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 9 May 2026.

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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 337 375
Rank change year-on-year +64 +38 -101
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 350 194 435
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.53% 0.68% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.76% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 247 125 367
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,625 £68,750 £73,750
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 61,245 25,370 64,986
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.42% 88.97% 94.73%
Number of salaries quoted 39,864 14,579 47,406
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,188 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £52,777
% change year-on-year -5.17% +9.90% -12.04%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +90 197 £70,000 +3.70% 34
Yorkshire +29 98 £75,000 +68.54% 10
South East -28 73 £80,000 +33.33% 19
North West +35 69 £67,500 - 8
North East -17 30 £50,000 - 16
South West -30 29 £65,000 +8.33% 6
Scotland -21 23 £60,000 +4.35% 2
West Midlands -37 16 £36,500 -39.17% 2
Midlands -55 16 £36,500 -39.17% 2
Wales - 13 £65,000 -
East of England -2 8 £50,000 -9.09% 10
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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.

1 350 (100.00%) Java
2 132 (37.71%) AWS
3 108 (30.86%) CI/CD
4 104 (29.71%) Agile
4 104 (29.71%) Spring Boot
5 95 (27.14%) DevOps
6 92 (26.29%) Docker
7 90 (25.71%) Full-Stack Development
8 88 (25.14%) Spring
9 85 (24.29%) Serverless
10 73 (20.86%) AngularJS
11 70 (20.00%) Jenkins
12 69 (19.71%) Amazon ECS
13 68 (19.43%) Amazon S3
14 65 (18.57%) AWS Lambda
15 63 (18.00%) Microservices
15 63 (18.00%) Security Cleared
16 58 (16.57%) AWS CloudFormation
17 56 (16.00%) SC Cleared
18 55 (15.71%) SQL
19 54 (15.43%) TypeScript
20 53 (15.14%) Kubernetes
21 52 (14.86%) DynamoDB
22 51 (14.57%) Git
23 47 (13.43%) AWS Step Functions
24 41 (11.71%) JavaScript
25 40 (11.43%) Node.js
25 40 (11.43%) REST
26 39 (11.14%) Maven
27 38 (10.86%) React

