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 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 199 238 203
Rank change year-on-year +39 -35 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 81 157 230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.96% 0.94% 1.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 1.00% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 43 128 161
10th Percentile £30,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £69,375 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £85,000
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 7,286 15,677 13,595
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.09% 93.90% 90.57%
Number of salaries quoted 4,437 11,345 8,528
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 £80,000 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £54,000 £60,775
% change year-on-year +6.48% -11.15% +1.29%

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 2 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 2 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 +48 51 £60,000 -25.00% 4
Berkshire +24 44 £63,750 -20.31% 3
Surrey +46 13 £65,000 +36.84% 4
Hampshire +50 12 £32,500 -53.57% 5
Buckinghamshire +49 7 £60,000 -11.11% 1
West Sussex +33 1 £75,000 +66.67% 4
Sussex - 1 £75,000 - 3
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 2 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 81 (100.00%) Java
2 63 (77.78%) Microservices
3 61 (75.31%) AWS
4 53 (65.43%) Spring
4 53 (65.43%) Docker
5 51 (62.96%) Kubernetes
6 48 (59.26%) Agile
7 47 (58.02%) TDD
7 47 (58.02%) Spring Boot
8 46 (56.79%) PostgreSQL
8 46 (56.79%) REST
9 45 (55.56%) Jenkins
10 44 (54.32%) Web Services
11 42 (51.85%) JUnit
12 41 (50.62%) Distributed Systems
13 40 (49.38%) Serverless
14 39 (48.15%) Public Sector
15 37 (45.68%) Amazon EKS
15 37 (45.68%) BDD
16 35 (43.21%) Amazon ECS
16 35 (43.21%) CI/CD
16 35 (43.21%) Relational Database
17 34 (41.98%) Scrum
18 31 (38.27%) Apache Camel
19 30 (37.04%) JavaScript
19 30 (37.04%) RESTful
19 30 (37.04%) SC Cleared
19 30 (37.04%) Security Cleared
20 29 (35.80%) Kanban
20 29 (35.80%) Hibernate

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 17 (20.99%) JBoss
2 12 (14.81%) Red Hat Fuse
3 5 (6.17%) OpenStack
4 3 (3.70%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 61 (75.31%) AWS
2 40 (49.38%) Serverless
3 37 (45.68%) Amazon EKS
4 35 (43.21%) Amazon ECS
5 24 (29.63%) Amazon EC2
6 14 (17.28%) Azure
7 10 (12.35%) GCP
8 9 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (6.17%) Amazon S3
9 5 (6.17%) SaaS
10 4 (4.94%) AWS KMS
11 2 (2.47%) Amazon Cognito
12 1 (1.23%) GitHub
12 1 (1.23%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (56.79%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (43.21%) Relational Database
3 18 (22.22%) RDBMS
4 6 (7.41%) MongoDB
4 6 (7.41%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.94%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (4.94%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.47%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (2.47%) MySQL
6 2 (2.47%) Redis
7 1 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.23%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.23%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 45 (55.56%) Jenkins
2 42 (51.85%) JUnit
3 28 (34.57%) Git
4 27 (33.33%) Mockito
5 18 (22.22%) JMeter
6 6 (7.41%) JIRA
7 5 (6.17%) GitLab
7 5 (6.17%) Maven
7 5 (6.17%) Selenium
8 4 (4.94%) DbUnit
8 4 (4.94%) jMock
8 4 (4.94%) SonarQube
9 3 (3.70%) IntelliJ
10 2 (2.47%) Eclipse
10 2 (2.47%) Jasmine
10 2 (2.47%) Karma Test Runner
10 2 (2.47%) Mocha
10 2 (2.47%) Protractor
11 1 (1.23%) Gradle
General
1 39 (48.15%) Public Sector
2 12 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.35%) Finance
4 6 (7.41%) Telecoms
5 4 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.94%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.47%) Electronics
7 2 (2.47%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.47%) Marketing
7 2 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.23%) Banking
8 1 (1.23%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.23%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (65.43%) Spring
2 47 (58.02%) Spring Boot
3 46 (56.79%) REST
4 44 (54.32%) Web Services
5 31 (38.27%) Apache Camel
6 30 (37.04%) RESTful
7 29 (35.80%) Hibernate
8 24 (29.63%) HTML
9 22 (27.16%) ActiveMQ
10 18 (22.22%) jQuery
10 18 (22.22%) WireMock
11 17 (20.99%) React
12 16 (19.75%) J2EE
12 16 (19.75%) SOAP
13 15 (18.52%) Kafka
14 12 (14.81%) Node.js
15 10 (12.35%) JSON
16 9 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
17 8 (9.88%) Mustache
18 7 (8.64%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 41 (50.62%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (6.17%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.94%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.47%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.47%) BBC
4 2 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.47%) NHS
5 1 (1.23%) Derivative
5 1 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.23%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.47%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (77.78%) Microservices
2 48 (59.26%) Agile
3 47 (58.02%) TDD
4 37 (45.68%) BDD
5 35 (43.21%) CI/CD
6 34 (41.98%) Scrum
7 29 (35.80%) Kanban
8 25 (30.86%) DevOps
9 24 (29.63%) Full-Stack Development
10 18 (22.22%) Process Management
10 18 (22.22%) Workflow
11 17 (20.99%) SDLC
12 13 (16.05%) Architectural Design
12 13 (16.05%) Collaborative Working
13 11 (13.58%) Unit Testing
14 8 (9.88%) Containerisation
15 7 (8.64%) API Development
15 7 (8.64%) Problem-Solving
16 6 (7.41%) Collaborative Culture
17 5 (6.17%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 81 (100.00%) Java
2 30 (37.04%) JavaScript
3 27 (33.33%) Python
4 18 (22.22%) Shell Script
4 18 (22.22%) SQL
5 8 (9.88%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.23%) C#
6 1 (1.23%) Go
Qualifications
1 30 (37.04%) SC Cleared
1 30 (37.04%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.81%) SLA
2 3 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.47%) QA
System Software
1 53 (65.43%) Docker
2 2 (2.47%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 51 (62.96%) Kubernetes
2 18 (22.22%) Kibana
3 12 (14.81%) Ansible
4 3 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (23.46%) Splunk
2 18 (22.22%) Dynatrace
3 5 (6.17%) Oracle
4 3 (3.70%) IBM
5 2 (2.47%) Google
5 2 (2.47%) SAP
6 1 (1.23%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.23%) Cisco
6 1 (1.23%) Red Hat