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 29 April 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 324 366
Rank change year-on-year +36 +42 -85
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 330 186 449
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.51% 0.68% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.77% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 231 122 381
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,625 £46,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,125 £67,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -6.67% -6.25%

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 60,696 24,066 64,233
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 88.35% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 38,829 14,617 46,940
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £76,770
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 +85 177 £70,000 +3.70% 22
Yorkshire +19 91 £75,000 +68.54% 4
South East -44 71 £80,000 +33.33% 16
North West +19 62 £67,500 - 6
South West -27 28 £65,000 +8.33% 5
North East -17 24 £45,000 - 12
Scotland -33 22 £60,000 +4.35% 5
West Midlands -28 19 £36,500 -39.17% 2
Midlands -45 19 £36,500 -39.17% 3
Wales - 14 £65,000 - 1
East of England -13 8 £50,000 -9.09% 6
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 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.

1 330 (100.00%) Java
2 126 (38.18%) AWS
3 102 (30.91%) Agile
4 101 (30.61%) Spring Boot
5 98 (29.70%) CI/CD
6 87 (26.36%) Full-Stack Development
7 86 (26.06%) DevOps
8 85 (25.76%) Docker
9 83 (25.15%) Spring
10 79 (23.94%) Serverless
11 67 (20.30%) Jenkins
12 66 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
12 66 (20.00%) AngularJS
13 65 (19.70%) Amazon S3
14 62 (18.79%) AWS Lambda
15 61 (18.48%) Security Cleared
16 56 (16.97%) Microservices
16 56 (16.97%) SQL
17 54 (16.36%) AWS CloudFormation
17 54 (16.36%) SC Cleared
18 52 (15.76%) TypeScript
19 50 (15.15%) DynamoDB
19 50 (15.15%) Kubernetes
20 48 (14.55%) Git
21 45 (13.64%) AWS Step Functions
22 42 (12.73%) REST
23 41 (12.42%) JavaScript
24 40 (12.12%) React
25 39 (11.82%) Maven
25 39 (11.82%) SDLC

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 10 (3.03%) OpenStack
2 6 (1.82%) JBoss
2 6 (1.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.61%) CICS
3 2 (0.61%) WildFly
4 1 (0.30%) Confluence
4 1 (0.30%) PegaRULES
4 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.30%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 126 (38.18%) AWS
2 79 (23.94%) Serverless
3 66 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
4 65 (19.70%) Amazon S3
5 62 (18.79%) AWS Lambda
6 54 (16.36%) AWS CloudFormation
7 45 (13.64%) AWS Step Functions
8 28 (8.48%) Amazon ECR
8 28 (8.48%) Amazon SQS
8 28 (8.48%) Apigee
9 22 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 22 (6.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 21 (6.36%) Azure
11 20 (6.06%) SaaS
12 19 (5.76%) GitHub
13 18 (5.45%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (2.73%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (2.42%) Datadog
15 8 (2.42%) GCP
15 8 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.52%) Internet
2 1 (0.30%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (15.15%) DynamoDB
2 33 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 24 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
5 18 (5.45%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.73%) MySQL
7 6 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.21%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.61%) DB2
9 2 (0.61%) Hazelcast
9 2 (0.61%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.61%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.30%) CockroachDB
10 1 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.30%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 67 (20.30%) Jenkins
2 48 (14.55%) Git
3 39 (11.82%) Maven
4 34 (10.30%) GitLab
5 32 (9.70%) SonarQube
6 28 (8.48%) Cypress.io
7 13 (3.94%) JUnit
8 8 (2.42%) JIRA
8 8 (2.42%) Mockito
9 4 (1.21%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.21%) Eclipse
9 4 (1.21%) Gradle
9 4 (1.21%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.91%) Selenium
11 2 (0.61%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.30%) JMeter
12 1 (0.30%) jMock
12 1 (0.30%) TestNG
General
1 27 (8.18%) Finance
2 23 (6.97%) Social Skills
3 20 (6.06%) Public Sector
4 15 (4.55%) Banking
5 10 (3.03%) Health Technology
6 6 (1.82%) Aviation
7 5 (1.52%) Advertising
7 5 (1.52%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.21%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.21%) Tech for Good
9 3 (0.91%) Digital Health
9 3 (0.91%) Digital Healthcare
10 2 (0.61%) Aeronautics
10 2 (0.61%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.61%) Automotive
10 2 (0.61%) Games
11 1 (0.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.30%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (30.61%) Spring Boot
2 83 (25.15%) Spring
3 66 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 42 (12.73%) REST
5 40 (12.12%) React
6 37 (11.21%) Node.js
7 29 (8.79%) Jest
8 28 (8.48%) Gherkin
9 16 (4.85%) Elastic Stack
9 16 (4.85%) Web Services
10 15 (4.55%) RESTful
11 12 (3.64%) Hibernate
11 12 (3.64%) Kafka
12 11 (3.33%) JPA
12 11 (3.33%) Spring MVC
13 10 (3.03%) HTML
14 9 (2.73%) CSS
14 9 (2.73%) Mustache
15 7 (2.12%) RabbitMQ
15 7 (2.12%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.97%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (2.12%) Cloud Native
3 5 (1.52%) IoT
3 5 (1.52%) NHS
3 5 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (1.21%) Management Information System
5 3 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.61%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (0.61%) Mainframe
6 2 (0.61%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.61%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.61%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.30%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.30%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.30%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.33%) Linux
2 2 (0.61%) Android
2 2 (0.61%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (30.91%) Agile
2 98 (29.70%) CI/CD
3 87 (26.36%) Full-Stack Development
4 86 (26.06%) DevOps
5 56 (16.97%) Microservices
6 39 (11.82%) SDLC
7 36 (10.91%) Scrum
7 36 (10.91%) TDD
8 32 (9.70%) Clean Code
9 31 (9.39%) Software Engineering
10 26 (7.88%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (7.27%) Containerisation
12 23 (6.97%) Secure Coding
13 22 (6.67%) ITIL
13 22 (6.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 21 (6.36%) Continuous Integration
15 18 (5.45%) Problem-Solving
16 17 (5.15%) DevSecOps
17 16 (4.85%) Front End Development
18 14 (4.24%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 330 (100.00%) Java
2 56 (16.97%) SQL
3 52 (15.76%) TypeScript
4 41 (12.42%) JavaScript
5 33 (10.00%) Bash
6 30 (9.09%) Groovy
7 26 (7.88%) Kotlin
8 24 (7.27%) Python
9 15 (4.55%) PL/SQL
10 9 (2.73%) C++
11 5 (1.52%) R
12 4 (1.21%) C
13 3 (0.91%) C#
14 2 (0.61%) Go
15 1 (0.30%) PHP
15 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 61 (18.48%) Security Cleared
2 54 (16.36%) SC Cleared
3 27 (8.18%) AWS Certification
4 22 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 22 (6.67%) ITIL Certification
5 9 (2.73%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.52%) AWS Certified Developer
7 5 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.52%) Degree
8 2 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 85 (25.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 50 (15.15%) Kubernetes
2 28 (8.48%) HP Fortify
3 14 (4.24%) Terraform
4 12 (3.64%) Ansible
5 5 (1.52%) Kibana
6 2 (0.61%) Packer
Vendors
1 19 (5.76%) Oracle
2 7 (2.12%) IBM
3 6 (1.82%) AppDynamics
4 4 (1.21%) Pega
5 1 (0.30%) Cognos
5 1 (0.30%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.30%) Google
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.30%) Splunk
5 1 (0.30%) Veracode
5 1 (0.30%) VMware
5 1 (0.30%) WSO2