JVM Tuning Job Trends

JVM Tuning
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring JVM Tuning skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 681 - 769
Rank change year-on-year - - +418
Permanent jobs citing JVM Tuning 2 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.004% - 0.002%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.005% - 0.002%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £123,750 - £162,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £127,500 - £175,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.00%
75th Percentile £131,250 - £187,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

JVM Tuning falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 43,714 63,289 57,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.67% 81.26% 94.32%
Number of salaries quoted 24,663 35,701 43,240
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,350 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

JVM Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing JVM Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JVM Tuning in the UK

JVM Tuning
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JVM Tuning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JVM Tuning

JVM Tuning
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JVM Tuning within the UK over the 6 months to 20 September 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
London - 1 £127,500 - 3
England - 1 £127,500 - 3

JVM Tuning
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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jaeger
1 1 (50.00%) VisualVM
1 1 (50.00%) YourKit
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Scala Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Akka
1 1 (50.00%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Algorithmic Trading
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) Business Development
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Conflict Resolution
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Memory Management
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Kiali
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk