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 £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 October 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 383 342
Rank change year-on-year +76 -41 -64
Permanent Java Developer jobs 465 169 261
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.52% 0.49% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.55% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 325 81 144
10th Percentile £39,500 £45,000 £24,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £76,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -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 adverts in the UK excluding London matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all permanent IT job adverts they make up.

6 months to
28 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent job adverts in the UK excluding London matching a recognised job title 82,508 30,921 45,697
% of permanent job adverts matching a recognised job title 91.97% 90.00% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 56,339 18,134 24,866
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,895 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,390 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.17% -9.22% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,603
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,623 £52,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year +13.57% -7.89% -5.00%

Java Developer Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent Java Developer job postings 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 Java Developer jobs in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 October 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 Java Developer jobs within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 October 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		 Job Ads
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
North of England +30 174 £65,000 - 18
South East -31 78 £77,500 +19.23% 7
North East -4 70 £60,000 -7.69% 5
South West -13 68 £55,000 -15.38% 4
Yorkshire +3 59 £77,500 +40.91% 5
North West -40 46 £65,000 - 9
Scotland +18 44 £70,000 -6.67% 5
Midlands -61 39 £70,000 +5.66% 3
West Midlands -35 36 £70,000 - 3
Wales - 35 £70,000 -
Northern Ireland -60 22 £60,000 +33.33%
East of England -38 5 £60,000 +33.33% 3
East Midlands -41 3 - -
Java Developer
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Java Developer Skill Set Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 28 October 2026, Java Developer job ads cited 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 Java Developer job ads across the UK excluding London region.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Java100.0%465
2AWS29.0%135
3Spring28.6%133
4Microservices28.0%130
5CI/CD24.9%116
6Docker24.5%114
6Spring Boot24.5%114
8Full-Stack Development23.7%110
9Agile21.1%98
10DevOps18.1%84
11Git17.0%79
11Kubernetes17.0%79
13Security Cleared14.4%67
14JavaScript12.9%60
15AngularJS12.5%58
15Problem-Solving12.5%58
17RESTful12.3%57
18Serverless12.0%56
19AWS CloudFormation11.8%55
19SC Cleared11.8%55
21Azure11.4%53
22Containerisation11.0%51
22Digital Transformation Programme11.0%51
22NoSQL11.0%51
22SQL11.0%51
26Mentoring10.8%50
26React10.8%50
26Scrum10.8%50
29TDD10.5%49
30Amazon ECS10.3%48

Java Developer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1Senior Java Developer30.1%140
2Full-Stack Java Developer14.4%67
3Java Software Developer6.5%30
3Junior Java Developer6.5%30
5AWS Developer5.8%27
6Backend Developer4.3%20
6Lead Java Developer4.3%20
8Angular Developer3.0%14
9C++ Software Developer2.8%13
9C++/Java Developer2.8%13
11Senior Full-Stack Developer2.4%11
12PL/SQL Developer1.3%6
12SC Cleared Java Developer1.3%6
14Senior Java Software Developer1.1%5
15Lead Full-Stack Developer0.6%3
16Low Latency Java Developer0.4%2
16React Developer0.4%2
18Cloud Developer0.2%1
18Junior JavaScript Developer0.2%1
18Junior Salesforce Developer0.2%1
39 Java Developer jobs in the UK excluding London