Java Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Java Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Java Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 377 249 210
Rank change year-on-year -128 -39 -86
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 453 822 1,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.64% 1.34% 1.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 1.50% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 376 574 1,003
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 66,712 54,809 67,929
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.23% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,259 31,113 42,994
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +5.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Java Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Developer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Java Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Java Developer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
South East -27 158 £70,000 +7.69% 17
North of England -13 80 £60,000 -14.29% 14
Scotland -97 76 £60,000 -10.45% 11
South West -78 65 £60,000 - 9
North West -21 60 £62,500 -10.71% 10
Midlands -44 30 £50,000 -16.67% 6
Wales +17 25 £44,250 -12.38%
West Midlands -16 20 £55,000 -8.33% 5
East of England -4 15 £50,000 -28.57% 1
Yorkshire +63 13 £55,000 +0.92% 3
East Midlands -27 9 £42,500 -34.62% 1
North East -12 7 £42,750 -34.73% 1
Northern Ireland -22 6 £60,000 +20.00% 4
Java Developer
UK

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 2 May 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 451 (99.56%) Java
2 252 (55.63%) Spring
3 245 (54.08%) AWS
4 222 (49.01%) Agile
5 168 (37.09%) Spring Boot
6 165 (36.42%) Docker
7 151 (33.33%) JavaScript
8 145 (32.01%) Microservices
9 136 (30.02%) TDD
10 132 (29.14%) Git
11 125 (27.59%) REST
12 124 (27.37%) Kubernetes
13 115 (25.39%) Jenkins
14 108 (23.84%) AngularJS
15 107 (23.62%) SQL
16 101 (22.30%) DevOps
17 96 (21.19%) CI/CD
18 95 (20.97%) React
18 95 (20.97%) Software Engineering
19 94 (20.75%) Azure
20 87 (19.21%) PostgreSQL
21 85 (18.76%) Finance
21 85 (18.76%) Full Stack Development
22 84 (18.54%) Scrum
23 78 (17.22%) Mentoring
24 74 (16.34%) SDLC
25 73 (16.11%) Problem-Solving
26 72 (15.89%) Social Skills
27 71 (15.67%) Serverless
28 63 (13.91%) BDD

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 35 (7.73%) OpenStack
2 19 (4.19%) Confluence
3 13 (2.87%) Apache Spark
4 12 (2.65%) JBoss
5 10 (2.21%) Red Hat Fuse
5 10 (2.21%) Tomcat
6 6 (1.32%) Apache
7 3 (0.66%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.66%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.44%) Mule
8 2 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.22%) Jetty
9 1 (0.22%) nginx
9 1 (0.22%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 245 (54.08%) AWS
2 94 (20.75%) Azure
3 71 (15.67%) Serverless
4 52 (11.48%) Amazon ECS
5 49 (10.82%) Amazon EKS
6 28 (6.18%) GCP
7 24 (5.30%) SaaS
8 22 (4.86%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (3.75%) GitHub
10 14 (3.09%) Amazon S3
11 13 (2.87%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (1.77%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (0.88%) npm
16 3 (0.66%) Amazon Kinesis
16 3 (0.66%) AWS IoT
16 3 (0.66%) OpenShift
17 1 (0.22%) AWS CodeBuild
17 1 (0.22%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.65%) Internet
2 2 (0.44%) AMQP
3 1 (0.22%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (19.21%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (12.80%) NoSQL
3 51 (11.26%) Relational Database
4 38 (8.39%) MySQL
5 18 (3.97%) SQL Server
6 13 (2.87%) Apache Hive
6 13 (2.87%) Big Data
7 12 (2.65%) DynamoDB
8 11 (2.43%) MongoDB
9 9 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.10%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.66%) GIS
13 2 (0.44%) CouchDB
13 2 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.44%) DB2
13 2 (0.44%) Redis
14 1 (0.22%) Apache Cassandra
14 1 (0.22%) Couchbase
14 1 (0.22%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 132 (29.14%) Git
2 115 (25.39%) Jenkins
3 51 (11.26%) JUnit
4 31 (6.84%) Maven
5 27 (5.96%) GitLab
5 27 (5.96%) JIRA
6 23 (5.08%) Mockito
7 18 (3.97%) IntelliJ
7 18 (3.97%) Selenium
8 13 (2.87%) Gradle
9 12 (2.65%) TeamCity
10 11 (2.43%) CircleCI
