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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 40 45
Rank change year-on-year +18 +5 -39
Permanent jobs citing Java 8 2 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicester 3.77% 0.68% 1.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.78% 1.67% 3.25%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £57,250 - -
25th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £92,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -26.32% +46.15%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £73,250 - -
Leicestershire median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +15.70% +7.56%

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 45 120 154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 21.23% 40.96% 51.51%
Number of salaries quoted 35 76 142
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,750 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,125 £61,563 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,250 £70,000 -
Leicestershire median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +6.60%

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 27 October 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Selenium
2 5 (62.50%) Katalon Studio
3 3 (37.50%) Cucumber
3 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
4 2 (25.00%) Appium
4 2 (25.00%) GitLab
4 2 (25.00%) JMeter
4 2 (25.00%) JUnit
4 2 (25.00%) Maven
4 2 (25.00%) REST Assured
4 2 (25.00%) TestNG
5 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
5 1 (12.50%) Git
5 1 (12.50%) JIRA
5 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
5 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Quality Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Senior
1 4 (50.00%) Senior Quality Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Java Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) HTML
1 2 (25.00%) REST
1 2 (25.00%) SOAP
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
2 1 (12.50%) JPA
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) React
2 1 (12.50%) Redux
2 1 (12.50%) Spring
2 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
1 7 (87.50%) Test Automation
2 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 6 (75.00%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) SDLC
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (37.50%) End-to-End Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Scrum
5 2 (25.00%) Agile Testing
5 2 (25.00%) API Testing
5 2 (25.00%) BDD
5 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
5 2 (25.00%) Defect Management
5 2 (25.00%) Performance Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (12.50%) Analytical Thinking
6 1 (12.50%) Front End Development
6 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
6 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (12.50%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Groovy
2 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (37.50%) Python
4 2 (25.00%) SQL
5 1 (12.50%) C
5 1 (12.50%) C#
5 1 (12.50%) C++
5 1 (12.50%) Dart
5 1 (12.50%) MATLAB
5 1 (12.50%) PHP
5 1 (12.50%) R
5 1 (12.50%) Ruby
5 1 (12.50%) Rust
5 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Solace