Java Jobs in the South East

Java
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 38 36
Rank change year-on-year -41 -2 -12
Permanent jobs citing Java 339 875 792
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.34% 5.05% 6.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.33% 17.42% 16.07%
Number of salaries quoted 173 582 460
10th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £91,250 £95,350
England median annual salary £77,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +2.67% -6.25% +10.34%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2,543 5,022 4,928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.06% 28.97% 40.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,716 3,922 3,458
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £74,250
90th Percentile £81,875 £82,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the South East

Java
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java in the South East.

Salary trend for Java in the South East

Java
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in the South East over the 6 months to 13 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Java in the South East

Java
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 Java within the South East region over the 6 months to 13 July 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
Thames Valley -24 128 £65,000 -7.14% 62
Berkshire -17 88 £65,000 -7.14% 35
Surrey -15 69 £65,000 +30.00% 30
Hampshire -45 66 £60,000 - 40
West Sussex +45 32 £67,500 +22.73% 9
Buckinghamshire -12 29 £52,500 -30.00% 9
Kent +30 13 £46,250 -11.90% 5
East Sussex +31 12 £43,750 -20.45% 5
Oxfordshire +4 11 £70,000 +21.74% 20
Middlesex -9 10 - - 11
Sussex +19 2 £75,000 +206.12% 8
Java
England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 17 (5.01%) Confluence
1 17 (5.01%) JBoss
2 12 (3.54%) Red Hat Fuse
3 9 (2.65%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.77%) Apache
5 5 (1.47%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.29%) GemFire
6 1 (0.29%) IIS
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.29%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 150 (44.25%) AWS
2 98 (28.91%) Azure
3 57 (16.81%) Amazon EKS
4 46 (13.57%) Serverless
5 36 (10.62%) Amazon EC2
5 36 (10.62%) Amazon ECS
6 29 (8.55%) GCP
7 25 (7.37%) Amazon S3
7 25 (7.37%) Pulumi
8 18 (5.31%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (4.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 14 (4.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (4.13%) Azure API Management
11 12 (3.54%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (2.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (2.36%) AWS KMS
14 7 (2.06%) SaaS
14 7 (2.06%) Snowflake
15 6 (1.77%) GitHub
16 5 (1.47%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 27 (7.96%) Broadband
2 8 (2.36%) HTTP
3 4 (1.18%) HTTPS
3 4 (1.18%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.88%) DNS
5 2 (0.59%) Firewall
5 2 (0.59%) FTP
5 2 (0.59%) Network Security
5 2 (0.59%) SMTP
5 2 (0.59%) SSH
6 1 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (19.47%) Relational Database
2 64 (18.88%) PostgreSQL
3 45 (13.27%) RDBMS
4 36 (10.62%) NoSQL
5 20 (5.90%) Elasticsearch
6 18 (5.31%) SQL Server
7 15 (4.42%) OLTP
8 13 (3.83%) MongoDB
9 11 (3.24%) BigQuery
10 10 (2.95%) MySQL
11 9 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (2.65%) Big Data
12 7 (2.06%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (1.47%) DynamoDB
13 5 (1.47%) Hadoop
14 4 (1.18%) Metadata
14 4 (1.18%) Oracle Database
14 4 (1.18%) Redis
15 3 (0.88%) Data Lake
15 3 (0.88%) Impala
Development Applications
1 64 (18.88%) Jenkins
2 46 (13.57%) JUnit
3 39 (11.50%) Git
4 29 (8.55%) Mockito
5 25 (7.37%) Jaeger
6 24 (7.08%) JIRA
7 19 (5.60%) JMeter
8 17 (5.01%) Maven
8 17 (5.01%) Selenium
9 16 (4.72%) SonarQube
10 13 (3.83%) GitLab
11 12 (3.54%) Cucumber
12 10 (2.95%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (2.36%) Bitbucket
14 6 (1.77%) DbUnit
14 6 (1.77%) jMock
14 6 (1.77%) SoapUI
15 5 (1.47%) Bitbucket Server
15 5 (1.47%) Postman
16 3 (0.88%) MLflow
General
1 103 (30.38%) Social Skills
2 55 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
3 54 (15.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 41 (12.09%) Public Sector
5 33 (9.73%) Finance
6 16 (4.72%) Banking
6 16 (4.72%) Organisational Skills
7 13 (3.83%) Law
8 9 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.36%) Marketing
10 5 (1.47%) Advertising
10 5 (1.47%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.18%) Retail
11 4 (1.18%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.59%) Publishing
13 1 (0.29%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.29%) Front Office
13 1 (0.29%) Games
13 1 (0.29%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 121 (35.69%) Developer
2 77 (22.71%) Java Developer
3 70 (20.65%) Lead
4 50 (14.75%) Senior
5 46 (13.57%) Software Engineer
