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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 45 33
Rank change year-on-year -25 -12 -15
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,959 2,009 4,315
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.78% 5.50% 5.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.39% 16.11% 16.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,274 1,472 3,345
10th Percentile £43,900 £41,825 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -9.38%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £121,750 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -7.89%

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 12,732 12,474 26,240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.08% 34.13% 33.57%
Number of salaries quoted 9,123 9,319 22,195
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,625
25th Percentile £46,630 £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 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.96% +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 1 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 1 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 -4 993 £95,000 -9.52% 325
North of England -15 435 £68,076 +4.73% 197
Yorkshire +8 207 £70,000 - 61
South East -55 194 £67,500 +3.85% 136
North West -23 185 £70,000 +4.42% 97
South West -22 167 £65,000 +4.00% 78
Midlands -48 92 £55,000 +15.79% 48
West Midlands -18 75 £55,000 +2.44% 22
North East -17 43 £52,315 -8.22% 39
East of England -89 38 £47,500 -5.00% 39
East Midlands -65 16 £49,000 +22.50% 26
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 (2.09%) Apache
1 41 (2.09%) Apache Spark
2 34 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (1.48%) Confluence
4 22 (1.12%) JBoss
5 15 (0.77%) OpenStack
6 13 (0.66%) WebSphere
7 10 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
8 9 (0.46%) Anypoint
9 6 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.26%) Camunda
10 5 (0.26%) IIS
10 5 (0.26%) SharePoint
11 4 (0.20%) Appian
11 4 (0.20%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.20%) Moodle
11 4 (0.20%) nginx
12 3 (0.15%) CICS
12 3 (0.15%) Liferay
13 2 (0.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (0.56%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.10%) Windchill
6 1 (0.051%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.051%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 14 (0.71%) Maximo
2 7 (0.36%) Fidessa
2 7 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.26%) Shopify
4 3 (0.15%) SAP SD
4 3 (0.15%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.10%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.051%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.051%) Endur
6 1 (0.051%) Findur
6 1 (0.051%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.051%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.051%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.051%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.051%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.051%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.051%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.051%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.051%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.051%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 852 (43.49%) AWS
2 353 (18.02%) Azure
3 238 (12.15%) GCP
4 181 (9.24%) Serverless
5 132 (6.74%) SaaS
6 125 (6.38%) Amazon EKS
7 117 (5.97%) AWS Lambda
8 113 (5.77%) Amazon S3
9 107 (5.46%) Amazon ECS
10 98 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 90 (4.59%) GitHub
12 64 (3.27%) AWS Step Functions
13 46 (2.35%) Apigee
13 46 (2.35%) OpenShift
14 45 (2.30%) Amazon ECR
15 44 (2.25%) Amazon SQS
15 44 (2.25%) dbt
16 36 (1.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 35 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
18 30 (1.53%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 49 (2.50%) Broadband
2 33 (1.68%) TCP/IP
3 22 (1.12%) HTTP
4 10 (0.51%) AMQP
5 8 (0.41%) Internet
6 7 (0.36%) VPN
7 6 (0.31%) BGP
7 6 (0.31%) Multicast
7 6 (0.31%) VLAN
8 4 (0.20%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.15%) Firewall
