Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 28 September 2021

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 28 September 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Java SE 8
England > South East
6 months to
28 Sep 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 331 208 217
Rank change year-on-year -123 +9 -14
Permanent jobs citing Java 8 120 77 389
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.68% 0.97% 1.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.27% 1.67% 2.85%
Number of salaries quoted 57 68 355
10th Percentile £39,500 £50,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,750 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +1.19% +9.57%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,563 £77,500
90th Percentile £94,750 £75,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.41% -3.57% +12.00%

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 South East with a requirement for coding skills.

All Programming Languages
South East
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,482 4,608 13,652
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East 53.85% 58.20% 53.20%
Number of salaries quoted 6,923 4,017 11,810
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,875 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.53% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% +5.00%

Java 8
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Java 8 in the South East

Java 8
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java 8 in the South East.

Salary trend for Java 8 in the South East

Java 8
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java 8 in the South East over the 6 months to 28 September 2021.

Salary histogram for Java 8 in the South East

Java 8
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java 8 within the South East region over the 6 months to 28 September 2021. 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
Job
Vacancies
Thames Valley -100 56 £55,000 -15.38% 6
Berkshire -56 42 £57,500 -4.17% 2
Hampshire -85 36 £70,000 +12.00% 6
Surrey -64 19 £60,000 -12.73% 2
Oxfordshire -37 9 £52,500 -16.00% 1
Buckinghamshire -67 5 £55,000 -18.52% 3
Kent -36 4 £64,000 - 2
West Sussex -13 3 - - 1
Java 8
England

For the 6 months to 28 September 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 South East region with a requirement for Java 8.

1 116 (96.67%) Java
2 89 (74.17%) Agile Software Development
3 78 (65.00%) Spring
4 70 (58.33%) Jenkins
5 69 (57.50%) Microservices
6 65 (54.17%) TDD
7 58 (48.33%) Scrum
8 52 (43.33%) REST
9 51 (42.50%) Docker
10 50 (41.67%) Continuous Integration
11 46 (38.33%) Social Skills
12 43 (35.83%) Hibernate
13 42 (35.00%) RESTful
14 38 (31.67%) Git (software)
14 38 (31.67%) BDD
14 38 (31.67%) Spring Boot
15 37 (30.83%) Problem-Solving
16 31 (25.83%) Serverless
16 31 (25.83%) Big Data
16 31 (25.83%) AWS
17 30 (25.00%) DevOps
17 30 (25.00%) Terraform
18 29 (24.17%) SC Cleared
18 29 (24.17%) Security Cleared
19 27 (22.50%) Middleware
19 27 (22.50%) Coaching
19 27 (22.50%) Analytics
20 26 (21.67%) GraphQL
20 26 (21.67%) SOA
20 26 (21.67%) Open Source

