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 25 March 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 361 316
Rank change year-on-year +48 -45 -32
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 261 132 499
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.47% 0.51% 0.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.56% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 172 88 404
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £49,375 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -1.64% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £81,125 £75,375 £86,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £78,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -10.26% +4.00% -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 50,899 23,373 58,118
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.20% 89.58% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 32,380 14,267 43,614
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,568 £63,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 25 March 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 25 March 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 +60 133 £70,000 +5.66% 51
Yorkshire +24 72 £72,500 +7.41% 15
North West +22 53 £67,500 +1.89% 22
South East -43 53 £80,000 +33.33% 30
South West -23 26 £65,000 +44.44% 4
West Midlands +8 22 £36,500 -39.17% 2
Midlands -37 22 £36,500 -39.17% 2
Scotland -15 19 £60,000 +1.69% 5
Wales - 10 £65,000 - 2
North East -20 8 £45,000 - 14
East of England -18 3 £50,000 -9.09% 3
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 March 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.

1 261 (100.00%) Java
2 123 (47.13%) AWS
3 103 (39.46%) Spring Boot
4 99 (37.93%) CI/CD
5 96 (36.78%) Agile
6 87 (33.33%) Docker
7 83 (31.80%) Full-Stack Development
8 81 (31.03%) Spring
9 77 (29.50%) DevOps
10 75 (28.74%) Serverless
11 64 (24.52%) Amazon ECS
12 63 (24.14%) Jenkins
13 59 (22.61%) Microservices
14 57 (21.84%) Amazon S3
15 55 (21.07%) AngularJS
16 54 (20.69%) JavaScript
17 52 (19.92%) AWS Lambda
17 52 (19.92%) Kubernetes
18 49 (18.77%) SQL
19 46 (17.62%) TypeScript
20 45 (17.24%) REST
21 44 (16.86%) Git
22 43 (16.48%) AWS CloudFormation
22 43 (16.48%) DynamoDB
22 43 (16.48%) SDLC
23 39 (14.94%) AWS Step Functions
23 39 (14.94%) TDD
24 38 (14.56%) Maven
24 38 (14.56%) Node.js
25 36 (13.79%) React

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 13 (4.98%) OpenStack
2 7 (2.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (1.92%) JBoss
4 2 (0.77%) CICS
5 1 (0.38%) Confluence
5 1 (0.38%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.38%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 123 (47.13%) AWS
2 75 (28.74%) Serverless
3 64 (24.52%) Amazon ECS
4 57 (21.84%) Amazon S3
5 52 (19.92%) AWS Lambda
6 43 (16.48%) AWS CloudFormation
7 39 (14.94%) AWS Step Functions
8 27 (10.34%) Amazon SQS
9 26 (9.96%) Amazon ECR
9 26 (9.96%) Apigee
10 25 (9.58%) Azure
11 21 (8.05%) Amazon EKS
12 17 (6.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 17 (6.51%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 17 (6.51%) SaaS
13 15 (5.75%) GitHub
14 12 (4.60%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (3.83%) GCP
16 5 (1.92%) Datadog
16 5 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.92%) Internet
2 1 (0.38%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (16.48%) DynamoDB
2 33 (12.64%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (11.49%) NoSQL
4 24 (9.20%) Relational Database
5 17 (6.51%) Amazon Athena
6 10 (3.83%) MySQL
7 7 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (2.30%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.15%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.77%) DB2
10 2 (0.77%) Hazelcast
10 2 (0.77%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.38%) CockroachDB
11 1 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.38%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 63 (24.14%) Jenkins
2 44 (16.86%) Git
3 38 (14.56%) Maven
4 29 (11.11%) GitLab
5 27 (10.34%) SonarQube
6 26 (9.96%) Cypress.io
7 19 (7.28%) JUnit
8 15 (5.75%) Mockito
9 5 (1.92%) JIRA
9 5 (1.92%) JMeter
10 4 (1.53%) Gradle
10 4 (1.53%) IntelliJ
11 3 (1.15%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.15%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.15%) Selenium
12 1 (0.38%) jMock
12 1 (0.38%) TestNG
General
1 22 (8.43%) Finance
2 20 (7.66%) Public Sector
3 19 (7.28%) Social Skills
4 15 (5.75%) Banking
5 12 (4.60%) Health Technology
6 5 (1.92%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.53%) Advertising
7 4 (1.53%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.53%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.15%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (0.77%) Aeronautics
9 2 (0.77%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.77%) Automotive
9 2 (0.77%) Aviation
9 2 (0.77%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.77%) Games
9 2 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.77%) Retail
10 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (39.46%) Spring Boot
2 81 (31.03%) Spring
3 55 (21.07%) AngularJS
4 45 (17.24%) REST
5 38 (14.56%) Node.js
6 36 (13.79%) React
7 27 (10.34%) Jest
8 26 (9.96%) Gherkin
9 19 (7.28%) Web Services
10 18 (6.90%) Hibernate
11 14 (5.36%) HTML
11 14 (5.36%) RESTful
12 13 (4.98%) Elastic Stack
12 13 (4.98%) Kafka
13 10 (3.83%) Apache Camel
14 9 (3.45%) CSS
15 8 (3.07%) JSON
15 8 (3.07%) Mustache
15 8 (3.07%) Spring MVC
15 8 (3.07%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.58%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (3.07%) Cloud Native
3 6 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (1.92%) IoT
4 5 (1.92%) NHS
5 4 (1.53%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.77%) Mainframe
7 2 (0.77%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.77%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.77%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.38%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.38%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.38%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.21%) Linux
2 2 (0.77%) Android
2 2 (0.77%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (37.93%) CI/CD
2 96 (36.78%) Agile
3 83 (31.80%) Full-Stack Development
4 77 (29.50%) DevOps
5 59 (22.61%) Microservices
6 43 (16.48%) SDLC
7 39 (14.94%) TDD
8 34 (13.03%) Scrum
9 28 (10.73%) Clean Code
10 25 (9.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (9.20%) Containerisation
12 20 (7.66%) ITIL
12 20 (7.66%) Secure Coding
12 20 (7.66%) Software Engineering
12 20 (7.66%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 19 (7.28%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (6.13%) BDD
14 16 (6.13%) Front End Development
15 15 (5.75%) Mentoring
15 15 (5.75%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 261 (100.00%) Java
2 54 (20.69%) JavaScript
3 49 (18.77%) SQL
4 46 (17.62%) TypeScript
5 32 (12.26%) Bash
6 26 (9.96%) Groovy
7 21 (8.05%) Kotlin
8 15 (5.75%) Python
9 12 (4.60%) PL/SQL
10 6 (2.30%) R
10 6 (2.30%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.92%) Go
12 4 (1.53%) C
13 1 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 29 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 25 (9.58%) AWS Certification
3 20 (7.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 20 (7.66%) ITIL Certification
4 19 (7.28%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.92%) AWS Certified Developer
5 5 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.77%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 87 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 52 (19.92%) Kubernetes
2 26 (9.96%) HP Fortify
3 11 (4.21%) Ansible
3 11 (4.21%) Terraform
4 5 (1.92%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (5.75%) Oracle
2 8 (3.07%) Pega
3 5 (1.92%) Dynatrace
3 5 (1.92%) Splunk
3 5 (1.92%) WSO2
4 1 (0.38%) Cognos
4 1 (0.38%) Google
4 1 (0.38%) IBM
4 1 (0.38%) Veracode
4 1 (0.38%) VMware