Java Jobs in England

Java
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 19 16
Rank change year-on-year -14 -3 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 4,740 8,093 20,829
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.11% 9.70% 14.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.49% 23.00% 27.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3,471 5,139 8,875
10th Percentile £39,439 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% +11.54%
75th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £130,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% +7.69%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 28,750 35,185 76,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 30.98% 42.19% 53.40%
Number of salaries quoted 22,846 23,754 38,944
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
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 England

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in England

Java
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Java in England

Java
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in England over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Java in England

Java
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the England region over the 6 months to 6 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
London -4 2,184 £95,000 +5.56% 479
South East -1 879 £60,000 -7.69% 127
North of England -23 655 £62,500 -3.85% 126
South West -5 603 £57,500 -6.69% 122
North West -15 484 £60,000 -11.11% 95
Midlands -52 276 £55,000 -8.33% 88
West Midlands -41 193 £56,250 -6.25% 64
Yorkshire -67 123 £60,000 -7.69% 20
East of England -70 120 £62,500 -10.71% 43
East Midlands -66 82 £52,500 -11.02% 24
North East -38 48 £65,232 +0.36% 11
Java
UK

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 471 (9.94%) Apache
2 409 (8.63%) Apache Airflow
3 133 (2.81%) Apache Spark
4 95 (2.00%) Confluence
5 58 (1.22%) nginx
6 42 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
6 42 (0.89%) Tomcat
7 37 (0.78%) Tuxedo
8 36 (0.76%) Camunda
9 35 (0.74%) OpenStack
10 25 (0.53%) WebLogic
11 23 (0.49%) IIS
11 23 (0.49%) JBoss
12 15 (0.32%) SharePoint
13 14 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
14 10 (0.21%) Drupal
14 10 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
15 9 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
16 8 (0.17%) WebSphere
17 7 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 45 (0.95%) Simulink
2 24 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.19%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.15%) Adobe XD
6 4 (0.084%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.084%) CANalyzer
6 4 (0.084%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.021%) CATIA
7 1 (0.021%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.021%) Notion
7 1 (0.021%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 42 (0.89%) Endur
2 12 (0.25%) Ripple
3 10 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.13%) NEC Housing
4 6 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.13%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.11%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 4 (0.084%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.063%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.063%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.063%) Shopify
8 2 (0.042%) Adaptiv
8 2 (0.042%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.042%) iTrent
8 2 (0.042%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.042%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.042%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.042%) Temenos T24
9 1 (0.021%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 2,193 (46.27%) AWS
2 1,080 (22.78%) Azure
3 512 (10.80%) GCP
4 411 (8.67%) Serverless
5 394 (8.31%) dbt
6 378 (7.97%) Snowflake
7 205 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
8 192 (4.05%) SaaS
9 186 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
10 184 (3.88%) OpenShift
11 183 (3.86%) IBM Cloud
12 159 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
13 149 (3.14%) GitHub
14 146 (3.08%) Azure Functions
15 143 (3.02%) Amazon S3
16 133 (2.81%) Azure Service Bus
17 132 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
18 129 (2.72%) Amazon ECS
