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 25 August 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 339 410
Rank change year-on-year +50 +71 -135
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 456 224 272
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.57% 0.64% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.72% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 334 127 192
10th Percentile £41,625 £30,750 £24,700
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% -9.38% -

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 74,850 31,070 57,020
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.23% 89.40% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 51,898 17,899 36,723
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,520 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.74% -4.96% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 25 August 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 25 August 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 +95 223 £66,250 +1.92% 24
Yorkshire +28 87 £75,000 +15.38% 5
North East +10 72 £52,500 -19.23% 12
South East -34 72 £75,000 +42.86% 12
South West -10 69 £53,750 -10.42% 9
North West +12 64 £65,000 - 7
Wales - 33 £70,000 - 3
Midlands -47 23 £70,000 +12.00% 10
Scotland -29 20 £72,500 +26.09% 12
West Midlands -46 20 £70,000 +5.66% 8
East of England -11 12 £50,000 +11.11% 2
Northern Ireland -80 8 £60,000 +33.33% 12
East Midlands -30 3 - - 2
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 August 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.

1 456 (100.00%) Java
2 146 (32.02%) AWS
3 136 (29.82%) Full-Stack Development
4 128 (28.07%) Spring
5 127 (27.85%) CI/CD
6 120 (26.32%) Microservices
7 112 (24.56%) Docker
8 106 (23.25%) Agile
8 106 (23.25%) Spring Boot
9 100 (21.93%) DevOps
10 86 (18.86%) Security Cleared
11 84 (18.42%) Git
12 82 (17.98%) AngularJS
13 75 (16.45%) SC Cleared
13 75 (16.45%) Serverless
14 71 (15.57%) Kubernetes
15 66 (14.47%) JavaScript
16 64 (14.04%) Jenkins
17 63 (13.82%) SQL
18 62 (13.60%) React
19 60 (13.16%) AWS Lambda
20 59 (12.94%) AWS CloudFormation
20 59 (12.94%) Python
21 58 (12.72%) Amazon ECS
22 55 (12.06%) RESTful
23 54 (11.84%) TDD
24 53 (11.62%) Amazon S3
24 53 (11.62%) Scrum
25 51 (11.18%) Azure
25 51 (11.18%) TypeScript

