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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 27 33
Rank change year-on-year -30 +6 -12
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,372 3,091 4,625
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.72% 7.15% 5.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.78% 23.59% 16.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,553 1,480 3,405
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £106,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £73,805
% change year-on-year -6.67% +1.62% -4.77%

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 16,051 13,102 27,387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.39% 30.30% 30.86%
Number of salaries quoted 11,683 8,857 21,562
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,500
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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -11 1,052 £85,000 -19.05% 342
North of England -24 671 £69,305 +2.67% 129
North West -36 302 £70,000 - 71
Yorkshire +31 230 £72,500 +3.57% 37
South West -22 230 £60,000 -4.00% 61
South East -56 213 £70,000 +7.69% 116
North East +2 139 £53,750 +19.44% 21
Midlands -91 118 £62,500 +8.76% 56
West Midlands -57 97 £67,500 +12.50% 39
East of England -60 57 £51,359 +16.73% 32
East Midlands -89 20 £60,000 +26.32% 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 52 (2.19%) Confluence
2 50 (2.11%) Apache
3 38 (1.60%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
6 11 (0.46%) JBoss
7 10 (0.42%) Camunda
8 9 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.34%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
10 5 (0.21%) CMS
10 5 (0.21%) GeoServer
10 5 (0.21%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.13%) CICS
11 3 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.13%) SAS
11 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.084%) Documentum
Applications
1 17 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.67%) MS Visio
3 10 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.084%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.084%) PTC Creo
5 2 (0.084%) Windchill
6 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.042%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 15 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.42%) Maximo
3 5 (0.21%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.21%) Temenos T24
4 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.084%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.042%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.042%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.042%) Endur
6 1 (0.042%) Findur
6 1 (0.042%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.042%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 991 (41.78%) AWS
2 477 (20.11%) Azure
3 303 (12.77%) GCP
4 208 (8.77%) Serverless
5 161 (6.79%) AWS CloudFormation
6 131 (5.52%) AWS Lambda
7 121 (5.10%) Amazon ECS
7 121 (5.10%) Amazon S3
8 117 (4.93%) GitHub
9 112 (4.72%) SaaS
10 110 (4.64%) Amazon EKS
11 73 (3.08%) AWS Step Functions
12 68 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
13 57 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
14 46 (1.94%) Amazon ECR
15 42 (1.77%) Apigee
16 41 (1.73%) Amazon SQS
17 40 (1.69%) OpenShift
18 37 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 36 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 38 (1.60%) Broadband
2 31 (1.31%) HTTP
3 24 (1.01%) TCP/IP
4 15 (0.63%) Network Security
5 13 (0.55%) DMARC
6 8 (0.34%) BGP
6 8 (0.34%) IPv4
6 8 (0.34%) MQTT
6 8 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
6 8 (0.34%) VPN
7 7 (0.30%) AMQP
8 5 (0.21%) DNS
8 5 (0.21%) IPsec
9 4 (0.17%) Internet
9 4 (0.17%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.13%) Firewall
10 3 (0.13%) VLAN
11 2 (0.084%) Ethernet
11 2 (0.084%) LAN
11 2 (0.084%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (7.63%) NoSQL
2 178 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
3 121 (5.10%) MongoDB
4 103 (4.34%) Relational Database
5 91 (3.84%) DynamoDB
6 84 (3.54%) MySQL
7 70 (2.95%) SQL Server
8 40 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
9 32 (1.35%) Big Data
9 32 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
10 27 (1.14%) BigQuery
10 27 (1.14%) Db2
11 25 (1.05%) RDBMS
12 24 (1.01%) Redis
13 19 (0.80%) Hadoop
14 18 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
14 18 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
15 15 (0.63%) Metadata
16 13 (0.55%) Power BI
17 12 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 232 (9.78%) Git
2 185 (7.80%) Jenkins
3 174 (7.34%) GitLab
4 84 (3.54%) Cucumber
4 84 (3.54%) JIRA
5 75 (3.16%) Maven
6 69 (2.91%) JUnit
7 64 (2.70%) Cypress.io
7 64 (2.70%) Selenium
8 59 (2.49%) TeamCity
9 56 (2.36%) SonarQube
10 37 (1.56%) JMeter
11 32 (1.35%) Bitbucket
12 31 (1.31%) Postman
13 30 (1.26%) Subversion
14 28 (1.18%) Mockito
15 26 (1.10%) Eclipse
16 25 (1.05%) Gradle
17 24 (1.01%) Claude Code
18 22 (0.93%) REST Assured
General
1 603 (25.42%) Finance
2 352 (14.84%) Social Skills
3 223 (9.40%) Public Sector
4 219 (9.23%) Banking
5 164 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
6 144 (6.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 107 (4.51%) Law
8 106 (4.47%) Front Office
9 98 (4.13%) Retail
10 71 (2.99%) Financial Institution
11 48 (2.02%) Back Office
12 38 (1.60%) Investment Banking
13 33 (1.39%) Health Technology
14 28 (1.18%) Games
15 22 (0.93%) Aerospace
15 22 (0.93%) Manufacturing
16 19 (0.80%) Legal
17 18 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
17 18 (0.76%) Marketing
18 17 (0.72%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 862 (36.34%) Developer
2 579 (24.41%) Senior
3 570 (24.03%) Java Developer
4 546 (23.02%) Software Engineer
5 403 (16.99%) Java Engineer
6 341 (14.38%) Lead
7 205 (8.64%) Senior Developer
8 178 (7.50%) Senior Software Engineer
9 176 (7.42%) Java Software Engineer
10 144 (6.07%) Senior Java Developer
11 142 (5.99%) Full-Stack Developer
12 139 (5.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 124 (5.23%) Senior Java Engineer
13 124 (5.23%) Software Developer
14 118 (4.97%) Lead Software Engineer
15 91 (3.84%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 81 (3.41%) Architect
17 72 (3.04%) DevOps Engineer
18 71 (2.99%) Consultant
19 68 (2.87%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 538 (22.68%) Spring
2 461 (19.44%) Spring Boot
3 290 (12.23%) React
4 239 (10.08%) AngularJS
5 236 (9.95%) Kafka
6 226 (9.53%) REST
7 225 (9.49%) Node.js
8 168 (7.08%) RESTful
9 152 (6.41%) .NET
10 86 (3.63%) Web Services
11 74 (3.12%) Vue
12 73 (3.08%) CSS
13 65 (2.74%) GraphQL
14 64 (2.70%) HTML
15 53 (2.23%) SOAP
16 51 (2.15%) Hibernate
17 48 (2.02%) JSON
17 48 (2.02%) OAuth
18 46 (1.94%) Gherkin
18 46 (1.94%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 297 (12.52%) Cloud Native
2 192 (8.09%) Distributed Systems
3 146 (6.16%) Product Ownership
4 103 (4.34%) Public Cloud
5 55 (2.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 52 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
7 51 (2.15%) Fixed Income
8 50 (2.11%) Onboarding
9 42 (1.77%) Data Structures
9 42 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
10 37 (1.56%) Distributed Architecture
11 35 (1.48%) Blog
11 35 (1.48%) e-Learning
12 33 (1.39%) Virtual Team
13 32 (1.35%) Mobile App
14 31 (1.31%) Equities
15 30 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
16 24 (1.01%) Algorithms
17 20 (0.84%) Social Media
18 17 (0.72%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 220 (9.27%) Linux
2 55 (2.32%) Windows
3 43 (1.81%) Android
3 43 (1.81%) Unix
4 16 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (0.55%) Windows Server
6 11 (0.46%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.25%) CentOS
7 6 (0.25%) Debian
7 6 (0.25%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.17%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.084%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.042%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 821 (34.61%) Agile
2 820 (34.57%) Software Engineering
3 762 (32.12%) CI/CD
4 570 (24.03%) DevOps
5 540 (22.77%) Microservices
6 480 (20.24%) Test Automation
7 457 (19.27%) Full-Stack Development
8 404 (17.03%) Mentoring
9 372 (15.68%) Problem-Solving
10 297 (12.52%) AI
11 284 (11.97%) Containerisation
12 262 (11.05%) Infrastructure as Code
13 253 (10.67%) Continuous Improvement
14 251 (10.58%) TDD
15 219 (9.23%) Technical Leadership
16 216 (9.11%) Roadmaps
17 211 (8.90%) Computer Science
18 205 (8.64%) Scrum
19 184 (7.76%) SDLC
20 173 (7.29%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 761 (32.08%) Python
2 446 (18.80%) SQL
3 423 (17.83%) JavaScript
4 260 (10.96%) TypeScript
5 241 (10.16%) C#
6 217 (9.15%) C++
7 157 (6.62%) Go
8 122 (5.14%) Bash
9 102 (4.30%) Kotlin
10 65 (2.74%) Groovy
11 64 (2.70%) C
12 62 (2.61%) Scala
13 58 (2.45%) Rust
14 53 (2.23%) PHP
15 35 (1.48%) Perl
16 34 (1.43%) PowerShell
17 27 (1.14%) PL/SQL
17 27 (1.14%) Ruby
18 18 (0.76%) Shell Script
19 15 (0.63%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 414 (17.45%) Security Cleared
2 258 (10.88%) Degree
3 240 (10.12%) SC Cleared
4 144 (6.07%) DV Cleared
5 142 (5.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 103 (4.34%) AWS Certification
7 52 (2.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 31 (1.31%) Master's Degree
9 27 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
10 25 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 20 (0.84%) OSCP
12 16 (0.67%) ISTQB
13 15 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
13 15 (0.63%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.51%) CREST Certified
15 12 (0.51%) PhD
16 11 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
17 10 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
18 8 (0.34%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (6.75%) QA
2 63 (2.66%) Accessibility
3 45 (1.90%) Data Quality
4 20 (0.84%) GDPR
4 20 (0.84%) WCAG
5 14 (0.59%) GRC
5 14 (0.59%) PCI DSS
6 13 (0.55%) SOC 2
7 8 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.30%) ISO 20022
9 6 (0.25%) NIST
10 5 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.084%) Good Clinical Practice
13 2 (0.084%) PSD2
13 2 (0.084%) Software Quality Assurance
14 1 (0.042%) GxP
14 1 (0.042%) MiFID
System Software
1 372 (15.68%) Docker
2 19 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (0.72%) Active Directory
4 11 (0.46%) vSphere
5 8 (0.34%) Squid
5 8 (0.34%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.25%) Firmware
6 6 (0.25%) KVM
7 5 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.084%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.084%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.084%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 442 (18.63%) Kubernetes
2 295 (12.44%) Terraform
3 113 (4.76%) Ansible
3 113 (4.76%) Grafana
4 42 (1.77%) Prometheus
5 36 (1.52%) Argo
6 34 (1.43%) HP Fortify
7 30 (1.26%) Kibana
8 17 (0.72%) Puppet
9 14 (0.59%) Packer
9 14 (0.59%) Rancher
10 12 (0.51%) logstash
11 8 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.34%) yum
11 8 (0.34%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.25%) Kustomize
13 5 (0.21%) FTK
13 5 (0.21%) Hadoop YARN
14 3 (0.13%) HAProxy
14 3 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 92 (3.88%) Oracle
2 90 (3.79%) Microsoft
3 71 (2.99%) Google
4 54 (2.28%) Splunk
5 42 (1.77%) IBM
6 27 (1.14%) SAP
7 24 (1.01%) Palantir
7 24 (1.01%) Red Hat
7 24 (1.01%) VMware
8 23 (0.97%) Salesforce
9 22 (0.93%) Dynatrace
10 20 (0.84%) AppDynamics
11 19 (0.80%) Foundry
11 19 (0.80%) ServiceNow
12 15 (0.63%) Adobe
12 15 (0.63%) MuleSoft
12 15 (0.63%) OpenAI
13 13 (0.55%) SendGrid
14 11 (0.46%) Atlassian
14 11 (0.46%) Solace