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 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 28 18
Rank change year-on-year -16 -10 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,472 6,764 12,049
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.89% 7.30% 10.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.04% 20.94% 24.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,801 3,864 6,844
10th Percentile £41,000 £38,750 £44,413
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £75,891
Median % change year-on-year - -7.76% +8.42%
75th Percentile £110,000 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £121,724 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,836 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.61% -4.00% +8.70%

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 15,411 32,300 48,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.49% 34.86% 43.62%
Number of salaries quoted 11,524 24,726 30,584
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,505 £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 £82,500 £78,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +3.14%

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -12 2,205 £70,000 -3.45% 3,009
UK excluding London -33 1,377 £57,836 -3.61% 1,297
London -11 1,044 £105,000 +13.51% 2,053
Work from Home -9 1,023 £71,991 +2.01% 1,519
North of England -9 435 £57,698 -9.85% 304
North West -19 290 £57,560 -7.90% 189
South East -34 283 £63,250 -0.39% 388
South West -18 190 £60,000 +4.35% 141
Scotland -36 173 £58,000 -3.33% 197
Midlands -32 130 £47,500 -15.18% 117
East of England +60 124 £50,000 -20.00% 107
Yorkshire +15 108 £70,000 +7.31% 66
West Midlands -47 83 £53,688 -6.63% 74
East Midlands +16 46 £42,550 -18.95% 40
North East +24 37 £55,750 -14.84% 50
Wales -13 32 £44,672 -10.66% 25
Northern Ireland -3 11 £55,000 -35.29% 31
Isle of Man - 2 £38,000 -

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
1 235 (9.51%) Apache
2 215 (8.70%) Apache Airflow
3 122 (4.94%) Apache Spark
4 71 (2.87%) Confluence
5 25 (1.01%) Jupyter
5 25 (1.01%) Tomcat
6 23 (0.93%) CMS
7 21 (0.85%) WordPress
8 19 (0.77%) nginx
9 15 (0.61%) JBoss
10 14 (0.57%) SharePoint
11 11 (0.44%) Red Hat Fuse
12 10 (0.40%) Camunda
12 10 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 9 (0.36%) OpenStack
14 8 (0.32%) NetWeaver
15 7 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 7 (0.28%) WebSphere
16 6 (0.24%) Alfresco
16 6 (0.24%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 27 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 27 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.20%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.16%) Trello
4 3 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.081%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.081%) InDesign
5 2 (0.081%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.081%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.081%) SPSS
6 1 (0.040%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.040%) EPLAN
6 1 (0.040%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 1 (0.040%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 18 (0.73%) Shopify
2 12 (0.49%) Endur
3 5 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 5 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.12%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.081%) Maximo
5 2 (0.081%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 2 (0.081%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.081%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.040%) iTrent
6 1 (0.040%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.040%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.040%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.040%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.040%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,040 (42.07%) AWS
2 584 (23.62%) Azure
3 361 (14.60%) GCP
4 241 (9.75%) Serverless
5 208 (8.41%) dbt
6 180 (7.28%) AWS Lambda
7 170 (6.88%) Amazon ECS
8 140 (5.66%) GitHub
9 135 (5.46%) Snowflake
10 124 (5.02%) Amazon EC2
11 113 (4.57%) SaaS
12 109 (4.41%) Amazon EKS
13 104 (4.21%) OpenShift
14 88 (3.56%) Amazon S3
15 66 (2.67%) Dagster
16 59 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
17 57 (2.31%) AWS CloudFormation
18 54 (2.18%) Power Platform
19 42 (1.70%) Amazon SQS
