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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 28 35
Rank change year-on-year -29 +7 -14
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,435 3,003 3,835
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.65% 6.89% 5.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.71% 23.30% 17.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,571 1,403 2,671
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £78,810 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.18% -1.49% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £78,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -3.85% +0.65%

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 16,548 12,889 21,604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.01% 29.57% 29.61%
Number of salaries quoted 12,028 8,626 16,146
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,313 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £60,375
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +6.00% -7.12%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -13 1,075 £85,000 -19.05% 1,330
North of England -26 678 £67,500 +0.69% 233
North West -38 306 £70,000 - 130
South West -16 255 £60,000 - 140
Yorkshire +40 220 £72,500 +7.41% 64
South East -56 212 £67,500 +3.85% 138
North East +5 152 £52,500 +13.51% 40
Midlands -86 138 £67,500 +12.50% 88
West Midlands -53 115 £68,403 +14.00% 68
East of England -71 54 £51,359 +16.73% 50
East Midlands -75 22 £60,000 +26.32% 19
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 59 (2.42%) Confluence
2 50 (2.05%) Apache
3 43 (1.77%) Apache Spark
4 30 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (0.66%) Camunda
6 14 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 14 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.33%) JBoss
7 8 (0.33%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.21%) CICS
9 5 (0.21%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.16%) CMS
10 4 (0.16%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
11 3 (0.12%) SAS
11 3 (0.12%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.082%) Moodle
Applications
1 19 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.66%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.12%) Moqups
7 2 (0.082%) PTC Creo
7 2 (0.082%) Windchill
8 1 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.041%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.041%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.041%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 16 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.33%) Maximo
3 5 (0.21%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.21%) Temenos T24
4 3 (0.12%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.12%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.082%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.041%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.041%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.041%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.041%) Endur
6 1 (0.041%) Findur
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.041%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,010 (41.48%) AWS
2 508 (20.86%) Azure
3 301 (12.36%) GCP
4 193 (7.93%) Serverless
5 154 (6.32%) AWS CloudFormation
6 131 (5.38%) GitHub
7 120 (4.93%) AWS Lambda
8 114 (4.68%) Amazon ECS
9 108 (4.44%) Amazon S3
10 94 (3.86%) SaaS
11 90 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
12 78 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
13 66 (2.71%) GitHub Actions
14 62 (2.55%) AWS Step Functions
15 40 (1.64%) Amazon ECR
15 40 (1.64%) OpenShift
16 35 (1.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 35 (1.44%) Azure Service Bus
17 34 (1.40%) Amazon SQS
17 34 (1.40%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 35 (1.44%) HTTP
2 32 (1.31%) Broadband
3 19 (0.78%) TCP/IP
4 17 (0.70%) Network Security
5 13 (0.53%) DMARC
6 9 (0.37%) MQTT
7 8 (0.33%) IPv4
7 8 (0.33%) Software-Defined Networking
8 6 (0.25%) BGP
8 6 (0.25%) DNS
