The first table below looks at the demand for the Java Developer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Java Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Developer
Rank 55 42 29
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 4577 6110 7334
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 4.149% 5.085% 5.699%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.394% 5.354% 6.055%
Number of salaries quoted 4047 5396 6564
Average salary £45,000 £45,250 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-0.55% -4.73%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,000 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
104165 114120 121133
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.41% 94.97% 94.12%
Number of salaries quoted 86738 97875 102752
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

Java Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Java Developer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Java Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Java Developer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Java Developer within the UK.

Java Developer Salary Trend

Java Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Java Developer over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 within the UK.

Java Developer Salary Histogram

Java Developer
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
England -17 4280 £47,500 - 449
London -13 2355 £55,000 - 253
City of London 0 773 £57,500 - 102
South East -8 769 £44,500 -1.11% 46
East of England -30 262 £40,000 -3.61% 17
Yorkshire +12 237 £37,500 - 44
North West -28 229 £35,000 -6.66% 34
South West -24 227 £37,500 -2.59% 23
Scotland +12 219 £42,500 +6.25% 34
Surrey -6 214 £47,750 +6.11% 15
Berkshire -16 196 £48,750 +8.33% 12
West Yorkshire -13 150 £37,500 - 32
Manchester -17 138 £35,000 -0.70% 14
Leeds 0 132 £40,000 - 18
West Midlands -23 126 £40,000 -8.57% 16
Glasgow +11 125 £45,000 +17.64% 18
Bristol -5 113 £35,000 -6.66% 13
Hampshire -20 106 £42,500 +6.25% 6
Hertfordshire -17 95 £50,000 +11.11% 8
East Midlands +11 89 £35,000 -6.66% 9
North Yorkshire +39 85 £37,500 -3.22% 6
Edinburgh +23 79 £37,500 -3.84% 10
Guildford +18 79 £50,000 +17.64% 3
Cheshire -3 76 £35,000 -6.66% 10
Cambridgeshire -40 72 £41,000 -1.20% 7
Kent +40 67 £35,000 -26.31% 2
Oxfordshire +7 60 £50,000 +11.11% 4
Reading -51 56 £40,000 -15.78% 6
York +35 55 £35,000 +15.70% 5
Buckinghamshire -27 52 £40,000 -12.08%

Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Java Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Java Developer in their job title.

1 8975 (100.00%) Java
2 4445 (49.53%) Spring
3 2998 (33.40%) Hibernate
4 2942 (32.78%) J2EE
5 2752 (30.66%) SQL
6 2609 (29.07%) JavaScript
7 2284 (25.45%) Agile Software Development
8 2115 (23.57%) Oracle
9 2031 (22.63%) HTML
10 1999 (22.27%) TDD
11 1991 (22.18%) Finance
12 1973 (21.98%) XML
13 1822 (20.30%) CSS
14 1810 (20.17%) Degree
15 1634 (18.21%) Web Services
15 1634 (18.21%) OO
16 1559 (17.37%) JSP
17 1452 (16.18%) Linux
18 1324 (14.75%) Multithreading
19 1300 (14.48%) Tomcat
20 1243 (13.85%) Maven
21 1234 (13.75%) JUnit
22 1213 (13.52%) Computer Science
23 1184 (13.19%) MySQL
24 1092 (12.17%) Scrum
25 1078 (12.01%) UNIX
26 1070 (11.92%) MVC
27 1017 (11.33%) Banking
28 984 (10.96%) Java EE
29 982 (10.94%) Struts

Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Java Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Java Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4445 (49.53%) Spring
2 2998 (33.40%) Hibernate
3 2942 (32.78%) J2EE
4 2031 (22.63%) HTML
5 1973 (21.98%) XML
6 1822 (20.30%) CSS
7 1634 (18.21%) Web Services
8 1559 (17.37%) JSP
9 984 (10.96%) Java EE
10 982 (10.94%) Struts
11 971 (10.82%) jQuery
12 919 (10.24%) Ajax
13 767 (8.546%) Servlets
14 760 (8.468%) JMS
15 743 (8.279%) SOAP
16 686 (7.643%) JDBC
17 613 (6.830%) Spring MVC
18 589 (6.563%) XSLT
19 566 (6.306%) RESTful
20 504 (5.616%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 1300 (14.48%) Tomcat
2 974 (10.85%) Apache
3 495 (5.515%) WebLogic
4 186 (2.072%) Apache Solr
5 165 (1.838%) ESB
6 151 (1.682%) GlassFish
7 142 (1.582%) CMS
8 129 (1.437%) Oracle Coherence
9 97 (1.081%) Jetty
10 95 (1.058%) WebSphere Application Server
11 77 (0.858%) Liferay
12 61 (0.680%) Amazon AWS
13 56 (0.624%) GemFire
13 56 (0.624%) MQSeries
14 44 (0.490%) Alfresco
14 44 (0.490%) TIBCO EMS
15 42 (0.468%) Oracle Workflow
16 36 (0.401%) SharePoint
17 35 (0.390%) Confluence
18 32 (0.357%) ElasticSearch
Applications
1 154 (1.716%) MS Excel
2 9 (0.100%) MS Office
3 8 (0.089%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.033%) Stata
5 2 (0.022%) Mingle
5 2 (0.022%) S-PLUS
5 2 (0.022%) MS Project
6 1 (0.011%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.011%) Weka
Business Applications
1 23 (0.256%) Oracle BPM
2 20 (0.223%) BusinessWorks
3 15 (0.167%) ION MarketView
4 10 (0.111%) assyst
5 8 (0.089%) Staffware
6 7 (0.078%) Oracle Financials
7 6 (0.067%) Front Arena
8 4 (0.045%) Summit
9 3 (0.033%) Murex MxG2000
9 3 (0.033%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.033%) Google Analytics
9 3 (0.033%) Oracle Retail
10 2 (0.022%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 2 (0.022%) TIBCO iProcess
10 2 (0.022%) Dynamics CRM
11 1 (0.011%) Oracle iProcurement
11 1 (0.011%) Oracle EBS R12
11 1 (0.011%) RMDS
11 1 (0.011%) Oracle 11i
11 1 (0.011%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 407 (4.535%) HTTP
2 236 (2.630%) Internet
3 86 (0.958%) TCP/IP
4 80 (0.891%) Broadband
5 45 (0.501%) Intranet
6 31 (0.345%) LDAP
7 28 (0.312%) AMQP
8 25 (0.279%) SNMP
9 21 (0.234%) SSL
10 15 (0.167%) SMS
11 13 (0.145%) NFC
12 12 (0.134%) FTP
13 10 (0.111%) DNS
14 9 (0.100%) Wireshark
15 8 (0.089%) BSS
15 8 (0.089%) Extranet
15 8 (0.089%) NAS
16 7 (0.078%) SAN
16 7 (0.078%) VoIP
17 5 (0.056%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1184 (13.19%) MySQL
2 741 (8.256%) SQL Server
3 470 (5.237%) RDBMS
4 351 (3.911%) NoSQL
5 301 (3.354%) MongoDB
6 280 (3.120%) Big Data
7 260 (2.897%) DB2
8 192 (2.139%) Hadoop
9 161 (1.794%) PostgreSQL
10 138 (1.538%) Apache Cassandra
11 79 (0.880%) Oracle 8/8i
12 76 (0.847%) MarkLogic
13 70 (0.780%) Oracle 10g
14 58 (0.646%) Data Mining
14 58 (0.646%) SQL Server 2008
15 56 (0.624%) CouchDB
16 51 (0.568%) Oracle 11g
17 49 (0.546%) KDB
18 43 (0.479%) Oracle Reports
19 41 (0.457%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1243 (13.85%) Maven
2 1234 (13.75%) JUnit
3 973 (10.84%) Eclipse
4 866 (9.649%) Subversion
5 543 (6.050%) Ant
6 264 (2.942%) Git (software)
7 252 (2.808%) JIRA
8 249 (2.774%) Selenium
9 208 (2.318%) Hudson
10 200 (2.228%) Jenkins
11 109 (1.214%) Cucumber
12 80 (0.891%) Eclipse RCP
13 79 (0.880%) Mockito
14 70 (0.780%) GitHub
15 66 (0.735%) IntelliJ
16 65 (0.724%) NetBeans
16 65 (0.724%) EasyMock
17 56 (0.624%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 55 (0.613%) TeamCity
19 49 (0.546%) TestNG
General
1 1991 (22.18%) Finance
2 1017 (11.33%) Banking
3 854 (9.515%) Front Office
4 479 (5.337%) Investment Banking
5 459 (5.114%) Games
6 354 (3.944%) Retail
7 302 (3.365%) Telecoms
8 184 (2.050%) Financial Institution
9 155 (1.727%) Publishing
10 135 (1.504%) Legal
11 95 (1.058%) Marketing
12 70 (0.780%) Pharmaceutical
13 68 (0.758%) Advertising
14 51 (0.568%) Back Office
15 50 (0.557%) Multimedia
16 28 (0.312%) Law
16 28 (0.312%) Online Betting
17 24 (0.267%) Manufacturing
