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 2 June 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 334 384
Rank change year-on-year +71 +50 -110
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 408 205 426
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.60% 0.70% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.79% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 293 125 359
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £37,200
25th Percentile £53,750 £48,750 £45,000
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 £77,000 £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 63,341 26,001 69,927
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.87% 89.03% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 42,359 13,849 50,656
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,967 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +1.93% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £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 2 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 2 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 +133 238 £67,500 +3.85% 28
Yorkshire +51 109 £75,000 +68.54% 9
South East -12 80 £80,000 +23.08% 13
North West +50 78 £65,000 - 11
North East +9 51 £50,000 - 8
South West -36 33 £58,750 -2.08% 12
Scotland -15 20 £60,000 +4.35% 7
West Midlands -36 19 £35,750 -40.42% 3
Midlands -45 19 £35,750 -40.42% 3
Wales - 15 £65,000 - 6
East of England 0 9 £50,000 +11.11% 4
Northern Ireland -47 1 - -
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 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.

1 408 (100.00%) Java
2 149 (36.52%) AWS
3 124 (30.39%) CI/CD
4 119 (29.17%) Full-Stack Development
5 114 (27.94%) Agile
6 107 (26.23%) Spring Boot
7 106 (25.98%) DevOps
7 106 (25.98%) Spring
8 104 (25.49%) Docker
9 92 (22.55%) Serverless
10 89 (21.81%) AngularJS
11 84 (20.59%) Microservices
12 78 (19.12%) Jenkins
13 76 (18.63%) Amazon ECS
14 74 (18.14%) Security Cleared
15 71 (17.40%) Amazon S3
15 71 (17.40%) AWS Lambda
16 67 (16.42%) SQL
17 66 (16.18%) SC Cleared
18 65 (15.93%) AWS CloudFormation
19 63 (15.44%) Git
20 60 (14.71%) TypeScript
21 56 (13.73%) DynamoDB
22 55 (13.48%) AWS Step Functions
23 54 (13.24%) Kubernetes
24 51 (12.50%) JavaScript
25 50 (12.25%) React
26 48 (11.76%) TDD
27 46 (11.27%) Scrum
27 46 (11.27%) SDLC

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 (2.21%) OpenStack
2 7 (1.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (1.47%) JBoss
4 2 (0.49%) CICS
5 1 (0.25%) Confluence
5 1 (0.25%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.25%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.25%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 149 (36.52%) AWS
2 92 (22.55%) Serverless
3 76 (18.63%) Amazon ECS
4 71 (17.40%) Amazon S3
4 71 (17.40%) AWS Lambda
5 65 (15.93%) AWS CloudFormation
6 55 (13.48%) AWS Step Functions
7 32 (7.84%) Amazon SQS
8 30 (7.35%) Azure
9 28 (6.86%) Amazon ECR
9 28 (6.86%) Apigee
10 27 (6.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 27 (6.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 26 (6.37%) GitHub
12 21 (5.15%) SaaS
13 19 (4.66%) Amazon EKS
14 13 (3.19%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (2.94%) Datadog
15 12 (2.94%) GCP
16 9 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.49%) Internet
2 1 (0.25%) ATM
2 1 (0.25%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.25%) HTTP
2 1 (0.25%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (13.73%) DynamoDB
2 39 (9.56%) NoSQL
3 29 (7.11%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (6.62%) Amazon Athena
5 22 (5.39%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.21%) MySQL
7 4 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.98%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.49%) Couchbase
8 2 (0.49%) DB2
8 2 (0.49%) Hazelcast
8 2 (0.49%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.49%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.49%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.25%) CockroachDB
9 1 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.25%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 78 (19.12%) Jenkins
2 63 (15.44%) Git
3 45 (11.03%) Maven
4 40 (9.80%) GitLab
5 32 (7.84%) SonarQube
6 29 (7.11%) Cypress.io
7 27 (6.62%) JUnit
8 13 (3.19%) Mockito
9 11 (2.70%) Eclipse
9 11 (2.70%) JIRA
10 6 (1.47%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.47%) Subversion
11 5 (1.23%) JMeter
12 4 (0.98%) Gradle
12 4 (0.98%) IntelliJ
12 4 (0.98%) Selenium
12 4 (0.98%) Spock
13 2 (0.49%) Artifactory
14 1 (0.25%) Karma Test Runner
14 1 (0.25%) TestNG
General
1 44 (10.78%) Finance
2 35 (8.58%) Social Skills
3 24 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 17 (4.17%) Banking
5 11 (2.70%) Health Technology
6 9 (2.21%) Advertising
7 6 (1.47%) Aviation
7 6 (1.47%) Tech for Good
8 5 (1.23%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.23%) Investment Banking
9 4 (0.98%) Digital Health
10 3 (0.74%) Digital Healthcare
10 3 (0.74%) Retail
11 2 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.25%) Aeronautics
12 1 (0.25%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.25%) Automotive
12 1 (0.25%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.25%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (26.23%) Spring Boot
2 106 (25.98%) Spring
3 89 (21.81%) AngularJS
4 50 (12.25%) React
5 43 (10.54%) Node.js
6 39 (9.56%) REST
7 31 (7.60%) Gherkin
7 31 (7.60%) Jest
8 27 (6.62%) RESTful
9 21 (5.15%) Web Services
10 18 (4.41%) Kafka
11 16 (3.92%) Elastic Stack
12 15 (3.68%) HTML
13 14 (3.43%) JPA
14 13 (3.19%) Hibernate
15 11 (2.70%) CSS
15 11 (2.70%) J2EE
15 11 (2.70%) Spring MVC
16 10 (2.45%) Mustache
17 7 (1.72%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.37%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (2.45%) Cloud Native
3 6 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (1.23%) Private Cloud
5 4 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (0.98%) Management Information System
5 4 (0.98%) NHS
6 2 (0.49%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (0.49%) IoT
6 2 (0.49%) Mainframe
6 2 (0.49%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.49%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.25%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.25%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.25%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.25%) Lidar
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.15%) Linux
2 2 (0.49%) Android
2 2 (0.49%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (30.39%) CI/CD
2 119 (29.17%) Full-Stack Development
3 114 (27.94%) Agile
4 106 (25.98%) DevOps
5 84 (20.59%) Microservices
6 48 (11.76%) TDD
7 46 (11.27%) Scrum
7 46 (11.27%) SDLC
8 38 (9.31%) Software Engineering
9 37 (9.07%) Clean Code
10 31 (7.60%) Containerisation
11 29 (7.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (6.62%) Mentoring
13 26 (6.37%) Continuous Integration
13 26 (6.37%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (6.13%) Secure Coding
14 25 (6.13%) Test Automation
15 24 (5.88%) Digital Transformation Programme
16 23 (5.64%) ITIL
16 23 (5.64%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 408 (100.00%) Java
2 67 (16.42%) SQL
3 60 (14.71%) TypeScript
4 51 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 38 (9.31%) Bash
5 38 (9.31%) Groovy
6 34 (8.33%) Python
7 32 (7.84%) Kotlin
8 18 (4.41%) C++
8 18 (4.41%) PL/SQL
9 6 (1.47%) Go
9 6 (1.47%) Perl
10 4 (0.98%) C
10 4 (0.98%) R
11 3 (0.74%) C#
11 3 (0.74%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.25%) PHP
12 1 (0.25%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 74 (18.14%) Security Cleared
2 66 (16.18%) SC Cleared
3 27 (6.62%) AWS Certification
4 22 (5.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 22 (5.39%) ITIL Certification
5 16 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.92%) Degree
6 12 (2.94%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.45%) QA
2 2 (0.49%) Good Clinical Practice
3 1 (0.25%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 104 (25.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 54 (13.24%) Kubernetes
2 28 (6.86%) HP Fortify
3 18 (4.41%) Terraform
4 12 (2.94%) Ansible
5 9 (2.21%) Kibana
6 4 (0.98%) Grafana
7 2 (0.49%) Packer
8 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (6.62%) Oracle
2 10 (2.45%) AppDynamics
2 10 (2.45%) Splunk
3 7 (1.72%) IBM
4 4 (0.98%) Dynatrace
4 4 (0.98%) Pega
5 2 (0.49%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.25%) Cognos
6 1 (0.25%) Google
6 1 (0.25%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.25%) Veracode
6 1 (0.25%) VMware
6 1 (0.25%) WSO2