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

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 18 16
Rank change year-on-year -17 -2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 4,605 8,811 19,882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.23% 10.13% 14.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.52% 23.41% 26.94%
Number of salaries quoted 3,426 5,263 8,811
10th Percentile £39,000 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,805 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.74% +10.34% +11.54%
75th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £137,913 £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 27,872 37,636 73,788
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.67% 43.26% 53.48%
Number of salaries quoted 22,501 24,284 38,706
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 25 May 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 25 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
London -5 2,098 £95,000 +5.56% 821
South East -9 862 £60,000 -7.69% 404
North of England -22 649 £62,500 -3.85% 143
South West -8 587 £57,500 -5.74% 130
North West -12 462 £62,500 -7.41% 97
Midlands -53 272 £55,000 -8.33% 98
West Midlands -29 191 £56,250 -6.25% 66
Yorkshire -51 139 £65,000 - 28
East of England -73 111 £62,500 -10.71% 68
East Midlands -75 80 £52,500 -11.02% 28
North East -43 48 £65,232 +4.37% 19
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
1 406 (8.82%) Apache
2 342 (7.43%) Apache Airflow
3 134 (2.91%) Apache Spark
4 93 (2.02%) Confluence
5 56 (1.22%) nginx
6 43 (0.93%) Tomcat
7 42 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
8 40 (0.87%) OpenStack
9 37 (0.80%) Tuxedo
10 36 (0.78%) Camunda
11 30 (0.65%) JBoss
12 26 (0.56%) IIS
13 25 (0.54%) WebLogic
14 17 (0.37%) Red Hat Fuse
14 17 (0.37%) SharePoint
15 16 (0.35%) WebSphere
16 14 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
17 10 (0.22%) Drupal
18 9 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
18 9 (0.20%) FileNet
Applications
1 42 (0.91%) Simulink
2 23 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.17%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.15%) Adobe XD
7 6 (0.13%) CANalyzer
8 4 (0.087%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.087%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.022%) CATIA
9 1 (0.022%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.022%) Notion
9 1 (0.022%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 42 (0.91%) Endur
2 12 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.15%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.13%) NEC Housing
5 5 (0.11%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 5 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.087%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.087%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.065%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.065%) SAP S/4HANA
8 2 (0.043%) Adaptiv
8 2 (0.043%) BusinessWorks
8 2 (0.043%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.043%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.043%) Shopify
8 2 (0.043%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.043%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.022%) iTrent
9 1 (0.022%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.022%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 2,098 (45.56%) AWS
2 1,075 (23.34%) Azure
3 477 (10.36%) GCP
4 435 (9.45%) Serverless
5 325 (7.06%) dbt
6 313 (6.80%) Snowflake
7 199 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
8 193 (4.19%) SaaS
9 190 (4.13%) AWS Lambda
10 188 (4.08%) OpenShift
11 183 (3.97%) IBM Cloud
12 160 (3.47%) GitHub
13 154 (3.34%) Amazon EKS
14 152 (3.30%) Amazon S3
15 146 (3.17%) Azure Functions
16 133 (2.89%) Azure Service Bus
17 131 (2.84%) Azure Logic Apps
18 129 (2.80%) Amazon ECS
18 129 (2.80%) Azure API Management
19 115 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 91 (1.98%) DNS
2 88 (1.91%) TCP/IP
3 70 (1.52%) HTTP
4 59 (1.28%) Firewall
5 49 (1.06%) DHCP
6 41 (0.89%) AMQP
7 19 (0.41%) Internet
7 19 (0.41%) SNMP
7 19 (0.41%) WAN
8 17 (0.37%) SSH
9 16 (0.35%) Network Security
10 12 (0.26%) MQTT
10 12 (0.26%) Wireless
11 10 (0.22%) VPN
12 9 (0.20%) FTP
12 9 (0.20%) LAN
13 7 (0.15%) Bluetooth
13 7 (0.15%) SSL
14 6 (0.13%) Ethernet
14 6 (0.13%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 512 (11.12%) PostgreSQL
2 480 (10.42%) NoSQL
3 464 (10.08%) Relational Database
4 363 (7.88%) MongoDB
5 341 (7.40%) Data Lake
6 321 (6.97%) Amazon Athena
7 308 (6.69%) Dremio
8 303 (6.58%) Apache Arrow
9 272 (5.91%) SQL Server
10 250 (5.43%) Apache Ignite
11 245 (5.32%) MySQL
12 190 (4.13%) Big Data
13 161 (3.50%) DB2
14 134 (2.91%) RDBMS
15 130 (2.82%) Hadoop
16 110 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
17 89 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
18 83 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
19 73 (1.59%) Oracle Database
20 69 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 474 (10.29%) Git
2 412 (8.95%) Jenkins
3 202 (4.39%) JIRA
4 175 (3.80%) Selenium
5 163 (3.54%) GitLab
6 156 (3.39%) Cucumber
7 148 (3.21%) JUnit
8 103 (2.24%) Maven
9 102 (2.21%) Postman
10 53 (1.15%) Cypress.io
10 53 (1.15%) Visual Studio
11 51 (1.11%) JMeter
12 48 (1.04%) Bitbucket
12 48 (1.04%) Subversion
13 46 (1.00%) IntelliJ
14 45 (0.98%) WebDriver
15 42 (0.91%) Eclipse
16 41 (0.89%) Gradle
17 40 (0.87%) TeamCity
18 38 (0.83%) Artifactory
General
1 1,103 (23.95%) Finance
2 787 (17.09%) Social Skills
3 601 (13.05%) Banking
4 446 (9.69%) Front Office
5 419 (9.10%) Public Sector
6 359 (7.80%) Investment Banking
7 324 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
8 267 (5.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 118 (2.56%) Law
10 104 (2.26%) Marketing
11 101 (2.19%) Aerospace
12 92 (2.00%) Retail
13 80 (1.74%) Electronics
14 66 (1.43%) Financial Institution
15 65 (1.41%) Games
16 50 (1.09%) Legal
16 50 (1.09%) Telecoms
17 49 (1.06%) Manufacturing
17 49 (1.06%) Tech for Good
18 45 (0.98%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,703 (36.98%) Developer
2 1,068 (23.19%) Senior
3 1,015 (22.04%) Software Engineer
4 820 (17.81%) Java Developer
5 733 (15.92%) Lead
6 467 (10.14%) Java Engineer
7 362 (7.86%) Senior Developer
8 352 (7.64%) Full Stack Developer
9 312 (6.78%) Senior Software Engineer
10 310 (6.73%) Software Developer
11 305 (6.62%) Java Software Engineer
12 253 (5.49%) Senior Java Developer
13 251 (5.45%) Architect
14 240 (5.21%) AWS Engineer
15 237 (5.15%) Technical Leader
16 182 (3.95%) Lead Developer
17 169 (3.67%) Senior Java Engineer
18 153 (3.32%) DevOps Engineer
19 143 (3.11%) Azure Developer
20 130 (2.82%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 789 (17.13%) Spring
2 708 (15.37%) React
3 608 (13.20%) Spring Boot
4 559 (12.14%) REST
5 510 (11.07%) AngularJS
6 508 (11.03%) Node.js
7 446 (9.69%) .NET
8 445 (9.66%) HTML
9 403 (8.75%) Kafka
10 397 (8.62%) CSS
11 345 (7.49%) gRPC
12 337 (7.32%) Web Services
13 305 (6.62%) Protocol Buffers
14 261 (5.67%) Pandas
15 257 (5.58%) NumPy
16 252 (5.47%) SciPy
17 245 (5.32%) RESTful
18 203 (4.41%) Hibernate
19 184 (4.00%) Vue
20 179 (3.89%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 352 (7.64%) Hedge funds
2 351 (7.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 313 (6.80%) Fixed Income
4 291 (6.32%) Equities
5 280 (6.08%) Algorithms
6 271 (5.88%) Derivative
7 212 (4.60%) Data Structures
8 204 (4.43%) Blockchain
9 196 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
10 171 (3.71%) Cloud Native
11 168 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
12 150 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
13 116 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
14 112 (2.43%) Private Cloud
15 89 (1.93%) Management Information System
16 87 (1.89%) Product Ownership
17 80 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
18 77 (1.67%) Public Cloud
19 74 (1.61%) Client/Server
20 71 (1.54%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 763 (16.57%) Linux
2 394 (8.56%) Windows
3 228 (4.95%) Android
4 181 (3.93%) Apple iOS
5 124 (2.69%) Unix
6 118 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 67 (1.45%) CentOS
8 54 (1.17%) Ubuntu
9 38 (0.83%) Windows Server
10 36 (0.78%) Embedded Linux
11 30 (0.65%) Debian
