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 24 February 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 371 267
Rank change year-on-year +42 -104 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 215 167 518
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.44% 0.54% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.59% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 132 88 411
10th Percentile £40,250 £43,875 £41,227
25th Percentile £54,250 £52,188 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £73,250 £80,250 £75,000
% change year-on-year -8.72% +7.00% -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 45,162 28,141 48,318
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.39% 91.26% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 28,285 14,088 37,294
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,589 £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 24 February 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 24 February 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 +66 101 £70,000 +27.27% 31
Yorkshire +29 64 £72,500 - 11
South East -37 57 £80,000 +25.49% 26
North West +31 37 £65,000 +15.04% 13
West Midlands +22 21 £35,750 -40.42% 10
Midlands -2 21 £35,750 -40.42% 10
South West -13 20 £65,000 +30.00% 9
Scotland -14 15 £60,000 -7.69% 9
Wales - 6 £65,000 - 4
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 February 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.

1 215 (100.00%) Java
2 113 (52.56%) AWS
3 94 (43.72%) Spring Boot
4 89 (41.40%) Agile
5 86 (40.00%) CI/CD
6 81 (37.67%) Docker
7 74 (34.42%) Spring
8 67 (31.16%) Full-Stack Development
9 66 (30.70%) DevOps
10 64 (29.77%) Serverless
11 58 (26.98%) Amazon ECS
11 58 (26.98%) Jenkins
12 57 (26.51%) Microservices
13 53 (24.65%) Kubernetes
14 47 (21.86%) Amazon S3
14 47 (21.86%) JavaScript
14 47 (21.86%) REST
15 42 (19.53%) SDLC
16 40 (18.60%) AngularJS
16 40 (18.60%) AWS Lambda
16 40 (18.60%) TDD
17 36 (16.74%) SQL
18 34 (15.81%) AWS CloudFormation
18 34 (15.81%) DynamoDB
19 33 (15.35%) Git
19 33 (15.35%) TypeScript
20 32 (14.88%) AWS Step Functions
20 32 (14.88%) Maven
20 32 (14.88%) PostgreSQL
21 31 (14.42%) React

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 12 (5.58%) OpenStack
2 7 (3.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (2.33%) JBoss
4 1 (0.47%) Confluence
4 1 (0.47%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 113 (52.56%) AWS
2 64 (29.77%) Serverless
3 58 (26.98%) Amazon ECS
4 47 (21.86%) Amazon S3
5 40 (18.60%) AWS Lambda
6 34 (15.81%) AWS CloudFormation
7 32 (14.88%) AWS Step Functions
8 24 (11.16%) Amazon EKS
9 23 (10.70%) Azure
10 22 (10.23%) Amazon SQS
11 21 (9.77%) Amazon ECR
11 21 (9.77%) Apigee
12 18 (8.37%) SaaS
13 15 (6.98%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (6.51%) GitHub
15 13 (6.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (6.05%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 9 (4.19%) GCP
17 6 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
18 4 (1.86%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.33%) Internet
2 1 (0.47%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (15.81%) DynamoDB
2 32 (14.88%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (10.70%) Relational Database
4 21 (9.77%) NoSQL
5 13 (6.05%) Amazon Athena
6 9 (4.19%) RDBMS
7 6 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.33%) MySQL
9 4 (1.86%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.40%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.47%) CockroachDB
11 1 (0.47%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 58 (26.98%) Jenkins
2 33 (15.35%) Git
3 32 (14.88%) Maven
4 24 (11.16%) GitLab
5 23 (10.70%) Cypress.io
6 22 (10.23%) JUnit
6 22 (10.23%) SonarQube
7 19 (8.84%) Mockito
8 9 (4.19%) JMeter
9 3 (1.40%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.40%) Gradle
9 3 (1.40%) Selenium
10 2 (0.93%) JIRA
11 1 (0.47%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.47%) jMock
11 1 (0.47%) TestNG
General
1 24 (11.16%) Public Sector
2 20 (9.30%) Finance
3 18 (8.37%) Social Skills
4 12 (5.58%) Health Technology
5 9 (4.19%) Banking
6 6 (2.79%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.86%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.40%) Digital Healthcare
10 2 (0.93%) Aeronautics
10 2 (0.93%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.93%) Automotive
10 2 (0.93%) Aviation
10 2 (0.93%) Games
10 2 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.93%) Retail
11 1 (0.47%) Advertising
11 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (43.72%) Spring Boot
2 74 (34.42%) Spring
3 47 (21.86%) REST
4 40 (18.60%) AngularJS
5 31 (14.42%) React
6 30 (13.95%) Node.js
7 23 (10.70%) Jest
8 22 (10.23%) Web Services
9 21 (9.77%) Gherkin
9 21 (9.77%) Hibernate
10 13 (6.05%) Apache Camel
10 13 (6.05%) Kafka
11 12 (5.58%) Elastic Stack
11 12 (5.58%) XML
12 11 (5.12%) JSON
13 10 (4.65%) ActiveMQ
13 10 (4.65%) HTML
14 9 (4.19%) jQuery
14 9 (4.19%) WireMock
15 8 (3.72%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.56%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (2.79%) Cloud Native
2 6 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (2.33%) IoT
3 5 (2.33%) NHS
4 4 (1.86%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.40%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.93%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.93%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.47%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.65%) Linux
2 2 (0.93%) Android
2 2 (0.93%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (41.40%) Agile
2 86 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 67 (31.16%) Full-Stack Development
4 66 (30.70%) DevOps
5 57 (26.51%) Microservices
6 42 (19.53%) SDLC
7 40 (18.60%) TDD
8 24 (11.16%) Clean Code
8 24 (11.16%) Scrum
9 23 (10.70%) Containerisation
10 22 (10.23%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (9.77%) BDD
12 19 (8.84%) Software Engineering
13 17 (7.91%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (7.91%) Secure Coding
13 17 (7.91%) Workflow
14 16 (7.44%) Front End Development
15 15 (6.98%) ITIL
15 15 (6.98%) Mentoring
15 15 (6.98%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 215 (100.00%) Java
2 47 (21.86%) JavaScript
3 36 (16.74%) SQL
4 33 (15.35%) TypeScript
5 27 (12.56%) Bash
6 21 (9.77%) Groovy
7 19 (8.84%) Python
8 18 (8.37%) Kotlin
9 10 (4.65%) Shell Script
10 9 (4.19%) PL/SQL
11 7 (3.26%) Go
12 6 (2.79%) R
13 4 (1.86%) C
14 2 (0.93%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (12.56%) Security Cleared
2 20 (9.30%) AWS Certification
3 15 (6.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 15 (6.98%) ITIL Certification
4 13 (6.05%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.33%) AWS Certified Developer
5 5 (2.33%) Degree
6 4 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.65%) QA
System Software
1 81 (37.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 53 (24.65%) Kubernetes
2 21 (9.77%) HP Fortify
3 10 (4.65%) Ansible
4 9 (4.19%) Kibana
5 8 (3.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (6.05%) Oracle
2 9 (4.19%) Dynatrace
2 9 (4.19%) Splunk
3 4 (1.86%) Pega
3 4 (1.86%) WSO2
4 2 (0.93%) Google
5 1 (0.47%) Cognos
5 1 (0.47%) IBM
5 1 (0.47%) Veracode
5 1 (0.47%) VMware