Java Jobs in England

Java
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 18 16
Rank change year-on-year -17 -2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 4,592 8,968 19,352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.31% 10.17% 14.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.60% 23.46% 26.74%
Number of salaries quoted 3,420 5,359 8,770
10th Percentile £39,750 £46,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,805 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.74% +10.34% +11.54%
75th Percentile £98,474 £105,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £130,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% +7.69%

All Programming Languages
England

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 27,662 38,232 72,375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.99% 43.34% 53.48%
Number of salaries quoted 22,393 24,644 38,772
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Java in England

Java
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java in England.

Salary trend for Java in England

Java
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Java in England

Java
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the England region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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 -5 2,075 £95,000 +5.56% 704
South East -6 859 £60,000 -7.69% 263
North of England -18 658 £62,500 -3.85% 133
South West -6 591 £57,500 -4.17% 121
North West -11 465 £62,500 -7.41% 84
Midlands -48 273 £55,000 -8.33% 96
West Midlands -30 191 £56,250 -6.25% 67
Yorkshire -49 144 £65,000 +4.00% 36
East of England -85 109 £62,500 -10.71% 59
East Midlands -68 81 £52,000 -10.34% 29
North East -45 49 £65,000 +4.00% 14
Java
UK

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 376 (8.19%) Apache
2 306 (6.66%) Apache Airflow
3 128 (2.79%) Apache Spark
4 103 (2.24%) Confluence
5 57 (1.24%) nginx
6 45 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
7 44 (0.96%) Tomcat
8 40 (0.87%) OpenStack
9 37 (0.81%) Camunda
9 37 (0.81%) Tuxedo
10 30 (0.65%) JBoss
11 26 (0.57%) IIS
12 25 (0.54%) WebLogic
13 21 (0.46%) WebSphere
14 19 (0.41%) SharePoint
15 17 (0.37%) Red Hat Fuse
16 14 (0.30%) FileNet
16 14 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
17 13 (0.28%) Captiva
18 10 (0.22%) Drupal
Applications
1 38 (0.83%) Simulink
2 23 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.17%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.15%) Adobe XD
7 6 (0.13%) CANalyzer
8 4 (0.087%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.087%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.022%) CATIA
9 1 (0.022%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.022%) Notion
9 1 (0.022%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 46 (1.00%) Endur
2 12 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.15%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.13%) NEC Housing
4 6 (0.13%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 5 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.087%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.087%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.065%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.065%) SAP S/4HANA
8 2 (0.044%) Adaptiv
8 2 (0.044%) BusinessWorks
8 2 (0.044%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.044%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.044%) Shopify
8 2 (0.044%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.044%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.044%) Temenos T24
9 1 (0.022%) Findur
9 1 (0.022%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2,063 (44.93%) AWS
2 1,085 (23.63%) Azure
3 466 (10.15%) GCP
4 446 (9.71%) Serverless
5 290 (6.32%) dbt
6 280 (6.10%) Snowflake
7 201 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
8 195 (4.25%) SaaS
9 194 (4.22%) AWS Lambda
10 193 (4.20%) OpenShift
11 183 (3.99%) IBM Cloud
12 169 (3.68%) GitHub
13 157 (3.42%) Amazon S3
14 153 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
15 147 (3.20%) Azure Functions
16 133 (2.90%) Azure Service Bus
17 131 (2.85%) Amazon ECS
17 131 (2.85%) Azure Logic Apps
18 129 (2.81%) Azure API Management
19 117 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 86 (1.87%) DNS
2 84 (1.83%) TCP/IP
3 68 (1.48%) HTTP
4 58 (1.26%) Firewall
5 46 (1.00%) DHCP
6 42 (0.91%) AMQP
7 20 (0.44%) Internet
8 16 (0.35%) SNMP
8 16 (0.35%) SSH
8 16 (0.35%) WAN
9 15 (0.33%) Network Security
10 13 (0.28%) Wireless
11 12 (0.26%) MQTT
12 10 (0.22%) VPN
13 9 (0.20%) FTP
14 7 (0.15%) Bluetooth
14 7 (0.15%) OpenVPN
14 7 (0.15%) SSL
15 6 (0.13%) Ethernet
15 6 (0.13%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 504 (10.98%) PostgreSQL
2 479 (10.43%) Relational Database
3 472 (10.28%) NoSQL
4 365 (7.95%) MongoDB
5 305 (6.64%) Data Lake
6 285 (6.21%) Amazon Athena
7 275 (5.99%) SQL Server
8 273 (5.95%) Dremio
9 271 (5.90%) Apache Arrow
10 249 (5.42%) MySQL
11 224 (4.88%) Apache Ignite
12 183 (3.99%) Big Data
13 162 (3.53%) DB2
14 146 (3.18%) RDBMS
15 125 (2.72%) Hadoop
16 114 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
17 89 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
18 88 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
19 81 (1.76%) Oracle Database
20 69 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 489 (10.65%) Git
2 438 (9.54%) Jenkins
3 222 (4.83%) JIRA
4 190 (4.14%) Selenium
5 169 (3.68%) Cucumber
6 160 (3.48%) GitLab
7 147 (3.20%) JUnit
8 109 (2.37%) Maven
9 106 (2.31%) Postman
10 61 (1.33%) Cypress.io
11 55 (1.20%) Visual Studio
12 51 (1.11%) Bitbucket
12 51 (1.11%) JMeter
12 51 (1.11%) Subversion
13 48 (1.05%) IntelliJ
14 47 (1.02%) WebDriver
15 45 (0.98%) Gradle
16 44 (0.96%) Eclipse
17 42 (0.91%) Artifactory
18 41 (0.89%) TeamCity
General
1 1,092 (23.78%) Finance
2 796 (17.33%) Social Skills
3 583 (12.70%) Banking
4 422 (9.19%) Public Sector
5 421 (9.17%) Front Office
6 334 (7.27%) Investment Banking
7 329 (7.16%) Analytical Skills
8 269 (5.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 116 (2.53%) Law
10 106 (2.31%) Marketing
11 96 (2.09%) Aerospace
12 95 (2.07%) Retail
13 75 (1.63%) Electronics
14 72 (1.57%) Games
15 67 (1.46%) Financial Institution
16 50 (1.09%) Legal
16 50 (1.09%) Telecoms
17 49 (1.07%) Manufacturing
18 48 (1.05%) Tech for Good
19 43 (0.94%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,721 (37.48%) Developer
2 1,059 (23.06%) Senior
3 1,000 (21.78%) Software Engineer
4 839 (18.27%) Java Developer
5 723 (15.74%) Lead
6 456 (9.93%) Java Engineer
7 373 (8.12%) Senior Developer
8 352 (7.67%) Full Stack Developer
9 301 (6.55%) Software Developer
10 296 (6.45%) Senior Software Engineer
11 291 (6.34%) Java Software Engineer
12 263 (5.73%) Senior Java Developer
13 246 (5.36%) Architect
14 232 (5.05%) Technical Leader
15 228 (4.97%) AWS Engineer
16 183 (3.99%) Lead Developer
17 161 (3.51%) Senior Java Engineer
18 152 (3.31%) DevOps Engineer
19 143 (3.11%) Azure Developer
20 122 (2.66%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 807 (17.57%) Spring
2 723 (15.74%) React
3 616 (13.41%) Spring Boot
4 546 (11.89%) REST
5 517 (11.26%) AngularJS
6 510 (11.11%) Node.js
7 451 (9.82%) HTML
8 450 (9.80%) .NET
9 402 (8.75%) Kafka
10 401 (8.73%) CSS
11 329 (7.16%) Web Services
12 312 (6.79%) gRPC
13 273 (5.95%) Protocol Buffers
14 253 (5.51%) RESTful
15 232 (5.05%) Pandas
16 229 (4.99%) NumPy
17 223 (4.86%) SciPy
18 208 (4.53%) Hibernate
19 182 (3.96%) jQuery
19 182 (3.96%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 330 (7.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 320 (6.97%) Hedge funds
3 291 (6.34%) Fixed Income
4 278 (6.05%) Algorithms
5 266 (5.79%) Equities
6 246 (5.36%) Derivative
7 212 (4.62%) Data Structures
8 204 (4.44%) Blockchain
9 197 (4.29%) Hybrid Cloud
10 168 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
11 167 (3.64%) Cloud Native
12 153 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
13 119 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
14 118 (2.57%) Private Cloud
15 90 (1.96%) Product Ownership
16 86 (1.87%) Management Information System
17 80 (1.74%) Public Cloud
18 77 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
19 75 (1.63%) Client/Server
20 69 (1.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 764 (16.64%) Linux
2 393 (8.56%) Windows
3 225 (4.90%) Android
4 184 (4.01%) Apple iOS
5 125 (2.72%) Unix
6 111 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 62 (1.35%) CentOS
8 50 (1.09%) Ubuntu
9 37 (0.81%) Windows Server
