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 $5,265 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Salary to $5,891 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Jobs 707 Last 3 months
Applications per job 36.17 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 246 $4424–$4937 Spring Boot 130 $5471–$6046 API 110 $2560–$3928 SQL 93 $2555–$3940 Microservices 82 $3388–$5266 PostgreSQL 69 $3050–$4617 Kafka 60 $3311–$5085 AWS 59 $3625–$5292 Docker 47 $2696–$4525 Git 45 $1952–$3609 Kubernetes 43 $3619–$5424 CI/CD 42 $2868–$4754 Distributed Systems 28 $5032–$6376 JUnit 28 $4090–$4145 Hibernate 27 $2777–$4126 React 27 $4282–$5324

Where to hire

Sources

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