Java Jobs in the UK excluding London

Java
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 29 28 20
Rank change year-on-year -1 -8 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 4,578 4,670 7,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.39% 7.92% 10.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.36% 19.79% 22.88%
Number of salaries quoted 2,134 2,205 3,902
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,188 £47,672 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,250 £78,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% +7.69%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 22,484 23,598 32,899
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.40% 40.02% 45.82%
Number of salaries quoted 16,339 13,287 21,008
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £68,563
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the UK excluding London

Java
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Java in the UK excluding London

Java
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Java in the UK excluding London

Java
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the UK excluding London 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
Scotland +9 1,966 £57,500 -17.20% 90
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
Wales -6 83 £50,000 -9.49% 15
East Midlands -68 81 £52,000 -10.34% 29
North East -45 49 £65,000 +4.00% 14
Northern Ireland -32 41 £85,000 +70.00% 44
Java
UK

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 536 (11.71%) Apache Spark
2 197 (4.30%) Apache
3 116 (2.53%) FileNet
4 54 (1.18%) Camunda
5 53 (1.16%) Confluence
6 38 (0.83%) Tuxedo
7 36 (0.79%) nginx
8 34 (0.74%) OpenStack
9 32 (0.70%) Cloud Foundry
10 30 (0.66%) JBoss
10 30 (0.66%) Tomcat
11 29 (0.63%) WebSphere
12 28 (0.61%) IIS
13 27 (0.59%) WebLogic
14 21 (0.46%) GemFire
15 19 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
15 19 (0.42%) Red Hat Fuse
16 17 (0.37%) Captiva
17 11 (0.24%) CICS
18 8 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 38 (0.83%) Simulink
2 22 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.15%) Adobe XD
6 6 (0.13%) CANalyzer
6 6 (0.13%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.087%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.087%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.022%) CATIA
8 1 (0.022%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (0.15%) SAP ERP
2 6 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.087%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.087%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (0.087%) Sonata
5 3 (0.066%) Oracle Applications
5 3 (0.066%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.044%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.044%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.044%) Shopify
6 2 (0.044%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.022%) iTrent
7 1 (0.022%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.022%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.022%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.022%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.022%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 1,914 (41.81%) AWS
2 919 (20.07%) Azure
3 378 (8.26%) Serverless
4 314 (6.86%) GCP
5 187 (4.08%) Amazon S3
6 175 (3.82%) SaaS
7 165 (3.60%) GitHub
7 165 (3.60%) IBM Cloud
8 155 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
9 154 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
10 151 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
11 137 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
12 136 (2.97%) OpenShift
13 123 (2.69%) Azure Functions
14 116 (2.53%) Azure API Management
15 115 (2.51%) Azure Logic Apps
15 115 (2.51%) Azure Service Bus
16 104 (2.27%) Amazon SQS
17 101 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
18 86 (1.88%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 68 (1.49%) TCP/IP
2 63 (1.38%) DNS
3 55 (1.20%) HTTP
4 43 (0.94%) DHCP
5 37 (0.81%) Firewall
6 35 (0.76%) AMQP
7 23 (0.50%) WAN
8 20 (0.44%) Network Security
9 18 (0.39%) DSL
10 17 (0.37%) Internet
10 17 (0.37%) Kerberos
10 17 (0.37%) Modbus
11 14 (0.31%) SSH
12 13 (0.28%) SNMP
13 12 (0.26%) MQTT
13 12 (0.26%) Wireless
14 6 (0.13%) Bluetooth
14 6 (0.13%) Ethernet
14 6 (0.13%) VPN
15 5 (0.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 855 (18.68%) NoSQL
2 470 (10.27%) Big Data
3 416 (9.09%) Relational Database
4 401 (8.76%) MongoDB
5 379 (8.28%) PostgreSQL
6 325 (7.10%) Hadoop
7 234 (5.11%) Elasticsearch
8 227 (4.96%) MySQL
9 197 (4.30%) SQL Server
10 158 (3.45%) DB2
11 155 (3.39%) Apache Cassandra
12 99 (2.16%) Oracle Database
13 90 (1.97%) Data Lake
14 89 (1.94%) Apache Hive
15 82 (1.79%) RDBMS
16 73 (1.59%) HBase
17 63 (1.38%) Redis
18 60 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
19 53 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
20 52 (1.14%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 453 (9.90%) Git
2 402 (8.78%) Jenkins
3 309 (6.75%) JUnit
4 174 (3.80%) Selenium
5 163 (3.56%) GitLab
6 161 (3.52%) JIRA
7 138 (3.01%) Maven
8 123 (2.69%) Cypress.io
9 116 (2.53%) Cucumber
10 106 (2.32%) Jasmine
11 85 (1.86%) WebDriver
12 73 (1.59%) Mockito
13 68 (1.49%) Visual Studio
14 67 (1.46%) Gradle
15 65 (1.42%) Protractor
16 61 (1.33%) Bitbucket Server
17 60 (1.31%) Karma Test Runner
18 58 (1.27%) JMeter
19 51 (1.11%) Postman
20 43 (0.94%) IntelliJ
General
1 2,051 (44.80%) Finance
2 1,850 (40.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,699 (37.11%) Law
4 797 (17.41%) Marketing
5 714 (15.60%) Social Skills
6 525 (11.47%) Legal
7 490 (10.70%) Banking
8 335 (7.32%) Public Sector
9 257 (5.61%) Investment Banking
10 252 (5.50%) Analytical Skills
11 188 (4.11%) Influencing Skills
12 164 (3.58%) Financial Institution
13 101 (2.21%) Aerospace
14 76 (1.66%) Private Banking
15 63 (1.38%) Retail
16 61 (1.33%) Electronics
17 51 (1.11%) Telecoms
18 46 (1.00%) Manufacturing
19 42 (0.92%) Games
19 42 (0.92%) Military
Job Titles
1 2,179 (47.60%) Software Engineer
2 1,113 (24.31%) Developer
3 1,052 (22.98%) Java Engineer
4 946 (20.66%) Java Software Engineer
5 877 (19.16%) Lead
6 812 (17.74%) Senior
7 535 (11.69%) Lead Software Engineer
8 432 (9.44%) Java Developer
9 390 (8.52%) Full Stack Engineer
10 335 (7.32%) Senior Software Engineer
11 316 (6.90%) Full Stack Software Engineer
12 299 (6.53%) Lead Java Engineer
13 259 (5.66%) Big Data Engineer
14 255 (5.57%) Big Data Software Engineer
15 228 (4.98%) Scala Engineer
15 228 (4.98%) Scala Software Engineer
16 220 (4.81%) Full Stack Developer
17 210 (4.59%) Software Developer
18 208 (4.54%) Senior Developer
19 207 (4.52%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,215 (26.54%) Spring
2 974 (21.28%) React
3 764 (16.69%) AngularJS
4 696 (15.20%) Spring Boot
5 616 (13.46%) Node.js
6 576 (12.58%) HTML
7 536 (11.71%) REST
8 528 (11.53%) Kafka
9 519 (11.34%) CSS
10 357 (7.80%) .NET
11 343 (7.49%) Web Services
12 321 (7.01%) Hibernate
13 307 (6.71%) RESTful
14 303 (6.62%) J2EE
15 301 (6.57%) jQuery
16 291 (6.36%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 267 (5.83%) JSON
18 179 (3.91%) Vue
19 177 (3.87%) GraphQL
20 176 (3.84%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 773 (16.89%) Algorithms
2 671 (14.66%) Cloud Native
3 281 (6.14%) Public Cloud
4 276 (6.03%) Data Structures
5 168 (3.67%) Blockchain
6 161 (3.52%) Hybrid Cloud
7 145 (3.17%) Onboarding
7 145 (3.17%) Private Cloud
8 117 (2.56%) Product Ownership
9 98 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
10 97 (2.12%) Management Information System
11 95 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
12 89 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
13 67 (1.46%) Distributed Applications
14 64 (1.40%) Reference Data
15 47 (1.03%) e-Learning
16 45 (0.98%) IoT
17 44 (0.96%) Credit Risk
17 44 (0.96%) Legacy Code
18 42 (0.92%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 741 (16.19%) Linux
2 358 (7.82%) Windows
3 213 (4.65%) Unix
4 202 (4.41%) Android
5 162 (3.54%) Apple iOS
6 100 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 48 (1.05%) CentOS
8 47 (1.03%) Ubuntu
9 32 (0.70%) Embedded Linux
10 29 (0.63%) Debian
10 29 (0.63%) Windows Server
11 21 (0.46%) AIX
12 8 (0.17%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.11%) Mac OS X
13 5 (0.11%) VMS
14 4 (0.087%) Windows 10
15 3 (0.066%) FreeBSD
