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 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 250 205 199
Rank change year-on-year -45 -6 -72
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 151 223 355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.89% 1.56% 1.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.95% 1.73% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 123 156 290
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,875 £51,250 £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 £74,063 £85,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £83,125 £87,500
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 15,861 12,921 19,187
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.01% 90.26% 96.43%
Number of salaries quoted 11,350 8,154 12,404
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,032 £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 £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +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 17 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 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
Thames Valley +1 68 £81,250 +16.07% 3
Berkshire +33 62 £81,250 +16.07% 1
Hampshire -30 37 £70,000 +7.69% 10
Surrey -43 36 £47,500 -9.52% 5
Buckinghamshire -23 4 £81,250 +4.84% 2
West Sussex +32 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 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 South East region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 151 (100.00%) Java
2 102 (67.55%) AWS
3 88 (58.28%) Spring
4 87 (57.62%) Agile
5 78 (51.66%) Docker
6 76 (50.33%) Microservices
7 73 (48.34%) JavaScript
8 71 (47.02%) Kubernetes
9 67 (44.37%) DevOps
9 67 (44.37%) TDD
10 65 (43.05%) Git
11 62 (41.06%) Spring Boot
12 55 (36.42%) Serverless
13 54 (35.76%) PostgreSQL
14 53 (35.10%) REST
14 53 (35.10%) Jenkins
15 49 (32.45%) Amazon ECS
15 49 (32.45%) AngularJS
15 49 (32.45%) Azure
16 46 (30.46%) BDD
16 46 (30.46%) Scrum
16 46 (30.46%) CI/CD
17 45 (29.80%) Amazon EKS
17 45 (29.80%) Web Services
18 44 (29.14%) Node.js
18 44 (29.14%) Kanban
19 43 (28.48%) Ansible
20 41 (27.15%) NoSQL
21 39 (25.83%) SQL
21 39 (25.83%) 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 34 (22.52%) OpenStack
2 10 (6.62%) JBoss
3 9 (5.96%) Red Hat Fuse
4 7 (4.64%) Tomcat
5 6 (3.97%) Confluence
6 2 (1.32%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 102 (67.55%) AWS
2 55 (36.42%) Serverless
3 49 (32.45%) Amazon ECS
3 49 (32.45%) Azure
4 45 (29.80%) Amazon EKS
5 14 (9.27%) SaaS
6 13 (8.61%) GitHub
7 11 (7.28%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (5.30%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (3.97%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (3.31%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.32%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (1.32%) AWS IoT
12 1 (0.66%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (0.66%) GCP
12 1 (0.66%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.64%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (35.76%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (27.15%) NoSQL
3 37 (24.50%) Relational Database
4 15 (9.93%) MySQL
5 9 (5.96%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.31%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.65%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.32%) CouchDB
8 2 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.66%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.66%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 65 (43.05%) Git
2 53 (35.10%) Jenkins
3 28 (18.54%) JUnit
4 11 (7.28%) JIRA
5 10 (6.62%) Maven
6 7 (4.64%) GitLab
7 6 (3.97%) Bitbucket
8 5 (3.31%) JMeter
8 5 (3.31%) Selenium
9 4 (2.65%) Mockito
10 2 (1.32%) Gradle
11 1 (0.66%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.66%) IntelliJ
General
1 36 (23.84%) Social Skills
2 28 (18.54%) Public Sector
3 18 (11.92%) Finance
4 6 (3.97%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.31%) Electronics
5 5 (3.31%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.31%) Marketing
5 5 (3.31%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.99%) Banking
6 3 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.66%) Police
7 1 (0.66%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (58.28%) Spring
2 62 (41.06%) Spring Boot
3 53 (35.10%) REST
4 49 (32.45%) AngularJS
5 45 (29.80%) Web Services
6 44 (29.14%) Node.js
7 39 (25.83%) Apache Camel
8 34 (22.52%) Elastic Stack
9 27 (17.88%) JSON
9 27 (17.88%) XML
10 21 (13.91%) Hibernate
11 20 (13.25%) React
12 16 (10.60%) HTML
12 16 (10.60%) Kafka
13 14 (9.27%) SOAP
14 12 (7.95%) CSS
15 9 (5.96%) jQuery
15 9 (5.96%) RESTful
16 7 (4.64%) J2EE
16 7 (4.64%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 38 (25.17%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (11.92%) Greenfield Project
3 14 (9.27%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.65%) NHS
5 2 (1.32%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.32%) IoT
5 2 (1.32%) PropTech
5 2 (1.32%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (57.62%) Agile
2 76 (50.33%) Microservices
3 67 (44.37%) DevOps
3 67 (44.37%) TDD
4 46 (30.46%) BDD
4 46 (30.46%) CI/CD
4 46 (30.46%) Scrum
5 44 (29.14%) Kanban
6 36 (23.84%) Full Stack Development
7 35 (23.18%) SDLC
8 31 (20.53%) Mentoring
8 31 (20.53%) Software Engineering
9 25 (16.56%) BPEL
10 24 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (10.60%) Process Management
11 16 (10.60%) Workflow
12 15 (9.93%) Computer Science
13 14 (9.27%) Continuous Integration
13 14 (9.27%) Integration Testing
13 14 (9.27%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 151 (100.00%) Java
2 73 (48.34%) JavaScript
3 39 (25.83%) SQL
4 37 (24.50%) Python
5 12 (7.95%) TypeScript
6 11 (7.28%) Shell Script
7 8 (5.30%) Kotlin
8 7 (4.64%) Go
9 4 (2.65%) C#
Qualifications
1 38 (25.17%) Security Cleared
2 36 (23.84%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.93%) AWS Certification
4 11 (7.28%) Azure Certification
5 9 (5.96%) Degree
6 4 (2.65%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (2.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.32%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.62%) QA
System Software
1 78 (51.66%) Docker
2 27 (17.88%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 71 (47.02%) Kubernetes
2 43 (28.48%) Ansible
3 27 (17.88%) Terraform
4 5 (3.31%) Kibana
5 1 (0.66%) Grafana
Vendors
1 34 (22.52%) WSO2
2 10 (6.62%) Google
3 8 (5.30%) Oracle
4 5 (3.31%) SAP
4 5 (3.31%) Splunk
5 4 (2.65%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.66%) Red Hat