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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 27 35
Rank change year-on-year -38 +8 -16
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,224 2,811 4,482
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.71% 7.16% 5.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.23% 22.32% 16.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,418 1,423 3,421
10th Percentile £44,375 £40,000 £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 £98,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £137,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -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 14,598 12,596 27,165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.76% 32.08% 32.07%
Number of salaries quoted 10,329 8,774 22,360
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 21 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 21 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 -7 1,058 £90,000 -14.29% 298
North of England -39 590 £69,305 +2.67% 181
North West -51 246 £70,000 -6.04% 81
Yorkshire +26 244 £72,500 +0.71% 48
South East -39 216 £67,500 +3.85% 118
South West -35 180 £60,250 +0.42% 72
Midlands -97 103 £57,500 +7.10% 46
North East -3 100 £52,500 -4.55% 52
West Midlands -75 87 £56,250 +2.27% 27
East of England -63 50 £52,500 +10.53% 34
East Midlands -85 15 £60,000 +29.73% 19
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 44 (1.98%) Apache
2 38 (1.71%) Apache Spark
3 36 (1.62%) Confluence
4 29 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (0.72%) JBoss
6 15 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
7 13 (0.58%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.36%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.31%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.27%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.22%) GeoServer
11 5 (0.22%) IIS
12 4 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.18%) Anypoint
12 4 (0.18%) Camunda
12 4 (0.18%) CMS
12 4 (0.18%) Moodle
13 3 (0.13%) CICS
13 3 (0.13%) Liferay
Applications
1 11 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.40%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.13%) 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 6 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.13%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.13%) 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
1 921 (41.41%) AWS
2 419 (18.84%) Azure
3 269 (12.10%) GCP
4 191 (8.59%) Serverless
5 137 (6.16%) AWS CloudFormation
6 126 (5.67%) Amazon S3
7 120 (5.40%) SaaS
8 119 (5.35%) AWS Lambda
9 116 (5.22%) Amazon ECS
10 111 (4.99%) Amazon EKS
11 93 (4.18%) GitHub
12 79 (3.55%) AWS Step Functions
13 61 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
14 54 (2.43%) Amazon ECR
14 54 (2.43%) Apigee
15 43 (1.93%) Amazon SQS
16 37 (1.66%) dbt
17 36 (1.62%) Amazon EC2
17 36 (1.62%) OpenShift
18 33 (1.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.25%) Broadband
2 33 (1.48%) HTTP
3 27 (1.21%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.40%) 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 (0.13%) BGP
8 3 (0.13%) Network Security
8 3 (0.13%) PuTTY
8 3 (0.13%) VLAN
8 3 (0.13%) 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
1 188 (8.45%) NoSQL
2 167 (7.51%) PostgreSQL
3 108 (4.86%) Relational Database
4 102 (4.59%) MongoDB
5 100 (4.50%) DynamoDB
6 70 (3.15%) SQL Server
7 68 (3.06%) MySQL
8 44 (1.98%) RDBMS
9 36 (1.62%) Amazon Athena
10 32 (1.44%) Big Data
10 32 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
11 26 (1.17%) DB2
12 24 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
12 24 (1.08%) Hadoop
13 21 (0.94%) BigQuery
14 19 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
14 19 (0.85%) Redis
15 17 (0.76%) Neo4j
16 14 (0.63%) Metadata
16 14 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 187 (8.41%) Jenkins
2 178 (8.00%) Git
3 158 (7.10%) GitLab
4 93 (4.18%) JIRA
5 88 (3.96%) Selenium
6 87 (3.91%) Maven
7 73 (3.28%) Cypress.io
8 72 (3.24%) Cucumber
9 66 (2.97%) SonarQube
10 61 (2.74%) TeamCity
11 60 (2.70%) JUnit
12 45 (2.02%) Postman
13 34 (1.53%) JMeter
14 29 (1.30%) Bitbucket
15 27 (1.21%) Mockito
15 27 (1.21%) SoapUI
15 27 (1.21%) WebDriver
16 26 (1.17%) Gradle
16 26 (1.17%) Team Foundation Server
17 25 (1.12%) REST Assured
General
1 549 (24.69%) Finance
2 358 (16.10%) Social Skills
3 238 (10.70%) Banking
4 194 (8.72%) Public Sector
5 159 (7.15%) Analytical Skills
6 153 (6.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 115 (5.17%) Front Office
8 113 (5.08%) Law
9 95 (4.27%) Retail
10 68 (3.06%) Financial Institution
11 50 (2.25%) Back Office
12 46 (2.07%) Investment Banking
13 32 (1.44%) Games
14 25 (1.12%) Telecoms
15 24 (1.08%) Aerospace
15 24 (1.08%) Health Technology
16 21 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
17 20 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
18 18 (0.81%) Marketing
19 17 (0.76%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 832 (37.41%) Developer
2 562 (25.27%) Senior
3 547 (24.60%) Java Developer
4 520 (23.38%) Software Engineer
5 363 (16.32%) Java Engineer
6 343 (15.42%) Lead
7 220 (9.89%) Senior Developer
8 178 (8.00%) Java Software Engineer
9 168 (7.55%) Senior Software Engineer
10 157 (7.06%) Senior Java Developer
11 155 (6.97%) Full-Stack Developer
