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 February 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 369 264
Rank change year-on-year +34 -105 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 197 181 507
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.55% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.61% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 119 88 403
10th Percentile £35,750 £43,875 £41,227
25th Percentile £53,500 £51,250 £47,500
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 £79,375
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,375 £86,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £84,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.24% +12.67% -9.09%

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 43,407 29,892 47,468
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.08% 91.63% 95.05%
Number of salaries quoted 27,114 14,631 36,882
10th Percentile £28,027 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £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 £82,500 £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 14 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 14 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 +67 88 £68,750 +25.00% 34
South East -31 54 £80,000 +23.08% 34
Yorkshire +22 53 £72,500 - 18
North West +37 35 £62,500 +10.62% 11
Midlands +14 21 £35,750 -40.42% 15
West Midlands +33 20 £35,000 -41.67% 14
South West -16 20 £65,000 +30.00% 6
Scotland -4 15 £60,000 - 10
Wales - 4 £65,000 - 3
East Midlands -25 1 £62,500 +4.17% 1
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 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.

1 197 (100.00%) Java
2 107 (54.31%) AWS
3 90 (45.69%) Spring Boot
4 86 (43.65%) Agile
5 85 (43.15%) CI/CD
6 77 (39.09%) Docker
7 75 (38.07%) Spring
8 65 (32.99%) Full-Stack Development
9 61 (30.96%) DevOps
10 57 (28.93%) Microservices
10 57 (28.93%) Serverless
11 54 (27.41%) Kubernetes
12 53 (26.90%) Jenkins
13 51 (25.89%) Amazon ECS
14 48 (24.37%) REST
15 46 (23.35%) JavaScript
16 40 (20.30%) Amazon S3
16 40 (20.30%) SDLC
16 40 (20.30%) TDD
17 36 (18.27%) SQL
18 35 (17.77%) AngularJS
19 34 (17.26%) Git
20 33 (16.75%) AWS Lambda
21 32 (16.24%) PostgreSQL
22 31 (15.74%) React
23 29 (14.72%) TypeScript
24 28 (14.21%) Maven
24 28 (14.21%) Node.js
25 27 (13.71%) AWS CloudFormation
25 27 (13.71%) AWS Step Functions

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 (6.09%) OpenStack
2 7 (3.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.52%) JBoss
4 1 (0.51%) Confluence
4 1 (0.51%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 107 (54.31%) AWS
2 57 (28.93%) Serverless
3 51 (25.89%) Amazon ECS
4 40 (20.30%) Amazon S3
5 33 (16.75%) AWS Lambda
6 27 (13.71%) AWS CloudFormation
6 27 (13.71%) AWS Step Functions
7 24 (12.18%) Amazon EKS
7 24 (12.18%) Azure
8 20 (10.15%) Amazon SQS
9 19 (9.64%) SaaS
10 17 (8.63%) Amazon ECR
10 17 (8.63%) Apigee
11 15 (7.61%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (7.11%) GitHub
13 10 (5.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (5.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 9 (4.57%) GCP
15 6 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (2.03%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.54%) Internet
2 1 (0.51%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (16.24%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (13.71%) DynamoDB
3 23 (11.68%) Relational Database
4 20 (10.15%) NoSQL
5 10 (5.08%) Amazon Athena
6 9 (4.57%) RDBMS
7 6 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.54%) MySQL
9 4 (2.03%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.52%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.51%) CockroachDB
11 1 (0.51%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.51%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 53 (26.90%) Jenkins
2 34 (17.26%) Git
3 28 (14.21%) Maven
4 23 (11.68%) JUnit
5 20 (10.15%) GitLab
5 20 (10.15%) Mockito
6 19 (9.64%) Cypress.io
7 18 (9.14%) SonarQube
8 9 (4.57%) JMeter
9 3 (1.52%) Gradle
10 2 (1.02%) JIRA
11 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.51%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.51%) jMock
11 1 (0.51%) Selenium
11 1 (0.51%) TestNG
General
1 24 (12.18%) Public Sector
2 20 (10.15%) Finance
3 16 (8.12%) Social Skills
4 11 (5.58%) Health Technology
5 6 (3.05%) Banking
5 6 (3.05%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.03%) Tech for Good
7 3 (1.52%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.52%) Digital Healthcare
8 2 (1.02%) Aeronautics
8 2 (1.02%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.02%) Automotive
8 2 (1.02%) Aviation
8 2 (1.02%) Games
8 2 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.02%) Retail
9 1 (0.51%) Advertising
9 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (45.69%) Spring Boot
2 75 (38.07%) Spring
3 48 (24.37%) REST
4 35 (17.77%) AngularJS
5 31 (15.74%) React
6 28 (14.21%) Node.js
7 23 (11.68%) Hibernate
7 23 (11.68%) Web Services
8 20 (10.15%) Jest
9 17 (8.63%) Gherkin
10 13 (6.60%) Apache Camel
10 13 (6.60%) Kafka
11 12 (6.09%) Elastic Stack
12 11 (5.58%) HTML
12 11 (5.58%) JSON
13 10 (5.08%) ActiveMQ
13 10 (5.08%) RESTful
13 10 (5.08%) XML
14 9 (4.57%) jQuery
14 9 (4.57%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 27 (13.71%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (3.05%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (2.54%) IoT
4 4 (2.03%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.03%) NHS
5 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.02%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.02%) Sports Betting
6 1 (0.51%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.51%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.57%) Linux
2 2 (1.02%) Android
2 2 (1.02%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (43.65%) Agile
2 85 (43.15%) CI/CD
3 65 (32.99%) Full-Stack Development
4 61 (30.96%) DevOps
5 57 (28.93%) Microservices
6 40 (20.30%) SDLC
6 40 (20.30%) TDD
7 24 (12.18%) Scrum
8 22 (11.17%) Clean Code
8 22 (11.17%) Containerisation
8 22 (11.17%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (9.64%) BDD
9 19 (9.64%) Software Engineering
10 17 (8.63%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (8.63%) Workflow
11 15 (7.61%) Front End Development
11 15 (7.61%) Secure Coding
12 13 (6.60%) Mentoring
12 13 (6.60%) Process Management
12 13 (6.60%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 197 (100.00%) Java
2 46 (23.35%) JavaScript
3 36 (18.27%) SQL
4 29 (14.72%) TypeScript
5 23 (11.68%) Bash
6 19 (9.64%) Python
7 17 (8.63%) Groovy
8 13 (6.60%) Kotlin
9 10 (5.08%) Shell Script
10 9 (4.57%) PL/SQL
11 7 (3.55%) Go
12 6 (3.05%) R
13 4 (2.03%) C
14 2 (1.02%) Scala
Qualifications
1 26 (13.20%) Security Cleared
2 16 (8.12%) AWS Certification
3 13 (6.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 13 (6.60%) ITIL Certification
3 13 (6.60%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.54%) Degree
5 4 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.52%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.08%) QA
System Software
1 77 (39.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 54 (27.41%) Kubernetes
2 17 (8.63%) HP Fortify
3 10 (5.08%) Ansible
4 9 (4.57%) Kibana
5 6 (3.05%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (6.60%) Oracle
2 9 (4.57%) Dynatrace
2 9 (4.57%) Splunk
3 4 (2.03%) Pega
3 4 (2.03%) WSO2
4 2 (1.02%) Google
5 1 (0.51%) Cognos
5 1 (0.51%) IBM
5 1 (0.51%) Veracode
5 1 (0.51%) VMware