Java Jobs in the South East

Java
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 39 33 22
Rank change year-on-year -6 -11 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 859 980 1,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 5.09% 6.86% 9.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.28% 17.12% 20.09%
Number of salaries quoted 564 518 1,061
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,324 £36,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £81,563 £80,938 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £92,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £73,805 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -7.74% +10.34% +11.54%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,970 5,724 9,745
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 29.43% 40.06% 48.90%
Number of salaries quoted 3,993 3,759 6,343
10th Percentile £34,500 £35,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +8.37%
75th Percentile £68,750 £74,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the South East

Java
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java in the South East.

Salary trend for Java in the South East

Java
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Java in the South East

Java
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the South East 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
Hampshire +9 329 £62,500 -3.85% 44
Thames Valley -21 282 £70,000 - 42
Surrey -7 183 £50,000 -16.67% 23
Berkshire 0 171 £70,000 - 22
Buckinghamshire -43 57 £75,000 +10.29% 17
Oxfordshire -16 54 £57,500 +15.00% 3
West Sussex +11 15 £55,000 +4.76% 9
Kent -20 14 £52,500 +54.41% 1
East Sussex -2 13 £55,000 -15.38% 4
Middlesex -14 7 £60,000 -27.27%
Sussex -24 1 £24,500 -48.42% 1
Java
England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 34 (3.96%) Camunda
1 34 (3.96%) nginx
1 34 (3.96%) OpenStack
2 23 (2.68%) Apache
3 22 (2.56%) WebLogic
4 17 (1.98%) Confluence
4 17 (1.98%) JBoss
5 10 (1.16%) Red Hat Fuse
6 8 (0.93%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.58%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.47%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.47%) ColdFusion
8 4 (0.47%) IIS
9 3 (0.35%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.23%) IBM Domino
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.12%) Alfresco
11 1 (0.12%) Documentum
11 1 (0.12%) FileNet
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 37 (4.31%) Simulink
2 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.47%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 278 (32.36%) Azure
2 265 (30.85%) AWS
3 144 (16.76%) Serverless
4 117 (13.62%) IBM Cloud
5 81 (9.43%) Azure Functions
6 77 (8.96%) Azure DevOps
7 75 (8.73%) Azure API Management
8 74 (8.61%) Azure Logic Apps
8 74 (8.61%) Azure Service Bus
9 58 (6.75%) Amazon ECS
9 58 (6.75%) SaaS
10 52 (6.05%) Amazon EKS
11 36 (4.19%) GitHub
11 36 (4.19%) OpenShift
12 20 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
13 17 (1.98%) Amazon S3
14 15 (1.75%) Amazon SQS
15 12 (1.40%) GCP
16 11 (1.28%) Power Platform
17 9 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.33%) Firewall
2 19 (2.21%) DNS
3 13 (1.51%) SNMP
3 13 (1.51%) SSH
3 13 (1.51%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.05%) Internet
5 4 (0.47%) Bluetooth
5 4 (0.47%) HTTP
5 4 (0.47%) LoRaWAN
6 3 (0.35%) Wireless
7 1 (0.12%) RNC
7 1 (0.12%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (22.82%) PostgreSQL
2 175 (20.37%) NoSQL
3 161 (18.74%) MongoDB
4 149 (17.35%) Relational Database
5 80 (9.31%) DB2
6 66 (7.68%) SQL Server
7 52 (6.05%) MySQL
8 48 (5.59%) Oracle Database
9 37 (4.31%) Hadoop
10 30 (3.49%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (1.28%) Big Data
12 9 (1.05%) Data Lake
12 9 (1.05%) Power BI
12 9 (1.05%) RDBMS
12 9 (1.05%) Tableau
13 8 (0.93%) CouchDB
14 7 (0.81%) Qlik Sense
15 6 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
15 6 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
16 5 (0.58%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 134 (15.60%) Git
2 68 (7.92%) Jenkins
3 47 (5.47%) JUnit
4 34 (3.96%) JIRA
5 33 (3.84%) Selenium
6 26 (3.03%) Cucumber
7 23 (2.68%) Ant
7 23 (2.68%) Bitbucket
7 23 (2.68%) GitLab
8 20 (2.33%) Maven
9 17 (1.98%) Vagrant
9 17 (1.98%) WebDriver
10 16 (1.86%) JMeter
11 15 (1.75%) Eclipse
12 13 (1.51%) REST Assured
12 13 (1.51%) TestNG
13 11 (1.28%) Gradle
14 9 (1.05%) Visual Studio
15 6 (0.70%) IntelliJ
15 6 (0.70%) Mockito
General
1 235 (27.36%) Social Skills
2 179 (20.84%) Public Sector
3 78 (9.08%) Analytical Skills
3 78 (9.08%) Finance
4 48 (5.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (3.03%) Police
6 23 (2.68%) Electronics
7 22 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (1.98%) Telecoms
9 15 (1.75%) Banking
9 15 (1.75%) Military
10 14 (1.63%) Marketing
11 13 (1.51%) Aerospace
11 13 (1.51%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (1.16%) Publishing
14 9 (1.05%) Aviation
15 7 (0.81%) Automotive
15 7 (0.81%) Billing
16 6 (0.70%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 342 (39.81%) Developer
2 182 (21.19%) Senior
3 151 (17.58%) Java Developer
4 145 (16.88%) Software Engineer
5 105 (12.22%) Lead
6 98 (11.41%) Full Stack Developer
7 77 (8.96%) Azure Developer
7 77 (8.96%) Senior Developer
8 60 (6.98%) Senior Java Developer
9 56 (6.52%) Java Engineer
10 50 (5.82%) Full Stack Engineer
11 49 (5.70%) Software Developer
12 47 (5.47%) Architect
13 44 (5.12%) DevOps Engineer
14 39 (4.54%) Technical Leader
15 35 (4.07%) Senior Software Engineer
16 29 (3.38%) Applications Support
16 29 (3.38%) Support Engineer
17 28 (3.26%) Analyst
18 27 (3.14%) C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (25.26%) Node.js
2 208 (24.21%) React
3 196 (22.82%) REST
4 169 (19.67%) Web Services
5 159 (18.51%) AngularJS
6 150 (17.46%) Spring
7 149 (17.35%) HTML
8 138 (16.07%) .NET
8 138 (16.07%) CSS
9 97 (11.29%) jQuery
10 86 (10.01%) Vue
11 85 (9.90%) Spring Boot
12 84 (9.78%) ASP.NET
13 83 (9.66%) Kafka
13 83 (9.66%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 79 (9.20%) Ember.js
15 76 (8.85%) ASP.NET Core
15 76 (8.85%) Backbone.js
16 58 (6.75%) Hibernate
17 53 (6.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 122 (14.20%) Algorithms
2 117 (13.62%) Blockchain
2 117 (13.62%) Hybrid Cloud
3 77 (8.96%) Data Structures
4 43 (5.01%) e-Learning
4 43 (5.01%) Greenfield Project
5 39 (4.54%) Distributed Systems
6 35 (4.07%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (1.86%) Mobile App
8 13 (1.51%) CMDB
8 13 (1.51%) IoT
9 12 (1.40%) Analogue Electronics
9 12 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (1.40%) FPGA
9 12 (1.40%) VHDL
10 11 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (0.93%) Client/Server
11 8 (0.93%) Private Cloud
11 8 (0.93%) Product Ownership
11 8 (0.93%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 271 (31.55%) Linux
2 171 (19.91%) Windows
3 104 (12.11%) Android
4 80 (9.31%) Apple iOS
5 41 (4.77%) Unix
6 20 (2.33%) CentOS
6 20 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 19 (2.21%) Ubuntu
8 17 (1.98%) Embedded Linux
9 6 (0.70%) AIX
10 5 (0.58%) VMS
11 4 (0.47%) Windows Server
12 2 (0.23%) Debian
12 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.12%) Rocky
13 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (31.78%) Agile
2 261 (30.38%) DevOps
3 241 (28.06%) Software Engineering
4 202 (23.52%) Problem-Solving
5 199 (23.17%) Full Stack Development
6 198 (23.05%) Artificial Intelligence
7 172 (20.02%) Microservices
8 164 (19.09%) Mentoring
9 144 (16.76%) TDD
10 123 (14.32%) Design Patterns
11 122 (14.20%) OO
12 121 (14.09%) SDLC
13 118 (13.74%) Scrum
14 117 (13.62%) CI/CD
15 116 (13.50%) OOP
16 114 (13.27%) Computer Science
17 106 (12.34%) Test Automation
18 93 (10.83%) BDD
18 93 (10.83%) Web Development
19 88 (10.24%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 372 (43.31%) Python
2 325 (37.83%) JavaScript
3 308 (35.86%) SQL
4 181 (21.07%) C#
5 134 (15.60%) C++
6 89 (10.36%) C
7 63 (7.33%) Kotlin
8 47 (5.47%) TypeScript
9 39 (4.54%) Go
10 36 (4.19%) Shell Script
11 34 (3.96%) Lua
12 24 (2.79%) PowerShell
13 20 (2.33%) Ruby
14 17 (1.98%) Perl
15 16 (1.86%) Scala
16 15 (1.75%) Haskell
16 15 (1.75%) PHP
17 14 (1.63%) MATLAB
17 14 (1.63%) T-SQL
18 10 (1.16%) Bash
Qualifications
1 275 (32.01%) Security Cleared
2 235 (27.36%) SC Cleared
3 152 (17.69%) Degree
4 83 (9.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (3.84%) DV Cleared
6 25 (2.91%) PhD
7 23 (2.68%) Azure Certification
8 15 (1.75%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.28%) DBS Check
10 9 (1.05%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.47%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.12%) HNC
13 1 (0.12%) HND
13 1 (0.12%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.12%) MCP
13 1 (0.12%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (4.77%) QA
2 22 (2.56%) SLA
3 14 (1.63%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.47%) COBIT
4 4 (0.47%) GDPR
5 2 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.12%) Accessibility
System Software
1 187 (21.77%) Docker
2 28 (3.26%) Hyper-V
3 19 (2.21%) Virtual Servers
4 7 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.35%) Firmware
6 3 (0.35%) HDFS
6 3 (0.35%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 139 (16.18%) Kubernetes
2 70 (8.15%) Ansible
3 55 (6.40%) Terraform
4 22 (2.56%) OpenSSO
4 22 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (1.51%) WMI
6 5 (0.58%) Kibana
6 5 (0.58%) Puppet
7 4 (0.47%) Grafana
8 3 (0.35%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.23%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.23%) Podman
10 1 (0.12%) Packer
10 1 (0.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 121 (14.09%) IBM
2 119 (13.85%) Red Hat
3 108 (12.57%) Oracle
4 43 (5.01%) Microsoft
5 37 (4.31%) Xilinx
6 36 (4.19%) Google
7 34 (3.96%) WSO2
8 22 (2.56%) Remedy
9 21 (2.44%) Salesforce
9 21 (2.44%) Splunk
10 14 (1.63%) Apple
11 8 (0.93%) Atlassian
11 8 (0.93%) Dynatrace
11 8 (0.93%) SAP
12 6 (0.70%) ForgeRock
12 6 (0.70%) Sitecore
13 5 (0.58%) VMware
14 4 (0.47%) Adobe
15 3 (0.35%) Cloudera
15 3 (0.35%) Informatica