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 23 June 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 323 382
Rank change year-on-year +63 +59 -96
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 439 224 433
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.64% 0.74% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.83% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 321 129 356
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £48,750 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £85,625
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - -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 64,481 26,973 75,169
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.51% 88.89% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 44,723 14,723 53,904
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £76,985
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +137 249 £67,500 +3.85% 26
Yorkshire +59 107 £75,000 +68.54% 7
North West +62 83 £65,000 - 11
South East -16 83 £80,000 +28.00% 10
North East +6 59 £52,500 - 8
South West -27 41 £38,750 -35.42% 7
Wales - 22 £65,000 - 4
Scotland -21 20 £60,000 +4.35% 12
West Midlands -35 19 £42,500 -32.81% 7
Midlands -59 19 £42,500 -29.17% 9
East of England -8 10 £50,000 +11.11% 1
Northern Ireland -44 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 23 June 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.

1 439 (100.00%) Java
2 154 (35.08%) AWS
3 133 (30.30%) Full-Stack Development
4 126 (28.70%) CI/CD
5 107 (24.37%) Agile
6 106 (24.15%) DevOps
6 106 (24.15%) Docker
6 106 (24.15%) Spring
7 102 (23.23%) Spring Boot
8 94 (21.41%) AngularJS
9 91 (20.73%) Serverless
10 88 (20.05%) Microservices
11 77 (17.54%) Security Cleared
12 74 (16.86%) AWS Lambda
12 74 (16.86%) Git
12 74 (16.86%) Jenkins
13 73 (16.63%) Amazon ECS
14 70 (15.95%) Amazon S3
15 69 (15.72%) SC Cleared
16 68 (15.49%) AWS CloudFormation
16 68 (15.49%) SQL
17 57 (12.98%) Kubernetes
17 57 (12.98%) TypeScript
18 56 (12.76%) AWS Step Functions
19 55 (12.53%) DynamoDB
20 54 (12.30%) React
21 53 (12.07%) JavaScript
22 48 (10.93%) SDLC
22 48 (10.93%) Software Engineering
23 46 (10.48%) 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 6 (1.37%) JBoss
1 6 (1.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (1.14%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.46%) CICS
4 1 (0.23%) Confluence
4 1 (0.23%) PegaRULES
4 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.23%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 154 (35.08%) AWS
2 91 (20.73%) Serverless
3 74 (16.86%) AWS Lambda
4 73 (16.63%) Amazon ECS
5 70 (15.95%) Amazon S3
6 68 (15.49%) AWS CloudFormation
7 56 (12.76%) AWS Step Functions
8 38 (8.66%) Azure
9 31 (7.06%) Amazon SQS
10 30 (6.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 29 (6.61%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 29 (6.61%) GitHub
12 25 (5.69%) Amazon ECR
12 25 (5.69%) Apigee
13 21 (4.78%) GCP
14 18 (4.10%) SaaS
15 15 (3.42%) Amazon EKS
15 15 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
16 13 (2.96%) Datadog
17 10 (2.28%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.46%) Internet
2 1 (0.23%) ATM
2 1 (0.23%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.23%) HTTP
2 1 (0.23%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (12.53%) DynamoDB
2 42 (9.57%) NoSQL
3 29 (6.61%) Amazon Athena
4 26 (5.92%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (4.56%) Relational Database
6 11 (2.51%) MySQL
7 5 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.91%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.91%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.68%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.46%) Couchbase
10 2 (0.46%) Db2
10 2 (0.46%) Hazelcast
10 2 (0.46%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.23%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 74 (16.86%) Git
1 74 (16.86%) Jenkins
2 40 (9.11%) Maven
3 36 (8.20%) GitLab
4 30 (6.83%) JUnit
5 29 (6.61%) SonarQube
6 26 (5.92%) Cypress.io
7 20 (4.56%) Eclipse
8 15 (3.42%) Subversion
9 12 (2.73%) Mockito
10 11 (2.51%) JIRA
11 6 (1.37%) Cucumber
12 5 (1.14%) JMeter
12 5 (1.14%) Selenium
13 4 (0.91%) IntelliJ
13 4 (0.91%) Spock
