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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 54 24
Rank change year-on-year -47 -30 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 826 1,550 2,542
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.95% 4.31% 7.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.51% 14.03% 20.32%
Number of salaries quoted 550 794 1,560
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £79,932 £70,576
% change year-on-year -6.17% +13.26% -3.98%

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 6,602 11,050 12,509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.57% 30.76% 36.25%
Number of salaries quoted 4,969 5,968 9,805
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 -8 282 £70,000 +16.67% 205
South East -60 180 £60,000 -14.29% 265
Yorkshire +26 153 £72,500 +26.38% 87
South West -25 133 £65,000 - 137
North West -14 118 £70,000 +16.67% 87
Midlands -18 93 £55,000 +18.92% 85
Scotland -33 90 £85,000 +30.77% 60
West Midlands +1 73 £51,844 -9.84% 41
East of England -82 31 £47,500 -17.39% 77
Wales -21 20 £75,000 +25.00% 33
East Midlands -31 20 £57,500 +64.29% 43
North East -23 13 £65,000 +4.00% 32
Northern Ireland -16 6 £95,000 +72.73% 11
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 (2.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 19 (2.30%) Apache
3 17 (2.06%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.45%) Confluence
4 12 (1.45%) IIS
4 12 (1.45%) OpenStack
5 7 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.73%) JBoss
7 4 (0.48%) Camunda
7 4 (0.48%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.36%) Mule
9 2 (0.24%) CMS
9 2 (0.24%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.24%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.12%) FileNet
10 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.12%) Smallworld
Applications
1 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.36%) Simulink
4 2 (0.24%) Windchill
5 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.12%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 37 (4.48%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.36%) Maximo
2 3 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.24%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.24%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 372 (45.04%) AWS
2 218 (26.39%) Azure
3 118 (14.29%) Serverless
4 72 (8.72%) GitHub
5 70 (8.47%) Amazon ECS
6 67 (8.11%) Amazon S3
7 61 (7.38%) AWS Lambda
8 57 (6.90%) GCP
9 50 (6.05%) SaaS
10 47 (5.69%) Azure DevOps
11 40 (4.84%) Amazon EKS
11 40 (4.84%) AWS CloudFormation
12 37 (4.48%) OCI
13 32 (3.87%) Amazon EC2
14 26 (3.15%) AWS Step Functions
15 25 (3.03%) Entra ID
15 25 (3.03%) OpenShift
16 23 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 22 (2.66%) Power Platform
18 20 (2.42%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.45%) HTTP
2 10 (1.21%) AMQP
3 9 (1.09%) Firewall
3 9 (1.09%) Internet
4 7 (0.85%) SSH
5 6 (0.73%) DNS
5 6 (0.73%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.61%) Bluetooth
6 5 (0.61%) FTP
6 5 (0.61%) SMTP
7 4 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (0.48%) Modbus
7 4 (0.48%) Network Security
7 4 (0.48%) VLAN
7 4 (0.48%) Wireshark
7 4 (0.48%) ZigBee
8 2 (0.24%) Broadband
8 2 (0.24%) SAN
9 1 (0.12%) Intranet
9 1 (0.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (8.84%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (6.78%) Relational Database
3 49 (5.93%) NoSQL
4 47 (5.69%) SQL Server
5 34 (4.12%) MySQL
6 32 (3.87%) DynamoDB
7 31 (3.75%) MongoDB
8 25 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
8 25 (3.03%) Tableau
9 20 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
10 19 (2.30%) Power BI
11 16 (1.94%) RDBMS
12 14 (1.69%) Big Data
13 13 (1.57%) Hadoop
14 11 (1.33%) OLTP
15 10 (1.21%) BigQuery
16 9 (1.09%) Neo4j
16 9 (1.09%) Oracle Database
17 7 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
17 7 (0.85%) GIS
Development Applications
1 157 (19.01%) Jenkins
2 100 (12.11%) Git
3 81 (9.81%) JIRA
4 72 (8.72%) Selenium
5 71 (8.60%) GitLab
6 56 (6.78%) JUnit
7 46 (5.57%) Postman
8 41 (4.96%) Cypress.io
9 40 (4.84%) SoapUI
10 39 (4.72%) Oracle Forms
11 37 (4.48%) Maven
11 37 (4.48%) WebDriver
12 35 (4.24%) Cucumber
13 33 (4.00%) SonarQube
13 33 (4.00%) Team Foundation Server
14 24 (2.91%) JMeter
14 24 (2.91%) Mockito
15 15 (1.82%) Bitbucket
16 13 (1.57%) REST Assured
17 11 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 203 (24.58%) Social Skills
2 193 (23.37%) Finance
3 69 (8.35%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 27 (3.27%) Law
6 23 (2.78%) Games
7 22 (2.66%) Aerospace
7 22 (2.66%) Manufacturing
8 21 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (2.18%) Retail
10 17 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
11 16 (1.94%) Marketing
12 13 (1.57%) Financial Institution
13 11 (1.33%) Banking
14 9 (1.09%) Health Technology
14 9 (1.09%) Legal
15 7 (0.85%) Aviation
15 7 (0.85%) Tech for Good
16 6 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 271 (32.81%) Developer
2 190 (23.00%) Senior
3 163 (19.73%) Java Developer
3 163 (19.73%) Software Engineer
4 97 (11.74%) Lead
5 74 (8.96%) Senior Developer
6 58 (7.02%) Java Engineer
7 57 (6.90%) Applications Engineer
8 52 (6.30%) Architect
9 51 (6.17%) Full-Stack Developer
10 49 (5.93%) Senior Java Developer
11 44 (5.33%) Cloud Engineer
