Java Developer Jobs in the South East

Java Developer
England > South East

The median Java Developer salary in the South East is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 259 200 228
Rank change year-on-year -59 +28 -98
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 95 170 338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.63% 1.47% 1.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 1.60% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 68 111 272
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,625
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £66,750
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -2.62% +11.25%
75th Percentile £80,938 £76,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £85,375 £82,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year - +3.13% +14.29%

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 14,224 10,599 21,077
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.24% 91.47% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 9,733 7,232 12,510
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £40,463
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 -11 32 £72,500 +3.57% 6
Hampshire -40 30 £70,000 +7.69% 4
Berkshire -9 26 £65,000 -7.14% 5
Surrey -39 25 £48,750 -11.36% 1
West Sussex - 4 £57,500 -
Buckinghamshire +3 3 £75,000 +7.14%
Oxfordshire -16 3 £75,000 +30.43% 1
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 95 (100.00%) Java
2 62 (65.26%) AWS
3 55 (57.89%) Spring
4 50 (52.63%) Agile
5 46 (48.42%) Microservices
6 44 (46.32%) Docker
7 42 (44.21%) Kubernetes
8 39 (41.05%) JavaScript
9 35 (36.84%) Spring Boot
10 32 (33.68%) TDD
10 32 (33.68%) Git
11 31 (32.63%) CI/CD
11 31 (32.63%) Social Skills
11 31 (32.63%) DevOps
12 30 (31.58%) PostgreSQL
13 27 (28.42%) REST
13 27 (28.42%) Jenkins
14 25 (26.32%) Full Stack Development
14 25 (26.32%) Web Services
15 24 (25.26%) Software Engineering
16 22 (23.16%) Azure
16 22 (23.16%) JUnit
16 22 (23.16%) Amazon ECS
16 22 (23.16%) Kafka
16 22 (23.16%) SDLC
17 21 (22.11%) Mentoring
17 21 (22.11%) Serverless
17 21 (22.11%) SQL
18 20 (21.05%) Python
19 19 (20.00%) NoSQL

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 11 (11.58%) OpenStack
2 8 (8.42%) JBoss
3 5 (5.26%) Red Hat Fuse
4 3 (3.16%) Confluence
5 2 (2.11%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.05%) Apache
6 1 (1.05%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 62 (65.26%) AWS
2 22 (23.16%) Amazon ECS
2 22 (23.16%) Azure
3 21 (22.11%) Serverless
4 18 (18.95%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (11.58%) SaaS
6 10 (10.53%) GitHub
7 8 (8.42%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (6.32%) Amazon S3
9 4 (4.21%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (4.21%) GCP
9 4 (4.21%) OpenShift
10 2 (2.11%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (31.58%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 17 (17.89%) Relational Database
4 7 (7.37%) MySQL
5 4 (4.21%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (4.21%) RDBMS
5 4 (4.21%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.11%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (2.11%) Couchbase
7 1 (1.05%) CouchDB
7 1 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 32 (33.68%) Git
2 27 (28.42%) Jenkins
3 22 (23.16%) JUnit
4 9 (9.47%) JIRA
5 8 (8.42%) GitLab
6 7 (7.37%) Maven
7 6 (6.32%) Bitbucket
7 6 (6.32%) JMeter
8 5 (5.26%) Mockito
9 4 (4.21%) Selenium
10 3 (3.16%) Cucumber
11 2 (2.11%) IntelliJ
12 1 (1.05%) Ant
12 1 (1.05%) Apache Ivy
12 1 (1.05%) Gradle
12 1 (1.05%) TestNG
General
1 31 (32.63%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.89%) Finance
3 12 (12.63%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.26%) Electronics
5 5 (5.26%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.26%) Marketing
5 5 (5.26%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.21%) Banking
7 2 (2.11%) Front Office
8 1 (1.05%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (57.89%) Spring
2 35 (36.84%) Spring Boot
3 27 (28.42%) REST
4 25 (26.32%) Web Services
5 22 (23.16%) Kafka
6 19 (20.00%) AngularJS
7 18 (18.95%) HTML
8 17 (17.89%) Hibernate
9 16 (16.84%) React
10 15 (15.79%) Apache Camel
11 14 (14.74%) CSS
12 13 (13.68%) Node.js
13 11 (11.58%) Elastic Stack
14 10 (10.53%) SOAP
15 8 (8.42%) Java EE
16 7 (7.37%) JSON
16 7 (7.37%) XML
17 6 (6.32%) React Native
18 5 (5.26%) jQuery
18 5 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 18 (18.95%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (15.79%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (10.53%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.11%) Equities
4 2 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.05%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.05%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.05%) PropTech
5 1 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.21%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (52.63%) Agile
2 46 (48.42%) Microservices
3 32 (33.68%) TDD
4 31 (32.63%) CI/CD
4 31 (32.63%) DevOps
5 25 (26.32%) Full Stack Development
6 24 (25.26%) Software Engineering
7 22 (23.16%) SDLC
8 21 (22.11%) Mentoring
9 19 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (18.95%) BDD
10 18 (18.95%) Scrum
11 16 (16.84%) Kanban
12 14 (14.74%) Continuous Integration
13 10 (10.53%) Integration Testing
14 9 (9.47%) OOD
14 9 (9.47%) Pair Programming
15 7 (7.37%) Computer Science
16 6 (6.32%) Machine Learning
16 6 (6.32%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 95 (100.00%) Java
2 39 (41.05%) JavaScript
3 21 (22.11%) SQL
4 20 (21.05%) Python
5 9 (9.47%) TypeScript
6 8 (8.42%) Go
7 7 (7.37%) Kotlin
8 5 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.47%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.37%) Degree
4 4 (4.21%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.21%) AWS Certified Developer
4 4 (4.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.11%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.53%) QA
System Software
1 44 (46.32%) Docker
2 5 (5.26%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 42 (44.21%) Kubernetes
2 13 (13.68%) Ansible
3 6 (6.32%) Kibana
3 6 (6.32%) Terraform
4 2 (2.11%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (10.53%) WSO2
2 8 (8.42%) Google
3 7 (7.37%) Oracle
4 6 (6.32%) Splunk
5 5 (5.26%) SAP
6 4 (4.21%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.11%) Red Hat