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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 29 19
Rank change year-on-year -5 -10 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 3,785 6,651 8,544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.36% 6.22% 9.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.42% 19.72% 23.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,694 4,020 5,511
10th Percentile £40,375 £39,000 £46,891
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,805 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.77% -4.77% +10.71%
75th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £142,500 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% -9.23% +13.04%

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 16,884 33,730 36,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.37% 31.56% 41.39%
Number of salaries quoted 10,803 24,985 25,806
10th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 -2 3,373 £75,000 - 5,880
UK excluding London -6 2,377 £60,000 +1.69% 2,759
Work from Home +1 1,677 £77,500 -3.13% 2,483
London -8 1,264 £105,000 +10.53% 3,580
North of England +37 1,040 £67,037 +7.26% 723
North West +25 887 £67,500 +8.00% 439
South East -35 346 £65,000 +8.33% 594
Scotland -10 328 £57,500 +9.52% 290
Midlands +53 262 £58,000 +10.48% 365
South West -3 219 £60,000 +4.35% 335
West Midlands +45 168 £60,000 +9.09% 231
East of England +45 157 £44,000 -32.31% 280
Yorkshire +37 110 £70,000 +16.67% 215
East Midlands +48 93 £47,500 -7.77% 132
North East +42 43 £45,000 -31.26% 69
Northern Ireland +19 18 £55,000 -35.29% 115
Wales -16 17 £47,690 -4.62% 71
Isle of Man - 1 £52,500 - 1

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
1 241 (6.37%) Confluence
2 205 (5.42%) Apache
3 191 (5.05%) Apache Airflow
4 102 (2.69%) Apache Spark
5 28 (0.74%) Tomcat
6 27 (0.71%) Jupyter
7 19 (0.50%) JBoss
8 13 (0.34%) nginx
8 13 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
8 13 (0.34%) SharePoint
9 12 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
10 11 (0.29%) IIS
11 10 (0.26%) Camunda
12 9 (0.24%) OpenStack
12 9 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 8 (0.21%) CMS
13 8 (0.21%) WordPress
14 7 (0.18%) WebSphere
15 5 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
16 4 (0.11%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 20 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.24%) Chatbot
4 7 (0.18%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.079%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 3 (0.079%) Trello
6 2 (0.053%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
2 7 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
2 7 (0.18%) Shopify
3 6 (0.16%) Endur
4 5 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.11%) Adaptiv
5 4 (0.11%) Maximo
5 4 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.11%) SimCorp Dimension
6 3 (0.079%) Orchestrade
7 2 (0.053%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.053%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 1 (0.026%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.026%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.026%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.026%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.026%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.026%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,879 (49.64%) AWS
2 1,089 (28.77%) Azure
3 685 (18.10%) GCP
4 241 (6.37%) Serverless
5 217 (5.73%) Pulumi
6 176 (4.65%) dbt
7 168 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
8 149 (3.94%) Amazon EKS
9 136 (3.59%) Snowflake
10 133 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
10 133 (3.51%) GitHub
11 128 (3.38%) Amazon ECS
12 115 (3.04%) Amazon S3
13 84 (2.22%) SaaS
14 82 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
15 65 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 64 (1.69%) OpenShift
17 60 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
18 55 (1.45%) Amazon SQS
19 45 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 421 (11.12%) DNS
2 404 (10.67%) VPN
3 217 (5.73%) Broadband
4 32 (0.85%) TCP/IP
5 28 (0.74%) SSL
6 27 (0.71%) HTTP
7 22 (0.58%) Firewall
8 21 (0.55%) Network Security
8 21 (0.55%) SSH
9 14 (0.37%) FTP
9 14 (0.37%) SMTP
10 9 (0.24%) DMARC
11 8 (0.21%) HTTPS
