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 £65,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 July 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 342 399
Rank change year-on-year +67 +57 -129
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 454 227 321
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.62% 0.67% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.74% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 331 136 250
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £49,688 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £71,813
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £85,125
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% -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 69,861 30,584 60,125
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 89.62% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 48,293 17,580 41,285
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,875 £28,000
25th Percentile £37,750 £33,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.87%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 28 July 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 28 July 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 +120 237 £65,000 - 16
Yorkshire +43 94 £75,000 +15.38% 4
North West +43 76 £65,000 - 5
South East -4 73 £82,500 +57.14% 13
North East +12 67 £52,500 -19.23% 8
South West -10 58 £56,250 -6.25% 8
Wales - 33 £70,000 - 2
Midlands -56 23 £70,000 +16.67% 6
Scotland -20 21 £60,000 +4.35% 10
West Midlands -28 20 £70,000 +7.69% 6
East of England -5 11 £50,000 +11.11% 1
East Midlands -31 3 - -
Northern Ireland -75 2 - - 2
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 July 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.

1 454 (100.00%) Java
2 149 (32.82%) AWS
3 137 (30.18%) Full-Stack Development
4 127 (27.97%) CI/CD
5 117 (25.77%) Spring
6 112 (24.67%) Docker
7 110 (24.23%) Agile
8 105 (23.13%) Microservices
9 103 (22.69%) Spring Boot
10 102 (22.47%) DevOps
11 86 (18.94%) AngularJS
12 84 (18.50%) Security Cleared
13 81 (17.84%) Serverless
14 74 (16.30%) Git
14 74 (16.30%) SC Cleared
15 73 (16.08%) Jenkins
16 68 (14.98%) Kubernetes
17 66 (14.54%) AWS Lambda
18 63 (13.88%) Amazon ECS
19 62 (13.66%) AWS CloudFormation
20 59 (13.00%) Amazon S3
20 59 (13.00%) JavaScript
20 59 (13.00%) SQL
21 56 (12.33%) React
22 53 (11.67%) Python
22 53 (11.67%) TypeScript
23 51 (11.23%) TDD
24 49 (10.79%) Scrum
25 48 (10.57%) Software Engineering
26 47 (10.35%) 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 7 (1.54%) JBoss
2 5 (1.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (0.66%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.44%) CICS
4 2 (0.44%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.22%) Apache
5 1 (0.22%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.22%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 149 (32.82%) AWS
2 81 (17.84%) Serverless
3 66 (14.54%) AWS Lambda
4 63 (13.88%) Amazon ECS
5 62 (13.66%) AWS CloudFormation
6 59 (13.00%) Amazon S3
7 47 (10.35%) AWS Step Functions
7 47 (10.35%) Azure
8 30 (6.61%) GitHub
9 27 (5.95%) GCP
10 25 (5.51%) Amazon SQS
11 24 (5.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 23 (5.07%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 22 (4.85%) Amazon ECR
13 22 (4.85%) Apigee
14 14 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
16 11 (2.42%) Datadog
16 11 (2.42%) GitHub Copilot
17 10 (2.20%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.22%) ATM
1 1 (0.22%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.22%) HTTP
1 1 (0.22%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (10.13%) DynamoDB
2 41 (9.03%) NoSQL
3 26 (5.73%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (5.07%) Amazon Athena
5 21 (4.63%) MySQL
6 19 (4.19%) Relational Database
7 13 (2.86%) MongoDB
8 10 (2.20%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.66%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.44%) Couchbase
11 2 (0.44%) Db2
11 2 (0.44%) Hazelcast
11 2 (0.44%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.22%) Big Data
12 1 (0.22%) GIS
12 1 (0.22%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 74 (16.30%) Git
2 73 (16.08%) Jenkins
3 38 (8.37%) Maven
4 34 (7.49%) JUnit
5 32 (7.05%) GitLab
6 27 (5.95%) Eclipse
7 25 (5.51%) SonarQube
8 23 (5.07%) Cypress.io
9 20 (4.41%) Subversion
10 12 (2.64%) Mockito
11 10 (2.20%) JIRA
12 6 (1.32%) Cucumber
13 5 (1.10%) JMeter
13 5 (1.10%) Selenium
