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Java is in 20% of open tech roles.

31 of 37 tracked companies mention it. Here's who asks for it, and for which roles.

Open roles
646
Companies hiring
31
New in the last 7 days
62
Listed as remote
At least 13%

By role

  • Share of that role's openings
  • Share across all tech roles
Share of each role's open positions and of its companies mentioning Java
Role Share of roles, as a bar % of roles % of companies
Software engineering 469 of 1736 roles · 30 of 35 companies 27% 86%
Data engineering 16 of 69 roles · 9 of 23 companies 23% 39%
SRE & platform 24 of 136 roles · 10 of 29 companies 18% 34%
Solutions engineering 68 of 436 roles · 9 of 27 companies 16% 33%
Security 42 of 297 roles · 16 of 33 companies 14% 48%
Machine learning & AI 27 of 366 roles · 13 of 29 companies 7% 45%

Roles with at least 5 openings mentioning Java.

Who asks for it

Companies with the most open tech roles mentioning Java.

Databricks
89 roles
Palantir
69 roles
Snowflake
65 roles
Stripe
51 roles
Okta
48 roles
Elastic
36 roles
MongoDB
33 roles
Roblox
26 roles

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