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 2 May 2026.

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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 318 365
Rank change year-on-year +31 +47 -95
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 335 185 445
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.51% 0.68% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.77% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 235 121 377
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,875 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
% 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 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 60,893 24,120 64,462
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.23% 88.67% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 39,038 14,658 47,091
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,648 £53,000
% change year-on-year -7.79% +12.54% -11.67%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 +83 183 £70,000 +3.70% 28
Yorkshire +20 94 £75,000 +68.54% 7
South East -34 70 £80,000 +33.33% 17
North West +29 62 £67,500 - 6
South West -32 29 £65,000 +8.33% 6
North East -14 27 £47,500 - 15
Scotland -38 22 £60,000 +4.35% 5
West Midlands -20 18 £36,500 -39.17% 2
Midlands -45 18 £36,500 -39.17% 3
Wales - 14 £65,000 - 1
East of England -13 8 £50,000 -9.09% 7
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 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.

1 335 (100.00%) Java
2 126 (37.61%) AWS
3 102 (30.45%) Spring Boot
4 101 (30.15%) Agile
5 99 (29.55%) CI/CD
6 86 (25.67%) DevOps
6 86 (25.67%) Full-Stack Development
7 85 (25.37%) Docker
8 83 (24.78%) Spring
9 80 (23.88%) Serverless
10 69 (20.60%) AngularJS
10 69 (20.60%) Jenkins
11 67 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
12 66 (19.70%) Amazon S3
13 63 (18.81%) AWS Lambda
14 60 (17.91%) Security Cleared
15 58 (17.31%) Microservices
16 57 (17.01%) AWS CloudFormation
17 56 (16.72%) SQL
18 53 (15.82%) SC Cleared
19 52 (15.52%) TypeScript
20 51 (15.22%) DynamoDB
21 49 (14.63%) Git
21 49 (14.63%) Kubernetes
22 46 (13.73%) AWS Step Functions
23 40 (11.94%) JavaScript
23 40 (11.94%) REST
24 39 (11.64%) React
25 38 (11.34%) Maven
25 38 (11.34%) Node.js

