Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 20 April 2021

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Java 8 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Java 8 over the 6 months to 20 April 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Java SE 8
Central London > City of London
6 months to
20 Apr 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 112 115 81
Rank change year-on-year +3 -34 +35
Permanent jobs citing Java 8 130 199 374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 2.65% 2.41% 3.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.28% 4.32% 5.92%
Number of salaries quoted 124 183 365
10th Percentile £67,500 £55,000 £47,750
25th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £103,125 £88,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £106,250 £97,500
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% +3.45% +3.57%

Java 8 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 City of London with a requirement for coding skills.

All Programming Languages
City of London
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,039 4,603 6,322
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London 62.00% 55.83% 61.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,800 4,114 5,721
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £40,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,575 £105,000 £97,500
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% +8.33%

Java 8
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Java 8 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Java 8 in the City of London

Java 8
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java 8 in the City of London.

Salary trend for Java 8 in the City of London

Java 8
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java 8 in the City of London over the 6 months to 20 April 2021.

Salary histogram for Java 8 in the City of London

For the 6 months to 20 April 2021, IT jobs citing Java 8 also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the City of London region with a requirement for Java 8.

1 130 (100.00%) Java
2 85 (65.38%) Agile Software Development
3 81 (62.31%) Microservices
4 61 (46.92%) AWS
5 53 (40.77%) Spring Boot
6 52 (40.00%) Fintech
6 52 (40.00%) Spring
7 51 (39.23%) Kafka
8 47 (36.15%) TDD
9 39 (30.00%) Kubernetes
10 38 (29.23%) Finance
11 34 (26.15%) MongoDB
12 33 (25.38%) Apache Cassandra
12 33 (25.38%) Banking
13 32 (24.62%) Self-Motivation
14 28 (21.54%) DevOps
15 27 (20.77%) Software Engineering
16 26 (20.00%) Multithreading
17 24 (18.46%) Big Data
18 23 (17.69%) Hadoop
18 23 (17.69%) JMS
19 21 (16.15%) Greenfield Project
19 21 (16.15%) Data Structures
19 21 (16.15%) Algorithms
20 20 (15.38%) Docker
20 20 (15.38%) ActiveMQ
20 20 (15.38%) JavaScript
20 20 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
21 17 (13.08%) RESTful
22 16 (12.31%) NoSQL

