Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE, JSE)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 886 969 705
Rank change year-on-year +83 -264 +33
Permanent jobs citing Java SE 3 9 583
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.009% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.014% 0.028% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 3 9 28
10th Percentile - - £46,938
25th Percentile £76,250 £26,224 £55,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £52,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +47.62% -27.59% +38.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £56,250 £82,500
90th Percentile - £66,500 £94,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £26,650 £65,000
% change year-on-year +190.81% -59.00% +26.21%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 20,983 32,058 61,781
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.47% 30.33% 40.13%
Number of salaries quoted 15,729 19,642 30,449
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,227 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

Java SE
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Java SE in the UK

Java SE
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Java SE in the UK

Java SE
Top 4 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 23 April 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
England +109 3 £77,500 +95.83%
Work from Home +77 3 £77,500 +190.81% 3
UK excluding London -1 3 £77,500 +190.81%
South West -10 3 £77,500 +47.62%

Java SE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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