Java Developer Job Trends in the South East

Java Developer
England > South East

The median Java Developer salary in the South East is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 242 217 191
Rank change year-on-year -25 -26 +40
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 40 97 86
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.43% 0.86% 1.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.90% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 14 38 56
10th Percentile £37,125 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £46,688 £57,813 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £73,438 £79,375 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,125 £85,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -5.88%

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 8,453 10,835 7,289
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.95% 95.99% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 5,165 6,043 5,213
10th Percentile £27,600 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,000
England median annual salary £53,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.83% -4.17% -

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Java Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Java Developer job vacancy trend in the South East

Java Developer
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in the South East.

Salary distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies 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 14 November 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 14 November 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 -9 33 £50,000 -33.33% 13
Berkshire -23 30 £58,750 -21.67% 13
Surrey +1 3 £70,000 +24.44% 1
Hampshire +25 2 £38,250 -41.15% 1
Buckinghamshire +3 2 £49,000 -
Oxfordshire +25 1 £120,000 +118.18%
West Sussex +2 1 £70,000 -
Java Developer
England

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 14 November 2025, Java Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 40 (100.00%) Java
2 34 (85.00%) Microservices
2 34 (85.00%) Spring Boot
3 33 (82.50%) AWS
4 32 (80.00%) Spring
5 30 (75.00%) Agile
5 30 (75.00%) Docker
5 30 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
5 30 (75.00%) REST
5 30 (75.00%) TDD
6 29 (72.50%) Jenkins
7 27 (67.50%) Kubernetes
7 27 (67.50%) Web Services
8 26 (65.00%) BDD
8 26 (65.00%) Serverless
9 25 (62.50%) Amazon ECS
9 25 (62.50%) Amazon EKS
9 25 (62.50%) CI/CD
9 25 (62.50%) JUnit
9 25 (62.50%) Relational Database
10 23 (57.50%) Apache Camel
11 22 (55.00%) Security Cleared
12 21 (52.50%) ActiveMQ
12 21 (52.50%) Amazon EC2
12 21 (52.50%) Hibernate
12 21 (52.50%) JavaScript
12 21 (52.50%) Mockito
12 21 (52.50%) Python
13 20 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
14 19 (47.50%) Dynatrace

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (12.50%) JBoss
2 4 (10.00%) Red Hat Fuse
3 2 (5.00%) Confluence
3 2 (5.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 33 (82.50%) AWS
2 26 (65.00%) Serverless
3 25 (62.50%) Amazon ECS
3 25 (62.50%) Amazon EKS
4 21 (52.50%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 4 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (5.00%) AWS KMS
6 2 (5.00%) GitHub
6 2 (5.00%) Route 53
7 1 (2.50%) Azure
7 1 (2.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (62.50%) Relational Database
3 19 (47.50%) RDBMS
4 2 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (5.00%) DynamoDB
4 2 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (5.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.50%) MySQL
5 1 (2.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 29 (72.50%) Jenkins
2 25 (62.50%) JUnit
3 21 (52.50%) Mockito
4 19 (47.50%) JMeter
5 9 (22.50%) Git
6 3 (7.50%) JIRA
6 3 (7.50%) Maven
7 2 (5.00%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (5.00%) DbUnit
7 2 (5.00%) jMock
7 2 (5.00%) SonarQube
8 1 (2.50%) Cucumber
8 1 (2.50%) Gradle
General
1 25 (62.50%) Public Sector
2 3 (7.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Finance
4 1 (2.50%) Health Technology
4 1 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (85.00%) Spring Boot
2 32 (80.00%) Spring
3 30 (75.00%) REST
4 27 (67.50%) Web Services
5 23 (57.50%) Apache Camel
6 21 (52.50%) ActiveMQ
6 21 (52.50%) Hibernate
7 19 (47.50%) HTML
7 19 (47.50%) jQuery
7 19 (47.50%) WireMock
8 18 (45.00%) JSON
8 18 (45.00%) XML
9 9 (22.50%) RESTful
10 7 (17.50%) Kafka
11 6 (15.00%) SOAP
12 4 (10.00%) J2EE
13 3 (7.50%) React
14 2 (5.00%) AngularJS
14 2 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
14 2 (5.00%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 25 (62.50%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (85.00%) Microservices
2 30 (75.00%) Agile
2 30 (75.00%) TDD
3 26 (65.00%) BDD
4 25 (62.50%) CI/CD
5 20 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 19 (47.50%) Process Management
6 19 (47.50%) Workflow
7 16 (40.00%) SDLC
8 10 (25.00%) Scrum
9 8 (20.00%) DevOps
9 8 (20.00%) Kanban
10 3 (7.50%) Containerisation
10 3 (7.50%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (7.50%) Test Automation
11 2 (5.00%) Event-Driven
11 2 (5.00%) Fintech
11 2 (5.00%) Mentoring
11 2 (5.00%) Open Source
11 2 (5.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 40 (100.00%) Java
2 21 (52.50%) JavaScript
2 21 (52.50%) Python
3 19 (47.50%) Shell Script
4 3 (7.50%) SQL
5 2 (5.00%) Go
6 1 (2.50%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 22 (55.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (17.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) SLA
2 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 30 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (67.50%) Kubernetes
2 19 (47.50%) Kibana
3 4 (10.00%) Ansible
4 1 (2.50%) PingFederate
4 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (47.50%) Dynatrace
1 19 (47.50%) Splunk
2 2 (5.00%) Atlassian
2 2 (5.00%) Oracle