Java Jobs in the UK excluding London

Java
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 28 20
Rank change year-on-year -1 -8 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 4,629 4,814 7,542
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.57% 7.83% 10.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.52% 19.54% 22.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2,166 2,380 4,024
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.14% +10.00% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% +7.69%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 22,555 24,631 32,892
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.03% 40.07% 46.31%
Number of salaries quoted 16,381 13,866 21,456
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £68,295
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the UK excluding London

Java
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Java in the UK excluding London

Java
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Java in the UK excluding London

Java
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Scotland +8 1,981 £60,000 -13.60% 70
South East -5 850 £60,500 -6.92% 135
North of England -20 663 £64,500 -0.77% 131
South West -7 618 £57,500 -4.17% 112
North West -14 463 £62,500 -7.41% 87
Midlands -44 279 £55,000 -8.33% 80
West Midlands -34 197 £57,500 -4.17% 56
Yorkshire -48 149 £65,465 +4.74% 27
East of England -85 105 £62,500 -10.71% 53
Wales +2 89 £50,000 -5.64% 11
East Midlands -70 81 £52,500 -8.70% 24
North East -43 51 £65,232 +4.37% 19
Northern Ireland -19 48 £85,000 +61.90% 25
Java
UK

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 536 (11.58%) Apache Spark
2 199 (4.30%) Apache
3 123 (2.66%) FileNet
4 55 (1.19%) Confluence
5 54 (1.17%) Camunda
6 47 (1.02%) JBoss
7 38 (0.82%) Tuxedo
8 36 (0.78%) nginx
9 35 (0.76%) OpenStack
10 34 (0.73%) IIS
10 34 (0.73%) Red Hat Fuse
10 34 (0.73%) WebSphere
11 33 (0.71%) Tomcat
12 32 (0.69%) Cloud Foundry
13 31 (0.67%) WebLogic
14 22 (0.48%) Captiva
15 21 (0.45%) GemFire
16 20 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
17 11 (0.24%) CICS
18 10 (0.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 28 (0.60%) Simulink
2 23 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.17%) Adobe XD
6 6 (0.13%) CANalyzer
7 5 (0.11%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.086%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.086%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.022%) CATIA
9 1 (0.022%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (0.15%) SAP ERP
2 6 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.086%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.086%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (0.086%) Sonata
5 3 (0.065%) Oracle Applications
5 3 (0.065%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.043%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.043%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.043%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.022%) iTrent
7 1 (0.022%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.022%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.022%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.022%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.022%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.022%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.022%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,920 (41.48%) AWS
2 912 (19.70%) Azure
3 397 (8.58%) Serverless
4 323 (6.98%) GCP
5 188 (4.06%) Amazon S3
6 183 (3.95%) SaaS
7 177 (3.82%) GitHub
8 165 (3.56%) IBM Cloud
9 155 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
9 155 (3.35%) AWS Lambda
10 154 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
11 137 (2.96%) Amazon ECS
12 123 (2.66%) Azure Functions
12 123 (2.66%) OpenShift
13 116 (2.51%) Azure API Management
14 115 (2.48%) Azure Logic Apps
14 115 (2.48%) Azure Service Bus
15 105 (2.27%) Amazon SQS
16 103 (2.23%) Amazon EC2
17 86 (1.86%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 70 (1.51%) TCP/IP
2 66 (1.43%) DNS
3 57 (1.23%) HTTP
4 44 (0.95%) DHCP
5 39 (0.84%) Firewall
6 33 (0.71%) AMQP
7 29 (0.63%) WAN
8 20 (0.43%) Network Security
9 18 (0.39%) DSL
9 18 (0.39%) Internet
9 18 (0.39%) Modbus
10 17 (0.37%) Kerberos
11 14 (0.30%) SSH
12 13 (0.28%) SNMP
13 12 (0.26%) MQTT
13 12 (0.26%) Wireless
14 6 (0.13%) Bluetooth
14 6 (0.13%) Ethernet
14 6 (0.13%) VPN
15 5 (0.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 842 (18.19%) NoSQL
2 473 (10.22%) Big Data
3 420 (9.07%) Relational Database
4 391 (8.45%) MongoDB
5 361 (7.80%) PostgreSQL
6 315 (6.80%) Hadoop
7 236 (5.10%) Elasticsearch
8 234 (5.06%) MySQL
9 201 (4.34%) SQL Server
10 159 (3.43%) DB2
11 156 (3.37%) Apache Cassandra
12 102 (2.20%) Oracle Database
13 90 (1.94%) Apache Hive
13 90 (1.94%) Data Lake
14 83 (1.79%) RDBMS
15 74 (1.60%) HBase
16 64 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
17 57 (1.23%) Redis
18 53 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
19 52 (1.12%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 478 (10.33%) Git
2 419 (9.05%) Jenkins
3 312 (6.74%) JUnit
4 178 (3.85%) Selenium
5 176 (3.80%) JIRA
6 168 (3.63%) GitLab
7 141 (3.05%) Maven
8 128 (2.77%) Cucumber
9 121 (2.61%) Cypress.io
10 108 (2.33%) Jasmine
11 92 (1.99%) WebDriver
12 79 (1.71%) Mockito
13 70 (1.51%) Gradle
13 70 (1.51%) Visual Studio
14 65 (1.40%) Protractor
15 63 (1.36%) Bitbucket Server
16 62 (1.34%) IntelliJ
17 61 (1.32%) JMeter
18 60 (1.30%) Karma Test Runner
19 53 (1.14%) Postman
General
1 2,087 (45.09%) Finance
2 1,862 (40.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,700 (36.72%) Law
4 798 (17.24%) Marketing
5 706 (15.25%) Social Skills
6 529 (11.43%) Legal
7 510 (11.02%) Banking
8 352 (7.60%) Public Sector
9 261 (5.64%) Analytical Skills
10 256 (5.53%) Investment Banking
11 187 (4.04%) Influencing Skills
12 165 (3.56%) Financial Institution
13 91 (1.97%) Aerospace
14 76 (1.64%) Private Banking
15 67 (1.45%) Retail
16 57 (1.23%) Electronics
17 54 (1.17%) Telecoms
18 47 (1.02%) Manufacturing
19 44 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
20 42 (0.91%) Games
Job Titles
1 2,214 (47.83%) Software Engineer
2 1,121 (24.22%) Developer
3 1,086 (23.46%) Java Engineer
4 981 (21.19%) Java Software Engineer
5 871 (18.82%) Lead
6 843 (18.21%) Senior
7 536 (11.58%) Lead Software Engineer
8 450 (9.72%) Java Developer
9 390 (8.43%) Full Stack Engineer
10 353 (7.63%) Senior Software Engineer
11 315 (6.80%) Full Stack Software Engineer
12 298 (6.44%) Lead Java Engineer
13 259 (5.60%) Big Data Engineer
14 255 (5.51%) Big Data Software Engineer
15 228 (4.93%) Scala Engineer
15 228 (4.93%) Scala Software Engineer
16 224 (4.84%) Full Stack Developer
17 219 (4.73%) Senior Developer
18 206 (4.45%) Software Developer
19 205 (4.43%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,260 (27.22%) Spring
2 999 (21.58%) React
3 789 (17.04%) AngularJS
4 716 (15.47%) Spring Boot
5 603 (13.03%) Node.js
6 574 (12.40%) HTML
7 554 (11.97%) REST
8 531 (11.47%) Kafka
9 516 (11.15%) CSS
10 359 (7.76%) .NET
11 355 (7.67%) Web Services
12 336 (7.26%) Hibernate
13 334 (7.22%) RESTful
14 323 (6.98%) J2EE
15 303 (6.55%) jQuery
16 291 (6.29%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 284 (6.14%) JSON
18 178 (3.85%) Vue
19 176 (3.80%) JMS
20 172 (3.72%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 773 (16.70%) Algorithms
2 666 (14.39%) Cloud Native
3 291 (6.29%) Public Cloud
4 276 (5.96%) Data Structures
5 174 (3.76%) Blockchain
6 161 (3.48%) Hybrid Cloud
7 150 (3.24%) Private Cloud
8 148 (3.20%) Onboarding
9 124 (2.68%) Product Ownership
10 106 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
11 99 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
12 97 (2.10%) Management Information System
13 92 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
14 67 (1.45%) Distributed Applications
15 64 (1.38%) Reference Data
16 47 (1.02%) e-Learning
17 44 (0.95%) Credit Risk
17 44 (0.95%) IoT
17 44 (0.95%) Legacy Code
18 43 (0.93%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 739 (15.96%) Linux
2 360 (7.78%) Windows
3 223 (4.82%) Unix
4 194 (4.19%) Android
5 164 (3.54%) Apple iOS
6 96 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 41 (0.89%) CentOS
7 41 (0.89%) Ubuntu
8 29 (0.63%) Windows Server
9 26 (0.56%) Debian
10 25 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
11 21 (0.45%) AIX
12 8 (0.17%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.11%) Mac OS X
13 5 (0.11%) VMS
14 4 (0.086%) Windows 10
15 3 (0.065%) FreeBSD
