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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 26 34
Rank change year-on-year -29 +8 -14
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,294 3,022 4,729
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.77% 7.64% 5.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.16% 23.86% 16.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,495 1,424 3,509
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,375 £39,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,454
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £137,500 £142,500
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 15,134 12,664 28,973
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.25% 32.03% 30.69%
Number of salaries quoted 10,905 8,484 23,118
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £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 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 15 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 15 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 -12 1,045 £85,000 -19.05% 515
North of England -27 643 £69,305 +2.67% 168
North West -37 278 £70,000 -6.67% 90
Yorkshire +23 239 £72,500 +3.57% 43
South East -28 220 £70,000 +7.69% 109
South West -35 193 £60,000 - 96
North East +1 126 £52,500 +10.53% 37
Midlands -88 112 £60,000 +9.09% 71
West Midlands -52 92 £58,750 -2.08% 37
East of England -61 56 £53,180 +20.86% 47
East Midlands -77 19 £60,000 +26.32% 34
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 45 (1.96%) Apache
2 40 (1.74%) Confluence
3 35 (1.53%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
6 14 (0.61%) JBoss
7 8 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.35%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.31%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.22%) CMS
9 5 (0.22%) GeoServer
9 5 (0.22%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.17%) Camunda
11 3 (0.13%) CICS
11 3 (0.13%) IIS
11 3 (0.13%) SAS
11 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.087%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (0.31%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.087%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.087%) PTC Creo
4 2 (0.087%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (0.48%) Maximo
1 11 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.17%) Temenos T24
3 3 (0.13%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.087%) 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%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 937 (40.85%) AWS
2 433 (18.88%) Azure
3 273 (11.90%) GCP
4 182 (7.93%) Serverless
5 137 (5.97%) AWS CloudFormation
6 120 (5.23%) Amazon S3
7 116 (5.06%) AWS Lambda
7 116 (5.06%) SaaS
8 110 (4.80%) Amazon ECS
9 105 (4.58%) GitHub
10 99 (4.32%) Amazon EKS
11 74 (3.23%) AWS Step Functions
12 65 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
13 46 (2.01%) Amazon ECR
14 45 (1.96%) Apigee
15 44 (1.92%) Amazon SQS
16 42 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
17 38 (1.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 37 (1.61%) dbt
19 36 (1.57%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.18%) Broadband
2 33 (1.44%) HTTP
3 25 (1.09%) TCP/IP
4 10 (0.44%) DMARC
5 8 (0.35%) IPv4
5 8 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
6 7 (0.31%) AMQP
7 6 (0.26%) MQTT
8 4 (0.17%) Internet
9 3 (0.13%) BGP
9 3 (0.13%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.13%) Network Security
9 3 (0.13%) VLAN
9 3 (0.13%) VPN
10 2 (0.087%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.087%) Firewall
10 2 (0.087%) LAN
10 2 (0.087%) SAN
10 2 (0.087%) WAN
11 1 (0.044%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (8.06%) NoSQL
2 161 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
3 106 (4.62%) MongoDB
4 104 (4.53%) Relational Database
5 88 (3.84%) DynamoDB
6 73 (3.18%) MySQL
7 66 (2.88%) SQL Server
8 41 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
9 37 (1.61%) RDBMS
10 32 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
11 25 (1.09%) Big Data
12 24 (1.05%) Db2
13 23 (1.00%) BigQuery
14 22 (0.96%) Redis
15 17 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
15 17 (0.74%) Hadoop
16 15 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
16 15 (0.65%) Metadata
17 14 (0.61%) Neo4j
18 12 (0.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 200 (8.72%) Git
2 172 (7.50%) Jenkins
3 157 (6.84%) GitLab
4 91 (3.97%) JIRA
5 78 (3.40%) Maven
6 76 (3.31%) Selenium
7 74 (3.23%) Cucumber
8 66 (2.88%) Cypress.io
8 66 (2.88%) JUnit
9 56 (2.44%) TeamCity
10 55 (2.40%) SonarQube
11 41 (1.79%) Postman
12 34 (1.48%) JMeter
13 31 (1.35%) Mockito
14 28 (1.22%) Gradle
15 27 (1.18%) Bitbucket
16 25 (1.09%) Claude Code
17 24 (1.05%) REST Assured
18 20 (0.87%) Subversion
19 18 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 571 (24.89%) Finance
2 358 (15.61%) Social Skills
3 222 (9.68%) Banking
4 204 (8.89%) Public Sector
5 161 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
6 151 (6.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 104 (4.53%) Law
8 103 (4.49%) Front Office
9 94 (4.10%) Retail
10 70 (3.05%) Financial Institution
11 48 (2.09%) Back Office
12 40 (1.74%) Investment Banking
13 31 (1.35%) Games
14 29 (1.26%) Health Technology
15 22 (0.96%) Telecoms
16 21 (0.92%) Aerospace
17 20 (0.87%) Tech for Good
18 19 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
19 17 (0.74%) Advertising
19 17 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 860 (37.49%) Developer
2 580 (25.28%) Java Developer
3 566 (24.67%) Senior
4 538 (23.45%) Software Engineer
5 401 (17.48%) Java Engineer
6 335 (14.60%) Lead
7 212 (9.24%) Senior Developer
8 181 (7.89%) Java Software Engineer
9 178 (7.76%) Senior Software Engineer
10 154 (6.71%) Senior Java Developer
11 150 (6.54%) Full-Stack Developer
12 136 (5.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 123 (5.36%) Senior Java Engineer
14 115 (5.01%) Software Developer
15 111 (4.84%) Lead Software Engineer
16 97 (4.23%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 80 (3.49%) Architect
18 69 (3.01%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 68 (2.96%) Lead Developer
20 55 (2.40%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 507 (22.10%) Spring
2 429 (18.70%) Spring Boot
3 296 (12.90%) React
4 233 (10.16%) AngularJS
5 227 (9.90%) REST
6 206 (8.98%) Node.js
7 200 (8.72%) Kafka
8 147 (6.41%) .NET
9 144 (6.28%) RESTful
10 87 (3.79%) Web Services
11 84 (3.66%) HTML
12 77 (3.36%) CSS
13 68 (2.96%) Vue
14 65 (2.83%) SOAP
15 62 (2.70%) GraphQL
16 57 (2.48%) Elastic Stack
16 57 (2.48%) JSON
17 45 (1.96%) Hibernate
17 45 (1.96%) OAuth
17 45 (1.96%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 260 (11.33%) Cloud Native
2 172 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
3 143 (6.23%) Product Ownership
4 95 (4.14%) Public Cloud
5 55 (2.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 49 (2.14%) Fixed Income
7 42 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
7 42 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
8 39 (1.70%) Distributed Architecture
8 39 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
9 36 (1.57%) Data Structures
10 34 (1.48%) e-Learning
11 33 (1.44%) Mobile App
12 32 (1.39%) Equities
13 31 (1.35%) Blog
14 29 (1.26%) Virtual Team
15 27 (1.18%) Onboarding
16 20 (0.87%) Algorithms
16 20 (0.87%) Social Media
17 19 (0.83%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 199 (8.67%) Linux
2 51 (2.22%) Unix
3 49 (2.14%) Android
4 47 (2.05%) Windows
5 14 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 14 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.52%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.22%) CentOS
7 5 (0.22%) Debian
7 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.17%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 803 (35.00%) Agile
