Java Jobs in the UK excluding London

Java
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 29 28
Rank change year-on-year -8 -1 -8
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,293 4,587 4,683
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.81% 6.47% 7.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.55% 20.44% 19.77%
Number of salaries quoted 956 2,144 2,232
10th Percentile £33,375 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -5.51% +10.43%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £93,778 £87,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year - -9.68% +10.71%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,641 22,442 23,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.97% 31.63% 39.93%
Number of salaries quoted 7,071 16,332 13,305
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +3.77%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in the UK excluding London

Java
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Java in the UK excluding London

Java
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Java in the UK excluding London

Java
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
North of England +30 1,079 £57,918 -7.33% 429
North West +26 922 £57,836 -7.46% 265
South East -35 353 £60,000 - 632
Midlands +24 241 £53,688 -2.39% 220
South West -4 219 £60,000 +4.35% 166
Scotland -27 207 £57,500 - 197
East of England +69 158 £50,000 -20.00% 122
West Midlands +15 145 £55,000 -3.51% 148
Yorkshire +35 112 £70,000 +7.69% 108
East Midlands +38 95 £46,250 -11.06% 66
North East +33 45 £55,000 -15.38% 58
Wales -14 21 £47,307 -5.39% 42
Northern Ireland +16 18 £55,000 -35.29% 66
Isle of Man - 1 £38,000 - 2
Java
UK

