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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 30 30
Rank change year-on-year -26 0 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,561 2,783 3,810
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.54% 6.45% 5.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.34% 23.58% 18.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,635 1,202 2,421
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% +0.46%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £116,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +5.89%

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 16,697 11,804 21,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.59% 27.35% 30.67%
Number of salaries quoted 12,214 7,778 13,531
10th Percentile £39,818 £33,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 1,080 £85,000 -20.93% 2,696
North of England -26 719 £67,500 +3.85% 512
North West -35 340 £70,000 - 301
South West +1 295 £65,000 +8.33% 260
South East -54 221 £67,500 +3.85% 249
Yorkshire +31 196 £75,000 +11.11% 131
North East +13 183 £55,000 +15.79% 81
Midlands -44 181 £67,500 +12.50% 200
West Midlands -31 152 £69,305 +15.51% 146
East of England -79 50 £57,500 +27.78% 114
East Midlands -81 29 £60,000 +4.35% 54
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 (2.42%) Confluence
2 55 (2.15%) Apache
3 38 (1.48%) Apache Spark
4 23 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (0.62%) Camunda
6 14 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 12 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
8 10 (0.39%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
10 7 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 7 (0.27%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.23%) CMS
11 6 (0.23%) JBoss
12 5 (0.20%) CICS
13 4 (0.16%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.16%) SAS
14 3 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.12%) Documentum
14 3 (0.12%) nginx
14 3 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.59%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.31%) Simulink
4 6 (0.23%) Moqups
5 5 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.12%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.078%) PTC Creo
8 2 (0.078%) Windchill
9 1 (0.039%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.039%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.039%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.20%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.20%) Temenos T24
3 4 (0.16%) Maximo
3 4 (0.16%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.078%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.078%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 1 (0.039%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.039%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.039%) Endur
5 1 (0.039%) Findur
5 1 (0.039%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.039%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.039%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.039%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.039%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,053 (41.12%) AWS
2 526 (20.54%) Azure
3 299 (11.68%) GCP
4 213 (8.32%) Serverless
5 167 (6.52%) AWS CloudFormation
6 159 (6.21%) GitHub
7 145 (5.66%) AWS Lambda
8 114 (4.45%) Amazon S3
9 112 (4.37%) Amazon ECS
10 100 (3.90%) SaaS
11 98 (3.83%) Amazon EKS
12 91 (3.55%) GitHub Actions
13 84 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
14 66 (2.58%) AWS Step Functions
15 50 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
16 44 (1.72%) Datadog
17 41 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 39 (1.52%) OpenShift
19 36 (1.41%) Azure Service Bus
20 34 (1.33%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 42 (1.64%) HTTP
2 17 (0.66%) Network Security
3 14 (0.55%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.51%) DMARC
5 9 (0.35%) DNS
5 9 (0.35%) IPv4
5 9 (0.35%) MQTT
5 9 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
6 8 (0.31%) AMQP
6 8 (0.31%) VPN
6 8 (0.31%) Wireshark
7 7 (0.27%) BGP
8 6 (0.23%) IPsec
