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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 28 20
Rank change year-on-year -2 -8 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 4,572 4,682 7,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.45% 7.78% 10.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.36% 19.44% 22.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,145 2,282 3,950
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,853 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.54% +9.31% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,250 £78,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £86,250
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 22,461 24,086 32,692
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.67% 40.05% 46.16%
Number of salaries quoted 16,381 13,553 21,130
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +3.55% +6.22%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £68,269
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £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 9 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 9 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 +7 1,968 £59,000 -15.04% 84
South East -4 858 £60,000 -7.69% 107
North of England -21 645 £62,500 -3.85% 112
South West -7 599 £57,500 -4.17% 117
North West -14 454 £62,500 -4.58% 69
Midlands -50 274 £55,000 -8.33% 73
West Midlands -35 194 £56,500 -8.87% 49
Yorkshire -42 142 £65,232 +4.37% 32
East of England -81 105 £62,500 -10.71% 51
Wales -7 84 £50,000 -5.21% 10
East Midlands -77 79 £52,500 -9.09% 24
North East -44 49 £65,000 +4.00% 13
Northern Ireland -25 42 £85,000 +65.05% 37
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
1 536 (11.72%) Apache Spark
2 199 (4.35%) Apache
3 122 (2.67%) FileNet
4 54 (1.18%) Camunda
5 51 (1.12%) Confluence
6 38 (0.83%) Tuxedo
7 36 (0.79%) nginx
8 35 (0.77%) OpenStack
9 34 (0.74%) IIS
9 34 (0.74%) WebSphere
10 33 (0.72%) JBoss
11 32 (0.70%) Cloud Foundry
11 32 (0.70%) Tomcat
12 28 (0.61%) WebLogic
13 22 (0.48%) Captiva
14 21 (0.46%) GemFire
15 20 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
15 20 (0.44%) Red Hat Fuse
16 11 (0.24%) CICS
17 9 (0.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 33 (0.72%) Simulink
2 23 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.17%) Adobe XD
6 6 (0.13%) CANalyzer
7 5 (0.11%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.087%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.087%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.022%) CATIA
9 1 (0.022%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (0.15%) SAP ERP
2 6 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.087%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.087%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (0.087%) Sonata
5 3 (0.066%) Oracle Applications
5 3 (0.066%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.044%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.044%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.044%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.022%) iTrent
7 1 (0.022%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.022%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.022%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.022%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.022%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.022%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,906 (41.69%) AWS
2 910 (19.90%) Azure
3 379 (8.29%) Serverless
4 321 (7.02%) GCP
5 186 (4.07%) Amazon S3
6 176 (3.85%) SaaS
7 170 (3.72%) GitHub
8 165 (3.61%) IBM Cloud
9 155 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
10 154 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
11 152 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
12 137 (3.00%) Amazon ECS
13 124 (2.71%) OpenShift
14 123 (2.69%) Azure Functions
15 116 (2.54%) Azure API Management
16 115 (2.52%) Azure Logic Apps
16 115 (2.52%) Azure Service Bus
17 104 (2.27%) Amazon SQS
18 101 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
19 86 (1.88%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 68 (1.49%) TCP/IP
2 63 (1.38%) DNS
3 54 (1.18%) HTTP
4 42 (0.92%) DHCP
5 38 (0.83%) Firewall
6 34 (0.74%) AMQP
7 29 (0.63%) WAN
8 20 (0.44%) Network Security
9 18 (0.39%) DSL
9 18 (0.39%) Internet
9 18 (0.39%) Modbus
10 17 (0.37%) Kerberos
11 14 (0.31%) SSH
12 13 (0.28%) SNMP
13 12 (0.26%) MQTT
13 12 (0.26%) Wireless
14 6 (0.13%) Bluetooth
14 6 (0.13%) Ethernet
14 6 (0.13%) VPN
15 5 (0.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 848 (18.55%) NoSQL
2 474 (10.37%) Big Data
3 418 (9.14%) Relational Database
4 396 (8.66%) MongoDB
5 365 (7.98%) PostgreSQL
6 321 (7.02%) Hadoop
7 235 (5.14%) Elasticsearch
8 232 (5.07%) MySQL
9 200 (4.37%) SQL Server
10 158 (3.46%) DB2
11 156 (3.41%) Apache Cassandra
12 102 (2.23%) Oracle Database
13 90 (1.97%) Data Lake
14 89 (1.95%) Apache Hive
15 82 (1.79%) RDBMS
16 74 (1.62%) HBase
17 63 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
18 57 (1.25%) Redis
19 52 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
19 52 (1.14%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 454 (9.93%) Git
2 403 (8.81%) Jenkins
3 310 (6.78%) JUnit
4 172 (3.76%) Selenium
5 167 (3.65%) JIRA
6 164 (3.59%) GitLab
7 138 (3.02%) Maven
8 121 (2.65%) Cypress.io
9 120 (2.62%) Cucumber
10 106 (2.32%) Jasmine
11 87 (1.90%) WebDriver
12 74 (1.62%) Mockito
13 70 (1.53%) Visual Studio
14 69 (1.51%) Gradle
15 65 (1.42%) Protractor
16 62 (1.36%) Bitbucket Server
17 60 (1.31%) Karma Test Runner
18 59 (1.29%) JMeter
19 49 (1.07%) Postman
20 45 (0.98%) IntelliJ
General
1 2,065 (45.17%) Finance
2 1,858 (40.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,699 (37.16%) Law
4 798 (17.45%) Marketing
5 702 (15.35%) Social Skills
6 526 (11.50%) Legal
7 496 (10.85%) Banking
8 336 (7.35%) Public Sector
9 259 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
10 257 (5.62%) Investment Banking
11 187 (4.09%) Influencing Skills
12 165 (3.61%) Financial Institution
13 95 (2.08%) Aerospace
14 76 (1.66%) Private Banking
15 64 (1.40%) Retail
16 57 (1.25%) Electronics
17 52 (1.14%) Telecoms
18 46 (1.01%) Manufacturing
19 43 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
20 42 (0.92%) Games
Job Titles
1 2,181 (47.70%) Software Engineer
2 1,109 (24.26%) Developer
3 1,056 (23.10%) Java Engineer
4 950 (20.78%) Java Software Engineer
5 874 (19.12%) Lead
6 818 (17.89%) Senior
7 536 (11.72%) Lead Software Engineer
8 439 (9.60%) Java Developer
9 388 (8.49%) Full Stack Engineer
10 338 (7.39%) Senior Software Engineer
11 315 (6.89%) Full Stack Software Engineer
12 299 (6.54%) Lead Java Engineer
13 259 (5.66%) Big Data Engineer
14 255 (5.58%) Big Data Software Engineer
15 228 (4.99%) Scala Engineer
15 228 (4.99%) Scala Software Engineer
16 221 (4.83%) Full Stack Developer
17 214 (4.68%) Senior Developer
18 207 (4.53%) Software Developer
19 205 (4.48%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,216 (26.60%) Spring
2 973 (21.28%) React
3 769 (16.82%) AngularJS
4 703 (15.38%) Spring Boot
5 607 (13.28%) Node.js
6 576 (12.60%) HTML
7 530 (11.59%) Kafka
7 530 (11.59%) REST
8 518 (11.33%) CSS
9 357 (7.81%) .NET
10 339 (7.41%) Web Services
11 320 (7.00%) Hibernate
12 312 (6.82%) RESTful
13 305 (6.67%) J2EE
14 303 (6.63%) jQuery
15 292 (6.39%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 266 (5.82%) JSON
17 179 (3.92%) Vue
18 176 (3.85%) JMS
19 171 (3.74%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 774 (16.93%) Algorithms
2 668 (14.61%) Cloud Native
3 290 (6.34%) Public Cloud
4 276 (6.04%) Data Structures
5 171 (3.74%) Blockchain
6 161 (3.52%) Hybrid Cloud
7 150 (3.28%) Private Cloud
8 146 (3.19%) Onboarding
9 121 (2.65%) Product Ownership
10 103 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
11 97 (2.12%) Management Information System
12 96 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
13 91 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
14 67 (1.47%) Distributed Applications
15 64 (1.40%) Reference Data
16 47 (1.03%) e-Learning
17 44 (0.96%) Credit Risk
17 44 (0.96%) IoT
17 44 (0.96%) Legacy Code
18 43 (0.94%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 743 (16.25%) Linux
2 359 (7.85%) Windows
3 220 (4.81%) Unix
4 197 (4.31%) Android
5 163 (3.57%) Apple iOS
6 97 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 45 (0.98%) CentOS
8 44 (0.96%) Ubuntu
9 29 (0.63%) Windows Server
10 28 (0.61%) Debian
10 28 (0.61%) Embedded Linux
