Java Jobs in England

Java
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 18 15
Rank change year-on-year -17 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 4,565 9,087 19,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.33% 10.09% 14.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.57% 23.32% 26.73%
Number of salaries quoted 3,415 5,458 8,857
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,805 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.74% +10.34% +11.54%
75th Percentile £98,750 £105,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £130,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% +7.69%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 27,555 38,971 71,510
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.15% 43.26% 53.33%
Number of salaries quoted 22,389 25,120 39,084
10th Percentile £35,475 £39,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
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 England

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in England

Java
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Java in England

Java
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Java in England

Java
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the England region over the 6 months to 13 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
London -5 2,060 £95,000 +5.56% 622
South East -4 853 £60,000 -7.69% 135
North of England -20 652 £62,500 -3.85% 121
South West -8 594 £57,500 -4.17% 126
North West -13 459 £62,500 -7.41% 80
Midlands -54 273 £55,000 -8.33% 81
West Midlands -34 192 £57,500 -7.26% 55
Yorkshire -46 144 £65,000 +4.00% 31
East of England -88 106 £62,500 -10.71% 55
East Midlands -68 80 £52,500 -9.48% 26
North East -42 49 £65,000 +4.00% 12
Java
UK

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 357 (7.82%) Apache
2 287 (6.29%) Apache Airflow
3 124 (2.72%) Apache Spark
4 99 (2.17%) Confluence
5 57 (1.25%) nginx
6 45 (0.99%) Tomcat
7 41 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
7 41 (0.90%) OpenStack
8 37 (0.81%) Camunda
8 37 (0.81%) Tuxedo
9 31 (0.68%) JBoss
10 27 (0.59%) IIS
11 26 (0.57%) WebSphere
12 25 (0.55%) WebLogic
13 20 (0.44%) FileNet
13 20 (0.44%) SharePoint
14 18 (0.39%) Captiva
14 18 (0.39%) Red Hat Fuse
15 14 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
16 10 (0.22%) Drupal
Applications
1 33 (0.72%) Simulink
2 22 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.18%) Adobe XD
6 7 (0.15%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.13%) CANalyzer
8 4 (0.088%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.088%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.022%) CATIA
9 1 (0.022%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.022%) Notion
9 1 (0.022%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 42 (0.92%) Endur
2 12 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.15%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.13%) NEC Housing
4 6 (0.13%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 5 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.088%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.088%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.066%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.066%) SAP S/4HANA
8 2 (0.044%) Adaptiv
8 2 (0.044%) BusinessWorks
8 2 (0.044%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.044%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.044%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.044%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.022%) iTrent
9 1 (0.022%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.022%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.022%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,032 (44.51%) AWS
2 1,066 (23.35%) Azure
3 465 (10.19%) GCP
4 445 (9.75%) Serverless
5 273 (5.98%) dbt
6 263 (5.76%) Snowflake
7 200 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
8 195 (4.27%) SaaS
9 194 (4.25%) AWS Lambda
10 192 (4.21%) OpenShift
11 183 (4.01%) IBM Cloud
12 176 (3.86%) GitHub
13 158 (3.46%) Amazon S3
14 153 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
15 147 (3.22%) Azure Functions
16 134 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
17 132 (2.89%) Azure Service Bus
18 131 (2.87%) Azure Logic Apps
19 129 (2.83%) Azure API Management
