Java Developer Jobs

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 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 305 190 163
Rank change year-on-year -115 -27 -57
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 975 1,822 4,413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.93% 1.93% 2.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% 2.11% 2.72%
Number of salaries quoted 803 1,492 2,602
10th Percentile £42,000 £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 £98,750 £106,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £129,875 £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +13.21%

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 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 1 June 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 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 -108 836 £80,000 -3.03% 134
London -30 525 £90,000 -5.26% 74
UK excluding London -130 426 £60,000 -7.69% 75
Work from Home -139 353 £82,500 +10.00% 80
South East -53 147 £70,000 +7.69% 12
North of England -17 77 £60,000 -14.29% 21
Scotland -86 73 £56,318 -16.57% 13
North West -21 61 £61,250 -17.23% 21
South West -92 57 £60,000 -4.38% 16
Midlands -57 29 £45,000 -25.00% 9
Wales +13 24 £44,250 -11.50% 1
West Midlands -48 18 £50,000 -16.67% 5
East of England -12 15 £50,000 -28.57% 1
East Midlands -29 10 £42,500 -34.62% 4
Yorkshire +34 9 £55,000 -10.20%
North East -14 7 £42,750 -38.93%
Northern Ireland -29 4 £66,250 +32.50% 2

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 973 (99.79%) Java
2 485 (49.74%) AWS
3 417 (42.77%) Spring
4 348 (35.69%) Agile
5 320 (32.82%) Spring Boot
6 287 (29.44%) Finance
7 273 (28.00%) Microservices
8 260 (26.67%) Docker
9 259 (26.56%) Kubernetes
10 240 (24.62%) JavaScript
11 208 (21.33%) TDD
12 195 (20.00%) SQL
13 182 (18.67%) Full Stack Development
14 172 (17.64%) Software Engineering
15 165 (16.92%) AngularJS
16 154 (15.79%) Banking
17 147 (15.08%) REST
18 144 (14.77%) Python
19 139 (14.26%) Fintech
20 136 (13.95%) Social Skills
21 134 (13.74%) CI/CD
22 133 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
22 133 (13.64%) Git
23 130 (13.33%) DevOps
24 128 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
25 122 (12.51%) SDLC
26 121 (12.41%) Low Latency
27 120 (12.31%) Jenkins
27 120 (12.31%) Azure
28 116 (11.90%) Kafka

