Java

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

AI-assisted summary of published DOU and Djinni analytics

Salary from $5,221 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Salary to $5,898 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Jobs 733 Last 3 months
Applications per job 36.45 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

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 251 $4339–$4890 Spring Boot 129 $5471–$6019 API 111 $2499–$3902 SQL 91 $2550–$3953 Microservices 80 $3403–$5242 PostgreSQL 64 $2994–$4602 Kafka 62 $3281–$5064 AWS 58 $3576–$5291 Docker 48 $2675–$4501 Git 48 $1867–$3572 CI/CD 44 $2810–$4738 Kubernetes 43 $3579–$5418 Distributed Systems 29 $5000–$6429 JUnit 28 $3772–$4234 Spring Framework 27 $2106–$4731

Where to hire

Sources

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