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 8 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 21 16
Rank change year-on-year -14 -5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 3,790 5,231 17,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.02% 9.16% 13.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.96% 22.49% 27.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,235 3,524 8,945
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,875 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £70,900
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +5.78% +1.29%
75th Percentile £110,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £125,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,450 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.92% +4.08% +9.09%

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 22,352 23,258 64,176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.59% 40.73% 47.30%
Number of salaries quoted 12,879 18,139 38,145
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,649 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,121 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,879 £65,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.26% +1.56% +6.67%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% 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 8 November 2024.

Salary histogram for Java in the UK

Java
Top 18 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 November 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 -13 3,414 £80,000 +5.89% 1,081
UK excluding London -22 1,981 £60,000 -3.92% 815
London -6 1,736 £100,000 +11.11% 476
Work from Home -15 1,621 £87,500 +23.98% 1,567
South East -1 614 £60,000 - 163
North of England -37 403 £57,965 -10.82% 212
South West -17 317 £62,500 - 95
North West -31 284 £57,560 -7.90% 124
Scotland -32 235 £55,000 -16.25% 110
East of England +17 183 £67,500 -10.00% 70
Midlands -83 158 £40,000 -31.03% 102
West Midlands -38 112 £50,626 -11.96% 52
Yorkshire -68 79 £58,982 -9.74% 41
Wales -23 50 £60,000 +11.63% 9
East Midlands -65 45 £35,000 -40.68% 50
North East -30 40 £68,982 +6.13% 47
Northern Ireland -17 26 £55,000 -21.43% 72
Isle of Man - 3 £36,000 - 1

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
1 448 (11.82%) Apache Airflow
2 435 (11.48%) Apache
3 70 (1.85%) Confluence
4 58 (1.53%) Apache Spark
5 37 (0.98%) Tomcat
6 33 (0.87%) nginx
7 30 (0.79%) CMS
8 22 (0.58%) WordPress
9 19 (0.50%) Apache Solr
9 19 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
10 13 (0.34%) Camunda
10 13 (0.34%) SharePoint
11 11 (0.29%) WildFly
12 9 (0.24%) OpenStack
13 8 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 7 (0.18%) IIS
15 6 (0.16%) JBoss
15 6 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 5 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
16 5 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 78 (2.06%) Simulink
2 29 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.21%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.21%) CPLEX
4 8 (0.21%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.053%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.053%) InDesign
5 2 (0.053%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.026%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.026%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.026%) EPLAN
6 1 (0.026%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.026%) SketchUp
6 1 (0.026%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 44 (1.16%) Ripple
2 24 (0.63%) Shopify
3 21 (0.55%) Endur
4 11 (0.29%) NEC Housing
5 10 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
7 5 (0.13%) Maximo
7 5 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.11%) Findur
9 3 (0.079%) FLEXCUBE
9 3 (0.079%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.079%) Temenos T24
10 2 (0.053%) Avolution ABACUS
10 2 (0.053%) Oracle BPM
10 2 (0.053%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
10 2 (0.053%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.053%) Workfront
11 1 (0.026%) iTrent
11 1 (0.026%) R3 Corda
11 1 (0.026%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 1,811 (47.78%) AWS
2 809 (21.35%) Azure
3 639 (16.86%) GCP
4 434 (11.45%) dbt
5 386 (10.18%) Snowflake
6 178 (4.70%) Serverless
7 162 (4.27%) SaaS
8 161 (4.25%) Amazon ECS
9 146 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
9 146 (3.85%) GitHub
10 144 (3.80%) Amazon EKS
11 114 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
