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 8 September 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 344 384
Rank change year-on-year +49 +40 -106
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 447 219 272
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.55% 0.64% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.72% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 320 119 180
10th Percentile £37,500 £29,700 £24,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -10.45%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £85,000
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 76,939 30,578 52,851
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 89.28% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 53,494 17,429 32,243
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,700 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,250
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 £86,250 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 8 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 8 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 +75 207 £65,000 - 32
Yorkshire +25 81 £75,000 +87.50% 3
South East -29 74 £75,000 +42.86% 18
North East +2 72 £57,500 -11.54% 18
South West -28 65 £48,750 -18.75% 7
North West -3 54 £65,000 - 11
Wales - 34 £70,000 - 4
Midlands -45 27 £70,000 +10.67% 17
West Midlands -37 24 £70,000 +5.66% 17
Scotland -30 22 £85,000 +47.83% 14
East of England -19 11 £50,000 +11.11% 3
Northern Ireland -76 11 £60,000 +33.33% 13
East Midlands -38 3 - -
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 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.

1 447 (100.00%) Java
2 137 (30.65%) AWS
3 129 (28.86%) Spring
4 126 (28.19%) Full-Stack Development
5 119 (26.62%) Microservices
6 116 (25.95%) CI/CD
7 110 (24.61%) Docker
8 108 (24.16%) Spring Boot
9 104 (23.27%) Agile
10 93 (20.81%) DevOps
11 88 (19.69%) Security Cleared
12 81 (18.12%) Git
13 77 (17.23%) SC Cleared
14 75 (16.78%) AngularJS
15 72 (16.11%) Kubernetes
16 68 (15.21%) Serverless
17 65 (14.54%) JavaScript
18 60 (13.42%) Jenkins
19 59 (13.20%) React
20 58 (12.98%) AWS CloudFormation
20 58 (12.98%) Python
21 56 (12.53%) SQL
22 55 (12.30%) Amazon ECS
23 54 (12.08%) AWS Lambda
24 53 (11.86%) RESTful
25 51 (11.41%) TDD
26 50 (11.19%) Amazon S3
26 50 (11.19%) Azure
26 50 (11.19%) Problem-Solving
26 50 (11.19%) 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 (1.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (0.67%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.45%) CMS
3 2 (0.45%) JBoss
3 2 (0.45%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.22%) Apache
4 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.22%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 137 (30.65%) AWS
2 68 (15.21%) Serverless
3 58 (12.98%) AWS CloudFormation
4 55 (12.30%) Amazon ECS
5 54 (12.08%) AWS Lambda
6 50 (11.19%) Amazon S3
6 50 (11.19%) Azure
7 41 (9.17%) AWS Step Functions
8 32 (7.16%) GitHub
9 28 (6.26%) GCP
10 24 (5.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 22 (4.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 19 (4.25%) Amazon SQS
12 19 (4.25%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (3.58%) Datadog
14 14 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (2.91%) Amazon ECR
15 13 (2.91%) Apigee
16 10 (2.24%) GitHub Copilot
16 10 (2.24%) 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 42 (9.40%) NoSQL
2 38 (8.50%) DynamoDB
3 28 (6.26%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (5.37%) MySQL
5 21 (4.70%) Amazon Athena
6 20 (4.47%) MongoDB
6 20 (4.47%) Relational Database
7 9 (2.01%) SQL Server
8 3 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.45%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.22%) Big Data
10 1 (0.22%) GIS
10 1 (0.22%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.22%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 81 (18.12%) Git
2 60 (13.42%) Jenkins
3 43 (9.62%) JUnit
4 31 (6.94%) Eclipse
4 31 (6.94%) Maven
5 27 (6.04%) Subversion
6 24 (5.37%) GitLab
7 16 (3.58%) SonarQube
8 14 (3.13%) Cypress.io
8 14 (3.13%) Mockito
9 8 (1.79%) JIRA
10 5 (1.12%) JMeter
11 4 (0.89%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.89%) Spock
12 3 (0.67%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.67%) Postman
