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 15 September 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 346 385
Rank change year-on-year +52 +39 -111
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 452 221 282
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.54% 0.65% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.72% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 324 118 179
10th Percentile £37,500 £29,550 £33,600
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -10.45%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £84,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% -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 78,187 30,550 52,478
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.61% 89.27% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 54,320 17,285 31,143
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,620
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 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,319 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.85% - -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 15 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 15 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 +81 209 £65,000 - 51
Yorkshire +23 84 £75,000 +87.50% 5
South East -29 76 £75,000 +42.86% 12
North East +4 73 £60,000 -7.69% 25
South West -27 64 £48,750 -18.75% 17
North West -4 52 £65,000 - 21
Wales - 34 £70,000 - 2
Midlands -57 28 £70,000 +10.67% 21
West Midlands -42 25 £70,000 +5.66% 19
Scotland -28 22 £90,000 +56.52% 29
Northern Ireland -74 12 £60,000 +33.33% 27
East of England -18 11 £50,000 +11.11% 5
East Midlands -33 3 - - 2
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 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.

1 452 (100.00%) Java
2 140 (30.97%) AWS
3 129 (28.54%) Spring
4 126 (27.88%) Full-Stack Development
5 119 (26.33%) CI/CD
5 119 (26.33%) Microservices
6 112 (24.78%) Docker
7 109 (24.12%) Spring Boot
8 106 (23.45%) Agile
9 94 (20.80%) DevOps
10 89 (19.69%) Security Cleared
11 83 (18.36%) Git
12 77 (17.04%) SC Cleared
13 76 (16.81%) AngularJS
14 71 (15.71%) Kubernetes
14 71 (15.71%) Serverless
15 64 (14.16%) JavaScript
16 63 (13.94%) AWS CloudFormation
17 59 (13.05%) Jenkins
17 59 (13.05%) Python
18 58 (12.83%) Amazon ECS
18 58 (12.83%) React
18 58 (12.83%) SQL
19 57 (12.61%) AWS Lambda
20 53 (11.73%) Amazon S3
20 53 (11.73%) RESTful
21 51 (11.28%) Problem-Solving
21 51 (11.28%) Software Engineering
21 51 (11.28%) TDD
22 50 (11.06%) Scrum

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 (1.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (0.44%) CMS
2 2 (0.44%) JBoss
2 2 (0.44%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.44%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.22%) Apache
3 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (0.22%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 140 (30.97%) AWS
2 71 (15.71%) Serverless
3 63 (13.94%) AWS CloudFormation
4 58 (12.83%) Amazon ECS
5 57 (12.61%) AWS Lambda
6 53 (11.73%) Amazon S3
7 49 (10.84%) Azure
8 44 (9.73%) AWS Step Functions
9 35 (7.74%) GitHub
10 28 (6.19%) GCP
11 27 (5.97%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 24 (5.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 22 (4.87%) GitHub Actions
14 19 (4.20%) Amazon SQS
14 19 (4.20%) Datadog
15 14 (3.10%) Amazon EKS
16 13 (2.88%) Amazon ECR
16 13 (2.88%) Apigee
17 10 (2.21%) GitHub Copilot
17 10 (2.21%) 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 46 (10.18%) NoSQL
2 41 (9.07%) DynamoDB
3 28 (6.19%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (5.31%) MySQL
5 23 (5.09%) Amazon Athena
6 22 (4.87%) MongoDB
7 20 (4.42%) Relational Database
8 9 (1.99%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.44%) Couchbase
10 2 (0.44%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.22%) Big Data
11 1 (0.22%) GIS
11 1 (0.22%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.22%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 83 (18.36%) Git
2 59 (13.05%) Jenkins
3 43 (9.51%) JUnit
4 31 (6.86%) Eclipse
5 30 (6.64%) Maven
6 27 (5.97%) Subversion
7 24 (5.31%) GitLab
8 16 (3.54%) SonarQube
9 14 (3.10%) Cypress.io
9 14 (3.10%) Mockito
10 8 (1.77%) JIRA
11 6 (1.33%) JMeter
12 4 (0.88%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.88%) Spock
