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 14 December 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 376 362 247
Rank change year-on-year -14 -115 -25
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 140 223 357
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.56% 1.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.60% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 78 113 270
10th Percentile £45,875 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £52,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70,750 £70,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £76,500 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -7.27% +3.13% -

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 37,176 37,275 27,254
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.88% 93.78% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 22,452 19,197 20,612
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,119 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,430 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.45% -0.95% -

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 14 December 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 14 December 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
North of England +60 59 £65,000 +18.18% 35
South East -19 39 £65,000 - 46
North West +47 29 £65,000 +8.33% 13
Yorkshire +28 29 £57,500 - 18
Midlands +37 18 £58,000 -3.33% 14
South West -10 16 £65,000 +30.00% 17
West Midlands +40 13 £65,000 +54.76% 9
Scotland -1 10 £30,000 -53.85% 12
East Midlands -2 5 £58,000 -3.33% 5
Wales +7 3 £65,000 +18.18% 3
North East -3 3 £65,000 +23.81% 5
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, 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.

1 140 (100.00%) Java
2 89 (63.57%) AWS
3 83 (59.29%) Agile
4 81 (57.86%) Spring
4 81 (57.86%) Spring Boot
5 67 (47.86%) CI/CD
6 63 (45.00%) Microservices
7 60 (42.86%) Docker
8 57 (40.71%) Kubernetes
9 52 (37.14%) JavaScript
10 51 (36.43%) TDD
11 48 (34.29%) REST
12 45 (32.14%) Full-Stack Development
13 41 (29.29%) Jenkins
13 41 (29.29%) Serverless
14 40 (28.57%) DevOps
15 38 (27.14%) PostgreSQL
16 33 (23.57%) Amazon ECS
16 33 (23.57%) React
17 32 (22.86%) Clean Code
18 31 (22.14%) Relational Database
18 31 (22.14%) SDLC
19 29 (20.71%) Amazon EKS
20 28 (20.00%) BDD
21 27 (19.29%) Hibernate
21 27 (19.29%) Python
21 27 (19.29%) Web Services
22 26 (18.57%) JUnit
23 24 (17.14%) Security Cleared
24 22 (15.71%) Azure

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 11 (7.86%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.14%) JBoss
3 2 (1.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.43%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.71%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 89 (63.57%) AWS
2 41 (29.29%) Serverless
3 33 (23.57%) Amazon ECS
4 29 (20.71%) Amazon EKS
5 22 (15.71%) Azure
6 20 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (10.71%) Amazon S3
8 13 (9.29%) SaaS
9 12 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (6.43%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (5.71%) GCP
12 7 (5.00%) GitHub
13 4 (2.86%) Amazon ECR
13 4 (2.86%) Apigee
13 4 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (2.86%) AWS Step Functions
14 3 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
15 2 (1.43%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.14%) Internet
2 1 (0.71%) HTTP
2 1 (0.71%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (27.14%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (22.14%) Relational Database
3 15 (10.71%) RDBMS
4 13 (9.29%) NoSQL
5 10 (7.14%) MongoDB
6 7 (5.00%) MySQL
7 6 (4.29%) DynamoDB
8 5 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.71%) CockroachDB
9 1 (0.71%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 41 (29.29%) Jenkins
2 26 (18.57%) JUnit
3 22 (15.71%) Git
3 22 (15.71%) Mockito
4 15 (10.71%) JMeter
5 12 (8.57%) Maven
6 6 (4.29%) Cypress.io
7 5 (3.57%) GitLab
8 4 (2.86%) Babel
8 4 (2.86%) Gradle
8 4 (2.86%) SonarQube
8 4 (2.86%) webpack
9 3 (2.14%) JIRA
10 2 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.71%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.71%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.71%) jMock
11 1 (0.71%) TestNG
General
1 29 (20.71%) Public Sector
2 24 (17.14%) Finance
3 14 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.29%) Financial Institution
5 5 (3.57%) Games
6 3 (2.14%) Health Technology
6 3 (2.14%) Retail
7 2 (1.43%) Aeronautics
7 2 (1.43%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.43%) Automotive
7 2 (1.43%) Digital Healthcare
7 2 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.71%) Banking
8 1 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (57.86%) Spring
1 81 (57.86%) Spring Boot
2 48 (34.29%) REST
3 33 (23.57%) React
4 27 (19.29%) Hibernate
4 27 (19.29%) Web Services
5 21 (15.00%) HTML
6 19 (13.57%) Apache Camel
7 18 (12.86%) RESTful
8 17 (12.14%) Node.js
9 16 (11.43%) ActiveMQ
9 16 (11.43%) JSON
9 16 (11.43%) Kafka
9 16 (11.43%) XML
10 15 (10.71%) jQuery
10 15 (10.71%) WireMock
11 11 (7.86%) AngularJS
11 11 (7.86%) Elastic Stack
12 8 (5.71%) Spring MVC
13 7 (5.00%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 31 (22.14%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (6.43%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.14%) IoT
5 2 (1.43%) e-Learning
5 2 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.43%) Sports Betting
5 2 (1.43%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.71%) NHS
6 1 (0.71%) Online Games
6 1 (0.71%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.71%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.29%) Linux
2 2 (1.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (59.29%) Agile
2 67 (47.86%) CI/CD
3 63 (45.00%) Microservices
4 51 (36.43%) TDD
5 45 (32.14%) Full-Stack Development
6 40 (28.57%) DevOps
7 32 (22.86%) Clean Code
8 31 (22.14%) SDLC
9 28 (20.00%) BDD
10 22 (15.71%) Scrum
11 21 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (14.29%) Workflow
13 19 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (13.57%) Process Management
14 18 (12.86%) Front End Development
14 18 (12.86%) Software Engineering
15 15 (10.71%) Containerisation
16 12 (8.57%) OOP
17 11 (7.86%) Mentoring
17 11 (7.86%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 140 (100.00%) Java
2 52 (37.14%) JavaScript
3 27 (19.29%) Python
4 22 (15.71%) SQL
5 18 (12.86%) Shell Script
6 15 (10.71%) TypeScript
7 9 (6.43%) Go
8 8 (5.71%) Kotlin
9 6 (4.29%) Bash
9 6 (4.29%) Scala
10 5 (3.57%) Groovy
11 4 (2.86%) PL/SQL
12 3 (2.14%) C#
13 2 (1.43%) R
Qualifications
1 24 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.29%) AWS Certification
3 6 (4.29%) Degree
4 5 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (2.14%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.57%) QA
2 4 (2.86%) Accessibility
System Software
1 60 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 57 (40.71%) Kubernetes
2 15 (10.71%) Kibana
3 8 (5.71%) Ansible
4 7 (5.00%) Terraform
5 4 (2.86%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.71%) PingFederate
6 1 (0.71%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (10.71%) Dynatrace
1 15 (10.71%) Splunk
2 9 (6.43%) Oracle
3 4 (2.86%) Pega
3 4 (2.86%) WSO2
4 2 (1.43%) Google