Java Jobs in the UK excluding London

Java
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 31 20
Rank change year-on-year 0 -11 0
Permanent jobs citing Java 4,503 4,092 7,893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.93% 7.24% 10.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.56% 18.62% 23.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,125 2,123 3,935
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,285 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,772 £78,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% +7.69%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 23,016 21,974 33,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.29% 38.86% 45.41%
Number of salaries quoted 16,658 12,979 20,973
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the UK excluding London

Java
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Java in the UK excluding London

Java
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Java in the UK excluding London

Java
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Scotland +10 1,885 £55,000 -20.80% 78
South East -5 863 £60,000 -7.69% 123
North of England -26 656 £62,500 -3.85% 149
South West -6 592 £57,500 -7.63% 132
North West -12 477 £60,000 -11.11% 95
Midlands -55 276 £55,000 -8.33% 90
West Midlands -35 195 £56,250 -6.25% 65
Yorkshire -59 131 £65,000 - 29
East of England -62 117 £62,500 -9.09% 47
East Midlands -66 80 £52,500 -11.02% 24
Wales -13 77 £50,000 -5.21% 11
North East -33 48 £65,232 +0.36% 25
Northern Ireland -25 38 £85,000 +70.00% 35
Java
UK

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 504 (11.19%) Apache Spark
2 194 (4.31%) Apache
3 105 (2.33%) FileNet
4 52 (1.15%) Camunda
5 40 (0.89%) Confluence
6 38 (0.84%) Tuxedo
7 36 (0.80%) nginx
8 32 (0.71%) Cloud Foundry
9 30 (0.67%) OpenStack
9 30 (0.67%) Tomcat
10 27 (0.60%) IIS
10 27 (0.60%) WebLogic
11 21 (0.47%) GemFire
12 20 (0.44%) JBoss
13 18 (0.40%) WebSphere
14 17 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
15 11 (0.24%) CICS
16 9 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
17 8 (0.18%) SharePoint
18 7 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 41 (0.91%) Simulink
2 22 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.16%) Adobe XD
6 6 (0.13%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.089%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.089%) CANalyzer
7 4 (0.089%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.022%) CATIA
8 1 (0.022%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (0.13%) SAP ERP
2 4 (0.089%) NEC Housing
2 4 (0.089%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (0.089%) Sonata
3 3 (0.067%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (0.067%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.067%) Shopify
4 2 (0.044%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.044%) iTrent
4 2 (0.044%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.022%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.022%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.022%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.022%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.022%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.022%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,881 (41.77%) AWS
2 900 (19.99%) Azure
3 343 (7.62%) Serverless
4 279 (6.20%) GCP
5 176 (3.91%) Amazon S3
6 167 (3.71%) SaaS
7 163 (3.62%) IBM Cloud
8 154 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
9 152 (3.38%) GitHub
10 151 (3.35%) AWS Lambda
11 148 (3.29%) Amazon EKS
12 135 (3.00%) OpenShift
13 130 (2.89%) Amazon ECS
14 123 (2.73%) Azure Functions
15 116 (2.58%) Azure API Management
15 116 (2.58%) Azure Logic Apps
16 115 (2.55%) Azure Service Bus
17 99 (2.20%) Amazon EC2
18 92 (2.04%) Amazon SQS
19 86 (1.91%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 71 (1.58%) TCP/IP
2 69 (1.53%) DNS
3 58 (1.29%) HTTP
4 46 (1.02%) DHCP
5 37 (0.82%) Firewall
6 35 (0.78%) AMQP
7 22 (0.49%) Network Security
8 21 (0.47%) WAN
9 17 (0.38%) Kerberos
9 17 (0.38%) Modbus
10 16 (0.36%) DSL
10 16 (0.36%) Internet
11 14 (0.31%) SSH
12 13 (0.29%) MQTT
12 13 (0.29%) SNMP
