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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 31 34
Rank change year-on-year -38 +3 -16
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,081 2,519 4,388
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.66% 6.73% 5.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.00% 19.81% 16.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,327 1,503 3,381
10th Percentile £42,670 £41,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £75,000 £73,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +2.04% -8.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £130,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £74,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.68% +6.43% -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 13,877 12,718 27,038
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.74% 33.95% 32.70%
Number of salaries quoted 9,731 9,352 22,538
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,250 £35,213
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,683 £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 £87,500 £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 23 April 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 April 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 -6 1,028 £90,000 -14.29% 304
North of England -41 479 £69,310 +4.99% 131
Yorkshire +4 219 £70,000 -1.40% 32
South East -59 208 £67,500 +3.85% 145
North West -60 195 £70,000 +4.42% 68
South West -36 187 £65,000 +6.12% 76
Midlands -70 93 £51,844 -3.43% 38
West Midlands -40 76 £51,844 -3.43% 20
North East -19 65 £52,500 -7.08% 31
East of England -88 48 £50,000 -1.48% 41
East Midlands -75 16 £49,000 +8.89% 17
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 41 (1.97%) Apache
2 39 (1.87%) Apache Spark
3 31 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (1.49%) Confluence
4 21 (1.01%) JBoss
5 13 (0.62%) Palantir Foundry
6 12 (0.58%) OpenStack
7 11 (0.53%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.29%) Anypoint
8 6 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.24%) Appian
9 5 (0.24%) Camunda
9 5 (0.24%) GeoServer
9 5 (0.24%) IIS
10 4 (0.19%) Moodle
10 4 (0.19%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.14%) CICS
11 3 (0.14%) CMS
11 3 (0.14%) Liferay
11 3 (0.14%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (0.53%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.096%) Windchill
6 1 (0.048%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.048%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 15 (0.72%) Maximo
2 6 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.14%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.14%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.14%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.096%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.096%) Shopify
4 2 (0.096%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.048%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.048%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.048%) Endur
5 1 (0.048%) Findur
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 884 (42.48%) AWS
2 388 (18.64%) Azure
3 248 (11.92%) GCP
4 176 (8.46%) Serverless
5 123 (5.91%) SaaS
6 115 (5.53%) Amazon S3
6 115 (5.53%) AWS Lambda
7 114 (5.48%) AWS CloudFormation
8 110 (5.29%) Amazon EKS
9 104 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
10 94 (4.52%) GitHub
11 69 (3.32%) AWS Step Functions
12 51 (2.45%) Apigee
13 50 (2.40%) Amazon ECR
14 48 (2.31%) OpenShift
15 45 (2.16%) Amazon SQS
16 42 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
17 38 (1.83%) dbt
18 34 (1.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 31 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 49 (2.35%) Broadband
2 31 (1.49%) TCP/IP
3 29 (1.39%) HTTP
4 9 (0.43%) AMQP
5 8 (0.38%) Internet
6 5 (0.24%) Multicast
7 4 (0.19%) BGP
7 4 (0.19%) SAN
7 4 (0.19%) VLAN
7 4 (0.19%) VPN
8 3 (0.14%) IPv4
8 3 (0.14%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.14%) LAN
8 3 (0.14%) Network Security
8 3 (0.14%) PuTTY
8 3 (0.14%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.14%) WAN
9 2 (0.096%) DHCP
9 2 (0.096%) NAS
9 2 (0.096%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (8.22%) NoSQL
2 158 (7.59%) PostgreSQL
3 111 (5.33%) Relational Database
4 92 (4.42%) DynamoDB
5 85 (4.08%) SQL Server
6 81 (3.89%) MongoDB
7 65 (3.12%) MySQL
8 45 (2.16%) RDBMS
9 41 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
10 34 (1.63%) Big Data
10 34 (1.63%) DB2
11 29 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
11 29 (1.39%) Hadoop
12 28 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
13 26 (1.25%) Neo4j
14 24 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
15 20 (0.96%) Redis
16 16 (0.77%) BigQuery
17 15 (0.72%) Flink
18 12 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 169 (8.12%) Jenkins
2 159 (7.64%) Git
3 135 (6.49%) GitLab
4 103 (4.95%) Selenium
5 86 (4.13%) JIRA
6 77 (3.70%) Cucumber
7 73 (3.51%) Maven
8 70 (3.36%) Cypress.io
9 64 (3.08%) SonarQube
10 61 (2.93%) TeamCity
11 51 (2.45%) JUnit
12 47 (2.26%) Postman
13 30 (1.44%) SoapUI
14 27 (1.30%) Bitbucket
14 27 (1.30%) JMeter
14 27 (1.30%) WebDriver
15 25 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
16 24 (1.15%) REST Assured
17 23 (1.11%) Gradle
18 19 (0.91%) Jaeger
General
1 522 (25.08%) Finance
2 378 (18.16%) Social Skills
3 237 (11.39%) Banking
4 165 (7.93%) Analytical Skills
5 154 (7.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 148 (7.11%) Public Sector
7 117 (5.62%) Law
8 114 (5.48%) Front Office
9 96 (4.61%) Retail
10 70 (3.36%) Financial Institution
11 53 (2.55%) Investment Banking
12 51 (2.45%) Back Office
13 37 (1.78%) Games
14 32 (1.54%) Telecoms
15 26 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
16 24 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
17 21 (1.01%) Health Technology
18 20 (0.96%) Aerospace
19 18 (0.86%) Marketing
20 17 (0.82%) Billing
Job Titles
1 775 (37.24%) Developer
2 528 (25.37%) Senior
3 509 (24.46%) Software Engineer
4 479 (23.02%) Java Developer
5 322 (15.47%) Java Engineer
6 289 (13.89%) Lead
7 201 (9.66%) Senior Developer
8 172 (8.27%) Java Software Engineer
9 150 (7.21%) Senior Software Engineer
10 149 (7.16%) Full-Stack Developer
11 133 (6.39%) Senior Java Developer
12 118 (5.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 107 (5.14%) Software Developer
14 105 (5.05%) Senior Java Engineer
15 92 (4.42%) Lead Software Engineer
16 90 (4.32%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 87 (4.18%) Architect
18 55 (2.64%) Lead Developer
18 55 (2.64%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 50 (2.40%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 427 (20.52%) Spring
2 385 (18.50%) Spring Boot
3 326 (15.67%) React
4 230 (11.05%) REST
5 206 (9.90%) AngularJS
6 199 (9.56%) Node.js
7 183 (8.79%) Kafka
8 168 (8.07%) .NET
9 120 (5.77%) RESTful
10 104 (5.00%) HTML
11 90 (4.32%) SOAP
12 87 (4.18%) Web Services
13 82 (3.94%) CSS
14 74 (3.56%) Elastic Stack
15 73 (3.51%) GraphQL
16 59 (2.84%) JSON
16 59 (2.84%) Vue
17 55 (2.64%) Gherkin
18 54 (2.59%) Hibernate
19 45 (2.16%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 248 (11.92%) Cloud Native
2 169 (8.12%) Distributed Systems
3 106 (5.09%) Product Ownership
4 64 (3.08%) Public Cloud
5 54 (2.59%) Fixed Income
6 47 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
6 47 (2.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 44 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
8 40 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
9 37 (1.78%) Equities
10 36 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
11 35 (1.68%) Blog
12 30 (1.44%) Data Structures
12 30 (1.44%) Mobile App
13 27 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
14 26 (1.25%) Virtual Team
15 25 (1.20%) e-Learning
16 22 (1.06%) Management Information System
17 21 (1.01%) FPGA
18 20 (0.96%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 191 (9.18%) Linux
2 49 (2.35%) Android
3 47 (2.26%) Unix
4 39 (1.87%) Windows
5 14 (0.67%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.34%) CentOS
