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 22 April 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 317 372
Rank change year-on-year +19 +55 -94
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 315 191 460
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.71% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.81% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 217 127 390
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £68,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% -8.33% -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 59,274 23,640 63,571
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.06% 88.46% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 37,696 14,694 46,654
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £26,720
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £76,985
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 +77 166 £70,000 +5.66% 31
Yorkshire +17 87 £75,000 +68.54% 8
South East -58 69 £80,000 +33.33% 19
North West +23 60 £67,500 - 11
South West -36 29 £65,000 +8.33% 4
Scotland -28 20 £60,000 +4.35% 8
West Midlands -23 19 £36,500 -39.17%
North East -26 19 £45,000 - 12
Midlands -59 19 £36,500 -39.17% 1
Wales - 14 £65,000 - 1
East of England -25 7 £50,000 -9.09% 8
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 April 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.

1 315 (100.00%) Java
2 126 (40.00%) AWS
3 103 (32.70%) Spring Boot
4 101 (32.06%) Agile
4 101 (32.06%) CI/CD
5 87 (27.62%) Docker
6 85 (26.98%) DevOps
7 84 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 83 (26.35%) Spring
9 80 (25.40%) Serverless
10 68 (21.59%) Jenkins
11 67 (21.27%) Amazon ECS
12 66 (20.95%) Amazon S3
13 64 (20.32%) AngularJS
14 63 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
15 58 (18.41%) Microservices
15 58 (18.41%) SQL
16 55 (17.46%) Security Cleared
17 53 (16.83%) AWS CloudFormation
18 52 (16.51%) Kubernetes
18 52 (16.51%) TypeScript
19 50 (15.87%) DynamoDB
20 48 (15.24%) Git
21 47 (14.92%) SC Cleared
22 45 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
23 44 (13.97%) JavaScript
24 41 (13.02%) REST
25 40 (12.70%) React
25 40 (12.70%) SDLC
26 39 (12.38%) Maven

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 10 (3.17%) OpenStack
2 6 (1.90%) JBoss
2 6 (1.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.63%) CICS
3 2 (0.63%) WildFly
4 1 (0.32%) Confluence
4 1 (0.32%) PegaRULES
4 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.32%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 126 (40.00%) AWS
2 80 (25.40%) Serverless
3 67 (21.27%) Amazon ECS
4 66 (20.95%) Amazon S3
5 63 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
6 53 (16.83%) AWS CloudFormation
7 45 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
8 28 (8.89%) Amazon ECR
8 28 (8.89%) Amazon SQS
8 28 (8.89%) Apigee
9 22 (6.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 22 (6.98%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 22 (6.98%) Azure
10 20 (6.35%) GitHub
11 19 (6.03%) Amazon EKS
11 19 (6.03%) SaaS
12 11 (3.49%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (2.86%) GCP
14 8 (2.54%) Datadog
14 8 (2.54%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.59%) Internet
2 1 (0.32%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (15.87%) DynamoDB
2 35 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 26 (8.25%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (6.98%) Amazon Athena
5 19 (6.03%) Relational Database
6 10 (3.17%) MySQL
7 7 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.27%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.95%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.63%) DB2
10 2 (0.63%) Hazelcast
10 2 (0.63%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.32%) CockroachDB
11 1 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.32%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 68 (21.59%) Jenkins
2 48 (15.24%) Git
3 39 (12.38%) Maven
4 34 (10.79%) GitLab
5 32 (10.16%) SonarQube
6 28 (8.89%) Cypress.io
7 14 (4.44%) JUnit
8 9 (2.86%) Mockito
9 8 (2.54%) JIRA
10 5 (1.59%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.27%) Eclipse
11 4 (1.27%) Gradle
11 4 (1.27%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.95%) Selenium
13 2 (0.63%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.63%) JMeter
14 1 (0.32%) jMock
14 1 (0.32%) TestNG
General
1 26 (8.25%) Finance
2 23 (7.30%) Social Skills
3 18 (5.71%) Public Sector
4 15 (4.76%) Banking
5 10 (3.17%) Health Technology
6 5 (1.59%) Advertising
6 5 (1.59%) Aviation
6 5 (1.59%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.27%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.27%) Tech for Good
8 3 (0.95%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (0.63%) Aeronautics
9 2 (0.63%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.63%) Automotive
9 2 (0.63%) Digital Health
9 2 (0.63%) Games
10 1 (0.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.32%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (32.70%) Spring Boot
2 83 (26.35%) Spring
3 64 (20.32%) AngularJS
4 41 (13.02%) REST
5 40 (12.70%) React
6 37 (11.75%) Node.js
7 29 (9.21%) Jest
8 28 (8.89%) Gherkin
9 17 (5.40%) Web Services
10 16 (5.08%) Elastic Stack
10 16 (5.08%) RESTful
11 14 (4.44%) Hibernate
12 13 (4.13%) Kafka
13 11 (3.49%) HTML
13 11 (3.49%) JPA
14 10 (3.17%) Spring MVC
15 9 (2.86%) CSS
15 9 (2.86%) Mustache
16 7 (2.22%) JSON
16 7 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.94%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (2.54%) Cloud Native
3 5 (1.59%) IoT
3 5 (1.59%) NHS
3 5 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (1.27%) Management Information System
5 3 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.63%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (0.63%) Mainframe
6 2 (0.63%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.63%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.63%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.32%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.32%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.32%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.49%) Linux
2 2 (0.63%) Android
2 2 (0.63%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (32.06%) Agile
1 101 (32.06%) CI/CD
2 85 (26.98%) DevOps
3 84 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 58 (18.41%) Microservices
5 40 (12.70%) SDLC
6 35 (11.11%) Scrum
6 35 (11.11%) TDD
7 32 (10.16%) Clean Code
8 29 (9.21%) Software Engineering
9 26 (8.25%) Containerisation
9 26 (8.25%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (7.30%) Secure Coding
11 22 (6.98%) ITIL
11 22 (6.98%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 21 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
13 18 (5.71%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (5.40%) DevSecOps
14 17 (5.40%) Front End Development
15 14 (4.44%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 315 (100.00%) Java
2 58 (18.41%) SQL
3 52 (16.51%) TypeScript
4 44 (13.97%) JavaScript
5 33 (10.48%) Bash
6 30 (9.52%) Groovy
7 26 (8.25%) Kotlin
8 24 (7.62%) Python
9 15 (4.76%) PL/SQL
10 8 (2.54%) C++
11 5 (1.59%) R
12 4 (1.27%) C
13 3 (0.95%) C#
13 3 (0.95%) Go
14 2 (0.63%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 55 (17.46%) Security Cleared
2 47 (14.92%) SC Cleared
3 27 (8.57%) AWS Certification
4 22 (6.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 22 (6.98%) ITIL Certification
5 8 (2.54%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.59%) AWS Certified Developer
6 5 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.27%) Degree
8 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.17%) QA
System Software
1 87 (27.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 52 (16.51%) Kubernetes
2 28 (8.89%) HP Fortify
3 13 (4.13%) Terraform
4 12 (3.81%) Ansible
5 6 (1.90%) Kibana
6 2 (0.63%) Packer
Vendors
1 17 (5.40%) Oracle
2 7 (2.22%) IBM
3 6 (1.90%) AppDynamics
4 4 (1.27%) Pega
5 2 (0.63%) Dynatrace
5 2 (0.63%) Splunk
6 1 (0.32%) Cognos
6 1 (0.32%) Google
6 1 (0.32%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.32%) Veracode
6 1 (0.32%) VMware
6 1 (0.32%) WSO2