Java Jobs in Sheffield

Java
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 26 45 40
Rank change year-on-year +19 -5 -30
Permanent jobs citing Java 14 38 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 4.88% 3.58% 7.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.17% 10.19% 14.40%
Number of salaries quoted 10 28 33
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £22,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £42,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% -15.38% +13.04%
75th Percentile £37,500 £75,772 £82,500
90th Percentile £51,250 £79,000 -
South Yorkshire median annual salary £35,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -36.36% -15.38% +18.18%

All Programming Languages
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 115 373 507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 40.07% 35.19% 54.75%
Number of salaries quoted 88 320 160
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £27,400
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £74,563 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £90,125 £75,945 £80,250
South Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% - -4.76%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Sheffield

Java
Salary Trend in Sheffield

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

Salary trend for Java in Sheffield

Java
Salary Histogram in Sheffield

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

Salary histogram for Java in Sheffield

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 2 (14.29%) Confluence
1 2 (14.29%) Tomcat
1 2 (14.29%) WebSphere
1 2 (14.29%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) AWS
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) GCP
3 2 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (14.29%) FCoE
1 2 (14.29%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
1 2 (14.29%) iSCSI
1 2 (14.29%) LAN
1 2 (14.29%) Multicast
1 2 (14.29%) NAS
1 2 (14.29%) SAN
1 2 (14.29%) VPN
1 2 (14.29%) WAN
2 1 (7.14%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (7.14%) Eclipse
3 1 (7.14%) IntelliJ
3 1 (7.14%) Jasmine
3 1 (7.14%) JUnit
3 1 (7.14%) Karma Test Runner
3 1 (7.14%) Mockito
3 1 (7.14%) Protractor
General
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
2 5 (35.71%) Law
2 5 (35.71%) Online Betting
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Cantonese Language
4 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Developer
1 5 (35.71%) Java Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Java Software Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Junior
3 3 (21.43%) Junior Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Junior Java Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Graduate
4 2 (14.29%) Graduate Java Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Backend Developer
5 1 (7.14%) C# Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Python Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) SaaS Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) React
2 5 (35.71%) Spring
3 2 (14.29%) LDAP
3 2 (14.29%) Middleware
4 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
4 1 (7.14%) Hibernate
4 1 (7.14%) JPA
4 1 (7.14%) Kafka
4 1 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (7.14%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (14.29%) Clustering
2 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 2 (14.29%) Replication
3 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Solaris
2 2 (14.29%) Windows
3 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
2 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 4 (28.57%) DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Integration Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (14.29%) High Availability
4 2 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (14.29%) Network Segmentation
4 2 (14.29%) Privileged Access Management
4 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Server Virtualisation
4 2 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (7.14%) Containerisation
5 1 (7.14%) Critical Thinking
5 1 (7.14%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (7.14%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (7.14%) Event-Driven
5 1 (7.14%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) Groovy
3 2 (14.29%) Python
4 1 (7.14%) ActionScript
4 1 (7.14%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (7.14%) C#
4 1 (7.14%) PHP
4 1 (7.14%) Scala
4 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
4 1 (7.14%) XPath
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 2 (14.29%) Hyper-V
1 2 (14.29%) KVM
1 2 (14.29%) NFS
1 2 (14.29%) SRDF
1 2 (14.29%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (14.29%) Xen
2 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Ansible
2 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Puppet
3 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) Cisco
2 2 (14.29%) EMC
2 2 (14.29%) F5
2 2 (14.29%) Google
2 2 (14.29%) IBM
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) NetApp
2 2 (14.29%) VMware
3 1 (7.14%) AppDynamics
3 1 (7.14%) IBM Sterling
3 1 (7.14%) Splunk