Java Jobs in the South East

Java
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 34 21
Rank change year-on-year -4 -13 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 858 978 1,947
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 5.10% 6.72% 9.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.21% 16.76% 20.10%
Number of salaries quoted 565 526 1,065
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,324 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,550
90th Percentile £91,250 £92,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £73,805 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -7.74% +10.34% +11.54%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,985 5,835 9,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 29.66% 40.09% 49.11%
Number of salaries quoted 4,023 3,835 6,378
10th Percentile £34,250 £34,990 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £74,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in the South East

Java
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Java in the South East

Java
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in the South East over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Java in the South East

Java
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 within the South East region over the 6 months to 9 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
Hampshire +13 327 £63,500 -2.31% 43
Thames Valley -22 283 £70,000 - 30
Surrey -10 180 £50,000 -16.67% 32
Berkshire -2 172 £70,000 - 19
Buckinghamshire -44 57 £75,000 +8.70% 9
Oxfordshire -13 54 £57,500 +15.00% 2
West Sussex +14 17 £55,000 +4.76% 3
East Sussex 0 14 £55,000 -24.14% 4
Kent -22 14 £52,500 +54.41% 2
Middlesex -13 7 £60,000 -27.27%
Sussex -24 1 £24,500 -48.42% 1
Java
England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 35 (4.08%) OpenStack
2 34 (3.96%) Camunda
2 34 (3.96%) nginx
3 25 (2.91%) Apache
4 22 (2.56%) WebLogic
5 20 (2.33%) JBoss
6 16 (1.86%) Confluence
7 11 (1.28%) Red Hat Fuse
8 10 (1.17%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.58%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.47%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.47%) ColdFusion
10 4 (0.47%) IIS
10 4 (0.47%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.23%) Alfresco
11 2 (0.23%) Documentum
11 2 (0.23%) FileNet
11 2 (0.23%) IBM Domino
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 32 (3.73%) Simulink
2 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.47%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (0.23%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 270 (31.47%) Azure
2 263 (30.65%) AWS
3 146 (17.02%) Serverless
4 117 (13.64%) IBM Cloud
5 81 (9.44%) Azure Functions
6 77 (8.97%) Azure DevOps
7 75 (8.74%) Azure API Management
8 74 (8.62%) Azure Logic Apps
8 74 (8.62%) Azure Service Bus
9 59 (6.88%) SaaS
10 58 (6.76%) Amazon ECS
11 53 (6.18%) Amazon EKS
12 37 (4.31%) GitHub
13 35 (4.08%) OpenShift
14 21 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
15 16 (1.86%) Amazon S3
16 15 (1.75%) Amazon SQS
17 12 (1.40%) GCP
17 12 (1.40%) Power Platform
18 9 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.33%) Firewall
2 19 (2.21%) DNS
3 13 (1.52%) SNMP
3 13 (1.52%) SSH
3 13 (1.52%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.17%) Internet
5 4 (0.47%) Bluetooth
5 4 (0.47%) HTTP
5 4 (0.47%) LoRaWAN
6 3 (0.35%) Wireless
7 1 (0.12%) RNC
7 1 (0.12%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 193 (22.49%) PostgreSQL
2 166 (19.35%) NoSQL
3 158 (18.41%) MongoDB
4 149 (17.37%) Relational Database
5 80 (9.32%) DB2
6 65 (7.58%) SQL Server
7 55 (6.41%) MySQL
8 50 (5.83%) Oracle Database
9 33 (3.85%) Hadoop
10 31 (3.61%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (1.28%) Big Data
12 9 (1.05%) Power BI
12 9 (1.05%) RDBMS
12 9 (1.05%) Tableau
13 8 (0.93%) CouchDB
13 8 (0.93%) Data Lake
14 7 (0.82%) Qlik Sense
15 6 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
15 6 (0.70%) DynamoDB
16 5 (0.58%) Redis
Development Applications
1 133 (15.50%) Git
2 70 (8.16%) Jenkins
3 48 (5.59%) JUnit
4 34 (3.96%) JIRA
4 34 (3.96%) Selenium
5 27 (3.15%) Cucumber
6 24 (2.80%) Bitbucket
7 23 (2.68%) Ant
8 22 (2.56%) GitLab
8 22 (2.56%) Maven
9 18 (2.10%) JMeter
9 18 (2.10%) WebDriver
10 15 (1.75%) Eclipse
10 15 (1.75%) Vagrant
11 13 (1.52%) REST Assured
11 13 (1.52%) TestNG
12 12 (1.40%) Gradle
13 9 (1.05%) Visual Studio
14 7 (0.82%) IntelliJ
15 6 (0.70%) Mockito
General
1 229 (26.69%) Social Skills
2 180 (20.98%) Public Sector
3 82 (9.56%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (9.32%) Finance
5 48 (5.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (3.03%) Police
7 25 (2.91%) Electronics
8 22 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (1.98%) Telecoms
10 15 (1.75%) Banking
10 15 (1.75%) Military
11 14 (1.63%) Aerospace
11 14 (1.63%) Marketing
12 13 (1.52%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
14 10 (1.17%) Aviation
14 10 (1.17%) Publishing
15 7 (0.82%) Automotive
16 6 (0.70%) Billing
16 6 (0.70%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 345 (40.21%) Developer
