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

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 28 18
Rank change year-on-year -16 -10 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,484 6,786 11,982
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.91% 7.31% 10.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.14% 20.96% 25.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,813 3,871 6,793
10th Percentile £41,000 £38,750 £44,508
25th Percentile £51,698 £51,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £76,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.89% +8.57%
75th Percentile £110,000 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £122,500 £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 15,392 32,374 47,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.45% 34.86% 43.59%
Number of salaries quoted 11,527 24,748 30,323
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,500 £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% +3.55%

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 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 3 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 2,214 £70,000 -3.45% 3,104
UK excluding London -31 1,381 £57,836 -3.61% 1,375
London -12 1,052 £105,000 +13.51% 2,071
Work from Home -9 1,030 £72,500 +2.73% 1,550
North of England -10 434 £57,560 -10.76% 330
North West -20 289 £57,560 -7.90% 192
South East -28 287 £64,000 +0.79% 382
South West -19 189 £60,000 +4.35% 159
Scotland -32 175 £58,000 -3.33% 206
Midlands -31 130 £47,500 -15.18% 134
East of England +66 124 £50,000 -20.00% 127
Yorkshire +21 108 £70,000 +6.93% 80
West Midlands -41 83 £53,688 -6.63% 85
East Midlands +20 46 £42,550 -18.95% 45
North East +23 37 £55,750 -14.84% 59
Wales -13 32 £44,672 -10.66% 27
Northern Ireland -6 11 £55,000 -35.29% 33
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
1 236 (9.50%) Apache
2 217 (8.74%) Apache Airflow
3 123 (4.95%) Apache Spark
4 71 (2.86%) Confluence
5 25 (1.01%) Jupyter
5 25 (1.01%) Tomcat
6 23 (0.93%) CMS
7 21 (0.85%) WordPress
8 18 (0.72%) nginx
9 17 (0.68%) JBoss
10 14 (0.56%) SharePoint
11 12 (0.48%) 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
17 5 (0.20%) 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 (0.72%) Shopify
2 12 (0.48%) 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%) SimCorp Dimension
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 1,045 (42.07%) AWS
2 588 (23.67%) Azure
3 362 (14.57%) GCP
4 244 (9.82%) Serverless
5 210 (8.45%) dbt
6 182 (7.33%) AWS Lambda
7 171 (6.88%) Amazon ECS
8 142 (5.72%) GitHub
9 135 (5.43%) Snowflake
10 123 (4.95%) Amazon EC2
11 114 (4.59%) SaaS
12 109 (4.39%) Amazon EKS
13 104 (4.19%) OpenShift
14 89 (3.58%) Amazon S3
15 66 (2.66%) Dagster
16 60 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
17 56 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
18 54 (2.17%) Power Platform
19 43 (1.73%) Amazon SQS
20 34 (1.37%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 28 (1.13%) TCP/IP
2 27 (1.09%) Network Security
3 17 (0.68%) Firewall
4 10 (0.40%) HTTP
5 9 (0.36%) DNS
6 8 (0.32%) SAN
7 7 (0.28%) SSL
8 6 (0.24%) LAN
8 6 (0.24%) WAN
9 5 (0.20%) Bluetooth
9 5 (0.20%) Internet
9 5 (0.20%) RS-232
9 5 (0.20%) RS-422
9 5 (0.20%) Software-Defined Radio
10 4 (0.16%) Multicast
11 3 (0.12%) FTP
11 3 (0.12%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.12%) Reverse Proxy
11 3 (0.12%) VPN
12 2 (0.081%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 222 (8.94%) Amazon Athena
2 206 (8.29%) Apache Iceberg
3 205 (8.25%) Dremio
4 175 (7.05%) Apache Arrow
5 173 (6.96%) NoSQL
