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

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 18 16
Rank change year-on-year -17 -2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 4,631 8,776 20,273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.21% 10.14% 14.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.53% 23.55% 27.06%
Number of salaries quoted 3,429 5,241 8,863
10th Percentile £39,351 £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 £138,750 £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 28,024 37,268 74,911
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.54% 43.05% 53.52%
Number of salaries quoted 22,545 24,192 38,932
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 28 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 28 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 -4 2,118 £95,000 +5.56% 568
South East -8 862 £60,000 -7.69% 126
North of England -26 652 £62,500 -3.85% 143
South West -9 588 £57,500 -6.69% 128
North West -14 470 £62,500 -7.41% 100
Midlands -47 271 £55,000 -8.33% 90
West Midlands -32 190 £56,500 -5.83% 62
Yorkshire -57 134 £65,000 - 29
East of England -82 114 £62,500 -10.71% 49
East Midlands -76 80 £52,500 -11.02% 28
North East -43 48 £65,232 +4.37% 14
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
1 421 (9.09%) Apache
2 360 (7.77%) Apache Airflow
3 133 (2.87%) Apache Spark
4 94 (2.03%) Confluence
5 56 (1.21%) nginx
6 43 (0.93%) Tomcat
7 42 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
8 39 (0.84%) OpenStack
9 37 (0.80%) Tuxedo
10 36 (0.78%) Camunda
11 25 (0.54%) IIS
11 25 (0.54%) WebLogic
12 23 (0.50%) JBoss
13 16 (0.35%) SharePoint
14 14 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
15 11 (0.24%) WebSphere
16 10 (0.22%) Drupal
16 10 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
17 9 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
18 7 (0.15%) SAS
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 (0.086%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.086%) 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 11 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.13%) NEC Housing
3 6 (0.13%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.11%) OpenLink RightAngle
4 5 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.086%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.086%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.065%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (0.065%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.043%) Adaptiv
7 2 (0.043%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.043%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.043%) Shopify
7 2 (0.043%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.043%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.022%) iTrent
8 1 (0.022%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.022%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.022%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 2,128 (45.95%) AWS
2 1,079 (23.30%) Azure
3 485 (10.47%) GCP
4 434 (9.37%) Serverless
5 344 (7.43%) dbt
6 330 (7.13%) Snowflake
7 199 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
8 193 (4.17%) SaaS
9 189 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
10 187 (4.04%) OpenShift
11 183 (3.95%) IBM Cloud
12 155 (3.35%) GitHub
13 152 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
14 149 (3.22%) Amazon S3
15 146 (3.15%) Azure Functions
16 133 (2.87%) Azure Service Bus
17 131 (2.83%) Azure Logic Apps
18 129 (2.79%) Azure API Management
19 125 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
20 115 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 94 (2.03%) DNS
2 89 (1.92%) TCP/IP
3 72 (1.55%) HTTP
4 60 (1.30%) Firewall
5 51 (1.10%) DHCP
6 41 (0.89%) AMQP
7 20 (0.43%) WAN
8 19 (0.41%) Internet
8 19 (0.41%) SNMP
9 17 (0.37%) SSH
10 16 (0.35%) Network Security
11 13 (0.28%) MQTT
12 12 (0.26%) Wireless
13 11 (0.24%) VPN
14 10 (0.22%) FTP
14 10 (0.22%) LAN
15 7 (0.15%) Bluetooth
15 7 (0.15%) SSL
16 6 (0.13%) Ethernet
16 6 (0.13%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 516 (11.14%) PostgreSQL
2 480 (10.36%) NoSQL
3 462 (9.98%) Relational Database
4 365 (7.88%) MongoDB
5 359 (7.75%) Data Lake
6 341 (7.36%) Amazon Athena
7 327 (7.06%) Dremio
8 319 (6.89%) Apache Arrow
9 270 (5.83%) SQL Server
10 266 (5.74%) Apache Ignite
11 247 (5.33%) MySQL
12 190 (4.10%) Big Data
13 162 (3.50%) DB2
14 134 (2.89%) RDBMS
15 130 (2.81%) Hadoop
16 107 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
17 88 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
18 83 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
19 72 (1.55%) Oracle Database
20 68 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 472 (10.19%) Git
2 405 (8.75%) Jenkins
3 198 (4.28%) JIRA
4 171 (3.69%) Selenium
5 167 (3.61%) GitLab
6 154 (3.33%) Cucumber
7 152 (3.28%) JUnit
8 103 (2.22%) Maven
9 99 (2.14%) Postman
10 53 (1.14%) Cypress.io
10 53 (1.14%) Visual Studio
11 52 (1.12%) JMeter
12 48 (1.04%) Bitbucket
12 48 (1.04%) Subversion
13 44 (0.95%) WebDriver
14 42 (0.91%) Eclipse
14 42 (0.91%) Gradle
15 40 (0.86%) IntelliJ
15 40 (0.86%) TeamCity
16 36 (0.78%) Artifactory
General
1 1,108 (23.93%) Finance
2 792 (17.10%) Social Skills
3 612 (13.22%) Banking
4 464 (10.02%) Front Office
5 409 (8.83%) Public Sector
6 373 (8.05%) Investment Banking
7 322 (6.95%) Analytical Skills
8 269 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 122 (2.63%) Law
10 104 (2.25%) Marketing
11 103 (2.22%) Aerospace
12 90 (1.94%) Retail
13 81 (1.75%) Electronics
14 66 (1.43%) Financial Institution
15 65 (1.40%) Games
16 54 (1.17%) Legal
17 49 (1.06%) Manufacturing
17 49 (1.06%) Tech for Good
18 48 (1.04%) Telecoms
19 46 (0.99%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,705 (36.82%) Developer
2 1,065 (23.00%) Senior
3 1,029 (22.22%) Software Engineer
4 823 (17.77%) Java Developer
5 744 (16.07%) Lead
6 474 (10.24%) Java Engineer
7 363 (7.84%) Senior Developer
8 349 (7.54%) Full Stack Developer
9 312 (6.74%) Java Software Engineer
10 311 (6.72%) Senior Software Engineer
10 311 (6.72%) Software Developer
11 258 (5.57%) Architect
12 254 (5.48%) Senior Java Developer
13 242 (5.23%) AWS Engineer
14 239 (5.16%) Technical Leader
15 186 (4.02%) Lead Developer
16 165 (3.56%) Senior Java Engineer
17 152 (3.28%) DevOps Engineer
18 143 (3.09%) Azure Developer
19 137 (2.96%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 782 (16.89%) Spring
2 710 (15.33%) React
3 610 (13.17%) Spring Boot
4 550 (11.88%) REST
5 509 (10.99%) Node.js
6 501 (10.82%) AngularJS
7 449 (9.70%) HTML
8 445 (9.61%) .NET
9 407 (8.79%) Kafka
10 400 (8.64%) CSS
11 362 (7.82%) gRPC
12 333 (7.19%) Web Services
13 321 (6.93%) Protocol Buffers
14 280 (6.05%) Pandas
15 276 (5.96%) NumPy
16 271 (5.85%) SciPy
17 241 (5.20%) RESTful
18 198 (4.28%) Hibernate
19 184 (3.97%) Vue
20 180 (3.89%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 371 (8.01%) Hedge funds
2 367 (7.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 327 (7.06%) Fixed Income
4 308 (6.65%) Equities
5 288 (6.22%) Derivative
6 282 (6.09%) Algorithms
7 212 (4.58%) Data Structures
8 204 (4.41%) Blockchain
9 194 (4.19%) Hybrid Cloud
10 174 (3.76%) Cloud Native
11 166 (3.58%) Distributed Systems
12 150 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
13 115 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
14 108 (2.33%) Private Cloud
15 90 (1.94%) Management Information System
16 82 (1.77%) Product Ownership
17 79 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
18 74 (1.60%) Public Cloud
19 73 (1.58%) Client/Server
20 70 (1.51%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 765 (16.52%) Linux
2 395 (8.53%) Windows
3 230 (4.97%) Android
4 180 (3.89%) Apple iOS
5 120 (2.59%) Unix
6 118 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 68 (1.47%) CentOS
8 54 (1.17%) Ubuntu
