Java EE Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Java EE skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java EE over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 567 728 595
Rank change year-on-year +161 -133 +108
Permanent jobs citing Java EE 13 47 161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.033% 0.064% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.25% 0.32% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 5 10 45
10th Percentile £56,069 £41,250 £26,224
25th Percentile £75,000 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £47,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +68.42% -29.63% +35.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £64,688 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,267 £67,500 £89,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £52,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +53.85% -25.71% +16.67%

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 5,215 14,512 15,851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.37% 19.61% 27.29%
Number of salaries quoted 3,190 10,458 8,830
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £66,230 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.38% -11.11% +3.85%

Java EE
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Java EE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Java EE in the UK excluding London

Java EE
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java EE in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Java EE in the UK excluding London

Java EE
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java EE in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Java EE in the UK excluding London

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 29 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
Scotland +121 6 £80,000 +48.84% 2
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
Wales +43 1 £47,307 -
East of England +40 1 £80,000 +25.49%
South West - 1 - - 2
Java EE
UK

Java EE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (30.77%) Apache
1 4 (30.77%) Apache Spark
1 4 (30.77%) WebSphere
2 2 (15.38%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon S3
2 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (23.08%) Serverless
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Apache Hive
1 4 (30.77%) Big Data
1 4 (30.77%) Hadoop
1 4 (30.77%) MySQL
1 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
2 2 (15.38%) DB2
2 2 (15.38%) IBM InfoSphere
3 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) JUnit
2 2 (15.38%) Eclipse
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (7.69%) Artifactory
3 1 (7.69%) Git
3 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.69%) Maven
3 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (76.92%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.69%) Law
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Developer
2 5 (38.46%) Java Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Apache Spark Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Java Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Principal Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Software Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Principal Java Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Software Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Lead
6 1 (7.69%) Lead Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Lead Software Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Principal DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (69.23%) Spring
2 8 (61.54%) J2EE
2 8 (61.54%) Spring Boot
3 5 (38.46%) Hibernate
4 4 (30.77%) Kafka
5 3 (23.08%) .NET
5 3 (23.08%) .NET Framework
5 3 (23.08%) ASP.NET
5 3 (23.08%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (23.08%) REST
6 2 (15.38%) IBM Integration Bus
6 2 (15.38%) SOAP
6 2 (15.38%) Web Services
6 2 (15.38%) XML
7 1 (7.69%) JMS
7 1 (7.69%) Node.js
7 1 (7.69%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Product Ownership
2 2 (15.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Agile
1 11 (84.62%) Design Patterns
2 9 (69.23%) Software Engineering
3 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
4 5 (38.46%) DevOps
4 5 (38.46%) Scrum
4 5 (38.46%) SDLC
5 4 (30.77%) Concurrent Programming
5 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (30.77%) Low Latency
5 4 (30.77%) Multithreading
5 4 (30.77%) OO
5 4 (30.77%) OOA/OOD
5 4 (30.77%) OOD
5 4 (30.77%) OOP
5 4 (30.77%) Roadmaps
5 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
6 3 (23.08%) Microservices
6 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (46.15%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) C#
4 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle
1 5 (38.46%) Sybase
2 2 (15.38%) Curam