Java Engineer Job Trends in Croydon

Java Engineer
South London > Croydon

The median Java Engineer salary in Croydon is £24,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 April 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 - 46
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 2 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Croydon 1.17% - 2.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.27% - 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 5
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £24,000 - £24,000
South London median annual salary £64,500 £82,500 £24,000
% change year-on-year -21.82% +243.75% -46.67%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 158 148 203
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.40% 80.00% 94.86%
Number of salaries quoted 100 33 148
10th Percentile £28,000 - £24,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61,368 £65,272 £81,786
90th Percentile £118,750 £68,500 £83,750
South London median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Java Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Java Engineer job vacancy trend in Croydon

Java Engineer
Salary Trend in Croydon

Salary distribution trend for Java Engineer job vacancies in Croydon.

Salary distribution trend for Java Engineer job vacancies in Croydon

Java Engineer
Job Locations in Croydon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Engineer within the Croydon region over the 6 months to 28 April 2026. 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
South Croydon - 1 £24,000 - 2
Java Engineer
South London

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon

For the 6 months to 28 April 2026, Java Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Croydon region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Camel
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) J2EE
2 1 (50.00%) JBoss
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Mustache
2 1 (50.00%) Node.js
2 1 (50.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (50.00%) REST

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) JBoss
1 1 (50.00%) OpenStack
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Camel
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) J2EE
1 1 (50.00%) Mustache
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Kanban
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes