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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 27 20
Rank change year-on-year -2 -7 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 4,597 5,052 7,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.56% 8.18% 10.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.45% 20.22% 22.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,155 2,418 3,989
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,658 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £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 22,477 24,981 32,666
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.09% 40.42% 46.27%
Number of salaries quoted 16,345 14,015 21,422
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,635 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £68,463
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 27 April 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 27 April 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 1,973 £60,000 -13.60% 75
South East -8 824 £60,500 -6.92% 134
North of England -20 672 £65,000 - 121
South West -6 613 £57,500 -4.17% 110
North West -15 469 £62,500 -7.41% 76
Midlands -53 278 £55,000 -8.33% 76
West Midlands -37 197 £57,500 -4.17% 57
Yorkshire -46 152 £65,465 +4.74% 25
East of England -95 103 £62,500 -10.71% 49
Wales +2 89 £50,000 -14.53% 19
East Midlands -75 80 £52,500 -8.70% 19
North East -40 51 £65,232 +4.37% 22
Northern Ireland -21 49 £85,000 +61.90% 24
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
1 535 (11.64%) Apache Spark
2 198 (4.31%) Apache
3 121 (2.63%) FileNet
4 54 (1.17%) Camunda
5 53 (1.15%) Confluence
6 47 (1.02%) JBoss
7 38 (0.83%) Tuxedo
8 35 (0.76%) nginx
8 35 (0.76%) OpenStack
9 34 (0.74%) IIS
9 34 (0.74%) Red Hat Fuse
9 34 (0.74%) WebSphere
10 33 (0.72%) Tomcat
11 31 (0.67%) Cloud Foundry
11 31 (0.67%) WebLogic
12 22 (0.48%) Captiva
13 21 (0.46%) GemFire
14 20 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
15 11 (0.24%) CICS
16 10 (0.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 24 (0.52%) Simulink
2 23 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (0.20%) Adobe XD
6 6 (0.13%) CANalyzer
7 5 (0.11%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.11%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.087%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.022%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.022%) CATIA
9 1 (0.022%) InDesign
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 (0.087%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.087%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (0.087%) Sonata
5 3 (0.065%) Oracle Applications
5 3 (0.065%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.044%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.044%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.044%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.044%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.022%) iTrent
7 1 (0.022%) NetSuite
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 1,905 (41.44%) AWS
2 893 (19.43%) Azure
3 387 (8.42%) Serverless
4 322 (7.00%) GCP
5 185 (4.02%) Amazon S3
6 183 (3.98%) SaaS
7 175 (3.81%) GitHub
8 158 (3.44%) IBM Cloud
9 155 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
10 153 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
11 145 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
12 137 (2.98%) Amazon ECS
13 119 (2.59%) OpenShift
14 117 (2.55%) Azure Functions
15 110 (2.39%) Azure API Management
16 109 (2.37%) Azure Logic Apps
16 109 (2.37%) Azure Service Bus
17 105 (2.28%) Amazon EC2
17 105 (2.28%) Amazon SQS
18 83 (1.81%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 69 (1.50%) TCP/IP
2 65 (1.41%) DNS
3 56 (1.22%) HTTP
4 43 (0.94%) DHCP
5 40 (0.87%) Firewall
6 32 (0.70%) AMQP
7 29 (0.63%) WAN
8 19 (0.41%) Internet
9 18 (0.39%) DSL
9 18 (0.39%) Modbus
9 18 (0.39%) Network Security
10 17 (0.37%) Kerberos
11 14 (0.30%) SSH
12 13 (0.28%) SNMP
13 12 (0.26%) Wireless
14 10 (0.22%) MQTT
15 6 (0.13%) Bluetooth
15 6 (0.13%) Ethernet
15 6 (0.13%) VPN
16 5 (0.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 819 (17.82%) NoSQL