2 184 (21.45%) Senior
3 157 (18.30%) Java Developer
4 144 (16.78%) Software Engineer
5 106 (12.35%) Lead
6 99 (11.54%) Full Stack Developer
7 81 (9.44%) Senior Developer
8 76 (8.86%) Azure Developer
9 64 (7.46%) Senior Java Developer
10 57 (6.64%) Java Engineer
11 50 (5.83%) Full Stack Engineer
12 47 (5.48%) Software Developer
13 46 (5.36%) Architect
14 40 (4.66%) DevOps Engineer
14 40 (4.66%) Technical Leader
15 33 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
16 31 (3.61%) Applications Support
16 31 (3.61%) Support Engineer
17 28 (3.26%) Analyst
18 27 (3.15%) C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (25.17%) Node.js
2 209 (24.36%) React
3 196 (22.84%) REST
4 171 (19.93%) Web Services
5 162 (18.88%) AngularJS
6 152 (17.72%) Spring
7 150 (17.48%) HTML
8 139 (16.20%) .NET
9 138 (16.08%) CSS
10 99 (11.54%) jQuery
11 88 (10.26%) Spring Boot
12 86 (10.02%) Vue
13 84 (9.79%) ASP.NET
13 84 (9.79%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 82 (9.56%) Kafka
15 79 (9.21%) Ember.js
16 76 (8.86%) ASP.NET Core
16 76 (8.86%) Backbone.js
17 57 (6.64%) Hibernate
18 54 (6.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 123 (14.34%) Algorithms
2 117 (13.64%) Blockchain
2 117 (13.64%) Hybrid Cloud
3 77 (8.97%) Data Structures
4 44 (5.13%) Greenfield Project
5 43 (5.01%) e-Learning
6 40 (4.66%) Distributed Systems
7 34 (3.96%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (1.86%) Mobile App
9 14 (1.63%) Analogue Electronics
9 14 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
9 14 (1.63%) FPGA
9 14 (1.63%) VHDL
10 13 (1.52%) CMDB
10 13 (1.52%) IoT
11 10 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (0.93%) Client/Server
12 8 (0.93%) Private Cloud
12 8 (0.93%) Product Ownership
12 8 (0.93%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 269 (31.35%) Linux
2 170 (19.81%) Windows
3 102 (11.89%) Android
4 80 (9.32%) Apple iOS
5 41 (4.78%) Unix
6 18 (2.10%) CentOS
6 18 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 17 (1.98%) Ubuntu
8 15 (1.75%) Embedded Linux
9 6 (0.70%) AIX
10 5 (0.58%) VMS
11 4 (0.47%) Windows Server
12 2 (0.23%) Debian
12 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.12%) Rocky
13 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (32.05%) Agile
2 257 (29.95%) DevOps
3 234 (27.27%) Software Engineering
4 201 (23.43%) Problem-Solving
5 200 (23.31%) Full Stack Development
6 192 (22.38%) Artificial Intelligence
7 174 (20.28%) Microservices
8 164 (19.11%) Mentoring
9 144 (16.78%) TDD
10 124 (14.45%) OO
11 123 (14.34%) Design Patterns
12 122 (14.22%) SDLC
13 119 (13.87%) Scrum
14 118 (13.75%) CI/CD
14 118 (13.75%) OOP
15 109 (12.70%) Computer Science
16 106 (12.35%) Test Automation
17 94 (10.96%) BDD
17 94 (10.96%) Web Development
18 89 (10.37%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 363 (42.31%) Python
2 326 (38.00%) JavaScript
3 297 (34.62%) SQL
4 184 (21.45%) C#
5 132 (15.38%) C++
6 89 (10.37%) C
7 60 (6.99%) Kotlin
8 48 (5.59%) TypeScript
9 39 (4.55%) Go
10 36 (4.20%) Shell Script
11 34 (3.96%) Lua
12 24 (2.80%) PowerShell
13 21 (2.45%) Ruby
14 17 (1.98%) Perl
15 16 (1.86%) PHP
15 16 (1.86%) Scala
16 15 (1.75%) Haskell
17 13 (1.52%) MATLAB
17 13 (1.52%) T-SQL
18 10 (1.17%) Bash
Qualifications
1 266 (31.00%) Security Cleared
2 227 (26.46%) SC Cleared
3 150 (17.48%) Degree
4 77 (8.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (3.85%) DV Cleared
6 27 (3.15%) PhD
7 23 (2.68%) Azure Certification
8 15 (1.75%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.28%) DBS Check
10 10 (1.17%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.47%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.12%) HNC
13 1 (0.12%) HND
13 1 (0.12%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.12%) Sun Certification
13 1 (0.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (4.78%) QA
2 22 (2.56%) SLA
3 13 (1.52%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.47%) COBIT
4 4 (0.47%) GDPR
5 2 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.12%) Accessibility
System Software
1 191 (22.26%) Docker
2 28 (3.26%) Hyper-V
3 19 (2.21%) Virtual Servers
4 7 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.35%) Firmware
6 3 (0.35%) HDFS
6 3 (0.35%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 140 (16.32%) Kubernetes
2 69 (8.04%) Ansible
3 52 (6.06%) Terraform
4 22 (2.56%) OpenSSO
4 22 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (1.52%) WMI
6 5 (0.58%) Kibana
6 5 (0.58%) Puppet
7 4 (0.47%) Grafana
8 3 (0.35%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.23%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.23%) Podman
10 1 (0.12%) Packer
10 1 (0.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 122 (14.22%) IBM
2 119 (13.87%) Red Hat
3 110 (12.82%) Oracle
4 43 (5.01%) Microsoft
5 35 (4.08%) Google
5 35 (4.08%) WSO2
6 32 (3.73%) Xilinx
7 22 (2.56%) Remedy
7 22 (2.56%) Salesforce
8 21 (2.45%) Splunk
9 14 (1.63%) Apple
10 8 (0.93%) Atlassian
10 8 (0.93%) Dynatrace
10 8 (0.93%) SAP
11 6 (0.70%) ForgeRock
11 6 (0.70%) Sitecore
12 5 (0.58%) VMware
13 4 (0.47%) Adobe
14 3 (0.35%) Cloudera
14 3 (0.35%) Informatica