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 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 389 256 199
Rank change year-on-year -133 -57 -67
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 434 782 1,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.61% 1.32% 1.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 1.49% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 359 542 988
10th Percentile £37,600 £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% +14.29%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,250 £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 67,828 52,627 68,668
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.17% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 47,933 30,028 42,497
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 17 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 17 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 -45 151 £70,000 +7.69% 20
North of England -7 77 £60,000 -14.29% 13
Scotland -86 74 £56,318 -16.57% 15
South West -81 60 £60,000 - 13
North West -26 58 £62,500 -13.19% 12
Midlands -54 28 £45,000 -25.00% 7
Wales +20 25 £44,250 -12.38% 1
West Midlands -23 18 £55,000 -8.33% 5
East of England -4 15 £50,000 -28.57% 2
Yorkshire +44 12 £55,000 -8.33%
East Midlands -21 9 £42,500 -34.62% 2
North East -7 7 £42,750 -38.93% 1
Northern Ireland -32 5 £66,250 +32.50% 7
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 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.

1 432 (99.54%) Java
2 245 (56.45%) Spring
3 238 (54.84%) AWS
4 214 (49.31%) Agile
5 158 (36.41%) Spring Boot
6 156 (35.94%) Docker
7 141 (32.49%) JavaScript
8 139 (32.03%) Microservices
9 131 (30.18%) TDD
10 127 (29.26%) Git
11 120 (27.65%) REST
12 119 (27.42%) Kubernetes
13 110 (25.35%) Jenkins
14 101 (23.27%) AngularJS
15 99 (22.81%) SQL
16 97 (22.35%) DevOps
17 96 (22.12%) Software Engineering
18 95 (21.89%) CI/CD
19 92 (21.20%) React
20 91 (20.97%) Azure
21 90 (20.74%) PostgreSQL
22 84 (19.35%) Full Stack Development
23 78 (17.97%) Scrum
24 77 (17.74%) Finance
24 77 (17.74%) Mentoring
25 73 (16.82%) SDLC
26 72 (16.59%) Problem-Solving
27 71 (16.36%) Social Skills
28 68 (15.67%) Serverless
29 62 (14.29%) 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 34 (7.83%) OpenStack
2 19 (4.38%) Confluence
3 13 (3.00%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.30%) JBoss
5 9 (2.07%) Red Hat Fuse
6 8 (1.84%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.92%) Apache
8 3 (0.69%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.69%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.23%) Jetty
10 1 (0.23%) Mule
10 1 (0.23%) nginx
10 1 (0.23%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 238 (54.84%) AWS
2 91 (20.97%) Azure
3 68 (15.67%) Serverless
4 51 (11.75%) Amazon ECS
5 48 (11.06%) Amazon EKS
6 26 (5.99%) GCP
7 25 (5.76%) SaaS
8 20 (4.61%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (3.69%) GitHub
10 14 (3.23%) Amazon S3
11 13 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (1.61%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.15%) OpenShift
14 4 (0.92%) npm
15 2 (0.46%) Amazon Kinesis
15 2 (0.46%) AWS IoT
16 1 (0.23%) AWS CodeBuild
16 1 (0.23%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.30%) Internet
2 2 (0.46%) AMQP
3 1 (0.23%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.23%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (20.74%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (12.90%) NoSQL
3 50 (11.52%) Relational Database
4 37 (8.53%) MySQL
5 18 (4.15%) SQL Server
6 13 (3.00%) Apache Hive
6 13 (3.00%) Big Data
7 11 (2.53%) DynamoDB
8 10 (2.30%) MongoDB
9 9 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.15%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.69%) GIS
12 2 (0.46%) CouchDB
12 2 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.23%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.23%) Couchbase
13 1 (0.23%) DB2
13 1 (0.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 127 (29.26%) Git
2 110 (25.35%) Jenkins
3 47 (10.83%) JUnit
4 28 (6.45%) GitLab
4 28 (6.45%) Maven
5 27 (6.22%) JIRA
6 19 (4.38%) Selenium
7 18 (4.15%) Mockito
8 14 (3.23%) IntelliJ
9 11 (2.53%) CircleCI
10 10 (2.30%) Gradle
11 9 (2.07%) TeamCity
12 6 (1.38%) Bitbucket
