Quarkus Job Trends

Quarkus
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Quarkus skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 641 703 690
Rank change year-on-year +62 -13 +332
Permanent jobs citing Quarkus 3 13 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.005% 0.023% 0.022%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.043% 0.11% 0.085%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 10
10th Percentile £37,200 £48,425 -
25th Percentile £49,500 £48,688 £75,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £53,250 £83,577
Median % change year-on-year +40.85% -36.29% +19.40%
75th Percentile £80,625 £58,688 £91,934
90th Percentile £81,000 £59,475 £92,741
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,250 £83,577
% change year-on-year -1.41% -36.29% +19.40%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Quarkus falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,033 11,914 12,964
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.89% 21.48% 25.36%
Number of salaries quoted 5,239 7,105 10,562
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,806 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

Quarkus
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Quarkus relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Quarkus job vacancy trend in the UK

Quarkus
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Quarkus.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Quarkus

Quarkus
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Quarkus over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Quarkus in the UK

Quarkus
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Quarkus within the UK over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Work from Home - 3 £75,000 - 80
England +59 2 £76,250 +43.19% 77
UK excluding London +48 2 £52,500 -1.41% 72
London +55 1 £77,500 - 9
Midlands - 1 £75,000 - 13
West Midlands - 1 £75,000 - 7
Scotland - 1 £30,000 - 2

Quarkus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) JBoss
1 1 (33.33%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) IntelliJ
1 1 (33.33%) jMock
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
General
1 1 (33.33%) Automotive
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Junior
1 1 (33.33%) Junior Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Junior Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CDK
1 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
1 1 (33.33%) Java EE
1 1 (33.33%) Java SE
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 1 (33.33%) Swing
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) OOD
2 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Refactoring
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform