Java Developer
UK

The median Java Developer salary in the UK is £75,000 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 290 196 161
Rank change year-on-year -94 -35 -59
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 973 1,924 4,278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.97% 1.93% 2.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.03% 2.11% 2.74%
Number of salaries quoted 797 1,566 2,613
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £125,000 £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +14.29%

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 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in the UK

Java Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Java Developer in the UK

Java Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Developer over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Developer in the UK

Java Developer
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the UK 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
England -90 834 £80,000 -5.88% 163
London -35 522 £90,000 -5.26% 100
UK excluding London -132 429 £60,000 -7.69% 106
Work from Home -111 376 £80,000 +6.67% 94
South East -34 152 £70,000 +7.69% 40
North of England -20 76 £60,000 -14.29% 15
Scotland -94 71 £56,318 -16.57% 17
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
Wales +15 25 £44,250 -12.38% 1
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
Northern Ireland -27 5 £66,250 +32.50% 7

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

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 featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 971 (99.79%) Java
2 489 (50.26%) AWS
3 439 (45.12%) Spring
4 355 (36.49%) Agile
5 321 (32.99%) Spring Boot
6 285 (29.29%) Finance
7 278 (28.57%) Microservices
8 270 (27.75%) Docker
9 268 (27.54%) Kubernetes
10 252 (25.90%) JavaScript
11 217 (22.30%) TDD
12 202 (20.76%) SQL
13 188 (19.32%) Full Stack Development
14 181 (18.60%) AngularJS
15 169 (17.37%) Software Engineering
16 155 (15.93%) REST
17 154 (15.83%) Git
18 152 (15.62%) Banking
19 142 (14.59%) Python
20 141 (14.49%) Jenkins
21 140 (14.39%) PostgreSQL
22 139 (14.29%) Social Skills
22 139 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
23 138 (14.18%) DevOps
24 135 (13.87%) Fintech
25 131 (13.46%) CI/CD
26 130 (13.36%) Azure
27 119 (12.23%) React
28 115 (11.82%) Mentoring
28 115 (11.82%) Degree

