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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 18 15
Rank change year-on-year -17 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 4,531 9,803 18,459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.36% 10.41% 14.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.45% 23.89% 26.51%
Number of salaries quoted 3,390 5,716 8,957
10th Percentile £39,741 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,805 £80,000 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.74% +11.89% +10.00%
75th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £130,000 £115,000
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 27,552 41,041 69,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.57% 43.59% 53.32%
Number of salaries quoted 22,531 26,246 39,730
10th Percentile £35,250 £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 £107,500 £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 23 April 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 23 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
London -5 1,995 £95,000 +5.56% 586
South East -11 821 £62,500 - 135
North of England -21 687 £65,000 - 130
South West -5 616 £57,500 -4.17% 110
North West -15 478 £62,500 -7.41% 86
Midlands -61 278 £55,000 -8.33% 74
West Midlands -29 201 £57,500 -4.17% 58
Yorkshire -45 158 £65,465 +7.00% 23
East of England -83 105 £62,500 -10.71% 56
East Midlands -85 76 £52,500 -8.70% 16
North East -40 51 £65,232 +4.37% 23
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
1 290 (6.40%) Apache
2 207 (4.57%) Apache Airflow
3 117 (2.58%) Apache Spark
4 96 (2.12%) Confluence
5 55 (1.21%) nginx
6 51 (1.13%) Tomcat
7 46 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
8 44 (0.97%) JBoss
9 42 (0.93%) OpenStack
10 37 (0.82%) Camunda
10 37 (0.82%) Tuxedo
11 32 (0.71%) IIS
12 30 (0.66%) Red Hat Fuse
13 27 (0.60%) SharePoint
14 26 (0.57%) WebLogic
15 25 (0.55%) WebSphere
16 21 (0.46%) FileNet
17 18 (0.40%) Captiva
18 14 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
19 8 (0.18%) Drupal
Applications
1 24 (0.53%) Simulink
2 21 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (0.20%) Adobe XD
6 7 (0.15%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.13%) CANalyzer
8 5 (0.11%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.088%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.022%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.022%) CATIA
10 1 (0.022%) InDesign
10 1 (0.022%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.022%) Notion
10 1 (0.022%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 46 (1.02%) Endur
2 15 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.20%) OpenLink RightAngle
4 7 (0.15%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.13%) NEC Housing
6 5 (0.11%) BusinessWorks
6 5 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.088%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.066%) Oracle Applications
8 3 (0.066%) SAP SD
9 2 (0.044%) Adaptiv
9 2 (0.044%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.044%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.044%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.044%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.044%) Teamcenter
9 2 (0.044%) Temenos T24
10 1 (0.022%) iTrent
10 1 (0.022%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 1,958 (43.21%) AWS
2 1,042 (23.00%) Azure
3 459 (10.13%) GCP
4 452 (9.98%) Serverless
5 200 (4.41%) SaaS
6 195 (4.30%) AWS Lambda
7 190 (4.19%) dbt
8 189 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
9 185 (4.08%) GitHub
9 185 (4.08%) OpenShift
10 171 (3.77%) Snowflake
11 168 (3.71%) IBM Cloud
12 153 (3.38%) Amazon S3
13 150 (3.31%) Amazon EKS
14 134 (2.96%) Azure Functions
15 132 (2.91%) Amazon ECS
16 121 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
17 120 (2.65%) Azure API Management
17 120 (2.65%) Azure Logic Apps
17 120 (2.65%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 87 (1.92%) DNS
2 81 (1.79%) TCP/IP
3 69 (1.52%) HTTP
4 61 (1.35%) Firewall
5 45 (0.99%) DHCP
6 39 (0.86%) AMQP
7 24 (0.53%) Internet
8 19 (0.42%) WAN
9 16 (0.35%) SSH
10 15 (0.33%) SNMP
11 13 (0.29%) Wireless
12 11 (0.24%) Network Security