9 5 (0.20%) Broadband
9 5 (0.20%) Ethernet
9 5 (0.20%) Firewall
9 5 (0.20%) Internet
9 5 (0.20%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.16%) RIP
11 3 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (6.52%) NoSQL
2 164 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
3 126 (4.92%) MongoDB
4 122 (4.76%) Relational Database
5 80 (3.12%) DynamoDB
6 73 (2.85%) MySQL
7 72 (2.81%) SQL Server
8 48 (1.87%) Big Data
9 42 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
10 29 (1.13%) Redis
11 25 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
11 25 (0.98%) Hadoop
12 23 (0.90%) Data Lake
12 23 (0.90%) Db2
13 22 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
13 22 (0.86%) Power BI
14 18 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
14 18 (0.70%) BigQuery
15 17 (0.66%) Spark SQL
16 15 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 287 (11.21%) Git
2 211 (8.24%) Jenkins
3 199 (7.77%) GitLab
4 100 (3.90%) JIRA
5 98 (3.83%) JUnit
6 95 (3.71%) Cucumber
7 77 (3.01%) Maven
8 67 (2.62%) Selenium
9 59 (2.30%) Cypress.io
10 52 (2.03%) TeamCity
11 47 (1.84%) Postman
11 47 (1.84%) SonarQube
12 46 (1.80%) Eclipse
13 39 (1.52%) Subversion
14 38 (1.48%) Mockito
15 36 (1.41%) JMeter
16 35 (1.37%) Bitbucket
17 21 (0.82%) Claude Code
18 20 (0.78%) REST Assured
19 18 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 674 (26.32%) Finance
2 448 (17.49%) Social Skills
3 270 (10.54%) Banking
4 251 (9.80%) Public Sector
5 189 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
6 129 (5.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 109 (4.26%) Law
8 87 (3.40%) Retail
9 70 (2.73%) Financial Institution
9 70 (2.73%) Front Office
10 39 (1.52%) Manufacturing
11 38 (1.48%) Legal
12 36 (1.41%) Marketing
13 35 (1.37%) Back Office
14 34 (1.33%) Investment Banking
15 29 (1.13%) Health Technology
16 23 (0.90%) Aerospace
17 21 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
17 21 (0.82%) Publishing
18 20 (0.78%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 798 (31.16%) Developer
2 651 (25.42%) Senior
3 578 (22.57%) Software Engineer
4 516 (20.15%) Java Developer
5 501 (19.56%) Java Engineer
6 356 (13.90%) Lead
7 217 (8.47%) Senior Developer
8 195 (7.61%) Senior Software Engineer
9 172 (6.72%) Senior Java Engineer
10 164 (6.40%) Java Software Engineer
11 156 (6.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 137 (5.35%) Senior Java Developer
13 131 (5.12%) Full-Stack Developer
14 128 (5.00%) Software Developer
15 110 (4.30%) Lead Software Engineer
16 85 (3.32%) Principal Engineer
17 84 (3.28%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 81 (3.16%) Architect
19 79 (3.08%) DevOps Engineer
20 76 (2.97%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 601 (23.47%) Spring
2 497 (19.41%) Spring Boot
3 300 (11.71%) Terraform
4 269 (10.50%) Kafka
4 269 (10.50%) React
5 259 (10.11%) REST
6 225 (8.79%) AngularJS
7 199 (7.77%) Node.js
8 190 (7.42%) RESTful
9 171 (6.68%) .NET
10 80 (3.12%) Web Services
11 69 (2.69%) CSS
12 66 (2.58%) HTML
13 59 (2.30%) Vue
14 57 (2.23%) RabbitMQ
15 54 (2.11%) OAuth
16 53 (2.07%) Hibernate
17 46 (1.80%) Playwright
18 45 (1.76%) JSON
19 43 (1.68%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 339 (13.24%) Cloud Native
2 261 (10.19%) Distributed Systems
3 172 (6.72%) Product Ownership
4 132 (5.15%) Public Cloud
5 75 (2.93%) Onboarding
6 65 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
7 56 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
8 47 (1.84%) Distributed Architecture
8 47 (1.84%) e-Learning
9 44 (1.72%) Virtual Team
10 43 (1.68%) Data Structures
11 41 (1.60%) Algorithms
12 39 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 34 (1.33%) Mobile App
14 33 (1.29%) Blog
15 29 (1.13%) AI Agents
15 29 (1.13%) Equities
16 26 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
17 25 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
18 23 (0.90%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 219 (8.55%) Linux
2 67 (2.62%) Windows
3 38 (1.48%) Unix
4 37 (1.44%) Android
5 25 (0.98%) Apple iOS
6 22 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (0.59%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.31%) CentOS
