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 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 35 27 22
Rank change year-on-year -8 -5 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 475 1,428 1,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 6.21% 8.41% 10.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.89% 20.66% 20.46%
Number of salaries quoted 275 715 1,053
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £35,850
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,250 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £84,500 £87,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% +7.69%

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 2,990 6,912 9,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 39.10% 40.69% 49.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2,171 4,687 6,731
10th Percentile £35,061 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +4.35%

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 7 December 2023.

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 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
Thames Valley -6 287 £60,000 -7.69% 68
Berkshire +14 229 £60,000 -14.29% 42
Hampshire -13 84 £65,000 - 35
Surrey -11 56 £60,000 +4.35% 27
Oxfordshire -23 30 £55,000 -4.35% 14
Buckinghamshire -37 28 £60,000 -10.45% 12
East Sussex -8 20 £55,582 -20.60% 4
West Sussex +13 18 £49,250 -6.19% 9
Kent -3 9 £60,000 +9.09% 14
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 27 (5.68%) WebLogic
2 18 (3.79%) JBoss
2 18 (3.79%) Red Hat Fuse
3 16 (3.37%) OpenStack
3 16 (3.37%) Tomcat
4 7 (1.47%) Apache
5 6 (1.26%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.26%) Confluence
6 5 (1.05%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.84%) CMS
7 4 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.84%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.63%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.63%) IIS
9 2 (0.42%) Alfresco
9 2 (0.42%) Documentum
9 2 (0.42%) FileNet
10 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 5 (1.05%) Simulink
1 5 (1.05%) SOLIDWORKS
2 4 (0.84%) Adobe Premiere
3 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.21%) InDesign
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.21%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.42%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.21%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 176 (37.05%) AWS
2 90 (18.95%) Azure
3 89 (18.74%) Serverless
4 38 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
4 38 (8.00%) SaaS
5 37 (7.79%) GitHub
6 36 (7.58%) GCP
7 28 (5.89%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (4.84%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (2.32%) Amazon SQS
11 10 (2.11%) Amazon S3
11 10 (2.11%) OpenShift
11 10 (2.11%) PaaS
12 8 (1.68%) Amazon Kinesis
13 7 (1.47%) AWS IoT
13 7 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (1.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (1.26%) AWS KMS
15 5 (1.05%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.16%) Internet
2 8 (1.68%) HTTP
3 7 (1.47%) DNS
4 4 (0.84%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.84%) Wireless
5 3 (0.63%) DHCP
5 3 (0.63%) Firewall
5 3 (0.63%) SSH
6 2 (0.42%) FTP
6 2 (0.42%) SMTP
7 1 (0.21%) Network Security
7 1 (0.21%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (10.74%) Relational Database
2 37 (7.79%) Elasticsearch
3 35 (7.37%) PostgreSQL
4 32 (6.74%) MySQL
5 29 (6.11%) Oracle Database
6 21 (4.42%) NoSQL
7 18 (3.79%) SQL Server
8 13 (2.74%) MongoDB
9 11 (2.32%) Big Data
10 10 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (1.89%) RDBMS
12 8 (1.68%) DynamoDB
13 6 (1.26%) Hadoop
14 3 (0.63%) CouchDB
14 3 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
15 2 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
15 2 (0.42%) JasperReports
15 2 (0.42%) Power BI
15 2 (0.42%) Tableau
16 1 (0.21%) Flink
Development Applications
1 107 (22.53%) Git
2 81 (17.05%) Jenkins
3 47 (9.89%) Selenium
4 45 (9.47%) JIRA
5 31 (6.53%) Maven
6 25 (5.26%) Cucumber
7 24 (5.05%) JMeter
8 18 (3.79%) Oracle APEX
9 16 (3.37%) GitLab
9 16 (3.37%) JUnit
10 15 (3.16%) SonarQube
11 14 (2.95%) SoapUI
12 13 (2.74%) IntelliJ
13 11 (2.32%) Artifactory
14 10 (2.11%) Bitbucket
14 10 (2.11%) Bitbucket Server
14 10 (2.11%) Cypress.io
14 10 (2.11%) Gradle
14 10 (2.11%) Serenity BDD
15 9 (1.89%) Postman
General
1 115 (24.21%) Social Skills
2 62 (13.05%) Public Sector
3 59 (12.42%) Finance
4 49 (10.32%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (4.21%) Aviation
6 17 (3.58%) Local Government
6 17 (3.58%) Manufacturing
7 15 (3.16%) Aerospace
7 15 (3.16%) Police
8 14 (2.95%) Telecoms
9 12 (2.53%) Electronics
9 12 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (2.32%) Financial Institution
11 10 (2.11%) Retail
12 9 (1.89%) Marketing
13 8 (1.68%) Banking
14 4 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.84%) Legal
14 4 (0.84%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 172 (36.21%) Developer
2 142 (29.89%) Senior
