Java
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 18 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 6,861 10,465 22,684
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.92% 10.30% 14.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.64% 23.81% 26.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,896 6,242 9,870
10th Percentile £38,750 £45,775 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,500 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £96,539 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £122,500 £122,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,706 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.32% +9.05% +4.55%

All Programming Languages
UK

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 with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,235 43,949 85,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.51% 43.27% 54.00%
Number of salaries quoted 24,988 28,012 43,733
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,325
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.14% +6.65%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the UK

Java
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Java in the UK

Java
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Java in the UK

Java
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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
UK excluding London -1 4,607 £60,000 -4.32% 631
England -17 4,575 £73,805 -7.74% 1,100
Work from Home -16 2,354 £73,805 -1.59% 585
London -5 2,048 £95,000 +5.56% 582
Scotland +9 1,975 £60,000 -13.60% 91
South East -5 851 £60,000 -7.69% 121
North of England -21 657 £62,500 -3.85% 132
South West -7 611 £57,500 -4.17% 123
North West -10 459 £62,500 -6.02% 87
Midlands -50 275 £55,000 -8.33% 76
West Midlands -33 193 £57,000 -5.00% 52
Yorkshire -43 149 £65,465 +4.74% 33
East of England -85 106 £62,500 -10.71% 51
Wales +1 88 £50,000 -5.21% 11
East Midlands -70 81 £52,500 -8.70% 24
North East -45 49 £65,000 +4.00% 14
Northern Ireland -23 47 £85,000 +65.05% 31

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 610 (8.89%) Apache Spark
2 464 (6.76%) Apache
3 280 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
4 128 (1.87%) FileNet
5 117 (1.71%) Confluence
6 57 (0.83%) Camunda
7 56 (0.82%) nginx
7 56 (0.82%) Tomcat
8 54 (0.79%) JBoss
9 51 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
10 43 (0.63%) WebSphere
11 42 (0.61%) IIS
11 42 (0.61%) OpenStack
12 39 (0.57%) Red Hat Fuse
13 38 (0.55%) Tuxedo
14 37 (0.54%) Cloud Foundry
15 32 (0.47%) WebLogic
16 30 (0.44%) SharePoint
17 28 (0.41%) Captiva
18 22 (0.32%) GemFire
Applications
1 28 (0.41%) Simulink
2 25 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.12%) Adobe XD
6 7 (0.10%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.087%) CANalyzer
8 4 (0.058%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.058%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.015%) CATIA
9 1 (0.015%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.015%) Notion
9 1 (0.015%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 45 (0.66%) Endur
2 22 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
4 8 (0.12%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 7 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.10%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.087%) NEC Housing
6 6 (0.087%) SAP S/4HANA
7 5 (0.073%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.073%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.058%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.058%) Sonata
9 3 (0.044%) Oracle Applications
10 2 (0.029%) Adaptiv
10 2 (0.029%) BusinessWorks
10 2 (0.029%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.029%) Oracle EBS R12
10 2 (0.029%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 2 (0.029%) Temenos T24
11 1 (0.015%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 3,067 (44.70%) AWS
2 1,319 (19.22%) Azure
3 665 (9.69%) GCP
4 575 (8.38%) Serverless
5 289 (4.21%) Amazon S3
6 270 (3.94%) SaaS
7 264 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
8 247 (3.60%) dbt
9 246 (3.59%) GitHub
10 241 (3.51%) Snowflake
11 224 (3.26%) Amazon EKS
12 212 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
13 205 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
14 196 (2.86%) OpenShift
15 187 (2.73%) IBM Cloud
16 172 (2.51%) Amazon EC2
17 171 (2.49%) Amazon SQS
18 147 (2.14%) Azure Functions
19 133 (1.94%) Azure Service Bus
20 132 (1.92%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 102 (1.49%) TCP/IP
2 88 (1.28%) DNS
3 71 (1.03%) HTTP
4 62 (0.90%) Firewall
5 47 (0.69%) DHCP
6 41 (0.60%) AMQP
7 32 (0.47%) WAN
8 25 (0.36%) Internet
8 25 (0.36%) Network Security
9 18 (0.26%) DSL
9 18 (0.26%) Kerberos
9 18 (0.26%) Modbus
10 16 (0.23%) SNMP
10 16 (0.23%) SSH
11 13 (0.19%) Wireless
12 12 (0.17%) MQTT
13 10 (0.15%) VPN
14 8 (0.12%) Bluetooth
14 8 (0.12%) FTP
15 7 (0.10%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,015 (14.79%) NoSQL
2 637 (9.28%) Relational Database
3 576 (8.40%) Big Data
4 539 (7.86%) PostgreSQL
5 500 (7.29%) MongoDB
6 366 (5.33%) Hadoop
7 330 (4.81%) Data Lake
8 317 (4.62%) SQL Server
9 302 (4.40%) MySQL
10 274 (3.99%) Elasticsearch
11 244 (3.56%) Amazon Athena
12 231 (3.37%) Dremio
13 229 (3.34%) Apache Arrow
14 192 (2.80%) DB2
15 188 (2.74%) Apache Ignite
16 181 (2.64%) RDBMS
17 173 (2.52%) Apache Cassandra
18 120 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
19 119 (1.73%) Apache Hive
20 114 (1.66%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 680 (9.91%) Jenkins
2 655 (9.55%) Git
3 372 (5.42%) JUnit
4 292 (4.26%) JIRA
5 283 (4.12%) Selenium
6 214 (3.12%) Cucumber
7 205 (2.99%) GitLab
8 191 (2.78%) Maven
9 150 (2.19%) Cypress.io
10 114 (1.66%) WebDriver
11 113 (1.65%) Jasmine
11 113 (1.65%) Postman
12 89 (1.30%) Mockito
13 87 (1.27%) JMeter
14 78 (1.14%) Gradle
15 77 (1.12%) IntelliJ
16 74 (1.08%) Visual Studio
17 68 (0.99%) Protractor
18 65 (0.95%) Bitbucket Server
19 60 (0.87%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 2,844 (41.45%) Finance
2 2,000 (29.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,770 (25.80%) Law
4 1,062 (15.48%) Social Skills
5 936 (13.64%) Banking
6 860 (12.53%) Marketing
7 551 (8.03%) Investment Banking
7 551 (8.03%) Legal
8 481 (7.01%) Public Sector
9 406 (5.92%) Front Office
10 403 (5.87%) Analytical Skills
11 219 (3.19%) Financial Institution
12 196 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
13 113 (1.65%) Games
14 109 (1.59%) Retail
15 96 (1.40%) Aerospace
16 76 (1.11%) Private Banking
17 74 (1.08%) Electronics
18 65 (0.95%) Telecoms
19 62 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2,611 (38.06%) Software Engineer
2 2,045 (29.81%) Developer
3 1,379 (20.10%) Senior
4 1,314 (19.15%) Java Engineer
5 1,244 (18.13%) Lead
6 1,134 (16.53%) Java Software Engineer
7 1,007 (14.68%) Java Developer
8 608 (8.86%) Lead Software Engineer
9 487 (7.10%) Senior Software Engineer
10 445 (6.49%) Senior Developer
11 422 (6.15%) Full Stack Engineer
12 401 (5.84%) Full Stack Developer
13 379 (5.52%) AWS Engineer
14 346 (5.04%) Lead Java Engineer
15 339 (4.94%) Full Stack Software Engineer
16 321 (4.68%) Architect
17 319 (4.65%) Software Developer
18 302 (4.40%) Big Data Engineer
18 302 (4.40%) Senior Java Developer
19 255 (3.72%) Big Data Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,654 (24.11%) Spring
2 1,233 (17.97%) React
3 1,032 (15.04%) Spring Boot
4 960 (13.99%) AngularJS
5 770 (11.22%) Kafka
6 737 (10.74%) Node.js
7 730 (10.64%) REST
8 725 (10.57%) HTML
9 643 (9.37%) CSS
10 528 (7.70%) .NET
11 462 (6.73%) Web Services
12 441 (6.43%) Hibernate
13 432 (6.30%) RESTful
14 412 (6.00%) J2EE
15 345 (5.03%) JSON
16 330 (4.81%) jQuery
17 319 (4.65%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 270 (3.94%) gRPC
19 231 (3.37%) Protocol Buffers
20 211 (3.08%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 857 (12.49%) Algorithms
2 757 (11.03%) Cloud Native
3 352 (5.13%) Data Structures
4 337 (4.91%) Public Cloud
5 330 (4.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 283 (4.12%) Hedge funds
7 266 (3.88%) Fixed Income
8 237 (3.45%) Equities
9 215 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
10 213 (3.10%) Derivative
11 211 (3.08%) Blockchain
12 208 (3.03%) Onboarding
13 207 (3.02%) Hybrid Cloud
14 173 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
15 171 (2.49%) Private Cloud
16 163 (2.38%) Product Ownership
17 157 (2.29%) Management Information System
18 140 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
19 87 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
20 82 (1.20%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 929 (13.54%) Linux
2 415 (6.05%) Windows
3 263 (3.83%) Unix
4 231 (3.37%) Android
5 196 (2.86%) Apple iOS
6 115 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 56 (0.82%) CentOS
8 45 (0.66%) Ubuntu
9 38 (0.55%) Windows Server
10 28 (0.41%) Debian
11 27 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
12 23 (0.34%) AIX
13 10 (0.15%) VMS
13 10 (0.15%) Windows 10
14 9 (0.13%) Mac OS
15 5 (0.073%) Mac OS X
15 5 (0.073%) Oracle Linux
16 4 (0.058%) Solaris
17 3 (0.044%) FreeBSD
17 3 (0.044%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,621 (52.78%) Agile
2 3,540 (51.60%) Software Engineering
3 2,236 (32.59%) CI/CD
4 1,937 (28.23%) SDLC
5 1,447 (21.09%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,444 (21.05%) Microservices
7 1,312 (19.12%) Operational Stability
8 1,285 (18.73%) Machine Learning
9 1,246 (18.16%) Problem-Solving
10 1,237 (18.03%) DevOps
11 1,103 (16.08%) Full Stack Development
12 842 (12.27%) Community of Practice
13 820 (11.95%) TDD
14 817 (11.91%) Mentoring
15 787 (11.47%) Continuous Improvement
16 747 (10.89%) Computer Science
17 734 (10.70%) Test Automation
18 639 (9.31%) Visualisation
19 620 (9.04%) Decision-Making
20 590 (8.60%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2,463 (35.90%) Python
2 2,132 (31.07%) SQL
3 1,720 (25.07%) JavaScript
4 860 (12.53%) C#
5 748 (10.90%) TypeScript
6 588 (8.57%) Scala
7 423 (6.17%) C++
8 375 (5.47%) Kotlin
9 369 (5.38%) Go
10 319 (4.65%) C
11 180 (2.62%) Ruby
12 179 (2.61%) Bash
13 175 (2.55%) PL/SQL
14 142 (2.07%) PowerShell
15 137 (2.00%) Shell Script
16 118 (1.72%) PHP
17 100 (1.46%) Perl
18 90 (1.31%) Rust
19 69 (1.01%) VB
20 64 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 797 (11.62%) Security Cleared
2 769 (11.21%) Degree
3 526 (7.67%) SC Cleared
4 360 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 172 (2.51%) DV Cleared
6 129 (1.88%) Master's Degree
7 87 (1.27%) AWS Certification
8 82 (1.20%) PhD
9 46 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
10 39 (0.57%) Azure Certification
11 29 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 22 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
13 19 (0.28%) DBS Check
14 16 (0.23%) HNC
15 10 (0.15%) ISTQB
15 10 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
16 9 (0.13%) OSCP
16 9 (0.13%) PMI Certification
17 8 (0.12%) CISSP
17 8 (0.12%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 318 (4.63%) QA
2 181 (2.64%) Data Quality
3 93 (1.36%) SLA
4 54 (0.79%) Accessibility
5 51 (0.74%) GDPR
6 9 (0.13%) PMO
7 8 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.12%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (0.10%) SEPA
9 6 (0.087%) ISO 26262
9 6 (0.087%) ISO 9001
9 6 (0.087%) NIST
9 6 (0.087%) TickIT
10 4 (0.058%) COBIT
11 3 (0.044%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.044%) MiFID
12 2 (0.029%) IEC 61508
12 2 (0.029%) IEC 62304
12 2 (0.029%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1,030 (15.01%) Docker
2 93 (1.36%) HDFS
3 76 (1.11%) Hyper-V
4 61 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
5 35 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
6 30 (0.44%) Active Directory
7 26 (0.38%) Firmware
7 26 (0.38%) VMware NSX
8 19 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
9 11 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
9 11 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
10 8 (0.12%) KVM
10 8 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.044%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.029%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.029%) OpenAM
13 1 (0.015%) Dovecot
13 1 (0.015%) GridGain
13 1 (0.015%) Postfix
13 1 (0.015%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1,331 (19.40%) Kubernetes
2 723 (10.54%) Terraform
3 326 (4.75%) Ansible
4 194 (2.83%) Grafana
5 129 (1.88%) Prometheus
6 118 (1.72%) Puppet
7 55 (0.80%) Progress Chef
8 45 (0.66%) Kibana
9 42 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
10 29 (0.42%) OpenSSO
11 26 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
12 22 (0.32%) HAProxy
12 22 (0.32%) Salt
13 21 (0.31%) Zipkin
14 16 (0.23%) Packer
15 13 (0.19%) WMI
16 9 (0.13%) Kiali
17 8 (0.12%) Argo
18 7 (0.10%) Graphite
19 6 (0.087%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 863 (12.58%) Oracle
2 289 (4.21%) Google
3 272 (3.96%) Microsoft
4 269 (3.92%) Red Hat
5 249 (3.63%) IBM
6 192 (2.80%) Splunk
7 171 (2.49%) Databricks
8 155 (2.26%) Dynatrace
9 98 (1.43%) Sybase
10 92 (1.34%) VMware
11 87 (1.27%) Cloudera
12 85 (1.24%) SAP
13 62 (0.90%) Informatica
14 57 (0.83%) Alteryx
15 54 (0.79%) TIBCO
16 51 (0.74%) SaltStack
17 50 (0.73%) Pega
18 47 (0.69%) Atlassian
19 45 (0.66%) OpenLink
19 45 (0.66%) YouTube