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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 31 31
Rank change year-on-year -27 0 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,682 2,707 3,756
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.58% 6.26% 5.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.07% 23.46% 18.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,689 1,155 2,331
10th Percentile £43,100 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +3.23%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +6.67%

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 16,694 11,538 20,752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.05% 26.69% 31.18%
Number of salaries quoted 12,167 7,582 12,689
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £111,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -14 1,098 £82,500 -21.43% 1,904
North of England -24 762 £69,310 +6.63% 537
North West -34 391 £72,000 +2.86% 304
South West +3 334 £65,000 +6.12% 289
South East -46 227 £67,500 +3.85% 289
Midlands -44 193 £69,308 +13.16% 234
North East +22 191 £55,000 +7.32% 104
Yorkshire +15 180 £75,000 +15.38% 132
West Midlands -24 165 £70,000 +12.00% 155
East of England -84 45 £63,750 +50.00% 98
East Midlands -84 28 £60,000 +3.45% 79
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 60 (2.24%) Confluence
2 55 (2.05%) Apache
3 37 (1.38%) Apache Spark
4 27 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.67%) Camunda
6 17 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 12 (0.45%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
8 8 (0.30%) Tomcat
8 8 (0.30%) WebLogic
9 7 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.22%) CICS
10 6 (0.22%) CMS
11 5 (0.19%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.19%) JBoss
11 5 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.15%) SAS
12 4 (0.15%) SharePoint
12 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.56%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.34%) Simulink
4 7 (0.26%) Moqups
5 5 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.15%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.11%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.075%) PTC Creo
8 2 (0.075%) Windchill
9 1 (0.037%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.037%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.19%) Distributed Ledger
2 5 (0.19%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.11%) Maximo
5 2 (0.075%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.075%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.075%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 2 (0.075%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.037%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.037%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.037%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.037%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.037%) Quorum
6 1 (0.037%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.037%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.037%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,061 (39.56%) AWS
2 535 (19.95%) Azure
3 305 (11.37%) GCP
4 196 (7.31%) Serverless
5 176 (6.56%) GitHub
6 153 (5.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 129 (4.81%) AWS Lambda
8 107 (3.99%) Amazon S3
9 106 (3.95%) SaaS
10 101 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
11 100 (3.73%) Amazon ECS
11 100 (3.73%) GitHub Actions
12 88 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
13 54 (2.01%) AWS Step Functions
14 50 (1.86%) Amazon EC2
15 41 (1.53%) Datadog
16 39 (1.45%) Anthropic Claude
16 39 (1.45%) GitHub Copilot
16 39 (1.45%) OpenShift
17 38 (1.42%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 38 (1.42%) HTTP
2 20 (0.75%) TCP/IP
3 17 (0.63%) Network Security
4 15 (0.56%) DMARC
5 13 (0.48%) VPN
6 12 (0.45%) BGP
7 9 (0.34%) DNS
7 9 (0.34%) IPv4
7 9 (0.34%) MQTT
7 9 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
7 9 (0.34%) Wireshark
8 8 (0.30%) AMQP
9 7 (0.26%) Firewall
10 6 (0.22%) IPsec
11 5 (0.19%) Broadband
11 5 (0.19%) Ethernet
11 5 (0.19%) Internet
12 4 (0.15%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.15%) RIP
13 3 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
2 164 (6.11%) NoSQL
3 130 (4.85%) MongoDB
4 129 (4.81%) Relational Database
5 73 (2.72%) MySQL
6 65 (2.42%) DynamoDB
7 60 (2.24%) SQL Server
8 49 (1.83%) Big Data
9 35 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
10 28 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
10 28 (1.04%) Redis
11 25 (0.93%) Hadoop
11 25 (0.93%) Power BI
12 24 (0.89%) Data Lake
12 24 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
13 22 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
13 22 (0.82%) Db2
14 21 (0.78%) BigQuery
15 17 (0.63%) Spark SQL
16 15 (0.56%) Flink
Development Applications
1 284 (10.59%) Git
2 207 (7.72%) Jenkins
3 201 (7.49%) GitLab
4 104 (3.88%) JUnit
5 89 (3.32%) JIRA
6 87 (3.24%) Cucumber
7 71 (2.65%) Maven
8 65 (2.42%) TeamCity
9 60 (2.24%) Selenium
10 53 (1.98%) Cypress.io
11 47 (1.75%) Eclipse
12 44 (1.64%) Postman
13 43 (1.60%) Mockito
14 41 (1.53%) Subversion
15 35 (1.30%) Bitbucket
16 34 (1.27%) SonarQube
17 33 (1.23%) JMeter
18 26 (0.97%) Claude Code
19 18 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
19 18 (0.67%) REST Assured
General
1 670 (24.98%) Finance
2 468 (17.45%) Social Skills
3 278 (10.37%) Banking
4 258 (9.62%) Public Sector
5 184 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
6 140 (5.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 121 (4.51%) Law
8 100 (3.73%) Retail
9 77 (2.87%) Financial Institution
10 69 (2.57%) Front Office
11 40 (1.49%) Legal
12 39 (1.45%) Back Office
12 39 (1.45%) Manufacturing
13 36 (1.34%) Marketing
14 34 (1.27%) Health Technology
15 32 (1.19%) Investment Banking
16 28 (1.04%) Publishing
17 23 (0.86%) Tech for Good
18 22 (0.82%) Aerospace
19 21 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 798 (29.75%) Developer
2 702 (26.17%) Senior
3 620 (23.12%) Software Engineer
4 578 (21.55%) Java Engineer
5 514 (19.16%) Java Developer
6 370 (13.80%) Lead
7 219 (8.17%) Senior Developer
8 206 (7.68%) Senior Java Engineer
8 206 (7.68%) Senior Software Engineer
9 199 (7.42%) Java Software Engineer
10 174 (6.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 135 (5.03%) Senior Java Developer
12 129 (4.81%) Full-Stack Developer
13 117 (4.36%) Software Developer
14 105 (3.91%) Lead Software Engineer
15 96 (3.58%) Principal Engineer
16 85 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
17 83 (3.09%) Architect
18 81 (3.02%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 77 (2.87%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 626 (23.34%) Spring
2 521 (19.43%) Spring Boot
3 310 (11.56%) Terraform
4 287 (10.70%) Kafka
5 267 (9.96%) React
6 252 (9.40%) REST
7 209 (7.79%) AngularJS
8 198 (7.38%) Node.js
9 195 (7.27%) RESTful
10 168 (6.26%) .NET
11 71 (2.65%) Web Services
12 65 (2.42%) HTML
13 63 (2.35%) CSS
14 61 (2.27%) OAuth
15 58 (2.16%) Hibernate
16 52 (1.94%) Vue
17 50 (1.86%) RabbitMQ
18 42 (1.57%) Middleware
18 42 (1.57%) XML
19 41 (1.53%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 373 (13.91%) Cloud Native
2 267 (9.96%) Distributed Systems
3 162 (6.04%) Product Ownership
4 124 (4.62%) Public Cloud
5 75 (2.80%) Onboarding
6 74 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
7 60 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
8 49 (1.83%) e-Learning
9 46 (1.72%) Data Structures
10 43 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 42 (1.57%) Blog
12 41 (1.53%) Algorithms
13 40 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
14 36 (1.34%) Virtual Team
15 32 (1.19%) Mobile App
16 31 (1.16%) AI Agents
16 31 (1.16%) Equities
17 28 (1.04%) Fixed Income
17 28 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
18 27 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 216 (8.05%) Linux
2 66 (2.46%) Windows
3 39 (1.45%) Android
4 38 (1.42%) Unix
5 27 (1.01%) Apple iOS
6 21 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 14 (0.52%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.30%) CentOS
9 7 (0.26%) Debian
9 7 (0.26%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.15%) VMS
11 3 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.11%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.075%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.037%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,012 (37.73%) Software Engineering
2 903 (33.67%) CI/CD
3 810 (30.20%) Agile
4 654 (24.38%) Microservices
5 596 (22.22%) DevOps
6 543 (20.25%) Full-Stack Development
7 504 (18.79%) Test Automation
8 472 (17.60%) Mentoring
9 453 (16.89%) Problem-Solving
10 421 (15.70%) AI
11 352 (13.12%) Containerisation
12 325 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
13 322 (12.01%) Continuous Improvement
14 303 (11.30%) Event-Driven
15 253 (9.43%) Technical Leadership
16 243 (9.06%) Computer Science
17 240 (8.95%) SDLC
18 232 (8.65%) Scrum
19 231 (8.61%) TDD
20 228 (8.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 825 (30.76%) Python
2 480 (17.90%) SQL
3 437 (16.29%) JavaScript
4 275 (10.25%) C++
5 261 (9.73%) TypeScript
6 259 (9.66%) C#
7 149 (5.56%) Go
8 111 (4.14%) Bash
9 105 (3.91%) Kotlin
10 78 (2.91%) Scala
11 75 (2.80%) C
12 58 (2.16%) Rust
13 48 (1.79%) PHP
14 46 (1.72%) Perl
15 40 (1.49%) Groovy
16 35 (1.30%) PowerShell
17 34 (1.27%) Ruby
18 28 (1.04%) PL/SQL
19 22 (0.82%) Shell Script
20 20 (0.75%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 493 (18.38%) Security Cleared
2 279 (10.40%) Degree
3 266 (9.92%) SC Cleared
4 171 (6.38%) DV Cleared
5 164 (6.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 103 (3.84%) AWS Certification
7 69 (2.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 30 (1.12%) Master's Degree
9 22 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (0.75%) ISTQB
11 19 (0.71%) OSCP
12 16 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
13 14 (0.52%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
16 11 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 11 (0.41%) Azure Certification
16 11 (0.41%) CISSP
16 11 (0.41%) PhD
17 9 (0.34%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (6.23%) QA
2 84 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 77 (2.87%) Accessibility
4 26 (0.97%) GDPR
4 26 (0.97%) WCAG
5 21 (0.78%) NIST
6 16 (0.60%) ISO 20022
6 16 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (0.48%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.34%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.22%) GRC
9 6 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 3 (0.11%) MiFID
11 3 (0.11%) MIL-STD-1553
11 3 (0.11%) PSD2
11 3 (0.11%) UCITS
12 2 (0.075%) Good Clinical Practice
12 2 (0.075%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 439 (16.37%) Docker
2 28 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (0.67%) Active Directory
4 15 (0.56%) VMware NSX
5 14 (0.52%) Firmware
6 13 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
7 11 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.41%) vSphere
8 8 (0.30%) Squid
8 8 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.19%) KVM
11 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.037%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 534 (19.91%) Kubernetes
2 136 (5.07%) Ansible
3 102 (3.80%) Grafana
4 38 (1.42%) Argo
5 37 (1.38%) Prometheus
6 31 (1.16%) Puppet
7 23 (0.86%) Kibana
8 14 (0.52%) HP Fortify
8 14 (0.52%) Rancher
9 12 (0.45%) Packer
10 10 (0.37%) logstash
11 8 (0.30%) yum
11 8 (0.30%) ZABBIX
12 7 (0.26%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.22%) Hadoop YARN
13 6 (0.22%) Kubeflow
13 6 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.19%) EnCase
14 5 (0.19%) FTK
14 5 (0.19%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 115 (4.29%) Oracle
2 109 (4.06%) Microsoft
3 96 (3.58%) Google
4 67 (2.50%) Splunk
5 45 (1.68%) Red Hat
6 33 (1.23%) IBM
7 31 (1.16%) SAP
7 31 (1.16%) VMware
8 28 (1.04%) Adobe
9 26 (0.97%) Dynatrace
10 22 (0.82%) AppDynamics
10 22 (0.82%) OpenAI
11 18 (0.67%) Databricks
12 17 (0.63%) Palantir
13 16 (0.60%) ServiceNow
14 15 (0.56%) SendGrid
15 14 (0.52%) Salesforce
16 12 (0.45%) Bloomberg
16 12 (0.45%) Foundry
16 12 (0.45%) Solace