Java

Java builds and operates production software; the technology name is only the entry point.

Salary from $4,387 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Salary to $4,772 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Jobs 1,077 Last 3 months
Applications per job 38.81 JobNote category match
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Published signal

Exact DOU category + Exact language
53 responses per Java job · June
$4K–$4.05K language median band

Hiring Verify production ownership, system constraints, testing, and incident experience.

Candidate Show shipped systems, scale, and decisions—not a list of frameworks.

Data DOU responses submitted through its own vacancy pages. DOU groups Rust, Go, and Java in the reported median band.

Independent salary benchmark

DOU salary survey

Source data
June 2026 · 841 respondents
Exact match
Lower quartile$2500
Median$3900
Upper quartile$5200
Year over year +11.4%

Salary range history

Lower quartile Median Upper quartile
Historical DOU salary range by survey month and year
Survey Lower quartile Median Upper quartile Respondents
$2000 $3500 $4500 999
$2100 $3500 $5000 1661
$2000 $3600 $5190 1237
$2000 $3500 $5192 1200
$2000 $3370 $5000 1043
$2020 $3500 $5000 919
$2331 $3800 $5200 1038
$2155 $3500 $5000 831
$2350 $3760 $5282 811
$2500 $3900 $5200 841

Java as the main programming language · monthly net base salary in USD; bonuses excluded; all locations in the published CSV.

Derived from the shortened public salary-survey data published by DOU. Jobnote and DOU vacancy salaries are separate datasets.

Most wanted skills

Counts of active jobs now and salaries.

Java 377 $3753–$4637 Spring Boot 181 $3909–$5072 SQL 92 $2627–$3942 API 72 $2368–$3791 Kafka 68 $3655–$5080 Microservices 56 $3610–$5231 PostgreSQL 52 $3146–$4555 Docker 50 $2851–$4483 React 43 $3612–$4682 AWS 41 $3735–$5382 JUnit 40 $1734–$4011

Where to hire

Sources

  1. Ukraine tech job market — first half of 2026 Published signal ·
  2. Developer salaries — summer 2026 Published signal ·