Java Jobs in England

Java
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 35 18
Rank change year-on-year -6 -17 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,648 4,529 9,471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.74% 5.32% 10.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.90% 16.42% 23.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,629 3,393 5,634
10th Percentile £41,000 £39,439 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,688 £52,500 £58,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £73,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -8.13% +10.34%
75th Percentile £112,500 £97,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £130,000 £130,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year - -9.68% +10.71%

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 14,014 27,586 40,225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 30.35% 32.43% 43.44%
Number of salaries quoted 10,292 22,498 25,811
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,088 £39,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Java in England

Java
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java in England.

Salary trend for Java in England

Java
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in England over the 6 months to 30 April 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 30 April 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 1,052 £105,000 +10.53% 1,108
North of England +25 790 £57,836 -10.33% 355
North West +22 639 £57,836 -7.46% 220
South East -23 330 £62,500 +4.17% 224
South West -3 215 £60,000 +4.35% 123
Midlands -19 147 £53,688 -2.39% 171
Yorkshire +40 113 £70,000 +6.93% 92
East of England +54 112 £51,500 -17.60% 85
West Midlands -20 99 £53,688 -6.63% 103
East Midlands +17 47 £45,000 -14.29% 66
North East +33 38 £56,500 -13.39% 44
Java
UK

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 226 (8.53%) Apache
2 220 (8.31%) Apache Airflow
3 111 (4.19%) Apache Spark
4 61 (2.30%) Confluence
5 30 (1.13%) Tomcat
6 24 (0.91%) Jupyter
7 19 (0.72%) CMS
8 18 (0.68%) WordPress
9 17 (0.64%) JBoss
10 15 (0.57%) nginx
10 15 (0.57%) SharePoint
11 12 (0.45%) Red Hat Fuse
12 10 (0.38%) Camunda
13 9 (0.34%) OpenStack
13 9 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 7 (0.26%) IIS
15 6 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 5 (0.19%) NetWeaver
17 4 (0.15%) GemFire
17 4 (0.15%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 24 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.15%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.11%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 3 (0.11%) Trello
6 2 (0.076%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.038%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 16 (0.60%) Shopify
2 10 (0.38%) Endur
3 5 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 5 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.11%) Orchestrade
5 3 (0.11%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.076%) Maximo
6 2 (0.076%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
6 2 (0.076%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.076%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.038%) iTrent
7 1 (0.038%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.038%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.038%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.038%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.038%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,049 (39.61%) AWS
2 604 (22.81%) Azure
3 323 (12.20%) GCP
4 246 (9.29%) Serverless
5 213 (8.04%) dbt
6 182 (6.87%) AWS Lambda
7 165 (6.23%) Amazon ECS
8 158 (5.97%) Amazon EKS
9 136 (5.14%) Snowflake
10 130 (4.91%) Amazon EC2
11 117 (4.42%) GitHub
12 103 (3.89%) AWS CloudFormation
13 98 (3.70%) OpenShift
14 91 (3.44%) Amazon S3
14 91 (3.44%) SaaS
15 57 (2.15%) Dagster
16 54 (2.04%) Power Platform
17 48 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
18 42 (1.59%) Amazon SQS
19 35 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 404 (15.26%) DNS
2 400 (15.11%) VPN
3 28 (1.06%) TCP/IP
4 27 (1.02%) Network Security
5 14 (0.53%) SSL
6 11 (0.42%) HTTP
7 9 (0.34%) Firewall
8 5 (0.19%) HTTPS
8 5 (0.19%) SAN
9 4 (0.15%) DMARC
9 4 (0.15%) Multicast