9 3 (0.15%) Network Security
9 3 (0.15%) PuTTY
9 3 (0.15%) SAN
10 2 (0.10%) DHCP
10 2 (0.10%) DNS
10 2 (0.10%) LAN
10 2 (0.10%) NAS
10 2 (0.10%) SNMP
10 2 (0.10%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (8.32%) NoSQL
2 156 (7.96%) PostgreSQL
3 123 (6.28%) Relational Database
4 84 (4.29%) DynamoDB
5 75 (3.83%) SQL Server
6 64 (3.27%) MongoDB
7 61 (3.11%) MySQL
8 48 (2.45%) RDBMS
9 39 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
10 33 (1.68%) Big Data
10 33 (1.68%) DB2
11 30 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
12 29 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
12 29 (1.48%) Hadoop
13 27 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
14 24 (1.23%) Neo4j
15 21 (1.07%) Redis
16 14 (0.71%) Data Lake
17 13 (0.66%) BigQuery
18 12 (0.61%) Flink
Development Applications
1 167 (8.52%) Jenkins
2 155 (7.91%) Git
3 115 (5.87%) GitLab
4 108 (5.51%) Selenium
5 86 (4.39%) JIRA
6 79 (4.03%) Cucumber
7 72 (3.68%) Cypress.io
8 67 (3.42%) TeamCity
9 66 (3.37%) Maven
10 56 (2.86%) SonarQube
11 55 (2.81%) JUnit
12 47 (2.40%) Postman
13 32 (1.63%) JMeter
13 32 (1.63%) WebDriver
14 30 (1.53%) SoapUI
15 24 (1.23%) REST Assured
16 22 (1.12%) Bitbucket
16 22 (1.12%) Team Foundation Server
17 21 (1.07%) Gradle
18 19 (0.97%) Jaeger
General
1 509 (25.98%) Finance
2 383 (19.55%) Social Skills
3 247 (12.61%) Banking
4 163 (8.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 148 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
6 140 (7.15%) Public Sector
7 131 (6.69%) Law
8 114 (5.82%) Front Office
9 110 (5.62%) Retail
10 92 (4.70%) Financial Institution
11 62 (3.16%) Investment Banking
12 59 (3.01%) Back Office
13 47 (2.40%) Games
14 33 (1.68%) Telecoms
15 25 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
16 22 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
17 20 (1.02%) Manufacturing
18 19 (0.97%) Health Technology
19 18 (0.92%) Marketing
20 17 (0.87%) Billing
Job Titles
1 735 (37.52%) Developer
2 499 (25.47%) Software Engineer
3 482 (24.60%) Senior
4 443 (22.61%) Java Developer
5 283 (14.45%) Java Engineer
6 273 (13.94%) Lead
7 181 (9.24%) Senior Developer
8 161 (8.22%) Java Software Engineer
9 149 (7.61%) Full-Stack Developer
10 147 (7.50%) Senior Software Engineer
11 120 (6.13%) Senior Java Developer
12 112 (5.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 101 (5.16%) Senior Java Engineer
14 100 (5.10%) Software Developer
15 94 (4.80%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 87 (4.44%) Architect
17 84 (4.29%) Lead Software Engineer
18 54 (2.76%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 52 (2.65%) Lead Developer
20 51 (2.60%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 407 (20.78%) Spring
2 367 (18.73%) Spring Boot
3 331 (16.90%) React
4 223 (11.38%) REST
5 198 (10.11%) AngularJS
6 195 (9.95%) Node.js
7 175 (8.93%) Kafka
8 161 (8.22%) .NET
9 135 (6.89%) RESTful
10 106 (5.41%) HTML
11 90 (4.59%) SOAP
12 82 (4.19%) CSS
13 78 (3.98%) GraphQL
13 78 (3.98%) Web Services
14 73 (3.73%) Elastic Stack
15 61 (3.11%) Hibernate
16 57 (2.91%) Gherkin
17 55 (2.81%) JSON
17 55 (2.81%) Vue
18 47 (2.40%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 257 (13.12%) Cloud Native
2 172 (8.78%) Distributed Systems
3 86 (4.39%) Product Ownership
4 57 (2.91%) Fixed Income
5 53 (2.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 53 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
6 47 (2.40%) Public Cloud
7 46 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
8 44 (2.25%) Equities
9 38 (1.94%) Blog
10 34 (1.74%) Distributed Architecture
11 33 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
12 31 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
12 31 (1.58%) Mobile App
13 28 (1.43%) Data Structures
14 26 (1.33%) Derivative
15 24 (1.23%) Management Information System
16 23 (1.17%) FPGA
17 21 (1.07%) Algorithms
18 20 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 195 (9.95%) Linux
2 45 (2.30%) Android
3 40 (2.04%) Unix
4 31 (1.58%) Windows
5 12 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.36%) CentOS
8 6 (0.31%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.26%) Debian