18 21 (0.234%) Billing
19 20 (0.223%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 1213 (13.52%) Computer Science
2 588 (6.552%) Open Source
3 495 (5.515%) Mathematics
4 396 (4.412%) Derivative
5 375 (4.178%) Fixed Income
6 354 (3.944%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 312 (3.476%) Equities
8 262 (2.919%) Enterprise Software
9 158 (1.760%) Mobile App
10 156 (1.738%) N-Tier
11 155 (1.727%) Hedge funds
12 128 (1.426%) Digital Media
13 123 (1.370%) Physics
14 105 (1.170%) Cloud Computing
15 96 (1.070%) Online Games
16 90 (1.003%) SaaS
17 88 (0.981%) Grid Computing
18 85 (0.947%) Equity Derivative
18 85 (0.947%) Inversion of Control
19 81 (0.903%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1452 (16.18%) Linux
2 1078 (12.01%) UNIX
3 372 (4.145%) Windows
4 278 (3.097%) Android
5 178 (1.983%) Apple iOS
6 104 (1.159%) Solaris
7 79 (0.880%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 24 (0.267%) Ubuntu
9 22 (0.245%) Windows Phone
10 18 (0.201%) Mac OS
11 10 (0.111%) Mac OS X
12 9 (0.100%) Windows 7
13 8 (0.089%) Windows Phone 7
13 8 (0.089%) AIX
14 7 (0.078%) CentOS
15 6 (0.067%) Windows XP
16 4 (0.045%) Windows Mobile
17 3 (0.033%) zOS
17 3 (0.033%) Windows Server 2003
17 3 (0.033%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2284 (25.45%) Agile Software Development
2 1999 (22.27%) TDD
3 1634 (18.21%) OO
4 1324 (14.75%) Multithreading
5 1092 (12.17%) Scrum
6 1070 (11.92%) MVC
7 930 (10.36%) E-Commerce
8 736 (8.201%) Continuous Integration
9 670 (7.465%) Unit Testing
10 555 (6.184%) UML
11 502 (5.593%) Web Development
12 485 (5.404%) BDD
13 466 (5.192%) Pair Programming
14 450 (5.014%) Software Engineering
15 427 (4.758%) SOA
16 406 (4.524%) OOD
17 269 (2.997%) Algorithmic Trading
18 246 (2.741%) Electronic Trading
19 230 (2.563%) Risk Management
20 203 (2.262%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 8975 (100.00%) Java
2 2752 (30.66%) SQL
3 2609 (29.07%) JavaScript
4 814 (9.070%) C#
5 608 (6.774%) C++
6 428 (4.769%) Scala
7 372 (4.145%) PL/SQL
8 355 (3.955%) Python
9 304 (3.387%) Shell Script
10 296 (3.298%) PHP
11 292 (3.253%) Groovy
12 281 (3.131%) Perl
13 262 (2.919%) Ruby
14 156 (1.738%) C
15 118 (1.315%) XPath
16 105 (1.170%) XQuery
17 95 (1.058%) Bash shell
18 86 (0.958%) VB
19 69 (0.769%) Clojure
20 49 (0.546%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1810 (20.17%) Degree
2 188 (2.095%) Security Cleared
3 128 (1.426%) PhD
4 104 (1.159%) SC Cleared
5 89 (0.992%) DV Cleared
6 77 (0.858%) Sun Certification
7 41 (0.457%) SCJP
8 23 (0.256%) SCJA
9 17 (0.189%) SCJD
10 16 (0.178%) SCWCD
10 16 (0.178%) CIPD
11 8 (0.089%) Postgraduate
12 7 (0.078%) CFA
13 6 (0.067%) HND
14 4 (0.045%) CTC Cleared
15 3 (0.033%) OCP
15 3 (0.033%) Oracle Certification
16 2 (0.022%) Microsoft Certification
16 2 (0.022%) BC Cleared
17 1 (0.011%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 338 (3.766%) QA
2 20 (0.223%) ISO 9001
3 14 (0.156%) SLA
4 8 (0.089%) HL7
4 8 (0.089%) PCI DSS
5 5 (0.056%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.033%) Dublin Core
6 3 (0.033%) DO-178B
6 3 (0.033%) ISO 14001
7 2 (0.022%) WCAG
8 1 (0.011%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.011%) Basel II
8 1 (0.011%) Basel III
System Software
1 55 (0.613%) Squid
2 20 (0.223%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.067%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (0.056%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.045%) vSphere
5 4 (0.045%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.033%) NFS
6 3 (0.033%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.022%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 37 (0.412%) Puppet
2 16 (0.178%) MOM
3 10 (0.111%) Business Desktop Deployment
4 6 (0.067%) Oracle Identity Manager
5 5 (0.056%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 5 (0.056%) Nagios
6 4 (0.045%) WMI
6 4 (0.045%) HP Quality Center
6 4 (0.045%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.011%) Vagrant
Vendors
1 2115 (23.57%) Oracle
2 797 (8.880%) JBoss
3 406 (4.524%) Sybase
