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

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 18 15
Rank change year-on-year -17 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 4,570 9,411 18,767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.36% 10.16% 14.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.54% 23.45% 26.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3,412 5,631 8,943
10th Percentile £39,750 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,188 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% +10.34% +11.54%
75th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £128,750 £116,250
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 27,633 40,127 70,623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.42% 43.33% 53.49%
Number of salaries quoted 22,507 25,735 39,546
10th Percentile £35,250 £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 £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 1 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 1 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 -6 2,028 £95,000 +5.56% 722
South East -6 843 £60,000 -7.69% 154
North of England -21 667 £65,000 - 130
South West -7 619 £57,500 -4.17% 111
North West -13 467 £62,500 -7.41% 90
Midlands -47 277 £55,000 -8.33% 80
West Midlands -31 196 £57,000 -5.00% 58
Yorkshire -47 149 £65,465 +4.74% 23
East of England -87 104 £62,500 -10.71% 56
East Midlands -73 80 £52,500 -8.70% 22
North East -42 51 £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
1 315 (6.89%) Apache
2 232 (5.08%) Apache Airflow
3 121 (2.65%) Apache Spark
4 100 (2.19%) Confluence
5 55 (1.20%) nginx
6 49 (1.07%) Tomcat
7 44 (0.96%) JBoss
8 42 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
9 41 (0.90%) OpenStack
10 37 (0.81%) Camunda
10 37 (0.81%) Tuxedo
11 30 (0.66%) IIS
12 29 (0.63%) Red Hat Fuse
13 26 (0.57%) WebLogic
14 25 (0.55%) SharePoint
14 25 (0.55%) WebSphere
15 21 (0.46%) FileNet
16 18 (0.39%) Captiva
17 14 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
18 10 (0.22%) Drupal
Applications
1 28 (0.61%) Simulink
2 21 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.18%) Adobe XD
6 7 (0.15%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.13%) CANalyzer
8 5 (0.11%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.088%) 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 42 (0.92%) Endur
2 14 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.18%) OpenLink RightAngle
4 7 (0.15%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.13%) NEC Housing
6 5 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.088%) BusinessWorks
7 4 (0.088%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.088%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.066%) Oracle Applications
8 3 (0.066%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.066%) 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%) iTrent
10 1 (0.022%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 2,001 (43.79%) AWS
2 1,065 (23.30%) Azure
3 462 (10.11%) GCP
4 458 (10.02%) Serverless
5 216 (4.73%) dbt
6 203 (4.44%) Snowflake
7 202 (4.42%) SaaS
8 196 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
9 194 (4.25%) AWS Lambda
10 189 (4.14%) OpenShift
11 178 (3.89%) GitHub
12 176 (3.85%) IBM Cloud
13 155 (3.39%) Amazon S3
14 150 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
15 141 (3.09%) Azure Functions
16 128 (2.80%) Amazon ECS
17 126 (2.76%) Azure Logic Apps
17 126 (2.76%) Azure Service Bus
18 124 (2.71%) Azure API Management
19 118 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 88 (1.93%) DNS
2 84 (1.84%) TCP/IP
3 70 (1.53%) HTTP
4 60 (1.31%) Firewall
5 46 (1.01%) DHCP
6 40 (0.88%) AMQP
7 23 (0.50%) Internet
8 19 (0.42%) WAN
9 16 (0.35%) SNMP
9 16 (0.35%) SSH
10 15 (0.33%) Network Security
11 13 (0.28%) Wireless
12 12 (0.26%) MQTT
13 10 (0.22%) VPN
14 8 (0.18%) FTP
15 7 (0.15%) Bluetooth
15 7 (0.15%) OpenVPN
16 6 (0.13%) Ethernet
16 6 (0.13%) LAN
16 6 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 474 (10.37%) Relational Database
