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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 38 34
Rank change year-on-year -34 -4 -13
Permanent jobs citing Java 343 899 830
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.47% 4.90% 6.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.70% 17.08% 15.97%
Number of salaries quoted 182 596 471
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,691 £35,000
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% +4.84%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,625 £81,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £91,250 £93,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - -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 2,504 5,262 5,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.32% 28.67% 40.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,711 4,138 3,524
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 £68,750 £68,000 £74,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £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 2 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 2 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 -25 118 £65,000 -7.14% 360
Berkshire -15 79 £65,000 -7.14% 255
Hampshire -35 72 £58,000 -3.33% 135
Surrey -11 66 £65,000 +30.00% 111
West Sussex +50 32 £67,500 +22.73% 53
Buckinghamshire +6 28 £58,750 -21.67% 52
Kent +41 17 £52,500 - 39
East Sussex +26 12 £43,750 -20.45% 52
Oxfordshire 0 11 £70,000 +21.74% 56
Middlesex -12 10 - - 11
Isle of Wight - 6 £58,000 -
Sussex +19 2 £75,000 +206.12% 11
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 (4.96%) Confluence
1 17 (4.96%) JBoss
2 12 (3.50%) Red Hat Fuse
3 11 (3.21%) Apache
4 9 (2.62%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.46%) 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
1 149 (43.44%) AWS
2 100 (29.15%) Azure
3 56 (16.33%) Amazon EKS
4 45 (13.12%) Serverless
5 35 (10.20%) Amazon EC2
5 35 (10.20%) Amazon ECS
6 25 (7.29%) Amazon S3
6 25 (7.29%) Pulumi
7 21 (6.12%) GCP
8 18 (5.25%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (4.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 14 (4.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (4.08%) Azure API Management
11 12 (3.50%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (2.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (2.33%) AWS KMS
13 8 (2.33%) SaaS
13 8 (2.33%) Snowflake
14 6 (1.75%) GitHub
15 5 (1.46%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 27 (7.87%) Broadband
2 7 (2.04%) HTTP
3 4 (1.17%) HTTPS
3 4 (1.17%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.87%) DNS
5 2 (0.58%) Firewall
5 2 (0.58%) FTP
5 2 (0.58%) Network Security
5 2 (0.58%) SMTP
5 2 (0.58%) SSH
6 1 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (18.66%) Relational Database
2 63 (18.37%) PostgreSQL
3 44 (12.83%) RDBMS
4 36 (10.50%) NoSQL
5 20 (5.83%) Elasticsearch
6 18 (5.25%) SQL Server
7 14 (4.08%) OLTP
8 13 (3.79%) MongoDB
9 10 (2.92%) MySQL
10 9 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (2.62%) Big Data
11 7 (2.04%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (1.46%) DynamoDB
12 5 (1.46%) Hadoop
13 4 (1.17%) Metadata
13 4 (1.17%) Oracle Database
13 4 (1.17%) Redis
14 3 (0.87%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.87%) Pinecone
14 3 (0.87%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 63 (18.37%) Jenkins
2 45 (13.12%) JUnit
3 40 (11.66%) Git
4 28 (8.16%) Mockito
5 25 (7.29%) Jaeger
6 23 (6.71%) JIRA
7 18 (5.25%) JMeter
8 17 (4.96%) Maven
9 16 (4.66%) SonarQube
10 14 (4.08%) Selenium
11 13 (3.79%) GitLab
12 11 (3.21%) Cucumber
13 10 (2.92%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (2.33%) Bitbucket
15 6 (1.75%) DbUnit
15 6 (1.75%) jMock
16 5 (1.46%) Bitbucket Server
16 5 (1.46%) Eclipse
16 5 (1.46%) Eclipse RCP
17 3 (0.87%) MLflow
General
1 101 (29.45%) Social Skills
2 55 (16.03%) Analytical Skills
3 54 (15.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 40 (11.66%) Public Sector
5 32 (9.33%) Finance
6 17 (4.96%) Banking
7 15 (4.37%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.46%) Advertising
9 5 (1.46%) Law
9 5 (1.46%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.46%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.17%) Retail
11 2 (0.58%) Publishing
12 1 (0.29%) Digital Healthcare
12 1 (0.29%) Front Office
12 1 (0.29%) Games
12 1 (0.29%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.29%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 119 (34.69%) Developer
2 76 (22.16%) Java Developer
3 70 (20.41%) Lead
4 62 (18.08%) Software Engineer
5 58 (16.91%) Senior
6 46 (13.41%) Team Leader
7 25 (7.29%) Software Developer
8 24 (7.00%) Senior Developer
9 21 (6.12%) Java Engineer
9 21 (6.12%) Software Team Leader
10 19 (5.54%) Junior
11 16 (4.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 16 (4.66%) Senior Software Engineer
12 14 (4.08%) Data Engineer
12 14 (4.08%) Full-Stack Developer
12 14 (4.08%) Oracle Developer
12 14 (4.08%) Senior Oracle Developer
13 13 (3.79%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 12 (3.50%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
15 10 (2.92%) Junior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (23.91%) Spring Boot
2 81 (23.62%) Spring
3 71 (20.70%) HTML
4 56 (16.33%) REST
5 47 (13.70%) Kafka
6 44 (12.83%) Web Services
7 41 (11.95%) .NET
8 40 (11.66%) Hibernate
9 37 (10.79%) React
10 36 (10.50%) Node.js
11 33 (9.62%) Elastic Stack
12 31 (9.04%) RESTful
13 30 (8.75%) ActiveMQ
13 30 (8.75%) Apache Camel
14 29 (8.45%) JSON
15 25 (7.29%) OpenTelemetry
16 24 (7.00%) Middleware
17 22 (6.41%) SOAP
18 20 (5.83%) jQuery
18 20 (5.83%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 40 (11.66%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (6.12%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (5.54%) Product Ownership
4 18 (5.25%) Cyberattack
5 17 (4.96%) Algorithms
6 13 (3.79%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (3.21%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.46%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.46%) Virtual Team
9 3 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (0.87%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.58%) 3D Graphics
10 2 (0.58%) BBC
10 2 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.58%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.58%) NHS
10 2 (0.58%) Replication
11 1 (0.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 79 (23.03%) Linux
2 30 (8.75%) Android
3 27 (7.87%) Unix
4 9 (2.62%) Windows
5 7 (2.04%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.58%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.58%) VMS
7 1 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (53.06%) Agile
2 114 (33.24%) CI/CD
3 106 (30.90%) Microservices
3 106 (30.90%) Software Engineering
4 90 (26.24%) Containerisation
5 83 (24.20%) DevOps
6 78 (22.74%) TDD
7 71 (20.70%) Scrum
8 67 (19.53%) Computer Science
9 60 (17.49%) Test Automation
10 59 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
11 52 (15.16%) Full-Stack Development
12 48 (13.99%) Kanban
13 42 (12.24%) BDD
14 40 (11.66%) Mathematics
14 40 (11.66%) Mentoring
15 39 (11.37%) Line Management
16 37 (10.79%) Continuous Integration
17 36 (10.50%) Performance Optimisation
18 34 (9.91%) OO
Programming Languages
1 176 (51.31%) Python
2 135 (39.36%) JavaScript
3 111 (32.36%) SQL
4 80 (23.32%) C#
5 70 (20.41%) Rust
6 64 (18.66%) C++
7 51 (14.87%) Go
8 31 (9.04%) C
9 28 (8.16%) Bash
9 28 (8.16%) TypeScript
10 21 (6.12%) PHP
11 19 (5.54%) R
11 19 (5.54%) Shell Script
12 18 (5.25%) Ruby
13 17 (4.96%) MATLAB
14 16 (4.66%) Dart
15 14 (4.08%) PL/SQL
16 13 (3.79%) PowerShell
17 10 (2.92%) Kotlin
18 7 (2.04%) Scala
Qualifications
1 69 (20.12%) Degree
2 61 (17.78%) Security Cleared
3 36 (10.50%) SC Cleared
4 32 (9.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (8.45%) AWS Certification
6 22 (6.41%) DV Cleared
7 12 (3.50%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.87%) PhD
10 2 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.58%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.16%) QA
2 12 (3.50%) SLA
3 7 (2.04%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.17%) 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
1 131 (38.19%) Docker
2 5 (1.46%) HDFS
3 2 (0.58%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.58%) DFS Replication
3 2 (0.58%) Postfix
3 2 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 126 (36.73%) Kubernetes
2 64 (18.66%) Ansible
3 55 (16.03%) Terraform
4 34 (9.91%) Prometheus
5 25 (7.29%) Argo
5 25 (7.29%) Kustomize
6 18 (5.25%) Kibana
7 9 (2.62%) Grafana
8 3 (0.87%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.58%) Hadoop YARN
9 2 (0.58%) Kubespray
10 1 (0.29%) Packer
Vendors
1 49 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 31 (9.04%) Google
3 24 (7.00%) Oracle
4 19 (5.54%) Databricks
4 19 (5.54%) Splunk
5 18 (5.25%) Dynatrace
6 9 (2.62%) SAP
6 9 (2.62%) Solace
7 8 (2.33%) Cisco
8 6 (1.75%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.87%) Cloudera
9 3 (0.87%) IBM
9 3 (0.87%) Jaspersoft
10 2 (0.58%) Confluent
10 2 (0.58%) Dataiku
10 2 (0.58%) MapR
10 2 (0.58%) Roku
10 2 (0.58%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.58%) WSO2
11 1 (0.29%) Automation Anywhere