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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 18 15
Rank change year-on-year -17 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 4,561 9,071 18,948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.31% 10.08% 14.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.52% 23.27% 26.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,413 5,459 8,788
10th Percentile £39,750 £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 £97,500 £105,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £132,250 £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 27,615 38,982 71,144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.16% 43.34% 53.52%
Number of salaries quoted 22,462 25,076 38,912
10th Percentile £35,475 £40,000 £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 10 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 10 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 2,049 £95,000 +5.56% 567
South East -4 856 £60,000 -7.69% 115
North of England -21 651 £62,500 -3.85% 106
South West -6 598 £57,500 -4.17% 127
North West -14 458 £62,500 -7.41% 71
Midlands -53 275 £55,000 -8.33% 74
West Midlands -33 194 £56,500 -8.87% 51
Yorkshire -46 144 £65,000 +4.00% 25
East of England -78 106 £62,500 -10.71% 52
East Midlands -75 80 £52,500 -9.48% 23
North East -44 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
1 350 (7.67%) Apache
2 273 (5.99%) Apache Airflow
3 123 (2.70%) Apache Spark
4 99 (2.17%) Confluence
5 57 (1.25%) nginx
6 46 (1.01%) Tomcat
7 41 (0.90%) OpenStack
8 40 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
9 37 (0.81%) Camunda
9 37 (0.81%) Tuxedo
10 33 (0.72%) JBoss
11 29 (0.64%) IIS
12 26 (0.57%) WebSphere
13 25 (0.55%) WebLogic
14 20 (0.44%) FileNet
14 20 (0.44%) SharePoint
15 18 (0.39%) Captiva
15 18 (0.39%) Red Hat Fuse
16 14 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
17 10 (0.22%) Drupal
Applications
1 33 (0.72%) Simulink
2 22 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.22%) 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 41 (0.90%) Endur
2 12 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.15%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 7 (0.15%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.13%) NEC Housing
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
8 2 (0.044%) Temenos T24
9 1 (0.022%) iTrent
9 1 (0.022%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.022%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 2,018 (44.24%) AWS
2 1,072 (23.50%) Azure
3 459 (10.06%) GCP
4 447 (9.80%) Serverless
5 258 (5.66%) dbt
6 248 (5.44%) Snowflake
7 200 (4.39%) Azure DevOps
8 198 (4.34%) SaaS
9 195 (4.28%) AWS Lambda
9 195 (4.28%) OpenShift
10 183 (4.01%) IBM Cloud
11 177 (3.88%) GitHub
12 157 (3.44%) Amazon S3
13 153 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
14 147 (3.22%) Azure Functions
15 133 (2.92%) Amazon ECS
16 132 (2.89%) Azure Service Bus
17 131 (2.87%) Azure Logic Apps
18 129 (2.83%) Azure API Management
19 117 (2.57%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 86 (1.89%) DNS
2 83 (1.82%) TCP/IP
3 67 (1.47%) HTTP
4 59 (1.29%) Firewall
5 45 (0.99%) DHCP
6 41 (0.90%) AMQP
7 21 (0.46%) Internet
8 19 (0.42%) WAN
9 16 (0.35%) SNMP
9 16 (0.35%) SSH
10 15 (0.33%) Network Security
11 13 (0.29%) 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
1 494 (10.83%) PostgreSQL
2 477 (10.46%) Relational Database
3 462 (10.13%) NoSQL
4 361 (7.91%) MongoDB
5 273 (5.99%) Data Lake
6 271 (5.94%) SQL Server
7 253 (5.55%) Amazon Athena
8 251 (5.50%) MySQL
9 241 (5.28%) Dremio
10 239 (5.24%) Apache Arrow
11 198 (4.34%) Apache Ignite
12 180 (3.95%) Big Data
13 162 (3.55%) DB2
14 143 (3.14%) RDBMS
15 121 (2.65%) Hadoop
16 113 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
17 92 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
18 89 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
19 84 (1.84%) Oracle Database
20 72 (1.58%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 486 (10.66%) Git
2 447 (9.80%) Jenkins
3 229 (5.02%) JIRA
4 192 (4.21%) Selenium
5 177 (3.88%) Cucumber
6 157 (3.44%) GitLab
7 149 (3.27%) JUnit
8 115 (2.52%) Maven
9 107 (2.35%) Postman
10 59 (1.29%) Cypress.io
11 55 (1.21%) 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 47 (1.03%) Gradle
17 45 (0.99%) Artifactory
18 44 (0.96%) Eclipse
19 41 (0.90%) TeamCity
General
1 1,076 (23.59%) Finance
2 791 (17.34%) Social Skills
3 565 (12.39%) Banking
4 421 (9.23%) Public Sector
5 406 (8.90%) Front Office
6 331 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
7 312 (6.84%) Investment Banking
8 272 (5.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 114 (2.50%) Law
10 98 (2.15%) Marketing
11 94 (2.06%) Retail
12 90 (1.97%) Aerospace
13 68 (1.49%) Electronics
14 67 (1.47%) Financial Institution
15 66 (1.45%) Games
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 1,745 (38.26%) Developer
2 1,046 (22.93%) Senior
3 970 (21.27%) Software Engineer
4 857 (18.79%) Java Developer
5 702 (15.39%) Lead
6 447 (9.80%) Java Engineer
7 379 (8.31%) Senior Developer
8 356 (7.81%) Full Stack Developer
9 297 (6.51%) Software Developer
10 282 (6.18%) Senior Software Engineer
11 281 (6.16%) Java Software Engineer
12 267 (5.85%) Senior Java Developer
13 238 (5.22%) Architect
14 224 (4.91%) Technical Leader
15 212 (4.65%) AWS Engineer
16 181 (3.97%) Lead Developer
17 154 (3.38%) Senior Java Engineer
18 153 (3.35%) DevOps Engineer
19 142 (3.11%) Azure Developer
20 116 (2.54%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 810 (17.76%) Spring
2 723 (15.85%) React
3 621 (13.62%) Spring Boot
4 540 (11.84%) REST
5 520 (11.40%) AngularJS
6 507 (11.12%) Node.js
7 448 (9.82%) HTML
8 443 (9.71%) .NET
9 402 (8.81%) Kafka
10 398 (8.73%) CSS
11 326 (7.15%) Web Services
12 279 (6.12%) gRPC
13 258 (5.66%) RESTful
14 241 (5.28%) Protocol Buffers
15 209 (4.58%) Hibernate
16 206 (4.52%) Pandas
17 203 (4.45%) NumPy
18 197 (4.32%) SciPy
19 184 (4.03%) jQuery
20 183 (4.01%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 307 (6.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 290 (6.36%) Hedge funds
3 280 (6.14%) Algorithms
4 272 (5.96%) Fixed Income
5 242 (5.31%) Equities
6 220 (4.82%) Derivative
7 216 (4.74%) Data Structures
8 206 (4.52%) Blockchain
9 200 (4.39%) Hybrid Cloud
10 171 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
11 161 (3.53%) Cloud Native
12 156 (3.42%) Greenfield Project
13 122 (2.67%) Private Cloud
14 118 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
15 92 (2.02%) Product Ownership
16 88 (1.93%) Public Cloud
17 84 (1.84%) Management Information System
18 75 (1.64%) Client/Server
19 74 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
20 70 (1.53%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 767 (16.82%) Linux
2 390 (8.55%) Windows
3 221 (4.85%) Android
4 185 (4.06%) Apple iOS
5 127 (2.78%) Unix
6 108 (2.37%) 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 1,888 (41.39%) Agile
2 1,628 (35.69%) Software Engineering
3 1,086 (23.81%) DevOps
4 898 (19.69%) Microservices
5 796 (17.45%) CI/CD
6 773 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
7 706 (15.48%) Full Stack Development
8 655 (14.36%) Mentoring
9 574 (12.58%) TDD
10 509 (11.16%) Test Automation
11 490 (10.74%) Computer Science
12 458 (10.04%) SDLC
13 436 (9.56%) Scrum
14 413 (9.06%) Fintech
15 393 (8.62%) Artificial Intelligence
16 383 (8.40%) Design Patterns
17 378 (8.29%) OO
18 371 (8.13%) Containerisation
19 369 (8.09%) Continuous Integration
20 331 (7.26%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 1,777 (38.96%) Python
2 1,403 (30.76%) JavaScript
3 1,070 (23.46%) SQL
4 695 (15.24%) C#
5 556 (12.19%) TypeScript
6 360 (7.89%) Kotlin
7 357 (7.83%) C++
8 265 (5.81%) Go
9 256 (5.61%) C
10 241 (5.28%) Scala
11 133 (2.92%) PowerShell
12 131 (2.87%) Bash
13 110 (2.41%) Ruby
14 107 (2.35%) PHP
15 100 (2.19%) Shell Script
16 84 (1.84%) Perl
17 67 (1.47%) Rust
18 60 (1.32%) VB
19 43 (0.94%) COBOL
19 43 (0.94%) Micro Focus COBOL
Qualifications
1 691 (15.15%) Security Cleared
2 662 (14.51%) Degree
3 451 (9.89%) SC Cleared
4 301 (6.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 165 (3.62%) DV Cleared
6 82 (1.80%) Master's Degree
7 66 (1.45%) PhD
8 62 (1.36%) AWS Certification
9 39 (0.86%) 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
1 271 (5.94%) QA
2 141 (3.09%) Data Quality
3 41 (0.90%) GDPR
4 38 (0.83%) SLA
5 16 (0.35%) 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
1 887 (19.45%) Docker
2 72 (1.58%) Hyper-V
3 58 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (0.75%) 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 13 (0.29%) VMware NSX
10 11 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
11 8 (0.18%) KVM
11 8 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.066%) VirtualBox
13 2 (0.044%) OpenAM
14 1 (0.022%) Dovecot
14 1 (0.022%) GridGain
14 1 (0.022%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.022%) OpenDJ
14 1 (0.022%) Postfix
14 1 (0.022%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 946 (20.74%) Kubernetes
2 497 (10.90%) Terraform
3 319 (6.99%) Ansible
4 108 (2.37%) Puppet
5 90 (1.97%) Prometheus
6 55 (1.21%) Grafana
7 46 (1.01%) Progress Chef
8 30 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
9 23 (0.50%) Kibana
10 22 (0.48%) OpenSSO
11 21 (0.46%) Salt
12 16 (0.35%) Packer
13 13 (0.29%) 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
1 407 (8.92%) Oracle
2 266 (5.83%) Red Hat
3 235 (5.15%) Microsoft
4 225 (4.93%) IBM
5 206 (4.52%) Google
6 75 (1.64%) VMware
7 71 (1.56%) Sybase
8 56 (1.23%) SAP
9 48 (1.05%) Atlassian
10 47 (1.03%) TIBCO
11 45 (0.99%) YouTube
12 43 (0.94%) Micro Focus
13 42 (0.92%) WSO2
14 41 (0.90%) OpenLink
15 40 (0.88%) Splunk
16 34 (0.75%) Salesforce
17 33 (0.72%) SaltStack
18 32 (0.70%) Remedy
18 32 (0.70%) Xilinx
19 27 (0.59%) ServiceNow