IntelliJ Job Trends in the UK excluding London

JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring IntelliJ skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 559 501
Rank change year-on-year +43 -58 +199
Permanent jobs citing IntelliJ 1 21 50
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.002% 0.056% 0.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.046% 0.58% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1 21 41
10th Percentile - £52,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% -20.00% +41.51%
75th Percentile £31,000 £68,750 £80,000
90th Percentile - £75,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £30,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -50.00% -14.29% +7.69%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

IntelliJ falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,197 3,651 3,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.24% 9.80% 12.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,387 2,082 2,923
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £55,000 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -7.56% +8.18%
75th Percentile £65,938 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

IntelliJ
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing IntelliJ relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

IntelliJ job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

IntelliJ
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing IntelliJ.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing IntelliJ

IntelliJ
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IntelliJ within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
Scotland +10 1 £30,000 -64.71%
IntelliJ
UK

IntelliJ
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (100.00%) WildFly
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) jMock
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Junior
1 1 (100.00%) Junior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Junior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Java EE
1 1 (100.00%) Java SE
1 1 (100.00%) Quarkus
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Swing
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOD
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker