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 6 July 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 409 270
Rank change year-on-year +39 -139 -53
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 235 404 681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.55% 0.52% 1.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.55% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 137 335 451
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,600 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £86,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% -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 38,278 73,597 46,945
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.30% 94.95% 89.00%
Number of salaries quoted 20,511 51,241 29,236
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% +4.74%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 6 July 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 July 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 +23 76 £52,500 -25.00% 59
Scotland +83 56 £57,500 +11.65% 34
North of England +14 46 £65,000 +10.64% 67
Midlands +91 43 £60,000 +33.33% 40
North West -18 34 £65,000 +8.33% 40
West Midlands +85 33 £64,000 +42.22% 26
South West +62 11 £60,000 - 28
Yorkshire +56 11 £60,000 +14.29% 20
East Midlands +47 10 £57,750 +35.88% 14
Northern Ireland +44 9 £45,000 -23.40% 19
North East +39 1 - - 7
East of England +22 1 £45,000 -10.00% 16
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 July 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.

1 235 (100.00%) Java
2 148 (62.98%) Agile
3 128 (54.47%) AWS
4 125 (53.19%) Spring
5 124 (52.77%) Microservices
6 118 (50.21%) Spring Boot
7 109 (46.38%) Docker
8 89 (37.87%) TDD
9 86 (36.60%) Kubernetes
10 75 (31.91%) REST
11 74 (31.49%) PostgreSQL
12 73 (31.06%) CI/CD
13 70 (29.79%) JUnit
14 69 (29.36%) Jenkins
15 68 (28.94%) SQL
16 62 (26.38%) Problem-Solving
16 62 (26.38%) React
17 59 (25.11%) Scrum
17 59 (25.11%) DevOps
17 59 (25.11%) RESTful
18 56 (23.83%) Hibernate
18 56 (23.83%) Full-Stack Development
19 54 (22.98%) Serverless
19 54 (22.98%) Finance
19 54 (22.98%) Security Cleared
20 53 (22.55%) JavaScript
21 52 (22.13%) BDD
22 51 (21.70%) Git
22 51 (21.70%) Web Services
23 50 (21.28%) Relational Database

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 18 (7.66%) JBoss
2 12 (5.11%) Confluence
2 12 (5.11%) Red Hat Fuse
3 11 (4.68%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.55%) OpenStack
5 5 (2.13%) Apache
6 3 (1.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.43%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 128 (54.47%) AWS
2 54 (22.98%) Serverless
3 38 (16.17%) Amazon ECS
3 38 (16.17%) Azure
4 37 (15.74%) Amazon EKS
5 36 (15.32%) Amazon EC2
6 23 (9.79%) Amazon S3
7 18 (7.66%) Amazon SQS
8 14 (5.96%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (5.53%) GCP
10 12 (5.11%) AWS KMS
10 12 (5.11%) SaaS
11 11 (4.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (4.68%) Route 53
12 6 (2.55%) GitHub
13 4 (1.70%) Amazon EMR
13 4 (1.70%) Amazon MSK
14 3 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (1.28%) BlazeMeter
15 2 (0.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.85%) HTTP
2 1 (0.43%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (31.49%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (21.28%) Relational Database
3 33 (14.04%) NoSQL
4 29 (12.34%) MongoDB
5 21 (8.94%) DynamoDB
6 20 (8.51%) RDBMS
7 18 (7.66%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (6.81%) SQL Server
9 15 (6.38%) MySQL
10 14 (5.96%) Amazon Aurora
11 11 (4.68%) Apache Hive
12 10 (4.26%) Big Data
12 10 (4.26%) Hadoop
13 7 (2.98%) DB2
14 6 (2.55%) HBase
15 5 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
15 5 (2.13%) Oracle Database
16 4 (1.70%) Amazon Athena
16 4 (1.70%) Electronic Patient Records
17 2 (0.85%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 70 (29.79%) JUnit
2 69 (29.36%) Jenkins
3 51 (21.70%) Git
4 47 (20.00%) Mockito
5 34 (14.47%) Maven
6 17 (7.23%) JMeter
7 15 (6.38%) JIRA
8 14 (5.96%) SonarQube
9 13 (5.53%) Gradle
10 12 (5.11%) DbUnit
10 12 (5.11%) jMock
11 11 (4.68%) Bitbucket Server
11 11 (4.68%) GitLab
12 10 (4.26%) Eclipse
12 10 (4.26%) IntelliJ
12 10 (4.26%) Visual Studio
13 9 (3.83%) Jasmine
13 9 (3.83%) Karma Test Runner
13 9 (3.83%) Protractor
14 5 (2.13%) Selenium
General
1 54 (22.98%) Finance
2 50 (21.28%) Public Sector
3 41 (17.45%) Social Skills
4 33 (14.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 30 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (8.51%) Law
7 14 (5.96%) Banking
8 11 (4.68%) Games
9 6 (2.55%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.13%) Marketing
10 5 (2.13%) Police
11 4 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.70%) Private Banking
12 3 (1.28%) Retail
13 2 (0.85%) Advertising
13 2 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.43%) Front Office
14 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (53.19%) Spring
2 118 (50.21%) Spring Boot
3 75 (31.91%) REST
4 62 (26.38%) React
5 59 (25.11%) RESTful
6 56 (23.83%) Hibernate
7 51 (21.70%) Web Services
8 50 (21.28%) Kafka
9 48 (20.43%) AngularJS
10 39 (16.60%) JPA
11 32 (13.62%) ActiveMQ
12 31 (13.19%) SOAP
13 29 (12.34%) Apache Camel
14 28 (11.91%) HTML
15 27 (11.49%) J2EE
16 23 (9.79%) jQuery
17 21 (8.94%) RabbitMQ
18 17 (7.23%) WireMock
19 15 (6.38%) Bootstrap
20 13 (5.53%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 45 (19.15%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (7.23%) Algorithms
3 13 (5.53%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (3.83%) e-Learning
4 9 (3.83%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (3.83%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.40%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.98%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.98%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (2.13%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.13%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.70%) Distributed Applications
8 4 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (0.85%) BBC
9 2 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.85%) IoT
9 2 (0.85%) Life Science
10 1 (0.43%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 42 (17.87%) Linux
2 12 (5.11%) Unix
3 10 (4.26%) Windows
4 5 (2.13%) Rocky
5 1 (0.43%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (62.98%) Agile
2 124 (52.77%) Microservices
3 89 (37.87%) TDD
4 73 (31.06%) CI/CD
5 62 (26.38%) Problem-Solving
6 59 (25.11%) DevOps
6 59 (25.11%) Scrum
7 56 (23.83%) Full-Stack Development
8 52 (22.13%) BDD
9 45 (19.15%) SDLC
10 38 (16.17%) Test Automation
11 37 (15.74%) Kanban
12 36 (15.32%) Software Engineering
13 35 (14.89%) Unit Testing
14 32 (13.62%) Containerisation
15 31 (13.19%) Front End Development
16 27 (11.49%) Clean Code
17 24 (10.21%) Continuous Integration
18 18 (7.66%) User Experience
18 18 (7.66%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 235 (100.00%) Java
2 68 (28.94%) SQL
3 53 (22.55%) JavaScript
4 32 (13.62%) Python
5 24 (10.21%) TypeScript
6 19 (8.09%) Shell Script
7 14 (5.96%) C++
8 10 (4.26%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.70%) C
9 4 (1.70%) Groovy
10 3 (1.28%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.85%) Bash
12 1 (0.43%) C#
12 1 (0.43%) Go
12 1 (0.43%) Ruby
12 1 (0.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 54 (22.98%) Security Cleared
2 45 (19.15%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.96%) Degree
4 7 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.55%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.70%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.11%) SLA
2 4 (1.70%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.28%) QA
System Software
1 109 (46.38%) Docker
2 6 (2.55%) HDFS
3 4 (1.70%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 86 (36.60%) Kubernetes
2 17 (7.23%) Kibana
3 16 (6.81%) Terraform
4 12 (5.11%) Ansible
5 7 (2.98%) Grafana
6 4 (1.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (9.36%) Oracle
1 22 (9.36%) Splunk
2 20 (8.51%) Dynatrace
3 11 (4.68%) Atlassian
3 11 (4.68%) IBM
4 8 (3.40%) Sybase
5 6 (2.55%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.13%) Cloudera
6 5 (2.13%) Databricks
6 5 (2.13%) Jaspersoft
7 3 (1.28%) Google
8 2 (0.85%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.85%) Microsoft
9 1 (0.43%) Cisco
9 1 (0.43%) Curam
9 1 (0.43%) Veracode