Java Jobs in the South East

Java
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 38 30 22
Rank change year-on-year -8 -8 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 862 986 2,059
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 4.95% 7.00% 10.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.08% 17.44% 20.65%
Number of salaries quoted 565 509 1,070
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,324 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £92,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £73,805 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -7.74% +10.34% +11.54%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 South East with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,048 5,655 9,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 28.99% 40.12% 48.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4,033 3,705 6,349
10th Percentile £34,750 £35,000 £33,200
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +7.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the South East

Java
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java in the South East.

Salary trend for Java in the South East

Java
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in the South East over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Java in the South East

Java
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the South East 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
Hampshire +9 336 £62,500 -3.85% 38
Thames Valley -25 275 £70,000 - 42
Surrey -9 187 £50,000 -18.37% 21
Berkshire -19 165 £70,000 - 23
Buckinghamshire -48 56 £75,000 +7.14% 15
Oxfordshire -16 54 £57,500 +15.00% 5
West Sussex +2 15 £55,000 +4.76% 8
Kent -28 14 £52,500 +54.41%
East Sussex -6 12 £55,000 -8.78% 6
Middlesex -18 7 £60,000 -27.27%
Sussex -24 1 £24,500 -48.42% 1
Java
England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 34 (3.94%) Camunda
1 34 (3.94%) nginx
2 33 (3.83%) OpenStack
3 23 (2.67%) Apache
4 22 (2.55%) WebLogic
5 16 (1.86%) JBoss
6 14 (1.62%) Confluence
7 9 (1.04%) Red Hat Fuse
8 7 (0.81%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.58%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.46%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.46%) ColdFusion
10 4 (0.46%) IIS
11 3 (0.35%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.23%) IBM Domino
12 2 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.12%) Documentum
13 1 (0.12%) FileNet
13 1 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
13 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 41 (4.76%) Simulink
2 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.46%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.46%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 283 (32.83%) Azure
2 272 (31.55%) AWS
3 142 (16.47%) Serverless
4 117 (13.57%) IBM Cloud
5 81 (9.40%) Azure Functions
6 79 (9.16%) Azure DevOps
7 75 (8.70%) Azure API Management
8 74 (8.58%) Azure Logic Apps
8 74 (8.58%) Azure Service Bus
9 58 (6.73%) SaaS
10 56 (6.50%) Amazon ECS
11 50 (5.80%) Amazon EKS
12 39 (4.52%) GitHub
13 36 (4.18%) OpenShift
14 19 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
15 17 (1.97%) Amazon S3
16 14 (1.62%) Amazon SQS
17 11 (1.28%) Power Platform
18 10 (1.16%) GCP
19 9 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.32%) DNS
1 20 (2.32%) Firewall
2 13 (1.51%) SNMP
2 13 (1.51%) SSH
2 13 (1.51%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.93%) Internet
4 4 (0.46%) Bluetooth
4 4 (0.46%) HTTP
4 4 (0.46%) LoRaWAN
5 2 (0.23%) Wireless
6 1 (0.12%) Network Security
6 1 (0.12%) RNC
6 1 (0.12%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (23.32%) PostgreSQL
2 181 (21.00%) NoSQL
3 167 (19.37%) MongoDB
4 146 (16.94%) Relational Database
5 80 (9.28%) DB2
6 66 (7.66%) SQL Server
7 49 (5.68%) MySQL
8 45 (5.22%) Oracle Database
9 43 (4.99%) Hadoop
10 30 (3.48%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (1.28%) Big Data
12 9 (1.04%) Data Lake
12 9 (1.04%) Power BI
12 9 (1.04%) Tableau
13 8 (0.93%) CouchDB
13 8 (0.93%) RDBMS
14 7 (0.81%) Qlik Sense
15 6 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
16 5 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
17 4 (0.46%) Redis
Development Applications
1 134 (15.55%) Git
2 66 (7.66%) Jenkins
3 49 (5.68%) JUnit
4 31 (3.60%) JIRA
4 31 (3.60%) Selenium
5 28 (3.25%) Cucumber
6 24 (2.78%) GitLab
7 23 (2.67%) Bitbucket
8 22 (2.55%) Ant
9 19 (2.20%) Maven
9 19 (2.20%) Vagrant
10 16 (1.86%) JMeter
11 15 (1.74%) Eclipse
11 15 (1.74%) WebDriver
12 13 (1.51%) REST Assured
12 13 (1.51%) TestNG
13 9 (1.04%) Gradle
14 8 (0.93%) Visual Studio
15 7 (0.81%) Subversion
16 6 (0.70%) Mockito
General
1 235 (27.26%) Social Skills
2 174 (20.19%) Public Sector
3 77 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (8.47%) Finance
5 48 (5.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (2.90%) Police
7 22 (2.55%) Electronics
8 21 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
9 16 (1.86%) Telecoms
10 15 (1.74%) Military
11 14 (1.62%) Banking
12 12 (1.39%) Aerospace
12 12 (1.39%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.39%) Marketing
13 11 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
14 10 (1.16%) Publishing
15 9 (1.04%) Aviation
16 7 (0.81%) Automotive
16 7 (0.81%) Billing
17 6 (0.70%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 338 (39.21%) Developer
2 175 (20.30%) Senior
3 148 (17.17%) Java Developer
4 143 (16.59%) Software Engineer
5 108 (12.53%) Lead
6 98 (11.37%) Full Stack Developer
7 77 (8.93%) Azure Developer
8 72 (8.35%) Senior Developer
9 56 (6.50%) Senior Java Developer
10 55 (6.38%) Java Engineer
11 52 (6.03%) DevOps Engineer
12 51 (5.92%) Software Developer
13 50 (5.80%) Full Stack Engineer
14 48 (5.57%) Architect
15 38 (4.41%) Technical Leader
16 33 (3.83%) Senior Software Engineer
17 28 (3.25%) Analyst
17 28 (3.25%) Applications Support
17 28 (3.25%) Support Engineer
18 26 (3.02%) C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (25.41%) Node.js
2 203 (23.55%) React
3 193 (22.39%) REST
4 167 (19.37%) Web Services
5 154 (17.87%) AngularJS
6 148 (17.17%) Spring
7 145 (16.82%) HTML
8 136 (15.78%) CSS
9 135 (15.66%) .NET
10 94 (10.90%) jQuery
11 89 (10.32%) Kafka
12 86 (9.98%) Vue
13 85 (9.86%) Spring Boot
14 82 (9.51%) ASP.NET
14 82 (9.51%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 79 (9.16%) Ember.js
16 76 (8.82%) ASP.NET Core
16 76 (8.82%) Backbone.js
17 56 (6.50%) Hibernate
18 49 (5.68%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 122 (14.15%) Algorithms
2 117 (13.57%) Blockchain
2 117 (13.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 77 (8.93%) Data Structures
4 43 (4.99%) e-Learning
4 43 (4.99%) Greenfield Project
5 39 (4.52%) Distributed Systems
6 35 (4.06%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (1.86%) Mobile App
8 15 (1.74%) IoT
9 13 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (1.51%) CMDB
10 12 (1.39%) Analogue Electronics
10 12 (1.39%) FPGA
10 12 (1.39%) VHDL
11 10 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (0.93%) Client/Server
12 8 (0.93%) Private Cloud
12 8 (0.93%) PropTech
13 7 (0.81%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 275 (31.90%) Linux
2 169 (19.61%) Windows
3 106 (12.30%) Android
4 79 (9.16%) Apple iOS
5 41 (4.76%) Unix
6 22 (2.55%) CentOS
6 22 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 21 (2.44%) Ubuntu
8 19 (2.20%) Embedded Linux
9 6 (0.70%) AIX
10 5 (0.58%) VMS
11 4 (0.46%) Windows Server
12 2 (0.23%) Debian
12 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.12%) Rocky
13 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 271 (31.44%) Agile
2 267 (30.97%) DevOps
3 249 (28.89%) Software Engineering
4 203 (23.55%) Artificial Intelligence
5 197 (22.85%) Full Stack Development
6 196 (22.74%) Problem-Solving
7 171 (19.84%) Microservices
8 159 (18.45%) Mentoring
9 143 (16.59%) TDD
10 121 (14.04%) SDLC
11 120 (13.92%) Design Patterns
11 120 (13.92%) OO
12 119 (13.81%) Scrum
13 118 (13.69%) Computer Science
14 117 (13.57%) CI/CD
15 115 (13.34%) OOP
16 109 (12.65%) Test Automation
17 95 (11.02%) Web Development
18 91 (10.56%) BDD
19 88 (10.21%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 383 (44.43%) Python
2 324 (37.59%) JavaScript
3 315 (36.54%) SQL
4 175 (20.30%) C#
5 133 (15.43%) C++
6 89 (10.32%) C
7 70 (8.12%) Kotlin
8 47 (5.45%) TypeScript
9 38 (4.41%) Go
10 35 (4.06%) Shell Script
11 34 (3.94%) Lua
12 24 (2.78%) PowerShell
13 18 (2.09%) Ruby
14 17 (1.97%) Scala
15 16 (1.86%) Perl
16 15 (1.74%) Haskell
17 14 (1.62%) MATLAB
17 14 (1.62%) PHP
18 13 (1.51%) T-SQL
19 9 (1.04%) Bash
Qualifications
1 281 (32.60%) Security Cleared
2 239 (27.73%) SC Cleared
3 158 (18.33%) Degree
4 89 (10.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (3.94%) DV Cleared
6 25 (2.90%) PhD
7 22 (2.55%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.62%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.28%) DBS Check
10 9 (1.04%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.46%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.12%) HNC
13 1 (0.12%) HND
13 1 (0.12%) MCP
13 1 (0.12%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (4.41%) QA
2 22 (2.55%) SLA
3 14 (1.62%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.46%) COBIT
4 4 (0.46%) GDPR
5 2 (0.23%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 184 (21.35%) Docker
2 27 (3.13%) Hyper-V
3 19 (2.20%) Virtual Servers
4 7 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.35%) Firmware
6 3 (0.35%) HDFS
6 3 (0.35%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 137 (15.89%) Kubernetes
2 70 (8.12%) Ansible
3 57 (6.61%) Terraform
4 22 (2.55%) OpenSSO
4 22 (2.55%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (1.51%) WMI
6 6 (0.70%) Kibana
7 5 (0.58%) Grafana
7 5 (0.58%) Puppet
8 3 (0.35%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.23%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.23%) Podman
10 1 (0.12%) Packer
10 1 (0.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 121 (14.04%) IBM
2 120 (13.92%) Red Hat
3 106 (12.30%) Oracle
4 43 (4.99%) Microsoft
5 41 (4.76%) Xilinx
6 34 (3.94%) Google
7 33 (3.83%) WSO2
8 22 (2.55%) Remedy
8 22 (2.55%) Splunk
9 20 (2.32%) Salesforce
10 14 (1.62%) Apple
11 8 (0.93%) Dynatrace
12 7 (0.81%) SAP
13 6 (0.70%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.70%) ForgeRock
13 6 (0.70%) Sitecore
14 5 (0.58%) VMware
15 4 (0.46%) Adobe
16 3 (0.35%) Cloudera
16 3 (0.35%) Informatica