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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 293 203 156
Rank change year-on-year -90 -47 -56
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 834 1,656 3,677
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.96% 1.87% 2.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.02% 2.04% 2.79%
Number of salaries quoted 694 1,334 2,384
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 £100,000
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 81,786 81,001 131,568
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.57% 91.55% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 60,839 51,644 75,317
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £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 20 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 20 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 -35 522 £90,000 -5.26% 99
South East -34 152 £70,000 +7.69% 40
North of England -20 76 £60,000 -14.29% 15
South West -86 59 £60,000 -2.04% 13
North West -24 58 £62,500 -13.19% 14
Midlands -57 26 £45,000 -25.00% 11
West Midlands -27 16 £55,000 -8.33% 9
East of England -10 15 £50,000 -28.57% 2
Yorkshire +52 11 £53,750 -10.42%
East Midlands -29 9 £42,500 -34.62% 2
North East -5 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 20 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.

1 832 (99.76%) Java
2 439 (52.64%) AWS
3 342 (41.01%) Spring
4 299 (35.85%) Agile
5 283 (33.93%) Spring Boot
6 256 (30.70%) Microservices
7 239 (28.66%) Kubernetes
8 238 (28.54%) Docker
9 231 (27.70%) JavaScript
10 230 (27.58%) Finance
11 191 (22.90%) TDD
12 173 (20.74%) SQL
13 166 (19.90%) Full Stack Development
14 147 (17.63%) Software Engineering
15 143 (17.15%) AngularJS
16 136 (16.31%) Python
17 129 (15.47%) Banking
18 127 (15.23%) Git
18 127 (15.23%) DevOps
18 127 (15.23%) REST
19 123 (14.75%) Social Skills
20 114 (13.67%) Fintech
21 110 (13.19%) Azure
21 110 (13.19%) Hibernate
22 108 (12.95%) Low Latency
23 107 (12.83%) Front Office
24 105 (12.59%) PostgreSQL
25 104 (12.47%) Mentoring
26 102 (12.23%) Kafka
27 101 (12.11%) CI/CD

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 46 (5.52%) Apache
2 41 (4.92%) OpenStack
3 28 (3.36%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (2.28%) Confluence
5 16 (1.92%) Tomcat
6 14 (1.68%) JBoss
7 11 (1.32%) Red Hat Fuse
8 7 (0.84%) 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
1 439 (52.64%) AWS
2 110 (13.19%) Azure
3 84 (10.07%) Serverless
4 62 (7.43%) GCP
5 61 (7.31%) Amazon ECS
6 58 (6.95%) Amazon EKS
7 28 (3.36%) dbt
8 25 (3.00%) SaaS
9 24 (2.88%) Snowflake
10 22 (2.64%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (1.92%) GitHub
12 15 (1.80%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (1.80%) OpenShift
13 11 (1.32%) Amazon S3
13 11 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
14 7 (0.84%) Amazon SQS
15 4 (0.48%) npm
16 2 (0.24%) AWS IoT
16 2 (0.24%) Azure DevOps
16 2 (0.24%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.44%) TCP/IP
2 11 (1.32%) Internet
3 3 (0.36%) FTP
4 2 (0.24%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.24%) HTTP
4 2 (0.24%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (12.59%) PostgreSQL
2 83 (9.95%) NoSQL
3 81 (9.71%) Relational Database
4 53 (6.35%) MySQL
5 37 (4.44%) SQL Server
6 29 (3.48%) Apache Ignite
7 28 (3.36%) Amazon Athena
7 28 (3.36%) Apache Arrow
7 28 (3.36%) Dremio
8 24 (2.88%) Data Lake
9 17 (2.04%) MongoDB
10 16 (1.92%) Redis
11 12 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
12 11 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (1.32%) DB2
13 9 (1.08%) CouchDB
14 7 (0.84%) DynamoDB
15 6 (0.72%) Big Data
16 5 (0.60%) Flink
16 5 (0.60%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 127 (15.23%) Git
2 97 (11.63%) Jenkins
3 52 (6.24%) JUnit
4 30 (3.60%) JIRA
5 24 (2.88%) Maven
6 23 (2.76%) Selenium
7 19 (2.28%) GitLab
7 19 (2.28%) Mockito
8 17 (2.04%) IntelliJ
9 10 (1.20%) Cucumber
9 10 (1.20%) Gradle
10 9 (1.08%) Bitbucket
10 9 (1.08%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.60%) JMeter
12 3 (0.36%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (0.24%) Eclipse
13 2 (0.24%) JHipster
14 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
14 1 (0.12%) Jasmine
General
1 230 (27.58%) Finance
2 129 (15.47%) Banking
3 123 (14.75%) Social Skills
4 107 (12.83%) Front Office
5 82 (9.83%) Investment Banking
6 55 (6.59%) Public Sector
7 30 (3.60%) Analytical Skills
8 20 (2.40%) Tech for Good
9 15 (1.80%) Financial Institution
10 14 (1.68%) Marketing
11 12 (1.44%) Turkish Language
12 11 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (1.08%) Police
13 9 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (0.84%) Retail Banking
15 6 (0.72%) Games
15 6 (0.72%) Retail
15 6 (0.72%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.60%) Electronics
16 5 (0.60%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 342 (41.01%) Spring
2 283 (33.93%) Spring Boot
3 143 (17.15%) AngularJS
4 127 (15.23%) REST
5 110 (13.19%) Hibernate
6 102 (12.23%) Kafka
7 91 (10.91%) React
8 69 (8.27%) Web Services
9 68 (8.15%) Node.js
10 57 (6.83%) HTML
11 49 (5.88%) Apache Camel
12 47 (5.64%) CSS
13 46 (5.52%) JSON
13 46 (5.52%) RESTful
13 46 (5.52%) XML
14 42 (5.04%) Elastic Stack
15 31 (3.72%) gRPC
15 31 (3.72%) NumPy
15 31 (3.72%) Pandas
16 28 (3.36%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 87 (10.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 67 (8.03%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (7.07%) Greenfield Project
4 51 (6.12%) Enterprise Software
4 51 (6.12%) Fixed Income
5 50 (6.00%) Equities
6 39 (4.68%) Hedge funds
7 33 (3.96%) Derivative
8 25 (3.00%) Algorithms
9 21 (2.52%) Client/Server
10 15 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (1.44%) FPGA
11 12 (1.44%) Onboarding
11 12 (1.44%) Public Cloud
12 11 (1.32%) PropTech
13 10 (1.20%) Private Cloud
14 8 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
15 7 (0.84%) Data Structures
15 7 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 54 (6.47%) Linux
2 5 (0.60%) Windows
3 4 (0.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (35.85%) Agile
2 256 (30.70%) Microservices
3 191 (22.90%) TDD
4 166 (19.90%) Full Stack Development
5 147 (17.63%) Software Engineering
6 127 (15.23%) DevOps
7 114 (13.67%) Fintech
8 108 (12.95%) Low Latency
9 104 (12.47%) Mentoring
10 101 (12.11%) CI/CD
10 101 (12.11%) Problem-Solving
11 91 (10.91%) SDLC
12 90 (10.79%) Scrum
13 77 (9.23%) Computer Science
14 74 (8.87%) BDD
15 66 (7.91%) Kanban
16 59 (7.07%) Multithreading
17 48 (5.76%) Electronic Trading
18 43 (5.16%) Containerisation
19 41 (4.92%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 832 (99.76%) Java
2 231 (27.70%) JavaScript
3 173 (20.74%) SQL
4 136 (16.31%) Python
5 67 (8.03%) TypeScript
6 59 (7.07%) Kotlin
7 35 (4.20%) C#
8 22 (2.64%) C++
9 15 (1.80%) Scala
9 15 (1.80%) Shell Script
10 12 (1.44%) C
11 10 (1.20%) Go
12 9 (1.08%) Perl
12 9 (1.08%) Ruby
13 7 (0.84%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.60%) Groovy
15 3 (0.36%) Clojure
15 3 (0.36%) PHP
15 3 (0.36%) Rust
16 2 (0.24%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 100 (11.99%) Degree
2 76 (9.11%) Security Cleared
3 66 (7.91%) SC Cleared
4 35 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.00%) AWS Certification
6 14 (1.68%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.08%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.96%) PhD
9 7 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (0.84%) 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 (2.88%) QA
2 3 (0.36%) MiFID
3 2 (0.24%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
System Software
1 238 (28.54%) Docker
2 30 (3.60%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.12%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 239 (28.66%) Kubernetes
2 65 (7.79%) Ansible
3 59 (7.07%) Terraform
4 6 (0.72%) 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 (5.76%) Oracle
2 41 (4.92%) WSO2
3 27 (3.24%) Google
4 19 (2.28%) Microsoft
5 8 (0.96%) SAP
6 7 (0.84%) YouTube
7 6 (0.72%) Splunk
8 5 (0.60%) Sybase
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%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.36%) Reuters
11 2 (0.24%) Apple
11 2 (0.24%) IBM
11 2 (0.24%) ION Trading
11 2 (0.24%) Murex
11 2 (0.24%) Salesforce