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Amidst economic uncertainty, the growth of Java developer is slow, reports reports
A new report released by Perforce Software has found that the plan for Java developers is increasing to a large extent in 2025, even trusting Java to provide electricity to important applications to businesses.
According to the company's 2025 Java developer productivity report, below 60% in 2024, only 51.8% surveyed organizations planned to add Java developers, including 731 developers, team leads and IT officers surveyed. Similarly, only 34% of the respondents said that they expect to increase their budget for the developer tools, a faster fall by 42% last year.
Amidst the ongoing economic uncertainty, large enterprises are showing more flexibility. Among companies with more than 1,000 employees, 58% are still planning to add Java headcon, while 36% estimate the growing tooling budget.
Despite the budget pressure, Java remains the cornerstone of enterprise software, celebrating his 30th anniversary this year. Perforce CTO Rod Cope insisted that instead of emerging technologies like AI alone, productivity equipment can offer a close-term value by helping teams “to remove Whatspeps” for high-effects.
The report also highlighted a significant change in Java Development Kit (JDK) use. Java 17 and Java 21- Both long-term support (LTS) versions- now the most widely used, on 61% and 45% adoption respectively. Older versions such as Java 8 and Java 11 still see use, especially for modernization in the system.
Safety, demonstrations and LTS availability were quoted as top drivers for JDK upgrade, especially among large companies. Oracle JDK is most commonly used at 45%, followed by OpenJDK (35%) and Amazon Kooto (23%).
Since developers face “growing pressure to more with less”, reports suggest that the investment in stable tooling and modular architecture may be more beneficial than the headline-hatching AI solutions that are not yet mature enough to reduce the workload.
The entire report includes IDE use, cloud and remote development, application architecture trends and detailed insights on benchmarks for RWI Times and Team Productivity.
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