Java
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 18 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 6,856 10,827 22,324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.96% 10.42% 14.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.60% 24.02% 26.60%
Number of salaries quoted 3,916 6,457 9,953
10th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,500 £57,046 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £96,539 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £122,500 £122,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% +4.55%

All Programming Languages
UK

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 with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,278 45,076 83,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.79% 43.37% 53.85%
Number of salaries quoted 25,047 28,788 44,148
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,635 £55,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year -2.48% +2.33% +7.50%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the UK

Java
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java.

Salary trend for Java in the UK

Java
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Java in the UK

Java
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
UK excluding London -1 4,616 £60,000 -4.00% 591
England -16 4,556 £73,805 -7.74% 1,093
Work from Home -12 2,361 £73,805 -1.59% 557
London -6 2,027 £95,000 +5.56% 581
Scotland +7 1,985 £60,000 -13.60% 65
South East -7 834 £60,000 -7.69% 134
North of England -20 666 £65,000 - 125
South West -7 618 £57,500 -4.17% 106
North West -16 466 £62,500 -7.41% 86
Midlands -48 277 £55,000 -8.33% 79
West Midlands -35 196 £57,500 -4.17% 58
Yorkshire -49 149 £65,465 +4.74% 22
East of England -88 103 £62,500 -10.71% 52
Wales +2 88 £50,000 -10.31% 16
East Midlands -83 80 £52,500 -8.70% 21
North East -44 51 £65,232 +4.37% 19
Northern Ireland -21 49 £85,000 +61.90% 22