9 5 (0.26%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.15%) Windows Server
11 2 (0.10%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.10%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.051%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 734 (37.47%) Agile
2 681 (34.76%) Software Engineering
3 615 (31.39%) CI/CD
4 455 (23.23%) DevOps
5 402 (20.52%) Microservices
6 401 (20.47%) Full-Stack Development
7 340 (17.36%) Test Automation
8 324 (16.54%) Mentoring
9 320 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
10 222 (11.33%) AI
11 220 (11.23%) Containerisation
12 211 (10.77%) Continuous Improvement
13 190 (9.70%) Scrum
14 188 (9.60%) Computer Science
15 176 (8.98%) TDD
16 171 (8.73%) Technical Leadership
17 168 (8.58%) Roadmaps
18 166 (8.47%) Infrastructure as Code
19 160 (8.17%) Clean Code
20 156 (7.96%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 610 (31.14%) Python
2 425 (21.69%) JavaScript
3 384 (19.60%) SQL
4 288 (14.70%) TypeScript
5 200 (10.21%) C#
6 157 (8.01%) Go
7 134 (6.84%) C++
8 119 (6.07%) Kotlin
9 94 (4.80%) Bash
10 81 (4.13%) C
11 54 (2.76%) Groovy
12 43 (2.19%) Scala
13 39 (1.99%) PHP
14 35 (1.79%) PL/SQL
15 31 (1.58%) Rust
16 22 (1.12%) Ruby
17 20 (1.02%) Apex Code
18 16 (0.82%) PowerShell
18 16 (0.82%) R
19 14 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 298 (15.21%) Security Cleared
2 263 (13.43%) Degree
3 185 (9.44%) SC Cleared
4 119 (6.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 115 (5.87%) DV Cleared
6 88 (4.49%) AWS Certification
7 40 (2.04%) Master's Degree
8 36 (1.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 29 (1.48%) Azure Certification
10 26 (1.33%) ISTQB
11 23 (1.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 23 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
12 21 (1.07%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 20 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
14 18 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (0.82%) PhD
16 14 (0.71%) CREST Certified
16 14 (0.71%) OSCP
17 12 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
18 11 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (6.33%) QA
2 41 (2.09%) Accessibility
3 20 (1.02%) Data Quality
4 18 (0.92%) GDPR
4 18 (0.92%) PCI DSS
5 15 (0.77%) SOC 2
6 13 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
7 12 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.41%) GRC
8 8 (0.41%) WCAG
9 5 (0.26%) NIST
10 4 (0.20%) EU AI Act
10 4 (0.20%) SLA
11 3 (0.15%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.10%) ECSS
12 2 (0.10%) MISRA
12 2 (0.10%) NCSC
13 1 (0.051%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.051%) MiFID
13 1 (0.051%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 327 (16.69%) Docker
2 11 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (0.41%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (0.31%) Firmware
5 5 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.15%) HDFS
6 3 (0.15%) KVM
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.051%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.051%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.051%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.051%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 419 (21.39%) Kubernetes
2 213 (10.87%) Terraform
3 101 (5.16%) Grafana
4 79 (4.03%) Ansible
5 44 (2.25%) Prometheus
6 42 (2.14%) HP Fortify
7 41 (2.09%) Argo
8 20 (1.02%) Kibana
9 19 (0.97%) Kustomize
10 10 (0.51%) Rancher
11 7 (0.36%) Puppet
12 6 (0.31%) Packer
12 6 (0.31%) yum
13 5 (0.26%) FTK
13 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (0.20%) Nagios
14 4 (0.20%) Progress Chef
15 3 (0.15%) logstash
15 3 (0.15%) Red Hat Satellite
15 3 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 86 (4.39%) Oracle
2 61 (3.11%) Google
2 61 (3.11%) Microsoft
3 38 (1.94%) IBM
4 33 (1.68%) MuleSoft
5 32 (1.63%) Salesforce
6 22 (1.12%) SAP
7 21 (1.07%) Atlassian
8 18 (0.92%) Databricks
8 18 (0.92%) Informatica
9 17 (0.87%) Splunk
10 15 (0.77%) Talend
11 14 (0.71%) Foundry
12 13 (0.66%) Red Hat
13 11 (0.56%) OpenAI
14 10 (0.51%) AppDynamics
14 10 (0.51%) Dell
14 10 (0.51%) Palantir
14 10 (0.51%) Solace
15 9 (0.46%) Pega