IntelliJ Jobs

JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring IntelliJ skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited IntelliJ over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 646 858 815
Rank change year-on-year +212 -43 +248
Permanent jobs citing IntelliJ 56 49 153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.047% 0.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.93% 0.51% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 39 44 88
10th Percentile - £52,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £59,375 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £120,000 £80,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +35.59% -9.23%
75th Percentile £137,500 £101,875 £67,500
90th Percentile - £120,250 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £75,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +36.36% +10.00%

All Development Application Skills
UK

IntelliJ falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 6,028 9,520 13,459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.79% 9.18% 14.05%
Number of salaries quoted 3,562 6,582 8,354
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £58,700 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.62% -9.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,560 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.65% -4.35% +4.55%

IntelliJ
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IntelliJ in the UK

IntelliJ
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for IntelliJ in the UK

IntelliJ
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IntelliJ over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IntelliJ in the UK

IntelliJ
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IntelliJ within the UK over the 6 months to 31 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 +178 54 £120,000 +54.84% 24
London +132 38 £125,000 +31.58% 13
Work from Home +136 30 £60,000 -17.24% 22
UK excluding London +165 18 £60,000 -20.00% 14
Midlands +75 14 £60,000 -7.69% 4
West Midlands +59 7 £60,000 -7.69%
East Midlands - 7 £60,000 - 4
Scotland - 2 £85,000 -
South East +74 1 £75,000 +7.14% 3
Yorkshire +55 1 £60,000 +23.08% 1
North of England +21 1 £60,000 -25.00% 3

IntelliJ
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 2 (3.57%) CICS
1 2 (3.57%) Confluence
2 1 (1.79%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 52 (92.86%) AWS
2 35 (62.50%) Amazon EC2
3 16 (28.57%) Azure
3 16 (28.57%) SaaS
4 14 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
4 14 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 14 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 14 (25.00%) Datadog
4 14 (25.00%) Serverless
5 1 (1.79%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (39.29%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (28.57%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.57%) DB2
4 1 (1.79%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.79%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 31 (55.36%) JUnit
2 29 (51.79%) Mockito
3 18 (32.14%) Git
4 16 (28.57%) GitLab
4 16 (28.57%) Jenkins
5 15 (26.79%) Eclipse
5 15 (26.79%) Jasmine
5 15 (26.79%) Karma Test Runner
5 15 (26.79%) Maven
5 15 (26.79%) Protractor
6 14 (25.00%) Cucumber
7 2 (3.57%) Bitbucket
7 2 (3.57%) Gradle
7 2 (3.57%) JIRA
8 1 (1.79%) Android Studio
8 1 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.79%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.79%) Visual Studio
8 1 (1.79%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (1.79%) Xcode
General
1 15 (26.79%) Finance
Job Titles
1 33 (58.93%) Developer
2 31 (55.36%) Java Developer
3 28 (50.00%) Senior
4 21 (37.50%) Java Engineer
5 15 (26.79%) SaaS Developer
6 14 (25.00%) AWS Developer
6 14 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
6 14 (25.00%) DevOps Developer
6 14 (25.00%) Java Pricing Developer
6 14 (25.00%) Pricing Developer
6 14 (25.00%) Senior Developer
6 14 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
6 14 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 14 (25.00%) Senior Java Engineer
7 12 (21.43%) Backend Developer
8 7 (12.50%) Lead
8 7 (12.50%) Lead Java Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) Software Engineer
10 1 (1.79%) Android Developer
10 1 (1.79%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (64.29%) React
2 16 (28.57%) Hibernate
2 16 (28.57%) JPA
2 16 (28.57%) Spring
3 15 (26.79%) AngularJS
3 15 (26.79%) JMS
3 15 (26.79%) RabbitMQ
3 15 (26.79%) Spring Boot
4 14 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
4 14 (25.00%) REST
5 10 (17.86%) RESTful
6 3 (5.36%) JSON
7 2 (3.57%) SOAP
7 2 (3.57%) Web Services
7 2 (3.57%) WSDL
8 1 (1.79%) JWT
8 1 (1.79%) Kafka
8 1 (1.79%) React Native
8 1 (1.79%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 15 (26.79%) Algorithms
2 14 (25.00%) Credit Derivative
2 14 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.79%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (53.57%) Linux
2 2 (3.57%) zOS
3 1 (1.79%) Android
3 1 (1.79%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (64.29%) Containerisation
2 22 (39.29%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (37.50%) Application Security
3 21 (37.50%) Creative Thinking
4 19 (33.93%) CI/CD
4 19 (33.93%) Microservices
5 18 (32.14%) Agile
6 16 (28.57%) DevOps
6 16 (28.57%) Software Engineering
6 16 (28.57%) Unit Testing
7 15 (26.79%) Deployment Automation
7 15 (26.79%) Software Testing
7 15 (26.79%) TDD
8 14 (25.00%) Analytics
8 14 (25.00%) Emotional Intelligence
8 14 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (25.00%) Open Source
8 14 (25.00%) SDLC
8 14 (25.00%) Security Testing
9 7 (12.50%) Innovative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 54 (96.43%) Java
2 17 (30.36%) SQL
3 14 (25.00%) C++
4 2 (3.57%) Bash
4 2 (3.57%) COBOL
5 1 (1.79%) C
5 1 (1.79%) Go
5 1 (1.79%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.79%) Python
5 1 (1.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (25.00%) Degree
1 14 (25.00%) Master's Degree
1 14 (25.00%) PhD
System Software
1 37 (66.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (41.07%) Kubernetes
2 15 (26.79%) Ansible
2 15 (26.79%) Terraform
3 2 (3.57%) CA Endevor
4 1 (1.79%) Argo
4 1 (1.79%) Grafana
Vendors
1 31 (55.36%) IBM
2 2 (3.57%) Splunk
3 1 (1.79%) Google
3 1 (1.79%) Oracle
3 1 (1.79%) Ping Identity
3 1 (1.79%) Red Hat