12 94 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
13 87 (2.30%) OpenShift
14 74 (1.95%) Cloud Computing
15 67 (1.77%) Amazon S3
16 57 (1.50%) Dagster
17 49 (1.29%) Amazon SQS
17 49 (1.29%) IBM Cloud
18 46 (1.21%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 91 (2.40%) Broadband
2 44 (1.16%) DNS
2 44 (1.16%) Firewall
3 40 (1.06%) HTTP
4 28 (0.74%) Network Security
5 27 (0.71%) Internet
6 24 (0.63%) TCP/IP
7 22 (0.58%) WAN
8 21 (0.55%) LAN
9 19 (0.50%) SSL
10 16 (0.42%) DHCP
10 16 (0.42%) SAN
11 14 (0.37%) VPN
12 10 (0.26%) FTP
13 9 (0.24%) HTTPS
14 8 (0.21%) MQTT
14 8 (0.21%) SNMP
14 8 (0.21%) VLAN
15 7 (0.18%) Kerberos
15 7 (0.18%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 453 (11.95%) Data Lake
2 432 (11.40%) Amazon Athena
3 423 (11.16%) Dremio
4 368 (9.71%) Apache Arrow
5 354 (9.34%) Apache Ignite
6 292 (7.70%) PostgreSQL
7 258 (6.81%) NoSQL
8 165 (4.35%) MySQL
9 161 (4.25%) Relational Database
10 153 (4.04%) MongoDB
11 143 (3.77%) SQL Server
12 94 (2.48%) Big Data
13 56 (1.48%) Hadoop
14 55 (1.45%) DynamoDB
15 53 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
16 44 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
17 43 (1.13%) Amazon Aurora
17 43 (1.13%) RDBMS
18 39 (1.03%) Redis
19 35 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 412 (10.87%) Git
2 275 (7.26%) Jenkins
3 214 (5.65%) JIRA
4 182 (4.80%) GitLab
5 151 (3.98%) Maven
6 120 (3.17%) JUnit
7 110 (2.90%) Selenium
8 84 (2.22%) Cucumber
9 72 (1.90%) Bitbucket
10 61 (1.61%) Gradle
11 60 (1.58%) Mockito
12 52 (1.37%) JMeter
13 42 (1.11%) Cypress.io
14 39 (1.03%) Vagrant
15 38 (1.00%) Gatling
16 36 (0.95%) Artifactory
17 35 (0.92%) Postman
18 32 (0.84%) TeamCity
19 30 (0.79%) REST Assured
20 29 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,096 (28.92%) Finance
2 740 (19.53%) Banking
3 722 (19.05%) Social Skills
4 539 (14.22%) Front Office
5 431 (11.37%) Investment Banking
6 228 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
7 176 (4.64%) Public Sector
8 147 (3.88%) Law
9 144 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 101 (2.66%) Electronics
11 96 (2.53%) Legal
12 85 (2.24%) Financial Institution
13 82 (2.16%) Retail
14 68 (1.79%) Games
15 62 (1.64%) Aerospace
16 60 (1.58%) Manufacturing
17 58 (1.53%) Marketing
18 45 (1.19%) Telecoms
19 42 (1.11%) Tech for Good
20 31 (0.82%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,233 (32.53%) Developer
2 1,086 (28.65%) Software Engineer
3 902 (23.80%) Senior
4 598 (15.78%) Java Developer
5 518 (13.67%) Lead
6 480 (12.66%) Java Engineer
7 407 (10.74%) Senior Software Engineer
8 334 (8.81%) Java Software Engineer
8 334 (8.81%) Senior Developer
9 293 (7.73%) AWS Engineer
10 278 (7.34%) Python Engineer
11 240 (6.33%) Architect
12 216 (5.70%) AWS Software Engineer
13 209 (5.51%) Software Developer
14 205 (5.41%) Python Software Engineer
15 200 (5.28%) Senior Java Engineer
16 177 (4.67%) Senior Java Developer
17 151 (3.98%) Lead Developer
18 146 (3.85%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 124 (3.27%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 613 (16.17%) Spring
2 553 (14.59%) React
3 475 (12.53%) Spring Boot
4 436 (11.50%) Pandas
5 433 (11.42%) NumPy
6 425 (11.21%) SciPy
7 377 (9.95%) gRPC
8 367 (9.68%) Protocol Buffers
9 335 (8.84%) REST
10 320 (8.44%) HTML
11 275 (7.26%) CSS
12 258 (6.81%) Kafka
13 235 (6.20%) AngularJS
14 231 (6.09%) RESTful
15 221 (5.83%) Node.js
16 194 (5.12%) .NET
17 180 (4.75%) Web Services
18 168 (4.43%) XML
19 150 (3.96%) PySpark
20 102 (2.69%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 459 (12.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 416 (10.98%) Equities
3 415 (10.95%) Hedge funds
4 405 (10.69%) Fixed Income
5 401 (10.58%) Derivative
6 178 (4.70%) Distributed Systems
7 121 (3.19%) Algorithms
8 120 (3.17%) Blockchain
9 112 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
10 109 (2.88%) Cloud Native
11 99 (2.61%) Pricing Data
12 87 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
13 77 (2.03%) Mobile App
14 76 (2.01%) Onboarding
15 73 (1.93%) Product Ownership
16 67 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
17 55 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
18 53 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
19 50 (1.32%) Data Structures
19 50 (1.32%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 526 (13.88%) Linux
2 187 (4.93%) Android
3 149 (3.93%) Windows
4 80 (2.11%) Unix
5 73 (1.93%) Embedded Linux
6 70 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 48 (1.27%) CentOS
8 47 (1.24%) Apple iOS
9 41 (1.08%) Ubuntu
10 19 (0.50%) Windows Server
11 14 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
12 13 (0.34%) VMS
12 13 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
13 9 (0.24%) Debian
13 9 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
14 8 (0.21%) VxWorks
15 5 (0.13%) Windows 10
16 4 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
16 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
17 3 (0.079%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,761 (46.46%) Software Engineering
2 1,700 (44.85%) Agile
3 744 (19.63%) Microservices
4 690 (18.21%) DevOps
5 676 (17.84%) Problem-Solving
6 623 (16.44%) CI/CD
7 521 (13.75%) Asset Management
8 505 (13.32%) Computer Science
9 467 (12.32%) Full-Stack Development
10 439 (11.58%) TDD
11 430 (11.35%) Mentoring
12 419 (11.06%) SDLC
13 417 (11.00%) Test Automation
14 348 (9.18%) Artificial Intelligence
15 336 (8.87%) Fintech
16 332 (8.76%) Scrum
17 311 (8.21%) Investment Management
18 298 (7.86%) OO
19 276 (7.28%) Continuous Integration
20 265 (6.99%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,590 (41.95%) Python
2 1,146 (30.24%) JavaScript
3 875 (23.09%) SQL
4 700 (18.47%) TypeScript
5 562 (14.83%) C++
6 491 (12.96%) C#
7 324 (8.55%) Kotlin
8 265 (6.99%) C
9 191 (5.04%) Go
10 186 (4.91%) Scala
11 133 (3.51%) Bash
12 126 (3.32%) Rust
13 85 (2.24%) PHP
14 70 (1.85%) Perl
15 67 (1.77%) Ruby
16 62 (1.64%) PowerShell
17 56 (1.48%) Shell Script
18 52 (1.37%) PL/SQL
19 42 (1.11%) T-SQL
20 40 (1.06%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 688 (18.15%) Degree
2 483 (12.74%) Security Cleared
3 305 (8.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 260 (6.86%) SC Cleared
5 148 (3.91%) DV Cleared
6 78 (2.06%) Master's Degree
7 39 (1.03%) PhD
8 34 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (0.63%) AWS Certification
9 24 (0.63%) Azure Certification
10 20 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
11 16 (0.42%) ISTQB
12 15 (0.40%) DBS Check
13 12 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 12 (0.32%) Dell Certification
13 12 (0.32%) MCSA
13 12 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
14 10 (0.26%) PMI Certification
15 9 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 8 (0.21%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (4.64%) QA
2 117 (3.09%) Data Quality
3 67 (1.77%) Accessibility
4 19 (0.50%) SLA
5 18 (0.47%) GDPR
6 13 (0.34%) ISO 9001
7 12 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.29%) Def Stans
8 11 (0.29%) IEC 61508
9 9 (0.24%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.21%) TickIT
11 6 (0.16%) ISO 20022
11 6 (0.16%) NIST
12 5 (0.13%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.13%) SEPA
12 5 (0.13%) TARGET2
13 4 (0.11%) HL7
13 4 (0.11%) NCSC
13 4 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
14 3 (0.079%) SOC 2
System Software
1 570 (15.04%) Docker
2 50 (1.32%) Firmware
3 45 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
4 44 (1.16%) Active Directory
5 25 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
6 24 (0.63%) Hyper-V
7 17 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
8 16 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
9 10 (0.26%) Embedded Firmware
10 9 (0.24%) NDS
10 9 (0.24%) NetIQ eDirectory
11 3 (0.079%) KVM
12 2 (0.053%) OpenAM
12 2 (0.053%) OpenDJ
12 2 (0.053%) OpenIDM
13 1 (0.026%) Apache Flume
13 1 (0.026%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 1 (0.026%) Lustre
13 1 (0.026%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 622 (16.41%) Kubernetes
2 390 (10.29%) Terraform
3 204 (5.38%) Ansible
4 61 (1.61%) Puppet
5 44 (1.16%) Grafana
6 42 (1.11%) Progress Chef
7 34 (0.90%) Prometheus
8 24 (0.63%) Kibana
9 17 (0.45%) Salt
10 16 (0.42%) Argo
10 16 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
11 14 (0.37%) Packer
12 13 (0.34%) Nagios
12 13 (0.34%) WSUS
13 9 (0.24%) NetIQ Identity Manager
14 5 (0.13%) Pingdom
15 4 (0.11%) Consul
16 3 (0.079%) Control-M
16 3 (0.079%) HP Fortify
16 3 (0.079%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 208 (5.49%) Microsoft
2 200 (5.28%) Google
3 183 (4.83%) Oracle
4 80 (2.11%) Red Hat
5 78 (2.06%) IBM
5 78 (2.06%) Xilinx
6 67 (1.77%) Bloomberg
7 64 (1.69%) Reuters
8 62 (1.64%) Splunk
9 44 (1.16%) Xamarin
10 40 (1.06%) Atlassian
11 33 (0.87%) Databricks
12 25 (0.66%) VMware
13 24 (0.63%) SAP
14 22 (0.58%) Sybase
15 21 (0.55%) WooCommerce
16 20 (0.53%) ServiceNow
17 19 (0.50%) OpenLink
18 18 (0.47%) Salesforce
19 17 (0.45%) HP