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 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 249 204
Rank change year-on-year +28 -45 -8
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 77 154 223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.81% 0.92% 1.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 0.98% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 38 126 156
10th Percentile £29,025 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £73,438 £83,750 £74,063
90th Percentile £75,375 £86,250 £83,125
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 8,254 15,768 12,916
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.53% 94.01% 90.27%
Number of salaries quoted 4,528 11,302 8,136
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,000 £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 £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

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 16 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 16 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 +41 48 £60,000 -26.15% 9
Berkshire +16 42 £66,250 -18.46% 9
Hampshire +41 12 £32,500 -53.57% 6
Surrey +25 12 £65,000 +36.84% 4
Buckinghamshire +39 6 £56,250 -30.77%
West Sussex +36 1 £75,000 +66.67% 1
Sussex - 1 £75,000 - 2
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 16 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 77 (100.00%) Java
2 60 (77.92%) Microservices
3 58 (75.32%) AWS
4 52 (67.53%) Docker
5 51 (66.23%) Spring
6 47 (61.04%) Spring Boot
7 46 (59.74%) Kubernetes
8 45 (58.44%) Agile
8 45 (58.44%) TDD
9 43 (55.84%) PostgreSQL
9 43 (55.84%) REST
10 42 (54.55%) Jenkins
11 41 (53.25%) Web Services
12 39 (50.65%) JUnit
13 36 (46.75%) Distributed Systems
14 35 (45.45%) Serverless
14 35 (45.45%) Public Sector
15 33 (42.86%) BDD
16 32 (41.56%) RESTful
16 32 (41.56%) Scrum
16 32 (41.56%) Amazon EKS
17 30 (38.96%) Amazon ECS
17 30 (38.96%) Relational Database
17 30 (38.96%) CI/CD
17 30 (38.96%) Git
18 28 (36.36%) DevOps
19 26 (33.77%) Apache Camel
20 25 (32.47%) SC Cleared
20 25 (32.47%) Security Cleared
20 25 (32.47%) Kanban

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 18 (23.38%) JBoss
2 13 (16.88%) Red Hat Fuse
3 5 (6.49%) OpenStack
4 4 (5.19%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 58 (75.32%) AWS
2 35 (45.45%) Serverless
3 32 (41.56%) Amazon EKS
4 30 (38.96%) Amazon ECS
5 20 (25.97%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (16.88%) Azure
7 11 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
8 10 (12.99%) GCP
9 9 (11.69%) Amazon S3
10 5 (6.49%) AWS KMS
11 4 (5.19%) SaaS
12 3 (3.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (3.90%) Route 53
13 2 (2.60%) Amazon Cognito
14 1 (1.30%) GitHub
14 1 (1.30%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (55.84%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (38.96%) Relational Database
3 12 (15.58%) RDBMS
4 7 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (7.79%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (7.79%) MongoDB
6 5 (6.49%) NoSQL
7 4 (5.19%) Oracle Database
8 3 (3.90%) DynamoDB
9 2 (2.60%) MySQL
9 2 (2.60%) Redis
10 1 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (1.30%) BigQuery
10 1 (1.30%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 42 (54.55%) Jenkins
2 39 (50.65%) JUnit
3 30 (38.96%) Git
4 22 (28.57%) Mockito
5 12 (15.58%) JMeter
6 7 (9.09%) Maven
7 6 (7.79%) JIRA
7 6 (7.79%) SonarQube
8 5 (6.49%) DbUnit
8 5 (6.49%) GitLab
8 5 (6.49%) jMock
8 5 (6.49%) Selenium
9 3 (3.90%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (2.60%) IntelliJ
10 2 (2.60%) Mocha
11 1 (1.30%) Eclipse
11 1 (1.30%) Gradle
11 1 (1.30%) Jasmine
11 1 (1.30%) Karma Test Runner
11 1 (1.30%) Protractor
General
1 35 (45.45%) Public Sector
2 11 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 9 (11.69%) Finance
4 5 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.49%) Telecoms
5 4 (5.19%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Banking
8 1 (1.30%) Electronics
8 1 (1.30%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.30%) Law
8 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.30%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (66.23%) Spring
2 47 (61.04%) Spring Boot
3 43 (55.84%) REST
4 41 (53.25%) Web Services
5 32 (41.56%) RESTful
6 26 (33.77%) Apache Camel
7 24 (31.17%) Hibernate
8 20 (25.97%) SOAP
9 19 (24.68%) ActiveMQ
10 17 (22.08%) HTML
10 17 (22.08%) J2EE
11 15 (19.48%) Kafka
11 15 (19.48%) React
12 12 (15.58%) jQuery
12 12 (15.58%) Node.js
12 12 (15.58%) WireMock
13 10 (12.99%) AngularJS
13 10 (12.99%) JSON
14 8 (10.39%) JPA
14 8 (10.39%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 36 (46.75%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (6.49%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (5.19%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.60%) BBC
4 2 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.60%) NHS
5 1 (1.30%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.30%) Derivative
5 1 (1.30%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.19%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (77.92%) Microservices
2 45 (58.44%) Agile
2 45 (58.44%) TDD
3 33 (42.86%) BDD
4 32 (41.56%) Scrum
5 30 (38.96%) CI/CD
6 28 (36.36%) DevOps
7 25 (32.47%) Kanban
8 22 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
9 12 (15.58%) Process Management
9 12 (15.58%) Workflow
10 11 (14.29%) Containerisation
10 11 (14.29%) SDLC
11 10 (12.99%) Unit Testing
12 7 (9.09%) API Development
12 7 (9.09%) Architectural Design
12 7 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
13 6 (7.79%) Collaborative Culture
13 6 (7.79%) Problem-Solving
13 6 (7.79%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 77 (100.00%) Java
2 23 (29.87%) JavaScript
3 20 (25.97%) Python
4 17 (22.08%) SQL
5 12 (15.58%) Shell Script
6 7 (9.09%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.30%) C#
7 1 (1.30%) Go
Qualifications
1 25 (32.47%) SC Cleared
1 25 (32.47%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.39%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (16.88%) SLA
2 3 (3.90%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.30%) QA
System Software
1 52 (67.53%) Docker
2 3 (3.90%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 46 (59.74%) Kubernetes
2 13 (16.88%) Ansible
3 12 (15.58%) Kibana
4 3 (3.90%) Terraform
5 2 (2.60%) Grafana
5 2 (2.60%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (16.88%) Splunk
2 12 (15.58%) Dynatrace
3 5 (6.49%) Oracle
4 3 (3.90%) Atlassian
4 3 (3.90%) Jaspersoft
5 2 (2.60%) IBM
6 1 (1.30%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.30%) Cisco
6 1 (1.30%) Google
6 1 (1.30%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.30%) SAP