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 16 June 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 325 383
Rank change year-on-year +73 +58 -103
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 430 221 440
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.64% 0.74% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.83% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 309 129 358
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £48,750 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £85,375
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - -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 63,411 26,495 74,743
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.49% 88.99% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 43,940 14,354 53,488
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,274 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 16 June 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 16 June 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 +138 247 £67,500 +3.85% 24
Yorkshire +52 109 £75,000 +68.54% 8
North West +61 82 £65,000 - 6
South East -13 80 £80,000 +28.00% 14
North East +9 56 £50,000 - 10
South West -26 39 £52,500 -12.50% 8
Scotland -30 21 £60,000 +4.35% 10
West Midlands -34 20 £38,750 -38.00% 4
Midlands -35 20 £38,750 -35.42% 8
Wales - 19 £65,000 - 4
East of England -9 9 £50,000 +11.11% 1
Northern Ireland -40 1 - - 1
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 June 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.

1 430 (100.00%) Java
2 151 (35.12%) AWS
3 130 (30.23%) Full-Stack Development
4 125 (29.07%) CI/CD
5 108 (25.12%) Agile
6 107 (24.88%) DevOps
7 105 (24.42%) Docker
8 104 (24.19%) Spring
9 103 (23.95%) Spring Boot
10 94 (21.86%) AngularJS
11 92 (21.40%) Serverless
12 85 (19.77%) Microservices
13 76 (17.67%) Security Cleared
14 75 (17.44%) AWS Lambda
14 75 (17.44%) Jenkins
15 74 (17.21%) Amazon ECS
16 71 (16.51%) Amazon S3
17 69 (16.05%) SQL
18 68 (15.81%) AWS CloudFormation
18 68 (15.81%) Git
18 68 (15.81%) SC Cleared
19 60 (13.95%) TypeScript
20 57 (13.26%) AWS Step Functions
20 57 (13.26%) DynamoDB
21 54 (12.56%) Kubernetes
22 51 (11.86%) React
23 50 (11.63%) JavaScript
24 46 (10.70%) SDLC
25 44 (10.23%) Scrum
25 44 (10.23%) Software Engineering

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 (1.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (1.40%) JBoss
3 5 (1.16%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.47%) CICS
5 1 (0.23%) Confluence
5 1 (0.23%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.23%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 151 (35.12%) AWS
2 92 (21.40%) Serverless
3 75 (17.44%) AWS Lambda
4 74 (17.21%) Amazon ECS
5 71 (16.51%) Amazon S3
6 68 (15.81%) AWS CloudFormation
7 57 (13.26%) AWS Step Functions
8 35 (8.14%) Azure
9 30 (6.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 30 (6.98%) Amazon SQS
10 29 (6.74%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 29 (6.74%) GitHub
11 27 (6.28%) Amazon ECR
11 27 (6.28%) Apigee
12 19 (4.42%) SaaS
13 17 (3.95%) GCP
14 15 (3.49%) Amazon EKS
14 15 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (3.02%) Datadog
16 10 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.47%) Internet
2 1 (0.23%) ATM
2 1 (0.23%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.23%) HTTP
2 1 (0.23%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (13.26%) DynamoDB
2 41 (9.53%) NoSQL
3 29 (6.74%) Amazon Athena
4 25 (5.81%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (4.42%) Relational Database
6 10 (2.33%) MySQL
7 5 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.93%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.70%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.47%) Couchbase
10 2 (0.47%) Db2
10 2 (0.47%) Hazelcast
10 2 (0.47%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.47%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.23%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 75 (17.44%) Jenkins
2 68 (15.81%) Git
3 43 (10.00%) Maven
4 38 (8.84%) GitLab
5 31 (7.21%) SonarQube
6 29 (6.74%) JUnit
7 28 (6.51%) Cypress.io
8 16 (3.72%) Eclipse
9 13 (3.02%) Mockito
10 11 (2.56%) JIRA
