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

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 28 18
Rank change year-on-year -14 -10 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,920 6,825 10,869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.60% 6.94% 10.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.64% 20.54% 24.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,818 3,904 6,453
10th Percentile £41,000 £38,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,500 £57,500
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 £59,769 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -0.39% -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 15,664 33,221 45,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.03% 33.78% 43.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11,561 25,021 28,803
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 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% +2.33%

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 30 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 30 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 -6 2,648 £71,991 -2.05% 2,074
UK excluding London -18 1,808 £59,769 -0.39% 1,134
Work from Home +1 1,081 £73,750 +1.72% 1,342
London -9 1,052 £105,000 +10.53% 1,108
North of England +25 790 £57,836 -10.33% 355
North West +22 639 £57,836 -7.46% 220
South East -23 330 £62,500 +4.17% 224
South West -3 215 £60,000 +4.35% 123
Scotland -31 173 £58,000 -3.33% 136
Midlands -19 147 £53,688 -2.39% 171
Yorkshire +40 113 £70,000 +6.93% 92
East of England +54 112 £51,500 -17.60% 85
West Midlands -20 99 £53,688 -6.63% 103
East Midlands +17 47 £45,000 -14.29% 66
North East +33 38 £56,500 -13.39% 44
Wales -11 25 £46,154 -7.69% 26
Northern Ireland +9 17 £55,000 -35.29% 32
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
1 240 (8.22%) Apache
2 220 (7.53%) Apache Airflow
3 123 (4.21%) Apache Spark
4 65 (2.23%) Confluence
5 35 (1.20%) Tomcat
6 25 (0.86%) Jupyter
7 20 (0.68%) CMS
7 20 (0.68%) nginx
8 18 (0.62%) SharePoint
8 18 (0.62%) 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%) IIS
13 9 (0.31%) OpenStack
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 Office
2 26 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
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%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 16 (0.55%) Shopify
2 10 (0.34%) 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 1,118 (38.29%) AWS
2 677 (23.18%) Azure
3 364 (12.47%) GCP
4 253 (8.66%) Serverless
5 213 (7.29%) dbt
6 189 (6.47%) AWS Lambda
7 168 (5.75%) Amazon ECS
8 163 (5.58%) Amazon EKS
9 143 (4.90%) Snowflake
10 134 (4.59%) Amazon EC2
11 127 (4.35%) GitHub
12 105 (3.60%) AWS CloudFormation
13 104 (3.56%) OpenShift
14 99 (3.39%) SaaS
15 98 (3.36%) Amazon S3
16 60 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
16 60 (2.05%) Power Platform
17 57 (1.95%) Dagster
18 47 (1.61%) Amazon SQS
19 35 (1.20%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 405 (13.87%) DNS
2 400 (13.70%) VPN
3 30 (1.03%) TCP/IP
4 27 (0.92%) Network Security
5 15 (0.51%) SSL
6 12 (0.41%) Firewall
6 12 (0.41%) HTTP
7 5 (0.17%) HTTPS
7 5 (0.17%) SAN
8 4 (0.14%) DMARC
8 4 (0.14%) Internet
8 4 (0.14%) Multicast
8 4 (0.14%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.10%) LAN
9 3 (0.10%) WAN
10 2 (0.068%) 3GPP
10 2 (0.068%) 5G
10 2 (0.068%) FTP
10 2 (0.068%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.068%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 227 (7.77%) Amazon Athena
2 210 (7.19%) Apache Iceberg
3 209 (7.16%) Dremio
4 193 (6.61%) PostgreSQL
5 187 (6.40%) Apache Arrow
6 175 (5.99%) NoSQL
7 156 (5.34%) SQL Server
8 148 (5.07%) Apache Ignite
9 142 (4.86%) Relational Database
10 129 (4.42%) MySQL
11 115 (3.94%) Data Lake
12 114 (3.90%) Big Data
13 104 (3.56%) MongoDB
14 87 (2.98%) Elasticsearch
15 48 (1.64%) DynamoDB
16 45 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
17 43 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
18 42 (1.44%) RDBMS
19 41 (1.40%) Power BI
20 39 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 299 (10.24%) Git
2 251 (8.60%) Jenkins
3 156 (5.34%) JUnit
4 148 (5.07%) JIRA
5 103 (3.53%) Artifactory
6 102 (3.49%) Maven
7 101 (3.46%) GitLab
8 79 (2.71%) Selenium
9 78 (2.67%) Mockito
10 68 (2.33%) Cucumber
11 61 (2.09%) SonarQube
12 60 (2.05%) IntelliJ
13 58 (1.99%) Eclipse
14 49 (1.68%) Bitbucket
15 44 (1.51%) Gradle
16 41 (1.40%) JMeter
17 37 (1.27%) Postman
18 30 (1.03%) TestNG
19 28 (0.96%) Cypress.io
19 28 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,313 (44.97%) Finance
2 650 (22.26%) Analytical Skills
3 585 (20.03%) Social Skills
4 576 (19.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 526 (18.01%) Banking
6 312 (10.68%) Front Office
7 171 (5.86%) Investment Banking
8 145 (4.97%) Public Sector
9 106 (3.63%) Law
10 64 (2.19%) Financial Institution
11 55 (1.88%) Retail
12 48 (1.64%) Games
13 40 (1.37%) Marketing
14 39 (1.34%) Aerospace
15 35 (1.20%) Manufacturing
16 32 (1.10%) Electronics
16 32 (1.10%) Legal
17 28 (0.96%) Telecoms
18 27 (0.92%) Retail Banking
