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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 43 29
Rank change year-on-year -26 -14 -13
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,729 2,416 4,249
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.95% 5.38% 6.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.68% 15.66% 17.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,139 1,478 3,385
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,227
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,482 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -6.45%
75th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £96,539
90th Percentile £130,000 £137,500 £120,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%

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 11,026 15,431 24,003
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.80% 34.36% 36.59%
Number of salaries quoted 8,188 9,277 20,506
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,007
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £112,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 12 February 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 12 February 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 -8 914 £100,000 -2.44% 312
North of England -16 315 £67,500 +3.85% 167
South East -67 180 £62,500 -7.41% 197
Yorkshire +3 167 £70,000 +3.70% 52
South West -21 159 £65,000 - 107
North West -21 134 £67,500 +3.85% 90
Midlands -42 86 £50,000 +11.11% 66
West Midlands -3 67 £50,000 -4.76% 49
East of England -83 35 £60,000 +14.29% 27
East Midlands -39 19 £52,100 +48.86% 17
North East -37 14 £55,200 -8.00% 25
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 58 (3.35%) Apache
2 57 (3.30%) Apache Spark
3 40 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
4 24 (1.39%) Confluence
5 19 (1.10%) JBoss
6 13 (0.75%) OpenStack
6 13 (0.75%) WebSphere
7 12 (0.69%) IIS
8 7 (0.40%) Anypoint
8 7 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.35%) Mule
10 5 (0.29%) SharePoint
11 4 (0.23%) Appian
11 4 (0.23%) nginx
12 3 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.17%) CMS
12 3 (0.17%) Liferay
12 3 (0.17%) Luigi
12 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 12 (0.69%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.17%) Simulink
5 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.12%) Windchill
6 1 (0.058%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.058%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.58%) Maximo
2 7 (0.40%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.29%) Shopify
5 2 (0.12%) Adaptiv
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.12%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.058%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.058%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 786 (45.46%) AWS
2 317 (18.33%) Azure
3 198 (11.45%) GCP
4 162 (9.37%) Serverless
5 124 (7.17%) SaaS
6 121 (7.00%) Amazon EKS
7 98 (5.67%) AWS Lambda
8 91 (5.26%) Amazon S3
9 87 (5.03%) Amazon ECS
10 84 (4.86%) GitHub
11 68 (3.93%) AWS CloudFormation
12 48 (2.78%) AWS Step Functions
13 45 (2.60%) OpenShift
14 37 (2.14%) Amazon SQS
15 35 (2.02%) Snowflake
16 34 (1.97%) dbt
17 33 (1.91%) Apigee
18 32 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
19 31 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
20 29 (1.68%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 34 (1.97%) TCP/IP
2 23 (1.33%) Broadband
3 17 (0.98%) HTTP
4 11 (0.64%) AMQP
4 11 (0.64%) Internet
4 11 (0.64%) VPN
5 8 (0.46%) Multicast
6 6 (0.35%) BGP
6 6 (0.35%) Firewall
6 6 (0.35%) VLAN
7 4 (0.23%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.23%) SAN
8 3 (0.17%) DNS
8 3 (0.17%) PuTTY
9 2 (0.12%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.12%) LAN
9 2 (0.12%) NAS
9 2 (0.12%) SNMP
9 2 (0.12%) SSH
9 2 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (9.20%) PostgreSQL
2 142 (8.21%) NoSQL
3 118 (6.82%) Relational Database
4 77 (4.45%) SQL Server
5 69 (3.99%) MongoDB
6 63 (3.64%) DynamoDB
