Java Software Developer Jobs

Java Software Developer
UK

The median Java Software Developer salary in the UK is £72,500 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 811 778 837
Rank change year-on-year -33 +59 -150
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Developer 96 170 453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.091% 0.18% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.096% 0.20% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 84 158 389
10th Percentile £24,000 £39,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £54,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% -5.56% +50.00%
75th Percentile £144,375 £105,938 £122,500
90th Percentile £165,000 £125,000 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,250 £51,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.76% -6.82% +15.79%

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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

Java Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Software Developer in the UK

Java Software Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Java Software Developer in the UK

Java Software Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Software Developer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Software Developer in the UK

Java Software Developer
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Software Developer within the UK 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
England -18 82 £75,000 -11.76% 8
UK excluding London -33 56 £46,250 -9.76% 6
Work from Home -30 43 £135,000 +52.11% 6
London +53 40 £150,000 +57.89% 2
South East -7 15 £24,000 -54.29%
Scotland -57 14 £42,500 -10.53% 1
South West -21 10 £72,500 +15.08% 2
North of England +33 7 £52,500 -4.55% 1
East of England +4 6 £50,000 -37.50%
North West -3 5 £52,500 -4.55% 1
Midlands -10 4 £42,500 -15.00% 2
East Midlands - 4 £42,500 - 1
North East -9 2 £54,000 -22.86%

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Java Software 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 96 (100.00%) Java
2 60 (62.50%) Agile
2 60 (62.50%) Software Engineering
3 49 (51.04%) AWS
4 47 (48.96%) Banking
5 46 (47.92%) Finance
5 46 (47.92%) JavaScript
6 41 (42.71%) Asset Management
7 37 (38.54%) Spring
8 36 (37.50%) Front Office
8 36 (37.50%) Investment Banking
8 36 (37.50%) TypeScript
9 35 (36.46%) Investment Management
10 31 (32.29%) Python
10 31 (32.29%) GCP
11 30 (31.25%) Pandas
11 30 (31.25%) Line Management
11 30 (31.25%) Protocol Buffers
11 30 (31.25%) gRPC
11 30 (31.25%) Apache Airflow
11 30 (31.25%) Amazon Athena
11 30 (31.25%) Apache Ignite
11 30 (31.25%) dbt
11 30 (31.25%) Dremio
11 30 (31.25%) Apache Arrow
11 30 (31.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 30 (31.25%) Apache
11 30 (31.25%) Fixed Income
11 30 (31.25%) Equities
11 30 (31.25%) Derivative

Java Software 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 30 (31.25%) Apache
1 30 (31.25%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (11.46%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.04%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 49 (51.04%) AWS
2 31 (32.29%) GCP
3 30 (31.25%) dbt
4 26 (27.08%) Snowflake
5 8 (8.33%) SaaS
6 4 (4.17%) npm
6 4 (4.17%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.04%) Azure
7 1 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.04%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.13%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (31.25%) Amazon Athena
1 30 (31.25%) Apache Arrow
1 30 (31.25%) Apache Ignite
1 30 (31.25%) Dremio
2 26 (27.08%) Data Lake
3 11 (11.46%) Apache Hive
3 11 (11.46%) Big Data
4 6 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (5.21%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.13%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.08%) MySQL
8 1 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.04%) Couchbase
8 1 (1.04%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (9.38%) Git
2 7 (7.29%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.21%) Maven
4 1 (1.04%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.04%) IntelliJ
4 1 (1.04%) JIRA
4 1 (1.04%) JMeter
4 1 (1.04%) JUnit
General
1 47 (48.96%) Banking
2 46 (47.92%) Finance
3 36 (37.50%) Front Office
3 36 (37.50%) Investment Banking
4 13 (13.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (11.46%) Law
5 11 (11.46%) Private Banking
6 4 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.17%) Tech for Good
7 3 (3.13%) Social Skills
8 1 (1.04%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.04%) Electronics
8 1 (1.04%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.04%) Marketing
8 1 (1.04%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (38.54%) Spring
2 30 (31.25%) gRPC
2 30 (31.25%) NumPy
2 30 (31.25%) Pandas
2 30 (31.25%) Protocol Buffers
2 30 (31.25%) SciPy
3 22 (22.92%) Spring Boot
4 17 (17.71%) AngularJS
5 14 (14.58%) React
6 11 (11.46%) Kafka
6 11 (11.46%) REST
7 8 (8.33%) Node.js
8 5 (5.21%) .NET
8 5 (5.21%) CSS
9 4 (4.17%) ActiveMQ
9 4 (4.17%) Express.js
9 4 (4.17%) OpenAPI
9 4 (4.17%) Swagger
9 4 (4.17%) XML
10 3 (3.13%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (31.25%) Derivative
1 30 (31.25%) Equities
1 30 (31.25%) Fixed Income
1 30 (31.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 30 (31.25%) Hedge funds
2 11 (11.46%) Algorithms
2 11 (11.46%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.17%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.08%) e-Health
5 2 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (62.50%) Agile
1 60 (62.50%) Software Engineering
2 41 (42.71%) Asset Management
3 35 (36.46%) Investment Management
4 30 (31.25%) Line Management
5 23 (23.96%) CI/CD
6 22 (22.92%) SDLC
7 18 (18.75%) Design Patterns
7 18 (18.75%) Full Stack Development
8 17 (17.71%) Mentoring
9 16 (16.67%) Computer Science
10 12 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (12.50%) Microservices
11 11 (11.46%) Artificial Intelligence
11 11 (11.46%) Community of Practice
11 11 (11.46%) Machine Learning
11 11 (11.46%) Operational Stability
11 11 (11.46%) Visualisation
11 11 (11.46%) Wealth Management
12 6 (6.25%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 96 (100.00%) Java
2 46 (47.92%) JavaScript
3 36 (37.50%) TypeScript
4 31 (32.29%) Python
5 13 (13.54%) SQL
6 9 (9.38%) C#
7 4 (4.17%) Ruby
7 4 (4.17%) Scala
8 1 (1.04%) Go
Qualifications
1 24 (25.00%) Degree
2 5 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 9 (9.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.04%) Grafana
2 1 (1.04%) Kibana
2 1 (1.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (5.21%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.17%) Oracle
3 2 (2.08%) Google
3 2 (2.08%) YouTube
4 1 (1.04%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.04%) SAP
4 1 (1.04%) Splunk