Java Developer Jobs in the South East

Java Developer
England > South East

The median Java Developer salary in the South East is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 July 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 264 191
Rank change year-on-year +18 -73 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 77 126 195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.77% 0.70% 1.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 0.74% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 35 100 129
10th Percentile £28,050 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £41,875 £46,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £73,750 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,750 £86,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% -3.03% +3.13%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 9,000 17,062 11,406
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.61% 94.30% 89.53%
Number of salaries quoted 4,953 12,027 7,676
10th Percentile £28,750 £27,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,183 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in the South East

Java Developer
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Java Developer in the South East

Java Developer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Java Developer in the South East

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 Java Developer within the South East region over the 6 months to 5 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 +68 53 £52,500 -32.26% 17
Berkshire +40 48 £70,000 -12.50% 11
Hampshire +55 12 £32,500 -53.57% 7
Surrey +29 8 £72,500 +52.63% 12
Buckinghamshire +28 5 £52,500 -35.38% 5
West Sussex +28 1 £75,000 +30.43% 2
Sussex - 1 £75,000 -
Java Developer
England

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 5 July 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 South East region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 77 (100.00%) Java
2 67 (87.01%) Microservices
3 60 (77.92%) AWS
4 57 (74.03%) Spring Boot
5 56 (72.73%) Docker
6 55 (71.43%) Spring
7 50 (64.94%) Agile
7 50 (64.94%) PostgreSQL
8 48 (62.34%) TDD
8 48 (62.34%) Kubernetes
9 47 (61.04%) REST
10 46 (59.74%) Jenkins
11 43 (55.84%) JUnit
12 42 (54.55%) Web Services
13 40 (51.95%) Serverless
14 39 (50.65%) Public Sector
15 38 (49.35%) Distributed Systems
15 38 (49.35%) BDD
16 36 (46.75%) Amazon EKS
17 34 (44.16%) Amazon ECS
17 34 (44.16%) CI/CD
17 34 (44.16%) Relational Database
18 33 (42.86%) Scrum
19 30 (38.96%) Git
20 29 (37.66%) RESTful
20 29 (37.66%) Security Cleared
20 29 (37.66%) Apache Camel
20 29 (37.66%) DevOps
20 29 (37.66%) Hibernate
21 27 (35.06%) JavaScript

Java Developer Skill Set
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 (22.08%) JBoss
2 12 (15.58%) Red Hat Fuse
3 6 (7.79%) Confluence
4 5 (6.49%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 60 (77.92%) AWS
2 40 (51.95%) Serverless
3 36 (46.75%) Amazon EKS
4 34 (44.16%) Amazon ECS
5 24 (31.17%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (15.58%) Amazon SQS
7 11 (14.29%) Amazon S3
8 9 (11.69%) Azure
9 8 (10.39%) GCP
10 6 (7.79%) AWS KMS
11 5 (6.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (6.49%) Route 53
12 2 (2.60%) GitHub
12 2 (2.60%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (64.94%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (44.16%) Relational Database
3 17 (22.08%) RDBMS
4 7 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (9.09%) MongoDB
5 5 (6.49%) DynamoDB
6 4 (5.19%) NoSQL
6 4 (5.19%) Oracle Database
7 3 (3.90%) MySQL
8 2 (2.60%) Redis
9 1 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.30%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.30%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 46 (59.74%) Jenkins
2 43 (55.84%) JUnit
3 30 (38.96%) Git
4 27 (35.06%) Mockito
5 17 (22.08%) JMeter
6 9 (11.69%) Maven
7 8 (10.39%) JIRA
8 7 (9.09%) SonarQube
9 6 (7.79%) DbUnit
9 6 (7.79%) jMock
10 5 (6.49%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (6.49%) GitLab
11 4 (5.19%) Selenium
12 2 (2.60%) Gradle
12 2 (2.60%) Mocha
13 1 (1.30%) IntelliJ
General
1 39 (50.65%) Public Sector
2 9 (11.69%) Social Skills
3 7 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.49%) Finance
4 5 (6.49%) Telecoms
5 4 (5.19%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (74.03%) Spring Boot
2 55 (71.43%) Spring
3 47 (61.04%) REST
4 42 (54.55%) Web Services
5 29 (37.66%) Apache Camel
5 29 (37.66%) Hibernate
5 29 (37.66%) RESTful
6 25 (32.47%) ActiveMQ
7 20 (25.97%) HTML
7 20 (25.97%) SOAP
8 17 (22.08%) jQuery
8 17 (22.08%) Kafka
8 17 (22.08%) WireMock
9 16 (20.78%) J2EE
10 11 (14.29%) JSON
11 10 (12.99%) AngularJS
11 10 (12.99%) XML
12 9 (11.69%) React
13 8 (10.39%) JPA
13 8 (10.39%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 38 (49.35%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (6.49%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (5.19%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.90%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.60%) BBC
5 2 (2.60%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.30%) NHS
6 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (87.01%) Microservices
2 50 (64.94%) Agile
3 48 (62.34%) TDD
4 38 (49.35%) BDD
5 34 (44.16%) CI/CD
6 33 (42.86%) Scrum
7 29 (37.66%) DevOps
8 26 (33.77%) Kanban
9 20 (25.97%) Full-Stack Development
10 17 (22.08%) Process Management
10 17 (22.08%) Workflow
11 11 (14.29%) Containerisation
12 10 (12.99%) SDLC
13 9 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (11.69%) Unit Testing
14 8 (10.39%) API Development
14 8 (10.39%) Test Automation
15 7 (9.09%) Architectural Design
15 7 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
16 6 (7.79%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 77 (100.00%) Java
2 27 (35.06%) JavaScript
3 20 (25.97%) Python
4 17 (22.08%) Shell Script
5 16 (20.78%) SQL
6 3 (3.90%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.30%) Go
Qualifications
1 29 (37.66%) Security Cleared
2 26 (33.77%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.60%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.58%) SLA
2 2 (2.60%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.30%) QA
System Software
1 56 (72.73%) Docker
2 2 (2.60%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 48 (62.34%) Kubernetes
2 17 (22.08%) Kibana
3 12 (15.58%) Ansible
4 3 (3.90%) Terraform
5 2 (2.60%) Grafana
5 2 (2.60%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (23.38%) Splunk
2 17 (22.08%) Dynatrace
3 6 (7.79%) Oracle
4 5 (6.49%) Atlassian
5 3 (3.90%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (1.30%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.30%) Cisco
6 1 (1.30%) Google
6 1 (1.30%) Red Hat