9 7 (0.27%) Debian
9 7 (0.27%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.16%) Kali Linux
10 4 (0.16%) VMS
11 3 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.078%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.039%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 933 (36.43%) Software Engineering
2 859 (33.54%) CI/CD
3 802 (31.32%) Agile
4 620 (24.21%) Microservices
5 584 (22.80%) DevOps
6 498 (19.45%) Test Automation
7 492 (19.21%) Full-Stack Development
8 469 (18.31%) Mentoring
9 439 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
10 388 (15.15%) AI
11 320 (12.50%) Containerisation
12 311 (12.14%) Infrastructure as Code
13 306 (11.95%) Continuous Improvement
14 278 (10.86%) Event-Driven
15 249 (9.72%) Technical Leadership
16 246 (9.61%) Roadmaps
17 243 (9.49%) Computer Science
18 231 (9.02%) SDLC
19 230 (8.98%) Scrum
20 228 (8.90%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 805 (31.43%) Python
2 484 (18.90%) SQL
3 434 (16.95%) JavaScript
4 273 (10.66%) C#
5 269 (10.50%) C++
6 253 (9.88%) TypeScript
7 130 (5.08%) Go
8 117 (4.57%) Bash
9 107 (4.18%) Kotlin
10 78 (3.05%) C
11 74 (2.89%) Scala
12 58 (2.26%) Rust
13 54 (2.11%) PHP
14 53 (2.07%) Groovy
15 51 (1.99%) Perl
16 37 (1.44%) PowerShell
17 36 (1.41%) Ruby
18 30 (1.17%) PL/SQL
19 21 (0.82%) Shell Script
20 17 (0.66%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 475 (18.55%) Security Cleared
2 286 (11.17%) Degree
3 261 (10.19%) SC Cleared
4 166 (6.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 159 (6.21%) DV Cleared
6 104 (4.06%) AWS Certification
7 66 (2.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (1.13%) Master's Degree
9 24 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (0.78%) OSCP
11 19 (0.74%) ISTQB
12 18 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
13 17 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 14 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
14 14 (0.55%) DBS Check
15 13 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
16 11 (0.43%) CREST Certified
16 11 (0.43%) PhD
17 8 (0.31%) CCNA
17 8 (0.31%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (6.60%) QA
2 82 (3.20%) Accessibility
3 81 (3.16%) Data Quality
4 26 (1.02%) GDPR
4 26 (1.02%) WCAG
5 16 (0.62%) ISO 20022
6 15 (0.59%) NIST
7 11 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.39%) GRC
9 7 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.23%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 4 (0.16%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.12%) MiFID
12 3 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
12 3 (0.12%) PSD2
12 3 (0.12%) UCITS
13 2 (0.078%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 420 (16.40%) Docker
2 26 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (0.74%) Active Directory
4 13 (0.51%) Firmware
5 12 (0.47%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
6 11 (0.43%) vSphere
7 8 (0.31%) Squid
7 8 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.20%) KVM
11 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.078%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 478 (18.66%) Kubernetes
2 135 (5.27%) Ansible
3 95 (3.71%) Grafana
4 33 (1.29%) Prometheus
5 31 (1.21%) Argo
6 29 (1.13%) Kibana
7 27 (1.05%) Puppet
8 22 (0.86%) HP Fortify
9 14 (0.55%) Packer
10 13 (0.51%) Rancher
11 12 (0.47%) logstash
12 8 (0.31%) ZABBIX
13 7 (0.27%) yum
14 6 (0.23%) Hadoop YARN
14 6 (0.23%) Kubeflow
15 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (0.20%) Red Hat Satellite
16 4 (0.16%) Control-M
16 4 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
16 4 (0.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 115 (4.49%) Oracle
2 110 (4.30%) Microsoft
3 81 (3.16%) Google
4 61 (2.38%) Splunk
5 44 (1.72%) Red Hat
6 42 (1.64%) IBM
7 32 (1.25%) SAP
8 30 (1.17%) AppDynamics
8 30 (1.17%) VMware
9 25 (0.98%) Adobe
9 25 (0.98%) Dynatrace
10 21 (0.82%) OpenAI
10 21 (0.82%) Palantir
11 18 (0.70%) ServiceNow
12 17 (0.66%) Databricks
13 13 (0.51%) Foundry
13 13 (0.51%) Salesforce
13 13 (0.51%) SendGrid
14 12 (0.47%) Bloomberg
14 12 (0.47%) Solace