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 605 (8.82%) Apache Spark
2 437 (6.37%) Apache
3 249 (3.63%) Apache Airflow
4 129 (1.88%) FileNet
5 118 (1.72%) Confluence
6 59 (0.86%) Tomcat
7 57 (0.83%) Camunda
8 55 (0.80%) JBoss
8 55 (0.80%) nginx
9 51 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
10 43 (0.63%) IIS
11 42 (0.61%) OpenStack
11 42 (0.61%) WebSphere
12 40 (0.58%) Red Hat Fuse
13 38 (0.55%) Tuxedo
14 37 (0.54%) Cloud Foundry
15 35 (0.51%) SharePoint
16 33 (0.48%) WebLogic
17 28 (0.41%) Captiva
18 22 (0.32%) GemFire
Applications
1 24 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 24 (0.35%) Simulink
2 11 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.13%) Adobe XD
5 7 (0.10%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.088%) CANalyzer
7 5 (0.073%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.058%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.015%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.015%) CATIA
9 1 (0.015%) InDesign
9 1 (0.015%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.015%) Notion
9 1 (0.015%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 44 (0.64%) Endur
2 24 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
4 8 (0.12%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 7 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.10%) SAP ERP
5 7 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
6 6 (0.088%) NEC Housing
7 5 (0.073%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.073%) Payment Gateway
7 5 (0.073%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.058%) BusinessWorks
8 4 (0.058%) Sonata
9 3 (0.044%) Oracle Applications
9 3 (0.044%) SAP SD
10 2 (0.029%) Adaptiv
10 2 (0.029%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.029%) Oracle EBS R12
10 2 (0.029%) SAP CRM
10 2 (0.029%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 3,050 (44.49%) AWS
2 1,309 (19.09%) Azure
3 666 (9.71%) GCP
4 570 (8.31%) Serverless
5 286 (4.17%) Amazon S3
6 274 (4.00%) SaaS
7 262 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
8 251 (3.66%) GitHub
9 220 (3.21%) Amazon EKS
10 216 (3.15%) dbt
11 208 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
12 206 (3.00%) Snowflake
13 201 (2.93%) Amazon ECS
14 194 (2.83%) OpenShift
15 180 (2.63%) IBM Cloud
16 177 (2.58%) Amazon EC2
17 167 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
18 140 (2.04%) Azure Functions
19 127 (1.85%) Azure Logic Apps
19 127 (1.85%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 99 (1.44%) TCP/IP
2 86 (1.25%) DNS
3 70 (1.02%) HTTP
4 63 (0.92%) Firewall
5 45 (0.66%) DHCP
6 40 (0.58%) AMQP
7 31 (0.45%) WAN
8 27 (0.39%) Internet
9 25 (0.36%) Network Security
10 18 (0.26%) DSL
10 18 (0.26%) Kerberos
10 18 (0.26%) Modbus
11 16 (0.23%) SSH
12 15 (0.22%) SNMP
13 13 (0.19%) Wireless
14 12 (0.18%) MQTT
15 10 (0.15%) VPN
16 8 (0.12%) Bluetooth
16 8 (0.12%) FTP
17 7 (0.10%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 992 (14.47%) NoSQL
2 625 (9.12%) Relational Database
3 570 (8.31%) Big Data
4 524 (7.64%) PostgreSQL
5 491 (7.16%) MongoDB
6 359 (5.24%) Hadoop
7 315 (4.59%) SQL Server
8 306 (4.46%) MySQL
9 296 (4.32%) Data Lake
10 275 (4.01%) Elasticsearch
11 215 (3.14%) Amazon Athena
12 204 (2.98%) Apache Arrow
12 204 (2.98%) Dremio
13 185 (2.70%) DB2
14 177 (2.58%) RDBMS
15 174 (2.54%) Apache Cassandra
16 169 (2.46%) Apache Ignite
17 124 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
18 119 (1.74%) Apache Hive
19 113 (1.65%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 706 (10.30%) Jenkins
2 649 (9.47%) Git
3 371 (5.41%) JUnit
4 301 (4.39%) JIRA
5 291 (4.24%) Selenium
6 229 (3.34%) Cucumber
7 207 (3.02%) GitLab
8 199 (2.90%) Maven
9 152 (2.22%) Cypress.io
10 124 (1.81%) Postman
11 118 (1.72%) WebDriver
12 114 (1.66%) Jasmine
13 91 (1.33%) Mockito
14 89 (1.30%) JMeter
15 83 (1.21%) IntelliJ
16 81 (1.18%) Gradle
17 74 (1.08%) Visual Studio
18 68 (0.99%) Protractor
19 67 (0.98%) Bitbucket Server
20 64 (0.93%) Bitbucket
General
1 2,839 (41.41%) Finance
2 1,990 (29.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,760 (25.67%) Law
4 1,058 (15.43%) Social Skills
5 931 (13.58%) Banking
6 861 (12.56%) Marketing
7 553 (8.07%) Legal
8 529 (7.72%) Investment Banking
9 479 (6.99%) Public Sector
10 400 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
11 388 (5.66%) Front Office
12 225 (3.28%) Financial Institution
13 195 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
14 117 (1.71%) Games
15 112 (1.63%) Retail
16 90 (1.31%) Aerospace
17 76 (1.11%) Private Banking
18 73 (1.06%) Electronics
19 66 (0.96%) Telecoms
20 62 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2,596 (37.86%) Software Engineer
2 2,076 (30.28%) Developer
3 1,368 (19.95%) Senior
4 1,303 (19.01%) Java Engineer
5 1,222 (17.82%) Lead
6 1,131 (16.50%) Java Software Engineer
7 1,035 (15.10%) Java Developer
8 599 (8.74%) Lead Software Engineer
9 477 (6.96%) Senior Software Engineer
10 450 (6.56%) Senior Developer
11 423 (6.17%) Full Stack Engineer
12 401 (5.85%) Full Stack Developer
13 373 (5.44%) AWS Engineer
14 344 (5.02%) Lead Java Engineer
15 341 (4.97%) Full Stack Software Engineer
16 325 (4.74%) Architect
17 319 (4.65%) Software Developer
18 307 (4.48%) Senior Java Developer
19 296 (4.32%) Big Data Engineer
20 255 (3.72%) Big Data Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,674 (24.42%) Spring
2 1,235 (18.01%) React
3 1,054 (15.37%) Spring Boot
4 965 (14.08%) AngularJS
5 778 (11.35%) Kafka
6 743 (10.84%) REST
7 726 (10.59%) Node.js
8 719 (10.49%) HTML
9 635 (9.26%) CSS
10 512 (7.47%) .NET
11 459 (6.69%) Web Services
12 444 (6.48%) Hibernate
12 444 (6.48%) RESTful
13 417 (6.08%) J2EE
14 350 (5.11%) JSON
