Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE, JSE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Java SE skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java SE 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 696 875 972
Rank change year-on-year +179 +97 -261
Permanent jobs citing Java SE 3 3 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.006% 0.003% 0.006%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.035% 0.014% 0.019%
Number of salaries quoted 0 3 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £76,250 £26,224
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £77,500 £26,650
Median % change year-on-year - +190.81% -63.24%
75th Percentile - £78,750 £48,956
90th Percentile - - £76,875
UK excluding London median annual salary - £77,500 £26,650
% change year-on-year - +190.81% -59.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Java SE 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 SE
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Java SE in the UK

Java SE
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Java SE in the UK

Java SE
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java SE 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 +205 3 - - 3
England +188 3 - - 5
South East - 3 - - 2

Java SE
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Gatling
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) JUnit
1 3 (100.00%) Mockito
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Applications Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Kafka
1 3 (100.00%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (100.00%) Digital Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes