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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 20 16
Rank change year-on-year -14 -4 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 4,671 8,155 20,519
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.13% 9.69% 14.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.46% 22.89% 27.12%
Number of salaries quoted 3,449 5,177 8,804
10th Percentile £39,000 £47,500 £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 £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £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 28,379 35,627 75,662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.19% 42.34% 53.57%
Number of salaries quoted 22,712 23,854 38,653
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,805 £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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -4 2,144 £95,000 +5.56% 570
South East -5 863 £60,000 -7.69% 123
North of England -26 656 £62,500 -3.85% 126
South West -6 592 £57,500 -7.63% 132
North West -12 477 £60,000 -11.11% 94
Midlands -55 276 £55,000 -8.33% 90
West Midlands -35 195 £56,250 -6.25% 65
Yorkshire -59 131 £65,000 - 21
East of England -62 117 £62,500 -9.09% 47
East Midlands -66 80 £52,500 -11.02% 24
North East -33 48 £65,232 +0.36% 11
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
1 431 (9.23%) Apache
2 369 (7.90%) Apache Airflow
3 133 (2.85%) Apache Spark
4 94 (2.01%) Confluence
5 57 (1.22%) nginx
6 44 (0.94%) Tomcat
7 42 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
8 37 (0.79%) Tuxedo
9 36 (0.77%) Camunda
10 35 (0.75%) OpenStack
11 25 (0.54%) IIS
11 25 (0.54%) WebLogic
12 23 (0.49%) JBoss
13 16 (0.34%) SharePoint
14 14 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
15 10 (0.21%) Drupal
15 10 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
15 10 (0.21%) WebSphere
16 9 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
17 7 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 41 (0.88%) Simulink
2 24 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.17%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.15%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.086%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.086%) CANalyzer
7 4 (0.086%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.021%) CATIA
8 1 (0.021%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.021%) Notion
8 1 (0.021%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 42 (0.90%) Endur
2 11 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.13%) NEC Housing
3 6 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.13%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.11%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 4 (0.086%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.064%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (0.064%) Ripple
6 3 (0.064%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.064%) Shopify
7 2 (0.043%) Adaptiv
7 2 (0.043%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.043%) iTrent
7 2 (0.043%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.043%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.043%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.043%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.021%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.021%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 2,153 (46.09%) AWS
2 1,074 (22.99%) Azure
3 487 (10.43%) GCP
4 418 (8.95%) Serverless
5 353 (7.56%) dbt
6 340 (7.28%) Snowflake
7 203 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
8 194 (4.15%) SaaS
9 191 (4.09%) AWS Lambda
10 187 (4.00%) OpenShift
11 183 (3.92%) IBM Cloud
12 156 (3.34%) GitHub
13 149 (3.19%) Amazon EKS
14 147 (3.15%) Amazon S3
15 146 (3.13%) Azure Functions
16 133 (2.85%) Azure Service Bus
17 132 (2.83%) Azure Logic Apps
18 129 (2.76%) Azure API Management
19 121 (2.59%) Amazon ECS
20 116 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 93 (1.99%) DNS
2 89 (1.91%) TCP/IP
3 72 (1.54%) HTTP
4 59 (1.26%) Firewall
5 51 (1.09%) DHCP
6 42 (0.90%) AMQP
7 20 (0.43%) Internet
8 19 (0.41%) SNMP
8 19 (0.41%) WAN
9 17 (0.36%) SSH
10 16 (0.34%) Network Security
11 13 (0.28%) MQTT
12 12 (0.26%) Wireless
13 11 (0.24%) VPN
14 10 (0.21%) FTP
14 10 (0.21%) LAN
15 7 (0.15%) Bluetooth
15 7 (0.15%) SSL
16 6 (0.13%) NAS
16 6 (0.13%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 519 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 478 (10.23%) NoSQL
3 448 (9.59%) Relational Database
4 370 (7.92%) Data Lake
5 365 (7.81%) MongoDB
6 350 (7.49%) Amazon Athena
7 336 (7.19%) Dremio
8 328 (7.02%) Apache Arrow
9 275 (5.89%) Apache Ignite
10 271 (5.80%) SQL Server
11 248 (5.31%) MySQL
12 191 (4.09%) Big Data
13 162 (3.47%) DB2
14 132 (2.83%) Hadoop
15 120 (2.57%) RDBMS
16 107 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
17 88 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
18 84 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
19 68 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
20 64 (1.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 458 (9.81%) Git
2 397 (8.50%) Jenkins
3 197 (4.22%) JIRA
4 171 (3.66%) Selenium
5 166 (3.55%) GitLab
6 157 (3.36%) JUnit
7 154 (3.30%) Cucumber
8 104 (2.23%) Maven
9 99 (2.12%) Postman
10 54 (1.16%) Cypress.io
11 53 (1.13%) Visual Studio
12 52 (1.11%) JMeter
13 49 (1.05%) Bitbucket
14 48 (1.03%) Subversion
15 43 (0.92%) Eclipse
15 43 (0.92%) WebDriver
16 42 (0.90%) Gradle
17 40 (0.86%) TeamCity
18 39 (0.83%) IntelliJ
19 36 (0.77%) Artifactory
General
1 1,122 (24.02%) Finance
2 791 (16.93%) Social Skills
3 620 (13.27%) Banking
4 473 (10.13%) Front Office
5 407 (8.71%) Public Sector
6 383 (8.20%) Investment Banking
7 327 (7.00%) Analytical Skills
8 269 (5.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 125 (2.68%) Law
10 105 (2.25%) Marketing
11 104 (2.23%) Aerospace
12 89 (1.91%) Retail
13 82 (1.76%) Electronics
14 70 (1.50%) Financial Institution
15 65 (1.39%) Games
16 58 (1.24%) Legal
17 51 (1.09%) Manufacturing
18 49 (1.05%) Tech for Good
18 49 (1.05%) Telecoms
19 45 (0.96%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,723 (36.89%) Developer
2 1,087 (23.27%) Senior
3 1,035 (22.16%) Software Engineer
4 834 (17.85%) Java Developer
5 750 (16.06%) Lead
6 488 (10.45%) Java Engineer
7 370 (7.92%) Senior Developer
8 352 (7.54%) Full Stack Developer
9 324 (6.94%) Senior Software Engineer
10 319 (6.83%) Java Software Engineer
11 314 (6.72%) Software Developer
12 260 (5.57%) Senior Java Developer
13 256 (5.48%) Architect
14 246 (5.27%) AWS Engineer
15 238 (5.10%) Technical Leader
16 189 (4.05%) Lead Developer
17 174 (3.73%) Senior Java Engineer
18 154 (3.30%) DevOps Engineer
19 144 (3.08%) Python Engineer
20 143 (3.06%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 786 (16.83%) Spring
2 697 (14.92%) React
3 611 (13.08%) Spring Boot
4 552 (11.82%) REST
5 496 (10.62%) AngularJS
6 494 (10.58%) Node.js
7 453 (9.70%) HTML
8 449 (9.61%) .NET
9 411 (8.80%) Kafka
10 402 (8.61%) CSS
11 373 (7.99%) gRPC
12 337 (7.21%) Web Services
13 330 (7.06%) Protocol Buffers
14 289 (6.19%) Pandas
15 285 (6.10%) NumPy
16 280 (5.99%) SciPy
17 246 (5.27%) RESTful
18 200 (4.28%) Hibernate
19 185 (3.96%) Vue
20 181 (3.87%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 382 (8.18%) Hedge funds
2 379 (8.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 337 (7.21%) Fixed Income
4 320 (6.85%) Equities
5 298 (6.38%) Derivative
6 284 (6.08%) Algorithms
7 212 (4.54%) Data Structures
8 207 (4.43%) Blockchain
9 193 (4.13%) Hybrid Cloud
10 175 (3.75%) Cloud Native
11 163 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
12 151 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
13 115 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
14 104 (2.23%) Private Cloud
15 90 (1.93%) Management Information System
16 84 (1.80%) Product Ownership
17 79 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
18 73 (1.56%) Client/Server
18 73 (1.56%) Mobile App
19 71 (1.52%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 769 (16.46%) Linux
2 397 (8.50%) Windows
3 235 (5.03%) Android
4 181 (3.87%) Apple iOS
5 119 (2.55%) Unix
6 118 (2.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 69 (1.48%) CentOS
8 55 (1.18%) Ubuntu
9 41 (0.88%) Embedded Linux
10 38 (0.81%) Windows Server
11 32 (0.69%) Debian
12 20 (0.43%) AIX
13 10 (0.21%) VMS
14 9 (0.19%) Mac OS