10 11 (2.56%) Subversion
11 6 (1.40%) Cucumber
12 5 (1.16%) JMeter
12 5 (1.16%) Selenium
13 4 (0.93%) IntelliJ
13 4 (0.93%) Spock
14 3 (0.70%) Gradle
15 2 (0.47%) Artifactory
15 2 (0.47%) Postman
16 1 (0.23%) Terragrunt
General
1 45 (10.47%) Finance
2 37 (8.60%) Social Skills
3 24 (5.58%) Public Sector
4 20 (4.65%) Banking
5 11 (2.56%) Health Technology
6 9 (2.09%) Advertising
7 8 (1.86%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (1.40%) Aviation
8 6 (1.40%) Tech for Good
9 5 (1.16%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.16%) Retail
10 4 (0.93%) Digital Health
11 2 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.23%) Digital Healthcare
12 1 (0.23%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.23%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (24.19%) Spring
2 103 (23.95%) Spring Boot
3 94 (21.86%) AngularJS
4 51 (11.86%) React
5 41 (9.53%) Node.js
6 35 (8.14%) RESTful
7 32 (7.44%) REST
8 31 (7.21%) Gherkin
9 30 (6.98%) Jest
10 22 (5.12%) Web Services
11 16 (3.72%) J2EE
11 16 (3.72%) Kafka
12 15 (3.49%) HTML
12 15 (3.49%) JPA
13 14 (3.26%) Hibernate
14 12 (2.79%) Elastic Stack
15 11 (2.56%) CSS
15 11 (2.56%) Spring MVC
15 11 (2.56%) Struts
16 8 (1.86%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.35%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (2.56%) Cloud Native
3 7 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (0.93%) Management Information System
6 4 (0.93%) NHS
6 4 (0.93%) Private Cloud
7 3 (0.70%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.47%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.47%) IoT
8 2 (0.47%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.47%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.23%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.23%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.23%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.23%) Lidar
9 1 (0.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (5.81%) Linux
2 4 (0.93%) Unix
3 2 (0.47%) Android
3 2 (0.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (30.23%) Full-Stack Development
2 125 (29.07%) CI/CD
3 108 (25.12%) Agile
4 107 (24.88%) DevOps
5 85 (19.77%) Microservices
6 46 (10.70%) SDLC
7 44 (10.23%) Scrum
7 44 (10.23%) Software Engineering
8 43 (10.00%) TDD
9 37 (8.60%) Clean Code
10 34 (7.91%) Containerisation
11 32 (7.44%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (7.21%) Problem-Solving
13 29 (6.74%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 29 (6.74%) Mentoring
14 27 (6.28%) Computer Science
14 27 (6.28%) Continuous Integration
15 26 (6.05%) Secure Coding
16 25 (5.81%) Test Automation
17 24 (5.58%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 430 (100.00%) Java
2 69 (16.05%) SQL
3 60 (13.95%) TypeScript
4 50 (11.63%) JavaScript
5 38 (8.84%) Groovy
5 38 (8.84%) Python
6 37 (8.60%) Bash
7 35 (8.14%) Kotlin
8 22 (5.12%) C++
9 18 (4.19%) PL/SQL
10 10 (2.33%) Perl
11 4 (0.93%) C
11 4 (0.93%) Go
11 4 (0.93%) R
12 3 (0.70%) C#
12 3 (0.70%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.47%) Scala
14 1 (0.23%) PHP
14 1 (0.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 76 (17.67%) Security Cleared
2 68 (15.81%) SC Cleared
3 26 (6.05%) AWS Certification
4 21 (4.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 21 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (4.88%) Degree
4 21 (4.88%) ITIL Certification
5 12 (2.79%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.79%) QA
2 2 (0.47%) Good Clinical Practice
3 1 (0.23%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 105 (24.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 54 (12.56%) Kubernetes
2 27 (6.28%) HP Fortify
3 19 (4.42%) Terraform
4 11 (2.56%) Ansible
5 9 (2.09%) Kibana
6 5 (1.16%) Grafana
7 2 (0.47%) Packer
7 2 (0.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (6.05%) Oracle
2 12 (2.79%) Splunk
3 10 (2.33%) AppDynamics
4 7 (1.63%) IBM
5 5 (1.16%) Dynatrace
6 4 (0.93%) Pega
7 2 (0.47%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.23%) Cognos
8 1 (0.23%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.23%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.23%) Veracode
8 1 (0.23%) VMware
8 1 (0.23%) WSO2