Java SE Jobs in the UK excluding London

Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE, JSE)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Java SE skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Java SE over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 748 763 406
Rank change year-on-year +15 -357 +168
Permanent jobs citing Java SE 3 5 561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.004% 0.008% 0.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.021% 0.030% 2.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 22
10th Percentile - - £42,750
25th Percentile £76,250 £26,224 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £26,650 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +190.81% -59.00% +26.21%
75th Percentile £78,750 £27,075 £74,688
90th Percentile - £44,580 £75,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £26,650 £72,500
% change year-on-year +190.81% -63.24% +38.10%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

Java SE is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 14,335 16,876 23,186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 20.36% 27.45% 32.64%
Number of salaries quoted 10,288 9,334 14,603
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,356 £34,380
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%

Java SE
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Java SE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Java SE in the UK excluding London

Java SE
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java SE in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Java SE in the UK excluding London

Java SE
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 SE within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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
South West -20 3 £77,500 +47.62%
Java SE
UK

Java SE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) JUnit
1 3 (100.00%) Maven
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (100.00%) JPA
1 3 (100.00%) Kafka
1 3 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 3 (100.00%) Playwright
1 3 (100.00%) REST
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (100.00%) Swagger
2 1 (33.33%) gRPC
2 1 (33.33%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 3 (100.00%) Coaching
1 3 (100.00%) Data Science
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Fintech
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes