Java Software Developer Jobs

Java Software Developer
UK

The median Java Software Developer salary in the UK is £68,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 797 792 823
Rank change year-on-year -5 +31 -157
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Developer 91 204 429
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.092% 0.20% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.097% 0.22% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 77 191 370
10th Percentile £24,000 £42,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £56,875 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -5.56% +44.00%
75th Percentile £142,500 £110,625 £122,500
90th Percentile £165,000 £125,000 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £51,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.20% -2.38% +10.53%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 93,864 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,182 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Java Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Software Developer in the UK

Java Software Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Software Developer.

Salary trend for Java Software Developer in the UK

Java Software Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Software Developer over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Software Developer in the UK

Java Software Developer
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Software Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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 -13 75 £70,000 -20.00% 7
UK excluding London -14 57 £45,000 -12.20% 4
Work from Home -30 38 £135,000 +54.29% 6
London +28 34 £150,000 +62.16% 4
Scotland -48 16 £42,500 -10.53%
South East +14 15 £24,000 -65.71%
South West -21 9 £60,500 -3.97% 2
North of England +41 7 £52,500 -4.55%
East of England +17 6 £50,000 -37.50%
North West +7 5 £52,500 -4.55%
Midlands +7 4 £42,500 -15.00%
East Midlands - 4 £42,500 -
North East -1 2 £54,000 -22.86%

Java Software Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Java Software 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 featuring Java Software Developer in the job title.

1 91 (100.00%) Java
2 55 (60.44%) Software Engineering
3 54 (59.34%) Agile
4 44 (48.35%) AWS
5 43 (47.25%) Finance
5 43 (47.25%) Banking
6 41 (45.05%) JavaScript
7 37 (40.66%) Asset Management
7 37 (40.66%) Spring
8 34 (37.36%) Investment Management
9 31 (34.07%) TypeScript
10 30 (32.97%) Investment Banking
10 30 (32.97%) Front Office
11 26 (28.57%) Python
11 26 (28.57%) Degree
12 25 (27.47%) GCP
13 24 (26.37%) Pandas
13 24 (26.37%) Line Management
13 24 (26.37%) SDLC
13 24 (26.37%) gRPC
13 24 (26.37%) Apache Airflow
13 24 (26.37%) Amazon Athena
13 24 (26.37%) Apache Ignite
13 24 (26.37%) Dremio
13 24 (26.37%) dbt
13 24 (26.37%) Apache Arrow
13 24 (26.37%) Derivative
13 24 (26.37%) Hedge funds
13 24 (26.37%) SciPy
13 24 (26.37%) NumPy

Java Software Developer Skill Set
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 24 (26.37%) Apache
1 24 (26.37%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 44 (48.35%) AWS
2 25 (27.47%) GCP
3 24 (26.37%) dbt
4 20 (21.98%) Snowflake
5 8 (8.79%) SaaS
6 4 (4.40%) npm
7 3 (3.30%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.10%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.30%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (26.37%) Amazon Athena
1 24 (26.37%) Apache Arrow
1 24 (26.37%) Apache Ignite
1 24 (26.37%) Dremio
2 20 (21.98%) Data Lake
3 13 (14.29%) Apache Hive
3 13 (14.29%) Big Data
4 5 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (5.49%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.30%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.20%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (9.89%) Git
2 7 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 6 (6.59%) Maven
4 2 (2.20%) JIRA
General
1 43 (47.25%) Banking
1 43 (47.25%) Finance
2 30 (32.97%) Front Office
2 30 (32.97%) Investment Banking
3 15 (16.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (14.29%) Law
4 13 (14.29%) Private Banking
5 5 (5.49%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.40%) Social Skills
7 3 (3.30%) Tech for Good
8 2 (2.20%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.20%) Electronics
8 2 (2.20%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.20%) Marketing
8 2 (2.20%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (40.66%) Spring
2 24 (26.37%) gRPC
2 24 (26.37%) NumPy
2 24 (26.37%) Pandas
2 24 (26.37%) Protocol Buffers
2 24 (26.37%) SciPy
3 20 (21.98%) AngularJS
3 20 (21.98%) Spring Boot
4 14 (15.38%) React
5 11 (12.09%) REST
6 9 (9.89%) Kafka
7 7 (7.69%) Node.js
8 6 (6.59%) CSS
9 5 (5.49%) .NET
10 4 (4.40%) Express.js
10 4 (4.40%) HTML
10 4 (4.40%) OpenAPI
10 4 (4.40%) Swagger
10 4 (4.40%) XML
11 3 (3.30%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 24 (26.37%) Derivative
1 24 (26.37%) Equities
1 24 (26.37%) Fixed Income
1 24 (26.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 24 (26.37%) Hedge funds
2 13 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 13 (14.29%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.40%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.20%) e-Health
4 2 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (60.44%) Software Engineering
2 54 (59.34%) Agile
3 37 (40.66%) Asset Management
4 34 (37.36%) Investment Management
5 24 (26.37%) Line Management
5 24 (26.37%) SDLC
6 23 (25.27%) CI/CD
7 20 (21.98%) Design Patterns
7 20 (21.98%) Full Stack Development
8 17 (18.68%) Computer Science
8 17 (18.68%) Mentoring
9 14 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
10 13 (14.29%) Community of Practice
10 13 (14.29%) Machine Learning
10 13 (14.29%) Operational Stability
10 13 (14.29%) Visualisation
10 13 (14.29%) Wealth Management
11 10 (10.99%) Microservices
12 6 (6.59%) Market Making
Programming Languages
1 91 (100.00%) Java
2 41 (45.05%) JavaScript
3 31 (34.07%) TypeScript
4 26 (28.57%) Python
5 13 (14.29%) SQL
6 9 (9.89%) C#
7 4 (4.40%) Ruby
7 4 (4.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 26 (28.57%) Degree
2 4 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.40%) QA
System Software
1 9 (9.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (12.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.10%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (5.49%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.30%) Google
2 3 (3.30%) Oracle
3 2 (2.20%) SAP
3 2 (2.20%) YouTube