Java SE Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE, JSE)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Java SE skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 506 595 546
Rank change year-on-year +89 -49 +247
Permanent jobs citing Java SE 1 3 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.003% 0.007% 0.003%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.027% 0.036% 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 - £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +42.86%
75th Percentile £31,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £30,000 - £75,000
% change year-on-year - - +42.86%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

Java SE 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 3,744 8,351 7,181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.92% 18.80% 24.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,823 4,768 5,693
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,750 £45,450
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -2.26% +2.31%

Java SE
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Java SE job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Java SE
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Java SE
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 SE within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 December 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 - 1 £30,000 - 1
Java SE
UK

Java SE
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 EE
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