Java Developer Jobs in England

Java Developer
UK > England

The median Java Developer salary in England is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 266 201 156
Rank change year-on-year -65 -45 -59
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 883 1,753 3,462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.04% 1.88% 2.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.10% 2.05% 2.76%
Number of salaries quoted 747 1,414 2,350
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,875 £62,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +18.52%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £130,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,117 85,349 125,598
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.55% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 59,992 53,990 75,607
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in England

Java Developer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Java Developer in England

Java Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Developer in England

Java Developer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London -22 551 £90,000 -5.26% 77
South East -21 156 £70,000 +7.69% 17
North of England -8 81 £60,000 -14.29% 15
South West -50 67 £60,000 - 8
North West -14 61 £62,500 -10.71% 9
Midlands -42 30 £50,000 -16.67% 6
West Midlands -14 20 £55,000 -8.33% 5
East of England -6 16 £50,000 -28.57% 4
Yorkshire +63 13 £55,000 - 5
East Midlands -27 9 £42,500 -34.62% 1
North East -7 7 £42,750 -34.73% 1
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 England region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 881 (99.77%) Java
2 454 (51.42%) AWS
3 362 (41.00%) Spring
4 315 (35.67%) Agile
5 292 (33.07%) Spring Boot
6 277 (31.37%) Microservices
7 256 (28.99%) Docker
8 247 (27.97%) Kubernetes
9 244 (27.63%) JavaScript
10 243 (27.52%) Finance
11 203 (22.99%) TDD
12 186 (21.06%) SQL
13 169 (19.14%) Full Stack Development
14 152 (17.21%) AngularJS
15 148 (16.76%) Software Engineering
16 140 (15.86%) Python
17 136 (15.40%) Banking
18 135 (15.29%) DevOps
19 134 (15.18%) Social Skills
20 132 (14.95%) Git
21 131 (14.84%) REST
22 117 (13.25%) Hibernate
23 115 (13.02%) Azure
23 115 (13.02%) Fintech
24 113 (12.80%) Kafka
25 112 (12.68%) Low Latency
25 112 (12.68%) Degree
25 112 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
26 110 (12.46%) Front Office
27 107 (12.12%) Mentoring

