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

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 32 19
Rank change year-on-year +2 -13 +1
Permanent jobs citing Java 4,493 4,050 8,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.81% 7.26% 10.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.35% 18.79% 23.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,120 2,098 3,925
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £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 £75,772 £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 23,216 21,558 33,840
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.04% 38.64% 45.26%
Number of salaries quoted 16,721 12,880 20,991
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 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £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 5 June 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 5 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
Scotland +11 1,858 £55,000 -20.80% 82
South East -3 876 £60,000 -7.69% 124
North of England -24 652 £62,500 -3.85% 128
South West -5 598 £57,500 -7.63% 131
North West -14 481 £60,000 -11.11% 96
Midlands -52 274 £55,000 -8.33% 91
West Midlands -34 192 £56,500 -5.83% 66
Yorkshire -70 123 £60,000 -7.69% 21
East of England -68 120 £62,500 -10.71% 45
East Midlands -65 81 £52,500 -11.02% 24
Wales -19 77 £50,000 -5.21% 11
North East -37 48 £65,232 +0.36% 11
Northern Ireland -26 39 £85,000 +70.00% 34
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
1 492 (10.95%) Apache Spark
2 192 (4.27%) Apache
3 103 (2.29%) FileNet
4 51 (1.14%) Camunda
5 41 (0.91%) Confluence
6 38 (0.85%) Tuxedo
7 36 (0.80%) nginx
8 32 (0.71%) Cloud Foundry
9 30 (0.67%) OpenStack
10 29 (0.65%) Tomcat
11 27 (0.60%) WebLogic
12 25 (0.56%) IIS
13 21 (0.47%) GemFire
14 20 (0.45%) JBoss
15 16 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
15 16 (0.36%) WebSphere
16 11 (0.24%) CICS
17 9 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
18 8 (0.18%) SharePoint
19 7 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 45 (1.00%) Simulink
2 22 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.16%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.13%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.089%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.089%) CANalyzer
7 4 (0.089%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.022%) CATIA
8 1 (0.022%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (0.13%) SAP ERP
2 4 (0.089%) NEC Housing
2 4 (0.089%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (0.089%) Sonata
3 3 (0.067%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (0.067%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.067%) Shopify
4 2 (0.045%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.045%) iTrent
4 2 (0.045%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.045%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.022%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.022%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.022%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.022%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.022%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 1,861 (41.42%) AWS
2 899 (20.01%) Azure
3 338 (7.52%) Serverless
4 269 (5.99%) GCP
5 176 (3.92%) Amazon S3
6 165 (3.67%) SaaS
7 162 (3.61%) IBM Cloud
8 156 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
9 148 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
10 147 (3.27%) GitHub
11 144 (3.20%) Amazon EKS
12 136 (3.03%) OpenShift
13 127 (2.83%) Amazon ECS
14 123 (2.74%) Azure Functions
15 116 (2.58%) Azure API Management
15 116 (2.58%) Azure Logic Apps
16 115 (2.56%) Azure Service Bus
17 98 (2.18%) Amazon EC2
18 90 (2.00%) Amazon SQS
19 86 (1.91%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 71 (1.58%) TCP/IP
2 69 (1.54%) DNS
3 58 (1.29%) HTTP
4 46 (1.02%) DHCP
5 37 (0.82%) Firewall
6 35 (0.78%) AMQP
7 23 (0.51%) Network Security
8 19 (0.42%) WAN
9 17 (0.38%) Kerberos
9 17 (0.38%) Modbus
10 15 (0.33%) DSL
11 14 (0.31%) Internet
11 14 (0.31%) SSH
12 13 (0.29%) MQTT
12 13 (0.29%) SNMP
13 10 (0.22%) Wireless
14 6 (0.13%) Bluetooth
14 6 (0.13%) VPN
15 5 (0.11%) VSAN
16 4 (0.089%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 841 (18.72%) NoSQL
2 425 (9.46%) Big Data
3 395 (8.79%) MongoDB
4 393 (8.75%) PostgreSQL
5 378 (8.41%) Relational Database
6 313 (6.97%) Hadoop
7 221 (4.92%) MySQL
8 214 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
9 198 (4.41%) SQL Server
10 156 (3.47%) Apache Cassandra
11 154 (3.43%) DB2
12 89 (1.98%) Data Lake
13 80 (1.78%) Apache Hive
14 67 (1.49%) HBase
15 65 (1.45%) Oracle Database
16 61 (1.36%) Redis
17 58 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
18 51 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
19 49 (1.09%) Electronic Patient Records
19 49 (1.09%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 403 (8.97%) Git
2 359 (7.99%) Jenkins
3 313 (6.97%) JUnit
4 160 (3.56%) GitLab
4 160 (3.56%) Selenium
5 135 (3.00%) JIRA
6 127 (2.83%) Maven
7 117 (2.60%) Cypress.io
8 106 (2.36%) Cucumber
8 106 (2.36%) Jasmine
9 82 (1.83%) WebDriver
10 73 (1.62%) Mockito
11 67 (1.49%) Visual Studio
12 65 (1.45%) Protractor
13 62 (1.38%) Gradle
14 60 (1.34%) Karma Test Runner
15 57 (1.27%) Bitbucket Server
15 57 (1.27%) JMeter
16 50 (1.11%) Postman
17 44 (0.98%) Eclipse
General
1 1,918 (42.69%) Finance
2 1,738 (38.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,602 (35.66%) Law
4 737 (16.40%) Marketing
5 716 (15.94%) Social Skills
6 504 (11.22%) Legal
7 438 (9.75%) Banking
8 317 (7.06%) Public Sector
9 254 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
10 249 (5.54%) Investment Banking
11 176 (3.92%) Influencing Skills
12 150 (3.34%) Financial Institution
13 109 (2.43%) Aerospace
14 69 (1.54%) Electronics
15 64 (1.42%) Private Banking
16 55 (1.22%) Retail
17 50 (1.11%) Telecoms
18 48 (1.07%) Manufacturing
19 44 (0.98%) Military
20 39 (0.87%) Games
Job Titles
1 2,053 (45.69%) Software Engineer
2 1,121 (24.95%) Developer
3 1,023 (22.77%) Java Engineer
4 909 (20.23%) Java Software Engineer
5 863 (19.21%) Lead
6 792 (17.63%) Senior
7 503 (11.20%) Lead Software Engineer
8 423 (9.41%) Java Developer
9 373 (8.30%) Full Stack Engineer
10 314 (6.99%) Senior Software Engineer
11 298 (6.63%) Full Stack Software Engineer
12 287 (6.39%) Lead Java Engineer
13 241 (5.36%) Big Data Engineer
14 237 (5.27%) Big Data Software Engineer
15 229 (5.10%) Full Stack Developer
16 216 (4.81%) Scala Engineer
16 216 (4.81%) Scala Software Engineer
17 215 (4.79%) Software Developer
18 203 (4.52%) Senior Developer
19 195 (4.34%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,162 (25.86%) Spring
2 929 (20.68%) React
3 729 (16.23%) AngularJS
4 659 (14.67%) Spring Boot
5 592 (13.18%) Node.js
6 579 (12.89%) HTML
7 522 (11.62%) CSS
8 519 (11.55%) REST
9 515 (11.46%) Kafka
10 356 (7.92%) .NET
11 338 (7.52%) Web Services
12 306 (6.81%) Hibernate
13 299 (6.65%) J2EE
14 298 (6.63%) jQuery
15 291 (6.48%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 281 (6.25%) RESTful
17 247 (5.50%) JSON
18 177 (3.94%) Vue
19 175 (3.89%) GraphQL
20 174 (3.87%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 741 (16.49%) Algorithms
2 644 (14.33%) Cloud Native
3 264 (5.88%) Data Structures
4 245 (5.45%) Public Cloud
5 166 (3.69%) Blockchain
6 161 (3.58%) Hybrid Cloud
7 141 (3.14%) Onboarding
8 123 (2.74%) Private Cloud
9 108 (2.40%) Product Ownership
10 98 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
11 95 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
12 92 (2.05%) Management Information System
13 85 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
14 67 (1.49%) Distributed Applications
15 58 (1.29%) Reference Data
16 47 (1.05%) e-Learning
16 47 (1.05%) IoT
17 46 (1.02%) Mobile App
18 43 (0.96%) Credit Risk
19 42 (0.93%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 747 (16.63%) Linux
2 358 (7.97%) Windows
3 217 (4.83%) Android
4 197 (4.38%) Unix
5 161 (3.58%) Apple iOS
6 107 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 54 (1.20%) CentOS
8 53 (1.18%) Ubuntu
9 44 (0.98%) Embedded Linux
10 31 (0.69%) Debian
11 29 (0.65%) Windows Server
12 22 (0.49%) AIX
13 8 (0.18%) Mac OS
14 5 (0.11%) Mac OS X
14 5 (0.11%) VMS
15 4 (0.089%) Solaris
16 3 (0.067%) FreeBSD
16 3 (0.067%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.067%) Windows 10
