Java Developer Jobs in England

Java Developer
UK > England

The median Java Developer salary in England is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 331 189 166
Rank change year-on-year -142 -23 -57
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 638 1,364 3,746
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.81% 1.92% 2.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 2.09% 2.67%
Number of salaries quoted 498 1,110 2,356
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,475 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% +14.29%
75th Percentile £109,688 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £132,750 £122,500
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

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 74,198 65,186 140,455
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.70% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 51,681 46,119 77,508
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -72 405 £92,500 - 39
South East -59 95 £70,000 +7.69% 16
North of England -27 59 £60,000 -14.29% 16
North West -20 52 £60,000 -20.00% 11
South West -56 52 £57,500 -8.73% 13
Midlands -60 24 £50,000 -16.67% 13
West Midlands -39 13 £45,000 -25.00% 13
East Midlands -32 10 £60,000 -14.29%
East of England -13 6 £58,750 -6.00% 7
North East -13 4 £57,500 -17.86% 1
Yorkshire +34 3 £72,500 +7.41% 4
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 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.

1 637 (99.84%) Java
2 346 (54.23%) AWS
3 239 (37.46%) Spring
4 235 (36.83%) Agile
5 217 (34.01%) Finance
5 217 (34.01%) Spring Boot
6 179 (28.06%) JavaScript
7 167 (26.18%) Kubernetes
8 166 (26.02%) Microservices
9 156 (24.45%) Docker
10 140 (21.94%) Software Engineering
11 135 (21.16%) Banking
12 129 (20.22%) SQL
13 122 (19.12%) Python
14 121 (18.97%) TDD
15 115 (18.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 113 (17.71%) Front Office
17 110 (17.24%) Full Stack Development
18 103 (16.14%) Social Skills
19 96 (15.05%) CI/CD
20 95 (14.89%) Investment Banking
21 94 (14.73%) Hibernate
22 90 (14.11%) TypeScript
23 88 (13.79%) Kafka
23 88 (13.79%) Low Latency
23 88 (13.79%) Fintech
24 83 (13.01%) SDLC
25 80 (12.54%) GCP
26 79 (12.38%) Equities
27 78 (12.23%) Fixed Income