2 474 (10.31%) Big Data
3 409 (8.90%) Relational Database
4 378 (8.22%) MongoDB
5 347 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
6 309 (6.72%) Hadoop
7 236 (5.13%) MySQL
8 229 (4.98%) Elasticsearch
9 196 (4.26%) SQL Server
10 154 (3.35%) Apache Cassandra
11 152 (3.31%) DB2
12 102 (2.22%) Oracle Database
13 90 (1.96%) Apache Hive
14 85 (1.85%) Data Lake
15 81 (1.76%) RDBMS
16 74 (1.61%) HBase
17 62 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
18 57 (1.24%) Redis
19 54 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
20 52 (1.13%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 469 (10.20%) Git
2 422 (9.18%) Jenkins
3 308 (6.70%) JUnit
4 175 (3.81%) JIRA
4 175 (3.81%) Selenium
5 164 (3.57%) GitLab
6 143 (3.11%) Maven
7 129 (2.81%) Cucumber
8 123 (2.68%) Cypress.io
9 107 (2.33%) Jasmine
10 92 (2.00%) WebDriver
11 79 (1.72%) Mockito
12 71 (1.54%) Gradle
13 70 (1.52%) Visual Studio
14 66 (1.44%) IntelliJ
15 65 (1.41%) Protractor
16 64 (1.39%) Bitbucket Server
17 61 (1.33%) JMeter
18 60 (1.31%) Karma Test Runner
19 55 (1.20%) Postman
General
1 2,094 (45.55%) Finance
2 1,844 (40.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,684 (36.63%) Law
4 791 (17.21%) Marketing
5 687 (14.94%) Social Skills
6 530 (11.53%) Banking
6 530 (11.53%) Legal
7 345 (7.50%) Public Sector
8 255 (5.55%) Analytical Skills
9 254 (5.53%) Investment Banking
10 187 (4.07%) Influencing Skills
11 164 (3.57%) Financial Institution
12 87 (1.89%) Aerospace
13 75 (1.63%) Private Banking
14 69 (1.50%) Retail
15 59 (1.28%) Electronics
16 53 (1.15%) Telecoms
17 48 (1.04%) Manufacturing
18 43 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
19 42 (0.91%) Games
Job Titles
1 2,207 (48.01%) Software Engineer
2 1,119 (24.34%) Developer
3 1,073 (23.34%) Java Engineer
4 973 (21.17%) Java Software Engineer
5 855 (18.60%) Lead
6 834 (18.14%) Senior
7 532 (11.57%) Lead Software Engineer
8 456 (9.92%) Java Developer
9 385 (8.38%) Full Stack Engineer
10 349 (7.59%) Senior Software Engineer
11 310 (6.74%) Full Stack Software Engineer
12 295 (6.42%) Lead Java Engineer
13 259 (5.63%) Big Data Engineer
14 255 (5.55%) Big Data Software Engineer
15 228 (4.96%) Scala Engineer
15 228 (4.96%) Scala Software Engineer
16 220 (4.79%) Full Stack Developer
16 220 (4.79%) Senior Developer
17 206 (4.48%) Software Developer
18 202 (4.39%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,258 (27.37%) Spring
2 995 (21.64%) React
3 788 (17.14%) AngularJS
4 719 (15.64%) Spring Boot
5 591 (12.86%) Node.js
6 576 (12.53%) HTML
7 550 (11.96%) REST
8 532 (11.57%) Kafka
9 506 (11.01%) CSS
10 349 (7.59%) Web Services
11 346 (7.53%) .NET
12 335 (7.29%) Hibernate
12 335 (7.29%) RESTful
13 322 (7.00%) J2EE
14 298 (6.48%) jQuery
15 285 (6.20%) JSON
16 284 (6.18%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 175 (3.81%) JMS
18 173 (3.76%) Vue
19 171 (3.72%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 763 (16.60%) Algorithms
2 653 (14.20%) Cloud Native
3 289 (6.29%) Public Cloud
4 269 (5.85%) Data Structures
5 169 (3.68%) Blockchain
6 154 (3.35%) Hybrid Cloud
7 149 (3.24%) Private Cloud
8 147 (3.20%) Onboarding
9 131 (2.85%) Product Ownership
10 106 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
11 98 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
12 97 (2.11%) Management Information System
13 90 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
14 67 (1.46%) Distributed Applications
15 63 (1.37%) Reference Data
16 46 (1.00%) e-Learning
17 45 (0.98%) Mobile App
18 44 (0.96%) IoT
19 43 (0.94%) Legacy Code
20 42 (0.91%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 719 (15.64%) Linux
2 352 (7.66%) Windows
3 223 (4.85%) Unix
4 187 (4.07%) Android
5 160 (3.48%) Apple iOS
6 90 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 37 (0.80%) CentOS
7 37 (0.80%) Ubuntu
8 29 (0.63%) Windows Server
9 25 (0.54%) Debian
10 23 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
11 21 (0.46%) AIX
12 10 (0.22%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.11%) Mac OS X
13 5 (0.11%) VMS
13 5 (0.11%) Windows 10
14 3 (0.065%) FreeBSD
14 3 (0.065%) Kali Linux
14 3 (0.065%) Solaris
