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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 32 23
Rank change year-on-year -31 -9 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,786 3,284 3,772
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.87% 5.45% 8.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.81% 16.91% 19.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,132 2,002 2,986
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £75,554
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +5.89% +0.74%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £97,875
90th Percentile £136,250 £142,500 £130,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +3.45%

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 10,622 19,422 18,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 23.02% 32.26% 41.02%
Number of salaries quoted 7,875 11,556 15,630
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,789 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £111,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 -9 1,047 £105,000 +5.00% 852
North of England -12 271 £65,000 +8.33% 199
South East -77 177 £62,500 -1.19% 242
North West -15 139 £67,500 +12.50% 137
Midlands +32 119 £62,500 +38.89% 67
South West -43 117 £65,000 - 136
Yorkshire +24 107 £65,000 +12.14% 42
West Midlands +28 90 £62,500 +16.41% 49
East of England -73 44 £42,500 -37.04% 61
East Midlands +9 29 £58,000 +65.71% 18
North East -4 27 £55,000 -24.14% 21
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 96 (5.38%) Apache
1 96 (5.38%) Apache Airflow
2 57 (3.19%) Apache Spark
3 43 (2.41%) Confluence
4 15 (0.84%) JBoss
5 8 (0.45%) IIS
6 6 (0.34%) Mule
6 6 (0.34%) nginx
6 6 (0.34%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.34%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.28%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
7 5 (0.28%) Camunda
7 5 (0.28%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
8 4 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.22%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.22%) Traefik
9 3 (0.17%) Luigi
Applications
1 6 (0.34%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.17%) Simulink
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.056%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.056%) Trello
6 1 (0.056%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
1 8 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.34%) Adaptiv
2 6 (0.34%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.34%) Shopify
3 5 (0.28%) Maximo
3 5 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.11%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.056%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.056%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.056%) Summit
5 1 (0.056%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 878 (49.16%) AWS
2 349 (19.54%) Azure
3 230 (12.88%) GCP
4 146 (8.17%) Serverless
5 101 (5.66%) Amazon EKS
6 96 (5.38%) GitHub
7 94 (5.26%) SaaS
8 84 (4.70%) AWS Lambda
9 83 (4.65%) dbt
10 78 (4.37%) Amazon EC2
11 77 (4.31%) Snowflake
12 69 (3.86%) Amazon ECS
13 68 (3.81%) Amazon S3
14 47 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 42 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
16 41 (2.30%) OpenShift
17 31 (1.74%) Datadog
18 28 (1.57%) Amazon SQS
19 24 (1.34%) Amazon Kinesis
20 22 (1.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 35 (1.96%) TCP/IP
2 23 (1.29%) HTTP
3 21 (1.18%) DNS
4 19 (1.06%) Firewall
5 17 (0.95%) SSH
6 15 (0.84%) FTP
6 15 (0.84%) SMTP
7 12 (0.67%) VPN
8 10 (0.56%) AMQP
8 10 (0.56%) Multicast
9 9 (0.50%) Internet
10 7 (0.39%) SAN
11 5 (0.28%) DHCP
12 4 (0.22%) Broadband
12 4 (0.22%) ICMP
12 4 (0.22%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (0.22%) SSL
13 3 (0.17%) LAN
13 3 (0.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (9.80%) PostgreSQL
2 163 (9.13%) Relational Database
3 119 (6.66%) NoSQL
4 96 (5.38%) SQL Server
5 93 (5.21%) Data Lake
6 91 (5.10%) MongoDB
7 77 (4.31%) MySQL
8 73 (4.09%) Apache Iceberg
9 72 (4.03%) Amazon Athena
10 69 (3.86%) Apache Arrow
10 69 (3.86%) Dremio
11 64 (3.58%) Apache Ignite
12 60 (3.36%) Big Data
13 59 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
14 56 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
15 44 (2.46%) DynamoDB
15 44 (2.46%) RDBMS
16 40 (2.24%) Hadoop
17 32 (1.79%) BigQuery
18 27 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 176 (9.85%) Jenkins
2 151 (8.45%) Git
3 100 (5.60%) Selenium
4 98 (5.49%) JIRA
5 83 (4.65%) JUnit
6 74 (4.14%) GitLab
7 57 (3.19%) Cucumber
8 43 (2.41%) Mockito
9 40 (2.24%) JMeter
9 40 (2.24%) Postman
10 39 (2.18%) Cypress.io
11 35 (1.96%) Maven
12 32 (1.79%) TeamCity
13 29 (1.62%) Bitbucket
13 29 (1.62%) WebDriver
14 26 (1.46%) SoapUI
15 24 (1.34%) SonarQube
16 19 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
17 16 (0.90%) REST Assured
17 16 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 747 (41.83%) Finance
2 501 (28.05%) Social Skills
3 400 (22.40%) Banking
4 294 (16.46%) Law
5 265 (14.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 189 (10.58%) Front Office
7 171 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
8 154 (8.62%) Investment Banking
9 123 (6.89%) Public Sector
10 106 (5.94%) Financial Institution
11 86 (4.82%) Marketing
12 50 (2.80%) Retail
13 37 (2.07%) Legal
14 34 (1.90%) Back Office
15 32 (1.79%) Games
16 23 (1.29%) Manufacturing
17 22 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
18 20 (1.12%) Telecoms
19 19 (1.06%) Billing
20 16 (0.90%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 587 (32.87%) Developer
2 547 (30.63%) Software Engineer
3 428 (23.96%) Senior
4 305 (17.08%) Java Engineer
5 292 (16.35%) Lead
6 280 (15.68%) Java Developer
7 227 (12.71%) Java Software Engineer
8 172 (9.63%) Senior Software Engineer
9 146 (8.17%) Lead Software Engineer
10 126 (7.05%) Senior Java Engineer
11 122 (6.83%) AWS Engineer
12 110 (6.16%) Python Engineer
13 104 (5.82%) Python Software Engineer
14 102 (5.71%) Architect
15 97 (5.43%) Senior Developer
16 96 (5.38%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 95 (5.32%) Full-Stack Developer
18 86 (4.82%) AWS Software Engineer
19 64 (3.58%) Data Engineer
20 62 (3.47%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 389 (21.78%) Spring
2 328 (18.37%) React
3 302 (16.91%) Spring Boot
4 284 (15.90%) Kafka
5 186 (10.41%) RESTful
6 169 (9.46%) REST
7 166 (9.29%) .NET
8 153 (8.57%) Node.js
9 123 (6.89%) HTML
10 119 (6.66%) AngularJS
11 105 (5.88%) CSS
12 88 (4.93%) Hibernate
13 87 (4.87%) Pandas
14 75 (4.20%) Web Services
15 73 (4.09%) gRPC
16 70 (3.92%) NumPy
17 69 (3.86%) SciPy
17 69 (3.86%) SOAP
18 66 (3.70%) Protocol Buffers
19 58 (3.25%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 339 (18.98%) Cloud Native
2 204 (11.42%) Distributed Systems
3 130 (7.28%) Equities
4 122 (6.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 121 (6.77%) Fixed Income
6 112 (6.27%) Derivative
7 93 (5.21%) Algorithms
8 78 (4.37%) Hedge funds
9 67 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
10 65 (3.64%) Public Cloud
11 63 (3.53%) Pricing Data
12 61 (3.42%) Onboarding
13 59 (3.30%) Product Ownership
14 56 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
15 44 (2.46%) Management Information System
16 39 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
17 38 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
18 37 (2.07%) Data Structures
19 36 (2.02%) Mobile App
20 34 (1.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 198 (11.09%) Linux
2 41 (2.30%) Windows
3 28 (1.57%) Unix
4 26 (1.46%) Android
5 15 (0.84%) VMS
6 14 (0.78%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.73%) Amazon Linux
8 7 (0.39%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.17%) CentOS
11 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.11%) Debian
12 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.056%) AIX
13 1 (0.056%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.056%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.056%) SUSE
13 1 (0.056%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 848 (47.48%) Agile
2 713 (39.92%) Software Engineering
3 594 (33.26%) CI/CD
4 431 (24.13%) Microservices
5 384 (21.50%) Problem-Solving
6 370 (20.72%) DevOps
7 276 (15.45%) SDLC
8 274 (15.34%) Computer Science
9 266 (14.89%) Test Automation
10 261 (14.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 253 (14.17%) Full-Stack Development
12 246 (13.77%) Mentoring
13 202 (11.31%) AI
14 188 (10.53%) Fintech
15 186 (10.41%) TDD
16 181 (10.13%) Containerisation
17 170 (9.52%) Scrum
18 163 (9.13%) Machine Learning
19 136 (7.61%) Analytics
19 136 (7.61%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 753 (42.16%) Python
2 427 (23.91%) JavaScript
3 397 (22.23%) SQL
4 312 (17.47%) TypeScript
5 257 (14.39%) C#
6 180 (10.08%) C++
7 150 (8.40%) Go
8 132 (7.39%) Kotlin
9 93 (5.21%) C
10 78 (4.37%) Scala
11 54 (3.02%) PHP
12 43 (2.41%) PowerShell
13 42 (2.35%) Shell Script
14 37 (2.07%) Groovy
15 36 (2.02%) PL/SQL
16 33 (1.85%) Bash
17 29 (1.62%) Rust
18 25 (1.40%) Perl
19 23 (1.29%) Ruby
20 19 (1.06%) R
Qualifications
1 305 (17.08%) Degree
2 224 (12.54%) Security Cleared
3 149 (8.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 142 (7.95%) SC Cleared
5 87 (4.87%) AWS Certification
6 73 (4.09%) Master's Degree
7 68 (3.81%) DV Cleared
8 46 (2.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 37 (2.07%) Azure Certification
10 32 (1.79%) PhD
11 24 (1.34%) ISTQB
12 19 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
13 18 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
14 17 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (0.90%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 10 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
17 9 (0.50%) HND
17 9 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
17 9 (0.50%) PMI Certification
17 9 (0.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (5.60%) QA
2 46 (2.58%) Accessibility
3 31 (1.74%) GDPR
4 18 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (0.73%) Data Quality
5 13 (0.73%) PCI DSS
6 10 (0.56%) ISO 9001
6 10 (0.56%) NIST
7 9 (0.50%) HIPAA
8 8 (0.45%) SLA
9 6 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.28%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.22%) EU AI Act
11 4 (0.22%) SEPA
11 4 (0.22%) WCAG
12 3 (0.17%) NCSC
13 2 (0.11%) ECSS
13 2 (0.11%) MISRA
System Software
1 301 (16.85%) Docker
2 27 (1.51%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
5 11 (0.62%) HDFS
6 5 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.22%) DFS Replication
7 4 (0.22%) vSphere
8 3 (0.17%) Firmware
9 2 (0.11%) Apache Flume
9 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.11%) Squid
9 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.056%) KVM
10 1 (0.056%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 459 (25.70%) Kubernetes
2 145 (8.12%) Terraform
3 75 (4.20%) Grafana
4 48 (2.69%) Ansible
5 42 (2.35%) Kibana
6 41 (2.30%) Prometheus
7 22 (1.23%) Argo
8 13 (0.73%) Progress Chef
9 12 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.45%) Control-M
11 7 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
12 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.28%) logstash
14 4 (0.22%) HAProxy
14 4 (0.22%) Nagios
14 4 (0.22%) Puppet
15 3 (0.17%) Kustomize
16 2 (0.11%) Mesos
16 2 (0.11%) Oozie
16 2 (0.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 136 (7.61%) Oracle
2 92 (5.15%) Microsoft
3 83 (4.65%) Google
4 39 (2.18%) Guidewire
4 39 (2.18%) Splunk
5 33 (1.85%) Atlassian
5 33 (1.85%) Databricks
6 29 (1.62%) SAP
7 27 (1.51%) Dynatrace
8 22 (1.23%) MuleSoft
9 18 (1.01%) ServiceNow
10 17 (0.95%) Informatica
11 16 (0.90%) IBM
12 15 (0.84%) Foundry
13 14 (0.78%) Palantir
14 13 (0.73%) Dell
14 13 (0.73%) Solace
14 13 (0.73%) Talend
15 12 (0.67%) Red Hat
16 11 (0.62%) Salesforce