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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 18 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 6,832 10,465 22,684
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.94% 10.30% 14.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.68% 23.81% 26.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,884 6,242 9,870
10th Percentile £38,750 £45,775 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,500 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £96,539 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £124,250 £122,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,706 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.32% +9.05% +4.55%

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 33,037 43,949 85,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.55% 43.27% 54.00%
Number of salaries quoted 24,871 28,012 43,733
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,325
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.14% +6.65%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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
UK excluding London -1 4,599 £60,000 -4.32% 675
England -17 4,550 £73,805 -7.74% 1,196
Work from Home -15 2,342 £73,805 -1.59% 649
London -5 2,030 £95,000 +5.56% 633
Scotland +9 1,973 £60,000 -13.60% 89
South East -4 850 £60,250 -7.31% 144
North of England -18 656 £62,500 -3.85% 134
South West -7 609 £57,500 -4.17% 123
North West -13 458 £62,500 -6.02% 87
Midlands -53 274 £55,000 -8.33% 83
West Midlands -32 192 £57,000 -5.00% 59
Yorkshire -45 149 £65,465 +4.74% 34
East of England -82 106 £62,500 -10.71% 62
Wales +2 88 £50,000 -5.21% 11
East Midlands -72 81 £52,500 -8.70% 24
North East -46 49 £65,000 +4.00% 15
Northern Ireland -20 46 £85,000 +65.05% 34

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
1 608 (8.90%) Apache Spark
2 461 (6.75%) Apache
3 277 (4.05%) Apache Airflow
4 128 (1.87%) FileNet
5 115 (1.68%) Confluence
6 57 (0.83%) Camunda
7 56 (0.82%) nginx
7 56 (0.82%) Tomcat
8 54 (0.79%) JBoss
9 51 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
10 43 (0.63%) WebSphere
11 42 (0.61%) IIS
11 42 (0.61%) OpenStack
12 39 (0.57%) Red Hat Fuse
13 38 (0.56%) Tuxedo
14 37 (0.54%) Cloud Foundry
15 32 (0.47%) WebLogic
16 30 (0.44%) SharePoint
17 28 (0.41%) Captiva
18 22 (0.32%) GemFire
Applications
1 28 (0.41%) Simulink
2 24 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.12%) Adobe XD
6 7 (0.10%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.088%) CANalyzer
8 4 (0.059%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.059%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.015%) CATIA
9 1 (0.015%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.015%) Notion
9 1 (0.015%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 45 (0.66%) Endur
2 22 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
4 8 (0.12%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 7 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.10%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.088%) NEC Housing
6 6 (0.088%) SAP S/4HANA
7 5 (0.073%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.073%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.059%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.059%) Sonata
9 3 (0.044%) Oracle Applications
10 2 (0.029%) Adaptiv
10 2 (0.029%) BusinessWorks
10 2 (0.029%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.029%) Oracle EBS R12
10 2 (0.029%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 2 (0.029%) Temenos T24
11 1 (0.015%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 3,050 (44.64%) AWS
2 1,312 (19.20%) Azure
3 660 (9.66%) GCP
4 572 (8.37%) Serverless
5 285 (4.17%) Amazon S3
6 268 (3.92%) SaaS
7 261 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
8 244 (3.57%) dbt
9 243 (3.56%) GitHub
10 239 (3.50%) Snowflake
11 223 (3.26%) Amazon EKS
12 212 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
13 201 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
14 195 (2.85%) OpenShift
15 187 (2.74%) IBM Cloud
16 171 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
17 166 (2.43%) Amazon SQS
18 146 (2.14%) Azure Functions
19 133 (1.95%) Azure Service Bus
20 132 (1.93%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 101 (1.48%) TCP/IP
2 87 (1.27%) DNS
3 70 (1.02%) HTTP
4 62 (0.91%) Firewall
