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 £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 September 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 346 372
Rank change year-on-year +46 +26 -98
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 458 201 286
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.53% 0.59% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.66% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 326 110 167
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,375 £24,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £64,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% +7.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £84,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -9.38% -

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 80,209 30,649 50,643
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.05% 89.46% 95.27%
Number of salaries quoted 55,505 17,128 28,506
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 29 September 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 29 September 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 +57 199 £65,000 - 38
South East -24 82 £75,000 +42.86% 12
North East +2 75 £60,000 -7.69% 13
Yorkshire +23 73 £77,500 +67.57% 8
South West -23 68 £52,500 -12.50% 6
North West -13 51 £65,000 - 17
Wales - 35 £70,000 - 7
Midlands -54 32 £70,000 +8.53% 24
West Midlands -42 29 £70,000 +3.70% 23
Scotland -10 23 £90,000 +56.52% 27
Northern Ireland -75 15 £60,000 +33.33% 15
East of England -24 8 £57,500 +27.78% 2
East Midlands -46 3 - - 1
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 September 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.

1 458 (100.00%) Java
2 137 (29.91%) AWS
3 134 (29.26%) Spring
4 124 (27.07%) Microservices
5 119 (25.98%) Full-Stack Development
6 114 (24.89%) CI/CD
7 112 (24.45%) Spring Boot
8 111 (24.24%) Docker
9 105 (22.93%) Agile
10 93 (20.31%) Security Cleared
11 92 (20.09%) DevOps
12 83 (18.12%) Git
13 81 (17.69%) SC Cleared
14 79 (17.25%) Kubernetes
15 69 (15.07%) AngularJS
16 63 (13.76%) Serverless
17 61 (13.32%) JavaScript
18 59 (12.88%) Python
19 57 (12.45%) AWS CloudFormation
19 57 (12.45%) Jenkins
19 57 (12.45%) React
20 55 (12.01%) RESTful
21 54 (11.79%) Scrum
21 54 (11.79%) Software Engineering
21 54 (11.79%) SQL
21 54 (11.79%) TDD
22 53 (11.57%) Amazon ECS
22 53 (11.57%) Problem-Solving
23 52 (11.35%) Azure
24 50 (10.92%) C++

