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 10 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 18 16 15
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 4,964 15,251 16,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.50% 12.48% 13.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.30% 27.17% 25.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3,221 8,352 10,319
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,611 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £120,000 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.67% +9.09% -

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 21,309 56,138 66,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 40.76% 45.93% 51.97%
Number of salaries quoted 16,539 35,840 45,476
10th Percentile £39,740 £38,443 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,845 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

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 10 December 2023.

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 10 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
England -5 4,041 £75,000 - 1,607
UK excluding London -7 2,686 £61,000 +1.67% 923
Work from Home -1 2,537 £70,576 +0.82% 829
London -3 2,002 £90,000 +2.86% 855
North of England -7 633 £62,500 +4.17% 201
South West -2 566 £62,500 +8.70% 151
Scotland +3 546 £65,351 +0.54% 66
South East -8 473 £60,000 -4.00% 295
North West -1 366 £61,000 +1.67% 122
Yorkshire -15 232 £65,351 +8.92% 58
Midlands -44 205 £57,500 -2.95% 87
Wales +14 131 £52,500 -11.27% 22
West Midlands -38 127 £57,500 -4.17% 59
Northern Ireland -9 83 £72,500 +20.83% 30
East Midlands -39 77 £60,000 +9.09% 28
East of England -41 65 £75,000 +15.38% 83
North East -13 35 £61,500 -3.53% 22

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
1 180 (3.63%) Apache Spark
2 126 (2.54%) Apache
3 120 (2.42%) Confluence
4 106 (2.14%) JBoss
5 96 (1.93%) Red Hat Fuse
6 92 (1.85%) WebLogic
7 90 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
8 65 (1.31%) SharePoint
9 55 (1.11%) IIS
9 55 (1.11%) Tomcat
10 51 (1.03%) WebSphere
11 26 (0.52%) FileNet
12 24 (0.48%) Captiva
13 23 (0.46%) nginx
14 22 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 20 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
16 18 (0.36%) OpenStack
17 15 (0.30%) CMS
18 13 (0.26%) Jupyter
19 12 (0.24%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 11 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.12%) Adobe XD
2 6 (0.12%) Simulink
3 5 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
4 4 (0.081%) Adobe Premiere
5 3 (0.060%) 3ds Max
5 3 (0.060%) Blender
5 3 (0.060%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.060%) Maya
5 3 (0.060%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.040%) CANalyzer
6 2 (0.040%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.020%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.020%) InDesign
7 1 (0.020%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.020%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.020%) Trello
Business Applications
1 74 (1.49%) Endur
2 20 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.12%) BusinessWorks
4 6 (0.12%) OpenLink RightAngle
4 6 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.10%) SAP SD
6 4 (0.081%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.081%) Siebel CRM
7 3 (0.060%) SAP CRM
7 3 (0.060%) SAP IBP
7 3 (0.060%) Temenos T24
8 2 (0.040%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.040%) ION MarketView
8 2 (0.040%) Magento
8 2 (0.040%) Ripple
8 2 (0.040%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.040%) SAP Hybris
8 2 (0.040%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 2,081 (41.92%) AWS
2 1,040 (20.95%) Azure
3 662 (13.34%) GCP
4 565 (11.38%) Serverless
5 379 (7.63%) OpenShift
6 284 (5.72%) GitHub
7 261 (5.26%) SaaS
8 144 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
9 137 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
10 128 (2.58%) Amazon S3
11 124 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
12 94 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
13 83 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
14 76 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
15 74 (1.49%) PaaS
16 70 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
17 66 (1.33%) Amazon ECS
18 58 (1.17%) Amazon SQS
19 56 (1.13%) dbt
20 46 (0.93%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 109 (2.20%) HTTP
