Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Java EE skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java EE over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 684 788 788
Rank change year-on-year +104 0 +117
Permanent jobs citing Java EE 15 90 190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.029% 0.091% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.18% 0.43% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 7 21 83
10th Percentile £48,580 £39,658 £45,500
25th Percentile £52,000 £46,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £52,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -25.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £63,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £88,511 £67,500 £89,852
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £47,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +68.42% -32.14% +38.61%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Java EE falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,503 21,058 31,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.22% 21.37% 30.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6,429 15,741 19,284
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,150
25th Percentile £50,750 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £79,600 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

Java EE
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Java EE in the UK

Java EE
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Java EE in the UK

Java EE
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java EE over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Java EE in the UK

Java EE
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java EE within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
UK excluding London +143 13 £80,000 +68.42% 9
Scotland +126 6 £80,000 +88.24%
Work from Home +157 5 £54,000 +13.68% 8
England +130 4 £54,000 +3.85% 7
Northern Ireland +35 4 - - 2
London +95 2 £54,000 +3.85%
South East +68 1 - - 4
East of England +48 1 £80,000 +25.49%
Wales +27 1 £47,307 -

Java EE
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 4 (26.67%) Apache
1 4 (26.67%) Apache Spark
1 4 (26.67%) WebSphere
2 2 (13.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (20.00%) Serverless
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Apache Hive
1 4 (26.67%) Big Data
1 4 (26.67%) Hadoop
1 4 (26.67%) MySQL
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (13.33%) DB2
2 2 (13.33%) IBM InfoSphere
3 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Eclipse
1 2 (13.33%) JUnit
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (6.67%) Artifactory
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Maven
2 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (66.67%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Banking
4 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (6.67%) Electronics
5 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 1 (6.67%) Marketing
5 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Developer
2 6 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Apache Spark Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Java Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Software Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Principal Java Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Software Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (6.67%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
6 1 (6.67%) GUI Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Lead
6 1 (6.67%) Lead Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Lead Software Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Principal DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (53.33%) J2EE
1 8 (53.33%) Spring
1 8 (53.33%) Spring Boot
2 4 (26.67%) Hibernate
2 4 (26.67%) Kafka
3 3 (20.00%) .NET
3 3 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 3 (20.00%) ASP.NET
3 3 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 3 (20.00%) REST
4 2 (13.33%) IBM Integration Bus
4 2 (13.33%) SOAP
4 2 (13.33%) Web Services
4 2 (13.33%) XML
5 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
5 1 (6.67%) CSS
5 1 (6.67%) Google Maps API
5 1 (6.67%) HTML
5 1 (6.67%) Node.js
5 1 (6.67%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (13.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Agile
1 10 (66.67%) Design Patterns
1 10 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
3 5 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 5 (33.33%) DevOps
3 5 (33.33%) Scrum
4 4 (26.67%) Concurrent Programming
4 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (26.67%) Low Latency
4 4 (26.67%) Multithreading
4 4 (26.67%) OO
4 4 (26.67%) OOA/OOD
4 4 (26.67%) OOD
4 4 (26.67%) OOP
4 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
4 4 (26.67%) SDLC
4 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
5 3 (20.00%) Microservices
5 3 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (46.67%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) C#
4 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
5 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle
1 4 (26.67%) Sybase
2 2 (13.33%) Curam
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) SAP