Java Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Java Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Java Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 411 274 206
Rank change year-on-year -137 -68 -68
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 320 591 1,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.49% 1.23% 1.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 1.37% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 249 405 1,044
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,300 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £72,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,250 £86,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +11.11%

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 61,941 43,162 74,370
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.65% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 41,460 27,696 44,286
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Java Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Developer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Java Developer 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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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
South East -59 95 £70,000 +7.69% 16
North of England -27 59 £60,000 -14.29% 16
Scotland -74 59 £51,500 -23.13% 7
North West -20 52 £60,000 -20.00% 11
South West -56 52 £57,500 -8.73% 13
Midlands -60 24 £50,000 -16.67% 13
Wales +30 17 £45,000 -10.00%
West Midlands -39 13 £45,000 -25.00% 13
East Midlands -32 10 £60,000 -14.29%
Northern Ireland -5 8 £58,750 +17.50% 8
East of England -13 6 £58,750 -6.00% 7
North East -13 4 £57,500 -17.86% 1
Yorkshire +34 3 £72,500 +7.41% 4
Java Developer
UK

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, Java Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 319 (99.69%) Java
2 162 (50.63%) Spring
3 155 (48.44%) AWS
4 123 (38.44%) Agile
5 107 (33.44%) Spring Boot
6 95 (29.69%) Docker
7 85 (26.56%) Microservices
8 83 (25.94%) JavaScript
9 73 (22.81%) REST
10 70 (21.88%) TDD
11 68 (21.25%) SQL
11 68 (21.25%) React
12 67 (20.94%) Kubernetes
13 66 (20.63%) Mentoring
14 64 (20.00%) Software Engineering
15 62 (19.38%) PostgreSQL
15 62 (19.38%) Git
16 60 (18.75%) Social Skills
17 58 (18.13%) CI/CD
18 57 (17.81%) Azure
18 57 (17.81%) Jenkins
19 56 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
20 51 (15.94%) Full Stack Development
21 49 (15.31%) DevOps
22 48 (15.00%) Finance
23 47 (14.69%) Kafka
24 46 (14.38%) AngularJS
25 45 (14.06%) Scrum
26 44 (13.75%) Hibernate
26 44 (13.75%) SDLC