15 2 (0.044%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,762 (60.08%) Software Engineering
2 2,756 (59.95%) Agile
3 1,774 (38.59%) CI/CD
4 1,722 (37.46%) SDLC
5 1,319 (28.69%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,292 (28.11%) Operational Stability
7 1,153 (25.08%) Machine Learning
8 979 (21.30%) Microservices
9 935 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
10 829 (18.03%) Community of Practice
11 818 (17.79%) Full Stack Development
12 755 (16.42%) DevOps
13 677 (14.73%) Continuous Improvement
14 610 (13.27%) Visualisation
15 569 (12.38%) Mentoring
16 540 (11.75%) TDD
17 536 (11.66%) Risk Management
18 522 (11.36%) Decision-Making
19 509 (11.07%) Test Automation
20 493 (10.72%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,704 (37.07%) SQL
2 1,593 (34.65%) Python
3 1,103 (23.99%) JavaScript
4 601 (13.07%) C#
5 428 (9.31%) TypeScript
6 413 (8.98%) Scala
7 288 (6.26%) C++
8 247 (5.37%) C
9 188 (4.09%) Go
10 158 (3.44%) PL/SQL
11 137 (2.98%) Bash
12 127 (2.76%) Ruby
13 111 (2.41%) Shell Script
14 110 (2.39%) Kotlin
15 107 (2.33%) PowerShell
16 93 (2.02%) PHP
17 59 (1.28%) Perl
18 54 (1.17%) COBOL
19 52 (1.13%) Groovy
19 52 (1.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 632 (13.75%) Security Cleared
2 493 (10.72%) Degree
3 394 (8.57%) SC Cleared
4 225 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 139 (3.02%) DV Cleared
6 74 (1.61%) Master's Degree
7 63 (1.37%) PhD
8 56 (1.22%) AWS Certification
9 31 (0.67%) Azure Certification
10 18 (0.39%) DBS Check
11 16 (0.35%) HNC
12 15 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (0.24%) OCP
13 11 (0.24%) Oracle Certification
14 9 (0.20%) PMI Certification
15 8 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 8 (0.17%) ISTQB
16 7 (0.15%) AWS Certified Developer
17 5 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
18 4 (0.087%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (4.05%) QA
2 83 (1.81%) SLA
3 62 (1.35%) Data Quality
4 37 (0.80%) GDPR
5 24 (0.52%) Accessibility
6 12 (0.26%) SEPA
7 6 (0.13%) ISO 26262
7 6 (0.13%) ISO 9001
7 6 (0.13%) TickIT
8 5 (0.11%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.087%) COBIT
9 4 (0.087%) NIST
10 3 (0.065%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.044%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.044%) IEC 61508
11 2 (0.044%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.022%) GMP
12 1 (0.022%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.022%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 1 (0.022%) ITGC
System Software
1 633 (13.77%) Docker
2 75 (1.63%) HDFS
3 70 (1.52%) Hyper-V
4 50 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 26 (0.57%) VMware NSX
6 21 (0.46%) Firmware
7 20 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
8 18 (0.39%) Active Directory
9 11 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
10 9 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
10 9 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
11 8 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.065%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.022%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 1 (0.022%) Dovecot
13 1 (0.022%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.022%) Postfix
13 1 (0.022%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 774 (16.84%) Kubernetes
2 394 (8.57%) Terraform
3 178 (3.87%) Ansible
4 158 (3.44%) Grafana
5 82 (1.78%) Puppet
6 56 (1.22%) Prometheus
7 38 (0.83%) Kibana
8 37 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
9 29 (0.63%) OpenSSO
10 26 (0.57%) ITRS Geneos
11 21 (0.46%) HAProxy
11 21 (0.46%) Zipkin
12 20 (0.44%) 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
16 4 (0.087%) Packer
16 4 (0.087%) Podman
Vendors
1 690 (15.01%) Oracle
2 227 (4.94%) Red Hat
3 202 (4.39%) IBM
4 199 (4.33%) Google
5 188 (4.09%) Microsoft
6 170 (3.70%) Splunk
7 151 (3.28%) Databricks
8 135 (2.94%) Dynatrace
9 77 (1.68%) VMware
10 75 (1.63%) Cloudera
11 62 (1.35%) Informatica
12 55 (1.20%) Alteryx
13 52 (1.13%) SAP
14 48 (1.04%) SaltStack
15 44 (0.96%) Pega
16 43 (0.94%) Micro Focus
17 35 (0.76%) Remedy
17 35 (0.76%) WSO2
18 31 (0.67%) Sybase
19 28 (0.61%) Salesforce