Java Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Java
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 34 30
Rank change year-on-year -61 -4 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,138 1,653 4,415
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.79% 6.21% 6.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.90% 20.61% 20.30%
Number of salaries quoted 779 841 2,160
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,500 £91,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -9.68%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,560 8,022 21,753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.02% 30.15% 32.43%
Number of salaries quoted 6,447 5,821 16,401
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Java relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Java job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Java
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Java in the UK excluding London

Java
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 April 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
North of England -45 470 £69,310 +4.99% 173
Yorkshire +2 217 £72,500 +3.57% 50
South East -60 210 £67,500 +3.85% 136
North West -65 191 £70,000 +4.42% 80
South West -33 186 £65,000 +6.12% 94
Scotland -33 94 £61,250 +3.81% 51
Midlands -67 94 £54,344 +3.57% 63
West Midlands -38 77 £54,344 +1.22% 30
North East -15 62 £52,130 -7.73% 45
East of England -83 47 £50,000 -3.85% 40
Wales -12 39 £65,000 +40.83% 31
East Midlands -83 16 £49,000 +8.89% 32
Northern Ireland -45 12 £80,000 +45.45% 30
Java
UK

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 23 (2.02%) Apache
2 15 (1.32%) Apache Spark
3 14 (1.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 12 (1.05%) Confluence
5 11 (0.97%) JBoss
5 11 (0.97%) OpenStack
6 10 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.44%) IIS
7 5 (0.44%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.35%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.35%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.26%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.18%) CICS
10 2 (0.18%) WildFly
11 1 (0.088%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.088%) Appian
11 1 (0.088%) FileNet
11 1 (0.088%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.088%) PegaRULES
11 1 (0.088%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.18%) Windchill
4 1 (0.088%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.088%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.088%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (1.41%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.26%) SAP SD
3 2 (0.18%) Maximo
3 2 (0.18%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.088%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.088%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.088%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 451 (39.63%) AWS
2 242 (21.27%) Azure
3 155 (13.62%) Serverless
4 104 (9.14%) AWS Lambda
5 99 (8.70%) Amazon S3
6 96 (8.44%) Amazon ECS
7 88 (7.73%) AWS CloudFormation
8 71 (6.24%) GCP
9 70 (6.15%) SaaS
10 63 (5.54%) AWS Step Functions
11 56 (4.92%) GitHub
12 50 (4.39%) Amazon ECR
13 47 (4.13%) Apigee
14 43 (3.78%) dbt
15 40 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
15 40 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
16 37 (3.25%) PaaS
17 32 (2.81%) Amazon SQS
18 30 (2.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 26 (2.28%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.11%) Broadband
2 6 (0.53%) TCP/IP
3 5 (0.44%) AMQP
3 5 (0.44%) HTTP
3 5 (0.44%) Internet
4 2 (0.18%) Firewall
4 2 (0.18%) Network Security
5 1 (0.088%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.088%) Intranet
