Java Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Java Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Java Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 380 414 258
Rank change year-on-year +34 -156 -48
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 230 372 638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.53% 0.51% 1.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.54% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 136 304 419
10th Percentile £31,250 £39,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £86,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 38,442 69,317 45,163
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.83% 94.97% 89.48%
Number of salaries quoted 20,912 47,602 28,539
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £33,738 £36,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% +3.67%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Java Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Developer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Java Developer 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 17 July 2025.

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 17 July 2025. 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
South East +22 72 £52,500 -25.00% 19
Scotland +82 56 £57,500 -4.17% 13
North of England +33 45 £65,000 +8.33% 25
Midlands +82 41 £60,000 +26.32% 17
North West -18 34 £65,000 +4.00% 15
West Midlands +71 32 £64,500 +29.00% 10
South West +51 11 £60,000 +2.13% 10
Yorkshire +45 9 £60,000 +9.09% 6
Northern Ireland +40 9 £45,000 -23.40% 16
East Midlands +39 9 £57,500 +35.29% 7
North East +36 2 £55,000 -4.35% 4
East of England +18 1 £45,000 -14.29% 3
Java Developer
UK

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 17 July 2025, Java Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 230 (100.00%) Java
2 142 (61.74%) Agile
3 124 (53.91%) AWS
4 122 (53.04%) Spring
5 118 (51.30%) Microservices
6 116 (50.43%) Spring Boot
7 103 (44.78%) Docker
8 87 (37.83%) TDD
9 83 (36.09%) Kubernetes
10 74 (32.17%) REST
11 71 (30.87%) CI/CD
12 70 (30.43%) PostgreSQL
13 67 (29.13%) JUnit
13 67 (29.13%) Jenkins
14 64 (27.83%) SQL
15 60 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
16 58 (25.22%) React
17 56 (24.35%) Scrum
17 56 (24.35%) RESTful
18 55 (23.91%) DevOps
18 55 (23.91%) Hibernate
19 54 (23.48%) Finance
20 53 (23.04%) Security Cleared
20 53 (23.04%) Full-Stack Development
21 51 (22.17%) BDD
21 51 (22.17%) JavaScript
22 50 (21.74%) Serverless
23 49 (21.30%) Public Sector
23 49 (21.30%) Kafka
24 48 (20.87%) Relational Database

