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

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 28 18
Rank change year-on-year -12 -10 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,927 6,817 11,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.67% 6.94% 10.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.54% 20.54% 24.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,823 3,899 6,552
10th Percentile £41,000 £38,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,500 £57,034
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - -9.68% +10.71%
75th Percentile £110,000 £96,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £122,500 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% -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 15,788 33,192 45,823
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.59% 33.81% 43.57%
Number of salaries quoted 11,630 25,038 29,105
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +1.85%

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 26 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 26 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 -3 2,657 £71,991 -2.05% 3,379
UK excluding London -17 1,810 £58,000 -3.33% 1,513
Work from Home 0 1,087 £75,000 +3.45% 1,712
London -10 1,059 £107,500 +13.16% 2,239
North of England +25 790 £57,836 -11.02% 387
North West +21 639 £57,836 -7.46% 235
South East -22 331 £62,500 +3.73% 358
South West -3 216 £60,000 +4.35% 168
Scotland -32 173 £58,000 -3.33% 217
Midlands -15 150 £53,688 -2.39% 179
Yorkshire +33 113 £70,000 +6.93% 97
East of England +61 109 £51,500 -17.60% 138
West Midlands -6 102 £53,688 -6.63% 103
East Midlands +26 47 £45,000 -14.29% 69
North East +34 38 £56,500 -13.39% 56
Wales -15 25 £46,154 -7.69% 45
Northern Ireland +7 17 £55,000 -35.29% 60
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
1 241 (8.23%) Apache
2 222 (7.58%) Apache Airflow
3 123 (4.20%) Apache Spark
4 66 (2.25%) Confluence
5 34 (1.16%) Tomcat
6 25 (0.85%) Jupyter
7 21 (0.72%) CMS
7 21 (0.72%) nginx
8 18 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 18 (0.61%) WordPress
9 17 (0.58%) JBoss
10 12 (0.41%) Red Hat Fuse
11 11 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 10 (0.34%) Camunda
13 9 (0.31%) OpenStack
14 8 (0.27%) IIS
14 8 (0.27%) NetWeaver
15 7 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 7 (0.24%) WebSphere
16 5 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 27 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.14%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.14%) Trello
5 3 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 2 (0.068%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.068%) SPSS
7 1 (0.034%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.034%) InDesign
7 1 (0.034%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.034%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 16 (0.55%) Shopify
2 11 (0.38%) Endur
3 5 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 5 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.10%) Orchestrade
5 3 (0.10%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.068%) Maximo
6 2 (0.068%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
6 2 (0.068%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.068%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.034%) iTrent
7 1 (0.034%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.034%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.034%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.034%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.034%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,122 (38.33%) AWS
2 676 (23.10%) Azure
3 366 (12.50%) GCP
4 252 (8.61%) Serverless
5 215 (7.35%) dbt
6 188 (6.42%) AWS Lambda
7 168 (5.74%) Amazon ECS
8 163 (5.57%) Amazon EKS
9 143 (4.89%) Snowflake
10 132 (4.51%) Amazon EC2
11 126 (4.30%) GitHub
12 105 (3.59%) AWS CloudFormation
13 102 (3.48%) OpenShift
14 99 (3.38%) SaaS
15 98 (3.35%) Amazon S3
16 61 (2.08%) Power Platform
17 59 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
17 59 (2.02%) Dagster
18 47 (1.61%) Amazon SQS
19 35 (1.20%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 405 (13.84%) DNS
2 400 (13.67%) VPN
3 30 (1.02%) TCP/IP
4 27 (0.92%) Network Security
5 14 (0.48%) SSL
6 12 (0.41%) Firewall
7 11 (0.38%) HTTP