5 1 (0.088%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.088%) Modbus
5 1 (0.088%) PuTTY
5 1 (0.088%) SAN
5 1 (0.088%) TCAP
5 1 (0.088%) VLAN
5 1 (0.088%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.088%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (7.82%) NoSQL
1 89 (7.82%) PostgreSQL
2 75 (6.59%) DynamoDB
3 53 (4.66%) MySQL
4 51 (4.48%) SQL Server
5 49 (4.31%) Relational Database
6 44 (3.87%) MongoDB
7 35 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
8 22 (1.93%) Amazon Athena
9 16 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
9 16 (1.41%) Big Data
10 15 (1.32%) Tableau
11 14 (1.23%) Power BI
12 13 (1.14%) Hadoop
13 12 (1.05%) Neo4j
14 10 (0.88%) Redis
15 9 (0.79%) RDBMS
16 7 (0.62%) Data Mining
16 7 (0.62%) Oracle Database
16 7 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 142 (12.48%) Jenkins
2 118 (10.37%) Git
3 97 (8.52%) GitLab
4 67 (5.89%) JIRA
5 61 (5.36%) Cypress.io
6 60 (5.27%) Maven
7 59 (5.18%) SonarQube
8 56 (4.92%) Selenium
9 54 (4.75%) Cucumber
10 42 (3.69%) JUnit
11 40 (3.51%) Postman
12 31 (2.72%) JMeter
13 27 (2.37%) SoapUI
14 22 (1.93%) Team Foundation Server
15 19 (1.67%) REST Assured
15 19 (1.67%) WebDriver
16 17 (1.49%) Oracle Forms
17 16 (1.41%) Mockito
18 12 (1.05%) Gatling
19 11 (0.97%) Gradle
General
1 189 (16.61%) Social Skills
2 158 (13.88%) Finance
3 87 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (6.50%) Public Sector
5 45 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (2.02%) Games
7 22 (1.93%) Banking
8 21 (1.85%) Law
9 16 (1.41%) Aerospace
9 16 (1.41%) Health Technology
10 15 (1.32%) Retail
11 12 (1.05%) Manufacturing
11 12 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
12 11 (0.97%) Investment Banking
13 10 (0.88%) Aviation
13 10 (0.88%) Financial Institution
14 8 (0.70%) Advertising
14 8 (0.70%) Marketing
14 8 (0.70%) Tech for Good
15 7 (0.62%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 455 (39.98%) Developer
2 313 (27.50%) Java Developer
3 261 (22.93%) Senior
4 259 (22.76%) Software Engineer
5 167 (14.67%) Lead
6 127 (11.16%) Java Engineer
7 117 (10.28%) Senior Developer
8 84 (7.38%) Full-Stack Developer
8 84 (7.38%) Senior Java Developer
9 70 (6.15%) Software Developer
10 69 (6.06%) Java Software Engineer
11 67 (5.89%) Senior Software Engineer
12 49 (4.31%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 47 (4.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 42 (3.69%) Lead Software Engineer
15 38 (3.34%) Architect
16 37 (3.25%) Applications Engineer
17 36 (3.16%) Senior Java Engineer
18 35 (3.08%) Graduate
19 33 (2.90%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (19.24%) Spring
1 219 (19.24%) Spring Boot
2 160 (14.06%) React
3 149 (13.09%) AngularJS
4 118 (10.37%) REST
5 102 (8.96%) .NET
5 102 (8.96%) Node.js
6 74 (6.50%) RESTful
7 64 (5.62%) SOAP
8 62 (5.45%) HTML
9 51 (4.48%) Web Services
10 50 (4.39%) Gherkin
11 47 (4.13%) JSON
12 44 (3.87%) Kafka
13 43 (3.78%) CSS
14 41 (3.60%) Jest
15 39 (3.43%) Elastic Stack
16 35 (3.08%) Vue
17 34 (2.99%) XML
18 28 (2.46%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 79 (6.94%) Cloud Native
2 67 (5.89%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (4.04%) Enterprise Software
3 46 (4.04%) Product Ownership
4 34 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
5 31 (2.72%) Mobile App
6 18 (1.58%) Virtual Team
7 14 (1.23%) e-Learning
7 14 (1.23%) Social Media
8 13 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (1.05%) Management Information System
10 10 (0.88%) Algorithms
10 10 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
10 10 (0.88%) Data Structures
11 9 (0.79%) IoT
12 8 (0.70%) Driving Licence
12 8 (0.70%) NHS
12 8 (0.70%) Public Cloud
13 6 (0.53%) Legacy Code
13 6 (0.53%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 78 (6.85%) Linux
2 25 (2.20%) Android
3 16 (1.41%) Unix
4 11 (0.97%) Windows
5 6 (0.53%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.44%) CentOS
6 5 (0.44%) Debian
6 5 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.35%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.088%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.088%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 478 (42.00%) Agile
2 374 (32.86%) Software Engineering
3 330 (29.00%) CI/CD
4 288 (25.31%) DevOps
5 243 (21.35%) Full-Stack Development
6 197 (17.31%) Microservices
7 196 (17.22%) Test Automation
8 185 (16.26%) Problem-Solving
9 175 (15.38%) Mentoring
10 151 (13.27%) Scrum
11 130 (11.42%) Continuous Improvement
12 118 (10.37%) Computer Science
13 117 (10.28%) AI
14 110 (9.67%) Containerisation
15 108 (9.49%) SDLC
16 107 (9.40%) TDD
17 91 (8.00%) BDD
18 84 (7.38%) Clean Code
19 81 (7.12%) Infrastructure as Code
20 67 (5.89%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 369 (32.43%) Python
2 278 (24.43%) SQL
3 235 (20.65%) JavaScript
4 174 (15.29%) TypeScript
5 136 (11.95%) C#
6 74 (6.50%) C++
7 65 (5.71%) Bash
8 55 (4.83%) Kotlin
9 51 (4.48%) Groovy
10 47 (4.13%) PL/SQL
11 42 (3.69%) C
11 42 (3.69%) Go
12 34 (2.99%) PHP
13 22 (1.93%) Shell Script
14 15 (1.32%) Scala
15 13 (1.14%) R
16 11 (0.97%) Apex Code
17 6 (0.53%) Delphi
17 6 (0.53%) Ruby
17 6 (0.53%) Rust
Qualifications
1 182 (15.99%) Security Cleared
2 158 (13.88%) Degree
3 110 (9.67%) SC Cleared
4 83 (7.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 62 (5.45%) DV Cleared
6 53 (4.66%) AWS Certification
7 23 (2.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 23 (2.02%) ITIL Certification
8 21 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 19 (1.67%) ISTQB
10 18 (1.58%) Azure Certification
10 18 (1.58%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 18 (1.58%) TOGAF Certification
11 16 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
12 15 (1.32%) Master's Degree
13 14 (1.23%) DBS Check
14 13 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
15 11 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
16 6 (0.53%) MBA
17 3 (0.26%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (9.49%) QA
2 35 (3.08%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.41%) Data Quality
4 11 (0.97%) WCAG
5 5 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.18%) ECSS
6 2 (0.18%) GDPR
6 2 (0.18%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.088%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 191 (16.78%) Docker
2 8 (0.70%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.26%) Firmware
5 1 (0.088%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.088%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 176 (15.47%) Kubernetes
2 113 (9.93%) Terraform
3 43 (3.78%) HP Fortify
4 40 (3.51%) Ansible
5 35 (3.08%) Grafana
6 18 (1.58%) Kibana
7 16 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (1.32%) Argo
9 14 (1.23%) Prometheus
10 11 (0.97%) Rancher
11 7 (0.62%) logstash
11 7 (0.62%) Puppet
11 7 (0.62%) yum
12 6 (0.53%) Packer
13 5 (0.44%) FTK
14 4 (0.35%) AWS Copilot
15 3 (0.26%) Nagios
15 3 (0.26%) Progress Chef
16 2 (0.18%) Control-M
16 2 (0.18%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 80 (7.03%) Oracle
2 52 (4.57%) Microsoft
3 30 (2.64%) Google
4 19 (1.67%) Salesforce
5 15 (1.32%) MuleSoft
6 14 (1.23%) IBM
7 11 (0.97%) Splunk
8 10 (0.88%) SAP
9 9 (0.79%) AppDynamics
9 9 (0.79%) Databricks
10 8 (0.70%) Okta
11 7 (0.62%) Atlassian
11 7 (0.62%) Peregrine
12 6 (0.53%) Adobe
12 6 (0.53%) Dynatrace
12 6 (0.53%) Red Hat
13 5 (0.44%) BT
13 5 (0.44%) Cellebrite
13 5 (0.44%) Pega
13 5 (0.44%) SaltStack