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

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 18 16
Rank change year-on-year -10 -2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 6,862 10,349 23,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.87% 10.40% 14.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.65% 23.99% 26.77%
Number of salaries quoted 3,909 6,129 9,761
10th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 £97,500 £101,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £125,000 £125,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +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 33,238 43,130 87,022
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.26% 43.34% 53.96%
Number of salaries quoted 24,895 27,636 43,338
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,250 £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 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%

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 19 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 19 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
England -17 4,598 £73,805 -7.74% 1,376
UK excluding London -1 4,580 £60,000 -7.69% 903
Work from Home -15 2,361 £73,805 -1.59% 726
London -5 2,080 £95,000 +5.56% 764
Scotland +9 1,966 £57,500 -17.20% 94
South East -7 860 £60,000 -7.69% 301
North of England -18 659 £62,500 -3.85% 151
South West -6 591 £57,500 -4.17% 130
North West -11 466 £62,500 -7.41% 95
Midlands -47 273 £55,000 -8.33% 105
West Midlands -36 191 £56,250 -6.25% 75
Yorkshire -49 144 £65,000 +4.00% 38
East of England -85 109 £62,500 -10.71% 64
Wales -8 83 £50,000 -9.49% 16
East Midlands -68 81 £52,000 -10.34% 30
North East -42 49 £65,000 +4.00% 19
Northern Ireland -28 41 £85,000 +70.00% 47

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
1 613 (8.93%) Apache Spark
2 500 (7.29%) Apache
3 324 (4.72%) Apache Airflow
4 120 (1.75%) FileNet
5 118 (1.72%) Confluence
6 57 (0.83%) Camunda
6 57 (0.83%) nginx
7 54 (0.79%) Tomcat
8 53 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
9 42 (0.61%) OpenStack
10 39 (0.57%) Cloud Foundry
11 38 (0.55%) Tuxedo
12 36 (0.52%) IIS
12 36 (0.52%) JBoss
12 36 (0.52%) WebSphere
13 29 (0.42%) SharePoint
13 29 (0.42%) WebLogic
14 23 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
15 22 (0.32%) GemFire
16 21 (0.31%) Captiva
Applications
1 38 (0.55%) Simulink
2 25 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.12%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.10%) Adobe XD
7 6 (0.087%) CANalyzer
8 4 (0.058%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.058%) 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 47 (0.68%) Endur
2 22 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
4 7 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.10%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.087%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.087%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 6 (0.087%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.073%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.073%) Teamcenter
7 4 (0.058%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.058%) Sonata
8 3 (0.044%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.029%) Adaptiv
9 2 (0.029%) BusinessWorks
9 2 (0.029%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.029%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.029%) Shopify
9 2 (0.029%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.029%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 3,122 (45.50%) AWS
2 1,339 (19.51%) Azure
3 671 (9.78%) GCP
4 553 (8.06%) Serverless
5 290 (4.23%) dbt
6 288 (4.20%) Amazon S3
7 283 (4.12%) Snowflake
8 262 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
8 262 (3.82%) SaaS
9 237 (3.45%) GitHub
10 226 (3.29%) Amazon EKS
11 212 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
12 204 (2.97%) Amazon ECS
13 202 (2.94%) OpenShift
14 187 (2.73%) IBM Cloud
15 171 (2.49%) Amazon EC2
16 169 (2.46%) Amazon SQS
17 147 (2.14%) Azure Functions
18 136 (1.98%) Azure Service Bus
19 132 (1.92%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 100 (1.46%) TCP/IP
2 86 (1.25%) DNS
3 69 (1.01%) HTTP
4 61 (0.89%) Firewall
5 46 (0.67%) DHCP
6 42 (0.61%) AMQP
7 26 (0.38%) WAN
