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 20 November 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 348 270
Rank change year-on-year -19 -78 -62
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 160 266 331
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.44% 0.56% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.60% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 81 143 253
10th Percentile £45,000 £24,000 £41,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £45,000 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -9.09% +5.60%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,000 £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 33,083 44,628 28,686
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.00% 94.38% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 20,746 23,891 21,560
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £51,498 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.76% -1.91% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £53,048 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.74% -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 20 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 20 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 +61 57 £65,000 +20.93% 21
South East -11 39 £65,000 -7.14% 40
North West +41 34 £65,000 +18.18% 8
Midlands +77 28 £65,000 +44.44% 7
Scotland -6 28 £75,000 +29.31% 9
West Midlands +63 23 £68,750 +186.46% 5
Yorkshire +27 22 £57,500 -32.35% 8
South West -10 11 £62,500 +25.00% 12
East Midlands +20 5 £58,000 -3.33% 2
North East +4 3 £65,000 +23.81% 5
East of England +12 1 £45,000 -29.41% 2
Wales +9 1 £65,000 +4.00% 3
Northern Ireland -6 1 - - 4
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 160 (100.00%) Java
2 108 (67.50%) AWS
3 106 (66.25%) Agile
4 102 (63.75%) Spring
5 93 (58.13%) Spring Boot
6 78 (48.75%) Microservices
7 74 (46.25%) CI/CD
8 73 (45.63%) TDD
9 68 (42.50%) Docker
10 63 (39.38%) Kubernetes
11 57 (35.63%) JavaScript
12 55 (34.38%) REST
13 52 (32.50%) Jenkins
14 51 (31.88%) Full-Stack Development
15 49 (30.63%) PostgreSQL
16 45 (28.13%) Serverless
17 42 (26.25%) DevOps
17 42 (26.25%) Relational Database
18 40 (25.00%) BDD
19 38 (23.75%) Security Cleared
20 37 (23.13%) JUnit
20 37 (23.13%) SDLC
21 36 (22.50%) Hibernate
22 35 (21.88%) Clean Code
22 35 (21.88%) React
23 34 (21.25%) Amazon ECS
23 34 (21.25%) Problem-Solving
23 34 (21.25%) RESTful
23 34 (21.25%) Web Services
24 32 (20.00%) Mockito

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 (3.75%) JBoss
1 6 (3.75%) OpenStack
2 5 (3.13%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.13%) Confluence
3 3 (1.88%) Red Hat Fuse
4 2 (1.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.25%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 108 (67.50%) AWS
2 45 (28.13%) Serverless
3 34 (21.25%) Amazon ECS
4 31 (19.38%) Amazon EC2
5 30 (18.75%) Amazon EKS
6 24 (15.00%) Azure
7 14 (8.75%) Amazon S3
7 14 (8.75%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (6.88%) GitHub
8 11 (6.88%) SaaS
9 8 (5.00%) GCP
10 7 (4.38%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (3.13%) AWS KMS
11 5 (3.13%) Route 53
12 4 (2.50%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (2.50%) Amazon MSK
13 3 (1.88%) GitHub Actions
14 2 (1.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.88%) HTTP
2 1 (0.63%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (30.63%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (26.25%) Relational Database
3 21 (13.13%) RDBMS
4 14 (8.75%) NoSQL
5 13 (8.13%) MongoDB
6 12 (7.50%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (6.88%) DynamoDB
8 9 (5.63%) MySQL
9 5 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (3.13%) Apache Hive
9 5 (3.13%) Big Data
9 5 (3.13%) Hadoop
9 5 (3.13%) HBase
10 4 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (2.50%) Electronic Patient Records
10 4 (2.50%) SQL Server
11 2 (1.25%) DB2
11 2 (1.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 52 (32.50%) Jenkins
2 37 (23.13%) JUnit
3 32 (20.00%) Mockito
4 30 (18.75%) Git
5 25 (15.63%) Maven
6 19 (11.88%) JMeter
7 9 (5.63%) Gradle
8 8 (5.00%) JIRA
9 6 (3.75%) SonarQube
10 5 (3.13%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (3.13%) DbUnit
10 5 (3.13%) jMock
11 4 (2.50%) Babel
11 4 (2.50%) webpack
12 3 (1.88%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (1.25%) Cucumber
13 2 (1.25%) Cypress.io
14 1 (0.63%) Bitbucket
14 1 (0.63%) Selenium
14 1 (0.63%) TeamCity
General
1 42 (26.25%) Finance
1 42 (26.25%) Public Sector
2 23 (14.38%) Social Skills
3 16 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (8.13%) Law
6 11 (6.88%) Games
7 9 (5.63%) Banking
8 6 (3.75%) Financial Institution
9 5 (3.13%) Marketing
10 4 (2.50%) Private Banking
11 3 (1.88%) Retail
12 2 (1.25%) Health Technology
12 2 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (63.75%) Spring
2 93 (58.13%) Spring Boot
3 55 (34.38%) REST
4 36 (22.50%) Hibernate
5 35 (21.88%) React
6 34 (21.25%) RESTful
6 34 (21.25%) Web Services
7 31 (19.38%) HTML
8 26 (16.25%) Apache Camel
9 25 (15.63%) ActiveMQ
10 24 (15.00%) jQuery
11 21 (13.13%) Kafka
12 19 (11.88%) JSON
12 19 (11.88%) WireMock
13 18 (11.25%) XML
14 15 (9.38%) AngularJS
15 13 (8.13%) JPA
15 13 (8.13%) Node.js
16 11 (6.88%) SOAP
17 8 (5.00%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 34 (21.25%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (7.50%) Cloud Native
3 10 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.75%) e-Learning
5 4 (2.50%) Distributed Applications
5 4 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.25%) Sports Betting
6 2 (1.25%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.63%) Online Games
7 1 (0.63%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.25%) Linux
2 8 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (66.25%) Agile
2 78 (48.75%) Microservices
3 74 (46.25%) CI/CD
4 73 (45.63%) TDD
5 51 (31.88%) Full-Stack Development
6 42 (26.25%) DevOps
7 40 (25.00%) BDD
8 37 (23.13%) SDLC
9 35 (21.88%) Clean Code
10 34 (21.25%) Problem-Solving
11 32 (20.00%) Scrum
12 30 (18.75%) Test Automation
13 28 (17.50%) Software Engineering
14 25 (15.63%) Front End Development
15 24 (15.00%) Workflow
16 23 (14.38%) Process Management
17 20 (12.50%) Kanban
18 18 (11.25%) Containerisation
18 18 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
19 15 (9.38%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 160 (100.00%) Java
2 57 (35.63%) JavaScript
3 32 (20.00%) SQL
4 30 (18.75%) Python
5 22 (13.75%) Shell Script
6 14 (8.75%) TypeScript
7 11 (6.88%) PL/SQL
8 8 (5.00%) Kotlin
9 7 (4.38%) Go
9 7 (4.38%) Scala
10 4 (2.50%) C#
11 2 (1.25%) Bash
11 2 (1.25%) Groovy
11 2 (1.25%) R
12 1 (0.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 38 (23.75%) Security Cleared
2 23 (14.38%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.25%) Degree
4 9 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.88%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.50%) Accessibility
1 4 (2.50%) QA
2 3 (1.88%) SLA
System Software
1 68 (42.50%) Docker
2 5 (3.13%) HDFS
3 1 (0.63%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 63 (39.38%) Kubernetes
2 19 (11.88%) Kibana
3 15 (9.38%) Terraform
4 9 (5.63%) Ansible
5 1 (0.63%) Grafana
5 1 (0.63%) PingFederate
5 1 (0.63%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (12.50%) Splunk
2 19 (11.88%) Dynatrace
3 15 (9.38%) Oracle
4 5 (3.13%) Atlassian
4 5 (3.13%) Cloudera
4 5 (3.13%) Databricks
5 4 (2.50%) Pega
5 4 (2.50%) WSO2
6 1 (0.63%) Google
6 1 (0.63%) IBM
6 1 (0.63%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (0.63%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.63%) Veracode