Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 28 January 2022

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 28 January 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Java
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
28 Jan 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 18 14 9
Rank change year-on-year -4 -5 0
Permanent jobs citing Java 3,334 1,627 1,212
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.24% 14.45% 16.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.15% 23.24% 27.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,438 1,447 1,044
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £92,500 £77,500 £83,125
90th Percentile £112,500 £90,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +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 16,549 7,002 4,371
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 55.82% 62.21% 59.62%
Number of salaries quoted 13,044 6,372 3,853
10th Percentile £37,750 £35,000 £34,910
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% - -
75th Percentile £81,250 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £85,000 £89,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -

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 28 January 2022.

Java salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 28 January 2022, 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 1,635 (49.04%) Agile Software Development
2 1,378 (41.33%) AWS
3 1,219 (36.56%) Software Engineering
4 1,077 (32.30%) Python
5 1,068 (32.03%) JavaScript
6 960 (28.79%) CI/CD
7 951 (28.52%) Microservices
8 908 (27.23%) DevOps
9 906 (27.17%) Finance
10 868 (26.03%) SQL
11 867 (26.00%) Spring
12 829 (24.87%) Docker
13 750 (22.50%) Azure
14 734 (22.02%) Kubernetes
15 714 (21.42%) React
16 693 (20.79%) C#
17 667 (20.01%) Social Skills
18 572 (17.16%) Scrum
19 560 (16.80%) Full Stack Development
20 553 (16.59%) Git (software)
21 543 (16.29%) Node.js
22 534 (16.02%) TDD
23 532 (15.96%) GCP
24 525 (15.75%) Spring Boot
25 524 (15.72%) Test Automation
26 522 (15.66%) Jenkins
27 458 (13.74%) Kafka
28 456 (13.68%) Kotlin
29 426 (12.78%) NoSQL
30 424 (12.72%) TypeScript

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
1 189 (5.67%) Elasticsearch
2 122 (3.66%) Confluence
3 102 (3.06%) Apache Spark
4 82 (2.46%) Apache
5 58 (1.74%) Apache Solr
6 56 (1.68%) Tomcat
7 29 (0.87%) JBoss
8 25 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
9 21 (0.63%) Cloud Foundry
10 19 (0.57%) WebLogic
11 18 (0.54%) WebSphere
12 17 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 16 (0.48%) nginx
14 15 (0.45%) CMS
15 14 (0.42%) OpenStack
16 12 (0.36%) IIS
17 10 (0.30%) SharePoint
18 9 (0.27%) Appian
18 9 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
19 8 (0.24%) OnBase
Applications
1 12 (0.36%) InVision
2 7 (0.21%) Sketch
3 4 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.090%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.090%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.090%) Oracle Smart View
5 2 (0.060%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.060%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.060%) CPLEX
5 2 (0.060%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.060%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.030%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.030%) InDesign
6 1 (0.030%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.030%) Weka
Business Applications
1 16 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
2 12 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
3 11 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
3 11 (0.33%) Oracle BPM
3 11 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
4 10 (0.30%) Summit
5 9 (0.27%) Shopify
6 7 (0.21%) Distributed Ledger
7 4 (0.12%) PeopleSoft HCM
8 3 (0.090%) Magento
8 3 (0.090%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.090%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.090%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.090%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.090%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.090%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.090%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.090%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.090%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.060%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 1,378 (41.33%) AWS
2 750 (22.50%) Azure
3 532 (15.96%) GCP
4 302 (9.06%) Serverless
5 207 (6.21%) SaaS
6 189 (5.67%) AWS Lambda
7 163 (4.89%) GitHub
8 108 (3.24%) Amazon S3
9 90 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
10 76 (2.28%) AWS CloudFormation
11 69 (2.07%) OpenShift
12 61 (1.83%) PaaS
13 57 (1.71%) Datadog
14 51 (1.53%) Amazon Kinesis
14 51 (1.53%) Cloud Computing
15 41 (1.23%) Amazon SQS
15 41 (1.23%) IaaS
16 36 (1.08%) Slack
17 34 (1.02%) Google Play
18 31 (0.93%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 94 (2.82%) HTTP
2 35 (1.05%) Internet
3 22 (0.66%) VoIP
4 21 (0.63%) DNS
5 20 (0.60%) Firewall
6 14 (0.42%) TCP/IP
7 13 (0.39%) SSH
8 12 (0.36%) HTTPS
9 10 (0.30%) Broadband
9 10 (0.30%) MQTT
10 9 (0.27%) Network Security
10 9 (0.27%) PPP
11 8 (0.24%) UPnP
11 8 (0.24%) VPN
12 7 (0.21%) IPv6
12 7 (0.21%) RTSP
13 6 (0.18%) tcpdump
14 5 (0.15%) FTP
15 4 (0.12%) PBX
15 4 (0.12%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 426 (12.78%) NoSQL
2 346 (10.38%) PostgreSQL
3 319 (9.57%) MongoDB
4 315 (9.45%) MySQL
5 250 (7.50%) Relational Database
6 217 (6.51%) Big Data
7 181 (5.43%) SQL Server
8 179 (5.37%) Amazon DynamoDB
9 162 (4.86%) Redis
10 141 (4.23%) Hadoop
11 98 (2.94%) Apache Cassandra
12 78 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
13 76 (2.28%) RDBMS
14 53 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
15 50 (1.50%) Data Lake
16 47 (1.41%) Blockchain
17 41 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
18 35 (1.05%) BigQuery
19 28 (0.84%) Amazon Athena
19 28 (0.84%) Flink
Development Applications
1 553 (16.59%) Git (software)
2 522 (15.66%) Jenkins
3 235 (7.05%) JIRA
4 193 (5.79%) Selenium
5 164 (4.92%) Maven
6 138 (4.14%) JUnit
7 137 (4.11%) GitLab
8 120 (3.60%) Cucumber
9 103 (3.09%) Bitbucket
10 84 (2.52%) Subversion
11 73 (2.19%) Cypress.io
12 62 (1.86%) JMeter
13 58 (1.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 58 (1.74%) Gradle
14 52 (1.56%) TeamCity
15 45 (1.35%) Eclipse
16 40 (1.20%) Mockito
17 36 (1.08%) Postman
18 35 (1.05%) CircleCI
19 34 (1.02%) SonarQube
General
1 906 (27.17%) Finance
2 667 (20.01%) Social Skills
3 233 (6.99%) Retail
4 214 (6.42%) Banking
5 157 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 124 (3.72%) Public Sector
7 123 (3.69%) Front Office
8 104 (3.12%) Telecoms
9 99 (2.97%) Analytical Skills
10 93 (2.79%) Marketing
11 74 (2.22%) Games
12 55 (1.65%) Billing
13 48 (1.44%) Advertising
14 47 (1.41%) Law
15 45 (1.35%) Manufacturing
16 43 (1.29%) Automotive
17 41 (1.23%) Publishing
18 33 (0.99%) Electronics
19 26 (0.78%) Investment Banking
20 22 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,459 (43.76%) Developer
2 903 (27.08%) Java Developer
3 597 (17.91%) Software Engineer
4 414 (12.42%) Senior Developer
5 378 (11.34%) Java Engineer
6 286 (8.58%) Senior Java Developer
7 244 (7.32%) Java Software Engineer
8 204 (6.12%) Architect
9 198 (5.94%) Senior Software Engineer
10 185 (5.55%) Software Developer
11 127 (3.81%) DevOps Engineer
12 125 (3.75%) Senior Java Engineer
13 123 (3.69%) Full Stack Developer
14 112 (3.36%) AWS Engineer
15 111 (3.33%) Java Software Developer
16 108 (3.24%) Cloud Developer
17 106 (3.18%) Cloud Engineer
18 105 (3.15%) Developer/Software Engineer
19 101 (3.03%) Data Engineer
20 93 (2.79%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 867 (26.00%) Spring
2 714 (21.42%) React
3 543 (16.29%) Node.js
4 525 (15.75%) Spring Boot
5 458 (13.74%) Kafka
6 423 (12.69%) REST
7 412 (12.36%) HTML
8 398 (11.94%) CSS
9 376 (11.28%) .NET
10 369 (11.07%) AngularJS
11 351 (10.53%) RESTful
12 253 (7.59%) Web Services
13 227 (6.81%) JSON
14 190 (5.70%) Hibernate
15 189 (5.67%) Vue.js
16 183 (5.49%) XML
17 172 (5.16%) HTML5
18 125 (3.75%) GraphQL
18 125 (3.75%) SOAP
19 105 (3.15%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 226 (6.78%) Greenfield Project
2 190 (5.70%) User Experience
3 140 (4.20%) Mobile App
4 139 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
5 138 (4.14%) Cloud Native
6 134 (4.02%) Fixed Income
7 126 (3.78%) Derivative
7 126 (3.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 118 (3.54%) Self-Motivation
9 105 (3.15%) Equities
10 99 (2.97%) Public Cloud
11 97 (2.91%) Hedge funds
12 87 (2.61%) Algorithms
13 68 (2.04%) Data Structures
14 65 (1.95%) iPad
15 50 (1.50%) Social Media
16 49 (1.47%) Virtual Team
17 44 (1.32%) Management Information System
18 32 (0.96%) Video\Live Streaming
