Java Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Java Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Java Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 378 378 252
Rank change year-on-year 0 -126 -40
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 185 456 826
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.50% 0.65% 1.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.68% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 121 379 579
10th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £86,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +6.67%

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 33,156 66,640 54,781
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.03% 94.78% 89.23%
Number of salaries quoted 18,505 47,222 31,088
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Java Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Developer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Java Developer 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 1 May 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 1 May 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
South East +39 82 £60,000 -14.29% 175
Scotland +88 32 £57,500 -4.17% 43
Midlands +83 31 £60,000 +20.00% 116
North of England +26 22 £67,500 +12.50% 154
West Midlands +47 17 £60,000 +9.09% 64
East Midlands +55 14 £60,000 +41.18% 44
North West -18 11 £67,500 +8.00% 81
South West +51 10 £60,000 - 73
Yorkshire +71 8 £44,500 -19.09% 56
Northern Ireland +36 7 - - 14
North East +46 3 - - 17
East of England +44 3 £55,000 +10.00% 92
Java Developer
UK

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Java Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 185 (100.00%) Java
2 109 (58.92%) AWS
3 108 (58.38%) Agile
4 100 (54.05%) Microservices
5 98 (52.97%) Docker
6 88 (47.57%) Spring
7 74 (40.00%) Kubernetes
7 74 (40.00%) Spring Boot
8 71 (38.38%) JUnit
9 64 (34.59%) React
10 62 (33.51%) REST
11 60 (32.43%) SQL
12 58 (31.35%) Hibernate
13 56 (30.27%) PostgreSQL
14 55 (29.73%) TDD
15 53 (28.65%) CI/CD
16 51 (27.57%) Mockito
16 51 (27.57%) Jenkins
17 50 (27.03%) Azure
18 49 (26.49%) Scrum
18 49 (26.49%) Web Services
19 47 (25.41%) Full-Stack Development
20 46 (24.86%) JavaScript
20 46 (24.86%) AngularJS
21 45 (24.32%) Distributed Systems
22 43 (23.24%) Serverless
23 41 (22.16%) Relational Database
23 41 (22.16%) Security Cleared
24 40 (21.62%) Kafka
24 40 (21.62%) DevOps

