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

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 30 19
Rank change year-on-year -5 -11 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 3,773 6,647 8,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.41% 6.16% 9.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.49% 19.54% 23.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,688 4,013 5,489
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £46,863
25th Percentile £54,691 £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 £111,563 £100,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £142,500 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £59,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.84% -8.46% +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 16,779 34,024 36,940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.51% 31.55% 41.51%
Number of salaries quoted 10,724 25,247 25,610
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 3 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 3 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 -1 3,364 £75,000 - 2,791
UK excluding London -7 2,373 £60,000 +0.84% 1,493
Work from Home +2 1,669 £75,000 -3.23% 1,367
London -7 1,255 £105,000 +7.69% 1,597
North of England +36 1,043 £67,037 +7.26% 386
North West +26 887 £67,500 +10.20% 241
South East -35 343 £65,000 +8.33% 310
Scotland -10 325 £57,500 +9.52% 193
Midlands +48 261 £57,750 +10.00% 194
South West -2 219 £60,000 +4.35% 170
West Midlands +51 166 £60,000 +9.09% 136
East of England +55 157 £44,000 -30.98% 155
Yorkshire +38 114 £70,000 +14.29% 103
East Midlands +50 94 £47,500 -7.77% 58
North East +43 42 £45,000 -31.26% 43
Northern Ireland +21 18 £55,000 -35.29% 69
Wales -15 17 £47,690 -4.62% 33
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
1 240 (6.36%) Confluence
2 208 (5.51%) Apache
3 194 (5.14%) Apache Airflow
4 105 (2.78%) Apache Spark
5 28 (0.74%) Tomcat
6 27 (0.72%) 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 (0.27%) Camunda
12 9 (0.24%) CMS
12 9 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 9 (0.24%) WordPress
13 8 (0.21%) OpenStack
14 7 (0.19%) 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 (0.19%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.080%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 3 (0.080%) Trello
6 2 (0.053%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
2 8 (0.21%) Shopify
3 6 (0.16%) Endur
4 5 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.11%) Adaptiv
5 4 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.11%) Maximo
5 4 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.11%) SimCorp Dimension
6 3 (0.080%) Orchestrade
7 2 (0.053%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.053%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 1 (0.027%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.027%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.027%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.027%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.027%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.027%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,865 (49.43%) AWS
2 1,090 (28.89%) Azure
3 685 (18.16%) GCP
4 243 (6.44%) Serverless
5 217 (5.75%) Pulumi
6 179 (4.74%) dbt
7 171 (4.53%) AWS Lambda
8 148 (3.92%) Amazon EKS
9 136 (3.60%) Snowflake
10 131 (3.47%) Amazon EC2
10 131 (3.47%) GitHub
11 130 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
12 112 (2.97%) Amazon S3
13 82 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
14 81 (2.15%) SaaS
15 66 (1.75%) OpenShift
16 63 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 60 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
18 54 (1.43%) Amazon SQS
19 45 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 419 (11.11%) DNS