19 26 (0.89%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,155 (39.55%) Developer
2 678 (23.22%) Software Engineer
3 602 (20.62%) Senior
4 560 (19.18%) Software Developer
5 367 (12.57%) Lead
6 349 (11.95%) Java Developer
7 338 (11.58%) Java Engineer
8 255 (8.73%) Senior Software Engineer
9 227 (7.77%) AWS Engineer
10 197 (6.75%) Java Software Engineer
11 171 (5.86%) Python Engineer
12 169 (5.79%) Data Engineer
13 148 (5.07%) Senior Java Engineer
14 132 (4.52%) Senior Developer
15 127 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
16 118 (4.04%) AWS Software Engineer
17 111 (3.80%) Architect
17 111 (3.80%) AWS DevOps
18 91 (3.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 88 (3.01%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 432 (14.79%) Spring
2 404 (13.84%) React
3 381 (13.05%) Spring Boot
4 347 (11.88%) Kafka
5 249 (8.53%) .NET
6 226 (7.74%) Node.js
7 223 (7.64%) AngularJS
8 199 (6.82%) REST
9 191 (6.54%) RESTful
10 177 (6.06%) PySpark
11 176 (6.03%) HTML
12 169 (5.79%) CSS
13 161 (5.51%) Pandas
14 121 (4.14%) J2EE
15 110 (3.77%) Hibernate
15 110 (3.77%) NumPy
16 108 (3.70%) SciPy
17 105 (3.60%) Web Services
18 94 (3.22%) gRPC
19 73 (2.50%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 469 (16.06%) Cyberattack
2 170 (5.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 156 (5.34%) Fixed Income
4 154 (5.27%) Equities
5 152 (5.21%) Algorithms
6 141 (4.83%) Derivative
7 138 (4.73%) Distributed Systems
8 130 (4.45%) Cloud Native
9 127 (4.35%) Management Information System
10 123 (4.21%) Hedge funds
11 107 (3.66%) Product Ownership
12 70 (2.40%) Mobile App
13 67 (2.29%) Data Structures
14 65 (2.23%) Public Cloud
15 57 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
16 51 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
17 50 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
18 45 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
19 44 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
20 39 (1.34%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 723 (24.76%) Linux
2 518 (17.74%) Android
3 100 (3.42%) Windows
4 71 (2.43%) Unix
5 55 (1.88%) 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 (0.21%) Rocky
9 5 (0.17%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.10%) Solaris
11 2 (0.068%) Debian
11 2 (0.068%) zOS
12 1 (0.034%) CentOS
12 1 (0.034%) Fedora
12 1 (0.034%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.034%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.034%) VxWorks
12 1 (0.034%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,681 (57.57%) Agile
2 1,226 (41.99%) Software Engineering
3 726 (24.86%) CI/CD
4 697 (23.87%) OO
5 645 (22.09%) DevOps
6 601 (20.58%) Mathematics
7 591 (20.24%) Design Patterns
8 590 (20.21%) Microservices
9 575 (19.69%) OOP
10 541 (18.53%) Problem-Solving
11 517 (17.71%) Line Management
12 492 (16.85%) Android Development
13 421 (14.42%) Computer Science
14 411 (14.08%) Mentoring
15 385 (13.18%) Containerisation
16 382 (13.08%) Test Automation
17 363 (12.43%) SDLC
18 302 (10.34%) TDD
19 266 (9.11%) Full-Stack Development
20 237 (8.12%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 1,461 (50.03%) Python
2 712 (24.38%) C++
3 628 (21.51%) Go
4 616 (21.10%) JavaScript
5 565 (19.35%) SQL
6 467 (15.99%) C#
7 262 (8.97%) TypeScript
8 170 (5.82%) Rust
9 122 (4.18%) C
10 95 (3.25%) Kotlin
11 80 (2.74%) PHP
12 79 (2.71%) Scala
13 50 (1.71%) Shell Script
14 47 (1.61%) Bash
15 45 (1.54%) PowerShell
16 39 (1.34%) Ada
17 36 (1.23%) Objective-C
18 30 (1.03%) Swift
19 29 (0.99%) Ruby
20 24 (0.82%) R
Qualifications
1 696 (23.84%) Security Cleared
2 615 (21.06%) Degree
3 508 (17.40%) DV Cleared
4 225 (7.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 133 (4.55%) SC Cleared
6 110 (3.77%) Master's Degree
7 61 (2.09%) AWS Certification
8 46 (1.58%) PhD
9 44 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
10 37 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 25 (0.86%) HND
12 20 (0.68%) ISTQB
13 11 (0.38%) Azure Certification
13 11 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
14 10 (0.34%) OCP
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
1 157 (5.38%) QA
2 44 (1.51%) GDPR
3 34 (1.16%) Accessibility
4 26 (0.89%) HIPAA
5 18 (0.62%) Data Quality
5 18 (0.62%) 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%) WCAG
System Software
1 1,076 (36.85%) Docker
2 29 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (0.48%) 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
1 724 (24.79%) Kubernetes
2 540 (18.49%) Ansible
3 342 (11.71%) Terraform
4 72 (2.47%) Prometheus
5 69 (2.36%) Grafana
6 31 (1.06%) Kibana
7 23 (0.79%) Argo
8 20 (0.68%) Istio
9 15 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (0.45%) Kustomize
10 13 (0.45%) Packer
11 9 (0.31%) Puppet
12 8 (0.27%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.24%) 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
15 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 196 (6.71%) Microsoft
2 186 (6.37%) Oracle
3 146 (5.00%) Google
4 108 (3.70%) IBM
5 56 (1.92%) Databricks
6 44 (1.51%) 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 10 (0.34%) OpenLink