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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 29 28
Rank change year-on-year -17 -1 -8
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,808 4,616 4,889
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.91% 6.57% 7.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.56% 20.45% 19.79%
Number of salaries quoted 988 2,159 2,391
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,869 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £93,778 £89,200 £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 9,740 22,573 24,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.45% 32.11% 40.23%
Number of salaries quoted 7,145 16,409 13,927
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,635 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% +2.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £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 1 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 1 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 +24 790 £57,836 -11.02% 454
North West +22 639 £57,836 -7.46% 274
South East -25 326 £62,500 +4.17% 569
South West -2 217 £60,000 +4.35% 179
Scotland -30 173 £58,000 -3.33% 157
Midlands -21 146 £53,688 -2.39% 245
East of England +61 115 £50,000 -20.00% 166
Yorkshire +41 113 £70,000 +6.93% 121
West Midlands -16 99 £53,688 -6.63% 136
East Midlands +17 46 £46,250 -11.90% 92
North East +33 38 £56,500 -13.39% 61
Wales -9 25 £46,154 -7.69% 34
Northern Ireland +9 17 £55,000 -35.29% 36
Isle of Man - 2 £38,000 -
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 49 (2.71%) Apache
2 47 (2.60%) Confluence
3 27 (1.49%) Apache Spark
4 24 (1.33%) Tomcat
5 23 (1.27%) Jupyter
6 17 (0.94%) JBoss
6 17 (0.94%) WordPress
7 16 (0.88%) CMS
8 14 (0.77%) nginx
8 14 (0.77%) SharePoint
9 12 (0.66%) Red Hat Fuse
10 9 (0.50%) IIS
11 8 (0.44%) NetWeaver
12 7 (0.39%) Camunda
12 7 (0.39%) OpenStack
12 7 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 6 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 6 (0.33%) WebSphere
14 4 (0.22%) GemFire
14 4 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 24 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.11%) Trello
5 1 (0.055%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 13 (0.72%) Shopify
2 5 (0.28%) Endur
2 5 (0.28%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 3 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.11%) Sprinklr
5 1 (0.055%) iTrent
5 1 (0.055%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 480 (26.55%) AWS
2 433 (23.95%) Azure
3 168 (9.29%) GCP
4 97 (5.37%) Serverless
5 90 (4.98%) Amazon EKS
6 74 (4.09%) SaaS
7 58 (3.21%) GitHub
8 53 (2.93%) AWS CloudFormation
9 49 (2.71%) Amazon EC2
10 47 (2.60%) Amazon ECS
10 47 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
11 44 (2.43%) Amazon S3
12 39 (2.16%) Power Platform
13 33 (1.83%) Amazon SQS
14 28 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
15 27 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 22 (1.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 20 (1.11%) IBM Cloud
18 18 (1.00%) Apigee
18 18 (1.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 397 (21.96%) DNS
2 393 (21.74%) VPN
3 15 (0.83%) SSL
4 11 (0.61%) HTTP
5 9 (0.50%) Firewall
5 9 (0.50%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.28%) HTTPS
6 5 (0.28%) Network Security
7 4 (0.22%) DMARC
7 4 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.22%) SAN
8 3 (0.17%) Internet
9 2 (0.11%) FCoE
9 2 (0.11%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (0.11%) FTP
9 2 (0.11%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.11%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.11%) NAS
9 2 (0.11%) RTP
9 2 (0.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (6.69%) SQL Server
2 115 (6.36%) PostgreSQL
3 114 (6.31%) NoSQL
4 108 (5.97%) Relational Database
5 96 (5.31%) MySQL
6 84 (4.65%) Big Data
