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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 33 23
Rank change year-on-year -35 -10 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,694 3,271 3,788
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.65% 5.44% 8.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.16% 16.65% 20.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,100 1,996 3,000
10th Percentile £41,925 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,188 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £75,554
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +5.89% +0.74%
75th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £98,750
90th Percentile £136,250 £142,500 £130,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% +3.45%

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 10,482 19,644 18,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 22.60% 32.65% 41.02%
Number of salaries quoted 7,816 11,782 15,643
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 2025. 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 -8 983 £105,000 +5.00% 309
North of England -9 261 £65,000 +8.33% 89
South East -82 170 £62,500 -1.19% 248
North West -13 130 £67,500 +8.00% 63
Midlands +22 116 £62,500 +56.25% 56
South West -43 113 £65,000 +1.96% 106
Yorkshire +31 108 £66,250 +20.45% 19
West Midlands +33 88 £62,500 +17.72% 38
East of England -77 40 £43,750 -35.19% 36
East Midlands +14 28 £57,500 +64.29% 17
North East -1 25 £55,000 -5.11% 7
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 91 (5.37%) Apache
2 89 (5.25%) Apache Airflow
3 55 (3.25%) Apache Spark
4 40 (2.36%) Confluence
5 14 (0.83%) JBoss
6 7 (0.41%) IIS
7 6 (0.35%) Mule
7 6 (0.35%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.35%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.30%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.30%) BizTalk Server
8 5 (0.30%) Camunda
8 5 (0.30%) nginx
8 5 (0.30%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.18%) Appian
9 3 (0.18%) Luigi
9 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.18%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.18%) Traefik
9 3 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (0.35%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.18%) Simulink
3 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.059%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.059%) Trello
4 1 (0.059%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
1 8 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.35%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.35%) Shopify
3 5 (0.30%) Maximo
4 4 (0.24%) Adaptiv
4 4 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.059%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.059%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.059%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.059%) Summit
6 1 (0.059%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 828 (48.88%) AWS
2 334 (19.72%) Azure
3 215 (12.69%) GCP
4 138 (8.15%) Serverless
5 98 (5.79%) Amazon EKS
6 95 (5.61%) SaaS
7 88 (5.19%) GitHub
8 79 (4.66%) AWS Lambda
9 77 (4.55%) dbt
10 73 (4.31%) Snowflake
11 71 (4.19%) Amazon EC2
12 66 (3.90%) Amazon ECS
13 65 (3.84%) Amazon S3
14 45 (2.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 38 (2.24%) GitHub Actions
15 38 (2.24%) OpenShift
16 30 (1.77%) Datadog
17 24 (1.42%) Amazon SQS
18 23 (1.36%) Amazon Kinesis
19 22 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 34 (2.01%) TCP/IP
2 26 (1.53%) HTTP
3 20 (1.18%) DNS
4 19 (1.12%) Firewall
5 17 (1.00%) SSH
6 15 (0.89%) FTP
6 15 (0.89%) SMTP
7 11 (0.65%) VPN
8 10 (0.59%) AMQP
8 10 (0.59%) Multicast
9 9 (0.53%) Internet
10 7 (0.41%) SAN
11 4 (0.24%) Broadband
11 4 (0.24%) DHCP
11 4 (0.24%) Kerberos
12 3 (0.18%) BGP
12 3 (0.18%) ICMP
12 3 (0.18%) LAN
12 3 (0.18%) VLAN
12 3 (0.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (9.39%) PostgreSQL
2 148 (8.74%) Relational Database
3 109 (6.43%) NoSQL
4 95 (5.61%) SQL Server
