Java Job Trends in Leicester

Java
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicester requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 39 43
Rank change year-on-year +14 +4 -30
Permanent jobs citing Java 6 2 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicester 2.25% 0.69% 1.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.29% 1.71% 3.36%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £52,940 - -
25th Percentile £53,750 £67,500 £92,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -26.32% +52.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £71,250 - -
Leicestershire median annual salary £56,350 £70,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -19.50% +15.70% +10.00%

All Programming Languages
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 42 117 149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 15.73% 40.48% 54.58%
Number of salaries quoted 36 78 134
10th Percentile £38,625 £35,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,438 £41,563 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £56,250 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% +5.14% +7.00%
75th Percentile £64,063 £60,938 £65,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £67,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +11.57%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Java relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Leicester.

Java job vacancy trend in Leicester

Java
Salary Trend in Leicester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in Leicester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Leicester over the 6 months to 28 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Java in Leicester

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Selenium
2 4 (66.67%) Katalon Studio
3 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (33.33%) Cucumber
4 2 (33.33%) GitLab
4 2 (33.33%) JUnit
5 1 (16.67%) Appium
5 1 (16.67%) Git
5 1 (16.67%) JMeter
5 1 (16.67%) REST Assured
5 1 (16.67%) TestNG
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Senior
2 4 (66.67%) Quality Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) Senior Quality Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Java Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) QA Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) QA Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Django
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (16.67%) Flask
1 1 (16.67%) pytest
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) SOAP
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) Agile
4 3 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 3 (50.00%) Scrum
4 3 (50.00%) SDLC
4 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (33.33%) Agile Testing
5 2 (33.33%) BDD
5 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
5 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (33.33%) Defect Management
5 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (16.67%) API Development
6 1 (16.67%) Microservices
6 1 (16.67%) QA Automation
6 1 (16.67%) Secure Coding
6 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Groovy
2 2 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Delphi
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle