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 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 22 17 15
Rank change year-on-year -5 -2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 4,074 13,092 14,532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.78% 12.15% 12.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.49% 26.64% 24.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,892 7,363 9,124
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,717 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £120,000 £114,625
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% +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 18,955 49,141 58,733
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 40.86% 45.61% 52.50%
Number of salaries quoted 15,137 32,180 40,697
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%

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 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 2023. 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 -3 2,020 £90,000 +2.86% 853
North of England -10 643 £62,500 +4.17% 203
South West -3 566 £62,500 +8.70% 140
South East -8 475 £60,000 -4.00% 306
North West +1 373 £61,250 +2.08% 121
Yorkshire -13 235 £65,351 +8.92% 60
Midlands -40 206 £57,500 -2.95% 92
West Midlands -41 127 £57,500 -4.17% 64
East Midlands -37 78 £60,000 +9.09% 28
East of England -41 66 £75,000 +15.38% 88
North East -13 35 £61,500 -1.60% 24
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 98 (2.41%) Apache
2 92 (2.26%) Confluence
3 83 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
3 83 (2.04%) Apache Spark
4 71 (1.74%) JBoss
5 64 (1.57%) SharePoint
6 62 (1.52%) Red Hat Fuse
7 51 (1.25%) Tomcat
8 38 (0.93%) WebLogic
9 31 (0.76%) WebSphere
10 23 (0.56%) IIS
10 23 (0.56%) nginx
11 21 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 20 (0.49%) FileNet
13 18 (0.44%) Captiva
13 18 (0.44%) OpenStack
14 14 (0.34%) CMS
15 13 (0.32%) Jupyter
16 12 (0.29%) NetWeaver
17 10 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 10 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.15%) Adobe XD
2 6 (0.15%) Simulink
3 5 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
4 4 (0.098%) Adobe Premiere
4 4 (0.098%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.074%) 3ds Max
5 3 (0.074%) Blender
5 3 (0.074%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.074%) Maya
5 3 (0.074%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.049%) CANalyzer
6 2 (0.049%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.025%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.025%) CATIA
7 1 (0.025%) InDesign
7 1 (0.025%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.025%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.025%) Trello
Business Applications
1 68 (1.67%) Endur
2 14 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.15%) BusinessWorks
4 6 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (0.12%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 5 (0.12%) SAP SD
6 4 (0.098%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.074%) Magento
7 3 (0.074%) Temenos T24
8 2 (0.049%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.049%) ION MarketView
8 2 (0.049%) Ripple
8 2 (0.049%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.049%) SAP Hybris
8 2 (0.049%) Shopify
8 2 (0.049%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.025%) Adobe Campaign
9 1 (0.025%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.025%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 1,754 (43.05%) AWS
2 895 (21.97%) Azure
3 538 (13.21%) GCP
4 417 (10.24%) Serverless
5 312 (7.66%) OpenShift
6 242 (5.94%) GitHub
7 195 (4.79%) SaaS
8 125 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
9 119 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
10 108 (2.65%) Amazon S3
11 92 (2.26%) Amazon EC2
12 73 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
13 72 (1.77%) Amazon EKS
14 66 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
14 66 (1.62%) PaaS
15 65 (1.60%) Cloud Computing
16 57 (1.40%) Amazon ECS
17 56 (1.37%) dbt
18 40 (0.98%) Amazon SQS
19 38 (0.93%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 89 (2.18%) HTTP
2 83 (2.04%) DNS
3 68 (1.67%) TCP/IP
4 58 (1.42%) DHCP
4 58 (1.42%) Internet
5 30 (0.74%) AMQP
6 24 (0.59%) Firewall
7 12 (0.29%) WAN
8 11 (0.27%) SSH