20 117 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 85 (1.86%) DNS
2 82 (1.80%) TCP/IP
3 66 (1.45%) HTTP
4 59 (1.29%) Firewall
5 44 (0.96%) DHCP
6 41 (0.90%) AMQP
7 20 (0.44%) Internet
8 17 (0.37%) WAN
9 16 (0.35%) SNMP
9 16 (0.35%) SSH
10 15 (0.33%) Network Security
11 13 (0.28%) Wireless
12 12 (0.26%) MQTT
13 10 (0.22%) VPN
14 9 (0.20%) FTP
15 7 (0.15%) Bluetooth
15 7 (0.15%) OpenVPN
15 7 (0.15%) SSL
16 6 (0.13%) Ethernet
16 6 (0.13%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 496 (10.87%) PostgreSQL
2 477 (10.45%) Relational Database
3 463 (10.14%) NoSQL
4 361 (7.91%) MongoDB
5 287 (6.29%) Data Lake
6 269 (5.89%) SQL Server
7 267 (5.85%) Amazon Athena
8 255 (5.59%) Dremio
9 253 (5.54%) Apache Arrow
10 249 (5.45%) MySQL
11 206 (4.51%) Apache Ignite
12 184 (4.03%) Big Data
13 162 (3.55%) DB2
14 143 (3.13%) RDBMS
15 121 (2.65%) Hadoop
16 114 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
17 92 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
18 89 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
19 82 (1.80%) Oracle Database
20 72 (1.58%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 484 (10.60%) Git
2 446 (9.77%) Jenkins
3 229 (5.02%) JIRA
4 191 (4.18%) Selenium
5 176 (3.86%) Cucumber
6 156 (3.42%) GitLab
7 149 (3.26%) JUnit
8 112 (2.45%) Maven
9 106 (2.32%) Postman
10 59 (1.29%) Cypress.io
11 55 (1.20%) Visual Studio
12 54 (1.18%) Bitbucket
12 54 (1.18%) JMeter
13 52 (1.14%) Subversion
14 50 (1.10%) IntelliJ
15 49 (1.07%) WebDriver
16 46 (1.01%) Gradle
17 45 (0.99%) Artifactory
18 44 (0.96%) Eclipse
19 41 (0.90%) TeamCity
General
1 1,089 (23.86%) Finance
2 794 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 572 (12.53%) Banking
4 421 (9.22%) Public Sector
5 413 (9.05%) Front Office
6 330 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
7 320 (7.01%) Investment Banking
8 271 (5.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 114 (2.50%) Law
10 101 (2.21%) Marketing
11 93 (2.04%) Retail
12 91 (1.99%) Aerospace
13 70 (1.53%) Electronics
14 68 (1.49%) Games
15 67 (1.47%) Financial Institution
16 49 (1.07%) Legal
16 49 (1.07%) Tech for Good
16 49 (1.07%) Telecoms
17 48 (1.05%) Manufacturing
18 43 (0.94%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,744 (38.20%) Developer
2 1,046 (22.91%) Senior
3 974 (21.34%) Software Engineer
4 857 (18.77%) Java Developer
5 707 (15.49%) Lead
6 448 (9.81%) Java Engineer
7 378 (8.28%) Senior Developer
8 356 (7.80%) Full Stack Developer
9 300 (6.57%) Software Developer
10 282 (6.18%) Senior Software Engineer
11 281 (6.16%) Java Software Engineer
12 268 (5.87%) Senior Java Developer
13 241 (5.28%) Architect
14 224 (4.91%) Technical Leader
15 218 (4.78%) AWS Engineer
16 185 (4.05%) Lead Developer
17 153 (3.35%) Senior Java Engineer
18 152 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
19 142 (3.11%) Azure Developer
20 119 (2.61%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 807 (17.68%) Spring
2 721 (15.79%) React
3 623 (13.65%) Spring Boot
4 541 (11.85%) REST
5 518 (11.35%) AngularJS
6 506 (11.08%) Node.js
7 446 (9.77%) HTML
8 442 (9.68%) .NET
9 401 (8.78%) Kafka
10 397 (8.70%) CSS
11 327 (7.16%) Web Services
12 293 (6.42%) gRPC
13 259 (5.67%) RESTful
14 255 (5.59%) Protocol Buffers
15 214 (4.69%) Pandas
16 211 (4.62%) NumPy
17 208 (4.56%) Hibernate
18 205 (4.49%) SciPy
19 183 (4.01%) jQuery
19 183 (4.01%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 316 (6.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 304 (6.66%) Hedge funds
3 280 (6.13%) Algorithms
3 280 (6.13%) Fixed Income
4 250 (5.48%) Equities
5 228 (4.99%) Derivative
6 216 (4.73%) Data Structures
7 205 (4.49%) Blockchain
8 198 (4.34%) Hybrid Cloud
9 170 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
10 163 (3.57%) Cloud Native
11 157 (3.44%) Greenfield Project
12 122 (2.67%) Private Cloud
13 118 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
14 92 (2.02%) Product Ownership
15 86 (1.88%) Public Cloud
16 84 (1.84%) Management Information System
17 75 (1.64%) Client/Server
17 75 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
18 70 (1.53%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 761 (16.67%) Linux
2 388 (8.50%) Windows
3 221 (4.84%) Android
4 185 (4.05%) Apple iOS
5 127 (2.78%) Unix
6 106 (2.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 59 (1.29%) CentOS
8 47 (1.03%) Ubuntu
9 37 (0.81%) Windows Server
10 29 (0.64%) Embedded Linux
11 28 (0.61%) Debian
12 19 (0.42%) AIX
13 10 (0.22%) VMS
14 9 (0.20%) Mac OS
15 7 (0.15%) Windows 10
16 6 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
17 5 (0.11%) Mac OS X
18 4 (0.088%) Solaris
19 3 (0.066%) FreeBSD
19 3 (0.066%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,895 (41.51%) Agile
2 1,637 (35.86%) Software Engineering
3 1,089 (23.86%) DevOps
4 897 (19.65%) Microservices
5 789 (17.28%) CI/CD
6 767 (16.80%) Problem-Solving
7 705 (15.44%) Full Stack Development
8 655 (14.35%) Mentoring
9 571 (12.51%) TDD
10 506 (11.08%) Test Automation
11 491 (10.76%) Computer Science
12 457 (10.01%) SDLC
13 437 (9.57%) Scrum
14 414 (9.07%) Fintech
15 394 (8.63%) Artificial Intelligence
16 381 (8.35%) Design Patterns
17 376 (8.24%) OO
18 370 (8.11%) Containerisation
19 369 (8.08%) Continuous Integration
20 345 (7.56%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 1,785 (39.10%) Python
2 1,412 (30.93%) JavaScript
3 1,068 (23.40%) SQL
4 693 (15.18%) C#
5 564 (12.35%) TypeScript
6 361 (7.91%) Kotlin
7 354 (7.75%) C++
8 271 (5.94%) Go
9 256 (5.61%) C
10 244 (5.35%) Scala
11 132 (2.89%) PowerShell
12 129 (2.83%) Bash
13 110 (2.41%) Ruby
14 107 (2.34%) PHP
15 100 (2.19%) Shell Script
16 83 (1.82%) Perl
17 67 (1.47%) Rust
18 61 (1.34%) VB
19 43 (0.94%) COBOL
19 43 (0.94%) Micro Focus COBOL
Qualifications
1 686 (15.03%) Security Cleared
2 663 (14.52%) Degree
3 451 (9.88%) SC Cleared
4 303 (6.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 164 (3.59%) DV Cleared
6 82 (1.80%) Master's Degree
7 66 (1.45%) PhD
8 62 (1.36%) AWS Certification
9 39 (0.85%) Azure Certification
10 24 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 24 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
11 20 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
12 19 (0.42%) DBS Check
13 16 (0.35%) HNC
14 9 (0.20%) PMI Certification
15 8 (0.18%) CISSP
16 7 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
16 7 (0.15%) Postgraduate
17 6 (0.13%) ISTQB
17 6 (0.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 269 (5.89%) QA
2 141 (3.09%) Data Quality
3 41 (0.90%) GDPR
4 38 (0.83%) SLA
5 17 (0.37%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.20%) PMO
7 8 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.18%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.13%) ISO 26262
9 6 (0.13%) ISO 9001
9 6 (0.13%) NIST
9 6 (0.13%) TickIT
10 4 (0.088%) COBIT
10 4 (0.088%) MiFID
11 3 (0.066%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.066%) SEPA
12 2 (0.044%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.044%) ISO 13485
12 2 (0.044%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 883 (19.34%) Docker
2 71 (1.56%) Hyper-V
3 57 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.64%) Active Directory
6 26 (0.57%) Firmware
7 21 (0.46%) HDFS
8 19 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
9 11 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
9 11 (0.24%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.18%) KVM
10 8 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.066%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.044%) OpenAM
13 1 (0.022%) Dovecot
13 1 (0.022%) GridGain
13 1 (0.022%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.022%) OpenDJ
13 1 (0.022%) Postfix
13 1 (0.022%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 950 (20.81%) Kubernetes
2 502 (11.00%) Terraform
3 316 (6.92%) Ansible
4 106 (2.32%) Puppet
5 97 (2.12%) Prometheus
6 56 (1.23%) Grafana
7 45 (0.99%) Progress Chef
8 30 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
9 23 (0.50%) Kibana
10 22 (0.48%) OpenSSO
11 20 (0.44%) Salt
12 16 (0.35%) Packer
13 13 (0.28%) WMI
14 6 (0.13%) Argo
14 6 (0.13%) CloudHub
14 6 (0.13%) Kiali
14 6 (0.13%) logstash
15 5 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
15 5 (0.11%) Opsgenie
15 5 (0.11%) Pingdom
Vendors
1 406 (8.89%) Oracle
2 265 (5.81%) Red Hat
3 233 (5.10%) Microsoft
4 225 (4.93%) IBM
5 205 (4.49%) Google
6 72 (1.58%) Sybase
7 71 (1.56%) VMware
8 55 (1.20%) SAP
9 48 (1.05%) Atlassian
9 48 (1.05%) TIBCO
10 45 (0.99%) YouTube
11 43 (0.94%) Micro Focus
12 42 (0.92%) OpenLink
12 42 (0.92%) WSO2
13 40 (0.88%) Splunk
14 34 (0.74%) Salesforce
15 33 (0.72%) SaltStack
16 32 (0.70%) Remedy
16 32 (0.70%) Xilinx
17 27 (0.59%) ServiceNow