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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 38 34
Rank change year-on-year -34 -4 -12
Permanent jobs citing Java 321 858 978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.47% 5.10% 6.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.05% 17.21% 16.76%
Number of salaries quoted 192 565 526
10th Percentile £31,300 £37,500 £34,324
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70,313 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £84,875 £91,250 £92,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £73,805 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.15% -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 2,460 4,985 5,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 26.58% 29.66% 40.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,807 4,023 3,835
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,250 £34,990
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 £68,750 £68,750 £74,000
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 9 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 9 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 -25 110 £65,000 -7.14% 105
Hampshire -32 79 £58,000 -8.66% 41
Berkshire -15 72 £65,000 -7.14% 54
Surrey -20 51 £65,000 +30.00% 39
West Sussex +50 29 £67,500 +22.73% 19
Buckinghamshire +7 27 £64,000 -14.67% 41
Kent +39 18 £58,000 +10.48% 8
Middlesex -7 14 - - 10
Oxfordshire -8 11 £70,000 +21.74% 24
Isle of Wight - 6 £58,000 -
East Sussex +19 5 £43,750 -20.45% 20
Sussex +20 2 £75,000 +206.12% 15
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 18 (5.61%) JBoss
2 13 (4.05%) Confluence
2 13 (4.05%) Red Hat Fuse
3 11 (3.43%) Apache
4 10 (3.12%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.87%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.31%) GemFire
6 1 (0.31%) IIS
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.31%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.25%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 135 (42.06%) AWS
2 108 (33.64%) Azure
3 59 (18.38%) Amazon EKS
4 47 (14.64%) Serverless
5 38 (11.84%) Amazon ECS
6 34 (10.59%) Amazon EC2
7 26 (8.10%) GCP
8 22 (6.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 20 (6.23%) Amazon S3
10 12 (3.74%) Amazon SQS
10 12 (3.74%) SaaS
11 10 (3.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 9 (2.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (2.80%) Azure API Management
13 8 (2.49%) Snowflake
14 7 (2.18%) GitHub
14 7 (2.18%) Power Platform
14 7 (2.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 4 (1.25%) Amazon Kinesis
15 4 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.56%) HTTP
2 4 (1.25%) HTTPS
2 4 (1.25%) Network Security
2 4 (1.25%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.31%) DNS
3 1 (0.31%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (20.25%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (15.89%) Relational Database
3 20 (6.23%) Elasticsearch
3 20 (6.23%) RDBMS
4 13 (4.05%) SQL Server
5 11 (3.43%) Big Data
5 11 (3.43%) MongoDB
5 11 (3.43%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.18%) OLTP
7 6 (1.87%) Hadoop
7 6 (1.87%) MySQL
8 5 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.56%) Metadata
9 4 (1.25%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.93%) Apache Hive
10 3 (0.93%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.93%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.93%) Impala
10 3 (0.93%) Redis
Development Applications
1 65 (20.25%) Jenkins
2 47 (14.64%) JUnit
3 41 (12.77%) Git
4 29 (9.03%) Mockito
5 21 (6.54%) JIRA
6 19 (5.92%) JMeter
7 16 (4.98%) Selenium
8 15 (4.67%) GitLab
8 15 (4.67%) Maven
9 14 (4.36%) Cucumber
9 14 (4.36%) SonarQube
10 8 (2.49%) Bitbucket
10 8 (2.49%) Eclipse
10 8 (2.49%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (1.56%) Eclipse RCP
11 5 (1.56%) Gradle
12 4 (1.25%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.25%) DbUnit
12 4 (1.25%) IntelliJ
12 4 (1.25%) jMock
General
1 103 (32.09%) Social Skills
2 51 (15.89%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (14.64%) Finance
4 44 (13.71%) Public Sector
5 29 (9.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (8.10%) Banking
7 16 (4.98%) Law
8 14 (4.36%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (3.12%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.18%) Retail
11 6 (1.87%) Electronics
11 6 (1.87%) Retail Banking
11 6 (1.87%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.56%) Advertising
13 4 (1.25%) Marketing
14 3 (0.93%) Games