18 129 (2.72%) Azure API Management
19 118 (2.49%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 94 (1.98%) DNS
2 87 (1.84%) TCP/IP
3 73 (1.54%) HTTP
4 60 (1.27%) Firewall
5 52 (1.10%) DHCP
6 42 (0.89%) AMQP
7 21 (0.44%) Internet
8 19 (0.40%) SNMP
8 19 (0.40%) WAN
9 17 (0.36%) SSH
10 16 (0.34%) Network Security
11 13 (0.27%) MQTT
12 12 (0.25%) VPN
13 11 (0.23%) FTP
13 11 (0.23%) LAN
13 11 (0.23%) Wireless
14 7 (0.15%) Bluetooth
14 7 (0.15%) SSL
15 6 (0.13%) NAS
15 6 (0.13%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 528 (11.14%) PostgreSQL
2 472 (9.96%) NoSQL
3 443 (9.35%) Relational Database
4 411 (8.67%) Data Lake
5 391 (8.25%) Amazon Athena
6 377 (7.95%) Dremio
7 370 (7.81%) MongoDB
8 366 (7.72%) Apache Arrow
9 313 (6.60%) Apache Ignite
10 271 (5.72%) SQL Server
11 248 (5.23%) MySQL
12 189 (3.99%) Big Data
13 162 (3.42%) DB2
14 133 (2.81%) Hadoop
15 117 (2.47%) RDBMS
16 105 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
17 87 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
18 84 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
19 66 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
20 65 (1.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 457 (9.64%) Git
2 387 (8.16%) Jenkins
3 193 (4.07%) JIRA
4 169 (3.57%) Selenium
5 165 (3.48%) GitLab
6 155 (3.27%) JUnit
7 147 (3.10%) Cucumber
8 103 (2.17%) Maven
9 95 (2.00%) Postman
10 57 (1.20%) Cypress.io
11 54 (1.14%) Visual Studio
12 52 (1.10%) JMeter
13 47 (0.99%) Bitbucket
13 47 (0.99%) Subversion
14 45 (0.95%) WebDriver
15 44 (0.93%) Eclipse
16 41 (0.86%) Gradle
17 40 (0.84%) IntelliJ
17 40 (0.84%) TeamCity
18 36 (0.76%) REST Assured
General
1 1,166 (24.60%) Finance
2 803 (16.94%) Social Skills
3 663 (13.99%) Banking
4 509 (10.74%) Front Office
5 419 (8.84%) Investment Banking
6 407 (8.59%) Public Sector
7 328 (6.92%) Analytical Skills
8 269 (5.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 137 (2.89%) Law
10 105 (2.22%) Marketing
11 104 (2.19%) Aerospace
12 87 (1.84%) Retail
13 86 (1.81%) Electronics
14 80 (1.69%) Financial Institution
15 70 (1.48%) Legal
16 65 (1.37%) Games
17 52 (1.10%) Manufacturing
18 51 (1.08%) Telecoms
19 46 (0.97%) Tech for Good
20 45 (0.95%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,731 (36.52%) Developer
2 1,110 (23.42%) Senior
3 1,083 (22.85%) Software Engineer
4 836 (17.64%) Java Developer
5 768 (16.20%) Lead
6 508 (10.72%) Java Engineer
7 372 (7.85%) Senior Developer
8 351 (7.41%) Full Stack Developer
9 346 (7.30%) Senior Software Engineer
10 337 (7.11%) Java Software Engineer
11 328 (6.92%) Software Developer
12 265 (5.59%) Architect
13 262 (5.53%) Senior Java Developer
14 261 (5.51%) AWS Engineer
15 244 (5.15%) Technical Leader
16 198 (4.18%) Lead Developer
17 183 (3.86%) Senior Java Engineer
18 161 (3.40%) Python Engineer
19 155 (3.27%) DevOps Engineer
20 143 (3.02%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 792 (16.71%) Spring
2 703 (14.83%) React
3 611 (12.89%) Spring Boot
4 549 (11.58%) REST
5 494 (10.42%) Node.js
6 491 (10.36%) AngularJS
7 456 (9.62%) HTML
8 445 (9.39%) .NET
9 417 (8.80%) Kafka
10 410 (8.65%) gRPC
11 406 (8.57%) CSS
12 367 (7.74%) Protocol Buffers
13 340 (7.17%) Web Services
14 330 (6.96%) Pandas
15 326 (6.88%) NumPy
16 321 (6.77%) SciPy
17 246 (5.19%) RESTful
18 201 (4.24%) Hibernate
19 186 (3.92%) Vue
20 181 (3.82%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 422 (8.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 420 (8.86%) Hedge funds
3 373 (7.87%) Fixed Income
4 358 (7.55%) Equities
5 336 (7.09%) Derivative
6 286 (6.03%) Algorithms
7 217 (4.58%) Blockchain
8 209 (4.41%) Data Structures
9 191 (4.03%) Hybrid Cloud
10 173 (3.65%) Cloud Native
11 159 (3.35%) Distributed Systems
12 153 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
13 114 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
14 102 (2.15%) Private Cloud
15 89 (1.88%) Management Information System
16 81 (1.71%) Product Ownership
17 80 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
18 73 (1.54%) Client/Server
18 73 (1.54%) Mobile App
19 71 (1.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 775 (16.35%) Linux
2 398 (8.40%) Windows
3 240 (5.06%) Android
4 181 (3.82%) Apple iOS
5 119 (2.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 116 (2.45%) Unix
7 71 (1.50%) CentOS
