Java
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 20 16
Rank change year-on-year -9 -4 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 5,551 7,606 25,402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.14% 9.43% 14.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.12% 23.45% 27.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,193 5,056 10,097
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £41,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £105,000 £101,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £128,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +12.07% +5.45%

All Programming Languages
UK

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 27,596 32,430 91,738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.53% 40.19% 52.34%
Number of salaries quoted 19,728 24,108 43,810
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £37,171
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,850
% change year-on-year - +2.14% +7.70%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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
England -16 4,042 £80,000 - 510
UK excluding London -1 3,368 £60,000 -7.69% 433
Work from Home -12 2,017 £85,000 +13.33% 347
London -2 2,015 £100,000 +11.11% 192
Scotland +11 1,294 £53,000 -21.19% 44
South East 0 793 £57,500 -11.54% 77
North of England -28 494 £65,000 - 92
South West -13 423 £60,000 -4.00% 76
North West -15 368 £65,000 - 54
Midlands -78 192 £52,500 -12.50% 64
West Midlands -53 131 £55,000 -8.33% 52
East of England -48 94 £85,000 +30.77% 33
Yorkshire -69 90 £65,000 - 17
East Midlands -77 60 £50,000 -13.79% 10
Wales -29 47 £50,000 -11.11% 6
North East -21 36 £65,465 +0.71% 21
Northern Ireland -20 31 £68,750 +37.50% 53

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
1 688 (12.39%) Apache
2 594 (10.70%) Apache Airflow
3 329 (5.93%) Apache Spark
4 98 (1.77%) FileNet
5 79 (1.42%) Confluence
6 54 (0.97%) nginx
7 45 (0.81%) Tomcat
8 39 (0.70%) Cloud Foundry
9 37 (0.67%) Camunda
10 31 (0.56%) Tuxedo
11 25 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
12 22 (0.40%) GemFire
13 20 (0.36%) SharePoint
14 19 (0.34%) JBoss
15 17 (0.31%) IIS
16 15 (0.27%) CMS
16 15 (0.27%) WebSphere
17 14 (0.25%) WebLogic
18 12 (0.22%) OpenStack
19 11 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 78 (1.41%) Simulink
2 20 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (0.25%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.072%) CPLEX
5 4 (0.072%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.054%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.036%) CANalyzer
8 1 (0.018%) CATIA
8 1 (0.018%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.018%) Notion
8 1 (0.018%) SketchUp
8 1 (0.018%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 44 (0.79%) Ripple
2 26 (0.47%) Endur
3 17 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.31%) NEC Housing
4 11 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
5 9 (0.16%) Shopify
6 8 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
7 6 (0.11%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.090%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.090%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.090%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.072%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.072%) Sonata
10 3 (0.054%) Oracle Applications
11 2 (0.036%) Adaptiv
11 2 (0.036%) Dynamics NAV
11 2 (0.036%) Findur
11 2 (0.036%) Maximo
11 2 (0.036%) Payment Gateway
11 2 (0.036%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,762 (49.76%) AWS
2 1,133 (20.41%) Azure
3 724 (13.04%) GCP
4 571 (10.29%) dbt
5 535 (9.64%) Snowflake
6 396 (7.13%) Serverless
7 230 (4.14%) Amazon EKS
8 220 (3.96%) Amazon S3
9 202 (3.64%) IBM Cloud
10 201 (3.62%) Amazon ECS
11 200 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
12 187 (3.37%) Amazon EC2
13 183 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
14 172 (3.10%) OpenShift
15 168 (3.03%) GitHub
16 163 (2.94%) SaaS
17 147 (2.65%) Azure Functions
18 138 (2.49%) Azure Service Bus
19 135 (2.43%) Azure Logic Apps
20 129 (2.32%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 77 (1.39%) DNS
2 60 (1.08%) TCP/IP
3 57 (1.03%) HTTP
4 50 (0.90%) Firewall
5 41 (0.74%) AMQP
6 37 (0.67%) DHCP
7 29 (0.52%) Network Security
8 24 (0.43%) Internet
