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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 18 15
Rank change year-on-year -17 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 4,508 9,655 18,443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.32% 10.36% 14.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.40% 23.79% 26.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,370 5,679 8,923
10th Percentile £39,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +10.34% +11.54%
75th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £130,000 £116,000
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 27,494 40,577 69,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.42% 43.53% 53.28%
Number of salaries quoted 22,411 25,963 39,542
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,750 £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 £108,750 £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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -6 1,990 £95,000 +5.56% 564
South East -8 824 £60,500 -6.92% 132
North of England -20 672 £65,000 - 120
South West -6 613 £57,500 -4.17% 111
North West -15 469 £62,500 -7.41% 74
Midlands -53 278 £55,000 -8.33% 78
West Midlands -37 197 £57,500 -4.17% 57
Yorkshire -46 152 £65,465 +4.74% 25
East of England -95 103 £62,500 -10.71% 50
East Midlands -75 80 £52,500 -8.70% 21
North East -40 51 £65,232 +4.37% 23
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
1 295 (6.54%) Apache
2 210 (4.66%) Apache Airflow
3 116 (2.57%) Apache Spark
4 96 (2.13%) Confluence
5 55 (1.22%) nginx
6 49 (1.09%) Tomcat
7 46 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
8 44 (0.98%) JBoss
9 41 (0.91%) OpenStack
10 37 (0.82%) Camunda
10 37 (0.82%) Tuxedo
11 30 (0.67%) IIS
12 29 (0.64%) Red Hat Fuse
13 26 (0.58%) WebLogic
14 25 (0.55%) SharePoint
14 25 (0.55%) WebSphere
15 21 (0.47%) FileNet
16 18 (0.40%) Captiva
17 14 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
18 9 (0.20%) Drupal
Applications
1 24 (0.53%) Simulink
2 21 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (0.20%) Adobe XD
6 7 (0.16%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.13%) CANalyzer
8 5 (0.11%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.089%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.022%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.022%) CATIA
10 1 (0.022%) InDesign
10 1 (0.022%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.022%) Notion
10 1 (0.022%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 46 (1.02%) Endur
2 14 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.20%) OpenLink RightAngle
4 7 (0.16%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.13%) NEC Housing
6 5 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.089%) BusinessWorks
7 4 (0.089%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.067%) Oracle Applications
8 3 (0.067%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.067%) SAP SD
9 2 (0.044%) Adaptiv
9 2 (0.044%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.044%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.044%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.044%) Teamcenter
9 2 (0.044%) Temenos T24
10 1 (0.022%) ION MarketView
10 1 (0.022%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 1,950 (43.26%) AWS
2 1,041 (23.09%) Azure
3 449 (9.96%) Serverless
4 446 (9.89%) GCP
5 199 (4.41%) SaaS
6 194 (4.30%) dbt
7 193 (4.28%) Azure DevOps
8 192 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
9 189 (4.19%) OpenShift
10 181 (4.02%) Snowflake
11 180 (3.99%) GitHub
12 173 (3.84%) IBM Cloud
13 154 (3.42%) Amazon S3
14 147 (3.26%) Amazon EKS
15 137 (3.04%) Azure Functions
16 129 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
17 123 (2.73%) Azure Logic Apps
17 123 (2.73%) Azure Service Bus
18 122 (2.71%) Azure API Management
19 119 (2.64%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 87 (1.93%) DNS
2 82 (1.82%) TCP/IP
3 69 (1.53%) HTTP
4 61 (1.35%) Firewall
5 45 (1.00%) DHCP
6 39 (0.87%) AMQP
7 23 (0.51%) Internet
8 18 (0.40%) WAN
9 16 (0.35%) SSH
10 15 (0.33%) SNMP
11 14 (0.31%) Network Security
12 13 (0.29%) Wireless
13 10 (0.22%) MQTT
13 10 (0.22%) VPN
14 8 (0.18%) FTP
15 7 (0.16%) Bluetooth
15 7 (0.16%) OpenVPN
16 6 (0.13%) Ethernet
16 6 (0.13%) SSL
17 5 (0.11%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 472 (10.47%) Relational Database
2 461 (10.23%) PostgreSQL
3 425 (9.43%) NoSQL
4 343 (7.61%) MongoDB
5 271 (6.01%) SQL Server
6 251 (5.57%) MySQL
7 206 (4.57%) Data Lake
8 192 (4.26%) Amazon Athena
9 182 (4.04%) Apache Arrow
9 182 (4.04%) Dremio
10 166 (3.68%) Big Data
11 153 (3.39%) Apache Ignite
12 151 (3.35%) DB2
13 146 (3.24%) RDBMS
14 117 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
15 112 (2.48%) Hadoop
16 89 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
16 89 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
17 84 (1.86%) Oracle Database
18 78 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 485 (10.76%) Git
2 469 (10.40%) Jenkins
3 232 (5.15%) JIRA
4 203 (4.50%) Selenium
5 192 (4.26%) Cucumber
6 154 (3.42%) GitLab
7 150 (3.33%) JUnit
8 123 (2.73%) Maven
9 118 (2.62%) Postman
10 67 (1.49%) IntelliJ
11 60 (1.33%) Cypress.io
12 57 (1.26%) JMeter
13 55 (1.22%) Visual Studio
13 55 (1.22%) WebDriver
14 53 (1.18%) Bitbucket
15 51 (1.13%) Artifactory
16 50 (1.11%) Gradle
17 48 (1.06%) Subversion
18 47 (1.04%) Eclipse
19 43 (0.95%) TeamCity
General
1 1,031 (22.87%) Finance
2 776 (17.21%) Social Skills
3 540 (11.98%) Banking
4 426 (9.45%) Public Sector
5 359 (7.96%) Front Office
6 326 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
7 262 (5.81%) Investment Banking
8 250 (5.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 100 (2.22%) Retail
10 99 (2.20%) Marketing
11 91 (2.02%) Law
12 82 (1.82%) Aerospace
13 75 (1.66%) Financial Institution
14 73 (1.62%) Games
15 67 (1.49%) Electronics
16 50 (1.11%) Tech for Good
17 49 (1.09%) Manufacturing
17 49 (1.09%) Telecoms
18 43 (0.95%) Military
19 41 (0.91%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1,759 (39.02%) Developer
2 1,034 (22.94%) Senior
3 945 (20.96%) Software Engineer
4 881 (19.54%) Java Developer
5 664 (14.73%) Lead
6 441 (9.78%) Java Engineer
7 387 (8.58%) Senior Developer
8 350 (7.76%) Full Stack Developer
9 295 (6.54%) Software Developer
10 286 (6.34%) Java Software Engineer
11 273 (6.06%) Senior Java Developer
12 264 (5.86%) Senior Software Engineer
13 237 (5.26%) Architect
14 211 (4.68%) Technical Leader
15 186 (4.13%) AWS Engineer
16 175 (3.88%) Lead Developer
17 149 (3.31%) DevOps Engineer
17 149 (3.31%) Senior Java Engineer
18 127 (2.82%) Azure Developer
19 110 (2.44%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 837 (18.57%) Spring
2 728 (16.15%) React
3 627 (13.91%) Spring Boot
4 559 (12.40%) REST
5 529 (11.73%) AngularJS
6 484 (10.74%) Node.js
7 440 (9.76%) HTML
8 423 (9.38%) .NET
9 408 (9.05%) Kafka
10 381 (8.45%) CSS
11 331 (7.34%) Web Services
12 278 (6.17%) RESTful
13 221 (4.90%) gRPC
14 217 (4.81%) Hibernate
15 184 (4.08%) Protocol Buffers
16 178 (3.95%) jQuery
17 173 (3.84%) Vue
18 168 (3.73%) JSON
19 167 (3.70%) ASP.NET
20 159 (3.53%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 273 (6.06%) Algorithms
2 254 (5.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 224 (4.97%) Fixed Income
4 223 (4.95%) Hedge funds
5 203 (4.50%) Data Structures
6 196 (4.35%) Blockchain
7 192 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
8 191 (4.24%) Equities
9 175 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
10 166 (3.68%) Derivative
11 161 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
12 144 (3.19%) Cloud Native
13 118 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
13 118 (2.62%) Private Cloud
14 96 (2.13%) Product Ownership
15 89 (1.97%) Public Cloud
16 84 (1.86%) Management Information System
17 76 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
18 75 (1.66%) Client/Server
19 72 (1.60%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 739 (16.39%) Linux
2 374 (8.30%) Windows
3 209 (4.64%) Android
4 181 (4.02%) Apple iOS
5 123 (2.73%) Unix
6 99 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 49 (1.09%) CentOS
8 39 (0.87%) Ubuntu
9 36 (0.80%) Windows Server
10 25 (0.55%) Debian
11 23 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
