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 28 December 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 370 236
Rank change year-on-year -2 -134 -12
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 153 209 385
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.56% 1.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.60% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 86 103 288
10th Percentile £35,750 £41,500 £41,227
25th Percentile £54,063 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £64,250
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -6.61% +2.80%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,625 £83,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £84,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +8.39% -3.13%

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 38,295 35,015 29,476
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.32% 93.37% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 23,293 17,499 22,305
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £34,750 £40,000 £37,500
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 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 28 December 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 28 December 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
North of England +62 65 £65,000 +13.04% 67
South East -28 41 £70,000 +7.69% 63
Yorkshire - 39 £65,000 - 29
North West +31 25 £65,000 +8.33% 31
Midlands +34 22 £57,500 -4.17% 29
West Midlands +49 19 £47,000 -21.67% 20
South West -9 17 £65,000 +30.00% 22
Scotland -4 11 £30,000 -52.00% 12
North East +11 3 £65,000 +23.81% 8
East Midlands -7 3 £58,000 -3.33% 8
Wales - 3 £65,000 - 8
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 December 2025, 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.

1 153 (100.00%) Java
2 96 (62.75%) AWS
3 84 (54.90%) Agile
4 81 (52.94%) Spring Boot
5 78 (50.98%) Spring
6 70 (45.75%) CI/CD
7 64 (41.83%) Docker
8 60 (39.22%) Microservices
9 58 (37.91%) Kubernetes
10 54 (35.29%) Full-Stack Development
11 50 (32.68%) JavaScript
12 49 (32.03%) TDD
13 48 (31.37%) REST
14 45 (29.41%) DevOps
15 44 (28.76%) Serverless
16 42 (27.45%) Jenkins
17 37 (24.18%) Amazon ECS
18 35 (22.88%) PostgreSQL
18 35 (22.88%) React
19 34 (22.22%) SDLC
20 29 (18.95%) Relational Database
21 28 (18.30%) Amazon EKS
22 26 (16.99%) Hibernate
22 26 (16.99%) Web Services
23 25 (16.34%) BDD
23 25 (16.34%) Clean Code
23 25 (16.34%) JUnit
23 25 (16.34%) Python
23 25 (16.34%) Security Cleared
24 24 (15.69%) Git

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 (7.84%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.31%) JBoss
4 1 (0.65%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.65%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 96 (62.75%) AWS
2 44 (28.76%) Serverless
3 37 (24.18%) Amazon ECS
4 28 (18.30%) Amazon EKS
5 23 (15.03%) Azure
6 21 (13.73%) Amazon S3
7 18 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
8 17 (11.11%) SaaS
9 16 (10.46%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (7.19%) Amazon SQS
11 9 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
12 8 (5.23%) GCP
12 8 (5.23%) GitHub
13 7 (4.58%) Amazon ECR
13 7 (4.58%) Apigee
14 4 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
15 2 (1.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 2 (1.31%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 1 (0.65%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.61%) Internet
2 1 (0.65%) HTTP
2 1 (0.65%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (22.88%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (18.95%) Relational Database
3 13 (8.50%) NoSQL
3 13 (8.50%) RDBMS
4 10 (6.54%) DynamoDB
5 7 (4.58%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.27%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (3.27%) MySQL
7 2 (1.31%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.65%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 42 (27.45%) Jenkins
2 25 (16.34%) JUnit
3 24 (15.69%) Git
4 22 (14.38%) Mockito
5 15 (9.80%) Maven
6 13 (8.50%) JMeter
7 9 (5.88%) Cypress.io
8 8 (5.23%) GitLab
9 7 (4.58%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.31%) Babel
10 2 (1.31%) Gradle
10 2 (1.31%) webpack
11 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.65%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.65%) JIRA
11 1 (0.65%) jMock
11 1 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.65%) TestNG
General
1 27 (17.65%) Public Sector
2 21 (13.73%) Finance
3 17 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 6 (3.92%) Financial Institution
5 5 (3.27%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.27%) Health Technology
6 4 (2.61%) Games
7 3 (1.96%) Retail
8 2 (1.31%) Aeronautics
8 2 (1.31%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.31%) Automotive
8 2 (1.31%) Digital Healthcare
8 2 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.31%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.65%) Banking
9 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (52.94%) Spring Boot
2 78 (50.98%) Spring
3 48 (31.37%) REST
4 35 (22.88%) React
5 26 (16.99%) Hibernate
5 26 (16.99%) Web Services
6 20 (13.07%) Node.js
7 17 (11.11%) Apache Camel
7 17 (11.11%) HTML
8 16 (10.46%) AngularJS
9 15 (9.80%) Kafka
10 14 (9.15%) ActiveMQ
10 14 (9.15%) JSON
10 14 (9.15%) XML
11 13 (8.50%) jQuery
11 13 (8.50%) RESTful
11 13 (8.50%) WireMock
12 12 (7.84%) Elastic Stack
13 9 (5.88%) Jest
14 8 (5.23%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 30 (19.61%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.61%) IoT
3 4 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.31%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.31%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.31%) Sports Betting
6 1 (0.65%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.65%) NHS
6 1 (0.65%) Online Games
6 1 (0.65%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.65%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.58%) Linux
2 2 (1.31%) Android
2 2 (1.31%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (54.90%) Agile
2 70 (45.75%) CI/CD
3 60 (39.22%) Microservices
4 54 (35.29%) Full-Stack Development
5 49 (32.03%) TDD
6 45 (29.41%) DevOps
7 34 (22.22%) SDLC
8 25 (16.34%) BDD
8 25 (16.34%) Clean Code
9 24 (15.69%) Scrum
10 20 (13.07%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (12.42%) Workflow
12 18 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (11.11%) Containerisation
13 17 (11.11%) Process Management
14 16 (10.46%) Software Engineering
15 15 (9.80%) Front End Development
16 13 (8.50%) Mentoring
17 11 (7.19%) Infrastructure as Code
17 11 (7.19%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 153 (100.00%) Java
2 50 (32.68%) JavaScript
3 25 (16.34%) Python
4 22 (14.38%) SQL
5 20 (13.07%) TypeScript
6 15 (9.80%) Shell Script
7 11 (7.19%) Bash
8 10 (6.54%) Kotlin
9 9 (5.88%) Go
10 8 (5.23%) Groovy
11 6 (3.92%) PL/SQL
11 6 (3.92%) Scala
12 4 (2.61%) R
13 3 (1.96%) C#
14 2 (1.31%) C
Qualifications
1 25 (16.34%) Security Cleared
2 12 (7.84%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.23%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.92%) Degree
5 5 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.61%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.31%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.58%) QA
2 2 (1.31%) Accessibility
System Software
1 64 (41.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 58 (37.91%) Kubernetes
2 13 (8.50%) Kibana
3 10 (6.54%) Ansible
4 8 (5.23%) Terraform
5 7 (4.58%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.65%) PingFederate
6 1 (0.65%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (8.50%) Dynatrace
1 13 (8.50%) Splunk
2 9 (5.88%) Oracle
3 4 (2.61%) Pega
3 4 (2.61%) WSO2
4 2 (1.31%) Google