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 7 (1.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (0.66%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.44%) CMS
3 2 (0.44%) JBoss
3 2 (0.44%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.22%) Apache
4 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.22%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 137 (29.91%) AWS
2 63 (13.76%) Serverless
3 57 (12.45%) AWS CloudFormation
4 53 (11.57%) Amazon ECS
5 52 (11.35%) Azure
6 48 (10.48%) AWS Lambda
7 47 (10.26%) Amazon S3
8 37 (8.08%) AWS Step Functions
9 34 (7.42%) GitHub
10 32 (6.99%) GCP
11 22 (4.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 22 (4.80%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (4.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 19 (4.15%) Amazon SQS
13 17 (3.71%) Datadog
14 16 (3.49%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (2.18%) GitHub Copilot
16 9 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
16 9 (1.97%) Amazon ECR
16 9 (1.97%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.22%) ATM
1 1 (0.22%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.22%) HTTP
1 1 (0.22%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (10.04%) NoSQL
2 32 (6.99%) DynamoDB
2 32 (6.99%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (6.11%) MongoDB
4 25 (5.46%) MySQL
5 20 (4.37%) Relational Database
6 18 (3.93%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (1.97%) SQL Server
8 3 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.44%) Couchbase
9 2 (0.44%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.22%) Big Data
10 1 (0.22%) GIS
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 83 (18.12%) Git
2 57 (12.45%) Jenkins
3 43 (9.39%) JUnit
4 31 (6.77%) Eclipse
5 27 (5.90%) Subversion
6 26 (5.68%) Maven
7 22 (4.80%) GitLab
8 14 (3.06%) Mockito
8 14 (3.06%) SonarQube
9 10 (2.18%) Cypress.io
10 6 (1.31%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.31%) JIRA
10 6 (1.31%) JMeter
11 4 (0.87%) Spock
12 3 (0.66%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.66%) Postman
12 3 (0.66%) Selenium
13 2 (0.44%) Gatling
14 1 (0.22%) Terragrunt
14 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 54 (11.79%) Finance
2 38 (8.30%) Public Sector
3 28 (6.11%) Social Skills
4 24 (5.24%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (5.24%) Banking
5 10 (2.18%) Health Technology
6 7 (1.53%) Retail
7 5 (1.09%) Advertising
7 5 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (0.87%) Aviation
8 4 (0.87%) Telecoms
9 3 (0.66%) Digital Health
10 2 (0.44%) Law
10 2 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.44%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.22%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.22%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (29.26%) Spring
2 112 (24.45%) Spring Boot
3 69 (15.07%) AngularJS
4 57 (12.45%) React
5 55 (12.01%) RESTful
6 39 (8.52%) Kafka
7 37 (8.08%) Web Services
8 35 (7.64%) Hibernate
8 35 (7.64%) Jakarta EE
9 33 (7.21%) REST
10 32 (6.99%) JPA
11 28 (6.11%) Node.js
12 27 (5.90%) Struts
13 26 (5.68%) Terraform
14 22 (4.80%) RabbitMQ
15 16 (3.49%) Gherkin
16 11 (2.40%) Jest
17 10 (2.18%) Elastic Stack
17 10 (2.18%) HTML
18 8 (1.75%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 32 (6.99%) Distributed Systems
2 31 (6.77%) Cloud Native
3 21 (4.59%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (4.37%) Product Ownership
5 17 (3.71%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (3.06%) Virtual Team
7 7 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.09%) Private Cloud
9 4 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.44%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.22%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.22%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.22%) Distributed Applications
11 1 (0.22%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.22%) Lidar
11 1 (0.22%) Life Science
11 1 (0.22%) NHS
11 1 (0.22%) PKI
11 1 (0.22%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.22%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 41 (8.95%) Linux
2 7 (1.53%) Unix
3 1 (0.22%) CentOS
3 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (27.07%) Microservices
2 119 (25.98%) Full-Stack Development
3 114 (24.89%) CI/CD
4 105 (22.93%) Agile
5 92 (20.09%) DevOps
6 54 (11.79%) Scrum
6 54 (11.79%) Software Engineering
6 54 (11.79%) TDD
7 53 (11.57%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (10.04%) Containerisation
9 45 (9.83%) Mentoring
9 45 (9.83%) SDLC
10 43 (9.39%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 42 (9.17%) Technical Architecture
12 38 (8.30%) Computer Science
13 34 (7.42%) Continuous Improvement
14 29 (6.33%) Continuous Integration
14 29 (6.33%) Technical Leadership
15 28 (6.11%) Secure Coding
16 27 (5.90%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 458 (100.00%) Java
2 61 (13.32%) JavaScript
3 59 (12.88%) Python
4 54 (11.79%) SQL
5 50 (10.92%) C++
6 40 (8.73%) TypeScript
7 29 (6.33%) Kotlin
8 26 (5.68%) Perl
9 21 (4.59%) Groovy
10 20 (4.37%) Bash
11 19 (4.15%) PL/SQL
12 5 (1.09%) C#
12 5 (1.09%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.87%) Go
14 3 (0.66%) Scala
15 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 93 (20.31%) Security Cleared
2 81 (17.69%) SC Cleared
3 38 (8.30%) Degree
4 36 (7.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (5.02%) DV Cleared
6 15 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.97%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.44%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.02%) QA
2 2 (0.44%) Good Clinical Practice
3 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 111 (24.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 79 (17.25%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.15%) Grafana
3 15 (3.28%) Prometheus
4 10 (2.18%) Ansible
4 10 (2.18%) Kibana
5 9 (1.97%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.44%) Argo
6 2 (0.44%) Packer
7 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (5.90%) Splunk
2 24 (5.24%) Oracle
3 10 (2.18%) AppDynamics
4 8 (1.75%) Dynatrace
5 6 (1.31%) IBM
6 2 (0.44%) Microsoft
6 2 (0.44%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.22%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.22%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.22%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.22%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.22%) Workday
7 1 (0.22%) YouTube