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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 28 20
Rank change year-on-year -2 -8 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 4,586 4,658 7,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.46% 7.78% 10.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.41% 19.46% 22.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,147 2,275 3,927
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% +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 22,473 23,931 32,714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.65% 39.97% 46.05%
Number of salaries quoted 16,382 13,491 21,099
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 £68,225
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 11 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 11 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 1,976 £57,500 -17.20% 77
South East -3 857 £60,000 -7.69% 120
North of England -19 652 £62,500 -3.85% 111
South West -7 596 £57,500 -4.17% 125
North West -12 459 £62,500 -7.41% 75
Midlands -50 275 £55,000 -8.33% 69
West Midlands -35 194 £56,500 -8.87% 45
Yorkshire -47 144 £65,000 +4.00% 26
East of England -82 106 £62,500 -10.71% 53
Wales -4 84 £50,000 -5.64% 10
East Midlands -71 80 £52,500 -9.48% 24
North East -43 49 £65,000 +4.00% 12
Northern Ireland -25 43 £85,000 +70.00% 33
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 (11.69%) Apache Spark
2 199 (4.34%) Apache
3 122 (2.66%) FileNet
4 54 (1.18%) Camunda
5 51 (1.11%) Confluence
6 38 (0.83%) Tuxedo
7 36 (0.78%) nginx
8 35 (0.76%) OpenStack
9 34 (0.74%) IIS
9 34 (0.74%) WebSphere
10 33 (0.72%) JBoss
11 32 (0.70%) Cloud Foundry
11 32 (0.70%) Tomcat
12 28 (0.61%) WebLogic
13 22 (0.48%) Captiva
14 21 (0.46%) GemFire
15 20 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
15 20 (0.44%) Red Hat Fuse
16 11 (0.24%) CICS
17 9 (0.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 33 (0.72%) Simulink
2 23 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.17%) Adobe XD
6 6 (0.13%) CANalyzer
7 5 (0.11%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.087%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.087%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.022%) CATIA
9 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 (0.065%) Oracle Applications
5 3 (0.065%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.044%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.044%) Oracle EBS R12
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
7 1 (0.022%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,910 (41.65%) AWS
2 918 (20.02%) Azure
3 379 (8.26%) Serverless
4 322 (7.02%) GCP
5 186 (4.06%) Amazon S3
6 174 (3.79%) SaaS
7 171 (3.73%) GitHub
8 165 (3.60%) IBM Cloud
9 155 (3.38%) Amazon EKS
10 154 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
11 151 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
12 137 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
13 132 (2.88%) OpenShift
14 123 (2.68%) Azure Functions
15 116 (2.53%) Azure API Management
16 115 (2.51%) Azure Logic Apps
16 115 (2.51%) Azure Service Bus
17 104 (2.27%) Amazon SQS
18 101 (2.20%) Amazon EC2
19 86 (1.88%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 67 (1.46%) TCP/IP
2 62 (1.35%) DNS
3 53 (1.16%) HTTP
4 41 (0.89%) DHCP
5 38 (0.83%) Firewall
6 34 (0.74%) AMQP
7 29 (0.63%) WAN
8 20 (0.44%) Network Security
9 18 (0.39%) DSL
9 18 (0.39%) Internet
9 18 (0.39%) Modbus
10 17 (0.37%) Kerberos
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
1 850 (18.53%) NoSQL
2 473 (10.31%) Big Data
3 417 (9.09%) Relational Database
