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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 25 35
Rank change year-on-year -34 +10 -15
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,275 2,927 4,586
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.75% 7.52% 5.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.26% 23.44% 16.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,474 1,387 3,447
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,150 £39,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £73,805
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +5.01% -7.74%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £137,500 £140,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -9.68%

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 14,912 12,486 27,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.04% 32.07% 31.10%
Number of salaries quoted 10,625 8,413 22,663
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.56% +6.67% -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 June 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 June 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 -9 1,059 £85,000 -19.05% 537
North of England -38 622 £69,305 +2.67% 193
North West -47 262 £70,000 -6.04% 99
Yorkshire +21 244 £72,500 +0.71% 49
South East -38 224 £67,500 +3.85% 100
South West -35 186 £60,000 - 100
North East +2 116 £52,130 -5.22% 46
Midlands -107 104 £60,000 +9.09% 63
West Midlands -67 86 £59,250 -1.25% 38
East of England -69 54 £50,680 +13.89% 38
East Midlands -86 17 £60,000 +26.32% 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 44 (1.93%) Apache
2 40 (1.76%) Confluence
3 35 (1.54%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
6 14 (0.62%) JBoss
7 11 (0.48%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.35%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.22%) Camunda
10 5 (0.22%) CMS
10 5 (0.22%) GeoServer
10 5 (0.22%) IIS
10 5 (0.22%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.13%) CICS
11 3 (0.13%) Liferay
11 3 (0.13%) SAS
11 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.35%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.13%) Windchill
6 2 (0.088%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.088%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.044%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 11 (0.48%) Maximo
2 8 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.13%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.088%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.088%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.044%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.044%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.044%) Endur
5 1 (0.044%) Findur
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.044%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.044%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 938 (41.23%) AWS
2 421 (18.51%) Azure
3 265 (11.65%) GCP
4 185 (8.13%) Serverless
5 138 (6.07%) AWS CloudFormation
6 121 (5.32%) Amazon S3
7 120 (5.27%) SaaS
8 115 (5.05%) AWS Lambda
9 112 (4.92%) Amazon ECS
10 107 (4.70%) Amazon EKS
11 97 (4.26%) GitHub
12 75 (3.30%) AWS Step Functions
13 62 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
14 49 (2.15%) Amazon ECR
15 48 (2.11%) Apigee
16 45 (1.98%) Amazon SQS
17 38 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
18 37 (1.63%) dbt
19 36 (1.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 36 (1.58%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.20%) Broadband
2 32 (1.41%) HTTP
3 26 (1.14%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.35%) AMQP
4 8 (0.35%) IPv4
4 8 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
5 7 (0.31%) DMARC
6 5 (0.22%) MQTT
7 3 (0.13%) BGP
7 3 (0.13%) Internet
7 3 (0.13%) Network Security
7 3 (0.13%) VLAN
7 3 (0.13%) VPN
8 2 (0.088%) Firewall
8 2 (0.088%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.088%) LAN
8 2 (0.088%) SAN
