Java Developer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Java Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Java Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 333 397
Rank change year-on-year +45 +64 -114
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 450 227 280
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.56% 0.65% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.73% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 322 126 190
10th Percentile £37,500 £30,625 £30,300
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £59,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% -1.67% -10.45%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £83,875
UK median annual salary £65,500 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.66% -9.38% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 75,641 31,183 55,433
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 89.44% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 52,563 18,012 34,747
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Java Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Java Developer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Java Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies 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 1 September 2026.

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 1 September 2026. 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
North of England +87 211 £65,000 - 38
Yorkshire +28 83 £75,000 +15.38% 6
South East -32 74 £75,000 +42.86% 21
North East +3 71 £55,000 -15.38% 19
South West -18 67 £52,500 -12.50% 10
North West +2 57 £65,000 - 13
Wales - 34 £70,000 - 5
Midlands -57 25 £70,000 +12.00% 11
West Midlands -31 22 £70,000 +5.66% 10
Scotland -33 21 £80,000 +39.13% 17
East of England -9 12 £50,000 +11.11% 4
Northern Ireland -78 10 £60,000 +33.33% 13
East Midlands -26 3 - - 1
Java Developer
UK

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 September 2026, Java Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 450 (100.00%) Java
2 138 (30.67%) AWS
3 132 (29.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 126 (28.00%) Spring
5 118 (26.22%) CI/CD
5 118 (26.22%) Microservices
6 109 (24.22%) Docker
7 104 (23.11%) Agile
7 104 (23.11%) Spring Boot
8 96 (21.33%) DevOps
9 86 (19.11%) Security Cleared
10 83 (18.44%) Git
11 78 (17.33%) AngularJS
12 75 (16.67%) SC Cleared
13 71 (15.78%) Kubernetes
14 68 (15.11%) Serverless
15 67 (14.89%) JavaScript
16 62 (13.78%) Jenkins
17 61 (13.56%) React
18 58 (12.89%) AWS CloudFormation
18 58 (12.89%) Python
18 58 (12.89%) SQL
19 56 (12.44%) RESTful
20 55 (12.22%) Amazon ECS
21 54 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
22 53 (11.78%) Azure
22 53 (11.78%) Scrum
23 50 (11.11%) TDD
24 49 (10.89%) Amazon S3
24 49 (10.89%) Problem-Solving

