Java Developer Jobs in the South East

Java Developer
England > South East

The median Java Developer salary in the South East is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 238 204 200
Rank change year-on-year -34 -4 -76
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 156 225 353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.93% 1.55% 1.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 1.72% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 127 158 289
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £74,688 £85,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £84,125 £87,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 15,806 13,092 19,052
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.98% 90.34% 96.43%
Number of salaries quoted 11,351 8,253 12,443
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,032 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in the South East

Java Developer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Developer in the South East.

Salary trend for Java Developer in the South East

Java Developer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Developer in the South East

Java Developer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the South East region over the 6 months to 10 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
Thames Valley +8 71 £80,000 +14.29% 1
Berkshire +33 64 £80,000 +14.29%
Hampshire -22 38 £70,000 +3.70% 7
Surrey -35 37 £47,500 -9.52% 4
Buckinghamshire -19 5 £75,000 -3.23% 1
West Sussex +31 3 £45,000 -
Oxfordshire +1 2 £92,500 +48.00%
Java Developer
England

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Java Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 156 (100.00%) Java
2 105 (67.31%) AWS
3 89 (57.05%) Spring
4 88 (56.41%) Agile
5 80 (51.28%) Docker
6 78 (50.00%) Microservices
7 75 (48.08%) JavaScript
8 72 (46.15%) Kubernetes
9 70 (44.87%) DevOps
10 67 (42.95%) TDD
11 65 (41.67%) Git
12 63 (40.38%) Spring Boot
13 57 (36.54%) Serverless
14 55 (35.26%) PostgreSQL
15 54 (34.62%) Jenkins
16 53 (33.97%) REST
17 51 (32.69%) AngularJS
18 50 (32.05%) Amazon ECS
19 49 (31.41%) Azure
20 48 (30.77%) Scrum
21 47 (30.13%) BDD
22 46 (29.49%) Node.js
22 46 (29.49%) Web Services
22 46 (29.49%) Amazon EKS
22 46 (29.49%) CI/CD
23 45 (28.85%) Ansible
23 45 (28.85%) Kanban
24 40 (25.64%) Apache Camel
25 39 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
25 39 (25.00%) Security Cleared

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 35 (22.44%) OpenStack
2 12 (7.69%) JBoss
3 10 (6.41%) Red Hat Fuse
4 9 (5.77%) Tomcat
5 5 (3.21%) Confluence
6 3 (1.92%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 105 (67.31%) AWS
2 57 (36.54%) Serverless
3 50 (32.05%) Amazon ECS
4 49 (31.41%) Azure
5 46 (29.49%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (8.97%) SaaS
7 13 (8.33%) GitHub
8 12 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (4.49%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (3.21%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.28%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (1.28%) AWS IoT
13 1 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
13 1 (0.64%) GCP
13 1 (0.64%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.13%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (35.26%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 37 (23.72%) Relational Database
4 16 (10.26%) MySQL
5 8 (5.13%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.85%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.56%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.28%) CouchDB
10 1 (0.64%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.64%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.64%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.64%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 65 (41.67%) Git
2 54 (34.62%) Jenkins
3 29 (18.59%) JUnit
4 12 (7.69%) Maven
5 10 (6.41%) JIRA
6 6 (3.85%) Bitbucket
6 6 (3.85%) GitLab
7 5 (3.21%) JMeter
8 4 (2.56%) Mockito
8 4 (2.56%) Selenium
9 2 (1.28%) Gradle
10 1 (0.64%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.64%) IntelliJ
General
1 35 (22.44%) Social Skills
2 29 (18.59%) Public Sector
3 20 (12.82%) Finance
4 6 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (3.85%) Telecoms
5 5 (3.21%) Electronics
5 5 (3.21%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.21%) Marketing
6 3 (1.92%) Banking
6 3 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.64%) Police
7 1 (0.64%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (57.05%) Spring
2 63 (40.38%) Spring Boot
3 53 (33.97%) REST
4 51 (32.69%) AngularJS
5 46 (29.49%) Node.js
5 46 (29.49%) Web Services
6 40 (25.64%) Apache Camel
7 35 (22.44%) Elastic Stack
8 28 (17.95%) XML
9 27 (17.31%) JSON
10 22 (14.10%) Hibernate
11 21 (13.46%) React
12 17 (10.90%) Kafka
13 16 (10.26%) HTML
14 14 (8.97%) SOAP
15 12 (7.69%) CSS
16 10 (6.41%) jQuery
16 10 (6.41%) RESTful
17 9 (5.77%) J2EE
18 7 (4.49%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 39 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (11.54%) Greenfield Project
3 14 (8.97%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.56%) NHS
4 4 (2.56%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.28%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.28%) IoT
5 2 (1.28%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.77%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (56.41%) Agile
2 78 (50.00%) Microservices
3 70 (44.87%) DevOps
4 67 (42.95%) TDD
5 48 (30.77%) Scrum
6 47 (30.13%) BDD
7 46 (29.49%) CI/CD
8 45 (28.85%) Kanban
9 37 (23.72%) Full Stack Development
10 36 (23.08%) SDLC
11 31 (19.87%) Software Engineering
12 30 (19.23%) Mentoring
13 25 (16.03%) BPEL
14 24 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (10.26%) Computer Science
15 16 (10.26%) Process Management
15 16 (10.26%) Workflow
16 14 (8.97%) Integration Testing
16 14 (8.97%) OOD
17 13 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 156 (100.00%) Java
2 75 (48.08%) JavaScript
3 39 (25.00%) SQL
4 38 (24.36%) Python
5 13 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 11 (7.05%) Shell Script
7 9 (5.77%) Kotlin
8 7 (4.49%) Go
9 4 (2.56%) C#
10 1 (0.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 39 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 36 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.62%) AWS Certification
4 11 (7.05%) Azure Certification
5 9 (5.77%) Degree
6 4 (2.56%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.28%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.64%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.77%) QA
System Software
1 80 (51.28%) Docker
2 27 (17.31%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 72 (46.15%) Kubernetes
2 45 (28.85%) Ansible
3 27 (17.31%) Terraform
4 5 (3.21%) Kibana
5 1 (0.64%) Grafana
Vendors
1 35 (22.44%) WSO2
2 9 (5.77%) Google
3 8 (5.13%) Oracle
4 5 (3.21%) SAP
4 5 (3.21%) Splunk
5 4 (2.56%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.64%) Red Hat