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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 33 23
Rank change year-on-year -31 -10 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,771 3,284 3,800
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.82% 5.44% 8.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.68% 16.86% 19.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,119 2,002 3,013
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £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 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £142,500 £130,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +3.98%

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 10,615 19,473 19,104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 22.89% 32.26% 41.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,861 11,604 15,751
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,852 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,556 £107,500
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 21 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 21 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 -9 1,039 £105,000 +5.00% 886
North of England -13 266 £65,000 +8.33% 217
South East -79 176 £62,500 -2.34% 297
North West -12 137 £67,500 +12.50% 154
Midlands +32 119 £62,500 +47.06% 75
South West -44 118 £65,000 - 153
Yorkshire +24 106 £66,250 +14.29% 44
West Midlands +36 89 £62,500 +17.72% 54
East of England -71 43 £42,500 -37.04% 64
East Midlands +15 30 £57,750 +65.00% 21
North East -5 25 £55,000 -24.14% 20
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 92 (5.19%) Apache
1 92 (5.19%) Apache Airflow
2 57 (3.22%) Apache Spark
3 43 (2.43%) Confluence
4 15 (0.85%) JBoss
5 7 (0.40%) IIS
6 6 (0.34%) Mule
6 6 (0.34%) nginx
6 6 (0.34%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.34%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.28%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
7 5 (0.28%) Camunda
7 5 (0.28%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.23%) Apache Pulsar
8 4 (0.23%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.23%) Traefik
9 3 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.17%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (0.40%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.17%) Simulink
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.056%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.056%) Trello
5 1 (0.056%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
1 8 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.34%) Adaptiv
2 6 (0.34%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.34%) Shopify
3 5 (0.28%) Maximo
3 5 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.056%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.056%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.056%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.056%) Summit
5 1 (0.056%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 868 (49.01%) AWS
2 347 (19.59%) Azure
3 230 (12.99%) GCP
4 143 (8.07%) Serverless
5 101 (5.70%) Amazon EKS
6 95 (5.36%) GitHub
7 94 (5.31%) SaaS
8 81 (4.57%) AWS Lambda
9 79 (4.46%) dbt
10 74 (4.18%) Amazon EC2
11 73 (4.12%) Snowflake
12 69 (3.90%) Amazon ECS
13 64 (3.61%) Amazon S3
14 45 (2.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 40 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
16 39 (2.20%) OpenShift
17 31 (1.75%) Datadog
18 26 (1.47%) Amazon SQS
19 24 (1.36%) Amazon Kinesis
20 22 (1.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 35 (1.98%) TCP/IP
2 24 (1.36%) HTTP
3 21 (1.19%) DNS
4 19 (1.07%) Firewall
5 17 (0.96%) SSH
6 15 (0.85%) FTP
6 15 (0.85%) SMTP
7 12 (0.68%) VPN
8 10 (0.56%) AMQP
8 10 (0.56%) Multicast
9 9 (0.51%) Internet
10 7 (0.40%) SAN
11 5 (0.28%) DHCP
12 4 (0.23%) Broadband
12 4 (0.23%) ICMP
12 4 (0.23%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
13 3 (0.17%) BGP
13 3 (0.17%) LAN
