Java Developer Jobs

Java Developer
UK

The median Java Developer salary in the UK is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 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
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 394 302 193
Rank change year-on-year -92 -109 -32
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 344 957 1,906
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.63% 0.96% 1.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 1.01% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 237 794 1,550
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £106,250
90th Percentile £137,500 £140,000 £125,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 49,357 94,770 90,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.42% 94.70% 91.49%
Number of salaries quoted 25,605 67,694 56,964
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,622 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £53,438
% change year-on-year +3.29% -6.43% +6.88%

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 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Java Developer in the UK

Java Developer
Top 15 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 23 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
England -101 294 £75,000 -6.25% 502
UK excluding London +6 189 £60,000 - 483
London -75 180 £106,250 +18.06% 157
Work from Home -18 155 £60,000 -25.00% 436
South East +19 73 £63,750 -8.93% 144
Midlands +85 38 £60,000 +33.33% 73
Scotland +88 37 £57,500 +2.10% 65
North of England -2 27 £65,000 +8.33% 100
West Midlands +77 25 £60,000 +9.09% 46
North West -36 18 £66,250 +6.00% 51
East Midlands +41 13 £60,000 +41.18% 24
South West +56 9 £60,000 - 40
Yorkshire +60 8 £44,500 -17.21% 33
Northern Ireland +44 8 £45,000 -32.08% 22
North East +41 1 - - 16

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 344 (100.00%) Java
2 191 (55.52%) AWS
3 184 (53.49%) Agile
4 138 (40.12%) Spring
5 129 (37.50%) Microservices
6 124 (36.05%) Docker
6 124 (36.05%) Finance
7 117 (34.01%) Spring Boot
8 104 (30.23%) SQL
9 97 (28.20%) Kubernetes
10 89 (25.87%) React
10 89 (25.87%) JUnit
11 88 (25.58%) CI/CD
12 83 (24.13%) Software Engineering
12 83 (24.13%) TDD
13 81 (23.55%) PostgreSQL
14 78 (22.67%) Linux
15 76 (22.09%) DevOps
16 75 (21.80%) Jenkins
16 75 (21.80%) Problem-Solving
16 75 (21.80%) REST
17 73 (21.22%) AngularJS
18 72 (20.93%) Git
19 69 (20.06%) Hibernate
20 68 (19.77%) Front Office
21 66 (19.19%) Social Skills
22 65 (18.90%) Serverless
22 65 (18.90%) JavaScript
23 64 (18.60%) Mockito
24 60 (17.44%) Python