Java
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
1 206 (8.98%) Confluence
2 45 (1.96%) Apache
3 26 (1.13%) Apache Spark
3 26 (1.13%) Tomcat
4 23 (1.00%) Jupyter
5 18 (0.78%) JBoss
6 15 (0.65%) WordPress
7 14 (0.61%) CMS
7 14 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 13 (0.57%) Red Hat Fuse
9 12 (0.52%) IIS
10 7 (0.31%) nginx
10 7 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 6 (0.26%) WebSphere
12 5 (0.22%) NetWeaver
13 4 (0.17%) GemFire
13 4 (0.17%) WebSphere Application Server
14 2 (0.087%) WebLogic
Applications
1 26 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.13%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.13%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 2 (0.087%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.087%) Trello
5 1 (0.044%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 11 (0.48%) Shopify
2 3 (0.13%) Endur
2 3 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 3 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.087%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.044%) iTrent
4 1 (0.044%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.044%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 962 (41.95%) AWS
2 838 (36.55%) Azure
3 482 (21.02%) GCP
4 102 (4.45%) Serverless
5 86 (3.75%) Amazon EKS
6 66 (2.88%) SaaS
7 65 (2.83%) Pulumi
8 54 (2.35%) Amazon S3
8 54 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
9 52 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
10 51 (2.22%) GitHub
11 48 (2.09%) Amazon ECS
11 48 (2.09%) AWS CloudFormation
12 37 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 37 (1.61%) Power Platform
13 36 (1.57%) Amazon SQS
14 25 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
15 22 (0.96%) Power Automate
16 20 (0.87%) Microsoft 365
17 19 (0.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 400 (17.44%) DNS
2 393 (17.14%) VPN
3 67 (2.92%) Broadband
4 22 (0.96%) SSL
5 14 (0.61%) HTTP
6 13 (0.57%) Firewall
7 9 (0.39%) TCP/IP
8 8 (0.35%) DMARC
9 7 (0.31%) HTTPS
9 7 (0.31%) SSH
10 5 (0.22%) Network Security
11 4 (0.17%) FTP
11 4 (0.17%) Reverse Proxy
11 4 (0.17%) SAN
11 4 (0.17%) SMTP
12 2 (0.087%) Internet
12 2 (0.087%) Kerberos
12 2 (0.087%) LAN
12 2 (0.087%) WAN
12 2 (0.087%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 364 (15.87%) SQL Server
2 177 (7.72%) NoSQL
3 158 (6.89%) Relational Database
4 121 (5.28%) PostgreSQL
5 98 (4.27%) MySQL
6 86 (3.75%) RDBMS
7 85 (3.71%) Big Data
8 74 (3.23%) MongoDB
9 60 (2.62%) Elasticsearch
10 30 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
11 21 (0.92%) DynamoDB
11 21 (0.92%) Power BI
12 17 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
12 17 (0.74%) DB2
13 15 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
13 15 (0.65%) Hadoop
14 14 (0.61%) Cloud Spanner
14 14 (0.61%) Data Lake
15 13 (0.57%) BigQuery
16 12 (0.52%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 341 (14.87%) JIRA
2 308 (13.43%) GitLab
3 290 (12.65%) Selenium
4 287 (12.52%) SonarQube
5 286 (12.47%) Maven
6 277 (12.08%) Cucumber
7 275 (11.99%) Bitbucket
8 270 (11.77%) Sonatype Nexus
9 179 (7.81%) Git
10 144 (6.28%) Jenkins
11 107 (4.67%) JUnit
12 65 (2.83%) Jaeger
13 52 (2.27%) Mockito
14 50 (2.18%) Eclipse
15 25 (1.09%) Eclipse RCP
16 24 (1.05%) JMeter
17 22 (0.96%) IntelliJ
17 22 (0.96%) Visual Studio
18 19 (0.83%) Jasmine
19 18 (0.78%) Protractor
General
1 990 (43.17%) Finance
2 969 (42.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 554 (24.16%) Analytical Skills
4 422 (18.40%) Banking
5 318 (13.87%) Social Skills
6 131 (5.71%) Retail
7 108 (4.71%) Public Sector
8 96 (4.19%) Investment Banking
9 90 (3.92%) Corporate Banking
10 54 (2.35%) Law
11 38 (1.66%) Aerospace
12 28 (1.22%) Marketing
13 27 (1.18%) Electronics
13 27 (1.18%) Manufacturing
14 26 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
15 24 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
16 18 (0.78%) Telecoms
17 17 (0.74%) Advertising
18 15 (0.65%) Police
19 14 (0.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 802 (34.98%) Developer
2 783 (34.15%) Software Engineer
3 498 (21.72%) Senior
4 491 (21.41%) Software Developer
5 309 (13.48%) Senior Software Engineer
6 280 (12.21%) Lead
7 192 (8.37%) Java Developer
8 129 (5.63%) Java Engineer
9 101 (4.40%) Team Leader
10 68 (2.97%) Senior Developer
11 60 (2.62%) Graduate
12 55 (2.40%) Junior
13 54 (2.35%) Architect
14 51 (2.22%) Full-Stack Developer
15 47 (2.05%) Java Software Engineer
16 41 (1.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 39 (1.70%) Senior Java Developer
18 38 (1.66%) Graduate Developer
18 38 (1.66%) Senior Java Engineer
19 35 (1.53%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 493 (21.50%) Spring
2 470 (20.50%) Spring Boot
3 464 (20.24%) React
4 408 (17.79%) HTML
5 386 (16.83%) Kafka
6 364 (15.87%) CSS
7 336 (14.65%) .NET
8 299 (13.04%) Node.js
9 286 (12.47%) JPA
10 255 (11.12%) Redux
11 237 (10.34%) Hibernate
12 222 (9.68%) REST
13 219 (9.55%) RESTful
14 103 (4.49%) AngularJS
15 101 (4.40%) HTML5
16 100 (4.36%) Jest
17 96 (4.19%) CSS3
18 93 (4.06%) Sass
19 84 (3.66%) Elastic Stack
20 79 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 622 (27.13%) Cyberattack
2 306 (13.34%) Product Ownership
