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 £65,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 July 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 332 406
Rank change year-on-year +68 +74 -115
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 447 227 344
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.62% 0.67% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.75% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 329 135 275
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £86,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% -6.45% -3.13%

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 68,706 30,337 64,063
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.74% 89.40% 94.84%
Number of salaries quoted 47,586 17,385 44,623
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,929 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 +131 238 £65,000 - 20
Yorkshire +45 94 £75,000 +25.00% 8
North West +39 78 £65,000 - 4
South East -26 77 £80,000 +52.38% 11
North East +15 66 £52,500 -4.55% 9
South West -15 53 £53,750 -10.42% 7
Wales - 32 £70,000 - 3
Scotland -20 21 £60,000 +4.35% 10
Midlands -55 19 £65,000 +8.33% 5
West Midlands -36 16 £65,000 +0.78% 5
East of England -1 10 £50,000 +11.11% 1
East Midlands -28 3 - -
Northern Ireland -74 1 - - 2
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 July 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.

1 447 (100.00%) Java
2 144 (32.21%) AWS
3 135 (30.20%) Full-Stack Development
4 124 (27.74%) CI/CD
5 115 (25.73%) Spring
6 107 (23.94%) Docker
7 106 (23.71%) Agile
8 104 (23.27%) Spring Boot
9 101 (22.60%) DevOps
10 100 (22.37%) Microservices
11 85 (19.02%) AngularJS
12 83 (18.57%) Security Cleared
13 81 (18.12%) Serverless
14 73 (16.33%) SC Cleared
15 72 (16.11%) Git
16 71 (15.88%) Jenkins
17 66 (14.77%) AWS Lambda
18 64 (14.32%) Kubernetes
19 63 (14.09%) Amazon ECS
20 61 (13.65%) AWS CloudFormation
21 59 (13.20%) Amazon S3
22 56 (12.53%) SQL
23 55 (12.30%) JavaScript
24 53 (11.86%) React
25 52 (11.63%) TypeScript
26 50 (11.19%) Python
27 49 (10.96%) TDD
28 48 (10.74%) Software Engineering
29 47 (10.51%) AWS Step Functions
30 46 (10.29%) DynamoDB

