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 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 260 208 216
Rank change year-on-year -52 +8 -95
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 143 204 360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.78% 1.52% 1.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 1.70% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 112 138 288
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +1.96% +6.25%
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £82,188
90th Percentile £86,250 £82,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -3.03% +6.45% +10.71%

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 17,348 12,023 20,382
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.23% 89.71% 96.17%
Number of salaries quoted 12,223 7,828 12,399
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £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 £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +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 9 June 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 9 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
Thames Valley -34 55 £80,000 +14.29% 7
Berkshire +10 49 £80,000 +14.29% 5
Hampshire -36 40 £70,000 +7.69% 7
Surrey -44 37 £47,500 -9.52% 1
Buckinghamshire -23 4 £81,250 +10.17% 1
West Sussex - 4 £57,500 -
Oxfordshire -16 2 £92,500 +59.48% 1
Java Developer
England

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 9 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 South East region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 143 (100.00%) Java
2 94 (65.73%) AWS
3 80 (55.94%) Spring
4 78 (54.55%) Agile
5 70 (48.95%) Docker
6 69 (48.25%) Microservices
7 65 (45.45%) Kubernetes
8 61 (42.66%) JavaScript
9 59 (41.26%) DevOps
10 57 (39.86%) TDD
11 54 (37.76%) Git
12 53 (37.06%) Spring Boot
13 45 (31.47%) CI/CD
13 45 (31.47%) PostgreSQL
14 44 (30.77%) REST
15 43 (30.07%) Serverless
15 43 (30.07%) Jenkins
16 41 (28.67%) Azure
17 40 (27.97%) Web Services
17 40 (27.97%) Amazon ECS
18 39 (27.27%) AngularJS
19 37 (25.87%) Social Skills
19 37 (25.87%) Scrum
19 37 (25.87%) BDD
20 36 (25.17%) Amazon EKS
21 35 (24.48%) SDLC
21 35 (24.48%) Kanban
22 33 (23.08%) NoSQL
22 33 (23.08%) Software Engineering
22 33 (23.08%) 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 28 (19.58%) OpenStack
2 11 (7.69%) JBoss
3 9 (6.29%) Red Hat Fuse
4 5 (3.50%) Confluence
4 5 (3.50%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.40%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 94 (65.73%) AWS
2 43 (30.07%) Serverless
3 41 (28.67%) Azure
4 40 (27.97%) Amazon ECS
5 36 (25.17%) Amazon EKS
6 15 (10.49%) SaaS
7 13 (9.09%) GitHub
8 8 (5.59%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (5.59%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.50%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.80%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (2.10%) GCP
11 3 (2.10%) OpenShift
12 2 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
13 1 (0.70%) Amazon Kinesis
13 1 (0.70%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.80%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (31.47%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (23.08%) NoSQL
3 30 (20.98%) Relational Database
4 13 (9.09%) MySQL
5 8 (5.59%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.80%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.10%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.40%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.40%) Couchbase
8 2 (1.40%) CouchDB
8 2 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 54 (37.76%) Git
2 43 (30.07%) Jenkins
3 30 (20.98%) JUnit
4 10 (6.99%) JIRA
5 8 (5.59%) GitLab
5 8 (5.59%) Maven
6 6 (4.20%) Bitbucket
6 6 (4.20%) JMeter
6 6 (4.20%) Selenium
7 4 (2.80%) Mockito
8 3 (2.10%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.40%) Gradle
9 2 (1.40%) IntelliJ
General
1 37 (25.87%) Social Skills
2 23 (16.08%) Public Sector
3 21 (14.69%) Finance
4 6 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.50%) Electronics
5 5 (3.50%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.50%) Marketing
5 5 (3.50%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.10%) Banking
7 2 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.70%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (55.94%) Spring
2 53 (37.06%) Spring Boot
3 44 (30.77%) REST
4 40 (27.97%) Web Services
5 39 (27.27%) AngularJS
6 33 (23.08%) Apache Camel
7 32 (22.38%) Node.js
8 28 (19.58%) Elastic Stack
9 22 (15.38%) Hibernate
10 21 (14.69%) Kafka
11 19 (13.29%) React
12 18 (12.59%) JSON
12 18 (12.59%) XML
13 17 (11.89%) HTML
14 14 (9.79%) SOAP
15 13 (9.09%) CSS
16 7 (4.90%) Java EE
16 7 (4.90%) jQuery
16 7 (4.90%) RESTful
17 6 (4.20%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 33 (23.08%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (14.69%) Greenfield Project
3 15 (10.49%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.80%) NHS
5 2 (1.40%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.40%) PropTech
5 2 (1.40%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.70%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.20%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (54.55%) Agile
2 69 (48.25%) Microservices
3 59 (41.26%) DevOps
4 57 (39.86%) TDD
5 45 (31.47%) CI/CD
6 37 (25.87%) BDD
6 37 (25.87%) Scrum
7 35 (24.48%) Kanban
7 35 (24.48%) SDLC
8 33 (23.08%) Software Engineering
9 32 (22.38%) Full Stack Development
9 32 (22.38%) Mentoring
10 22 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (13.29%) BPEL
12 15 (10.49%) Integration Testing
12 15 (10.49%) OOD
13 14 (9.79%) Continuous Integration
14 13 (9.09%) Computer Science
15 12 (8.39%) Process Management
15 12 (8.39%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 143 (100.00%) Java
2 61 (42.66%) JavaScript
3 31 (21.68%) Python
3 31 (21.68%) SQL
4 11 (7.69%) TypeScript
5 8 (5.59%) Go
5 8 (5.59%) Kotlin
5 8 (5.59%) Shell Script
6 3 (2.10%) C#
Qualifications
1 28 (19.58%) Security Cleared
2 27 (18.88%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.29%) AWS Certification
3 9 (6.29%) Degree
4 5 (3.50%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.80%) AWS Certified Developer
5 4 (2.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.40%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.39%) QA
System Software
1 70 (48.95%) Docker
2 19 (13.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 65 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 33 (23.08%) Ansible
3 21 (14.69%) Terraform
4 6 (4.20%) Kibana
5 2 (1.40%) Grafana
Vendors
1 28 (19.58%) WSO2
2 10 (6.99%) Google
3 9 (6.29%) Oracle
4 6 (4.20%) Splunk
5 5 (3.50%) SAP
6 4 (2.80%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.40%) Red Hat