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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 26 34
Rank change year-on-year -32 +8 -14
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,302 3,039 4,723
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.72% 7.53% 5.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.78% 23.87% 16.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,509 1,444 3,517
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,505 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £114,000 £137,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% -6.45%

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 15,571 12,732 28,585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.39% 31.55% 30.90%
Number of salaries quoted 11,271 8,565 22,763
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
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 £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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -12 1,037 £85,000 -19.05% 295
North of England -26 646 £69,305 +2.67% 127
North West -34 284 £70,000 -6.67% 63
Yorkshire +22 230 £72,500 +3.57% 38
South East -49 216 £70,000 +7.69% 110
South West -30 207 £60,000 -4.00% 76
North East +6 132 £52,500 +13.51% 27
Midlands -89 113 £62,500 +8.70% 47
West Midlands -57 93 £62,500 +4.17% 35
East of England -57 57 £51,359 +14.13% 37
East Midlands -84 19 £60,000 +26.32% 12
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 45 (1.95%) Confluence
2 44 (1.91%) Apache
3 34 (1.48%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
6 12 (0.52%) JBoss
7 9 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.35%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
9 6 (0.26%) Camunda
9 6 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.22%) CMS
10 5 (0.22%) GeoServer
10 5 (0.22%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.17%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.13%) CICS
12 3 (0.13%) SAS
12 3 (0.13%) SharePoint
13 2 (0.087%) Documentum
13 2 (0.087%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.48%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.087%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.087%) PTC Creo
5 2 (0.087%) Windchill
6 1 (0.043%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 13 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.48%) Maximo
3 5 (0.22%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.22%) Temenos T24
4 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.087%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.043%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.043%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.043%) Endur
6 1 (0.043%) Findur
6 1 (0.043%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.043%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 951 (41.31%) AWS
2 448 (19.46%) Azure
3 286 (12.42%) GCP
4 188 (8.17%) Serverless
5 144 (6.26%) AWS CloudFormation
6 120 (5.21%) Amazon S3
6 120 (5.21%) AWS Lambda
7 113 (4.91%) GitHub
7 113 (4.91%) SaaS
8 112 (4.87%) Amazon ECS
9 102 (4.43%) Amazon EKS
10 73 (3.17%) AWS Step Functions
11 65 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
12 53 (2.30%) GitHub Actions
13 45 (1.95%) Amazon ECR
14 44 (1.91%) Amazon SQS
15 43 (1.87%) Apigee
16 38 (1.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 37 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
18 35 (1.52%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 44 (1.91%) Broadband
2 32 (1.39%) HTTP
3 24 (1.04%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.56%) DMARC
5 8 (0.35%) IPv4
5 8 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
6 7 (0.30%) AMQP
6 7 (0.30%) MQTT
6 7 (0.30%) Network Security
7 5 (0.22%) BGP
7 5 (0.22%) VPN
8 4 (0.17%) Internet
8 4 (0.17%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.13%) Firewall
9 3 (0.13%) VLAN
10 2 (0.087%) DNS
10 2 (0.087%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.087%) IPsec
10 2 (0.087%) LAN
10 2 (0.087%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (7.73%) NoSQL
2 165 (7.17%) PostgreSQL
3 106 (4.60%) MongoDB
4 102 (4.43%) Relational Database
5 88 (3.82%) DynamoDB
6 77 (3.34%) MySQL
7 72 (3.13%) SQL Server
8 41 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
9 31 (1.35%) RDBMS
10 30 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
11 25 (1.09%) BigQuery
11 25 (1.09%) Db2
12 24 (1.04%) Big Data
13 21 (0.91%) Redis
14 19 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
15 15 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
15 15 (0.65%) Metadata
16 14 (0.61%) Hadoop
17 13 (0.56%) Power BI
18 12 (0.52%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 214 (9.30%) Git
2 179 (7.78%) Jenkins
3 164 (7.12%) GitLab
4 85 (3.69%) JIRA
5 78 (3.39%) Cucumber
6 77 (3.34%) Maven
7 68 (2.95%) Selenium
8 65 (2.82%) JUnit
9 63 (2.74%) Cypress.io
10 56 (2.43%) TeamCity
11 55 (2.39%) SonarQube
12 35 (1.52%) Postman
13 34 (1.48%) JMeter
14 29 (1.26%) Bitbucket
14 29 (1.26%) Mockito
15 26 (1.13%) Gradle
15 26 (1.13%) Subversion
16 25 (1.09%) Claude Code
17 24 (1.04%) Eclipse
18 23 (1.00%) REST Assured
General
1 574 (24.93%) Finance
2 347 (15.07%) Social Skills
3 215 (9.34%) Banking
4 207 (8.99%) Public Sector
5 159 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
6 144 (6.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 103 (4.47%) Front Office
8 101 (4.39%) Law
9 91 (3.95%) Retail
10 68 (2.95%) Financial Institution
11 47 (2.04%) Back Office
12 39 (1.69%) Investment Banking
13 30 (1.30%) Health Technology
14 29 (1.26%) Games
15 21 (0.91%) Aerospace
16 20 (0.87%) Manufacturing
17 19 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
18 17 (0.74%) Advertising
18 17 (0.74%) Telecoms
19 16 (0.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 866 (37.62%) Developer
2 575 (24.98%) Java Developer
3 563 (24.46%) Senior
4 530 (23.02%) Software Engineer
5 393 (17.07%) Java Engineer
6 329 (14.29%) Lead
7 212 (9.21%) Senior Developer
8 178 (7.73%) Senior Software Engineer
9 177 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
10 151 (6.56%) Full-Stack Developer
10 151 (6.56%) Senior Java Developer
11 126 (5.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 122 (5.30%) Software Developer
13 121 (5.26%) Senior Java Engineer
14 111 (4.82%) Lead Software Engineer
15 98 (4.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 84 (3.65%) Architect
17 68 (2.95%) Senior Java Software Engineer
18 65 (2.82%) Consultant
19 63 (2.74%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 510 (22.15%) Spring
2 432 (18.77%) Spring Boot
3 284 (12.34%) React
4 229 (9.95%) AngularJS
5 226 (9.82%) REST
6 210 (9.12%) Node.js
7 208 (9.04%) Kafka
8 159 (6.91%) RESTful
9 143 (6.21%) .NET
10 87 (3.78%) Web Services
11 75 (3.26%) CSS
12 72 (3.13%) HTML
12 72 (3.13%) Vue
13 62 (2.69%) GraphQL
14 59 (2.56%) SOAP
15 52 (2.26%) JSON
16 50 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
17 46 (2.00%) Hibernate
17 46 (2.00%) OAuth
18 45 (1.95%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 273 (11.86%) Cloud Native
2 169 (7.34%) Distributed Systems
3 145 (6.30%) Product Ownership
4 98 (4.26%) Public Cloud
5 54 (2.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 49 (2.13%) Fixed Income
7 47 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
8 42 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
9 39 (1.69%) Data Structures
10 37 (1.61%) Distributed Architecture
10 37 (1.61%) Onboarding
11 35 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
12 33 (1.43%) e-Learning
13 32 (1.39%) Blog
13 32 (1.39%) Mobile App
13 32 (1.39%) Virtual Team
14 30 (1.30%) Equities
15 22 (0.96%) Algorithms
16 20 (0.87%) Social Media
17 18 (0.78%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 212 (9.21%) Linux
2 52 (2.26%) Windows
3 49 (2.13%) Unix
4 44 (1.91%) Android
5 15 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.43%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.22%) CentOS
8 5 (0.22%) Debian
8 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.17%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 798 (34.67%) Software Engineering
2 794 (34.49%) Agile
3 709 (30.80%) CI/CD
4 541 (23.50%) DevOps
5 499 (21.68%) Microservices
6 457 (19.85%) Full-Stack Development
7 452 (19.64%) Test Automation
8 400 (17.38%) Mentoring
9 352 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
10 272 (11.82%) Containerisation
11 261 (11.34%) AI
12 237 (10.30%) Continuous Improvement
13 235 (10.21%) TDD
14 228 (9.90%) Infrastructure as Code
15 216 (9.38%) Technical Leadership
16 211 (9.17%) Roadmaps
17 204 (8.86%) Scrum
18 198 (8.60%) Computer Science
19 179 (7.78%) SDLC
20 162 (7.04%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 697 (30.28%) Python
2 433 (18.81%) SQL
3 412 (17.90%) JavaScript
4 256 (11.12%) TypeScript
5 234 (10.17%) C#
6 211 (9.17%) C++
7 156 (6.78%) Go
8 115 (5.00%) Bash
9 103 (4.47%) Kotlin
10 62 (2.69%) C
11 61 (2.65%) Groovy
12 56 (2.43%) Scala
13 54 (2.35%) Rust
14 45 (1.95%) PHP
15 32 (1.39%) PowerShell
16 31 (1.35%) PL/SQL
17 25 (1.09%) Perl
18 16 (0.70%) Apex Code
18 16 (0.70%) Ruby
18 16 (0.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 383 (16.64%) Security Cleared
2 246 (10.69%) Degree
3 237 (10.30%) SC Cleared
4 135 (5.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 128 (5.56%) DV Cleared
6 95 (4.13%) AWS Certification
7 41 (1.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 27 (1.17%) Master's Degree
9 26 (1.13%) ITIL Certification
10 24 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 20 (0.87%) OSCP
12 17 (0.74%) ISTQB
13 16 (0.70%) DBS Check
14 15 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
15 14 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
16 12 (0.52%) CREST Certified
17 11 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
17 11 (0.48%) PhD
18 10 (0.43%) Azure Certification
19 9 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (6.65%) QA
2 62 (2.69%) Accessibility
3 40 (1.74%) Data Quality
4 19 (0.83%) WCAG
5 18 (0.78%) GDPR
6 14 (0.61%) GRC
7 12 (0.52%) SOC 2
8 11 (0.48%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.30%) ISO 20022
9 7 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.22%) NIST
11 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 4 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.087%) Good Clinical Practice
13 2 (0.087%) Software Quality Assurance
14 1 (0.043%) GxP
14 1 (0.043%) MiFID
System Software
1 361 (15.68%) Docker
2 17 (0.74%) Active Directory
2 17 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.48%) vSphere
4 8 (0.35%) Squid
4 8 (0.35%) VMware NSX
5 7 (0.30%) Firmware
6 5 (0.22%) KVM
7 4 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.087%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.087%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 426 (18.51%) Kubernetes
2 269 (11.69%) Terraform
3 106 (4.60%) Grafana
4 102 (4.43%) Ansible
5 44 (1.91%) Prometheus
6 40 (1.74%) Argo
7 33 (1.43%) HP Fortify
8 29 (1.26%) Kibana
9 14 (0.61%) Packer
9 14 (0.61%) Puppet
10 12 (0.52%) Kustomize
10 12 (0.52%) Rancher
11 11 (0.48%) logstash
12 8 (0.35%) ZABBIX
13 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (0.26%) yum
15 5 (0.22%) FTK
16 3 (0.13%) AWS Copilot
16 3 (0.13%) Data Guard
16 3 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 89 (3.87%) Oracle
2 84 (3.65%) Microsoft
3 69 (3.00%) Google
4 49 (2.13%) Splunk
5 37 (1.61%) IBM
6 25 (1.09%) Salesforce
7 24 (1.04%) Palantir
8 22 (0.96%) Dynatrace
8 22 (0.96%) Red Hat
8 22 (0.96%) VMware
9 20 (0.87%) SAP
10 19 (0.83%) Foundry
11 18 (0.78%) AppDynamics
11 18 (0.78%) ServiceNow
12 15 (0.65%) MuleSoft
13 14 (0.61%) Adobe
14 13 (0.56%) SendGrid
15 11 (0.48%) Solace
16 9 (0.39%) Atlassian
16 9 (0.39%) Veracode