2 404 (10.71%) VPN
3 217 (5.75%) Broadband
4 31 (0.82%) TCP/IP
5 28 (0.74%) SSL
6 25 (0.66%) HTTP
7 21 (0.56%) Network Security
8 20 (0.53%) Firewall
9 19 (0.50%) SSH
10 12 (0.32%) FTP
10 12 (0.32%) SMTP
11 9 (0.24%) DMARC
12 8 (0.21%) HTTPS
13 7 (0.19%) Internet
13 7 (0.19%) SAN
14 6 (0.16%) Multicast
14 6 (0.16%) Reverse Proxy
15 5 (0.13%) DHCP
16 4 (0.11%) LAN
16 4 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 419 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 389 (10.31%) SQL Server
3 386 (10.23%) Relational Database
4 266 (7.05%) RDBMS
5 256 (6.79%) PostgreSQL
6 205 (5.43%) Amazon Athena
7 187 (4.96%) Apache Iceberg
8 177 (4.69%) Dremio
9 169 (4.48%) Apache Arrow
10 145 (3.84%) MongoDB
11 142 (3.76%) MySQL
12 127 (3.37%) Big Data
13 117 (3.10%) Apache Ignite
14 112 (2.97%) Data Lake
15 100 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
16 63 (1.67%) 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 (10.26%) JIRA
2 352 (9.33%) Maven
3 348 (9.22%) GitLab
4 325 (8.61%) Selenium
5 313 (8.30%) SonarQube
6 309 (8.19%) Cucumber
7 285 (7.55%) Git
8 276 (7.32%) Sonatype Nexus
9 275 (7.29%) Bitbucket
10 262 (6.94%) Jenkins
11 216 (5.72%) Jaeger
12 162 (4.29%) JUnit
13 77 (2.04%) Mockito
14 55 (1.46%) Artifactory
15 44 (1.17%) IntelliJ
16 37 (0.98%) Eclipse
17 36 (0.95%) Postman
18 34 (0.90%) JMeter
19 29 (0.77%) Gradle
20 27 (0.72%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,783 (47.26%) Finance
2 1,538 (40.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 873 (23.14%) Banking
4 687 (18.21%) Analytical Skills
5 642 (17.02%) Social Skills
6 425 (11.26%) Law
7 308 (8.16%) Front Office
8 293 (7.77%) Investment Banking
9 166 (4.40%) Public Sector
10 147 (3.90%) Marketing
11 142 (3.76%) Retail
12 90 (2.39%) Corporate Banking
13 63 (1.67%) Financial Institution
14 53 (1.40%) Legal
15 45 (1.19%) Games
16 29 (0.77%) Electronics
16 29 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
16 29 (0.77%) Telecoms
17 28 (0.74%) Manufacturing
17 28 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,362 (36.10%) Software Engineer
2 1,182 (31.33%) Developer
3 802 (21.26%) Senior
4 699 (18.53%) Lead
5 560 (14.84%) Java Engineer
6 546 (14.47%) Software Developer
7 464 (12.30%) Senior Software Engineer
8 416 (11.03%) Java Software Engineer
9 399 (10.58%) Java Developer
10 249 (6.60%) Team Leader
11 222 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
12 197 (5.22%) Lead Software Engineer
13 187 (4.96%) Python Engineer
14 185 (4.90%) Senior Java Engineer
15 162 (4.29%) AWS Software Engineer
16 136 (3.60%) Python Software Engineer
17 130 (3.45%) Senior Developer
18 129 (3.42%) Data Engineer
19 126 (3.34%) Senior Java Software Engineer
20 107 (2.84%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 827 (21.92%) Spring
2 707 (18.74%) Spring Boot
3 693 (18.37%) Kafka
4 684 (18.13%) React
5 457 (12.11%) HTML
6 451 (11.95%) .NET
7 412 (10.92%) CSS
8 396 (10.50%) Node.js
9 358 (9.49%) RESTful
10 332 (8.80%) REST
11 306 (8.11%) JPA
12 284 (7.53%) Hibernate
13 276 (7.32%) Redux
14 255 (6.76%) Elastic Stack
15 227 (6.02%) OpenTelemetry
16 215 (5.70%) AngularJS
17 169 (4.48%) Pandas
18 120 (3.18%) Web Services
19 116 (3.07%) Jest
20 112 (2.97%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 647 (17.15%) Cyberattack
2 342 (9.06%) Product Ownership
3 301 (7.98%) Enterprise Software
4 282 (7.47%) Cloud Native
5 239 (6.33%) Self-Motivation
6 224 (5.94%) Algorithms
7 194 (5.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 182 (4.82%) Fixed Income
8 182 (4.82%) Linux Command Line
9 180 (4.77%) Derivative
10 177 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
11 175 (4.64%) Equities
12 117 (3.10%) Hedge funds
13 109 (2.89%) Public Cloud
14 80 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
15 78 (2.07%) Management Information System