3 108 (22.74%) Java Developer
4 95 (20.00%) Software Engineer
5 58 (12.21%) Senior Developer
6 43 (9.05%) Java Engineer
7 39 (8.21%) Java Software Engineer
8 37 (7.79%) Senior Java Developer
9 35 (7.37%) Applications Support
9 35 (7.37%) Senior Software Engineer
10 32 (6.74%) Analyst
11 29 (6.11%) Tester
12 28 (5.89%) Applications Support Analyst
12 28 (5.89%) Support Analyst
13 26 (5.47%) Architect
14 24 (5.05%) Automation Tester
14 24 (5.05%) Lead
14 24 (5.05%) Senior Analyst
14 24 (5.05%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
14 24 (5.05%) Senior Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (29.47%) Spring
2 87 (18.32%) REST
3 80 (16.84%) React
4 71 (14.95%) Node.js
5 69 (14.53%) Web Services
6 63 (13.26%) Spring Boot
7 59 (12.42%) AngularJS
8 57 (12.00%) SOAP
8 57 (12.00%) XML
9 56 (11.79%) J2EE
10 55 (11.58%) JSON
11 52 (10.95%) HTML
12 44 (9.26%) Java EE
13 40 (8.42%) RESTful
14 38 (8.00%) CSS
15 30 (6.32%) .NET
15 30 (6.32%) Ruby on Rails
16 29 (6.11%) Kafka
17 28 (5.89%) RabbitMQ
18 26 (5.47%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 28 (5.89%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (2.95%) Product Ownership
4 13 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (2.32%) IoT
6 10 (2.11%) FPGA
6 10 (2.11%) VHDL
7 9 (1.89%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.47%) Embedded Systems
8 7 (1.47%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.26%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.05%) Analogue Electronics
10 5 (1.05%) Verilog
11 4 (0.84%) Augmented Reality
11 4 (0.84%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (0.84%) Virtual Reality
12 3 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 80 (16.84%) Linux
2 30 (6.32%) Unix
2 30 (6.32%) Windows
3 8 (1.68%) Android
3 8 (1.68%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.84%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.63%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.42%) VMS
6 2 (0.42%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.21%) CentOS
7 1 (0.21%) Debian
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (46.53%) Agile
2 160 (33.68%) Problem-Solving
3 142 (29.89%) Microservices
4 130 (27.37%) Software Engineering
5 112 (23.58%) Actionable Insight
6 92 (19.37%) DevOps
7 79 (16.63%) Scrum
8 76 (16.00%) Mentoring
9 71 (14.95%) CI/CD
10 66 (13.89%) TDD
11 62 (13.05%) Containerisation
11 62 (13.05%) Test Automation
12 51 (10.74%) Design Patterns
13 50 (10.53%) SDLC
14 48 (10.11%) Full Stack Development
15 44 (9.26%) BDD
16 41 (8.63%) Unit Testing
17 39 (8.21%) Continuous Integration
18 36 (7.58%) OO
19 35 (7.37%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 167 (35.16%) Python
2 157 (33.05%) JavaScript
3 119 (25.05%) SQL
4 99 (20.84%) C#
5 70 (14.74%) C++
6 48 (10.11%) Ruby
7 43 (9.05%) C
8 34 (7.16%) Shell Script
9 25 (5.26%) Perl
9 25 (5.26%) PHP
9 25 (5.26%) PL/SQL
10 23 (4.84%) Go
11 20 (4.21%) TypeScript
12 14 (2.95%) Bash
13 13 (2.74%) PowerShell
14 8 (1.68%) Groovy
15 7 (1.47%) Kotlin
16 5 (1.05%) MATLAB
17 4 (0.84%) XPath
17 4 (0.84%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 184 (38.74%) Security Cleared
2 158 (33.26%) SC Cleared
3 50 (10.53%) Degree
4 22 (4.63%) DV Cleared
5 17 (3.58%) AWS Certification
5 17 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.11%) Azure Certification
6 10 (2.11%) PhD
7 5 (1.05%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.42%) BC Cleared
8 2 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.21%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.21%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (9.68%) QA
2 27 (5.68%) SLA
3 2 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
3 2 (0.42%) NCSC
4 1 (0.21%) Accessibility
System Software
1 80 (16.84%) Docker
2 13 (2.74%) Hyper-V
3 4 (0.84%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.84%) Firmware
3 4 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.42%) Postfix
4 2 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 76 (16.00%) Kubernetes
2 50 (10.53%) Ansible
3 35 (7.37%) Terraform
4 26 (5.47%) OpenSSO
4 26 (5.47%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.05%) Kustomize
5 5 (1.05%) Packer
5 5 (1.05%) Puppet
6 2 (0.42%) AirWatch
6 2 (0.42%) Nagios
6 2 (0.42%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.21%) Consul
7 1 (0.21%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.21%) Kibana
7 1 (0.21%) Oozie
7 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.21%) SELinux
Vendors
1 76 (16.00%) Oracle
2 24 (5.05%) Remedy
3 17 (3.58%) Microsoft
4 16 (3.37%) WSO2
5 12 (2.53%) Atlassian
5 12 (2.53%) Google
6 11 (2.32%) IBM
7 10 (2.11%) AppDynamics
8 6 (1.26%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.26%) SAP
9 5 (1.05%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.05%) Splunk
9 5 (1.05%) VMware
9 5 (1.05%) Xilinx
10 4 (0.84%) Databricks
10 4 (0.84%) Foundry
10 4 (0.84%) Guidewire
11 3 (0.63%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.42%) iManage
12 2 (0.42%) New Relic