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 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 277 193 157
Rank change year-on-year -84 -36 -59
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 868 1,691 3,562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.01% 1.87% 2.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% 2.04% 2.78%
Number of salaries quoted 728 1,359 2,353
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £130,000 £120,000
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 81,072 82,732 127,934
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.49% 91.46% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,480 52,417 75,087
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,669 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,519 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 8 May 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 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
London -18 543 £90,000 -5.26% 67
South East -31 157 £70,000 +7.69% 15
North of England -15 79 £60,000 -14.29% 12
South West -83 62 £60,000 - 10
North West -18 59 £62,500 -10.71% 8
Midlands -43 29 £47,500 -20.83% 6
West Midlands -25 19 £55,000 -8.33% 5
East of England -5 15 £50,000 -28.57% 2
Yorkshire +52 13 £55,000 - 3
East Midlands -23 9 £42,500 -33.33% 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 8 May 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.

1 866 (99.77%) Java
2 442 (50.92%) AWS
3 350 (40.32%) Spring
4 308 (35.48%) Agile
5 287 (33.06%) Spring Boot
6 267 (30.76%) Microservices
7 246 (28.34%) Docker
8 241 (27.76%) Kubernetes
9 240 (27.65%) JavaScript
10 239 (27.53%) Finance
11 199 (22.93%) TDD
12 183 (21.08%) SQL
13 173 (19.93%) Full Stack Development
14 149 (17.17%) AngularJS
15 146 (16.82%) Software Engineering
16 138 (15.90%) Python
17 136 (15.67%) Banking
18 134 (15.44%) Social Skills
19 132 (15.21%) DevOps
20 128 (14.75%) Git
21 127 (14.63%) REST
22 115 (13.25%) Low Latency
23 114 (13.13%) Fintech
23 114 (13.13%) Hibernate
24 113 (13.02%) Front Office
25 111 (12.79%) Azure
26 107 (12.33%) Degree
27 106 (12.21%) Mentoring
28 105 (12.10%) Kafka
29 104 (11.98%) Problem-Solving

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 45 (5.18%) Apache
2 41 (4.72%) OpenStack
3 24 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (2.07%) Confluence
4 18 (2.07%) Tomcat
5 15 (1.73%) JBoss
6 11 (1.27%) Red Hat Fuse
7 7 (0.81%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.35%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.35%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.23%) Mule
9 2 (0.23%) nginx
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.12%) Drupal
10 1 (0.12%) GemFire
10 1 (0.12%) Jetty
10 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.12%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 442 (50.92%) AWS
2 111 (12.79%) Azure
3 86 (9.91%) Serverless
4 61 (7.03%) Amazon ECS
5 59 (6.80%) GCP
6 58 (6.68%) Amazon EKS
7 25 (2.88%) SaaS
8 24 (2.76%) dbt
9 23 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (2.30%) Snowflake
11 16 (1.84%) GitHub
12 15 (1.73%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (1.61%) OpenShift
14 12 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
15 11 (1.27%) Amazon S3
16 8 (0.92%) Amazon SQS
17 6 (0.69%) PaaS
18 4 (0.46%) npm
19 2 (0.23%) AWS IoT
19 2 (0.23%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.38%) Internet
1 12 (1.38%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.35%) FTP
3 2 (0.23%) AMQP
3 2 (0.23%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.23%) HTTP
3 2 (0.23%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (11.87%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (10.14%) NoSQL
3 82 (9.45%) Relational Database
4 53 (6.11%) MySQL
5 36 (4.15%) SQL Server
6 25 (2.88%) Apache Ignite
7 24 (2.76%) Amazon Athena
7 24 (2.76%) Apache Arrow
7 24 (2.76%) Dremio
8 20 (2.30%) Data Lake
9 18 (2.07%) MongoDB
10 16 (1.84%) Redis
11 13 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
12 11 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (1.27%) DB2
13 9 (1.04%) CouchDB
14 8 (0.92%) DynamoDB
15 6 (0.69%) Big Data
16 5 (0.58%) Flink
16 5 (0.58%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 128 (14.75%) Git
2 97 (11.18%) Jenkins
3 54 (6.22%) JUnit
4 29 (3.34%) JIRA
5 28 (3.23%) Maven
6 23 (2.65%) Mockito
7 20 (2.30%) IntelliJ
7 20 (2.30%) Selenium
8 17 (1.96%) GitLab
9 11 (1.27%) Gradle
10 10 (1.15%) Cucumber
10 10 (1.15%) TeamCity
11 8 (0.92%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.58%) JMeter
13 4 (0.46%) Eclipse
14 3 (0.35%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.35%) Jasmine
15 2 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 2 (0.23%) JHipster
16 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
General
1 239 (27.53%) Finance
2 136 (15.67%) Banking
3 134 (15.44%) Social Skills
4 113 (13.02%) Front Office
5 85 (9.79%) Investment Banking
6 56 (6.45%) Public Sector
7 30 (3.46%) Analytical Skills
8 20 (2.30%) Tech for Good
9 16 (1.84%) Financial Institution
10 15 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (1.61%) Marketing
12 10 (1.15%) Turkish Language
13 9 (1.04%) Police
13 9 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (0.81%) Retail
14 7 (0.81%) Retail Banking
14 7 (0.81%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.69%) Games
16 5 (0.58%) Electronics
16 5 (0.58%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 350 (40.32%) Spring
2 287 (33.06%) Spring Boot
3 149 (17.17%) AngularJS
4 127 (14.63%) REST
5 114 (13.13%) Hibernate
6 105 (12.10%) Kafka
7 95 (10.94%) React
8 69 (7.95%) Web Services
9 68 (7.83%) Node.js
10 58 (6.68%) HTML
11 49 (5.65%) Apache Camel
12 48 (5.53%) CSS
12 48 (5.53%) RESTful
13 47 (5.41%) XML
14 46 (5.30%) JSON
15 42 (4.84%) Elastic Stack
16 28 (3.23%) gRPC
17 27 (3.11%) NumPy
17 27 (3.11%) Pandas
18 26 (3.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 86 (9.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 66 (7.60%) Distributed Systems
3 60 (6.91%) Greenfield Project
4 50 (5.76%) Enterprise Software
4 50 (5.76%) Fixed Income
5 49 (5.65%) Equities
6 35 (4.03%) Hedge funds
7 30 (3.46%) Derivative
8 27 (3.11%) Algorithms
9 21 (2.42%) Client/Server
10 15 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.73%) Public Cloud
11 12 (1.38%) FPGA
12 11 (1.27%) PropTech
13 10 (1.15%) Onboarding
13 10 (1.15%) Private Cloud
14 9 (1.04%) Data Structures
15 8 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
16 7 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
16 7 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 62 (7.14%) Linux
2 6 (0.69%) Windows
3 4 (0.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (35.48%) Agile
2 267 (30.76%) Microservices
3 199 (22.93%) TDD
4 173 (19.93%) Full Stack Development
5 146 (16.82%) Software Engineering
6 132 (15.21%) DevOps
7 115 (13.25%) Low Latency
8 114 (13.13%) Fintech
9 106 (12.21%) Mentoring
10 104 (11.98%) Problem-Solving
11 102 (11.75%) CI/CD
12 94 (10.83%) SDLC
13 92 (10.60%) Scrum
14 86 (9.91%) Computer Science
15 74 (8.53%) BDD
16 66 (7.60%) Kanban
17 65 (7.49%) Multithreading
18 55 (6.34%) Electronic Trading
19 47 (5.41%) Containerisation
20 41 (4.72%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 866 (99.77%) Java
2 240 (27.65%) JavaScript
3 183 (21.08%) SQL
4 138 (15.90%) Python
5 64 (7.37%) TypeScript
6 57 (6.57%) Kotlin
7 36 (4.15%) C#
8 24 (2.76%) C++
9 15 (1.73%) Scala
9 15 (1.73%) Shell Script
10 12 (1.38%) C
11 11 (1.27%) Ruby
12 9 (1.04%) Go
12 9 (1.04%) Perl
13 8 (0.92%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.58%) Groovy
15 3 (0.35%) Clojure
15 3 (0.35%) PHP
15 3 (0.35%) Rust
16 2 (0.23%) Bash
Qualifications
1 107 (12.33%) Degree
2 75 (8.64%) Security Cleared
3 65 (7.49%) SC Cleared
4 40 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.00%) AWS Certification
6 14 (1.61%) Azure Certification
7 8 (0.92%) AWS Certified Developer
7 8 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (0.92%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.81%) PhD
9 3 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.23%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.12%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.12%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (2.65%) QA
2 3 (0.35%) MiFID
3 2 (0.23%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
System Software
1 246 (28.34%) Docker
2 30 (3.46%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.12%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 241 (27.76%) Kubernetes
2 66 (7.60%) Ansible
3 60 (6.91%) Terraform
4 6 (0.69%) Kibana
5 2 (0.23%) Grafana
6 1 (0.12%) Consul
6 1 (0.12%) Istio
6 1 (0.12%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.12%) Packer
6 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 50 (5.76%) Oracle
2 43 (4.95%) WSO2
3 27 (3.11%) Google
4 19 (2.19%) Microsoft
5 8 (0.92%) SAP
6 7 (0.81%) YouTube
7 6 (0.69%) Splunk
8 5 (0.58%) Sybase
8 5 (0.58%) TIBCO
9 4 (0.46%) Dynatrace
9 4 (0.46%) Facebook
9 4 (0.46%) IBM
9 4 (0.46%) Vertica
10 3 (0.35%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.35%) ION Trading
10 3 (0.35%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.35%) Reuters
11 2 (0.23%) Apple
11 2 (0.23%) Murex
11 2 (0.23%) Salesforce