9 9 (0.22%) Wireless
10 8 (0.20%) FTP
11 7 (0.17%) Network Security
11 7 (0.17%) SMTP
12 6 (0.15%) SSL
13 4 (0.098%) Ethernet
14 3 (0.074%) Kerberos
14 3 (0.074%) Multicast
15 2 (0.049%) MQTT
15 2 (0.049%) Unicast
15 2 (0.049%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 319 (7.83%) Relational Database
2 234 (5.74%) NoSQL
3 233 (5.72%) SQL Server
4 190 (4.66%) PostgreSQL
5 188 (4.61%) Big Data
5 188 (4.61%) RDBMS
6 175 (4.30%) MongoDB
7 148 (3.63%) MySQL
8 114 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
9 104 (2.55%) Oracle Database
10 97 (2.38%) Hadoop
11 80 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
12 59 (1.45%) DynamoDB
13 58 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
14 55 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
15 53 (1.30%) Apache Ignite
15 53 (1.30%) Dremio
16 52 (1.28%) Apache Arrow
17 51 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
18 41 (1.01%) Redis
Development Applications
1 589 (14.46%) Jenkins
2 587 (14.41%) Git
3 279 (6.85%) Cucumber
4 264 (6.48%) Selenium
5 253 (6.21%) JIRA
6 212 (5.20%) Maven
7 197 (4.84%) GitLab
8 132 (3.24%) JUnit
9 119 (2.92%) Postman
10 110 (2.70%) Artifactory
11 106 (2.60%) IntelliJ
12 104 (2.55%) Bitbucket
13 103 (2.53%) Gradle
14 96 (2.36%) Cypress.io
15 90 (2.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 78 (1.91%) SonarQube
17 68 (1.67%) JMeter
18 63 (1.55%) Sonatype Nexus
19 60 (1.47%) Mockito
20 57 (1.40%) WebDriver
General
1 1,032 (25.33%) Finance
2 691 (16.96%) Social Skills
3 476 (11.68%) Banking
4 271 (6.65%) Front Office
5 258 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
6 208 (5.11%) Public Sector
7 192 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 163 (4.00%) Investment Banking
9 136 (3.34%) Games
9 136 (3.34%) Retail
10 103 (2.53%) Police
11 93 (2.28%) Aerospace
12 71 (1.74%) Financial Institution
13 62 (1.52%) Marketing
14 52 (1.28%) Tech for Good
15 48 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
16 42 (1.03%) Manufacturing
17 40 (0.98%) Law
18 38 (0.93%) Telecoms
19 36 (0.88%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1,579 (38.76%) Developer
2 989 (24.28%) Java Developer
3 895 (21.97%) Senior
4 858 (21.06%) Software Engineer
5 426 (10.46%) Lead
6 412 (10.11%) Java Engineer
7 388 (9.52%) Senior Developer
8 273 (6.70%) Java Software Engineer
9 261 (6.41%) DevOps Engineer
10 246 (6.04%) Architect
11 229 (5.62%) Senior Java Developer
12 217 (5.33%) Senior Software Engineer
13 182 (4.47%) AWS Engineer
14 159 (3.90%) Software Developer
15 149 (3.66%) Full Stack Developer
16 132 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
17 127 (3.12%) Data Engineer
18 118 (2.90%) Lead Developer
19 109 (2.68%) Developer/Software Engineer
20 107 (2.63%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 931 (22.85%) Spring
2 629 (15.44%) React
3 570 (13.99%) Spring Boot
4 447 (10.97%) Kafka
5 415 (10.19%) REST
6 369 (9.06%) AngularJS
7 327 (8.03%) Node.js
8 289 (7.09%) HTML
9 283 (6.95%) .NET
10 247 (6.06%) RESTful
11 217 (5.33%) Web Services
12 207 (5.08%) CSS
13 206 (5.06%) JSON
14 188 (4.61%) XML
15 183 (4.49%) J2EE
16 182 (4.47%) Hibernate
17 164 (4.03%) SOAP
18 122 (2.99%) Ruby on Rails
19 110 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
20 96 (2.36%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 182 (4.47%) Greenfield Project
2 143 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
3 139 (3.41%) Product Ownership
4 131 (3.22%) Algorithms
5 111 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
6 99 (2.43%) Fixed Income
7 95 (2.33%) Public Cloud
8 91 (2.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 89 (2.18%) Private Cloud
10 84 (2.06%) Cloud Native
11 74 (1.82%) Derivative
12 68 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
12 68 (1.67%) Virtual Team
13 67 (1.64%) Swaptions
14 59 (1.45%) Data Structures
14 59 (1.45%) Equities
15 57 (1.40%) Cyberattack
16 50 (1.23%) Mobile App
17 48 (1.18%) Management Information System
18 47 (1.15%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 579 (14.21%) Linux
2 205 (5.03%) Windows
3 176 (4.32%) Unix
4 101 (2.48%) Android
5 99 (2.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 54 (1.33%) Apple iOS
7 29 (0.71%) Windows Server
8 25 (0.61%) Solaris
9 20 (0.49%) Mac OS
10 13 (0.32%) VMS
11 12 (0.29%) CentOS
11 12 (0.29%) Ubuntu
12 11 (0.27%) AIX