12 7 (0.18%) Internet
12 7 (0.18%) SAN
13 6 (0.16%) Multicast
13 6 (0.16%) Reverse Proxy
14 5 (0.13%) DHCP
15 4 (0.11%) LAN
15 4 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 417 (11.02%) NoSQL
2 392 (10.36%) SQL Server
3 388 (10.25%) Relational Database
4 266 (7.03%) RDBMS
5 254 (6.71%) PostgreSQL
6 202 (5.34%) Amazon Athena
7 184 (4.86%) Apache Iceberg
8 174 (4.60%) Dremio
9 166 (4.39%) Apache Arrow
10 143 (3.78%) MongoDB
11 141 (3.73%) MySQL
12 127 (3.36%) Big Data
13 114 (3.01%) Apache Ignite
14 112 (2.96%) Data Lake
15 100 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
16 65 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
17 51 (1.35%) DynamoDB
18 42 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
19 37 (0.98%) Hadoop
20 36 (0.95%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 387 (10.22%) JIRA
2 352 (9.30%) Maven
3 348 (9.19%) GitLab
4 326 (8.61%) Selenium
5 312 (8.24%) SonarQube
6 310 (8.19%) Cucumber
7 287 (7.58%) Git
8 277 (7.32%) Sonatype Nexus
9 275 (7.27%) Bitbucket
10 263 (6.95%) Jenkins
11 216 (5.71%) Jaeger
12 162 (4.28%) JUnit
13 77 (2.03%) Mockito
14 52 (1.37%) Artifactory
15 44 (1.16%) IntelliJ
16 37 (0.98%) Eclipse
16 37 (0.98%) Postman
17 34 (0.90%) JMeter
18 29 (0.77%) Gradle
19 28 (0.74%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,784 (47.13%) Finance
2 1,538 (40.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 869 (22.96%) Banking
4 688 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
5 640 (16.91%) Social Skills
6 425 (11.23%) Law
7 313 (8.27%) Front Office
8 294 (7.77%) Investment Banking
9 167 (4.41%) Public Sector
10 147 (3.88%) Marketing
11 142 (3.75%) Retail
12 90 (2.38%) Corporate Banking
13 63 (1.66%) Financial Institution
14 53 (1.40%) Legal
15 45 (1.19%) Games
16 31 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
17 29 (0.77%) Electronics
17 29 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
17 29 (0.77%) Telecoms
18 28 (0.74%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1,366 (36.09%) Software Engineer
2 1,194 (31.55%) Developer
3 801 (21.16%) Senior
4 707 (18.68%) Lead
5 565 (14.93%) Java Engineer
6 546 (14.43%) Software Developer
7 462 (12.21%) Senior Software Engineer
8 419 (11.07%) Java Software Engineer
9 402 (10.62%) Java Developer
10 249 (6.58%) Team Leader
11 219 (5.79%) AWS Engineer
12 202 (5.34%) Lead Software Engineer
13 185 (4.89%) Senior Java Engineer
14 183 (4.83%) Python Engineer
15 163 (4.31%) AWS Software Engineer
16 135 (3.57%) Python Software Engineer
17 130 (3.43%) Senior Developer
18 126 (3.33%) Data Engineer
18 126 (3.33%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 109 (2.88%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 823 (21.74%) Spring
2 704 (18.60%) Spring Boot
3 698 (18.44%) Kafka
4 694 (18.34%) React
5 457 (12.07%) HTML
6 451 (11.92%) .NET
7 412 (10.89%) CSS
8 404 (10.67%) Node.js
9 358 (9.46%) RESTful
10 332 (8.77%) REST
11 306 (8.08%) JPA
12 285 (7.53%) Hibernate
13 284 (7.50%) Redux
14 256 (6.76%) Elastic Stack
15 227 (6.00%) OpenTelemetry
16 216 (5.71%) AngularJS
17 168 (4.44%) Pandas
18 121 (3.20%) Web Services
19 116 (3.06%) Jest
20 109 (2.88%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 647 (17.09%) Cyberattack
2 342 (9.04%) Product Ownership
3 301 (7.95%) Enterprise Software
4 283 (7.48%) Cloud Native
5 239 (6.31%) Self-Motivation
6 224 (5.92%) Algorithms
7 194 (5.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 190 (5.02%) Fixed Income
9 182 (4.81%) Linux Command Line
10 180 (4.76%) Derivative
11 178 (4.70%) Distributed Systems
12 175 (4.62%) Equities
13 117 (3.09%) Hedge funds
14 108 (2.85%) Public Cloud
15 80 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
16 79 (2.09%) Management Information System
17 74 (1.96%) Data Structures
18 60 (1.59%) Pricing Data
19 52 (1.37%) Virtual Team
20 51 (1.35%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1,123 (29.67%) Linux
2 515 (13.61%) Android
3 291 (7.69%) Unix
4 99 (2.62%) Windows
5 52 (1.37%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.48%) VMS
7 15 (0.40%) Amazon Linux
8 9 (0.24%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.13%) Rocky
11 4 (0.11%) AIX
11 4 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
12 2 (0.053%) Debian
12 2 (0.053%) Solaris
12 2 (0.053%) Windows Server