13 3 (0.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (9.77%) PostgreSQL
2 162 (9.15%) Relational Database
3 120 (6.78%) NoSQL
4 95 (5.36%) SQL Server
5 91 (5.14%) MongoDB
6 89 (5.03%) Data Lake
7 77 (4.35%) MySQL
8 69 (3.90%) Apache Iceberg
9 68 (3.84%) Amazon Athena
10 65 (3.67%) Apache Arrow
10 65 (3.67%) Dremio
11 60 (3.39%) Apache Ignite
11 60 (3.39%) Big Data
12 59 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
13 52 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
14 44 (2.48%) RDBMS
15 40 (2.26%) Hadoop
16 39 (2.20%) DynamoDB
17 32 (1.81%) BigQuery
18 27 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 175 (9.88%) Jenkins
2 149 (8.41%) Git
3 99 (5.59%) Selenium
4 97 (5.48%) JIRA
5 81 (4.57%) JUnit
6 73 (4.12%) GitLab
7 58 (3.27%) Cucumber
8 41 (2.32%) Mockito
9 40 (2.26%) JMeter
10 39 (2.20%) Cypress.io
10 39 (2.20%) Postman
11 33 (1.86%) Maven
11 33 (1.86%) TeamCity
12 30 (1.69%) Bitbucket
13 29 (1.64%) WebDriver
14 25 (1.41%) SoapUI
15 22 (1.24%) SonarQube
16 19 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
17 16 (0.90%) REST Assured
17 16 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 737 (41.61%) Finance
2 496 (28.01%) Social Skills
3 397 (22.42%) Banking
4 291 (16.43%) Law
5 263 (14.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 185 (10.45%) Front Office
7 167 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
8 150 (8.47%) Investment Banking
9 119 (6.72%) Public Sector
10 106 (5.99%) Financial Institution
11 85 (4.80%) Marketing
12 50 (2.82%) Retail
13 36 (2.03%) Legal
14 34 (1.92%) Back Office
15 31 (1.75%) Games
16 23 (1.30%) Manufacturing
17 21 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
18 20 (1.13%) Telecoms
19 19 (1.07%) Billing
20 16 (0.90%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 585 (33.03%) Developer
2 540 (30.49%) Software Engineer
3 420 (23.72%) Senior
4 299 (16.88%) Java Engineer
5 292 (16.49%) Lead
6 278 (15.70%) Java Developer
7 221 (12.48%) Java Software Engineer
8 165 (9.32%) Senior Software Engineer
9 146 (8.24%) Lead Software Engineer
10 120 (6.78%) Senior Java Engineer
11 118 (6.66%) AWS Engineer
12 106 (5.99%) Python Engineer
13 101 (5.70%) Architect
14 100 (5.65%) Python Software Engineer
15 96 (5.42%) Senior Developer
16 95 (5.36%) Full-Stack Developer
17 90 (5.08%) Senior Java Software Engineer
18 82 (4.63%) AWS Software Engineer
19 64 (3.61%) Data Engineer
20 62 (3.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 387 (21.85%) Spring
2 325 (18.35%) React
3 300 (16.94%) Spring Boot
4 280 (15.81%) Kafka
5 185 (10.45%) RESTful
6 166 (9.37%) REST
7 165 (9.32%) .NET
8 153 (8.64%) Node.js
9 123 (6.95%) HTML
10 116 (6.55%) AngularJS
11 105 (5.93%) CSS
12 86 (4.86%) Hibernate
13 83 (4.69%) Pandas
14 71 (4.01%) Web Services
15 69 (3.90%) gRPC
16 66 (3.73%) NumPy
17 65 (3.67%) SciPy
17 65 (3.67%) SOAP
18 62 (3.50%) Protocol Buffers
19 58 (3.27%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 337 (19.03%) Cloud Native
2 202 (11.41%) Distributed Systems
3 126 (7.11%) Equities
4 118 (6.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 117 (6.61%) Fixed Income
6 108 (6.10%) Derivative
7 91 (5.14%) Algorithms
8 74 (4.18%) Hedge funds
9 66 (3.73%) Public Cloud
9 66 (3.73%) Self-Motivation
10 61 (3.44%) Onboarding
11 59 (3.33%) Pricing Data
11 59 (3.33%) Product Ownership
12 55 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
13 44 (2.48%) Management Information System
14 39 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
15 37 (2.09%) Data Structures
15 37 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
16 35 (1.98%) Mobile App
17 34 (1.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 195 (11.01%) Linux
2 40 (2.26%) Windows
3 27 (1.52%) Android
3 27 (1.52%) Unix
4 15 (0.85%) VMS
5 14 (0.79%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.73%) Amazon Linux
7 7 (0.40%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.17%) CentOS
10 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.11%) Debian