15 324 (4.73%) jQuery
16 312 (4.55%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 244 (3.56%) gRPC
18 214 (3.12%) GraphQL
19 213 (3.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 853 (12.44%) Algorithms
2 752 (10.97%) Cloud Native
3 344 (5.02%) Data Structures
4 338 (4.93%) Public Cloud
5 305 (4.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 251 (3.66%) Hedge funds
7 245 (3.57%) Fixed Income
8 218 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
9 213 (3.11%) Equities
10 210 (3.06%) Onboarding
11 208 (3.03%) Blockchain
12 200 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
13 186 (2.71%) Derivative
14 179 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
15 169 (2.46%) Private Cloud
15 169 (2.46%) Product Ownership
16 157 (2.29%) Management Information System
17 142 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
18 90 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
19 83 (1.21%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 908 (13.24%) Linux
2 401 (5.85%) Windows
3 261 (3.81%) Unix
4 225 (3.28%) Android
5 194 (2.83%) Apple iOS
6 107 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 51 (0.74%) CentOS
8 41 (0.60%) Ubuntu
9 37 (0.54%) Windows Server
10 26 (0.38%) Debian
11 23 (0.34%) AIX
11 23 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
12 11 (0.16%) Mac OS
12 11 (0.16%) Windows 10
13 10 (0.15%) VMS
14 5 (0.073%) Mac OS X
15 4 (0.058%) Oracle Linux
15 4 (0.058%) Solaris
16 3 (0.044%) FreeBSD
16 3 (0.044%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,610 (52.65%) Agile
2 3,517 (51.30%) Software Engineering
3 2,251 (32.83%) CI/CD
4 1,943 (28.34%) SDLC
5 1,461 (21.31%) Microservices
6 1,436 (20.95%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,310 (19.11%) Operational Stability
8 1,280 (18.67%) Machine Learning
9 1,257 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
10 1,227 (17.90%) DevOps
11 1,106 (16.13%) Full Stack Development
12 840 (12.25%) Community of Practice
13 820 (11.96%) TDD
14 818 (11.93%) Mentoring
15 784 (11.44%) Continuous Improvement
16 755 (11.01%) Computer Science
17 731 (10.66%) Test Automation
18 637 (9.29%) Visualisation
19 620 (9.04%) Decision-Making
20 588 (8.58%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2,427 (35.40%) Python
2 2,121 (30.94%) SQL
3 1,700 (24.80%) JavaScript
4 854 (12.46%) C#
5 731 (10.66%) TypeScript
6 587 (8.56%) Scala
7 422 (6.16%) C++
8 371 (5.41%) Go
9 360 (5.25%) Kotlin
10 314 (4.58%) C
11 181 (2.64%) Ruby
12 180 (2.63%) Bash
13 176 (2.57%) PL/SQL
14 144 (2.10%) PowerShell
15 139 (2.03%) Shell Script
16 118 (1.72%) PHP
17 101 (1.47%) Perl
18 89 (1.30%) Rust
19 68 (0.99%) VB
20 66 (0.96%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 786 (11.46%) Security Cleared
2 779 (11.36%) Degree
3 517 (7.54%) SC Cleared
4 370 (5.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 165 (2.41%) DV Cleared
6 131 (1.91%) Master's Degree
7 89 (1.30%) AWS Certification
8 84 (1.23%) PhD
9 49 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
10 39 (0.57%) Azure Certification
11 29 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 24 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
13 19 (0.28%) DBS Check
14 16 (0.23%) HNC
15 10 (0.15%) ISTQB
15 10 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
16 9 (0.13%) OCP
16 9 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
16 9 (0.13%) OSCP
16 9 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 323 (4.71%) QA
2 161 (2.35%) Data Quality
3 93 (1.36%) SLA
4 54 (0.79%) Accessibility
5 51 (0.74%) GDPR
6 9 (0.13%) PMO
6 9 (0.13%) SEPA
7 8 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.12%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.088%) ISO 26262
9 6 (0.088%) ISO 9001
9 6 (0.088%) NIST
9 6 (0.088%) TickIT
10 4 (0.058%) COBIT
11 3 (0.044%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.044%) MiFID
12 2 (0.029%) IEC 61508
12 2 (0.029%) ISO 13485
12 2 (0.029%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 1,057 (15.42%) Docker
2 93 (1.36%) HDFS
3 74 (1.08%) Hyper-V
4 59 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 33 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
6 31 (0.45%) Active Directory
7 26 (0.38%) VMware NSX
8 24 (0.35%) Firmware
9 20 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
10 11 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
10 11 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
11 8 (0.12%) KVM
11 8 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.044%) VirtualBox
13 2 (0.029%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 2 (0.029%) OpenAM
14 1 (0.015%) ACF2
14 1 (0.015%) Dovecot
14 1 (0.015%) GridGain
14 1 (0.015%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 1,346 (19.63%) Kubernetes
2 716 (10.44%) Terraform
3 320 (4.67%) Ansible
4 191 (2.79%) Grafana
5 120 (1.75%) Prometheus
6 113 (1.65%) Puppet
7 55 (0.80%) Progress Chef
8 44 (0.64%) Kibana
9 42 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
10 29 (0.42%) OpenSSO
11 26 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
12 22 (0.32%) HAProxy
12 22 (0.32%) Salt
13 21 (0.31%) Zipkin
14 17 (0.25%) Packer
15 13 (0.19%) WMI
16 9 (0.13%) Kiali
17 8 (0.12%) Argo
18 7 (0.10%) Graphite
19 6 (0.088%) logstash
Vendors
1 867 (12.65%) Oracle
2 290 (4.23%) Google
3 271 (3.95%) Microsoft
4 259 (3.78%) Red Hat
5 245 (3.57%) IBM
6 192 (2.80%) Splunk
7 171 (2.49%) Databricks
8 151 (2.20%) Dynatrace
9 97 (1.41%) Sybase
10 90 (1.31%) VMware
11 88 (1.28%) SAP
12 87 (1.27%) Cloudera
13 62 (0.90%) Informatica
14 57 (0.83%) Alteryx
14 57 (0.83%) TIBCO
15 50 (0.73%) Atlassian
15 50 (0.73%) Pega
15 50 (0.73%) SaltStack
16 46 (0.67%) YouTube
17 44 (0.64%) WSO2