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 10 (2.99%) OpenStack
2 6 (1.79%) JBoss
2 6 (1.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.60%) CICS
3 2 (0.60%) WildFly
4 1 (0.30%) Confluence
4 1 (0.30%) PegaRULES
4 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.30%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 126 (37.61%) AWS
2 80 (23.88%) Serverless
3 67 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
4 66 (19.70%) Amazon S3
5 63 (18.81%) AWS Lambda
6 57 (17.01%) AWS CloudFormation
7 46 (13.73%) AWS Step Functions
8 28 (8.36%) Amazon ECR
8 28 (8.36%) Amazon SQS
8 28 (8.36%) Apigee
9 23 (6.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 23 (6.87%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 20 (5.97%) GitHub
10 20 (5.97%) SaaS
11 19 (5.67%) Azure
12 18 (5.37%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (2.69%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (2.69%) Datadog
13 9 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (2.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.49%) Internet
2 1 (0.30%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (15.22%) DynamoDB
2 34 (10.15%) NoSQL
3 24 (7.16%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (6.87%) Amazon Athena
5 18 (5.37%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.69%) MySQL
7 6 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.19%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.60%) DB2
9 2 (0.60%) Hazelcast
9 2 (0.60%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.60%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.30%) CockroachDB
10 1 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.30%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 69 (20.60%) Jenkins
2 49 (14.63%) Git
3 38 (11.34%) Maven
4 34 (10.15%) GitLab
5 32 (9.55%) SonarQube
6 28 (8.36%) Cypress.io
7 12 (3.58%) JUnit
8 8 (2.39%) JIRA
9 7 (2.09%) Mockito
10 4 (1.19%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.19%) Eclipse
10 4 (1.19%) Gradle
10 4 (1.19%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.90%) Selenium
12 2 (0.60%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.30%) JMeter
13 1 (0.30%) jMock
13 1 (0.30%) TestNG
General
1 26 (7.76%) Finance
2 25 (7.46%) Social Skills
3 19 (5.67%) Public Sector
4 15 (4.48%) Banking
5 10 (2.99%) Health Technology
6 6 (1.79%) Aviation
7 5 (1.49%) Advertising
7 5 (1.49%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.19%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.19%) Tech for Good
9 3 (0.90%) Digital Health
9 3 (0.90%) Digital Healthcare
10 2 (0.60%) Aeronautics
10 2 (0.60%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.60%) Automotive
11 1 (0.30%) Games
11 1 (0.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.30%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (30.45%) Spring Boot
2 83 (24.78%) Spring
3 69 (20.60%) AngularJS
4 40 (11.94%) REST
5 39 (11.64%) React
6 38 (11.34%) Node.js
7 29 (8.66%) Jest
8 28 (8.36%) Gherkin
9 16 (4.78%) Elastic Stack
9 16 (4.78%) RESTful
9 16 (4.78%) Web Services
10 13 (3.88%) Kafka
11 11 (3.28%) Hibernate
11 11 (3.28%) JPA
12 10 (2.99%) HTML
12 10 (2.99%) Spring MVC
13 9 (2.69%) CSS
13 9 (2.69%) Mustache
14 7 (2.09%) Java EE
14 7 (2.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.87%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (2.09%) Cloud Native
3 5 (1.49%) IoT
3 5 (1.49%) NHS
3 5 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (1.19%) Management Information System
5 3 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.60%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (0.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (0.60%) Mainframe
6 2 (0.60%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.60%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.30%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.30%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.30%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.30%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.30%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.28%) Linux
2 2 (0.60%) Android
2 2 (0.60%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (30.15%) Agile
2 99 (29.55%) CI/CD
3 86 (25.67%) DevOps
3 86 (25.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 58 (17.31%) Microservices
5 38 (11.34%) SDLC
6 36 (10.75%) TDD
7 35 (10.45%) Scrum
8 31 (9.25%) Clean Code
8 31 (9.25%) Software Engineering
9 24 (7.16%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (6.87%) Containerisation
10 23 (6.87%) Secure Coding
11 22 (6.57%) Continuous Integration
11 22 (6.57%) ITIL
11 22 (6.57%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 18 (5.37%) DevSecOps
13 17 (5.07%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (4.78%) Front End Development
15 13 (3.88%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 335 (100.00%) Java
2 56 (16.72%) SQL
3 52 (15.52%) TypeScript
4 40 (11.94%) JavaScript
5 33 (9.85%) Bash
6 30 (8.96%) Groovy
7 27 (8.06%) Kotlin
8 24 (7.16%) Python
9 14 (4.18%) PL/SQL
10 9 (2.69%) C++
11 5 (1.49%) R
12 4 (1.19%) C
13 3 (0.90%) C#
14 2 (0.60%) Go
15 1 (0.30%) PHP
15 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 60 (17.91%) Security Cleared
2 53 (15.82%) SC Cleared
3 27 (8.06%) AWS Certification
4 22 (6.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 22 (6.57%) ITIL Certification
5 9 (2.69%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.49%) AWS Certified Developer
7 5 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.49%) Degree
8 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.99%) QA
System Software
1 85 (25.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 49 (14.63%) Kubernetes
2 28 (8.36%) HP Fortify
3 14 (4.18%) Terraform
4 12 (3.58%) Ansible
5 5 (1.49%) Kibana
6 2 (0.60%) Packer
Vendors
1 18 (5.37%) Oracle
2 7 (2.09%) IBM
3 6 (1.79%) AppDynamics
4 4 (1.19%) Pega
5 1 (0.30%) Cognos
5 1 (0.30%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.30%) Google
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.30%) Splunk
5 1 (0.30%) Veracode
5 1 (0.30%) VMware
5 1 (0.30%) WSO2