2 785 (34.22%) Software Engineering
3 687 (29.95%) CI/CD
4 527 (22.97%) DevOps
5 492 (21.45%) Microservices
6 475 (20.71%) Full-Stack Development
7 442 (19.27%) Test Automation
8 410 (17.87%) Mentoring
9 344 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
10 263 (11.46%) Containerisation
11 261 (11.38%) AI
12 235 (10.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 232 (10.11%) TDD
14 219 (9.55%) Technical Leadership
15 215 (9.37%) Infrastructure as Code
15 215 (9.37%) Roadmaps
16 213 (9.29%) Scrum
17 197 (8.59%) Computer Science
18 179 (7.80%) SDLC
19 161 (7.02%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 672 (29.29%) Python
2 440 (19.18%) SQL
3 420 (18.31%) JavaScript
4 266 (11.60%) TypeScript
5 237 (10.33%) C#
6 193 (8.41%) C++
7 157 (6.84%) Go
8 112 (4.88%) Bash
9 106 (4.62%) Kotlin
10 63 (2.75%) Groovy
11 61 (2.66%) C
12 54 (2.35%) Scala
13 48 (2.09%) Rust
14 40 (1.74%) PHP
15 33 (1.44%) PL/SQL
16 29 (1.26%) PowerShell
17 17 (0.74%) Perl
17 17 (0.74%) R
18 16 (0.70%) Apex Code
19 14 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 362 (15.78%) Security Cleared
2 251 (10.94%) Degree
3 229 (9.98%) SC Cleared
4 133 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 132 (5.75%) DV Cleared
6 95 (4.14%) AWS Certification
7 36 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 26 (1.13%) Master's Degree
9 25 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
10 24 (1.05%) ISTQB
11 23 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 22 (0.96%) OSCP
13 19 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
14 18 (0.78%) DBS Check
15 14 (0.61%) CREST Certified
16 13 (0.57%) Azure Certification
17 12 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
17 12 (0.52%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
17 12 (0.52%) PhD
18 10 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (6.50%) QA
2 61 (2.66%) Accessibility
3 39 (1.70%) Data Quality
4 16 (0.70%) GDPR
5 15 (0.65%) WCAG
6 14 (0.61%) GRC
7 13 (0.57%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.48%) SOC 2
9 7 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (0.31%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 4 (0.17%) NIST
12 2 (0.087%) Good Clinical Practice
12 2 (0.087%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.087%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.044%) MiFID
System Software
1 358 (15.61%) Docker
2 16 (0.70%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.48%) vSphere
5 8 (0.35%) Squid
5 8 (0.35%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.22%) Firmware
7 4 (0.17%) KVM
8 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.087%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.087%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.087%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.044%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.044%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.044%) OpenDJ
10 1 (0.044%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 421 (18.35%) Kubernetes
2 259 (11.29%) Terraform
3 102 (4.45%) Grafana
4 98 (4.27%) Ansible
5 49 (2.14%) Prometheus
6 44 (1.92%) Argo
7 34 (1.48%) HP Fortify
8 28 (1.22%) Kibana
9 18 (0.78%) Kustomize
10 14 (0.61%) Packer
11 12 (0.52%) Puppet
12 9 (0.39%) logstash
12 9 (0.39%) Rancher
13 8 (0.35%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (0.22%) FTK
15 5 (0.22%) yum
16 3 (0.13%) AWS Copilot
16 3 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
16 3 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 87 (3.79%) Oracle
2 83 (3.62%) Microsoft
3 73 (3.18%) Google
4 47 (2.05%) Splunk
5 30 (1.31%) IBM
6 26 (1.13%) Salesforce
7 23 (1.00%) Palantir
8 21 (0.92%) Dynatrace
8 21 (0.92%) Red Hat
9 19 (0.83%) AppDynamics
9 19 (0.83%) Foundry
9 19 (0.83%) VMware
10 17 (0.74%) ServiceNow
11 15 (0.65%) MuleSoft
11 15 (0.65%) SAP
12 12 (0.52%) Adobe
12 12 (0.52%) Solace
13 11 (0.48%) Atlassian
13 11 (0.48%) Databricks
14 10 (0.44%) SendGrid