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 May 2026.

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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 348 375
Rank change year-on-year +78 +27 -104
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 366 188 431
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.56% 0.65% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.73% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 256 121 365
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £38,275
25th Percentile £57,188 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,313 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £85,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% -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 61,574 25,605 65,016
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.65% 89.10% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 40,552 14,301 47,395
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £68,755 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,508
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.51% -12.49%

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 May 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 May 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 +122 209 £70,000 +5.66% 36
Yorkshire +36 100 £75,000 +68.54% 12
South East -23 76 £80,000 +33.33% 13
North West +54 73 £67,500 - 15
North East -2 36 £50,000 - 9
South West -34 28 £65,000 +8.33% 8
Scotland -13 23 £60,000 +4.35% 2
West Midlands -34 17 £35,750 -40.42% 4
Midlands -51 17 £35,750 -40.42% 4
Wales - 13 £65,000 - 1
East of England -6 9 £50,000 -9.09% 5
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 May 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.

1 366 (100.00%) Java
2 138 (37.70%) AWS
3 115 (31.42%) CI/CD
4 111 (30.33%) Agile
5 106 (28.96%) Spring Boot
6 101 (27.60%) DevOps
7 99 (27.05%) Docker
7 99 (27.05%) Full-Stack Development
8 94 (25.68%) Spring
9 88 (24.04%) Serverless
10 76 (20.77%) AngularJS
11 74 (20.22%) Jenkins
12 73 (19.95%) Amazon ECS
13 72 (19.67%) Microservices
14 69 (18.85%) Amazon S3
14 69 (18.85%) Security Cleared
15 65 (17.76%) AWS Lambda
16 62 (16.94%) SC Cleared
17 59 (16.12%) AWS CloudFormation
18 57 (15.57%) Kubernetes
18 57 (15.57%) SQL
18 57 (15.57%) TypeScript
19 53 (14.48%) DynamoDB
20 52 (14.21%) Git
21 48 (13.11%) AWS Step Functions
22 47 (12.84%) JavaScript
23 44 (12.02%) Scrum
24 43 (11.75%) Maven
24 43 (11.75%) TDD
25 42 (11.48%) REST

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 11 (3.01%) OpenStack
2 6 (1.64%) JBoss
2 6 (1.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.55%) CICS
3 2 (0.55%) WildFly
4 1 (0.27%) Confluence
4 1 (0.27%) PegaRULES
4 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.27%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 138 (37.70%) AWS
2 88 (24.04%) Serverless
3 73 (19.95%) Amazon ECS
4 69 (18.85%) Amazon S3
5 65 (17.76%) AWS Lambda
6 59 (16.12%) AWS CloudFormation
7 48 (13.11%) AWS Step Functions
8 29 (7.92%) Amazon SQS
9 28 (7.65%) Amazon ECR
9 28 (7.65%) Apigee
10 24 (6.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 24 (6.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 22 (6.01%) Amazon EKS
11 22 (6.01%) Azure
12 21 (5.74%) GitHub
12 21 (5.74%) SaaS
13 11 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (2.73%) Datadog
14 10 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (2.19%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.37%) Internet
2 1 (0.27%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (14.48%) DynamoDB
2 35 (9.56%) NoSQL
3 28 (7.65%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (6.56%) Amazon Athena
5 23 (6.28%) Relational Database
6 8 (2.19%) MySQL
7 6 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.09%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.55%) DB2
9 2 (0.55%) Hazelcast
9 2 (0.55%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.55%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.27%) CockroachDB
10 1 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.27%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 74 (20.22%) Jenkins
2 52 (14.21%) Git
3 43 (11.75%) Maven
4 39 (10.66%) GitLab
5 32 (8.74%) SonarQube
6 29 (7.92%) Cypress.io
7 20 (5.46%) JUnit
8 11 (3.01%) Mockito
9 9 (2.46%) JIRA
10 4 (1.09%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.09%) Eclipse
10 4 (1.09%) Gradle
10 4 (1.09%) IntelliJ
10 4 (1.09%) Spock
11 3 (0.82%) JMeter
11 3 (0.82%) Selenium
12 2 (0.55%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.27%) jMock
13 1 (0.27%) TestNG
General
1 34 (9.29%) Finance
2 28 (7.65%) Social Skills
3 25 (6.83%) Public Sector
4 15 (4.10%) Banking
5 11 (3.01%) Health Technology
6 6 (1.64%) Aviation
7 5 (1.37%) Advertising
7 5 (1.37%) Investment Banking
7 5 (1.37%) Tech for Good
8 4 (1.09%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.09%) Digital Health
9 3 (0.82%) Digital Healthcare
10 2 (0.55%) Aeronautics
10 2 (0.55%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.55%) Automotive
11 1 (0.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.27%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.27%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (28.96%) Spring Boot
2 94 (25.68%) Spring
3 76 (20.77%) AngularJS
4 42 (11.48%) REST
5 41 (11.20%) Node.js
5 41 (11.20%) React
6 30 (8.20%) Jest
7 28 (7.65%) Gherkin
8 20 (5.46%) RESTful
9 17 (4.64%) Elastic Stack
9 17 (4.64%) Web Services
10 14 (3.83%) Hibernate
10 14 (3.83%) Kafka
11 12 (3.28%) HTML
11 12 (3.28%) JPA
11 12 (3.28%) Mustache
12 9 (2.46%) CSS
13 8 (2.19%) Spring MVC
14 7 (1.91%) Java EE
14 7 (1.91%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.38%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (2.46%) Cloud Native
3 5 (1.37%) IoT
3 5 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (1.37%) NHS
3 5 (1.37%) Private Cloud
3 5 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (1.09%) Management Information System
5 3 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (0.55%) Mainframe
6 2 (0.55%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.55%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.27%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.27%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.27%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.10%) Linux
2 2 (0.55%) Android
2 2 (0.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (31.42%) CI/CD
2 111 (30.33%) Agile
3 101 (27.60%) DevOps
4 99 (27.05%) Full-Stack Development
5 72 (19.67%) Microservices
6 44 (12.02%) Scrum
7 43 (11.75%) TDD
8 41 (11.20%) SDLC
9 34 (9.29%) Clean Code
9 34 (9.29%) Software Engineering
10 29 (7.92%) Containerisation
10 29 (7.92%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (6.28%) Continuous Integration
11 23 (6.28%) ITIL
11 23 (6.28%) Secure Coding
11 23 (6.28%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 22 (6.01%) Mentoring
13 19 (5.19%) DevSecOps
13 19 (5.19%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (5.19%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 366 (100.00%) Java
2 57 (15.57%) SQL
2 57 (15.57%) TypeScript
3 47 (12.84%) JavaScript
4 36 (9.84%) Bash
5 35 (9.56%) Groovy
6 30 (8.20%) Python
7 28 (7.65%) Kotlin
8 16 (4.37%) PL/SQL
9 12 (3.28%) C++
10 5 (1.37%) R
11 4 (1.09%) C
12 3 (0.82%) C#
12 3 (0.82%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.55%) Go
14 1 (0.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 69 (18.85%) Security Cleared
2 62 (16.94%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.65%) AWS Certification
4 22 (6.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 22 (6.01%) ITIL Certification
5 12 (3.28%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.37%) AWS Certified Developer
7 5 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.37%) Degree
8 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.73%) QA
2 1 (0.27%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 99 (27.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 57 (15.57%) Kubernetes
2 28 (7.65%) HP Fortify
3 16 (4.37%) Terraform
4 13 (3.55%) Ansible
5 7 (1.91%) Kibana
6 2 (0.55%) Packer
Vendors
1 20 (5.46%) Oracle
2 10 (2.73%) AppDynamics
3 7 (1.91%) IBM
3 7 (1.91%) Splunk
4 4 (1.09%) Pega
5 3 (0.82%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.27%) Cognos
6 1 (0.27%) Google
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.27%) Veracode
6 1 (0.27%) VMware
6 1 (0.27%) WSO2