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 12 May 2026.

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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 350 362
Rank change year-on-year +71 +12 -84
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 356 196 433
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.54% 0.68% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.77% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 249 128 366
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £38,438
25th Percentile £57,500 £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 £76,250 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £85,625
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 61,261 25,599 65,135
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.60% 89.06% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 40,321 14,589 47,499
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,446
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,670 £52,550
% change year-on-year -4.63% +9.74% -12.42%

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 12 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 12 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 +121 202 £70,000 +3.70% 34
Yorkshire +33 98 £75,000 +68.54% 8
South East -20 73 £80,000 +30.61% 21
North West +51 71 £67,500 - 9
North East -5 33 £50,000 - 17
South West -28 29 £65,000 +8.33% 8
Scotland -10 23 £60,000 +4.35% 2
West Midlands -30 17 £35,750 -40.42% 5
Midlands -50 17 £35,750 -40.42% 6
Wales - 13 £65,000 -
East of England -10 8 £50,000 -9.09% 8
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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.

1 356 (100.00%) Java
2 134 (37.64%) AWS
3 111 (31.18%) CI/CD
4 107 (30.06%) Agile
5 103 (28.93%) Spring Boot
6 97 (27.25%) DevOps
7 95 (26.69%) Docker
8 93 (26.12%) Full-Stack Development
9 90 (25.28%) Spring
10 85 (23.88%) Serverless
11 73 (20.51%) AngularJS
12 70 (19.66%) Jenkins
13 69 (19.38%) Amazon ECS
14 68 (19.10%) Amazon S3
15 67 (18.82%) Microservices
16 66 (18.54%) Security Cleared
17 65 (18.26%) AWS Lambda
18 59 (16.57%) SC Cleared
19 58 (16.29%) AWS CloudFormation
20 57 (16.01%) SQL
21 55 (15.45%) Kubernetes
21 55 (15.45%) TypeScript
22 52 (14.61%) DynamoDB
23 51 (14.33%) Git
24 47 (13.20%) AWS Step Functions
25 44 (12.36%) JavaScript
26 41 (11.52%) Maven
26 41 (11.52%) REST
27 40 (11.24%) Node.js
27 40 (11.24%) 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 10 (2.81%) OpenStack
2 6 (1.69%) JBoss
2 6 (1.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.56%) CICS
3 2 (0.56%) WildFly
4 1 (0.28%) Confluence
4 1 (0.28%) PegaRULES
4 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.28%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 134 (37.64%) AWS
2 85 (23.88%) Serverless
3 69 (19.38%) Amazon ECS
4 68 (19.10%) Amazon S3
5 65 (18.26%) AWS Lambda
6 58 (16.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 47 (13.20%) AWS Step Functions
8 28 (7.87%) Amazon ECR
8 28 (7.87%) Amazon SQS
8 28 (7.87%) Apigee
9 24 (6.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 24 (6.74%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 22 (6.18%) Azure
11 21 (5.90%) GitHub
12 20 (5.62%) SaaS
13 19 (5.34%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (2.81%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (2.81%) Datadog
14 10 (2.81%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (2.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.40%) Internet
2 1 (0.28%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (14.61%) DynamoDB
2 36 (10.11%) NoSQL
3 25 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (6.74%) Amazon Athena
5 20 (5.62%) Relational Database
6 8 (2.25%) MySQL
7 7 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.12%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.56%) DB2
9 2 (0.56%) Hazelcast
9 2 (0.56%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.56%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.28%) CockroachDB
10 1 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.28%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.28%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 70 (19.66%) Jenkins
2 51 (14.33%) Git
