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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 31 42
Rank change year-on-year -3 +11 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 3 2 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicester 0.91% 1.03% 1.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.00% 2.63% 3.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £52,535 - -
25th Percentile £52,738 £67,500 £92,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,350 £70,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.50% -26.32% +52.00%
75th Percentile £60,438 £72,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £60,925 - -
Leicestershire median annual salary £36,500 £70,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -47.86% -26.32% +90.00%

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 50 76 143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 15.15% 39.18% 49.31%
Number of salaries quoted 42 46 129
10th Percentile £35,125 £33,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £67,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £48,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +8.11%

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
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 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) JUnit
2 2 (66.67%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (33.33%) Appium
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) GitLab
3 1 (33.33%) JMeter
3 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
3 1 (33.33%) TestNG
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Java Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) QA Leader
2 1 (33.33%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Quality Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Django
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) Flask
1 1 (33.33%) pytest
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) SEO
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Groovy
2 1 (33.33%) Delphi
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle