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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 26 35
Rank change year-on-year -29 +9 -15
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,305 3,028 4,793
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.75% 7.59% 5.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.97% 23.85% 16.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,506 1,432 3,560
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,975
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,250
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 £70,576
% change year-on-year -6.67% +6.27% -8.93%

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 15,399 12,694 29,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.35% 31.84% 30.57%
Number of salaries quoted 11,133 8,536 23,354
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 £112,500 £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 21 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 21 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 1,042 £85,000 -19.05% 200
North of England -27 649 £69,305 +2.67% 114
North West -37 283 £70,000 -6.35% 52
Yorkshire +26 237 £72,500 +3.57% 36
South East -39 220 £70,000 +7.69% 93
South West -33 198 £60,000 -2.04% 59
North East +4 129 £52,500 +13.51% 28
Midlands -87 113 £61,000 +6.09% 39
West Midlands -59 92 £62,500 +4.17% 27
East of England -57 57 £55,000 +23.60% 32
East Midlands -85 20 £60,000 +26.32% 12
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 (1.91%) Apache
1 44 (1.91%) Confluence
2 34 (1.48%) Apache Spark
3 28 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
5 13 (0.56%) JBoss
6 9 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.35%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.26%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.22%) Camunda
9 5 (0.22%) CMS
9 5 (0.22%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.17%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.13%) CICS
11 3 (0.13%) SAS
11 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.087%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.087%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.087%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.087%) PTC Creo
5 2 (0.087%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 13 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.48%) Maximo
3 5 (0.22%) Temenos T24
4 4 (0.17%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.087%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.043%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.043%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.043%) Endur
7 1 (0.043%) Findur
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.043%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 947 (41.08%) AWS
2 444 (19.26%) Azure
3 282 (12.23%) GCP
4 188 (8.16%) Serverless
5 142 (6.16%) AWS CloudFormation
6 120 (5.21%) Amazon S3
7 118 (5.12%) AWS Lambda
8 117 (5.08%) SaaS
9 113 (4.90%) GitHub
10 111 (4.82%) Amazon ECS
11 100 (4.34%) Amazon EKS
12 74 (3.21%) AWS Step Functions
13 65 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
14 49 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
15 44 (1.91%) Amazon ECR
16 43 (1.87%) Amazon SQS
16 43 (1.87%) Apigee
17 39 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 36 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
18 36 (1.56%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.17%) Broadband
2 33 (1.43%) HTTP
3 25 (1.08%) TCP/IP
4 12 (0.52%) DMARC
5 8 (0.35%) IPv4
5 8 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
6 7 (0.30%) AMQP
6 7 (0.30%) MQTT
7 5 (0.22%) Internet
7 5 (0.22%) Network Security
8 4 (0.17%) BGP
8 4 (0.17%) VPN
9 3 (0.13%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.13%) VLAN
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 (0.043%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (8.16%) NoSQL
2 163 (7.07%) PostgreSQL
3 106 (4.60%) MongoDB
4 105 (4.56%) Relational Database
5 89 (3.86%) DynamoDB
6 75 (3.25%) MySQL
7 69 (2.99%) SQL Server
8 43 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
9 36 (1.56%) RDBMS
10 30 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
11 25 (1.08%) Db2
12 24 (1.04%) Big Data
12 24 (1.04%) BigQuery
13 22 (0.95%) Redis
14 19 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
15 15 (0.65%) Hadoop
15 15 (0.65%) Metadata
16 14 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
17 13 (0.56%) Power BI
18 12 (0.52%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 208 (9.02%) Git
2 176 (7.64%) Jenkins
3 160 (6.94%) GitLab
4 89 (3.86%) JIRA
5 77 (3.34%) Maven
6 76 (3.30%) Cucumber
7 72 (3.12%) Selenium
8 67 (2.91%) JUnit
9 64 (2.78%) Cypress.io
10 55 (2.39%) TeamCity
11 54 (2.34%) SonarQube
12 38 (1.65%) Postman
13 36 (1.56%) JMeter
14 30 (1.30%) Mockito
15 28 (1.21%) Bitbucket
16 27 (1.17%) Gradle
17 25 (1.08%) Claude Code
18 24 (1.04%) REST Assured
18 24 (1.04%) Subversion
19 20 (0.87%) Eclipse
General
1 572 (24.82%) Finance
2 354 (15.36%) Social Skills
3 217 (9.41%) Banking
4 205 (8.89%) Public Sector
5 159 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
6 148 (6.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 101 (4.38%) Front Office
7 101 (4.38%) Law
8 92 (3.99%) Retail
9 68 (2.95%) Financial Institution
10 47 (2.04%) Back Office
11 40 (1.74%) Investment Banking
12 31 (1.34%) Games
13 30 (1.30%) Health Technology
14 21 (0.91%) Aerospace
14 21 (0.91%) Telecoms
15 18 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
15 18 (0.78%) Tech for Good
16 17 (0.74%) Manufacturing
17 16 (0.69%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 870 (37.74%) Developer
2 581 (25.21%) Java Developer
3 560 (24.30%) Senior
4 530 (22.99%) Software Engineer
5 394 (17.09%) Java Engineer
6 334 (14.49%) Lead
7 211 (9.15%) Senior Developer
8 176 (7.64%) Java Software Engineer
8 176 (7.64%) Senior Software Engineer
9 153 (6.64%) Senior Java Developer
10 150 (6.51%) Full-Stack Developer
11 130 (5.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 121 (5.25%) Senior Java Engineer
13 120 (5.21%) Software Developer
14 111 (4.82%) Lead Software Engineer
15 97 (4.21%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 86 (3.73%) Architect
17 67 (2.91%) Lead Developer
18 66 (2.86%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 62 (2.69%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 513 (22.26%) Spring
2 434 (18.83%) Spring Boot
3 289 (12.54%) React
4 231 (10.02%) AngularJS
5 229 (9.93%) REST
6 214 (9.28%) Node.js
7 206 (8.94%) Kafka
8 156 (6.77%) RESTful
9 145 (6.29%) .NET
10 87 (3.77%) Web Services
11 77 (3.34%) HTML
12 76 (3.30%) CSS
13 72 (3.12%) Vue
14 63 (2.73%) GraphQL
15 62 (2.69%) SOAP
16 57 (2.47%) Elastic Stack
17 56 (2.43%) JSON
18 48 (2.08%) OAuth
19 46 (2.00%) Playwright
20 45 (1.95%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 268 (11.63%) Cloud Native
2 171 (7.42%) Distributed Systems
3 147 (6.38%) Product Ownership
4 98 (4.25%) Public Cloud
5 54 (2.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 49 (2.13%) Fixed Income
7 48 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
8 41 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
9 38 (1.65%) Data Structures
9 38 (1.65%) Distributed Architecture
10 36 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
11 35 (1.52%) Mobile App
12 34 (1.48%) Onboarding
13 33 (1.43%) e-Learning
14 31 (1.34%) Blog
15 30 (1.30%) Equities
15 30 (1.30%) Virtual Team
16 20 (0.87%) Social Media
17 19 (0.82%) Algorithms
17 19 (0.82%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 210 (9.11%) Linux
2 53 (2.30%) Unix
3 50 (2.17%) Windows
4 47 (2.04%) Android
5 14 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.52%) Apple iOS