16 74 (1.96%) Data Structures
17 60 (1.59%) Pricing Data
18 51 (1.35%) Virtual Team
19 50 (1.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1,120 (29.68%) Linux
2 513 (13.60%) Android
3 291 (7.71%) Unix
4 98 (2.60%) Windows
5 50 (1.33%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.42%) VMS
7 13 (0.34%) Amazon Linux
8 9 (0.24%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.19%) 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 (0.027%) CentOS
13 1 (0.027%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.027%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,504 (66.37%) Agile
2 1,795 (47.57%) Software Engineering
3 1,162 (30.80%) CI/CD
4 1,081 (28.65%) Microservices
5 1,067 (28.28%) DevOps
6 841 (22.29%) Containerisation
7 822 (21.79%) Mentoring
8 756 (20.04%) SDLC
9 652 (17.28%) OO
10 649 (17.20%) Test Automation
11 637 (16.88%) Mathematics
12 576 (15.27%) Problem-Solving
13 561 (14.87%) OOP
14 548 (14.52%) Full-Stack Development
15 546 (14.47%) Design Patterns
16 510 (13.52%) Line Management
17 505 (13.38%) Performance Optimisation
18 483 (12.80%) Android Development
19 482 (12.77%) TDD
20 480 (12.72%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,941 (51.44%) Python
2 1,308 (34.67%) JavaScript
3 1,011 (26.80%) Go
4 952 (25.23%) C++
5 929 (24.62%) SQL
6 479 (12.70%) TypeScript
7 440 (11.66%) C#
8 400 (10.60%) Rust
9 263 (6.97%) Bash
10 142 (3.76%) C
11 124 (3.29%) PHP
12 120 (3.18%) Kotlin
13 74 (1.96%) PowerShell
14 73 (1.93%) Scala
15 68 (1.80%) Ruby
16 62 (1.64%) R
17 56 (1.48%) MATLAB
17 56 (1.48%) Shell Script
18 49 (1.30%) Dart
19 44 (1.17%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 879 (23.30%) Security Cleared
2 699 (18.53%) DV Cleared
3 516 (13.68%) Degree
4 477 (12.64%) AWS Certification
5 270 (7.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 222 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 181 (4.80%) AWS Certified Developer
8 150 (3.98%) SC Cleared
9 84 (2.23%) Master's Degree
10 37 (0.98%) PhD
11 27 (0.72%) Azure Certification
12 25 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
13 17 (0.45%) HND
13 17 (0.45%) ISTQB
14 7 (0.19%) CFA
14 7 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.19%) PMI Certification
14 7 (0.19%) PMP
15 4 (0.11%) Numerate Degree
15 4 (0.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 397 (10.52%) QA
2 114 (3.02%) Accessibility
3 47 (1.25%) GDPR
4 30 (0.80%) HIPAA
5 28 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (0.64%) PCI DSS
7 20 (0.53%) NIST
8 18 (0.48%) SLA
9 13 (0.34%) Data Quality
9 13 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.16%) ISO 9001
11 5 (0.13%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.080%) GRC
13 3 (0.080%) Software Quality Assurance
14 2 (0.053%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.053%) IEC 61508
14 2 (0.053%) ITGC
15 1 (0.027%) DICOM
15 1 (0.027%) HL7
System Software
1 1,502 (39.81%) Docker
2 30 (0.80%) 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 6 (0.16%) 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 (0.080%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.080%) 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 (0.027%) NDS
Systems Management
1 1,225 (32.47%) Kubernetes
2 736 (19.51%) Ansible
3 570 (15.11%) Terraform
4 304 (8.06%) Prometheus
5 235 (6.23%) Argo
6 227 (6.02%) Kustomize
7 103 (2.73%) 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 (0.19%) 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 (9.20%) Google
2 269 (7.13%) Solace
3 192 (5.09%) Oracle
4 180 (4.77%) Microsoft
5 70 (1.86%) Splunk
6 66 (1.75%) Databricks
6 66 (1.75%) IBM
7 53 (1.40%) Dynatrace
8 43 (1.14%) ServiceNow
9 36 (0.95%) Red Hat
10 35 (0.93%) SAP
11 28 (0.74%) Atlassian
12 24 (0.64%) Informatica
13 23 (0.61%) Sybase
14 21 (0.56%) 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