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 27 November 2025.

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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 353 257
Rank change year-on-year -4 -96 -49
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 157 268 333
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.57% 1.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.61% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 81 139 254
10th Percentile £45,000 £24,000 £41,625
25th Percentile £56,250 £45,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,750 £83,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 33,736 44,210 27,987
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 94.16% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 21,348 23,622 21,181
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,750 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

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 27 November 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 27 November 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 +76 57 £65,000 +18.18% 12
South East -14 38 £67,500 +1.89% 34
North West +61 34 £65,000 +18.18% 6
Midlands +60 27 £65,000 +44.44% 3
Scotland +1 25 £75,000 +29.31% 11
West Midlands +80 22 £67,500 +181.25% 2
Yorkshire +26 22 £57,500 -32.35% 3
South West -12 12 £62,500 +25.00% 10
East Midlands +23 5 £58,000 -3.33% 1
North East +13 3 £65,000 +23.81% 3
Wales +8 2 £65,000 +4.00% 1
East of England +21 1 £45,000 -28.00% 2
Northern Ireland -8 1 - - 2
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 November 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.

1 157 (100.00%) Java
2 102 (64.97%) AWS
3 98 (62.42%) Agile
3 98 (62.42%) Spring
4 92 (58.60%) Spring Boot
5 75 (47.77%) Microservices
6 73 (46.50%) CI/CD
7 66 (42.04%) TDD
8 64 (40.76%) Docker
9 62 (39.49%) Kubernetes
10 55 (35.03%) JavaScript
11 54 (34.39%) REST
12 51 (32.48%) Full-Stack Development
13 48 (30.57%) Jenkins
14 45 (28.66%) PostgreSQL
15 43 (27.39%) Serverless
16 42 (26.75%) DevOps
17 39 (24.84%) Relational Database
18 36 (22.93%) BDD
19 35 (22.29%) React
19 35 (22.29%) SDLC
20 34 (21.66%) Clean Code
21 33 (21.02%) Amazon ECS
21 33 (21.02%) Hibernate
21 33 (21.02%) JUnit
21 33 (21.02%) Security Cleared
22 31 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
23 30 (19.11%) Web Services
24 29 (18.47%) Amazon EKS
24 29 (18.47%) HTML

