Java Developer Jobs in England

Java Developer
UK > England

The median Java Developer salary in England is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 285 198 157
Rank change year-on-year -87 -41 -58
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 841 1,655 3,632
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.97% 1.87% 2.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.03% 2.05% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 702 1,332 2,357
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £142,500 £130,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 81,669 80,804 129,735
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.54% 91.51% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 60,824 51,446 74,737
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in England

Java Developer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Java Developer in England

Java Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Developer in England

Java Developer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 17 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
London -25 525 £90,000 -5.26% 99
South East -45 151 £70,000 +7.69% 40
North of England -7 77 £60,000 -14.29% 14
South West -81 60 £60,000 - 15
North West -26 58 £62,500 -13.19% 13
Midlands -54 28 £45,000 -25.00% 8
West Midlands -23 18 £55,000 -8.33% 6
East of England -4 15 £50,000 -28.57% 2
Yorkshire +44 12 £55,000 -8.33%
East Midlands -21 9 £42,500 -34.62% 2
North East -7 7 £42,750 -38.93% 1
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 England region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 839 (99.76%) Java
2 438 (52.08%) AWS
3 345 (41.02%) Spring
4 299 (35.55%) Agile
5 282 (33.53%) Spring Boot
6 257 (30.56%) Microservices
7 238 (28.30%) Docker
7 238 (28.30%) Kubernetes
8 234 (27.82%) JavaScript
9 229 (27.23%) Finance
10 193 (22.95%) TDD
11 177 (21.05%) SQL
12 171 (20.33%) Full Stack Development
13 146 (17.36%) Software Engineering
14 145 (17.24%) AngularJS
15 135 (16.05%) Python
16 131 (15.58%) Banking
17 129 (15.34%) Social Skills
18 126 (14.98%) Git
18 126 (14.98%) DevOps
18 126 (14.98%) REST
19 115 (13.67%) Fintech
20 111 (13.20%) Azure
20 111 (13.20%) Low Latency
21 110 (13.08%) Hibernate
22 108 (12.84%) Front Office
23 106 (12.60%) Mentoring
24 104 (12.37%) PostgreSQL
25 102 (12.13%) Kafka
25 102 (12.13%) Problem-Solving