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 32 (9.30%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (7.27%) Apache
3 18 (5.23%) JBoss
4 13 (3.78%) Red Hat Fuse
5 10 (2.91%) Apache Spark
6 8 (2.33%) Confluence
7 7 (2.03%) OpenStack
8 6 (1.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.87%) Mule
9 3 (0.87%) Oracle Coherence
9 3 (0.87%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.29%) Alfresco
10 1 (0.29%) Camunda
10 1 (0.29%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.29%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 4 (1.16%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 191 (55.52%) AWS
2 65 (18.90%) Serverless
3 55 (15.99%) Azure
4 49 (14.24%) Amazon EKS
5 40 (11.63%) Amazon EC2
6 35 (10.17%) Amazon S3
6 35 (10.17%) GCP
7 32 (9.30%) Amazon ECS
7 32 (9.30%) dbt
8 27 (7.85%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (6.69%) SaaS
10 18 (5.23%) Snowflake
11 16 (4.65%) Amazon SQS
12 14 (4.07%) Datadog
13 10 (2.91%) AWS KMS
14 8 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (2.33%) Route 53
15 7 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
16 4 (1.16%) Amazon Kinesis
16 4 (1.16%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.45%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.29%) Internet
2 1 (0.29%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (23.55%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (12.21%) NoSQL
3 41 (11.92%) Relational Database
4 33 (9.59%) Amazon Athena
5 32 (9.30%) Apache Arrow
5 32 (9.30%) Apache Iceberg
5 32 (9.30%) Dremio
6 27 (7.85%) MongoDB
7 16 (4.65%) MySQL
8 14 (4.07%) DynamoDB
8 14 (4.07%) RDBMS
9 13 (3.78%) Amazon RDS
9 13 (3.78%) SQL Server
10 11 (3.20%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (2.03%) Apache Hive
12 6 (1.74%) Apache Cassandra
12 6 (1.74%) Big Data
12 6 (1.74%) DB2
12 6 (1.74%) Hadoop
13 5 (1.45%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 89 (25.87%) JUnit
2 75 (21.80%) Jenkins
3 72 (20.93%) Git
4 64 (18.60%) Mockito
5 40 (11.63%) Maven
6 35 (10.17%) IntelliJ
7 28 (8.14%) GitLab
8 20 (5.81%) Eclipse
9 19 (5.52%) Jasmine
9 19 (5.52%) Karma Test Runner
9 19 (5.52%) Protractor
10 18 (5.23%) Gradle
11 15 (4.36%) Cucumber
12 14 (4.07%) JMeter
13 12 (3.49%) SonarQube
14 10 (2.91%) DbUnit
14 10 (2.91%) JIRA
14 10 (2.91%) jMock
14 10 (2.91%) Visual Studio
15 9 (2.62%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 124 (36.05%) Finance
2 68 (19.77%) Front Office
3 66 (19.19%) Social Skills
4 54 (15.70%) Banking
5 41 (11.92%) Public Sector
6 29 (8.43%) Investment Banking
7 27 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
8 26 (7.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (3.49%) Law
10 10 (2.91%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.45%) Games
11 5 (1.45%) Police
11 5 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.16%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.87%) Retail
14 2 (0.58%) Advertising
14 2 (0.58%) Marketing
14 2 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.29%) iGaming
15 1 (0.29%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (40.12%) Spring
2 117 (34.01%) Spring Boot
3 89 (25.87%) React
4 75 (21.80%) REST
5 73 (21.22%) AngularJS
6 69 (20.06%) Hibernate
7 58 (16.86%) Kafka
8 54 (15.70%) RESTful
9 53 (15.41%) Web Services
10 45 (13.08%) JPA
11 39 (11.34%) ActiveMQ
12 33 (9.59%) SOAP
13 32 (9.30%) RabbitMQ
14 28 (8.14%) J2EE
15 27 (7.85%) Apache Camel
15 27 (7.85%) Node.js
16 25 (7.27%) Vue
17 24 (6.98%) HTML
18 16 (4.65%) JMS
18 16 (4.65%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 57 (16.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 54 (15.70%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (12.21%) Fixed Income
4 41 (11.92%) Algorithms
4 41 (11.92%) Equities
5 21 (6.10%) Derivative
6 20 (5.81%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (5.23%) Hedge funds
8 16 (4.65%) Credit Derivative
9 14 (4.07%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (4.07%) Management Information System
10 11 (3.20%) Product Ownership
11 10 (2.91%) Data Structures
12 9 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (1.74%) Cloud Native
15 5 (1.45%) Mobile App
16 4 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
16 4 (1.16%) Team-Oriented Environment
16 4 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 78 (22.67%) Linux
2 11 (3.20%) Windows
3 7 (2.03%) Unix
4 5 (1.45%) Rocky
5 1 (0.29%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (53.49%) Agile
2 129 (37.50%) Microservices
3 88 (25.58%) CI/CD
4 83 (24.13%) Software Engineering
4 83 (24.13%) TDD
5 76 (22.09%) DevOps
6 75 (21.80%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (16.86%) Scrum
8 55 (15.99%) SDLC
9 50 (14.53%) BDD
10 46 (13.37%) Full-Stack Development
11 44 (12.79%) Containerisation
12 43 (12.50%) Unit Testing
13 40 (11.63%) Fintech
14 37 (10.76%) Low Latency
15 36 (10.47%) Kanban
15 36 (10.47%) Multithreading
16 34 (9.88%) Asset Management
17 31 (9.01%) Test Automation
18 29 (8.43%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 344 (100.00%) Java
2 104 (30.23%) SQL
3 65 (18.90%) JavaScript
4 60 (17.44%) Python
5 45 (13.08%) TypeScript
6 31 (9.01%) C++
7 13 (3.78%) Shell Script
8 10 (2.91%) C#
9 6 (1.74%) C
10 4 (1.16%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.87%) Bash
11 3 (0.87%) Groovy
11 3 (0.87%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.87%) XQuery
12 2 (0.58%) Ruby
12 2 (0.58%) Scala
13 1 (0.29%) Go
13 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 55 (15.99%) Security Cleared
2 46 (13.37%) SC Cleared
3 22 (6.40%) Degree
4 13 (3.78%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.58%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.78%) SLA
2 8 (2.33%) QA
3 4 (1.16%) Accessibility
System Software
1 124 (36.05%) Docker
2 5 (1.45%) Postfix
3 2 (0.58%) HDFS
4 1 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 97 (28.20%) Kubernetes
2 28 (8.14%) Ansible
3 23 (6.69%) Terraform
4 13 (3.78%) Kibana
5 9 (2.62%) Grafana
6 4 (1.16%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.29%) Argo
7 1 (0.29%) Istio
Vendors
1 37 (10.76%) IBM
2 21 (6.10%) Oracle
3 17 (4.94%) Splunk
4 15 (4.36%) Dynatrace
5 10 (2.91%) Solace
6 9 (2.62%) Sybase
7 8 (2.33%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.74%) Google
8 6 (1.74%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.45%) Jaspersoft
10 4 (1.16%) SimCorp
11 2 (0.58%) Bloomberg
11 2 (0.58%) SAP
12 1 (0.29%) Cisco
12 1 (0.29%) Cloudera
12 1 (0.29%) Curam
12 1 (0.29%) Guidewire
12 1 (0.29%) Informatica
12 1 (0.29%) ION Trading
12 1 (0.29%) Microsoft