8 25 (0.36%) Network Security
9 24 (0.35%) Internet
10 18 (0.26%) DSL
10 18 (0.26%) Kerberos
11 17 (0.25%) Modbus
12 16 (0.23%) SNMP
12 16 (0.23%) SSH
13 13 (0.19%) Wireless
14 12 (0.17%) MQTT
15 10 (0.15%) VPN
16 9 (0.13%) FTP
17 8 (0.12%) Bluetooth
18 7 (0.10%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,027 (14.97%) NoSQL
2 635 (9.25%) Relational Database
3 577 (8.41%) Big Data
4 557 (8.12%) PostgreSQL
5 506 (7.37%) MongoDB
6 372 (5.42%) Data Lake
7 369 (5.38%) Hadoop
8 316 (4.61%) SQL Server
9 298 (4.34%) MySQL
10 286 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
11 273 (3.98%) Dremio
12 271 (3.95%) Apache Arrow
13 269 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
14 224 (3.26%) Apache Ignite
15 191 (2.78%) DB2
16 180 (2.62%) RDBMS
17 171 (2.49%) Apache Cassandra
18 120 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
18 120 (1.75%) Apache Hive
19 108 (1.57%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 669 (9.75%) Jenkins
2 637 (9.28%) Git
3 368 (5.36%) JUnit
4 281 (4.10%) Selenium
5 278 (4.05%) JIRA
6 207 (3.02%) GitLab
7 205 (2.99%) Cucumber
8 188 (2.74%) Maven
9 153 (2.23%) Cypress.io
10 111 (1.62%) Jasmine
10 111 (1.62%) Postman
10 111 (1.62%) WebDriver
11 83 (1.21%) JMeter
11 83 (1.21%) Mockito
12 76 (1.11%) Gradle
13 72 (1.05%) Visual Studio
14 68 (0.99%) Protractor
15 62 (0.90%) Bitbucket Server
16 60 (0.87%) Karma Test Runner
17 58 (0.85%) Bitbucket
General
1 2,858 (41.65%) Finance
2 1,992 (29.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,772 (25.82%) Law
4 1,071 (15.61%) Social Skills
5 956 (13.93%) Banking
6 867 (12.63%) Marketing
7 583 (8.50%) Investment Banking
8 551 (8.03%) Legal
9 464 (6.76%) Public Sector
10 430 (6.27%) Front Office
11 397 (5.79%) Analytical Skills
12 217 (3.16%) Financial Institution
13 197 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
14 114 (1.66%) Games
15 108 (1.57%) Retail
16 102 (1.49%) Aerospace
17 83 (1.21%) Electronics
18 76 (1.11%) Private Banking
19 65 (0.95%) Telecoms
20 60 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2,611 (38.05%) Software Engineer
2 2,028 (29.55%) Developer
3 1,368 (19.94%) Senior
4 1,295 (18.87%) Java Engineer
5 1,265 (18.43%) Lead
6 1,116 (16.26%) Java Software Engineer
7 981 (14.30%) Java Developer
8 615 (8.96%) Lead Software Engineer
9 492 (7.17%) Senior Software Engineer
10 430 (6.27%) Senior Developer
11 421 (6.14%) Full Stack Engineer
12 402 (5.86%) AWS Engineer
13 397 (5.79%) Full Stack Developer
14 348 (5.07%) Lead Java Engineer
15 338 (4.93%) Full Stack Software Engineer
16 327 (4.77%) Architect
17 326 (4.75%) Software Developer
18 308 (4.49%) Big Data Engineer
19 291 (4.24%) Senior Java Developer
20 269 (3.92%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,610 (23.46%) Spring
2 1,207 (17.59%) React
3 1,025 (14.94%) Spring Boot
4 936 (13.64%) AngularJS
5 767 (11.18%) Kafka
6 745 (10.86%) Node.js
7 727 (10.59%) HTML
8 721 (10.51%) REST
9 645 (9.40%) CSS
10 534 (7.78%) .NET
11 452 (6.59%) Web Services
12 424 (6.18%) Hibernate
13 409 (5.96%) RESTful
14 385 (5.61%) J2EE
15 331 (4.82%) JSON
16 328 (4.78%) jQuery
17 318 (4.63%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 312 (4.55%) gRPC
19 273 (3.98%) Protocol Buffers
20 233 (3.40%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 855 (12.46%) Algorithms
2 762 (11.10%) Cloud Native
3 361 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 348 (5.07%) Data Structures
5 325 (4.74%) Public Cloud
6 324 (4.72%) Hedge funds
7 295 (4.30%) Fixed Income
8 270 (3.93%) Equities
9 248 (3.61%) Derivative
10 211 (3.07%) Onboarding
11 208 (3.03%) Blockchain
12 207 (3.02%) Distributed Systems
13 202 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
14 168 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
15 165 (2.40%) Private Cloud
16 161 (2.35%) Product Ownership
17 159 (2.32%) Management Information System
18 144 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
19 92 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
20 82 (1.19%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 921 (13.42%) Linux
2 414 (6.03%) Windows
3 254 (3.70%) Unix
4 240 (3.50%) Android
5 197 (2.87%) Apple iOS
6 115 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 62 (0.90%) CentOS
8 50 (0.73%) Ubuntu
9 38 (0.55%) Windows Server
