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 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 29 19 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 -4 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 6,892 9,271 25,209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.44% 9.88% 14.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.10% 23.42% 27.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3,969 5,838 9,896
10th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £51,579
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £132,750 £127,875 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +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 34,287 39,579 92,738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.05% 42.16% 54.18%
Number of salaries quoted 25,426 26,470 43,664
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £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 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%

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 6 June 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 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
England -14 4,740 £75,000 -6.25% 1,081
UK excluding London +2 4,511 £60,000 -7.69% 627
Work from Home -13 2,373 £75,000 - 654
London -4 2,184 £95,000 +5.56% 551
Scotland +11 1,861 £55,000 -20.80% 85
South East -1 879 £60,000 -7.69% 131
North of England -23 655 £62,500 -3.85% 125
South West -5 603 £57,500 -6.69% 119
North West -15 484 £60,000 -11.11% 95
Midlands -52 276 £55,000 -8.33% 83
West Midlands -41 193 £56,250 -6.25% 62
Yorkshire -67 123 £60,000 -7.69% 20
East of England -70 120 £62,500 -10.71% 46
East Midlands -66 82 £52,500 -11.02% 21
Wales -13 79 £50,000 -5.21% 11
North East -38 48 £65,232 +0.36% 10
Northern Ireland -27 39 £85,000 +70.00% 34

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
1 589 (8.55%) Apache
2 574 (8.33%) Apache Spark
3 423 (6.14%) Apache Airflow
4 103 (1.49%) Confluence
4 103 (1.49%) FileNet
5 58 (0.84%) nginx
6 53 (0.77%) Camunda
7 52 (0.75%) Tomcat
8 49 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
9 41 (0.59%) Cloud Foundry
10 38 (0.55%) Tuxedo
11 36 (0.52%) OpenStack
12 31 (0.45%) IIS
13 29 (0.42%) WebLogic
14 24 (0.35%) SharePoint
15 23 (0.33%) JBoss
16 22 (0.32%) GemFire
17 19 (0.28%) WebSphere
18 14 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
19 11 (0.16%) CICS
Applications
1 45 (0.65%) Simulink
2 26 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.13%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.10%) Adobe XD
6 4 (0.058%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.058%) CANalyzer
6 4 (0.058%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.015%) CATIA
7 1 (0.015%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.015%) Notion
7 1 (0.015%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 43 (0.62%) Endur
2 19 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
4 12 (0.17%) Ripple
5 8 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.087%) NEC Housing
6 6 (0.087%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.087%) SAP S/4HANA
7 5 (0.073%) OpenLink RightAngle
7 5 (0.073%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.073%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.058%) Sonata
9 3 (0.044%) Oracle Applications
9 3 (0.044%) Shopify
10 2 (0.029%) Adaptiv
10 2 (0.029%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.029%) iTrent
10 2 (0.029%) Oracle EBS R12
10 2 (0.029%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 2 (0.029%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 3,176 (46.08%) AWS
2 1,313 (19.05%) Azure
3 682 (9.90%) GCP
4 498 (7.23%) Serverless
5 394 (5.72%) dbt
6 381 (5.53%) Snowflake
7 265 (3.85%) Amazon S3
8 251 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
9 244 (3.54%) SaaS
10 225 (3.26%) Amazon EKS
11 214 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
12 211 (3.06%) GitHub
13 198 (2.87%) Amazon ECS
14 193 (2.80%) OpenShift
15 184 (2.67%) IBM Cloud
16 173 (2.51%) Amazon EC2
17 151 (2.19%) Amazon SQS
18 146 (2.12%) Azure Functions
19 138 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
20 133 (1.93%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 103 (1.49%) TCP/IP
2 94 (1.36%) DNS
3 74 (1.07%) HTTP
4 63 (0.91%) Firewall
5 52 (0.75%) DHCP