15 3 (0.065%) Kali Linux
15 3 (0.065%) Solaris
16 2 (0.043%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,772 (59.88%) Software Engineering
2 2,764 (59.71%) Agile
3 1,793 (38.73%) CI/CD
4 1,720 (37.16%) SDLC
5 1,342 (28.99%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,303 (28.15%) Operational Stability
7 1,171 (25.30%) Machine Learning
8 977 (21.11%) Microservices
9 944 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
10 834 (18.02%) Community of Practice
11 823 (17.78%) Full Stack Development
12 774 (16.72%) DevOps
13 687 (14.84%) Continuous Improvement
14 617 (13.33%) Visualisation
15 579 (12.51%) Mentoring
16 547 (11.82%) TDD
17 542 (11.71%) Risk Management
18 530 (11.45%) Decision-Making
19 520 (11.23%) Test Automation
20 505 (10.91%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,732 (37.42%) SQL
2 1,621 (35.02%) Python
3 1,107 (23.91%) JavaScript
4 612 (13.22%) C#
5 422 (9.12%) TypeScript
6 416 (8.99%) Scala
7 297 (6.42%) C++
8 253 (5.47%) C
9 185 (4.00%) Go
10 159 (3.43%) PL/SQL
11 139 (3.00%) Bash
12 130 (2.81%) Ruby
13 118 (2.55%) Kotlin
14 111 (2.40%) Shell Script
15 108 (2.33%) PowerShell
16 95 (2.05%) PHP
17 59 (1.27%) Perl
18 54 (1.17%) COBOL
19 53 (1.14%) T-SQL
20 52 (1.12%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 649 (14.02%) Security Cleared
2 501 (10.82%) Degree
3 405 (8.75%) SC Cleared
4 231 (4.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 145 (3.13%) DV Cleared
6 75 (1.62%) Master's Degree
7 61 (1.32%) PhD
8 57 (1.23%) AWS Certification
9 31 (0.67%) Azure Certification
10 18 (0.39%) DBS Check
11 16 (0.35%) HNC
12 15 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.19%) PMI Certification
14 8 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 8 (0.17%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.17%) OCP
14 8 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
15 7 (0.15%) AWS Certified Developer
16 6 (0.13%) SANS
17 5 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (4.04%) QA
2 83 (1.79%) SLA
3 64 (1.38%) Data Quality
4 37 (0.80%) GDPR
5 25 (0.54%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.15%) SEPA
7 6 (0.13%) ISO 26262
7 6 (0.13%) ISO 9001
7 6 (0.13%) NIST
7 6 (0.13%) TickIT
8 5 (0.11%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.086%) COBIT
10 2 (0.043%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.043%) IEC 61508
10 2 (0.043%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.022%) AQAP
11 1 (0.022%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.022%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.022%) ITGC
11 1 (0.022%) PMO
System Software
1 612 (13.22%) Docker
2 75 (1.62%) HDFS
3 71 (1.53%) Hyper-V
4 51 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 26 (0.56%) VMware NSX
6 21 (0.45%) Firmware
7 20 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
8 18 (0.39%) Active Directory
9 11 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
10 9 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
10 9 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
11 8 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.065%) VirtualBox
13 2 (0.043%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 1 (0.022%) Dovecot
14 1 (0.022%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.022%) Postfix
14 1 (0.022%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 771 (16.66%) Kubernetes
2 403 (8.71%) Terraform
3 183 (3.95%) Ansible
4 159 (3.43%) Grafana
5 86 (1.86%) Puppet
6 58 (1.25%) Prometheus
7 38 (0.82%) Kibana
8 37 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
9 29 (0.63%) OpenSSO
10 26 (0.56%) ITRS Geneos
11 21 (0.45%) HAProxy
11 21 (0.45%) Zipkin
12 20 (0.43%) Progress Chef
13 13 (0.28%) WMI
14 7 (0.15%) Graphite
15 5 (0.11%) Argo
15 5 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
15 5 (0.11%) Opsgenie
15 5 (0.11%) Podman
16 4 (0.086%) Packer
Vendors
1 698 (15.08%) Oracle
2 236 (5.10%) Red Hat
3 210 (4.54%) IBM
4 198 (4.28%) Google
5 195 (4.21%) Microsoft
6 171 (3.69%) Splunk
7 153 (3.31%) Databricks
8 138 (2.98%) Dynatrace
9 78 (1.69%) VMware
10 75 (1.62%) Cloudera
11 62 (1.34%) Informatica
12 57 (1.23%) Alteryx
13 52 (1.12%) SAP
14 49 (1.06%) SaltStack
15 44 (0.95%) Pega
16 43 (0.93%) Micro Focus
17 35 (0.76%) Remedy
17 35 (0.76%) WSO2
18 32 (0.69%) Salesforce
18 32 (0.69%) Sybase