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

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 19 16 15
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 4,947 15,944 17,065
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.19% 12.62% 13.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.62% 27.40% 25.24%
Number of salaries quoted 3,332 8,545 10,350
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 21,870 58,197 67,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 40.61% 46.05% 52.22%
Number of salaries quoted 17,139 36,667 45,610
10th Percentile £39,788 £38,250 £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 £105,000 £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 30 November 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 30 November 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 4,160 £75,554 +0.74% 1,536
Work from Home -1 2,616 £71,649 +2.36% 862
UK excluding London -8 2,585 £61,500 +2.50% 953
London -4 2,077 £90,000 +2.86% 826
North of England -8 665 £62,500 +4.17% 204
South West -2 565 £62,500 +8.70% 143
South East -6 477 £60,000 -4.00% 296
Scotland -2 398 £67,000 +7.20% 90
North West 0 393 £62,500 +4.17% 118
Yorkshire -17 235 £65,000 +8.33% 63
Midlands -46 205 £57,500 - 97
Wales +15 136 £49,355 -16.58% 18
West Midlands -39 125 £57,500 -4.17% 65
Northern Ireland -9 86 £70,000 +16.67% 29
East Midlands -38 79 £60,000 +9.09% 32
East of England -36 71 £75,000 +20.00% 91
North East -7 37 £65,000 +4.00% 26

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
1 126 (2.55%) Confluence
2 115 (2.32%) Apache Spark
3 110 (2.22%) JBoss
4 107 (2.16%) Apache
5 99 (2.00%) WebLogic
6 98 (1.98%) Red Hat Fuse
7 84 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
8 75 (1.52%) Tomcat
9 71 (1.44%) SharePoint
10 58 (1.17%) IIS
11 51 (1.03%) WebSphere
12 27 (0.55%) Jetty
13 25 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 24 (0.49%) nginx
15 23 (0.46%) FileNet
16 21 (0.42%) Captiva
16 21 (0.42%) WebSphere Application Server
17 18 (0.36%) CMS
18 17 (0.34%) OpenStack
19 13 (0.26%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.12%) Simulink
3 5 (0.10%) Adobe XD
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 (0.040%) CANalyzer
6 2 (0.040%) CATIA
6 2 (0.040%) 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 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
5 6 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.10%) BusinessWorks
6 5 (0.10%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 5 (0.10%) SAP SD
7 4 (0.081%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.081%) Siebel CRM
8 3 (0.061%) Magento
8 3 (0.061%) SAP CRM
8 3 (0.061%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.061%) Temenos T24
9 2 (0.040%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.040%) ION MarketView
9 2 (0.040%) Oracle Cash Management
9 2 (0.040%) Ripple
9 2 (0.040%) Shopify
9 2 (0.040%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 2,022 (40.87%) AWS
2 1,056 (21.35%) Azure
3 657 (13.28%) GCP
4 554 (11.20%) Serverless
5 375 (7.58%) OpenShift
6 294 (5.94%) GitHub
7 263 (5.32%) SaaS
8 138 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
9 133 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
10 123 (2.49%) Amazon S3
11 118 (2.39%) Amazon EC2
12 98 (1.98%) Cloud Computing
13 87 (1.76%) AWS CloudFormation
14 81 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
14 81 (1.64%) PaaS
15 75 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
16 60 (1.21%) dbt
17 59 (1.19%) Amazon ECS
18 50 (1.01%) IaaS
19 47 (0.95%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 111 (2.24%) HTTP
2 101 (2.04%) DNS
3 90 (1.82%) TCP/IP
4 76 (1.54%) Internet
5 74 (1.50%) DHCP
6 36 (0.73%) AMQP
7 26 (0.53%) Firewall
8 23 (0.46%) WAN
9 11 (0.22%) SSH
10 9 (0.18%) FTP
11 8 (0.16%) Network Security
11 8 (0.16%) VPN
11 8 (0.16%) Wireless
12 7 (0.14%) SMTP
12 7 (0.14%) SSL
13 5 (0.10%) Ethernet
13 5 (0.10%) Multicast
14 4 (0.081%) NAS
14 4 (0.081%) Software-Defined Networking
