Java EE Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Java EE skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 548 512
Rank change year-on-year +35 -36 +157
Permanent jobs citing Java EE 1 16 50
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.002% 0.044% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.026% 0.23% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 15
10th Percentile - £43,069 £36,863
25th Percentile £29,000 £46,725 £39,658
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £80,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -62.50% +68.42% -20.83%
75th Percentile £31,000 £85,000 £63,750
90th Percentile - - £82,500
UK median annual salary £30,000 £80,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -62.50% +68.42% -31.60%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

Java EE falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,835 7,088 7,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.14% 19.38% 23.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,934 3,965 5,890
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

Java EE
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Java EE job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Java EE
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Java EE

Java EE
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 Java EE within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 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 -1 1 £30,000 -62.50%
Java EE
UK

Java EE
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%) IntelliJ
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 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