11 21 (0.46%) AIX
12 8 (0.17%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.11%) Mac OS X
13 5 (0.11%) VMS
14 4 (0.087%) Windows 10
15 3 (0.066%) FreeBSD
15 3 (0.066%) Kali Linux
15 3 (0.066%) Solaris
16 2 (0.044%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,739 (59.91%) Software Engineering
2 2,729 (59.69%) Agile
3 1,784 (39.02%) CI/CD
4 1,709 (37.38%) SDLC
5 1,347 (29.46%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,303 (28.50%) Operational Stability
7 1,176 (25.72%) Machine Learning
8 944 (20.65%) Microservices
9 906 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
10 834 (18.24%) Community of Practice
11 815 (17.83%) Full Stack Development
12 770 (16.84%) DevOps
13 681 (14.90%) Continuous Improvement
14 617 (13.50%) Visualisation
15 542 (11.85%) Risk Management
15 542 (11.85%) TDD
16 541 (11.83%) Mentoring
17 527 (11.53%) Decision-Making
18 511 (11.18%) Computer Science
18 511 (11.18%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,740 (38.06%) SQL
2 1,613 (35.28%) Python
3 1,099 (24.04%) JavaScript
4 594 (12.99%) C#
5 418 (9.14%) TypeScript
6 414 (9.06%) Scala
7 303 (6.63%) C++
8 255 (5.58%) C
9 185 (4.05%) Go
10 158 (3.46%) PL/SQL
11 134 (2.93%) Bash
12 126 (2.76%) Kotlin
13 114 (2.49%) Ruby
14 107 (2.34%) Shell Script
15 106 (2.32%) PowerShell
16 94 (2.06%) PHP
17 58 (1.27%) Perl
18 54 (1.18%) COBOL
19 52 (1.14%) T-SQL
20 51 (1.12%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 641 (14.02%) Security Cleared
2 507 (11.09%) Degree
3 399 (8.73%) SC Cleared
4 234 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 145 (3.17%) DV Cleared
6 75 (1.64%) Master's Degree
7 61 (1.33%) PhD
8 56 (1.22%) AWS Certification
9 31 (0.68%) Azure Certification
10 18 (0.39%) DBS Check
11 16 (0.35%) HNC
12 14 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.20%) PMI Certification
14 8 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 8 (0.17%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.15%) AWS Certified Developer
16 6 (0.13%) SANS
17 5 (0.11%) CISSP
17 5 (0.11%) CRISC
17 5 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (3.96%) QA
2 81 (1.77%) SLA
3 64 (1.40%) Data Quality
4 37 (0.81%) GDPR
5 23 (0.50%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.13%) ISO 26262
6 6 (0.13%) ISO 9001
6 6 (0.13%) NIST
6 6 (0.13%) SEPA
6 6 (0.13%) TickIT
7 5 (0.11%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.087%) COBIT
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%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.022%) ITGC
10 1 (0.022%) PMO
System Software
1 592 (12.95%) Docker
2 75 (1.64%) HDFS
3 69 (1.51%) Hyper-V
4 49 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
5 26 (0.57%) VMware NSX
6 21 (0.46%) Firmware
7 19 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
8 18 (0.39%) Active Directory
9 11 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
10 9 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
10 9 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
11 8 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.066%) VirtualBox
13 2 (0.044%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 1 (0.022%) Dovecot
14 1 (0.022%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.022%) Postfix
14 1 (0.022%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 756 (16.54%) Kubernetes
2 404 (8.84%) Terraform
3 184 (4.02%) Ansible
4 160 (3.50%) Grafana
5 84 (1.84%) Puppet
6 59 (1.29%) Prometheus
7 38 (0.83%) Kibana
8 35 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
9 27 (0.59%) OpenSSO
10 26 (0.57%) ITRS Geneos
11 21 (0.46%) HAProxy
11 21 (0.46%) Zipkin
12 20 (0.44%) Progress Chef
13 13 (0.28%) WMI
14 7 (0.15%) Graphite
15 5 (0.11%) Argo
15 5 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
15 5 (0.11%) Opsgenie
15 5 (0.11%) Podman
16 3 (0.066%) Packer
Vendors
1 693 (15.16%) Oracle
2 234 (5.12%) Red Hat
3 205 (4.48%) IBM
4 196 (4.29%) Google
5 192 (4.20%) Microsoft
6 171 (3.74%) Splunk
7 152 (3.32%) Databricks
8 140 (3.06%) Dynatrace
9 76 (1.66%) VMware
10 75 (1.64%) Cloudera
11 62 (1.36%) Informatica
12 57 (1.25%) Alteryx
13 52 (1.14%) SAP
14 50 (1.09%) SaltStack
15 44 (0.96%) Pega
16 43 (0.94%) Micro Focus
17 35 (0.77%) WSO2
18 33 (0.72%) Remedy
19 32 (0.70%) Sybase
19 32 (0.70%) Xilinx