Java Developer Job Trends in the South East

Java Developer
England > South East

The median Java Developer salary in the South East is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 September 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 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 226 241 203
Rank change year-on-year +15 -38 +39
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 64 95 112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.71% 0.74% 1.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 0.77% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 26 48 84
10th Percentile £26,750 £42,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £36,563 £47,188 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -14.71% +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 8,071 12,329 8,420
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.57% 95.89% 93.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4,404 7,325 6,074
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £67,313 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

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

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 16 September 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 September 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 -14 48 £52,500 -30.00% 5
Berkshire -10 43 £72,500 -3.33% 3
Hampshire +48 7 £28,500 -59.29% 2
Surrey +20 7 £72,500 +31.82% 4
Buckinghamshire -9 5 £52,500 -12.50%
Sussex +15 1 £75,000 -
West Sussex +4 1 £75,000 +30.43%
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 September 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 64 (100.00%) Java
2 55 (85.94%) Microservices
3 52 (81.25%) Spring Boot
4 51 (79.69%) AWS
5 50 (78.13%) Docker
6 48 (75.00%) Spring
7 46 (71.88%) PostgreSQL
8 45 (70.31%) Agile
9 44 (68.75%) TDD
9 44 (68.75%) Jenkins
10 43 (67.19%) REST
11 42 (65.63%) Kubernetes
11 42 (65.63%) JUnit
12 40 (62.50%) Public Sector
13 39 (60.94%) Web Services
14 38 (59.38%) BDD
15 36 (56.25%) Serverless
15 36 (56.25%) Distributed Systems
16 34 (53.13%) Hibernate
17 33 (51.56%) Mockito
18 32 (50.00%) Relational Database
18 32 (50.00%) CI/CD
18 32 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
18 32 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
19 31 (48.44%) ActiveMQ
20 30 (46.88%) Apache Camel
20 30 (46.88%) Amazon EC2
20 30 (46.88%) Security Cleared
21 27 (42.19%) JavaScript
22 25 (39.06%) Scrum

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 9 (14.06%) JBoss
2 7 (10.94%) Red Hat Fuse
3 3 (4.69%) Confluence
4 2 (3.13%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 51 (79.69%) AWS
2 36 (56.25%) Serverless
3 32 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
3 32 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
4 30 (46.88%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (14.06%) Amazon SQS
6 8 (12.50%) Amazon S3
7 7 (10.94%) Azure
7 7 (10.94%) GCP
8 6 (9.38%) AWS KMS
9 5 (7.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (7.81%) Route 53
10 2 (3.13%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (71.88%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 23 (35.94%) RDBMS
4 7 (10.94%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (10.94%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (7.81%) DynamoDB
5 5 (7.81%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.13%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.56%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.56%) Couchbase
7 1 (1.56%) MySQL
7 1 (1.56%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 44 (68.75%) Jenkins
2 42 (65.63%) JUnit
3 33 (51.56%) Mockito
4 23 (35.94%) JMeter
5 18 (28.13%) Git
6 9 (14.06%) Maven
7 7 (10.94%) SonarQube
8 6 (9.38%) DbUnit
8 6 (9.38%) jMock
9 5 (7.81%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (6.25%) JIRA
11 3 (4.69%) GitLab
12 2 (3.13%) Selenium
13 1 (1.56%) Gradle
13 1 (1.56%) IntelliJ
General
1 40 (62.50%) Public Sector
2 7 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.38%) Social Skills
4 5 (7.81%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (81.25%) Spring Boot
2 48 (75.00%) Spring
3 43 (67.19%) REST
4 39 (60.94%) Web Services
5 34 (53.13%) Hibernate
6 31 (48.44%) ActiveMQ
7 30 (46.88%) Apache Camel
8 23 (35.94%) HTML
8 23 (35.94%) jQuery
8 23 (35.94%) WireMock
9 22 (34.38%) RESTful
10 16 (25.00%) JSON
10 16 (25.00%) XML
11 15 (23.44%) SOAP
12 12 (18.75%) Kafka
13 11 (17.19%) J2EE
14 10 (15.63%) AngularJS
15 8 (12.50%) JPA
16 7 (10.94%) Bootstrap
16 7 (10.94%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 36 (56.25%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (4.69%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.13%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.81%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (85.94%) Microservices
2 45 (70.31%) Agile
3 44 (68.75%) TDD
4 38 (59.38%) BDD
5 32 (50.00%) CI/CD
6 25 (39.06%) Scrum
7 23 (35.94%) Process Management
7 23 (35.94%) Workflow
8 21 (32.81%) Kanban
9 20 (31.25%) DevOps
10 17 (26.56%) Full-Stack Development
11 13 (20.31%) SDLC
12 10 (15.63%) Containerisation
13 8 (12.50%) API Development
14 7 (10.94%) Architectural Design
14 7 (10.94%) Collaborative Working
15 6 (9.38%) Continuous Integration
15 6 (9.38%) Open Source
15 6 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
15 6 (9.38%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 64 (100.00%) Java
2 27 (42.19%) JavaScript
3 24 (37.50%) Python
4 23 (35.94%) Shell Script
5 10 (15.63%) SQL
6 2 (3.13%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.56%) Go
7 1 (1.56%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 30 (46.88%) Security Cleared
2 21 (32.81%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.94%) SLA
System Software
1 50 (78.13%) Docker
2 2 (3.13%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 42 (65.63%) Kubernetes
2 23 (35.94%) Kibana
3 7 (10.94%) Ansible
4 2 (3.13%) Grafana
4 2 (3.13%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.13%) Terraform
5 1 (1.56%) PingFederate
5 1 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (37.50%) Splunk
2 23 (35.94%) Dynatrace
3 5 (7.81%) Atlassian
4 3 (4.69%) Jaspersoft
4 3 (4.69%) Oracle
5 1 (1.56%) Cisco
5 1 (1.56%) Red Hat