Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 19 October 2021

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 19 October 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Java
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
19 Oct 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 17 11 10
Rank change year-on-year -6 -1 +5
Permanent jobs citing Java 3,260 966 1,163
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.83% 15.60% 15.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.66% 24.34% 25.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,493 866 1,042
10th Percentile £41,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £88,750 £76,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £88,125 £92,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% +8.70%

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 WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

All Programming Languages
Work from Home
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 15,780 3,969 4,481
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 57.29% 64.09% 58.74%
Number of salaries quoted 12,563 3,613 4,051
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £83,950 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Java
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Java trend for jobs with a WFH option

Java
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Java.

Java salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Java
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Java over the 6 months to 19 October 2021.

Java salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 19 October 2021, Java job roles required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with a WFH option and a requirement for Java.

1 1,548 (47.48%) Agile Software Development
2 1,149 (35.25%) AWS
3 1,120 (34.36%) Microservices
4 1,021 (31.32%) Software Engineering
5 981 (30.09%) Python
6 957 (29.36%) JavaScript
7 904 (27.73%) SQL
8 816 (25.03%) Spring
9 800 (24.54%) DevOps
10 766 (23.50%) Docker
11 753 (23.10%) Finance
12 695 (21.32%) React
13 669 (20.52%) Azure
14 655 (20.09%) Kubernetes
15 607 (18.62%) Social Skills
16 497 (15.25%) Scrum
16 497 (15.25%) Spring Boot
17 491 (15.06%) Full Stack Development
18 489 (15.00%) Jenkins
19 466 (14.29%) C#
20 462 (14.17%) TDD
20 462 (14.17%) Test Automation
21 455 (13.96%) Git (software)
22 454 (13.93%) Kotlin
23 442 (13.56%) Terraform
24 441 (13.53%) GCP
25 424 (13.01%) REST
26 408 (12.52%) AngularJS
27 398 (12.21%) Web Services
28 396 (12.15%) Node.js

Java
Co-occurring IT Skills with a WFH Option by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 154 (4.72%) Elasticsearch
2 123 (3.77%) Apache Spark
3 117 (3.59%) Apache
4 93 (2.85%) Confluence
5 63 (1.93%) Tomcat
6 50 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
7 46 (1.41%) CMS
8 27 (0.83%) JBoss
9 22 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 20 (0.61%) nginx
10 20 (0.61%) SharePoint
11 18 (0.55%) WebLogic
11 18 (0.55%) WebSphere
12 12 (0.37%) IIS
13 11 (0.34%) Apache Solr
13 11 (0.34%) SAS
14 9 (0.28%) Luigi
14 9 (0.28%) OpenStack
15 8 (0.25%) Apache Pulsar
16 7 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 8 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.21%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.15%) InVision
4 3 (0.092%) Figma
4 3 (0.092%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.092%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.092%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.092%) Oracle Smart View
5 2 (0.061%) 3ds Max
5 2 (0.061%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.061%) CPLEX
5 2 (0.061%) Maya
5 2 (0.061%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.061%) ZBrush
6 1 (0.031%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 29 (0.89%) Payment Gateway
2 21 (0.64%) Shopify
3 16 (0.49%) Oracle Applications
3 16 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
4 15 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
5 13 (0.40%) Oracle BPM
6 12 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
7 8 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
7 8 (0.25%) Magento
8 3 (0.092%) SAP Hybris
8 3 (0.092%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.092%) Summit
9 2 (0.061%) Adobe Campaign
9 2 (0.061%) Oracle iRecruitment
9 2 (0.061%) osCommerce
9 2 (0.061%) R3 Corda
9 2 (0.061%) Salesforce.com CRM
9 2 (0.061%) SDL Web 8
9 2 (0.061%) Unit4 Business World
10 1 (0.031%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,149 (35.25%) AWS
2 669 (20.52%) Azure
3 441 (13.53%) GCP
4 265 (8.13%) Serverless
5 175 (5.37%) SaaS
6 159 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
7 135 (4.14%) GitHub
8 111 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
9 107 (3.28%) Amazon S3
10 90 (2.76%) PaaS
11 71 (2.18%) Datadog
12 61 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
13 54 (1.66%) OpenShift
14 39 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
14 39 (1.20%) IaaS
15 38 (1.17%) Power Platform
16 28 (0.86%) Amazon SQS
17 26 (0.80%) npm
18 24 (0.74%) Slack
19 23 (0.71%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 89 (2.73%) HTTP
2 25 (0.77%) Firewall
3 21 (0.64%) Internet
4 20 (0.61%) Broadband
4 20 (0.61%) DNS
5 16 (0.49%) SSH
6 11 (0.34%) SMS
7 7 (0.21%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.21%) tcpdump
7 7 (0.21%) VPN
8 6 (0.18%) Network Security
8 6 (0.18%) WAN
9 5 (0.15%) IPv4
9 5 (0.15%) LAN
9 5 (0.15%) SSL
10 4 (0.12%) FTP
10 4 (0.12%) IPv6
10 4 (0.12%) RTSP
10 4 (0.12%) UPnP
10 4 (0.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 338 (10.37%) NoSQL
2 245 (7.52%) PostgreSQL
3 242 (7.42%) MongoDB
4 221 (6.78%) MySQL
5 192 (5.89%) Relational Database
6 181 (5.55%) Big Data
7 179 (5.49%) SQL Server
8 159 (4.88%) Amazon DynamoDB
9 150 (4.60%) Hadoop
10 120 (3.68%) Redis
11 93 (2.85%) Amazon Aurora
12 63 (1.93%) Apache Cassandra
12 63 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
12 63 (1.93%) RDBMS
13 52 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
13 52 (1.60%) Apache Ignite
14 45 (1.38%) Blockchain
15 40 (1.23%) Data Lake
16 38 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
17 36 (1.10%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 489 (15.00%) Jenkins
2 455 (13.96%) Git (software)
3 217 (6.66%) JIRA
4 212 (6.50%) Maven
5 206 (6.32%) JUnit
6 171 (5.25%) Selenium
7 112 (3.44%) Cucumber
8 88 (2.70%) GitLab
8 88 (2.70%) Gradle
9 83 (2.55%) Bitbucket
10 59 (1.81%) JMeter
11 47 (1.44%) Mockito
11 47 (1.44%) Postman
12 40 (1.23%) Cypress.io
13 38 (1.17%) WebDriver
14 37 (1.13%) Subversion
15 34 (1.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 31 (0.95%) Appium
17 30 (0.92%) REST Assured
18 28 (0.86%) CircleCI
General
1 753 (23.10%) Finance
2 607 (18.62%) Social Skills
3 213 (6.53%) Banking
4 192 (5.89%) Retail
5 157 (4.82%) Marketing
6 153 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
7 119 (3.65%) Front Office
8 96 (2.94%) Public Sector
9 91 (2.79%) Games
10 72 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 62 (1.90%) Telecoms
12 55 (1.69%) Billing
13 45 (1.38%) Law
14 40 (1.23%) Manufacturing
15 39 (1.20%) Advertising
16 35 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
17 33 (1.01%) Legal
18 32 (0.98%) Back Office
19 30 (0.92%) Electronics
20 29 (0.89%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,600 (49.08%) Developer
2 948 (29.08%) Java Developer
3 523 (16.04%) Software Engineer
4 406 (12.45%) Senior Developer
5 318 (9.75%) Java Engineer
6 300 (9.20%) Senior Java Developer
7 241 (7.39%) Architect
8 177 (5.43%) Senior Software Engineer
9 175 (5.37%) Java Software Engineer
10 169 (5.18%) Software Developer
11 140 (4.29%) Lead Developer
12 121 (3.71%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 109 (3.34%) Technical Architect
14 101 (3.10%) Full Stack Developer
15 100 (3.07%) Senior Java Engineer
16 98 (3.01%) DevOps Engineer
17 97 (2.98%) Python Developer
18 94 (2.88%) Python Engineer
19 86 (2.64%) Data Engineer
20 83 (2.55%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 816 (25.03%) Spring
