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 August 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 345 410
Rank change year-on-year +65 +65 -149
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 464 228 278
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.60% 0.66% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.74% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 335 135 208
10th Percentile £42,500 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £49,375 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £85,000
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 72,831 30,931 56,883
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.43% 89.45% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 50,336 17,816 37,495
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,498
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% -3.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.91% - -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 11 August 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 August 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 +111 234 £65,000 - 19
Yorkshire +49 95 £75,000 +15.38% 5
North East +4 71 £52,500 -19.23% 11
South East -33 71 £81,250 +54.76% 15
North West +17 68 £65,000 - 4
South West -15 66 £53,750 -10.42% 9
Wales - 34 £70,000 - 2
Midlands -66 25 £70,000 +16.67% 4
West Midlands -47 22 £70,000 +7.69% 4
Scotland -24 21 £60,000 +4.35% 7
East of England -18 12 £50,000 +11.11%
Northern Ireland -75 5 £60,000 +33.33% 3
East Midlands -31 3 - -
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 August 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.

1 464 (100.00%) Java
2 152 (32.76%) AWS
3 138 (29.74%) Full-Stack Development
4 129 (27.80%) CI/CD
5 122 (26.29%) Spring
6 115 (24.78%) Docker
7 113 (24.35%) Microservices
8 110 (23.71%) Agile
9 104 (22.41%) DevOps
9 104 (22.41%) Spring Boot
10 86 (18.53%) AngularJS
11 85 (18.32%) Security Cleared
12 81 (17.46%) Serverless
13 80 (17.24%) Git
14 75 (16.16%) SC Cleared
15 71 (15.30%) Jenkins
16 70 (15.09%) Kubernetes
17 66 (14.22%) AWS Lambda
17 66 (14.22%) JavaScript
18 64 (13.79%) Amazon ECS
18 64 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
19 62 (13.36%) React
20 61 (13.15%) SQL
21 59 (12.72%) Amazon S3
22 57 (12.28%) Python
23 54 (11.64%) TDD
23 54 (11.64%) TypeScript
24 52 (11.21%) RESTful
24 52 (11.21%) Scrum
25 50 (10.78%) 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 7 (1.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (1.08%) JBoss
3 3 (0.65%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.43%) CICS
4 2 (0.43%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.22%) Apache
5 1 (0.22%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.22%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 152 (32.76%) AWS
2 81 (17.46%) Serverless
3 66 (14.22%) AWS Lambda
4 64 (13.79%) Amazon ECS
4 64 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
5 59 (12.72%) Amazon S3
6 50 (10.78%) Azure
7 48 (10.34%) AWS Step Functions
8 33 (7.11%) GitHub
9 28 (6.03%) GCP
10 26 (5.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 26 (5.60%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 23 (4.96%) Amazon SQS
12 20 (4.31%) Amazon ECR
12 20 (4.31%) Apigee
13 17 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (3.02%) Datadog
15 13 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
16 11 (2.37%) GitHub Copilot
17 10 (2.16%) SaaS
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 47 (10.13%) DynamoDB
2 42 (9.05%) NoSQL
3 26 (5.60%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (5.39%) Amazon Athena
5 21 (4.53%) MySQL
6 20 (4.31%) Relational Database
7 14 (3.02%) MongoDB
8 9 (1.94%) SQL Server
9 4 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.43%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.43%) Couchbase
10 2 (0.43%) Db2
10 2 (0.43%) Hazelcast
10 2 (0.43%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.43%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.22%) Big Data
11 1 (0.22%) GIS
11 1 (0.22%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 80 (17.24%) Git
2 71 (15.30%) Jenkins
3 41 (8.84%) JUnit
4 37 (7.97%) Maven
5 32 (6.90%) Eclipse
6 30 (6.47%) GitLab
7 25 (5.39%) Subversion
8 23 (4.96%) SonarQube
9 21 (4.53%) Cypress.io
10 14 (3.02%) Mockito
11 9 (1.94%) JIRA
12 6 (1.29%) Cucumber
13 5 (1.08%) JMeter
13 5 (1.08%) Selenium
14 4 (0.86%) IntelliJ
