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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 33 32
Rank change year-on-year -24 -1 -10
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,697 2,655 3,648
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.60% 6.16% 5.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.32% 23.27% 17.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,676 1,114 2,265
10th Percentile £44,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £78,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% +3.23%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £136,250 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +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 16,528 11,409 20,476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.91% 26.48% 31.46%
Number of salaries quoted 12,015 7,482 12,322
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £112,150
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.79% -3.08%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -15 1,093 £85,000 -19.05% 2,474
North of England -21 776 £69,310 +2.68% 492
North West -30 408 £75,000 +7.14% 285
South West +6 341 £67,500 +3.85% 217
South East -45 219 £68,750 +5.77% 231
Midlands -40 202 £70,000 +12.00% 179
North East +18 190 £55,000 +7.32% 99
Yorkshire +20 178 £72,500 +7.41% 110
West Midlands -18 175 £70,000 +12.00% 130
East of England -83 42 £63,750 +50.00% 81
East Midlands -82 27 £60,000 -0.41% 49
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 (2.15%) Confluence
2 55 (2.04%) Apache
3 36 (1.33%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (0.70%) Camunda
6 18 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 12 (0.44%) Jupyter
8 11 (0.41%) WebLogic
9 8 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
9 8 (0.30%) Tomcat
10 7 (0.26%) CICS
10 7 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.19%) CMS
12 5 (0.19%) Ethereum
12 5 (0.19%) JBoss
12 5 (0.19%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.15%) SAS
13 4 (0.15%) SharePoint
13 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.56%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.33%) Simulink
4 7 (0.26%) Moqups
5 5 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (0.11%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.074%) PTC Creo
8 2 (0.074%) Windchill
9 1 (0.037%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.037%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.19%) Distributed Ledger
2 5 (0.19%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.074%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.074%) Maximo
4 2 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.074%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 2 (0.074%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.037%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.037%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.037%) Quorum
5 1 (0.037%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.037%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.037%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,053 (39.04%) AWS
2 527 (19.54%) Azure
3 304 (11.27%) GCP
4 193 (7.16%) Serverless
5 183 (6.79%) GitHub
6 150 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 128 (4.75%) AWS Lambda
8 108 (4.00%) Amazon S3
9 107 (3.97%) SaaS
10 106 (3.93%) Amazon EKS
10 106 (3.93%) GitHub Actions
11 101 (3.74%) Amazon ECS
12 88 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
13 54 (2.00%) AWS Step Functions
14 49 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
15 41 (1.52%) Anthropic Claude
16 40 (1.48%) Datadog
17 39 (1.45%) GitHub Copilot
17 39 (1.45%) OpenShift
18 37 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 34 (1.26%) HTTP
2 25 (0.93%) TCP/IP
3 20 (0.74%) Network Security
4 18 (0.67%) VPN
5 17 (0.63%) BGP
6 15 (0.56%) DMARC
7 11 (0.41%) Firewall
8 9 (0.33%) DNS
8 9 (0.33%) Wireshark
9 8 (0.30%) AMQP
9 8 (0.30%) IPv4
9 8 (0.30%) MQTT
9 8 (0.30%) Software-Defined Networking
10 6 (0.22%) IPsec
11 5 (0.19%) Broadband
11 5 (0.19%) Ethernet
