Java Developer Jobs in the South East

Java Developer
England > South East

The median Java Developer salary in the South East is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 206 245 213
Rank change year-on-year +39 -32 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 82 157 229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.97% 0.94% 1.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 1.00% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 43 128 161
10th Percentile £30,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £69,375 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +6.25%

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 7,275 15,664 13,569
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.95% 93.87% 90.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,427 11,342 8,523
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +53 52 £60,000 -25.00% 4
Berkshire +36 45 £63,750 -20.31% 3
Surrey +44 13 £65,000 +36.84% 1
Hampshire +44 12 £32,500 -53.57% 5
Buckinghamshire +47 7 £60,000 -11.11% 1
West Sussex +35 1 £75,000 +66.67% 4
Sussex - 1 £75,000 - 3
Middlesex - 1 - -
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 82 (100.00%) Java
2 64 (78.05%) Microservices
3 62 (75.61%) AWS
4 54 (65.85%) Spring
5 53 (64.63%) Docker
6 51 (62.20%) Kubernetes
7 49 (59.76%) Agile
8 48 (58.54%) TDD
9 47 (57.32%) PostgreSQL
9 47 (57.32%) REST
9 47 (57.32%) Spring Boot
10 46 (56.10%) Jenkins
11 45 (54.88%) Web Services
12 43 (52.44%) JUnit
13 42 (51.22%) Distributed Systems
14 40 (48.78%) Public Sector
14 40 (48.78%) Serverless
15 38 (46.34%) BDD
16 37 (45.12%) Amazon EKS
17 35 (42.68%) Amazon ECS
17 35 (42.68%) CI/CD
17 35 (42.68%) Relational Database
17 35 (42.68%) Scrum
18 31 (37.80%) Apache Camel
18 31 (37.80%) RESTful
18 31 (37.80%) SC Cleared
18 31 (37.80%) Security Cleared
19 30 (36.59%) Kanban
19 30 (36.59%) Hibernate
19 30 (36.59%) 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 (20.73%) JBoss
2 12 (14.63%) Red Hat Fuse
3 5 (6.10%) OpenStack
4 3 (3.66%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 62 (75.61%) AWS
2 40 (48.78%) Serverless
3 37 (45.12%) Amazon EKS
4 35 (42.68%) Amazon ECS
5 25 (30.49%) Amazon EC2
6 14 (17.07%) Azure
7 10 (12.20%) Amazon SQS
7 10 (12.20%) GCP
8 5 (6.10%) Amazon S3
8 5 (6.10%) AWS KMS
8 5 (6.10%) SaaS
9 2 (2.44%) Amazon Cognito
10 1 (1.22%) GitHub
10 1 (1.22%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (57.32%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (42.68%) Relational Database
3 18 (21.95%) RDBMS
4 6 (7.32%) MongoDB
4 6 (7.32%) NoSQL
5 5 (6.10%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (4.88%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (2.44%) MySQL
7 2 (2.44%) Redis
8 1 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.22%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.22%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 46 (56.10%) Jenkins
2 43 (52.44%) JUnit
3 29 (35.37%) Git
4 28 (34.15%) Mockito
5 18 (21.95%) JMeter
6 6 (7.32%) JIRA
6 6 (7.32%) Maven
7 5 (6.10%) DbUnit
7 5 (6.10%) GitLab
7 5 (6.10%) jMock
7 5 (6.10%) Selenium
7 5 (6.10%) SonarQube
8 3 (3.66%) IntelliJ
9 2 (2.44%) Eclipse
9 2 (2.44%) Jasmine
9 2 (2.44%) Karma Test Runner
9 2 (2.44%) Mocha
9 2 (2.44%) Protractor
10 1 (1.22%) Gradle
General
1 40 (48.78%) Public Sector
2 12 (14.63%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.20%) Finance
4 6 (7.32%) Telecoms
5 4 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.44%) Electronics
7 2 (2.44%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.44%) Marketing
7 2 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.22%) Banking
8 1 (1.22%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.22%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (65.85%) Spring
2 47 (57.32%) REST
2 47 (57.32%) Spring Boot
3 45 (54.88%) Web Services
4 31 (37.80%) Apache Camel
4 31 (37.80%) RESTful
5 30 (36.59%) Hibernate
6 24 (29.27%) HTML
7 23 (28.05%) ActiveMQ
8 18 (21.95%) jQuery
8 18 (21.95%) WireMock
9 17 (20.73%) React
9 17 (20.73%) SOAP
10 16 (19.51%) J2EE
11 15 (18.29%) Kafka
12 12 (14.63%) Node.js
13 10 (12.20%) JSON
14 9 (10.98%) RabbitMQ
15 8 (9.76%) Mustache
16 7 (8.54%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 42 (51.22%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (6.10%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.44%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.44%) BBC
4 2 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.44%) NHS
5 1 (1.22%) Derivative
5 1 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.22%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (78.05%) Microservices
2 49 (59.76%) Agile
3 48 (58.54%) TDD
4 38 (46.34%) BDD
5 35 (42.68%) CI/CD
5 35 (42.68%) Scrum
6 30 (36.59%) Kanban
7 25 (30.49%) DevOps
7 25 (30.49%) Full-Stack Development
8 18 (21.95%) Process Management
8 18 (21.95%) Workflow
9 17 (20.73%) SDLC
10 13 (15.85%) Architectural Design
10 13 (15.85%) Collaborative Working
11 11 (13.41%) Unit Testing
12 8 (9.76%) Containerisation
13 7 (8.54%) API Development
13 7 (8.54%) Problem-Solving
14 6 (7.32%) Continuous Integration
14 6 (7.32%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 82 (100.00%) Java
2 30 (36.59%) JavaScript
3 27 (32.93%) Python
4 19 (23.17%) SQL
5 18 (21.95%) Shell Script
6 8 (9.76%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.22%) C#
7 1 (1.22%) Go
Qualifications
1 31 (37.80%) SC Cleared
1 31 (37.80%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.98%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.63%) SLA
2 3 (3.66%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 53 (64.63%) Docker
2 2 (2.44%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 51 (62.20%) Kubernetes
2 18 (21.95%) Kibana
3 12 (14.63%) Ansible
4 3 (3.66%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (23.17%) Splunk
2 18 (21.95%) Dynatrace
3 5 (6.10%) Oracle
4 3 (3.66%) IBM
5 2 (2.44%) Google
5 2 (2.44%) SAP
6 1 (1.22%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.22%) Cisco
6 1 (1.22%) Red Hat