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (6.96%) JBoss
2 11 (4.78%) Apache Spark
3 10 (4.35%) Red Hat Fuse
4 9 (3.91%) Confluence
5 5 (2.17%) Apache
5 5 (2.17%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.43%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 124 (53.91%) AWS
2 50 (21.74%) Serverless
3 37 (16.09%) Amazon EC2
4 36 (15.65%) Amazon ECS
4 36 (15.65%) Azure
5 35 (15.22%) Amazon EKS
6 22 (9.57%) Amazon S3
7 17 (7.39%) Amazon SQS
8 14 (6.09%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (5.65%) GCP
10 12 (5.22%) AWS KMS
11 11 (4.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (4.78%) Route 53
11 11 (4.78%) SaaS
12 6 (2.61%) GitHub
13 4 (1.74%) Amazon EMR
13 4 (1.74%) Amazon MSK
14 3 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (1.30%) BlazeMeter
15 2 (0.87%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.30%) HTTP
2 1 (0.43%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (30.43%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (20.87%) Relational Database
3 29 (12.61%) NoSQL
4 27 (11.74%) MongoDB
5 21 (9.13%) DynamoDB
5 21 (9.13%) RDBMS
6 18 (7.83%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (6.96%) SQL Server
8 14 (6.09%) Amazon Aurora
9 13 (5.65%) MySQL
10 11 (4.78%) Apache Hive
11 10 (4.35%) Big Data
11 10 (4.35%) Hadoop
12 7 (3.04%) DB2
13 6 (2.61%) HBase
14 5 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (2.17%) Oracle Database
15 4 (1.74%) Amazon Athena
15 4 (1.74%) Electronic Patient Records
16 2 (0.87%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 67 (29.13%) Jenkins
1 67 (29.13%) JUnit
2 46 (20.00%) Mockito
3 45 (19.57%) Git
4 34 (14.78%) Maven
5 18 (7.83%) JMeter
6 14 (6.09%) SonarQube
7 12 (5.22%) DbUnit
7 12 (5.22%) Gradle
7 12 (5.22%) JIRA
7 12 (5.22%) jMock
8 11 (4.78%) Bitbucket Server
9 10 (4.35%) Visual Studio
10 9 (3.91%) GitLab
11 8 (3.48%) Eclipse
11 8 (3.48%) IntelliJ
12 7 (3.04%) Jasmine
12 7 (3.04%) Karma Test Runner
12 7 (3.04%) Protractor
13 3 (1.30%) webpack
General
1 54 (23.48%) Finance
2 49 (21.30%) Public Sector
3 42 (18.26%) Social Skills
4 33 (14.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 30 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (8.70%) Law
7 14 (6.09%) Banking
8 12 (5.22%) Games
9 6 (2.61%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.17%) Marketing
10 5 (2.17%) Police
11 4 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.74%) Private Banking
12 3 (1.30%) Retail
13 2 (0.87%) Advertising
13 2 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.43%) Front Office
14 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (53.04%) Spring
2 116 (50.43%) Spring Boot
3 74 (32.17%) REST
4 58 (25.22%) React
5 56 (24.35%) RESTful
6 55 (23.91%) Hibernate
7 49 (21.30%) Kafka
8 48 (20.87%) Web Services
9 46 (20.00%) AngularJS
10 37 (16.09%) JPA
11 33 (14.35%) ActiveMQ
12 29 (12.61%) SOAP
13 28 (12.17%) Apache Camel
14 27 (11.74%) HTML
15 25 (10.87%) J2EE
16 24 (10.43%) jQuery
17 19 (8.26%) RabbitMQ
18 18 (7.83%) WireMock
19 15 (6.52%) Bootstrap
20 13 (5.65%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 43 (18.70%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (6.52%) Algorithms
3 13 (5.65%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (3.91%) e-Learning
4 9 (3.91%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (3.91%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.48%) Data Structures
6 7 (3.04%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.04%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (2.17%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.17%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.74%) Distributed Applications
8 4 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (0.87%) BBC
9 2 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.87%) IoT
9 2 (0.87%) Life Science
10 1 (0.43%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 40 (17.39%) Linux
2 12 (5.22%) Unix
3 10 (4.35%) Windows
4 5 (2.17%) Rocky
5 1 (0.43%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (61.74%) Agile
2 118 (51.30%) Microservices
3 87 (37.83%) TDD
4 71 (30.87%) CI/CD
5 60 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
6 56 (24.35%) Scrum
7 55 (23.91%) DevOps
8 53 (23.04%) Full-Stack Development
9 51 (22.17%) BDD
10 45 (19.57%) SDLC
11 38 (16.52%) Test Automation
12 36 (15.65%) Software Engineering
13 35 (15.22%) Kanban
14 33 (14.35%) Unit Testing
15 31 (13.48%) Front End Development
16 29 (12.61%) Containerisation
17 26 (11.30%) Clean Code
18 24 (10.43%) Continuous Integration
19 19 (8.26%) Workflow
20 18 (7.83%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 230 (100.00%) Java
2 64 (27.83%) SQL
3 51 (22.17%) JavaScript
4 31 (13.48%) Python
5 23 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 20 (8.70%) Shell Script
7 14 (6.09%) C++
8 10 (4.35%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.17%) Groovy
10 4 (1.74%) C
11 3 (1.30%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.87%) Bash
12 2 (0.87%) C#
13 1 (0.43%) Go
13 1 (0.43%) Ruby
13 1 (0.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 53 (23.04%) Security Cleared
2 43 (18.70%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.22%) Degree
4 7 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.61%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.74%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.35%) SLA
2 3 (1.30%) QA
3 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
System Software
1 103 (44.78%) Docker
2 6 (2.61%) HDFS
3 4 (1.74%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 83 (36.09%) Kubernetes
2 18 (7.83%) Kibana
3 16 (6.96%) Terraform
4 10 (4.35%) Ansible
5 7 (3.04%) Grafana
6 4 (1.74%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.43%) PingFederate
7 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (10.00%) Splunk
2 22 (9.57%) Oracle
3 21 (9.13%) Dynatrace
4 11 (4.78%) Atlassian
5 9 (3.91%) IBM
6 8 (3.48%) Sybase
7 6 (2.61%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.17%) Cloudera
8 5 (2.17%) Databricks
8 5 (2.17%) Jaspersoft
9 3 (1.30%) Google
10 2 (0.87%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.87%) Microsoft
11 1 (0.43%) Cisco
11 1 (0.43%) Curam
11 1 (0.43%) Veracode