4 397 (8.66%) MongoDB
5 370 (8.07%) PostgreSQL
6 321 (7.00%) Hadoop
7 236 (5.15%) Elasticsearch
8 230 (5.02%) MySQL
9 200 (4.36%) SQL Server
10 158 (3.45%) DB2
11 156 (3.40%) Apache Cassandra
12 102 (2.22%) Oracle Database
13 90 (1.96%) Data Lake
14 89 (1.94%) Apache Hive
15 82 (1.79%) RDBMS
16 74 (1.61%) HBase
17 63 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
18 60 (1.31%) Redis
19 52 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
19 52 (1.13%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 454 (9.90%) Git
2 404 (8.81%) Jenkins
3 310 (6.76%) JUnit
4 174 (3.79%) Selenium
5 167 (3.64%) JIRA
6 164 (3.58%) GitLab
7 140 (3.05%) Maven
8 122 (2.66%) Cypress.io
9 120 (2.62%) Cucumber
10 106 (2.31%) Jasmine
11 87 (1.90%) WebDriver
12 74 (1.61%) Mockito
13 70 (1.53%) Visual Studio
14 69 (1.50%) Gradle
15 65 (1.42%) Protractor
16 62 (1.35%) Bitbucket Server
17 60 (1.31%) Karma Test Runner
18 59 (1.29%) JMeter
19 50 (1.09%) Postman
20 45 (0.98%) IntelliJ
General
1 2,066 (45.05%) Finance
2 1,859 (40.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,699 (37.05%) Law
4 798 (17.40%) Marketing
5 707 (15.42%) Social Skills
6 526 (11.47%) Legal
7 496 (10.82%) Banking
8 335 (7.30%) Public Sector
9 258 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
10 257 (5.60%) Investment Banking
11 187 (4.08%) Influencing Skills
12 165 (3.60%) Financial Institution
13 95 (2.07%) Aerospace
14 76 (1.66%) Private Banking
15 63 (1.37%) Retail
16 58 (1.26%) Electronics
17 51 (1.11%) Telecoms
18 46 (1.00%) Manufacturing
19 42 (0.92%) Games
19 42 (0.92%) Military
Job Titles
1 2,183 (47.60%) Software Engineer
2 1,119 (24.40%) Developer
3 1,054 (22.98%) Java Engineer
4 949 (20.69%) Java Software Engineer
5 875 (19.08%) Lead
6 818 (17.84%) Senior
7 536 (11.69%) Lead Software Engineer
8 440 (9.59%) Java Developer
9 388 (8.46%) Full Stack Engineer
10 338 (7.37%) Senior Software Engineer
11 315 (6.87%) Full Stack Software Engineer
12 299 (6.52%) Lead Java Engineer
13 259 (5.65%) Big Data Engineer
14 255 (5.56%) Big Data Software Engineer
15 228 (4.97%) Scala Engineer
15 228 (4.97%) Scala Software Engineer
16 221 (4.82%) Full Stack Developer
17 212 (4.62%) Senior Developer
18 207 (4.51%) Software Developer
19 205 (4.47%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,219 (26.58%) Spring
2 974 (21.24%) React
3 769 (16.77%) AngularJS
4 701 (15.29%) Spring Boot
5 609 (13.28%) Node.js
6 576 (12.56%) HTML
7 532 (11.60%) REST
8 526 (11.47%) Kafka
9 518 (11.30%) CSS
10 357 (7.78%) .NET
11 341 (7.44%) Web Services
12 320 (6.98%) Hibernate
13 311 (6.78%) RESTful
14 305 (6.65%) J2EE
15 303 (6.61%) jQuery
16 292 (6.37%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 266 (5.80%) JSON
18 179 (3.90%) Vue
19 176 (3.84%) JMS
20 173 (3.77%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 773 (16.86%) Algorithms
2 668 (14.57%) Cloud Native
3 290 (6.32%) Public Cloud
4 276 (6.02%) Data Structures
5 170 (3.71%) Blockchain
6 161 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
7 150 (3.27%) Private Cloud
8 146 (3.18%) Onboarding
9 122 (2.66%) Product Ownership
10 103 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
11 97 (2.12%) Management Information System
12 96 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
13 90 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
14 67 (1.46%) Distributed Applications
15 64 (1.40%) Reference Data
16 47 (1.02%) e-Learning
17 45 (0.98%) IoT
18 44 (0.96%) Credit Risk
18 44 (0.96%) Legacy Code
19 43 (0.94%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 743 (16.20%) Linux
2 358 (7.81%) Windows
3 220 (4.80%) Unix
4 199 (4.34%) Android