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 44 (4.98%) Apache
2 41 (4.64%) OpenStack
3 23 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (2.04%) Tomcat
5 17 (1.93%) Confluence
6 15 (1.70%) JBoss
7 11 (1.25%) Red Hat Fuse
8 7 (0.79%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.34%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.34%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.23%) Mule
10 2 (0.23%) nginx
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.11%) Drupal
11 1 (0.11%) GemFire
11 1 (0.11%) Jetty
11 1 (0.11%) MQSeries
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.11%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.11%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 454 (51.42%) AWS
2 115 (13.02%) Azure
3 86 (9.74%) Serverless
4 61 (6.91%) Amazon ECS
5 60 (6.80%) GCP
6 58 (6.57%) Amazon EKS
7 25 (2.83%) SaaS
8 23 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (2.60%) dbt
9 18 (2.04%) GitHub
10 16 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
10 16 (1.81%) Snowflake
11 13 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
12 12 (1.36%) OpenShift
13 11 (1.25%) Amazon S3
14 8 (0.91%) Amazon SQS
15 6 (0.68%) PaaS
16 4 (0.45%) npm
17 3 (0.34%) Amazon Kinesis
17 3 (0.34%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.47%) Internet
2 12 (1.36%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.34%) FTP
4 2 (0.23%) AMQP
4 2 (0.23%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.23%) HTTP
4 2 (0.23%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (11.44%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (9.85%) NoSQL
3 82 (9.29%) Relational Database
4 54 (6.12%) MySQL
5 35 (3.96%) SQL Server
6 24 (2.72%) Apache Ignite
7 23 (2.60%) Amazon Athena
7 23 (2.60%) Apache Arrow
7 23 (2.60%) Dremio
8 22 (2.49%) MongoDB
9 17 (1.93%) Redis
10 16 (1.81%) Data Lake
11 15 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (1.13%) DB2
14 9 (1.02%) CouchDB
15 8 (0.91%) DynamoDB
16 7 (0.79%) Big Data
17 6 (0.68%) Hadoop
17 6 (0.68%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 132 (14.95%) Git
2 105 (11.89%) Jenkins
3 56 (6.34%) JUnit
4 33 (3.74%) Maven
5 28 (3.17%) JIRA
6 26 (2.94%) Mockito
7 24 (2.72%) IntelliJ
8 19 (2.15%) Selenium
9 16 (1.81%) GitLab
10 15 (1.70%) Gradle
11 12 (1.36%) TeamCity
12 11 (1.25%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.91%) Bitbucket
14 5 (0.57%) Eclipse
14 5 (0.57%) JMeter
15 4 (0.45%) Jasmine
16 3 (0.34%) Artifactory
17 2 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 2 (0.23%) JHipster
17 2 (0.23%) Spinnaker
General
1 243 (27.52%) Finance
2 136 (15.40%) Banking
3 134 (15.18%) Social Skills
4 110 (12.46%) Front Office
5 82 (9.29%) Investment Banking
6 57 (6.46%) Public Sector
7 31 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
8 20 (2.27%) Tech for Good
9 19 (2.15%) Financial Institution
10 16 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (1.59%) Marketing
12 10 (1.13%) Turkish Language
13 9 (1.02%) Police
13 9 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (0.91%) Retail
15 7 (0.79%) Games
15 7 (0.79%) Retail Banking
15 7 (0.79%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.57%) Electronics
16 5 (0.57%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 362 (41.00%) Spring
2 292 (33.07%) Spring Boot
3 152 (17.21%) AngularJS
4 131 (14.84%) REST
5 117 (13.25%) Hibernate
6 113 (12.80%) Kafka
7 97 (10.99%) React
8 72 (8.15%) Web Services
9 66 (7.47%) Node.js
10 59 (6.68%) HTML
11 58 (6.57%) RESTful
12 51 (5.78%) Apache Camel
13 48 (5.44%) JSON
14 47 (5.32%) CSS
14 47 (5.32%) XML
15 42 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
16 27 (3.06%) gRPC
16 27 (3.06%) SOAP
17 26 (2.94%) NumPy
17 26 (2.94%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 78 (8.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 66 (7.47%) Distributed Systems
3 60 (6.80%) Greenfield Project
4 51 (5.78%) Enterprise Software
5 45 (5.10%) Equities
5 45 (5.10%) Fixed Income
6 31 (3.51%) Hedge funds
7 27 (3.06%) Algorithms
7 27 (3.06%) Derivative
8 21 (2.38%) Client/Server
9 15 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (1.70%) Public Cloud
10 12 (1.36%) FPGA
11 11 (1.25%) PropTech
12 10 (1.13%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.13%) Private Cloud
13 9 (1.02%) Data Structures
13 9 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
15 7 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 65 (7.36%) Linux
2 6 (0.68%) Windows
3 3 (0.34%) Unix
4 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (35.67%) Agile
2 277 (31.37%) Microservices
3 203 (22.99%) TDD
4 169 (19.14%) Full Stack Development
5 148 (16.76%) Software Engineering
6 135 (15.29%) DevOps
7 115 (13.02%) Fintech
8 112 (12.68%) Low Latency
8 112 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
9 107 (12.12%) Mentoring
10 105 (11.89%) CI/CD
11 94 (10.65%) Scrum
12 92 (10.42%) Computer Science
13 90 (10.19%) SDLC
14 76 (8.61%) BDD
15 66 (7.47%) Kanban
16 65 (7.36%) Multithreading
17 53 (6.00%) Electronic Trading
18 52 (5.89%) Containerisation
19 42 (4.76%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 881 (99.77%) Java
2 244 (27.63%) JavaScript
3 186 (21.06%) SQL
4 140 (15.86%) Python
5 64 (7.25%) TypeScript
6 60 (6.80%) Kotlin
7 37 (4.19%) C#
8 25 (2.83%) C++
9 16 (1.81%) Scala
10 15 (1.70%) Shell Script
11 12 (1.36%) C
12 11 (1.25%) Ruby
13 9 (1.02%) Go
13 9 (1.02%) Perl
14 7 (0.79%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.68%) Groovy
16 3 (0.34%) Bash
16 3 (0.34%) Clojure
16 3 (0.34%) PHP
16 3 (0.34%) Rust
Qualifications
1 112 (12.68%) Degree
2 77 (8.72%) Security Cleared
3 66 (7.47%) SC Cleared
4 45 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.06%) AWS Certification
6 14 (1.59%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
7 9 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (0.91%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.79%) PhD
10 3 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.23%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.11%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (2.49%) QA
2 3 (0.34%) MiFID
3 2 (0.23%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 256 (28.99%) Docker
2 30 (3.40%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.11%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 247 (27.97%) Kubernetes
2 66 (7.47%) Ansible
3 63 (7.13%) Terraform
4 6 (0.68%) Kibana
5 2 (0.23%) Grafana
6 1 (0.11%) Consul
6 1 (0.11%) Istio
6 1 (0.11%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.11%) Packer
6 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (5.32%) Oracle
2 43 (4.87%) WSO2
3 28 (3.17%) Google
4 19 (2.15%) Microsoft
5 8 (0.91%) SAP
6 7 (0.79%) YouTube
7 6 (0.68%) Splunk
8 5 (0.57%) IBM
8 5 (0.57%) Sybase
8 5 (0.57%) TIBCO
9 4 (0.45%) Dynatrace
9 4 (0.45%) Facebook
9 4 (0.45%) Vertica
10 3 (0.34%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.34%) ION Trading
10 3 (0.34%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.34%) Reuters
11 2 (0.23%) Apple
11 2 (0.23%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.23%) Salesforce