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 22 September 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 326 376
Rank change year-on-year +27 +50 -112
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 453 221 279
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.53% 0.65% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.73% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 321 122 168
10th Percentile £37,500 £30,250 £24,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £49,063 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £84,125
UK median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% -9.38% -

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 79,433 30,469 51,513
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.30% 89.29% 95.27%
Number of salaries quoted 55,031 17,322 29,842
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 22 September 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 22 September 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 +60 203 £65,000 - 43
Yorkshire +20 82 £75,000 +87.50% 6
South East -30 78 £75,000 +42.86% 19
North East +4 74 £60,000 -7.69% 18
South West -22 65 £52,500 -12.50% 14
North West -29 47 £65,000 - 19
Wales - 35 £70,000 - 6
Midlands -51 30 £70,000 +10.67% 30
West Midlands -50 27 £70,000 +5.66% 29
Scotland -21 23 £90,000 +56.52% 27
Northern Ireland -77 13 £60,000 +33.33% 13
East of England -18 10 £53,750 +19.44% 3
East Midlands -33 3 - - 1
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 September 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.

1 453 (100.00%) Java
2 141 (31.13%) AWS
3 132 (29.14%) Spring
4 123 (27.15%) Full-Stack Development
5 121 (26.71%) Microservices
6 117 (25.83%) CI/CD
7 113 (24.94%) Docker
8 111 (24.50%) Spring Boot
9 107 (23.62%) Agile
10 95 (20.97%) DevOps
11 91 (20.09%) Security Cleared
12 83 (18.32%) Git
13 79 (17.44%) SC Cleared
14 75 (16.56%) AngularJS
15 74 (16.34%) Kubernetes
16 68 (15.01%) Serverless
17 63 (13.91%) AWS CloudFormation
18 62 (13.69%) JavaScript
19 59 (13.02%) Jenkins
19 59 (13.02%) Python
20 57 (12.58%) Amazon ECS
20 57 (12.58%) React
21 56 (12.36%) SQL
22 55 (12.14%) AWS Lambda
23 54 (11.92%) RESTful
24 53 (11.70%) Software Engineering
25 52 (11.48%) Amazon S3
25 52 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
26 51 (11.26%) Azure
26 51 (11.26%) 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 7 (1.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (0.44%) CMS
2 2 (0.44%) JBoss
2 2 (0.44%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.44%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.22%) Apache
3 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (0.22%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 141 (31.13%) AWS
2 68 (15.01%) Serverless
3 63 (13.91%) AWS CloudFormation
4 57 (12.58%) Amazon ECS
5 55 (12.14%) AWS Lambda
6 52 (11.48%) Amazon S3
7 51 (11.26%) Azure
8 43 (9.49%) AWS Step Functions
9 36 (7.95%) GitHub
10 30 (6.62%) GCP
11 26 (5.74%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 23 (5.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 23 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
13 19 (4.19%) Amazon SQS
13 19 (4.19%) Datadog
14 14 (3.09%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (2.65%) Amazon ECR
15 12 (2.65%) Apigee
16 10 (2.21%) GitHub Copilot
17 9 (1.99%) SaaS
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 48 (10.60%) NoSQL
2 39 (8.61%) DynamoDB
3 30 (6.62%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (5.74%) MongoDB
5 25 (5.52%) MySQL
6 22 (4.86%) Amazon Athena
7 19 (4.19%) Relational Database
8 9 (1.99%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.44%) Couchbase
10 2 (0.44%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.22%) Big Data
11 1 (0.22%) GIS
11 1 (0.22%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 83 (18.32%) Git
2 59 (13.02%) Jenkins
3 43 (9.49%) JUnit
4 31 (6.84%) Eclipse
5 29 (6.40%) Maven
6 27 (5.96%) Subversion
7 24 (5.30%) GitLab
8 16 (3.53%) SonarQube
9 14 (3.09%) Mockito
10 13 (2.87%) Cypress.io
11 7 (1.55%) JIRA
12 6 (1.32%) JMeter
13 5 (1.10%) Cucumber
14 4 (0.88%) Spock
15 3 (0.66%) Artifactory
15 3 (0.66%) Postman
15 3 (0.66%) Selenium
16 1 (0.22%) DBeaver
16 1 (0.22%) Gatling
16 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 55 (12.14%) Finance
2 35 (7.73%) Public Sector
3 31 (6.84%) Social Skills
4 24 (5.30%) Banking
5 22 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (1.77%) Health Technology
7 7 (1.55%) Retail
8 6 (1.32%) Advertising
9 4 (0.88%) Aviation
9 4 (0.88%) Digital Health
10 3 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.44%) Law
11 2 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.44%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.44%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.22%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.22%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.22%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (29.14%) Spring
2 111 (24.50%) Spring Boot
3 75 (16.56%) AngularJS
4 57 (12.58%) React
5 54 (11.92%) RESTful
6 36 (7.95%) Kafka
7 35 (7.73%) Web Services
8 34 (7.51%) Jakarta EE
9 33 (7.28%) Hibernate
10 32 (7.06%) REST
11 31 (6.84%) JPA
11 31 (6.84%) Node.js
12 27 (5.96%) Struts
13 25 (5.52%) Terraform
14 21 (4.64%) RabbitMQ
15 18 (3.97%) Gherkin
16 14 (3.09%) Jest
17 11 (2.43%) HTML
18 9 (1.99%) Elastic Stack
18 9 (1.99%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.84%) Distributed Systems
2 29 (6.40%) Cloud Native
3 20 (4.42%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (4.19%) Product Ownership
5 16 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (2.87%) Virtual Team
7 7 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.10%) Private Cloud
9 3 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.44%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.22%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.22%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.22%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.22%) Distributed Applications
11 1 (0.22%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.22%) Lidar
11 1 (0.22%) Life Science
11 1 (0.22%) NHS
11 1 (0.22%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.22%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 39 (8.61%) Linux
2 7 (1.55%) Unix
3 1 (0.22%) CentOS
3 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (27.15%) Full-Stack Development
2 121 (26.71%) Microservices
3 117 (25.83%) CI/CD
4 107 (23.62%) Agile
5 95 (20.97%) DevOps
6 53 (11.70%) Software Engineering
7 52 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
8 51 (11.26%) Scrum
9 50 (11.04%) TDD
10 45 (9.93%) Containerisation
11 44 (9.71%) SDLC
12 43 (9.49%) Mentoring
12 43 (9.49%) Technical Architecture
13 42 (9.27%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 38 (8.39%) Computer Science
15 31 (6.84%) Secure Coding
16 30 (6.62%) Continuous Improvement
16 30 (6.62%) Continuous Integration
17 29 (6.40%) Clean Code
18 28 (6.18%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 453 (100.00%) Java
2 62 (13.69%) JavaScript
3 59 (13.02%) Python
4 56 (12.36%) SQL
5 48 (10.60%) C++
6 46 (10.15%) TypeScript
7 31 (6.84%) Kotlin
8 26 (5.74%) Perl
9 24 (5.30%) Groovy
10 23 (5.08%) Bash
11 16 (3.53%) PL/SQL
12 5 (1.10%) C#
12 5 (1.10%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.88%) Go
14 3 (0.66%) Scala
15 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 91 (20.09%) Security Cleared
2 79 (17.44%) SC Cleared
3 38 (8.39%) Degree
4 36 (7.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (4.64%) DV Cleared
6 16 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (2.65%) AWS Certification
8 11 (2.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 11 (2.43%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.44%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.64%) QA
2 2 (0.44%) Good Clinical Practice
3 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 113 (24.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 74 (16.34%) Kubernetes
2 17 (3.75%) Grafana
3 14 (3.09%) Prometheus
4 12 (2.65%) HP Fortify
5 10 (2.21%) Kibana
6 9 (1.99%) Ansible
7 2 (0.44%) Packer
8 1 (0.22%) Argo
8 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (5.74%) Splunk
2 24 (5.30%) Oracle
3 10 (2.21%) AppDynamics
4 7 (1.55%) Dynatrace
5 6 (1.32%) IBM
6 2 (0.44%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.22%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.22%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.22%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.22%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.22%) Workday
7 1 (0.22%) YouTube