4 237 (2.641%) IBM
5 220 (2.451%) TIBCO
6 197 (2.195%) Microsoft
7 165 (1.838%) Google
8 112 (1.248%) hybris
9 95 (1.058%) Red Hat
10 81 (0.903%) ATG
11 70 (0.780%) Sun
12 68 (0.758%) BEA
13 67 (0.747%) DataSynapse
14 60 (0.669%) Adobe
15 59 (0.657%) Business Objects
15 59 (0.657%) Facebook
16 48 (0.535%) Twitter
17 46 (0.513%) Zend
18 41 (0.457%) Perforce
19 40 (0.446%) Salesforce.com
City of London
Treasury Core Java Developer, Investment Bank, London, Permanent My client a leading Investment Bank, are looking for an experienced, pragmatic Java Developer to join their Treasury and Risk...
Huxley Associates
Salary: £50000 - £75000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
Norwich, Norfolk
This role is a great opportunity to further develop your career in web and desktop application development within a very commercial and dynamic environment You will be involved...
Cooper Lomaz Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £40k - 45k per year
Posted: 14 June 2013
Cheshire
Spring Technology are working for an amazing client who are looking for a Java Developer to join a well established and thriving business in Crewe. This company has...
Spring Technology
Salary: £35000.00 - £40000.00 per annum + BENEFITS
Posted: 12 June 2013
London
Java developers - London Start-up specialist software house - Java developers. Multiple Java developers are needed for a successful start-up company based in London. Due to recent booming...
Oho Group Ltd.
Salary: £28000 to £40000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Barnet, Hertfordshire
Are you a high calibre Java Developer keen to utilise the latest technologies in a highly creative, fast paced environment?! As a company we are looking for only...
Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £35000 - £55000 per annum + be- shares, health, pens
Posted: 16 June 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Change Recruitment Group
Salary: Excellent Salary & Benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Wirral, Merseyside
Rullion IT Plus
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Guildford, Surrey
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: Up to £60,000 per annum + package
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: Up to £60,000 per annum + package
Posted: 13 June 2013
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
OSM Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £42000 per annum + negotiable on experience
Posted: 15 June 2013
Corby, Northamptonshire
OSM Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £46000 per annum + negotiable
Posted: 15 June 2013
York, Yorkshire
Computer Futures
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
CV Screen Ltd
Salary: £30k - 45k per year + benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
ISL
Salary: £50000 - £70000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
City, London
ISL
Salary: £50000 - £65000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
Aston Carter
Salary: £60000 - £90000 per annum + bonus and benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
South East
Premier Group Recruitment
Salary: £0.00 - £42000.00
Posted: 17 June 2013
Surrey, West Sussex, Reigate, Crawley, Epsom,...
Actis Recruitment Ltd
Salary: to £55,000 + excellent bonus & bens
Posted: 4 June 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
greywood
Salary: £60000 per annum + Bens
Posted: 24 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Greywood Associates Limited
Salary: £60000 per annum + Bens
Posted: 17 June 2013
Newcastle upon Tyne, North East
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £31000.00 - £39000.00 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 3 June 2013
Preston, North West
Computer Futures
Salary: £32000 - £42000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
Preston, North West
Computer Futures
Posted: 28 May 2013
Reigate, South East
Jumar Solutions
Salary: £45,000 - £65,000 per year depending upon experience
Posted: 31 May 2013
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