Java Jobs in the South East

Java
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 40 33
Rank change year-on-year -25 -7 -11
Permanent jobs citing Java 326 834 1,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.85% 5.00% 6.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.55% 16.70% 16.97%
Number of salaries quoted 193 542 538
10th Percentile £31,750 £37,500 £34,324
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,875 £47,144
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £84,750 £91,250 £92,500
England median annual salary £71,991 £73,805 £80,000
% change year-on-year -2.46% -7.74% +10.34%

All Programming Languages
South East

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2,406 4,995 5,999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 28.43% 29.93% 40.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,786 4,034 3,935
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,000 £34,589
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the South East

Java
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java in the South East.

Salary trend for Java in the South East

Java
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Java in the South East

Java
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 within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 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 -29 103 £65,000 -3.70% 94
Hampshire -15 92 £60,000 -7.69% 58
Berkshire -13 68 £65,000 -7.14% 40
Surrey -2 51 £65,000 +30.00% 38
West Sussex +49 28 £67,500 +25.58% 22
Buckinghamshire +15 26 £64,500 -11.03% 43
Kent +41 18 £58,000 -15.64% 16
Middlesex 0 15 - - 10
Oxfordshire -6 9 £70,000 +21.74% 21
Isle of Wight - 6 £58,000 -
East Sussex +24 4 £43,750 -20.45% 29
Sussex +21 2 £75,000 +206.12% 32
Java
England