19 31 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 383 (11.49%) Linux
2 163 (4.89%) Android
3 140 (4.20%) Unix
4 130 (3.90%) Windows
5 88 (2.64%) Apple iOS
6 19 (0.57%) Ubuntu
7 17 (0.51%) CentOS
8 16 (0.48%) Debian
9 12 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 11 (0.33%) Mac OS
10 11 (0.33%) Solaris
11 10 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
11 10 (0.30%) Windows Server
12 7 (0.21%) Alpine Linux
13 2 (0.060%) VMS
14 1 (0.030%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.030%) Mesosphere
14 1 (0.030%) Robot Operating System
14 1 (0.030%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,635 (49.04%) Agile Software Development
2 1,219 (36.56%) Software Engineering
3 960 (28.79%) CI/CD
4 951 (28.52%) Microservices
5 908 (27.23%) DevOps
6 572 (17.16%) Scrum
7 560 (16.80%) Full Stack Development
8 534 (16.02%) TDD
9 524 (15.72%) Test Automation
10 402 (12.06%) Mentoring
11 401 (12.03%) Continuous Integration
12 381 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
13 334 (10.02%) BDD
14 320 (9.60%) Computer Science
15 313 (9.39%) OO
16 270 (8.10%) Open Source
17 252 (7.56%) SDLC
18 247 (7.41%) Analytics
19 231 (6.93%) Fintech
20 197 (5.91%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 1,077 (32.30%) Python
2 1,068 (32.03%) JavaScript
3 868 (26.03%) SQL
4 693 (20.79%) C#
5 456 (13.68%) Kotlin
6 424 (12.72%) TypeScript
7 321 (9.63%) C++
8 303 (9.09%) Go
9 282 (8.46%) Scala
10 243 (7.29%) Java 8
11 163 (4.89%) Ruby
12 128 (3.84%) C
13 105 (3.15%) Bash
14 101 (3.03%) PHP
15 83 (2.49%) Java 11
16 76 (2.28%) ES6
17 69 (2.07%) Groovy
18 55 (1.65%) Shell Script
19 54 (1.62%) Objective-C
19 54 (1.62%) Perl
Qualifications
1 401 (12.03%) Degree
2 260 (7.80%) Security Cleared
3 196 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 188 (5.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (1.02%) Master's Degree
6 31 (0.93%) ISTQB
7 27 (0.81%) AWS Certification
8 13 (0.39%) CREST Certified
9 12 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (0.36%) CISM
9 12 (0.36%) CISSP
9 12 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 12 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
10 10 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (0.27%) PhD
12 8 (0.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 8 (0.24%) CCSP
12 8 (0.24%) CISA
12 8 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (0.24%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 323 (9.69%) QA
2 49 (1.47%) Accessibility
3 28 (0.84%) Data Quality
4 26 (0.78%) SLA
5 19 (0.57%) GDPR
6 15 (0.45%) PCI DSS
7 11 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.24%) GRC
9 8 (0.24%) ISAE 3402
9 8 (0.24%) ISO 31000
9 8 (0.24%) ISO 9001
9 8 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 8 (0.24%) NIST
10 7 (0.21%) WCAG
11 5 (0.15%) SNOMED CT
12 4 (0.12%) PSD2
13 2 (0.060%) COREP
13 2 (0.060%) HL7
14 1 (0.030%) MiFID
System Software
1 829 (24.87%) Docker
2 17 (0.51%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.36%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 8 (0.24%) ISA Server
5 7 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (0.15%) Firmware
8 4 (0.12%) Ceph
9 3 (0.090%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.060%) HDFS
11 1 (0.030%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.030%) NDS
11 1 (0.030%) NFS
11 1 (0.030%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 734 (22.02%) Kubernetes
2 382 (11.46%) Terraform
3 209 (6.27%) Ansible
4 97 (2.91%) Prometheus
5 62 (1.86%) Grafana
6 53 (1.59%) Opscode Chef
7 52 (1.56%) Puppet
8 38 (1.14%) Docker Swarm
9 35 (1.05%) Kibana
10 17 (0.51%) Amdocs OSS
11 16 (0.48%) logstash
12 14 (0.42%) Hadoop YARN
13 13 (0.39%) HP ALM
13 13 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
14 12 (0.36%) ZABBIX
15 10 (0.30%) Nagios
15 10 (0.30%) Nessus
16 8 (0.24%) HP Quality Center
16 8 (0.24%) Trend Micro Deep Security
17 6 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 363 (10.89%) Oracle
2 279 (8.37%) Google
3 242 (7.26%) Microsoft
4 55 (1.65%) Salesforce.com
5 51 (1.53%) Splunk
6 43 (1.29%) BISAM
7 42 (1.26%) SAP
7 42 (1.26%) Twitter
8 31 (0.93%) Red Hat
8 31 (0.93%) Xamarin
9 28 (0.84%) Adobe
10 25 (0.75%) Dynatrace
11 24 (0.72%) AppDynamics
12 23 (0.69%) IBM
13 21 (0.63%) Atlassian
14 19 (0.57%) Okta
15 18 (0.54%) Elastic Path
15 18 (0.54%) ServiceNow
16 17 (0.51%) Amdocs
16 17 (0.51%) New Relic