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 (2.86%) OpenStack
2 6 (1.71%) JBoss
3 5 (1.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.57%) CICS
4 2 (0.57%) WildFly
5 1 (0.29%) Confluence
5 1 (0.29%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.29%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 132 (37.71%) AWS
2 85 (24.29%) Serverless
3 69 (19.71%) Amazon ECS
4 68 (19.43%) Amazon S3
5 65 (18.57%) AWS Lambda
6 58 (16.57%) AWS CloudFormation
7 47 (13.43%) AWS Step Functions
8 28 (8.00%) Amazon ECR
8 28 (8.00%) Amazon SQS
8 28 (8.00%) Apigee
9 24 (6.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 24 (6.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 21 (6.00%) GitHub
11 20 (5.71%) Azure
11 20 (5.71%) SaaS
12 19 (5.43%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (2.86%) Datadog
13 10 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (2.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.43%) Internet
2 1 (0.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (14.86%) DynamoDB
2 36 (10.29%) NoSQL
3 25 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (6.86%) Amazon Athena
5 20 (5.71%) Relational Database
6 8 (2.29%) MySQL
7 7 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.14%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.57%) DB2
9 2 (0.57%) Hazelcast
9 2 (0.57%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.57%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.29%) CockroachDB
10 1 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.29%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 70 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 51 (14.57%) Git
3 39 (11.14%) Maven
4 36 (10.29%) GitLab
5 32 (9.14%) SonarQube
6 28 (8.00%) Cypress.io
7 14 (4.00%) JUnit
8 9 (2.57%) JIRA
9 7 (2.00%) Mockito
10 4 (1.14%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.14%) Eclipse
10 4 (1.14%) Gradle
10 4 (1.14%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.86%) Selenium
12 2 (0.57%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.57%) Spock
13 1 (0.29%) JMeter
13 1 (0.29%) jMock
13 1 (0.29%) TestNG
General
1 29 (8.29%) Finance
2 26 (7.43%) Social Skills
3 21 (6.00%) Public Sector
4 15 (4.29%) Banking
5 11 (3.14%) Health Technology
6 6 (1.71%) Aviation
7 5 (1.43%) Advertising
7 5 (1.43%) Investment Banking
7 5 (1.43%) Tech for Good
8 4 (1.14%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.14%) Digital Health
9 3 (0.86%) Digital Healthcare
10 2 (0.57%) Aeronautics
10 2 (0.57%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.57%) Automotive
11 1 (0.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.29%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.29%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (29.71%) Spring Boot
2 88 (25.14%) Spring
3 73 (20.86%) AngularJS
4 40 (11.43%) Node.js
4 40 (11.43%) REST
5 38 (10.86%) React
6 29 (8.29%) Jest
7 28 (8.00%) Gherkin
8 17 (4.86%) RESTful
9 16 (4.57%) Elastic Stack
9 16 (4.57%) Web Services
10 13 (3.71%) Kafka
11 11 (3.14%) Hibernate
12 10 (2.86%) HTML
12 10 (2.86%) JPA
13 9 (2.57%) CSS
13 9 (2.57%) Mustache
14 8 (2.29%) Spring MVC
15 7 (2.00%) Java EE
15 7 (2.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (2.29%) Cloud Native
3 5 (1.43%) IoT
3 5 (1.43%) NHS
4 4 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (1.14%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (0.86%) Private Cloud
6 2 (0.57%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (0.57%) Mainframe
6 2 (0.57%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.57%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.29%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.29%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.29%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.71%) Linux
2 2 (0.57%) Android
2 2 (0.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (30.86%) CI/CD
2 104 (29.71%) Agile
3 95 (27.14%) DevOps
4 90 (25.71%) Full-Stack Development
5 63 (18.00%) Microservices
6 38 (10.86%) SDLC
6 38 (10.86%) TDD
7 37 (10.57%) Scrum
8 33 (9.43%) Clean Code
8 33 (9.43%) Software Engineering
9 29 (8.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (7.43%) Containerisation
11 23 (6.57%) Continuous Integration
11 23 (6.57%) Secure Coding
12 22 (6.29%) ITIL
12 22 (6.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 19 (5.43%) DevSecOps
14 18 (5.14%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (4.86%) Front End Development
15 17 (4.86%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 350 (100.00%) Java
2 55 (15.71%) SQL
3 54 (15.43%) TypeScript
4 41 (11.71%) JavaScript
5 33 (9.43%) Bash
6 32 (9.14%) Groovy
7 28 (8.00%) Kotlin
7 28 (8.00%) Python
8 14 (4.00%) PL/SQL
9 11 (3.14%) C++
10 5 (1.43%) R
11 4 (1.14%) C
12 3 (0.86%) C#
13 2 (0.57%) Go
14 1 (0.29%) PHP
14 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 63 (18.00%) Security Cleared
2 56 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 27 (7.71%) AWS Certification
4 22 (6.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 22 (6.29%) ITIL Certification
5 11 (3.14%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.43%) AWS Certified Developer
7 5 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.43%) Degree
8 2 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.86%) QA
2 1 (0.29%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 92 (26.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 53 (15.14%) Kubernetes
2 28 (8.00%) HP Fortify
3 16 (4.57%) Terraform
4 13 (3.71%) Ansible
5 5 (1.43%) Kibana
6 2 (0.57%) Packer
Vendors
1 18 (5.14%) Oracle
2 8 (2.29%) AppDynamics
3 7 (2.00%) IBM
4 4 (1.14%) Pega
5 3 (0.86%) Splunk
6 1 (0.29%) Cognos
6 1 (0.29%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.29%) Google
6 1 (0.29%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.29%) Veracode
6 1 (0.29%) VMware
6 1 (0.29%) WSO2