Java
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 18 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 6,845 10,666 22,443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.95% 10.30% 14.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.62% 23.83% 26.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3,901 6,380 9,942
10th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,500 £57,046 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £122,500 £122,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% +4.55%

All Programming Languages
UK

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 with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,199 44,762 84,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.70% 43.22% 53.81%
Number of salaries quoted 24,953 28,538 44,073
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,350
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.09% +6.70%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in the UK

Java
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Java in the UK

Java
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Java in the UK

Java
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
UK excluding London -3 4,621 £60,000 -4.76% 612
England -17 4,554 £73,805 -7.74% 1,075
Work from Home -14 2,343 £73,805 -1.59% 566
London -6 2,017 £95,000 +5.56% 557
Scotland +8 1,980 £60,000 -13.60% 79
South East -7 848 £60,500 -6.92% 128
North of England -20 660 £64,000 -1.54% 129
South West -8 617 £57,500 -4.17% 110
North West -13 460 £62,500 -7.41% 85
Midlands -41 279 £55,000 -8.33% 79
West Midlands -34 197 £57,500 -4.17% 55
Yorkshire -44 149 £65,465 +4.74% 28
East of England -82 105 £62,500 -10.71% 55
Wales +2 88 £50,000 -5.64% 12
East Midlands -75 81 £52,500 -8.70% 24
North East -43 51 £65,000 +4.00% 18
Northern Ireland -19 48 £85,000 +61.90% 25