12 2 (0.053%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.053%) zOS
13 1 (0.026%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.026%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.026%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,507 (66.24%) Agile
2 1,797 (47.48%) Software Engineering
3 1,156 (30.54%) CI/CD
4 1,080 (28.53%) Microservices
5 1,066 (28.16%) DevOps
6 838 (22.14%) Containerisation
7 825 (21.80%) Mentoring
8 755 (19.95%) SDLC
9 653 (17.25%) OO
10 649 (17.15%) Test Automation
11 637 (16.83%) Mathematics
12 579 (15.30%) Problem-Solving
13 565 (14.93%) OOP
14 553 (14.61%) Full-Stack Development
15 547 (14.45%) Design Patterns
16 510 (13.47%) Line Management
17 505 (13.34%) Performance Optimisation
18 483 (12.76%) Android Development
19 481 (12.71%) Machine Learning
20 476 (12.58%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,946 (51.41%) Python
2 1,320 (34.87%) JavaScript
3 1,017 (26.87%) Go
4 952 (25.15%) C++
5 930 (24.57%) SQL
6 490 (12.95%) TypeScript
7 444 (11.73%) C#
8 400 (10.57%) Rust
9 263 (6.95%) Bash
10 146 (3.86%) C
11 124 (3.28%) PHP
12 122 (3.22%) Kotlin
13 76 (2.01%) PowerShell
14 73 (1.93%) Scala
15 68 (1.80%) Ruby
16 62 (1.64%) R
17 56 (1.48%) Shell Script
18 55 (1.45%) MATLAB
19 49 (1.29%) Dart
20 46 (1.22%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 878 (23.20%) Security Cleared
2 697 (18.41%) DV Cleared
3 520 (13.74%) Degree
4 479 (12.66%) AWS Certification
5 274 (7.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 223 (5.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 181 (4.78%) AWS Certified Developer
8 151 (3.99%) SC Cleared
9 85 (2.25%) Master's Degree
10 37 (0.98%) PhD
11 29 (0.77%) Azure Certification
12 25 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
13 17 (0.45%) HND
13 17 (0.45%) ISTQB
14 7 (0.18%) CFA
14 7 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.18%) PMI Certification
14 7 (0.18%) PMP
15 4 (0.11%) Numerate Degree
15 4 (0.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 398 (10.52%) QA
2 114 (3.01%) Accessibility
3 48 (1.27%) GDPR
4 31 (0.82%) HIPAA
4 31 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (0.63%) PCI DSS
6 21 (0.55%) NIST
7 18 (0.48%) SLA
8 13 (0.34%) Data Quality
8 13 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (0.24%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.13%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.079%) GRC
12 3 (0.079%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.053%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.053%) IEC 61508
13 2 (0.053%) ITGC
14 1 (0.026%) DICOM
14 1 (0.026%) HL7
System Software
1 1,498 (39.58%) Docker
2 32 (0.85%) Active Directory
3 23 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (0.40%) HDFS
5 8 (0.21%) Apache Flume
5 8 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (0.18%) DFS Replication
7 4 (0.11%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.11%) KVM
7 4 (0.11%) Postfix
7 4 (0.11%) Xen
8 3 (0.079%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.079%) vSphere
9 2 (0.053%) Firmware
9 2 (0.053%) NFS
9 2 (0.053%) Squid
9 2 (0.053%) SRDF
9 2 (0.053%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 2 (0.053%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.026%) NDS
Systems Management
1 1,218 (32.18%) Kubernetes
2 736 (19.45%) Ansible
3 567 (14.98%) Terraform
4 306 (8.08%) Prometheus
5 235 (6.21%) Argo
6 227 (6.00%) Kustomize
7 105 (2.77%) Grafana
8 36 (0.95%) Kibana
9 29 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
10 15 (0.40%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.32%) Istio
11 12 (0.32%) Packer
12 9 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (0.24%) Puppet
13 8 (0.21%) Oozie
14 7 (0.18%) Control-M
15 5 (0.13%) HP Fortify
15 5 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
16 4 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
16 4 (0.11%) logstash
Vendors
1 347 (9.17%) Google
2 269 (7.11%) Solace
3 192 (5.07%) Oracle
4 184 (4.86%) Microsoft
5 70 (1.85%) Splunk
6 66 (1.74%) Databricks
6 66 (1.74%) IBM
7 53 (1.40%) Dynatrace
8 46 (1.22%) ServiceNow
9 36 (0.95%) Red Hat
10 35 (0.92%) SAP
11 28 (0.74%) Atlassian
12 24 (0.63%) Informatica
13 23 (0.61%) Sybase
14 21 (0.55%) MuleSoft
15 20 (0.53%) Guidewire
16 18 (0.48%) Salesforce
17 15 (0.40%) Bloomberg
18 14 (0.37%) Cloudera
18 14 (0.37%) Foundry