6 159 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
7 156 (6.28%) SQL Server
8 141 (5.68%) Apache Ignite
9 140 (5.64%) Relational Database
10 132 (5.31%) MySQL
11 118 (4.75%) Data Lake
12 116 (4.67%) Big Data
13 94 (3.78%) MongoDB
14 49 (1.97%) Amazon Redshift
15 48 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
16 46 (1.85%) DynamoDB
17 43 (1.73%) Power BI
18 40 (1.61%) Hadoop
19 36 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
20 34 (1.37%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 305 (12.28%) Git
2 232 (9.34%) Jenkins
3 162 (6.52%) JIRA
4 140 (5.64%) JUnit
5 109 (4.39%) Artifactory
6 95 (3.82%) Maven
7 92 (3.70%) GitLab
8 66 (2.66%) Selenium
9 64 (2.58%) Mockito
10 62 (2.50%) Eclipse
11 59 (2.38%) Cucumber
12 55 (2.21%) IntelliJ
13 53 (2.13%) Bitbucket
14 52 (2.09%) SonarQube
15 42 (1.69%) Gradle
16 37 (1.49%) 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
1 932 (37.52%) Finance
2 573 (23.07%) Social Skills
3 530 (21.34%) Banking
4 313 (12.60%) Front Office
5 197 (7.93%) Analytical Skills
6 169 (6.80%) Investment Banking
7 125 (5.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 122 (4.91%) Public Sector
9 103 (4.15%) Law
10 72 (2.90%) Aerospace
11 60 (2.42%) Games
12 55 (2.21%) Financial Institution
13 50 (2.01%) Retail
14 44 (1.77%) Electronics
15 40 (1.61%) Marketing
16 32 (1.29%) Manufacturing
16 32 (1.29%) Telecoms
17 31 (1.25%) Legal
18 27 (1.09%) Retail Banking
19 25 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 722 (29.07%) Developer
2 686 (27.62%) Software Engineer
3 622 (25.04%) Senior
4 392 (15.78%) Lead
5 324 (13.04%) Java Developer
6 285 (11.47%) Senior Software Engineer
7 263 (10.59%) Java Engineer
8 224 (9.02%) AWS Engineer
9 179 (7.21%) Python Engineer
10 176 (7.09%) Data Engineer
11 154 (6.20%) Java Software Engineer
12 144 (5.80%) Senior Developer
13 134 (5.39%) DevOps Engineer
14 122 (4.91%) Software Developer
15 114 (4.59%) AWS DevOps
16 111 (4.47%) Architect
16 111 (4.47%) AWS Software Engineer
16 111 (4.47%) Senior Java Engineer
17 97 (3.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 83 (3.34%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 410 (16.51%) React
2 403 (16.22%) Spring
3 355 (14.29%) Spring Boot
4 324 (13.04%) Kafka
5 214 (8.62%) AngularJS
6 202 (8.13%) .NET
7 194 (7.81%) HTML
8 187 (7.53%) Node.js
9 186 (7.49%) CSS
10 184 (7.41%) PySpark
11 176 (7.09%) REST
12 167 (6.72%) RESTful
13 120 (4.83%) J2EE
14 115 (4.63%) Pandas
15 113 (4.55%) NumPy
16 110 (4.43%) SciPy
17 101 (4.07%) Web Services
18 98 (3.95%) Hibernate
19 84 (3.38%) gRPC
20 66 (2.66%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 158 (6.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 148 (5.96%) Fixed Income
3 142 (5.72%) Equities
4 140 (5.64%) Distributed Systems
5 137 (5.52%) Algorithms
6 133 (5.35%) Derivative
7 123 (4.95%) Management Information System
8 118 (4.75%) Cloud Native
8 118 (4.75%) Hedge funds
9 99 (3.99%) Product Ownership
10 70 (2.82%) Mobile App
11 63 (2.54%) Public Cloud
12 56 (2.25%) Data Structures
13 55 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
14 47 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
15 39 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
16 38 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
17 37 (1.49%) Mobile Games
18 36 (1.45%) Blockchain
19 32 (1.29%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 285 (11.47%) Linux
2 108 (4.35%) Windows
3 82 (3.30%) Android
4 76 (3.06%) Unix
5 63 (2.54%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.40%) VMS
7 9 (0.36%) AIX
8 7 (0.28%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.24%) VxWorks