13 10 (0.22%) MQTT
13 10 (0.22%) VPN
14 8 (0.18%) FTP
15 7 (0.15%) Bluetooth
15 7 (0.15%) OpenVPN
16 6 (0.13%) Ethernet
16 6 (0.13%) SSL
17 5 (0.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 469 (10.35%) Relational Database
2 455 (10.04%) PostgreSQL
3 420 (9.27%) NoSQL
4 334 (7.37%) MongoDB
5 269 (5.94%) SQL Server
6 249 (5.50%) MySQL
7 196 (4.33%) Data Lake
8 188 (4.15%) Amazon Athena
9 178 (3.93%) Apache Arrow
9 178 (3.93%) Dremio
10 168 (3.71%) Big Data
11 149 (3.29%) Apache Ignite
12 145 (3.20%) DB2
13 144 (3.18%) RDBMS
14 119 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
15 109 (2.41%) Hadoop
16 92 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
17 88 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
18 83 (1.83%) Oracle Database
19 78 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 492 (10.86%) Git
2 472 (10.42%) Jenkins
3 237 (5.23%) JIRA
4 205 (4.52%) Selenium
5 193 (4.26%) Cucumber
6 160 (3.53%) GitLab
7 149 (3.29%) JUnit
8 128 (2.82%) Maven
9 118 (2.60%) Postman
10 67 (1.48%) IntelliJ
11 59 (1.30%) Cypress.io
12 57 (1.26%) Artifactory
12 57 (1.26%) JMeter
13 55 (1.21%) Visual Studio
14 54 (1.19%) Bitbucket
14 54 (1.19%) WebDriver
15 52 (1.15%) Gradle
16 48 (1.06%) Subversion
17 47 (1.04%) Eclipse
18 44 (0.97%) TeamCity
General
1 1,048 (23.13%) Finance
2 773 (17.06%) Social Skills
3 557 (12.29%) Banking
4 422 (9.31%) Public Sector
5 360 (7.95%) Front Office
6 319 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
7 259 (5.72%) Investment Banking
8 245 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 101 (2.23%) Retail
10 96 (2.12%) Marketing
11 87 (1.92%) Law
12 82 (1.81%) Aerospace
13 76 (1.68%) Financial Institution
14 74 (1.63%) Games
15 66 (1.46%) Electronics
16 49 (1.08%) Manufacturing
16 49 (1.08%) Telecoms
17 48 (1.06%) Tech for Good
18 43 (0.95%) Legal
18 43 (0.95%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,782 (39.33%) Developer
2 1,024 (22.60%) Senior
3 955 (21.08%) Software Engineer
4 902 (19.91%) Java Developer
5 657 (14.50%) Lead
6 439 (9.69%) Java Engineer
7 390 (8.61%) Senior Developer
8 352 (7.77%) Full Stack Developer
9 299 (6.60%) Software Developer
10 285 (6.29%) Java Software Engineer
11 278 (6.14%) Senior Java Developer
12 253 (5.58%) Senior Software Engineer
13 233 (5.14%) Architect
14 209 (4.61%) Technical Leader
15 188 (4.15%) AWS Engineer
16 178 (3.93%) Lead Developer
17 148 (3.27%) DevOps Engineer
18 142 (3.13%) Senior Java Engineer
19 124 (2.74%) Azure Developer
20 112 (2.47%) Full Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 847 (18.69%) Spring
2 728 (16.07%) React
3 634 (13.99%) Spring Boot
4 563 (12.43%) REST
5 533 (11.76%) AngularJS
6 482 (10.64%) Node.js
7 447 (9.87%) HTML
8 424 (9.36%) .NET
9 407 (8.98%) Kafka
10 379 (8.36%) CSS
11 333 (7.35%) Web Services
12 282 (6.22%) RESTful
13 221 (4.88%) Hibernate
14 217 (4.79%) gRPC
15 180 (3.97%) Protocol Buffers
16 175 (3.86%) jQuery
17 173 (3.82%) JSON
18 170 (3.75%) Vue
19 165 (3.64%) ASP.NET
20 155 (3.42%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 275 (6.07%) Algorithms
2 243 (5.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 218 (4.81%) Fixed Income
4 215 (4.75%) Hedge funds
5 205 (4.52%) Data Structures
6 192 (4.24%) Blockchain
7 187 (4.13%) Hybrid Cloud
8 181 (3.99%) Equities
9 176 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
10 163 (3.60%) Greenfield Project
11 156 (3.44%) Derivative
12 141 (3.11%) Cloud Native
13 120 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
14 119 (2.63%) Private Cloud
15 97 (2.14%) Product Ownership
16 88 (1.94%) Public Cloud
17 84 (1.85%) Management Information System
18 76 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
19 75 (1.66%) Client/Server
20 73 (1.61%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 731 (16.13%) Linux
2 367 (8.10%) Windows
3 207 (4.57%) Android
4 181 (3.99%) Apple iOS
5 118 (2.60%) Unix
6 99 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 49 (1.08%) CentOS
8 39 (0.86%) Ubuntu
9 35 (0.77%) Windows Server
10 25 (0.55%) Debian
11 22 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
12 19 (0.42%) AIX
13 10 (0.22%) Mac OS
13 10 (0.22%) VMS
14 7 (0.15%) Windows 10
15 5 (0.11%) Mac OS X