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (3.44%) OpenStack
2 8 (2.50%) Apache
2 8 (2.50%) JBoss
3 6 (1.88%) WildFly
4 5 (1.56%) Red Hat Fuse
5 3 (0.94%) Confluence
5 3 (0.94%) nginx
5 3 (0.94%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.31%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.31%) CMS
6 1 (0.31%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 155 (48.44%) AWS
2 57 (17.81%) Azure
3 26 (8.13%) Serverless
4 23 (7.19%) Amazon ECS
5 21 (6.56%) GCP
6 19 (5.94%) Amazon EKS
7 15 (4.69%) SaaS
8 12 (3.75%) GitHub
9 9 (2.81%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (2.81%) OpenShift
10 8 (2.50%) Amazon S3
11 6 (1.88%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (0.94%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
14 2 (0.63%) AWS Fargate
15 1 (0.31%) GitHub Actions
15 1 (0.31%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.31%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (19.38%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (9.69%) Relational Database
3 24 (7.50%) NoSQL
4 21 (6.56%) MySQL
5 16 (5.00%) MongoDB
6 9 (2.81%) SQL Server
7 7 (2.19%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.88%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.94%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.63%) Couchbase
11 2 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.63%) Redis
12 1 (0.31%) CouchDB
12 1 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.31%) GIS
Development Applications
1 62 (19.38%) Git
2 57 (17.81%) Jenkins
3 35 (10.94%) JUnit
4 25 (7.81%) Maven
5 23 (7.19%) GitLab
6 13 (4.06%) Selenium
7 12 (3.75%) JIRA
7 12 (3.75%) Mockito
8 10 (3.13%) IntelliJ
9 7 (2.19%) CircleCI
10 6 (1.88%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.88%) JMeter
10 6 (1.88%) TeamCity
11 4 (1.25%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.25%) Gradle
12 2 (0.63%) Eclipse
13 1 (0.31%) Ant
13 1 (0.31%) Apache Ivy
13 1 (0.31%) Postman
13 1 (0.31%) TestNG
General
1 60 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 48 (15.00%) Finance
3 32 (10.00%) Banking
4 15 (4.69%) Public Sector
5 12 (3.75%) Games
6 11 (3.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (3.13%) Marketing
7 10 (3.13%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.50%) Tech for Good
9 7 (2.19%) Law
10 5 (1.56%) Electronics
10 5 (1.56%) Front Office
10 5 (1.56%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.56%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.94%) Advertising
11 3 (0.94%) Automotive
12 2 (0.63%) Aviation
13 1 (0.31%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (50.63%) Spring
2 107 (33.44%) Spring Boot
3 73 (22.81%) REST
4 68 (21.25%) React
5 47 (14.69%) Kafka
6 46 (14.38%) AngularJS
7 44 (13.75%) Hibernate
8 36 (11.25%) HTML
8 36 (11.25%) Web Services
9 35 (10.94%) CSS
10 22 (6.88%) Node.js
11 19 (5.94%) SOAP
12 18 (5.63%) Java EE
13 15 (4.69%) Apache Camel
13 15 (4.69%) JSON
14 11 (3.44%) Elastic Stack
14 11 (3.44%) RESTful
14 11 (3.44%) XML
15 10 (3.13%) ActiveMQ
16 9 (2.81%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.50%) Greenfield Project
2 20 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (4.38%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.19%) Private Cloud
6 6 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.25%) Algorithms
8 3 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.63%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.63%) Equities
9 2 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.63%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.63%) Life Science
9 2 (0.63%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.63%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.63%) VLE
9 2 (0.63%) Wiki
10 1 (0.31%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.25%) Linux
2 11 (3.44%) Unix
3 2 (0.63%) Windows
4 1 (0.31%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (38.44%) Agile
2 85 (26.56%) Microservices
3 70 (21.88%) TDD
4 66 (20.63%) Mentoring
5 64 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 58 (18.13%) CI/CD
7 56 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
8 51 (15.94%) Full Stack Development
9 49 (15.31%) DevOps
10 45 (14.06%) Scrum
11 44 (13.75%) SDLC
12 40 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
13 25 (7.81%) Test Automation
14 24 (7.50%) BDD
14 24 (7.50%) Fintech
15 22 (6.88%) Containerisation
16 21 (6.56%) Integration Testing
17 20 (6.25%) Kanban
18 19 (5.94%) Roadmaps
19 18 (5.63%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 319 (99.69%) Java
2 83 (25.94%) JavaScript
3 68 (21.25%) SQL
4 32 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 30 (9.38%) Python
6 12 (3.75%) Shell Script
7 10 (3.13%) Go
8 7 (2.19%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.25%) PHP
10 3 (0.94%) Rust
11 2 (0.63%) C#
11 2 (0.63%) C++
11 2 (0.63%) Perl
12 1 (0.31%) Groovy
12 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (7.19%) Degree
2 20 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 16 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.56%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.25%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (0.94%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.63%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.31%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.31%) PhD
9 1 (0.31%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.38%) QA
2 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
System Software
1 95 (29.69%) Docker
2 5 (1.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 67 (20.94%) Kubernetes
2 18 (5.63%) Ansible
3 10 (3.13%) Terraform
4 7 (2.19%) Kibana
5 3 (0.94%) Grafana
6 1 (0.31%) Istio
6 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (11.56%) Oracle
2 10 (3.13%) WSO2
3 8 (2.50%) Google
4 6 (1.88%) Splunk
4 6 (1.88%) Sybase
5 5 (1.56%) SAP
6 4 (1.25%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.25%) Microsoft
7 2 (0.63%) ForgeRock
7 2 (0.63%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.31%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.31%) CyberTech
8 1 (0.31%) Informatica