12 19 (0.42%) AIX
13 10 (0.22%) Mac OS
13 10 (0.22%) VMS
14 7 (0.16%) Windows 10
15 5 (0.11%) Mac OS X
16 4 (0.089%) Oracle Linux
16 4 (0.089%) Solaris
17 3 (0.067%) FreeBSD
17 3 (0.067%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,840 (40.82%) Agile
2 1,584 (35.14%) Software Engineering
3 1,049 (23.27%) DevOps
4 917 (20.34%) Microservices
5 799 (17.72%) CI/CD
6 795 (17.64%) Problem-Solving
7 699 (15.51%) Full Stack Development
8 678 (15.04%) Mentoring
9 564 (12.51%) TDD
10 502 (11.14%) Test Automation
11 480 (10.65%) Computer Science
12 471 (10.45%) SDLC
13 420 (9.32%) Scrum
14 404 (8.96%) Fintech
15 387 (8.58%) Design Patterns
16 386 (8.56%) Containerisation
17 377 (8.36%) Continuous Integration
18 362 (8.03%) OO
19 360 (7.99%) Artificial Intelligence
20 331 (7.34%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,690 (37.49%) Python
2 1,345 (29.84%) JavaScript
3 1,033 (22.91%) SQL
4 694 (15.39%) C#
5 510 (11.31%) TypeScript
6 347 (7.70%) C++
7 326 (7.23%) Kotlin
8 258 (5.72%) Go
9 245 (5.43%) C
10 238 (5.28%) Scala
11 138 (3.06%) PowerShell
12 132 (2.93%) Bash
13 124 (2.75%) Ruby
14 107 (2.37%) PHP
15 102 (2.26%) Shell Script
16 84 (1.86%) Perl
17 65 (1.44%) Rust
17 65 (1.44%) VB
18 43 (0.95%) COBOL
18 43 (0.95%) Micro Focus COBOL
Qualifications
1 681 (15.11%) Security Cleared
2 653 (14.49%) Degree
3 443 (9.83%) SC Cleared
4 297 (6.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 159 (3.53%) DV Cleared
6 80 (1.77%) Master's Degree
7 69 (1.53%) PhD
8 62 (1.38%) AWS Certification
9 39 (0.87%) Azure Certification
10 26 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
11 22 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
11 22 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 19 (0.42%) DBS Check
13 16 (0.35%) HNC
14 9 (0.20%) PMI Certification
15 7 (0.16%) CISSP
15 7 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (0.16%) OCP
15 7 (0.16%) Oracle Certification
15 7 (0.16%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 276 (6.12%) QA
2 108 (2.40%) Data Quality
3 41 (0.91%) GDPR
4 39 (0.87%) SLA
5 15 (0.33%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.20%) PMO
7 8 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (0.16%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.13%) ISO 26262
9 6 (0.13%) ISO 9001
9 6 (0.13%) TickIT
10 5 (0.11%) SEPA
11 4 (0.089%) COBIT
11 4 (0.089%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.089%) NIST
12 3 (0.067%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.067%) MiFID
13 2 (0.044%) IEC 61508
13 2 (0.044%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 921 (20.43%) Docker
2 73 (1.62%) Hyper-V
3 59 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
5 30 (0.67%) Active Directory
6 24 (0.53%) Firmware
7 21 (0.47%) HDFS
8 20 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
9 13 (0.29%) VMware NSX
10 11 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
11 8 (0.18%) KVM
11 8 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.067%) VirtualBox
13 2 (0.044%) OpenAM
14 1 (0.022%) ACF2
14 1 (0.022%) Dovecot
14 1 (0.022%) GridGain
14 1 (0.022%) IAG
14 1 (0.022%) OpenDJ
14 1 (0.022%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 938 (20.81%) Kubernetes
2 461 (10.23%) Terraform
3 303 (6.72%) Ansible
4 106 (2.35%) Puppet
5 71 (1.57%) Prometheus
6 49 (1.09%) Grafana
7 47 (1.04%) Progress Chef
8 29 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
9 22 (0.49%) Kibana
9 22 (0.49%) OpenSSO
9 22 (0.49%) Salt
10 17 (0.38%) Packer
11 13 (0.29%) WMI
12 6 (0.13%) CloudHub
12 6 (0.13%) Kiali
12 6 (0.13%) logstash
13 5 (0.11%) Argo
13 5 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (0.11%) Istio
13 5 (0.11%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 413 (9.16%) Oracle
2 254 (5.63%) Red Hat
3 233 (5.17%) Microsoft
4 222 (4.92%) IBM
5 203 (4.50%) Google
6 77 (1.71%) VMware
7 76 (1.69%) Sybase
8 59 (1.31%) SAP
9 55 (1.22%) TIBCO
10 47 (1.04%) Atlassian
11 46 (1.02%) OpenLink
11 46 (1.02%) YouTube
12 43 (0.95%) Micro Focus
12 43 (0.95%) WSO2
13 38 (0.84%) Splunk
14 32 (0.71%) Remedy
15 31 (0.69%) Salesforce
15 31 (0.69%) SaltStack
16 29 (0.64%) ServiceNow
17 25 (0.55%) Cisco