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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 33 31
Rank change year-on-year -22 -2 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,689 2,683 3,732
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.59% 6.20% 5.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.15% 23.33% 17.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,689 1,133 2,312
10th Percentile £43,100 £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% +3.23%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +6.67%

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 16,649 11,502 20,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.02% 26.56% 31.25%
Number of salaries quoted 12,100 7,544 12,629
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £111,050
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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -13 1,099 £82,500 -21.43% 2,158
North of England -23 768 £69,310 +6.63% 502
North West -33 395 £72,000 +2.86% 284
South West +3 335 £65,250 +2.35% 229
South East -45 225 £67,500 +3.85% 282
Midlands -51 195 £69,308 +13.16% 193
North East +20 192 £55,000 +7.32% 94
Yorkshire +14 181 £75,000 +15.38% 125
West Midlands -23 167 £70,000 +12.00% 134
East of England -80 44 £62,500 +47.06% 105
East Midlands -84 28 £60,000 +3.45% 59
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 60 (2.23%) Confluence
2 54 (2.01%) Apache
3 36 (1.34%) Apache Spark
4 27 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.67%) Camunda
6 17 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 12 (0.45%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
8 8 (0.30%) Tomcat
8 8 (0.30%) WebLogic
9 7 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.22%) CICS
10 6 (0.22%) CMS
11 5 (0.19%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.19%) JBoss
11 5 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.15%) SAS
12 4 (0.15%) SharePoint
12 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.56%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.33%) Simulink
4 7 (0.26%) Moqups
5 5 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (0.11%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.074%) PTC Creo
8 2 (0.074%) Windchill
9 1 (0.037%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.037%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.19%) Distributed Ledger
2 5 (0.19%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.11%) Maximo
5 2 (0.074%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.074%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 2 (0.074%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.037%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.037%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.037%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.037%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.037%) Quorum
6 1 (0.037%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.037%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.037%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,060 (39.42%) AWS
2 534 (19.86%) Azure
3 304 (11.31%) GCP
4 195 (7.25%) Serverless
5 176 (6.55%) GitHub
6 151 (5.62%) AWS CloudFormation
7 128 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
8 105 (3.90%) Amazon S3
9 104 (3.87%) SaaS
10 101 (3.76%) GitHub Actions
11 100 (3.72%) Amazon ECS
11 100 (3.72%) Amazon EKS
12 88 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
13 54 (2.01%) AWS Step Functions
14 49 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
15 40 (1.49%) Anthropic Claude
15 40 (1.49%) Datadog
16 39 (1.45%) OpenShift
17 38 (1.41%) Azure Service Bus
17 38 (1.41%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 37 (1.38%) HTTP
2 20 (0.74%) TCP/IP
3 17 (0.63%) Network Security
4 15 (0.56%) DMARC
5 13 (0.48%) VPN
6 12 (0.45%) BGP
7 9 (0.33%) DNS
7 9 (0.33%) IPv4
7 9 (0.33%) MQTT
7 9 (0.33%) Software-Defined Networking
7 9 (0.33%) Wireshark
8 8 (0.30%) AMQP
9 7 (0.26%) Firewall
10 6 (0.22%) IPsec
11 5 (0.19%) Broadband
11 5 (0.19%) Ethernet
