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 12 April 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 316 354
Rank change year-on-year +23 +38 -68
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 300 178 465
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.69% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.77% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 207 119 392
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,250 £39,692
25th Percentile £55,625 £48,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -0.83% +0.83%
75th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -6.67% -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 56,526 23,072 62,145
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 88.89% 94.69%
Number of salaries quoted 36,163 14,484 46,046
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,822 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,746 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.00%

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 12 April 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 12 April 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 +64 157 £70,000 +7.69% 33
Yorkshire +19 84 £75,000 +68.54% 7
South East -50 67 £80,000 +33.33% 21
North West +17 59 £67,500 - 14
South West -24 28 £65,000 +30.00% 2
West Midlands -11 19 £36,500 -39.17%
Scotland -24 19 £60,000 +4.35% 6
Midlands -53 19 £36,500 -39.17% 1
North East -20 14 £45,000 - 12
Wales - 13 £65,000 - 3
East of England -24 6 £50,000 -9.09% 3
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 April 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.

1 300 (100.00%) Java
2 126 (42.00%) AWS
3 103 (34.33%) Spring Boot
4 101 (33.67%) Agile
4 101 (33.67%) CI/CD
5 86 (28.67%) Docker
6 84 (28.00%) Spring
7 81 (27.00%) DevOps
8 80 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 80 (26.67%) Serverless
9 68 (22.67%) Jenkins
10 67 (22.33%) Amazon ECS
11 64 (21.33%) Amazon S3
12 62 (20.67%) AngularJS
13 61 (20.33%) AWS Lambda
14 58 (19.33%) SQL
15 56 (18.67%) Microservices
16 52 (17.33%) Kubernetes
17 51 (17.00%) AWS CloudFormation
18 50 (16.67%) TypeScript
19 48 (16.00%) DynamoDB
19 48 (16.00%) Git
19 48 (16.00%) JavaScript
19 48 (16.00%) Security Cleared
20 43 (14.33%) AWS Step Functions
20 43 (14.33%) REST
21 42 (14.00%) SDLC
22 40 (13.33%) SC Cleared
23 38 (12.67%) Maven
23 38 (12.67%) React

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 9 (3.00%) OpenStack
2 6 (2.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (1.67%) JBoss
4 2 (0.67%) CICS
4 2 (0.67%) WildFly
5 1 (0.33%) Confluence
5 1 (0.33%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 126 (42.00%) AWS
2 80 (26.67%) Serverless
3 67 (22.33%) Amazon ECS
4 64 (21.33%) Amazon S3
5 61 (20.33%) AWS Lambda
6 51 (17.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 43 (14.33%) AWS Step Functions
8 27 (9.00%) Amazon ECR
8 27 (9.00%) Amazon SQS
8 27 (9.00%) Apigee
9 23 (7.67%) Azure
10 21 (7.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 21 (7.00%) Amazon EKS
10 21 (7.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 19 (6.33%) GitHub
12 18 (6.00%) SaaS
13 13 (4.33%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (3.00%) GCP
15 7 (2.33%) Datadog
15 7 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.67%) Internet
2 1 (0.33%) HTTP
2 1 (0.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (16.00%) DynamoDB
2 34 (11.33%) NoSQL
3 28 (9.33%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (7.00%) Amazon Athena
4 21 (7.00%) Relational Database
5 10 (3.33%) MySQL
6 7 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.67%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.33%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.67%) DB2
9 2 (0.67%) Hazelcast
9 2 (0.67%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.33%) CockroachDB
10 1 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 68 (22.67%) Jenkins
2 48 (16.00%) Git
3 38 (12.67%) Maven
4 32 (10.67%) GitLab
5 30 (10.00%) SonarQube
6 27 (9.00%) Cypress.io
7 15 (5.00%) JUnit
8 11 (3.67%) Mockito
9 8 (2.67%) JIRA
10 5 (1.67%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.33%) Eclipse
11 4 (1.33%) Gradle
11 4 (1.33%) IntelliJ
11 4 (1.33%) JMeter
12 3 (1.00%) Selenium
13 2 (0.67%) Artifactory
14 1 (0.33%) jMock
14 1 (0.33%) TestNG
General
1 23 (7.67%) Finance
1 23 (7.67%) Social Skills
2 19 (6.33%) Public Sector
3 15 (5.00%) Banking
4 10 (3.33%) Health Technology
5 5 (1.67%) Advertising
5 5 (1.67%) Investment Banking
6 4 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (1.33%) Tech for Good
7 3 (1.00%) Digital Healthcare
8 2 (0.67%) Aeronautics
8 2 (0.67%) Aerospace
8 2 (0.67%) Automotive
8 2 (0.67%) Aviation
8 2 (0.67%) Digital Health
8 2 (0.67%) Games
8 2 (0.67%) Retail
9 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (34.33%) Spring Boot
2 84 (28.00%) Spring
3 62 (20.67%) AngularJS
4 43 (14.33%) REST
5 38 (12.67%) React
6 37 (12.33%) Node.js
7 28 (9.33%) Jest
8 27 (9.00%) Gherkin
9 18 (6.00%) Web Services
10 17 (5.67%) Hibernate
11 16 (5.33%) RESTful
12 15 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
13 13 (4.33%) HTML
13 13 (4.33%) Kafka
14 11 (3.67%) JPA
15 9 (3.00%) CSS
15 9 (3.00%) JSON
15 9 (3.00%) Spring MVC
16 8 (2.67%) Mustache
17 7 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 26 (8.67%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (2.67%) Cloud Native
3 5 (1.67%) IoT
3 5 (1.67%) NHS
3 5 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (1.33%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.67%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (0.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (0.67%) Mainframe
6 2 (0.67%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.67%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.67%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.33%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.33%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.00%) Linux
2 2 (0.67%) Android
2 2 (0.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (33.67%) Agile
1 101 (33.67%) CI/CD
2 81 (27.00%) DevOps
3 80 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 56 (18.67%) Microservices
5 42 (14.00%) SDLC
6 34 (11.33%) TDD
7 32 (10.67%) Scrum
8 30 (10.00%) Clean Code
9 26 (8.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (8.33%) Containerisation
11 23 (7.67%) Software Engineering
12 22 (7.33%) Secure Coding
13 21 (7.00%) ITIL
13 21 (7.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 19 (6.33%) Continuous Integration
14 19 (6.33%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (5.33%) DevSecOps
15 16 (5.33%) Front End Development
16 14 (4.67%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 300 (100.00%) Java
2 58 (19.33%) SQL
3 50 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 48 (16.00%) JavaScript
5 32 (10.67%) Bash
6 29 (9.67%) Groovy
7 25 (8.33%) Kotlin
8 22 (7.33%) Python
9 15 (5.00%) PL/SQL
10 6 (2.00%) R
11 5 (1.67%) C++
11 5 (1.67%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.33%) C
13 3 (1.00%) Go
14 2 (0.67%) C#
15 1 (0.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 48 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 40 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 26 (8.67%) AWS Certification
4 21 (7.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 21 (7.00%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.67%) AWS Certified Developer
6 5 (1.67%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.00%) Degree
8 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.67%) QA
System Software
1 86 (28.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 52 (17.33%) Kubernetes
2 27 (9.00%) HP Fortify
3 13 (4.33%) Terraform
4 12 (4.00%) Ansible
5 8 (2.67%) Kibana
6 2 (0.67%) Packer
Vendors
1 17 (5.67%) Oracle
2 7 (2.33%) IBM
3 6 (2.00%) AppDynamics
4 4 (1.33%) Dynatrace
4 4 (1.33%) Pega
4 4 (1.33%) Splunk
5 1 (0.33%) Cognos
5 1 (0.33%) Google
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.33%) Veracode
5 1 (0.33%) VMware
5 1 (0.33%) WSO2