5 46 (0.67%) DHCP
6 41 (0.60%) AMQP
7 32 (0.47%) WAN
8 25 (0.37%) Internet
8 25 (0.37%) Network Security
9 18 (0.26%) DSL
9 18 (0.26%) Kerberos
9 18 (0.26%) Modbus
10 16 (0.23%) SNMP
10 16 (0.23%) SSH
11 13 (0.19%) Wireless
12 12 (0.18%) MQTT
13 10 (0.15%) VPN
14 8 (0.12%) Bluetooth
14 8 (0.12%) FTP
15 7 (0.10%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,011 (14.80%) NoSQL
2 634 (9.28%) Relational Database
3 574 (8.40%) Big Data
4 536 (7.85%) PostgreSQL
5 499 (7.30%) MongoDB
6 366 (5.36%) Hadoop
7 330 (4.83%) Data Lake
8 316 (4.63%) SQL Server
9 302 (4.42%) MySQL
10 274 (4.01%) Elasticsearch
11 242 (3.54%) Amazon Athena
12 230 (3.37%) Dremio
13 229 (3.35%) Apache Arrow
14 192 (2.81%) DB2
15 188 (2.75%) Apache Ignite
16 179 (2.62%) RDBMS
17 173 (2.53%) Apache Cassandra
18 120 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
19 119 (1.74%) Apache Hive
20 113 (1.65%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 679 (9.94%) Jenkins
2 652 (9.54%) Git
3 372 (5.44%) JUnit
4 290 (4.24%) JIRA
5 283 (4.14%) Selenium
6 214 (3.13%) Cucumber
7 205 (3.00%) GitLab
8 191 (2.80%) Maven
9 150 (2.20%) Cypress.io
10 114 (1.67%) WebDriver
11 113 (1.65%) Jasmine
11 113 (1.65%) Postman
12 89 (1.30%) Mockito
13 87 (1.27%) JMeter
14 78 (1.14%) Gradle
15 77 (1.13%) IntelliJ
16 74 (1.08%) Visual Studio
17 68 (1.00%) Protractor
18 65 (0.95%) Bitbucket Server
19 60 (0.88%) Bitbucket
General
1 2,832 (41.45%) Finance
2 1,993 (29.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,763 (25.81%) Law
4 1,058 (15.49%) Social Skills
5 935 (13.69%) Banking
6 860 (12.59%) Marketing
7 550 (8.05%) Investment Banking
8 549 (8.04%) Legal
9 481 (7.04%) Public Sector
10 403 (5.90%) Front Office
11 397 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
12 219 (3.21%) Financial Institution
13 195 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
14 113 (1.65%) Games
15 109 (1.60%) Retail
16 94 (1.38%) Aerospace
17 76 (1.11%) Private Banking
18 74 (1.08%) Electronics
19 65 (0.95%) Telecoms
20 62 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2,601 (38.07%) Software Engineer
2 2,039 (29.84%) Developer
3 1,372 (20.08%) Senior
4 1,310 (19.17%) Java Engineer
5 1,236 (18.09%) Lead
6 1,132 (16.57%) Java Software Engineer
7 1,005 (14.71%) Java Developer
8 605 (8.86%) Lead Software Engineer
9 486 (7.11%) Senior Software Engineer
10 443 (6.48%) Senior Developer
11 421 (6.16%) Full Stack Engineer
12 399 (5.84%) Full Stack Developer
13 379 (5.55%) AWS Engineer
14 345 (5.05%) Lead Java Engineer
15 339 (4.96%) Full Stack Software Engineer
16 320 (4.68%) Architect
17 317 (4.64%) Software Developer
18 302 (4.42%) Big Data Engineer
19 301 (4.41%) Senior Java Developer
20 255 (3.73%) Big Data Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,645 (24.08%) Spring
2 1,229 (17.99%) React
3 1,025 (15.00%) Spring Boot
4 956 (13.99%) AngularJS
5 767 (11.23%) Kafka
6 735 (10.76%) Node.js
7 728 (10.66%) REST
8 721 (10.55%) HTML
9 640 (9.37%) CSS
10 521 (7.63%) .NET
11 460 (6.73%) Web Services
12 439 (6.43%) Hibernate
13 430 (6.29%) RESTful
14 409 (5.99%) J2EE
15 345 (5.05%) JSON
16 329 (4.82%) jQuery
17 319 (4.67%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 270 (3.95%) gRPC
19 231 (3.38%) Protocol Buffers
20 211 (3.09%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 857 (12.54%) Algorithms
2 754 (11.04%) Cloud Native
3 351 (5.14%) Data Structures
4 335 (4.90%) Public Cloud
5 327 (4.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 281 (4.11%) Hedge funds
7 266 (3.89%) Fixed Income
8 236 (3.45%) Equities
9 215 (3.15%) Distributed Systems
10 211 (3.09%) Blockchain
11 210 (3.07%) Derivative
12 207 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
13 205 (3.00%) Onboarding
14 172 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
15 169 (2.47%) Private Cloud
16 161 (2.36%) Product Ownership
17 157 (2.30%) Management Information System
18 140 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
19 86 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
20 82 (1.20%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 927 (13.57%) Linux
2 413 (6.05%) Windows
3 261 (3.82%) Unix
4 231 (3.38%) Android
5 196 (2.87%) Apple iOS
6 114 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 56 (0.82%) CentOS
8 45 (0.66%) Ubuntu
9 38 (0.56%) Windows Server
10 28 (0.41%) Debian
11 27 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
12 23 (0.34%) AIX