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 606 (8.85%) Apache Spark
2 441 (6.44%) Apache
3 252 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
4 128 (1.87%) FileNet
5 118 (1.72%) Confluence
6 58 (0.85%) Tomcat
7 57 (0.83%) Camunda
8 56 (0.82%) nginx
9 55 (0.80%) JBoss
10 51 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
11 42 (0.61%) IIS
11 42 (0.61%) OpenStack
11 42 (0.61%) WebSphere
12 40 (0.58%) Red Hat Fuse
13 38 (0.56%) Tuxedo
14 37 (0.54%) Cloud Foundry
15 33 (0.48%) WebLogic
16 32 (0.47%) SharePoint
17 28 (0.41%) Captiva
18 22 (0.32%) GemFire
Applications
1 28 (0.41%) Simulink
2 24 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.12%) Adobe XD
6 7 (0.10%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.088%) CANalyzer
8 4 (0.058%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.058%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.015%) CATIA
9 1 (0.015%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.015%) Notion
9 1 (0.015%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 45 (0.66%) Endur
2 23 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
4 8 (0.12%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 7 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.10%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.088%) NEC Housing
6 6 (0.088%) SAP S/4HANA
7 5 (0.073%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.073%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.058%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.058%) Sonata
9 3 (0.044%) BusinessWorks
9 3 (0.044%) Oracle Applications
10 2 (0.029%) Adaptiv
10 2 (0.029%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.029%) Oracle EBS R12
10 2 (0.029%) SAP SD
10 2 (0.029%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 2 (0.029%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 3,040 (44.41%) AWS
2 1,309 (19.12%) Azure
3 656 (9.58%) GCP
4 573 (8.37%) Serverless
5 287 (4.19%) Amazon S3
6 273 (3.99%) SaaS
7 261 (3.81%) AWS Lambda
8 249 (3.64%) GitHub
9 224 (3.27%) Amazon EKS
10 219 (3.20%) dbt
11 217 (3.17%) Snowflake
12 213 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
13 200 (2.92%) Amazon ECS
14 195 (2.85%) OpenShift
15 187 (2.73%) IBM Cloud
16 173 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
17 166 (2.43%) Amazon SQS
18 146 (2.13%) Azure Functions
19 132 (1.93%) Azure Logic Apps
19 132 (1.93%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 101 (1.48%) TCP/IP
2 87 (1.27%) DNS
3 71 (1.04%) HTTP
4 62 (0.91%) Firewall
5 46 (0.67%) DHCP
6 40 (0.58%) AMQP
7 32 (0.47%) WAN
8 25 (0.37%) Internet
8 25 (0.37%) Network Security
9 18 (0.26%) DSL
9 18 (0.26%) Kerberos
9 18 (0.26%) Modbus
10 16 (0.23%) SNMP
10 16 (0.23%) SSH
11 13 (0.19%) Wireless
12 12 (0.18%) MQTT
13 10 (0.15%) VPN
14 8 (0.12%) Bluetooth
14 8 (0.12%) FTP
15 7 (0.10%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,010 (14.76%) NoSQL
2 634 (9.26%) Relational Database
3 569 (8.31%) Big Data
4 532 (7.77%) PostgreSQL
5 500 (7.30%) MongoDB
6 362 (5.29%) Hadoop
7 316 (4.62%) SQL Server
8 308 (4.50%) Data Lake
9 302 (4.41%) MySQL
10 274 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
11 218 (3.18%) Amazon Athena
12 207 (3.02%) Apache Arrow
12 207 (3.02%) Dremio
13 192 (2.80%) DB2
14 178 (2.60%) RDBMS
15 174 (2.54%) Apache Cassandra
16 172 (2.51%) Apache Ignite
17 122 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
18 119 (1.74%) Apache Hive
19 113 (1.65%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 698 (10.20%) Jenkins
2 656 (9.58%) Git
3 373 (5.45%) JUnit
4 299 (4.37%) JIRA
5 289 (4.22%) Selenium
6 224 (3.27%) Cucumber
7 210 (3.07%) GitLab
8 195 (2.85%) Maven
9 150 (2.19%) Cypress.io
10 119 (1.74%) Postman
11 118 (1.72%) WebDriver
12 114 (1.67%) Jasmine
13 91 (1.33%) Mockito
14 89 (1.30%) JMeter
15 79 (1.15%) Gradle
15 79 (1.15%) IntelliJ
16 74 (1.08%) Visual Studio
17 68 (0.99%) Protractor
18 66 (0.96%) Bitbucket Server
19 63 (0.92%) Bitbucket
General
1 2,827 (41.30%) Finance
2 1,992 (29.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,760 (25.71%) Law
4 1,064 (15.54%) Social Skills
5 929 (13.57%) Banking
6 860 (12.56%) Marketing
7 551 (8.05%) Legal
8 534 (7.80%) Investment Banking
9 485 (7.09%) Public Sector
10 397 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
11 389 (5.68%) Front Office
12 221 (3.23%) Financial Institution
13 195 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
14 115 (1.68%) Games
15 111 (1.62%) Retail
16 92 (1.34%) Aerospace
17 76 (1.11%) Private Banking
18 71 (1.04%) Electronics
19 66 (0.96%) Telecoms
20 62 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2,591 (37.85%) Software Engineer
2 2,056 (30.04%) Developer
3 1,376 (20.10%) Senior
4 1,306 (19.08%) Java Engineer
5 1,230 (17.97%) Lead
6 1,129 (16.49%) Java Software Engineer
7 1,020 (14.90%) Java Developer
8 600 (8.77%) Lead Software Engineer
9 485 (7.09%) Senior Software Engineer
10 446 (6.52%) Senior Developer
11 421 (6.15%) Full Stack Engineer
12 400 (5.84%) Full Stack Developer
13 372 (5.43%) AWS Engineer
14 343 (5.01%) Lead Java Engineer
15 339 (4.95%) Full Stack Software Engineer
16 321 (4.69%) Architect
17 316 (4.62%) Software Developer
18 303 (4.43%) Senior Java Developer
19 296 (4.32%) Big Data Engineer
20 255 (3.73%) Big Data Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,661 (24.27%) Spring
2 1,227 (17.93%) React
3 1,041 (15.21%) Spring Boot
4 956 (13.97%) AngularJS
5 772 (11.28%) Kafka
6 739 (10.80%) REST
7 730 (10.66%) Node.js
8 717 (10.47%) HTML
9 637 (9.31%) CSS
10 523 (7.64%) .NET
11 463 (6.76%) Web Services
12 444 (6.49%) Hibernate
13 440 (6.43%) RESTful
14 412 (6.02%) J2EE
15 349 (5.10%) JSON
