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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 30 31
Rank change year-on-year -27 +1 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,633 2,757 3,742
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.56% 6.44% 5.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.54% 23.63% 18.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,670 1,187 2,364
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% +1.91%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £115,188
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 16,938 11,668 20,597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.47% 27.25% 30.74%
Number of salaries quoted 12,330 7,699 13,047
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% -1.56% -1.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £111,250
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 23 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 23 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 -14 1,104 £82,500 -21.43% 1,759
North of England -26 732 £69,305 +6.62% 452
North West -35 359 £70,000 - 260
South West +1 311 £65,000 +8.33% 257
South East -48 234 £67,500 +3.85% 233
Yorkshire +25 193 £75,000 +15.38% 108
Midlands -63 187 £69,305 +15.51% 175
North East +11 180 £55,000 +15.79% 84
West Midlands -33 159 £70,000 +16.67% 132
East of England -83 50 £60,000 +33.33% 68
East Midlands -85 28 £60,000 +4.35% 43
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 61 (2.32%) Confluence
2 57 (2.16%) Apache
3 38 (1.44%) Apache Spark
4 25 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (0.65%) Camunda
6 15 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 10 (0.38%) Jupyter
7 10 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
8 8 (0.30%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.23%) CMS
10 6 (0.23%) JBoss
11 5 (0.19%) CICS
11 5 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.15%) SAS
12 4 (0.15%) SharePoint
12 4 (0.15%) WebLogic
12 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.11%) Documentum
Applications
1 21 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.57%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.34%) Simulink
4 6 (0.23%) Moqups
5 5 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.15%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.11%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.076%) PTC Creo
8 2 (0.076%) Windchill
9 1 (0.038%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.038%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.19%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.15%) Temenos T24
4 3 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.11%) Maximo
5 2 (0.076%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.076%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
6 1 (0.038%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.038%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.038%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.038%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.038%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.038%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.038%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.038%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,071 (40.68%) AWS
2 533 (20.24%) Azure
3 307 (11.66%) GCP
4 211 (8.01%) Serverless
5 166 (6.30%) AWS CloudFormation
6 165 (6.27%) GitHub
7 144 (5.47%) AWS Lambda
8 114 (4.33%) Amazon S3
9 112 (4.25%) Amazon ECS
10 107 (4.06%) SaaS
11 106 (4.03%) Amazon EKS
12 93 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
13 83 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
14 65 (2.47%) AWS Step Functions
15 50 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
16 45 (1.71%) Datadog
17 40 (1.52%) OpenShift
18 39 (1.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 37 (1.41%) Azure Service Bus
20 35 (1.33%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 42 (1.60%) HTTP
2 18 (0.68%) TCP/IP
3 17 (0.65%) Network Security
4 14 (0.53%) DMARC
5 11 (0.42%) VPN
6 10 (0.38%) BGP
7 9 (0.34%) DNS
7 9 (0.34%) IPv4
7 9 (0.34%) MQTT
7 9 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
