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 £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 389 270
Rank change year-on-year +61 -119 -76
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 224 285 370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.65% 0.51% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.54% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 121 175 311
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,800 £43,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.45% +7.20%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £78,125
90th Percentile £75,000 £84,500 £86,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% - +3.23%

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 30,736 52,765 32,139
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.30% 95.21% 93.34%
Number of salaries quoted 17,476 30,933 24,084
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,620 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer 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 18 September 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 18 September 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
South East +19 65 £52,500 -25.00% 28
North of England +38 55 £65,000 +18.18% 26
Scotland +46 54 £57,500 -8.00% 8
North West +16 37 £65,000 +13.04% 10
Midlands +72 36 £63,250 +40.56% 4
West Midlands +66 28 £66,250 +176.04% 3
Yorkshire +42 17 £46,250 -45.59% 15
South West +22 11 £60,000 +4.35% 1
Northern Ireland +14 9 £45,000 -21.74%
East Midlands +34 8 £57,500 -4.17% 1
North East +18 3 £65,000 +23.81% 1
East of England -14 1 £45,000 -37.93% 2
Java Developer
UK

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, Java Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 224 (100.00%) Java
2 138 (61.61%) Agile
3 124 (55.36%) Spring
4 121 (54.02%) AWS
5 117 (52.23%) Spring Boot
6 105 (46.88%) Microservices
7 93 (41.52%) Docker
8 88 (39.29%) TDD
9 81 (36.16%) Kubernetes
10 80 (35.71%) CI/CD
11 71 (31.70%) PostgreSQL
12 70 (31.25%) REST
13 67 (29.91%) Jenkins
14 59 (26.34%) JUnit
15 58 (25.89%) Security Cleared
16 57 (25.45%) React
17 56 (25.00%) RESTful
17 56 (25.00%) JavaScript
18 55 (24.55%) Hibernate
18 55 (24.55%) Problem-Solving
19 54 (24.11%) Full-Stack Development
19 54 (24.11%) Public Sector
19 54 (24.11%) BDD
19 54 (24.11%) DevOps
20 51 (22.77%) Finance
21 50 (22.32%) Serverless
22 49 (21.88%) Scrum
22 49 (21.88%) SQL
22 49 (21.88%) Kafka
23 48 (21.43%) Web Services

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (4.91%) Apache Spark
1 11 (4.91%) JBoss
2 9 (4.02%) Confluence
3 7 (3.13%) Red Hat Fuse
4 5 (2.23%) Apache
5 2 (0.89%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.89%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 121 (54.02%) AWS
2 50 (22.32%) Serverless
3 42 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
4 36 (16.07%) Amazon ECS
5 32 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
6 27 (12.05%) Azure
7 20 (8.93%) Amazon S3
8 15 (6.70%) Amazon SQS
9 14 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (5.36%) AWS KMS
11 11 (4.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (4.91%) GCP
11 11 (4.91%) Route 53
12 9 (4.02%) GitHub
13 8 (3.57%) SaaS
14 4 (1.79%) Amazon EMR
14 4 (1.79%) Amazon MSK
15 3 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
15 3 (1.34%) BlazeMeter
15 3 (1.34%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.34%) HTTP
2 1 (0.45%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (31.70%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (20.98%) Relational Database
3 29 (12.95%) MongoDB
4 26 (11.61%) RDBMS
5 22 (9.82%) NoSQL
6 20 (8.93%) DynamoDB
7 18 (8.04%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (7.14%) SQL Server
9 14 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
9 14 (6.25%) MySQL
10 11 (4.91%) Apache Hive
11 10 (4.46%) Big Data
11 10 (4.46%) Hadoop
12 6 (2.68%) HBase
13 4 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
13 4 (1.79%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (1.79%) Electronic Patient Records
14 3 (1.34%) DB2
15 2 (0.89%) Oracle Database
16 1 (0.45%) Impala
Development Applications
1 67 (29.91%) Jenkins
2 59 (26.34%) JUnit
3 44 (19.64%) Mockito
4 42 (18.75%) Git
5 34 (15.18%) Maven
6 23 (10.27%) JMeter
7 14 (6.25%) SonarQube
8 13 (5.80%) JIRA
9 12 (5.36%) DbUnit
9 12 (5.36%) Gradle
9 12 (5.36%) jMock
10 11 (4.91%) Bitbucket Server
11 9 (4.02%) Visual Studio
12 8 (3.57%) GitLab
13 4 (1.79%) Babel
13 4 (1.79%) webpack
14 3 (1.34%) Selenium
14 3 (1.34%) Sonatype Nexus
15 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
15 1 (0.45%) TeamCity
General
1 54 (24.11%) Public Sector
2 51 (22.77%) Finance
3 39 (17.41%) Social Skills
4 31 (13.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 30 (13.39%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (8.04%) Law
7 11 (4.91%) Banking
7 11 (4.91%) Games
8 5 (2.23%) Marketing
8 5 (2.23%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.79%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.79%) Police
9 4 (1.79%) Private Banking
10 2 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.89%) Retail
11 1 (0.45%) Advertising
11 1 (0.45%) Front Office
11 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (55.36%) Spring
2 117 (52.23%) Spring Boot
3 70 (31.25%) REST
4 57 (25.45%) React
5 56 (25.00%) RESTful
6 55 (24.55%) Hibernate
7 49 (21.88%) Kafka
8 48 (21.43%) Web Services
9 39 (17.41%) ActiveMQ
10 35 (15.63%) AngularJS
10 35 (15.63%) HTML
11 30 (13.39%) Apache Camel
11 30 (13.39%) JPA
12 28 (12.50%) jQuery
13 25 (11.16%) SOAP
14 23 (10.27%) WireMock
15 21 (9.38%) J2EE
16 18 (8.04%) JSON
17 16 (7.14%) XML
18 14 (6.25%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 43 (19.20%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (4.46%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (4.02%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.57%) e-Learning
4 8 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (3.57%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.13%) Distributed Architecture
6 6 (2.68%) Algorithms
6 6 (2.68%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.23%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.79%) Distributed Applications
8 4 (1.79%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.89%) IoT
10 1 (0.45%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.45%) Equity Derivative
10 1 (0.45%) Life Science
10 1 (0.45%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 29 (12.95%) Linux
2 10 (4.46%) Unix
3 9 (4.02%) Windows
4 4 (1.79%) Rocky
5 1 (0.45%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (61.61%) Agile
2 105 (46.88%) Microservices
3 88 (39.29%) TDD
4 80 (35.71%) CI/CD
5 55 (24.55%) Problem-Solving
6 54 (24.11%) BDD
6 54 (24.11%) DevOps
6 54 (24.11%) Full-Stack Development
7 49 (21.88%) Scrum
8 45 (20.09%) SDLC
9 38 (16.96%) Software Engineering
10 36 (16.07%) Test Automation
11 34 (15.18%) Front End Development
12 32 (14.29%) Clean Code
12 32 (14.29%) Kanban
13 24 (10.71%) Workflow
14 23 (10.27%) Containerisation
14 23 (10.27%) Process Management
15 22 (9.82%) Unit Testing
16 20 (8.93%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 224 (100.00%) Java
2 56 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 49 (21.88%) SQL
4 38 (16.96%) Python
5 26 (11.61%) Shell Script
6 24 (10.71%) TypeScript
7 13 (5.80%) C++
8 9 (4.02%) Kotlin
9 8 (3.57%) PL/SQL
10 7 (3.13%) Scala
11 5 (2.23%) Go
11 5 (2.23%) Groovy
12 4 (1.79%) C
12 4 (1.79%) C#
13 1 (0.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 58 (25.89%) Security Cleared
2 44 (19.64%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.70%) Degree
4 10 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.23%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.79%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.13%) SLA
2 4 (1.79%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.34%) QA
System Software
1 93 (41.52%) Docker
2 6 (2.68%) HDFS
3 4 (1.79%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 81 (36.16%) Kubernetes
2 23 (10.27%) Kibana
3 15 (6.70%) Terraform
4 7 (3.13%) Ansible
4 7 (3.13%) Grafana
5 4 (1.79%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.45%) PingFederate
6 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (12.50%) Splunk
2 26 (11.61%) Dynatrace
3 17 (7.59%) Oracle
4 11 (4.91%) Atlassian
5 5 (2.23%) Cloudera
5 5 (2.23%) Databricks
5 5 (2.23%) Jaspersoft
5 5 (2.23%) Red Hat
5 5 (2.23%) Sybase
6 2 (0.89%) IBM
6 2 (0.89%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.45%) Cisco
7 1 (0.45%) Veracode