8 5 (0.17%) HTTPS
8 5 (0.17%) SAN
9 4 (0.14%) Internet
9 4 (0.14%) Multicast
9 4 (0.14%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (0.10%) DMARC
10 3 (0.10%) LAN
10 3 (0.10%) WAN
11 2 (0.068%) FTP
11 2 (0.068%) Kerberos
11 2 (0.068%) RTP
11 2 (0.068%) SpaceWire
11 2 (0.068%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 229 (7.82%) Amazon Athena
2 212 (7.24%) Apache Iceberg
3 211 (7.21%) Dremio
4 192 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
5 187 (6.39%) Apache Arrow
6 173 (5.91%) NoSQL
7 157 (5.36%) SQL Server
8 148 (5.06%) Apache Ignite
9 144 (4.92%) Relational Database
10 130 (4.44%) MySQL
11 117 (4.00%) Data Lake
12 114 (3.89%) Big Data
13 104 (3.55%) MongoDB
14 87 (2.97%) Elasticsearch
15 47 (1.61%) DynamoDB
16 45 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
17 43 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
18 42 (1.43%) Power BI
18 42 (1.43%) RDBMS
19 39 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 299 (10.22%) Git
2 249 (8.51%) Jenkins
3 156 (5.33%) JUnit
4 149 (5.09%) JIRA
5 103 (3.52%) Artifactory
6 102 (3.48%) Maven
7 99 (3.38%) GitLab
8 79 (2.70%) Selenium
9 78 (2.66%) Mockito
10 68 (2.32%) Cucumber
11 60 (2.05%) SonarQube
12 58 (1.98%) Eclipse
12 58 (1.98%) IntelliJ
13 48 (1.64%) Bitbucket
14 44 (1.50%) Gradle
15 41 (1.40%) JMeter
16 37 (1.26%) Postman
17 30 (1.02%) TestNG
18 28 (0.96%) Cypress.io
18 28 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,322 (45.17%) Finance
2 652 (22.28%) Analytical Skills
3 587 (20.05%) Social Skills
4 579 (19.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 530 (18.11%) Banking
6 315 (10.76%) Front Office
7 172 (5.88%) Investment Banking
8 145 (4.95%) Public Sector
9 108 (3.69%) Law
10 64 (2.19%) Financial Institution
11 55 (1.88%) Retail
12 49 (1.67%) Games
13 41 (1.40%) Marketing
14 39 (1.33%) Aerospace
15 36 (1.23%) Manufacturing
16 32 (1.09%) Electronics
16 32 (1.09%) Legal
17 27 (0.92%) Retail Banking
17 27 (0.92%) Telecoms
18 25 (0.85%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,163 (39.73%) Developer
2 673 (22.99%) Software Engineer
3 605 (20.67%) Senior
4 561 (19.17%) Software Developer
5 367 (12.54%) Lead
6 352 (12.03%) Java Developer
7 334 (11.41%) Java Engineer
8 256 (8.75%) Senior Software Engineer
9 227 (7.76%) AWS Engineer
10 195 (6.66%) Java Software Engineer
11 173 (5.91%) Python Engineer
12 172 (5.88%) Data Engineer
13 147 (5.02%) Senior Java Engineer
14 134 (4.58%) Senior Developer
15 126 (4.30%) DevOps Engineer
16 118 (4.03%) AWS Software Engineer
17 111 (3.79%) AWS DevOps
18 110 (3.76%) Architect
19 91 (3.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
20 87 (2.97%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 436 (14.90%) Spring
2 403 (13.77%) React
3 385 (13.15%) Spring Boot
4 348 (11.89%) Kafka
5 251 (8.58%) .NET
6 228 (7.79%) Node.js
7 223 (7.62%) AngularJS
8 196 (6.70%) REST
9 188 (6.42%) RESTful
10 179 (6.12%) HTML
10 179 (6.12%) PySpark
11 171 (5.84%) CSS
12 163 (5.57%) Pandas
13 121 (4.13%) J2EE
14 112 (3.83%) NumPy
15 111 (3.79%) Hibernate
16 110 (3.76%) SciPy
17 104 (3.55%) Web Services
18 92 (3.14%) gRPC
19 73 (2.49%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 470 (16.06%) Cyberattack
2 170 (5.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 156 (5.33%) Fixed Income
4 154 (5.26%) Equities
5 150 (5.12%) Algorithms
6 143 (4.89%) Derivative
7 138 (4.71%) Distributed Systems
8 127 (4.34%) Cloud Native
8 127 (4.34%) Management Information System
9 123 (4.20%) Hedge funds
10 107 (3.66%) Product Ownership
11 71 (2.43%) Mobile App
12 66 (2.25%) Data Structures
13 64 (2.19%) Public Cloud
14 57 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
15 51 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
16 50 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
17 45 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
18 44 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
19 39 (1.33%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 724 (24.74%) Linux
2 519 (17.73%) Android
3 100 (3.42%) Windows
4 71 (2.43%) Unix
5 56 (1.91%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.31%) AIX
6 9 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.24%) VMS
7 7 (0.24%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.20%) Rocky
9 4 (0.14%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.10%) Solaris