12 4 (0.15%) Internet
12 4 (0.15%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.15%) RIP
12 4 (0.15%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (6.64%) PostgreSQL
2 163 (6.04%) NoSQL
3 127 (4.71%) Relational Database
4 126 (4.67%) MongoDB
5 70 (2.60%) MySQL
6 63 (2.34%) DynamoDB
7 57 (2.11%) SQL Server
8 50 (1.85%) Big Data
9 36 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
10 32 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
11 28 (1.04%) Redis
12 27 (1.00%) Power BI
13 24 (0.89%) Data Lake
13 24 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
14 23 (0.85%) Hadoop
15 22 (0.82%) BigQuery
15 22 (0.82%) Db2
16 21 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
17 17 (0.63%) Spark SQL
18 15 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 285 (10.57%) Git
2 206 (7.64%) Jenkins
3 201 (7.45%) GitLab
4 108 (4.00%) JUnit
5 89 (3.30%) JIRA
6 88 (3.26%) Cucumber
7 73 (2.71%) TeamCity
8 68 (2.52%) Maven
9 57 (2.11%) Selenium
10 52 (1.93%) Cypress.io
11 46 (1.71%) Eclipse
11 46 (1.71%) Mockito
12 44 (1.63%) Postman
13 40 (1.48%) Subversion
14 36 (1.33%) SonarQube
15 32 (1.19%) Bitbucket
16 31 (1.15%) JMeter
17 28 (1.04%) Claude Code
18 19 (0.70%) REST Assured
19 17 (0.63%) Spock
General
1 678 (25.14%) Finance
2 473 (17.54%) Social Skills
3 295 (10.94%) Banking
4 249 (9.23%) Public Sector
5 178 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
6 150 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 130 (4.82%) Law
8 108 (4.00%) Retail
9 83 (3.08%) Financial Institution
10 71 (2.63%) Front Office
11 44 (1.63%) Back Office
12 40 (1.48%) Legal
13 38 (1.41%) Manufacturing
14 35 (1.30%) Health Technology
14 35 (1.30%) Marketing
15 32 (1.19%) Investment Banking
16 29 (1.08%) Publishing
17 22 (0.82%) Tech for Good
18 21 (0.78%) Aerospace
18 21 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 786 (29.14%) Developer
2 722 (26.77%) Senior
3 632 (23.43%) Software Engineer
4 588 (21.80%) Java Engineer
5 507 (18.80%) Java Developer
6 370 (13.72%) Lead
7 221 (8.19%) Senior Developer
8 216 (8.01%) Senior Java Engineer
9 212 (7.86%) Senior Software Engineer
10 200 (7.42%) Java Software Engineer
11 175 (6.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 137 (5.08%) Senior Java Developer
13 125 (4.63%) Full-Stack Developer
14 112 (4.15%) Software Developer
15 103 (3.82%) Lead Software Engineer
16 100 (3.71%) Principal Engineer
17 85 (3.15%) Architect
18 84 (3.11%) DevOps Engineer
19 79 (2.93%) Full-Stack Java Developer
20 78 (2.89%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 623 (23.10%) Spring
2 521 (19.32%) Spring Boot
3 320 (11.87%) Terraform
4 280 (10.38%) Kafka
5 260 (9.64%) React
6 251 (9.31%) REST
7 210 (7.79%) AngularJS
8 197 (7.30%) Node.js
9 193 (7.16%) RESTful
10 164 (6.08%) .NET
11 64 (2.37%) Web Services
12 62 (2.30%) HTML
13 59 (2.19%) CSS
13 59 (2.19%) OAuth
14 56 (2.08%) Hibernate
15 53 (1.97%) Vue
16 49 (1.82%) RabbitMQ
17 42 (1.56%) Jakarta EE
18 41 (1.52%) XML
19 40 (1.48%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 386 (14.31%) Cloud Native
2 269 (9.97%) Distributed Systems
3 158 (5.86%) Product Ownership
4 123 (4.56%) Public Cloud
5 79 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
6 76 (2.82%) Onboarding
7 59 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
8 50 (1.85%) Blog
9 48 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 47 (1.74%) Data Structures
10 47 (1.74%) e-Learning
11 42 (1.56%) Algorithms
12 39 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
13 34 (1.26%) Mobile App
13 34 (1.26%) Virtual Team
14 33 (1.22%) AI Agents
15 32 (1.19%) Equities
16 29 (1.08%) Fixed Income
16 29 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
17 28 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 219 (8.12%) Linux
2 67 (2.48%) Windows
3 40 (1.48%) Android
4 34 (1.26%) Unix
5 28 (1.04%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (0.48%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.30%) CentOS
9 7 (0.26%) Debian
9 7 (0.26%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.15%) VMS
11 3 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.11%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.074%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.037%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,023 (37.93%) Software Engineering
2 914 (33.89%) CI/CD
3 795 (29.48%) Agile
4 653 (24.21%) Microservices
5 592 (21.95%) DevOps
6 546 (20.24%) Full-Stack Development
7 508 (18.84%) Test Automation
8 459 (17.02%) Mentoring
9 455 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
10 436 (16.17%) AI
11 356 (13.20%) Containerisation
12 330 (12.24%) Infrastructure as Code
13 326 (12.09%) Continuous Improvement
14 303 (11.23%) Event-Driven
15 254 (9.42%) Technical Leadership
16 240 (8.90%) SDLC
17 239 (8.86%) Computer Science
18 228 (8.45%) Scrum
18 228 (8.45%) TDD
19 218 (8.08%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 825 (30.59%) Python
2 478 (17.72%) SQL
3 432 (16.02%) JavaScript
4 274 (10.16%) C++
5 271 (10.05%) TypeScript
6 252 (9.34%) C#
7 162 (6.01%) Go
8 119 (4.41%) Bash
9 115 (4.26%) Kotlin
10 80 (2.97%) Scala
11 77 (2.86%) C
12 65 (2.41%) Rust
13 47 (1.74%) Perl
14 45 (1.67%) PHP
15 39 (1.45%) Groovy
16 38 (1.41%) PowerShell
17 34 (1.26%) Ruby
18 31 (1.15%) PL/SQL
19 22 (0.82%) COBOL
19 22 (0.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 488 (18.09%) Security Cleared
2 274 (10.16%) Degree
3 255 (9.45%) SC Cleared
4 174 (6.45%) DV Cleared
5 156 (5.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 104 (3.86%) AWS Certification
7 70 (2.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 34 (1.26%) Master's Degree
9 22 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
10 18 (0.67%) ISTQB
10 18 (0.67%) OSCP
11 15 (0.56%) CISSP
12 14 (0.52%) Azure Certification
13 13 (0.48%) PhD
14 12 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 12 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
15 11 (0.41%) DBS Check
15 11 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
16 10 (0.37%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (6.01%) QA
2 85 (3.15%) Data Quality
3 81 (3.00%) Accessibility
4 26 (0.96%) GDPR
4 26 (0.96%) WCAG
5 24 (0.89%) NIST
6 21 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (0.67%) PCI DSS
8 16 (0.59%) ISO 20022
9 14 (0.52%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.15%) GRC
11 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 3 (0.11%) MiFID
12 3 (0.11%) MIL-STD-1553
12 3 (0.11%) PSD2
12 3 (0.11%) UCITS
13 2 (0.074%) Good Clinical Practice
13 2 (0.074%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 441 (16.35%) Docker
2 32 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (0.70%) VMware NSX
4 17 (0.63%) Active Directory
5 16 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (0.52%) Embedded Firmware
6 14 (0.52%) Firmware
7 10 (0.37%) vSphere
8 8 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (0.26%) Squid
10 6 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.19%) KVM
12 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
13 2 (0.074%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.037%) Oracle Clusterware
Systems Management
1 545 (20.21%) Kubernetes
2 143 (5.30%) Ansible
3 109 (4.04%) Grafana
4 38 (1.41%) Prometheus
5 35 (1.30%) Argo
5 35 (1.30%) Puppet
6 21 (0.78%) Kibana
7 14 (0.52%) HP Fortify
8 12 (0.44%) Rancher
8 12 (0.44%) vCenter Server
9 11 (0.41%) Packer
10 10 (0.37%) logstash
11 9 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
12 8 (0.30%) yum
13 7 (0.26%) EnCase
13 7 (0.26%) FTK
13 7 (0.26%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.22%) Cilium
14 6 (0.22%) Hadoop YARN
14 6 (0.22%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 119 (4.41%) Oracle
2 114 (4.23%) Microsoft
3 104 (3.86%) Google
4 66 (2.45%) Splunk
5 45 (1.67%) Red Hat
6 35 (1.30%) VMware
7 32 (1.19%) IBM
8 31 (1.15%) SAP
9 28 (1.04%) Adobe
10 22 (0.82%) OpenAI
11 21 (0.78%) Dynatrace
12 19 (0.70%) AppDynamics
13 18 (0.67%) Databricks
14 15 (0.56%) Palantir
14 15 (0.56%) SendGrid
15 14 (0.52%) Salesforce
15 14 (0.52%) ServiceNow
16 13 (0.48%) Atlassian
16 13 (0.48%) OutSystems
17 12 (0.44%) Solace