13 10 (0.15%) VMS
13 10 (0.15%) Windows 10
14 9 (0.13%) Mac OS
15 5 (0.073%) Mac OS X
15 5 (0.073%) Oracle Linux
16 4 (0.059%) Solaris
17 3 (0.044%) FreeBSD
17 3 (0.044%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,607 (52.80%) Agile
2 3,526 (51.61%) Software Engineering
3 2,235 (32.71%) CI/CD
4 1,933 (28.29%) SDLC
5 1,446 (21.17%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,433 (20.97%) Microservices
7 1,311 (19.19%) Operational Stability
8 1,284 (18.79%) Machine Learning
9 1,242 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
10 1,232 (18.03%) DevOps
11 1,100 (16.10%) Full Stack Development
12 841 (12.31%) Community of Practice
13 816 (11.94%) TDD
14 815 (11.93%) Mentoring
15 786 (11.50%) Continuous Improvement
16 744 (10.89%) Computer Science
17 730 (10.69%) Test Automation
18 638 (9.34%) Visualisation
19 618 (9.05%) Decision-Making
20 588 (8.61%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2,450 (35.86%) Python
2 2,125 (31.10%) SQL
3 1,714 (25.09%) JavaScript
4 852 (12.47%) C#
5 744 (10.89%) TypeScript
6 588 (8.61%) Scala
7 419 (6.13%) C++
8 371 (5.43%) Kotlin
9 368 (5.39%) Go
10 319 (4.67%) C
11 180 (2.63%) Ruby
12 178 (2.61%) Bash
13 174 (2.55%) PL/SQL
14 141 (2.06%) PowerShell
15 137 (2.01%) Shell Script
16 118 (1.73%) PHP
17 100 (1.46%) Perl
18 89 (1.30%) Rust
19 69 (1.01%) VB
20 64 (0.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 795 (11.64%) Security Cleared
2 766 (11.21%) Degree
3 525 (7.68%) SC Cleared
4 357 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 170 (2.49%) DV Cleared
6 129 (1.89%) Master's Degree
7 86 (1.26%) AWS Certification
8 82 (1.20%) PhD
9 46 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
10 39 (0.57%) Azure Certification
11 28 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 22 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
13 19 (0.28%) DBS Check
14 16 (0.23%) HNC
15 10 (0.15%) ISTQB
15 10 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
16 9 (0.13%) OSCP
16 9 (0.13%) PMI Certification
17 8 (0.12%) CISSP
17 8 (0.12%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 316 (4.63%) QA
2 178 (2.61%) Data Quality
3 93 (1.36%) SLA
4 54 (0.79%) Accessibility
5 51 (0.75%) GDPR
6 9 (0.13%) PMO
7 8 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.12%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (0.10%) SEPA
9 6 (0.088%) ISO 26262
9 6 (0.088%) ISO 9001
9 6 (0.088%) NIST
9 6 (0.088%) TickIT
10 4 (0.059%) COBIT
11 3 (0.044%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.044%) MiFID
12 2 (0.029%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.029%) IEC 61508
12 2 (0.029%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 1,025 (15.00%) Docker
2 93 (1.36%) HDFS
3 75 (1.10%) Hyper-V
4 60 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 34 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
6 30 (0.44%) Active Directory
7 26 (0.38%) Firmware
7 26 (0.38%) VMware NSX
8 19 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
9 11 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
9 11 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
10 8 (0.12%) KVM
10 8 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.044%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.029%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.029%) OpenAM
13 1 (0.015%) Dovecot
13 1 (0.015%) GridGain
13 1 (0.015%) OpenDJ
13 1 (0.015%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1,325 (19.39%) Kubernetes
2 721 (10.55%) Terraform
3 324 (4.74%) Ansible
4 194 (2.84%) Grafana
5 129 (1.89%) Prometheus
6 117 (1.71%) Puppet
7 55 (0.81%) Progress Chef
8 45 (0.66%) Kibana
9 42 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
10 29 (0.42%) OpenSSO
11 26 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
12 22 (0.32%) HAProxy
12 22 (0.32%) Salt
13 21 (0.31%) Zipkin
14 16 (0.23%) Packer
15 13 (0.19%) WMI
16 9 (0.13%) Kiali
17 8 (0.12%) Argo
18 7 (0.10%) Graphite
19 6 (0.088%) logstash
Vendors
1 862 (12.62%) Oracle
2 287 (4.20%) Google
3 271 (3.97%) Microsoft
4 268 (3.92%) Red Hat
5 249 (3.64%) IBM
6 192 (2.81%) Splunk
7 171 (2.50%) Databricks
8 154 (2.25%) Dynatrace
9 98 (1.43%) Sybase
10 91 (1.33%) VMware
11 87 (1.27%) Cloudera
12 85 (1.24%) SAP
13 62 (0.91%) Informatica
14 57 (0.83%) Alteryx
15 54 (0.79%) TIBCO
16 51 (0.75%) SaltStack
17 50 (0.73%) Pega
18 47 (0.69%) Atlassian
19 45 (0.66%) OpenLink
19 45 (0.66%) YouTube