5 164 (3.58%) Apple iOS
6 96 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 45 (0.98%) CentOS
8 44 (0.96%) Ubuntu
9 29 (0.63%) Windows Server
10 28 (0.61%) Debian
10 28 (0.61%) Embedded Linux
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 (0.065%) FreeBSD
15 3 (0.065%) Kali Linux
15 3 (0.065%) Solaris
16 2 (0.044%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,745 (59.86%) Software Engineering
2 2,742 (59.79%) Agile
3 1,787 (38.97%) CI/CD
4 1,711 (37.31%) SDLC
5 1,357 (29.59%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,303 (28.41%) Operational Stability
7 1,177 (25.67%) Machine Learning
8 944 (20.58%) Microservices
9 905 (19.73%) Problem-Solving
10 834 (18.19%) Community of Practice
11 816 (17.79%) Full Stack Development
12 779 (16.99%) DevOps
13 683 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
14 617 (13.45%) Visualisation
15 543 (11.84%) Mentoring
16 542 (11.82%) Risk Management
16 542 (11.82%) TDD
17 527 (11.49%) Decision-Making
18 513 (11.19%) Computer Science
18 513 (11.19%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,741 (37.96%) SQL
2 1,617 (35.26%) Python
3 1,101 (24.01%) JavaScript
4 594 (12.95%) C#
5 418 (9.11%) TypeScript
6 416 (9.07%) Scala
7 302 (6.59%) C++
8 254 (5.54%) C
9 186 (4.06%) Go
10 158 (3.45%) PL/SQL
11 133 (2.90%) Bash
12 127 (2.77%) Kotlin
13 114 (2.49%) Ruby
14 107 (2.33%) Shell Script
15 105 (2.29%) PowerShell
16 94 (2.05%) PHP
17 58 (1.26%) Perl
18 54 (1.18%) COBOL
19 52 (1.13%) T-SQL
20 51 (1.11%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 639 (13.93%) Security Cleared
2 508 (11.08%) Degree
3 397 (8.66%) SC Cleared
4 235 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 143 (3.12%) DV Cleared
6 75 (1.64%) Master's Degree
7 60 (1.31%) PhD
8 56 (1.22%) 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 9 (0.20%) PMI Certification
14 8 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 8 (0.17%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.15%) AWS Certified Developer
16 6 (0.13%) SANS
17 5 (0.11%) CISSP
17 5 (0.11%) CRISC
17 5 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (3.99%) QA
2 81 (1.77%) SLA
3 64 (1.40%) Data Quality
4 37 (0.81%) 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%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.022%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.022%) ITGC
10 1 (0.022%) PMO
System Software
1 589 (12.84%) Docker
2 75 (1.64%) HDFS
3 68 (1.48%) Hyper-V
4 48 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
5 26 (0.57%) VMware NSX
6 21 (0.46%) Firmware
7 19 (0.41%) 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 (0.065%) 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
1 762 (16.62%) Kubernetes
2 413 (9.01%) Terraform
3 192 (4.19%) Ansible
4 160 (3.49%) Grafana
5 83 (1.81%) Puppet
6 59 (1.29%) Prometheus
7 38 (0.83%) Kibana
8 36 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
9 27 (0.59%) OpenSSO
10 26 (0.57%) ITRS Geneos
11 21 (0.46%) HAProxy
11 21 (0.46%) Zipkin
12 20 (0.44%) Progress Chef
13 13 (0.28%) WMI
14 7 (0.15%) Graphite
15 5 (0.11%) Argo
15 5 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
15 5 (0.11%) Opsgenie
15 5 (0.11%) Podman
16 3 (0.065%) Packer
Vendors
1 696 (15.18%) Oracle
2 233 (5.08%) Red Hat
3 205 (4.47%) IBM
4 198 (4.32%) Google
5 192 (4.19%) Microsoft
6 171 (3.73%) Splunk
7 152 (3.31%) Databricks
8 140 (3.05%) Dynatrace
9 75 (1.64%) Cloudera
9 75 (1.64%) VMware
10 62 (1.35%) Informatica
11 57 (1.24%) Alteryx
12 52 (1.13%) SAP
13 50 (1.09%) SaltStack
14 44 (0.96%) Pega
15 43 (0.94%) Micro Focus
16 35 (0.76%) WSO2
17 33 (0.72%) Remedy
18 32 (0.70%) Sybase
18 32 (0.70%) Xilinx