11 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.056%) AIX
12 1 (0.056%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.056%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.056%) SUSE
12 1 (0.056%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 835 (47.15%) Agile
2 706 (39.86%) Software Engineering
3 590 (33.31%) CI/CD
4 423 (23.88%) Microservices
5 381 (21.51%) Problem-Solving
6 366 (20.67%) DevOps
7 273 (15.42%) Computer Science
7 273 (15.42%) SDLC
8 263 (14.85%) Test Automation
9 260 (14.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 251 (14.17%) Full-Stack Development
11 245 (13.83%) Mentoring
12 202 (11.41%) AI
13 184 (10.39%) Fintech
14 182 (10.28%) TDD
15 175 (9.88%) Containerisation
16 169 (9.54%) Scrum
17 163 (9.20%) Machine Learning
18 136 (7.68%) Analytics
19 135 (7.62%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 741 (41.84%) Python
2 422 (23.83%) JavaScript
3 392 (22.13%) SQL
4 304 (17.17%) TypeScript
5 256 (14.46%) C#
6 180 (10.16%) C++
7 146 (8.24%) Go
8 131 (7.40%) Kotlin
9 95 (5.36%) C
10 78 (4.40%) Scala
11 54 (3.05%) PHP
12 42 (2.37%) Shell Script
13 41 (2.32%) PowerShell
14 37 (2.09%) Groovy
15 36 (2.03%) PL/SQL
16 33 (1.86%) Bash
17 29 (1.64%) Rust
18 25 (1.41%) Perl
19 23 (1.30%) Ruby
20 19 (1.07%) R
Qualifications
1 304 (17.17%) Degree
2 222 (12.54%) Security Cleared
3 148 (8.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 140 (7.91%) SC Cleared
5 87 (4.91%) AWS Certification
6 73 (4.12%) Master's Degree
7 67 (3.78%) DV Cleared
8 46 (2.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 37 (2.09%) Azure Certification
10 32 (1.81%) PhD
11 23 (1.30%) ISTQB
12 19 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
13 18 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
14 17 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (0.90%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 10 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
17 9 (0.51%) HND
17 9 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
17 9 (0.51%) PMI Certification
17 9 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (5.48%) QA
2 46 (2.60%) Accessibility
3 31 (1.75%) GDPR
4 17 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (0.73%) Data Quality
5 13 (0.73%) PCI DSS
6 10 (0.56%) ISO 9001
6 10 (0.56%) NIST
7 9 (0.51%) HIPAA
8 8 (0.45%) SLA
9 6 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.28%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.23%) EU AI Act
11 4 (0.23%) SEPA
11 4 (0.23%) WCAG
12 3 (0.17%) NCSC
13 2 (0.11%) GRC
13 2 (0.11%) PSD2
System Software
1 299 (16.88%) Docker
2 26 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
5 11 (0.62%) HDFS
6 5 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.23%) DFS Replication
7 4 (0.23%) vSphere
8 3 (0.17%) Firmware
9 2 (0.11%) Apache Flume
9 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.11%) Squid
9 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.056%) KVM
Systems Management
1 456 (25.75%) Kubernetes
2 140 (7.91%) Terraform
3 74 (4.18%) Grafana
4 48 (2.71%) Ansible
5 42 (2.37%) Kibana
6 40 (2.26%) Prometheus
7 22 (1.24%) Argo
8 12 (0.68%) Progress Chef
9 11 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.45%) Control-M
11 7 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.28%) logstash
12 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.23%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.23%) Nagios
13 4 (0.23%) Puppet
14 3 (0.17%) Kustomize
15 2 (0.11%) Oozie
15 2 (0.11%) WSUS
16 1 (0.056%) CA Service Virtualization
Vendors
1 133 (7.51%) Oracle
2 91 (5.14%) Microsoft
3 83 (4.69%) Google
4 39 (2.20%) Guidewire
4 39 (2.20%) Splunk
5 33 (1.86%) Databricks
6 32 (1.81%) Atlassian
7 28 (1.58%) SAP
8 27 (1.52%) Dynatrace
9 22 (1.24%) MuleSoft
10 18 (1.02%) ServiceNow
11 17 (0.96%) Informatica
12 16 (0.90%) IBM
13 15 (0.85%) Foundry
14 14 (0.79%) Palantir
15 13 (0.73%) Dell
15 13 (0.73%) Solace
15 13 (0.73%) Talend
16 12 (0.68%) Red Hat
17 11 (0.62%) Salesforce