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 11 January 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 360 241
Rank change year-on-year +5 -119 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 156 210 419
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.58% 1.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.63% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 87 105 319
10th Percentile £35,750 £45,700 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,625 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £75,375
90th Percentile £80,500 £83,750 £83,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £84,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -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 37,951 33,588 32,956
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 92.94% 95.36%
Number of salaries quoted 23,133 16,400 24,992
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,743
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 +62 64 £65,000 +13.04% 23
South East -31 42 £75,000 +15.38% 38
Yorkshire - 41 £65,000 - 11
North West +33 23 £65,000 +8.33% 11
Midlands +32 23 £47,000 -21.67% 18
West Midlands +51 20 £36,500 -39.17% 11
South West -8 19 £65,000 +18.18% 11
Scotland -2 11 £45,000 -28.00% 6
Wales - 4 £65,000 - 4
East Midlands -13 3 £58,000 -3.33% 6
North East +1 2 £65,000 +23.81% 1
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 January 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.

1 156 (100.00%) Java
2 94 (60.26%) AWS
3 79 (50.64%) Agile
4 77 (49.36%) Spring Boot
5 72 (46.15%) Spring
6 69 (44.23%) CI/CD
7 62 (39.74%) Docker
8 57 (36.54%) Microservices
9 55 (35.26%) Full-Stack Development
9 55 (35.26%) Kubernetes
10 48 (30.77%) JavaScript
10 48 (30.77%) REST
11 45 (28.85%) TDD
12 44 (28.21%) DevOps
13 43 (27.56%) Serverless
14 41 (26.28%) Jenkins
15 37 (23.72%) Amazon ECS
16 35 (22.44%) React
16 35 (22.44%) SDLC
17 33 (21.15%) PostgreSQL
18 26 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
18 26 (16.67%) Git
18 26 (16.67%) Relational Database
19 25 (16.03%) JUnit
19 25 (16.03%) Scrum
20 24 (15.38%) Hibernate
20 24 (15.38%) Security Cleared
20 24 (15.38%) Web Services
21 23 (14.74%) Amazon S3
21 23 (14.74%) 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 12 (7.69%) OpenStack
2 6 (3.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.28%) JBoss
4 1 (0.64%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.64%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 94 (60.26%) AWS
2 43 (27.56%) Serverless
3 37 (23.72%) Amazon ECS
4 26 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
5 23 (14.74%) Amazon S3
5 23 (14.74%) Azure
6 18 (11.54%) SaaS
7 17 (10.90%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (10.26%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (7.05%) Amazon SQS
9 11 (7.05%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (7.05%) AWS Step Functions
10 10 (6.41%) GitHub
11 8 (5.13%) GCP
12 7 (4.49%) Amazon ECR
12 7 (4.49%) Apigee
13 5 (3.21%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (2.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 2 (1.28%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.21%) Internet
2 1 (0.64%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (21.15%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 13 (8.33%) NoSQL
4 11 (7.05%) DynamoDB
4 11 (7.05%) RDBMS
5 6 (3.85%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (3.21%) MySQL
7 4 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.64%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.64%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 41 (26.28%) Jenkins
2 26 (16.67%) Git
3 25 (16.03%) JUnit
4 22 (14.10%) Mockito
5 17 (10.90%) Maven
6 11 (7.05%) JMeter
7 9 (5.77%) Cypress.io
8 8 (5.13%) GitLab
9 7 (4.49%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.28%) Babel
10 2 (1.28%) Gradle
10 2 (1.28%) webpack
11 1 (0.64%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.64%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.64%) JIRA
11 1 (0.64%) jMock
11 1 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.64%) TestNG
General
1 26 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 21 (13.46%) Finance
3 17 (10.90%) Social Skills
4 6 (3.85%) Financial Institution
4 6 (3.85%) Health Technology
5 5 (3.21%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.28%) Aeronautics
6 2 (1.28%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.28%) Automotive
6 2 (1.28%) Digital Healthcare
6 2 (1.28%) Games
6 2 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (1.28%) Retail
6 2 (1.28%) Tech for Good
7 1 (0.64%) Banking
7 1 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (49.36%) Spring Boot
2 72 (46.15%) Spring
3 48 (30.77%) REST
4 35 (22.44%) React
5 24 (15.38%) Hibernate
5 24 (15.38%) Web Services
6 22 (14.10%) Node.js
7 18 (11.54%) AngularJS
8 15 (9.62%) Apache Camel
8 15 (9.62%) HTML
9 14 (8.97%) Kafka
10 12 (7.69%) ActiveMQ
10 12 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
10 12 (7.69%) JSON
10 12 (7.69%) XML
11 11 (7.05%) jQuery
11 11 (7.05%) WireMock
12 10 (6.41%) RESTful
13 9 (5.77%) Jest
14 8 (5.13%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 28 (17.95%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (4.49%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.21%) IoT
5 4 (2.56%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.28%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.28%) NHS
6 2 (1.28%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.64%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.64%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.77%) Linux
2 2 (1.28%) Android
2 2 (1.28%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (50.64%) Agile
2 69 (44.23%) CI/CD
3 57 (36.54%) Microservices
4 55 (35.26%) Full-Stack Development
5 45 (28.85%) TDD
6 44 (28.21%) DevOps
7 35 (22.44%) SDLC
8 25 (16.03%) Scrum
9 21 (13.46%) BDD
10 20 (12.82%) Clean Code
10 20 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (11.54%) Containerisation
11 18 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (11.54%) Workflow
12 17 (10.90%) Software Engineering
13 15 (9.62%) Process Management
14 14 (8.97%) Front End Development
15 12 (7.69%) Sprint Planning
16 11 (7.05%) Infrastructure as Code
16 11 (7.05%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 156 (100.00%) Java
2 48 (30.77%) JavaScript
3 23 (14.74%) SQL
4 22 (14.10%) Python
5 20 (12.82%) TypeScript
6 13 (8.33%) Bash
6 13 (8.33%) Shell Script
7 11 (7.05%) Kotlin
8 9 (5.77%) Go
9 8 (5.13%) PL/SQL
10 7 (4.49%) Groovy
11 6 (3.85%) R
11 6 (3.85%) Scala
12 4 (2.56%) C
13 2 (1.28%) C#
Qualifications
1 24 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 13 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.85%) AWS Certification
3 6 (3.85%) Degree
4 5 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 4 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.28%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.77%) QA
2 2 (1.28%) Accessibility
System Software
1 62 (39.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 55 (35.26%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.05%) Kibana
3 10 (6.41%) Ansible
4 7 (4.49%) HP Fortify
4 7 (4.49%) Terraform
5 1 (0.64%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (7.05%) Dynatrace
1 11 (7.05%) Oracle
1 11 (7.05%) Splunk
2 4 (2.56%) Pega
2 4 (2.56%) WSO2
3 2 (1.28%) Google