Java Jobs in Northern Ireland

Java
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 29 8
Rank change year-on-year +9 -21 +5
Permanent jobs citing Java 17 49 203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 5.90% 7.08% 23.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.37% 18.85% 36.45%
Number of salaries quoted 9 39 109
10th Percentile £48,500 £53,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £58,125 £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 - £105,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year - -9.68% +10.71%

All Programming Languages
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 67 260 557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 23.26% 37.57% 64.17%
Number of salaries quoted 23 159 335
10th Percentile £47,500 £38,600 £32,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,625 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +15.00% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £76,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £99,000 £97,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Northern Ireland

Java
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Salary trend for Java in Northern Ireland

Java
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Java in Northern Ireland

Java
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 1 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
County Antrim +13 17 £55,000 -35.29% 32
Java
UK

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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%) Agile
5 4 (23.53%) OOA/OOD
5 4 (23.53%) OOD
5 4 (23.53%) Scrum
5 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
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