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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 27 33
Rank change year-on-year -30 +6 -12
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,374 3,066 4,478
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.70% 7.09% 5.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.80% 23.51% 17.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,555 1,463 3,248
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,545 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.03% - -3.13%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -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 16,045 13,044 26,210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.22% 30.18% 30.69%
Number of salaries quoted 11,737 8,812 20,468
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £48,700 £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 £85,000 £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 18 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 18 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 -12 1,057 £85,000 -19.05% 335
North of England -25 669 £68,690 +1.76% 114
North West -35 301 £70,000 - 59
South West -20 230 £60,000 - 54
Yorkshire +35 228 £72,500 +3.57% 30
South East -59 213 £70,000 +7.69% 99
North East +4 140 £53,750 +19.44% 26
Midlands -85 121 £67,500 +14.41% 49
West Midlands -59 98 £67,500 +12.50% 39
East of England -60 54 £51,359 +16.73% 22
East Midlands -72 22 £60,000 +26.32% 10
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 56 (2.36%) Confluence
2 42 (1.77%) Apache
3 37 (1.56%) Apache Spark
4 26 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
6 11 (0.46%) Camunda
7 10 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 10 (0.42%) JBoss
8 8 (0.34%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
9 5 (0.21%) CMS
9 5 (0.21%) GeoServer
9 5 (0.21%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.13%) CICS
10 3 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.13%) SAS
10 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.084%) Documentum
11 2 (0.084%) Moodle
Applications
1 19 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.67%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.084%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.084%) PTC Creo
5 2 (0.084%) Windchill
6 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.042%) Moqups
6 1 (0.042%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 16 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.42%) Maximo
3 5 (0.21%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.21%) Temenos T24
4 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.084%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.084%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.042%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.042%) Endur
6 1 (0.042%) Findur
6 1 (0.042%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.042%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 989 (41.66%) AWS
2 477 (20.09%) Azure
3 293 (12.34%) GCP
4 207 (8.72%) Serverless
5 156 (6.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 129 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
7 121 (5.10%) Amazon ECS
8 119 (5.01%) Amazon S3
9 116 (4.89%) GitHub
10 109 (4.59%) SaaS
11 105 (4.42%) Amazon EKS
12 70 (2.95%) AWS Step Functions
13 68 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
14 57 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
15 43 (1.81%) Amazon ECR
16 39 (1.64%) Apigee
17 37 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 37 (1.56%) Amazon SQS
18 36 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
18 36 (1.52%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 38 (1.60%) Broadband
2 34 (1.43%) HTTP
3 24 (1.01%) TCP/IP
4 17 (0.72%) Network Security
5 13 (0.55%) DMARC
6 9 (0.38%) BGP
6 9 (0.38%) VPN
7 8 (0.34%) IPv4
7 8 (0.34%) MQTT
7 8 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
8 6 (0.25%) DNS
8 6 (0.25%) IPsec
9 5 (0.21%) AMQP
9 5 (0.21%) Internet
9 5 (0.21%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.13%) Firewall
10 3 (0.13%) VLAN
11 2 (0.084%) Ethernet
11 2 (0.084%) LAN
11 2 (0.084%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (7.58%) NoSQL
2 175 (7.37%) PostgreSQL
3 120 (5.05%) MongoDB
4 105 (4.42%) Relational Database
5 87 (3.66%) DynamoDB
6 80 (3.37%) MySQL
7 72 (3.03%) SQL Server
8 40 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
9 32 (1.35%) Big Data
10 28 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
11 27 (1.14%) Db2
12 25 (1.05%) BigQuery
12 25 (1.05%) RDBMS
12 25 (1.05%) Redis
13 20 (0.84%) Hadoop
14 19 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
15 18 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
16 15 (0.63%) Metadata
17 13 (0.55%) Geospatial Data
18 12 (0.51%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 230 (9.69%) Git
2 179 (7.54%) Jenkins
3 172 (7.25%) GitLab
4 88 (3.71%) JIRA
5 83 (3.50%) Cucumber
6 71 (2.99%) Maven
7 70 (2.95%) JUnit
8 66 (2.78%) Selenium
9 61 (2.57%) Cypress.io
10 54 (2.27%) TeamCity
11 51 (2.15%) SonarQube
12 38 (1.60%) JMeter
13 34 (1.43%) Postman
14 30 (1.26%) Mockito
15 29 (1.22%) Bitbucket
15 29 (1.22%) Subversion
16 28 (1.18%) Eclipse
17 23 (0.97%) Claude Code
18 22 (0.93%) Gradle
19 21 (0.88%) REST Assured
General
1 616 (25.95%) Finance
2 354 (14.91%) Social Skills
3 228 (9.60%) Public Sector
4 222 (9.35%) Banking
5 170 (7.16%) Analytical Skills
6 137 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 111 (4.68%) Front Office
8 98 (4.13%) Law
9 93 (3.92%) Retail
10 69 (2.91%) Financial Institution
11 45 (1.90%) Back Office
12 39 (1.64%) Investment Banking
13 34 (1.43%) Health Technology
14 25 (1.05%) Games
14 25 (1.05%) Manufacturing
15 21 (0.88%) Marketing
16 20 (0.84%) Legal
17 19 (0.80%) Aerospace
18 18 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
19 17 (0.72%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 864 (36.39%) Developer
2 585 (24.64%) Senior
3 569 (23.97%) Java Developer
4 542 (22.83%) Software Engineer
5 410 (17.27%) Java Engineer
6 343 (14.45%) Lead
7 208 (8.76%) Senior Developer
8 177 (7.46%) Senior Software Engineer
9 175 (7.37%) Java Software Engineer
10 143 (6.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 143 (6.02%) Senior Java Developer
11 142 (5.98%) Full-Stack Developer
12 125 (5.27%) Senior Java Engineer
12 125 (5.27%) Software Developer
13 118 (4.97%) Lead Software Engineer
14 91 (3.83%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 77 (3.24%) Architect
16 74 (3.12%) Consultant
17 69 (2.91%) DevOps Engineer
18 68 (2.86%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 536 (22.58%) Spring
2 457 (19.25%) Spring Boot
3 281 (11.84%) React
4 240 (10.11%) Kafka
5 235 (9.90%) AngularJS
6 227 (9.56%) Node.js
7 225 (9.48%) REST
8 168 (7.08%) RESTful
9 155 (6.53%) .NET
10 85 (3.58%) Web Services
11 75 (3.16%) CSS
12 68 (2.86%) HTML
12 68 (2.86%) Vue
13 64 (2.70%) GraphQL
14 50 (2.11%) OAuth
14 50 (2.11%) SOAP
15 49 (2.06%) Playwright
16 48 (2.02%) JSON
17 47 (1.98%) Hibernate
18 45 (1.90%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 291 (12.26%) Cloud Native
2 198 (8.34%) Distributed Systems
3 149 (6.28%) Product Ownership
4 105 (4.42%) Public Cloud
5 58 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 56 (2.36%) Onboarding
7 54 (2.27%) Fixed Income
8 50 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
9 43 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
10 41 (1.73%) Data Structures
11 38 (1.60%) Distributed Architecture
12 34 (1.43%) e-Learning
12 34 (1.43%) Equities
12 34 (1.43%) Mobile App
13 33 (1.39%) Virtual Team
14 32 (1.35%) Blog
15 30 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
16 25 (1.05%) Algorithms
17 20 (0.84%) Social Media
18 18 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 218 (9.18%) Linux
2 57 (2.40%) Windows
3 45 (1.90%) Unix
4 42 (1.77%) Android
5 15 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (0.59%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.46%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.17%) CentOS
8 4 (0.17%) Debian
8 4 (0.17%) Kali Linux
8 4 (0.17%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.084%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.042%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 819 (34.50%) Software Engineering
2 809 (34.08%) Agile
3 759 (31.97%) CI/CD
4 556 (23.42%) DevOps
5 540 (22.75%) Microservices
6 481 (20.26%) Test Automation
7 459 (19.33%) Full-Stack Development
8 410 (17.27%) Mentoring
9 377 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
10 310 (13.06%) AI
11 282 (11.88%) Containerisation
12 261 (10.99%) Infrastructure as Code
13 251 (10.57%) Continuous Improvement
13 251 (10.57%) TDD
14 225 (9.48%) Roadmaps
15 222 (9.35%) Technical Leadership
16 215 (9.06%) Computer Science
17 206 (8.68%) Scrum
18 184 (7.75%) SDLC
19 171 (7.20%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 764 (32.18%) Python
2 451 (19.00%) SQL
3 421 (17.73%) JavaScript
4 254 (10.70%) TypeScript
5 244 (10.28%) C#
6 220 (9.27%) C++
7 150 (6.32%) Go
8 119 (5.01%) Bash
9 101 (4.25%) Kotlin
10 66 (2.78%) C
11 64 (2.70%) Scala
12 59 (2.49%) Groovy
13 58 (2.44%) PHP
14 57 (2.40%) Rust
15 39 (1.64%) Perl
16 35 (1.47%) PowerShell
17 31 (1.31%) Ruby
18 28 (1.18%) PL/SQL
19 19 (0.80%) Shell Script
20 15 (0.63%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 401 (16.89%) Security Cleared
2 261 (10.99%) Degree
3 233 (9.81%) SC Cleared
4 146 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 139 (5.86%) DV Cleared
6 102 (4.30%) AWS Certification
7 54 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 31 (1.31%) Master's Degree
9 24 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
10 22 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 19 (0.80%) OSCP
12 17 (0.72%) ISTQB
13 15 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
14 13 (0.55%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
16 11 (0.46%) CREST Certified
16 11 (0.46%) PhD
17 9 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
18 8 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (6.53%) QA
2 65 (2.74%) Accessibility
3 47 (1.98%) Data Quality
4 21 (0.88%) GDPR
4 21 (0.88%) WCAG
5 14 (0.59%) GRC
6 13 (0.55%) PCI DSS
6 13 (0.55%) SOC 2
7 9 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.29%) ISO 20022
8 7 (0.29%) NIST
9 6 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.084%) Good Clinical Practice
12 2 (0.084%) MiFID
12 2 (0.084%) PSD2
12 2 (0.084%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.042%) GxP
System Software
1 368 (15.50%) Docker
2 20 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (0.76%) Active Directory
4 11 (0.46%) vSphere
5 8 (0.34%) Squid
5 8 (0.34%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.25%) Firmware
6 6 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.21%) KVM
8 4 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.084%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.084%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.084%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 429 (18.07%) Kubernetes
2 284 (11.96%) Terraform
3 107 (4.51%) Ansible
4 105 (4.42%) Grafana
5 42 (1.77%) Prometheus
6 34 (1.43%) Argo
7 31 (1.31%) HP Fortify
8 28 (1.18%) Kibana
9 14 (0.59%) Packer
9 14 (0.59%) Puppet
10 11 (0.46%) Rancher
11 10 (0.42%) logstash
12 8 (0.34%) ZABBIX
13 7 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (0.25%) Hadoop YARN
14 6 (0.25%) Kustomize
14 6 (0.25%) yum
15 4 (0.17%) Control-M
15 4 (0.17%) FTK
15 4 (0.17%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 96 (4.04%) Oracle
2 91 (3.83%) Microsoft
3 70 (2.95%) Google
4 57 (2.40%) Splunk
5 44 (1.85%) IBM
6 31 (1.31%) SAP
7 25 (1.05%) VMware
8 24 (1.01%) Palantir
9 23 (0.97%) Red Hat
9 23 (0.97%) Salesforce
10 22 (0.93%) Dynatrace
11 21 (0.88%) AppDynamics
12 20 (0.84%) ServiceNow
13 19 (0.80%) Foundry
14 17 (0.72%) Adobe
15 16 (0.67%) OpenAI
16 15 (0.63%) MuleSoft
17 13 (0.55%) SendGrid
18 11 (0.46%) Atlassian
18 11 (0.46%) Solace