20 34 (1.38%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 30 (1.21%) TCP/IP
2 27 (1.09%) Network Security
3 17 (0.69%) Firewall
4 10 (0.40%) HTTP
5 9 (0.36%) DNS
6 7 (0.28%) SAN
6 7 (0.28%) SSL
7 5 (0.20%) Bluetooth
7 5 (0.20%) Internet
7 5 (0.20%) LAN
7 5 (0.20%) RS-232
7 5 (0.20%) RS-422
7 5 (0.20%) Software-Defined Radio
7 5 (0.20%) WAN
8 4 (0.16%) Multicast
9 3 (0.12%) FTP
9 3 (0.12%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.12%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.12%) VPN
10 2 (0.081%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (8.90%) Amazon Athena
2 204 (8.25%) Apache Iceberg
3 203 (8.21%) Dremio
4 173 (7.00%) Apache Arrow
5 172 (6.96%) NoSQL
6 155 (6.27%) PostgreSQL
7 154 (6.23%) SQL Server
8 141 (5.70%) Apache Ignite
9 139 (5.62%) Relational Database
10 133 (5.38%) MySQL
11 118 (4.77%) Data Lake
12 115 (4.65%) Big Data
13 93 (3.76%) MongoDB
14 49 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
15 48 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
16 46 (1.86%) DynamoDB
17 43 (1.74%) Power BI
18 39 (1.58%) Hadoop
19 36 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
20 34 (1.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 305 (12.34%) Git
2 233 (9.43%) Jenkins
3 162 (6.55%) JIRA
4 139 (5.62%) JUnit
5 109 (4.41%) Artifactory
6 96 (3.88%) Maven
7 93 (3.76%) GitLab
8 66 (2.67%) Selenium
9 65 (2.63%) Mockito
10 62 (2.51%) Eclipse
11 60 (2.43%) Cucumber
12 55 (2.22%) IntelliJ
13 53 (2.14%) Bitbucket
14 52 (2.10%) SonarQube
15 42 (1.70%) Gradle
16 38 (1.54%) JMeter
17 29 (1.17%) Eclipse RCP
18 28 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
19 27 (1.09%) Postman
20 26 (1.05%) Cypress.io
General
1 931 (37.66%) Finance
2 572 (23.14%) Social Skills
3 525 (21.24%) Banking
4 306 (12.38%) Front Office
5 197 (7.97%) Analytical Skills
6 168 (6.80%) Investment Banking
7 124 (5.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 120 (4.85%) Public Sector
9 102 (4.13%) Law
10 72 (2.91%) Aerospace
11 60 (2.43%) Games
12 56 (2.27%) Financial Institution
13 50 (2.02%) Retail
14 44 (1.78%) Electronics
15 40 (1.62%) Marketing
16 32 (1.29%) Manufacturing
17 31 (1.25%) Legal
17 31 (1.25%) Telecoms
18 27 (1.09%) Retail Banking
19 25 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 719 (29.09%) Developer
2 680 (27.51%) Software Engineer
3 621 (25.12%) Senior
4 392 (15.86%) Lead
5 320 (12.94%) Java Developer
6 284 (11.49%) Senior Software Engineer
7 260 (10.52%) Java Engineer
8 222 (8.98%) AWS Engineer
9 179 (7.24%) Python Engineer
10 175 (7.08%) Data Engineer
11 149 (6.03%) Java Software Engineer
12 143 (5.78%) Senior Developer
13 133 (5.38%) DevOps Engineer
14 121 (4.89%) Software Developer
15 115 (4.65%) AWS DevOps
16 110 (4.45%) Architect
16 110 (4.45%) Senior Java Engineer
17 109 (4.41%) AWS Software Engineer
18 97 (3.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 83 (3.36%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 407 (16.46%) React
2 400 (16.18%) Spring
3 355 (14.36%) Spring Boot
4 322 (13.03%) Kafka
5 213 (8.62%) AngularJS
6 197 (7.97%) .NET
7 193 (7.81%) HTML
8 185 (7.48%) CSS
8 185 (7.48%) Node.js
9 184 (7.44%) PySpark
10 175 (7.08%) REST
11 166 (6.72%) RESTful
12 119 (4.81%) J2EE
13 113 (4.57%) Pandas
14 111 (4.49%) NumPy
15 108 (4.37%) SciPy
16 100 (4.05%) Web Services
17 96 (3.88%) Hibernate
18 84 (3.40%) gRPC
19 66 (2.67%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 155 (6.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 146 (5.91%) Fixed Income
3 140 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
3 140 (5.66%) Equities
4 137 (5.54%) Algorithms
5 128 (5.18%) Derivative
6 124 (5.02%) Management Information System
7 118 (4.77%) Hedge funds
8 115 (4.65%) Cloud Native
9 99 (4.00%) Product Ownership
10 70 (2.83%) Mobile App
11 64 (2.59%) Public Cloud
12 56 (2.27%) Data Structures
13 55 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
14 47 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
15 39 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
15 39 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
16 37 (1.50%) Mobile Games
17 36 (1.46%) Blockchain
18 32 (1.29%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 289 (11.69%) Linux
2 109 (4.41%) Windows
3 82 (3.32%) Android
4 76 (3.07%) Unix
5 63 (2.55%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.40%) VMS
7 9 (0.36%) AIX