7 55 (3.18%) RDBMS
8 53 (3.07%) Big Data
9 50 (2.89%) MySQL
10 49 (2.83%) Hadoop
11 48 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
12 40 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
13 31 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
13 31 (1.79%) Data Lake
14 28 (1.62%) DB2
15 27 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
15 27 (1.56%) Neo4j
16 18 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
17 17 (0.98%) Apache Ignite
17 17 (0.98%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 160 (9.25%) Jenkins
2 129 (7.46%) Git
3 107 (6.19%) Selenium
4 97 (5.61%) GitLab
5 88 (5.09%) JIRA
6 64 (3.70%) Cucumber
7 63 (3.64%) Cypress.io
8 61 (3.53%) JUnit
9 60 (3.47%) TeamCity
10 56 (3.24%) Maven
11 46 (2.66%) Postman
12 41 (2.37%) WebDriver
13 40 (2.31%) SonarQube
14 35 (2.02%) SoapUI
15 31 (1.79%) Bitbucket
16 28 (1.62%) Team Foundation Server
17 26 (1.50%) JMeter
18 22 (1.27%) Mockito
19 19 (1.10%) Jaeger
20 16 (0.93%) REST Assured
General
1 460 (26.60%) Finance
2 433 (25.04%) Social Skills
3 252 (14.57%) Banking
4 131 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
5 126 (7.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 121 (7.00%) Law
7 109 (6.30%) Public Sector
8 103 (5.96%) Financial Institution
9 100 (5.78%) Front Office
10 97 (5.61%) Retail
11 81 (4.68%) Investment Banking
12 48 (2.78%) Back Office
13 33 (1.91%) Games
14 31 (1.79%) Telecoms
15 24 (1.39%) Manufacturing
15 24 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
16 23 (1.33%) Aerospace
17 19 (1.10%) Billing
18 18 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
18 18 (1.04%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 608 (35.16%) Developer
2 406 (23.48%) Software Engineer
3 397 (22.96%) Senior
4 352 (20.36%) Java Developer
5 236 (13.65%) Java Engineer
6 226 (13.07%) Lead
7 142 (8.21%) Java Software Engineer
8 138 (7.98%) Full-Stack Developer
9 131 (7.58%) Senior Developer
10 117 (6.77%) Senior Software Engineer
11 102 (5.90%) Architect
12 95 (5.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 91 (5.26%) Senior Java Engineer
14 89 (5.15%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 89 (5.15%) Senior Java Developer
15 68 (3.93%) AWS Engineer
16 64 (3.70%) Software Developer
17 53 (3.07%) Lead Software Engineer
18 52 (3.01%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 42 (2.43%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 386 (22.33%) Spring
2 335 (19.38%) Spring Boot
3 310 (17.93%) React
4 207 (11.97%) REST
5 187 (10.82%) Kafka
6 154 (8.91%) .NET
6 154 (8.91%) AngularJS
6 154 (8.91%) Node.js
7 132 (7.63%) RESTful
8 119 (6.88%) HTML
9 91 (5.26%) SOAP
10 86 (4.97%) CSS
11 70 (4.05%) Hibernate
12 69 (3.99%) Elastic Stack
13 63 (3.64%) Web Services
14 48 (2.78%) GraphQL
14 48 (2.78%) JSON
15 46 (2.66%) Vue
16 45 (2.60%) Jest
17 42 (2.43%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 261 (15.10%) Cloud Native
2 186 (10.76%) Distributed Systems
3 71 (4.11%) Product Ownership
4 60 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
5 55 (3.18%) Equities
6 52 (3.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 47 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
8 44 (2.54%) Algorithms
9 40 (2.31%) Fixed Income
10 38 (2.20%) Derivative
11 36 (2.08%) Blog
12 33 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
12 33 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
13 29 (1.68%) Distributed Architecture
13 29 (1.68%) Management Information System
13 29 (1.68%) Public Cloud
14 28 (1.62%) Onboarding
15 24 (1.39%) Hedge funds
16 23 (1.33%) Data Structures
16 23 (1.33%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 194 (11.22%) Linux
2 34 (1.97%) Unix
3 31 (1.79%) Windows
4 28 (1.62%) Android
5 11 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.40%) CentOS
7 7 (0.40%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.35%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.29%) Debian
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.058%) AIX
