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 £66,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 July 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 329 388
Rank change year-on-year +56 +59 -106
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 447 235 404
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.63% 0.72% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.80% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 326 137 335
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £36,600
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £86,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% -6.25%

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 66,738 29,315 71,409
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.66% 89.40% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 46,304 16,594 50,983
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,929 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,445 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.89% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

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 7 July 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 7 July 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 +120 249 £66,250 +1.92% 23
Yorkshire +58 101 £75,000 +25.00% 5
North West +45 83 £65,000 - 10
South East -23 79 £80,000 +52.38% 13
North East +15 65 £52,500 - 8
South West -26 48 £52,500 -12.50% 5
Wales - 28 £67,500 - 5
Scotland -28 21 £60,000 +4.35% 7
West Midlands -40 15 £50,000 -21.88% 7
Midlands -50 15 £50,000 -16.67% 11
East of England -9 10 £50,000 +11.11% 1
Northern Ireland -58 1 - - 5
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 July 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.

1 447 (100.00%) Java
2 150 (33.56%) AWS
3 135 (30.20%) Full-Stack Development
4 127 (28.41%) CI/CD
5 111 (24.83%) Agile
5 111 (24.83%) Spring
6 109 (24.38%) Docker
7 107 (23.94%) DevOps
7 107 (23.94%) Spring Boot
8 96 (21.48%) Microservices
9 92 (20.58%) AngularJS
10 88 (19.69%) Serverless
11 80 (17.90%) Security Cleared
12 76 (17.00%) Jenkins
13 73 (16.33%) AWS Lambda
13 73 (16.33%) Git
14 71 (15.88%) SC Cleared
15 69 (15.44%) Amazon ECS
16 67 (14.99%) AWS CloudFormation
17 66 (14.77%) Amazon S3
18 62 (13.87%) SQL
19 60 (13.42%) Kubernetes
20 56 (12.53%) TypeScript
21 54 (12.08%) AWS Step Functions
22 53 (11.86%) DynamoDB
22 53 (11.86%) JavaScript
23 52 (11.63%) Software Engineering
24 51 (11.41%) React
25 47 (10.51%) SDLC
26 46 (10.29%) Python

