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 19 April 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 322 355
Rank change year-on-year +33 +33 -76
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 310 185 465
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.70% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.79% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 215 122 395
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,500 £46,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £86,250
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 58,528 23,499 63,586
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.93% 88.50% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 37,331 14,551 46,799
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -10.83%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 +67 160 £70,000 +5.66% 32
Yorkshire +20 85 £75,000 +68.54% 9
South East -65 70 £80,000 +33.33% 20
North West +27 59 £67,500 - 11
South West -35 29 £65,000 +8.33% 2
Scotland -36 20 £60,000 +4.35% 8
West Midlands -22 19 £36,500 -39.17%
Midlands -50 19 £36,500 -39.17% 1
North East -19 16 £45,000 - 12
Wales - 14 £65,000 - 1
East of England -30 7 £50,000 -9.09% 4
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 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.

1 310 (100.00%) Java
2 127 (40.97%) AWS
3 103 (33.23%) Spring Boot
4 101 (32.58%) Agile
4 101 (32.58%) CI/CD
5 87 (28.06%) Docker
6 84 (27.10%) Full-Stack Development
6 84 (27.10%) Spring
7 83 (26.77%) DevOps
8 81 (26.13%) Serverless
9 69 (22.26%) Jenkins
10 68 (21.94%) Amazon ECS
11 65 (20.97%) Amazon S3
12 64 (20.65%) AngularJS
13 62 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
14 58 (18.71%) Microservices
14 58 (18.71%) SQL
15 53 (17.10%) Kubernetes
15 53 (17.10%) Security Cleared
16 52 (16.77%) AWS CloudFormation
17 51 (16.45%) TypeScript
18 49 (15.81%) DynamoDB
18 49 (15.81%) Git
19 45 (14.52%) JavaScript
19 45 (14.52%) SC Cleared
20 44 (14.19%) AWS Step Functions
21 43 (13.87%) REST
22 40 (12.90%) SDLC
23 39 (12.58%) React
24 38 (12.26%) Maven

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 (3.23%) OpenStack
2 6 (1.94%) JBoss
2 6 (1.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.65%) CICS
3 2 (0.65%) WildFly
4 1 (0.32%) Confluence
4 1 (0.32%) PegaRULES
4 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.32%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 127 (40.97%) AWS
2 81 (26.13%) Serverless
3 68 (21.94%) Amazon ECS
4 65 (20.97%) Amazon S3
5 62 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
6 52 (16.77%) AWS CloudFormation
7 44 (14.19%) AWS Step Functions
8 27 (8.71%) Amazon ECR
8 27 (8.71%) Amazon SQS
8 27 (8.71%) Apigee
9 22 (7.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 22 (7.10%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 22 (7.10%) Azure
10 21 (6.77%) Amazon EKS
11 20 (6.45%) GitHub
12 19 (6.13%) SaaS
13 12 (3.87%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (2.90%) GCP
15 8 (2.58%) Datadog
15 8 (2.58%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.61%) Internet
2 1 (0.32%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (15.81%) DynamoDB
2 35 (11.29%) NoSQL
3 28 (9.03%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (7.10%) Amazon Athena
5 21 (6.77%) Relational Database
6 10 (3.23%) MySQL
7 7 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.29%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.29%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.65%) DB2
9 2 (0.65%) Hazelcast
9 2 (0.65%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.32%) CockroachDB
10 1 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.32%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 69 (22.26%) Jenkins
2 49 (15.81%) Git
3 38 (12.26%) Maven
4 33 (10.65%) GitLab
5 31 (10.00%) SonarQube
6 27 (8.71%) Cypress.io
7 15 (4.84%) JUnit
8 10 (3.23%) Mockito
9 8 (2.58%) JIRA
10 5 (1.61%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.29%) Eclipse