3 41 (11.52%) Maven
4 37 (10.39%) GitLab
5 32 (8.99%) SonarQube
6 28 (7.87%) Cypress.io
7 17 (4.78%) JUnit
8 9 (2.53%) JIRA
8 9 (2.53%) Mockito
9 4 (1.12%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.12%) Eclipse
9 4 (1.12%) Gradle
9 4 (1.12%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.84%) Selenium
10 3 (0.84%) Spock
11 2 (0.56%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.28%) JMeter
12 1 (0.28%) jMock
12 1 (0.28%) TestNG
General
1 33 (9.27%) Finance
2 26 (7.30%) Social Skills
3 21 (5.90%) Public Sector
4 15 (4.21%) Banking
5 11 (3.09%) Health Technology
6 6 (1.69%) Aviation
7 5 (1.40%) Advertising
7 5 (1.40%) Investment Banking
7 5 (1.40%) Tech for Good
8 4 (1.12%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.12%) Digital Health
9 3 (0.84%) Digital Healthcare
10 2 (0.56%) Aeronautics
10 2 (0.56%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.56%) Automotive
11 1 (0.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.28%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.28%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (28.93%) Spring Boot
2 90 (25.28%) Spring
3 73 (20.51%) AngularJS
4 41 (11.52%) REST
5 40 (11.24%) Node.js
5 40 (11.24%) React
6 29 (8.15%) Jest
7 28 (7.87%) Gherkin
8 18 (5.06%) RESTful
9 16 (4.49%) Elastic Stack
9 16 (4.49%) Web Services
10 13 (3.65%) Kafka
11 11 (3.09%) Hibernate
12 10 (2.81%) HTML
12 10 (2.81%) JPA
13 9 (2.53%) CSS
13 9 (2.53%) Mustache
14 8 (2.25%) Spring MVC
15 7 (1.97%) Java EE
15 7 (1.97%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.30%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (2.25%) Cloud Native
3 5 (1.40%) IoT
3 5 (1.40%) NHS
3 5 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (1.12%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.12%) Private Cloud
5 3 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.56%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (0.56%) Mainframe
6 2 (0.56%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.56%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.28%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.28%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.28%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.21%) Linux
2 2 (0.56%) Android
2 2 (0.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (31.18%) CI/CD
2 107 (30.06%) Agile
3 97 (27.25%) DevOps
4 93 (26.12%) Full-Stack Development
5 67 (18.82%) Microservices
6 40 (11.24%) Scrum
6 40 (11.24%) TDD
7 39 (10.96%) SDLC
8 34 (9.55%) Software Engineering
9 33 (9.27%) Clean Code
10 30 (8.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (7.87%) Containerisation
12 23 (6.46%) Continuous Integration
12 23 (6.46%) Secure Coding
13 22 (6.18%) ITIL
13 22 (6.18%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 20 (5.62%) Mentoring
15 19 (5.34%) DevSecOps
15 19 (5.34%) Problem-Solving
16 18 (5.06%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 356 (100.00%) Java
2 57 (16.01%) SQL
3 55 (15.45%) TypeScript
4 44 (12.36%) JavaScript
5 35 (9.83%) Bash
6 33 (9.27%) Groovy
7 29 (8.15%) Python
8 28 (7.87%) Kotlin
9 16 (4.49%) PL/SQL
10 12 (3.37%) C++
11 5 (1.40%) R
12 4 (1.12%) C
13 3 (0.84%) C#
14 2 (0.56%) Go
15 1 (0.28%) PHP
15 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 66 (18.54%) Security Cleared
2 59 (16.57%) SC Cleared
3 27 (7.58%) AWS Certification
4 22 (6.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 22 (6.18%) ITIL Certification
5 12 (3.37%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.40%) AWS Certified Developer
7 5 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.40%) Degree
8 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.81%) QA
2 1 (0.28%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 95 (26.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 55 (15.45%) Kubernetes
2 28 (7.87%) HP Fortify
3 16 (4.49%) Terraform
4 13 (3.65%) Ansible
5 5 (1.40%) Kibana
6 2 (0.56%) Packer
Vendors
1 20 (5.62%) Oracle
2 9 (2.53%) AppDynamics
3 7 (1.97%) IBM
4 4 (1.12%) Pega
4 4 (1.12%) Splunk
5 1 (0.28%) Cognos
5 1 (0.28%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.28%) Google
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.28%) Veracode
5 1 (0.28%) VMware
5 1 (0.28%) WSO2