8 6 (0.25%) IPsec
8 6 (0.25%) Kerberos
8 6 (0.25%) VPN
9 5 (0.21%) AMQP
9 5 (0.21%) Firewall
9 5 (0.21%) Internet
10 3 (0.12%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.12%) LAN
10 3 (0.12%) SAN
10 3 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
2 167 (6.86%) NoSQL
3 125 (5.13%) MongoDB
4 117 (4.80%) Relational Database
5 86 (3.53%) MySQL
6 80 (3.29%) DynamoDB
7 75 (3.08%) SQL Server
8 37 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
9 34 (1.40%) Big Data
10 27 (1.11%) Db2
10 27 (1.11%) Redis
11 25 (1.03%) BigQuery
12 22 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
12 22 (0.90%) Hadoop
13 21 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
14 16 (0.66%) Metadata
14 16 (0.66%) RDBMS
15 14 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
16 13 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
17 12 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 251 (10.31%) Git
2 191 (7.84%) Jenkins
3 177 (7.27%) GitLab
4 92 (3.78%) JIRA
5 87 (3.57%) Cucumber
6 85 (3.49%) JUnit
7 75 (3.08%) Selenium
8 74 (3.04%) Maven
9 62 (2.55%) Cypress.io
10 50 (2.05%) SonarQube
11 47 (1.93%) TeamCity
12 42 (1.72%) Postman
13 40 (1.64%) JMeter
14 36 (1.48%) Eclipse
15 35 (1.44%) Mockito
16 33 (1.36%) Bitbucket
16 33 (1.36%) Subversion
17 25 (1.03%) Claude Code
18 23 (0.94%) REST Assured
19 20 (0.82%) Gradle
General
1 655 (26.90%) Finance
2 398 (16.34%) Social Skills
3 243 (9.98%) Public Sector
4 218 (8.95%) Banking
5 177 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
6 127 (5.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 110 (4.52%) Front Office
8 95 (3.90%) Law
9 75 (3.08%) Retail
10 60 (2.46%) Financial Institution
11 40 (1.64%) Investment Banking
12 35 (1.44%) Health Technology
13 32 (1.31%) Back Office
13 32 (1.31%) Marketing
14 28 (1.15%) Manufacturing
15 25 (1.03%) Legal
16 24 (0.99%) Games
17 20 (0.82%) Tech for Good
18 19 (0.78%) Aerospace
18 19 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 854 (35.07%) Developer
2 616 (25.30%) Senior
3 567 (23.29%) Software Engineer
4 555 (22.79%) Java Developer
5 418 (17.17%) Java Engineer
6 351 (14.41%) Lead
7 207 (8.50%) Senior Developer
8 192 (7.89%) Senior Software Engineer
9 160 (6.57%) Java Software Engineer
10 153 (6.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 138 (5.67%) Full-Stack Developer
12 136 (5.59%) Senior Java Developer
13 130 (5.34%) Senior Java Engineer
14 125 (5.13%) Lead Software Engineer
15 123 (5.05%) Software Developer
16 86 (3.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 81 (3.33%) Principal Engineer
18 76 (3.12%) Architect
19 74 (3.04%) DevOps Engineer
20 71 (2.92%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 562 (23.08%) Spring
2 469 (19.26%) Spring Boot
3 285 (11.70%) React
4 275 (11.29%) Kafka
5 235 (9.65%) AngularJS
6 234 (9.61%) REST
7 224 (9.20%) Node.js
8 184 (7.56%) RESTful
9 165 (6.78%) .NET
10 85 (3.49%) Web Services
11 76 (3.12%) CSS
12 71 (2.92%) GraphQL
13 69 (2.83%) HTML
14 65 (2.67%) Vue
15 54 (2.22%) OAuth
16 51 (2.09%) Playwright
17 49 (2.01%) Hibernate
18 48 (1.97%) RabbitMQ
19 47 (1.93%) SOAP
20 46 (1.89%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 308 (12.65%) Cloud Native
2 230 (9.45%) Distributed Systems
3 159 (6.53%) Product Ownership
4 111 (4.56%) Public Cloud
5 69 (2.83%) Onboarding
6 56 (2.30%) Fixed Income
6 56 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
7 55 (2.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 51 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
9 42 (1.72%) Data Structures
10 40 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
11 37 (1.52%) e-Learning
11 37 (1.52%) Virtual Team
12 36 (1.48%) Mobile App
13 34 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
14 32 (1.31%) Equities
15 28 (1.15%) Algorithms
16 22 (0.90%) AI Agents
17 21 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
17 21 (0.86%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 217 (8.91%) Linux
2 62 (2.55%) Windows
3 44 (1.81%) Android
4 40 (1.64%) Unix