2 106 (2.14%) DNS
3 92 (1.85%) TCP/IP
4 77 (1.55%) DHCP
5 57 (1.15%) Internet
6 35 (0.71%) AMQP
7 28 (0.56%) Firewall
8 25 (0.50%) WAN
9 11 (0.22%) SSH
10 9 (0.18%) Wireless
11 8 (0.16%) FTP
12 7 (0.14%) Network Security
12 7 (0.14%) SMTP
12 7 (0.14%) SSL
13 6 (0.12%) DSL
13 6 (0.12%) VPN
14 4 (0.081%) Ethernet
14 4 (0.081%) NAS
14 4 (0.081%) SAN
14 4 (0.081%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 409 (8.24%) Relational Database
2 326 (6.57%) NoSQL
3 297 (5.98%) SQL Server
4 292 (5.88%) Big Data
5 246 (4.96%) MongoDB
6 244 (4.92%) RDBMS
7 243 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
8 204 (4.11%) MySQL
9 187 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
10 158 (3.18%) Oracle Database
11 148 (2.98%) Hadoop
12 105 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
13 67 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
14 64 (1.29%) Redis
15 57 (1.15%) DynamoDB
16 55 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
16 55 (1.11%) Data Lake
17 54 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
18 53 (1.07%) Apache Ignite
18 53 (1.07%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 764 (15.39%) Git
2 694 (13.98%) Jenkins
3 328 (6.61%) JIRA
4 297 (5.98%) Cucumber
5 294 (5.92%) Selenium
6 280 (5.64%) Maven
7 236 (4.75%) GitLab
8 163 (3.28%) IntelliJ
9 151 (3.04%) JUnit
10 125 (2.52%) Postman
11 114 (2.30%) Bitbucket
11 114 (2.30%) Gradle
12 111 (2.24%) Artifactory
13 99 (1.99%) Cypress.io
14 97 (1.95%) Sonatype Nexus
15 89 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 83 (1.67%) SonarQube
17 67 (1.35%) JMeter
18 62 (1.25%) Mockito
19 58 (1.17%) WebDriver
General
1 1,348 (27.16%) Finance
2 861 (17.34%) Social Skills
3 608 (12.25%) Banking
4 456 (9.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 340 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
6 290 (5.84%) Public Sector
7 269 (5.42%) Front Office
8 234 (4.71%) Law
9 185 (3.73%) Investment Banking
10 180 (3.63%) Marketing
11 165 (3.32%) Police
12 164 (3.30%) Games
13 144 (2.90%) Retail
14 135 (2.72%) Aerospace
15 104 (2.10%) Financial Institution
15 104 (2.10%) Legal
16 57 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
17 54 (1.09%) Tech for Good
18 43 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
19 42 (0.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1,742 (35.09%) Developer
2 1,285 (25.89%) Software Engineer
3 1,142 (23.01%) Senior
4 1,106 (22.28%) Java Developer
5 606 (12.21%) Java Engineer
6 511 (10.29%) Lead
7 464 (9.35%) Senior Developer
8 451 (9.09%) Java Software Engineer
9 325 (6.55%) Senior Software Engineer
10 308 (6.20%) Architect
11 287 (5.78%) DevOps Engineer
12 281 (5.66%) Senior Java Developer
13 216 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
14 180 (3.63%) Analyst
15 173 (3.49%) Software Developer
16 171 (3.44%) Solutions Architect
17 170 (3.42%) Full Stack Developer
18 145 (2.92%) Data Engineer
19 128 (2.58%) Lead Software Engineer
20 121 (2.44%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,273 (25.64%) Spring
2 812 (16.36%) React
3 715 (14.40%) Spring Boot
4 533 (10.74%) Kafka
5 522 (10.52%) REST
6 480 (9.67%) AngularJS
7 409 (8.24%) Node.js
8 373 (7.51%) HTML
9 368 (7.41%) .NET
10 332 (6.69%) RESTful
11 315 (6.35%) J2EE
12 291 (5.86%) Web Services
13 275 (5.54%) CSS
14 274 (5.52%) JSON
15 265 (5.34%) XML
16 256 (5.16%) Hibernate
17 222 (4.47%) SOAP
18 178 (3.59%) Java EE
19 173 (3.49%) Ruby on Rails
20 143 (2.88%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 208 (4.19%) Algorithms
2 193 (3.89%) Greenfield Project
3 170 (3.42%) Product Ownership
4 168 (3.38%) Public Cloud
5 167 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
6 150 (3.02%) Cloud Native
7 138 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
8 108 (2.18%) Private Cloud
9 98 (1.97%) Fixed Income
10 95 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 91 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
12 81 (1.63%) Data Structures
13 75 (1.51%) Virtual Team
14 73 (1.47%) Derivative
14 73 (1.47%) Swaptions
15 60 (1.21%) Management Information System
16 59 (1.19%) Equities
17 58 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
18 56 (1.13%) Cyberattack
19 49 (0.99%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 697 (14.04%) Linux
2 288 (5.80%) Windows
3 271 (5.46%) Unix
4 128 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 123 (2.48%) Android