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 76 (11.91%) Apache
2 55 (8.62%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (1.88%) OpenStack
3 12 (1.88%) Tomcat
4 11 (1.72%) JBoss
5 7 (1.10%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.94%) Red Hat Fuse
7 5 (0.78%) nginx
8 4 (0.63%) Confluence
9 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.16%) Documentum
9 1 (0.16%) Drupal
9 1 (0.16%) GemFire
9 1 (0.16%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.16%) SAS
9 1 (0.16%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 346 (54.23%) AWS
2 80 (12.54%) GCP
3 58 (9.09%) Azure
4 55 (8.62%) dbt
5 51 (7.99%) Snowflake
6 44 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
7 38 (5.96%) Amazon EKS
8 35 (5.49%) Serverless
9 24 (3.76%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (2.35%) GitHub
10 15 (2.35%) OpenShift
11 12 (1.88%) SaaS
12 11 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (1.10%) Amazon S3
14 6 (0.94%) Amazon SQS
15 5 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
16 3 (0.47%) AWS Step Functions
16 3 (0.47%) Azure DevOps
17 2 (0.31%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 2 (0.31%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.10%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.47%) FTP
2 3 (0.47%) SSH
3 2 (0.31%) HTTP
3 2 (0.31%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (10.50%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (8.78%) Apache Ignite
3 55 (8.62%) Amazon Athena
3 55 (8.62%) Apache Arrow
3 55 (8.62%) Dremio
4 51 (7.99%) Data Lake
5 50 (7.84%) Relational Database
6 44 (6.90%) NoSQL
7 27 (4.23%) MySQL
8 24 (3.76%) SQL Server
9 14 (2.19%) MongoDB
10 11 (1.72%) Redis
11 9 (1.41%) DB2
12 8 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (1.25%) Tick Data
13 7 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (1.10%) Big Data
14 6 (0.94%) DynamoDB
14 6 (0.94%) Flink
15 4 (0.63%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 69 (10.82%) Git
2 56 (8.78%) Jenkins
3 41 (6.43%) JUnit
4 30 (4.70%) Maven
5 20 (3.13%) JIRA
6 18 (2.82%) GitLab
6 18 (2.82%) Selenium
7 15 (2.35%) IntelliJ
7 15 (2.35%) Mockito
8 13 (2.04%) Gradle
9 10 (1.57%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.41%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.25%) TeamCity
12 6 (0.94%) JMeter
13 5 (0.78%) SonarQube
14 3 (0.47%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.47%) TestNG
15 2 (0.31%) Postman
16 1 (0.16%) Apache Ivy
16 1 (0.16%) Subversion
General
1 217 (34.01%) Finance
2 135 (21.16%) Banking
3 113 (17.71%) Front Office
4 103 (16.14%) Social Skills
5 95 (14.89%) Investment Banking
6 31 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (2.66%) Public Sector
8 15 (2.35%) Tech for Good
9 14 (2.19%) Marketing
10 10 (1.57%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.57%) Turkish Language
11 7 (1.10%) Games
11 7 (1.10%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.78%) Electronics
13 4 (0.63%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.47%) Automotive
15 2 (0.31%) Aviation
15 2 (0.31%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.31%) Publishing
15 2 (0.31%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 239 (37.46%) Spring
2 217 (34.01%) Spring Boot
3 94 (14.73%) Hibernate
4 88 (13.79%) Kafka
5 78 (12.23%) AngularJS
6 77 (12.07%) REST
7 62 (9.72%) React
8 61 (9.56%) gRPC
9 59 (9.25%) HTML
10 58 (9.09%) NumPy
10 58 (9.09%) Pandas
11 55 (8.62%) Protocol Buffers
11 55 (8.62%) SciPy
12 51 (7.99%) Web Services
13 48 (7.52%) CSS
14 27 (4.23%) Node.js
14 27 (4.23%) RESTful
15 24 (3.76%) JSON
16 22 (3.45%) XML
17 21 (3.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 115 (18.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 79 (12.38%) Equities
3 78 (12.23%) Fixed Income
4 70 (10.97%) Hedge funds
5 59 (9.25%) Derivative
6 35 (5.49%) Enterprise Software
7 34 (5.33%) Greenfield Project
8 33 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
9 26 (4.08%) Algorithms
10 13 (2.04%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.10%) FPGA
12 7 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.10%) Private Cloud
13 6 (0.94%) Client/Server
13 6 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (0.94%) Wiki
14 5 (0.78%) Data Structures
15 4 (0.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 44 (6.90%) Linux
2 7 (1.10%) Unix
3 2 (0.31%) Windows
4 1 (0.16%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (36.83%) Agile
2 166 (26.02%) Microservices
3 140 (21.94%) Software Engineering
4 121 (18.97%) TDD
5 110 (17.24%) Full Stack Development
6 96 (15.05%) CI/CD
7 88 (13.79%) Fintech
7 88 (13.79%) Low Latency
8 83 (13.01%) SDLC
9 73 (11.44%) Problem-Solving
10 67 (10.50%) DevOps
10 67 (10.50%) Mentoring
11 58 (9.09%) Asset Management
12 54 (8.46%) Multithreading
12 54 (8.46%) Scrum
13 52 (8.15%) Line Management
14 41 (6.43%) Computer Science
15 39 (6.11%) Electronic Trading
16 38 (5.96%) BDD
16 38 (5.96%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 637 (99.84%) Java
2 179 (28.06%) JavaScript
3 129 (20.22%) SQL
4 122 (19.12%) Python
5 90 (14.11%) TypeScript
6 46 (7.21%) Kotlin
7 18 (2.82%) C++
8 11 (1.72%) Go
8 11 (1.72%) Scala
9 8 (1.25%) C#
10 7 (1.10%) C
11 6 (0.94%) Perl
11 6 (0.94%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.94%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.78%) PHP
12 5 (0.78%) Ruby
13 4 (0.63%) Clojure
14 3 (0.47%) Groovy
14 3 (0.47%) Rust
15 2 (0.31%) Bash
Qualifications
1 64 (10.03%) Degree
2 34 (5.33%) Security Cleared
3 31 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 27 (4.23%) SC Cleared
5 12 (1.88%) Master's Degree
6 11 (1.72%) PhD
7 8 (1.25%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.94%) AWS Certified Developer
8 6 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.78%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.31%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.16%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.16%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.61%) QA
2 3 (0.47%) MiFID
3 1 (0.16%) Accessibility
System Software
1 156 (24.45%) Docker
2 5 (0.78%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.16%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 167 (26.18%) Kubernetes
2 34 (5.33%) Terraform
3 25 (3.92%) Ansible
4 10 (1.57%) Kibana
5 6 (0.94%) Grafana
6 2 (0.31%) Kustomize
6 2 (0.31%) Packer
6 2 (0.31%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.16%) Istio
7 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (4.39%) Oracle
2 18 (2.82%) Bloomberg
2 18 (2.82%) Reuters
3 15 (2.35%) Google
4 11 (1.72%) WSO2
5 6 (0.94%) Splunk
5 6 (0.94%) Sybase
6 5 (0.78%) Microsoft
6 5 (0.78%) Red Hat
6 5 (0.78%) SAP
7 4 (0.63%) Dynatrace
7 4 (0.63%) Facebook
7 4 (0.63%) Vertica
8 3 (0.47%) ION Trading
9 2 (0.31%) StreamBase
10 1 (0.16%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.16%) iManage
10 1 (0.16%) Informatica
10 1 (0.16%) Solace
10 1 (0.16%) Tradeweb