11 2 (0.068%) CentOS
11 2 (0.068%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.034%) Debian
12 1 (0.034%) Fedora
12 1 (0.034%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.034%) VxWorks
12 1 (0.034%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.034%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,682 (57.46%) Agile
2 1,230 (42.02%) Software Engineering
3 722 (24.67%) CI/CD
4 699 (23.88%) OO
5 643 (21.97%) DevOps
6 602 (20.57%) Mathematics
7 591 (20.19%) Design Patterns
8 590 (20.16%) Microservices
9 576 (19.68%) OOP
10 543 (18.55%) Problem-Solving
11 517 (17.66%) Line Management
12 492 (16.81%) Android Development
13 423 (14.45%) Computer Science
14 412 (14.08%) Mentoring
15 382 (13.05%) Test Automation
16 381 (13.02%) Containerisation
17 365 (12.47%) SDLC
18 302 (10.32%) TDD
19 264 (9.02%) Full-Stack Development
20 239 (8.17%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 1,468 (50.15%) Python
2 712 (24.33%) C++
3 627 (21.42%) Go
4 617 (21.08%) JavaScript
5 564 (19.27%) SQL
6 469 (16.02%) C#
7 263 (8.99%) TypeScript
8 171 (5.84%) Rust
9 122 (4.17%) C
10 97 (3.31%) Kotlin
11 81 (2.77%) Scala
12 80 (2.73%) PHP
13 51 (1.74%) Shell Script
14 46 (1.57%) Bash
15 45 (1.54%) PowerShell
16 39 (1.33%) Ada
17 36 (1.23%) Objective-C
18 30 (1.02%) Swift
19 29 (0.99%) Ruby
20 25 (0.85%) R
Qualifications
1 696 (23.78%) Security Cleared
2 620 (21.18%) Degree
3 510 (17.42%) DV Cleared
4 228 (7.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 132 (4.51%) SC Cleared
6 110 (3.76%) Master's Degree
7 62 (2.12%) AWS Certification
8 45 (1.54%) PhD
9 44 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
10 38 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 25 (0.85%) HND
12 20 (0.68%) ISTQB
13 11 (0.38%) Azure Certification
14 10 (0.34%) OCP
14 10 (0.34%) Oracle Certification
15 8 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
16 5 (0.17%) CISSP
17 4 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
17 4 (0.14%) TOGAF Certification
18 3 (0.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (5.40%) QA
2 44 (1.50%) GDPR
3 36 (1.23%) Accessibility
4 26 (0.89%) HIPAA
5 18 (0.61%) Data Quality
6 17 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (0.58%) NIST
6 17 (0.58%) SLA
7 7 (0.24%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.14%) Def Stans
8 4 (0.14%) IEC 61508
9 3 (0.10%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.068%) ISO 13485
10 2 (0.068%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.068%) SEPA
10 2 (0.068%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.068%) TARGET2
11 1 (0.034%) Basel III
System Software
1 1,074 (36.69%) Docker
2 29 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (0.44%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.24%) Firmware
4 7 (0.24%) HDFS
5 5 (0.17%) Apache Flume
5 5 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.10%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.068%) KVM
7 2 (0.068%) NFS
7 2 (0.068%) Postfix
7 2 (0.068%) SRDF
7 2 (0.068%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (0.068%) Xen
8 1 (0.034%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.034%) NDS
8 1 (0.034%) Squid
8 1 (0.034%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.034%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 720 (24.60%) Kubernetes
2 541 (18.48%) Ansible
3 342 (11.68%) Terraform
4 72 (2.46%) Prometheus
5 69 (2.36%) Grafana
6 31 (1.06%) Kibana
7 23 (0.79%) Argo
8 20 (0.68%) Istio
9 14 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (0.44%) Kustomize
10 13 (0.44%) Packer
11 9 (0.31%) Puppet
12 8 (0.27%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.20%) CA Endevor
14 5 (0.17%) Oozie
14 5 (0.17%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 4 (0.14%) Consul
15 4 (0.14%) Control-M
15 4 (0.14%) HP Fortify
16 3 (0.10%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 195 (6.66%) Microsoft
2 185 (6.32%) Oracle
3 146 (4.99%) Google
4 107 (3.66%) IBM
5 55 (1.88%) Databricks
6 45 (1.54%) Red Hat
7 36 (1.23%) Splunk
8 34 (1.16%) SAP
9 28 (0.96%) Dynatrace
10 22 (0.75%) Informatica
11 21 (0.72%) New Relic
11 21 (0.72%) ServiceNow
12 19 (0.65%) Atlassian
13 17 (0.58%) Salesforce
13 17 (0.58%) Sybase
14 15 (0.51%) MuleSoft
14 15 (0.51%) Solace
15 14 (0.48%) WooCommerce
16 12 (0.41%) Cisco
17 11 (0.38%) OpenLink