14 3 (0.68%) Gradle
15 2 (0.46%) Artifactory
15 2 (0.46%) Postman
16 1 (0.23%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 44 (10.02%) Finance
2 36 (8.20%) Social Skills
3 25 (5.69%) Public Sector
4 22 (5.01%) Banking
5 12 (2.73%) Health Technology
6 11 (2.51%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (2.05%) Advertising
8 7 (1.59%) Retail
9 6 (1.37%) Aviation
9 6 (1.37%) Tech for Good
10 5 (1.14%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.91%) Digital Health
12 2 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.23%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.23%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.23%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (24.15%) Spring
2 102 (23.23%) Spring Boot
3 94 (21.41%) AngularJS
4 54 (12.30%) React
5 41 (9.34%) Node.js
6 40 (9.11%) RESTful
7 31 (7.06%) REST
8 30 (6.83%) Gherkin
9 28 (6.38%) Jest
10 26 (5.92%) Web Services
11 20 (4.56%) J2EE
12 17 (3.87%) Kafka
13 16 (3.64%) Hibernate
13 16 (3.64%) JPA
14 15 (3.42%) HTML
14 15 (3.42%) Struts
15 12 (2.73%) Elastic Stack
16 11 (2.51%) CSS
16 11 (2.51%) Spring MVC
17 9 (2.05%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 24 (5.47%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (2.73%) Cloud Native
3 8 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (0.91%) NHS
6 4 (0.91%) Private Cloud
6 4 (0.91%) Product Ownership
7 3 (0.68%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.46%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.46%) IoT
8 2 (0.46%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.46%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.46%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.23%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.23%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.23%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.23%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.23%) Lidar
Operating Systems
1 28 (6.38%) Linux
2 6 (1.37%) Unix
3 2 (0.46%) Android
3 2 (0.46%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (30.30%) Full-Stack Development
2 126 (28.70%) CI/CD
3 107 (24.37%) Agile
4 106 (24.15%) DevOps
5 88 (20.05%) Microservices
6 48 (10.93%) SDLC
6 48 (10.93%) Software Engineering
7 46 (10.48%) Scrum
8 43 (9.79%) TDD
9 37 (8.43%) Clean Code
10 34 (7.74%) Containerisation
10 34 (7.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 34 (7.74%) Problem-Solving
11 32 (7.29%) Mentoring
12 30 (6.83%) Computer Science
12 30 (6.83%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 27 (6.15%) Continuous Integration
13 27 (6.15%) Secure Coding
14 26 (5.92%) Test Automation
15 24 (5.47%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 439 (100.00%) Java
2 68 (15.49%) SQL
3 57 (12.98%) TypeScript
4 53 (12.07%) JavaScript
5 41 (9.34%) Python
6 37 (8.43%) Groovy
7 35 (7.97%) Kotlin
8 34 (7.74%) Bash
9 25 (5.69%) C++
10 17 (3.87%) PL/SQL
11 13 (2.96%) Perl
12 4 (0.91%) Go
13 3 (0.68%) C
13 3 (0.68%) C#
13 3 (0.68%) R
13 3 (0.68%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.46%) Scala
15 1 (0.23%) PHP
15 1 (0.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 77 (17.54%) Security Cleared
2 69 (15.72%) SC Cleared
3 25 (5.69%) AWS Certification
3 25 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (5.69%) Degree
4 21 (4.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 21 (4.78%) ITIL Certification
5 12 (2.73%) DV Cleared
6 11 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.96%) QA
2 2 (0.46%) Good Clinical Practice
3 1 (0.23%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 106 (24.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 57 (12.98%) Kubernetes
2 25 (5.69%) HP Fortify
3 20 (4.56%) Terraform
4 11 (2.51%) Ansible
5 9 (2.05%) Kibana
6 6 (1.37%) Grafana
7 3 (0.68%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.46%) Packer
Vendors
1 26 (5.92%) Oracle
2 13 (2.96%) Splunk
3 10 (2.28%) AppDynamics
4 7 (1.59%) IBM
5 5 (1.14%) Dynatrace
6 4 (0.91%) Pega
7 2 (0.46%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.23%) Cognos
8 1 (0.23%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.23%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.23%) Veracode
8 1 (0.23%) VMware
8 1 (0.23%) WSO2