Java SE Jobs in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Java SE skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java SE over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 652 840 924
Rank change year-on-year +188 +84 -186
Permanent jobs citing Java SE 3 3 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.006% 0.004% 0.006%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.039% 0.017% 0.022%
Number of salaries quoted 0 3 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £76,250 £26,224
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £77,500 £26,650
Median % change year-on-year - +190.81% -63.24%
75th Percentile - £78,750 £48,956
90th Percentile - - £76,875
UK median annual salary - £77,500 £26,650
% change year-on-year - +190.81% -63.24%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Java SE falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,609 17,400 27,678
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.41% 20.41% 29.95%
Number of salaries quoted 5,810 14,127 17,148
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,638 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,253 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £89,776
90th Percentile £112,500 £100,064 £107,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.00%

Java SE
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Java SE in England

Java SE
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Java SE in England

Java SE
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java SE within the England region over the 6 months to 3 May 2025. 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 East - 3 - - 1
Java SE
UK

Java SE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Gatling
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) JUnit
1 3 (100.00%) Mockito
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Applications Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Kafka
1 3 (100.00%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (100.00%) Digital Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes