Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 23 January 2022

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 23 January 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Java SE 8
England > South East
6 months to
23 Jan 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 304 255 217
Rank change year-on-year -49 -38 -34
Permanent jobs citing Java 8 145 77 317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.82% 0.77% 1.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.58% 1.32% 2.50%
Number of salaries quoted 43 71 277
10th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £98,250 £73,750 £81,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +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 9,182 5,855 12,687
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East 51.69% 58.49% 54.74%
Number of salaries quoted 6,540 5,106 10,933
10th Percentile £34,941 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £68,750 £63,750 £62,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +4.76%

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 23 January 2022.

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 23 January 2022. 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
Thames Valley -70 52 £57,500 -8.00% 5
Hampshire -60 42 £70,000 +27.27% 1
Berkshire -32 27 £60,000 -2.04% 2
Oxfordshire -18 18 - -
Kent - 17 £64,000 -
West Sussex +22 16 - -
Buckinghamshire -45 16 £55,000 -18.52% 3
Surrey -64 12 £63,750 -12.07% 1
Sussex - 2 £75,000 - 1
Home Counties - 2 £100,000 -
East Sussex - 2 £50,000 - 1
Java 8
England

For the 6 months to 23 January 2022, 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.

1 140 (96.55%) Java
2 78 (53.79%) JavaScript
3 71 (48.97%) Jenkins
4 70 (48.28%) HTML
4 70 (48.28%) CSS
5 64 (44.14%) HTML5
6 63 (43.45%) CSS3
7 61 (42.07%) Docker
7 61 (42.07%) Spring Boot
7 61 (42.07%) Agile Software Development
8 57 (39.31%) OO
9 54 (37.24%) Python
9 54 (37.24%) Kubernetes
10 50 (34.48%) Microsoft
10 50 (34.48%) Java SE
10 50 (34.48%) Functional Programming
10 50 (34.48%) Data Structures
11 49 (33.79%) CIW
11 49 (33.79%) Git (software)
11 49 (33.79%) OCP
11 49 (33.79%) OCA
11 49 (33.79%) Oracle Certification
11 49 (33.79%) Oracle
11 49 (33.79%) OOP
11 49 (33.79%) C#
12 45 (31.03%) Maven
12 45 (31.03%) Software Engineering
13 43 (29.66%) Spring
14 41 (28.28%) CI/CD
15 36 (24.83%) DevOps

