 (1.35%) Equities
15 29 (1.18%) AI Agents
16 22 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
16 22 (0.90%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 226 (9.22%) Linux
2 70 (2.86%) Windows
3 40 (1.63%) Unix
4 39 (1.59%) Android
5 20 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 17 (0.69%) Windows Server
7 16 (0.65%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.24%) CentOS
9 5 (0.20%) Debian
9 5 (0.20%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.16%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.082%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.082%) VMS
13 1 (0.041%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 867 (35.37%) Software Engineering
2 810 (33.05%) Agile
3 809 (33.01%) CI/CD
4 584 (23.83%) Microservices
5 581 (23.70%) DevOps
6 485 (19.79%) Test Automation
7 460 (18.77%) Full-Stack Development
8 425 (17.34%) Mentoring
9 424 (17.30%) Problem-Solving
10 374 (15.26%) AI
11 319 (13.02%) Containerisation
12 299 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
13 290 (11.83%) Continuous Improvement
14 246 (10.04%) Roadmaps
14 246 (10.04%) Technical Leadership
15 239 (9.75%) TDD
16 228 (9.30%) Computer Science
17 220 (8.98%) Event-Driven
17 220 (8.98%) Scrum
18 214 (8.73%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 814 (33.21%) Python
2 454 (18.52%) SQL
3 432 (17.63%) JavaScript
4 270 (11.02%) C#
5 257 (10.49%) TypeScript
6 243 (9.91%) C++
7 135 (5.51%) Go
8 114 (4.65%) Bash
8 114 (4.65%) Kotlin
9 76 (3.10%) C
10 72 (2.94%) Scala
11 62 (2.53%) PHP
12 58 (2.37%) Rust
13 56 (2.28%) Groovy
14 47 (1.92%) Perl
15 40 (1.63%) PowerShell
16 37 (1.51%) Ruby
17 33 (1.35%) PL/SQL
18 20 (0.82%) Shell Script
19 14 (0.57%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 456 (18.60%) Security Cleared
2 278 (11.34%) Degree
3 254 (10.36%) SC Cleared
4 159 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 159 (6.49%) DV Cleared
5 98 (4.00%) AWS Certification
6 58 (2.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 25 (1.02%) Master's Degree
8 20 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 19 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
10 18 (0.73%) ISTQB
11 17 (0.69%) OSCP
12 13 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (0.49%) DBS Check
14 9 (0.37%) CREST Certified
15 8 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
15 8 (0.33%) Azure Certification
15 8 (0.33%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (6.57%) QA
2 83 (3.39%) Accessibility
3 57 (2.33%) Data Quality
4 29 (1.18%) WCAG
5 21 (0.86%) GDPR
6 15 (0.61%) NIST
7 14 (0.57%) GRC
8 13 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.37%) ISO 20022
10 7 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.24%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 14443
12 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 4 (0.16%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.12%) MiFID
13 3 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
13 3 (0.12%) PSD2
13 3 (0.12%) UCITS
14 2 (0.082%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 409 (16.69%) Docker
2 26 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (0.90%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.49%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.45%) vSphere
6 8 (0.33%) Firmware
6 8 (0.33%) Squid
6 8 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
8 5 (0.20%) KVM
9 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.082%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 453 (18.48%) Kubernetes
2 282 (11.51%) Terraform
3 126 (5.14%) Ansible
4 81 (3.30%) Grafana
5 32 (1.31%) Prometheus
6 27 (1.10%) Argo
6 27 (1.10%) Kibana
7 25 (1.02%) HP Fortify
8 22 (0.90%) Puppet
9 12 (0.49%) Packer
10 10 (0.41%) logstash
10 10 (0.41%) Rancher
11 8 (0.33%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.24%) Hadoop YARN
12 6 (0.24%) Kubeflow
12 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.20%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (0.20%) yum
14 4 (0.16%) Control-M
14 4 (0.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 109 (4.45%) Oracle
2 104 (4.24%) Microsoft
3 79 (3.22%) Google
4 61 (2.49%) Splunk
5 45 (1.84%) IBM
6 35 (1.43%) Red Hat
6 35 (1.43%) SAP
7 30 (1.22%) VMware
8 26 (1.06%) AppDynamics
9 24 (0.98%) Adobe
9 24 (0.98%) Dynatrace
9 24 (0.98%) Palantir
10 21 (0.86%) ServiceNow
11 19 (0.78%) Foundry
11 19 (0.78%) OpenAI
11 19 (0.78%) Salesforce
12 16 (0.65%) Databricks
13 13 (0.53%) SendGrid
14 12 (0.49%) Bloomberg
14 12 (0.49%) MuleSoft