15 8 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
15 8 (0.17%) Windows 10
16 5 (0.11%) Mac OS X
16 5 (0.11%) Solaris
17 3 (0.064%) FreeBSD
17 3 (0.064%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,941 (41.55%) Agile
2 1,753 (37.53%) Software Engineering
3 1,062 (22.74%) DevOps
4 897 (19.20%) Microservices
5 795 (17.02%) CI/CD
6 749 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
7 715 (15.31%) Full Stack Development
8 640 (13.70%) Mentoring
9 559 (11.97%) TDD
10 517 (11.07%) Computer Science
11 506 (10.83%) Test Automation
12 472 (10.10%) SDLC
13 445 (9.53%) Scrum
14 421 (9.01%) Asset Management
15 416 (8.91%) Fintech
16 412 (8.82%) Artificial Intelligence
17 385 (8.24%) OO
18 366 (7.84%) Design Patterns
19 365 (7.81%) Continuous Integration
20 348 (7.45%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 1,865 (39.93%) Python
2 1,462 (31.30%) JavaScript
3 1,054 (22.56%) SQL
4 695 (14.88%) C#
5 631 (13.51%) TypeScript
6 393 (8.41%) Kotlin
7 365 (7.81%) C++
8 276 (5.91%) Scala
9 266 (5.69%) C
10 247 (5.29%) Go
11 138 (2.95%) PowerShell
12 114 (2.44%) Bash
13 109 (2.33%) PHP
14 99 (2.12%) Shell Script
15 82 (1.76%) Ruby
16 68 (1.46%) Rust
17 65 (1.39%) Perl
18 60 (1.28%) VB
19 43 (0.92%) COBOL
19 43 (0.92%) Micro Focus COBOL
Qualifications
1 703 (15.05%) Security Cleared
2 686 (14.69%) Degree
3 459 (9.83%) SC Cleared
4 325 (6.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 186 (3.98%) DV Cleared
6 83 (1.78%) Master's Degree
7 70 (1.50%) PhD
8 62 (1.33%) AWS Certification
9 38 (0.81%) Azure Certification
10 26 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 24 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
12 21 (0.45%) DBS Check
13 19 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
14 17 (0.36%) HNC
15 9 (0.19%) CISSP
15 9 (0.19%) PMI Certification
16 8 (0.17%) ISTQB
16 8 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
17 7 (0.15%) Postgraduate
18 6 (0.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 251 (5.37%) QA
2 177 (3.79%) Data Quality
3 37 (0.79%) SLA
4 25 (0.54%) GDPR
5 19 (0.41%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.19%) PCI DSS
6 9 (0.19%) PMO
7 8 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (0.15%) ISO 9001
8 7 (0.15%) NIST
9 6 (0.13%) TickIT
10 4 (0.086%) COBIT
10 4 (0.086%) ISO 26262
10 4 (0.086%) MiFID
11 3 (0.064%) Def Stans
11 3 (0.064%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.064%) IEC 61508
11 3 (0.064%) SEPA
11 3 (0.064%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 864 (18.50%) Docker
2 71 (1.52%) Hyper-V
3 62 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 43 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (0.69%) Active Directory
6 26 (0.56%) Firmware
7 21 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
8 18 (0.39%) HDFS
9 11 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
10 9 (0.19%) KVM
10 9 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.19%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.064%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.021%) Dovecot
12 1 (0.021%) GridGain
12 1 (0.021%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.021%) OpenAM
12 1 (0.021%) OpenDJ
12 1 (0.021%) Postfix
12 1 (0.021%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 930 (19.91%) Kubernetes
2 519 (11.11%) Terraform
3 319 (6.83%) Ansible
4 108 (2.31%) Puppet
5 103 (2.21%) Prometheus
6 55 (1.18%) Grafana
7 36 (0.77%) Progress Chef
8 29 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
9 25 (0.54%) Kibana
10 22 (0.47%) OpenSSO
11 14 (0.30%) Packer
12 13 (0.28%) WMI
13 12 (0.26%) Salt
14 7 (0.15%) Control-M
15 6 (0.13%) CloudHub
15 6 (0.13%) Kiali
15 6 (0.13%) logstash
16 5 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
16 5 (0.11%) Opsgenie
16 5 (0.11%) Podman
Vendors
1 368 (7.88%) Oracle
2 280 (5.99%) Red Hat
3 248 (5.31%) Microsoft
4 218 (4.67%) Google
5 207 (4.43%) IBM
6 74 (1.58%) Sybase
6 74 (1.58%) VMware
7 47 (1.01%) TIBCO
8 45 (0.96%) YouTube
9 43 (0.92%) Atlassian
9 43 (0.92%) Micro Focus
10 42 (0.90%) OpenLink
11 41 (0.88%) Splunk
11 41 (0.88%) Xilinx
12 38 (0.81%) SAP
13 36 (0.77%) SaltStack
14 35 (0.75%) WSO2
15 30 (0.64%) Remedy
15 30 (0.64%) Salesforce
16 27 (0.58%) Databricks