5 85 (5.02%) Data Lake
5 85 (5.02%) MongoDB
6 71 (4.19%) MySQL
7 66 (3.90%) Amazon Athena
7 66 (3.90%) Apache Iceberg
8 63 (3.72%) Apache Arrow
8 63 (3.72%) Dremio
9 60 (3.54%) Apache Ignite
10 56 (3.31%) Big Data
11 54 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
12 51 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
13 43 (2.54%) RDBMS
14 40 (2.36%) Hadoop
15 39 (2.30%) DynamoDB
16 31 (1.83%) BigQuery
17 26 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 171 (10.09%) Jenkins
2 142 (8.38%) Git
3 95 (5.61%) Selenium
4 94 (5.55%) JIRA
5 76 (4.49%) JUnit
6 72 (4.25%) GitLab
7 55 (3.25%) Cucumber
8 40 (2.36%) Cypress.io
9 39 (2.30%) Postman
10 38 (2.24%) JMeter
10 38 (2.24%) Mockito
11 33 (1.95%) TeamCity
12 32 (1.89%) Maven
13 30 (1.77%) Bitbucket
14 29 (1.71%) WebDriver
15 25 (1.48%) SoapUI
16 23 (1.36%) SonarQube
17 19 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
18 16 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
19 15 (0.89%) Vagrant
General
1 672 (39.67%) Finance
2 469 (27.69%) Social Skills
3 360 (21.25%) Banking
4 234 (13.81%) Law
5 206 (12.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 180 (10.63%) Front Office
7 153 (9.03%) Analytical Skills
8 143 (8.44%) Investment Banking
9 112 (6.61%) Public Sector
10 103 (6.08%) Financial Institution
11 69 (4.07%) Marketing
12 48 (2.83%) Retail
13 34 (2.01%) Back Office
14 32 (1.89%) Games
15 30 (1.77%) Legal
16 23 (1.36%) Manufacturing
17 20 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
17 20 (1.18%) Telecoms
18 18 (1.06%) Billing
19 16 (0.94%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 579 (34.18%) Developer
2 488 (28.81%) Software Engineer
3 407 (24.03%) Senior
4 275 (16.23%) Java Developer
5 274 (16.17%) Java Engineer
6 259 (15.29%) Lead
7 198 (11.69%) Java Software Engineer
8 157 (9.27%) Senior Software Engineer
9 116 (6.85%) Senior Java Engineer
10 115 (6.79%) Lead Software Engineer
11 113 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
12 99 (5.84%) Architect
13 97 (5.73%) Python Engineer
14 96 (5.67%) Full-Stack Developer
14 96 (5.67%) Senior Developer
15 90 (5.31%) Python Software Engineer
16 86 (5.08%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 76 (4.49%) AWS Software Engineer
18 62 (3.66%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 58 (3.42%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 363 (21.43%) Spring
2 312 (18.42%) React
3 284 (16.77%) Spring Boot
4 255 (15.05%) Kafka
5 170 (10.04%) RESTful
6 162 (9.56%) REST
7 160 (9.45%) .NET
8 149 (8.80%) Node.js
9 120 (7.08%) HTML
10 115 (6.79%) AngularJS
11 103 (6.08%) CSS
12 80 (4.72%) Hibernate
13 79 (4.66%) Pandas
14 68 (4.01%) gRPC
15 65 (3.84%) Web Services
16 64 (3.78%) NumPy
17 63 (3.72%) SciPy
17 63 (3.72%) SOAP
18 60 (3.54%) Protocol Buffers
19 58 (3.42%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 307 (18.12%) Cloud Native
2 188 (11.10%) Distributed Systems
3 121 (7.14%) Equities
4 114 (6.73%) Fixed Income
5 113 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 102 (6.02%) Derivative
7 80 (4.72%) Algorithms
8 74 (4.37%) Hedge funds
9 64 (3.78%) Self-Motivation
10 59 (3.48%) Pricing Data
11 58 (3.42%) Onboarding
12 57 (3.36%) Product Ownership
13 54 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
13 54 (3.19%) Public Cloud
14 40 (2.36%) Management Information System
15 37 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
16 34 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
17 31 (1.83%) Data Structures
18 30 (1.77%) Mobile App
18 30 (1.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 192 (11.33%) Linux
2 40 (2.36%) Windows
3 28 (1.65%) Unix
4 26 (1.53%) Android
5 15 (0.89%) VMS
6 13 (0.77%) Amazon Linux
6 13 (0.77%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.41%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.18%) CentOS
9 3 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.12%) Debian
10 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.059%) AIX
11 1 (0.059%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.059%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.059%) SUSE
11 1 (0.059%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 778 (45.93%) Agile
2 646 (38.13%) Software Engineering
3 546 (32.23%) CI/CD
4 398 (23.49%) Microservices
5 361 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
6 351 (20.72%) DevOps
7 257 (15.17%) Computer Science
8 252 (14.88%) Test Automation
9 247 (14.58%) Full-Stack Development
10 242 (14.29%) Mentoring
11 239 (14.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 230 (13.58%) SDLC
13 179 (10.57%) AI
14 172 (10.15%) TDD
15 168 (9.92%) Containerisation
16 163 (9.62%) Fintech
17 162 (9.56%) Scrum
18 143 (8.44%) Machine Learning
19 133 (7.85%) Clean Code
20 123 (7.26%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 701 (41.38%) Python
2 412 (24.32%) JavaScript
3 369 (21.78%) SQL
4 297 (17.53%) TypeScript
5 251 (14.82%) C#
6 171 (10.09%) C++
7 137 (8.09%) Go
8 117 (6.91%) Kotlin
9 93 (5.49%) C
10 73 (4.31%) Scala
11 54 (3.19%) PHP
12 40 (2.36%) PowerShell
12 40 (2.36%) Shell Script
13 36 (2.13%) Groovy
14 35 (2.07%) PL/SQL
15 33 (1.95%) Bash
16 26 (1.53%) Perl
16 26 (1.53%) Rust
17 23 (1.36%) Ruby
18 19 (1.12%) R
Qualifications
1 296 (17.47%) Degree
2 219 (12.93%) Security Cleared
3 142 (8.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 137 (8.09%) SC Cleared
5 79 (4.66%) AWS Certification
6 72 (4.25%) Master's Degree
7 66 (3.90%) DV Cleared
8 44 (2.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 37 (2.18%) Azure Certification
10 31 (1.83%) PhD
11 23 (1.36%) ISTQB
12 19 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
13 18 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
14 17 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (0.94%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 10 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
17 9 (0.53%) HND
18 6 (0.35%) CFA
18 6 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
18 6 (0.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (5.73%) QA
2 45 (2.66%) Accessibility
3 31 (1.83%) GDPR
4 17 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (0.65%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.65%) PCI DSS
6 10 (0.59%) ISO 9001
6 10 (0.59%) NIST
7 9 (0.53%) HIPAA
8 7 (0.41%) SLA
9 6 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.30%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.24%) EU AI Act
11 4 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.24%) SEPA
11 4 (0.24%) WCAG
12 3 (0.18%) NCSC
13 2 (0.12%) ECSS
13 2 (0.12%) MISRA
System Software
1 286 (16.88%) Docker
2 26 (1.53%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
5 11 (0.65%) HDFS
6 5 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.24%) DFS Replication
7 4 (0.24%) vSphere
8 3 (0.18%) Firmware
9 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
9 2 (0.12%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.12%) Squid
9 2 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.059%) KVM
Systems Management
1 422 (24.91%) Kubernetes
2 127 (7.50%) Terraform
3 70 (4.13%) Grafana
4 47 (2.77%) Ansible
5 41 (2.42%) Kibana
6 37 (2.18%) Prometheus
7 20 (1.18%) Argo
8 12 (0.71%) Progress Chef
9 10 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.47%) Control-M
11 7 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.30%) logstash
12 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.24%) Nagios
13 4 (0.24%) Puppet
14 3 (0.18%) HAProxy
15 2 (0.12%) HP Fortify
15 2 (0.12%) Kustomize
15 2 (0.12%) Oozie
15 2 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 125 (7.38%) Oracle
2 86 (5.08%) Microsoft
3 80 (4.72%) Google
4 37 (2.18%) Guidewire
5 36 (2.13%) Splunk
6 32 (1.89%) Atlassian
7 28 (1.65%) Databricks
8 27 (1.59%) SAP
9 26 (1.53%) Dynatrace
10 22 (1.30%) MuleSoft
11 18 (1.06%) ServiceNow
12 17 (1.00%) Informatica
13 16 (0.94%) IBM
14 13 (0.77%) Dell
14 13 (0.77%) Talend
15 12 (0.71%) Red Hat
15 12 (0.71%) Solace
16 10 (0.59%) Foundry
16 10 (0.59%) Salesforce
17 9 (0.53%) Palantir