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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 305 197 159
Rank change year-on-year -108 -38 -51
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 836 1,569 3,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.92% 1.86% 2.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 2.04% 2.78%
Number of salaries quoted 694 1,271 2,368
10th Percentile £43,225 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% +14.29%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £99,063
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 86,182 76,808 135,607
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.28% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 63,611 49,955 75,079
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,082 £81,250 £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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -30 525 £90,000 -5.26% 74
South East -53 147 £70,000 +7.69% 12
North of England -17 77 £60,000 -14.29% 21
North West -21 61 £61,250 -17.23% 21
South West -92 57 £60,000 -4.38% 16
Midlands -57 29 £45,000 -25.00% 9
West Midlands -48 18 £50,000 -16.67% 5
East of England -12 15 £50,000 -28.57% 1
East Midlands -29 10 £42,500 -34.62% 4
Yorkshire +34 9 £55,000 -10.20%
North East -14 7 £42,750 -38.93%
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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.

1 834 (99.76%) Java
2 436 (52.15%) AWS
3 328 (39.23%) Spring
4 294 (35.17%) Agile
5 281 (33.61%) Spring Boot
6 251 (30.02%) Microservices
7 233 (27.87%) Kubernetes
7 233 (27.87%) Finance
8 229 (27.39%) Docker
9 219 (26.20%) JavaScript
10 183 (21.89%) TDD
11 166 (19.86%) SQL
12 161 (19.26%) Full Stack Development
13 152 (18.18%) Software Engineering
14 138 (16.51%) Python
15 133 (15.91%) Banking
16 129 (15.43%) AngularJS
17 120 (14.35%) REST
17 120 (14.35%) Social Skills
18 119 (14.23%) DevOps
19 118 (14.11%) Fintech
20 113 (13.52%) Low Latency
21 112 (13.40%) Hibernate
22 111 (13.28%) Front Office
22 111 (13.28%) Git
23 107 (12.80%) Kafka
24 106 (12.68%) CI/CD
25 102 (12.20%) Mentoring
26 100 (11.96%) SDLC
27 99 (11.84%) Azure

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 48 (5.74%) Apache
2 35 (4.19%) OpenStack
3 30 (3.59%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (1.91%) Tomcat
5 14 (1.67%) JBoss
6 12 (1.44%) Confluence
7 10 (1.20%) Red Hat Fuse
8 7 (0.84%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.36%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.36%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.36%) nginx
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.12%) Drupal
11 1 (0.12%) GemFire
11 1 (0.12%) Jetty
11 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.12%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 436 (52.15%) AWS
2 99 (11.84%) Azure
3 75 (8.97%) Serverless
4 62 (7.42%) GCP
5 53 (6.34%) Amazon ECS
6 50 (5.98%) Amazon EKS
7 30 (3.59%) dbt
8 26 (3.11%) SaaS
8 26 (3.11%) Snowflake
9 21 (2.51%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (2.03%) GitHub
11 15 (1.79%) OpenShift
12 12 (1.44%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (0.96%) Amazon S3
15 7 (0.84%) Amazon SQS
16 4 (0.48%) npm
17 2 (0.24%) Amazon Kinesis
17 2 (0.24%) Azure DevOps
17 2 (0.24%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.44%) TCP/IP
2 10 (1.20%) Internet
3 3 (0.36%) FTP
3 3 (0.36%) SSH
4 2 (0.24%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.24%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (11.84%) PostgreSQL
2 78 (9.33%) NoSQL
3 74 (8.85%) Relational Database
4 49 (5.86%) MySQL
5 36 (4.31%) SQL Server
6 31 (3.71%) Apache Ignite
7 30 (3.59%) Amazon Athena
7 30 (3.59%) Apache Arrow
7 30 (3.59%) Dremio
8 26 (3.11%) Data Lake
9 16 (1.91%) MongoDB
10 15 (1.79%) Redis
11 12 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (1.20%) DB2
13 9 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (1.08%) CouchDB
14 8 (0.96%) Big Data
14 8 (0.96%) DynamoDB
15 6 (0.72%) Flink
15 6 (0.72%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 111 (13.28%) Git
2 82 (9.81%) Jenkins
3 55 (6.58%) JUnit
4 26 (3.11%) Maven
5 25 (2.99%) JIRA
6 24 (2.87%) Selenium
7 18 (2.15%) GitLab
7 18 (2.15%) Mockito
8 17 (2.03%) IntelliJ
9 13 (1.56%) Cucumber
10 10 (1.20%) Bitbucket
10 10 (1.20%) Gradle
11 8 (0.96%) TeamCity
12 6 (0.72%) JMeter
13 3 (0.36%) Artifactory