13 11 (0.24%) Wireless
14 6 (0.13%) Bluetooth
14 6 (0.13%) VPN
15 5 (0.11%) VSAN
16 4 (0.089%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 848 (18.83%) NoSQL
2 436 (9.68%) Big Data
3 394 (8.75%) MongoDB
4 387 (8.59%) PostgreSQL
5 381 (8.46%) Relational Database
6 315 (7.00%) Hadoop
7 221 (4.91%) MySQL
8 216 (4.80%) Elasticsearch
9 198 (4.40%) SQL Server
10 156 (3.46%) Apache Cassandra
11 155 (3.44%) DB2
12 90 (2.00%) Data Lake
13 83 (1.84%) Apache Hive
14 69 (1.53%) HBase
15 65 (1.44%) Oracle Database
16 59 (1.31%) Redis
17 58 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
18 51 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
18 51 (1.13%) RDBMS
19 50 (1.11%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 404 (8.97%) Git
2 366 (8.13%) Jenkins
3 314 (6.97%) JUnit
4 161 (3.58%) Selenium
5 160 (3.55%) GitLab
6 137 (3.04%) JIRA
7 130 (2.89%) Maven
8 116 (2.58%) Cypress.io
9 110 (2.44%) Cucumber
10 106 (2.35%) Jasmine
11 81 (1.80%) WebDriver
12 73 (1.62%) Mockito
13 66 (1.47%) Visual Studio
14 65 (1.44%) Protractor
15 63 (1.40%) Gradle
16 60 (1.33%) Karma Test Runner
17 59 (1.31%) Bitbucket Server
18 58 (1.29%) JMeter
19 50 (1.11%) Postman
20 43 (0.95%) Eclipse
General
1 1,953 (43.37%) Finance
2 1,770 (39.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,633 (36.26%) Law
4 755 (16.77%) Marketing
5 709 (15.75%) Social Skills
6 511 (11.35%) Legal
7 448 (9.95%) Banking
8 317 (7.04%) Public Sector
9 252 (5.60%) Investment Banking
10 251 (5.57%) Analytical Skills
11 180 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
12 155 (3.44%) Financial Institution
13 109 (2.42%) Aerospace
14 68 (1.51%) Private Banking
15 66 (1.47%) Electronics
16 57 (1.27%) Retail
17 49 (1.09%) Telecoms
18 47 (1.04%) Manufacturing
19 43 (0.95%) Military
20 39 (0.87%) Games
Job Titles
1 2,070 (45.97%) Software Engineer
2 1,120 (24.87%) Developer
3 1,032 (22.92%) Java Engineer
4 920 (20.43%) Java Software Engineer
5 870 (19.32%) Lead
6 787 (17.48%) Senior
7 512 (11.37%) Lead Software Engineer
8 424 (9.42%) Java Developer
9 378 (8.39%) Full Stack Engineer
10 315 (7.00%) Senior Software Engineer
11 304 (6.75%) Full Stack Software Engineer
12 290 (6.44%) Lead Java Engineer
13 246 (5.46%) Big Data Engineer
14 242 (5.37%) Big Data Software Engineer
15 228 (5.06%) Full Stack Developer
16 220 (4.89%) Scala Engineer
16 220 (4.89%) Scala Software Engineer
17 215 (4.77%) Software Developer
18 200 (4.44%) Senior Developer
19 199 (4.42%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,170 (25.98%) Spring
2 931 (20.68%) React
3 736 (16.34%) AngularJS
4 669 (14.86%) Spring Boot
5 590 (13.10%) Node.js
6 577 (12.81%) HTML
7 524 (11.64%) REST
8 519 (11.53%) CSS
9 514 (11.41%) Kafka
10 357 (7.93%) .NET
11 336 (7.46%) Web Services
12 306 (6.80%) Hibernate
13 299 (6.64%) J2EE
14 298 (6.62%) jQuery
15 291 (6.46%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 284 (6.31%) RESTful
17 249 (5.53%) JSON
18 177 (3.93%) Vue
19 175 (3.89%) JMS
20 172 (3.82%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 749 (16.63%) Algorithms
2 655 (14.55%) Cloud Native
3 265 (5.88%) Data Structures
4 256 (5.69%) Public Cloud
5 166 (3.69%) Blockchain
6 161 (3.58%) Hybrid Cloud
7 144 (3.20%) Onboarding
8 126 (2.80%) Private Cloud
9 111 (2.47%) Product Ownership
10 98 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
11 94 (2.09%) Management Information System
12 92 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
13 90 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
14 67 (1.49%) Distributed Applications
15 60 (1.33%) Reference Data
16 48 (1.07%) IoT
17 47 (1.04%) e-Learning
18 46 (1.02%) Mobile App
19 44 (0.98%) Credit Risk
20 42 (0.93%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 742 (16.48%) Linux
2 357 (7.93%) Windows
3 213 (4.73%) Android
4 201 (4.46%) Unix
5 161 (3.58%) Apple iOS
6 105 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 52 (1.15%) CentOS
8 51 (1.13%) Ubuntu
9 40 (0.89%) Embedded Linux
10 31 (0.69%) Debian
11 29 (0.64%) Windows Server
12 21 (0.47%) AIX
13 8 (0.18%) Mac OS
14 5 (0.11%) Mac OS X
14 5 (0.11%) VMS
15 4 (0.089%) Solaris
16 3 (0.067%) FreeBSD
16 3 (0.067%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.067%) Windows 10