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 45 (5.35%) Apache
2 40 (4.76%) OpenStack
3 26 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (2.26%) Confluence
5 16 (1.90%) Tomcat
6 13 (1.55%) JBoss
7 10 (1.19%) Red Hat Fuse
8 7 (0.83%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.36%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.36%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.24%) nginx
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.12%) Drupal
11 1 (0.12%) GemFire
11 1 (0.12%) Jetty
11 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
11 1 (0.12%) Mule
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.12%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 438 (52.08%) AWS
2 111 (13.20%) Azure
3 83 (9.87%) Serverless
4 60 (7.13%) Amazon ECS
4 60 (7.13%) GCP
5 57 (6.78%) Amazon EKS
6 26 (3.09%) dbt
7 25 (2.97%) SaaS
8 22 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (2.62%) Snowflake
9 16 (1.90%) GitHub
10 15 (1.78%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (1.78%) OpenShift
11 12 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
12 11 (1.31%) Amazon S3
13 7 (0.83%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (0.48%) npm
15 2 (0.24%) AWS IoT
15 2 (0.24%) Azure DevOps
15 2 (0.24%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.43%) TCP/IP
2 11 (1.31%) Internet
3 3 (0.36%) FTP
4 2 (0.24%) AMQP
4 2 (0.24%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.24%) HTTP
4 2 (0.24%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (12.37%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (10.23%) NoSQL
3 81 (9.63%) Relational Database
4 53 (6.30%) MySQL
5 37 (4.40%) SQL Server
6 27 (3.21%) Apache Ignite
7 26 (3.09%) Amazon Athena
7 26 (3.09%) Apache Arrow
7 26 (3.09%) Dremio
8 22 (2.62%) Data Lake
9 17 (2.02%) MongoDB
9 17 (2.02%) Redis
10 12 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (1.31%) DB2
12 9 (1.07%) CouchDB
13 7 (0.83%) DynamoDB
14 6 (0.71%) Big Data
15 5 (0.59%) Flink
15 5 (0.59%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 126 (14.98%) Git
2 96 (11.41%) Jenkins
3 51 (6.06%) JUnit
4 30 (3.57%) JIRA
5 24 (2.85%) Maven
6 23 (2.73%) Selenium
7 20 (2.38%) Mockito
8 19 (2.26%) GitLab
9 18 (2.14%) IntelliJ
10 10 (1.19%) Cucumber
10 10 (1.19%) Gradle
11 9 (1.07%) Bitbucket
11 9 (1.07%) TeamCity
12 5 (0.59%) JMeter
13 3 (0.36%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.36%) Eclipse
14 2 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 2 (0.24%) Jasmine
14 2 (0.24%) JHipster
15 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
General
1 229 (27.23%) Finance
2 131 (15.58%) Banking
3 129 (15.34%) Social Skills
4 108 (12.84%) Front Office
5 84 (9.99%) Investment Banking
6 55 (6.54%) Public Sector
7 30 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
8 19 (2.26%) Tech for Good
9 15 (1.78%) Financial Institution
10 14 (1.66%) Marketing
11 12 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (1.43%) Turkish Language
12 9 (1.07%) Police
12 9 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (0.83%) Retail Banking
14 6 (0.71%) Games
14 6 (0.71%) Retail
14 6 (0.71%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.59%) Electronics
15 5 (0.59%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 345 (41.02%) Spring
2 282 (33.53%) Spring Boot
3 145 (17.24%) AngularJS
4 126 (14.98%) REST
5 110 (13.08%) Hibernate
6 102 (12.13%) Kafka
7 94 (11.18%) React
8 68 (8.09%) Web Services
9 67 (7.97%) Node.js
10 57 (6.78%) HTML
11 48 (5.71%) Apache Camel
12 47 (5.59%) CSS
13 46 (5.47%) JSON
13 46 (5.47%) XML
14 45 (5.35%) RESTful
15 41 (4.88%) Elastic Stack
16 29 (3.45%) gRPC
16 29 (3.45%) NumPy
16 29 (3.45%) Pandas
17 26 (3.09%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 86 (10.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 66 (7.85%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (7.02%) Greenfield Project
4 51 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
5 50 (5.95%) Equities
5 50 (5.95%) Fixed Income
6 37 (4.40%) Hedge funds
7 31 (3.69%) Derivative
8 25 (2.97%) Algorithms
9 21 (2.50%) Client/Server
10 15 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (1.43%) FPGA
11 12 (1.43%) Onboarding
11 12 (1.43%) Public Cloud
12 11 (1.31%) PropTech
13 10 (1.19%) Private Cloud
14 8 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
15 7 (0.83%) Data Structures
15 7 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 56 (6.66%) Linux
2 5 (0.59%) Windows
3 4 (0.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (35.55%) Agile
2 257 (30.56%) Microservices
3 193 (22.95%) TDD
4 171 (20.33%) Full Stack Development
5 146 (17.36%) Software Engineering
6 126 (14.98%) DevOps
7 115 (13.67%) Fintech
8 111 (13.20%) Low Latency
9 106 (12.60%) Mentoring
10 102 (12.13%) Problem-Solving
11 101 (12.01%) CI/CD
12 91 (10.82%) SDLC
13 89 (10.58%) Scrum
14 79 (9.39%) Computer Science
15 73 (8.68%) BDD
16 65 (7.73%) Kanban
17 63 (7.49%) Multithreading
18 51 (6.06%) Electronic Trading
19 44 (5.23%) Containerisation
20 41 (4.88%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 839 (99.76%) Java
2 234 (27.82%) JavaScript
3 177 (21.05%) SQL
4 135 (16.05%) Python
5 65 (7.73%) TypeScript
6 59 (7.02%) Kotlin
7 35 (4.16%) C#
8 23 (2.73%) C++
9 15 (1.78%) Scala
9 15 (1.78%) Shell Script
10 12 (1.43%) C
11 10 (1.19%) Go
12 9 (1.07%) Perl
12 9 (1.07%) Ruby
13 7 (0.83%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.59%) Groovy
15 3 (0.36%) Clojure
15 3 (0.36%) PHP
15 3 (0.36%) Rust
16 2 (0.24%) Bash
Qualifications
1 101 (12.01%) Degree
2 75 (8.92%) Security Cleared
3 66 (7.85%) SC Cleared
4 36 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (2.97%) AWS Certification
6 14 (1.66%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.07%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.95%) PhD
9 7 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.24%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.12%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.12%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (2.85%) QA
2 3 (0.36%) MiFID
3 2 (0.24%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
System Software
1 238 (28.30%) Docker
2 30 (3.57%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.12%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 238 (28.30%) Kubernetes
2 64 (7.61%) Ansible
3 59 (7.02%) Terraform
4 6 (0.71%) Kibana
5 2 (0.24%) Grafana
6 1 (0.12%) Consul
6 1 (0.12%) Istio
6 1 (0.12%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.12%) Packer
6 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 48 (5.71%) Oracle
2 40 (4.76%) WSO2
3 27 (3.21%) Google
4 19 (2.26%) Microsoft
5 8 (0.95%) SAP
6 7 (0.83%) YouTube
7 6 (0.71%) Splunk
8 5 (0.59%) Sybase
8 5 (0.59%) TIBCO
9 4 (0.48%) Dynatrace
9 4 (0.48%) Facebook
9 4 (0.48%) Vertica
10 3 (0.36%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.36%) IBM
10 3 (0.36%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.36%) Reuters
11 2 (0.24%) Apple
11 2 (0.24%) ION Trading
11 2 (0.24%) Murex
11 2 (0.24%) Salesforce