12 3 (0.67%) Selenium
13 1 (0.22%) DBeaver
13 1 (0.22%) Karma Test Runner
13 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 51 (11.41%) Finance
2 29 (6.49%) Public Sector
2 29 (6.49%) Social Skills
3 22 (4.92%) Banking
4 19 (4.25%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (1.57%) Advertising
5 7 (1.57%) Health Technology
5 7 (1.57%) Retail
6 4 (0.89%) Aviation
6 4 (0.89%) Digital Health
7 2 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (0.45%) Investment Banking
7 2 (0.45%) Law
7 2 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (0.45%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.22%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.22%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (28.86%) Spring
2 108 (24.16%) Spring Boot
3 75 (16.78%) AngularJS
4 59 (13.20%) React
5 53 (11.86%) RESTful
6 35 (7.83%) Web Services
7 34 (7.61%) Jakarta EE
8 32 (7.16%) REST
9 31 (6.94%) Hibernate
10 30 (6.71%) Kafka
10 30 (6.71%) Node.js
11 29 (6.49%) JPA
12 27 (6.04%) Struts
13 23 (5.15%) Terraform
14 18 (4.03%) Gherkin
14 18 (4.03%) RabbitMQ
15 15 (3.36%) Jest
16 13 (2.91%) HTML
17 10 (2.24%) Elastic Stack
17 10 (2.24%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.26%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (5.37%) Cloud Native
3 16 (3.58%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 12 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.01%) Virtual Team
7 7 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.12%) Private Cloud
9 3 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.45%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.22%) Analytical Mindset
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%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.22%) Lidar
11 1 (0.22%) NHS
11 1 (0.22%) PKI
11 1 (0.22%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 38 (8.50%) Linux
2 7 (1.57%) Unix
3 1 (0.22%) CentOS
3 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (28.19%) Full-Stack Development
2 119 (26.62%) Microservices
3 116 (25.95%) CI/CD
4 104 (23.27%) Agile
5 93 (20.81%) DevOps
6 51 (11.41%) TDD
7 50 (11.19%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (11.19%) Scrum
8 48 (10.74%) Software Engineering
9 44 (9.84%) SDLC
10 43 (9.62%) Containerisation
11 40 (8.95%) Technical Architecture
12 39 (8.72%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 39 (8.72%) Mentoring
13 38 (8.50%) Computer Science
14 32 (7.16%) Clean Code
14 32 (7.16%) Continuous Improvement
15 28 (6.26%) Continuous Integration
15 28 (6.26%) Secure Coding
16 23 (5.15%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 447 (100.00%) Java
2 65 (14.54%) JavaScript
3 58 (12.98%) Python
4 56 (12.53%) SQL
5 45 (10.07%) C++
5 45 (10.07%) TypeScript
6 27 (6.04%) Kotlin
7 26 (5.82%) Perl
8 25 (5.59%) Groovy
9 24 (5.37%) Bash
10 16 (3.58%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.12%) C#
12 4 (0.89%) Go
12 4 (0.89%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.67%) Scala
14 1 (0.22%) PHP
14 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 88 (19.69%) Security Cleared
2 77 (17.23%) SC Cleared
3 38 (8.50%) Degree
4 36 (8.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (4.47%) DV Cleared
6 15 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (2.91%) AWS Certification
8 12 (2.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 12 (2.68%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.45%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.80%) QA
2 2 (0.45%) Good Clinical Practice
3 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 110 (24.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 72 (16.11%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.91%) Grafana
2 13 (2.91%) HP Fortify
3 10 (2.24%) Ansible
3 10 (2.24%) Prometheus
4 9 (2.01%) Kibana
5 2 (0.45%) Packer
6 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (5.37%) Oracle
2 21 (4.70%) Splunk
3 10 (2.24%) AppDynamics
4 6 (1.34%) Dynatrace
4 6 (1.34%) IBM
5 2 (0.45%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.22%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.22%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.22%) Pega
6 1 (0.22%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.22%) Workday
6 1 (0.22%) WSO2
6 1 (0.22%) YouTube