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (1.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (0.67%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.44%) CICS
3 2 (0.44%) CMS
3 2 (0.44%) JBoss
3 2 (0.44%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.22%) Apache
4 1 (0.22%) PegaRULES
4 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.22%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 138 (30.67%) AWS
2 68 (15.11%) Serverless
3 58 (12.89%) AWS CloudFormation
4 55 (12.22%) Amazon ECS
5 54 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
6 53 (11.78%) Azure
7 49 (10.89%) Amazon S3
8 41 (9.11%) AWS Step Functions
9 32 (7.11%) GitHub
10 31 (6.89%) GCP
11 24 (5.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 22 (4.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 19 (4.22%) Amazon SQS
13 19 (4.22%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (3.56%) Datadog
15 13 (2.89%) Amazon ECR
15 13 (2.89%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (2.89%) Apigee
16 11 (2.44%) SaaS
17 10 (2.22%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.22%) ATM
1 1 (0.22%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.22%) HTTP
1 1 (0.22%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (8.89%) NoSQL
2 38 (8.44%) DynamoDB
3 28 (6.22%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (5.11%) MySQL
5 22 (4.89%) Relational Database
6 21 (4.67%) Amazon Athena
7 18 (4.00%) MongoDB
8 9 (2.00%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.44%) Couchbase
10 2 (0.44%) Db2
10 2 (0.44%) Hazelcast
10 2 (0.44%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.22%) Big Data
11 1 (0.22%) GIS
11 1 (0.22%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.22%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 83 (18.44%) Git
2 62 (13.78%) Jenkins
3 43 (9.56%) JUnit
4 34 (7.56%) Eclipse
5 30 (6.67%) Maven
6 27 (6.00%) Subversion
7 23 (5.11%) GitLab
8 16 (3.56%) SonarQube
9 14 (3.11%) Cypress.io
9 14 (3.11%) Mockito
10 8 (1.78%) JIRA
11 5 (1.11%) JMeter
12 4 (0.89%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.89%) IntelliJ
12 4 (0.89%) Spock
13 3 (0.67%) Postman
13 3 (0.67%) Selenium
14 2 (0.44%) Artifactory
15 1 (0.22%) Eclipse RCP
15 1 (0.22%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 50 (11.11%) Finance
2 29 (6.44%) Social Skills
3 28 (6.22%) Public Sector
4 24 (5.33%) Banking
5 18 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (1.56%) Advertising
6 7 (1.56%) Health Technology
6 7 (1.56%) Retail
7 4 (0.89%) Aviation
7 4 (0.89%) Digital Health
7 4 (0.89%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.44%) Law
8 2 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (0.44%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.22%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.22%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (28.00%) Spring
2 104 (23.11%) Spring Boot
3 78 (17.33%) AngularJS
4 61 (13.56%) React
5 56 (12.44%) RESTful
6 37 (8.22%) Jakarta EE
7 35 (7.78%) Web Services
8 33 (7.33%) REST
9 30 (6.67%) Hibernate
9 30 (6.67%) Kafka
9 30 (6.67%) Node.js
10 29 (6.44%) JPA
11 27 (6.00%) Struts
12 23 (5.11%) Terraform
13 18 (4.00%) Gherkin
14 17 (3.78%) RabbitMQ
15 16 (3.56%) HTML
16 15 (3.33%) Jest
17 12 (2.67%) CSS
18 10 (2.22%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.22%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (5.11%) Cloud Native
3 16 (3.56%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (2.67%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.00%) Virtual Team
7 7 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.11%) Private Cloud
9 3 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.44%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.44%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.22%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.22%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.22%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.22%) Distributed Applications
11 1 (0.22%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.22%) Life Science
11 1 (0.22%) NHS
11 1 (0.22%) PKI
11 1 (0.22%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 37 (8.22%) Linux
2 6 (1.33%) Unix
3 1 (0.22%) CentOS
3 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (29.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 118 (26.22%) CI/CD
2 118 (26.22%) Microservices
3 104 (23.11%) Agile
4 96 (21.33%) DevOps
5 53 (11.78%) Scrum
6 50 (11.11%) TDD
7 49 (10.89%) Problem-Solving
8 47 (10.44%) Software Engineering
9 44 (9.78%) SDLC
10 42 (9.33%) Containerisation
11 41 (9.11%) Technical Architecture
12 39 (8.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 38 (8.44%) Computer Science
14 37 (8.22%) Mentoring
15 31 (6.89%) Clean Code
15 31 (6.89%) Continuous Improvement
16 28 (6.22%) Continuous Integration
17 27 (6.00%) Secure Coding
18 23 (5.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 450 (100.00%) Java
2 67 (14.89%) JavaScript
3 58 (12.89%) Python
3 58 (12.89%) SQL
4 45 (10.00%) C++
5 44 (9.78%) TypeScript
6 27 (6.00%) Kotlin
7 26 (5.78%) Perl
8 25 (5.56%) Groovy
9 24 (5.33%) Bash
10 18 (4.00%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.11%) C#
12 4 (0.89%) Go
12 4 (0.89%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.67%) Scala
14 1 (0.22%) PHP
14 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 86 (19.11%) Security Cleared
2 75 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 38 (8.44%) Degree
4 36 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (4.44%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.89%) AWS Certification
6 13 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (2.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 12 (2.67%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.44%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.78%) QA
2 2 (0.44%) Good Clinical Practice
3 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 109 (24.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 71 (15.78%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.89%) Grafana
2 13 (2.89%) HP Fortify
3 10 (2.22%) Ansible
3 10 (2.22%) Prometheus
4 9 (2.00%) Kibana
5 2 (0.44%) Packer
Vendors
1 25 (5.56%) Oracle
2 21 (4.67%) Splunk
3 10 (2.22%) AppDynamics
4 6 (1.33%) Dynatrace
4 6 (1.33%) IBM
5 4 (0.89%) Pega
6 2 (0.44%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.22%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.22%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.22%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.22%) Workday
7 1 (0.22%) WSO2