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 1 April 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 337 319
Rank change year-on-year +38 -18 -34
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 277 154 490
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.48% 0.59% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.67% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 186 102 399
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,125 £39,932
25th Percentile £55,313 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -0.83% +0.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £76,125 £86,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £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 52,735 23,135 59,857
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 89.35% 94.73%
Number of salaries quoted 33,753 14,436 44,570
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,500 £68,568 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £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 1 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 1 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 +69 150 £70,000 +5.66% 51
Yorkshire +23 84 £72,500 +20.83% 15
South East -51 57 £80,000 +33.33% 30
North West +28 56 £67,500 - 22
South West -21 25 £65,000 +36.84% 4
West Midlands -6 20 £36,500 -39.17% 2
Midlands -35 20 £36,500 -39.17% 2
Scotland -20 19 £60,000 +4.35% 5
Wales - 11 £65,000 - 2
North East -19 10 £45,000 - 14
East of England -24 4 £50,000 -9.09% 3
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 277 (100.00%) Java
2 129 (46.57%) AWS
3 106 (38.27%) CI/CD
4 105 (37.91%) Spring Boot
5 103 (37.18%) Agile
6 90 (32.49%) Docker
7 84 (30.32%) Serverless
8 83 (29.96%) DevOps
8 83 (29.96%) Spring
9 82 (29.60%) Full-Stack Development
10 71 (25.63%) Amazon ECS
11 70 (25.27%) Jenkins
12 64 (23.10%) Amazon S3
13 63 (22.74%) AngularJS
14 61 (22.02%) AWS Lambda
15 59 (21.30%) Microservices
16 56 (20.22%) SQL
17 53 (19.13%) Kubernetes
18 52 (18.77%) Git
18 52 (18.77%) JavaScript
19 48 (17.33%) AWS CloudFormation
19 48 (17.33%) DynamoDB
19 48 (17.33%) TypeScript
20 47 (16.97%) REST
21 43 (15.52%) AWS Step Functions
22 42 (15.16%) Node.js
22 42 (15.16%) SDLC
23 38 (13.72%) TDD
24 37 (13.36%) Maven
25 36 (13.00%) 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 13 (4.69%) OpenStack
2 6 (2.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (1.81%) JBoss
4 2 (0.72%) CICS
5 1 (0.36%) Confluence
5 1 (0.36%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.36%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 129 (46.57%) AWS
2 84 (30.32%) Serverless
3 71 (25.63%) Amazon ECS
4 64 (23.10%) Amazon S3
5 61 (22.02%) AWS Lambda
6 48 (17.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 43 (15.52%) AWS Step Functions
8 27 (9.75%) Amazon ECR
8 27 (9.75%) Amazon SQS
8 27 (9.75%) Apigee
9 26 (9.39%) Azure
10 25 (9.03%) Amazon EKS
11 21 (7.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 21 (7.58%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 18 (6.50%) GitHub
12 18 (6.50%) SaaS
13 13 (4.69%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (3.61%) GCP
15 7 (2.53%) Datadog
15 7 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.81%) Internet
2 1 (0.36%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (17.33%) DynamoDB
2 34 (12.27%) NoSQL
3 33 (11.91%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (9.75%) Relational Database
5 21 (7.58%) Amazon Athena
6 11 (3.97%) MySQL
7 7 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.81%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.08%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.72%) DB2
10 2 (0.72%) Hazelcast
10 2 (0.72%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.36%) CockroachDB
11 1 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.36%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 70 (25.27%) Jenkins
2 52 (18.77%) Git
3 37 (13.36%) Maven
4 32 (11.55%) GitLab
5 30 (10.83%) SonarQube
6 27 (9.75%) Cypress.io
7 16 (5.78%) JUnit
8 12 (4.33%) Mockito
9 8 (2.89%) JIRA
10 5 (1.81%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.44%) Gradle
11 4 (1.44%) IntelliJ
11 4 (1.44%) JMeter
12 3 (1.08%) Eclipse
12 3 (1.08%) Selenium
13 2 (0.72%) Artifactory
14 1 (0.36%) jMock
14 1 (0.36%) TestNG
General
1 23 (8.30%) Social Skills
2 22 (7.94%) Finance
3 19 (6.86%) Public Sector
4 15 (5.42%) Banking
5 10 (3.61%) Health Technology
6 5 (1.81%) Advertising
6 5 (1.81%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.44%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.44%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.08%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (0.72%) Aeronautics
9 2 (0.72%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.72%) Automotive
9 2 (0.72%) Aviation
9 2 (0.72%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.72%) Games
9 2 (0.72%) Retail
10 1 (0.36%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (37.91%) Spring Boot
2 83 (29.96%) Spring
3 63 (22.74%) AngularJS
4 47 (16.97%) REST
5 42 (15.16%) Node.js
6 35 (12.64%) React
7 28 (10.11%) Jest
8 27 (9.75%) Gherkin
9 21 (7.58%) Web Services
10 18 (6.50%) Elastic Stack
11 17 (6.14%) Hibernate
11 17 (6.14%) RESTful
12 13 (4.69%) HTML
12 13 (4.69%) Kafka
13 9 (3.25%) Apache Camel
13 9 (3.25%) CSS
13 9 (3.25%) JPA
13 9 (3.25%) JSON
13 9 (3.25%) Spring MVC
14 8 (2.89%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.47%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (2.89%) Cloud Native
3 5 (1.81%) IoT
3 5 (1.81%) NHS
3 5 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (1.44%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.72%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (0.72%) Mainframe
6 2 (0.72%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.72%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.72%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.36%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.36%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.36%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.33%) Linux
2 2 (0.72%) Android
2 2 (0.72%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (38.27%) CI/CD
2 103 (37.18%) Agile
3 83 (29.96%) DevOps
4 82 (29.60%) Full-Stack Development
5 59 (21.30%) Microservices
6 42 (15.16%) SDLC
7 38 (13.72%) TDD
8 36 (13.00%) Scrum
9 32 (11.55%) Clean Code
10 25 (9.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (8.66%) Containerisation
12 22 (7.94%) Secure Coding
13 21 (7.58%) ITIL
13 21 (7.58%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 19 (6.86%) Continuous Integration
14 19 (6.86%) Problem-Solving
14 19 (6.86%) Software Engineering
15 18 (6.50%) BDD
16 16 (5.78%) Front End Development
16 16 (5.78%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 277 (100.00%) Java
2 56 (20.22%) SQL
3 52 (18.77%) JavaScript
4 48 (17.33%) TypeScript
5 32 (11.55%) Bash
6 29 (10.47%) Groovy
7 25 (9.03%) Kotlin
8 16 (5.78%) Python
9 14 (5.05%) PL/SQL
10 6 (2.17%) R
11 5 (1.81%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.44%) C
13 3 (1.08%) Go
14 1 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 35 (12.64%) Security Cleared
2 26 (9.39%) AWS Certification
2 26 (9.39%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 21 (7.58%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (1.81%) AWS Certified Developer
4 5 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.72%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.89%) QA
System Software
1 90 (32.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 53 (19.13%) Kubernetes
2 27 (9.75%) HP Fortify
3 16 (5.78%) Ansible
3 16 (5.78%) Terraform
4 7 (2.53%) Kibana
5 2 (0.72%) Packer
Vendors
1 16 (5.78%) Oracle
2 8 (2.89%) Pega
3 6 (2.17%) IBM
4 5 (1.81%) AppDynamics
4 5 (1.81%) WSO2
5 4 (1.44%) Dynatrace
5 4 (1.44%) Splunk
6 1 (0.36%) Cognos
6 1 (0.36%) Google
6 1 (0.36%) Veracode
6 1 (0.36%) VMware