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 18 August 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 344 405
Rank change year-on-year +55 +61 -130
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 461 227 269
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.59% 0.65% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.73% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 334 131 198
10th Percentile £42,500 £31,250 £28,900
25th Percentile £54,063 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -6.90% -6.45% -3.13%

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 73,779 31,098 56,419
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.35% 89.47% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 51,014 17,850 37,046
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -4.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £56,950 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.55% - -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 18 August 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 18 August 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 +110 230 £65,000 - 24
Yorkshire +46 93 £75,000 +15.38% 5
North East +5 72 £52,500 -19.23% 14
South East -21 71 £77,500 +47.62% 25
South West -10 67 £53,750 -10.42% 8
North West +28 65 £65,000 - 6
Wales - 35 £70,000 - 4
Midlands -50 24 £70,000 +12.00% 10
West Midlands -35 21 £70,000 +5.66% 9
Scotland -35 19 £62,500 +8.70% 10
East of England -18 12 £50,000 +11.11% 3
Northern Ireland -81 7 £60,000 +33.33% 11
East Midlands -29 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 18 August 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.

1 461 (100.00%) Java
2 149 (32.32%) AWS
3 137 (29.72%) Full-Stack Development
4 128 (27.77%) CI/CD
5 125 (27.11%) Spring
6 118 (25.60%) Microservices
7 114 (24.73%) Docker
8 109 (23.64%) Agile
9 106 (22.99%) Spring Boot
10 104 (22.56%) DevOps
11 85 (18.44%) Security Cleared
12 84 (18.22%) AngularJS
13 82 (17.79%) Git
14 79 (17.14%) Serverless
15 75 (16.27%) SC Cleared
16 71 (15.40%) Kubernetes
17 68 (14.75%) Jenkins
18 66 (14.32%) JavaScript
19 64 (13.88%) AWS Lambda
20 63 (13.67%) AWS CloudFormation
20 63 (13.67%) React
21 62 (13.45%) Amazon ECS
21 62 (13.45%) SQL
22 58 (12.58%) Python
23 57 (12.36%) Amazon S3
24 54 (11.71%) RESTful
24 54 (11.71%) TDD
25 53 (11.50%) Scrum
26 52 (11.28%) TypeScript
27 51 (11.06%) Azure

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 (1.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (0.87%) JBoss
3 3 (0.65%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.43%) CICS
4 2 (0.43%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.22%) Apache
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
1 149 (32.32%) AWS
2 79 (17.14%) Serverless
3 64 (13.88%) AWS Lambda
4 63 (13.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 62 (13.45%) Amazon ECS
6 57 (12.36%) Amazon S3
7 51 (11.06%) Azure
8 46 (9.98%) AWS Step Functions
9 34 (7.38%) GitHub
10 29 (6.29%) GCP
11 27 (5.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 26 (5.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 22 (4.77%) Amazon SQS
14 18 (3.90%) GitHub Actions
15 17 (3.69%) Amazon ECR
15 17 (3.69%) Apigee
16 15 (3.25%) Datadog
17 13 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
18 11 (2.39%) GitHub Copilot
19 10 (2.17%) SaaS
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 45 (9.76%) DynamoDB
2 43 (9.33%) NoSQL
3 27 (5.86%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (5.42%) Amazon Athena
5 22 (4.77%) MySQL
6 21 (4.56%) Relational Database
7 15 (3.25%) MongoDB
8 9 (1.95%) SQL Server
9 4 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.43%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.43%) Couchbase
10 2 (0.43%) Db2
10 2 (0.43%) Hazelcast
10 2 (0.43%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.43%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.22%) Big Data
11 1 (0.22%) GIS
11 1 (0.22%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 82 (17.79%) Git
2 68 (14.75%) Jenkins
3 42 (9.11%) JUnit
4 34 (7.38%) Maven
5 33 (7.16%) Eclipse
6 27 (5.86%) GitLab
7 26 (5.64%) Subversion
8 20 (4.34%) SonarQube
9 18 (3.90%) Cypress.io
10 14 (3.04%) Mockito
11 9 (1.95%) JIRA
12 5 (1.08%) Cucumber
12 5 (1.08%) JMeter
13 4 (0.87%) IntelliJ
13 4 (0.87%) Selenium
13 4 (0.87%) Spock
14 3 (0.65%) Postman
15 2 (0.43%) Artifactory
16 1 (0.22%) Gradle
16 1 (0.22%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 48 (10.41%) Finance
2 33 (7.16%) Social Skills
3 27 (5.86%) Public Sector
4 23 (4.99%) Banking
5 15 (3.25%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (1.74%) Advertising
6 8 (1.74%) Health Technology
7 7 (1.52%) Retail
8 5 (1.08%) Investment Banking
9 4 (0.87%) Aviation
9 4 (0.87%) Digital Health
10 2 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.43%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.22%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.22%) Law
11 1 (0.22%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.22%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (27.11%) Spring
2 106 (22.99%) Spring Boot
3 84 (18.22%) AngularJS
4 63 (13.67%) React
5 54 (11.71%) RESTful
6 36 (7.81%) Jakarta EE
6 36 (7.81%) Node.js
7 34 (7.38%) REST
7 34 (7.38%) Web Services
8 28 (6.07%) Hibernate
9 27 (5.86%) JPA
9 27 (5.86%) Kafka
10 26 (5.64%) Struts
11 22 (4.77%) Gherkin
12 19 (4.12%) Jest
13 17 (3.69%) HTML
14 15 (3.25%) RabbitMQ
15 13 (2.82%) CSS
16 10 (2.17%) Spring MVC
16 10 (2.17%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.86%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (4.56%) Cloud Native
3 14 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (1.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 9 (1.95%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.52%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.08%) Private Cloud
8 4 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.43%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.43%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.43%) NHS
10 1 (0.22%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.22%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.22%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.22%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.22%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.22%) Life Science
10 1 (0.22%) PKI
10 1 (0.22%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 38 (8.24%) Linux
2 6 (1.30%) Unix
3 1 (0.22%) CentOS
3 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (29.72%) Full-Stack Development
2 128 (27.77%) CI/CD
3 118 (25.60%) Microservices
4 109 (23.64%) Agile
5 104 (22.56%) DevOps
6 54 (11.71%) TDD
7 53 (11.50%) Scrum
8 49 (10.63%) Software Engineering
9 47 (10.20%) SDLC
10 46 (9.98%) Problem-Solving
11 43 (9.33%) Containerisation
12 39 (8.46%) Computer Science
12 39 (8.46%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 38 (8.24%) Technical Architecture
14 36 (7.81%) Clean Code
15 35 (7.59%) Mentoring
16 34 (7.38%) Continuous Improvement
17 29 (6.29%) Continuous Integration
18 28 (6.07%) Secure Coding
19 24 (5.21%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 461 (100.00%) Java
2 66 (14.32%) JavaScript
3 62 (13.45%) SQL
4 58 (12.58%) Python
5 52 (11.28%) TypeScript
6 43 (9.33%) C++
7 33 (7.16%) Kotlin
8 29 (6.29%) Groovy
9 28 (6.07%) Bash
10 24 (5.21%) Perl
11 18 (3.90%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.87%) C#
12 4 (0.87%) Go
12 4 (0.87%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.65%) Scala
14 1 (0.22%) PHP
14 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 85 (18.44%) Security Cleared
2 75 (16.27%) SC Cleared
3 38 (8.24%) Degree
4 36 (7.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (4.12%) DV Cleared
6 17 (3.69%) AWS Certification
7 15 (3.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 15 (3.25%) ITIL Certification
8 12 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.43%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.25%) QA
2 2 (0.43%) Good Clinical Practice
3 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 114 (24.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 71 (15.40%) Kubernetes
2 23 (4.99%) Terraform
3 17 (3.69%) HP Fortify
4 11 (2.39%) Grafana
5 10 (2.17%) Ansible
6 9 (1.95%) Kibana
7 8 (1.74%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.43%) Packer
Vendors
1 26 (5.64%) Oracle
2 19 (4.12%) Splunk
3 10 (2.17%) AppDynamics
4 6 (1.30%) Dynatrace
4 6 (1.30%) IBM
5 4 (0.87%) Pega
6 2 (0.43%) 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