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 30 June 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 334 390
Rank change year-on-year +71 +56 -105
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 438 226 409
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.63% 0.72% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.81% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 319 131 339
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £35,300
25th Percentile £54,375 £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 £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £86,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% -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 65,661 28,006 72,671
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.59% 88.96% 94.83%
Number of salaries quoted 45,558 15,556 51,953
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,253 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,673 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.95% +7.95% -12.50%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 +118 248 £67,500 +3.85% 30
Yorkshire +54 103 £75,000 +68.54% 10
North West +53 84 £65,000 - 10
South East -19 81 £80,000 +52.38% 13
North East +9 61 £55,000 - 10
South West -28 44 £45,000 -25.00% 6
Wales - 23 £65,000 - 6
Scotland -20 20 £60,000 +4.35% 5
West Midlands -38 16 £45,000 -29.69% 9
Midlands -61 16 £45,000 -25.00% 10
East of England -9 10 £50,000 +11.11% 4
Northern Ireland -38 1 - - 6
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 June 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.

1 438 (100.00%) Java
2 150 (34.25%) AWS
3 132 (30.14%) Full-Stack Development
4 125 (28.54%) CI/CD
5 107 (24.43%) Docker
5 107 (24.43%) Spring
6 106 (24.20%) Agile
7 104 (23.74%) DevOps
8 103 (23.52%) Spring Boot
9 93 (21.23%) AngularJS
10 90 (20.55%) Microservices
10 90 (20.55%) Serverless
11 77 (17.58%) Security Cleared
12 76 (17.35%) Jenkins
13 74 (16.89%) AWS Lambda
13 74 (16.89%) Git
14 71 (16.21%) Amazon ECS
15 68 (15.53%) Amazon S3
15 68 (15.53%) SC Cleared
16 67 (15.30%) AWS CloudFormation
17 65 (14.84%) SQL
18 58 (13.24%) Kubernetes
19 56 (12.79%) TypeScript
20 55 (12.56%) AWS Step Functions
21 54 (12.33%) DynamoDB
22 53 (12.10%) JavaScript
23 52 (11.87%) React
24 50 (11.42%) Software Engineering
25 48 (10.96%) SDLC
26 45 (10.27%) Scrum

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 6 (1.37%) JBoss
2 5 (1.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (0.91%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.46%) CICS
5 1 (0.23%) Confluence
5 1 (0.23%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.23%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 150 (34.25%) AWS
2 90 (20.55%) Serverless
3 74 (16.89%) AWS Lambda
4 71 (16.21%) Amazon ECS
5 68 (15.53%) Amazon S3
6 67 (15.30%) AWS CloudFormation
7 55 (12.56%) AWS Step Functions
8 40 (9.13%) Azure
9 31 (7.08%) Amazon SQS
10 30 (6.85%) GitHub
11 28 (6.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 27 (6.16%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 26 (5.94%) Amazon ECR
13 26 (5.94%) Apigee
14 22 (5.02%) GCP
15 15 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
15 15 (3.42%) SaaS
16 14 (3.20%) Amazon EKS
17 12 (2.74%) Datadog
18 10 (2.28%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.23%) ATM
1 1 (0.23%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.23%) HTTP
1 1 (0.23%) Internet
1 1 (0.23%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (12.33%) DynamoDB
2 40 (9.13%) NoSQL
3 27 (6.16%) Amazon Athena
4 26 (5.94%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (4.57%) Relational Database
6 13 (2.97%) MySQL
7 6 (1.37%) MongoDB
7 6 (1.37%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.91%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.46%) Couchbase
10 2 (0.46%) Db2
10 2 (0.46%) Hazelcast
10 2 (0.46%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.23%) Big Data
11 1 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.23%) GIS
11 1 (0.23%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 76 (17.35%) Jenkins
2 74 (16.89%) Git
3 40 (9.13%) Maven
4 38 (8.68%) GitLab
5 30 (6.85%) JUnit
5 30 (6.85%) SonarQube
6 27 (6.16%) Cypress.io
7 22 (5.02%) Eclipse
8 16 (3.65%) Subversion
9 11 (2.51%) JIRA
9 11 (2.51%) Mockito
