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

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 28 20
Rank change year-on-year -1 -8 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 4,578 4,665 7,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.38% 7.92% 10.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.33% 19.80% 22.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,132 2,199 3,935
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,750 £47,750 £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 £76,250 £78,750 £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 22,513 23,557 33,211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.38% 40.02% 45.65%
Number of salaries quoted 16,333 13,277 21,191
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £68,263
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 21 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 21 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 1,961 £56,318 -18.91% 97
South East -9 863 £60,000 -7.69% 290
North of England -20 659 £62,500 -3.85% 143
South West -8 592 £57,500 -4.17% 125
North West -11 467 £62,500 -7.41% 88
Midlands -49 271 £55,000 -8.33% 110
West Midlands -34 189 £57,000 -5.00% 78
Yorkshire -52 143 £65,000 +4.00% 36
East of England -83 108 £62,500 -10.71% 64
Wales -12 83 £50,000 -9.49% 16
East Midlands -70 81 £52,000 -10.34% 32
North East -43 49 £65,000 +4.00% 20
Northern Ireland -28 42 £85,000 +70.00% 47
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
1 535 (11.69%) Apache Spark
2 196 (4.28%) Apache
3 116 (2.53%) FileNet
4 54 (1.18%) Camunda
5 51 (1.11%) Confluence
6 38 (0.83%) Tuxedo
7 36 (0.79%) nginx
8 35 (0.76%) OpenStack
9 32 (0.70%) Cloud Foundry
10 31 (0.68%) JBoss
11 29 (0.63%) Tomcat
11 29 (0.63%) WebSphere
12 28 (0.61%) IIS
13 27 (0.59%) WebLogic
14 21 (0.46%) GemFire
15 20 (0.44%) Red Hat Fuse
16 19 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
17 17 (0.37%) Captiva
18 11 (0.24%) CICS
19 8 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 38 (0.83%) Simulink
2 22 (0.48%) 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 (0.087%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.087%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.022%) CATIA
8 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%) Shopify
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%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,916 (41.85%) AWS
2 921 (20.12%) Azure
3 377 (8.24%) Serverless
4 312 (6.82%) GCP
5 184 (4.02%) Amazon S3
6 175 (3.82%) SaaS
7 165 (3.60%) GitHub
7 165 (3.60%) IBM Cloud
8 156 (3.41%) Amazon EKS
9 151 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
9 151 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
10 138 (3.01%) Amazon ECS
11 136 (2.97%) OpenShift
12 123 (2.69%) Azure Functions
13 116 (2.53%) Azure API Management
14 115 (2.51%) Azure Logic Apps
14 115 (2.51%) Azure Service Bus
15 102 (2.23%) Amazon SQS
16 99 (2.16%) Amazon EC2
17 86 (1.88%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 68 (1.49%) TCP/IP
2 64 (1.40%) DNS
3 55 (1.20%) HTTP
4 43 (0.94%) DHCP
5 38 (0.83%) Firewall
6 33 (0.72%) AMQP
7 23 (0.50%) WAN
8 20 (0.44%) Network Security
9 18 (0.39%) DSL
10 17 (0.37%) Kerberos
10 17 (0.37%) Modbus
11 16 (0.35%) Internet
12 14 (0.31%) SSH
13 13 (0.28%) SNMP
14 12 (0.26%) MQTT
14 12 (0.26%) Wireless
15 6 (0.13%) Bluetooth
15 6 (0.13%) Ethernet
15 6 (0.13%) VPN
16 5 (0.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 858 (18.74%) NoSQL
2 469 (10.24%) Big Data
3 417 (9.11%) Relational Database
4 403 (8.80%) MongoDB
5 383 (8.37%) PostgreSQL
6 326 (7.12%) Hadoop
7 233 (5.09%) Elasticsearch
8 224 (4.89%) MySQL
9 197 (4.30%) SQL Server
10 158 (3.45%) DB2
11 156 (3.41%) Apache Cassandra
12 97 (2.12%) Oracle Database
13 90 (1.97%) Data Lake
14 89 (1.94%) Apache Hive
15 82 (1.79%) RDBMS
16 73 (1.59%) HBase
17 64 (1.40%) Redis
18 60 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
19 52 (1.14%) Electronic Patient Records
20 51 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 450 (9.83%) Git
2 403 (8.80%) Jenkins
3 310 (6.77%) JUnit
4 175 (3.82%) Selenium
5 162 (3.54%) GitLab
6 159 (3.47%) JIRA
7 137 (2.99%) Maven
8 123 (2.69%) Cypress.io
9 115 (2.51%) Cucumber
10 106 (2.32%) Jasmine
11 85 (1.86%) WebDriver
12 73 (1.59%) Mockito
13 67 (1.46%) Visual Studio
14 66 (1.44%) Gradle
15 65 (1.42%) Protractor
16 61 (1.33%) Bitbucket Server
17 60 (1.31%) Karma Test Runner
18 59 (1.29%) JMeter
19 50 (1.09%) Postman
20 44 (0.96%) IntelliJ
General
1 2,050 (44.78%) Finance
2 1,845 (40.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,699 (37.11%) Law
4 797 (17.41%) Marketing
5 713 (15.57%) Social Skills
6 525 (11.47%) Legal
7 489 (10.68%) Banking
8 335 (7.32%) Public Sector
9 257 (5.61%) Investment Banking
10 251 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
11 188 (4.11%) Influencing Skills
12 164 (3.58%) Financial Institution
13 100 (2.18%) Aerospace
14 76 (1.66%) Private Banking
15 64 (1.40%) Electronics
16 63 (1.38%) Retail
17 51 (1.11%) Telecoms
18 46 (1.00%) Manufacturing
19 42 (0.92%) Games
19 42 (0.92%) Military
Job Titles
1 2,180 (47.62%) Software Engineer
2 1,109 (24.22%) Developer
3 1,053 (23.00%) Java Engineer
4 946 (20.66%) Java Software Engineer
5 878 (19.18%) Lead
6 808 (17.65%) Senior
7 535 (11.69%) Lead Software Engineer
8 426 (9.31%) Java Developer
9 390 (8.52%) Full Stack Engineer
10 334 (7.30%) Senior Software Engineer
11 316 (6.90%) Full Stack Software Engineer
12 298 (6.51%) Lead Java Engineer
13 259 (5.66%) Big Data Engineer
14 255 (5.57%) Big Data Software Engineer
15 228 (4.98%) Scala Engineer
15 228 (4.98%) Scala Software Engineer
16 223 (4.87%) Full Stack Developer
17 211 (4.61%) Software Developer
18 207 (4.52%) AWS Engineer
19 205 (4.48%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,211 (26.45%) Spring
2 972 (21.23%) React
3 765 (16.71%) AngularJS
4 694 (15.16%) Spring Boot
5 618 (13.50%) Node.js
6 573 (12.52%) HTML
7 539 (11.77%) REST
8 529 (11.56%) Kafka
9 517 (11.29%) CSS
10 355 (7.75%) .NET
11 346 (7.56%) Web Services
12 321 (7.01%) Hibernate
13 307 (6.71%) RESTful
14 302 (6.60%) J2EE
15 300 (6.55%) jQuery
16 291 (6.36%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 267 (5.83%) JSON
18 179 (3.91%) Vue
19 178 (3.89%) GraphQL
20 176 (3.84%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 773 (16.89%) Algorithms
2 671 (14.66%) Cloud Native
3 281 (6.14%) Public Cloud
4 275 (6.01%) Data Structures
5 168 (3.67%) Blockchain
6 161 (3.52%) Hybrid Cloud
7 145 (3.17%) Onboarding
7 145 (3.17%) Private Cloud
8 116 (2.53%) Product Ownership
9 98 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
10 97 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
10 97 (2.12%) Management Information System
11 89 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
12 67 (1.46%) Distributed Applications
13 64 (1.40%) Reference Data
14 47 (1.03%) e-Learning
14 47 (1.03%) IoT
15 44 (0.96%) Credit Risk
15 44 (0.96%) Legacy Code
16 42 (0.92%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 740 (16.16%) Linux
2 357 (7.80%) Windows
3 213 (4.65%) Unix
4 202 (4.41%) Android
5 162 (3.54%) Apple iOS
6 99 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 48 (1.05%) CentOS
8 47 (1.03%) Ubuntu
9 32 (0.70%) Embedded Linux
10 29 (0.63%) Debian
10 29 (0.63%) Windows Server
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 2,752 (60.11%) Software Engineering
2 2,734 (59.72%) Agile
3 1,785 (38.99%) CI/CD
4 1,707 (37.29%) SDLC
5 1,361 (29.73%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,304 (28.48%) Operational Stability
7 1,179 (25.75%) Machine Learning
8 943 (20.60%) Microservices
9 897 (19.59%) Problem-Solving
10 834 (18.22%) Community of Practice
11 816 (17.82%) Full Stack Development
12 787 (17.19%) DevOps
13 683 (14.92%) Continuous Improvement
14 615 (13.43%) Visualisation
15 541 (11.82%) Risk Management
16 538 (11.75%) TDD
17 536 (11.71%) Mentoring
18 527 (11.51%) Computer Science
19 526 (11.49%) Decision-Making
20 512 (11.18%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,735 (37.90%) SQL
2 1,625 (35.50%) Python
3 1,101 (24.05%) JavaScript
4 587 (12.82%) C#
5 419 (9.15%) Scala
6 418 (9.13%) TypeScript
7 300 (6.55%) C++
8 255 (5.57%) C
9 185 (4.04%) Go
10 158 (3.45%) PL/SQL
11 132 (2.88%) Bash
11 132 (2.88%) Kotlin
12 113 (2.47%) Ruby
13 107 (2.34%) PowerShell
14 106 (2.32%) Shell Script
15 96 (2.10%) PHP
16 58 (1.27%) Perl
17 54 (1.18%) COBOL
18 53 (1.16%) T-SQL
19 51 (1.11%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 654 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 524 (11.45%) Degree
3 417 (9.11%) SC Cleared
4 249 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 150 (3.28%) DV Cleared
6 74 (1.62%) Master's Degree
7 60 (1.31%) PhD
8 57 (1.25%) AWS Certification
9 32 (0.70%) Azure Certification
10 18 (0.39%) DBS Check
11 16 (0.35%) HNC
12 14 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (0.24%) PMI Certification
14 9 (0.20%) ISTQB
15 8 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 7 (0.15%) AWS Certified Developer
17 6 (0.13%) SANS
18 5 (0.11%) CISSP
18 5 (0.11%) CRISC
18 5 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (4.04%) QA
2 80 (1.75%) SLA
3 65 (1.42%) Data Quality
4 32 (0.70%) 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
1 581 (12.69%) Docker
2 75 (1.64%) HDFS
3 70 (1.53%) Hyper-V
4 50 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (0.46%) Firmware
6 20 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
6 20 (0.44%) VMware NSX
7 18 (0.39%) Active Directory
8 11 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
9 9 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
9 9 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
10 8 (0.17%) 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
1 757 (16.54%) Kubernetes
2 415 (9.07%) Terraform
3 196 (4.28%) Ansible
4 160 (3.49%) Grafana
5 85 (1.86%) Puppet
6 58 (1.27%) Prometheus
7 38 (0.83%) Kibana
8 36 (0.79%) 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 20 (0.44%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.28%) WMI
13 7 (0.15%) Graphite
14 5 (0.11%) Argo
14 5 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.11%) Opsgenie
14 5 (0.11%) Podman
15 3 (0.066%) Packer
Vendors
1 685 (14.96%) Oracle
2 237 (5.18%) Red Hat
3 198 (4.33%) IBM
4 195 (4.26%) Google
5 188 (4.11%) Microsoft
6 172 (3.76%) Splunk
7 152 (3.32%) Databricks
8 140 (3.06%) Dynatrace
9 75 (1.64%) Cloudera
10 71 (1.55%) VMware
11 62 (1.35%) Informatica
12 57 (1.25%) Alteryx
13 51 (1.11%) SaltStack
14 47 (1.03%) SAP
15 43 (0.94%) Micro Focus
16 39 (0.85%) Pega
17 37 (0.81%) Xilinx
18 35 (0.76%) WSO2
19 32 (0.70%) Remedy
19 32 (0.70%) Sybase