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 6 (3.82%) OpenStack
2 5 (3.18%) JBoss
3 4 (2.55%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.55%) Confluence
4 2 (1.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.27%) Red Hat Fuse
4 2 (1.27%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 102 (64.97%) AWS
2 43 (27.39%) Serverless
3 33 (21.02%) Amazon ECS
4 29 (18.47%) Amazon EKS
5 27 (17.20%) Amazon EC2
6 23 (14.65%) Azure
7 13 (8.28%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (7.64%) Amazon S3
9 11 (7.01%) SaaS
10 10 (6.37%) GitHub
11 8 (5.10%) GCP
12 5 (3.18%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (1.91%) Amazon EMR
13 3 (1.91%) Amazon MSK
13 3 (1.91%) AWS KMS
13 3 (1.91%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.91%) Route 53
14 2 (1.27%) OpenShift
15 1 (0.64%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.91%) HTTP
2 2 (1.27%) Internet
3 1 (0.64%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (28.66%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (24.84%) Relational Database
3 20 (12.74%) RDBMS
4 14 (8.92%) NoSQL
5 13 (8.28%) MongoDB
6 9 (5.73%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (5.73%) DynamoDB
6 9 (5.73%) MySQL
7 4 (2.55%) Apache Hive
7 4 (2.55%) Big Data
7 4 (2.55%) Hadoop
7 4 (2.55%) HBase
7 4 (2.55%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.91%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.91%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.91%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (1.27%) DB2
9 2 (1.27%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 48 (30.57%) Jenkins
2 33 (21.02%) JUnit
3 29 (18.47%) Mockito
4 27 (17.20%) Git
5 22 (14.01%) Maven
6 18 (11.46%) JMeter
7 8 (5.10%) Gradle
8 7 (4.46%) JIRA
9 5 (3.18%) SonarQube
10 4 (2.55%) Babel
10 4 (2.55%) webpack
11 3 (1.91%) Bitbucket Server
11 3 (1.91%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.91%) DbUnit
11 3 (1.91%) jMock
11 3 (1.91%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (1.27%) Cucumber
12 2 (1.27%) GitLab
13 1 (0.64%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.64%) TeamCity
General
1 39 (24.84%) Finance
2 38 (24.20%) Public Sector
3 21 (13.38%) Social Skills
4 13 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (7.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (6.37%) Games
6 10 (6.37%) Law
7 8 (5.10%) Banking
8 6 (3.82%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.55%) Marketing
10 3 (1.91%) Private Banking
10 3 (1.91%) Retail
11 2 (1.27%) Health Technology
11 2 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.64%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (62.42%) Spring
2 92 (58.60%) Spring Boot
3 54 (34.39%) REST
4 35 (22.29%) React
5 33 (21.02%) Hibernate
6 30 (19.11%) Web Services
7 29 (18.47%) HTML
7 29 (18.47%) RESTful
8 24 (15.29%) Apache Camel
9 22 (14.01%) ActiveMQ
9 22 (14.01%) jQuery
10 19 (12.10%) JSON
10 19 (12.10%) Kafka
11 18 (11.46%) WireMock
11 18 (11.46%) XML
12 14 (8.92%) AngularJS
13 13 (8.28%) Node.js
14 10 (6.37%) JPA
15 8 (5.10%) CSS
15 8 (5.10%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (19.75%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (7.01%) Cloud Native
3 9 (5.73%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.18%) e-Learning
5 4 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.91%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (1.91%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.27%) IoT
7 2 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.27%) Sports Betting
7 2 (1.27%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.64%) Online Games
8 1 (0.64%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.10%) Linux
2 7 (4.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (62.42%) Agile
2 75 (47.77%) Microservices
3 73 (46.50%) CI/CD
4 66 (42.04%) TDD
5 51 (32.48%) Full-Stack Development
6 42 (26.75%) DevOps
7 36 (22.93%) BDD
8 35 (22.29%) SDLC
9 34 (21.66%) Clean Code
10 31 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (17.20%) Scrum
12 25 (15.92%) Software Engineering
12 25 (15.92%) Test Automation
13 23 (14.65%) Front End Development
13 23 (14.65%) Workflow
14 22 (14.01%) Process Management
15 18 (11.46%) Continuous Improvement
16 16 (10.19%) Containerisation
17 15 (9.55%) Kanban
18 14 (8.92%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 157 (100.00%) Java
2 55 (35.03%) JavaScript
3 29 (18.47%) Python
3 29 (18.47%) SQL
4 21 (13.38%) Shell Script
5 14 (8.92%) TypeScript
6 10 (6.37%) PL/SQL
7 8 (5.10%) Kotlin
8 7 (4.46%) Go
8 7 (4.46%) Scala
9 4 (2.55%) C#
10 3 (1.91%) Bash
10 3 (1.91%) Groovy
11 2 (1.27%) R
12 1 (0.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 33 (21.02%) Security Cleared
2 18 (11.46%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.73%) Degree
4 8 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.55%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.18%) QA
2 4 (2.55%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.27%) SLA
System Software
1 64 (40.76%) Docker
2 4 (2.55%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 62 (39.49%) Kubernetes
2 18 (11.46%) Kibana
3 13 (8.28%) Terraform
4 9 (5.73%) Ansible
5 1 (0.64%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.64%) PingFederate
5 1 (0.64%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (12.10%) Splunk
2 18 (11.46%) Dynatrace
3 14 (8.92%) Oracle
4 4 (2.55%) Cloudera
4 4 (2.55%) Databricks
4 4 (2.55%) Pega
4 4 (2.55%) WSO2
5 3 (1.91%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.64%) Google
6 1 (0.64%) IBM
6 1 (0.64%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.64%) Veracode