Java 8
Co-occurring IT Skills in the South East 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 6 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (2.50%) Confluence
2 3 (2.50%) nginx
3 2 (1.67%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.83%) Apache
4 1 (0.83%) JBoss
4 1 (0.83%) Jetty
Cloud Services
1 31 (25.83%) AWS
1 31 (25.83%) Serverless
2 25 (20.83%) GitHub
3 12 (10.00%) Azure
4 10 (8.33%) SaaS
5 9 (7.50%) GCP
6 5 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (4.17%) Amazon Kinesis
6 5 (4.17%) OpenShift
7 4 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (3.33%) AWS Step Functions
7 4 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.67%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.83%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.83%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 1 (0.83%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.83%) Apple Pay
9 1 (0.83%) AWS IoT
9 1 (0.83%) Google Pay
9 1 (0.83%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.17%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.83%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (25.83%) Big Data
2 6 (5.00%) MySQL
3 5 (4.17%) Amazon DynamoDB
4 3 (2.50%) Hadoop
4 3 (2.50%) HBase
4 3 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.50%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.67%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.67%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.67%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.83%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.83%) Redis
Development Applications
1 70 (58.33%) Jenkins
2 38 (31.67%) Git (software)
3 18 (15.00%) Maven
4 12 (10.00%) Cucumber
4 12 (10.00%) JIRA
5 9 (7.50%) Selenium
6 5 (4.17%) Gradle
6 5 (4.17%) JUnit
7 4 (3.33%) git-flow
7 4 (3.33%) GitLab
8 3 (2.50%) FitNesse
8 3 (2.50%) JBehave
8 3 (2.50%) Mockito
9 2 (1.67%) Postman
9 2 (1.67%) SoapUI
9 2 (1.67%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.83%) Appium
10 1 (0.83%) Gatling
10 1 (0.83%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.83%) Vagrant
General
1 46 (38.33%) Social Skills
2 14 (11.67%) Banking
3 3 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (2.50%) Finance
3 3 (2.50%) Law
3 3 (2.50%) Retail
4 2 (1.67%) Military
5 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 101 (84.17%) Developer
2 78 (65.00%) Java Developer
3 21 (17.50%) Software Engineer
4 14 (11.67%) Java Engineer
4 14 (11.67%) Java Software Engineer
4 14 (11.67%) Senior Developer
5 11 (9.17%) Backend Developer
6 8 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
7 7 (5.83%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (5.00%) Java Software Developer
9 5 (4.17%) AWS Developer
9 5 (4.17%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 5 (4.17%) Senior Java Engineer
9 5 (4.17%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 4 (3.33%) Android Developer
10 4 (3.33%) Lead Developer
10 4 (3.33%) Python Developer
10 4 (3.33%) Senior Backend Developer
10 4 (3.33%) Senior Python Developer
11 3 (2.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (65.00%) Spring
2 52 (43.33%) REST
3 43 (35.83%) Hibernate
4 42 (35.00%) RESTful
5 38 (31.67%) Spring Boot
6 27 (22.50%) Middleware
7 26 (21.67%) GraphQL
8 25 (20.83%) JavaBeans
9 13 (10.83%) AngularJS
10 11 (9.17%) Web Services
11 10 (8.33%) JSON
12 9 (7.50%) React
13 8 (6.67%) JPA
14 7 (5.83%) Kafka
15 5 (4.17%) CSS
15 5 (4.17%) JavaFX
15 5 (4.17%) Swing
16 4 (3.33%) HTML
16 4 (3.33%) SOAP
17 3 (2.50%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.17%) Algorithms
1 5 (4.17%) Mobile App
2 4 (3.33%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.50%) iPad
3 3 (2.50%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.67%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.67%) Wiki
5 1 (0.83%) EMV
5 1 (0.83%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (0.83%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.17%) Android
2 3 (2.50%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.50%) Linux
2 3 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (74.17%) Agile Software Development
2 69 (57.50%) Microservices
3 65 (54.17%) TDD
4 58 (48.33%) Scrum
5 50 (41.67%) Continuous Integration
6 38 (31.67%) BDD
7 37 (30.83%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (25.00%) DevOps
9 27 (22.50%) Analytics
9 27 (22.50%) Coaching
10 26 (21.67%) Open Source
10 26 (21.67%) SOA
11 25 (20.83%) Big Data Analytics
11 25 (20.83%) Data Analytics
11 25 (20.83%) Software Engineering
12 20 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
13 19 (15.83%) OO
14 16 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
15 15 (12.50%) API Development
16 14 (11.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 116 (96.67%) Java
2 17 (14.17%) Java 11
3 16 (13.33%) SQL
4 13 (10.83%) JavaScript
5 10 (8.33%) Kotlin
6 5 (4.17%) Python
7 3 (2.50%) Bash Shell
7 3 (2.50%) C-shell
8 2 (1.67%) C#
8 2 (1.67%) Java 9
9 1 (0.83%) Groovy
9 1 (0.83%) PHP
9 1 (0.83%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (24.17%) SC Cleared
1 29 (24.17%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.83%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.83%) QA
System Software
1 51 (42.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.83%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (0.83%) KVM
2 1 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (25.00%) Terraform
2 20 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.17%) Ansible
4 2 (1.67%) Kibana
4 2 (1.67%) logstash
5 1 (0.83%) Consul
5 1 (0.83%) Packer
Vendors
1 7 (5.83%) Oracle
2 3 (2.50%) SAP
3 1 (0.83%) Apple
3 1 (0.83%) IBM
3 1 (0.83%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.83%) VMware