12 38 (4.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 38 (4.60%) Senior Software Engineer
13 35 (4.24%) Software Developer
14 34 (4.12%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 30 (3.63%) Analyst
16 26 (3.15%) Graduate
17 23 (2.78%) Lead Software Engineer
17 23 (2.78%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (20.82%) Spring
2 170 (20.58%) Spring Boot
3 147 (17.80%) React
4 99 (11.99%) REST
5 95 (11.50%) .NET
6 89 (10.77%) RESTful
7 87 (10.53%) HTML
8 82 (9.93%) AngularJS
9 81 (9.81%) SOAP
10 57 (6.90%) Kafka
11 56 (6.78%) Node.js
12 53 (6.42%) JSON
13 49 (5.93%) CSS
14 45 (5.45%) Web Services
15 42 (5.08%) XML
16 39 (4.72%) Hibernate
17 30 (3.63%) jQuery
18 28 (3.39%) Elastic Stack
19 26 (3.15%) Gherkin
19 26 (3.15%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 93 (11.26%) Cloud Native
2 69 (8.35%) Enterprise Software
3 55 (6.66%) Distributed Systems
4 43 (5.21%) Self-Motivation
5 25 (3.03%) Product Ownership
6 19 (2.30%) IoT
7 15 (1.82%) Algorithms
8 13 (1.57%) Mobile App
9 10 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.21%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.09%) Private Cloud
11 8 (0.97%) Driving Licence
11 8 (0.97%) Onboarding
12 7 (0.85%) AI Agents
13 5 (0.61%) e-Learning
13 5 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (0.61%) NHS
14 4 (0.48%) 3D Graphics
14 4 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (0.48%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 87 (10.53%) Linux
2 15 (1.82%) Windows
3 14 (1.69%) Android
4 8 (0.97%) Unix
5 7 (0.85%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.61%) VMS
7 4 (0.48%) Kali Linux
8 3 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.36%) CentOS
8 3 (0.36%) Debian
8 3 (0.36%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.12%) SUSE
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (45.40%) Agile
2 280 (33.90%) CI/CD
3 247 (29.90%) Software Engineering
4 245 (29.66%) DevOps
5 183 (22.15%) Microservices
6 163 (19.73%) Mentoring
7 157 (19.01%) Full-Stack Development
7 157 (19.01%) Problem-Solving
8 131 (15.86%) Computer Science
9 127 (15.38%) Test Automation
10 111 (13.44%) Scrum
11 105 (12.71%) Continuous Improvement
12 95 (11.50%) AI
13 87 (10.53%) SDLC
14 85 (10.29%) TDD
15 78 (9.44%) Coaching
16 74 (8.96%) Containerisation
17 61 (7.38%) Software Testing
18 59 (7.14%) API Integration
18 59 (7.14%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 326 (39.47%) Python
2 251 (30.39%) SQL
3 221 (26.76%) JavaScript
4 139 (16.83%) C#
5 135 (16.34%) TypeScript
6 68 (8.23%) C++
6 68 (8.23%) PL/SQL
7 54 (6.54%) Shell Script
8 48 (5.81%) Bash
9 44 (5.33%) Go
10 43 (5.21%) C
11 37 (4.48%) PHP
12 33 (4.00%) Groovy
12 33 (4.00%) Kotlin
13 25 (3.03%) Scala
14 21 (2.54%) R
15 15 (1.82%) Perl
16 14 (1.69%) PowerShell
17 12 (1.45%) Ruby
18 8 (0.97%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 181 (21.91%) Degree
2 133 (16.10%) Security Cleared
3 92 (11.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 81 (9.81%) SC Cleared
5 49 (5.93%) AWS Certification
6 42 (5.08%) DV Cleared
7 35 (4.24%) ISTQB
8 32 (3.87%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 29 (3.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 29 (3.51%) Master's Degree
10 26 (3.15%) Azure Certification
11 25 (3.03%) TOGAF Certification
12 24 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
13 22 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.97%) HND
15 7 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 7 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
16 6 (0.73%) MBA
17 5 (0.61%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.61%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (8.96%) QA
2 22 (2.66%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.85%) NIST
4 6 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
4 6 (0.73%) NCSC
4 6 (0.73%) WCAG
5 5 (0.61%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.48%) GDPR
7 3 (0.36%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.24%) ECSS
8 2 (0.24%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.12%) MISRA
System Software
1 156 (18.89%) Docker
2 25 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.24%) Firmware
3 2 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.24%) vSphere
4 1 (0.12%) Squid
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 172 (20.82%) Kubernetes
2 94 (11.38%) Terraform
3 39 (4.72%) Single Sign-On
4 37 (4.48%) Ansible
5 33 (4.00%) Grafana
6 23 (2.78%) Kibana
7 20 (2.42%) HP Fortify
8 16 (1.94%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.85%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.61%) Argo
10 5 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (0.61%) Rancher
11 4 (0.48%) Nessus
11 4 (0.48%) Nmap
12 3 (0.36%) Control-M
12 3 (0.36%) Nagios
12 3 (0.36%) Puppet
12 3 (0.36%) yum
13 2 (0.24%) Kustomize
14 1 (0.12%) Istio
Vendors
1 107 (12.95%) Oracle
2 70 (8.47%) Microsoft
3 34 (4.12%) Google
4 25 (3.03%) Splunk
5 20 (2.42%) Okta
6 14 (1.69%) MuleSoft
7 13 (1.57%) Atlassian
7 13 (1.57%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.33%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.09%) Databricks
9 9 (1.09%) Siemens
10 8 (0.97%) Allen-Bradley
10 8 (0.97%) SAP
10 8 (0.97%) Toshiba
11 7 (0.85%) Red Hat
12 6 (0.73%) Adobe
12 6 (0.73%) IBM
13 5 (0.61%) BT
14 4 (0.48%) Informatica
14 4 (0.48%) VMware