6 56 (1.13%) Apple iOS
7 43 (0.87%) Mac OS
8 39 (0.79%) Windows Server
9 25 (0.50%) Solaris
10 22 (0.44%) Ubuntu
11 19 (0.38%) CentOS
12 13 (0.26%) VMS
13 11 (0.22%) AIX
13 11 (0.22%) Fedora
13 11 (0.22%) HPUX
14 8 (0.16%) Debian
15 7 (0.14%) Windows 10
16 2 (0.040%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.020%) FreeBSD
17 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,262 (45.57%) Agile
2 1,855 (37.37%) Software Engineering
3 1,353 (27.26%) Microservices
4 1,255 (25.28%) CI/CD
5 1,240 (24.98%) DevOps
6 1,225 (24.68%) Problem-Solving
7 771 (15.53%) Actionable Insight
8 741 (14.93%) Mentoring
9 710 (14.30%) Containerisation
10 696 (14.02%) SDLC
11 594 (11.97%) Design Patterns
12 574 (11.56%) TDD
13 559 (11.26%) Test Automation
14 526 (10.60%) Continuous Integration
15 470 (9.47%) Computer Science
16 467 (9.41%) Unit Testing
17 455 (9.17%) Full Stack Development
18 450 (9.07%) Scrum
19 360 (7.25%) Clean Code
19 360 (7.25%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 1,862 (37.51%) Python
2 1,162 (23.41%) JavaScript
3 1,009 (20.33%) SQL
4 727 (14.65%) C#
5 399 (8.04%) C++
6 377 (7.59%) Bash
7 373 (7.51%) Ruby
8 365 (7.35%) Go
9 361 (7.27%) TypeScript
10 290 (5.84%) Kotlin
11 255 (5.14%) PowerShell
12 253 (5.10%) Scala
13 160 (3.22%) Perl
14 140 (2.82%) C
15 126 (2.54%) Shell Script
16 86 (1.73%) PL/SQL
17 81 (1.63%) VB
18 70 (1.41%) PHP
18 70 (1.41%) Rust
19 69 (1.39%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1,084 (21.84%) Security Cleared
2 773 (15.57%) SC Cleared
3 607 (12.23%) Degree
4 324 (6.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 247 (4.98%) DV Cleared
6 95 (1.91%) Master's Degree
7 85 (1.71%) AWS Certification
8 50 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 38 (0.77%) PhD
10 34 (0.68%) Azure Certification
11 33 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 33 (0.66%) ISTQB
12 30 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
13 24 (0.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 24 (0.48%) ISEB
14 23 (0.46%) OCP
14 23 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
15 20 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
16 10 (0.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 10 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 446 (8.98%) QA
2 104 (2.10%) SLA
3 52 (1.05%) Accessibility
4 28 (0.56%) GDPR
4 28 (0.56%) SEPA
5 21 (0.42%) Data Quality
6 19 (0.38%) ISO 20022
7 10 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.16%) NCSC
9 5 (0.10%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
10 4 (0.081%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.081%) NIST
11 3 (0.060%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.060%) GMP
11 3 (0.060%) IEC 61508
11 3 (0.060%) PMO
11 3 (0.060%) WCAG
12 2 (0.040%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.040%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1,193 (24.03%) Docker
2 89 (1.79%) Hyper-V
3 85 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.54%) Active Directory
5 23 (0.46%) VMware NSX
6 19 (0.38%) HDFS
7 18 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
8 13 (0.26%) Firmware
9 6 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 6 (0.12%) Ceph
9 6 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.060%) NFS
11 3 (0.060%) vSphere
12 2 (0.040%) ACF2
12 2 (0.040%) IAG
12 2 (0.040%) Kamailio
12 2 (0.040%) OpenSIPS
12 2 (0.040%) Postfix
12 2 (0.040%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1,167 (23.51%) Kubernetes
2 500 (10.07%) Terraform
3 374 (7.53%) Ansible
4 149 (3.00%) Puppet
5 92 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
6 77 (1.55%) OpenSSO
7 56 (1.13%) Grafana
8 49 (0.99%) Progress Chef
9 42 (0.85%) Argo
10 41 (0.83%) Prometheus
11 39 (0.79%) Rancher
12 26 (0.52%) Packer
13 24 (0.48%) HP Quality Center
14 22 (0.44%) AirWatch
15 18 (0.36%) Istio
16 15 (0.30%) Kustomize
17 13 (0.26%) Salt
18 12 (0.24%) Kibana
19 11 (0.22%) Nagios
20 8 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 611 (12.31%) Oracle
2 209 (4.21%) Microsoft
3 147 (2.96%) Google
4 133 (2.68%) Red Hat
5 126 (2.54%) VMware
6 107 (2.16%) IBM
7 104 (2.10%) Splunk
8 94 (1.89%) TIBCO
9 91 (1.83%) SAP
10 84 (1.69%) Sybase
11 74 (1.49%) OpenLink
12 59 (1.19%) Remedy
13 56 (1.13%) ServiceNow
14 49 (0.99%) Atlassian
15 42 (0.85%) Salesforce
16 41 (0.83%) Databricks
17 39 (0.79%) Dynatrace
18 37 (0.75%) HP
19 35 (0.71%) Kofax
20 30 (0.60%) Pega