14 3 (0.93%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.62%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.62%) Military
16 1 (0.31%) Legal
Job Titles
1 124 (38.63%) Developer
2 84 (26.17%) Java Developer
3 68 (21.18%) Software Engineer
4 63 (19.63%) Senior
5 46 (14.33%) Lead
6 29 (9.03%) Software Developer
7 22 (6.85%) Junior
8 21 (6.54%) Senior Developer
8 21 (6.54%) Software Team Leader
8 21 (6.54%) Team Leader
9 20 (6.23%) Java Engineer
10 18 (5.61%) Senior Software Engineer
11 16 (4.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 14 (4.36%) Data Engineer
13 13 (4.05%) Full-Stack Developer
13 13 (4.05%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 13 (4.05%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 12 (3.74%) Senior Java Developer
15 11 (3.43%) Junior Software Engineer
16 9 (2.80%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (25.55%) Spring
2 78 (24.30%) Spring Boot
3 59 (18.38%) REST
4 53 (16.51%) HTML
5 50 (15.58%) React
6 49 (15.26%) Kafka
6 49 (15.26%) Web Services
7 43 (13.40%) Hibernate
8 39 (12.15%) .NET
9 38 (11.84%) Node.js
10 36 (11.21%) RESTful
11 35 (10.90%) Apache Camel
12 27 (8.41%) ActiveMQ
13 23 (7.17%) SOAP
14 21 (6.54%) CSS
14 21 (6.54%) JSON
15 20 (6.23%) Pandas
16 19 (5.92%) jQuery
16 19 (5.92%) RabbitMQ
16 19 (5.92%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 46 (14.33%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (6.54%) Product Ownership
3 18 (5.61%) Cyberattack
4 15 (4.67%) Algorithms
5 14 (4.36%) Cloud Native
5 14 (4.36%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.18%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.25%) Analogue Electronics
9 4 (1.25%) FPGA
9 4 (1.25%) Life Science
9 4 (1.25%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.25%) NHS
9 4 (1.25%) VHDL
10 3 (0.93%) Embedded Systems
10 3 (0.93%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.93%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (14.95%) Linux
2 28 (8.72%) Android
3 9 (2.80%) Windows
4 6 (1.87%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.93%) Unix
6 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (47.98%) Agile
2 117 (36.45%) CI/CD
3 109 (33.96%) Software Engineering
4 105 (32.71%) Microservices
5 76 (23.68%) TDD
6 75 (23.36%) Scrum
7 69 (21.50%) Problem-Solving
8 68 (21.18%) DevOps
9 65 (20.25%) Containerisation
10 60 (18.69%) Test Automation
11 57 (17.76%) Computer Science
12 52 (16.20%) Full-Stack Development
13 50 (15.58%) Kanban
14 43 (13.40%) BDD
15 42 (13.08%) Mathematics
16 40 (12.46%) SDLC
17 39 (12.15%) Line Management
18 36 (11.21%) Analytics
19 35 (10.90%) Collaborative Working
19 35 (10.90%) OO
Programming Languages
1 156 (48.60%) Python
2 93 (28.97%) JavaScript
3 92 (28.66%) SQL
4 68 (21.18%) C#
5 55 (17.13%) Rust
6 51 (15.89%) C++
7 32 (9.97%) Go
8 21 (6.54%) Shell Script
9 19 (5.92%) TypeScript
10 18 (5.61%) C
11 13 (4.05%) Kotlin
12 10 (3.12%) Scala
13 9 (2.80%) PowerShell
14 8 (2.49%) PL/SQL
15 7 (2.18%) Objective-C
16 5 (1.56%) Ada
17 3 (0.93%) Delphi
17 3 (0.93%) PHP
17 3 (0.93%) R
18 2 (0.62%) Bash
Qualifications
1 70 (21.81%) Degree
2 64 (19.94%) Security Cleared
3 42 (13.08%) SC Cleared
4 21 (6.54%) DV Cleared
5 19 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.43%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.87%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.25%) OCP
9 4 (1.25%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.62%) PhD
11 1 (0.31%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (9.97%) QA
2 16 (4.98%) Accessibility
3 13 (4.05%) SLA
4 4 (1.25%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.62%) GDPR
6 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 106 (33.02%) Docker
2 5 (1.56%) HDFS
3 4 (1.25%) Firmware
4 3 (0.93%) Postfix
5 2 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 114 (35.51%) Kubernetes
2 48 (14.95%) Ansible
3 36 (11.21%) Terraform
4 19 (5.92%) Kibana
5 8 (2.49%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.87%) Grafana
7 3 (0.93%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.62%) Hadoop YARN
8 2 (0.62%) Kubespray
9 1 (0.31%) Argo
9 1 (0.31%) Packer
Vendors
1 52 (16.20%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.23%) Splunk
3 19 (5.92%) Dynatrace
4 15 (4.67%) Databricks
4 15 (4.67%) Oracle
5 11 (3.43%) Google
5 11 (3.43%) SAP
6 9 (2.80%) Solace
7 8 (2.49%) Cisco
8 6 (1.87%) IBM
9 4 (1.25%) EMC
9 4 (1.25%) OpenLink
10 3 (0.93%) Cloudera
11 2 (0.62%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.62%) Confluent
11 2 (0.62%) Dataiku
11 2 (0.62%) Jaspersoft
11 2 (0.62%) MapR
11 2 (0.62%) WSO2
11 2 (0.62%) Xamarin