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Java developer jobs in Chicago

28 roles posted Oct 20–26, 2026 list Java as a skill in Chicago, from 24 employers. That is 12% of the 226 developer roles in Chicago RoleWeek lists.

A role counts when Java is among the up to five technologies RoleWeek read in its posting. Java only: JavaScript is a different skill, with its own page. Data as of .

28roles list Java
24employers posted them
0posted in the last 24 hours
$128K–$170Kmedian posted yearly range, 21 roles

Who is hiring

The 10 employers with the most roles, out of 24. One role is one opening, however many places it is listed for.

By level

LevelRolesShare
Intern518%
Entry level14%
Mid level621%
Senior1139%
Staff+414%
Manager14%

Level is RoleWeek’s reading of each posting.

What these roles post as salary

21 of these 28 roles list a yearly salary range in US dollars. The median bottom of those ranges is $128K and the median top is $170K; the middle half of the bottoms runs from $99K to $141K, and of the tops from $150K to $220K. These are the ranges employers posted in their own postings: not offers, not what people are paid and not a market average. Posted ranges across all the developer roles RoleWeek lists in Chicago: Developer salary ranges in Chicago · Software engineer salary ranges in Chicago.

Not counted: 2 roles list no salary and 5 list pay by the hour. Pay by the hour, week or month is never converted or mixed with yearly ranges, and each page uses one currency.

Roles that list Java

Showing 24 of 28, newest first. Search the roles in this list that mention Java

How these counts are made

  • Source: the roles RoleWeek lists as posted in the last 7 days, straight from employers’ own hiring systems. A role counts for a skill when that skill is one of the up to five technologies RoleWeek read in the posting’s title and description (the title first, then the most mentioned). A role that names a skill once among many tools may not list it, so these count the roles that list the skill, not all the roles that touch it.
  • Names are matched exactly: Java is not JavaScript, C++ and C# are not C and not each other, Go is the language (never “go-to-market”) and R is the language. A posting that names a vendor only as its own employer, an investor or a customer does not count for that vendor’s product.
  • One role is one card: an opening listed for several places counts once on a page. A role listed in several cities counts on each city’s page.
  • A skill has a page when 15 or more roles list it, and a city page when 15 or more do there and it is not the same set of roles as the skill’s own page. Practices that are not one technology (CI/CD, Git, microservices, networking) have none.
  • Salaries are only what employers posted, summarised by the rules of the salary pages: yearly ranges only, one currency per page, a median shown with 15 or more roles. The numbers are rebuilt every day.

The full list: Developer roles in Chicago (226 roles posted in the last 7 days). Every skill: developer roles by skill.