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

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 18 16 15
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 4,915 15,857 17,036
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.21% 12.65% 13.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.71% 27.59% 25.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3,275 8,524 10,352
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £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 £91,250
90th Percentile £125,000 £120,000 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.50% +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 21,640 57,467 67,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 40.55% 45.85% 52.23%
Number of salaries quoted 16,902 36,547 45,642
10th Percentile £39,820 £38,302 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,140 £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 2 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 2 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 -6 4,099 £75,554 +0.74% 1,573
UK excluding London -8 2,588 £61,500 +2.50% 980
Work from Home -1 2,587 £70,576 +0.82% 874
London -3 2,044 £90,000 +2.86% 796
North of England -6 652 £62,500 +4.17% 221
South West -1 562 £62,500 +8.70% 148
South East -11 471 £60,000 -4.00% 309
Scotland -2 426 £66,500 +2.31% 91
North West -2 383 £62,500 +4.17% 127
Yorkshire -18 233 £65,351 +8.92% 70
Midlands -41 202 £57,500 - 97
Wales +16 136 £49,355 -16.58% 18
West Midlands -44 124 £57,500 -4.17% 68
Northern Ireland -9 87 £72,500 +20.83% 29
East Midlands -42 77 £60,000 +9.09% 29
East of England -44 70 £75,000 +15.38% 81
North East -12 36 £63,250 +1.20% 27

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
1 124 (2.52%) Apache Spark
2 123 (2.50%) Confluence
3 109 (2.22%) Apache
3 109 (2.22%) JBoss
4 99 (2.01%) WebLogic
5 98 (1.99%) Red Hat Fuse
6 84 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
7 68 (1.38%) SharePoint
8 66 (1.34%) Tomcat
9 57 (1.16%) IIS
10 51 (1.04%) WebSphere
11 24 (0.49%) FileNet
11 24 (0.49%) nginx
11 24 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 22 (0.45%) Captiva
13 21 (0.43%) Jetty
13 21 (0.43%) WebSphere Application Server
14 17 (0.35%) CMS
15 16 (0.33%) OpenStack
16 13 (0.26%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.12%) Simulink
3 5 (0.10%) Adobe XD
3 5 (0.10%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
4 4 (0.081%) Adobe Premiere
5 3 (0.061%) 3ds Max
5 3 (0.061%) Blender
5 3 (0.061%) Maya
5 3 (0.061%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.041%) CANalyzer
6 2 (0.041%) CATIA
6 2 (0.041%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.020%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.020%) InDesign
7 1 (0.020%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.020%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.020%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.020%) Trello
Business Applications
1 71 (1.44%) Endur
2 20 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (0.10%) BusinessWorks
5 5 (0.10%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 5 (0.10%) SAP SD
6 4 (0.081%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.081%) Siebel CRM
7 3 (0.061%) Magento
7 3 (0.061%) SAP CRM
7 3 (0.061%) SAP IBP
7 3 (0.061%) Temenos T24
8 2 (0.041%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.041%) ION MarketView
8 2 (0.041%) Ripple
8 2 (0.041%) SAP Hybris
8 2 (0.041%) Shopify
8 2 (0.041%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 2,015 (41.00%) AWS
2 1,033 (21.02%) Azure
3 646 (13.14%) GCP
4 566 (11.52%) Serverless
5 373 (7.59%) OpenShift
6 283 (5.76%) GitHub
7 259 (5.27%) SaaS
8 137 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
9 133 (2.71%) AWS Lambda
10 124 (2.52%) Amazon S3
11 119 (2.42%) Amazon EC2
12 86 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
13 84 (1.71%) Amazon EKS
14 83 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
15 79 (1.61%) PaaS
16 75 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
17 60 (1.22%) Amazon ECS
18 59 (1.20%) dbt
19 49 (1.00%) IaaS
20 48 (0.98%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 109 (2.22%) HTTP
2 102 (2.08%) DNS
3 89 (1.81%) TCP/IP
4 74 (1.51%) DHCP
5 69 (1.40%) Internet
6 36 (0.73%) AMQP
7 26 (0.53%) Firewall
8 23 (0.47%) WAN
9 11 (0.22%) SSH
10 9 (0.18%) FTP
11 8 (0.16%) Wireless
12 7 (0.14%) Network Security
12 7 (0.14%) SMTP
12 7 (0.14%) SSL
12 7 (0.14%) VPN
13 4 (0.081%) Ethernet
13 4 (0.081%) NAS
13 4 (0.081%) SAN
13 4 (0.081%) Software-Defined Networking
13 4 (0.081%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 393 (8.00%) Relational Database
2 299 (6.08%) SQL Server
3 286 (5.82%) NoSQL
4 269 (5.47%) Big Data
5 241 (4.90%) MongoDB
6 238 (4.84%) RDBMS
7 237 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
8 206 (4.19%) MySQL
9 188 (3.83%) Elasticsearch
10 158 (3.21%) Oracle Database
11 132 (2.69%) Hadoop
12 102 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
13 67 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
14 60 (1.22%) DynamoDB
15 59 (1.20%) Redis
16 55 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
17 53 (1.08%) Apache Ignite
17 53 (1.08%) Dremio
18 52 (1.06%) Apache Arrow
19 50 (1.02%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 786 (15.99%) Git
2 690 (14.04%) Jenkins
3 337 (6.86%) JIRA
4 300 (6.10%) Selenium
5 299 (6.08%) Cucumber
6 275 (5.60%) Maven
7 238 (4.84%) GitLab
8 167 (3.40%) IntelliJ
9 151 (3.07%) JUnit
10 125 (2.54%) Postman
11 115 (2.34%) Bitbucket
12 113 (2.30%) Gradle
13 109 (2.22%) Artifactory
14 103 (2.10%) Cypress.io
15 98 (1.99%) Sonatype Nexus
16 93 (1.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 84 (1.71%) SonarQube
18 67 (1.36%) JMeter
19 61 (1.24%) Mockito
20 59 (1.20%) WebDriver
General
1 1,259 (25.62%) Finance
2 876 (17.82%) Social Skills
3 602 (12.25%) Banking
4 348 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
5 333 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 290 (5.90%) Public Sector
7 281 (5.72%) Front Office
8 176 (3.58%) Investment Banking
9 175 (3.56%) Police
10 164 (3.34%) Retail
11 161 (3.28%) Games
12 134 (2.73%) Aerospace
13 111 (2.26%) Law
14 107 (2.18%) Marketing
15 87 (1.77%) Financial Institution
16 73 (1.49%) Legal
17 51 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
18 50 (1.02%) Retail Banking
18 50 (1.02%) Tech for Good
19 44 (0.90%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1,746 (35.52%) Developer
2 1,209 (24.60%) Software Engineer
3 1,148 (23.36%) Senior
4 1,097 (22.32%) Java Developer
5 562 (11.43%) Java Engineer
6 479 (9.75%) Lead
7 467 (9.50%) Senior Developer
8 406 (8.26%) Java Software Engineer
9 319 (6.49%) Architect
10 318 (6.47%) Senior Software Engineer
11 291 (5.92%) DevOps Engineer
12 280 (5.70%) Senior Java Developer
13 191 (3.89%) AWS Engineer
14 185 (3.76%) Analyst
15 183 (3.72%) Solutions Architect
16 175 (3.56%) Software Developer
17 168 (3.42%) Full Stack Developer
18 136 (2.77%) Data Engineer
19 125 (2.54%) Applications Support
20 123 (2.50%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,245 (25.33%) Spring
2 815 (16.58%) React
3 685 (13.94%) Spring Boot
4 527 (10.72%) Kafka
5 507 (10.32%) REST
6 451 (9.18%) AngularJS
7 419 (8.52%) Node.js
8 389 (7.91%) HTML
9 374 (7.61%) .NET
10 331 (6.73%) RESTful
11 323 (6.57%) J2EE
12 287 (5.84%) JSON
13 285 (5.80%) CSS
14 276 (5.62%) Web Services
15 271 (5.51%) XML
16 255 (5.19%) Hibernate
17 224 (4.56%) SOAP
18 188 (3.83%) Java EE
19 185 (3.76%) Ruby on Rails
20 136 (2.77%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 201 (4.09%) Greenfield Project
2 167 (3.40%) Algorithms
2 167 (3.40%) Product Ownership
3 163 (3.32%) Distributed Systems
4 145 (2.95%) Public Cloud
5 140 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
6 119 (2.42%) Cloud Native
7 107 (2.18%) Fixed Income
8 100 (2.03%) Private Cloud
9 98 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 90 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
11 78 (1.59%) Derivative
12 73 (1.49%) Data Structures
12 73 (1.49%) Virtual Team
13 70 (1.42%) Swaptions
14 60 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
14 60 (1.22%) Equities
15 57 (1.16%) Cyberattack
16 55 (1.12%) Management Information System
17 52 (1.06%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 710 (14.45%) Linux
2 295 (6.00%) Windows
3 272 (5.53%) Unix
4 133 (2.71%) Android
5 126 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 56 (1.14%) Apple iOS
7 46 (0.94%) Mac OS
8 42 (0.85%) Windows Server
9 25 (0.51%) Solaris
10 23 (0.47%) Ubuntu
11 20 (0.41%) CentOS