7 77 (4.26%) MongoDB
8 59 (3.26%) Elasticsearch
9 28 (1.55%) RDBMS
10 24 (1.33%) Power BI
11 21 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
12 17 (0.94%) DB2
13 16 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
13 16 (0.88%) Hadoop
14 15 (0.83%) Data Lake
14 15 (0.83%) DynamoDB
15 14 (0.77%) Cloud Spanner
15 14 (0.77%) Redis
16 13 (0.72%) Oracle Database
17 12 (0.66%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 196 (10.84%) Git
2 149 (8.24%) Jenkins
3 110 (6.08%) JUnit
4 97 (5.37%) JIRA
5 67 (3.71%) GitLab
6 56 (3.10%) Mockito
7 53 (2.93%) Eclipse
8 52 (2.88%) Maven
9 46 (2.54%) Selenium
10 40 (2.21%) SonarQube
11 39 (2.16%) Cucumber
12 32 (1.77%) Bitbucket
13 31 (1.71%) JMeter
14 25 (1.38%) Eclipse RCP
15 24 (1.33%) IntelliJ
15 24 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
15 24 (1.33%) Visual Studio
16 21 (1.16%) Jasmine
17 20 (1.11%) Karma Test Runner
17 20 (1.11%) Protractor
General
1 789 (43.64%) Finance
2 557 (30.81%) Analytical Skills
3 506 (27.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 331 (18.31%) Social Skills
5 214 (11.84%) Banking
6 123 (6.80%) Public Sector
7 62 (3.43%) Law
8 38 (2.10%) Aerospace
8 38 (2.10%) Retail
9 31 (1.71%) Marketing
10 29 (1.60%) Manufacturing
11 28 (1.55%) Electronics
12 20 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
12 20 (1.11%) Telecoms
13 19 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (1.00%) Legal
15 16 (0.88%) Advertising
15 16 (0.88%) Police
16 13 (0.72%) Retail Banking
17 12 (0.66%) Games
Job Titles
1 803 (44.41%) Developer
2 487 (26.94%) Software Developer
3 388 (21.46%) Software Engineer
4 340 (18.81%) Senior
5 218 (12.06%) Lead
6 185 (10.23%) Java Developer
7 143 (7.91%) Senior Software Engineer
8 131 (7.25%) Java Engineer
9 67 (3.71%) Graduate
9 67 (3.71%) Senior Developer
10 55 (3.04%) Junior
11 54 (2.99%) Full-Stack Developer
12 53 (2.93%) Architect
13 50 (2.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 43 (2.38%) Java Software Engineer
14 43 (2.38%) Senior Java Engineer
15 38 (2.10%) Graduate Developer
16 37 (2.05%) Data Scientist
17 36 (1.99%) Senior Java Developer
18 35 (1.94%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 248 (13.72%) Spring
2 235 (13.00%) React
3 234 (12.94%) Spring Boot
4 165 (9.13%) .NET
5 139 (7.69%) Kafka
6 138 (7.63%) Node.js
7 130 (7.19%) CSS
7 130 (7.19%) HTML
8 128 (7.08%) RESTful
9 127 (7.02%) REST
10 105 (5.81%) AngularJS
11 84 (4.65%) Hibernate
12 82 (4.54%) Web Services
13 56 (3.10%) Middleware
14 53 (2.93%) jQuery
15 51 (2.82%) RabbitMQ
16 49 (2.71%) SOAP
17 46 (2.54%) ASP.NET
17 46 (2.54%) OAuth
18 41 (2.27%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 450 (24.89%) Cyberattack
2 103 (5.70%) Algorithms
3 77 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
4 75 (4.15%) Management Information System
5 63 (3.48%) Product Ownership
6 54 (2.99%) Mobile App
7 53 (2.93%) Cloud Native
8 48 (2.65%) Public Cloud
9 47 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
10 39 (2.16%) Data Structures
11 34 (1.88%) Private Cloud
12 30 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
13 27 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
14 25 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
15 24 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
16 22 (1.22%) e-Learning
17 20 (1.11%) Blockchain
18 19 (1.05%) Virtual Team
19 17 (0.94%) Hackathon
19 17 (0.94%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 601 (33.24%) Linux
2 472 (26.11%) Android
3 80 (4.42%) Windows
4 47 (2.60%) Unix
5 34 (1.88%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.50%) AIX
7 7 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.39%) VMS
8 6 (0.33%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.28%) Rocky
10 4 (0.22%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.17%) Solaris
12 1 (0.055%) CentOS
12 1 (0.055%) Debian
