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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 43 34
Rank change year-on-year -26 -9 -16
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,039 2,048 4,357
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.75% 5.60% 5.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.36% 16.73% 16.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,307 1,507 3,361
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £73,805
Median % change year-on-year - +1.62% -7.74%
75th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £125,000
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 13,277 12,245 26,709
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.93% 33.51% 33.28%
Number of salaries quoted 9,478 9,354 22,468
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,532
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £64,266 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.13% +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 10 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 10 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 -5 1,026 £90,000 -14.29% 325
North of England -19 452 £67,500 +3.85% 197
Yorkshire +9 211 £70,000 - 61
South East -50 207 £67,500 +3.85% 136
North West -23 188 £70,000 +4.42% 97
South West -25 176 £65,000 +4.00% 78
Midlands -70 95 £55,000 +15.79% 48
West Midlands -23 77 £55,000 +2.44% 22
North East -13 53 £53,750 -3.59% 39
East of England -87 46 £50,000 -2.91% 39
East Midlands -76 17 £44,500 -1.11% 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 46 (2.26%) Apache
2 42 (2.06%) Apache Spark
3 35 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (1.52%) Confluence
5 22 (1.08%) JBoss
6 15 (0.74%) OpenStack
7 13 (0.64%) WebSphere
8 12 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
9 9 (0.44%) Anypoint
10 6 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.25%) Appian
11 5 (0.25%) Camunda
11 5 (0.25%) GeoServer
11 5 (0.25%) IIS
12 4 (0.20%) Moodle
12 4 (0.20%) nginx
12 4 (0.20%) SharePoint
13 3 (0.15%) CICS
13 3 (0.15%) Liferay
14 2 (0.098%) CMS
Applications
1 12 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (0.54%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.098%) Windchill
6 1 (0.049%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.049%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 15 (0.74%) Maximo
2 7 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.25%) Shopify
4 3 (0.15%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.15%) SAP SD
4 3 (0.15%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.098%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.098%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.049%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.049%) Endur
6 1 (0.049%) Findur
6 1 (0.049%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.049%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.049%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.049%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.049%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.049%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.049%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.049%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 891 (43.70%) AWS
2 376 (18.44%) Azure
3 255 (12.51%) GCP
4 183 (8.97%) Serverless
5 137 (6.72%) SaaS
6 131 (6.42%) Amazon EKS
7 116 (5.69%) AWS Lambda
8 115 (5.64%) Amazon S3
9 112 (5.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 109 (5.35%) Amazon ECS
11 93 (4.56%) GitHub
12 66 (3.24%) AWS Step Functions
13 50 (2.45%) OpenShift
14 48 (2.35%) Apigee
15 47 (2.31%) Amazon ECR
15 47 (2.31%) dbt
16 44 (2.16%) Amazon SQS
17 35 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 35 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
18 31 (1.52%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 49 (2.40%) Broadband
2 34 (1.67%) TCP/IP
3 25 (1.23%) HTTP
4 11 (0.54%) AMQP
5 9 (0.44%) Internet
6 6 (0.29%) BGP
6 6 (0.29%) Multicast
6 6 (0.29%) VLAN
6 6 (0.29%) VPN
7 3 (0.15%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.15%) Network Security
7 3 (0.15%) PuTTY
7 3 (0.15%) SAN
8 2 (0.098%) DHCP
8 2 (0.098%) DNS
8 2 (0.098%) Firewall
8 2 (0.098%) LAN
8 2 (0.098%) NAS
8 2 (0.098%) SNMP
8 2 (0.098%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (8.19%) NoSQL
2 157 (7.70%) PostgreSQL
3 125 (6.13%) Relational Database
4 87 (4.27%) DynamoDB
5 80 (3.92%) SQL Server
6 66 (3.24%) MongoDB
6 66 (3.24%) MySQL
7 49 (2.40%) RDBMS
8 40 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
9 35 (1.72%) Big Data
10 34 (1.67%) DB2
11 31 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
11 31 (1.52%) Hadoop
12 30 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
13 26 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
14 24 (1.18%) Neo4j
15 21 (1.03%) Redis
16 15 (0.74%) Flink
17 14 (0.69%) BigQuery
18 12 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 172 (8.44%) Jenkins
2 163 (7.99%) Git
3 116 (5.69%) GitLab
4 109 (5.35%) Selenium
5 87 (4.27%) JIRA
6 84 (4.12%) Cucumber
7 71 (3.48%) Cypress.io
8 69 (3.38%) Maven
8 69 (3.38%) TeamCity
9 59 (2.89%) SonarQube
10 54 (2.65%) JUnit
11 47 (2.31%) Postman
12 33 (1.62%) JMeter
13 30 (1.47%) SoapUI
14 29 (1.42%) WebDriver
15 26 (1.28%) Bitbucket
16 24 (1.18%) REST Assured
16 24 (1.18%) Team Foundation Server
17 23 (1.13%) Gradle
18 19 (0.93%) Jaeger
General
1 520 (25.50%) Finance
2 390 (19.13%) Social Skills
3 254 (12.46%) Banking
4 170 (8.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 160 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
6 150 (7.36%) Public Sector
7 134 (6.57%) Law
8 116 (5.69%) Front Office
9 111 (5.44%) Retail
10 89 (4.36%) Financial Institution
11 62 (3.04%) Back Office
12 60 (2.94%) Investment Banking
13 38 (1.86%) Games
14 31 (1.52%) Telecoms
15 26 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
16 22 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
17 20 (0.98%) Aerospace
17 20 (0.98%) Health Technology
18 19 (0.93%) Manufacturing
19 18 (0.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 758 (37.18%) Developer
2 511 (25.06%) Software Engineer
3 510 (25.01%) Senior
4 467 (22.90%) Java Developer
5 304 (14.91%) Java Engineer
6 282 (13.83%) Lead
7 191 (9.37%) Senior Developer
8 171 (8.39%) Java Software Engineer
9 152 (7.45%) Senior Software Engineer
10 148 (7.26%) Full-Stack Developer
11 127 (6.23%) Senior Java Developer
12 117 (5.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 106 (5.20%) Senior Java Engineer
14 104 (5.10%) Software Developer
15 95 (4.66%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 90 (4.41%) Architect
17 87 (4.27%) Lead Software Engineer
18 57 (2.80%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 54 (2.65%) Lead Developer
20 53 (2.60%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 423 (20.75%) Spring
2 378 (18.54%) Spring Boot
3 334 (16.38%) React
4 229 (11.23%) REST
5 202 (9.91%) AngularJS
6 194 (9.51%) Node.js
7 186 (9.12%) Kafka
8 169 (8.29%) .NET
9 129 (6.33%) RESTful
10 107 (5.25%) HTML
11 92 (4.51%) SOAP
12 88 (4.32%) Web Services
13 85 (4.17%) CSS
14 78 (3.83%) GraphQL
15 76 (3.73%) Elastic Stack
16 60 (2.94%) Hibernate
17 58 (2.84%) Gherkin
17 58 (2.84%) JSON
18 55 (2.70%) Vue
19 46 (2.26%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 261 (12.80%) Cloud Native
2 176 (8.63%) Distributed Systems
3 100 (4.90%) Product Ownership
4 58 (2.84%) Fixed Income
5 54 (2.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 54 (2.65%) Public Cloud
6 52 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
7 48 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
8 40 (1.96%) Equities
9 38 (1.86%) Blog
10 35 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
10 35 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
11 32 (1.57%) Mobile App
12 30 (1.47%) Data Structures
12 30 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
13 27 (1.32%) Derivative
14 25 (1.23%) Virtual Team
15 24 (1.18%) FPGA
15 24 (1.18%) Management Information System
16 23 (1.13%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 200 (9.81%) Linux
2 48 (2.35%) Android
3 42 (2.06%) Unix
4 35 (1.72%) Windows
5 14 (0.69%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.39%) CentOS
8 7 (0.34%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.29%) Debian
10 5 (0.25%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.20%) Windows Server
12 2 (0.098%) Kali Linux
12 2 (0.098%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.049%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 757 (37.13%) Agile
2 710 (34.82%) Software Engineering
3 627 (30.75%) CI/CD
4 476 (23.34%) DevOps
5 421 (20.65%) Microservices
6 413 (20.26%) Full-Stack Development
7 357 (17.51%) Test Automation
8 337 (16.53%) Problem-Solving
9 334 (16.38%) Mentoring
10 232 (11.38%) Containerisation
11 229 (11.23%) AI
12 223 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
13 201 (9.86%) Scrum
14 198 (9.71%) Computer Science
15 185 (9.07%) TDD
16 183 (8.97%) Roadmaps
17 181 (8.88%) Infrastructure as Code
18 178 (8.73%) Technical Leadership
19 170 (8.34%) SDLC
20 164 (8.04%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 637 (31.24%) Python
2 433 (21.24%) JavaScript
3 398 (19.52%) SQL
4 290 (14.22%) TypeScript
5 215 (10.54%) C#
6 159 (7.80%) Go
7 144 (7.06%) C++
8 111 (5.44%) Kotlin
9 100 (4.90%) Bash
10 82 (4.02%) C
11 54 (2.65%) Groovy
12 41 (2.01%) PHP
13 37 (1.81%) Scala
14 36 (1.77%) PL/SQL
15 29 (1.42%) Rust
16 20 (0.98%) Apex Code
17 18 (0.88%) PowerShell
18 16 (0.78%) R
19 14 (0.69%) Ruby
19 14 (0.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 315 (15.45%) Security Cleared
2 272 (13.34%) Degree
3 198 (9.71%) SC Cleared
4 130 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 118 (5.79%) DV Cleared
6 91 (4.46%) AWS Certification
7 38 (1.86%) Master's Degree
8 37 (1.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 31 (1.52%) Azure Certification
10 27 (1.32%) ISTQB
11 24 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
12 23 (1.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 20 (0.98%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 20 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
14 19 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
15 17 (0.83%) OSCP
16 16 (0.78%) CREST Certified
17 15 (0.74%) PhD
18 13 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
19 12 (0.59%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (6.57%) QA
2 41 (2.01%) Accessibility
3 21 (1.03%) Data Quality
4 18 (0.88%) GDPR
4 18 (0.88%) PCI DSS
5 15 (0.74%) SOC 2
6 13 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
7 12 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.49%) GRC
9 8 (0.39%) WCAG
10 4 (0.20%) EU AI Act
10 4 (0.20%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.20%) NIST
10 4 (0.20%) SLA
11 2 (0.098%) ECSS
11 2 (0.098%) MISRA
12 1 (0.049%) MiFID
12 1 (0.049%) NCSC
12 1 (0.049%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 343 (16.82%) Docker
2 8 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.34%) Firmware
3 7 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.29%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.20%) KVM
7 3 (0.15%) HDFS
8 2 (0.098%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.098%) vSphere
9 1 (0.049%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.049%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.049%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.049%) Squid
9 1 (0.049%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 437 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 234 (11.48%) Terraform
3 107 (5.25%) Grafana
4 83 (4.07%) Ansible
5 45 (2.21%) Argo
5 45 (2.21%) Prometheus
6 42 (2.06%) HP Fortify
7 23 (1.13%) Kibana
8 19 (0.93%) Kustomize
9 13 (0.64%) Rancher
10 10 (0.49%) Puppet
11 7 (0.34%) Packer
11 7 (0.34%) yum
12 6 (0.29%) logstash
12 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.25%) FTK
14 4 (0.20%) Nagios
15 3 (0.15%) AWS Copilot
15 3 (0.15%) Progress Chef
15 3 (0.15%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 87 (4.27%) Oracle
2 70 (3.43%) Microsoft
3 64 (3.14%) Google
4 40 (1.96%) IBM
5 33 (1.62%) MuleSoft
6 32 (1.57%) Salesforce
7 21 (1.03%) SAP
8 18 (0.88%) Informatica
8 18 (0.88%) Splunk
9 17 (0.83%) Atlassian
9 17 (0.83%) Databricks
10 16 (0.78%) Foundry
11 15 (0.74%) Red Hat
11 15 (0.74%) Talend
12 14 (0.69%) AppDynamics
13 12 (0.59%) Palantir
14 11 (0.54%) Dynatrace
14 11 (0.54%) OpenAI
15 10 (0.49%) VMware
16 9 (0.44%) Dell