7 9 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.32%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.24%) VxWorks
10 4 (0.16%) Rocky
11 3 (0.12%) CentOS
11 3 (0.12%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.12%) Solaris
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.081%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.040%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.040%) Windows Phone 7
13 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,217 (49.23%) Agile
2 1,205 (48.75%) Software Engineering
3 646 (26.13%) CI/CD
4 617 (24.96%) DevOps
5 568 (22.98%) Microservices
6 534 (21.60%) Problem-Solving
7 454 (18.37%) Computer Science
8 412 (16.67%) Mentoring
9 383 (15.49%) SDLC
10 369 (14.93%) Test Automation
11 324 (13.11%) TDD
12 282 (11.41%) Containerisation
13 275 (11.12%) OO
14 243 (9.83%) Asset Management
15 241 (9.75%) Full-Stack Development
16 237 (9.59%) Continuous Improvement
17 236 (9.55%) Software Testing
18 235 (9.51%) Analytics
19 197 (7.97%) Data Engineering
20 191 (7.73%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,047 (42.35%) Python
2 578 (23.38%) SQL
3 538 (21.76%) JavaScript
4 476 (19.26%) C#
5 301 (12.18%) C++
6 276 (11.17%) TypeScript
7 194 (7.85%) Go
8 133 (5.38%) C
9 121 (4.89%) Rust
10 115 (4.65%) Kotlin
11 94 (3.80%) PHP
12 92 (3.72%) Scala
13 50 (2.02%) Objective-C
14 47 (1.90%) Bash
14 47 (1.90%) Shell Script
15 45 (1.82%) PowerShell
16 39 (1.58%) Ada
17 38 (1.54%) Ruby
18 30 (1.21%) Swift
19 27 (1.09%) R
Qualifications
1 703 (28.44%) Degree
2 248 (10.03%) Security Cleared
3 239 (9.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 134 (5.42%) SC Cleared
5 115 (4.65%) Master's Degree
6 60 (2.43%) AWS Certification
6 60 (2.43%) DV Cleared
7 44 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 43 (1.74%) PhD
9 36 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 25 (1.01%) HND
11 19 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
12 15 (0.61%) ISTQB
13 11 (0.44%) OCP
13 11 (0.44%) Oracle Certification
14 10 (0.40%) Azure Certification
15 7 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
16 5 (0.20%) CISSP
16 5 (0.20%) Network+ Certification
17 4 (0.16%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (5.46%) QA
2 43 (1.74%) Accessibility
3 38 (1.54%) GDPR
4 23 (0.93%) HIPAA
5 19 (0.77%) Data Quality
6 15 (0.61%) SLA
7 11 (0.44%) NIST
8 9 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.16%) Def Stans
9 4 (0.16%) IEC 61508
9 4 (0.16%) ISO 13485
9 4 (0.16%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.12%) IEC 62304
10 3 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.081%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.081%) SEPA
11 2 (0.081%) TARGET2
11 2 (0.081%) WCAG
12 1 (0.040%) COBIT
System Software
1 583 (23.58%) Docker
2 28 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (0.49%) Active Directory
4 10 (0.40%) Firmware
5 7 (0.28%) HDFS
6 6 (0.24%) Apache Flume
6 6 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (0.20%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.081%) KVM
9 2 (0.081%) NDS
9 2 (0.081%) NFS
9 2 (0.081%) SRDF
9 2 (0.081%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 2 (0.081%) Xen
10 1 (0.040%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.040%) Lustre
10 1 (0.040%) NetIQ eDirectory
10 1 (0.040%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.040%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 621 (25.12%) Kubernetes
2 289 (11.69%) Terraform
3 85 (3.44%) Ansible
4 68 (2.75%) Grafana
5 67 (2.71%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.21%) Kibana
7 21 (0.85%) Argo
8 20 (0.81%) Istio
9 8 (0.32%) Puppet
10 6 (0.24%) Kustomize
11 5 (0.20%) CA Endevor
11 5 (0.20%) Oozie
11 5 (0.20%) Packer
11 5 (0.20%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.20%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 4 (0.16%) Consul
12 4 (0.16%) Control-M
13 3 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.12%) Nagios
Vendors
1 202 (8.17%) Oracle
2 172 (6.96%) Microsoft
3 158 (6.39%) Google
4 104 (4.21%) IBM
5 53 (2.14%) Databricks
6 42 (1.70%) SAP
7 37 (1.50%) Red Hat
8 31 (1.25%) Splunk
9 25 (1.01%) Dynatrace
10 23 (0.93%) Xamarin
11 22 (0.89%) Atlassian
12 20 (0.81%) New Relic
13 19 (0.77%) Informatica
14 18 (0.73%) ServiceNow
15 17 (0.69%) WooCommerce
16 16 (0.65%) Salesforce
17 15 (0.61%) Solace
18 12 (0.49%) EMC
18 12 (0.49%) MuleSoft
18 12 (0.49%) OpenLink