Java Jobs in the UK excluding London

Java
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 28 20
Rank change year-on-year -3 -8 0
Permanent jobs citing Java 4,526 4,588 7,842
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.12% 7.90% 10.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.87% 19.92% 23.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,119 2,142 3,960
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,772 £79,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% +7.69%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 22,775 23,032 33,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.78% 39.65% 45.54%
Number of salaries quoted 16,521 13,122 21,146
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,772 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the UK excluding London

Java
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Java in the UK excluding London

Java
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Java in the UK excluding London

Java
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the UK excluding London 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
Scotland +10 1,921 £55,000 -20.80% 83
South East -8 862 £60,000 -7.69% 125
North of England -26 652 £62,500 -3.85% 143
South West -9 588 £57,500 -6.69% 127
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% 50
Wales -16 80 £50,000 -5.64% 12
East Midlands -76 80 £52,500 -11.02% 28
North East -43 48 £65,232 +4.37% 14
Northern Ireland -30 39 £85,000 +70.00% 43
Java
UK

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 518 (11.44%) Apache Spark
2 195 (4.31%) Apache
3 106 (2.34%) FileNet
4 53 (1.17%) Camunda
5 39 (0.86%) Confluence
6 38 (0.84%) Tuxedo
7 36 (0.80%) nginx
8 33 (0.73%) OpenStack
9 32 (0.71%) Cloud Foundry
10 30 (0.66%) Tomcat
11 28 (0.62%) IIS
12 27 (0.60%) WebLogic
13 21 (0.46%) GemFire
14 20 (0.44%) JBoss
15 19 (0.42%) WebSphere
16 18 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
17 11 (0.24%) CICS
18 9 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
19 8 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
19 8 (0.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 42 (0.93%) Simulink
2 22 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.15%) Adobe XD
6 6 (0.13%) CANalyzer
6 6 (0.13%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.088%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.088%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.022%) CATIA
8 1 (0.022%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (0.13%) SAP ERP
2 5 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.088%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.088%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (0.088%) Sonata
4 3 (0.066%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (0.066%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.044%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.044%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.044%) Shopify
6 1 (0.022%) iTrent
6 1 (0.022%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.022%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.022%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.022%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.022%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.022%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,898 (41.94%) AWS
2 904 (19.97%) Azure
3 364 (8.04%) Serverless
4 288 (6.36%) GCP
5 178 (3.93%) Amazon S3
6 168 (3.71%) SaaS
7 163 (3.60%) IBM Cloud
8 152 (3.36%) Amazon EKS
9 151 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
9 151 (3.34%) GitHub
10 149 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
11 134 (2.96%) Amazon ECS
11 134 (2.96%) OpenShift
12 123 (2.72%) Azure Functions
13 116 (2.56%) Azure API Management
14 115 (2.54%) Azure Logic Apps
14 115 (2.54%) Azure Service Bus
15 97 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
16 96 (2.12%) Amazon SQS
17 86 (1.90%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 71 (1.57%) TCP/IP
2 69 (1.52%) DNS
3 58 (1.28%) HTTP
4 46 (1.02%) DHCP
5 38 (0.84%) Firewall
6 34 (0.75%) AMQP
7 23 (0.51%) WAN
8 22 (0.49%) Network Security
9 17 (0.38%) DSL
9 17 (0.38%) Kerberos
9 17 (0.38%) Modbus
10 16 (0.35%) Internet