10 4 (0.16%) Rocky
10 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.12%) CentOS
11 3 (0.12%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.12%) Solaris
12 2 (0.081%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.040%) Debian
13 1 (0.040%) Fedora
13 1 (0.040%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.040%) Windows Phone 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,224 (49.28%) Agile
2 1,210 (48.71%) Software Engineering
3 646 (26.01%) CI/CD
4 621 (25.00%) DevOps
5 569 (22.91%) Microservices
6 534 (21.50%) Problem-Solving
7 454 (18.28%) Computer Science
8 416 (16.75%) Mentoring
9 381 (15.34%) SDLC
10 369 (14.86%) Test Automation
11 324 (13.04%) TDD
12 281 (11.31%) Containerisation
13 275 (11.07%) OO
14 245 (9.86%) Asset Management
14 245 (9.86%) Full-Stack Development
15 238 (9.58%) Continuous Improvement
16 236 (9.50%) Software Testing
17 235 (9.46%) Analytics
18 198 (7.97%) Data Engineering
19 193 (7.77%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,051 (42.31%) Python
2 581 (23.39%) SQL
3 538 (21.66%) JavaScript
4 480 (19.32%) C#
5 301 (12.12%) C++
6 279 (11.23%) TypeScript
7 194 (7.81%) Go
8 133 (5.35%) C
9 119 (4.79%) Rust
10 114 (4.59%) Kotlin
11 94 (3.78%) PHP
12 93 (3.74%) Scala
13 50 (2.01%) Objective-C
14 47 (1.89%) Bash
14 47 (1.89%) Shell Script
15 46 (1.85%) PowerShell
16 39 (1.57%) Ada
17 38 (1.53%) Ruby
18 30 (1.21%) Swift
19 27 (1.09%) R
Qualifications
1 704 (28.34%) Degree
2 251 (10.10%) Security Cleared
3 239 (9.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 136 (5.48%) SC Cleared
5 115 (4.63%) Master's Degree
6 60 (2.42%) AWS Certification
6 60 (2.42%) DV Cleared
7 44 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 43 (1.73%) PhD
9 36 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 25 (1.01%) HND
11 20 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
12 15 (0.60%) 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 (5.43%) QA
2 43 (1.73%) Accessibility
3 38 (1.53%) GDPR
4 23 (0.93%) HIPAA
5 19 (0.76%) Data Quality
6 16 (0.64%) 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
1 584 (23.51%) Docker
2 28 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (0.52%) Active Directory
4 10 (0.40%) Firmware
5 7 (0.28%) HDFS
6 6 (0.24%) Apache Flume
6 6 (0.24%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.081%) KVM
8 2 (0.081%) NDS
8 2 (0.081%) NFS
8 2 (0.081%) SRDF
8 2 (0.081%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 2 (0.081%) Xen
9 1 (0.040%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.040%) NetIQ eDirectory
9 1 (0.040%) Postfix
9 1 (0.040%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.040%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 623 (25.08%) Kubernetes
2 288 (11.59%) Terraform
3 84 (3.38%) Ansible
4 68 (2.74%) Grafana
4 68 (2.74%) Prometheus
5 30 (1.21%) Kibana
6 21 (0.85%) Argo
7 20 (0.81%) Istio
8 8 (0.32%) Puppet
9 7 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
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%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 4 (0.16%) Consul
12 4 (0.16%) Control-M
12 4 (0.16%) WSUS
13 3 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 204 (8.21%) Oracle
2 173 (6.96%) Microsoft
3 156 (6.28%) Google
4 103 (4.15%) IBM
5 54 (2.17%) Databricks
6 42 (1.69%) SAP
7 39 (1.57%) Red Hat
8 32 (1.29%) Splunk
9 25 (1.01%) Dynatrace
10 23 (0.93%) Xamarin
11 22 (0.89%) Atlassian
12 20 (0.81%) Informatica
12 20 (0.81%) New Relic
13 19 (0.76%) ServiceNow
14 17 (0.68%) Salesforce
14 17 (0.68%) WooCommerce
15 15 (0.60%) Solace
16 13 (0.52%) MuleSoft
17 12 (0.48%) EMC
17 12 (0.48%) OpenLink