Java Developer Jobs in Milton Keynes

Java Developer
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The median Java Developer salary in Milton Keynes is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 84 78
Rank change year-on-year +46 -6 +25
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 4 5 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 1.53% 0.45% 1.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.59% 0.48% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4 5 7
10th Percentile £53,125 £57,000 £64,500
25th Percentile £55,938 £60,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -3.23% +55.78%
75th Percentile £64,375 £91,250 £85,625
90th Percentile £67,750 - £92,500
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% -12.90% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Milton Keynes

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Milton Keynes. 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 Milton Keynes with a recognized job title 251 1,045 779
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.80% 95.00% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 141 689 532
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £28,545
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £34,324
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.81% +1.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £67,125
90th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £79,425
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £50,967 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.30% -5.00% -

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in Milton Keynes

Java Developer
Salary Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Salary trend for Java Developer in Milton Keynes

Java Developer
Salary Histogram in Milton Keynes

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Java Developer in Milton Keynes

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Milton Keynes region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
2 3 (75.00%) React
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (75.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (75.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (75.00%) Mockito
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) JUnit
2 3 (75.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Spring
3 2 (50.00%) JPA
3 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) Eclipse
3 2 (50.00%) IntelliJ
3 2 (50.00%) IBM
3 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (50.00%) RESTful
3 2 (50.00%) SaaS
3 2 (50.00%) Jasmine
3 2 (50.00%) Kafka
3 2 (50.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) SaaS
4 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JUnit
1 3 (75.00%) Mockito
2 2 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 2 (50.00%) IntelliJ
2 2 (50.00%) Jasmine
2 2 (50.00%) Karma Test Runner
2 2 (50.00%) Protractor
3 1 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (75.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (75.00%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (75.00%) React
2 2 (50.00%) JPA
2 2 (50.00%) Kafka
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) Spring
2 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (25.00%) OAuth
3 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
3 1 (25.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (25.00%) API Development
4 1 (25.00%) BDD
4 1 (25.00%) Community of Practice
4 1 (25.00%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
4 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) SDLC
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) SOLID
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
4 1 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) IBM