Java Developer Jobs in the South East

Java Developer
England > South East

The median Java Developer salary in the South East is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 239 209 201
Rank change year-on-year -30 -8 -77
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 158 230 357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.95% 1.54% 1.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 1.70% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 129 161 293
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £88,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 15,676 13,491 19,184
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.90% 90.50% 96.41%
Number of salaries quoted 11,332 8,454 12,614
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024. 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 +7 73 £80,000 +14.29% 4
Berkshire +25 65 £81,250 +16.07%
Hampshire -21 38 £70,000 +1.82% 6
Surrey -43 37 £47,500 -9.52% 7
Buckinghamshire -20 6 £67,500 -12.90% 4
West Sussex +43 3 £45,000 -
Oxfordshire +5 2 £92,500 +48.00%
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, 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.

1 158 (100.00%) Java
2 107 (67.72%) AWS
3 89 (56.33%) Spring
4 87 (55.06%) Agile
5 81 (51.27%) Docker
6 80 (50.63%) Microservices
7 76 (48.10%) JavaScript
8 72 (45.57%) Kubernetes
9 69 (43.67%) DevOps
10 66 (41.77%) TDD
11 65 (41.14%) Git
11 65 (41.14%) Spring Boot
12 57 (36.08%) Serverless
13 54 (34.18%) Jenkins
13 54 (34.18%) PostgreSQL
14 53 (33.54%) REST
15 52 (32.91%) AngularJS
16 50 (31.65%) Amazon ECS
17 49 (31.01%) Azure
18 48 (30.38%) Scrum
19 47 (29.75%) BDD
20 46 (29.11%) Node.js
20 46 (29.11%) Web Services
20 46 (29.11%) Amazon EKS
20 46 (29.11%) CI/CD
21 45 (28.48%) Ansible
21 45 (28.48%) Kanban
22 40 (25.32%) NoSQL
22 40 (25.32%) SQL
22 40 (25.32%) Apache Camel

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 35 (22.15%) OpenStack
2 12 (7.59%) JBoss
3 10 (6.33%) Red Hat Fuse
4 9 (5.70%) Tomcat
5 5 (3.16%) Confluence
6 3 (1.90%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 107 (67.72%) AWS
2 57 (36.08%) Serverless
3 50 (31.65%) Amazon ECS
4 49 (31.01%) Azure
5 46 (29.11%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (8.86%) SaaS
7 13 (8.23%) GitHub
8 12 (7.59%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (5.06%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (4.43%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (3.16%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.27%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (1.27%) AWS IoT
13 1 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
13 1 (0.63%) GCP
13 1 (0.63%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.06%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (34.18%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (25.32%) NoSQL
3 38 (24.05%) Relational Database
4 16 (10.13%) MySQL
5 8 (5.06%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.80%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.53%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.27%) CouchDB
10 1 (0.63%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.63%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.63%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.63%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 65 (41.14%) Git
2 54 (34.18%) Jenkins
3 29 (18.35%) JUnit
4 12 (7.59%) Maven
5 10 (6.33%) JIRA
6 6 (3.80%) GitLab
7 5 (3.16%) Bitbucket
7 5 (3.16%) JMeter
7 5 (3.16%) Mockito
8 4 (2.53%) Selenium
9 2 (1.27%) Gradle
9 2 (1.27%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.63%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.63%) Jasmine
General
1 35 (22.15%) Social Skills
2 29 (18.35%) Public Sector
3 21 (13.29%) Finance
4 6 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (3.80%) Telecoms
5 5 (3.16%) Electronics
5 5 (3.16%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.16%) Marketing
6 4 (2.53%) Banking
7 3 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Police
8 1 (0.63%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (56.33%) Spring
2 65 (41.14%) Spring Boot
3 53 (33.54%) REST
4 52 (32.91%) AngularJS
5 46 (29.11%) Node.js
5 46 (29.11%) Web Services
6 40 (25.32%) Apache Camel
7 35 (22.15%) Elastic Stack
8 28 (17.72%) XML
9 27 (17.09%) JSON
10 22 (13.92%) Hibernate
10 22 (13.92%) React
11 17 (10.76%) Kafka
12 16 (10.13%) HTML
13 14 (8.86%) SOAP
14 12 (7.59%) CSS
15 10 (6.33%) jQuery
15 10 (6.33%) RESTful
16 9 (5.70%) J2EE
17 7 (4.43%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 39 (24.68%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (11.39%) Greenfield Project
3 14 (8.86%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.53%) NHS
4 4 (2.53%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.27%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.27%) IoT
5 2 (1.27%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (55.06%) Agile
2 80 (50.63%) Microservices
3 69 (43.67%) DevOps
4 66 (41.77%) TDD
5 48 (30.38%) Scrum
6 47 (29.75%) BDD
7 46 (29.11%) CI/CD
8 45 (28.48%) Kanban
9 37 (23.42%) Full Stack Development
10 35 (22.15%) SDLC
11 32 (20.25%) Software Engineering
12 31 (19.62%) Mentoring
13 25 (15.82%) BPEL
14 24 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (10.13%) Process Management
15 16 (10.13%) Workflow
16 15 (9.49%) Computer Science
17 14 (8.86%) Integration Testing
17 14 (8.86%) OOD
18 13 (8.23%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 158 (100.00%) Java
2 76 (48.10%) JavaScript
3 40 (25.32%) SQL
4 37 (23.42%) Python
5 13 (8.23%) TypeScript
6 11 (6.96%) Shell Script
7 8 (5.06%) Kotlin
8 6 (3.80%) Go
9 4 (2.53%) C#
10 1 (0.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 39 (24.68%) Security Cleared
2 36 (22.78%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.49%) AWS Certification
4 11 (6.96%) Azure Certification
5 9 (5.70%) Degree
6 4 (2.53%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (2.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.27%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.63%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.70%) QA
System Software
1 81 (51.27%) Docker
2 27 (17.09%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 72 (45.57%) Kubernetes
2 45 (28.48%) Ansible
3 27 (17.09%) Terraform
4 5 (3.16%) Kibana
5 1 (0.63%) Grafana
Vendors
1 35 (22.15%) WSO2
2 9 (5.70%) Google
3 8 (5.06%) Oracle
4 5 (3.16%) SAP
4 5 (3.16%) Splunk
5 4 (2.53%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.63%) IBM
6 1 (0.63%) Red Hat