14 4 (0.081%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 381 (7.70%) Relational Database
2 303 (6.12%) SQL Server
3 283 (5.72%) NoSQL
4 265 (5.36%) Big Data
5 245 (4.95%) MongoDB
6 238 (4.81%) PostgreSQL
7 225 (4.55%) RDBMS
8 209 (4.22%) MySQL
9 187 (3.78%) Elasticsearch
10 151 (3.05%) Oracle Database
11 135 (2.73%) Hadoop
12 101 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
13 67 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
14 62 (1.25%) DynamoDB
15 58 (1.17%) Redis
16 55 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
17 53 (1.07%) Apache Ignite
17 53 (1.07%) Dremio
18 52 (1.05%) Apache Arrow
19 51 (1.03%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 789 (15.95%) Git
2 704 (14.23%) Jenkins
3 342 (6.91%) JIRA
4 318 (6.43%) Selenium
5 305 (6.17%) Cucumber
6 289 (5.84%) Maven
7 235 (4.75%) GitLab
8 167 (3.38%) IntelliJ
9 154 (3.11%) JUnit
10 129 (2.61%) Postman
11 115 (2.32%) Bitbucket
12 114 (2.30%) Gradle
13 109 (2.20%) Artifactory
14 104 (2.10%) Cypress.io
15 97 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
16 95 (1.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 84 (1.70%) SonarQube
18 70 (1.41%) JMeter
19 61 (1.23%) Mockito
20 60 (1.21%) WebDriver
General
1 1,247 (25.21%) Finance
2 892 (18.03%) Social Skills
3 610 (12.33%) Banking
4 351 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
5 303 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 292 (5.90%) Public Sector
7 282 (5.70%) Front Office
8 178 (3.60%) Investment Banking
9 175 (3.54%) Police
10 172 (3.48%) Retail
11 162 (3.27%) Games
12 134 (2.71%) Aerospace
13 90 (1.82%) Marketing
14 84 (1.70%) Financial Institution
15 81 (1.64%) Law
16 67 (1.35%) Legal
17 56 (1.13%) Retail Banking
18 51 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
18 51 (1.03%) Tech for Good
19 45 (0.91%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1,759 (35.56%) Developer
2 1,175 (23.75%) Software Engineer
3 1,157 (23.39%) Senior
4 1,101 (22.26%) Java Developer
5 555 (11.22%) Java Engineer
6 481 (9.72%) Lead
7 471 (9.52%) Senior Developer
8 397 (8.03%) Java Software Engineer
9 330 (6.67%) Architect
10 318 (6.43%) Senior Software Engineer
11 291 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
12 283 (5.72%) Senior Java Developer
13 191 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
14 189 (3.82%) Analyst
15 185 (3.74%) AWS Engineer
16 179 (3.62%) Software Developer
17 168 (3.40%) Full Stack Developer
18 137 (2.77%) Data Engineer
19 127 (2.57%) Applications Support
20 123 (2.49%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,246 (25.19%) Spring
2 804 (16.25%) React
3 677 (13.69%) Spring Boot
4 532 (10.75%) Kafka
5 510 (10.31%) REST
6 445 (9.00%) AngularJS
7 426 (8.61%) Node.js
8 397 (8.03%) HTML
9 381 (7.70%) .NET
10 335 (6.77%) RESTful
11 322 (6.51%) J2EE
12 308 (6.23%) JSON
13 291 (5.88%) CSS
14 278 (5.62%) XML
15 274 (5.54%) Web Services
16 253 (5.11%) Hibernate
17 227 (4.59%) SOAP
18 189 (3.82%) Ruby on Rails
19 188 (3.80%) Java EE
20 135 (2.73%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 201 (4.06%) Greenfield Project
2 169 (3.42%) Product Ownership
3 165 (3.34%) Distributed Systems
4 159 (3.21%) Algorithms
5 146 (2.95%) Public Cloud
6 141 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
7 113 (2.28%) Cloud Native
8 107 (2.16%) Fixed Income
9 100 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 96 (1.94%) Private Cloud
11 90 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
12 78 (1.58%) Derivative
13 73 (1.48%) Virtual Team
14 71 (1.44%) Data Structures
15 70 (1.41%) Swaptions
16 65 (1.31%) Management Information System
17 61 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
17 61 (1.23%) Equities
18 57 (1.15%) Cyberattack
19 55 (1.11%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 729 (14.74%) Linux
2 299 (6.04%) Windows
3 275 (5.56%) Unix
4 137 (2.77%) Android
5 126 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 55 (1.11%) Apple iOS
7 47 (0.95%) Mac OS
8 43 (0.87%) Windows Server
9 25 (0.51%) Solaris
10 24 (0.49%) Ubuntu
11 20 (0.40%) 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 (0.040%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2008
17 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,198 (44.43%) Agile
2 1,742 (35.21%) Software Engineering
3 1,355 (27.39%) Microservices
4 1,293 (26.14%) DevOps
5 1,219 (24.64%) Problem-Solving
6 1,147 (23.19%) CI/CD
7 796 (16.09%) Actionable Insight
8 754 (15.24%) Mentoring
9 730 (14.76%) Containerisation
10 588 (11.89%) Design Patterns
11 576 (11.64%) TDD
12 557 (11.26%) SDLC
13 553 (11.18%) Continuous Integration
14 551 (11.14%) Test Automation
15 479 (9.68%) Computer Science
16 469 (9.48%) Unit Testing
17 460 (9.30%) Scrum
18 433 (8.75%) Full Stack Development
19 367 (7.42%) Fintech
20 361 (7.30%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 1,864 (37.68%) Python
2 1,222 (24.70%) JavaScript
3 944 (19.08%) SQL
4 776 (15.69%) C#
5 418 (8.45%) C++
6 388 (7.84%) Ruby
7 379 (7.66%) Bash
8 366 (7.40%) TypeScript
9 360 (7.28%) Go
10 301 (6.08%) Kotlin
11 255 (5.15%) PowerShell
12 220 (4.45%) Scala
13 151 (3.05%) Perl
14 141 (2.85%) C
15 134 (2.71%) Shell Script
16 90 (1.82%) PHP
17 80 (1.62%) VB
18 76 (1.54%) Rust
19 70 (1.41%) Groovy
19 70 (1.41%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1,106 (22.36%) Security Cleared
2 795 (16.07%) SC Cleared
3 615 (12.43%) Degree
4 329 (6.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 255 (5.15%) DV Cleared
6 98 (1.98%) Master's Degree
7 78 (1.58%) AWS Certification
8 50 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 39 (0.79%) PhD
10 35 (0.71%) ISTQB
11 33 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 32 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
13 31 (0.63%) Azure Certification
14 26 (0.53%) ISEB
15 24 (0.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 23 (0.46%) OCP
16 23 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
17 20 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
18 11 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
19 10 (0.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 438 (8.85%) QA
2 99 (2.00%) SLA
3 46 (0.93%) Accessibility
4 29 (0.59%) GDPR
5 28 (0.57%) SEPA
6 26 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 19 (0.38%) ISO 20022
8 17 (0.34%) Data Quality
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 (0.040%) Government Security Classifications
14 2 (0.040%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 1,207 (24.40%) Docker
2 82 (1.66%) Hyper-V
2 82 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (0.59%) Active Directory
4 27 (0.55%) Firmware
5 21 (0.42%) VMware NSX
6 18 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (0.24%) LXC
8 8 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 7 (0.14%) HDFS
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 (0.040%) ACF2
13 2 (0.040%) IAG
13 2 (0.040%) Kamailio
13 2 (0.040%) OpenSIPS
13 2 (0.040%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1,172 (23.69%) Kubernetes
2 485 (9.80%) Terraform
3 389 (7.86%) Ansible
4 150 (3.03%) Puppet
5 98 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
6 83 (1.68%) OpenSSO
7 62 (1.25%) Progress Chef
8 47 (0.95%) Grafana
9 44 (0.89%) Prometheus
10 42 (0.85%) Argo
11 39 (0.79%) Rancher
12 26 (0.53%) AirWatch
12 26 (0.53%) HP Quality Center
13 24 (0.49%) Nagios
13 24 (0.49%) Packer
14 19 (0.38%) Istio
15 15 (0.30%) Kustomize
16 13 (0.26%) Docker Swarm
17 12 (0.24%) Kibana
17 12 (0.24%) systemd
Vendors
1 584 (11.81%) Oracle
2 225 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 159 (3.21%) Google
4 132 (2.67%) Red Hat
5 121 (2.45%) VMware
6 111 (2.24%) Splunk
7 104 (2.10%) IBM
8 89 (1.80%) TIBCO
9 88 (1.78%) SAP
10 76 (1.54%) Sybase
11 72 (1.46%) Remedy
12 71 (1.44%) OpenLink
13 55 (1.11%) ServiceNow
14 51 (1.03%) Atlassian
15 40 (0.81%) HP
15 40 (0.81%) Salesforce
16 34 (0.69%) Kofax
17 30 (0.61%) Dynatrace
18 26 (0.53%) Confluent
19 24 (0.49%) Databricks