10 33 (0.72%) Embedded Linux
11 29 (0.63%) Debian
12 19 (0.41%) AIX
13 10 (0.22%) VMS
14 9 (0.20%) Mac OS
15 7 (0.15%) Windows 10
16 6 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
17 5 (0.11%) Mac OS X
18 4 (0.087%) Solaris
19 3 (0.065%) FreeBSD
19 3 (0.065%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,906 (41.51%) Agile
2 1,674 (36.45%) Software Engineering
3 1,097 (23.89%) DevOps
4 907 (19.75%) Microservices
5 793 (17.27%) CI/CD
6 775 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
7 710 (15.46%) Full Stack Development
8 657 (14.31%) Mentoring
9 570 (12.41%) TDD
10 509 (11.08%) Test Automation
11 501 (10.91%) Computer Science
12 464 (10.10%) SDLC
13 437 (9.52%) Scrum
14 408 (8.89%) Fintech
15 403 (8.78%) Artificial Intelligence
16 383 (8.34%) Design Patterns
17 381 (8.30%) OO
18 377 (8.21%) Continuous Integration
19 373 (8.12%) Containerisation
20 360 (7.84%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 1,809 (39.39%) Python
2 1,436 (31.27%) JavaScript
3 1,074 (23.39%) SQL
4 698 (15.20%) C#
5 580 (12.63%) TypeScript
6 371 (8.08%) Kotlin
7 363 (7.91%) C++
8 268 (5.84%) Go
9 260 (5.66%) C
10 248 (5.40%) Scala
11 134 (2.92%) PowerShell
12 130 (2.83%) Bash
13 109 (2.37%) PHP
14 108 (2.35%) Ruby
15 100 (2.18%) Shell Script
16 83 (1.81%) Perl
17 67 (1.46%) Rust
18 65 (1.42%) VB
19 43 (0.94%) COBOL
19 43 (0.94%) Micro Focus COBOL
Qualifications
1 702 (15.29%) Security Cleared
2 673 (14.66%) Degree
3 463 (10.08%) SC Cleared
4 311 (6.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 172 (3.75%) DV Cleared
6 82 (1.79%) Master's Degree
7 66 (1.44%) PhD
8 63 (1.37%) AWS Certification
9 39 (0.85%) Azure Certification
10 24 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 24 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
11 19 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
11 19 (0.41%) DBS Check
12 16 (0.35%) HNC
13 9 (0.20%) ISTQB
13 9 (0.20%) PMI Certification
14 8 (0.17%) CISSP
15 7 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (0.15%) Postgraduate
16 6 (0.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 278 (6.05%) QA
2 154 (3.35%) Data Quality
3 38 (0.83%) SLA
4 36 (0.78%) GDPR
5 18 (0.39%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.20%) PMO
7 8 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.17%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.13%) ISO 26262
9 6 (0.13%) ISO 9001
9 6 (0.13%) NIST
9 6 (0.13%) TickIT
10 4 (0.087%) COBIT
10 4 (0.087%) MiFID
11 3 (0.065%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.065%) SEPA
11 3 (0.065%) Software Quality Assurance
12 2 (0.044%) IEC 61508
12 2 (0.044%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 876 (19.08%) Docker
2 73 (1.59%) Hyper-V
3 59 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.63%) Active Directory
6 26 (0.57%) Firmware
7 21 (0.46%) HDFS
8 19 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
9 11 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
10 10 (0.22%) VMware NSX
11 8 (0.17%) KVM
11 8 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.065%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.022%) Dovecot
13 1 (0.022%) GridGain
13 1 (0.022%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.022%) OpenAM
13 1 (0.022%) OpenDJ
13 1 (0.022%) Postfix
13 1 (0.022%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 942 (20.51%) Kubernetes
2 507 (11.04%) Terraform
3 318 (6.93%) Ansible
4 108 (2.35%) Puppet
5 97 (2.11%) Prometheus
6 55 (1.20%) Grafana
7 44 (0.96%) Progress Chef
8 31 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
9 23 (0.50%) Kibana
10 22 (0.48%) OpenSSO
11 18 (0.39%) Salt
12 16 (0.35%) Packer
13 13 (0.28%) WMI
14 6 (0.13%) Argo
14 6 (0.13%) CloudHub
14 6 (0.13%) Kiali
14 6 (0.13%) logstash
15 5 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
15 5 (0.11%) Opsgenie
15 5 (0.11%) Podman
Vendors
1 406 (8.84%) Oracle
2 269 (5.86%) Red Hat
3 241 (5.25%) Microsoft
4 220 (4.79%) IBM
5 212 (4.62%) Google
6 76 (1.66%) Sybase
7 72 (1.57%) VMware
8 52 (1.13%) TIBCO
9 51 (1.11%) SAP
10 48 (1.05%) Atlassian
11 46 (1.00%) OpenLink
12 45 (0.98%) YouTube
13 43 (0.94%) Micro Focus
14 40 (0.87%) WSO2
15 39 (0.85%) Splunk
16 37 (0.81%) Xilinx
17 34 (0.74%) SaltStack
18 33 (0.72%) Salesforce
19 32 (0.70%) Remedy
20 27 (0.59%) Databricks