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (9.19%) JBoss
2 12 (6.49%) Red Hat Fuse
3 6 (3.24%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.24%) Confluence
3 6 (3.24%) OpenStack
3 6 (3.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (2.70%) Apache
5 3 (1.62%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.54%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.54%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 109 (58.92%) AWS
2 50 (27.03%) Azure
3 43 (23.24%) Serverless
4 39 (21.08%) Amazon EKS
5 36 (19.46%) Amazon ECS
6 26 (14.05%) Amazon EC2
7 24 (12.97%) SaaS
8 15 (8.11%) GCP
9 10 (5.41%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (3.24%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.70%) AWS KMS
12 3 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.62%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.62%) BlazeMeter
13 2 (1.08%) Amazon Cognito
13 2 (1.08%) OpenShift
14 1 (0.54%) AWS CloudFormation
14 1 (0.54%) GitHub
14 1 (0.54%) PaaS
14 1 (0.54%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.54%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (30.27%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (22.16%) Relational Database
3 33 (17.84%) NoSQL
4 20 (10.81%) MongoDB
5 19 (10.27%) RDBMS
6 15 (8.11%) MySQL
6 15 (8.11%) SQL Server
7 6 (3.24%) Apache Hive
8 5 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
8 5 (2.70%) Big Data
8 5 (2.70%) DB2
8 5 (2.70%) Hadoop
9 4 (2.16%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.62%) MariaDB
11 2 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (1.08%) BigQuery
11 2 (1.08%) DynamoDB
11 2 (1.08%) Redis
12 1 (0.54%) HBase
Development Applications
1 71 (38.38%) JUnit
2 51 (27.57%) Jenkins
2 51 (27.57%) Mockito
3 39 (21.08%) Git
4 24 (12.97%) Eclipse
5 22 (11.89%) IntelliJ
6 20 (10.81%) Jasmine
6 20 (10.81%) Karma Test Runner
6 20 (10.81%) Protractor
7 18 (9.73%) JMeter
8 13 (7.03%) Maven
9 11 (5.95%) GitLab
10 10 (5.41%) JIRA
10 10 (5.41%) Visual Studio
11 8 (4.32%) Gradle
12 5 (2.70%) DbUnit
12 5 (2.70%) jMock
12 5 (2.70%) Selenium
12 5 (2.70%) SonarQube
13 3 (1.62%) Subversion
General
1 40 (21.62%) Public Sector
2 31 (16.76%) Social Skills
3 29 (15.68%) Finance
4 19 (10.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.32%) Law
7 7 (3.78%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.70%) Banking
8 5 (2.70%) Police
9 4 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.16%) Retail
10 2 (1.08%) Electronics
10 2 (1.08%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.08%) Marketing
10 2 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.54%) Advertising
11 1 (0.54%) Front Office
11 1 (0.54%) Games
11 1 (0.54%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (47.57%) Spring
2 74 (40.00%) Spring Boot
3 64 (34.59%) React
4 62 (33.51%) REST
5 58 (31.35%) Hibernate
6 49 (26.49%) Web Services
7 46 (24.86%) AngularJS
8 40 (21.62%) Kafka
9 38 (20.54%) RESTful
10 34 (18.38%) JPA
11 31 (16.76%) Apache Camel
12 29 (15.68%) J2EE
12 29 (15.68%) RabbitMQ
13 25 (13.51%) HTML
14 23 (12.43%) ActiveMQ
14 23 (12.43%) SOAP
15 19 (10.27%) jQuery
16 18 (9.73%) WireMock
17 12 (6.49%) JSON
17 12 (6.49%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 45 (24.32%) Distributed Systems
2 28 (15.14%) Algorithms
3 10 (5.41%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.32%) Mobile App
5 7 (3.78%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (3.24%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.24%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.16%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.62%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.08%) BBC
9 2 (1.08%) NHS
10 1 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.54%) Derivative
10 1 (0.54%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.54%) Equity Derivative
10 1 (0.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.54%) IoT
10 1 (0.54%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 39 (21.08%) Linux
2 10 (5.41%) Windows
3 5 (2.70%) Rocky
3 5 (2.70%) Unix
4 3 (1.62%) Android
4 3 (1.62%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (58.38%) Agile
2 100 (54.05%) Microservices
3 55 (29.73%) TDD
4 53 (28.65%) CI/CD
5 49 (26.49%) Scrum
6 47 (25.41%) Full-Stack Development
7 40 (21.62%) DevOps
7 40 (21.62%) SDLC
8 39 (21.08%) BDD
8 39 (21.08%) Unit Testing
9 37 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
10 32 (17.30%) Containerisation
11 30 (16.22%) Kanban
12 21 (11.35%) Software Engineering
13 19 (10.27%) Workflow
14 18 (9.73%) Front End Development
14 18 (9.73%) Process Management
15 16 (8.65%) Collaborative Working
16 14 (7.57%) Mentoring
17 13 (7.03%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 185 (100.00%) Java
2 60 (32.43%) SQL
3 46 (24.86%) JavaScript
4 38 (20.54%) Python
5 21 (11.35%) TypeScript
6 19 (10.27%) Shell Script
7 14 (7.57%) C++
8 4 (2.16%) C
9 3 (1.62%) Groovy
10 2 (1.08%) Bash
10 2 (1.08%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.54%) C#
11 1 (0.54%) Go
11 1 (0.54%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 41 (22.16%) Security Cleared
2 35 (18.92%) SC Cleared
3 18 (9.73%) Degree
4 6 (3.24%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.08%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.49%) SLA
2 5 (2.70%) QA
3 3 (1.62%) Accessibility
System Software
1 98 (52.97%) Docker
2 2 (1.08%) Postfix
3 1 (0.54%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 74 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 18 (9.73%) Kibana
3 12 (6.49%) Ansible
4 4 (2.16%) Terraform
5 3 (1.62%) Grafana
Vendors
1 22 (11.89%) IBM
1 22 (11.89%) Splunk
2 21 (11.35%) Dynatrace
3 16 (8.65%) Oracle
4 8 (4.32%) Sybase
5 6 (3.24%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.16%) Google
7 2 (1.08%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.08%) SAP
8 1 (0.54%) Cisco
8 1 (0.54%) Curam