11 14 (0.31%) SSH
12 13 (0.29%) MQTT
12 13 (0.29%) SNMP
13 11 (0.24%) Wireless
14 6 (0.13%) Bluetooth
14 6 (0.13%) Ethernet
14 6 (0.13%) VPN
15 5 (0.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 860 (19.00%) NoSQL
2 451 (9.96%) Big Data
3 400 (8.84%) Relational Database
4 397 (8.77%) MongoDB
5 386 (8.53%) PostgreSQL
6 321 (7.09%) Hadoop
7 222 (4.90%) MySQL
8 221 (4.88%) Elasticsearch
9 199 (4.40%) SQL Server
10 156 (3.45%) Apache Cassandra
10 156 (3.45%) DB2
11 90 (1.99%) Data Lake
12 86 (1.90%) Apache Hive
13 85 (1.88%) Oracle Database
14 71 (1.57%) HBase
14 71 (1.57%) RDBMS
15 62 (1.37%) Redis
16 58 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
17 51 (1.13%) Electronic Patient Records
18 50 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 424 (9.37%) Git
2 374 (8.26%) Jenkins
3 311 (6.87%) JUnit
4 164 (3.62%) GitLab
5 160 (3.54%) Selenium
6 136 (3.00%) JIRA
7 131 (2.89%) Maven
8 115 (2.54%) Cypress.io
9 108 (2.39%) Cucumber
10 106 (2.34%) Jasmine
11 82 (1.81%) WebDriver
12 72 (1.59%) Mockito
13 66 (1.46%) Visual Studio
14 65 (1.44%) Protractor
15 64 (1.41%) Gradle
16 60 (1.33%) Bitbucket Server
16 60 (1.33%) Karma Test Runner
17 58 (1.28%) JMeter
18 49 (1.08%) Postman
19 42 (0.93%) Eclipse
General
1 1,990 (43.97%) Finance
2 1,807 (39.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,669 (36.88%) Law
4 777 (17.17%) Marketing
5 713 (15.75%) Social Skills
6 517 (11.42%) Legal
7 461 (10.19%) Banking
8 318 (7.03%) Public Sector
9 255 (5.63%) Investment Banking
10 248 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
11 184 (4.07%) Influencing Skills
12 159 (3.51%) Financial Institution
13 108 (2.39%) Aerospace
14 72 (1.59%) Private Banking
15 65 (1.44%) Electronics
16 59 (1.30%) Retail
17 49 (1.08%) Telecoms
18 46 (1.02%) Manufacturing
19 42 (0.93%) Military
20 40 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2,117 (46.77%) Software Engineer
2 1,108 (24.48%) Developer
3 1,037 (22.91%) Java Engineer
4 932 (20.59%) Java Software Engineer
5 876 (19.35%) Lead
6 785 (17.34%) Senior
7 521 (11.51%) Lead Software Engineer
8 418 (9.24%) Java Developer
9 386 (8.53%) Full Stack Engineer
10 318 (7.03%) Senior Software Engineer
11 312 (6.89%) Full Stack Software Engineer
12 294 (6.50%) Lead Java Engineer
13 253 (5.59%) Big Data Engineer
14 249 (5.50%) Big Data Software Engineer
15 226 (4.99%) Full Stack Developer
16 224 (4.95%) Scala Engineer
16 224 (4.95%) Scala Software Engineer
17 213 (4.71%) Software Developer
18 204 (4.51%) AWS Engineer
19 196 (4.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,176 (25.98%) Spring
2 957 (21.14%) React
3 745 (16.46%) AngularJS
4 677 (14.96%) Spring Boot
5 610 (13.48%) Node.js
6 574 (12.68%) HTML
7 525 (11.60%) REST
8 518 (11.44%) CSS
8 518 (11.44%) Kafka
9 353 (7.80%) .NET
10 335 (7.40%) Web Services
11 306 (6.76%) Hibernate
12 300 (6.63%) J2EE
13 297 (6.56%) jQuery
14 291 (6.43%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 282 (6.23%) RESTful
16 252 (5.57%) JSON
17 178 (3.93%) Vue
18 176 (3.89%) JMS
19 175 (3.87%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 759 (16.77%) Algorithms
2 664 (14.67%) Cloud Native
3 269 (5.94%) Data Structures
4 267 (5.90%) Public Cloud
5 166 (3.67%) Blockchain
6 161 (3.56%) Hybrid Cloud
7 145 (3.20%) Onboarding
8 132 (2.92%) Private Cloud
9 109 (2.41%) Product Ownership
10 97 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
11 96 (2.12%) Management Information System
12 94 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
13 90 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
14 67 (1.48%) Distributed Applications
15 63 (1.39%) Reference Data
16 48 (1.06%) IoT
17 47 (1.04%) e-Learning
18 44 (0.97%) Credit Risk
19 43 (0.95%) Legacy Code
19 43 (0.95%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 741 (16.37%) Linux
2 357 (7.89%) Windows
3 208 (4.60%) Android
4 204 (4.51%) Unix
5 160 (3.54%) Apple iOS
6 104 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 51 (1.13%) CentOS
8 50 (1.10%) Ubuntu
9 37 (0.82%) Embedded Linux
10 30 (0.66%) Debian
11 29 (0.64%) Windows Server
12 21 (0.46%) AIX
13 8 (0.18%) Mac OS
14 5 (0.11%) Mac OS X
14 5 (0.11%) VMS
15 4 (0.088%) Solaris
16 3 (0.066%) FreeBSD
16 3 (0.066%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.066%) Windows 10
17 2 (0.044%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,701 (59.68%) Software Engineering
2 2,675 (59.10%) Agile
3 1,762 (38.93%) CI/CD
4 1,684 (37.21%) SDLC
5 1,348 (29.78%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,277 (28.21%) Operational Stability
7 1,164 (25.72%) Machine Learning
8 926 (20.46%) Microservices
9 854 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
10 822 (18.16%) Community of Practice
11 812 (17.94%) Full Stack Development
12 763 (16.86%) DevOps
13 675 (14.91%) Continuous Improvement
14 608 (13.43%) Visualisation
15 534 (11.80%) Risk Management
16 533 (11.78%) Computer Science
17 531 (11.73%) TDD
18 525 (11.60%) Mentoring
19 514 (11.36%) Decision-Making
20 500 (11.05%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,696 (37.47%) SQL
2 1,611 (35.59%) Python
3 1,089 (24.06%) JavaScript
4 582 (12.86%) C#
5 418 (9.24%) TypeScript
6 414 (9.15%) Scala
7 297 (6.56%) C++
8 257 (5.68%) C
9 165 (3.65%) Go
10 152 (3.36%) PL/SQL
11 135 (2.98%) Kotlin
12 119 (2.63%) Bash
13 112 (2.47%) PowerShell
14 104 (2.30%) Shell Script
15 103 (2.28%) Ruby
16 98 (2.17%) PHP
17 54 (1.19%) COBOL
18 52 (1.15%) T-SQL
19 51 (1.13%) Groovy
20 50 (1.10%) Perl
Qualifications
1 644 (14.23%) Security Cleared
2 526 (11.62%) Degree
3 405 (8.95%) SC Cleared
4 256 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 155 (3.42%) DV Cleared
6 74 (1.63%) Master's Degree
7 58 (1.28%) PhD
8 55 (1.22%) AWS Certification
9 32 (0.71%) Azure Certification
10 19 (0.42%) DBS Check
11 16 (0.35%) HNC
12 14 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (0.24%) PMI Certification
14 8 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 8 (0.18%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.15%) AWS Certified Developer
16 6 (0.13%) CISSP
16 6 (0.13%) SANS
17 5 (0.11%) CISA
17 5 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (3.76%) QA
2 78 (1.72%) SLA
3 64 (1.41%) Data Quality
4 22 (0.49%) Accessibility
4 22 (0.49%) GDPR
5 7 (0.15%) NIST
6 6 (0.13%) ISO 26262
6 6 (0.13%) ISO 9001
6 6 (0.13%) TickIT
7 5 (0.11%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.088%) COBIT
8 4 (0.088%) SEPA
9 2 (0.044%) Def Stans
9 2 (0.044%) IEC 61508
9 2 (0.044%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.022%) AQAP
10 1 (0.022%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.022%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.022%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.022%) ITGC
System Software
1 567 (12.53%) Docker
2 73 (1.61%) HDFS
3 72 (1.59%) Hyper-V
4 53 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (0.46%) Firmware
5 21 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
6 20 (0.44%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.42%) Active Directory
8 11 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
9 9 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
9 9 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
10 8 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.066%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.044%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 1 (0.022%) Dovecot
13 1 (0.022%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.022%) Postfix
13 1 (0.022%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 733 (16.20%) Kubernetes
2 410 (9.06%) Terraform
3 193 (4.26%) Ansible
4 158 (3.49%) Grafana
5 87 (1.92%) Puppet
6 57 (1.26%) Prometheus
7 38 (0.84%) Kibana
8 36 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
9 26 (0.57%) ITRS Geneos
9 26 (0.57%) OpenSSO
10 21 (0.46%) HAProxy
10 21 (0.46%) Zipkin
11 18 (0.40%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.29%) WMI
13 7 (0.15%) Graphite
14 5 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.11%) Opsgenie
14 5 (0.11%) Podman
15 3 (0.066%) Argo
15 3 (0.066%) Packer
Vendors
1 657 (14.52%) Oracle
2 241 (5.32%) Red Hat
3 188 (4.15%) Microsoft
4 187 (4.13%) Google
5 186 (4.11%) IBM
6 171 (3.78%) Splunk
7 147 (3.25%) Databricks
8 139 (3.07%) Dynatrace
9 74 (1.63%) VMware
10 73 (1.61%) Cloudera
11 61 (1.35%) Informatica
12 56 (1.24%) Alteryx
13 52 (1.15%) SaltStack
14 43 (0.95%) Micro Focus
15 41 (0.91%) Xilinx
16 35 (0.77%) SAP
17 33 (0.73%) WSO2
18 32 (0.71%) Remedy
19 31 (0.68%) Sybase
20 29 (0.64%) Salesforce