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 25 November 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 235 217 188
Rank change year-on-year -18 -29 +41
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 37 102 87
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.39% 0.91% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.95% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 14 41 55
10th Percentile £37,125 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £46,688 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £73,438 £77,500 £76,625
90th Percentile £87,000 £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 8,585 10,701 7,126
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 95.41% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 5,392 5,967 5,122
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,737
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,962 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.98% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -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 25 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 25 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 -18 30 £50,000 -28.57% 12
Berkshire -26 27 £58,750 -21.67% 11
Surrey +2 3 £70,000 +16.67% 1
Hampshire +32 2 £38,250 -43.33% 2
Buckinghamshire +13 2 £49,000 -18.33% 1
Oxfordshire +28 1 £120,000 +118.18%
West Sussex - 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 25 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 37 (100.00%) Java
2 31 (83.78%) Microservices
2 31 (83.78%) Spring Boot
3 29 (78.38%) AWS
4 28 (75.68%) REST
4 28 (75.68%) Spring
5 26 (70.27%) Agile
5 26 (70.27%) Docker
5 26 (70.27%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (70.27%) TDD
6 25 (67.57%) Jenkins
6 25 (67.57%) Kubernetes
7 24 (64.86%) CI/CD
8 23 (62.16%) Serverless
8 23 (62.16%) Web Services
9 22 (59.46%) Amazon ECS
9 22 (59.46%) Amazon EKS
9 22 (59.46%) BDD
9 22 (59.46%) Relational Database
10 21 (56.76%) JUnit
11 20 (54.05%) Apache Camel
11 20 (54.05%) Full-Stack Development
11 20 (54.05%) JavaScript
11 20 (54.05%) Python
12 19 (51.35%) ActiveMQ
12 19 (51.35%) Amazon EC2
12 19 (51.35%) Hibernate
12 19 (51.35%) Mockito
13 18 (48.65%) Dynatrace
13 18 (48.65%) HTML

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 (8.11%) JBoss
2 2 (5.41%) OpenStack
2 2 (5.41%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (2.70%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 29 (78.38%) AWS
2 23 (62.16%) Serverless
3 22 (59.46%) Amazon ECS
3 22 (59.46%) Amazon EKS
4 19 (51.35%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (8.11%) Amazon S3
5 3 (8.11%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (5.41%) GitHub
7 1 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.70%) AWS KMS
7 1 (2.70%) Azure
7 1 (2.70%) GCP
7 1 (2.70%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) HTTP
1 1 (2.70%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (70.27%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (59.46%) Relational Database
3 18 (48.65%) RDBMS
4 2 (5.41%) MongoDB
4 2 (5.41%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.70%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.70%) MySQL
5 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 25 (67.57%) Jenkins
2 21 (56.76%) JUnit
3 19 (51.35%) Mockito
4 18 (48.65%) JMeter
5 6 (16.22%) Git
6 2 (5.41%) JIRA
6 2 (5.41%) Maven
7 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (2.70%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.70%) DbUnit
7 1 (2.70%) Gradle
7 1 (2.70%) jMock
7 1 (2.70%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (56.76%) Public Sector
2 3 (8.11%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Finance
4 1 (2.70%) Health Technology
4 1 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (83.78%) Spring Boot
2 28 (75.68%) REST
2 28 (75.68%) Spring
3 23 (62.16%) Web Services
4 20 (54.05%) Apache Camel
5 19 (51.35%) ActiveMQ
5 19 (51.35%) Hibernate
6 18 (48.65%) HTML
6 18 (48.65%) jQuery
6 18 (48.65%) JSON
6 18 (48.65%) WireMock
6 18 (48.65%) XML
7 7 (18.92%) Kafka
8 6 (16.22%) RESTful
9 4 (10.81%) React
10 3 (8.11%) SOAP
11 2 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (5.41%) J2EE
11 2 (5.41%) Mustache
11 2 (5.41%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 22 (59.46%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.41%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.70%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (83.78%) Microservices
2 26 (70.27%) Agile
2 26 (70.27%) TDD
3 24 (64.86%) CI/CD
4 22 (59.46%) BDD
5 20 (54.05%) Full-Stack Development
6 18 (48.65%) Process Management
6 18 (48.65%) Workflow
7 16 (43.24%) SDLC
8 6 (16.22%) DevOps
8 6 (16.22%) Scrum
9 4 (10.81%) Kanban
10 3 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
11 2 (5.41%) AI
11 2 (5.41%) Containerisation
11 2 (5.41%) Event-Driven
11 2 (5.41%) Fintech
11 2 (5.41%) Mentoring
11 2 (5.41%) Root Cause Analysis
11 2 (5.41%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 37 (100.00%) Java
2 20 (54.05%) JavaScript
2 20 (54.05%) Python
3 18 (48.65%) Shell Script
4 3 (8.11%) SQL
5 2 (5.41%) Go
6 1 (2.70%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 18 (48.65%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) SLA
2 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 26 (70.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (67.57%) Kubernetes
2 18 (48.65%) Kibana
3 2 (5.41%) Ansible
4 1 (2.70%) PingFederate
4 1 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (48.65%) Dynatrace
1 18 (48.65%) Splunk
2 2 (5.41%) Oracle
3 1 (2.70%) Atlassian