11 4 (1.29%) Gradle
11 4 (1.29%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.97%) JMeter
12 3 (0.97%) Selenium
13 2 (0.65%) Artifactory
14 1 (0.32%) jMock
14 1 (0.32%) TestNG
General
1 24 (7.74%) Finance
2 23 (7.42%) Social Skills
3 19 (6.13%) Public Sector
4 15 (4.84%) Banking
5 10 (3.23%) Health Technology
6 5 (1.61%) Advertising
6 5 (1.61%) Aviation
6 5 (1.61%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.29%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.29%) Tech for Good
8 3 (0.97%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (0.65%) Aeronautics
9 2 (0.65%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.65%) Automotive
9 2 (0.65%) Digital Health
9 2 (0.65%) Games
10 1 (0.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.32%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (33.23%) Spring Boot
2 84 (27.10%) Spring
3 64 (20.65%) AngularJS
4 43 (13.87%) REST
5 39 (12.58%) React
6 38 (12.26%) Node.js
7 28 (9.03%) Jest
8 27 (8.71%) Gherkin
9 18 (5.81%) Web Services
10 16 (5.16%) Elastic Stack
10 16 (5.16%) RESTful
11 15 (4.84%) Hibernate
12 13 (4.19%) Kafka
13 12 (3.87%) HTML
14 11 (3.55%) JPA
15 9 (2.90%) CSS
15 9 (2.90%) Mustache
15 9 (2.90%) Spring MVC
16 8 (2.58%) JSON
17 7 (2.26%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 26 (8.39%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (2.58%) Cloud Native
3 5 (1.61%) IoT
3 5 (1.61%) NHS
3 5 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (1.29%) Management Information System
5 3 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.65%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (0.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (0.65%) Mainframe
6 2 (0.65%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.65%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.65%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.32%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.32%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.32%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.55%) Linux
2 2 (0.65%) Android
2 2 (0.65%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (32.58%) Agile
1 101 (32.58%) CI/CD
2 84 (27.10%) Full-Stack Development
3 83 (26.77%) DevOps
4 58 (18.71%) Microservices
5 40 (12.90%) SDLC
6 35 (11.29%) TDD
7 34 (10.97%) Scrum
8 31 (10.00%) Clean Code
9 27 (8.71%) Software Engineering
10 26 (8.39%) Containerisation
10 26 (8.39%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (7.10%) Secure Coding
12 21 (6.77%) ITIL
12 21 (6.77%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 20 (6.45%) Continuous Integration
14 18 (5.81%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (5.48%) DevSecOps
15 17 (5.48%) Front End Development
16 14 (4.52%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 310 (100.00%) Java
2 58 (18.71%) SQL
3 51 (16.45%) TypeScript
4 45 (14.52%) JavaScript
5 32 (10.32%) Bash
6 29 (9.35%) Groovy
7 26 (8.39%) Kotlin
8 22 (7.10%) Python
9 15 (4.84%) PL/SQL
10 6 (1.94%) C++
11 5 (1.61%) R
12 4 (1.29%) C
13 3 (0.97%) C#
13 3 (0.97%) Go
13 3 (0.97%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 53 (17.10%) Security Cleared
2 45 (14.52%) SC Cleared
3 26 (8.39%) AWS Certification
4 21 (6.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 21 (6.77%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (1.94%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.61%) AWS Certified Developer
6 5 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.29%) Degree
8 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 87 (28.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 53 (17.10%) Kubernetes
2 27 (8.71%) HP Fortify
3 13 (4.19%) Ansible
3 13 (4.19%) Terraform
4 7 (2.26%) Kibana
5 2 (0.65%) Packer
Vendors
1 17 (5.48%) Oracle
2 7 (2.26%) IBM
3 6 (1.94%) AppDynamics
4 4 (1.29%) Pega
5 3 (0.97%) Dynatrace
5 3 (0.97%) Splunk
6 1 (0.32%) Cognos
6 1 (0.32%) Google
6 1 (0.32%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.32%) Veracode
6 1 (0.32%) VMware
6 1 (0.32%) WSO2