11 5 (0.19%) Internet
12 4 (0.15%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.15%) RIP
13 3 (0.11%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (6.47%) PostgreSQL
2 163 (6.06%) NoSQL
3 130 (4.83%) MongoDB
4 128 (4.76%) Relational Database
5 73 (2.71%) MySQL
6 64 (2.38%) DynamoDB
7 60 (2.23%) SQL Server
8 49 (1.82%) Big Data
9 34 (1.26%) Amazon Athena
10 28 (1.04%) Redis
11 27 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
12 26 (0.97%) Power BI
13 24 (0.89%) Data Lake
13 24 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
13 24 (0.89%) Hadoop
14 22 (0.82%) Db2
15 21 (0.78%) BigQuery
15 21 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
16 17 (0.63%) Spark SQL
17 15 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 282 (10.49%) Git
2 207 (7.70%) Jenkins
3 201 (7.47%) GitLab
4 105 (3.90%) JUnit
5 89 (3.31%) JIRA
6 87 (3.24%) Cucumber
7 69 (2.57%) Maven
8 65 (2.42%) TeamCity
9 60 (2.23%) Selenium
10 53 (1.97%) Cypress.io
11 46 (1.71%) Eclipse
12 44 (1.64%) Postman
13 43 (1.60%) Mockito
14 41 (1.52%) Subversion
15 35 (1.30%) Bitbucket
15 35 (1.30%) SonarQube
16 33 (1.23%) JMeter
17 27 (1.00%) Claude Code
18 19 (0.71%) REST Assured
19 17 (0.63%) Gradle
General
1 672 (24.99%) Finance
2 467 (17.37%) Social Skills
3 285 (10.60%) Banking
4 256 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 182 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
6 142 (5.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 122 (4.54%) Law
8 100 (3.72%) Retail
9 77 (2.86%) Financial Institution
10 69 (2.57%) Front Office
11 41 (1.52%) Legal
12 39 (1.45%) Back Office
12 39 (1.45%) Manufacturing
13 36 (1.34%) Marketing
14 35 (1.30%) Health Technology
15 33 (1.23%) Investment Banking
16 28 (1.04%) Publishing
17 23 (0.86%) Tech for Good
18 22 (0.82%) Aerospace
19 21 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 795 (29.56%) Developer
2 710 (26.40%) Senior
3 623 (23.17%) Software Engineer
4 582 (21.64%) Java Engineer
5 508 (18.89%) Java Developer
6 371 (13.80%) Lead
7 221 (8.22%) Senior Developer
8 208 (7.74%) Senior Java Engineer
8 208 (7.74%) Senior Software Engineer
9 199 (7.40%) Java Software Engineer
10 175 (6.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 135 (5.02%) Senior Java Developer
12 127 (4.72%) Full-Stack Developer
13 117 (4.35%) Software Developer
14 104 (3.87%) Lead Software Engineer
15 97 (3.61%) Principal Engineer
16 86 (3.20%) DevOps Engineer
17 82 (3.05%) Architect
18 78 (2.90%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 76 (2.83%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 625 (23.24%) Spring
2 521 (19.38%) Spring Boot
3 308 (11.45%) Terraform
4 283 (10.52%) Kafka
5 267 (9.93%) React
6 252 (9.37%) REST
7 209 (7.77%) AngularJS
8 198 (7.36%) Node.js
9 194 (7.21%) RESTful
10 170 (6.32%) .NET
11 70 (2.60%) Web Services
12 64 (2.38%) HTML
13 62 (2.31%) CSS
13 62 (2.31%) OAuth
14 58 (2.16%) Hibernate
15 52 (1.93%) Vue
16 50 (1.86%) RabbitMQ
17 42 (1.56%) XML
18 41 (1.52%) Middleware
19 40 (1.49%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 373 (13.87%) Cloud Native
2 267 (9.93%) Distributed Systems
3 162 (6.02%) Product Ownership
4 126 (4.69%) Public Cloud
5 75 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
5 75 (2.79%) Onboarding
6 60 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
7 48 (1.79%) e-Learning
8 46 (1.71%) Data Structures
9 43 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 42 (1.56%) Algorithms
10 42 (1.56%) Blog
11 40 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
12 36 (1.34%) Virtual Team
13 33 (1.23%) Mobile App
14 32 (1.19%) AI Agents
15 31 (1.15%) Equities
16 28 (1.04%) Fixed Income
17 27 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
17 27 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 216 (8.03%) Linux
2 66 (2.45%) Windows
3 40 (1.49%) Android
4 38 (1.41%) Unix
5 27 (1.00%) Apple iOS
6 21 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 14 (0.52%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.30%) CentOS
9 7 (0.26%) Debian
9 7 (0.26%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.15%) VMS
11 3 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.11%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.074%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.037%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,017 (37.82%) Software Engineering
2 904 (33.62%) CI/CD
3 806 (29.97%) Agile
4 653 (24.28%) Microservices
5 591 (21.98%) DevOps
6 543 (20.19%) Full-Stack Development
7 504 (18.74%) Test Automation
8 472 (17.55%) Mentoring
9 454 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
10 423 (15.73%) AI
11 352 (13.09%) Containerisation
12 324 (12.05%) Infrastructure as Code
13 322 (11.97%) Continuous Improvement
14 302 (11.23%) Event-Driven
15 253 (9.41%) Technical Leadership
16 245 (9.11%) Computer Science
17 239 (8.89%) SDLC
18 230 (8.55%) Scrum
19 229 (8.52%) Roadmaps
19 229 (8.52%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 820 (30.49%) Python
2 478 (17.78%) SQL
3 436 (16.21%) JavaScript
4 275 (10.23%) C++
5 263 (9.78%) TypeScript
6 261 (9.71%) C#
7 152 (5.65%) Go
8 112 (4.17%) Bash
9 106 (3.94%) Kotlin
10 77 (2.86%) Scala
11 75 (2.79%) C
12 58 (2.16%) Rust
13 48 (1.79%) PHP
14 46 (1.71%) Perl
15 40 (1.49%) Groovy
16 35 (1.30%) PowerShell
17 34 (1.26%) Ruby
18 30 (1.12%) PL/SQL
19 22 (0.82%) Shell Script
20 20 (0.74%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 489 (18.19%) Security Cleared
2 280 (10.41%) Degree
3 263 (9.78%) SC Cleared
4 168 (6.25%) DV Cleared
5 164 (6.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 104 (3.87%) AWS Certification
7 69 (2.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 31 (1.15%) Master's Degree
9 22 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (0.74%) ISTQB
11 19 (0.71%) OSCP
12 16 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (0.48%) DBS Check
13 13 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 12 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
14 12 (0.45%) PhD
15 11 (0.41%) Azure Certification
15 11 (0.41%) CISSP
16 9 (0.33%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (6.14%) QA
2 84 (3.12%) Data Quality
3 77 (2.86%) Accessibility
4 26 (0.97%) GDPR
4 26 (0.97%) WCAG
5 21 (0.78%) NIST
6 16 (0.60%) ISO 20022
6 16 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (0.48%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.33%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.22%) GRC
9 6 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 3 (0.11%) MiFID
11 3 (0.11%) MIL-STD-1553
11 3 (0.11%) PSD2
11 3 (0.11%) UCITS
12 2 (0.074%) Good Clinical Practice
12 2 (0.074%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 437 (16.25%) Docker
2 28 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (0.67%) Active Directory
4 15 (0.56%) VMware NSX
5 14 (0.52%) Firmware
6 13 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
7 11 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.41%) vSphere
8 8 (0.30%) Squid
8 8 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.19%) KVM
11 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.037%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 531 (19.75%) Kubernetes
2 136 (5.06%) Ansible
3 102 (3.79%) Grafana
4 39 (1.45%) Argo
5 37 (1.38%) Prometheus
6 31 (1.15%) Puppet
7 23 (0.86%) Kibana
8 14 (0.52%) HP Fortify
8 14 (0.52%) Rancher
9 12 (0.45%) Packer
10 10 (0.37%) logstash
11 8 (0.30%) yum
11 8 (0.30%) ZABBIX
12 7 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (0.26%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.22%) EnCase
13 6 (0.22%) FTK
13 6 (0.22%) Hadoop YARN
13 6 (0.22%) Kubeflow
14 5 (0.19%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 114 (4.24%) Oracle
2 110 (4.09%) Microsoft
3 96 (3.57%) Google
4 67 (2.49%) Splunk
5 45 (1.67%) Red Hat
6 33 (1.23%) IBM
7 31 (1.15%) SAP
7 31 (1.15%) VMware
8 28 (1.04%) Adobe
9 25 (0.93%) Dynatrace
10 22 (0.82%) OpenAI
11 21 (0.78%) AppDynamics
12 18 (0.67%) Databricks
13 17 (0.63%) Palantir
14 16 (0.60%) ServiceNow
15 15 (0.56%) SendGrid
16 14 (0.52%) Salesforce
17 12 (0.45%) Bloomberg
17 12 (0.45%) Foundry
17 12 (0.45%) Solace