17 2 (0.045%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,642 (58.80%) Software Engineering
2 2,601 (57.89%) Agile
3 1,710 (38.06%) CI/CD
4 1,635 (36.39%) SDLC
5 1,315 (29.27%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,220 (27.15%) Operational Stability
7 1,125 (25.04%) Machine Learning
8 895 (19.92%) Microservices
9 829 (18.45%) Problem-Solving
10 804 (17.89%) Full Stack Development
11 792 (17.63%) Community of Practice
12 746 (16.60%) DevOps
13 656 (14.60%) Continuous Improvement
14 585 (13.02%) Visualisation
15 541 (12.04%) Computer Science
16 527 (11.73%) Mentoring
17 520 (11.57%) Risk Management
18 513 (11.42%) TDD
19 491 (10.93%) Decision-Making
19 491 (10.93%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,656 (36.86%) SQL
2 1,572 (34.99%) Python
3 1,078 (23.99%) JavaScript
4 590 (13.13%) C#
5 418 (9.30%) TypeScript
6 402 (8.95%) Scala
7 318 (7.08%) C++
8 268 (5.96%) C
9 148 (3.29%) PL/SQL
10 139 (3.09%) Go
10 139 (3.09%) Kotlin
11 112 (2.49%) PowerShell
12 102 (2.27%) Shell Script
13 100 (2.23%) PHP
14 97 (2.16%) Bash
15 80 (1.78%) Ruby
16 54 (1.20%) COBOL
17 52 (1.16%) T-SQL
18 51 (1.14%) Groovy
19 47 (1.05%) Rust
Qualifications
1 647 (14.40%) Security Cleared
2 536 (11.93%) Degree
3 408 (9.08%) SC Cleared
4 266 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 161 (3.58%) DV Cleared
6 76 (1.69%) Master's Degree
7 59 (1.31%) PhD
8 51 (1.14%) AWS Certification
9 30 (0.67%) Azure Certification
10 20 (0.45%) DBS Check
11 17 (0.38%) HNC
12 15 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
13 12 (0.27%) PMI Certification
14 8 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 8 (0.18%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.16%) AWS Certified Developer
16 6 (0.13%) CISSP
16 6 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
16 6 (0.13%) SANS
17 5 (0.11%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (3.45%) QA
2 75 (1.67%) SLA
3 62 (1.38%) Data Quality
4 22 (0.49%) Accessibility
5 19 (0.42%) GDPR
6 8 (0.18%) ISO 9001
7 7 (0.16%) NIST
7 7 (0.16%) TickIT
8 6 (0.13%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.089%) COBIT
9 4 (0.089%) Def Stans
9 4 (0.089%) IEC 61508
9 4 (0.089%) ISO 26262
9 4 (0.089%) SEPA
10 2 (0.045%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.022%) AQAP
11 1 (0.022%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.022%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.022%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.022%) PMO
System Software
1 565 (12.58%) Docker
2 69 (1.54%) HDFS
3 67 (1.49%) Hyper-V
4 53 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 22 (0.49%) Firmware
6 21 (0.47%) Active Directory
6 21 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
7 16 (0.36%) VMware NSX
8 11 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
9 9 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
9 9 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
10 8 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.067%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.045%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 1 (0.022%) Dovecot
13 1 (0.022%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.022%) Postfix
13 1 (0.022%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 717 (15.96%) Kubernetes
2 403 (8.97%) Terraform
3 194 (4.32%) Ansible
4 154 (3.43%) Grafana
5 90 (2.00%) Puppet
6 56 (1.25%) Prometheus
7 39 (0.87%) Kibana
8 37 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
9 26 (0.58%) ITRS Geneos
9 26 (0.58%) OpenSSO
10 21 (0.47%) HAProxy
10 21 (0.47%) Zipkin
11 19 (0.42%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.29%) WMI
13 7 (0.16%) Graphite
14 5 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.11%) Opsgenie
14 5 (0.11%) Podman
15 3 (0.067%) Nessus
15 3 (0.067%) Packer
Vendors
1 627 (13.96%) Oracle
2 242 (5.39%) Red Hat
3 186 (4.14%) Microsoft
4 183 (4.07%) IBM
5 179 (3.98%) Google
6 169 (3.76%) Splunk
7 138 (3.07%) Databricks
8 137 (3.05%) Dynatrace
9 70 (1.56%) VMware
10 69 (1.54%) Cloudera
11 59 (1.31%) Informatica
12 54 (1.20%) Alteryx
13 53 (1.18%) SaltStack
14 45 (1.00%) Xilinx
15 43 (0.96%) Micro Focus
16 33 (0.73%) SAP
17 32 (0.71%) Remedy
18 30 (0.67%) Sybase
18 30 (0.67%) WSO2
19 26 (0.58%) YouTube