Java Jobs in Kent

Java
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 93 71
Rank change year-on-year +47 -22 -50
Permanent jobs citing Java 18 15 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 2.51% 1.01% 3.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.32% 4.00% 11.44%
Number of salaries quoted 9 14 19
10th Percentile £35,500 £35,000 -
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,750 £26,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £68,750 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.64% +58.05% +12.99%
75th Percentile £90,000 £160,313 £64,375
90th Percentile £91,500 £175,000 £72,750
South East median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +8.33%

All Programming Languages
Kent

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 159 375 306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 22.18% 25.20% 26.56%
Number of salaries quoted 134 316 164
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £38,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.30% +4.76% +23.53%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £61,563
90th Percentile £68,750 £71,125 £73,375
South East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Kent.

Job vacancy trend for Java in Kent

Java
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for Java in Kent

Java
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Kent over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Java in Kent

Java
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Kent region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
Chatham +11 4 £90,000 +5.26% 1
Rochester - 3 £49,050 -
Dartford +4 1 £52,500 +31.25% 10
Maidstone - 1 £30,000 - 9
Java
South East

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 1 (5.56%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) AWS
3 4 (22.22%) Snowflake
4 3 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (11.11%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Eclipse
1 1 (5.56%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Electronics
2 5 (27.78%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Banking
3 4 (22.22%) Retail Banking
4 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (16.67%) Finance
4 3 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (11.11%) Investment Banking
6 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Senior
2 8 (44.44%) Software Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) Hardware Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) Senior Hardware Engineer
4 4 (22.22%) Developer
4 4 (22.22%) Lead
4 4 (22.22%) Lead Software Engineer
4 4 (22.22%) Senior Software Engineer
4 4 (22.22%) Software Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Junior
5 2 (11.11%) Junior Software Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Technical Leader
6 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (55.56%) .NET
2 4 (22.22%) Kafka
3 3 (16.67%) HTML
3 3 (16.67%) Node.js
3 3 (16.67%) Pandas
4 2 (11.11%) AngularJS
4 2 (11.11%) CSS
4 2 (11.11%) GraphQL
4 2 (11.11%) React
4 2 (11.11%) RESTful
5 1 (5.56%) .NET Framework
5 1 (5.56%) JSON
5 1 (5.56%) JSP
5 1 (5.56%) Middleware
5 1 (5.56%) Web Services
5 1 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Analogue Electronics
1 5 (27.78%) Cloud Native
1 5 (27.78%) FPGA
1 5 (27.78%) Life Science
1 5 (27.78%) VHDL
2 3 (16.67%) Cyberattack
3 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Linux
2 3 (16.67%) Android
3 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 6 (33.33%) Agile
2 6 (33.33%) Mathematics
3 5 (27.78%) Analytics
3 5 (27.78%) Architectural Design
3 5 (27.78%) CAD
3 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
3 5 (27.78%) OO
3 5 (27.78%) Prototyping
3 5 (27.78%) Schematic Capture
4 4 (22.22%) Data Engineering
4 4 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (22.22%) OOP
5 3 (16.67%) Android Development
5 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 3 (16.67%) Kanban
5 3 (16.67%) Line Management
5 3 (16.67%) OWASP
5 3 (16.67%) Secure Coding
5 3 (16.67%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 15 (83.33%) Python
2 13 (72.22%) C#
3 10 (55.56%) C++
4 6 (33.33%) C
4 6 (33.33%) Rust
5 3 (16.67%) Go
5 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 3 (16.67%) SQL
6 1 (5.56%) Ada
6 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
1 3 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Firmware
2 3 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Ansible
1 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
2 2 (11.11%) Grafana
2 2 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) EMC
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) Databricks
3 1 (5.56%) Google