6 42 (0.61%) AMQP
7 28 (0.41%) Network Security
8 27 (0.39%) WAN
9 25 (0.36%) Internet
10 19 (0.28%) SNMP
11 18 (0.26%) Kerberos
12 17 (0.25%) Modbus
12 17 (0.25%) SSH
13 15 (0.22%) DSL
14 13 (0.19%) MQTT
15 12 (0.17%) VPN
16 11 (0.16%) FTP
16 11 (0.16%) LAN
16 11 (0.16%) Wireless
17 8 (0.12%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,004 (14.57%) NoSQL
2 578 (8.39%) PostgreSQL
3 577 (8.37%) Relational Database
4 539 (7.82%) Big Data
5 500 (7.25%) MongoDB
6 475 (6.89%) Data Lake
7 392 (5.69%) Amazon Athena
8 377 (5.47%) Dremio
9 366 (5.31%) Apache Arrow
10 353 (5.12%) Hadoop
11 313 (4.54%) Apache Ignite
12 310 (4.50%) SQL Server
13 295 (4.28%) MySQL
14 250 (3.63%) Elasticsearch
15 188 (2.73%) DB2
16 170 (2.47%) Apache Cassandra
17 133 (1.93%) RDBMS
18 112 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
19 105 (1.52%) Apache Hive
20 94 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 598 (8.68%) Jenkins
2 579 (8.40%) Git
3 371 (5.38%) JUnit
4 257 (3.73%) Selenium
5 238 (3.45%) JIRA
6 209 (3.03%) GitLab
7 184 (2.67%) Cucumber
8 176 (2.55%) Maven
9 148 (2.15%) Cypress.io
10 109 (1.58%) WebDriver
11 106 (1.54%) Jasmine
12 99 (1.44%) Postman
13 84 (1.22%) JMeter
14 78 (1.13%) Mockito
15 70 (1.02%) Gradle
15 70 (1.02%) Visual Studio
16 68 (0.99%) Protractor
17 60 (0.87%) Karma Test Runner
18 57 (0.83%) Bitbucket Server
19 55 (0.80%) Bitbucket
General
1 2,828 (41.03%) Finance
2 1,888 (27.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,698 (24.64%) Law
4 1,069 (15.51%) Social Skills
5 1,004 (14.57%) Banking
6 807 (11.71%) Marketing
7 659 (9.56%) Investment Banking
8 551 (7.99%) Legal
9 518 (7.52%) Front Office
10 442 (6.41%) Public Sector
11 393 (5.70%) Analytical Skills
12 217 (3.15%) Financial Institution
13 183 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
14 110 (1.60%) Aerospace
15 105 (1.52%) Games
16 99 (1.44%) Retail
17 92 (1.33%) Electronics
18 64 (0.93%) Private Banking
18 64 (0.93%) Telecoms
19 63 (0.91%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2,573 (37.33%) Software Engineer
2 2,044 (29.66%) Developer
3 1,403 (20.36%) Senior
4 1,312 (19.04%) Java Engineer
5 1,284 (18.63%) Lead
6 1,123 (16.29%) Java Software Engineer
7 978 (14.19%) Java Developer
8 606 (8.79%) Lead Software Engineer
9 525 (7.62%) Senior Software Engineer
10 430 (6.24%) Senior Developer
11 421 (6.11%) AWS Engineer
12 401 (5.82%) Full Stack Engineer
13 395 (5.73%) Full Stack Developer
14 355 (5.15%) Software Developer
15 343 (4.98%) Lead Java Engineer
16 341 (4.95%) Architect
17 315 (4.57%) Full Stack Software Engineer
18 297 (4.31%) AWS Software Engineer
19 296 (4.29%) Big Data Engineer
20 285 (4.14%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,547 (22.45%) Spring
2 1,158 (16.80%) React
3 995 (14.44%) Spring Boot
4 886 (12.86%) AngularJS
5 758 (11.00%) Kafka
6 731 (10.61%) HTML
7 715 (10.37%) Node.js
8 703 (10.20%) REST
9 649 (9.42%) CSS
10 528 (7.66%) .NET
11 451 (6.54%) Web Services
12 410 (5.95%) gRPC
13 407 (5.91%) Hibernate
14 384 (5.57%) RESTful
15 369 (5.35%) J2EE
16 367 (5.33%) Protocol Buffers
17 330 (4.79%) NumPy
17 330 (4.79%) Pandas
18 329 (4.77%) jQuery
19 324 (4.70%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 827 (12.00%) Algorithms
2 739 (10.72%) Cloud Native
3 454 (6.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 424 (6.15%) Hedge funds
5 378 (5.48%) Fixed Income
6 362 (5.25%) Equities
7 338 (4.90%) Derivative
8 333 (4.83%) Data Structures
9 284 (4.12%) Public Cloud
10 219 (3.18%) Blockchain
11 210 (3.05%) Onboarding
12 196 (2.84%) Hybrid Cloud
13 193 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
14 167 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
15 155 (2.25%) Management Information System
16 150 (2.18%) Product Ownership
17 141 (2.05%) Private Cloud
18 138 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
19 91 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
20 80 (1.16%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 925 (13.42%) Linux
2 417 (6.05%) Windows
3 256 (3.71%) Android
4 237 (3.44%) Unix
5 195 (2.83%) Apple iOS
6 121 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 71 (1.03%) CentOS
8 57 (0.83%) Ubuntu
9 45 (0.65%) Embedded Linux
10 39 (0.57%) Windows Server
11 33 (0.48%) Debian
12 25 (0.36%) AIX
13 11 (0.16%) Windows 10
14 10 (0.15%) VMS
15 9 (0.13%) Mac OS
16 8 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
17 5 (0.073%) Mac OS X
17 5 (0.073%) Solaris
18 3 (0.044%) FreeBSD
18 3 (0.044%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,607 (52.34%) Agile
2 3,579 (51.93%) Software Engineering
3 2,153 (31.24%) CI/CD
4 1,866 (27.07%) SDLC
5 1,435 (20.82%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,383 (20.07%) Microservices
7 1,257 (18.24%) Machine Learning
8 1,232 (17.88%) Operational Stability
9 1,191 (17.28%) DevOps
10 1,138 (16.51%) Problem-Solving
11 1,094 (15.87%) Full Stack Development
12 803 (11.65%) Community of Practice
13 792 (11.49%) TDD
14 790 (11.46%) Computer Science
15 766 (11.11%) Mentoring
16 762 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
17 720 (10.45%) Test Automation
18 609 (8.84%) Visualisation
19 580 (8.42%) Decision-Making
20 574 (8.33%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2,533 (36.75%) Python
2 2,064 (29.95%) SQL
3 1,821 (26.42%) JavaScript
4 870 (12.62%) TypeScript
5 839 (12.17%) C#
6 600 (8.71%) Scala
7 443 (6.43%) C++
8 425 (6.17%) Kotlin
9 332 (4.82%) C
10 327 (4.74%) Go
11 159 (2.31%) PL/SQL
12 144 (2.09%) PowerShell
13 135 (1.96%) Bash
14 128 (1.86%) Shell Script
15 121 (1.76%) PHP
16 114 (1.65%) Ruby
17 96 (1.39%) Rust
18 69 (1.00%) Perl
19 65 (0.94%) Groovy
19 65 (0.94%) VB
Qualifications
1 808 (11.72%) Degree
2 793 (11.51%) Security Cleared
3 516 (7.49%) SC Cleared
4 392 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 197 (2.86%) DV Cleared
6 136 (1.97%) Master's Degree
7 88 (1.28%) PhD
8 84 (1.22%) AWS Certification
9 47 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 39 (0.57%) Azure Certification
11 31 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 22 (0.32%) DBS Check
13 21 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
14 17 (0.25%) HNC
15 12 (0.17%) ISTQB
15 12 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.17%) PMI Certification
16 9 (0.13%) CISSP
16 9 (0.13%) OSCP
17 8 (0.12%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 287 (4.16%) QA
2 230 (3.34%) Data Quality
3 82 (1.19%) SLA
4 58 (0.84%) Accessibility
5 27 (0.39%) GDPR
6 9 (0.13%) PCI DSS
6 9 (0.13%) PMO
7 8 (0.12%) ISO 9001
7 8 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (0.10%) NIST
8 7 (0.10%) TickIT
9 5 (0.073%) SEPA
10 4 (0.058%) COBIT
10 4 (0.058%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.058%) IEC 61508
10 4 (0.058%) ISO 26262
10 4 (0.058%) MiFID
11 3 (0.044%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.044%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 988 (14.34%) Docker
2 82 (1.19%) HDFS
3 72 (1.04%) Hyper-V
4 62 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 45 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
6 34 (0.49%) Active Directory
7 27 (0.39%) Firmware
8 21 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
9 16 (0.23%) VMware NSX
10 11 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
10 11 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
11 10 (0.15%) KVM
11 10 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.044%) VirtualBox
13 2 (0.029%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 1 (0.015%) Dovecot
14 1 (0.015%) GridGain
14 1 (0.015%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.015%) OpenAM
14 1 (0.015%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 1,292 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 746 (10.82%) Terraform
3 340 (4.93%) Ansible
4 189 (2.74%) Grafana
5 142 (2.06%) Prometheus
6 113 (1.64%) Puppet
7 46 (0.67%) Kibana
8 43 (0.62%) Progress Chef
9 40 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
10 26 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
10 26 (0.38%) OpenSSO
11 22 (0.32%) HAProxy
12 21 (0.30%) Zipkin
13 13 (0.19%) Packer
13 13 (0.19%) WMI
14 11 (0.16%) Salt
15 9 (0.13%) Kiali
16 7 (0.10%) Graphite
17 6 (0.087%) CloudHub
17 6 (0.087%) logstash
Vendors
1 779 (11.30%) Oracle
2 286 (4.15%) Google
3 281 (4.08%) Red Hat
4 275 (3.99%) Microsoft
5 213 (3.09%) IBM
6 190 (2.76%) Splunk
7 162 (2.35%) Databricks
8 152 (2.21%) Dynatrace
9 96 (1.39%) Sybase
10 82 (1.19%) VMware
11 81 (1.18%) Cloudera
12 59 (0.86%) Informatica
13 56 (0.81%) SAP
14 55 (0.80%) Alteryx
15 54 (0.78%) SaltStack
16 49 (0.71%) TIBCO
17 45 (0.65%) Xilinx
17 45 (0.65%) YouTube
18 43 (0.62%) Atlassian
18 43 (0.62%) OpenLink