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 10 February 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 361 258
Rank change year-on-year +26 -103 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 195 186 514
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.56% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.61% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 115 87 411
10th Percentile £37,450 £43,500 £41,227
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,500 £68,125 £79,375
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £84,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -9.09%

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 42,471 30,284 47,221
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.03% 91.71% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 26,271 14,673 36,728
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

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 10 February 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 10 February 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 +65 88 £68,750 +25.00% 35
South East -30 54 £80,000 +23.08% 37
Yorkshire +16 52 £72,500 - 17
North West +44 36 £65,000 +15.04% 13
Midlands +15 20 £35,000 -41.67% 11
South West -18 20 £65,000 +30.00% 8
West Midlands +31 19 £35,000 -41.67% 10
Scotland -8 14 £45,000 -23.73% 10
Wales - 4 £65,000 -
East Midlands -21 1 £62,500 +4.17% 1
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 February 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.

1 195 (100.00%) Java
2 106 (54.36%) AWS
3 88 (45.13%) Agile
3 88 (45.13%) Spring Boot
4 84 (43.08%) CI/CD
5 75 (38.46%) Docker
6 74 (37.95%) Spring
7 65 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
8 59 (30.26%) DevOps
9 58 (29.74%) Microservices
10 55 (28.21%) Kubernetes
10 55 (28.21%) Serverless
11 50 (25.64%) Jenkins
12 49 (25.13%) REST
13 48 (24.62%) Amazon ECS
14 46 (23.59%) JavaScript
15 42 (21.54%) SDLC
15 42 (21.54%) TDD
16 37 (18.97%) Amazon S3
16 37 (18.97%) SQL
17 35 (17.95%) React
18 34 (17.44%) Git
19 33 (16.92%) PostgreSQL
20 32 (16.41%) AngularJS
21 31 (15.90%) AWS Lambda
22 28 (14.36%) TypeScript
23 27 (13.85%) Node.js
23 27 (13.85%) Security Cleared
24 26 (13.33%) Maven
25 25 (12.82%) 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 (6.15%) OpenStack
2 7 (3.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.54%) JBoss
4 1 (0.51%) Confluence
4 1 (0.51%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 106 (54.36%) AWS
2 55 (28.21%) Serverless
3 48 (24.62%) Amazon ECS
4 37 (18.97%) Amazon S3
5 31 (15.90%) AWS Lambda
6 25 (12.82%) Azure
7 24 (12.31%) Amazon EKS
7 24 (12.31%) AWS CloudFormation
7 24 (12.31%) AWS Step Functions
8 20 (10.26%) SaaS
9 19 (9.74%) Amazon SQS
10 15 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (7.69%) Amazon ECR
10 15 (7.69%) Apigee
10 15 (7.69%) GitHub
11 9 (4.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (4.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 9 (4.62%) GCP
12 7 (3.59%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (2.05%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.56%) Internet
2 1 (0.51%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (16.92%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (12.31%) DynamoDB
3 23 (11.79%) Relational Database
4 20 (10.26%) NoSQL
5 9 (4.62%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (4.62%) RDBMS
6 6 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (3.08%) MySQL
7 5 (2.56%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.54%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.51%) CockroachDB
9 1 (0.51%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.51%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 50 (25.64%) Jenkins
2 34 (17.44%) Git
3 26 (13.33%) Maven
4 23 (11.79%) JUnit
5 20 (10.26%) Mockito
6 18 (9.23%) GitLab
7 17 (8.72%) Cypress.io
8 16 (8.21%) SonarQube
9 9 (4.62%) JMeter
10 3 (1.54%) Gradle
11 2 (1.03%) JIRA
12 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.51%) IntelliJ
12 1 (0.51%) jMock
12 1 (0.51%) Selenium
12 1 (0.51%) TestNG
General
1 24 (12.31%) Public Sector
2 21 (10.77%) Finance
3 19 (9.74%) Social Skills
4 11 (5.64%) Health Technology
5 6 (3.08%) Financial Institution
6 5 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.05%) Banking
7 4 (2.05%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.54%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (1.03%) Aeronautics
9 2 (1.03%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.03%) Automotive
9 2 (1.03%) Aviation
9 2 (1.03%) Games
9 2 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.03%) Retail
10 1 (0.51%) Advertising
10 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (45.13%) Spring Boot
2 74 (37.95%) Spring
3 49 (25.13%) REST
4 35 (17.95%) React
5 32 (16.41%) AngularJS
6 27 (13.85%) Node.js
7 24 (12.31%) Hibernate
8 23 (11.79%) Web Services
9 18 (9.23%) Jest
10 15 (7.69%) Gherkin
11 13 (6.67%) Apache Camel
11 13 (6.67%) Kafka
12 12 (6.15%) Elastic Stack
13 11 (5.64%) HTML
13 11 (5.64%) JSON
13 11 (5.64%) RESTful
14 10 (5.13%) ActiveMQ
14 10 (5.13%) XML
15 9 (4.62%) jQuery
15 9 (4.62%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 27 (13.85%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (4.10%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.56%) IoT
5 4 (2.05%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.05%) NHS
6 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.03%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.03%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.51%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.51%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.62%) Linux
2 2 (1.03%) Android
2 2 (1.03%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (45.13%) Agile
2 84 (43.08%) CI/CD
3 65 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 59 (30.26%) DevOps
5 58 (29.74%) Microservices
6 42 (21.54%) SDLC
6 42 (21.54%) TDD
7 25 (12.82%) Scrum
8 23 (11.79%) Clean Code
8 23 (11.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 23 (11.79%) Software Engineering
9 21 (10.77%) Containerisation
10 20 (10.26%) BDD
11 18 (9.23%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (8.72%) Workflow
13 16 (8.21%) Secure Coding
14 15 (7.69%) Front End Development
15 13 (6.67%) Process Management
16 12 (6.15%) Continuous Integration
16 12 (6.15%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 195 (100.00%) Java
2 46 (23.59%) JavaScript
3 37 (18.97%) SQL
4 28 (14.36%) TypeScript
5 21 (10.77%) Bash
6 19 (9.74%) Python
7 15 (7.69%) Groovy
8 14 (7.18%) Kotlin
9 10 (5.13%) Shell Script
10 9 (4.62%) Go
10 9 (4.62%) PL/SQL
11 6 (3.08%) R
12 4 (2.05%) C
12 4 (2.05%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (13.85%) Security Cleared
2 14 (7.18%) AWS Certification
2 14 (7.18%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 12 (6.15%) ITIL Certification
4 6 (3.08%) Degree
5 5 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.03%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.13%) QA
System Software
1 75 (38.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 55 (28.21%) Kubernetes
2 15 (7.69%) HP Fortify
3 10 (5.13%) Ansible
4 9 (4.62%) Kibana
5 7 (3.59%) Terraform
6 1 (0.51%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 13 (6.67%) Oracle
2 9 (4.62%) Dynatrace
2 9 (4.62%) Splunk
3 4 (2.05%) Pega
3 4 (2.05%) WSO2
4 2 (1.03%) Google
5 1 (0.51%) Cognos
5 1 (0.51%) IBM
5 1 (0.51%) Veracode
5 1 (0.51%) VMware