8 2 (0.088%) WAN
9 1 (0.044%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.044%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (8.40%) NoSQL
2 165 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
3 107 (4.70%) Relational Database
4 104 (4.57%) MongoDB
5 92 (4.04%) DynamoDB
6 73 (3.21%) MySQL
7 67 (2.95%) SQL Server
8 40 (1.76%) Amazon Athena
9 39 (1.71%) RDBMS
10 30 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
11 27 (1.19%) Big Data
12 26 (1.14%) DB2
13 23 (1.01%) BigQuery
14 21 (0.92%) Redis
15 19 (0.84%) Hadoop
16 18 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
17 17 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
18 14 (0.62%) Metadata
19 13 (0.57%) Power BI
20 12 (0.53%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 195 (8.57%) Git
2 179 (7.87%) Jenkins
3 159 (6.99%) GitLab
4 93 (4.09%) JIRA
5 84 (3.69%) Selenium
6 82 (3.60%) Maven
7 73 (3.21%) Cucumber
8 67 (2.95%) Cypress.io
9 63 (2.77%) JUnit
10 58 (2.55%) TeamCity
11 57 (2.51%) SonarQube
12 43 (1.89%) Postman
13 33 (1.45%) JMeter
14 30 (1.32%) Mockito
15 29 (1.27%) Bitbucket
16 28 (1.23%) Gradle
17 25 (1.10%) Claude Code
17 25 (1.10%) REST Assured
18 23 (1.01%) WebDriver
19 22 (0.97%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 567 (24.92%) Finance
2 361 (15.87%) Social Skills
3 234 (10.29%) Banking
4 205 (9.01%) Public Sector
5 161 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
6 153 (6.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 108 (4.75%) Front Office
8 106 (4.66%) Law
9 95 (4.18%) Retail
10 70 (3.08%) Financial Institution
11 49 (2.15%) Back Office
12 43 (1.89%) Investment Banking
13 31 (1.36%) Games
14 27 (1.19%) Health Technology
15 25 (1.10%) Telecoms
16 22 (0.97%) Aerospace
17 20 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
18 19 (0.84%) Marketing
18 19 (0.84%) Tech for Good
19 18 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 848 (37.27%) Developer
2 572 (25.14%) Java Developer
3 563 (24.75%) Senior
4 531 (23.34%) Software Engineer
5 392 (17.23%) Java Engineer
6 343 (15.08%) Lead
7 219 (9.63%) Senior Developer
8 180 (7.91%) Java Software Engineer
9 169 (7.43%) Senior Software Engineer
10 158 (6.95%) Senior Java Developer
11 149 (6.55%) Full-Stack Developer
12 135 (5.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 118 (5.19%) Senior Java Engineer
14 112 (4.92%) Lead Software Engineer
15 111 (4.88%) Software Developer
16 96 (4.22%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 78 (3.43%) Architect
18 67 (2.95%) Lead Developer
19 64 (2.81%) Senior Java Software Engineer
20 55 (2.42%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 505 (22.20%) Spring
2 431 (18.95%) Spring Boot
3 301 (13.23%) React
4 234 (10.29%) REST
5 230 (10.11%) AngularJS
6 206 (9.05%) Node.js
7 201 (8.84%) Kafka
8 156 (6.86%) .NET
9 137 (6.02%) RESTful
10 94 (4.13%) HTML
11 87 (3.82%) Web Services
12 81 (3.56%) CSS
13 72 (3.16%) SOAP
14 63 (2.77%) Vue
15 62 (2.73%) GraphQL
16 61 (2.68%) Elastic Stack
16 61 (2.68%) JSON
17 48 (2.11%) Gherkin
18 47 (2.07%) Playwright
19 45 (1.98%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 252 (11.08%) Cloud Native
2 176 (7.74%) Distributed Systems
3 141 (6.20%) Product Ownership
4 94 (4.13%) Public Cloud
5 52 (2.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 49 (2.15%) Fixed Income
7 44 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
8 39 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
8 39 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
9 36 (1.58%) Data Structures
9 36 (1.58%) Distributed Architecture
10 35 (1.54%) Blog
11 33 (1.45%) e-Learning
12 32 (1.41%) Equities
12 32 (1.41%) Mobile App
13 30 (1.32%) Virtual Team
14 24 (1.05%) Onboarding
15 20 (0.88%) Algorithms
15 20 (0.88%) Social Media
16 19 (0.84%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 194 (8.53%) Linux
2 49 (2.15%) Android
3 48 (2.11%) Unix
4 43 (1.89%) Windows
5 14 (0.62%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.48%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.22%) CentOS
8 5 (0.22%) Debian
8 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.18%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 808 (35.52%) Agile
2 770 (33.85%) Software Engineering
3 692 (30.42%) CI/CD
4 526 (23.12%) DevOps
5 489 (21.49%) Microservices
6 467 (20.53%) Full-Stack Development
7 430 (18.90%) Test Automation
8 407 (17.89%) Mentoring
9 339 (14.90%) Problem-Solving
10 257 (11.30%) Containerisation
11 252 (11.08%) AI
12 232 (10.20%) TDD
13 223 (9.80%) Scrum
14 221 (9.71%) Continuous Improvement
15 219 (9.63%) Technical Leadership
16 213 (9.36%) Infrastructure as Code
17 212 (9.32%) Roadmaps
18 195 (8.57%) Computer Science
19 177 (7.78%) SDLC
20 162 (7.12%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 665 (29.23%) Python
2 445 (19.56%) SQL
3 428 (18.81%) JavaScript
4 266 (11.69%) TypeScript
5 238 (10.46%) C#
6 181 (7.96%) C++
7 160 (7.03%) Go
8 113 (4.97%) Bash
9 108 (4.75%) Kotlin
10 64 (2.81%) Groovy
11 59 (2.59%) C
12 51 (2.24%) Scala
13 42 (1.85%) Rust
14 40 (1.76%) PHP
15 35 (1.54%) PL/SQL
16 27 (1.19%) PowerShell
17 18 (0.79%) R
18 17 (0.75%) Apex Code
19 15 (0.66%) Perl
20 13 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 357 (15.69%) Security Cleared
2 259 (11.38%) Degree
3 225 (9.89%) SC Cleared
4 134 (5.89%) DV Cleared
5 131 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 96 (4.22%) AWS Certification
7 37 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 32 (1.41%) Master's Degree
9 27 (1.19%) ISTQB
10 26 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 22 (0.97%) OSCP
13 20 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
14 18 (0.79%) DBS Check
15 17 (0.75%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 15 (0.66%) Azure Certification
17 14 (0.62%) CREST Certified
18 12 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
18 12 (0.53%) PhD
19 9 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (6.46%) QA
2 56 (2.46%) Accessibility
3 38 (1.67%) Data Quality
4 14 (0.62%) GRC
4 14 (0.62%) PCI DSS
5 13 (0.57%) GDPR
5 13 (0.57%) WCAG
6 12 (0.53%) SOC 2
7 9 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.26%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 14443
9 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 3 (0.13%) NIST
11 2 (0.088%) Good Clinical Practice
11 2 (0.088%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.044%) MiFID
12 1 (0.044%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 356 (15.65%) Docker
2 14 (0.62%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.44%) vSphere
5 8 (0.35%) Squid
5 8 (0.35%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.22%) Firmware
7 4 (0.18%) KVM
8 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.088%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.088%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.044%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.044%) OpenDJ
10 1 (0.044%) OpenIDM
10 1 (0.044%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.044%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 421 (18.51%) Kubernetes
2 260 (11.43%) Terraform
3 99 (4.35%) Grafana
4 96 (4.22%) Ansible
5 49 (2.15%) Argo
6 46 (2.02%) Prometheus
7 37 (1.63%) HP Fortify
8 28 (1.23%) Kibana
9 18 (0.79%) Kustomize
10 14 (0.62%) Packer
11 12 (0.53%) Puppet
12 11 (0.48%) Rancher
13 9 (0.40%) logstash
14 8 (0.35%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
15 6 (0.26%) yum
16 5 (0.22%) FTK
17 3 (0.13%) AWS Copilot
17 3 (0.13%) Progress Chef
18 2 (0.088%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 87 (3.82%) Oracle
2 81 (3.56%) Microsoft
3 72 (3.16%) Google
4 40 (1.76%) Splunk
5 30 (1.32%) IBM
6 26 (1.14%) Salesforce
7 21 (0.92%) Palantir
8 20 (0.88%) Red Hat
9 19 (0.84%) Dynatrace
9 19 (0.84%) Foundry
10 17 (0.75%) AppDynamics
10 17 (0.75%) MuleSoft
10 17 (0.75%) VMware
11 14 (0.62%) ServiceNow
12 13 (0.57%) Databricks
13 12 (0.53%) SAP
13 12 (0.53%) Solace
14 11 (0.48%) Adobe
14 11 (0.48%) Atlassian
15 7 (0.31%) SendGrid