2 473 (10.35%) PostgreSQL
3 443 (9.69%) NoSQL
4 349 (7.64%) MongoDB
5 267 (5.84%) SQL Server
6 250 (5.47%) MySQL
7 229 (5.01%) Data Lake
8 214 (4.68%) Amazon Athena
9 204 (4.46%) Apache Arrow
9 204 (4.46%) Dremio
10 171 (3.74%) Big Data
11 169 (3.70%) Apache Ignite
12 155 (3.39%) DB2
13 143 (3.13%) RDBMS
14 117 (2.56%) Hadoop
15 114 (2.49%) Amazon RDS
16 91 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
17 90 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
18 84 (1.84%) Oracle Database
19 76 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 495 (10.83%) Git
2 462 (10.11%) Jenkins
3 234 (5.12%) JIRA
4 200 (4.38%) Selenium
5 189 (4.14%) Cucumber
6 161 (3.52%) GitLab
7 152 (3.33%) JUnit
8 120 (2.63%) Maven
9 115 (2.52%) Postman
10 66 (1.44%) IntelliJ
11 58 (1.27%) Cypress.io
12 57 (1.25%) JMeter
13 55 (1.20%) Visual Studio
14 54 (1.18%) Bitbucket
14 54 (1.18%) WebDriver
15 50 (1.09%) Gradle
16 49 (1.07%) Artifactory
16 49 (1.07%) Subversion
17 47 (1.03%) Eclipse
18 43 (0.94%) TeamCity
General
1 1,053 (23.04%) Finance
2 791 (17.31%) Social Skills
3 549 (12.01%) Banking
4 429 (9.39%) Public Sector
5 381 (8.34%) Front Office
6 329 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
7 282 (6.17%) Investment Banking
8 263 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 104 (2.28%) Law
10 99 (2.17%) Marketing
10 99 (2.17%) Retail
11 86 (1.88%) Aerospace
12 72 (1.58%) Financial Institution
13 69 (1.51%) Games
14 65 (1.42%) Electronics
15 52 (1.14%) Tech for Good
16 49 (1.07%) Telecoms
17 48 (1.05%) Manufacturing
18 47 (1.03%) Legal
19 43 (0.94%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,771 (38.75%) Developer
2 1,047 (22.91%) Senior
3 970 (21.23%) Software Engineer
4 885 (19.37%) Java Developer
5 688 (15.05%) Lead
6 453 (9.91%) Java Engineer
7 389 (8.51%) Senior Developer
8 356 (7.79%) Full Stack Developer
9 298 (6.52%) Software Developer
10 294 (6.43%) Java Software Engineer
11 274 (6.00%) Senior Java Developer
12 272 (5.95%) Senior Software Engineer
13 242 (5.30%) Architect
14 216 (4.73%) Technical Leader
15 197 (4.31%) AWS Engineer
16 182 (3.98%) Lead Developer
17 152 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
18 150 (3.28%) Senior Java Engineer
19 130 (2.84%) Azure Developer
20 113 (2.47%) Full Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 843 (18.45%) Spring
2 735 (16.08%) React
3 634 (13.87%) Spring Boot
4 562 (12.30%) REST
5 533 (11.66%) AngularJS
6 496 (10.85%) Node.js
7 439 (9.61%) HTML
8 433 (9.47%) .NET
9 411 (8.99%) Kafka
10 389 (8.51%) CSS
11 332 (7.26%) Web Services
12 277 (6.06%) RESTful
13 244 (5.34%) gRPC
14 219 (4.79%) Hibernate
15 206 (4.51%) Protocol Buffers
16 179 (3.92%) jQuery
17 177 (3.87%) Vue
18 175 (3.83%) Pandas
19 173 (3.79%) NumPy
20 170 (3.72%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 276 (6.04%) Algorithms
2 273 (5.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 247 (5.40%) Hedge funds
4 241 (5.27%) Fixed Income
5 210 (4.60%) Data Structures
6 209 (4.57%) Equities
7 199 (4.35%) Blockchain
8 195 (4.27%) Hybrid Cloud
9 184 (4.03%) Derivative
10 176 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
11 162 (3.54%) Greenfield Project
12 158 (3.46%) Cloud Native
13 120 (2.63%) Private Cloud
14 119 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
15 95 (2.08%) Product Ownership
16 91 (1.99%) Public Cloud
17 86 (1.88%) Management Information System
18 75 (1.64%) Client/Server
19 74 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
20 71 (1.55%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 756 (16.54%) Linux
2 379 (8.29%) Windows
3 213 (4.66%) Android
4 182 (3.98%) Apple iOS
5 126 (2.76%) Unix
6 105 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 54 (1.18%) CentOS
8 43 (0.94%) Ubuntu
9 36 (0.79%) Windows Server
10 26 (0.57%) Debian
11 25 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
12 19 (0.42%) AIX
13 10 (0.22%) VMS
14 9 (0.20%) Mac OS
15 7 (0.15%) Windows 10
16 5 (0.11%) Mac OS X
16 5 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
17 4 (0.088%) Solaris
18 3 (0.066%) FreeBSD
18 3 (0.066%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,870 (40.92%) Agile
2 1,622 (35.49%) Software Engineering
3 1,072 (23.46%) DevOps
4 933 (20.42%) Microservices
5 807 (17.66%) CI/CD
6 806 (17.64%) Problem-Solving
7 706 (15.45%) Full Stack Development
8 680 (14.88%) Mentoring
9 574 (12.56%) TDD
10 512 (11.20%) Test Automation
11 493 (10.79%) Computer Science
12 465 (10.18%) SDLC
13 433 (9.47%) Scrum
14 412 (9.02%) Fintech
15 394 (8.62%) Design Patterns
16 387 (8.47%) Containerisation
17 379 (8.29%) Continuous Integration
18 375 (8.21%) Artificial Intelligence
19 373 (8.16%) OO
20 332 (7.26%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,747 (38.23%) Python
2 1,375 (30.09%) JavaScript
3 1,055 (23.09%) SQL
4 702 (15.36%) C#
5 530 (11.60%) TypeScript
6 354 (7.75%) C++
7 341 (7.46%) Kotlin
8 260 (5.69%) Go
9 252 (5.51%) C
10 240 (5.25%) Scala
11 138 (3.02%) PowerShell
12 133 (2.91%) Bash
13 123 (2.69%) Ruby
14 107 (2.34%) PHP
15 101 (2.21%) Shell Script
16 85 (1.86%) Perl
17 66 (1.44%) Rust
18 61 (1.33%) VB
19 43 (0.94%) COBOL
19 43 (0.94%) Micro Focus COBOL
Qualifications
1 698 (15.27%) Security Cleared
2 666 (14.57%) Degree
3 453 (9.91%) SC Cleared
4 307 (6.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 166 (3.63%) DV Cleared
6 83 (1.82%) Master's Degree
7 67 (1.47%) PhD
8 64 (1.40%) AWS Certification
9 39 (0.85%) Azure Certification
10 26 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
11 24 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 22 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
13 19 (0.42%) DBS Check
14 16 (0.35%) HNC
15 9 (0.20%) PMI Certification
16 8 (0.18%) CISSP
17 7 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
17 7 (0.15%) Postgraduate
18 6 (0.13%) OCP
18 6 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 278 (6.08%) QA
2 118 (2.58%) Data Quality
3 41 (0.90%) GDPR
4 38 (0.83%) SLA
5 15 (0.33%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.20%) PMO
7 8 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.18%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.13%) ISO 26262
9 6 (0.13%) ISO 9001
9 6 (0.13%) NIST
9 6 (0.13%) TickIT
10 4 (0.088%) COBIT
11 3 (0.066%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.066%) MiFID
11 3 (0.066%) SEPA
12 2 (0.044%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.044%) ISO 13485
12 2 (0.044%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 919 (20.11%) Docker
2 74 (1.62%) Hyper-V
3 60 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.63%) Active Directory
6 24 (0.53%) Firmware
7 21 (0.46%) HDFS
8 20 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
9 13 (0.28%) VMware NSX
10 11 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
11 8 (0.18%) KVM
11 8 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.066%) VirtualBox
13 2 (0.044%) OpenAM
14 1 (0.022%) Dovecot
14 1 (0.022%) GridGain
14 1 (0.022%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.022%) OpenDJ
14 1 (0.022%) Postfix
14 1 (0.022%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 953 (20.85%) Kubernetes
2 480 (10.50%) Terraform
3 310 (6.78%) Ansible
4 109 (2.39%) Puppet
5 79 (1.73%) Prometheus
6 51 (1.12%) Grafana
7 47 (1.03%) Progress Chef
8 29 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
9 22 (0.48%) Kibana
9 22 (0.48%) OpenSSO
9 22 (0.48%) Salt
10 17 (0.37%) Packer
11 13 (0.28%) WMI
12 6 (0.13%) Argo
12 6 (0.13%) CloudHub
12 6 (0.13%) Kiali
12 6 (0.13%) logstash
13 5 (0.11%) Consul
13 5 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (0.11%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 410 (8.97%) Oracle
2 260 (5.69%) Red Hat
3 235 (5.14%) Microsoft
4 223 (4.88%) IBM
5 207 (4.53%) Google
6 77 (1.68%) VMware
7 71 (1.55%) Sybase
8 59 (1.29%) SAP
9 51 (1.12%) TIBCO
10 49 (1.07%) Atlassian
11 46 (1.01%) YouTube
12 43 (0.94%) Micro Focus
12 43 (0.94%) WSO2
13 42 (0.92%) OpenLink
14 39 (0.85%) Splunk
15 33 (0.72%) Salesforce
16 32 (0.70%) Remedy
16 32 (0.70%) SaltStack
17 27 (0.59%) ServiceNow
17 27 (0.59%) Xilinx