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 6 November 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 352 268
Rank change year-on-year -5 -84 -63
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 173 262 336
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.50% 0.55% 1.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.58% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 87 141 259
10th Percentile £44,000 £24,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £45,000 £51,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £58,000 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.07% -13.43% +7.20%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £83,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -

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 31,229 45,382 29,110
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.91% 95.02% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 19,301 24,614 21,949
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £64,000 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,410 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.55% -4.32% -

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 6 November 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 6 November 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
North of England +36 62 £65,000 +18.18% 26
South East -13 44 £67,500 -3.57% 99
North West +40 40 £65,000 +18.18% 12
Midlands +66 31 £65,000 +88.41% 11
Scotland -10 29 £75,000 +50.00% 10
West Midlands +73 26 £68,750 +186.46% 7
Yorkshire +34 21 £55,000 -35.29% 8
South West -4 9 £65,000 +30.00% 2
East Midlands +19 5 £58,000 -3.33% 4
North East +1 3 £65,000 +23.81% 7
Northern Ireland -9 2 £45,000 -21.74% 15
East of England +21 1 £45,000 -33.33% 4
Wales +6 1 £65,000 +4.00% 1
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 November 2025, 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.

1 173 (100.00%) Java
2 117 (67.63%) Agile
3 115 (66.47%) AWS
4 110 (63.58%) Spring
5 101 (58.38%) Spring Boot
6 91 (52.60%) Microservices
7 86 (49.71%) TDD
8 75 (43.35%) Docker
9 74 (42.77%) CI/CD
10 66 (38.15%) Kubernetes
11 60 (34.68%) Jenkins
11 60 (34.68%) REST
12 58 (33.53%) PostgreSQL
13 53 (30.64%) Full-Stack Development
14 52 (30.06%) JavaScript
15 49 (28.32%) BDD
16 47 (27.17%) DevOps
16 47 (27.17%) Serverless
17 45 (26.01%) Relational Database
17 45 (26.01%) RESTful
18 44 (25.43%) JUnit
18 44 (25.43%) Security Cleared
19 43 (24.86%) Web Services
20 42 (24.28%) Hibernate
21 38 (21.97%) Scrum
21 38 (21.97%) SDLC
22 37 (21.39%) Clean Code
22 37 (21.39%) React
22 37 (21.39%) Test Automation
23 36 (20.81%) Amazon ECS