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 (1.34%) JBoss
2 3 (0.67%) OpenStack
2 3 (0.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.45%) CICS
3 2 (0.45%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.22%) Confluence
4 1 (0.22%) PegaRULES
4 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.22%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 144 (32.21%) AWS
2 81 (18.12%) Serverless
3 66 (14.77%) AWS Lambda
4 63 (14.09%) Amazon ECS
5 61 (13.65%) AWS CloudFormation
6 59 (13.20%) Amazon S3
7 47 (10.51%) AWS Step Functions
8 42 (9.40%) Azure
9 29 (6.49%) GitHub
10 26 (5.82%) GCP
11 25 (5.59%) Amazon SQS
12 24 (5.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 23 (5.15%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 22 (4.92%) Amazon ECR
14 22 (4.92%) Apigee
15 14 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
16 13 (2.91%) Amazon EKS
17 12 (2.68%) SaaS
18 11 (2.46%) Datadog
19 10 (2.24%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.22%) ATM
1 1 (0.22%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.22%) HTTP
1 1 (0.22%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (10.29%) DynamoDB
2 39 (8.72%) NoSQL
3 25 (5.59%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (5.15%) Amazon Athena
5 19 (4.25%) Relational Database
6 18 (4.03%) MySQL
7 11 (2.46%) MongoDB
8 9 (2.01%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.67%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.45%) Couchbase
11 2 (0.45%) Db2
11 2 (0.45%) Hazelcast
11 2 (0.45%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.22%) Big Data
12 1 (0.22%) GIS
12 1 (0.22%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 72 (16.11%) Git
2 71 (15.88%) Jenkins
3 36 (8.05%) Maven
4 33 (7.38%) GitLab
5 31 (6.94%) JUnit
6 26 (5.82%) SonarQube
7 25 (5.59%) Eclipse
8 23 (5.15%) Cypress.io
9 19 (4.25%) Subversion
10 11 (2.46%) JIRA
11 10 (2.24%) Mockito
12 6 (1.34%) Cucumber
13 5 (1.12%) JMeter
13 5 (1.12%) Selenium
14 4 (0.89%) IntelliJ
14 4 (0.89%) Spock
15 3 (0.67%) Gradle
15 3 (0.67%) Postman
16 2 (0.45%) Artifactory
17 1 (0.22%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 42 (9.40%) Finance
2 29 (6.49%) Social Skills
3 26 (5.82%) Public Sector
4 24 (5.37%) Banking
5 13 (2.91%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (2.01%) Advertising
6 9 (2.01%) Health Technology
7 7 (1.57%) Retail
8 6 (1.34%) Aviation
9 5 (1.12%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.89%) Digital Health
10 4 (0.89%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.22%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.22%) Law
12 1 (0.22%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (25.73%) Spring
2 104 (23.27%) Spring Boot
3 85 (19.02%) AngularJS
4 53 (11.86%) React
5 46 (10.29%) RESTful
6 33 (7.38%) Node.js
7 30 (6.71%) Jakarta EE
7 30 (6.71%) REST
8 27 (6.04%) Gherkin
8 27 (6.04%) Web Services
9 24 (5.37%) Hibernate
9 24 (5.37%) Jest
9 24 (5.37%) JPA
10 23 (5.15%) Kafka
11 19 (4.25%) Struts
12 16 (3.58%) HTML
13 12 (2.68%) CSS
13 12 (2.68%) Spring MVC
14 11 (2.46%) RabbitMQ
15 10 (2.24%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 24 (5.37%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (3.80%) Cloud Native
3 10 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (2.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (1.57%) Product Ownership
5 7 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (0.89%) Private Cloud
7 4 (0.89%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.45%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.45%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.22%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.22%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.22%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.22%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.22%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.22%) Lidar
9 1 (0.22%) Life Science
9 1 (0.22%) NHS
9 1 (0.22%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 29 (6.49%) Linux
2 6 (1.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (30.20%) Full-Stack Development
2 124 (27.74%) CI/CD
3 106 (23.71%) Agile
4 101 (22.60%) DevOps
5 100 (22.37%) Microservices
6 49 (10.96%) TDD
7 48 (10.74%) Software Engineering
8 46 (10.29%) Scrum
9 43 (9.62%) SDLC
10 38 (8.50%) Clean Code
11 37 (8.28%) Containerisation
12 36 (8.05%) Continuous Improvement
12 36 (8.05%) Problem-Solving
13 33 (7.38%) Computer Science
14 32 (7.16%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 32 (7.16%) Mentoring
15 28 (6.26%) Secure Coding
16 27 (6.04%) Test Automation
17 24 (5.37%) Continuous Integration
17 24 (5.37%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 447 (100.00%) Java
2 56 (12.53%) SQL
3 55 (12.30%) JavaScript
4 52 (11.63%) TypeScript
5 50 (11.19%) Python
6 34 (7.61%) Groovy
7 31 (6.94%) C++
8 30 (6.71%) Kotlin
9 29 (6.49%) Bash
10 17 (3.80%) Perl
11 14 (3.13%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.89%) Go
13 3 (0.67%) C#
13 3 (0.67%) Scala
13 3 (0.67%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.22%) PHP
14 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 83 (18.57%) Security Cleared
2 73 (16.33%) SC Cleared
3 31 (6.94%) Degree
4 29 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (4.92%) AWS Certification
6 18 (4.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 18 (4.03%) ITIL Certification
7 15 (3.36%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.45%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.91%) QA
2 2 (0.45%) Good Clinical Practice
3 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 107 (23.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 64 (14.32%) Kubernetes
2 22 (4.92%) HP Fortify
3 20 (4.47%) Terraform
4 9 (2.01%) Ansible
4 9 (2.01%) Kibana
5 8 (1.79%) Grafana
6 5 (1.12%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.45%) Packer
Vendors
1 22 (4.92%) Oracle
2 16 (3.58%) Splunk
3 10 (2.24%) AppDynamics
4 7 (1.57%) IBM
5 6 (1.34%) Dynatrace
6 4 (0.89%) Pega
7 2 (0.45%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.22%) Cognos
8 1 (0.22%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.22%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.22%) Veracode
8 1 (0.22%) VMware
8 1 (0.22%) WSO2