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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 29 34
Rank change year-on-year -40 +5 -16
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,127 2,715 4,456
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.61% 6.94% 5.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.99% 21.38% 16.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,338 1,471 3,428
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £39,592
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,627 £75,000 £73,805
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% +1.62% -7.74%
75th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £131,625
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -9.68%

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 14,193 12,699 27,154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.44% 32.47% 32.44%
Number of salaries quoted 9,957 9,174 22,537
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £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 7 May 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 7 May 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 -7 1,047 £90,000 -16.28% 325
North of England -48 519 £68,076 +1.55% 176
Yorkshire +5 227 £72,500 +2.12% 55
North West -60 214 £70,000 +3.70% 73
South East -51 210 £67,500 +3.85% 140
South West -37 180 £65,000 +8.33% 74
Midlands -100 90 £50,000 -6.87% 49
North East -3 78 £52,500 -7.08% 48
West Midlands -57 74 £50,000 -6.87% 29
East of England -69 49 £50,000 - 32
East Midlands -89 15 £54,500 +17.84% 20
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 42 (1.97%) Apache
2 36 (1.69%) Apache Spark
3 34 (1.60%) Confluence
4 33 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (0.89%) JBoss
6 14 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
7 12 (0.56%) OpenStack
8 9 (0.42%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.24%) Appian
10 5 (0.24%) GeoServer
10 5 (0.24%) IIS
11 4 (0.19%) Anypoint
11 4 (0.19%) Camunda
11 4 (0.19%) Moodle
12 3 (0.14%) CICS
12 3 (0.14%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.14%) Liferay
12 3 (0.14%) nginx
12 3 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (0.47%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.047%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.047%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.047%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 13 (0.61%) Maximo
2 4 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.14%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.14%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.14%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.094%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.047%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.047%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.047%) Endur
5 1 (0.047%) Findur
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.047%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.047%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 891 (41.89%) AWS
2 384 (18.05%) Azure
3 255 (11.99%) GCP
4 174 (8.18%) Serverless
5 127 (5.97%) AWS CloudFormation
6 122 (5.74%) SaaS
7 116 (5.45%) Amazon S3
8 111 (5.22%) AWS Lambda
9 107 (5.03%) Amazon ECS
10 105 (4.94%) Amazon EKS
11 89 (4.18%) GitHub
12 73 (3.43%) AWS Step Functions
13 53 (2.49%) Apigee
14 52 (2.44%) Amazon ECR
15 46 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
16 44 (2.07%) Amazon SQS
17 41 (1.93%) OpenShift
18 38 (1.79%) dbt
19 32 (1.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 31 (1.46%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 52 (2.44%) Broadband
2 32 (1.50%) HTTP
3 30 (1.41%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.42%) AMQP
5 8 (0.38%) Internet
6 4 (0.19%) BGP
6 4 (0.19%) IPv4
6 4 (0.19%) Multicast
6 4 (0.19%) SAN
6 4 (0.19%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (0.19%) VLAN
6 4 (0.19%) VPN
7 3 (0.14%) LAN
7 3 (0.14%) Network Security
7 3 (0.14%) PuTTY
7 3 (0.14%) WAN
8 2 (0.094%) DHCP
8 2 (0.094%) DNS
8 2 (0.094%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.094%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (8.04%) NoSQL
2 155 (7.29%) PostgreSQL
3 111 (5.22%) Relational Database
4 95 (4.47%) DynamoDB
5 88 (4.14%) MongoDB
6 76 (3.57%) SQL Server
7 61 (2.87%) MySQL
8 44 (2.07%) RDBMS
9 35 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
10 32 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
11 31 (1.46%) Big Data
11 31 (1.46%) DB2
12 25 (1.18%) Hadoop
13 23 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
14 21 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
14 21 (0.99%) Neo4j
15 18 (0.85%) BigQuery
16 17 (0.80%) Redis
17 14 (0.66%) Flink
17 14 (0.66%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 176 (8.27%) Jenkins
2 154 (7.24%) Git
3 145 (6.82%) GitLab
4 98 (4.61%) Selenium
5 91 (4.28%) JIRA
6 77 (3.62%) Cucumber
6 77 (3.62%) Maven
7 75 (3.53%) Cypress.io
8 65 (3.06%) SonarQube
9 61 (2.87%) TeamCity
10 49 (2.30%) JUnit
11 48 (2.26%) Postman
12 30 (1.41%) SoapUI
13 29 (1.36%) Bitbucket
13 29 (1.36%) JMeter
14 27 (1.27%) WebDriver
15 25 (1.18%) Team Foundation Server
16 24 (1.13%) REST Assured
17 22 (1.03%) Claude Code
17 22 (1.03%) Gradle
General
1 536 (25.20%) Finance
2 368 (17.30%) Social Skills
3 243 (11.42%) Banking
4 161 (7.57%) Analytical Skills
5 156 (7.33%) Public Sector
6 152 (7.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 114 (5.36%) Front Office
8 112 (5.27%) Law
9 96 (4.51%) Retail
10 66 (3.10%) Financial Institution
11 53 (2.49%) Back Office
12 52 (2.44%) Investment Banking
13 33 (1.55%) Games
14 30 (1.41%) Telecoms
15 24 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
16 23 (1.08%) Health Technology
16 23 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
17 22 (1.03%) Aerospace
18 21 (0.99%) Marketing
19 17 (0.80%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 793 (37.28%) Developer
2 535 (25.15%) Senior
3 505 (23.74%) Java Developer
4 500 (23.51%) Software Engineer
5 348 (16.36%) Java Engineer
6 308 (14.48%) Lead
7 207 (9.73%) Senior Developer
8 178 (8.37%) Java Software Engineer
9 152 (7.15%) Senior Software Engineer
10 149 (7.01%) Full-Stack Developer
11 147 (6.91%) Senior Java Developer
12 121 (5.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 110 (5.17%) Senior Java Engineer
14 103 (4.84%) Software Developer
15 96 (4.51%) Lead Software Engineer
16 88 (4.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 83 (3.90%) Architect
18 60 (2.82%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 55 (2.59%) Lead Developer
20 52 (2.44%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 436 (20.50%) Spring
2 396 (18.62%) Spring Boot
3 315 (14.81%) React
4 237 (11.14%) REST
5 212 (9.97%) AngularJS
6 195 (9.17%) Node.js
7 182 (8.56%) Kafka
8 159 (7.48%) .NET
9 117 (5.50%) RESTful
10 105 (4.94%) HTML
11 88 (4.14%) SOAP
12 82 (3.86%) CSS
12 82 (3.86%) Web Services
13 72 (3.39%) GraphQL
14 69 (3.24%) Elastic Stack
15 61 (2.87%) JSON
16 58 (2.73%) Vue
17 56 (2.63%) Gherkin
18 51 (2.40%) Hibernate
19 48 (2.26%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 242 (11.38%) Cloud Native
2 166 (7.80%) Distributed Systems
3 120 (5.64%) Product Ownership
4 75 (3.53%) Public Cloud
5 53 (2.49%) Fixed Income
6 50 (2.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 44 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
8 41 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
9 40 (1.88%) Distributed Architecture
10 37 (1.74%) Equities
11 35 (1.65%) Blog
12 31 (1.46%) Data Structures
13 30 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
13 30 (1.41%) Mobile App
14 28 (1.32%) Virtual Team
15 27 (1.27%) e-Learning
16 23 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
17 22 (1.03%) FPGA
18 20 (0.94%) Derivative
18 20 (0.94%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 193 (9.07%) Linux
2 48 (2.26%) Android
3 47 (2.21%) Unix
4 43 (2.02%) Windows
5 14 (0.66%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.33%) CentOS
7 7 (0.33%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.28%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.24%) Debian
10 4 (0.19%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.094%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.047%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 753 (35.40%) Agile
2 715 (33.62%) Software Engineering
3 619 (29.10%) CI/CD
4 490 (23.04%) DevOps
5 431 (20.26%) Microservices
6 423 (19.89%) Full-Stack Development
7 365 (17.16%) Test Automation
8 351 (16.50%) Mentoring
9 324 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
10 236 (11.10%) AI
11 229 (10.77%) Containerisation
12 214 (10.06%) Continuous Improvement
13 212 (9.97%) Scrum
14 205 (9.64%) Roadmaps
15 193 (9.07%) Computer Science
16 190 (8.93%) Infrastructure as Code
17 189 (8.89%) TDD
18 183 (8.60%) Technical Leadership
19 173 (8.13%) SDLC
20 158 (7.43%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 659 (30.98%) Python
2 412 (19.37%) SQL
3 403 (18.95%) JavaScript
4 279 (13.12%) TypeScript
5 219 (10.30%) C#
6 156 (7.33%) Go
7 146 (6.86%) C++
8 110 (5.17%) Bash
9 106 (4.98%) Kotlin
10 73 (3.43%) C
11 60 (2.82%) Groovy
12 42 (1.97%) PHP
12 42 (1.97%) Scala
13 34 (1.60%) PL/SQL
14 28 (1.32%) Rust
15 19 (0.89%) PowerShell
16 18 (0.85%) Apex Code
17 15 (0.71%) R
18 14 (0.66%) Ruby
19 12 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 329 (15.47%) Security Cleared
2 263 (12.36%) Degree
3 205 (9.64%) SC Cleared
4 131 (6.16%) DV Cleared
5 129 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 96 (4.51%) AWS Certification
7 37 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 36 (1.69%) Master's Degree
9 29 (1.36%) ISTQB
10 25 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (1.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 22 (1.03%) Azure Certification
13 20 (0.94%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 19 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
15 17 (0.80%) OSCP
16 15 (0.71%) DBS Check
16 15 (0.71%) PhD
16 15 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
17 13 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
17 13 (0.61%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (6.68%) QA
2 35 (1.65%) Accessibility
3 32 (1.50%) Data Quality
4 16 (0.75%) PCI DSS
5 13 (0.61%) GRC
5 13 (0.61%) SOC 2
6 9 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.28%) GDPR
8 5 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.19%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.19%) SLA
9 4 (0.19%) WCAG
10 3 (0.14%) NIST
11 1 (0.047%) Good Clinical Practice
11 1 (0.047%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 1 (0.047%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 1 (0.047%) MiFID
11 1 (0.047%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 332 (15.61%) Docker
2 10 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (0.42%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.24%) Firmware
4 5 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.24%) vSphere
5 4 (0.19%) KVM
5 4 (0.19%) Squid
5 4 (0.19%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.094%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.094%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.047%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.047%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.047%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.047%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.047%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 406 (19.09%) Kubernetes
2 240 (11.28%) Terraform
3 95 (4.47%) Grafana
4 87 (4.09%) Ansible
5 57 (2.68%) Argo
6 45 (2.12%) HP Fortify
6 45 (2.12%) Prometheus
7 21 (0.99%) Kibana
8 19 (0.89%) Kustomize
9 13 (0.61%) Rancher
10 11 (0.52%) Puppet
11 10 (0.47%) Packer
12 9 (0.42%) logstash
13 7 (0.33%) yum
14 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (0.24%) FTK
16 4 (0.19%) Nagios
16 4 (0.19%) Progress Chef
16 4 (0.19%) ZABBIX
17 3 (0.14%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 84 (3.95%) Oracle
2 80 (3.76%) Microsoft
3 66 (3.10%) Google
4 31 (1.46%) IBM
5 28 (1.32%) Salesforce
6 24 (1.13%) MuleSoft
7 23 (1.08%) Splunk
8 18 (0.85%) Foundry
8 18 (0.85%) Red Hat
9 16 (0.75%) Atlassian
9 16 (0.75%) Palantir
10 15 (0.71%) AppDynamics
11 14 (0.66%) Databricks
12 13 (0.61%) OpenAI
12 13 (0.61%) VMware
13 12 (0.56%) Dynatrace
14 11 (0.52%) Informatica
14 11 (0.52%) SAP
14 11 (0.52%) Solace
15 10 (0.47%) ServiceNow