12 1 (0.055%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.055%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,083 (59.90%) Agile
2 684 (37.83%) Software Engineering
3 629 (34.79%) OO
4 547 (30.25%) Mathematics
5 529 (29.26%) OOP
6 512 (28.32%) Design Patterns
7 492 (27.21%) Line Management
8 449 (24.83%) Android Development
9 387 (21.40%) CI/CD
10 375 (20.74%) Microservices
11 351 (19.41%) DevOps
12 347 (19.19%) Problem-Solving
13 261 (14.44%) Test Automation
14 255 (14.10%) Computer Science
15 237 (13.11%) Mentoring
16 229 (12.67%) Containerisation
16 229 (12.67%) SDLC
17 192 (10.62%) TDD
18 191 (10.56%) Full-Stack Development
19 175 (9.68%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 928 (51.33%) Python
2 601 (33.24%) C++
3 482 (26.66%) Go
4 364 (20.13%) JavaScript
4 364 (20.13%) SQL
5 346 (19.14%) C#
6 130 (7.19%) Rust
7 123 (6.80%) TypeScript
8 89 (4.92%) C
9 64 (3.54%) PHP
10 49 (2.71%) Kotlin
11 38 (2.10%) Ada
12 36 (1.99%) Shell Script
13 33 (1.83%) PowerShell
14 25 (1.38%) Bash
14 25 (1.38%) Scala
15 20 (1.11%) R
16 17 (0.94%) PL/SQL
16 17 (0.94%) VB
17 15 (0.83%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 605 (33.46%) Security Cleared
2 479 (26.49%) DV Cleared
3 408 (22.57%) Degree
4 134 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 78 (4.31%) SC Cleared
6 44 (2.43%) Master's Degree
7 43 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 27 (1.49%) AWS Certification
9 24 (1.33%) HND
10 20 (1.11%) PhD
11 9 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 9 (0.50%) ISTQB
11 9 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
12 8 (0.44%) OCP
13 5 (0.28%) Azure Certification
13 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.22%) CISSP
14 4 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.11%) CompTIA Security+
15 2 (0.11%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (4.48%) QA
2 23 (1.27%) Accessibility
3 15 (0.83%) GDPR
4 14 (0.77%) SLA
5 10 (0.55%) Data Quality
6 9 (0.50%) NIST
7 6 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.28%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.22%) Def Stans
9 4 (0.22%) IEC 61508
10 2 (0.11%) ISO 13485
10 2 (0.11%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.11%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.11%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.11%) SEPA
10 2 (0.11%) TARGET2
11 1 (0.055%) Basel III
11 1 (0.055%) ECSS
11 1 (0.055%) IFRS
11 1 (0.055%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 747 (41.32%) Docker
2 27 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (0.66%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.33%) Firmware
4 6 (0.33%) HDFS
5 4 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.11%) KVM
7 2 (0.11%) NFS
7 2 (0.11%) Postfix
7 2 (0.11%) SRDF
7 2 (0.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (0.11%) Xen
8 1 (0.055%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.055%) NDS
8 1 (0.055%) Squid
8 1 (0.055%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 484 (26.77%) Ansible
2 356 (19.69%) Kubernetes
3 135 (7.47%) Terraform
4 29 (1.60%) Kibana
5 23 (1.27%) Grafana
6 15 (0.83%) Prometheus
7 11 (0.61%) Istio
8 10 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.39%) Packer
10 5 (0.28%) CA Endevor
10 5 (0.28%) Kustomize
10 5 (0.28%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 4 (0.22%) Argo
11 4 (0.22%) Control-M
11 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.17%) Kubeflow
12 3 (0.17%) Nagios
12 3 (0.17%) Nessus
12 3 (0.17%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 155 (8.57%) Microsoft
2 147 (8.13%) Oracle
3 87 (4.81%) Google
4 78 (4.31%) IBM
5 35 (1.94%) Red Hat
6 30 (1.66%) SAP
7 28 (1.55%) Databricks
7 28 (1.55%) Splunk
8 26 (1.44%) Dynatrace
9 16 (0.88%) Informatica
9 16 (0.88%) ServiceNow
10 15 (0.83%) MuleSoft
10 15 (0.83%) Salesforce
11 14 (0.77%) Atlassian
12 13 (0.72%) WooCommerce
13 11 (0.61%) Cisco
13 11 (0.61%) Sybase
14 9 (0.50%) Xamarin
15 8 (0.44%) EMC
16 7 (0.39%) Adobe