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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 30 36
Rank change year-on-year -26 +6 -15
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,469 2,949 3,827
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.63% 6.75% 5.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.79% 23.23% 17.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,586 1,356 2,645
10th Percentile £42,500 £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% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £135,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +3.23%

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 16,690 12,697 21,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.77% 29.07% 29.66%
Number of salaries quoted 12,155 8,459 15,920
10th Percentile £38,000 £34,000 £36,494
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,939
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.56% -6.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,031
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 12 August 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 12 August 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 1,074 £85,000 -19.05% 2,270
North of England -26 687 £67,500 +0.69% 351
North West -36 306 £70,000 - 206
South West -14 267 £60,000 - 174
Yorkshire +46 219 £75,000 +13.21% 82
South East -56 214 £67,500 +3.85% 196
North East +9 162 £55,000 +18.92% 65
Midlands -59 149 £67,500 +12.50% 133
West Midlands -42 127 £67,500 +11.57% 96
East of England -73 57 £51,359 +16.73% 82
East Midlands -79 21 £60,000 +26.32% 37
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 63 (2.55%) Confluence
2 53 (2.15%) Apache
3 43 (1.74%) Apache Spark
4 30 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.73%) Camunda
6 15 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
7 14 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.36%) JBoss
9 8 (0.32%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
10 7 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.24%) CICS
11 6 (0.24%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.20%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.16%) CMS
13 4 (0.16%) GeoServer
13 4 (0.16%) SAS
13 4 (0.16%) SharePoint
14 3 (0.12%) Documentum
14 3 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 19 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.65%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.16%) Moqups
5 2 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.081%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.081%) PTC Creo
5 2 (0.081%) Simulink
5 2 (0.081%) Windchill
6 1 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.041%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.28%) Maximo
3 5 (0.20%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.20%) Temenos T24
4 4 (0.16%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.12%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.081%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.081%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 1 (0.041%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.041%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.041%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.041%) Endur
7 1 (0.041%) Findur
7 1 (0.041%) Infor SunSystems
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.041%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.041%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,029 (41.68%) AWS
2 520 (21.06%) Azure
3 303 (12.27%) GCP
4 196 (7.94%) Serverless
5 159 (6.44%) AWS CloudFormation
6 140 (5.67%) GitHub
7 125 (5.06%) AWS Lambda
8 116 (4.70%) Amazon ECS
9 111 (4.50%) Amazon S3
10 97 (3.93%) SaaS
11 85 (3.44%) Amazon EKS
12 82 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
13 73 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
14 63 (2.55%) AWS Step Functions
15 39 (1.58%) Amazon ECR
15 39 (1.58%) OpenShift
16 38 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 35 (1.42%) Azure Service Bus
17 35 (1.42%) Datadog
18 34 (1.38%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.46%) HTTP
2 31 (1.26%) Broadband
3 20 (0.81%) TCP/IP
4 17 (0.69%) Network Security
