Java Jobs in England

Java
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 34 18
Rank change year-on-year -7 -16 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,649 4,556 9,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.75% 5.35% 10.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.96% 16.48% 23.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,634 3,405 5,638
10th Percentile £41,000 £39,527 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,688 £52,500 £58,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £73,805 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.46% -7.74% +10.34%
75th Percentile £112,500 £97,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £130,000 £130,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year - -9.68% +10.71%

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 13,968 27,641 40,153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 30.33% 32.44% 43.40%
Number of salaries quoted 10,268 22,520 25,798
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Java in England

Java
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java in England.

Salary trend for Java in England

Java
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in England over the 6 months to 1 May 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 1 May 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 -10 1,055 £106,250 +11.84% 1,374
North of England +24 790 £57,836 -11.02% 454
North West +22 639 £57,836 -7.46% 274
South East -25 326 £62,500 +4.17% 569
South West -2 217 £60,000 +4.35% 179
Midlands -21 146 £53,688 -2.39% 245
East of England +61 115 £50,000 -20.00% 166
Yorkshire +41 113 £70,000 +6.93% 121
West Midlands -16 99 £53,688 -6.63% 136
East Midlands +17 46 £46,250 -11.90% 92
North East +33 38 £56,500 -13.39% 61
Java
UK

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 226 (8.53%) Apache
2 222 (8.38%) Apache Airflow
3 111 (4.19%) Apache Spark
4 61 (2.30%) Confluence
5 30 (1.13%) Tomcat
6 24 (0.91%) Jupyter
7 18 (0.68%) CMS
8 17 (0.64%) JBoss
8 17 (0.64%) WordPress
9 15 (0.57%) nginx
9 15 (0.57%) SharePoint
10 12 (0.45%) Red Hat Fuse
11 10 (0.38%) Camunda
12 9 (0.34%) OpenStack
12 9 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 7 (0.26%) IIS
14 6 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 5 (0.19%) NetWeaver
16 4 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
16 4 (0.15%) GemFire
Applications
1 23 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.15%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.11%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 3 (0.11%) Trello
6 2 (0.076%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.038%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 15 (0.57%) Shopify
2 11 (0.42%) Endur
3 6 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 4 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.11%) Orchestrade
6 3 (0.11%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.076%) Maximo
7 2 (0.076%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 2 (0.076%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.076%) Sprinklr
8 1 (0.038%) iTrent
8 1 (0.038%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.038%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.038%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.038%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.038%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,049 (39.60%) AWS
2 604 (22.80%) Azure
3 324 (12.23%) GCP
4 247 (9.32%) Serverless
5 215 (8.12%) dbt
6 183 (6.91%) AWS Lambda
7 166 (6.27%) Amazon ECS
8 158 (5.96%) Amazon EKS
9 136 (5.13%) Snowflake
10 130 (4.91%) Amazon EC2
11 114 (4.30%) GitHub
12 102 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
13 98 (3.70%) OpenShift
14 91 (3.44%) Amazon S3
14 91 (3.44%) SaaS
15 57 (2.15%) Dagster
16 54 (2.04%) Power Platform
17 48 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
18 43 (1.62%) Amazon SQS
19 35 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 404 (15.25%) DNS
2 400 (15.10%) VPN
3 27 (1.02%) Network Security
3 27 (1.02%) TCP/IP
4 14 (0.53%) SSL
5 11 (0.42%) HTTP
6 9 (0.34%) Firewall
7 5 (0.19%) HTTPS
7 5 (0.19%) SAN
8 4 (0.15%) DMARC
8 4 (0.15%) Multicast
8 4 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.11%) Internet
9 3 (0.11%) LAN
9 3 (0.11%) WAN
10 2 (0.076%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (0.076%) FCoE
10 2 (0.076%) Fibre Channel
10 2 (0.076%) FTP
10 2 (0.076%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (8.61%) Amazon Athena
2 212 (8.00%) Apache Iceberg
3 211 (7.97%) Dremio
4 189 (7.13%) Apache Arrow
5 173 (6.53%) PostgreSQL
6 158 (5.96%) NoSQL
7 148 (5.59%) Apache Ignite
8 137 (5.17%) SQL Server
9 131 (4.95%) Relational Database
10 117 (4.42%) MySQL
11 112 (4.23%) Data Lake
12 104 (3.93%) Big Data
13 86 (3.25%) MongoDB
14 82 (3.10%) Elasticsearch
15 46 (1.74%) DynamoDB
16 40 (1.51%) RDBMS
17 39 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
18 36 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
19 35 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
19 35 (1.32%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 272 (10.27%) Git
2 213 (8.04%) Jenkins
3 134 (5.06%) JIRA
4 128 (4.83%) JUnit
5 98 (3.70%) Artifactory
6 93 (3.51%) GitLab
7 88 (3.32%) Maven
8 71 (2.68%) Mockito
9 60 (2.27%) IntelliJ
10 53 (2.00%) Cucumber
10 53 (2.00%) Selenium
11 49 (1.85%) Eclipse
12 48 (1.81%) SonarQube
13 44 (1.66%) Bitbucket
14 40 (1.51%) Gradle
15 36 (1.36%) JMeter
16 28 (1.06%) Postman
17 25 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
18 23 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 23 (0.87%) Jasmine
General
1 1,227 (46.32%) Finance
2 611 (23.07%) Analytical Skills
3 553 (20.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 511 (19.29%) Social Skills
5 473 (17.86%) Banking
6 312 (11.78%) Front Office
7 171 (6.46%) Investment Banking
8 137 (5.17%) Public Sector
9 102 (3.85%) Law
10 63 (2.38%) Financial Institution
11 49 (1.85%) Retail
12 44 (1.66%) Games
13 38 (1.43%) Aerospace
14 37 (1.40%) Marketing
15 28 (1.06%) Electronics
15 28 (1.06%) Manufacturing
16 27 (1.02%) Legal
17 26 (0.98%) Retail Banking
18 23 (0.87%) Advertising
18 23 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,079 (40.73%) Developer
2 588 (22.20%) Software Engineer
3 553 (20.88%) Software Developer
4 510 (19.25%) Senior
5 345 (13.02%) Lead
6 307 (11.59%) Java Engineer
7 303 (11.44%) Java Developer
8 226 (8.53%) AWS Engineer
9 208 (7.85%) Senior Software Engineer
10 185 (6.98%) Java Software Engineer
11 171 (6.46%) Python Engineer
12 165 (6.23%) Data Engineer
13 136 (5.13%) Senior Java Engineer
14 121 (4.57%) DevOps Engineer
15 120 (4.53%) AWS Software Engineer
16 113 (4.27%) Senior Developer
17 108 (4.08%) AWS DevOps
18 89 (3.36%) Architect
19 88 (3.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
20 79 (2.98%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 369 (13.93%) Spring
2 366 (13.82%) React
3 322 (12.16%) Spring Boot
4 308 (11.63%) Kafka
5 226 (8.53%) .NET
6 220 (8.31%) Node.js
7 206 (7.78%) AngularJS
8 177 (6.68%) PySpark
9 175 (6.61%) RESTful
10 164 (6.19%) REST
11 163 (6.15%) Pandas
12 133 (5.02%) HTML
13 124 (4.68%) CSS
14 113 (4.27%) J2EE
15 112 (4.23%) NumPy
16 110 (4.15%) SciPy
17 98 (3.70%) Web Services
18 95 (3.59%) Hibernate
19 90 (3.40%) gRPC
20 73 (2.76%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 469 (17.70%) Cyberattack
2 172 (6.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 158 (5.96%) Fixed Income
4 156 (5.89%) Equities
5 142 (5.36%) Derivative
6 138 (5.21%) Algorithms
7 123 (4.64%) Hedge funds
8 122 (4.61%) Cloud Native
9 119 (4.49%) Management Information System
10 113 (4.27%) Distributed Systems
11 96 (3.62%) Product Ownership
12 56 (2.11%) Data Structures
12 56 (2.11%) Mobile App
13 53 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
14 51 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
15 47 (1.77%) Public Cloud
16 41 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
17 39 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
17 39 (1.47%) Pricing Data
18 35 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 675 (25.48%) Linux
2 513 (19.37%) Android
3 74 (2.79%) Windows
4 55 (2.08%) Unix
5 54 (2.04%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.34%) AIX
6 9 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.26%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.23%) Rocky
9 5 (0.19%) VMS
10 4 (0.15%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.11%) Solaris
12 2 (0.076%) zOS
13 1 (0.038%) CentOS
13 1 (0.038%) Debian
13 1 (0.038%) Fedora
13 1 (0.038%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,554 (58.66%) Agile
2 1,088 (41.07%) Software Engineering
3 650 (24.54%) OO
4 645 (24.35%) CI/CD
5 579 (21.86%) Mathematics
6 570 (21.52%) DevOps
7 569 (21.48%) Design Patterns
8 556 (20.99%) OOP
9 522 (19.71%) Microservices
10 512 (19.33%) Line Management
11 489 (18.46%) Android Development
12 462 (17.44%) Problem-Solving
13 376 (14.19%) Computer Science
14 364 (13.74%) Mentoring
15 356 (13.44%) Containerisation
16 315 (11.89%) SDLC
17 301 (11.36%) Test Automation
18 279 (10.53%) TDD
19 247 (9.32%) Full-Stack Development
20 239 (9.02%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 1,375 (51.91%) Python
2 663 (25.03%) C++
3 616 (23.25%) Go
4 556 (20.99%) JavaScript
5 491 (18.54%) SQL
6 404 (15.25%) C#
7 241 (9.10%) TypeScript
8 148 (5.59%) Rust
9 102 (3.85%) C
10 82 (3.10%) Kotlin
11 76 (2.87%) PHP
12 70 (2.64%) Scala
13 41 (1.55%) Bash
14 38 (1.43%) PowerShell
14 38 (1.43%) Shell Script
15 35 (1.32%) Objective-C
16 32 (1.21%) Ada
17 29 (1.09%) Swift
18 24 (0.91%) Ruby
19 21 (0.79%) R
Qualifications
1 689 (26.01%) Security Cleared
2 553 (20.88%) Degree
3 508 (19.18%) DV Cleared
4 205 (7.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 130 (4.91%) SC Cleared
6 96 (3.62%) Master's Degree
7 56 (2.11%) AWS Certification
8 42 (1.59%) PhD
9 37 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 37 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 23 (0.87%) HND
11 19 (0.72%) ISTQB
12 9 (0.34%) Azure Certification
12 9 (0.34%) Oracle Certification
13 8 (0.30%) OCP
14 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.19%) CISSP
16 4 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
16 4 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
17 3 (0.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (5.13%) QA
2 41 (1.55%) GDPR
3 33 (1.25%) Accessibility
4 26 (0.98%) HIPAA
5 18 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (0.68%) SLA
6 17 (0.64%) NIST
7 14 (0.53%) Data Quality
8 8 (0.30%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.15%) Def Stans
9 4 (0.15%) IEC 61508
10 3 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.076%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.076%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.038%) Basel III
12 1 (0.038%) HL7
12 1 (0.038%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.038%) ISO 15022
12 1 (0.038%) SEPA
System Software
1 1,022 (38.58%) Docker
2 28 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (0.53%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.23%) HDFS
5 5 (0.19%) Apache Flume
5 5 (0.19%) Firmware
6 4 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.076%) KVM
8 2 (0.076%) NFS
8 2 (0.076%) Postfix
8 2 (0.076%) SRDF
8 2 (0.076%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 2 (0.076%) Xen
9 1 (0.038%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.038%) Squid
9 1 (0.038%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.038%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 655 (24.73%) Kubernetes
2 531 (20.05%) Ansible
3 325 (12.27%) Terraform
4 67 (2.53%) Prometheus
5 59 (2.23%) Grafana
6 30 (1.13%) Kibana
7 22 (0.83%) Argo
8 18 (0.68%) Istio
9 14 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.34%) Puppet
11 8 (0.30%) Kustomize
12 7 (0.26%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.23%) Packer
14 5 (0.19%) Oozie
14 5 (0.19%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 4 (0.15%) Consul
15 4 (0.15%) HP Fortify
15 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
16 3 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
16 3 (0.11%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 172 (6.49%) Microsoft
2 170 (6.42%) Oracle
3 133 (5.02%) Google
4 99 (3.74%) IBM
5 49 (1.85%) Databricks
6 39 (1.47%) Red Hat
7 29 (1.09%) Splunk
8 28 (1.06%) SAP
9 23 (0.87%) Dynatrace
10 20 (0.76%) Informatica
10 20 (0.76%) New Relic
10 20 (0.76%) ServiceNow
11 17 (0.64%) Atlassian
11 17 (0.64%) Salesforce
12 15 (0.57%) MuleSoft
12 15 (0.57%) Solace
13 13 (0.49%) WooCommerce
14 11 (0.42%) Cisco
14 11 (0.42%) OpenLink
15 10 (0.38%) Cloudera