12 19 (0.41%) AIX
13 10 (0.22%) VMS
14 9 (0.20%) Mac OS
15 8 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
16 7 (0.15%) Windows 10
17 5 (0.11%) Mac OS X
17 5 (0.11%) Solaris
18 3 (0.065%) FreeBSD
18 3 (0.065%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,922 (41.74%) Agile
2 1,706 (37.05%) Software Engineering
3 1,079 (23.43%) DevOps
4 901 (19.57%) Microservices
5 792 (17.20%) CI/CD
6 760 (16.50%) Problem-Solving
7 707 (15.35%) Full Stack Development
8 647 (14.05%) Mentoring
9 567 (12.31%) TDD
10 508 (11.03%) Computer Science
11 506 (10.99%) Test Automation
12 459 (9.97%) SDLC
13 443 (9.62%) Scrum
14 407 (8.84%) Artificial Intelligence
15 400 (8.69%) Fintech
16 393 (8.53%) Asset Management
17 379 (8.23%) OO
18 378 (8.21%) Design Patterns
19 375 (8.14%) Continuous Integration
20 362 (7.86%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,841 (39.98%) Python
2 1,447 (31.42%) JavaScript
3 1,060 (23.02%) SQL
4 690 (14.98%) C#
5 604 (13.12%) TypeScript
6 384 (8.34%) Kotlin
7 357 (7.75%) C++
8 266 (5.78%) Go
9 263 (5.71%) Scala
10 260 (5.65%) C
11 136 (2.95%) PowerShell
12 124 (2.69%) Bash
13 108 (2.35%) PHP
14 101 (2.19%) Shell Script
15 100 (2.17%) Ruby
16 79 (1.72%) Perl
17 67 (1.45%) Rust
18 60 (1.30%) VB
19 43 (0.93%) COBOL
19 43 (0.93%) Micro Focus COBOL
Qualifications
1 709 (15.40%) Security Cleared
2 680 (14.77%) Degree
3 465 (10.10%) SC Cleared
4 320 (6.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 182 (3.95%) DV Cleared
6 83 (1.80%) Master's Degree
7 67 (1.45%) PhD
8 64 (1.39%) AWS Certification
9 40 (0.87%) Azure Certification
10 25 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 23 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
12 19 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
12 19 (0.41%) DBS Check
13 16 (0.35%) HNC
14 9 (0.20%) CISSP
14 9 (0.20%) PMI Certification
15 8 (0.17%) ISTQB
16 7 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
16 7 (0.15%) Postgraduate
17 6 (0.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 264 (5.73%) QA
2 167 (3.63%) Data Quality
3 37 (0.80%) SLA
4 31 (0.67%) GDPR
5 18 (0.39%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.20%) PMO
7 8 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.17%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (0.15%) NIST
9 6 (0.13%) ISO 26262
9 6 (0.13%) ISO 9001
9 6 (0.13%) TickIT
10 4 (0.087%) COBIT
10 4 (0.087%) MiFID
11 3 (0.065%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.065%) SEPA
11 3 (0.065%) Software Quality Assurance
12 2 (0.043%) IEC 62304
12 2 (0.043%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 862 (18.72%) Docker
2 76 (1.65%) Hyper-V
3 61 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.63%) Active Directory
6 26 (0.56%) Firmware
7 20 (0.43%) HDFS
7 20 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
8 11 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
9 10 (0.22%) VMware NSX
10 9 (0.20%) KVM
10 9 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.065%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.022%) Dovecot
12 1 (0.022%) GridGain
12 1 (0.022%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.022%) OpenAM
12 1 (0.022%) OpenDJ
12 1 (0.022%) Postfix
12 1 (0.022%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 930 (20.20%) Kubernetes
2 514 (11.16%) Terraform
3 321 (6.97%) Ansible
4 107 (2.32%) Puppet
5 104 (2.26%) Prometheus
6 56 (1.22%) Grafana
7 38 (0.83%) Progress Chef
8 31 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
9 24 (0.52%) Kibana
10 22 (0.48%) OpenSSO
11 15 (0.33%) Salt
12 14 (0.30%) Packer
13 13 (0.28%) WMI
14 6 (0.13%) CloudHub
14 6 (0.13%) Control-M
14 6 (0.13%) Kiali
14 6 (0.13%) logstash
15 5 (0.11%) Argo
15 5 (0.11%) Opsgenie
15 5 (0.11%) Podman
Vendors
1 390 (8.47%) Oracle
2 277 (6.02%) Red Hat
3 243 (5.28%) Microsoft
4 212 (4.60%) Google
4 212 (4.60%) IBM
5 74 (1.61%) VMware
6 72 (1.56%) Sybase
7 48 (1.04%) TIBCO
8 45 (0.98%) SAP
8 45 (0.98%) YouTube
9 43 (0.93%) Atlassian
9 43 (0.93%) Micro Focus
10 42 (0.91%) OpenLink
11 41 (0.89%) Xilinx
12 40 (0.87%) Splunk
12 40 (0.87%) WSO2
13 35 (0.76%) SaltStack
14 33 (0.72%) Salesforce
15 31 (0.67%) Remedy
16 28 (0.61%) Databricks