3 273 (11.91%) Enterprise Software
4 209 (9.11%) Self-Motivation
5 174 (7.59%) Linux Command Line
6 103 (4.49%) Algorithms
7 73 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
8 64 (2.79%) Management Information System
9 50 (2.18%) Cloud Native
10 45 (1.96%) Mobile App
11 43 (1.88%) Public Cloud
12 40 (1.74%) Data Structures
13 33 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
13 33 (1.44%) Private Cloud
14 32 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
15 22 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
16 19 (0.83%) Virtual Team
17 15 (0.65%) Life Science
17 15 (0.65%) Replication
18 12 (0.52%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 847 (36.94%) Linux
2 473 (20.63%) Android
3 112 (4.88%) Unix
4 87 (3.79%) Windows
5 34 (1.48%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.52%) VMS
7 7 (0.31%) AIX
8 5 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.22%) Rocky
9 4 (0.17%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.17%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.13%) Solaris
11 1 (0.044%) CentOS
11 1 (0.044%) Debian
11 1 (0.044%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.044%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,531 (66.77%) Agile
2 1,050 (45.79%) Software Engineering
3 785 (34.23%) Microservices
4 641 (27.95%) DevOps
5 616 (26.86%) CI/CD
6 600 (26.17%) OO
7 545 (23.77%) Mathematics
8 527 (22.98%) Mentoring
8 527 (22.98%) OOP
9 525 (22.90%) Containerisation
10 492 (21.46%) Test Automation
11 491 (21.41%) Design Patterns
12 484 (21.11%) Line Management
13 449 (19.58%) Android Development
14 442 (19.28%) SDLC
15 421 (18.36%) Full-Stack Development
16 343 (14.96%) Scrum
17 336 (14.65%) Problem-Solving
17 336 (14.65%) User Experience
18 323 (14.09%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,204 (52.51%) Python
2 874 (38.12%) JavaScript
3 809 (35.28%) C++
4 711 (31.01%) Go
5 661 (28.83%) SQL
6 362 (15.79%) C#
7 348 (15.18%) Rust
8 261 (11.38%) TypeScript
9 121 (5.28%) C
10 108 (4.71%) PHP
11 86 (3.75%) Bash
12 65 (2.83%) R
13 58 (2.53%) Ruby
14 53 (2.31%) MATLAB
15 48 (2.09%) Dart
16 41 (1.79%) Kotlin
16 41 (1.79%) PowerShell
17 38 (1.66%) Ada
18 28 (1.22%) Shell Script
19 21 (0.92%) Scala
Qualifications
1 762 (33.23%) Security Cleared
2 652 (28.43%) DV Cleared
3 431 (18.80%) Degree
4 265 (11.56%) AWS Certification
5 183 (7.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 179 (7.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 173 (7.54%) AWS Certified Developer
8 80 (3.49%) SC Cleared
9 43 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
10 31 (1.35%) Master's Degree
11 17 (0.74%) HND
12 13 (0.57%) PhD
13 9 (0.39%) Azure Certification
13 9 (0.39%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
15 3 (0.13%) CISSP
15 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
15 3 (0.13%) OCP
16 2 (0.087%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 321 (14.00%) QA
2 111 (4.84%) Accessibility
3 16 (0.70%) GDPR
4 15 (0.65%) SLA
5 10 (0.44%) Data Quality
5 10 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (0.39%) NIST
6 9 (0.39%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.35%) HIPAA
8 7 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.13%) Def Stans
9 3 (0.13%) IEC 61508
10 2 (0.087%) ISO 13485
10 2 (0.087%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.044%) Basel III
11 1 (0.044%) ECSS
11 1 (0.044%) IEC 62304
11 1 (0.044%) IFRS
11 1 (0.044%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.044%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1,056 (46.05%) Docker
2 20 (0.87%) Active Directory
2 20 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.31%) HDFS
4 5 (0.22%) Firmware
5 4 (0.17%) Postfix
5 4 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.13%) DFS Replication
6 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.087%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.087%) KVM
7 2 (0.087%) NFS
7 2 (0.087%) SRDF
7 2 (0.087%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (0.087%) Xen
8 1 (0.044%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.044%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.044%) NDS
8 1 (0.044%) Squid
8 1 (0.044%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 649 (28.30%) Kubernetes
2 541 (23.59%) Ansible
3 198 (8.63%) Terraform
4 89 (3.88%) Prometheus
5 70 (3.05%) Kustomize
6 69 (3.01%) Argo
7 34 (1.48%) Grafana
8 25 (1.09%) Kibana
9 15 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.44%) Istio
11 8 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
12 6 (0.26%) Packer
13 4 (0.17%) Control-M
14 3 (0.13%) CA Endevor
14 3 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.13%) Kubeflow
14 3 (0.13%) Nagios
14 3 (0.13%) Nessus
14 3 (0.13%) Proxmox
14 3 (0.13%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 252 (10.99%) Solace
2 148 (6.45%) Microsoft
3 142 (6.19%) Google
4 139 (6.06%) Oracle
5 54 (2.35%) IBM
6 29 (1.26%) SAP
7 28 (1.22%) Databricks
8 23 (1.00%) Splunk
9 22 (0.96%) Red Hat
10 21 (0.92%) Dynatrace
10 21 (0.92%) ServiceNow
11 18 (0.78%) Atlassian
12 17 (0.74%) Informatica
13 15 (0.65%) MuleSoft
13 15 (0.65%) Salesforce
14 11 (0.48%) Cisco
14 11 (0.48%) Sybase
14 11 (0.48%) WooCommerce
15 8 (0.35%) Bloomberg
16 7 (0.31%) Adobe