Java Jobs in Belfast

Java
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Belfast 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 23 8
Rank change year-on-year +10 -15 +5
Permanent jobs citing Java 17 46 168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 8.90% 9.04% 22.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.87% 23.59% 34.78%
Number of salaries quoted 9 36 104
10th Percentile £48,500 £55,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £85,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +61.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £60,000 £100,000 £65,000
90th Percentile - £106,250 £70,000
County Antrim median annual salary £55,000 £85,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -35.29% +61.90% +3.96%

All Programming Languages
Belfast

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 Belfast.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 61 195 483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 31.94% 38.31% 64.83%
Number of salaries quoted 22 117 308
10th Percentile £47,750 £41,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +20.00% -0.50%
75th Percentile £94,375 £78,750 £63,500
90th Percentile £99,500 £98,500 £70,000
County Antrim median annual salary £64,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.17% +15.00% -

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Belfast

Java
Salary Trend in Belfast

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

Salary trend for Java in Belfast

Java
Salary Histogram in Belfast

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Belfast over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Java in Belfast

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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 7 (41.18%) Apache Spark
2 5 (29.41%) Apache
2 5 (29.41%) nginx
2 5 (29.41%) Tomcat
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 5 (29.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 5 (29.41%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (23.53%) Azure
4 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) Apache Hive
1 7 (41.18%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (35.29%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (29.41%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (29.41%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (29.41%) Big Data
3 5 (29.41%) Hadoop
4 4 (23.53%) MySQL
4 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
5 2 (11.76%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (11.76%) DB2
6 1 (5.88%) HBase
6 1 (5.88%) Impala
6 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (52.94%) Jenkins
2 6 (35.29%) Cucumber
2 6 (35.29%) Selenium
3 5 (29.41%) Bitbucket
3 5 (29.41%) JUnit
3 5 (29.41%) Maven
3 5 (29.41%) Mockito
3 5 (29.41%) Postman
3 5 (29.41%) SonarQube
3 5 (29.41%) TestNG
4 1 (5.88%) Git
4 1 (5.88%) JIRA
4 1 (5.88%) JMeter
4 1 (5.88%) Mocha
General
1 14 (82.35%) Finance
2 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
3 7 (41.18%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (29.41%) Manufacturing
4 5 (29.41%) Public Sector
5 2 (11.76%) Advertising
6 1 (5.88%) Banking
6 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
6 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (5.88%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Java Engineer
2 7 (41.18%) Developer
2 7 (41.18%) Java Developer
3 6 (35.29%) Apache Spark Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Automation Tester
5 1 (5.88%) Big Data Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (70.59%) Kafka
1 12 (70.59%) Spring
1 12 (70.59%) Spring Boot
2 5 (29.41%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (29.41%) Gherkin
2 5 (29.41%) Guice
2 5 (29.41%) JAX-RS
2 5 (29.41%) Mustache
2 5 (29.41%) OpenAPI
2 5 (29.41%) REST
2 5 (29.41%) RESTful
2 5 (29.41%) Swagger
2 5 (29.41%) WireMock
3 4 (23.53%) Hibernate
3 4 (23.53%) J2EE
3 4 (23.53%) Java EE
4 3 (17.65%) AngularJS
4 3 (17.65%) JSON
5 2 (11.76%) Middleware
5 2 (11.76%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Life Science
2 4 (23.53%) Product Ownership
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Unix
2 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Multithreading
2 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
2 9 (52.94%) OO
2 9 (52.94%) OOP
2 9 (52.94%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (35.29%) Test Automation
4 5 (29.41%) Auto-Scaling
4 5 (29.41%) BDD
4 5 (29.41%) Code Quality
4 5 (29.41%) Dependency Injection
4 5 (29.41%) Innovative Thinking
4 5 (29.41%) Low Latency
4 5 (29.41%) MVC
4 5 (29.41%) Unit Testing
5 4 (23.53%) Concurrent Programming
5 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (23.53%) Design Patterns
5 4 (23.53%) OOD
5 4 (23.53%) Trade Surveillance
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) SQL
2 4 (23.53%) PL/SQL
3 3 (17.65%) Shell Script
4 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
4 2 (11.76%) Python
5 1 (5.88%) Bash
5 1 (5.88%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 8 (47.06%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) Kubernetes
2 5 (29.41%) Ansible
2 5 (29.41%) Kustomize
2 5 (29.41%) Packer
2 5 (29.41%) Terraform
3 3 (17.65%) Control-M
3 3 (17.65%) Prometheus
4 2 (11.76%) Grafana
4 2 (11.76%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Oracle
1 5 (29.41%) Red Hat
2 4 (23.53%) Sybase
3 2 (11.76%) Dynatrace
3 2 (11.76%) Splunk
4 1 (5.88%) AppDynamics
4 1 (5.88%) BMC
4 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow