Mid-Level Java Developer Job Trends in the South East

Mid Level Java Developer
England > South East

The median Mid Level Java Developer salary in the South East is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 - 327
Rank change year-on-year - - +80
Permanent jobs requiring a Mid-Level Java Developer 11 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.10% - 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% - 0.009%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile - - £56,250
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £60,000 £40,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year +50.00% -34.69% +11.36%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 9,969 7,849 10,690
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 89.61% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 6,332 4,065 8,064
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,489 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,525 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +13.05% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

Mid-Level Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Mid-Level Java Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Mid-Level Java Developer job vacancy trend in the South East

Mid-Level Java Developer
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for Mid-Level Java Developer job vacancies in the South East.

Salary distribution trend for Mid-Level Java Developer job vacancies in the South East

Mid-Level Java Developer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mid-Level Java Developer within the South East region over the 6 months to 30 January 2026. 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
Berkshire - 10 - -
Thames Valley - 10 - -
Surrey - 1 £60,000 -
Mid-Level Java Developer
England

Mid-Level Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 30 January 2026, Mid-Level Java Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring Mid-Level Java Developer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Java
1 11 (100.00%) REST
1 11 (100.00%) Spring
1 11 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 10 (90.91%) ActiveMQ
2 10 (90.91%) Agile
2 10 (90.91%) Amazon EC2
2 10 (90.91%) Amazon ECS
2 10 (90.91%) Amazon EKS
2 10 (90.91%) Apache Camel
2 10 (90.91%) AWS
2 10 (90.91%) BDD
2 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
2 10 (90.91%) Docker
2 10 (90.91%) Dynatrace
2 10 (90.91%) Full-Stack Development
2 10 (90.91%) Hibernate
2 10 (90.91%) HTML
2 10 (90.91%) JavaScript
2 10 (90.91%) Jenkins
2 10 (90.91%) JMeter
2 10 (90.91%) jQuery
2 10 (90.91%) JSON
2 10 (90.91%) JUnit
2 10 (90.91%) Kibana
2 10 (90.91%) Kubernetes
2 10 (90.91%) Microservices
2 10 (90.91%) Mockito
2 10 (90.91%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (90.91%) Process Management

Mid-Level Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) Amazon EC2
1 10 (90.91%) Amazon ECS
1 10 (90.91%) Amazon EKS
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
1 10 (90.91%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (90.91%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (90.91%) RDBMS
1 10 (90.91%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (90.91%) Jenkins
1 10 (90.91%) JMeter
1 10 (90.91%) JUnit
1 10 (90.91%) Mockito
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) Gradle
2 1 (9.09%) Maven
General
1 10 (90.91%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (100.00%) REST
1 11 (100.00%) Spring
1 11 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 10 (90.91%) ActiveMQ
2 10 (90.91%) Apache Camel
2 10 (90.91%) Hibernate
2 10 (90.91%) HTML
2 10 (90.91%) jQuery
2 10 (90.91%) JSON
2 10 (90.91%) Web Services
2 10 (90.91%) WireMock
2 10 (90.91%) XML
3 1 (9.09%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 10 (90.91%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Agile
1 10 (90.91%) BDD
1 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
1 10 (90.91%) Full-Stack Development
1 10 (90.91%) Microservices
1 10 (90.91%) Process Management
1 10 (90.91%) SDLC
1 10 (90.91%) TDD
1 10 (90.91%) Workflow
2 1 (9.09%) Fintech
2 1 (9.09%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (90.91%) JavaScript
2 10 (90.91%) Python
2 10 (90.91%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (90.91%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (90.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (90.91%) Kibana
1 10 (90.91%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) Dynatrace
1 10 (90.91%) Splunk