14 4 (0.88%) IntelliJ
14 4 (0.88%) Spock
15 3 (0.66%) Postman
16 2 (0.44%) Artifactory
16 2 (0.44%) Gradle
17 1 (0.22%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 43 (9.47%) Finance
2 31 (6.83%) Social Skills
3 27 (5.95%) Public Sector
4 25 (5.51%) Banking
5 14 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (1.98%) Advertising
7 8 (1.76%) Health Technology
8 7 (1.54%) Retail
9 5 (1.10%) Aviation
9 5 (1.10%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.88%) Digital Health
11 2 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.44%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.22%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.22%) Law
12 1 (0.22%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.22%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (25.77%) Spring
2 103 (22.69%) Spring Boot
3 86 (18.94%) AngularJS
4 56 (12.33%) React
5 47 (10.35%) RESTful
6 33 (7.27%) Node.js
6 33 (7.27%) REST
7 31 (6.83%) Jakarta EE
8 28 (6.17%) Web Services
9 27 (5.95%) Gherkin
10 26 (5.73%) Hibernate
11 25 (5.51%) JPA
11 25 (5.51%) Kafka
12 24 (5.29%) Jest
13 20 (4.41%) Struts
14 17 (3.74%) HTML
15 13 (2.86%) CSS
15 13 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
16 11 (2.42%) Spring MVC
17 10 (2.20%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 25 (5.51%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (3.96%) Cloud Native
3 11 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (1.76%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.10%) Private Cloud
7 5 (1.10%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.44%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.44%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.22%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.22%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.22%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.22%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.22%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.22%) Lidar
9 1 (0.22%) Life Science
9 1 (0.22%) NHS
9 1 (0.22%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 33 (7.27%) Linux
2 6 (1.32%) Unix
3 1 (0.22%) CentOS
3 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (30.18%) Full-Stack Development
2 127 (27.97%) CI/CD
3 110 (24.23%) Agile
4 105 (23.13%) Microservices
5 102 (22.47%) DevOps
6 51 (11.23%) TDD
7 49 (10.79%) Scrum
8 48 (10.57%) Software Engineering
9 45 (9.91%) SDLC
10 40 (8.81%) Containerisation
11 39 (8.59%) Problem-Solving
12 38 (8.37%) Clean Code
13 35 (7.71%) Continuous Improvement
13 35 (7.71%) Mentoring
14 34 (7.49%) Computer Science
15 33 (7.27%) Digital Transformation Programme
16 29 (6.39%) Secure Coding
17 28 (6.17%) Technical Architecture
18 27 (5.95%) Test Automation
19 26 (5.73%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 454 (100.00%) Java
2 59 (13.00%) JavaScript
2 59 (13.00%) SQL
3 53 (11.67%) Python
3 53 (11.67%) TypeScript
4 34 (7.49%) C++
4 34 (7.49%) Groovy
5 31 (6.83%) Bash
6 30 (6.61%) Kotlin
7 18 (3.96%) Perl
8 16 (3.52%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.88%) C#
9 4 (0.88%) Go
9 4 (0.88%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.66%) Scala
11 1 (0.22%) PHP
11 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 84 (18.50%) Security Cleared
2 74 (16.30%) SC Cleared
3 32 (7.05%) Degree
4 30 (6.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (4.85%) AWS Certification
6 18 (3.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 18 (3.96%) ITIL Certification
7 16 (3.52%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.66%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.44%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.86%) QA
2 2 (0.44%) Good Clinical Practice
3 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 112 (24.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 68 (14.98%) Kubernetes
2 22 (4.85%) HP Fortify
2 22 (4.85%) Terraform
3 10 (2.20%) Ansible
4 9 (1.98%) Grafana
4 9 (1.98%) Kibana
5 6 (1.32%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.44%) Packer
Vendors
1 25 (5.51%) Oracle
2 17 (3.74%) Splunk
3 10 (2.20%) AppDynamics
4 7 (1.54%) IBM
5 6 (1.32%) Dynatrace
6 4 (0.88%) Pega
7 2 (0.44%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.22%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.22%) Cognos
8 1 (0.22%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.22%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.22%) VMware
8 1 (0.22%) Workday
8 1 (0.22%) WSO2