5 46 (13.57%) Team Leader
6 26 (7.67%) Software Developer
7 24 (7.08%) Senior Developer
8 21 (6.19%) Java Engineer
8 21 (6.19%) Software Team Leader
9 16 (4.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 15 (4.42%) Oracle Developer
10 15 (4.42%) Senior Oracle Developer
11 14 (4.13%) Data Engineer
11 14 (4.13%) Full-Stack Developer
11 14 (4.13%) Junior
12 13 (3.83%) Architect
12 13 (3.83%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 12 (3.54%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 9 (2.65%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (24.48%) Spring Boot
2 82 (24.19%) Spring
3 69 (20.35%) HTML
4 58 (17.11%) REST
5 45 (13.27%) Kafka
6 44 (12.98%) Web Services
7 43 (12.68%) .NET
8 41 (12.09%) Hibernate
9 35 (10.32%) React
10 34 (10.03%) Node.js
11 33 (9.73%) Elastic Stack
12 31 (9.14%) ActiveMQ
12 31 (9.14%) Apache Camel
13 30 (8.85%) JSON
14 29 (8.55%) RESTful
15 25 (7.37%) OpenTelemetry
15 25 (7.37%) SOAP
16 21 (6.19%) jQuery
17 20 (5.90%) Pandas
18 19 (5.60%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 41 (12.09%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (6.78%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (5.31%) Cloud Native
3 18 (5.31%) Cyberattack
3 18 (5.31%) Product Ownership
4 17 (5.01%) Algorithms
5 13 (3.83%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (1.77%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.47%) Mobile App
8 3 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (0.88%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.59%) 3D Graphics
9 2 (0.59%) BBC
9 2 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.59%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.59%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.59%) Replication
10 1 (0.29%) Equities
10 1 (0.29%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 73 (21.53%) Linux
2 31 (9.14%) Android
3 27 (7.96%) Unix
4 8 (2.36%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.18%) Windows
6 2 (0.59%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.59%) VMS
7 1 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (51.33%) Agile
2 106 (31.27%) Microservices
3 105 (30.97%) CI/CD
4 91 (26.84%) Containerisation
5 90 (26.55%) Software Engineering
6 82 (24.19%) DevOps
7 78 (23.01%) TDD
8 73 (21.53%) Scrum
9 59 (17.40%) Problem-Solving
10 56 (16.52%) Computer Science
11 52 (15.34%) Full-Stack Development
12 51 (15.04%) Test Automation
13 48 (14.16%) Kanban
14 45 (13.27%) Mentoring
15 44 (12.98%) Performance Optimisation
16 43 (12.68%) BDD
17 39 (11.50%) Line Management
17 39 (11.50%) Roadmaps
18 37 (10.91%) Continuous Integration
19 34 (10.03%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 168 (49.56%) Python
2 137 (40.41%) JavaScript
3 107 (31.56%) SQL
4 75 (22.12%) C#
5 60 (17.70%) Go
6 59 (17.40%) C++
7 55 (16.22%) Rust
8 31 (9.14%) C
9 28 (8.26%) Bash
9 28 (8.26%) TypeScript
10 22 (6.49%) PHP
11 20 (5.90%) Shell Script
12 19 (5.60%) R
13 18 (5.31%) Ruby
14 17 (5.01%) MATLAB
15 16 (4.72%) Dart
16 15 (4.42%) PL/SQL
17 12 (3.54%) PowerShell
18 10 (2.95%) Kotlin
19 8 (2.36%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 62 (18.29%) Security Cleared
2 54 (15.93%) Degree
3 36 (10.62%) SC Cleared
4 31 (9.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (8.55%) AWS Certification
6 22 (6.49%) DV Cleared
7 12 (3.54%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.88%) PhD
9 2 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.59%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.59%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.59%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.26%) QA
2 12 (3.54%) SLA
3 7 (2.06%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.18%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.29%) GDPR
5 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 133 (39.23%) Docker
2 5 (1.47%) HDFS
3 2 (0.59%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.59%) DFS Replication
3 2 (0.59%) Postfix
3 2 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 136 (40.12%) Kubernetes
2 64 (18.88%) Ansible
3 55 (16.22%) Terraform
4 33 (9.73%) Prometheus
5 25 (7.37%) Argo
5 25 (7.37%) Kustomize
6 19 (5.60%) Kibana
7 8 (2.36%) Grafana
8 3 (0.88%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.59%) Hadoop YARN
9 2 (0.59%) Kubespray
10 1 (0.29%) Packer
10 1 (0.29%) PingFederate
10 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (14.45%) Microsoft
2 39 (11.50%) Google
3 25 (7.37%) Oracle
4 20 (5.90%) Splunk
5 19 (5.60%) Dynatrace
6 18 (5.31%) Databricks
7 9 (2.65%) Solace
8 8 (2.36%) Cisco
8 8 (2.36%) SAP
9 6 (1.77%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.88%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.88%) IBM
10 3 (0.88%) Jaspersoft
10 3 (0.88%) Roku
11 2 (0.59%) Confluent
11 2 (0.59%) Dataiku
11 2 (0.59%) MapR
11 2 (0.59%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.59%) WSO2
12 1 (0.29%) Automation Anywhere