13 3 (0.66%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.66%) Postman
13 3 (0.66%) Selenium
14 1 (0.22%) DBeaver
14 1 (0.22%) Terragrunt
14 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 55 (12.17%) Finance
2 32 (7.08%) Public Sector
3 31 (6.86%) Social Skills
4 24 (5.31%) Banking
5 21 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (1.55%) Advertising
6 7 (1.55%) Health Technology
6 7 (1.55%) Retail
7 4 (0.88%) Aviation
7 4 (0.88%) Digital Health
8 2 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.44%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.44%) Law
8 2 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (0.44%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.22%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.22%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.22%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (28.54%) Spring
2 109 (24.12%) Spring Boot
3 76 (16.81%) AngularJS
4 58 (12.83%) React
5 53 (11.73%) RESTful
6 35 (7.74%) Web Services
7 34 (7.52%) Jakarta EE
8 32 (7.08%) Kafka
8 32 (7.08%) Node.js
8 32 (7.08%) REST
9 31 (6.86%) Hibernate
10 29 (6.42%) JPA
11 27 (5.97%) Struts
12 24 (5.31%) Terraform
13 19 (4.20%) RabbitMQ
14 18 (3.98%) Gherkin
15 15 (3.32%) Jest
16 13 (2.88%) HTML
17 9 (1.99%) Elastic Stack
17 9 (1.99%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 29 (6.42%) Distributed Systems
2 27 (5.97%) Cloud Native
3 18 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (3.54%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (2.43%) Virtual Team
7 7 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.11%) Private Cloud
9 4 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.44%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.22%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.22%) Distributed Applications
11 1 (0.22%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.22%) Legacy Applications
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 38 (8.41%) Linux
2 7 (1.55%) Unix
3 1 (0.22%) CentOS
3 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (27.88%) Full-Stack Development
2 119 (26.33%) CI/CD
2 119 (26.33%) Microservices
3 106 (23.45%) Agile
4 94 (20.80%) DevOps
5 51 (11.28%) Problem-Solving
5 51 (11.28%) Software Engineering
5 51 (11.28%) TDD
6 50 (11.06%) Scrum
7 45 (9.96%) SDLC
8 42 (9.29%) Containerisation
8 42 (9.29%) Technical Architecture
9 41 (9.07%) Mentoring
10 40 (8.85%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 38 (8.41%) Computer Science
12 31 (6.86%) Clean Code
12 31 (6.86%) Continuous Improvement
13 30 (6.64%) Continuous Integration
13 30 (6.64%) Secure Coding
14 25 (5.53%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 452 (100.00%) Java
2 64 (14.16%) JavaScript
3 59 (13.05%) Python
4 58 (12.83%) SQL
5 48 (10.62%) TypeScript
6 46 (10.18%) C++
7 31 (6.86%) Kotlin
8 26 (5.75%) Perl
9 25 (5.53%) Groovy
10 24 (5.31%) Bash
11 16 (3.54%) PL/SQL
12 5 (1.11%) C#
12 5 (1.11%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.88%) Go
14 3 (0.66%) Scala
15 1 (0.22%) PHP
15 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 89 (19.69%) Security Cleared
2 77 (17.04%) SC Cleared
3 38 (8.41%) Degree
4 36 (7.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (4.42%) DV Cleared
6 16 (3.54%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (2.88%) AWS Certification
8 12 (2.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 12 (2.65%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.44%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.20%) QA
2 2 (0.44%) Good Clinical Practice
3 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 112 (24.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 71 (15.71%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.32%) Grafana
3 13 (2.88%) HP Fortify
4 12 (2.65%) Prometheus
5 10 (2.21%) Kibana
6 9 (1.99%) Ansible
7 2 (0.44%) Packer
8 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (5.31%) Oracle
1 24 (5.31%) Splunk
2 10 (2.21%) AppDynamics
3 7 (1.55%) Dynatrace
4 6 (1.33%) IBM
5 2 (0.44%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.22%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.22%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.22%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.22%) Workday
6 1 (0.22%) YouTube