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 £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 October 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 366 361
Rank change year-on-year +67 -5 -101
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 459 177 270
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.53% 0.51% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.57% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 324 87 154
10th Percentile £37,500 £44,000 £24,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,375 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,600 £84,625
UK median annual salary £70,000 £74,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.41% -7.50% -

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 80,405 30,801 47,868
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.51% 89.52% 95.38%
Number of salaries quoted 55,513 17,417 26,226
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.35% -2.73% -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 14 October 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 14 October 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 +57 187 £65,000 - 42
North East -3 75 £60,000 -7.69% 19
South East -12 74 £74,000 +28.70% 16
South West -5 69 £55,000 -18.52% 6
Yorkshire +10 64 £80,000 +52.38% 10
North West -19 48 £65,000 - 14
Scotland +11 36 £90,000 +28.57% 26
Wales - 35 £70,000 - 4
Midlands -49 33 £70,000 +7.69% 17
West Midlands -32 30 £70,000 - 17
Northern Ireland -61 19 £60,000 +33.33% 23
East of England -25 6 £60,000 +33.33% 1
East Midlands -40 3 - -
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 October 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.

1 459 (100.00%) Java
2 136 (29.63%) AWS
3 131 (28.54%) Spring
4 121 (26.36%) Microservices
5 118 (25.71%) CI/CD
6 117 (25.49%) Full-Stack Development
7 116 (25.27%) Docker
8 112 (24.40%) Spring Boot
9 101 (22.00%) Agile
10 88 (19.17%) DevOps
11 80 (17.43%) Git
12 78 (16.99%) Kubernetes
13 77 (16.78%) Security Cleared
14 64 (13.94%) SC Cleared
15 63 (13.73%) AngularJS
16 61 (13.29%) JavaScript
17 59 (12.85%) Serverless
18 58 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
19 57 (12.42%) AWS CloudFormation
20 55 (11.98%) RESTful
21 53 (11.55%) Scrum
22 52 (11.33%) Python
22 52 (11.33%) Software Engineering
23 51 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
23 51 (11.11%) Azure
23 51 (11.11%) Containerisation
23 51 (11.11%) NoSQL
23 51 (11.11%) React
23 51 (11.11%) SQL
23 51 (11.11%) TDD

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 (1.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (0.65%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.44%) CMS
3 2 (0.44%) JBoss
3 2 (0.44%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.22%) Apache
4 1 (0.22%) Camunda
4 1 (0.22%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.22%) Hyperledger
4 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.22%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 136 (29.63%) AWS
2 59 (12.85%) Serverless
3 57 (12.42%) AWS CloudFormation
4 51 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
4 51 (11.11%) Azure
5 50 (10.89%) Amazon S3
6 47 (10.24%) AWS Lambda
7 39 (8.50%) AWS Step Functions
8 37 (8.06%) GitHub
9 34 (7.41%) GCP
10 26 (5.66%) GitHub Actions
11 23 (5.01%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 21 (4.58%) Amazon SQS
13 20 (4.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 19 (4.14%) Datadog
15 9 (1.96%) Amazon ECR
15 9 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (1.96%) Apigee
15 9 (1.96%) GitHub Copilot
16 8 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.22%) ATM
1 1 (0.22%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.22%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 33 (7.19%) DynamoDB
3 32 (6.97%) MongoDB
4 31 (6.75%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (5.66%) MySQL
6 19 (4.14%) Amazon Athena
7 16 (3.49%) Relational Database
8 9 (1.96%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.44%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.22%) Big Data
11 1 (0.22%) GIS
11 1 (0.22%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 80 (17.43%) Git
2 49 (10.68%) Jenkins
3 42 (9.15%) JUnit
4 30 (6.54%) Eclipse
5 27 (5.88%) Subversion
6 25 (5.45%) Maven
7 22 (4.79%) GitLab
8 13 (2.83%) Mockito
9 12 (2.61%) SonarQube
10 10 (2.18%) Cypress.io
11 6 (1.31%) Cucumber
12 5 (1.09%) JMeter
13 4 (0.87%) Gatling
13 4 (0.87%) Spock
14 3 (0.65%) JIRA
14 3 (0.65%) Postman
14 3 (0.65%) Selenium
15 1 (0.22%) Artifactory
15 1 (0.22%) IntelliJ
15 1 (0.22%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 59 (12.85%) Finance
2 35 (7.63%) Public Sector
3 29 (6.32%) Social Skills
4 26 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (5.66%) Banking
5 13 (2.83%) Health Technology
6 9 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.53%) Retail
7 7 (1.53%) Telecoms
8 4 (0.87%) Advertising
8 4 (0.87%) Aviation
9 2 (0.44%) Digital Health
9 2 (0.44%) Law
9 2 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.44%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.22%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.22%) Games
10 1 (0.22%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (28.54%) Spring
2 112 (24.40%) Spring Boot
3 63 (13.73%) AngularJS
4 55 (11.98%) RESTful
5 51 (11.11%) React
6 44 (9.59%) Kafka
7 36 (7.84%) Hibernate
8 32 (6.97%) Web Services
9 31 (6.75%) Jakarta EE
10 29 (6.32%) JPA
10 29 (6.32%) Node.js
11 27 (5.88%) REST
11 27 (5.88%) Struts
12 22 (4.79%) Terraform
13 19 (4.14%) RabbitMQ
14 18 (3.92%) Gherkin
15 11 (2.40%) Jest
16 10 (2.18%) Swing
17 9 (1.96%) HTML
18 8 (1.74%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 35 (7.63%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.10%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (5.01%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (4.79%) Product Ownership
5 19 (4.14%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (3.49%) Virtual Team
7 9 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.09%) Private Cloud
9 4 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.22%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.22%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.22%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.22%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.22%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.22%) Lidar
10 1 (0.22%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.22%) NHS
10 1 (0.22%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.22%) Social Media
10 1 (0.22%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 43 (9.37%) Linux
2 7 (1.53%) Unix
3 1 (0.22%) CentOS
3 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (26.36%) Microservices
2 118 (25.71%) CI/CD
3 117 (25.49%) Full-Stack Development
4 101 (22.00%) Agile
5 88 (19.17%) DevOps
6 58 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
7 53 (11.55%) Scrum
8 52 (11.33%) Software Engineering
9 51 (11.11%) Containerisation
9 51 (11.11%) TDD
10 47 (10.24%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 47 (10.24%) Mentoring
11 46 (10.02%) SDLC
12 42 (9.15%) Technical Architecture
13 36 (7.84%) Computer Science
14 35 (7.63%) Continuous Improvement
15 32 (6.97%) Event-Driven
16 31 (6.75%) Continuous Integration
16 31 (6.75%) Technical Leadership
17 30 (6.54%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 459 (100.00%) Java
2 61 (13.29%) JavaScript
3 52 (11.33%) Python
4 51 (11.11%) SQL
5 47 (10.24%) C++
6 39 (8.50%) TypeScript
7 33 (7.19%) Kotlin
8 26 (5.66%) Perl
9 20 (4.36%) Bash
10 19 (4.14%) Groovy
11 17 (3.70%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.87%) Go
12 4 (0.87%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.65%) C#
13 3 (0.65%) Scala
14 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 77 (16.78%) Security Cleared
2 64 (13.94%) SC Cleared
3 36 (7.84%) Degree
4 34 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (4.58%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.96%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (1.74%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.44%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.01%) QA
2 2 (0.44%) Good Clinical Practice
3 1 (0.22%) GDPR
3 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 116 (25.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 78 (16.99%) Kubernetes
2 21 (4.58%) Grafana
3 17 (3.70%) Prometheus
4 9 (1.96%) HP Fortify
5 5 (1.09%) Kibana
6 4 (0.87%) Ansible
7 2 (0.44%) Argo
8 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (6.10%) Splunk
2 22 (4.79%) Oracle
3 7 (1.53%) Dynatrace
4 4 (0.87%) AppDynamics
4 4 (0.87%) Red Hat
5 3 (0.65%) Microsoft
6 2 (0.44%) OutSystems
7 1 (0.22%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.22%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.22%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.22%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.22%) Workday
7 1 (0.22%) YouTube