8 57 (1.20%) Ubuntu
9 45 (0.95%) Embedded Linux
10 38 (0.80%) Windows Server
11 33 (0.70%) Debian
12 21 (0.44%) AIX
13 10 (0.21%) VMS
14 9 (0.19%) Mac OS
14 9 (0.19%) Windows 10
15 8 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
16 5 (0.11%) Mac OS X
16 5 (0.11%) Solaris
17 3 (0.063%) FreeBSD
17 3 (0.063%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,982 (41.81%) Agile
2 1,820 (38.40%) Software Engineering
3 1,057 (22.30%) DevOps
4 902 (19.03%) Microservices
5 778 (16.41%) CI/CD
6 755 (15.93%) Problem-Solving
7 713 (15.04%) Full Stack Development
8 647 (13.65%) Mentoring
9 554 (11.69%) TDD
10 534 (11.27%) Computer Science
11 509 (10.74%) Test Automation
12 477 (10.06%) SDLC
13 463 (9.77%) Asset Management
14 448 (9.45%) Scrum
15 424 (8.95%) Fintech
16 420 (8.86%) Artificial Intelligence
17 389 (8.21%) OO
18 369 (7.78%) Continuous Integration
19 366 (7.72%) Design Patterns
19 366 (7.72%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 1,917 (40.44%) Python
2 1,508 (31.81%) JavaScript
3 1,066 (22.49%) SQL
4 702 (14.81%) C#
5 674 (14.22%) TypeScript
6 399 (8.42%) Kotlin
7 380 (8.02%) C++
8 282 (5.95%) Scala
9 272 (5.74%) C
10 250 (5.27%) Go
11 138 (2.91%) PowerShell
12 116 (2.45%) Bash
13 111 (2.34%) PHP
14 98 (2.07%) Shell Script
15 81 (1.71%) Ruby
16 75 (1.58%) Rust
17 67 (1.41%) Perl
18 60 (1.27%) VB
19 43 (0.91%) COBOL
19 43 (0.91%) Micro Focus COBOL
Qualifications
1 718 (15.15%) Security Cleared
2 702 (14.81%) Degree
3 466 (9.83%) SC Cleared
4 331 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 194 (4.09%) DV Cleared
6 87 (1.84%) Master's Degree
7 74 (1.56%) PhD
8 62 (1.31%) AWS Certification
9 39 (0.82%) Azure Certification
10 26 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 24 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
12 22 (0.46%) DBS Check
13 19 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
14 17 (0.36%) HNC
15 10 (0.21%) PMI Certification
16 9 (0.19%) CISSP
16 9 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
17 8 (0.17%) ISTQB
18 7 (0.15%) Postgraduate
19 6 (0.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 253 (5.34%) QA
2 189 (3.99%) Data Quality
3 36 (0.76%) SLA
4 23 (0.49%) GDPR
5 21 (0.44%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.19%) PCI DSS
6 9 (0.19%) PMO
7 8 (0.17%) ISO 9001
7 8 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (0.15%) NIST
8 7 (0.15%) TickIT
9 4 (0.084%) COBIT
9 4 (0.084%) Def Stans
9 4 (0.084%) IEC 61508
9 4 (0.084%) ISO 26262
9 4 (0.084%) MiFID
10 3 (0.063%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.063%) SEPA
10 3 (0.063%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 864 (18.23%) Docker
2 71 (1.50%) Hyper-V
3 62 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 45 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
5 33 (0.70%) Active Directory
6 27 (0.57%) Firmware
7 21 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
8 16 (0.34%) HDFS
9 11 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
10 10 (0.21%) KVM
10 10 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (0.17%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.063%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.021%) Dovecot
13 1 (0.021%) GridGain
13 1 (0.021%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.021%) OpenAM
13 1 (0.021%) OpenDJ
13 1 (0.021%) Postfix
13 1 (0.021%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 932 (19.66%) Kubernetes
2 517 (10.91%) Terraform
3 322 (6.79%) Ansible
4 107 (2.26%) Puppet
5 103 (2.17%) Prometheus
6 55 (1.16%) Grafana
7 35 (0.74%) Progress Chef
8 31 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
9 25 (0.53%) Kibana
10 22 (0.46%) OpenSSO
11 13 (0.27%) Packer
11 13 (0.27%) WMI
12 11 (0.23%) Salt
13 6 (0.13%) CloudHub
13 6 (0.13%) Control-M
13 6 (0.13%) Kiali
13 6 (0.13%) logstash
14 5 (0.11%) Nagios
14 5 (0.11%) Opsgenie
14 5 (0.11%) Podman
Vendors
1 369 (7.78%) Oracle
2 280 (5.91%) Red Hat
3 247 (5.21%) Microsoft
4 216 (4.56%) Google
5 204 (4.30%) IBM
6 74 (1.56%) Sybase
7 73 (1.54%) VMware
8 46 (0.97%) TIBCO
9 45 (0.95%) Xilinx
9 45 (0.95%) YouTube
10 43 (0.91%) Atlassian
10 43 (0.91%) Micro Focus
11 42 (0.89%) OpenLink
12 41 (0.86%) Splunk
13 36 (0.76%) SaltStack
13 36 (0.76%) SAP
14 35 (0.74%) WSO2
15 29 (0.61%) Remedy
16 28 (0.59%) Databricks
16 28 (0.59%) Salesforce