5 18 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (0.62%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.62%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.21%) CentOS
8 4 (0.16%) Debian
8 4 (0.16%) Kali Linux
8 4 (0.16%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.082%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 868 (35.65%) Software Engineering
2 826 (33.92%) Agile
3 799 (32.81%) CI/CD
4 582 (23.90%) Microservices
5 574 (23.57%) DevOps
6 496 (20.37%) Test Automation
7 468 (19.22%) Full-Stack Development
8 428 (17.58%) Mentoring
9 404 (16.59%) Problem-Solving
10 354 (14.54%) AI
11 308 (12.65%) Containerisation
12 287 (11.79%) Continuous Improvement
13 282 (11.58%) Infrastructure as Code
14 248 (10.18%) TDD
15 242 (9.94%) Roadmaps
16 228 (9.36%) Technical Leadership
17 223 (9.16%) Computer Science
18 217 (8.91%) Scrum
19 205 (8.42%) Event-Driven
20 204 (8.38%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 795 (32.65%) Python
2 460 (18.89%) SQL
3 431 (17.70%) JavaScript
4 262 (10.76%) TypeScript
5 255 (10.47%) C#
6 231 (9.49%) C++
7 149 (6.12%) Go
8 110 (4.52%) Bash
9 107 (4.39%) Kotlin
10 72 (2.96%) Scala
11 66 (2.71%) C
12 58 (2.38%) Groovy
12 58 (2.38%) PHP
13 55 (2.26%) Rust
14 43 (1.77%) Perl
15 35 (1.44%) PowerShell
15 35 (1.44%) Ruby
16 31 (1.27%) PL/SQL
17 21 (0.86%) Shell Script
18 14 (0.57%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 424 (17.41%) Security Cleared
2 274 (11.25%) Degree
3 246 (10.10%) SC Cleared
4 155 (6.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 145 (5.95%) DV Cleared
6 99 (4.07%) AWS Certification
7 58 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 28 (1.15%) Master's Degree
9 20 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
10 19 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 18 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
11 18 (0.74%) ISTQB
11 18 (0.74%) OSCP
12 14 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.49%) DBS Check
15 10 (0.41%) CREST Certified
16 9 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
17 8 (0.33%) Azure Certification
17 8 (0.33%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (6.49%) QA
2 74 (3.04%) Accessibility
3 55 (2.26%) Data Quality
4 27 (1.11%) WCAG
5 20 (0.82%) GDPR
6 14 (0.57%) GRC
6 14 (0.57%) NIST
7 12 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.33%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.29%) ISO 20022
9 7 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.25%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 3 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.12%) MiFID
12 3 (0.12%) PSD2
12 3 (0.12%) UCITS
13 2 (0.082%) Good Clinical Practice
13 2 (0.082%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 390 (16.02%) Docker
2 21 (0.86%) Active Directory
2 21 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.45%) vSphere
4 8 (0.33%) Squid
4 8 (0.33%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.25%) Firmware
5 6 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.21%) KVM
7 3 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.082%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 445 (18.28%) Kubernetes
2 277 (11.38%) Terraform
3 112 (4.60%) Ansible
4 93 (3.82%) Grafana
5 36 (1.48%) Prometheus
6 28 (1.15%) Argo
6 28 (1.15%) Kibana
7 27 (1.11%) HP Fortify
8 16 (0.66%) Puppet
9 13 (0.53%) Packer
10 11 (0.45%) Rancher
11 10 (0.41%) logstash
12 8 (0.33%) ZABBIX
13 6 (0.25%) Hadoop YARN
13 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (0.25%) yum
14 5 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
15 4 (0.16%) Control-M
16 3 (0.12%) Oracle RMAN
16 3 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 99 (4.07%) Oracle
2 96 (3.94%) Microsoft
3 73 (3.00%) Google
4 61 (2.51%) Splunk
5 43 (1.77%) IBM
6 34 (1.40%) SAP
7 28 (1.15%) Red Hat
8 25 (1.03%) VMware
9 24 (0.99%) AppDynamics
10 23 (0.94%) Adobe
10 23 (0.94%) Dynatrace
10 23 (0.94%) Palantir
10 23 (0.94%) Salesforce
11 21 (0.86%) ServiceNow
12 18 (0.74%) Foundry
13 16 (0.66%) OpenAI
14 14 (0.57%) MuleSoft
15 13 (0.53%) Databricks
15 13 (0.53%) SendGrid
16 11 (0.45%) Solace