Java
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 (5.21%) JBoss
2 13 (3.99%) Apache
3 12 (3.68%) Red Hat Fuse
4 10 (3.07%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.84%) OpenStack
6 5 (1.53%) Confluence
7 1 (0.31%) GemFire
7 1 (0.31%) IIS
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.31%) SAS
7 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.31%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.53%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 131 (40.18%) AWS
2 105 (32.21%) Azure
3 58 (17.79%) Amazon EKS
4 45 (13.80%) Serverless
5 36 (11.04%) Amazon ECS
6 34 (10.43%) Amazon EC2
7 26 (7.98%) AWS CloudFormation
8 20 (6.13%) Amazon S3
9 17 (5.21%) GCP
10 12 (3.68%) Amazon SQS
10 12 (3.68%) SaaS
11 11 (3.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 11 (3.37%) GitHub
12 9 (2.76%) Amazon Kinesis
12 9 (2.76%) Azure API Management
13 8 (2.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (2.45%) Snowflake
14 7 (2.15%) Power Platform
14 7 (2.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 6 (1.84%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.15%) HTTP
2 4 (1.23%) HTTPS
2 4 (1.23%) Network Security
2 4 (1.23%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.61%) FTP
4 1 (0.31%) DNS
4 1 (0.31%) Internet
4 1 (0.31%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (19.02%) PostgreSQL
2 53 (16.26%) Relational Database
3 19 (5.83%) Elasticsearch
3 19 (5.83%) RDBMS
4 11 (3.37%) Big Data
4 11 (3.37%) NoSQL
5 10 (3.07%) MongoDB
6 8 (2.45%) SQL Server
7 6 (1.84%) Hadoop
7 6 (1.84%) MySQL
7 6 (1.84%) OLTP
8 5 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.53%) Metadata
8 5 (1.53%) Redis
9 4 (1.23%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.23%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.92%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.92%) Impala
10 3 (0.92%) Power BI
10 3 (0.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 67 (20.55%) Jenkins
2 49 (15.03%) Git
3 44 (13.50%) JUnit
4 28 (8.59%) Mockito
5 18 (5.52%) JMeter
6 16 (4.91%) JIRA
7 12 (3.68%) Maven
8 11 (3.37%) Cucumber
9 9 (2.76%) Artifactory
9 9 (2.76%) GitLab
9 9 (2.76%) Gradle
10 8 (2.45%) Eclipse
10 8 (2.45%) Selenium
11 7 (2.15%) git-flow
11 7 (2.15%) SonarQube
12 5 (1.53%) DbUnit
12 5 (1.53%) Eclipse RCP
12 5 (1.53%) jMock
13 4 (1.23%) IntelliJ
14 3 (0.92%) Subversion
General
1 105 (32.21%) Social Skills
2 52 (15.95%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (14.72%) Public Sector
4 47 (14.42%) Finance
5 28 (8.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 24 (7.36%) Banking
7 18 (5.52%) Law
8 13 (3.99%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.45%) Retail
11 7 (2.15%) Electronics
11 7 (2.15%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.53%) Advertising
12 5 (1.53%) Retail Banking
13 4 (1.23%) Marketing
14 3 (0.92%) Games
14 3 (0.92%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.92%) Military
15 2 (0.61%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.31%) Legal
Job Titles
1 121 (37.12%) Developer
2 82 (25.15%) Java Developer
3 70 (21.47%) Senior
4 62 (19.02%) Software Engineer
5 43 (13.19%) Lead
6 29 (8.90%) Software Developer
7 26 (7.98%) Java Engineer
8 22 (6.75%) Junior
9 21 (6.44%) Software Team Leader
9 21 (6.44%) Team Leader
10 20 (6.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 19 (5.83%) Senior Developer
12 18 (5.52%) Senior Software Engineer
13 16 (4.91%) Applications Engineer
14 15 (4.60%) Data Engineer
14 15 (4.60%) Full-Stack Developer
14 15 (4.60%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 15 (4.60%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 15 (4.60%) Principal Engineer
15 11 (3.37%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (22.70%) Spring
2 71 (21.78%) Spring Boot
3 56 (17.18%) REST
4 47 (14.42%) Web Services
5 45 (13.80%) HTML
5 45 (13.80%) React
6 43 (13.19%) Kafka
7 40 (12.27%) .NET
8 38 (11.66%) Node.js
8 38 (11.66%) RESTful
9 34 (10.43%) Hibernate
10 33 (10.12%) Apache Camel
11 24 (7.36%) ActiveMQ
11 24 (7.36%) RabbitMQ
12 21 (6.44%) SOAP
13 20 (6.13%) JSON
13 20 (6.13%) Pandas
14 18 (5.52%) jQuery
14 18 (5.52%) Middleware
14 18 (5.52%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 46 (14.11%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (5.52%) Cyberattack
3 14 (4.29%) Algorithms
4 13 (3.99%) Cloud Native
4 13 (3.99%) Product Ownership
5 11 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.45%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.15%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.84%) Blockchain
9 6 (1.84%) e-Learning
9 6 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.53%) Analogue Electronics
10 5 (1.53%) FPGA
10 5 (1.53%) Life Science
10 5 (1.53%) VHDL
11 4 (1.23%) Embedded Systems
11 4 (1.23%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 49 (15.03%) Linux
2 27 (8.28%) Android
3 9 (2.76%) Windows
4 5 (1.53%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.92%) Unix
6 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (46.63%) Agile
2 118 (36.20%) CI/CD
3 111 (34.05%) Software Engineering
4 94 (28.83%) Microservices
5 77 (23.62%) TDD
6 75 (23.01%) Scrum
7 73 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
8 65 (19.94%) DevOps
9 63 (19.33%) Computer Science
10 60 (18.40%) Test Automation
11 54 (16.56%) Containerisation
12 51 (15.64%) Full-Stack Development
13 50 (15.34%) Kanban
14 46 (14.11%) BDD
15 42 (12.88%) Mathematics
15 42 (12.88%) OO
16 41 (12.58%) Analytics
17 40 (12.27%) SDLC
18 39 (11.96%) Line Management
19 36 (11.04%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 162 (49.69%) Python
2 85 (26.07%) SQL
3 83 (25.46%) JavaScript
4 70 (21.47%) C#
5 56 (17.18%) Rust
6 53 (16.26%) C++
7 32 (9.82%) Go
8 21 (6.44%) Shell Script
9 20 (6.13%) C
10 17 (5.21%) TypeScript
11 13 (3.99%) Kotlin
12 12 (3.68%) Scala
13 8 (2.45%) PL/SQL
13 8 (2.45%) PowerShell
14 6 (1.84%) Objective-C
15 5 (1.53%) Ada
16 3 (0.92%) Delphi
16 3 (0.92%) PHP
16 3 (0.92%) R
17 2 (0.61%) Perl
Qualifications
1 72 (22.09%) Degree
2 69 (21.17%) Security Cleared
3 42 (12.88%) SC Cleared
4 21 (6.44%) DV Cleared
5 18 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.68%) Master's Degree
7 9 (2.76%) AWS Certification
8 8 (2.45%) OCP
8 8 (2.45%) Oracle Certification
9 5 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.61%) PhD
11 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.31%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.28%) QA
2 17 (5.21%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.68%) SLA
4 5 (1.53%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.31%) GDPR
System Software
1 91 (27.91%) Docker
2 5 (1.53%) Firmware
2 5 (1.53%) HDFS
3 2 (0.61%) Postfix
3 2 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 109 (33.44%) Kubernetes
2 52 (15.95%) Ansible
3 42 (12.88%) Terraform
4 18 (5.52%) Kibana
5 6 (1.84%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.92%) Grafana
6 3 (0.92%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.61%) Hadoop YARN
7 2 (0.61%) Kubespray
7 2 (0.61%) Packer
8 1 (0.31%) Argo
Vendors
1 56 (17.18%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.83%) Splunk
3 18 (5.52%) Dynatrace
3 18 (5.52%) Oracle
4 16 (4.91%) Databricks
5 13 (3.99%) IBM
6 11 (3.37%) Google
7 10 (3.07%) SAP
8 8 (2.45%) Cisco
9 7 (2.15%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.53%) EMC
10 5 (1.53%) OpenLink
11 3 (0.92%) Cloudera
12 2 (0.61%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.61%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.61%) Confluent
12 2 (0.61%) Dataiku
12 2 (0.61%) MapR
12 2 (0.61%) Xamarin
13 1 (0.31%) Solace