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
1 801 (34.75%) Agile
2 791 (34.32%) Software Engineering
3 704 (30.54%) CI/CD
4 543 (23.56%) DevOps
5 500 (21.69%) Microservices
6 462 (20.04%) Full-Stack Development
7 448 (19.44%) Test Automation
8 410 (17.79%) Mentoring
9 352 (15.27%) Problem-Solving
10 275 (11.93%) Containerisation
11 259 (11.24%) AI
12 241 (10.46%) Continuous Improvement
13 235 (10.20%) TDD
14 225 (9.76%) Infrastructure as Code
15 219 (9.50%) Technical Leadership
16 218 (9.46%) Roadmaps
17 207 (8.98%) Scrum
18 196 (8.50%) Computer Science
19 181 (7.85%) SDLC
20 160 (6.94%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 690 (29.93%) Python
2 440 (19.09%) SQL
3 422 (18.31%) JavaScript
4 261 (11.32%) TypeScript
5 234 (10.15%) C#
6 202 (8.76%) C++
7 158 (6.85%) Go
8 115 (4.99%) Bash
9 107 (4.64%) Kotlin
10 61 (2.65%) Groovy
11 58 (2.52%) C
12 55 (2.39%) Scala
13 51 (2.21%) Rust
14 43 (1.87%) PHP
15 31 (1.34%) PL/SQL
16 30 (1.30%) PowerShell
17 22 (0.95%) Perl
18 16 (0.69%) Apex Code
19 14 (0.61%) R
19 14 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 370 (16.05%) Security Cleared
2 248 (10.76%) Degree
3 235 (10.20%) SC Cleared
4 134 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 124 (5.38%) DV Cleared
6 99 (4.30%) AWS Certification
7 40 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 27 (1.17%) Master's Degree
9 25 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
10 23 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 21 (0.91%) ISTQB
12 20 (0.87%) OSCP
13 17 (0.74%) DBS Check
13 17 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
14 13 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (0.52%) Azure Certification
15 12 (0.52%) CREST Certified
15 12 (0.52%) PhD
16 10 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
17 9 (0.39%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (6.55%) QA
2 63 (2.73%) Accessibility
3 40 (1.74%) Data Quality
4 18 (0.78%) WCAG
5 17 (0.74%) GDPR
6 14 (0.61%) GRC
7 12 (0.52%) PCI DSS
7 12 (0.52%) SOC 2
8 7 (0.30%) ISO 20022
9 6 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
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 (0.043%) GxP
13 1 (0.043%) MiFID
System Software
1 365 (15.84%) Docker
2 16 (0.69%) Active Directory
2 16 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.48%) vSphere
4 8 (0.35%) Squid
4 8 (0.35%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.22%) Firmware
5 5 (0.22%) KVM
6 4 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.087%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.087%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.087%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.043%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.043%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.043%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.043%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 427 (18.52%) Kubernetes
2 267 (11.58%) Terraform
3 106 (4.60%) Grafana
4 102 (4.43%) Ansible
5 51 (2.21%) Prometheus
6 45 (1.95%) Argo
7 32 (1.39%) HP Fortify
8 29 (1.26%) Kibana
9 18 (0.78%) Kustomize
10 14 (0.61%) Packer
11 13 (0.56%) Puppet
12 11 (0.48%) Rancher
13 10 (0.43%) logstash
14 8 (0.35%) ZABBIX
15 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
16 5 (0.22%) FTK
16 5 (0.22%) yum
17 3 (0.13%) AWS Copilot
17 3 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
17 3 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 87 (3.77%) Oracle
2 84 (3.64%) Microsoft
3 76 (3.30%) Google
4 49 (2.13%) Splunk
5 34 (1.48%) IBM
6 25 (1.08%) Salesforce
7 23 (1.00%) Palantir
8 21 (0.91%) Dynatrace
8 21 (0.91%) Red Hat
8 21 (0.91%) VMware
9 19 (0.82%) AppDynamics
9 19 (0.82%) Foundry
9 19 (0.82%) SAP
10 17 (0.74%) ServiceNow
11 15 (0.65%) MuleSoft
12 14 (0.61%) Adobe
13 12 (0.52%) SendGrid
14 11 (0.48%) Solace
15 10 (0.43%) Atlassian
16 8 (0.35%) Guidewire