14 4 (0.86%) Spock
15 3 (0.65%) Postman
16 2 (0.43%) Artifactory
17 1 (0.22%) Gradle
17 1 (0.22%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 47 (10.13%) Finance
2 33 (7.11%) Social Skills
3 26 (5.60%) Public Sector
4 24 (5.17%) Banking
5 15 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (1.72%) Advertising
6 8 (1.72%) Health Technology
7 7 (1.51%) Retail
8 5 (1.08%) Investment Banking
9 4 (0.86%) Aviation
9 4 (0.86%) Digital Health
10 2 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.43%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.22%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.22%) Law
11 1 (0.22%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.22%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (26.29%) Spring
2 104 (22.41%) Spring Boot
3 86 (18.53%) AngularJS
4 62 (13.36%) React
5 52 (11.21%) RESTful
6 36 (7.76%) Node.js
7 35 (7.54%) Jakarta EE
8 34 (7.33%) REST
9 33 (7.11%) Web Services
10 27 (5.82%) Hibernate
11 26 (5.60%) JPA
11 26 (5.60%) Kafka
12 25 (5.39%) Gherkin
12 25 (5.39%) Struts
13 22 (4.74%) Jest
14 17 (3.66%) HTML
15 14 (3.02%) RabbitMQ
16 13 (2.80%) CSS
17 10 (2.16%) Spring MVC
17 10 (2.16%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 26 (5.60%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (4.09%) Cloud Native
3 13 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 9 (1.94%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.29%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.08%) Private Cloud
8 4 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.43%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.43%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.43%) NHS
10 1 (0.22%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.22%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.22%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.22%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.22%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.22%) Life Science
10 1 (0.22%) PKI
10 1 (0.22%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 37 (7.97%) Linux
2 6 (1.29%) Unix
3 1 (0.22%) CentOS
3 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (29.74%) Full-Stack Development
2 129 (27.80%) CI/CD
3 113 (24.35%) Microservices
4 110 (23.71%) Agile
5 104 (22.41%) DevOps
6 54 (11.64%) TDD
7 52 (11.21%) Scrum
8 48 (10.34%) Software Engineering
9 47 (10.13%) SDLC
10 45 (9.70%) Problem-Solving
11 42 (9.05%) Containerisation
12 39 (8.41%) Computer Science
13 37 (7.97%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 37 (7.97%) Mentoring
14 36 (7.76%) Clean Code
14 36 (7.76%) Technical Architecture
15 34 (7.33%) Continuous Improvement
16 29 (6.25%) Continuous Integration
17 28 (6.03%) Secure Coding
18 26 (5.60%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 464 (100.00%) Java
2 66 (14.22%) JavaScript
3 61 (13.15%) SQL
4 57 (12.28%) Python
5 54 (11.64%) TypeScript
6 41 (8.84%) C++
7 33 (7.11%) Kotlin
8 32 (6.90%) Groovy
9 31 (6.68%) Bash
10 23 (4.96%) Perl
11 18 (3.88%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.86%) C#
12 4 (0.86%) Go
12 4 (0.86%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.65%) Scala
14 1 (0.22%) PHP
14 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 85 (18.32%) Security Cleared
2 75 (16.16%) SC Cleared
3 37 (7.97%) Degree
4 35 (7.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (4.31%) AWS Certification
6 18 (3.88%) DV Cleared
7 16 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 16 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
8 12 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.43%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.02%) QA
2 2 (0.43%) Good Clinical Practice
3 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 115 (24.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 70 (15.09%) Kubernetes
2 23 (4.96%) Terraform
3 20 (4.31%) HP Fortify
4 10 (2.16%) Ansible
4 10 (2.16%) Grafana
5 9 (1.94%) Kibana
6 7 (1.51%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.43%) Packer
Vendors
1 26 (5.60%) Oracle
2 18 (3.88%) Splunk
3 10 (2.16%) AppDynamics
4 6 (1.29%) Dynatrace
4 6 (1.29%) IBM
5 4 (0.86%) Pega
6 2 (0.43%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.22%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.22%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.22%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.22%) Workday
7 1 (0.22%) WSO2