16 4 (0.088%) Oracle Linux
16 4 (0.088%) Solaris
17 3 (0.066%) FreeBSD
17 3 (0.066%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,864 (41.14%) Agile
2 1,601 (35.33%) Software Engineering
3 1,053 (23.24%) DevOps
4 928 (20.48%) Microservices
5 805 (17.77%) CI/CD
6 793 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
7 703 (15.52%) Full Stack Development
8 683 (15.07%) Mentoring
9 571 (12.60%) TDD
10 499 (11.01%) Test Automation
11 479 (10.57%) SDLC
12 476 (10.51%) Computer Science
13 421 (9.29%) Scrum
14 412 (9.09%) Fintech
15 396 (8.74%) Containerisation
16 380 (8.39%) Design Patterns
17 378 (8.34%) Continuous Integration
18 360 (7.95%) OO
19 352 (7.77%) Artificial Intelligence
20 331 (7.31%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,688 (37.25%) Python
2 1,349 (29.77%) JavaScript
3 1,026 (22.64%) SQL
4 694 (15.32%) C#
5 514 (11.34%) TypeScript
6 339 (7.48%) C++
7 332 (7.33%) Kotlin
8 262 (5.78%) Go
9 239 (5.27%) Scala
10 238 (5.25%) C
11 140 (3.09%) PowerShell
12 132 (2.91%) Bash
13 128 (2.82%) Ruby
14 108 (2.38%) PHP
15 100 (2.21%) Shell Script
16 87 (1.92%) Perl
17 66 (1.46%) Rust
18 64 (1.41%) VB
19 43 (0.95%) COBOL
19 43 (0.95%) Micro Focus COBOL
Qualifications
1 678 (14.96%) Security Cleared
2 649 (14.32%) Degree
3 437 (9.64%) SC Cleared
4 294 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 158 (3.49%) DV Cleared
6 78 (1.72%) Master's Degree
7 67 (1.48%) PhD
8 63 (1.39%) AWS Certification
9 38 (0.84%) Azure Certification
10 26 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
11 23 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 21 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
13 18 (0.40%) DBS Check
14 16 (0.35%) HNC
15 9 (0.20%) PMI Certification
16 7 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
16 7 (0.15%) OCP
16 7 (0.15%) Oracle Certification
16 7 (0.15%) Postgraduate
17 6 (0.13%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 281 (6.20%) QA
2 104 (2.30%) Data Quality
3 41 (0.90%) GDPR
4 40 (0.88%) SLA
5 15 (0.33%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.20%) PMO
7 8 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.18%) SEPA
8 7 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (0.15%) ISO 20022
8 7 (0.15%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.13%) ISO 26262
9 6 (0.13%) ISO 9001
9 6 (0.13%) TickIT
10 4 (0.088%) COBIT
11 3 (0.066%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.066%) MiFID
12 2 (0.044%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.044%) IEC 61508
12 2 (0.044%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 945 (20.86%) Docker
2 74 (1.63%) Hyper-V
3 59 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (0.71%) Active Directory
4 32 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (0.53%) Firmware
6 21 (0.46%) HDFS
7 19 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
8 14 (0.31%) VMware NSX
9 11 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
10 8 (0.18%) KVM
10 8 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.066%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.022%) ACF2
12 1 (0.022%) Dovecot
12 1 (0.022%) GridGain
12 1 (0.022%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.022%) OpenAM
12 1 (0.022%) Postfix
12 1 (0.022%) RACF
Systems Management
1 954 (21.05%) Kubernetes
2 466 (10.28%) Terraform
3 311 (6.86%) Ansible
4 106 (2.34%) Puppet
5 69 (1.52%) Prometheus
6 48 (1.06%) Progress Chef
7 47 (1.04%) Grafana
8 28 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
9 22 (0.49%) OpenSSO
9 22 (0.49%) Salt
10 20 (0.44%) Kibana
11 18 (0.40%) Packer
12 13 (0.29%) WMI
13 6 (0.13%) CloudHub
13 6 (0.13%) Istio
13 6 (0.13%) Kiali
13 6 (0.13%) logstash
14 5 (0.11%) Argo
14 5 (0.11%) Kustomize
14 5 (0.11%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 409 (9.03%) Oracle
2 248 (5.47%) Red Hat
3 236 (5.21%) Microsoft
4 218 (4.81%) IBM
5 202 (4.46%) Google
6 77 (1.70%) VMware
7 74 (1.63%) Sybase
8 59 (1.30%) SAP
9 56 (1.24%) TIBCO
10 47 (1.04%) Atlassian
11 46 (1.02%) OpenLink
11 46 (1.02%) YouTube
12 44 (0.97%) WSO2
13 43 (0.95%) Micro Focus
14 37 (0.82%) Splunk
15 32 (0.71%) Remedy
16 31 (0.68%) Salesforce
16 31 (0.68%) SaltStack
16 31 (0.68%) ServiceNow
17 25 (0.55%) Cisco