8 6 (0.29%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.29%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.24%) Debian
10 3 (0.14%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.096%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.048%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.048%) SUSE
12 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 750 (36.04%) Agile
2 718 (34.50%) Software Engineering
3 623 (29.94%) CI/CD
4 491 (23.59%) DevOps
5 418 (20.09%) Microservices
6 417 (20.04%) Full-Stack Development
7 353 (16.96%) Test Automation
8 347 (16.67%) Mentoring
9 342 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
10 234 (11.24%) Containerisation
11 233 (11.20%) AI
12 219 (10.52%) Continuous Improvement
13 209 (10.04%) Scrum
14 201 (9.66%) Computer Science
15 192 (9.23%) Roadmaps
16 185 (8.89%) TDD
17 184 (8.84%) Technical Leadership
18 177 (8.51%) Infrastructure as Code
19 174 (8.36%) SDLC
20 162 (7.78%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 646 (31.04%) Python
2 409 (19.65%) JavaScript
2 409 (19.65%) SQL
3 286 (13.74%) TypeScript
4 217 (10.43%) C#
5 156 (7.50%) Go
6 144 (6.92%) C++
7 105 (5.05%) Bash
7 105 (5.05%) Kotlin
8 78 (3.75%) C
9 57 (2.74%) Groovy
10 44 (2.11%) PHP
11 39 (1.87%) Scala
12 34 (1.63%) PL/SQL
13 27 (1.30%) Rust
14 20 (0.96%) PowerShell
15 19 (0.91%) Apex Code
16 16 (0.77%) R
17 14 (0.67%) Ruby
18 11 (0.53%) Perl
Qualifications
1 328 (15.76%) Security Cleared
2 274 (13.17%) Degree
3 201 (9.66%) SC Cleared
4 135 (6.49%) DV Cleared
5 132 (6.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 92 (4.42%) AWS Certification
7 38 (1.83%) Master's Degree
8 35 (1.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 28 (1.35%) ISTQB
10 25 (1.20%) Azure Certification
10 25 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 20 (0.96%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 20 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
13 18 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
14 16 (0.77%) OSCP
15 15 (0.72%) PhD
16 14 (0.67%) DBS Check
17 13 (0.62%) CREST Certified
18 12 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (6.63%) QA
2 35 (1.68%) Accessibility
3 24 (1.15%) Data Quality
4 16 (0.77%) PCI DSS
5 13 (0.62%) SOC 2
6 12 (0.58%) GRC
7 10 (0.48%) GDPR
8 9 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.19%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.19%) SLA
10 4 (0.19%) WCAG
11 3 (0.14%) NIST
12 2 (0.096%) ECSS
13 1 (0.048%) MiFID
13 1 (0.048%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 341 (16.39%) Docker
2 9 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.24%) Firmware
4 5 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.19%) vSphere
6 3 (0.14%) KVM
6 3 (0.14%) Squid
6 3 (0.14%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.096%) HDFS
7 2 (0.096%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.096%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.048%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.048%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.048%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.048%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 424 (20.37%) Kubernetes
2 234 (11.24%) Terraform
3 98 (4.71%) Grafana
4 85 (4.08%) Ansible
5 55 (2.64%) Argo
6 45 (2.16%) Prometheus
7 44 (2.11%) HP Fortify
8 21 (1.01%) Kibana
9 19 (0.91%) Kustomize
10 13 (0.62%) Rancher
11 10 (0.48%) Puppet
12 9 (0.43%) logstash
12 9 (0.43%) Packer
13 7 (0.34%) yum
14 5 (0.24%) FTK
14 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
15 4 (0.19%) Nagios
15 4 (0.19%) Progress Chef
16 3 (0.14%) Red Hat Satellite
16 3 (0.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 85 (4.08%) Oracle
2 76 (3.65%) Microsoft
3 63 (3.03%) Google
4 36 (1.73%) IBM
5 31 (1.49%) Salesforce
6 29 (1.39%) MuleSoft
7 18 (0.86%) Splunk
8 17 (0.82%) Foundry
8 17 (0.82%) Red Hat
8 17 (0.82%) SAP
9 16 (0.77%) Atlassian
9 16 (0.77%) Databricks
10 15 (0.72%) Informatica
11 14 (0.67%) AppDynamics
12 13 (0.62%) OpenAI
12 13 (0.62%) Palantir
13 12 (0.58%) Dynatrace
13 12 (0.58%) Talend
14 11 (0.53%) VMware
15 10 (0.48%) ServiceNow