Java Developer Job Trends in the South East

Java Developer
England > South East

The median Java Developer salary in the South East is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 July 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 214 254
Rank change year-on-year -26 +40 -43
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 77 70 103
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.48% 0.81% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.91% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 66 33 78
10th Percentile £57,500 £26,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £33,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £52,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +52.38% -25.00% +7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £83,750
90th Percentile - £74,750 £86,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% -9.09% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 15,233 7,679 14,721
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.59% 89.05% 94.11%
Number of salaries quoted 10,793 4,273 10,357
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,550 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,000 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 21 July 2026.

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 21 July 2026. 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 +2 35 £85,000 +61.90% 2
Berkshire +9 31 £85,000 +17.24% 1
Surrey -14 15 £85,000 +17.24%
West Sussex -8 14 £70,000 -6.67% 2
Hampshire -37 8 £74,500 +129.23% 1
Sussex -5 4 £85,000 +13.33% 1
Oxfordshire - 4 £40,000 -
East Sussex - 1 £85,000 -
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 July 2026, 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 77 (100.00%) Java
2 29 (37.66%) Microservices
2 29 (37.66%) Spring
3 26 (33.77%) Security Cleared
4 21 (27.27%) SC Cleared
4 21 (27.27%) Spring Boot
5 20 (25.97%) Agile
6 18 (23.38%) CI/CD
7 17 (22.08%) AWS
8 16 (20.78%) DevOps
8 16 (20.78%) Git
8 16 (20.78%) REST
9 15 (19.48%) Jenkins
9 15 (19.48%) Kubernetes
10 14 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
11 13 (16.88%) Docker
11 13 (16.88%) Serverless
12 12 (15.58%) Linux
12 12 (15.58%) Oracle
12 12 (15.58%) TDD
13 11 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (14.29%) SQL
14 10 (12.99%) BDD
14 10 (12.99%) Scrum
14 10 (12.99%) Swing
15 9 (11.69%) Computer Science
15 9 (11.69%) Degree
15 9 (11.69%) Kanban
15 9 (11.69%) Kibana

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 3 (3.90%) JBoss
2 2 (2.60%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.30%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 17 (22.08%) AWS
2 13 (16.88%) Serverless
3 11 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
3 11 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (10.39%) Azure
5 6 (7.79%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (6.49%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (6.49%) Amazon S3
7 4 (5.19%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (3.90%) SaaS
9 2 (2.60%) Amazon ECR
9 2 (2.60%) Apigee
9 2 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.60%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (1.30%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.30%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.30%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.69%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (11.69%) Relational Database
2 4 (5.19%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.90%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.60%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (2.60%) Couchbase
4 2 (2.60%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.30%) GIS
5 1 (1.30%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (20.78%) Git
2 15 (19.48%) Jenkins
3 6 (7.79%) JUnit
4 5 (6.49%) GitLab
4 5 (6.49%) JMeter
5 4 (5.19%) Cucumber
5 4 (5.19%) Maven
5 4 (5.19%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.90%) Mockito
7 2 (2.60%) Artifactory
7 2 (2.60%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.60%) Eclipse
7 2 (2.60%) Gradle
7 2 (2.60%) JIRA
8 1 (1.30%) DBeaver
8 1 (1.30%) Eclipse RCP
8 1 (1.30%) Terragrunt
8 1 (1.30%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (15.58%) Public Sector
2 7 (9.09%) Health Technology
3 5 (6.49%) Finance
3 5 (6.49%) Social Skills
4 4 (5.19%) Advertising
4 4 (5.19%) Aviation
4 4 (5.19%) Digital Health
5 2 (2.60%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (37.66%) Spring
2 21 (27.27%) Spring Boot
3 16 (20.78%) REST
4 10 (12.99%) Swing
5 8 (10.39%) AngularJS
5 8 (10.39%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (10.39%) React
6 7 (9.09%) Jakarta EE
6 7 (9.09%) JPA
6 7 (9.09%) Web Services
7 6 (7.79%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (6.49%) Hibernate
8 5 (6.49%) Kafka
9 4 (5.19%) Apache Camel
9 4 (5.19%) HTML
9 4 (5.19%) JMS
9 4 (5.19%) Mustache
9 4 (5.19%) RESTful
9 4 (5.19%) Spring MVC
9 4 (5.19%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (11.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (5.19%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.60%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.60%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.30%) Lidar
5 1 (1.30%) Life Science
5 1 (1.30%) NHS
5 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.30%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (15.58%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (37.66%) Microservices
2 20 (25.97%) Agile
3 18 (23.38%) CI/CD
4 16 (20.78%) DevOps
5 14 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
6 12 (15.58%) TDD
7 10 (12.99%) BDD
7 10 (12.99%) Scrum
8 9 (11.69%) Computer Science
8 9 (11.69%) Kanban
8 9 (11.69%) SDLC
9 8 (10.39%) Clean Code
10 7 (9.09%) Test Automation
11 5 (6.49%) Code Quality
11 5 (6.49%) Design Patterns
11 5 (6.49%) Infrastructure as Code
12 4 (5.19%) API Development
12 4 (5.19%) Containerisation
12 4 (5.19%) Continuous Improvement
12 4 (5.19%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 77 (100.00%) Java
2 11 (14.29%) SQL
3 6 (7.79%) TypeScript
4 5 (6.49%) Python
5 4 (5.19%) Go
5 4 (5.19%) Groovy
5 4 (5.19%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.19%) PL/SQL
6 3 (3.90%) C#
6 3 (3.90%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.60%) Bash
8 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 26 (33.77%) Security Cleared
2 21 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 9 (11.69%) Degree
4 8 (10.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.60%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.60%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.90%) QA
System Software
1 13 (16.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (19.48%) Kubernetes
2 9 (11.69%) Kibana
3 7 (9.09%) Ansible
3 7 (9.09%) Terraform
4 2 (2.60%) Grafana
4 2 (2.60%) HP Fortify
4 2 (2.60%) Packer
Vendors
1 12 (15.58%) Oracle
2 6 (7.79%) AppDynamics
2 6 (7.79%) IBM
3 5 (6.49%) Splunk
4 3 (3.90%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.30%) Microsoft