Java 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 46 (4.73%) Apache
2 42 (4.32%) OpenStack
3 30 (3.08%) Confluence
4 28 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (2.06%) Apache Spark
6 16 (1.64%) Tomcat
7 14 (1.44%) JBoss
8 11 (1.13%) Red Hat Fuse
9 3 (0.31%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.31%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.21%) nginx
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.10%) Drupal
11 1 (0.10%) GemFire
11 1 (0.10%) Jetty
11 1 (0.10%) MQSeries
11 1 (0.10%) Mule
11 1 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.10%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 2 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 489 (50.26%) AWS
2 130 (13.36%) Azure
3 92 (9.46%) Serverless
4 76 (7.81%) GCP
5 63 (6.47%) Amazon ECS
6 59 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
7 28 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
7 28 (2.88%) dbt
7 28 (2.88%) SaaS
8 24 (2.47%) Snowflake
9 17 (1.75%) OpenShift
10 16 (1.64%) GitHub
11 15 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (1.54%) Amazon S3
12 11 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
13 8 (0.82%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (0.62%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (0.41%) npm
16 3 (0.31%) AWS CloudFormation
17 2 (0.21%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.23%) TCP/IP
2 11 (1.13%) Internet
3 3 (0.31%) Bluetooth
3 3 (0.31%) FTP
3 3 (0.31%) HTTP
4 2 (0.21%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (14.39%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (9.35%) NoSQL
3 82 (8.43%) Relational Database
4 53 (5.45%) MySQL
5 38 (3.91%) MongoDB
6 37 (3.80%) SQL Server
7 29 (2.98%) Apache Ignite
8 28 (2.88%) Amazon Athena
8 28 (2.88%) Apache Arrow
8 28 (2.88%) Dremio
9 24 (2.47%) Data Lake
10 19 (1.95%) Big Data
11 16 (1.64%) Redis
12 13 (1.34%) Apache Hive
13 12 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
14 11 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
14 11 (1.13%) DB2
14 11 (1.13%) DynamoDB
15 9 (0.92%) CouchDB
16 5 (0.51%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 154 (15.83%) Git
2 141 (14.49%) Jenkins
3 54 (5.55%) JUnit
4 41 (4.21%) JIRA
5 35 (3.60%) Maven
6 34 (3.49%) Selenium
7 30 (3.08%) GitLab
8 21 (2.16%) Mockito
9 17 (1.75%) IntelliJ
10 11 (1.13%) CircleCI
10 11 (1.13%) Cucumber
11 10 (1.03%) Gradle
12 9 (0.92%) Bitbucket
12 9 (0.92%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.51%) JMeter
14 4 (0.41%) Eclipse
15 3 (0.31%) Artifactory
15 3 (0.31%) JHipster
16 2 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 2 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 285 (29.29%) Finance
2 152 (15.62%) Banking
3 139 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 109 (11.20%) Front Office
5 85 (8.74%) Investment Banking
6 57 (5.86%) Public Sector
7 36 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 35 (3.60%) Games
9 33 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
10 25 (2.57%) Law
11 21 (2.16%) Tech for Good
12 20 (2.06%) Police
13 15 (1.54%) Financial Institution
14 14 (1.44%) Marketing
15 13 (1.34%) Private Banking
16 12 (1.23%) Turkish Language
17 9 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
18 7 (0.72%) Retail Banking
19 6 (0.62%) Retail
19 6 (0.62%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 439 (45.12%) Spring
2 321 (32.99%) Spring Boot
3 181 (18.60%) AngularJS
4 155 (15.93%) REST
5 119 (12.23%) React
6 112 (11.51%) Hibernate
6 112 (11.51%) Kafka
7 77 (7.91%) Web Services
8 74 (7.61%) HTML
9 70 (7.19%) Node.js
10 64 (6.58%) CSS
11 61 (6.27%) JSON
12 58 (5.96%) RESTful
13 53 (5.45%) XML
14 50 (5.14%) Apache Camel
15 43 (4.42%) Elastic Stack
16 31 (3.19%) gRPC
16 31 (3.19%) NumPy
16 31 (3.19%) Pandas
16 31 (3.19%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 89 (9.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 69 (7.09%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (6.37%) Greenfield Project
4 51 (5.24%) Enterprise Software
4 51 (5.24%) Fixed Income
5 50 (5.14%) Equities
6 39 (4.01%) Hedge funds
7 38 (3.91%) Algorithms
8 33 (3.39%) Derivative
9 21 (2.16%) Client/Server
10 20 (2.06%) Data Structures
11 15 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
12 14 (1.44%) Private Cloud
13 12 (1.23%) FPGA
13 12 (1.23%) Onboarding
13 12 (1.23%) Public Cloud
14 11 (1.13%) Product Ownership
14 11 (1.13%) PropTech
15 8 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
16 7 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 61 (6.27%) Linux
2 15 (1.54%) Unix
3 5 (0.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 355 (36.49%) Agile
2 278 (28.57%) Microservices
3 217 (22.30%) TDD
4 188 (19.32%) Full Stack Development
5 169 (17.37%) Software Engineering
6 139 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 138 (14.18%) DevOps
8 135 (13.87%) Fintech
9 131 (13.46%) CI/CD
10 115 (11.82%) Mentoring
11 113 (11.61%) Low Latency
11 113 (11.61%) SDLC
12 102 (10.48%) Scrum
13 92 (9.46%) Computer Science
14 82 (8.43%) BDD
15 67 (6.89%) Kanban
16 63 (6.47%) Multithreading
17 57 (5.86%) Containerisation
18 56 (5.76%) Continuous Integration
19 55 (5.65%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 971 (99.79%) Java
2 252 (25.90%) JavaScript
3 202 (20.76%) SQL
4 142 (14.59%) Python
5 79 (8.12%) TypeScript
6 59 (6.06%) Kotlin
7 37 (3.80%) C#
8 27 (2.77%) Shell Script
9 23 (2.36%) C++
10 15 (1.54%) Scala
11 12 (1.23%) C
12 10 (1.03%) Go
13 9 (0.92%) Groovy
13 9 (0.92%) Perl
13 9 (0.92%) Ruby
14 7 (0.72%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.62%) Objective-C
16 3 (0.31%) Clojure
16 3 (0.31%) PHP
16 3 (0.31%) Rust
Qualifications
1 115 (11.82%) Degree
2 90 (9.25%) Security Cleared
3 77 (7.91%) SC Cleared
4 37 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (2.77%) AWS Certification
6 14 (1.44%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.03%) Master's Degree
8 9 (0.92%) AWS Certified Developer
8 9 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (0.82%) PhD
10 3 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.31%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.21%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.10%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (2.47%) QA
2 3 (0.31%) MiFID
3 2 (0.21%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.10%) Data Quality
System Software
1 270 (27.75%) Docker
2 31 (3.19%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.10%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 268 (27.54%) Kubernetes
2 66 (6.78%) Ansible
3 62 (6.37%) Terraform
4 6 (0.62%) Kibana
5 3 (0.31%) Grafana
6 1 (0.10%) Consul
6 1 (0.10%) Istio
6 1 (0.10%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.10%) Packer
6 1 (0.10%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 66 (6.78%) Oracle
2 42 (4.32%) WSO2
3 29 (2.98%) Google
4 19 (1.95%) Microsoft
5 8 (0.82%) SAP
6 7 (0.72%) YouTube
7 6 (0.62%) Splunk
8 5 (0.51%) ForgeRock
8 5 (0.51%) Sybase
8 5 (0.51%) TIBCO
9 4 (0.41%) Dynatrace
9 4 (0.41%) Facebook
9 4 (0.41%) Vertica
10 3 (0.31%) Apple
10 3 (0.31%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.31%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.31%) Reuters
11 2 (0.21%) IBM
11 2 (0.21%) Murex
11 2 (0.21%) Salesforce