12 11 (0.27%) Fedora
12 11 (0.27%) HPUX
13 3 (0.074%) Debian
14 2 (0.049%) Embedded Linux
15 1 (0.025%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.025%) VxWorks
15 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,807 (44.35%) Agile
2 1,358 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1,097 (26.93%) DevOps
4 1,061 (26.04%) Microservices
5 987 (24.23%) CI/CD
6 881 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
7 583 (14.31%) Mentoring
8 515 (12.64%) Containerisation
9 495 (12.15%) Actionable Insight
10 492 (12.08%) TDD
11 470 (11.54%) Test Automation
12 438 (10.75%) SDLC
13 419 (10.28%) Design Patterns
14 417 (10.24%) Computer Science
15 389 (9.55%) Continuous Integration
16 388 (9.52%) Scrum
17 383 (9.40%) Full Stack Development
18 352 (8.64%) Unit Testing
19 322 (7.90%) Fintech
20 277 (6.80%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 1,479 (36.30%) Python
2 1,024 (25.14%) JavaScript
3 731 (17.94%) SQL
4 550 (13.50%) C#
5 355 (8.71%) C++
6 340 (8.35%) TypeScript
7 288 (7.07%) Kotlin
8 281 (6.90%) Go
9 270 (6.63%) Bash
10 266 (6.53%) Ruby
11 191 (4.69%) PowerShell
12 186 (4.57%) Scala
13 120 (2.95%) C
14 116 (2.85%) Perl
15 80 (1.96%) Shell Script
16 74 (1.82%) VB
17 69 (1.69%) PHP
18 66 (1.62%) Rust
19 62 (1.52%) Groovy
20 54 (1.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 829 (20.35%) Security Cleared
2 567 (13.92%) SC Cleared
3 537 (13.18%) Degree
4 280 (6.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 219 (5.38%) DV Cleared
6 89 (2.18%) Master's Degree
7 75 (1.84%) AWS Certification
8 40 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 36 (0.88%) PhD
10 32 (0.79%) Azure Certification
11 31 (0.76%) ISTQB
12 30 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
12 30 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 24 (0.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 24 (0.59%) ISEB
14 14 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
14 14 (0.34%) OCP
14 14 (0.34%) Oracle Certification
15 10 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 10 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 382 (9.38%) QA
2 39 (0.96%) SLA
3 32 (0.79%) Accessibility
4 24 (0.59%) GDPR
5 14 (0.34%) Data Quality
6 13 (0.32%) ISO 20022
7 11 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.22%) SEPA
9 7 (0.17%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.098%) NCSC
10 4 (0.098%) NIST
10 4 (0.098%) Software Quality Assurance
11 3 (0.074%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.074%) GMP
11 3 (0.074%) IEC 61508
11 3 (0.074%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.074%) PMO
12 2 (0.049%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.049%) ISO 26262
12 2 (0.049%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1,040 (25.53%) Docker
2 69 (1.69%) Hyper-V
3 65 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.54%) Active Directory
5 15 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.34%) Firmware
7 12 (0.29%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.17%) HDFS
9 6 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 6 (0.15%) Ceph
9 6 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.074%) NFS
12 2 (0.049%) IAG
12 2 (0.049%) Kamailio
12 2 (0.049%) OpenSIPS
12 2 (0.049%) Postfix
12 2 (0.049%) RACF
12 2 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.049%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 985 (24.18%) Kubernetes
2 438 (10.75%) Terraform
3 326 (8.00%) Ansible
4 113 (2.77%) Puppet
5 43 (1.06%) Progress Chef
6 42 (1.03%) Argo
7 39 (0.96%) Grafana
7 39 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
8 38 (0.93%) Rancher
9 36 (0.88%) Prometheus
10 26 (0.64%) OpenSSO
11 25 (0.61%) Packer
12 24 (0.59%) HP Quality Center
13 15 (0.37%) Kustomize
14 14 (0.34%) Istio
15 12 (0.29%) Salt
16 11 (0.27%) Nagios
17 9 (0.22%) Kibana
17 9 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
18 6 (0.15%) SELinux
Vendors
1 409 (10.04%) Oracle
2 147 (3.61%) Microsoft
3 121 (2.97%) Google
4 108 (2.65%) Red Hat
5 95 (2.33%) VMware
6 92 (2.26%) IBM
7 82 (2.01%) TIBCO
8 80 (1.96%) Splunk
9 73 (1.79%) SAP
10 71 (1.74%) Sybase
11 68 (1.67%) OpenLink
12 47 (1.15%) Atlassian
13 44 (1.08%) ServiceNow
14 36 (0.88%) Salesforce
15 30 (0.74%) Kofax
16 28 (0.69%) Remedy
17 27 (0.66%) HP
18 25 (0.61%) WSO2
19 22 (0.54%) AppDynamics
19 22 (0.54%) CyberArk