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 6 (1.34%) JBoss
2 4 (0.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (0.67%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.45%) CICS
4 2 (0.45%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.22%) Confluence
5 1 (0.22%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.22%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 150 (33.56%) AWS
2 88 (19.69%) Serverless
3 73 (16.33%) AWS Lambda
4 69 (15.44%) Amazon ECS
5 67 (14.99%) AWS CloudFormation
6 66 (14.77%) Amazon S3
7 54 (12.08%) AWS Step Functions
8 42 (9.40%) Azure
9 30 (6.71%) Amazon SQS
10 29 (6.49%) GitHub
11 27 (6.04%) Amazon ECR
11 27 (6.04%) Apigee
12 26 (5.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 25 (5.59%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 25 (5.59%) GCP
14 14 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (3.13%) SaaS
15 13 (2.91%) Amazon EKS
16 11 (2.46%) Datadog
17 10 (2.24%) Amazon EC2
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 53 (11.86%) DynamoDB
2 39 (8.72%) NoSQL
3 26 (5.82%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (5.59%) Amazon Athena
5 19 (4.25%) Relational Database
6 15 (3.36%) MySQL
7 8 (1.79%) MongoDB
8 7 (1.57%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.89%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.45%) Couchbase
11 2 (0.45%) Db2
11 2 (0.45%) Hazelcast
11 2 (0.45%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.22%) Big Data
12 1 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
12 1 (0.22%) GIS
12 1 (0.22%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 76 (17.00%) Jenkins
2 73 (16.33%) Git
3 40 (8.95%) Maven
4 39 (8.72%) GitLab
5 31 (6.94%) SonarQube
6 30 (6.71%) JUnit
7 28 (6.26%) Cypress.io
8 23 (5.15%) Eclipse
9 17 (3.80%) Subversion
10 11 (2.46%) JIRA
11 10 (2.24%) Mockito
12 6 (1.34%) Cucumber
12 6 (1.34%) Selenium
13 5 (1.12%) JMeter
14 4 (0.89%) IntelliJ
14 4 (0.89%) Spock
15 3 (0.67%) Gradle
15 3 (0.67%) Postman
16 2 (0.45%) Artifactory
17 1 (0.22%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 42 (9.40%) Finance
2 30 (6.71%) Social Skills
3 26 (5.82%) Public Sector
4 23 (5.15%) Banking
5 12 (2.68%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.24%) Health Technology
7 9 (2.01%) Advertising
8 7 (1.57%) Retail
9 6 (1.34%) Aviation
10 5 (1.12%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.89%) Digital Health
11 4 (0.89%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.22%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.22%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.22%) Law
13 1 (0.22%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (24.83%) Spring
2 107 (23.94%) Spring Boot
3 92 (20.58%) AngularJS
4 51 (11.41%) React
5 44 (9.84%) RESTful
6 35 (7.83%) Node.js
7 32 (7.16%) Gherkin
8 30 (6.71%) Jest
9 29 (6.49%) REST
10 26 (5.82%) Web Services
11 22 (4.92%) Hibernate
11 22 (4.92%) J2EE
11 22 (4.92%) JPA
12 20 (4.47%) Kafka
13 17 (3.80%) Struts
14 15 (3.36%) HTML
15 12 (2.68%) Spring MVC
16 11 (2.46%) CSS
17 10 (2.24%) Elastic Stack
17 10 (2.24%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.15%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (3.36%) Cloud Native
3 8 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (1.34%) Product Ownership
4 6 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (0.89%) Private Cloud
7 3 (0.67%) NHS
7 3 (0.67%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.45%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.45%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.22%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.22%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.22%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.22%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.22%) Lidar
9 1 (0.22%) Life Science
9 1 (0.22%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.22%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 26 (5.82%) Linux
2 6 (1.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (30.20%) Full-Stack Development
2 127 (28.41%) CI/CD
3 111 (24.83%) Agile
4 107 (23.94%) DevOps
5 96 (21.48%) Microservices
6 52 (11.63%) Software Engineering
7 47 (10.51%) SDLC
8 46 (10.29%) TDD
9 45 (10.07%) Scrum
10 42 (9.40%) Clean Code
11 37 (8.28%) Containerisation
12 36 (8.05%) Continuous Improvement
13 35 (7.83%) Problem-Solving
14 32 (7.16%) Computer Science
15 31 (6.94%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 31 (6.94%) Secure Coding
16 29 (6.49%) Mentoring
17 28 (6.26%) Test Automation
18 27 (6.04%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
19 26 (5.82%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 447 (100.00%) Java
2 62 (13.87%) SQL
3 56 (12.53%) TypeScript
4 53 (11.86%) JavaScript
5 46 (10.29%) Python
6 39 (8.72%) Groovy
7 34 (7.61%) Bash
8 32 (7.16%) Kotlin
9 27 (6.04%) C++
10 15 (3.36%) Perl
10 15 (3.36%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.89%) Go
12 3 (0.67%) C#
12 3 (0.67%) Scala
12 3 (0.67%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.22%) C
13 1 (0.22%) PHP
13 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.22%) R
Qualifications
1 80 (17.90%) Security Cleared
2 71 (15.88%) SC Cleared
3 29 (6.49%) Degree
4 27 (6.04%) AWS Certification
4 27 (6.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (5.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 23 (5.15%) ITIL Certification
6 13 (2.91%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.91%) QA
2 2 (0.45%) Good Clinical Practice
3 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 109 (24.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 60 (13.42%) Kubernetes
2 27 (6.04%) HP Fortify
3 19 (4.25%) Terraform
4 9 (2.01%) Ansible
4 9 (2.01%) Kibana
5 7 (1.57%) Grafana
6 4 (0.89%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.45%) Packer
Vendors
1 24 (5.37%) Oracle
2 15 (3.36%) Splunk
3 10 (2.24%) AppDynamics
4 7 (1.57%) IBM
5 6 (1.34%) Dynatrace
6 4 (0.89%) Pega
7 2 (0.45%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.22%) Cognos
8 1 (0.22%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.22%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.22%) Veracode
8 1 (0.22%) VMware
8 1 (0.22%) WSO2