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 6 December 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 357 247
Rank change year-on-year -6 -110 -30
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 145 248 345
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.57% 1.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.61% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 77 125 262
10th Percentile £45,750 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £46,750 £51,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £71,000 £70,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £78,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 35,129 40,705 27,657
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.88% 93.83% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 21,798 21,448 21,024
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,125 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,965 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.11% -3.39% -

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 6 December 2025.

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 6 December 2025. 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 +65 59 £65,000 +18.18% 27
South East -29 40 £68,750 +5.77% 38
North West +54 34 £65,000 +18.18% 15
Yorkshire +25 24 £57,500 - 8
Midlands +43 22 £62,500 +4.17% 3
West Midlands +49 17 £65,000 +170.83% 3
Scotland -5 16 £30,000 -51.02% 7
South West -4 14 £65,000 +30.00% 13
East Midlands +13 5 £58,000 -3.33%
Wales +8 3 £65,000 +4.00% 3
North East +5 3 £65,000 +23.81% 5
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 December 2025, 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.

1 145 (100.00%) Java
2 93 (64.14%) AWS
3 88 (60.69%) Agile
4 87 (60.00%) Spring
5 83 (57.24%) Spring Boot
6 70 (48.28%) CI/CD
7 69 (47.59%) Microservices
8 61 (42.07%) Kubernetes
9 60 (41.38%) Docker
10 57 (39.31%) TDD
11 55 (37.93%) JavaScript
12 51 (35.17%) REST
13 49 (33.79%) Full-Stack Development
14 42 (28.97%) Serverless
15 41 (28.28%) Jenkins
15 41 (28.28%) PostgreSQL
16 39 (26.90%) DevOps
17 35 (24.14%) React
17 35 (24.14%) Relational Database
18 33 (22.76%) Amazon ECS
18 33 (22.76%) Clean Code
19 32 (22.07%) BDD
20 31 (21.38%) Amazon EKS
20 31 (21.38%) Hibernate
20 31 (21.38%) SDLC
21 30 (20.69%) JUnit
21 30 (20.69%) Python
22 29 (20.00%) Web Services
23 28 (19.31%) Security Cleared
24 26 (17.93%) HTML

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 (6.21%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.76%) JBoss
3 2 (1.38%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.38%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.69%) Confluence
4 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.69%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 93 (64.14%) AWS
2 42 (28.97%) Serverless
3 33 (22.76%) Amazon ECS
4 31 (21.38%) Amazon EKS
5 24 (16.55%) Amazon EC2
6 23 (15.86%) Azure
7 12 (8.28%) Amazon S3
8 11 (7.59%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (7.59%) SaaS
9 8 (5.52%) GCP
9 8 (5.52%) GitHub
10 5 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.38%) OpenShift
13 1 (0.69%) Amazon ECR
13 1 (0.69%) Amazon EMR
13 1 (0.69%) Amazon MSK
13 1 (0.69%) Apigee
13 1 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (0.69%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.07%) Internet
2 1 (0.69%) HTTP
2 1 (0.69%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (28.28%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (24.14%) Relational Database
3 18 (12.41%) RDBMS
4 13 (8.97%) NoSQL
5 10 (6.90%) MongoDB
6 7 (4.83%) MySQL
7 6 (4.14%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.76%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.38%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.38%) Big Data
9 2 (1.38%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.38%) HBase
10 1 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.69%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 41 (28.28%) Jenkins
2 30 (20.69%) JUnit
3 26 (17.93%) Mockito
4 23 (15.86%) Git
5 18 (12.41%) JMeter
6 12 (8.28%) Maven
7 5 (3.45%) Gradle
8 4 (2.76%) Babel
8 4 (2.76%) JIRA
8 4 (2.76%) webpack
9 3 (2.07%) Cypress.io
9 3 (2.07%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.38%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.38%) GitLab
10 2 (1.38%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.69%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.69%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.69%) jMock
11 1 (0.69%) Selenium
General
1 33 (22.76%) Public Sector
2 29 (20.00%) Finance
3 16 (11.03%) Social Skills
4 9 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.14%) Financial Institution
5 6 (4.14%) Games
6 5 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.76%) Law
8 3 (2.07%) Banking
8 3 (2.07%) Health Technology
8 3 (2.07%) Retail
9 2 (1.38%) Aeronautics
9 2 (1.38%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.38%) Automotive
9 2 (1.38%) Marketing
9 2 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (60.00%) Spring
2 83 (57.24%) Spring Boot
3 51 (35.17%) REST
4 35 (24.14%) React
5 31 (21.38%) Hibernate
6 29 (20.00%) Web Services
7 26 (17.93%) HTML
8 23 (15.86%) Apache Camel
8 23 (15.86%) RESTful
9 19 (13.10%) ActiveMQ
9 19 (13.10%) jQuery
10 18 (12.41%) JSON
10 18 (12.41%) WireMock
10 18 (12.41%) XML
11 16 (11.03%) Node.js
12 15 (10.34%) Kafka
13 9 (6.21%) AngularJS
13 9 (6.21%) Elastic Stack
14 7 (4.83%) CSS
14 7 (4.83%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 33 (22.76%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (7.59%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.83%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.07%) e-Learning
4 3 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.07%) IoT
5 2 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.38%) Sports Betting
5 2 (1.38%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.69%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.69%) NHS
6 1 (0.69%) Online Games
6 1 (0.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.14%) Linux
2 4 (2.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (60.69%) Agile
2 70 (48.28%) CI/CD
3 69 (47.59%) Microservices
4 57 (39.31%) TDD
5 49 (33.79%) Full-Stack Development
6 39 (26.90%) DevOps
7 33 (22.76%) Clean Code
8 32 (22.07%) BDD
9 31 (21.38%) SDLC
10 24 (16.55%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (15.86%) Workflow
12 22 (15.17%) Process Management
12 22 (15.17%) Scrum
13 21 (14.48%) Continuous Improvement
14 20 (13.79%) Front End Development
14 20 (13.79%) Software Engineering
15 15 (10.34%) Containerisation
15 15 (10.34%) Test Automation
16 12 (8.28%) Mentoring
16 12 (8.28%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 145 (100.00%) Java
2 55 (37.93%) JavaScript
3 30 (20.69%) Python
4 25 (17.24%) SQL
5 21 (14.48%) Shell Script
6 13 (8.97%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.52%) Kotlin
8 7 (4.83%) Go
8 7 (4.83%) Scala
9 6 (4.14%) PL/SQL
10 4 (2.76%) C#
11 3 (2.07%) Bash
12 2 (1.38%) Groovy
12 2 (1.38%) R
Qualifications
1 28 (19.31%) Security Cleared
2 13 (8.97%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.83%) Degree
4 6 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.76%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.45%) QA
2 4 (2.76%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.69%) SLA
System Software
1 60 (41.38%) Docker
2 2 (1.38%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 61 (42.07%) Kubernetes
2 18 (12.41%) Kibana
3 9 (6.21%) Terraform
4 8 (5.52%) Ansible
5 1 (0.69%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.69%) PingFederate
5 1 (0.69%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (12.41%) Dynatrace
1 18 (12.41%) Splunk
2 9 (6.21%) Oracle
3 4 (2.76%) Pega
3 4 (2.76%) WSO2
4 2 (1.38%) Cloudera
4 2 (1.38%) Databricks
5 1 (0.69%) Google
5 1 (0.69%) Veracode