Java Developer Jobs in Croydon

Java Developer
South London > Croydon

The median Java Developer salary in Croydon is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
2 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 12 29
Rank change year-on-year -2 +17 +27
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 37 47 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Croydon 20.33% 22.07% 4.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 25.69% 23.27% 4.95%
Number of salaries quoted 5 27 2
10th Percentile £60,500 £24,000 £82,875
25th Percentile £61,250 £72,500 £83,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £82,500 £86,250
Median % change year-on-year -24.24% -4.35% +7.81%
75th Percentile £68,750 £83,750 £88,438
90th Percentile - - £88,625
South London median annual salary £62,500 £82,500 £87,500
% change year-on-year -24.24% -5.71% +6.06%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Croydon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Croydon. 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 Croydon with a recognized job title 144 202 182
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 79.12% 94.84% 91.92%
Number of salaries quoted 32 147 113
10th Percentile - £24,750 £32,300
25th Percentile £32,000 £35,000 £40,151
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £65,272 £81,786 £67,000
90th Percentile £68,625 £83,750 £88,500
South London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in Croydon

Java Developer
Salary Trend in Croydon

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

Salary trend for Java Developer in Croydon

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, 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 Croydon region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 37 (100.00%) Java
1 37 (100.00%) Web Services
1 37 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 37 (100.00%) Agile
1 37 (100.00%) TDD
1 37 (100.00%) Spring
1 37 (100.00%) AWS
1 37 (100.00%) REST
1 37 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 37 (100.00%) Microservices
1 37 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
2 34 (91.89%) Amazon EKS
2 34 (91.89%) Amazon ECS
2 34 (91.89%) Serverless
2 34 (91.89%) Kubernetes
2 34 (91.89%) Spring Boot
2 34 (91.89%) Relational Database
2 34 (91.89%) Docker
2 34 (91.89%) JUnit
3 33 (89.19%) Scrum
4 32 (86.49%) BDD
4 32 (86.49%) Public Sector
5 29 (78.38%) Apache Camel
6 28 (75.68%) Kanban
7 27 (72.97%) SC Cleared
7 27 (72.97%) Security Cleared
8 22 (59.46%) JavaScript
8 22 (59.46%) CI/CD
9 20 (54.05%) Hibernate
9 20 (54.05%) ActiveMQ

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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 12 (32.43%) JBoss
1 12 (32.43%) Red Hat Fuse
2 5 (13.51%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 37 (100.00%) AWS
2 34 (91.89%) Amazon ECS
2 34 (91.89%) Amazon EKS
2 34 (91.89%) Serverless
3 20 (54.05%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (21.62%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (13.51%) Amazon S3
6 3 (8.11%) AWS KMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (91.89%) Relational Database
3 17 (45.95%) RDBMS
4 3 (8.11%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 37 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 34 (91.89%) JUnit
3 20 (54.05%) Git
3 20 (54.05%) Mockito
4 17 (45.95%) JMeter
5 3 (8.11%) DbUnit
5 3 (8.11%) jMock
5 3 (8.11%) Maven
5 3 (8.11%) SonarQube
General
1 32 (86.49%) Public Sector
2 4 (10.81%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (10.81%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (100.00%) REST
1 37 (100.00%) Spring
1 37 (100.00%) Web Services
2 34 (91.89%) Spring Boot
3 29 (78.38%) Apache Camel
4 20 (54.05%) ActiveMQ
4 20 (54.05%) Hibernate
5 17 (45.95%) HTML
5 17 (45.95%) jQuery
5 17 (45.95%) WireMock
6 15 (40.54%) RESTful
6 15 (40.54%) SOAP
7 12 (32.43%) J2EE
8 8 (21.62%) Mustache
9 5 (13.51%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (13.51%) Kafka
9 5 (13.51%) Node.js
9 5 (13.51%) React
10 4 (10.81%) JSON
10 4 (10.81%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (100.00%) Agile
1 37 (100.00%) Microservices
1 37 (100.00%) TDD
2 33 (89.19%) Scrum
3 32 (86.49%) BDD
4 28 (75.68%) Kanban
5 22 (59.46%) CI/CD
6 19 (51.35%) Full-Stack Development
7 17 (45.95%) Process Management
7 17 (45.95%) Workflow
8 13 (35.14%) Architectural Design
8 13 (35.14%) Collaborative Working
9 12 (32.43%) DevOps
10 11 (29.73%) SDLC
11 3 (8.11%) Biometrics
11 3 (8.11%) BPMN
11 3 (8.11%) Continuous Integration
11 3 (8.11%) Migration
11 3 (8.11%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 37 (100.00%) Java
2 22 (59.46%) JavaScript
3 17 (45.95%) Python
3 17 (45.95%) Shell Script
4 3 (8.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (72.97%) SC Cleared
1 27 (72.97%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (32.43%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (91.89%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 34 (91.89%) Kubernetes
2 17 (45.95%) Kibana
3 12 (32.43%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (45.95%) Dynatrace
1 17 (45.95%) Splunk
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