10 33 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
11 29 (0.42%) Debian
12 23 (0.34%) AIX
13 10 (0.15%) VMS
13 10 (0.15%) Windows 10
14 9 (0.13%) Mac OS
15 6 (0.087%) Oracle Linux
16 5 (0.073%) Mac OS X
17 4 (0.058%) Solaris
18 3 (0.044%) FreeBSD
18 3 (0.044%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,646 (53.13%) Agile
2 3,560 (51.88%) Software Engineering
3 2,239 (32.63%) CI/CD
4 1,935 (28.20%) SDLC
5 1,474 (21.48%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,429 (20.82%) Microservices
7 1,314 (19.15%) Operational Stability
8 1,299 (18.93%) Machine Learning
9 1,257 (18.32%) DevOps
10 1,207 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
11 1,106 (16.12%) Full Stack Development
12 844 (12.30%) Community of Practice
13 816 (11.89%) TDD
14 790 (11.51%) Continuous Improvement
15 782 (11.40%) Mentoring
16 764 (11.13%) Computer Science
17 735 (10.71%) Test Automation
18 638 (9.30%) Visualisation
19 615 (8.96%) Decision-Making
20 590 (8.60%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2,491 (36.30%) Python
2 2,137 (31.14%) SQL
3 1,759 (25.63%) JavaScript
4 841 (12.26%) C#
5 780 (11.37%) TypeScript
6 599 (8.73%) Scala
7 430 (6.27%) C++
8 399 (5.81%) Kotlin
9 376 (5.48%) Go
10 322 (4.69%) C
11 173 (2.52%) Bash
12 172 (2.51%) PL/SQL
13 159 (2.32%) Ruby
14 141 (2.05%) PowerShell
15 132 (1.92%) Shell Script
16 120 (1.75%) PHP
17 99 (1.44%) Perl
18 90 (1.31%) Rust
19 71 (1.03%) VB
20 65 (0.95%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 790 (11.51%) Degree
2 789 (11.50%) Security Cleared
3 523 (7.62%) SC Cleared
4 375 (5.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 175 (2.55%) DV Cleared
6 130 (1.89%) Master's Degree
7 88 (1.28%) AWS Certification
8 81 (1.18%) PhD
9 47 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 39 (0.57%) Azure Certification
11 29 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 21 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
13 19 (0.28%) DBS Check
14 16 (0.23%) HNC
15 13 (0.19%) ISTQB
16 11 (0.16%) PMI Certification
17 10 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
18 9 (0.13%) OSCP
19 8 (0.12%) CISSP
19 8 (0.12%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 329 (4.79%) QA
2 198 (2.89%) Data Quality
3 90 (1.31%) SLA
4 57 (0.83%) Accessibility
5 44 (0.64%) 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 (0.087%) ISO 26262
9 6 (0.087%) ISO 9001
9 6 (0.087%) NIST
9 6 (0.087%) TickIT
10 4 (0.058%) COBIT
10 4 (0.058%) MiFID
11 3 (0.044%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.044%) Software Quality Assurance
12 2 (0.029%) IEC 61508
12 2 (0.029%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 1,009 (14.70%) Docker
2 93 (1.36%) HDFS
3 74 (1.08%) Hyper-V
4 59 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 41 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
6 30 (0.44%) Active Directory
7 26 (0.38%) Firmware
8 20 (0.29%) VMware NSX
9 19 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
10 11 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
10 11 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
11 8 (0.12%) KVM
11 8 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.044%) VirtualBox
13 2 (0.029%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 1 (0.015%) Dovecot
14 1 (0.015%) GridGain
14 1 (0.015%) OpenAM
14 1 (0.015%) OpenDJ
14 1 (0.015%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1,330 (19.38%) Kubernetes
2 751 (10.94%) Terraform
3 338 (4.93%) Ansible
4 194 (2.83%) Grafana
5 137 (2.00%) Prometheus
6 114 (1.66%) Puppet
7 52 (0.76%) Progress Chef
8 44 (0.64%) Kibana
9 41 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
10 26 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
10 26 (0.38%) OpenSSO
11 22 (0.32%) HAProxy
12 21 (0.31%) Zipkin
13 18 (0.26%) Salt
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 (0.087%) logstash
Vendors
1 854 (12.45%) Oracle
2 297 (4.33%) Google
3 275 (4.01%) Microsoft
4 270 (3.93%) Red Hat
5 238 (3.47%) IBM
6 192 (2.80%) Splunk
7 174 (2.54%) Databricks
8 155 (2.26%) Dynatrace
9 100 (1.46%) Sybase
10 87 (1.27%) Cloudera
11 83 (1.21%) VMware
12 76 (1.11%) SAP
13 62 (0.90%) Informatica
14 57 (0.83%) Alteryx
15 56 (0.82%) TIBCO
16 52 (0.76%) SaltStack
17 48 (0.70%) Atlassian
18 47 (0.68%) OpenLink
19 45 (0.66%) YouTube
20 43 (0.63%) Micro Focus