17 2 (0.044%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,657 (59.01%) Software Engineering
2 2,637 (58.56%) Agile
3 1,737 (38.57%) CI/CD
4 1,659 (36.84%) SDLC
5 1,330 (29.54%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,248 (27.71%) Operational Stability
7 1,144 (25.41%) Machine Learning
8 900 (19.99%) Microservices
9 829 (18.41%) Problem-Solving
10 809 (17.97%) Full Stack Development
11 807 (17.92%) Community of Practice
12 744 (16.52%) DevOps
13 667 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
14 596 (13.24%) Visualisation
15 536 (11.90%) Computer Science
16 528 (11.73%) Mentoring
17 527 (11.70%) Risk Management
18 522 (11.59%) TDD
19 502 (11.15%) Decision-Making
20 494 (10.97%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,674 (37.18%) SQL
2 1,577 (35.02%) Python
3 1,073 (23.83%) JavaScript
4 585 (12.99%) C#
5 418 (9.28%) TypeScript
6 406 (9.02%) Scala
7 306 (6.80%) C++
8 261 (5.80%) C
9 149 (3.31%) PL/SQL
10 140 (3.11%) Go
11 136 (3.02%) Kotlin
12 112 (2.49%) PowerShell
13 102 (2.27%) Shell Script
14 99 (2.20%) PHP
15 97 (2.15%) Bash
16 81 (1.80%) Ruby
17 54 (1.20%) COBOL
18 51 (1.13%) Groovy
18 51 (1.13%) T-SQL
19 47 (1.04%) Rust
Qualifications
1 637 (14.15%) Security Cleared
2 526 (11.68%) Degree
3 401 (8.91%) SC Cleared
4 259 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 156 (3.46%) DV Cleared
6 75 (1.67%) Master's Degree
7 58 (1.29%) PhD
8 52 (1.15%) AWS Certification
9 30 (0.67%) Azure Certification
10 20 (0.44%) DBS Check
11 17 (0.38%) HNC
12 15 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (0.24%) PMI Certification
14 8 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 8 (0.18%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.16%) AWS Certified Developer
16 6 (0.13%) CISSP
16 6 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
16 6 (0.13%) SANS
17 5 (0.11%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (3.40%) QA
2 77 (1.71%) SLA
3 63 (1.40%) Data Quality
4 22 (0.49%) Accessibility
5 21 (0.47%) GDPR
6 7 (0.16%) ISO 9001
6 7 (0.16%) NIST
7 6 (0.13%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.13%) TickIT
8 4 (0.089%) COBIT
8 4 (0.089%) ISO 26262
8 4 (0.089%) SEPA
9 3 (0.067%) Def Stans
9 3 (0.067%) IEC 61508
10 2 (0.044%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.022%) AQAP
11 1 (0.022%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.022%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.022%) ITGC
11 1 (0.022%) PMO
System Software
1 567 (12.59%) Docker
2 71 (1.58%) HDFS
3 68 (1.51%) Hyper-V
4 53 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (0.47%) Active Directory
5 21 (0.47%) Firmware
5 21 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
6 18 (0.40%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
8 9 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
8 9 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.067%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.044%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 1 (0.022%) Dovecot
12 1 (0.022%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.022%) Postfix
12 1 (0.022%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 724 (16.08%) Kubernetes
2 408 (9.06%) Terraform
3 192 (4.26%) Ansible
4 156 (3.46%) Grafana
5 90 (2.00%) Puppet
6 56 (1.24%) Prometheus
7 39 (0.87%) Kibana
8 36 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
9 26 (0.58%) ITRS Geneos
9 26 (0.58%) OpenSSO
10 21 (0.47%) HAProxy
10 21 (0.47%) Zipkin
11 19 (0.42%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.29%) WMI
13 7 (0.16%) Graphite
14 5 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.11%) Opsgenie
14 5 (0.11%) Podman
15 3 (0.067%) Argo
15 3 (0.067%) Packer
Vendors
1 632 (14.04%) Oracle
2 242 (5.37%) Red Hat
3 190 (4.22%) Microsoft
4 185 (4.11%) Google
4 185 (4.11%) IBM
5 171 (3.80%) Splunk
6 142 (3.15%) Databricks
7 139 (3.09%) Dynatrace
8 72 (1.60%) VMware
9 71 (1.58%) Cloudera
10 60 (1.33%) Informatica
11 55 (1.22%) Alteryx
12 53 (1.18%) SaltStack
13 43 (0.95%) Micro Focus
14 41 (0.91%) Xilinx
15 35 (0.78%) SAP
16 32 (0.71%) Remedy
17 31 (0.69%) Sybase
18 30 (0.67%) WSO2
19 27 (0.60%) Salesforce