11 6 (1.32%) Cucumber
12 5 (1.10%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.10%) JMeter
13 3 (0.66%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
14 2 (0.44%) Cypress.io
15 1 (0.22%) Jasmine
15 1 (0.22%) Travis CI
General
1 85 (18.76%) Finance
2 72 (15.89%) Social Skills
3 40 (8.83%) Banking
4 37 (8.17%) Public Sector
5 36 (7.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (5.52%) Law
7 16 (3.53%) Games
8 13 (2.87%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (2.87%) Private Banking
9 11 (2.43%) Police
10 9 (1.99%) Marketing
10 9 (1.99%) Tech for Good
11 7 (1.55%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.10%) Electronics
13 5 (1.10%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.88%) Front Office
14 4 (0.88%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.88%) Retail
15 3 (0.66%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 252 (55.63%) Spring
2 168 (37.09%) Spring Boot
3 125 (27.59%) REST
4 108 (23.84%) AngularJS
5 95 (20.97%) React
6 62 (13.69%) Web Services
7 61 (13.47%) Node.js
8 50 (11.04%) Hibernate
9 48 (10.60%) HTML
9 48 (10.60%) Kafka
10 45 (9.93%) CSS
11 44 (9.71%) JSON
12 42 (9.27%) Apache Camel
12 42 (9.27%) RESTful
13 40 (8.83%) XML
14 35 (7.73%) Elastic Stack
15 23 (5.08%) SOAP
16 20 (4.42%) jQuery
17 15 (3.31%) Java EE
18 14 (3.09%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 45 (9.93%) Distributed Systems
2 32 (7.06%) Enterprise Software
3 31 (6.84%) Greenfield Project
4 16 (3.53%) Algorithms
5 15 (3.31%) Data Structures
6 12 (2.65%) Private Cloud
7 11 (2.43%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.77%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.32%) IoT
11 5 (1.10%) NHS
12 4 (0.88%) Client/Server
12 4 (0.88%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.88%) PropTech
13 3 (0.66%) Augmented Reality
13 3 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.66%) Enterprise Cloud
13 3 (0.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 3 (0.66%) Virtual Reality
14 2 (0.44%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.08%) Linux
2 11 (2.43%) Unix
3 6 (1.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (49.01%) Agile
2 145 (32.01%) Microservices
3 136 (30.02%) TDD
4 101 (22.30%) DevOps
5 96 (21.19%) CI/CD
6 95 (20.97%) Software Engineering
7 85 (18.76%) Full Stack Development
8 84 (18.54%) Scrum
9 78 (17.22%) Mentoring
10 74 (16.34%) SDLC
11 73 (16.11%) Problem-Solving
12 63 (13.91%) BDD
13 54 (11.92%) Kanban
14 49 (10.82%) Continuous Integration
15 40 (8.83%) Test Automation
16 39 (8.61%) Containerisation
17 37 (8.17%) Computer Science
18 34 (7.51%) Continuous Improvement
18 34 (7.51%) Design Patterns
19 33 (7.28%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 451 (99.56%) Java
2 151 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 107 (23.62%) SQL
4 56 (12.36%) Python
5 35 (7.73%) TypeScript
6 22 (4.86%) Shell Script
7 12 (2.65%) C#
8 10 (2.21%) Kotlin
9 8 (1.77%) Go
10 4 (0.88%) Groovy
10 4 (0.88%) Ruby
11 3 (0.66%) C++
11 3 (0.66%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.66%) Rust
12 2 (0.44%) Bicep
12 2 (0.44%) PHP
Qualifications
1 57 (12.58%) Security Cleared
2 50 (11.04%) SC Cleared
3 49 (10.82%) Degree
4 19 (4.19%) AWS Certification
5 12 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.43%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.66%) PhD
9 2 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.44%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.22%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.22%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.22%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.22%) OCP
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.53%) QA
2 2 (0.44%) Accessibility
System Software
1 165 (36.42%) Docker
2 27 (5.96%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 124 (27.37%) Kubernetes
2 49 (10.82%) Ansible
3 33 (7.28%) Terraform
4 6 (1.32%) Kibana
5 3 (0.66%) Grafana
6 1 (0.22%) Istio
6 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (10.38%) Oracle
2 35 (7.73%) WSO2
3 17 (3.75%) Google
4 15 (3.31%) Microsoft
5 5 (1.10%) ForgeRock
5 5 (1.10%) SAP
5 5 (1.10%) Splunk
6 4 (0.88%) Dynatrace
7 3 (0.66%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.44%) Sybase
8 2 (0.44%) YouTube
9 1 (0.22%) Apple
9 1 (0.22%) IBM
9 1 (0.22%) Red Hat