Java Developer
UK

The median Java Developer salary in the UK is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 November 2023.

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

6 months to
29 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 169 165 118
Rank change year-on-year -4 -47 -34
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 1,105 2,892 3,980
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.04% 2.30% 3.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.14% 2.41% 3.24%
Number of salaries quoted 911 2,074 2,896
10th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £125,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 51,668 119,945 122,710
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.49% 95.32% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 37,837 75,409 83,805
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in the UK

Java Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Developer.

Salary trend for Java Developer in the UK

Java Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Developer over the 6 months to 29 November 2023.

Salary histogram for Java Developer in the UK

Java Developer
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 29 November 2023. 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
England +2 988 £80,000 -5.88% 209
London +26 663 £90,000 -2.70% 129
Work from Home -8 515 £80,000 +10.34% 99
UK excluding London -46 396 £65,000 +4.00% 120
South East +36 101 £65,000 - 44
North of England -56 81 £60,000 - 24
South West +29 77 £62,500 -7.41% 17
Scotland -20 60 £70,000 +7.69% 14
North West -9 55 £57,500 -11.54% 18
Midlands +1 43 £57,500 -4.17% 11
West Midlands +7 32 £57,500 -4.17% 10
Yorkshire -7 23 £67,500 +22.73% 4
Northern Ireland +12 16 £70,000 +38.61% 5
East of England +92 14 £75,000 +20.00% 7
East Midlands +30 11 £37,500 -36.17% 1
Wales +4 9 £53,750 -4.44% 1
North East +31 3 £55,000 -0.90% 3

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 29 November 2023, 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 featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 1,105 (100.00%) Java
2 496 (44.89%) AWS
3 486 (43.98%) Spring
4 467 (42.26%) Agile
5 363 (32.85%) Microservices
6 335 (30.32%) Spring Boot
7 318 (28.78%) Docker
8 300 (27.15%) Finance
9 251 (22.71%) Kubernetes
10 226 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
11 209 (18.91%) TDD
12 207 (18.73%) JavaScript
13 202 (18.28%) SQL
14 187 (16.92%) Degree
15 184 (16.65%) REST
15 184 (16.65%) Kafka
16 183 (16.56%) Social Skills
17 177 (16.02%) CI/CD
17 177 (16.02%) Software Engineering
18 171 (15.48%) Git
19 169 (15.29%) DevOps
20 167 (15.11%) Computer Science
21 148 (13.39%) React
22 141 (12.76%) Jenkins
23 139 (12.58%) Fintech
24 136 (12.31%) AngularJS
25 134 (12.13%) Front Office
26 127 (11.49%) Banking
27 126 (11.40%) Computer Science Degree
28 122 (11.04%) Maven

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 36 (3.26%) Apache
2 32 (2.90%) JBoss
2 32 (2.90%) Red Hat Fuse
3 29 (2.62%) Tomcat
4 21 (1.90%) Confluence
5 19 (1.72%) Apache Spark
6 17 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
7 13 (1.18%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.36%) Mule
9 3 (0.27%) CMS
9 3 (0.27%) Jetty
9 3 (0.27%) nginx
10 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.090%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.090%) GeoServer
Applications
1 4 (0.36%) Adobe Premiere
2 3 (0.27%) 3ds Max
2 3 (0.27%) Blender
2 3 (0.27%) Maya
3 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.090%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.090%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 496 (44.89%) AWS
2 121 (10.95%) Azure
3 78 (7.06%) GCP
4 60 (5.43%) Serverless
5 59 (5.34%) Amazon EC2
6 53 (4.80%) GitHub
7 43 (3.89%) SaaS
8 36 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
9 33 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
10 30 (2.71%) Amazon S3
11 27 (2.44%) OpenShift
12 25 (2.26%) Amazon EKS
13 21 (1.90%) dbt
14 16 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
15 14 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
16 13 (1.18%) Amazon SQS
17 12 (1.09%) Amazon EMR
17 12 (1.09%) PaaS
18 7 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
19 5 (0.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.18%) HTTP
1 13 (1.18%) Internet
2 6 (0.54%) SSH
3 2 (0.18%) AMQP
3 2 (0.18%) Multicast
3 2 (0.18%) Unicast
4 1 (0.090%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (8.96%) Relational Database
2 86 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
3 80 (7.24%) MySQL
4 68 (6.15%) NoSQL
5 61 (5.52%) MongoDB
6 38 (3.44%) RDBMS
7 37 (3.35%) Amazon RDS
8 34 (3.08%) SQL Server
9 27 (2.44%) DynamoDB
10 24 (2.17%) Big Data
11 19 (1.72%) Apache Arrow
11 19 (1.72%) Apache Ignite
11 19 (1.72%) Dremio
12 18 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
12 18 (1.63%) Redis
13 17 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
13 17 (1.54%) Hadoop
14 14 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
15 10 (0.90%) Flink
16 9 (0.81%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 171 (15.48%) Git
2 141 (12.76%) Jenkins
3 122 (11.04%) Maven
4 81 (7.33%) IntelliJ
5 77 (6.97%) JUnit
6 56 (5.07%) Gradle
7 51 (4.62%) JIRA
8 47 (4.25%) Bitbucket
9 37 (3.35%) Cucumber
10 34 (3.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 34 (3.08%) Mockito
11 23 (2.08%) GitLab
12 22 (1.99%) Artifactory
13 20 (1.81%) Eclipse
14 16 (1.45%) Jasmine
15 11 (1.00%) WebDriver
16 9 (0.81%) Selenium
17 8 (0.72%) Karma Test Runner
18 7 (0.63%) Protractor
18 7 (0.63%) SonarQube
General
1 300 (27.15%) Finance
2 183 (16.56%) Social Skills
3 134 (12.13%) Front Office
4 127 (11.49%) Banking
5 78 (7.06%) Investment Banking
6 65 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
7 58 (5.25%) Public Sector
8 53 (4.80%) Games
9 47 (4.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 33 (2.99%) Financial Institution
11 20 (1.81%) Retail
12 18 (1.63%) Tech for Good
13 16 (1.45%) Telecoms
14 14 (1.27%) Back Office
15 12 (1.09%) Police
16 9 (0.81%) Law
17 8 (0.72%) Marketing
18 6 (0.54%) Electronics
18 6 (0.54%) Manufacturing
19 3 (0.27%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 486 (43.98%) Spring
2 335 (30.32%) Spring Boot
3 184 (16.65%) Kafka
3 184 (16.65%) REST
4 148 (13.39%) React
5 136 (12.31%) AngularJS
6 113 (10.23%) Hibernate
7 112 (10.14%) RESTful
8 87 (7.87%) Web Services
9 73 (6.61%) HTML
10 72 (6.52%) JSON
11 68 (6.15%) CSS
12 64 (5.79%) XML
13 63 (5.70%) JPA
13 63 (5.70%) SOAP
14 56 (5.07%) Node.js
15 44 (3.98%) Apache Camel
15 44 (3.98%) J2EE
16 41 (3.71%) Micronaut
16 41 (3.71%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 99 (8.96%) Greenfield Project
2 56 (5.07%) Fixed Income
2 56 (5.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 55 (4.98%) Derivative
4 54 (4.89%) Self-Motivation
5 46 (4.16%) Equities
6 37 (3.35%) Distributed Systems
7 30 (2.71%) Algorithms
8 26 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
9 24 (2.17%) Management Information System
9 24 (2.17%) Sports Betting
10 22 (1.99%) Cloud Native
11 20 (1.81%) Data Structures
12 18 (1.63%) Hedge funds
13 16 (1.45%) Private Cloud
14 13 (1.18%) Reference Data
15 10 (0.90%) Product Ownership
15 10 (0.90%) Public Cloud
16 9 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
17 6 (0.54%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 64 (5.79%) Linux
2 26 (2.35%) Mac OS
3 19 (1.72%) Unix
4 7 (0.63%) Windows
5 6 (0.54%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 467 (42.26%) Agile
2 363 (32.85%) Microservices
3 226 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
4 209 (18.91%) TDD
5 177 (16.02%) CI/CD
5 177 (16.02%) Software Engineering
6 169 (15.29%) DevOps
7 167 (15.11%) Computer Science
8 139 (12.58%) Fintech
9 120 (10.86%) Low Latency
10 115 (10.41%) Full Stack Development
11 106 (9.59%) OO
12 100 (9.05%) Mentoring
13 99 (8.96%) Design Patterns
14 95 (8.60%) SDLC
15 92 (8.33%) Scrum
16 91 (8.24%) Multithreading
17 83 (7.51%) Actionable Insight
18 68 (6.15%) Containerisation
19 67 (6.06%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 1,105 (100.00%) Java
2 207 (18.73%) JavaScript
3 202 (18.28%) SQL
4 122 (11.04%) Python
5 70 (6.33%) TypeScript
6 56 (5.07%) Kotlin
7 32 (2.90%) Bash
8 24 (2.17%) C#
8 24 (2.17%) C++
9 22 (1.99%) Scala
10 10 (0.90%) Groovy
11 7 (0.63%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.54%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.45%) Go
14 3 (0.27%) Clojure
14 3 (0.27%) Ruby
15 2 (0.18%) COBOL
15 2 (0.18%) Rust
16 1 (0.090%) XPath
Qualifications
1 187 (16.92%) Degree
2 126 (11.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 115 (10.41%) Security Cleared
4 96 (8.69%) SC Cleared
5 20 (1.81%) Master's Degree
6 8 (0.72%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.63%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.45%) OCP
8 5 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (0.36%) PhD
10 3 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.27%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.18%) BC Cleared
12 1 (0.090%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.090%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.090%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.35%) QA
2 3 (0.27%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.090%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.090%) WCAG
System Software
1 318 (28.78%) Docker
2 5 (0.45%) Hyper-V
3 4 (0.36%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.18%) Postfix
5 1 (0.090%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.090%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 251 (22.71%) Kubernetes
2 100 (9.05%) Terraform
3 48 (4.34%) Ansible
4 4 (0.36%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.27%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.090%) Istio
6 1 (0.090%) Kibana
Vendors
1 37 (3.35%) Oracle
2 21 (1.90%) Google
2 21 (1.90%) WSO2
3 15 (1.36%) Atlassian
4 12 (1.09%) IBM
5 11 (1.00%) Microsoft
6 6 (0.54%) Confluent
6 6 (0.54%) SAP
6 6 (0.54%) Splunk
6 6 (0.54%) TIBCO
7 4 (0.36%) MuleSoft
7 4 (0.36%) Solace
8 2 (0.18%) Ab Initio
8 2 (0.18%) Algorithmics
8 2 (0.18%) Broadcom
8 2 (0.18%) Sybase
9 1 (0.090%) Cadence
9 1 (0.090%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.090%) Sun
9 1 (0.090%) VMware