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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 33 22
Rank change year-on-year -5 -11 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 850 1,006 1,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 5.09% 6.73% 10.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.02% 16.84% 20.32%
Number of salaries quoted 554 537 1,081
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,324 £36,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% +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 4,994 5,974 9,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 29.91% 39.95% 49.21%
Number of salaries quoted 4,029 3,910 6,473
10th Percentile £34,000 £34,875 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
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 3 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 3 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 +10 318 £64,250 +0.78% 47
Thames Valley -28 291 £70,000 - 32
Berkshire -3 177 £70,000 - 20
Surrey -10 171 £50,000 -16.67% 36
Buckinghamshire -42 59 £75,000 +11.94% 10
Oxfordshire -13 55 £57,500 +15.00% 2
West Sussex +32 17 £55,000 +7.32% 4
East Sussex -3 15 £55,000 -31.25% 5
Kent -25 15 £68,750 +58.05% 5
Middlesex -13 7 £60,000 -27.27% 1
Sussex -22 1 £24,500 -62.31% 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 35 (4.12%) OpenStack
2 34 (4.00%) Camunda
2 34 (4.00%) nginx
3 25 (2.94%) Apache
4 22 (2.59%) WebLogic
5 21 (2.47%) JBoss
6 17 (2.00%) Confluence
7 13 (1.53%) Red Hat Fuse
8 10 (1.18%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.59%) SharePoint
9 5 (0.59%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.47%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.47%) ColdFusion
10 4 (0.47%) IIS
11 3 (0.35%) Alfresco
11 3 (0.35%) Documentum
11 3 (0.35%) FileNet
12 2 (0.24%) IBM Domino
12 2 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 27 (3.18%) Simulink
2 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.47%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.24%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (0.24%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 265 (31.18%) Azure
2 263 (30.94%) AWS
3 148 (17.41%) Serverless
4 117 (13.76%) IBM Cloud
5 81 (9.53%) Azure Functions
6 77 (9.06%) Azure DevOps
7 75 (8.82%) Azure API Management
8 74 (8.71%) Azure Logic Apps
8 74 (8.71%) Azure Service Bus
9 62 (7.29%) SaaS
10 58 (6.82%) Amazon ECS
11 53 (6.24%) Amazon EKS
12 38 (4.47%) GitHub
13 35 (4.12%) OpenShift
14 21 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
15 16 (1.88%) Amazon S3
15 16 (1.88%) Amazon SQS
16 13 (1.53%) GCP
16 13 (1.53%) Power Platform
17 10 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.47%) Firewall
2 20 (2.35%) DNS
3 13 (1.53%) SNMP
3 13 (1.53%) SSH
3 13 (1.53%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.18%) Internet
5 5 (0.59%) HTTP
6 4 (0.47%) Bluetooth
6 4 (0.47%) LoRaWAN
7 3 (0.35%) Wireless
8 1 (0.12%) RNC
8 1 (0.12%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (22.24%) PostgreSQL
2 158 (18.59%) NoSQL
3 153 (18.00%) MongoDB
4 149 (17.53%) Relational Database
5 80 (9.41%) DB2
6 65 (7.65%) SQL Server
7 56 (6.59%) MySQL
8 50 (5.88%) Oracle Database
9 31 (3.65%) Elasticsearch
10 27 (3.18%) Hadoop
11 9 (1.06%) Power BI
11 9 (1.06%) RDBMS
11 9 (1.06%) Tableau
12 8 (0.94%) CouchDB
12 8 (0.94%) Data Lake
13 7 (0.82%) Big Data
13 7 (0.82%) Qlik Sense
14 6 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (0.71%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 134 (15.76%) Git
2 73 (8.59%) Jenkins
3 49 (5.76%) JUnit
4 37 (4.35%) Selenium
5 36 (4.24%) JIRA
6 29 (3.41%) Cucumber
7 24 (2.82%) Bitbucket
8 23 (2.71%) Ant
8 23 (2.71%) Maven
9 22 (2.59%) GitLab
10 20 (2.35%) JMeter
11 19 (2.24%) WebDriver
12 17 (2.00%) Eclipse
13 14 (1.65%) TestNG
14 13 (1.53%) REST Assured
14 13 (1.53%) Vagrant
15 12 (1.41%) Gradle
16 11 (1.29%) IntelliJ
17 9 (1.06%) Mockito
17 9 (1.06%) Visual Studio
General
1 224 (26.35%) Social Skills
2 182 (21.41%) Public Sector
3 82 (9.65%) Finance
4 81 (9.53%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (5.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (3.18%) Police
7 25 (2.94%) Electronics
8 22 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (2.00%) Telecoms
10 16 (1.88%) Banking
11 15 (1.76%) Military
12 14 (1.65%) Manufacturing
12 14 (1.65%) Marketing
13 13 (1.53%) Aerospace
14 12 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
15 11 (1.29%) Aviation
16 10 (1.18%) Publishing
17 7 (0.82%) Automotive
18 6 (0.71%) Billing
18 6 (0.71%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 347 (40.82%) Developer
2 183 (21.53%) Senior
3 158 (18.59%) Java Developer
4 139 (16.35%) Software Engineer
5 106 (12.47%) Lead
6 101 (11.88%) Full Stack Developer
7 82 (9.65%) Senior Developer
8 76 (8.94%) Azure Developer
9 64 (7.53%) Senior Java Developer
10 59 (6.94%) Java Engineer
11 50 (5.88%) Full Stack Engineer
12 48 (5.65%) Architect
13 46 (5.41%) Software Developer
14 40 (4.71%) Technical Leader
15 32 (3.76%) DevOps Engineer
15 32 (3.76%) Senior Software Engineer
16 31 (3.65%) Applications Support
16 31 (3.65%) Support Engineer
17 28 (3.29%) Analyst
18 27 (3.18%) C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (25.18%) React
2 209 (24.59%) Node.js
3 200 (23.53%) REST
4 174 (20.47%) Web Services
5 166 (19.53%) AngularJS
6 155 (18.24%) Spring
7 150 (17.65%) HTML
8 141 (16.59%) .NET
9 138 (16.24%) CSS
10 99 (11.65%) jQuery
11 88 (10.35%) Spring Boot
12 86 (10.12%) Vue
13 84 (9.88%) ASP.NET
13 84 (9.88%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 79 (9.29%) Ember.js
15 77 (9.06%) Kafka
16 76 (8.94%) ASP.NET Core
16 76 (8.94%) Backbone.js
17 56 (6.59%) Hibernate
17 56 (6.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 122 (14.35%) Algorithms
2 117 (13.76%) Blockchain
2 117 (13.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 77 (9.06%) Data Structures
4 45 (5.29%) Greenfield Project
5 43 (5.06%) e-Learning
6 41 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
7 34 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (2.00%) Mobile App
9 14 (1.65%) Analogue Electronics
9 14 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
9 14 (1.65%) FPGA
9 14 (1.65%) VHDL
10 13 (1.53%) CMDB
10 13 (1.53%) IoT
11 10 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (0.94%) Client/Server
12 8 (0.94%) Private Cloud
12 8 (0.94%) Product Ownership
12 8 (0.94%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 260 (30.59%) Linux
2 168 (19.76%) Windows
3 101 (11.88%) Android
4 81 (9.53%) Apple iOS
5 41 (4.82%) Unix
6 15 (1.76%) CentOS
6 15 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (1.76%) Ubuntu
7 13 (1.53%) Embedded Linux
8 6 (0.71%) AIX
9 5 (0.59%) VMS
10 4 (0.47%) Windows Server
11 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.12%) Debian
12 1 (0.12%) Rocky
12 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (32.24%) Agile
2 246 (28.94%) DevOps
3 225 (26.47%) Software Engineering
4 202 (23.76%) Full Stack Development
5 199 (23.41%) Problem-Solving
6 188 (22.12%) Artificial Intelligence
7 180 (21.18%) Microservices
8 168 (19.76%) Mentoring
9 143 (16.82%) TDD
10 125 (14.71%) Design Patterns
10 125 (14.71%) OO
11 122 (14.35%) SDLC
12 120 (14.12%) CI/CD
13 118 (13.88%) OOP
14 115 (13.53%) Scrum
15 102 (12.00%) Computer Science
16 101 (11.88%) Test Automation
17 95 (11.18%) BDD
18 93 (10.94%) Web Development
19 90 (10.59%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 349 (41.06%) Python
2 326 (38.35%) JavaScript
3 284 (33.41%) SQL
4 187 (22.00%) C#
5 127 (14.94%) C++
6 88 (10.35%) C
7 51 (6.00%) Kotlin
8 49 (5.76%) TypeScript
9 39 (4.59%) Go
10 36 (4.24%) Shell Script
11 34 (4.00%) Lua
12 24 (2.82%) PowerShell
13 23 (2.71%) Ruby
14 18 (2.12%) PHP
15 17 (2.00%) Perl
16 16 (1.88%) Scala
17 15 (1.76%) Haskell
18 13 (1.53%) T-SQL
19 12 (1.41%) MATLAB
20 10 (1.18%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 256 (30.12%) Security Cleared
2 219 (25.76%) SC Cleared
3 143 (16.82%) Degree
4 71 (8.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (3.65%) DV Cleared
6 27 (3.18%) PhD
7 23 (2.71%) Azure Certification
8 15 (1.76%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.29%) DBS Check
10 10 (1.18%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.47%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.12%) CTC Cleared
13 1 (0.12%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.12%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.12%) Sun Certification
13 1 (0.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (4.59%) QA
2 22 (2.59%) SLA
3 13 (1.53%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.47%) COBIT
4 4 (0.47%) GDPR
5 2 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.12%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 194 (22.82%) Docker
2 28 (3.29%) Hyper-V
3 20 (2.35%) Virtual Servers
4 7 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.35%) Firmware
6 3 (0.35%) HDFS
6 3 (0.35%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 140 (16.47%) Kubernetes
2 67 (7.88%) Ansible
3 49 (5.76%) Terraform
4 22 (2.59%) OpenSSO
4 22 (2.59%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (1.53%) WMI
6 5 (0.59%) Kibana
6 5 (0.59%) Puppet
7 3 (0.35%) Grafana
8 2 (0.24%) Podman
8 2 (0.24%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.12%) Consul
9 1 (0.12%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.12%) Packer
9 1 (0.12%) SCCM
9 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 125 (14.71%) IBM
2 120 (14.12%) Red Hat
3 111 (13.06%) Oracle
4 45 (5.29%) Microsoft
5 36 (4.24%) Google
6 35 (4.12%) WSO2
7 27 (3.18%) Xilinx
8 23 (2.71%) Salesforce
9 22 (2.59%) Remedy
10 21 (2.47%) Splunk
11 14 (1.65%) Apple
12 8 (0.94%) Atlassian
12 8 (0.94%) SAP
13 7 (0.82%) Dynatrace
14 6 (0.71%) ForgeRock
14 6 (0.71%) Sitecore
15 5 (0.59%) VMware
16 4 (0.47%) Adobe
17 3 (0.35%) EMC
17 3 (0.35%) Informatica