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 48 (4.92%) Apache
2 36 (3.69%) OpenStack
3 30 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (1.85%) Apache Spark
4 18 (1.85%) Confluence
5 16 (1.64%) Tomcat
6 14 (1.44%) JBoss
7 10 (1.03%) Red Hat Fuse
8 3 (0.31%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.31%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.31%) nginx
9 2 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.21%) WildFly
10 1 (0.10%) Drupal
10 1 (0.10%) GemFire
10 1 (0.10%) Jetty
10 1 (0.10%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.10%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 485 (49.74%) AWS
2 120 (12.31%) Azure
3 83 (8.51%) Serverless
4 76 (7.79%) GCP
5 55 (5.64%) Amazon ECS
6 51 (5.23%) Amazon EKS
7 30 (3.08%) dbt
8 29 (2.97%) SaaS
9 27 (2.77%) AWS Lambda
10 26 (2.67%) Snowflake
11 17 (1.74%) GitHub
11 17 (1.74%) OpenShift
12 12 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (1.23%) Amazon S3
13 10 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (0.82%) Amazon SQS
15 6 (0.62%) Azure DevOps
16 4 (0.41%) npm
17 3 (0.31%) AWS CloudFormation
18 2 (0.21%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.23%) TCP/IP
2 10 (1.03%) Internet
3 3 (0.31%) Bluetooth
3 3 (0.31%) FTP
3 3 (0.31%) HTTP
3 3 (0.31%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (8.82%) NoSQL
3 75 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 49 (5.03%) MySQL
5 36 (3.69%) SQL Server
6 35 (3.59%) MongoDB
7 31 (3.18%) Apache Ignite
8 30 (3.08%) Amazon Athena
8 30 (3.08%) Apache Arrow
8 30 (3.08%) Dremio
9 26 (2.67%) Data Lake
10 19 (1.95%) Big Data
11 15 (1.54%) Redis
12 12 (1.23%) DynamoDB
12 12 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (1.13%) Apache Hive
14 10 (1.03%) DB2
15 9 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
15 9 (0.92%) CouchDB
16 6 (0.62%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 133 (13.64%) Git
2 120 (12.31%) Jenkins
3 57 (5.85%) JUnit
4 36 (3.69%) Maven
5 35 (3.59%) Selenium
6 31 (3.18%) JIRA
7 29 (2.97%) GitLab
8 20 (2.05%) Mockito
9 17 (1.74%) IntelliJ
10 14 (1.44%) Cucumber
11 11 (1.13%) CircleCI
12 10 (1.03%) Bitbucket
12 10 (1.03%) Gradle
13 8 (0.82%) TeamCity
14 6 (0.62%) JMeter
15 3 (0.31%) Artifactory
15 3 (0.31%) Eclipse
15 3 (0.31%) JHipster
16 2 (0.21%) SonarQube
16 2 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 287 (29.44%) Finance
2 154 (15.79%) Banking
3 136 (13.95%) Social Skills
4 115 (11.79%) Front Office
5 89 (9.13%) Investment Banking
6 52 (5.33%) Public Sector
7 36 (3.69%) Analytical Skills
8 35 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 33 (3.38%) Games
10 23 (2.36%) Law
11 21 (2.15%) Tech for Good
12 15 (1.54%) Financial Institution
12 15 (1.54%) Marketing
13 12 (1.23%) Turkish Language
14 11 (1.13%) Private Banking
15 8 (0.82%) Police
15 8 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.72%) Retail Banking
16 7 (0.72%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.62%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 417 (42.77%) Spring
2 320 (32.82%) Spring Boot
3 165 (16.92%) AngularJS
4 147 (15.08%) REST
5 116 (11.90%) Kafka
6 114 (11.69%) Hibernate
6 114 (11.69%) React
7 75 (7.69%) Web Services
8 74 (7.59%) HTML
9 64 (6.56%) CSS
10 61 (6.26%) Node.js
11 53 (5.44%) JSON
12 48 (4.92%) XML
13 47 (4.82%) RESTful
14 43 (4.41%) Apache Camel
15 38 (3.90%) Elastic Stack
16 35 (3.59%) gRPC
17 33 (3.38%) NumPy
17 33 (3.38%) Pandas
18 32 (3.28%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 93 (9.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 66 (6.77%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (6.26%) Greenfield Project
4 54 (5.54%) Equities
5 53 (5.44%) Fixed Income
6 52 (5.33%) Enterprise Software
7 43 (4.41%) Hedge funds
8 39 (4.00%) Algorithms
9 35 (3.59%) Derivative
10 21 (2.15%) Client/Server
11 17 (1.74%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (1.33%) Product Ownership
14 12 (1.23%) FPGA
14 12 (1.23%) Onboarding
14 12 (1.23%) Public Cloud
15 11 (1.13%) Private Cloud
15 11 (1.13%) PropTech
16 8 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
17 7 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 65 (6.67%) Linux
2 17 (1.74%) Unix
3 5 (0.51%) Windows
4 1 (0.10%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (35.69%) Agile
2 273 (28.00%) Microservices
3 208 (21.33%) TDD
4 182 (18.67%) Full Stack Development
5 172 (17.64%) Software Engineering
6 139 (14.26%) Fintech
7 134 (13.74%) CI/CD
8 130 (13.33%) DevOps
9 128 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
10 122 (12.51%) SDLC
11 121 (12.41%) Low Latency
12 114 (11.69%) Mentoring
13 96 (9.85%) Scrum
14 89 (9.13%) Computer Science
15 74 (7.59%) BDD
16 68 (6.97%) Multithreading
17 60 (6.15%) Kanban
18 56 (5.74%) Asset Management
19 53 (5.44%) Continuous Integration
20 52 (5.33%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 973 (99.79%) Java
2 240 (24.62%) JavaScript
3 195 (20.00%) SQL
4 144 (14.77%) Python
5 80 (8.21%) TypeScript
6 59 (6.05%) Kotlin
7 39 (4.00%) C#
8 25 (2.56%) C++
8 25 (2.56%) Shell Script
9 15 (1.54%) Scala
10 12 (1.23%) C
11 11 (1.13%) Go
11 11 (1.13%) Perl
12 9 (0.92%) Groovy
12 9 (0.92%) Ruby
13 6 (0.62%) Objective-C
13 6 (0.62%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.31%) Clojure
14 3 (0.31%) PHP
14 3 (0.31%) Rust
Qualifications
1 113 (11.59%) Degree
2 72 (7.38%) Security Cleared
3 61 (6.26%) SC Cleared
4 38 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (2.46%) AWS Certification
6 11 (1.13%) Azure Certification
6 11 (1.13%) Master's Degree
6 11 (1.13%) PhD
7 9 (0.92%) AWS Certified Developer
7 9 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.41%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.21%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.10%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (2.87%) QA
2 3 (0.31%) MiFID
3 2 (0.21%) Accessibility
System Software
1 260 (26.67%) Docker
2 25 (2.56%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.10%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 259 (26.56%) Kubernetes
2 62 (6.36%) Terraform
3 59 (6.05%) Ansible
4 7 (0.72%) Kibana
5 4 (0.41%) Grafana
6 2 (0.21%) Kustomize
6 2 (0.21%) Packer
7 1 (0.10%) Consul
7 1 (0.10%) Istio
7 1 (0.10%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (6.56%) Oracle
2 36 (3.69%) WSO2
3 28 (2.87%) Google
4 18 (1.85%) Microsoft
5 8 (0.82%) SAP
6 7 (0.72%) Splunk
6 7 (0.72%) Sybase
6 7 (0.72%) YouTube
7 5 (0.51%) ForgeRock
7 5 (0.51%) Red Hat
7 5 (0.51%) TIBCO
8 4 (0.41%) Dynatrace
8 4 (0.41%) Facebook
8 4 (0.41%) Vertica
9 3 (0.31%) Apple
9 3 (0.31%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.31%) Reuters
10 2 (0.21%) ION Trading
10 2 (0.21%) Murex
10 2 (0.21%) Salesforce