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%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (0.66%) JBoss
2 3 (0.66%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.44%) CICS
3 2 (0.44%) CMS
3 2 (0.44%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.22%) Apache
4 1 (0.22%) PegaRULES
4 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.22%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 146 (32.02%) AWS
2 75 (16.45%) Serverless
3 60 (13.16%) AWS Lambda
4 59 (12.94%) AWS CloudFormation
5 58 (12.72%) Amazon ECS
6 53 (11.62%) Amazon S3
7 51 (11.18%) Azure
8 44 (9.65%) AWS Step Functions
9 35 (7.68%) GitHub
10 29 (6.36%) GCP
11 26 (5.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 24 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 20 (4.39%) Amazon SQS
13 20 (4.39%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (3.73%) Datadog
15 14 (3.07%) Amazon ECR
15 14 (3.07%) Apigee
16 13 (2.85%) Amazon EKS
17 11 (2.41%) GitHub Copilot
18 10 (2.19%) SaaS
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 43 (9.43%) NoSQL
2 41 (8.99%) DynamoDB
3 27 (5.92%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (5.04%) Amazon Athena
5 22 (4.82%) MySQL
5 22 (4.82%) Relational Database
6 15 (3.29%) MongoDB
7 9 (1.97%) SQL Server
8 4 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.44%) Couchbase
9 2 (0.44%) Db2
9 2 (0.44%) Hazelcast
9 2 (0.44%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.44%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.22%) Big Data
10 1 (0.22%) GIS
10 1 (0.22%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 84 (18.42%) Git
2 64 (14.04%) Jenkins
3 43 (9.43%) JUnit
4 34 (7.46%) Eclipse
5 31 (6.80%) Maven
6 27 (5.92%) Subversion
7 24 (5.26%) GitLab
8 17 (3.73%) SonarQube
9 15 (3.29%) Cypress.io
10 14 (3.07%) Mockito
11 9 (1.97%) JIRA
12 5 (1.10%) JMeter
13 4 (0.88%) Cucumber
13 4 (0.88%) IntelliJ
13 4 (0.88%) Spock
14 3 (0.66%) Postman
14 3 (0.66%) Selenium
15 2 (0.44%) Artifactory
16 1 (0.22%) Karma Test Runner
16 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 51 (11.18%) Finance
2 30 (6.58%) Social Skills
3 27 (5.92%) Public Sector
4 22 (4.82%) Banking
5 14 (3.07%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (1.75%) Advertising
7 7 (1.54%) Health Technology
7 7 (1.54%) Retail
8 4 (0.88%) Aviation
8 4 (0.88%) Digital Health
8 4 (0.88%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.44%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.22%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.22%) Law
10 1 (0.22%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.22%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (28.07%) Spring
2 106 (23.25%) Spring Boot
3 82 (17.98%) AngularJS
4 62 (13.60%) React
5 55 (12.06%) RESTful
6 37 (8.11%) Jakarta EE
7 36 (7.89%) Node.js
8 35 (7.68%) Web Services
9 34 (7.46%) REST
10 28 (6.14%) Hibernate
11 27 (5.92%) JPA
11 27 (5.92%) Kafka
11 27 (5.92%) Struts
12 22 (4.82%) Terraform
13 19 (4.17%) Gherkin
14 17 (3.73%) HTML
15 16 (3.51%) Jest
16 15 (3.29%) RabbitMQ
17 13 (2.85%) CSS
18 10 (2.19%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.92%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (4.82%) Cloud Native
3 14 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (1.75%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.54%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.10%) Private Cloud
8 4 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.44%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.44%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.22%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.22%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.22%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.22%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.22%) Lidar
10 1 (0.22%) Life Science
10 1 (0.22%) NHS
10 1 (0.22%) PKI
10 1 (0.22%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 38 (8.33%) 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
1 136 (29.82%) Full-Stack Development
2 127 (27.85%) CI/CD
3 120 (26.32%) Microservices
4 106 (23.25%) Agile
5 100 (21.93%) DevOps
6 54 (11.84%) TDD
7 53 (11.62%) Scrum
8 48 (10.53%) Software Engineering
9 46 (10.09%) Problem-Solving
9 46 (10.09%) SDLC
10 42 (9.21%) Containerisation
11 39 (8.55%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 39 (8.55%) Technical Architecture
12 38 (8.33%) Computer Science
13 34 (7.46%) Clean Code
13 34 (7.46%) Mentoring
14 33 (7.24%) Continuous Improvement
15 30 (6.58%) Continuous Integration
16 26 (5.70%) Secure Coding
17 24 (5.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 456 (100.00%) Java
2 66 (14.47%) JavaScript
3 63 (13.82%) SQL
4 59 (12.94%) Python
5 51 (11.18%) TypeScript
6 45 (9.87%) C++
7 31 (6.80%) Kotlin
8 26 (5.70%) Groovy
9 25 (5.48%) Bash
9 25 (5.48%) Perl
10 18 (3.95%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.88%) C#
11 4 (0.88%) Go
11 4 (0.88%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.66%) Scala
13 1 (0.22%) PHP
13 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 86 (18.86%) Security Cleared
2 75 (16.45%) SC Cleared
3 38 (8.33%) Degree
4 36 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (4.39%) DV Cleared
6 14 (3.07%) AWS Certification
7 13 (2.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 13 (2.85%) ITIL Certification
8 12 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.44%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.29%) QA
2 2 (0.44%) Good Clinical Practice
3 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 112 (24.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 71 (15.57%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.07%) HP Fortify
3 11 (2.41%) Grafana
4 10 (2.19%) Ansible
5 9 (1.97%) Kibana
6 8 (1.75%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.44%) Packer
Vendors
1 26 (5.70%) Oracle
2 19 (4.17%) Splunk
3 10 (2.19%) AppDynamics
4 6 (1.32%) Dynatrace
4 6 (1.32%) IBM
5 4 (0.88%) Pega
6 2 (0.44%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.22%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.22%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.22%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.22%) Workday
7 1 (0.22%) WSO2