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 3 March 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 374 275
Rank change year-on-year +52 -99 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 222 157 514
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.44% 0.53% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.59% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 143 86 409
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,125 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,625 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% +6.67% -9.09%

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 46,134 26,821 51,010
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.53% 90.98% 94.84%
Number of salaries quoted 29,047 13,847 39,143
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -5.25%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 3 March 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 3 March 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 +61 105 £70,000 +16.67% 53
Yorkshire +23 63 £72,500 +20.83% 17
South East -40 58 £80,000 +28.00% 31
North West +37 39 £65,000 +7.00% 27
South West -12 22 £65,000 +30.00% 16
West Midlands +31 21 £35,750 -40.42% 13
Midlands -14 21 £35,750 -40.42% 18
Scotland -8 14 £60,000 -7.69% 10
Wales - 7 £65,000 - 9
North East -14 3 £45,000 - 9
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 March 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.

1 222 (100.00%) Java
2 113 (50.90%) AWS
3 96 (43.24%) Spring Boot
4 90 (40.54%) Agile
5 89 (40.09%) CI/CD
6 83 (37.39%) Docker
7 75 (33.78%) Spring
8 67 (30.18%) DevOps
8 67 (30.18%) Full-Stack Development
9 66 (29.73%) Serverless
10 60 (27.03%) Microservices
11 58 (26.13%) Amazon ECS
11 58 (26.13%) Jenkins
12 54 (24.32%) Kubernetes
13 49 (22.07%) Amazon S3
14 47 (21.17%) JavaScript
14 47 (21.17%) REST
15 42 (18.92%) AWS Lambda
16 41 (18.47%) AngularJS
17 40 (18.02%) TDD
18 39 (17.57%) SDLC
19 37 (16.67%) SQL
20 35 (15.77%) AWS CloudFormation
20 35 (15.77%) DynamoDB
20 35 (15.77%) TypeScript
21 33 (14.86%) AWS Step Functions
21 33 (14.86%) Git
21 33 (14.86%) Maven
22 31 (13.96%) Node.js
22 31 (13.96%) PostgreSQL

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 12 (5.41%) OpenStack
2 7 (3.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (2.70%) JBoss
4 1 (0.45%) Confluence
4 1 (0.45%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 113 (50.90%) AWS
2 66 (29.73%) Serverless
3 58 (26.13%) Amazon ECS
4 49 (22.07%) Amazon S3
5 42 (18.92%) AWS Lambda
6 35 (15.77%) AWS CloudFormation
7 33 (14.86%) AWS Step Functions
8 23 (10.36%) Amazon EKS
8 23 (10.36%) Amazon SQS
8 23 (10.36%) Azure
9 22 (9.91%) Amazon ECR
9 22 (9.91%) Apigee
10 17 (7.66%) SaaS
11 15 (6.76%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (6.31%) GitHub
13 13 (5.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (5.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 9 (4.05%) GCP
15 6 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (1.80%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.25%) Internet
2 1 (0.45%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (15.77%) DynamoDB
2 31 (13.96%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (10.36%) NoSQL
4 22 (9.91%) Relational Database
5 13 (5.86%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (3.60%) RDBMS
7 7 (3.15%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.25%) MySQL
9 4 (1.80%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.35%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.45%) CockroachDB
11 1 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 58 (26.13%) Jenkins
2 33 (14.86%) Git
2 33 (14.86%) Maven
3 25 (11.26%) GitLab
4 24 (10.81%) Cypress.io
5 23 (10.36%) SonarQube
6 21 (9.46%) JUnit
7 18 (8.11%) Mockito
8 8 (3.60%) JMeter
9 3 (1.35%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.35%) Gradle
9 3 (1.35%) Selenium
10 2 (0.90%) JIRA
11 1 (0.45%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.45%) jMock
11 1 (0.45%) TestNG
General
1 24 (10.81%) Public Sector
2 19 (8.56%) Finance
3 16 (7.21%) Social Skills
4 12 (5.41%) Health Technology
5 9 (4.05%) Banking
6 5 (2.25%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.80%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.35%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.35%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (0.90%) Aeronautics
9 2 (0.90%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.90%) Automotive
9 2 (0.90%) Aviation
9 2 (0.90%) Games
9 2 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.90%) Retail
10 1 (0.45%) Advertising
10 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (43.24%) Spring Boot
2 75 (33.78%) Spring
3 47 (21.17%) REST
4 41 (18.47%) AngularJS
5 31 (13.96%) Node.js
6 29 (13.06%) React
7 24 (10.81%) Jest
8 22 (9.91%) Gherkin
9 21 (9.46%) Web Services
10 20 (9.01%) Hibernate
11 12 (5.41%) Apache Camel
11 12 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
11 12 (5.41%) Kafka
12 11 (4.95%) XML
13 10 (4.50%) JSON
14 9 (4.05%) ActiveMQ
14 9 (4.05%) HTML
15 8 (3.60%) jQuery
15 8 (3.60%) RESTful
15 8 (3.60%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.71%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (3.15%) Cloud Native
3 6 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.25%) IoT
4 5 (2.25%) NHS
5 4 (1.80%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.35%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.90%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.90%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.45%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.95%) Linux
2 2 (0.90%) Android
2 2 (0.90%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (40.54%) Agile
2 89 (40.09%) CI/CD
3 67 (30.18%) DevOps
3 67 (30.18%) Full-Stack Development
4 60 (27.03%) Microservices
5 40 (18.02%) TDD
6 39 (17.57%) SDLC
7 25 (11.26%) Scrum
8 24 (10.81%) Clean Code
8 24 (10.81%) Containerisation
9 23 (10.36%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (8.56%) BDD
10 19 (8.56%) Software Engineering
11 16 (7.21%) Front End Development
11 16 (7.21%) ITIL
11 16 (7.21%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (7.21%) Secure Coding
11 16 (7.21%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 16 (7.21%) Workflow
12 15 (6.76%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 222 (100.00%) Java
2 47 (21.17%) JavaScript
3 37 (16.67%) SQL
4 35 (15.77%) TypeScript
5 28 (12.61%) Bash
6 22 (9.91%) Groovy
7 19 (8.56%) Python
8 16 (7.21%) Kotlin
9 9 (4.05%) PL/SQL
9 9 (4.05%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.70%) R
11 5 (2.25%) Go
12 4 (1.80%) C
Qualifications
1 27 (12.16%) Security Cleared
2 21 (9.46%) AWS Certification
3 16 (7.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 16 (7.21%) ITIL Certification
4 14 (6.31%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.25%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.80%) Degree
7 3 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.50%) QA
System Software
1 83 (37.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 54 (24.32%) Kubernetes
2 22 (9.91%) HP Fortify
3 10 (4.50%) Ansible
4 9 (4.05%) Terraform
5 8 (3.60%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (6.31%) Oracle
2 8 (3.60%) Dynatrace
2 8 (3.60%) Splunk
3 4 (1.80%) Pega
3 4 (1.80%) WSO2
4 2 (0.90%) Google
5 1 (0.45%) Cognos
5 1 (0.45%) IBM
5 1 (0.45%) Veracode
5 1 (0.45%) VMware