11 1 (0.058%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.058%) SUSE
11 1 (0.058%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 638 (36.90%) Agile
2 599 (34.64%) Software Engineering
3 562 (32.50%) CI/CD
4 414 (23.94%) DevOps
5 408 (23.60%) Microservices
6 350 (20.24%) Full-Stack Development
7 316 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
8 286 (16.54%) Mentoring
9 280 (16.19%) Test Automation
10 220 (12.72%) Computer Science
11 205 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
12 195 (11.28%) Containerisation
13 178 (10.29%) Scrum
14 175 (10.12%) AI
15 168 (9.72%) TDD
16 151 (8.73%) SDLC
17 145 (8.39%) Fintech
18 139 (8.04%) Roadmaps
19 134 (7.75%) Technical Leadership
20 132 (7.63%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 598 (34.59%) Python
2 405 (23.42%) JavaScript
3 345 (19.95%) SQL
4 268 (15.50%) TypeScript
5 209 (12.09%) C#
6 130 (7.52%) Go
7 121 (7.00%) C++
8 94 (5.44%) Kotlin
9 91 (5.26%) C
10 84 (4.86%) Bash
11 59 (3.41%) Scala
12 40 (2.31%) PHP
13 37 (2.14%) Groovy
14 31 (1.79%) Rust
15 30 (1.74%) PL/SQL
16 21 (1.21%) R
17 17 (0.98%) PowerShell
17 17 (0.98%) Ruby
18 16 (0.93%) Shell Script
19 14 (0.81%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 289 (16.71%) Degree
2 271 (15.67%) Security Cleared
3 156 (9.02%) SC Cleared
4 131 (7.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 101 (5.84%) DV Cleared
6 90 (5.21%) AWS Certification
7 60 (3.47%) Master's Degree
8 45 (2.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 36 (2.08%) Azure Certification
10 31 (1.79%) ISTQB
10 31 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
11 27 (1.56%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 25 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
13 21 (1.21%) PhD
14 19 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
15 15 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
16 13 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
16 13 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 9 (0.52%) CREST Certified
17 9 (0.52%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (6.48%) QA
2 44 (2.54%) Accessibility
3 24 (1.39%) GDPR
4 18 (1.04%) Data Quality
4 18 (1.04%) PCI DSS
5 16 (0.93%) SOC 2
6 12 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
7 9 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.23%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.23%) SEPA
8 4 (0.23%) SLA
8 4 (0.23%) WCAG
9 3 (0.17%) NCSC
9 3 (0.17%) NIST
10 2 (0.12%) ECSS
10 2 (0.12%) MISRA
10 2 (0.12%) PSD2
11 1 (0.058%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.058%) MiFID
System Software
1 315 (18.22%) Docker
2 16 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
4 11 (0.64%) Active Directory
5 9 (0.52%) HDFS
6 5 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.23%) Firmware
7 4 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.12%) KVM
8 2 (0.12%) vSphere
9 1 (0.058%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.058%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.058%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.058%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.058%) Squid
Systems Management
1 417 (24.12%) Kubernetes
2 164 (9.49%) Terraform
3 84 (4.86%) Grafana
4 80 (4.63%) Ansible
5 42 (2.43%) Argo
6 41 (2.37%) Prometheus
7 27 (1.56%) HP Fortify
8 25 (1.45%) Kibana
9 19 (1.10%) Kustomize
10 10 (0.58%) Rancher
11 9 (0.52%) Puppet
12 8 (0.46%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.35%) yum
15 5 (0.29%) logstash
16 4 (0.23%) FTK
17 3 (0.17%) Control-M
17 3 (0.17%) Nagios
18 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 100 (5.78%) Oracle
2 68 (3.93%) Microsoft
3 61 (3.53%) Google
4 27 (1.56%) MuleSoft
5 26 (1.50%) Atlassian
6 25 (1.45%) Databricks
7 24 (1.39%) IBM
8 22 (1.27%) Informatica
8 22 (1.27%) Salesforce
9 21 (1.21%) Splunk
10 19 (1.10%) Guidewire
10 19 (1.10%) Talend
11 18 (1.04%) SAP
12 13 (0.75%) Dynatrace
12 13 (0.75%) Red Hat
13 12 (0.69%) Dell
14 11 (0.64%) OpenAI
15 10 (0.58%) Adobe
15 10 (0.58%) Solace
16 9 (0.52%) Siemens