Java 8
Co-occurring IT Skills in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.31%) Appian
1 3 (2.31%) Camunda
1 3 (2.31%) Confluence
1 3 (2.31%) GlassFish
1 3 (2.31%) JBoss
1 3 (2.31%) WebSphere
2 2 (1.54%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.77%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (2.31%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
Cloud Services
1 61 (46.92%) AWS
2 13 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
3 10 (7.69%) GCP
4 7 (5.38%) Azure
5 3 (2.31%) Apple Pay
5 3 (2.31%) GitHub
5 3 (2.31%) Google Pay
6 2 (1.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.77%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (26.15%) MongoDB
2 33 (25.38%) Apache Cassandra
3 24 (18.46%) Big Data
4 23 (17.69%) Hadoop
5 16 (12.31%) NoSQL
6 12 (9.23%) Amazon DynamoDB
7 8 (6.15%) MySQL
8 5 (3.85%) Oracle Database
8 5 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (2.31%) CockroachDB
9 3 (2.31%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.54%) Oracle Database 12c
11 1 (0.77%) HBase
Development Applications
1 11 (8.46%) Git (software)
2 8 (6.15%) Jenkins
2 8 (6.15%) JUnit
3 7 (5.38%) JIRA
3 7 (5.38%) Mockito
4 6 (4.62%) Bitbucket
4 6 (4.62%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.31%) Apache Archiva
5 3 (2.31%) Artifactory
5 3 (2.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (2.31%) GitLab
5 3 (2.31%) Gradle
5 3 (2.31%) Maven
5 3 (2.31%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.54%) SonarQube
General
1 38 (29.23%) Finance
2 33 (25.38%) Banking
3 12 (9.23%) Private Banking
4 3 (2.31%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.54%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.77%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.77%) Games
Job Titles
1 88 (67.69%) Developer
2 86 (66.15%) Java Developer
3 26 (20.00%) Java Developer - Fintech
4 21 (16.15%) Software Engineer
5 19 (14.62%) Core Java Developer
5 19 (14.62%) Java Engineer
5 19 (14.62%) Senior Developer
6 17 (13.08%) Senior Java Developer
7 14 (10.77%) Java Software Engineer
8 10 (7.69%) Lead Developer
9 8 (6.15%) Full Stack Developer
9 8 (6.15%) Lead Java Developer
10 7 (5.38%) Technical Leader
11 4 (3.08%) Lead Software Engineer
12 3 (2.31%) Principal Engineer
12 3 (2.31%) Principal Software Engineer
12 3 (2.31%) Senior Java Engineer
13 2 (1.54%) Java Development Manager
13 2 (1.54%) Software Development Manager
13 2 (1.54%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (40.77%) Spring Boot
2 52 (40.00%) Spring
3 51 (39.23%) Kafka
4 23 (17.69%) JMS
5 20 (15.38%) ActiveMQ
6 17 (13.08%) RESTful
7 15 (11.54%) React
8 14 (10.77%) AngularJS
9 11 (8.46%) REST
10 10 (7.69%) Node.js
11 6 (4.62%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (3.85%) Spring Security
12 5 (3.85%) Web Services
13 4 (3.08%) Hibernate
14 3 (2.31%) Drools
14 3 (2.31%) Java EE
14 3 (2.31%) JAX-RS
14 3 (2.31%) JPA
14 3 (2.31%) Spring Batch
14 3 (2.31%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 32 (24.62%) Self-Motivation
2 21 (16.15%) Algorithms
2 21 (16.15%) Data Structures
2 21 (16.15%) Greenfield Project
3 14 (10.77%) Video\Live Streaming
4 6 (4.62%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.62%) Social Media
5 3 (2.31%) Blog
5 3 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.54%) Derivative
6 2 (1.54%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.77%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.77%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (0.77%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.77%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.31%) Linux
2 2 (1.54%) Windows
3 1 (0.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (65.38%) Agile Software Development
2 81 (62.31%) Microservices
3 52 (40.00%) Fintech
4 47 (36.15%) TDD
5 28 (21.54%) DevOps
6 27 (20.77%) Software Engineering
7 26 (20.00%) Multithreading
8 20 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
9 15 (11.54%) Continuous Delivery
10 14 (10.77%) BDD
11 12 (9.23%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 8 (6.15%) OO
13 7 (5.38%) Technical Leadership
14 6 (4.62%) Migration
15 5 (3.85%) Computer Science
15 5 (3.85%) MVC
15 5 (3.85%) Open Source
15 5 (3.85%) SOLID
15 5 (3.85%) Test Automation
16 4 (3.08%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 130 (100.00%) Java
2 20 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 16 (12.31%) Kotlin
4 12 (9.23%) Python
5 8 (6.15%) SQL
6 5 (3.85%) Scala
7 3 (2.31%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.54%) Bash Shell
8 2 (1.54%) C++
8 2 (1.54%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.54%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.77%) C#
9 1 (0.77%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (2.31%) Degree
1 3 (2.31%) Master's Degree
2 2 (1.54%) SC Cleared
2 2 (1.54%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.54%) ISO 20022
1 2 (1.54%) QA
System Software
1 20 (15.38%) Docker
2 3 (2.31%) OpenAM
2 3 (2.31%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.77%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 39 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.31%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (2.31%) Opscode Chef
2 3 (2.31%) Rancher
3 1 (0.77%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (5.38%) Oracle
2 5 (3.85%) IBM
3 3 (2.31%) ForgeRock
3 3 (2.31%) Microsoft