12 14 (0.28%) 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 (0.041%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.020%) Mac OS X
17 1 (0.020%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,181 (44.37%) Agile
2 1,775 (36.11%) Software Engineering
3 1,358 (27.63%) Microservices
4 1,274 (25.92%) DevOps
5 1,231 (25.05%) Problem-Solving
6 1,154 (23.48%) CI/CD
7 797 (16.22%) Actionable Insight
8 752 (15.30%) Mentoring
9 725 (14.75%) Containerisation
10 598 (12.17%) Design Patterns
11 576 (11.72%) SDLC
12 567 (11.54%) TDD
13 548 (11.15%) Test Automation
14 544 (11.07%) Continuous Integration
15 476 (9.68%) Computer Science
15 476 (9.68%) Unit Testing
16 450 (9.16%) Scrum
17 438 (8.91%) Full Stack Development
18 372 (7.57%) Clean Code
19 368 (7.49%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 1,852 (37.68%) Python
2 1,204 (24.50%) JavaScript
3 943 (19.19%) SQL
4 762 (15.50%) C#
5 413 (8.40%) C++
6 382 (7.77%) Ruby
7 379 (7.71%) Bash
8 370 (7.53%) Go
9 365 (7.43%) TypeScript
10 297 (6.04%) Kotlin
11 255 (5.19%) PowerShell
12 224 (4.56%) Scala
13 162 (3.30%) Perl
14 138 (2.81%) C
15 132 (2.69%) Shell Script
16 80 (1.63%) VB
17 75 (1.53%) PHP
18 74 (1.51%) Rust
19 73 (1.49%) PL/SQL
20 70 (1.42%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1,102 (22.42%) Security Cleared
2 791 (16.09%) SC Cleared
3 614 (12.49%) Degree
4 325 (6.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 254 (5.17%) DV Cleared
6 97 (1.97%) Master's Degree
7 80 (1.63%) AWS Certification
8 49 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 38 (0.77%) PhD
10 35 (0.71%) ISTQB
11 33 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 32 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
12 32 (0.65%) Azure Certification
13 26 (0.53%) ISEB
14 24 (0.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 23 (0.47%) OCP
15 23 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
16 20 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
17 11 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
18 10 (0.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 446 (9.07%) QA
2 100 (2.03%) SLA
3 47 (0.96%) Accessibility
4 30 (0.61%) GDPR
5 28 (0.57%) SEPA
6 19 (0.39%) ISO 20022
7 17 (0.35%) Data Quality
8 14 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.18%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.16%) NCSC
11 5 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
12 4 (0.081%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.081%) NIST
13 3 (0.061%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.061%) GMP
13 3 (0.061%) IEC 61508
13 3 (0.061%) PMO
13 3 (0.061%) WCAG
14 2 (0.041%) Government Security Classifications
14 2 (0.041%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 1,187 (24.15%) Docker
2 83 (1.69%) Hyper-V
3 82 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (0.57%) Active Directory
5 21 (0.43%) VMware NSX
6 18 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (0.28%) Firmware
8 9 (0.18%) HDFS
9 7 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 6 (0.12%) Ceph
10 6 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.061%) NFS
12 3 (0.061%) vSphere
13 2 (0.041%) ACF2
13 2 (0.041%) IAG
13 2 (0.041%) Kamailio
13 2 (0.041%) OpenSIPS
13 2 (0.041%) Postfix
13 2 (0.041%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1,156 (23.52%) Kubernetes
2 486 (9.89%) Terraform
3 375 (7.63%) Ansible
4 147 (2.99%) Puppet
5 98 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
6 83 (1.69%) OpenSSO
7 48 (0.98%) Grafana
7 48 (0.98%) Progress Chef
8 43 (0.87%) Prometheus
9 42 (0.85%) Argo
10 39 (0.79%) Rancher
11 26 (0.53%) AirWatch
12 25 (0.51%) Packer
13 24 (0.49%) HP Quality Center
14 19 (0.39%) Istio
15 15 (0.31%) Kustomize
16 12 (0.24%) Kibana
17 11 (0.22%) Nagios
17 11 (0.22%) Salt
18 10 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 594 (12.09%) Oracle
2 210 (4.27%) Microsoft
3 147 (2.99%) Google
4 132 (2.69%) Red Hat
5 121 (2.46%) VMware
6 105 (2.14%) IBM
7 97 (1.97%) Splunk
8 89 (1.81%) TIBCO
9 88 (1.79%) SAP
10 77 (1.57%) Sybase
11 71 (1.44%) OpenLink
12 60 (1.22%) Remedy
13 56 (1.14%) ServiceNow
14 51 (1.04%) Atlassian
15 40 (0.81%) Salesforce
16 38 (0.77%) HP
17 35 (0.71%) Kofax
18 31 (0.63%) Dynatrace
19 27 (0.55%) Databricks
20 26 (0.53%) Confluent