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 8 (4.62%) Confluence
1 8 (4.62%) JBoss
2 6 (3.47%) OpenStack
3 5 (2.89%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.89%) Red Hat Fuse
4 2 (1.16%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 115 (66.47%) AWS
2 47 (27.17%) Serverless
3 36 (20.81%) Amazon ECS
4 34 (19.65%) Amazon EC2
5 32 (18.50%) Amazon EKS
6 23 (13.29%) Azure
7 17 (9.83%) Amazon S3
8 14 (8.09%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (6.94%) Amazon SQS
10 11 (6.36%) GitHub
10 11 (6.36%) SaaS
11 10 (5.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (5.78%) AWS KMS
11 10 (5.78%) Route 53
12 8 (4.62%) GCP
13 4 (2.31%) Amazon EMR
13 4 (2.31%) Amazon MSK
14 3 (1.73%) GitHub Actions
15 2 (1.16%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.73%) HTTP
2 1 (0.58%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (33.53%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (26.01%) Relational Database
3 21 (12.14%) RDBMS
4 18 (10.40%) DynamoDB
5 15 (8.67%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (8.67%) MongoDB
5 15 (8.67%) NoSQL
6 11 (6.36%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (5.20%) MySQL
8 5 (2.89%) Apache Hive
8 5 (2.89%) Big Data
8 5 (2.89%) Hadoop
8 5 (2.89%) HBase
9 4 (2.31%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (2.31%) Electronic Patient Records
9 4 (2.31%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.16%) DB2
10 2 (1.16%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.58%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 60 (34.68%) Jenkins
2 44 (25.43%) JUnit
3 36 (20.81%) Git
3 36 (20.81%) Mockito
4 30 (17.34%) Maven
5 19 (10.98%) JMeter
6 11 (6.36%) JIRA
6 11 (6.36%) SonarQube
7 10 (5.78%) Bitbucket Server
7 10 (5.78%) DbUnit
7 10 (5.78%) jMock
8 9 (5.20%) Gradle
9 4 (2.31%) Babel
9 4 (2.31%) webpack
10 3 (1.73%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (1.16%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.16%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.16%) GitLab
12 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.58%) TeamCity
General
1 49 (28.32%) Public Sector
2 44 (25.43%) Finance
3 26 (15.03%) Social Skills
4 19 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (8.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (7.51%) Games
6 13 (7.51%) Law
7 9 (5.20%) Banking
8 7 (4.05%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.89%) Marketing
10 4 (2.31%) Private Banking
11 2 (1.16%) Health Technology
11 2 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.16%) Retail
12 1 (0.58%) Advertising
12 1 (0.58%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (63.58%) Spring
2 101 (58.38%) Spring Boot
3 60 (34.68%) REST
4 45 (26.01%) RESTful
5 43 (24.86%) Web Services
6 42 (24.28%) Hibernate
7 37 (21.39%) React
8 31 (17.92%) ActiveMQ
8 31 (17.92%) HTML
9 28 (16.18%) Apache Camel
10 24 (13.87%) jQuery
11 23 (13.29%) Kafka
12 22 (12.72%) AngularJS
13 20 (11.56%) JPA
14 19 (10.98%) JSON
14 19 (10.98%) SOAP
14 19 (10.98%) WireMock
15 18 (10.40%) XML
16 13 (7.51%) Node.js
17 12 (6.94%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 38 (21.97%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (5.78%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.78%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (4.62%) e-Learning
4 7 (4.05%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (2.31%) Distributed Applications
5 4 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.16%) Sports Betting
6 2 (1.16%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.58%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.58%) IoT
7 1 (0.58%) Life Science
7 1 (0.58%) Online Games
7 1 (0.58%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.67%) Linux
2 8 (4.62%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (67.63%) Agile
2 91 (52.60%) Microservices
3 86 (49.71%) TDD
4 74 (42.77%) CI/CD
5 53 (30.64%) Full-Stack Development
6 49 (28.32%) BDD
7 47 (27.17%) DevOps
8 38 (21.97%) Scrum
8 38 (21.97%) SDLC
9 37 (21.39%) Clean Code
9 37 (21.39%) Test Automation
10 36 (20.81%) Problem-Solving
11 29 (16.76%) Software Engineering
12 27 (15.61%) Kanban
13 25 (14.45%) Front End Development
14 24 (13.87%) Workflow
15 23 (13.29%) Process Management
16 21 (12.14%) Containerisation
17 19 (10.98%) Open Source
18 18 (10.40%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 173 (100.00%) Java
2 52 (30.06%) JavaScript
3 36 (20.81%) SQL
4 27 (15.61%) Python
5 22 (12.72%) Shell Script
6 15 (8.67%) TypeScript
7 11 (6.36%) PL/SQL
8 8 (4.62%) Kotlin
9 7 (4.05%) Go
9 7 (4.05%) Scala
10 4 (2.31%) C#
11 2 (1.16%) Groovy
12 1 (0.58%) Bash
12 1 (0.58%) R
12 1 (0.58%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 44 (25.43%) Security Cleared
2 29 (16.76%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.78%) Degree
4 9 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.73%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.89%) SLA
2 4 (2.31%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.31%) QA
System Software
1 75 (43.35%) Docker
2 5 (2.89%) HDFS
3 2 (1.16%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 66 (38.15%) Kubernetes
2 19 (10.98%) Kibana
3 17 (9.83%) Terraform
4 11 (6.36%) Ansible
5 2 (1.16%) Grafana
5 2 (1.16%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.58%) PingFederate
6 1 (0.58%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (11.56%) Splunk
2 19 (10.98%) Dynatrace
3 14 (8.09%) Oracle
4 10 (5.78%) Atlassian
5 5 (2.89%) Cloudera
5 5 (2.89%) Databricks
6 4 (2.31%) Jaspersoft
6 4 (2.31%) Pega
6 4 (2.31%) WSO2
7 2 (1.16%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.58%) Google
8 1 (0.58%) IBM
8 1 (0.58%) Veracode