12 129 (5.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 110 (4.95%) Lead Software Engineer
14 109 (4.90%) Senior Java Engineer
15 107 (4.81%) Software Developer
16 96 (4.32%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 79 (3.55%) Architect
18 65 (2.92%) Lead Developer
19 59 (2.65%) Senior Java Software Engineer
20 53 (2.38%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 479 (21.54%) Spring
2 425 (19.11%) Spring Boot
3 303 (13.62%) React
4 236 (10.61%) REST
5 228 (10.25%) AngularJS
6 200 (8.99%) Node.js
7 194 (8.72%) Kafka
8 166 (7.46%) .NET
9 131 (5.89%) RESTful
10 98 (4.41%) HTML
11 84 (3.78%) Web Services
12 81 (3.64%) SOAP
13 75 (3.37%) CSS
14 66 (2.97%) Elastic Stack
15 65 (2.92%) GraphQL
16 64 (2.88%) Vue
17 62 (2.79%) JSON
18 55 (2.47%) Gherkin
19 50 (2.25%) Hibernate
20 46 (2.07%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 245 (11.02%) Cloud Native
2 176 (7.91%) Distributed Systems
3 140 (6.29%) Product Ownership
4 85 (3.82%) Public Cloud
5 51 (2.29%) Fixed Income
6 48 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 44 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
8 41 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
9 40 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
10 37 (1.66%) Distributed Architecture
11 36 (1.62%) Blog
12 34 (1.53%) Equities
13 32 (1.44%) Data Structures
13 32 (1.44%) Mobile App
14 29 (1.30%) e-Learning
15 28 (1.26%) Virtual Team
16 20 (0.90%) FPGA
16 20 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
16 20 (0.90%) Management Information System
16 20 (0.90%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 197 (8.86%) Linux
2 50 (2.25%) Android
3 47 (2.11%) Unix
4 44 (1.98%) Windows
5 14 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.40%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.27%) CentOS
9 5 (0.22%) Debian
9 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.18%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.045%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 798 (35.88%) Agile
2 752 (33.81%) Software Engineering
3 680 (30.58%) CI/CD
4 527 (23.70%) DevOps
5 477 (21.45%) Microservices
6 451 (20.28%) Full-Stack Development
7 404 (18.17%) Test Automation
8 398 (17.90%) Mentoring
9 327 (14.70%) Problem-Solving
10 248 (11.15%) AI
11 239 (10.75%) Containerisation
12 232 (10.43%) Scrum
13 221 (9.94%) Continuous Improvement
14 220 (9.89%) TDD
15 212 (9.53%) Technical Leadership
16 209 (9.40%) Roadmaps
17 199 (8.95%) Infrastructure as Code
18 187 (8.41%) Computer Science
19 180 (8.09%) SDLC
20 165 (7.42%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 655 (29.45%) Python
2 436 (19.60%) SQL
3 426 (19.15%) JavaScript
4 275 (12.37%) TypeScript
5 234 (10.52%) C#
6 165 (7.42%) C++
7 154 (6.92%) Go
8 114 (5.13%) Bash
9 107 (4.81%) Kotlin
10 66 (2.97%) Groovy
11 63 (2.83%) C
12 47 (2.11%) Scala
13 36 (1.62%) Rust
14 35 (1.57%) PHP
14 35 (1.57%) PL/SQL
15 23 (1.03%) PowerShell
16 16 (0.72%) Apex Code
17 15 (0.67%) R
18 12 (0.54%) Shell Script
18 12 (0.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 336 (15.11%) Security Cleared
2 257 (11.56%) Degree
3 213 (9.58%) SC Cleared
4 127 (5.71%) DV Cleared
5 125 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 97 (4.36%) AWS Certification
7 36 (1.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 32 (1.44%) Master's Degree
9 28 (1.26%) ISTQB
10 25 (1.12%) 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 (0.85%) Azure Certification
14 17 (0.76%) DBS Check
15 14 (0.63%) CREST Certified
15 14 (0.63%) PhD
16 13 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
17 12 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (6.34%) QA
2 49 (2.20%) Accessibility
3 37 (1.66%) Data Quality
4 15 (0.67%) PCI DSS
5 14 (0.63%) GRC
6 12 (0.54%) SOC 2
7 10 (0.45%) WCAG
8 9 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 9 (0.40%) GDPR
9 5 (0.22%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 3 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 3 (0.13%) NIST
12 2 (0.090%) SLA
13 1 (0.045%) Good Clinical Practice
13 1 (0.045%) MiFID
13 1 (0.045%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 358 (16.10%) Docker
2 11 (0.49%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.36%) vSphere
4 6 (0.27%) Squid
4 6 (0.27%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.22%) Firmware
6 4 (0.18%) KVM
7 3 (0.13%) 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
1 419 (18.84%) Kubernetes
2 251 (11.29%) Terraform
3 98 (4.41%) Grafana
4 90 (4.05%) Ansible
5 52 (2.34%) Argo
6 46 (2.07%) Prometheus
7 45 (2.02%) HP Fortify
8 27 (1.21%) Kibana
9 18 (0.81%) Kustomize
10 13 (0.58%) Rancher
11 12 (0.54%) Packer
11 12 (0.54%) Puppet
12 9 (0.40%) logstash
13 7 (0.31%) yum
14 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (0.27%) ZABBIX
15 5 (0.22%) FTK
16 4 (0.18%) Progress Chef
17 3 (0.13%) AWS Copilot
17 3 (0.13%) Nagios
Vendors
1 90 (4.05%) Oracle
2 84 (3.78%) Microsoft
3 69 (3.10%) Google
4 33 (1.48%) IBM
4 33 (1.48%) Splunk
5 25 (1.12%) Salesforce
6 21 (0.94%) MuleSoft
7 19 (0.85%) Foundry
8 18 (0.81%) Dynatrace
8 18 (0.81%) Palantir
8 18 (0.81%) Red Hat
9 17 (0.76%) AppDynamics
10 15 (0.67%) VMware
11 14 (0.63%) Databricks
12 13 (0.58%) Atlassian
13 11 (0.49%) ServiceNow
13 11 (0.49%) Solace
14 10 (0.45%) Informatica
14 10 (0.45%) SAP
14 10 (0.45%) Talend