14 2 (0.24%) JHipster
14 2 (0.24%) SonarQube
15 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
15 1 (0.12%) Eclipse
15 1 (0.12%) TestNG
General
1 233 (27.87%) Finance
2 133 (15.91%) Banking
3 120 (14.35%) Social Skills
4 111 (13.28%) Front Office
5 85 (10.17%) Investment Banking
6 50 (5.98%) Public Sector
7 33 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
8 20 (2.39%) Tech for Good
9 15 (1.79%) Financial Institution
9 15 (1.79%) Marketing
10 12 (1.44%) Turkish Language
11 11 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (0.84%) Retail Banking
13 7 (0.84%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.72%) Games
14 6 (0.72%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.60%) Electronics
16 4 (0.48%) Retail
17 3 (0.36%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 328 (39.23%) Spring
2 281 (33.61%) Spring Boot
3 129 (15.43%) AngularJS
4 120 (14.35%) REST
5 112 (13.40%) Hibernate
6 107 (12.80%) Kafka
7 86 (10.29%) React
8 67 (8.01%) Web Services
9 59 (7.06%) Node.js
10 57 (6.82%) HTML
11 47 (5.62%) CSS
12 42 (5.02%) Apache Camel
12 42 (5.02%) XML
13 40 (4.78%) JSON
13 40 (4.78%) RESTful
14 37 (4.43%) Elastic Stack
15 35 (4.19%) gRPC
16 33 (3.95%) NumPy
16 33 (3.95%) Pandas
17 30 (3.59%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 89 (10.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 64 (7.66%) Distributed Systems
3 58 (6.94%) Greenfield Project
4 54 (6.46%) Equities
5 53 (6.34%) Fixed Income
6 52 (6.22%) Enterprise Software
7 43 (5.14%) Hedge funds
8 35 (4.19%) Derivative
9 28 (3.35%) Algorithms
10 21 (2.51%) Client/Server
11 14 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (1.44%) FPGA
12 12 (1.44%) Onboarding
12 12 (1.44%) Public Cloud
13 11 (1.32%) PropTech
14 8 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (0.96%) Private Cloud
15 7 (0.84%) Virtual Team
16 6 (0.72%) Data Structures
16 6 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 56 (6.70%) Linux
2 5 (0.60%) Unix
2 5 (0.60%) Windows
3 1 (0.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (35.17%) Agile
2 251 (30.02%) Microservices
3 183 (21.89%) TDD
4 161 (19.26%) Full Stack Development
5 152 (18.18%) Software Engineering
6 119 (14.23%) DevOps
7 118 (14.11%) Fintech
8 113 (13.52%) Low Latency
9 106 (12.68%) CI/CD
10 102 (12.20%) Mentoring
11 100 (11.96%) SDLC
12 92 (11.00%) Problem-Solving
13 84 (10.05%) Scrum
14 75 (8.97%) Computer Science
15 67 (8.01%) BDD
16 61 (7.30%) Multithreading
17 59 (7.06%) Kanban
18 49 (5.86%) Electronic Trading
19 41 (4.90%) Investment Management
20 40 (4.78%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 834 (99.76%) Java
2 219 (26.20%) JavaScript
3 166 (19.86%) SQL
4 138 (16.51%) Python
5 68 (8.13%) TypeScript
6 59 (7.06%) Kotlin
7 37 (4.43%) C#
8 24 (2.87%) C++
9 15 (1.79%) Scala
10 13 (1.56%) Shell Script
11 12 (1.44%) C
12 11 (1.32%) Go
12 11 (1.32%) Perl
13 9 (1.08%) Ruby
14 6 (0.72%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.60%) Groovy
16 3 (0.36%) Clojure
16 3 (0.36%) PHP
16 3 (0.36%) Rust
17 2 (0.24%) Bash
Qualifications
1 99 (11.84%) Degree
2 63 (7.54%) Security Cleared
3 55 (6.58%) SC Cleared
4 35 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.63%) AWS Certification
6 11 (1.32%) Azure Certification
6 11 (1.32%) PhD
7 9 (1.08%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
8 7 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.24%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.24%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.12%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.35%) QA
2 3 (0.36%) MiFID
3 2 (0.24%) Accessibility
System Software
1 229 (27.39%) Docker
2 24 (2.87%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.12%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 233 (27.87%) Kubernetes
2 59 (7.06%) Terraform
3 58 (6.94%) Ansible
4 7 (0.84%) Kibana
5 3 (0.36%) Grafana
6 2 (0.24%) Kustomize
6 2 (0.24%) Packer
7 1 (0.12%) Consul
7 1 (0.12%) Istio
7 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (5.38%) Oracle
2 35 (4.19%) WSO2
3 26 (3.11%) Google
4 18 (2.15%) Microsoft
5 8 (0.96%) SAP
6 7 (0.84%) Splunk
6 7 (0.84%) YouTube
7 6 (0.72%) Sybase
8 5 (0.60%) Red Hat
8 5 (0.60%) 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%) Reuters
11 2 (0.24%) Apple
11 2 (0.24%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.24%) ION Trading
11 2 (0.24%) Murex
11 2 (0.24%) Salesforce