13 5 (1.15%) Cucumber
13 5 (1.15%) JMeter
14 2 (0.46%) Eclipse
14 2 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
15 1 (0.23%) Cypress.io
15 1 (0.23%) JHipster
15 1 (0.23%) Postman
General
1 77 (17.74%) Finance
2 71 (16.36%) Social Skills
3 37 (8.53%) Banking
4 35 (8.06%) Public Sector
5 32 (7.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (5.76%) Law
7 16 (3.69%) Games
8 13 (3.00%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (3.00%) Private Banking
9 11 (2.53%) Police
10 9 (2.07%) Marketing
10 9 (2.07%) Tech for Good
11 6 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.38%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.15%) Electronics
12 5 (1.15%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.92%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.69%) Advertising
14 3 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.69%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 245 (56.45%) Spring
2 158 (36.41%) Spring Boot
3 120 (27.65%) REST
4 101 (23.27%) AngularJS
5 92 (21.20%) React
6 60 (13.82%) Node.js
7 59 (13.59%) Web Services
8 47 (10.83%) Kafka
9 46 (10.60%) HTML
10 45 (10.37%) Hibernate
11 44 (10.14%) CSS
12 43 (9.91%) JSON
13 41 (9.45%) Apache Camel
14 39 (8.99%) XML
15 35 (8.06%) RESTful
16 34 (7.83%) Elastic Stack
17 22 (5.07%) SOAP
18 18 (4.15%) jQuery
19 14 (3.23%) Java EE
20 12 (2.76%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 44 (10.14%) Distributed Systems
2 31 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
3 30 (6.91%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (3.69%) Algorithms
5 15 (3.46%) Data Structures
6 12 (2.76%) Private Cloud
7 11 (2.53%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.15%) IoT
9 5 (1.15%) NHS
9 5 (1.15%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.92%) Client/Server
10 4 (0.92%) Mobile App
10 4 (0.92%) PropTech
11 3 (0.69%) Augmented Reality
11 3 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.69%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (0.69%) Virtual Reality
12 2 (0.46%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.46%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.38%) Linux
2 11 (2.53%) Unix
3 5 (1.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (49.31%) Agile
2 139 (32.03%) Microservices
3 131 (30.18%) TDD
4 97 (22.35%) DevOps
5 96 (22.12%) Software Engineering
6 95 (21.89%) CI/CD
7 84 (19.35%) Full Stack Development
8 78 (17.97%) Scrum
9 77 (17.74%) Mentoring
10 73 (16.82%) SDLC
11 72 (16.59%) Problem-Solving
12 62 (14.29%) BDD
13 52 (11.98%) Kanban
14 50 (11.52%) Continuous Integration
15 37 (8.53%) Computer Science
16 35 (8.06%) Containerisation
16 35 (8.06%) Test Automation
17 34 (7.83%) Continuous Improvement
18 32 (7.37%) Design Patterns
19 30 (6.91%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 432 (99.54%) Java
2 141 (32.49%) JavaScript
3 99 (22.81%) SQL
4 55 (12.67%) Python
5 34 (7.83%) TypeScript
6 22 (5.07%) Shell Script
7 12 (2.76%) C#
8 9 (2.07%) Go
8 9 (2.07%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.92%) Groovy
10 3 (0.69%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.69%) Ruby
10 3 (0.69%) Rust
11 2 (0.46%) Bicep
11 2 (0.46%) C++
11 2 (0.46%) PHP
Qualifications
1 55 (12.67%) Security Cleared
2 49 (11.29%) Degree
2 49 (11.29%) SC Cleared
3 19 (4.38%) AWS Certification
4 12 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.53%) Azure Certification
6 4 (0.92%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (0.69%) PhD
8 2 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.46%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.23%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.92%) QA
2 2 (0.46%) Accessibility
System Software
1 156 (35.94%) Docker
2 27 (6.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 119 (27.42%) Kubernetes
2 47 (10.83%) Ansible
3 32 (7.37%) Terraform
4 6 (1.38%) Kibana
5 3 (0.69%) Grafana
6 1 (0.23%) Istio
6 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (11.29%) Oracle
2 34 (7.83%) WSO2
3 17 (3.92%) Google
4 15 (3.46%) Microsoft
5 5 (1.15%) ForgeRock
5 5 (1.15%) SAP
5 5 (1.15%) Splunk
6 4 (0.92%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.46%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.46%) Sybase
7 2 (0.46%) YouTube
8 1 (0.23%) Apple
8 1 (0.23%) Red Hat