15 3 (0.066%) Kali Linux
15 3 (0.066%) Solaris
16 2 (0.044%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,747 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 2,736 (59.76%) Agile
3 1,783 (38.95%) CI/CD
4 1,707 (37.29%) SDLC
5 1,361 (29.73%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,304 (28.48%) Operational Stability
7 1,179 (25.75%) Machine Learning
8 943 (20.60%) Microservices
9 899 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
10 834 (18.22%) Community of Practice
11 816 (17.82%) Full Stack Development
12 781 (17.06%) DevOps
13 683 (14.92%) Continuous Improvement
14 616 (13.46%) Visualisation
15 542 (11.84%) Mentoring
15 542 (11.84%) Risk Management
16 537 (11.73%) TDD
17 526 (11.49%) Decision-Making
18 524 (11.45%) Computer Science
19 511 (11.16%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,735 (37.90%) SQL
2 1,625 (35.50%) Python
3 1,103 (24.09%) JavaScript
4 591 (12.91%) C#
5 418 (9.13%) Scala
6 417 (9.11%) TypeScript
7 303 (6.62%) C++
8 255 (5.57%) C
9 185 (4.04%) Go
10 159 (3.47%) PL/SQL
11 133 (2.91%) Bash
12 131 (2.86%) Kotlin
13 113 (2.47%) Ruby
14 107 (2.34%) PowerShell
15 106 (2.32%) Shell Script
16 96 (2.10%) PHP
17 58 (1.27%) Perl
18 54 (1.18%) COBOL
19 53 (1.16%) T-SQL
20 51 (1.11%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 646 (14.11%) Security Cleared
2 519 (11.34%) Degree
3 410 (8.96%) SC Cleared
4 245 (5.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 149 (3.25%) DV Cleared
6 74 (1.62%) Master's Degree
7 59 (1.29%) PhD
8 57 (1.25%) AWS Certification
9 31 (0.68%) Azure Certification
10 18 (0.39%) DBS Check
11 16 (0.35%) HNC
12 14 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (0.24%) PMI Certification
14 9 (0.20%) ISTQB
15 8 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 7 (0.15%) AWS Certified Developer
17 6 (0.13%) SANS
18 5 (0.11%) CISA
18 5 (0.11%) CISM
18 5 (0.11%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (4.04%) QA
2 80 (1.75%) SLA
3 65 (1.42%) Data Quality
4 32 (0.70%) GDPR
5 23 (0.50%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.13%) ISO 26262
6 6 (0.13%) ISO 9001
6 6 (0.13%) NIST
6 6 (0.13%) SEPA
6 6 (0.13%) TickIT
7 5 (0.11%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.087%) COBIT
9 2 (0.044%) Def Stans
9 2 (0.044%) IEC 61508
9 2 (0.044%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.022%) AQAP
10 1 (0.022%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.022%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.022%) ITGC
10 1 (0.022%) PMO
System Software
1 584 (12.76%) Docker
2 75 (1.64%) HDFS
3 70 (1.53%) Hyper-V
4 50 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (0.46%) Firmware
6 20 (0.44%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
8 18 (0.39%) Active Directory
9 11 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
10 9 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
10 9 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
11 8 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.066%) VirtualBox
13 2 (0.044%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 1 (0.022%) Dovecot
14 1 (0.022%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.022%) Postfix
14 1 (0.022%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 759 (16.58%) Kubernetes
2 415 (9.07%) Terraform
3 195 (4.26%) Ansible
4 159 (3.47%) Grafana
5 85 (1.86%) Puppet
6 58 (1.27%) Prometheus
7 37 (0.81%) Kibana
8 36 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
9 26 (0.57%) ITRS Geneos
9 26 (0.57%) OpenSSO
10 21 (0.46%) HAProxy
10 21 (0.46%) Zipkin
11 20 (0.44%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.28%) WMI
13 7 (0.15%) Graphite
14 5 (0.11%) Argo
14 5 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.11%) Opsgenie
14 5 (0.11%) Podman
15 3 (0.066%) Packer
Vendors
1 689 (15.05%) Oracle
2 236 (5.16%) Red Hat
3 199 (4.35%) IBM
4 197 (4.30%) Google
5 188 (4.11%) Microsoft
6 171 (3.74%) Splunk
7 152 (3.32%) Databricks
8 140 (3.06%) Dynatrace
9 75 (1.64%) Cloudera
10 71 (1.55%) VMware
11 62 (1.35%) Informatica
12 57 (1.25%) Alteryx
13 51 (1.11%) SaltStack
14 47 (1.03%) SAP
15 43 (0.94%) Micro Focus
16 39 (0.85%) Pega
17 37 (0.81%) Xilinx
18 34 (0.74%) WSO2
19 32 (0.70%) Remedy
19 32 (0.70%) Sybase