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 16 (11.03%) nginx
2 14 (9.66%) Apache
2 14 (9.66%) JBoss
2 14 (9.66%) Jetty
2 14 (9.66%) Tomcat
3 3 (2.07%) Confluence
4 1 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.69%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (1.38%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 24 (16.55%) AWS
2 23 (15.86%) OpenShift
3 15 (10.34%) Azure
4 12 (8.28%) Serverless
5 7 (4.83%) GCP
6 6 (4.14%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (3.45%) Amazon Kinesis
7 5 (3.45%) AWS Step Functions
7 5 (3.45%) GitHub
7 5 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.38%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.69%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.69%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.69%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (15.86%) Kerberos
2 6 (4.14%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.03%) MySQL
2 7 (4.83%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.45%) Amazon DynamoDB
3 5 (3.45%) Big Data
4 4 (2.76%) Redis
5 3 (2.07%) HBase
5 3 (2.07%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.07%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.38%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.69%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 71 (48.97%) Jenkins
2 49 (33.79%) Git (software)
3 45 (31.03%) Maven
4 20 (13.79%) GitLab
5 18 (12.41%) JIRA
6 14 (9.66%) Vagrant
7 11 (7.59%) Cucumber
8 8 (5.52%) Selenium
9 7 (4.83%) Appium
9 7 (4.83%) Postman
9 7 (4.83%) SoapUI
10 6 (4.14%) JMeter
11 5 (3.45%) FitNesse
11 5 (3.45%) git-flow
11 5 (3.45%) JBehave
11 5 (3.45%) REST Assured
12 4 (2.76%) Gradle
12 4 (2.76%) JUnit
13 3 (2.07%) SonarQube
14 2 (1.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 34 (23.45%) Social Skills
2 9 (6.21%) Banking
2 9 (6.21%) Finance
3 5 (3.45%) Retail
4 1 (0.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (0.69%) Law
4 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
4 1 (0.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 103 (71.03%) Developer
2 52 (35.86%) Software Developer
3 49 (33.79%) Trainee
3 49 (33.79%) Trainee Developer
3 49 (33.79%) Trainee Software Developer
4 43 (29.66%) Java Developer
5 28 (19.31%) Software Engineer
6 18 (12.41%) Senior Developer
6 18 (12.41%) Senior Software Engineer
7 11 (7.59%) Senior Java Developer
8 8 (5.52%) Backend Developer
9 7 (4.83%) Tester
10 6 (4.14%) Automation Tester
10 6 (4.14%) AWS Developer
10 6 (4.14%) Java Engineer
10 6 (4.14%) Lead Software Engineer
10 6 (4.14%) Mobile Tester
11 5 (3.45%) Python Developer
11 5 (3.45%) Senior Backend Developer
11 5 (3.45%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (48.28%) CSS
1 70 (48.28%) HTML
2 64 (44.14%) HTML5
3 63 (43.45%) CSS3
4 61 (42.07%) Spring Boot
5 50 (34.48%) Java SE
6 43 (29.66%) Spring
7 34 (23.45%) RESTful
8 33 (22.76%) Web Services
9 23 (15.86%) JavaFX
9 23 (15.86%) Swing
10 21 (14.48%) REST
11 18 (12.41%) React
12 15 (10.34%) Spring MVC
13 14 (9.66%) ActiveMQ
13 14 (9.66%) Hibernate
13 14 (9.66%) RabbitMQ
14 12 (8.28%) AngularJS
14 12 (8.28%) JSON
15 9 (6.21%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 50 (34.48%) Data Structures
2 23 (15.86%) Algorithms
3 8 (5.52%) Mobile App
4 6 (4.14%) iPad
4 6 (4.14%) Mobile Banking
5 5 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.76%) IBM Mainframe
6 4 (2.76%) Mainframe
7 3 (2.07%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.69%) NHS
8 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (13.79%) Linux
2 9 (6.21%) Android
3 8 (5.52%) Apple iOS
4 6 (4.14%) Unix
5 1 (0.69%) CentOS
5 1 (0.69%) Debian
5 1 (0.69%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (42.07%) Agile Software Development
2 57 (39.31%) OO
3 50 (34.48%) Functional Programming
4 49 (33.79%) OOP
5 45 (31.03%) Software Engineering
6 41 (28.28%) CI/CD
7 36 (24.83%) DevOps
8 30 (20.69%) Microservices
9 27 (18.62%) Continuous Integration
10 26 (17.93%) Scrum
11 25 (17.24%) Software Architecture
12 24 (16.55%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (15.86%) Linear Programming
13 23 (15.86%) Machine Learning
13 23 (15.86%) Mathematical Modelling
13 23 (15.86%) Mathematics
13 23 (15.86%) Reinforcement Learning
13 23 (15.86%) Risk Management
13 23 (15.86%) Strategic Roadmap
14 22 (15.17%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 140 (96.55%) Java
2 78 (53.79%) JavaScript
3 54 (37.24%) Python
4 49 (33.79%) C#
5 17 (11.72%) SQL
6 12 (8.28%) Java 11
7 11 (7.59%) Kotlin
8 5 (3.45%) Bash
8 5 (3.45%) C-shell
9 4 (2.76%) COBOL
10 1 (0.69%) Apple Swift
10 1 (0.69%) Groovy
10 1 (0.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 49 (33.79%) CIW
1 49 (33.79%) OCA
1 49 (33.79%) OCP
1 49 (33.79%) Oracle Certification
2 24 (16.55%) Degree
3 14 (9.66%) DBS Check
4 6 (4.14%) Security Cleared
5 5 (3.45%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.69%) PCI DSS
1 1 (0.69%) QA
System Software
1 61 (42.07%) Docker
2 14 (9.66%) KVM
2 14 (9.66%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 54 (37.24%) Kubernetes
2 24 (16.55%) Ansible
3 22 (15.17%) Terraform
4 14 (9.66%) Consul
4 14 (9.66%) Packer
Vendors
1 50 (34.48%) Microsoft
2 49 (33.79%) Oracle
3 14 (9.66%) VMware
4 7 (4.83%) Apple
5 4 (2.76%) IBM
6 2 (1.38%) Google
7 1 (0.69%) Confluent
7 1 (0.69%) Pega
7 1 (0.69%) WSO2