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 2 December 2025.

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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 358 255
Rank change year-on-year -1 -103 -42
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 149 252 343
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.39% 0.57% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.60% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 78 129 262
10th Percentile £45,875 £24,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £45,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £71,000 £70,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £78,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -

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 34,069 41,782 27,822
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.23% 94.04% 95.54%
Number of salaries quoted 21,493 22,088 21,153
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -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 2 December 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 2 December 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 +68 59 £65,000 +20.93% 19
South East -24 38 £67,500 +1.89% 37
North West +58 35 £65,000 +18.18% 10
Midlands +58 24 £62,500 +4.17% 3
Yorkshire +25 23 £57,500 - 6
Scotland +1 21 £53,750 -8.90% 8
West Midlands +65 19 £65,000 +170.83% 3
South West -12 12 £63,750 +27.50% 9
East Midlands +19 5 £58,000 -3.33%
Wales +10 3 £65,000 +4.00% 2
North East +7 3 £65,000 +23.81% 4
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 December 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.

1 149 (100.00%) Java
2 97 (65.10%) AWS
3 95 (63.76%) Agile
4 92 (61.74%) Spring
5 87 (58.39%) Spring Boot
6 73 (48.99%) CI/CD
7 72 (48.32%) Microservices
8 63 (42.28%) Kubernetes
9 62 (41.61%) Docker
10 61 (40.94%) TDD
11 57 (38.26%) JavaScript
12 53 (35.57%) REST
13 52 (34.90%) Full-Stack Development
14 44 (29.53%) Jenkins
15 43 (28.86%) Serverless
16 42 (28.19%) PostgreSQL
17 41 (27.52%) DevOps
18 37 (24.83%) React
19 36 (24.16%) Relational Database
20 34 (22.82%) Clean Code
21 33 (22.15%) Amazon ECS
21 33 (22.15%) BDD
22 32 (21.48%) Hibernate
22 32 (21.48%) JUnit
22 32 (21.48%) SDLC
23 30 (20.13%) Amazon EKS
23 30 (20.13%) Python
24 29 (19.46%) Security Cleared
24 29 (19.46%) Web Services
25 28 (18.79%) HTML

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 8 (5.37%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.68%) JBoss
3 3 (2.01%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.34%) Confluence
4 2 (1.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.34%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.67%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 97 (65.10%) AWS
2 43 (28.86%) Serverless
3 33 (22.15%) Amazon ECS
4 30 (20.13%) Amazon EKS
5 26 (17.45%) Amazon EC2
6 23 (15.44%) Azure
7 13 (8.72%) Amazon S3
7 13 (8.72%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (7.38%) SaaS
9 9 (6.04%) GitHub
10 8 (5.37%) GCP
11 5 (3.36%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (2.01%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (1.34%) Amazon EMR
13 2 (1.34%) Amazon MSK
13 2 (1.34%) OpenShift
14 1 (0.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 1 (0.67%) Apigee
14 1 (0.67%) AWS CloudFormation
14 1 (0.67%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.01%) Internet
2 2 (1.34%) HTTP
3 1 (0.67%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (28.19%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (24.16%) Relational Database
3 19 (12.75%) RDBMS
4 13 (8.72%) NoSQL
5 11 (7.38%) MongoDB
6 8 (5.37%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (4.70%) MySQL
8 6 (4.03%) DynamoDB
9 3 (2.01%) Apache Hive
9 3 (2.01%) Big Data
9 3 (2.01%) Hadoop
9 3 (2.01%) HBase
10 2 (1.34%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.34%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (1.34%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.67%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 44 (29.53%) Jenkins
2 32 (21.48%) JUnit
3 27 (18.12%) Mockito
4 24 (16.11%) Git
5 18 (12.08%) JMeter
6 17 (11.41%) Maven
7 6 (4.03%) Gradle
8 5 (3.36%) JIRA
9 4 (2.68%) Babel
9 4 (2.68%) webpack
10 3 (2.01%) Cypress.io
10 3 (2.01%) SonarQube
10 3 (2.01%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (1.34%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.34%) GitLab
11 2 (1.34%) jMock
12 1 (0.67%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.67%) DbUnit
12 1 (0.67%) IntelliJ
12 1 (0.67%) Selenium
General
1 34 (22.82%) Public Sector
2 33 (22.15%) Finance
3 19 (12.75%) Social Skills
4 11 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (4.70%) Games
6 7 (4.70%) Law
7 6 (4.03%) Banking
7 6 (4.03%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.01%) Health Technology
8 3 (2.01%) Marketing
8 3 (2.01%) Retail
9 2 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.34%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.67%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (61.74%) Spring
2 87 (58.39%) Spring Boot
3 53 (35.57%) REST
4 37 (24.83%) React
5 32 (21.48%) Hibernate
6 29 (19.46%) Web Services
7 28 (18.79%) HTML
8 26 (17.45%) RESTful
9 23 (15.44%) Apache Camel
10 20 (13.42%) ActiveMQ
10 20 (13.42%) jQuery
11 19 (12.75%) JSON
12 18 (12.08%) WireMock
12 18 (12.08%) XML
13 17 (11.41%) Kafka
14 15 (10.07%) Node.js
15 11 (7.38%) AngularJS
16 8 (5.37%) CSS
16 8 (5.37%) Elastic Stack
17 7 (4.70%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 32 (21.48%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (8.05%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.37%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.68%) e-Learning
5 3 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.01%) IoT
6 2 (1.34%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.34%) Sports Betting
6 2 (1.34%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.67%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.67%) NHS
7 1 (0.67%) Online Games
7 1 (0.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.70%) Linux
2 5 (3.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (63.76%) Agile
2 73 (48.99%) CI/CD
3 72 (48.32%) Microservices
4 61 (40.94%) TDD
5 52 (34.90%) Full-Stack Development
6 41 (27.52%) DevOps
7 34 (22.82%) Clean Code
8 33 (22.15%) BDD
9 32 (21.48%) SDLC
10 28 (18.79%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (16.78%) Scrum
12 23 (15.44%) Workflow
13 22 (14.77%) Continuous Improvement
13 22 (14.77%) Front End Development
13 22 (14.77%) Process Management
13 22 (14.77%) Software Engineering
14 20 (13.42%) Test Automation
15 17 (11.41%) Containerisation
16 13 (8.72%) User Experience
17 12 (8.05%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 149 (100.00%) Java
2 57 (38.26%) JavaScript
3 30 (20.13%) Python
4 28 (18.79%) SQL
5 21 (14.09%) Shell Script
6 14 (9.40%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.37%) Kotlin
7 8 (5.37%) PL/SQL
8 7 (4.70%) Go
8 7 (4.70%) Scala
9 4 (2.68%) C#
10 3 (2.01%) Bash
11 2 (1.34%) Groovy
11 2 (1.34%) R
Qualifications
1 29 (19.46%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.40%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.37%) Degree
4 7 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.68%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.36%) QA
2 4 (2.68%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.67%) SLA
System Software
1 62 (41.61%) Docker
2 3 (2.01%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 63 (42.28%) Kubernetes
2 18 (12.08%) Kibana
3 11 (7.38%) Terraform
4 8 (5.37%) Ansible
5 1 (0.67%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.67%) PingFederate
5 1 (0.67%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (12.08%) Dynatrace
1 18 (12.08%) Splunk
2 12 (8.05%) Oracle
3 4 (2.68%) Pega
3 4 (2.68%) WSO2
4 3 (2.01%) Cloudera
4 3 (2.01%) Databricks
5 1 (0.67%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.67%) Google
5 1 (0.67%) IBM
5 1 (0.67%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.67%) Veracode