2 695 (21.32%) React
3 497 (15.25%) Spring Boot
4 424 (13.01%) REST
5 408 (12.52%) AngularJS
6 398 (12.21%) Web Services
7 396 (12.15%) Node.js
8 365 (11.20%) Kafka
9 357 (10.95%) HTML
10 325 (9.97%) RESTful
11 302 (9.26%) CSS
12 299 (9.17%) .NET
13 249 (7.64%) Vue.js
14 174 (5.34%) Hibernate
15 173 (5.31%) JSON
16 154 (4.72%) XML
17 118 (3.62%) RabbitMQ
18 116 (3.56%) GraphQL
19 110 (3.37%) SOAP
20 99 (3.04%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 251 (7.70%) Greenfield Project
2 143 (4.39%) Mobile App
3 135 (4.14%) User Experience
4 120 (3.68%) Fixed Income
5 116 (3.56%) Algorithms
6 110 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
7 107 (3.28%) Virtual Team
8 102 (3.13%) Derivative
9 92 (2.82%) Data Structures
10 88 (2.70%) Hedge funds
11 86 (2.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 80 (2.45%) Cloud Native
13 78 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
14 77 (2.36%) Equities
15 74 (2.27%) iPad
16 62 (1.90%) Public Cloud
17 41 (1.26%) Management Information System
18 30 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
19 26 (0.80%) Blog
20 25 (0.77%) Contract for Difference
Operating Systems
1 367 (11.26%) Linux
2 183 (5.61%) Android
3 141 (4.33%) Windows
4 110 (3.37%) Unix
5 67 (2.06%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.43%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.37%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (0.25%) Mac OS X
10 7 (0.21%) Solaris
11 6 (0.18%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.12%) CentOS
13 3 (0.092%) Debian
14 1 (0.031%) AIX
14 1 (0.031%) Mesosphere
14 1 (0.031%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.031%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,548 (47.48%) Agile Software Development
2 1,120 (34.36%) Microservices
3 1,021 (31.32%) Software Engineering
4 800 (24.54%) DevOps
5 497 (15.25%) Scrum
6 491 (15.06%) Full Stack Development
7 462 (14.17%) TDD
7 462 (14.17%) Test Automation
8 354 (10.86%) Mentoring
9 350 (10.74%) Continuous Integration
10 327 (10.03%) Computer Science
11 324 (9.94%) OO
12 314 (9.63%) Problem-Solving
13 312 (9.57%) Open Source
14 278 (8.53%) BDD
15 259 (7.94%) Fintech
16 205 (6.29%) Analytics
17 196 (6.01%) SDLC
18 191 (5.86%) OOP
19 179 (5.49%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 981 (30.09%) Python
2 957 (29.36%) JavaScript
3 904 (27.73%) SQL
4 466 (14.29%) C#
5 454 (13.93%) Kotlin
6 355 (10.89%) TypeScript
7 338 (10.37%) Scala
8 305 (9.36%) Go
9 248 (7.61%) C++
10 237 (7.27%) Java 8
11 134 (4.11%) PHP
12 111 (3.40%) C
12 111 (3.40%) Groovy
13 108 (3.31%) Ruby
14 99 (3.04%) Clojure
15 81 (2.48%) Bash Shell
16 69 (2.12%) Java 11
17 52 (1.60%) PowerShell
18 45 (1.38%) PL/SQL
19 40 (1.23%) Apple Swift
Qualifications
1 351 (10.77%) Degree
2 189 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 171 (5.25%) Security Cleared
4 142 (4.36%) SC Cleared
5 31 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 30 (0.92%) AWS Certification
7 26 (0.80%) ISTQB
7 26 (0.80%) Numerate Degree
8 23 (0.71%) Master's Degree
9 17 (0.52%) PhD
10 16 (0.49%) CREST Certified
11 15 (0.46%) CISSP
11 15 (0.46%) DBS Check
11 15 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 14 (0.43%) OSCP
13 13 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.37%) HNC
14 12 (0.37%) MCSD
15 10 (0.31%) CISM
16 8 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 252 (7.73%) QA
2 54 (1.66%) Accessibility
3 28 (0.86%) GDPR
4 21 (0.64%) Data Quality
5 19 (0.58%) PCI DSS
6 18 (0.55%) SLA
7 14 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.34%) NIST
9 7 (0.21%) GRC
9 7 (0.21%) ISAE 3402
9 7 (0.21%) ISO 31000
9 7 (0.21%) ISO 9001
9 7 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 7 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.12%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.12%) WCAG
11 3 (0.092%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.092%) NCSC
12 2 (0.061%) ISO 15022
12 2 (0.061%) PSD2
System Software
1 766 (23.50%) Docker
2 12 (0.37%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 10 (0.31%) ISA Server
4 6 (0.18%) Firmware
4 6 (0.18%) HDFS
5 5 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.12%) Ceph
7 3 (0.092%) Gluster
7 3 (0.092%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.031%) Active Directory
8 1 (0.031%) Forefront TMG
8 1 (0.031%) iptables
8 1 (0.031%) Postfix
8 1 (0.031%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.031%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.031%) vSphere
8 1 (0.031%) Xen
Systems Management
1 655 (20.09%) Kubernetes
2 442 (13.56%) Terraform
3 283 (8.68%) Ansible
4 68 (2.09%) Opscode Chef
4 68 (2.09%) Puppet
5 37 (1.13%) Docker Swarm
6 34 (1.04%) Grafana
7 30 (0.92%) Prometheus
8 24 (0.74%) Kibana
9 19 (0.58%) Hadoop YARN
9 19 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
10 17 (0.52%) logstash
11 14 (0.43%) HP Quality Center
12 12 (0.37%) HP ALM
13 11 (0.34%) Amdocs OSS
14 10 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
15 9 (0.28%) Nessus
15 9 (0.28%) ZABBIX
16 8 (0.25%) Nagios
17 7 (0.21%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 338 (10.37%) Oracle
2 245 (7.52%) Google
3 215 (6.60%) Microsoft
4 52 (1.60%) IBM
5 44 (1.35%) SAP
6 37 (1.13%) Splunk
7 36 (1.10%) Adobe
8 33 (1.01%) Red Hat
9 29 (0.89%) Atlassian
10 23 (0.71%) Mercator
11 22 (0.67%) Elastic Path
12 20 (0.61%) Salesforce.com
12 20 (0.61%) ServiceNow
13 18 (0.55%) HP
14 16 (0.49%) AppDynamics
14 16 (0.49%) Guidewire
14 16 (0.49%) Xamarin
15 15 (0.46%) Dynatrace
15 15 (0.46%) Okta
16 14 (0.43%) Apple