9 38 (0.82%) Embedded Linux
9 38 (0.82%) Windows Server
10 31 (0.67%) Debian
11 19 (0.41%) AIX
12 10 (0.22%) VMS
13 9 (0.19%) Mac OS
14 8 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
14 8 (0.17%) Windows 10
15 5 (0.11%) Mac OS X
15 5 (0.11%) Solaris
16 3 (0.065%) FreeBSD
16 3 (0.065%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,931 (41.70%) Agile
2 1,737 (37.51%) Software Engineering
3 1,076 (23.23%) DevOps
4 906 (19.56%) Microservices
5 794 (17.15%) CI/CD
6 758 (16.37%) Problem-Solving
7 707 (15.27%) Full Stack Development
8 637 (13.76%) Mentoring
9 565 (12.20%) TDD
10 511 (11.03%) Computer Science
11 506 (10.93%) Test Automation
12 462 (9.98%) SDLC
13 448 (9.67%) Scrum
14 409 (8.83%) Artificial Intelligence
14 409 (8.83%) Asset Management
15 407 (8.79%) Fintech
16 379 (8.18%) Design Patterns
16 379 (8.18%) OO
17 378 (8.16%) Continuous Integration
18 362 (7.82%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,868 (40.34%) Python
2 1,459 (31.51%) JavaScript
3 1,053 (22.74%) SQL
4 691 (14.92%) C#
5 620 (13.39%) TypeScript
6 386 (8.34%) Kotlin
7 358 (7.73%) C++
8 269 (5.81%) Scala
9 263 (5.68%) C
10 261 (5.64%) Go
11 138 (2.98%) PowerShell
12 126 (2.72%) Bash
13 108 (2.33%) PHP
14 100 (2.16%) Shell Script
15 98 (2.12%) Ruby
16 79 (1.71%) Perl
17 65 (1.40%) Rust
18 60 (1.30%) VB
19 43 (0.93%) COBOL
19 43 (0.93%) Micro Focus COBOL
Qualifications
1 711 (15.35%) Security Cleared
2 686 (14.81%) Degree
3 465 (10.04%) SC Cleared
4 324 (7.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 185 (3.99%) DV Cleared
6 82 (1.77%) Master's Degree
7 68 (1.47%) PhD
8 64 (1.38%) AWS Certification
9 40 (0.86%) Azure Certification
10 26 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 23 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
12 20 (0.43%) DBS Check
13 19 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
14 16 (0.35%) HNC
15 9 (0.19%) CISSP
15 9 (0.19%) PMI Certification
16 8 (0.17%) ISTQB
17 7 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
17 7 (0.15%) Postgraduate
18 6 (0.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 262 (5.66%) QA
2 173 (3.74%) Data Quality
3 37 (0.80%) SLA
4 26 (0.56%) GDPR
5 18 (0.39%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.19%) 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 (0.086%) COBIT
10 4 (0.086%) 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
1 861 (18.59%) Docker
2 76 (1.64%) Hyper-V
3 62 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
5 30 (0.65%) Active Directory
6 26 (0.56%) Firmware
7 21 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
8 18 (0.39%) HDFS
9 11 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
10 10 (0.22%) VMware NSX
11 9 (0.19%) KVM
11 9 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.065%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.022%) Dovecot
13 1 (0.022%) GridGain
13 1 (0.022%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.022%) OpenAM
13 1 (0.022%) OpenDJ
13 1 (0.022%) Postfix
13 1 (0.022%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 929 (20.06%) Kubernetes
2 514 (11.10%) Terraform
3 320 (6.91%) Ansible
4 107 (2.31%) Puppet
5 104 (2.25%) Prometheus
6 56 (1.21%) Grafana
7 37 (0.80%) Progress Chef
8 29 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
9 24 (0.52%) Kibana
10 22 (0.48%) OpenSSO
11 14 (0.30%) Packer
11 14 (0.30%) Salt
12 13 (0.28%) WMI
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%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.11%) Opsgenie
14 5 (0.11%) Podman
Vendors
1 380 (8.21%) Oracle
2 278 (6.00%) Red Hat
3 243 (5.25%) Microsoft
4 217 (4.69%) Google
5 208 (4.49%) IBM
6 75 (1.62%) VMware
7 73 (1.58%) Sybase
8 47 (1.01%) TIBCO
9 45 (0.97%) YouTube
10 43 (0.93%) Atlassian
10 43 (0.93%) Micro Focus
11 42 (0.91%) OpenLink
12 41 (0.89%) Xilinx
13 40 (0.86%) Splunk
14 39 (0.84%) WSO2
15 38 (0.82%) SAP
16 35 (0.76%) SaltStack
17 32 (0.69%) Salesforce
18 31 (0.67%) Remedy
19 27 (0.58%) Databricks