Java
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 28 18
Rank change year-on-year -10 -10 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 3,284 6,822 10,442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.02% 6.88% 10.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.35% 20.57% 23.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,836 3,908 6,241
10th Percentile £41,000 £38,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - -9.68% +10.71%
75th Percentile £110,000 £96,539 £100,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £122,500 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,853
% change year-on-year - -4.54% +9.31%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 16,141 33,162 43,852
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.59% 33.46% 43.27%
Number of salaries quoted 11,642 24,974 27,985
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £81,438 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £100,000 £106,275
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +3.55%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the UK

Java
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java.

Salary trend for Java in the UK

Java
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Java in the UK

Java
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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
England -3 2,958 £70,000 -5.15% 2,754
UK excluding London -10 2,193 £60,000 - 1,768
Work from Home +6 1,482 £75,000 +1.62% 1,796
North of England +35 1,038 £57,836 -7.46% 408
London -10 1,025 £106,250 +11.84% 1,580
North West +33 887 £57,836 -7.46% 253
South East -36 322 £62,500 +4.17% 611
Scotland -24 226 £58,000 -1.69% 183
South West -5 219 £60,000 +4.35% 162
Midlands +18 215 £53,688 -2.39% 192
East of England +59 133 £50,000 -20.00% 148
West Midlands +5 132 £55,000 -2.65% 130
Yorkshire +30 111 £70,000 +7.31% 101
East Midlands +42 82 £47,500 -9.52% 57
North East +39 40 £56,500 -13.08% 55
Wales -10 25 £47,690 -4.62% 45
Northern Ireland +13 17 £55,000 -35.29% 52
Isle of Man - 2 £38,000 - 2

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 240 (7.31%) Apache
2 225 (6.85%) Confluence
3 223 (6.79%) Apache Airflow
4 121 (3.68%) Apache Spark
5 38 (1.16%) Tomcat
6 24 (0.73%) Jupyter
7 18 (0.55%) CMS
7 18 (0.55%) JBoss
7 18 (0.55%) SharePoint
8 16 (0.49%) WordPress
9 13 (0.40%) Red Hat Fuse
10 12 (0.37%) IIS
10 12 (0.37%) nginx
11 11 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 9 (0.27%) OpenStack
13 8 (0.24%) NetWeaver
14 7 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 7 (0.21%) WebSphere
15 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
16 4 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 28 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.12%) Trello
6 3 (0.091%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.091%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 2 (0.061%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.061%) SPSS
8 1 (0.030%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 14 (0.43%) Shopify
2 11 (0.33%) Endur
3 6 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (0.15%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 4 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.091%) Maximo
6 3 (0.091%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.091%) Orchestrade
6 3 (0.091%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.061%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 2 (0.061%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.061%) Sprinklr
8 1 (0.030%) iTrent
8 1 (0.030%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.030%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.030%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.030%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.030%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,496 (45.55%) AWS
2 1,069 (32.55%) Azure
3 696 (21.19%) GCP
4 254 (7.73%) Serverless
5 216 (6.58%) dbt
6 186 (5.66%) AWS Lambda
7 169 (5.15%) Amazon ECS
8 164 (4.99%) Amazon EKS
9 145 (4.42%) Snowflake
10 139 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
11 117 (3.56%) GitHub
12 99 (3.01%) Amazon S3
13 98 (2.98%) SaaS
14 95 (2.89%) AWS CloudFormation
15 94 (2.86%) OpenShift
16 59 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
16 59 (1.80%) Power Platform
17 54 (1.64%) Dagster
18 47 (1.43%) Amazon SQS
19 43 (1.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 407 (12.39%) DNS
2 400 (12.18%) VPN
3 29 (0.88%) TCP/IP
4 27 (0.82%) Network Security
5 20 (0.61%) SSL
6 14 (0.43%) Firewall
7 12 (0.37%) HTTP
8 8 (0.24%) HTTPS
9 7 (0.21%) DMARC
10 6 (0.18%) SSH
11 5 (0.15%) SAN
12 4 (0.12%) Multicast
12 4 (0.12%) Reverse Proxy
13 3 (0.091%) Internet
13 3 (0.091%) LAN
13 3 (0.091%) WAN
14 2 (0.061%) 3GPP
14 2 (0.061%) SMTP
14 2 (0.061%) Wireless
14 2 (0.061%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 370 (11.27%) SQL Server
2 229 (6.97%) Amazon Athena
3 213 (6.49%) Apache Iceberg
4 212 (6.46%) Dremio
5 207 (6.30%) PostgreSQL
6 193 (5.88%) Apache Arrow
7 173 (5.27%) NoSQL
8 150 (4.57%) Apache Ignite
9 139 (4.23%) Relational Database
10 128 (3.90%) MySQL
11 116 (3.53%) Data Lake
12 111 (3.38%) Big Data
13 97 (2.95%) MongoDB
14 89 (2.71%) Elasticsearch
15 48 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
16 42 (1.28%) RDBMS
17 41 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
18 39 (1.19%) DynamoDB
18 39 (1.19%) Power BI
19 37 (1.13%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 358 (10.90%) JIRA
2 311 (9.47%) GitLab
3 301 (9.17%) Maven
4 292 (8.89%) Selenium
5 289 (8.80%) Git
6 274 (8.34%) SonarQube
7 273 (8.31%) Cucumber
8 258 (7.86%) Bitbucket
9 257 (7.83%) Jenkins
10 242 (7.37%) Sonatype Nexus
11 162 (4.93%) JUnit
12 92 (2.80%) Artifactory
13 82 (2.50%) Mockito
14 62 (1.89%) IntelliJ
15 58 (1.77%) Eclipse
16 42 (1.28%) JMeter
17 37 (1.13%) Gradle
17 37 (1.13%) Postman
18 30 (0.91%) Cypress.io
19 29 (0.88%) TestNG
General
1 1,498 (45.62%) Finance
2 939 (28.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 714 (21.74%) Banking
4 653 (19.88%) Analytical Skills
5 576 (17.54%) Social Skills
6 308 (9.38%) Front Office
7 225 (6.85%) Investment Banking
8 128 (3.90%) Public Sector
9 111 (3.38%) Retail
10 87 (2.65%) Law
11 54 (1.64%) Corporate Banking
12 49 (1.49%) Financial Institution
13 44 (1.34%) Games
14 39 (1.19%) Aerospace
14 39 (1.19%) Marketing
15 35 (1.07%) Manufacturing
16 31 (0.94%) Electronics
17 30 (0.91%) Legal
18 29 (0.88%) Telecoms
19 27 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,158 (35.26%) Developer
2 1,058 (32.22%) Software Engineer
3 772 (23.51%) Senior
4 560 (17.05%) Software Developer
5 440 (13.40%) Senior Software Engineer
6 368 (11.21%) Lead
7 361 (10.99%) Java Developer
8 333 (10.14%) Java Engineer
9 222 (6.76%) AWS Engineer
10 202 (6.15%) Java Software Engineer
11 169 (5.15%) Python Engineer
12 163 (4.96%) Data Engineer
13 139 (4.23%) Senior Java Engineer
14 129 (3.93%) Senior Developer
15 126 (3.84%) DevOps Engineer
16 124 (3.78%) AWS Software Engineer
17 109 (3.32%) AWS DevOps
18 108 (3.29%) Architect
19 90 (2.74%) Senior Java Software Engineer
20 88 (2.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 636 (19.37%) Spring
2 593 (18.06%) React
3 582 (17.72%) Spring Boot
4 551 (16.78%) Kafka
5 430 (13.09%) .NET
6 385 (11.72%) Node.js
7 381 (11.60%) HTML
8 374 (11.39%) CSS
9 271 (8.25%) Hibernate
10 260 (7.92%) JPA
11 259 (7.89%) REST
12 247 (7.52%) RESTful
13 222 (6.76%) Redux
14 209 (6.36%) AngularJS
15 175 (5.33%) PySpark
16 163 (4.96%) Pandas
17 118 (3.59%) J2EE
18 113 (3.44%) Web Services
19 112 (3.41%) NumPy
20 110 (3.35%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 647 (19.70%) Cyberattack
2 313 (9.53%) Product Ownership
3 259 (7.89%) Enterprise Software
4 233 (7.10%) Self-Motivation
5 184 (5.60%) Linux Command Line
6 175 (5.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 159 (4.84%) Fixed Income
8 157 (4.78%) Equities
9 150 (4.57%) Algorithms
10 146 (4.45%) Derivative
11 132 (4.02%) Distributed Systems
12 124 (3.78%) Hedge funds
13 123 (3.75%) Cloud Native
14 121 (3.68%) Management Information System
15 69 (2.10%) Mobile App
16 67 (2.04%) Data Structures
17 65 (1.98%) Public Cloud
18 59 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
19 42 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
20 41 (1.25%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 913 (27.80%) Linux
2 521 (15.86%) Android
3 105 (3.20%) Windows
4 76 (2.31%) Unix
5 55 (1.67%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.30%) VMS
7 9 (0.27%) AIX
7 9 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.21%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.18%) Rocky
10 5 (0.15%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.091%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.091%) Solaris
12 2 (0.061%) Debian
12 2 (0.061%) zOS
13 1 (0.030%) CentOS
13 1 (0.030%) Fedora
13 1 (0.030%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.030%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.030%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,043 (62.21%) Agile
2 1,577 (48.02%) Software Engineering
3 981 (29.87%) Microservices
4 933 (28.41%) CI/CD
5 854 (26.00%) DevOps
6 667 (20.31%) OO
7 605 (18.42%) Containerisation
8 603 (18.36%) Mathematics
9 596 (18.15%) Mentoring
10 591 (18.00%) Test Automation
11 571 (17.39%) OOP
12 563 (17.14%) Design Patterns
13 535 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
14 534 (16.26%) SDLC
15 517 (15.74%) Line Management
16 493 (15.01%) Android Development
17 465 (14.16%) Full-Stack Development
18 448 (13.64%) TDD
19 400 (12.18%) Scrum
20 382 (11.63%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,643 (50.03%) Python
2 1,018 (31.00%) JavaScript
3 886 (26.98%) C++
4 801 (24.39%) Go
5 793 (24.15%) SQL
6 456 (13.89%) C#
7 346 (10.54%) Rust
8 326 (9.93%) TypeScript
9 117 (3.56%) C
10 94 (2.86%) Kotlin
11 77 (2.34%) PHP
12 75 (2.28%) Scala
13 56 (1.71%) PowerShell
14 52 (1.58%) Shell Script
15 48 (1.46%) Bash
16 39 (1.19%) Ada
17 34 (1.04%) Objective-C
18 29 (0.88%) Swift
19 28 (0.85%) Ruby
20 24 (0.73%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 862 (26.25%) Security Cleared
2 690 (21.01%) DV Cleared
3 602 (18.33%) Degree
4 236 (7.19%) AWS Certification
5 218 (6.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 215 (6.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 179 (5.45%) AWS Certified Developer
8 143 (4.35%) SC Cleared
9 108 (3.29%) Master's Degree
10 49 (1.49%) PhD
11 44 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
12 25 (0.76%) HND
13 22 (0.67%) ISTQB
14 14 (0.43%) Azure Certification
15 7 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
16 5 (0.15%) CISSP
16 5 (0.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 5 (0.15%) Oracle Certification
17 4 (0.12%) Numerate Degree
17 4 (0.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 365 (11.11%) QA
2 86 (2.62%) Accessibility
3 44 (1.34%) GDPR
4 26 (0.79%) HIPAA
5 23 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (0.58%) NIST
6 19 (0.58%) SLA
7 18 (0.55%) Data Quality
8 13 (0.40%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.091%) Def Stans
11 3 (0.091%) IEC 61508
11 3 (0.091%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.091%) Software Quality Assurance
12 2 (0.061%) ISO 13485
12 2 (0.061%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.030%) COBIT
13 1 (0.030%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.030%) WCAG
System Software
1 1,279 (38.95%) Docker
2 29 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
3 19 (0.58%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.21%) HDFS
5 6 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.15%) Apache Flume
6 5 (0.15%) Firmware
7 4 (0.12%) Postfix
8 3 (0.091%) DFS Replication
8 3 (0.091%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.091%) KVM
8 3 (0.091%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.091%) Xen
9 2 (0.061%) NFS
9 2 (0.061%) SRDF
9 2 (0.061%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.030%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.030%) NDS
10 1 (0.030%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.030%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 913 (27.80%) Kubernetes
2 538 (16.38%) Ansible
3 336 (10.23%) Terraform
4 76 (2.31%) Grafana
4 76 (2.31%) Prometheus
5 32 (0.97%) Kibana
6 22 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (0.61%) Istio
8 19 (0.58%) Argo
9 12 (0.37%) Packer
9 12 (0.37%) Progress Chef
10 11 (0.33%) Kustomize
11 10 (0.30%) Puppet
12 7 (0.21%) CA Endevor
12 7 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.15%) HP Fortify
13 5 (0.15%) Oozie
13 5 (0.15%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 4 (0.12%) Consul
14 4 (0.12%) Control-M
Vendors
1 226 (6.88%) Solace
2 197 (6.00%) Microsoft
3 181 (5.51%) Oracle
4 142 (4.32%) Google
5 88 (2.68%) IBM
6 53 (1.61%) Databricks
7 39 (1.19%) Splunk
8 36 (1.10%) SAP
9 32 (0.97%) Dynatrace
10 24 (0.73%) ServiceNow
11 23 (0.70%) Atlassian
12 22 (0.67%) Informatica
12 22 (0.67%) Red Hat
13 19 (0.58%) Sybase
14 18 (0.55%) New Relic
15 17 (0.52%) Salesforce
16 15 (0.46%) MuleSoft
17 12 (0.37%) Cisco
17 12 (0.37%) WooCommerce
18 11 (0.33%) OpenLink