9 4 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (0.11%) Internet
10 3 (0.11%) LAN
10 3 (0.11%) WAN
11 2 (0.076%) FTP
11 2 (0.076%) RTP
11 2 (0.076%) SSH
11 2 (0.076%) Wireless
11 2 (0.076%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (8.53%) Amazon Athena
2 210 (7.93%) Apache Iceberg
3 209 (7.89%) Dremio
4 187 (7.06%) Apache Arrow
5 172 (6.50%) PostgreSQL
6 158 (5.97%) NoSQL
7 148 (5.59%) Apache Ignite
8 137 (5.17%) SQL Server
9 130 (4.91%) Relational Database
10 118 (4.46%) MySQL
11 111 (4.19%) Data Lake
12 104 (3.93%) Big Data
13 85 (3.21%) MongoDB
14 81 (3.06%) Elasticsearch
15 45 (1.70%) DynamoDB
16 39 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
16 39 (1.47%) RDBMS
17 36 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
18 35 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
18 35 (1.32%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 272 (10.27%) Git
2 214 (8.08%) Jenkins
3 134 (5.06%) JIRA
4 128 (4.83%) JUnit
5 100 (3.78%) Artifactory
6 92 (3.47%) GitLab
7 88 (3.32%) Maven
8 71 (2.68%) Mockito
9 60 (2.27%) IntelliJ
10 54 (2.04%) Cucumber
11 52 (1.96%) Selenium
12 49 (1.85%) Eclipse
13 48 (1.81%) SonarQube
14 44 (1.66%) Bitbucket
15 41 (1.55%) Gradle
16 36 (1.36%) JMeter
17 28 (1.06%) Postman
18 25 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
19 23 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
19 23 (0.87%) Jasmine
General
1 1,228 (46.37%) Finance
2 611 (23.07%) Analytical Skills
3 553 (20.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 514 (19.41%) Social Skills
5 475 (17.94%) Banking
6 310 (11.71%) Front Office
7 171 (6.46%) Investment Banking
8 136 (5.14%) Public Sector
9 102 (3.85%) Law
10 63 (2.38%) Financial Institution
11 49 (1.85%) Retail
12 44 (1.66%) Games
13 38 (1.44%) Aerospace
14 37 (1.40%) Marketing
15 29 (1.10%) Electronics
16 28 (1.06%) Manufacturing
17 27 (1.02%) Legal
18 26 (0.98%) Retail Banking
19 24 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
20 23 (0.87%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,081 (40.82%) Developer
2 585 (22.09%) Software Engineer
3 554 (20.92%) Software Developer
4 512 (19.34%) Senior
5 346 (13.07%) Lead
6 305 (11.52%) Java Engineer
7 304 (11.48%) Java Developer
8 224 (8.46%) AWS Engineer
9 208 (7.85%) Senior Software Engineer
10 183 (6.91%) Java Software Engineer
11 171 (6.46%) Python Engineer
12 165 (6.23%) Data Engineer
13 136 (5.14%) Senior Java Engineer
14 121 (4.57%) DevOps Engineer
15 118 (4.46%) AWS Software Engineer
16 114 (4.31%) Senior Developer
17 108 (4.08%) AWS DevOps
18 89 (3.36%) Architect
19 88 (3.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
20 79 (2.98%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 372 (14.05%) Spring
2 365 (13.78%) React
3 326 (12.31%) Spring Boot
4 311 (11.74%) Kafka
5 226 (8.53%) .NET
6 218 (8.23%) Node.js
7 205 (7.74%) AngularJS
8 177 (6.68%) PySpark
9 175 (6.61%) RESTful
10 166 (6.27%) REST
11 161 (6.08%) Pandas
12 134 (5.06%) HTML
13 125 (4.72%) CSS
14 113 (4.27%) J2EE
15 110 (4.15%) NumPy
16 108 (4.08%) SciPy
17 98 (3.70%) Web Services
18 96 (3.63%) Hibernate
19 90 (3.40%) gRPC
20 73 (2.76%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 469 (17.71%) Cyberattack
2 170 (6.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 156 (5.89%) Fixed Income
4 154 (5.82%) Equities
5 141 (5.32%) Derivative
6 139 (5.25%) Algorithms
7 123 (4.65%) Hedge funds
8 122 (4.61%) Cloud Native
9 121 (4.57%) Management Information System
10 114 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
11 96 (3.63%) Product Ownership
12 56 (2.11%) Data Structures
12 56 (2.11%) Mobile App
13 53 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
14 51 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
15 47 (1.77%) Public Cloud
16 41 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
17 39 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
17 39 (1.47%) Pricing Data
18 35 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 675 (25.49%) Linux
2 513 (19.37%) Android
3 74 (2.79%) Windows
4 55 (2.08%) Unix
5 54 (2.04%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.34%) AIX
6 9 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.26%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.23%) Rocky
9 5 (0.19%) VMS
10 4 (0.15%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.11%) Solaris
12 2 (0.076%) zOS
13 1 (0.038%) CentOS
13 1 (0.038%) Debian
13 1 (0.038%) Fedora
13 1 (0.038%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,552 (58.61%) Agile
2 1,084 (40.94%) Software Engineering
3 651 (24.58%) OO
4 646 (24.40%) CI/CD
5 578 (21.83%) Mathematics
6 570 (21.53%) Design Patterns
7 568 (21.45%) DevOps
8 557 (21.03%) OOP
9 521 (19.68%) Microservices
10 512 (19.34%) Line Management
11 489 (18.47%) Android Development
12 465 (17.56%) Problem-Solving
13 378 (14.27%) Computer Science
14 365 (13.78%) Mentoring
15 358 (13.52%) Containerisation
16 314 (11.86%) SDLC
17 303 (11.44%) Test Automation
18 279 (10.54%) TDD
19 248 (9.37%) Full-Stack Development
20 237 (8.95%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 1,373 (51.85%) Python
2 664 (25.08%) C++
3 616 (23.26%) Go
4 552 (20.85%) JavaScript
5 487 (18.39%) SQL
6 404 (15.26%) C#
7 237 (8.95%) TypeScript
8 148 (5.59%) Rust
9 103 (3.89%) C
10 82 (3.10%) Kotlin
11 77 (2.91%) PHP
12 71 (2.68%) Scala
13 41 (1.55%) Bash
14 38 (1.44%) Shell Script
15 37 (1.40%) PowerShell
16 35 (1.32%) Objective-C
17 32 (1.21%) Ada
18 29 (1.10%) Swift
19 24 (0.91%) Ruby
20 21 (0.79%) R
Qualifications
1 687 (25.94%) Security Cleared
2 551 (20.81%) Degree
3 507 (19.15%) DV Cleared
4 204 (7.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 128 (4.83%) SC Cleared
6 95 (3.59%) Master's Degree
7 57 (2.15%) AWS Certification
8 41 (1.55%) PhD
9 37 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 37 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 23 (0.87%) HND
11 18 (0.68%) ISTQB
12 11 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
13 10 (0.38%) OCP
14 9 (0.34%) Azure Certification
15 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
16 5 (0.19%) CISSP
17 4 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
17 4 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
18 3 (0.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (5.06%) QA
2 40 (1.51%) GDPR
3 33 (1.25%) Accessibility
4 26 (0.98%) HIPAA
5 18 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (0.64%) NIST
6 17 (0.64%) SLA
7 14 (0.53%) Data Quality
8 7 (0.26%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.15%) Def Stans
9 4 (0.15%) IEC 61508
10 3 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.076%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.076%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.038%) IFRS
12 1 (0.038%) IFRS 9
12 1 (0.038%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.038%) ISO 15022
12 1 (0.038%) SEPA
System Software
1 1,024 (38.67%) Docker
2 28 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (0.53%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.23%) Firmware
4 6 (0.23%) HDFS
5 5 (0.19%) Apache Flume
6 4 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.076%) KVM
8 2 (0.076%) NFS
8 2 (0.076%) Postfix
8 2 (0.076%) SRDF
8 2 (0.076%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 2 (0.076%) Xen
9 1 (0.038%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.038%) Squid
9 1 (0.038%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.038%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 658 (24.85%) Kubernetes
2 532 (20.09%) Ansible
3 327 (12.35%) Terraform
4 67 (2.53%) Prometheus
5 59 (2.23%) Grafana
6 29 (1.10%) Kibana
7 22 (0.83%) Argo
8 18 (0.68%) Istio
9 14 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.34%) Puppet
11 8 (0.30%) Kustomize
12 7 (0.26%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.23%) Packer
14 5 (0.19%) Oozie
14 5 (0.19%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 4 (0.15%) Consul
15 4 (0.15%) HP Fortify
15 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
16 3 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
16 3 (0.11%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 173 (6.53%) Microsoft
2 169 (6.38%) Oracle
3 132 (4.98%) Google
4 99 (3.74%) IBM
5 49 (1.85%) Databricks
6 39 (1.47%) Red Hat
7 29 (1.10%) Splunk
8 27 (1.02%) SAP
9 22 (0.83%) Dynatrace
10 21 (0.79%) New Relic
11 20 (0.76%) Informatica
11 20 (0.76%) ServiceNow
12 17 (0.64%) Atlassian
12 17 (0.64%) Salesforce
13 15 (0.57%) MuleSoft
13 15 (0.57%) Solace
14 14 (0.53%) WooCommerce
15 11 (0.42%) Cisco
16 10 (0.38%) Cloudera
16 10 (0.38%) OpenLink