9 21 (0.38%) WAN
10 18 (0.32%) Kerberos
11 17 (0.31%) VPN
12 16 (0.29%) LAN
12 16 (0.29%) SSL
13 15 (0.27%) MQTT
14 13 (0.23%) FTP
15 11 (0.20%) SSH
16 10 (0.18%) Wireless
17 9 (0.16%) SAN
17 9 (0.16%) SNMP
18 8 (0.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 797 (14.36%) NoSQL
2 630 (11.35%) Data Lake
3 577 (10.39%) Amazon Athena
4 561 (10.11%) Dremio
5 530 (9.55%) Apache Arrow
6 510 (9.19%) PostgreSQL
7 476 (8.58%) Apache Ignite
8 454 (8.18%) Relational Database
9 427 (7.69%) MongoDB
10 341 (6.14%) Big Data
11 235 (4.23%) Hadoop
12 214 (3.86%) SQL Server
13 212 (3.82%) MySQL
14 195 (3.51%) Elasticsearch
15 170 (3.06%) DB2
16 145 (2.61%) Apache Cassandra
17 104 (1.87%) RDBMS
18 91 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
19 77 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
20 74 (1.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 462 (8.32%) Git
2 402 (7.24%) Jenkins
3 321 (5.78%) JUnit
4 219 (3.95%) Selenium
5 191 (3.44%) JIRA
6 174 (3.13%) GitLab
7 139 (2.50%) Cypress.io
8 138 (2.49%) Maven
9 134 (2.41%) Cucumber
10 105 (1.89%) Jasmine
11 92 (1.66%) WebDriver
12 90 (1.62%) JMeter
13 81 (1.46%) Postman
14 72 (1.30%) Mockito
15 66 (1.19%) Protractor
16 60 (1.08%) Karma Test Runner
17 45 (0.81%) Bitbucket
17 45 (0.81%) TeamCity
18 40 (0.72%) REST Assured
19 35 (0.63%) Vagrant
General
1 2,304 (41.51%) Finance
2 1,304 (23.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,227 (22.10%) Law
4 1,022 (18.41%) Banking
5 885 (15.94%) Social Skills
6 761 (13.71%) Investment Banking
7 645 (11.62%) Front Office
8 497 (8.95%) Marketing
9 446 (8.03%) Legal
10 350 (6.31%) Public Sector
11 287 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
12 167 (3.01%) Financial Institution
13 102 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
14 92 (1.66%) Aerospace
15 87 (1.57%) Games
16 81 (1.46%) Retail
17 74 (1.33%) Electronics
18 56 (1.01%) Tech for Good
19 42 (0.76%) Automotive
20 41 (0.74%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2,047 (36.88%) Software Engineer
2 1,580 (28.46%) Developer
3 1,123 (20.23%) Senior
4 1,056 (19.02%) Lead
5 1,040 (18.74%) Java Engineer
6 913 (16.45%) Java Software Engineer
7 762 (13.73%) Java Developer
8 495 (8.92%) Lead Software Engineer
9 482 (8.68%) Senior Software Engineer
10 448 (8.07%) AWS Engineer
11 358 (6.45%) Architect
12 332 (5.98%) Senior Developer
13 318 (5.73%) Full Stack Engineer
13 318 (5.73%) Software Developer
14 316 (5.69%) AWS Software Engineer
15 314 (5.66%) Full Stack Developer
16 276 (4.97%) Python Engineer
17 272 (4.90%) Lead Java Engineer
18 256 (4.61%) Senior Java Engineer
19 234 (4.22%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,177 (21.20%) Spring
2 979 (17.64%) React
3 740 (13.33%) Spring Boot
4 675 (12.16%) HTML
5 663 (11.94%) AngularJS
6 617 (11.12%) Kafka
7 613 (11.04%) Node.js
8 587 (10.57%) CSS
9 572 (10.30%) gRPC
10 567 (10.21%) REST
11 530 (9.55%) Protocol Buffers
12 515 (9.28%) NumPy
13 511 (9.21%) Pandas
14 508 (9.15%) SciPy
15 410 (7.39%) .NET
16 383 (6.90%) Web Services
17 350 (6.31%) Hibernate
18 309 (5.57%) J2EE
18 309 (5.57%) RESTful
19 306 (5.51%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 638 (11.49%) Algorithms
2 613 (11.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 600 (10.81%) Cloud Native
4 580 (10.45%) Hedge funds
5 525 (9.46%) Fixed Income
6 523 (9.42%) Equities
7 501 (9.03%) Derivative
8 293 (5.28%) Data Structures
9 268 (4.83%) Blockchain
10 226 (4.07%) Hybrid Cloud
11 165 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
12 160 (2.88%) Onboarding
13 148 (2.67%) Public Cloud
14 119 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
15 111 (2.00%) Management Information System
16 110 (1.98%) Product Ownership
17 105 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
18 94 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
19 90 (1.62%) Private Cloud
20 72 (1.30%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 796 (14.34%) Linux
2 334 (6.02%) Windows
3 275 (4.95%) Android
4 176 (3.17%) Apple iOS
5 161 (2.90%) Unix
6 120 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 83 (1.50%) CentOS
8 70 (1.26%) Embedded Linux
8 70 (1.26%) Ubuntu
9 36 (0.65%) Debian
10 27 (0.49%) Windows Server
11 23 (0.41%) AIX
12 11 (0.20%) Windows 10
13 9 (0.16%) VMS
14 8 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
15 6 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
16 5 (0.090%) Mac OS
16 5 (0.090%) Solaris
17 4 (0.072%) Windows Server 2012
17 4 (0.072%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,920 (52.60%) Software Engineering
2 2,917 (52.55%) Agile
3 1,568 (28.25%) CI/CD
4 1,363 (24.55%) SDLC
5 1,151 (20.74%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,067 (19.22%) Microservices
7 964 (17.37%) Machine Learning
8 949 (17.10%) DevOps
9 897 (16.16%) Full Stack Development
9 897 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
10 811 (14.61%) Operational Stability
11 677 (12.20%) Asset Management
12 676 (12.18%) Computer Science
13 597 (10.75%) TDD
14 595 (10.72%) Mentoring
15 559 (10.07%) Continuous Improvement
16 555 (10.00%) Test Automation
17 550 (9.91%) Community of Practice
18 499 (8.99%) OO
19 463 (8.34%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 2,199 (39.61%) Python
2 1,770 (31.89%) JavaScript
3 1,634 (29.44%) SQL
4 955 (17.20%) TypeScript
5 563 (10.14%) C#
6 465 (8.38%) C++
7 424 (7.64%) Scala
8 413 (7.44%) Kotlin
9 283 (5.10%) C
10 241 (4.34%) Go
11 105 (1.89%) Bash
11 105 (1.89%) PL/SQL
12 87 (1.57%) PowerShell
13 86 (1.55%) Rust
14 85 (1.53%) PHP
15 82 (1.48%) Shell Script
16 72 (1.30%) Ruby
17 59 (1.06%) Groovy
18 57 (1.03%) Perl
19 49 (0.88%) VB
Qualifications
1 680 (12.25%) Degree
2 610 (10.99%) Security Cleared
3 395 (7.12%) SC Cleared
4 360 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 175 (3.15%) DV Cleared
6 119 (2.14%) Master's Degree
7 66 (1.19%) PhD
8 43 (0.77%) AWS Certification
9 31 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
10 26 (0.47%) Azure Certification
11 21 (0.38%) DBS Check
12 20 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 14 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
15 11 (0.20%) PMI Certification
16 10 (0.18%) CISSP
17 9 (0.16%) OSCP
18 8 (0.14%) CREST Certified
18 8 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
19 7 (0.13%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 249 (4.49%) Data Quality
2 234 (4.22%) QA
3 59 (1.06%) Accessibility
4 32 (0.58%) SLA
5 26 (0.47%) GDPR
6 14 (0.25%) PCI DSS
7 11 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.16%) PMO
9 8 (0.14%) ISO 9001
10 7 (0.13%) NIST
10 7 (0.13%) TickIT
11 6 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.090%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.090%) MiFID
13 4 (0.072%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.054%) Def Stans
14 3 (0.054%) IEC 61508
15 2 (0.036%) IEC 62304
15 2 (0.036%) ISO 13485
15 2 (0.036%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 752 (13.55%) Docker
2 62 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
3 42 (0.76%) Active Directory
4 39 (0.70%) Hyper-V
4 39 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 37 (0.67%) HDFS
6 24 (0.43%) Firmware
7 17 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
8 12 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
10 5 (0.090%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.072%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.054%) KVM
12 3 (0.054%) OpenAM
12 3 (0.054%) OpenDJ
13 2 (0.036%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 2 (0.036%) OpenIDM
14 1 (0.018%) Dovecot
14 1 (0.018%) GridGain
14 1 (0.018%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1,035 (18.65%) Kubernetes
2 661 (11.91%) Terraform
3 290 (5.22%) Ansible
4 165 (2.97%) Grafana
5 134 (2.41%) Prometheus
6 108 (1.95%) Puppet
7 49 (0.88%) Progress Chef
8 47 (0.85%) Kibana
9 29 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
10 26 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
11 21 (0.38%) HAProxy
11 21 (0.38%) Salt
11 21 (0.38%) Zipkin
12 12 (0.22%) OpenSSO
13 10 (0.18%) Pingdom
14 7 (0.13%) Graphite
15 6 (0.11%) Control-M
15 6 (0.11%) Kiali
15 6 (0.11%) Nagios
16 5 (0.090%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 569 (10.25%) Oracle
2 281 (5.06%) Red Hat
3 229 (4.13%) Google
4 213 (3.84%) IBM
5 184 (3.31%) Microsoft
6 157 (2.83%) Splunk
7 131 (2.36%) Dynatrace
8 101 (1.82%) Databricks
9 78 (1.41%) Xilinx
10 72 (1.30%) Bloomberg
11 67 (1.21%) Sybase
12 65 (1.17%) Reuters
13 47 (0.85%) VMware
14 44 (0.79%) SAP
15 40 (0.72%) Informatica
16 39 (0.70%) SaltStack
17 38 (0.68%) Cloudera
18 37 (0.67%) Alteryx
19 36 (0.65%) Micro Focus
20 33 (0.59%) Salesforce