5 13 (0.53%) DMARC
6 9 (0.36%) MQTT
7 8 (0.32%) DNS
7 8 (0.32%) IPv4
7 8 (0.32%) Software-Defined Networking
7 8 (0.32%) VPN
8 6 (0.24%) BGP
8 6 (0.24%) IPsec
8 6 (0.24%) Kerberos
9 5 (0.20%) AMQP
9 5 (0.20%) Firewall
9 5 (0.20%) Internet
10 4 (0.16%) Ethernet
11 3 (0.12%) Intrusion Detection
11 3 (0.12%) RIP
11 3 (0.12%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (6.76%) PostgreSQL
2 166 (6.72%) NoSQL
3 123 (4.98%) MongoDB
3 123 (4.98%) Relational Database
4 83 (3.36%) MySQL
5 82 (3.32%) DynamoDB
6 79 (3.20%) SQL Server
7 38 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
8 37 (1.50%) Big Data
9 30 (1.22%) Redis
10 27 (1.09%) Db2
11 24 (0.97%) BigQuery
11 24 (0.97%) Hadoop
12 23 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
13 22 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
14 16 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
14 16 (0.65%) Metadata
14 16 (0.65%) RDBMS
15 15 (0.61%) Data Lake
16 14 (0.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 267 (10.81%) Git
2 200 (8.10%) Jenkins
3 175 (7.09%) GitLab
4 96 (3.89%) JIRA
5 90 (3.65%) JUnit
6 89 (3.60%) Cucumber
7 76 (3.08%) Selenium
8 75 (3.04%) Maven
9 62 (2.51%) Cypress.io
10 48 (1.94%) SonarQube
11 44 (1.78%) Postman
12 41 (1.66%) TeamCity
13 40 (1.62%) JMeter
14 39 (1.58%) Eclipse
15 38 (1.54%) Mockito
16 35 (1.42%) Bitbucket
17 33 (1.34%) Subversion
18 25 (1.01%) Claude Code
19 23 (0.93%) REST Assured
20 19 (0.77%) Gradle
General
1 670 (27.14%) Finance
2 419 (16.97%) Social Skills
3 246 (9.96%) Public Sector
4 222 (8.99%) Banking
5 179 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
6 128 (5.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 100 (4.05%) Front Office
8 94 (3.81%) Law
9 67 (2.71%) Retail
10 61 (2.47%) Financial Institution
11 40 (1.62%) Investment Banking
12 36 (1.46%) Marketing
13 32 (1.30%) Health Technology
14 30 (1.22%) Legal
15 29 (1.17%) Manufacturing
16 28 (1.13%) Back Office
17 21 (0.85%) Games
18 20 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
19 19 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
19 19 (0.77%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 844 (34.18%) Developer
2 633 (25.64%) Senior
3 565 (22.88%) Software Engineer
4 550 (22.28%) Java Developer
5 424 (17.17%) Java Engineer
6 353 (14.30%) Lead
7 213 (8.63%) Senior Developer
8 195 (7.90%) Senior Software Engineer
9 152 (6.16%) Java Software Engineer
10 147 (5.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 137 (5.55%) Full-Stack Developer
12 136 (5.51%) Senior Java Developer
13 135 (5.47%) Senior Java Engineer
14 121 (4.90%) Lead Software Engineer
15 119 (4.82%) Software Developer
16 87 (3.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 81 (3.28%) Principal Engineer
18 79 (3.20%) Architect
19 73 (2.96%) DevOps Engineer
20 72 (2.92%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 576 (23.33%) Spring
2 477 (19.32%) Spring Boot
3 280 (11.34%) React
4 273 (11.06%) Kafka
5 238 (9.64%) REST
6 233 (9.44%) AngularJS
7 222 (8.99%) Node.js
8 195 (7.90%) RESTful
9 171 (6.93%) .NET
10 86 (3.48%) Web Services
11 78 (3.16%) CSS
12 70 (2.84%) HTML
13 64 (2.59%) Vue
14 63 (2.55%) GraphQL
15 57 (2.31%) OAuth
16 51 (2.07%) Hibernate
16 51 (2.07%) Playwright
16 51 (2.07%) RabbitMQ
17 46 (1.86%) JSON
18 45 (1.82%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 313 (12.68%) Cloud Native
2 239 (9.68%) Distributed Systems
3 162 (6.56%) Product Ownership
4 114 (4.62%) Public Cloud
5 74 (3.00%) Onboarding
6 59 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
7 58 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
8 54 (2.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 49 (1.98%) Fixed Income
10 44 (1.78%) Data Structures
10 44 (1.78%) Distributed Architecture
11 40 (1.62%) Virtual Team
12 38 (1.54%) e-Learning
13 36 (1.46%) Mobile App
14 35 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
15 34 (1.38%) Algorithms
16 33 (1.34%) Equities
17 27 (1.09%) AI Agents
18 21 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
18 21 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 229 (9.28%) Linux
2 71 (2.88%) Windows
3 43 (1.74%) Unix
4 42 (1.70%) Android
5 19 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 17 (0.69%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.69%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.20%) CentOS
8 4 (0.16%) Debian
8 4 (0.16%) Kali Linux
8 4 (0.16%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.081%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.081%) VMS
11 1 (0.041%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 874 (35.40%) Software Engineering
2 830 (33.62%) Agile
3 810 (32.81%) CI/CD
4 593 (24.02%) Microservices
5 585 (23.69%) DevOps
6 493 (19.97%) Test Automation
7 460 (18.63%) Full-Stack Development
8 433 (17.54%) Mentoring
9 418 (16.93%) Problem-Solving
10 372 (15.07%) AI
11 320 (12.96%) Containerisation
12 298 (12.07%) Infrastructure as Code
13 290 (11.75%) Continuous Improvement
14 248 (10.04%) TDD
15 244 (9.88%) Roadmaps
15 244 (9.88%) Technical Leadership
16 229 (9.28%) Computer Science
17 221 (8.95%) Scrum
18 220 (8.91%) Event-Driven
19 213 (8.63%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 816 (33.05%) Python
2 465 (18.83%) SQL
3 433 (17.54%) JavaScript
4 269 (10.90%) C#
5 262 (10.61%) TypeScript
6 244 (9.88%) C++
7 143 (5.79%) Go
8 114 (4.62%) Kotlin
9 113 (4.58%) Bash
10 76 (3.08%) Scala
11 74 (3.00%) C
12 61 (2.47%) PHP
13 57 (2.31%) Rust
14 56 (2.27%) Groovy
15 45 (1.82%) Perl
16 40 (1.62%) PowerShell
17 37 (1.50%) Ruby
18 33 (1.34%) PL/SQL
19 20 (0.81%) Shell Script
20 13 (0.53%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 448 (18.14%) Security Cleared
2 280 (11.34%) Degree
3 251 (10.17%) SC Cleared
4 160 (6.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 156 (6.32%) DV Cleared
6 99 (4.01%) AWS Certification
7 59 (2.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 26 (1.05%) Master's Degree
9 19 (0.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 19 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
10 18 (0.73%) ISTQB
10 18 (0.73%) OSCP
11 13 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
12 12 (0.49%) DBS Check
13 10 (0.41%) CREST Certified
14 8 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
14 8 (0.32%) Azure Certification
14 8 (0.32%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (6.56%) QA
2 80 (3.24%) Accessibility
3 59 (2.39%) Data Quality
4 28 (1.13%) WCAG
5 21 (0.85%) GDPR
6 15 (0.61%) NIST
7 14 (0.57%) GRC
8 13 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.36%) ISO 20022
10 7 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.24%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 14443
12 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 4 (0.16%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.12%) MiFID
13 3 (0.12%) PSD2
13 3 (0.12%) UCITS
14 2 (0.081%) Good Clinical Practice
14 2 (0.081%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 407 (16.48%) Docker
2 26 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (0.89%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.49%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.45%) vSphere
6 8 (0.32%) Squid
6 8 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.28%) Firmware
8 6 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.20%) KVM
10 4 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
11 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.081%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 455 (18.43%) Kubernetes
2 280 (11.34%) Terraform
3 117 (4.74%) Ansible
4 86 (3.48%) Grafana
5 34 (1.38%) Prometheus
6 28 (1.13%) Kibana
7 27 (1.09%) Argo
8 25 (1.01%) HP Fortify
9 21 (0.85%) Puppet
10 13 (0.53%) Packer
11 10 (0.41%) logstash
11 10 (0.41%) Rancher
12 8 (0.32%) ZABBIX
13 6 (0.24%) Hadoop YARN
13 6 (0.24%) Kubeflow
13 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
14 5 (0.20%) Red Hat Satellite
14 5 (0.20%) yum
15 4 (0.16%) Control-M
15 4 (0.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 107 (4.33%) Oracle
2 104 (4.21%) Microsoft
3 80 (3.24%) Google
4 61 (2.47%) Splunk
5 44 (1.78%) IBM
6 34 (1.38%) Red Hat
6 34 (1.38%) SAP
7 30 (1.22%) VMware
8 26 (1.05%) AppDynamics
9 24 (0.97%) Adobe
9 24 (0.97%) Dynatrace
9 24 (0.97%) Palantir
10 21 (0.85%) Salesforce
10 21 (0.85%) ServiceNow
11 19 (0.77%) Foundry
11 19 (0.77%) OpenAI
12 16 (0.65%) Databricks
13 13 (0.53%) MuleSoft
13 13 (0.53%) SendGrid
14 12 (0.49%) Bloomberg