7 9 (0.34%) Wireshark
8 8 (0.30%) AMQP
9 6 (0.23%) Firewall
9 6 (0.23%) IPsec
10 5 (0.19%) Broadband
10 5 (0.19%) Ethernet
10 5 (0.19%) Internet
10 5 (0.19%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.15%) RIP
12 3 (0.11%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (6.42%) NoSQL
2 168 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
3 130 (4.94%) MongoDB
4 128 (4.86%) Relational Database
5 77 (2.92%) DynamoDB
6 74 (2.81%) MySQL
7 68 (2.58%) SQL Server
8 48 (1.82%) Big Data
9 40 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
10 29 (1.10%) Redis
11 26 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
12 25 (0.95%) Hadoop
13 24 (0.91%) Power BI
14 23 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
14 23 (0.87%) Data Lake
15 22 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
15 22 (0.84%) Db2
16 20 (0.76%) BigQuery
17 17 (0.65%) Spark SQL
18 16 (0.61%) Flink
Development Applications
1 294 (11.17%) Git
2 215 (8.17%) Jenkins
3 204 (7.75%) GitLab
4 100 (3.80%) JUnit
5 98 (3.72%) JIRA
6 97 (3.68%) Cucumber
7 77 (2.92%) Maven
8 67 (2.54%) Selenium
9 59 (2.24%) Cypress.io
10 58 (2.20%) TeamCity
11 47 (1.79%) Eclipse
11 47 (1.79%) SonarQube
12 45 (1.71%) Postman
13 40 (1.52%) Mockito
13 40 (1.52%) Subversion
14 36 (1.37%) Bitbucket
15 35 (1.33%) JMeter
16 22 (0.84%) Claude Code
17 18 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 18 (0.68%) REST Assured
General
1 682 (25.90%) Finance
2 464 (17.62%) Social Skills
3 279 (10.60%) Banking
4 251 (9.53%) Public Sector
5 189 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
6 139 (5.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 117 (4.44%) Law
8 94 (3.57%) Retail
9 75 (2.85%) Financial Institution
10 68 (2.58%) Front Office
11 39 (1.48%) Back Office
11 39 (1.48%) Legal
11 39 (1.48%) Manufacturing
12 36 (1.37%) Marketing
13 34 (1.29%) Investment Banking
14 32 (1.22%) Health Technology
15 23 (0.87%) Aerospace
15 23 (0.87%) Publishing
16 22 (0.84%) Tech for Good
17 21 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 812 (30.84%) Developer
2 672 (25.52%) Senior
3 593 (22.52%) Software Engineer
4 533 (20.24%) Java Engineer
5 521 (19.79%) Java Developer
6 361 (13.71%) Lead
7 221 (8.39%) Senior Developer
8 195 (7.41%) Senior Software Engineer
9 183 (6.95%) Senior Java Engineer
10 180 (6.84%) Java Software Engineer
11 164 (6.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 139 (5.28%) Senior Java Developer
13 133 (5.05%) Full-Stack Developer
14 127 (4.82%) Software Developer
15 108 (4.10%) Lead Software Engineer
16 93 (3.53%) Principal Engineer
17 87 (3.30%) DevOps Engineer
18 84 (3.19%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 83 (3.15%) Architect
20 74 (2.81%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 624 (23.70%) Spring
2 518 (19.67%) Spring Boot
3 321 (12.19%) Terraform
4 280 (10.63%) Kafka
4 280 (10.63%) React
5 261 (9.91%) REST
6 229 (8.70%) AngularJS
7 201 (7.63%) Node.js
8 196 (7.44%) RESTful
9 170 (6.46%) .NET
10 80 (3.04%) Web Services
11 68 (2.58%) HTML
12 67 (2.54%) CSS
13 59 (2.24%) Vue
14 58 (2.20%) OAuth
14 58 (2.20%) RabbitMQ
15 54 (2.05%) Hibernate
16 45 (1.71%) JSON
16 45 (1.71%) Playwright
17 44 (1.67%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 353 (13.41%) Cloud Native
2 273 (10.37%) Distributed Systems
3 175 (6.65%) Product Ownership
4 132 (5.01%) Public Cloud
5 75 (2.85%) Onboarding
6 66 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
7 58 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
8 49 (1.86%) e-Learning
9 46 (1.75%) Distributed Architecture
10 45 (1.71%) Data Structures
11 42 (1.60%) Algorithms
12 41 (1.56%) Virtual Team
13 39 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 37 (1.41%) Blog
15 33 (1.25%) Mobile App
16 31 (1.18%) AI Agents
17 29 (1.10%) Equities
18 27 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
19 26 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
20 24 (0.91%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 225 (8.55%) Linux
2 70 (2.66%) Windows
3 40 (1.52%) Android
4 38 (1.44%) Unix
5 27 (1.03%) Apple iOS
6 22 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (0.57%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.30%) CentOS
9 7 (0.27%) Debian
9 7 (0.27%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.15%) Kali Linux
10 4 (0.15%) VMS
11 3 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.076%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.038%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 969 (36.80%) Software Engineering
2 889 (33.76%) CI/CD
3 812 (30.84%) Agile
4 636 (24.15%) Microservices
5 597 (22.67%) DevOps
6 515 (19.56%) Full-Stack Development
7 499 (18.95%) Test Automation
8 474 (18.00%) Mentoring
9 453 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
10 405 (15.38%) AI
11 337 (12.80%) Containerisation
12 327 (12.42%) Infrastructure as Code
13 313 (11.89%) Continuous Improvement
14 293 (11.13%) Event-Driven
15 255 (9.68%) Technical Leadership
16 245 (9.30%) Roadmaps
17 244 (9.27%) Computer Science
18 237 (9.00%) SDLC
19 231 (8.77%) Scrum
20 229 (8.70%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 831 (31.56%) Python
2 489 (18.57%) SQL
3 438 (16.64%) JavaScript
4 275 (10.44%) C++
5 271 (10.29%) C#
6 264 (10.03%) TypeScript
7 140 (5.32%) Go
8 122 (4.63%) Bash
9 109 (4.14%) Kotlin
10 77 (2.92%) C
10 77 (2.92%) Scala
11 58 (2.20%) Rust
12 52 (1.97%) Groovy
13 51 (1.94%) PHP
14 50 (1.90%) Perl
15 39 (1.48%) PowerShell
16 35 (1.33%) Ruby
17 31 (1.18%) PL/SQL
18 23 (0.87%) Shell Script
19 17 (0.65%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 495 (18.80%) Security Cleared
2 285 (10.82%) Degree
3 265 (10.06%) SC Cleared
4 172 (6.53%) DV Cleared
5 164 (6.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 106 (4.03%) AWS Certification
7 68 (2.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 31 (1.18%) Master's Degree
9 23 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (0.76%) OSCP
11 19 (0.72%) ISTQB
12 17 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
13 16 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 15 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
14 15 (0.57%) DBS Check
15 13 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
16 12 (0.46%) PhD
17 11 (0.42%) CREST Certified
18 9 (0.34%) CISSP
19 8 (0.30%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (6.49%) QA
2 83 (3.15%) Data Quality
3 78 (2.96%) Accessibility
4 27 (1.03%) GDPR
4 27 (1.03%) WCAG
5 17 (0.65%) ISO 20022
5 17 (0.65%) NIST
6 14 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.38%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.30%) GRC
9 7 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.27%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 3 (0.11%) MiFID
11 3 (0.11%) MIL-STD-1553
11 3 (0.11%) PSD2
11 3 (0.11%) UCITS
12 2 (0.076%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.076%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 440 (16.71%) Docker
2 29 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (0.72%) Active Directory
4 15 (0.57%) VMware NSX
5 14 (0.53%) Firmware
6 12 (0.46%) Embedded Firmware
7 11 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.42%) vSphere
8 8 (0.30%) Squid
8 8 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.19%) KVM
11 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.076%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 514 (19.52%) Kubernetes
2 145 (5.51%) Ansible
3 101 (3.84%) Grafana
4 36 (1.37%) Prometheus
5 34 (1.29%) Argo
6 31 (1.18%) Puppet
7 29 (1.10%) Kibana
8 21 (0.80%) HP Fortify
9 16 (0.61%) Packer
10 14 (0.53%) Rancher
11 12 (0.46%) logstash
12 8 (0.30%) yum
12 8 (0.30%) ZABBIX
13 7 (0.27%) vCenter Server
14 6 (0.23%) Hadoop YARN
14 6 (0.23%) Kubeflow
14 6 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
15 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (0.19%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.19%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 117 (4.44%) Oracle
2 114 (4.33%) Microsoft
3 89 (3.38%) Google
4 63 (2.39%) Splunk
5 45 (1.71%) Red Hat
6 43 (1.63%) IBM
7 33 (1.25%) VMware
8 32 (1.22%) SAP
9 30 (1.14%) AppDynamics
10 26 (0.99%) Adobe
11 25 (0.95%) Dynatrace
12 22 (0.84%) OpenAI
13 19 (0.72%) Palantir
14 18 (0.68%) Databricks
15 17 (0.65%) ServiceNow
16 14 (0.53%) Salesforce
16 14 (0.53%) SendGrid
17 13 (0.49%) Foundry
18 12 (0.46%) Bloomberg
18 12 (0.46%) Solace