16 329 (4.81%) jQuery
17 317 (4.63%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 247 (3.61%) gRPC
19 212 (3.10%) XML
20 211 (3.08%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 858 (12.53%) Algorithms
2 754 (11.02%) Cloud Native
3 351 (5.13%) Data Structures
4 337 (4.92%) Public Cloud
5 311 (4.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 258 (3.77%) Hedge funds
7 250 (3.65%) Fixed Income
8 220 (3.21%) Equities
9 217 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
10 213 (3.11%) Blockchain
11 207 (3.02%) Hybrid Cloud
11 207 (3.02%) Onboarding
12 195 (2.85%) Derivative
13 176 (2.57%) Greenfield Project
14 168 (2.45%) Private Cloud
15 163 (2.38%) Product Ownership
16 157 (2.29%) Management Information System
17 143 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
18 88 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
19 82 (1.20%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 922 (13.47%) Linux
2 408 (5.96%) Windows
3 262 (3.83%) Unix
4 230 (3.36%) Android
5 198 (2.89%) Apple iOS
6 112 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 54 (0.79%) CentOS
8 43 (0.63%) Ubuntu
9 37 (0.54%) Windows Server
10 26 (0.38%) Debian
11 25 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
12 23 (0.34%) AIX
13 10 (0.15%) VMS
13 10 (0.15%) Windows 10
14 9 (0.13%) Mac OS
15 5 (0.073%) Mac OS X
15 5 (0.073%) Oracle Linux
16 4 (0.058%) Solaris
17 3 (0.044%) FreeBSD
17 3 (0.044%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,608 (52.71%) Agile
2 3,509 (51.26%) Software Engineering
3 2,251 (32.89%) CI/CD
4 1,937 (28.30%) SDLC
5 1,449 (21.17%) Microservices
6 1,448 (21.15%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,311 (19.15%) Operational Stability
8 1,285 (18.77%) Machine Learning
9 1,248 (18.23%) Problem-Solving
10 1,232 (18.00%) DevOps
11 1,099 (16.06%) Full Stack Development
12 840 (12.27%) Community of Practice
13 822 (12.01%) Mentoring
14 820 (11.98%) TDD
15 790 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
16 750 (10.96%) Computer Science
17 739 (10.80%) Test Automation
18 638 (9.32%) Visualisation
19 619 (9.04%) Decision-Making
20 589 (8.60%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2,426 (35.44%) Python
2 2,125 (31.04%) SQL
3 1,694 (24.75%) JavaScript
4 857 (12.52%) C#
5 725 (10.59%) TypeScript
6 589 (8.60%) Scala
7 422 (6.17%) C++
8 367 (5.36%) Go
8 367 (5.36%) Kotlin
9 317 (4.63%) C
10 181 (2.64%) Ruby
11 180 (2.63%) Bash
12 176 (2.57%) PL/SQL
13 143 (2.09%) PowerShell
14 138 (2.02%) Shell Script
15 120 (1.75%) PHP
16 101 (1.48%) Perl
17 90 (1.31%) Rust
18 69 (1.01%) VB
19 66 (0.96%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 794 (11.60%) Security Cleared
2 771 (11.26%) Degree
3 523 (7.64%) SC Cleared
4 362 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 168 (2.45%) DV Cleared
6 130 (1.90%) Master's Degree
7 86 (1.26%) AWS Certification
8 82 (1.20%) PhD
9 48 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
10 39 (0.57%) Azure Certification
11 28 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 23 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
13 19 (0.28%) DBS Check
14 16 (0.23%) HNC
15 10 (0.15%) ISTQB
15 10 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
16 9 (0.13%) OSCP
16 9 (0.13%) PMI Certification
17 8 (0.12%) CREST Certified
17 8 (0.12%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 321 (4.69%) QA
2 168 (2.45%) Data Quality
3 93 (1.36%) SLA
4 54 (0.79%) Accessibility
5 51 (0.75%) GDPR
6 9 (0.13%) PMO
7 8 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.12%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.12%) SEPA
8 7 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.088%) ISO 26262
9 6 (0.088%) ISO 9001
9 6 (0.088%) NIST
9 6 (0.088%) TickIT
10 4 (0.058%) COBIT
11 3 (0.044%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.044%) MiFID
12 2 (0.029%) IEC 61508
12 2 (0.029%) ISO 13485
12 2 (0.029%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 1,043 (15.24%) Docker
2 93 (1.36%) HDFS
3 75 (1.10%) Hyper-V
4 60 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 35 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
6 30 (0.44%) Active Directory
7 26 (0.38%) VMware NSX
8 24 (0.35%) Firmware
9 19 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
10 11 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
10 11 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
11 8 (0.12%) KVM
11 8 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.044%) VirtualBox
13 2 (0.029%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 2 (0.029%) OpenAM
14 1 (0.015%) Dovecot
14 1 (0.015%) GridGain
14 1 (0.015%) OpenDJ
14 1 (0.015%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1,335 (19.50%) Kubernetes
2 720 (10.52%) Terraform
3 325 (4.75%) Ansible
4 192 (2.80%) Grafana
5 122 (1.78%) Prometheus
6 116 (1.69%) Puppet
7 55 (0.80%) Progress Chef
8 45 (0.66%) Kibana
9 42 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
10 29 (0.42%) OpenSSO
11 26 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
12 22 (0.32%) HAProxy
12 22 (0.32%) Salt
13 21 (0.31%) Zipkin
14 17 (0.25%) Packer
15 13 (0.19%) WMI
16 9 (0.13%) Kiali
17 8 (0.12%) Argo
18 7 (0.10%) Graphite
19 6 (0.088%) logstash
Vendors
1 867 (12.67%) Oracle
2 289 (4.22%) Google
3 274 (4.00%) Microsoft
4 268 (3.92%) Red Hat
5 251 (3.67%) IBM
6 192 (2.80%) Splunk
7 172 (2.51%) Databricks
8 153 (2.24%) Dynatrace
9 98 (1.43%) Sybase
10 91 (1.33%) VMware
11 87 (1.27%) Cloudera
12 86 (1.26%) SAP
13 62 (0.91%) Informatica
14 57 (0.83%) Alteryx
15 55 (0.80%) TIBCO
16 50 (0.73%) Atlassian
16 50 (0.73%) Pega
16 50 (0.73%) SaltStack
17 45 (0.66%) OpenLink
17 45 (0.66%) YouTube