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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 30 31
Rank change year-on-year -27 +1 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,603 2,783 3,812
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.54% 6.46% 5.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.40% 23.64% 17.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,657 1,204 2,423
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,050
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% +0.46%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +5.89%

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 16,898 11,774 21,217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.49% 27.33% 30.76%
Number of salaries quoted 12,298 7,785 13,530
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
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 20 September 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 20 September 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 1,092 £82,500 -22.35% 2,322
North of England -25 729 £69,305 +6.62% 443
North West -34 349 £70,000 - 269
South West +1 302 £65,000 +8.33% 235
South East -52 230 £67,500 +3.85% 216
Yorkshire +25 196 £75,000 +13.21% 108
Midlands -57 185 £69,305 +15.51% 179
North East +13 184 £55,000 +15.79% 66
West Midlands -37 157 £69,655 +16.09% 131
East of England -78 50 £60,000 +33.33% 88
East Midlands -84 28 £60,000 +4.35% 48
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 61 (2.34%) Confluence
2 56 (2.15%) Apache
3 38 (1.46%) Apache Spark
4 24 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (0.65%) Camunda
6 15 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 12 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
8 10 (0.38%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
9 8 (0.31%) Tomcat
10 7 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.23%) CMS
11 6 (0.23%) JBoss
12 5 (0.19%) CICS
12 5 (0.19%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.15%) SAS
13 4 (0.15%) SharePoint
13 4 (0.15%) WebLogic
13 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.12%) Documentum
Applications
1 21 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.58%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.31%) Simulink
4 6 (0.23%) Moqups
5 5 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.15%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.12%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.077%) PTC Creo
8 2 (0.077%) Windchill
9 1 (0.038%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.038%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.19%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.19%) Temenos T24
3 4 (0.15%) Maximo
3 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.077%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.077%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.077%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 1 (0.038%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.038%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.038%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.038%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.038%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.038%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.038%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.038%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,061 (40.76%) AWS
2 531 (20.40%) Azure
3 299 (11.49%) GCP
4 211 (8.11%) Serverless
5 166 (6.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 165 (6.34%) GitHub
7 146 (5.61%) AWS Lambda
8 116 (4.46%) Amazon S3
9 114 (4.38%) Amazon ECS
10 103 (3.96%) SaaS
11 102 (3.92%) Amazon EKS
12 93 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
13 84 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
14 65 (2.50%) AWS Step Functions
15 50 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
16 45 (1.73%) Datadog
17 41 (1.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 40 (1.54%) OpenShift
19 37 (1.42%) Azure Service Bus
20 35 (1.34%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 42 (1.61%) HTTP
2 16 (0.61%) Network Security
3 14 (0.54%) DMARC
3 14 (0.54%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.35%) DNS
4 9 (0.35%) IPv4
4 9 (0.35%) MQTT
4 9 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
5 8 (0.31%) AMQP
5 8 (0.31%) VPN
5 8 (0.31%) Wireshark
6 7 (0.27%) BGP
7 6 (0.23%) IPsec
8 5 (0.19%) Broadband
8 5 (0.19%) Ethernet
8 5 (0.19%) Firewall
8 5 (0.19%) Internet
8 5 (0.19%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.15%) RIP
10 3 (0.12%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (6.38%) NoSQL
2 165 (6.34%) PostgreSQL
3 130 (4.99%) MongoDB
4 125 (4.80%) Relational Database
5 79 (3.03%) DynamoDB
6 73 (2.80%) MySQL
7 69 (2.65%) SQL Server
8 48 (1.84%) Big Data
9 42 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
10 29 (1.11%) Redis
11 26 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
12 25 (0.96%) Hadoop
13 24 (0.92%) Power BI
14 23 (0.88%) Data Lake
14 23 (0.88%) Db2
15 22 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
16 19 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
16 19 (0.73%) BigQuery
17 17 (0.65%) Spark SQL
18 15 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 289 (11.10%) Git
2 212 (8.14%) Jenkins
3 201 (7.72%) GitLab
4 100 (3.84%) JIRA
4 100 (3.84%) JUnit
5 95 (3.65%) Cucumber
6 77 (2.96%) Maven
7 67 (2.57%) Selenium
8 59 (2.27%) Cypress.io
9 53 (2.04%) TeamCity
10 47 (1.81%) Postman
10 47 (1.81%) SonarQube
11 46 (1.77%) Eclipse
12 40 (1.54%) Mockito
13 39 (1.50%) Subversion
14 35 (1.34%) Bitbucket
14 35 (1.34%) JMeter
15 22 (0.85%) Claude Code
16 20 (0.77%) REST Assured
17 18 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 673 (25.85%) Finance
2 455 (17.48%) Social Skills
3 274 (10.53%) Banking
4 250 (9.60%) Public Sector
5 188 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
6 133 (5.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 111 (4.26%) Law
8 88 (3.38%) Retail
9 71 (2.73%) Financial Institution
10 69 (2.65%) Front Office
11 39 (1.50%) Legal
11 39 (1.50%) Manufacturing
12 36 (1.38%) Back Office
12 36 (1.38%) Marketing
13 35 (1.34%) Investment Banking
14 30 (1.15%) Health Technology
15 23 (0.88%) Aerospace
16 22 (0.85%) Publishing
17 21 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
17 21 (0.81%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 805 (30.93%) Developer
2 666 (25.59%) Senior
3 587 (22.55%) Software Engineer
4 520 (19.98%) Java Developer
4 520 (19.98%) Java Engineer
5 360 (13.83%) Lead
6 222 (8.53%) Senior Developer
7 195 (7.49%) Senior Software Engineer
8 177 (6.80%) Senior Java Engineer
9 173 (6.65%) Java Software Engineer
10 162 (6.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 141 (5.42%) Senior Java Developer
12 131 (5.03%) Full-Stack Developer
13 127 (4.88%) Software Developer
14 109 (4.19%) Lead Software Engineer
15 92 (3.53%) Principal Engineer
16 85 (3.27%) DevOps Engineer
17 83 (3.19%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 82 (3.15%) Architect
19 76 (2.92%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 616 (23.67%) Spring
2 510 (19.59%) Spring Boot
3 307 (11.79%) Terraform
4 276 (10.60%) Kafka
4 276 (10.60%) React
5 260 (9.99%) REST
6 225 (8.64%) AngularJS
7 202 (7.76%) Node.js
8 191 (7.34%) RESTful
9 170 (6.53%) .NET
10 81 (3.11%) Web Services
11 68 (2.61%) HTML
12 67 (2.57%) CSS
13 58 (2.23%) OAuth
13 58 (2.23%) Vue
14 57 (2.19%) RabbitMQ
15 54 (2.07%) Hibernate
16 47 (1.81%) Playwright
17 45 (1.73%) JSON
18 43 (1.65%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 343 (13.18%) Cloud Native
2 267 (10.26%) Distributed Systems
3 173 (6.65%) Product Ownership
4 130 (4.99%) Public Cloud
5 75 (2.88%) Onboarding
6 65 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
7 57 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
8 47 (1.81%) e-Learning
9 46 (1.77%) Distributed Architecture
10 44 (1.69%) Data Structures
11 42 (1.61%) Algorithms
12 41 (1.58%) Virtual Team
13 40 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 33 (1.27%) Blog
14 33 (1.27%) Mobile App
15 31 (1.19%) AI Agents
15 31 (1.19%) Equities
16 26 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
17 25 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
18 24 (0.92%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 219 (8.41%) Linux
2 67 (2.57%) Windows
3 38 (1.46%) Unix
4 37 (1.42%) Android
5 25 (0.96%) Apple iOS
6 22 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (0.58%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.31%) CentOS
9 7 (0.27%) Debian
9 7 (0.27%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.15%) Kali Linux
10 4 (0.15%) VMS
11 3 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.077%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.038%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 952 (36.57%) Software Engineering
2 872 (33.50%) CI/CD
3 801 (30.77%) Agile
4 626 (24.05%) Microservices
5 592 (22.74%) DevOps
6 504 (19.36%) Full-Stack Development
7 497 (19.09%) Test Automation
8 466 (17.90%) Mentoring
9 447 (17.17%) Problem-Solving
10 399 (15.33%) AI
11 331 (12.72%) Containerisation
12 317 (12.18%) Infrastructure as Code
13 307 (11.79%) Continuous Improvement
14 286 (10.99%) Event-Driven
15 252 (9.68%) Technical Leadership
16 246 (9.45%) Roadmaps
17 244 (9.37%) Computer Science
18 229 (8.80%) SDLC
18 229 (8.80%) TDD
19 228 (8.76%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 819 (31.46%) Python
2 482 (18.52%) SQL
3 441 (16.94%) JavaScript
4 270 (10.37%) C++
5 269 (10.33%) C#
6 261 (10.03%) TypeScript
7 133 (5.11%) Go
8 115 (4.42%) Bash
9 107 (4.11%) Kotlin
10 78 (3.00%) C
11 76 (2.92%) Scala
12 57 (2.19%) Rust
13 52 (2.00%) Groovy
14 51 (1.96%) PHP
15 50 (1.92%) Perl
16 36 (1.38%) PowerShell
17 35 (1.34%) Ruby
18 30 (1.15%) PL/SQL
19 22 (0.85%) Shell Script
20 17 (0.65%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 491 (18.86%) Security Cleared
2 285 (10.95%) Degree
3 267 (10.26%) SC Cleared
4 168 (6.45%) DV Cleared
5 165 (6.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 104 (4.00%) AWS Certification
7 66 (2.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 31 (1.19%) Master's Degree
9 24 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (0.73%) ISTQB
10 19 (0.73%) OSCP
11 17 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
12 16 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 15 (0.58%) DBS Check
14 14 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
16 12 (0.46%) PhD
17 10 (0.38%) CREST Certified
18 8 (0.31%) CISSP
18 8 (0.31%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (6.53%) QA
2 82 (3.15%) Data Quality
3 80 (3.07%) Accessibility
4 27 (1.04%) WCAG
5 26 (1.00%) GDPR
6 17 (0.65%) ISO 20022
7 15 (0.58%) NIST
8 11 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 10 (0.38%) GRC
10 7 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.23%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 14443
12 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 4 (0.15%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.12%) MiFID
13 3 (0.12%) MIL-STD-1553
13 3 (0.12%) PSD2
13 3 (0.12%) UCITS
14 2 (0.077%) Good Clinical Practice
14 2 (0.077%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 433 (16.63%) Docker
2 26 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (0.73%) Active Directory
4 13 (0.50%) Firmware
5 12 (0.46%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.42%) Embedded Firmware
6 11 (0.42%) vSphere
7 8 (0.31%) Squid
7 8 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.19%) KVM
11 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.077%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 495 (19.02%) Kubernetes
2 141 (5.42%) Ansible
3 96 (3.69%) Grafana
4 33 (1.27%) Argo
4 33 (1.27%) Prometheus
5 29 (1.11%) Kibana
6 27 (1.04%) Puppet
7 21 (0.81%) HP Fortify
8 14 (0.54%) Packer
9 13 (0.50%) Rancher
10 12 (0.46%) logstash
11 8 (0.31%) ZABBIX
12 7 (0.27%) yum
13 6 (0.23%) Hadoop YARN
13 6 (0.23%) Kubeflow
14 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
14 5 (0.19%) Red Hat Satellite
15 4 (0.15%) Control-M
15 4 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 116 (4.46%) Oracle
2 110 (4.23%) Microsoft
3 83 (3.19%) Google
4 62 (2.38%) Splunk
5 45 (1.73%) Red Hat
6 44 (1.69%) IBM
7 32 (1.23%) SAP
8 30 (1.15%) AppDynamics
8 30 (1.15%) VMware
9 26 (1.00%) Adobe
10 25 (0.96%) Dynatrace
11 22 (0.85%) OpenAI
12 21 (0.81%) Palantir
13 18 (0.69%) Databricks
14 17 (0.65%) ServiceNow
15 14 (0.54%) Foundry
15 14 (0.54%) Salesforce
15 14 (0.54%) SendGrid
16 12 (0.46%) Bloomberg
16 12 (0.46%) Solace