10 6 (1.37%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.37%) Selenium
11 5 (1.14%) JMeter
12 4 (0.91%) IntelliJ
12 4 (0.91%) Spock
13 3 (0.68%) Gradle
13 3 (0.68%) Postman
14 2 (0.46%) Artifactory
15 1 (0.23%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 43 (9.82%) Finance
2 32 (7.31%) Social Skills
3 25 (5.71%) Public Sector
4 22 (5.02%) Banking
5 11 (2.51%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.28%) Health Technology
7 9 (2.05%) Advertising
8 7 (1.60%) Retail
9 6 (1.37%) Aviation
10 5 (1.14%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.91%) Digital Health
11 4 (0.91%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.23%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.23%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.23%) Law
13 1 (0.23%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (24.43%) Spring
2 103 (23.52%) Spring Boot
3 93 (21.23%) AngularJS
4 52 (11.87%) React
5 42 (9.59%) RESTful
6 38 (8.68%) Node.js
7 31 (7.08%) Gherkin
7 31 (7.08%) REST
8 29 (6.62%) Jest
9 26 (5.94%) Web Services
10 21 (4.79%) J2EE
11 20 (4.57%) Hibernate
11 20 (4.57%) JPA
12 19 (4.34%) Kafka
13 16 (3.65%) Struts
14 15 (3.42%) HTML
15 12 (2.74%) Spring MVC
16 11 (2.51%) CSS
16 11 (2.51%) Elastic Stack
17 9 (2.05%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.25%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (2.74%) Cloud Native
3 8 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.14%) Product Ownership
7 4 (0.91%) NHS
7 4 (0.91%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.46%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.46%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.46%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.46%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.23%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.23%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.23%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.23%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.23%) Lidar
9 1 (0.23%) Life Science
9 1 (0.23%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 27 (6.16%) Linux
2 6 (1.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (30.14%) Full-Stack Development
2 125 (28.54%) CI/CD
3 106 (24.20%) Agile
4 104 (23.74%) DevOps
5 90 (20.55%) Microservices
6 50 (11.42%) Software Engineering
7 48 (10.96%) SDLC
8 45 (10.27%) Scrum
9 42 (9.59%) TDD
10 39 (8.90%) Clean Code
11 35 (7.99%) Containerisation
12 34 (7.76%) Continuous Improvement
12 34 (7.76%) Problem-Solving
13 32 (7.31%) Computer Science
14 30 (6.85%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 29 (6.62%) Mentoring
15 29 (6.62%) Secure Coding
16 27 (6.16%) Test Automation
17 25 (5.71%) Continuous Integration
17 25 (5.71%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 438 (100.00%) Java
2 65 (14.84%) SQL
3 56 (12.79%) TypeScript
4 53 (12.10%) JavaScript
5 44 (10.05%) Python
6 38 (8.68%) Groovy
7 34 (7.76%) Bash
7 34 (7.76%) Kotlin
8 26 (5.94%) C++
9 16 (3.65%) PL/SQL
10 14 (3.20%) Perl
11 4 (0.91%) Go
12 3 (0.68%) C#
12 3 (0.68%) Scala
12 3 (0.68%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.46%) C
13 2 (0.46%) R
14 1 (0.23%) PHP
14 1 (0.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 77 (17.58%) Security Cleared
2 68 (15.53%) SC Cleared
3 28 (6.39%) Degree
4 26 (5.94%) AWS Certification
4 26 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (5.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 22 (5.02%) ITIL Certification
6 13 (2.97%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.74%) QA
2 2 (0.46%) Good Clinical Practice
3 1 (0.23%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 107 (24.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 58 (13.24%) Kubernetes
2 26 (5.94%) HP Fortify
3 18 (4.11%) Terraform
4 9 (2.05%) Ansible
4 9 (2.05%) Kibana
5 6 (1.37%) Grafana
6 3 (0.68%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.46%) Packer
Vendors
1 25 (5.71%) Oracle
2 14 (3.20%) Splunk
3 10 (2.28%) AppDynamics
4 7 (1.60%) IBM
5 6 (1.37%) Dynatrace
6 4 (0.91%) Pega
7 2 (0.46%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.23%) Cognos
8 1 (0.23%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.23%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.23%) Veracode
8 1 (0.23%) VMware
8 1 (0.23%) WSO2