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 4 August 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 344 408
Rank change year-on-year +68 +64 -137
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 455 227 285
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.61% 0.66% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.74% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 330 135 218
10th Percentile £42,500 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £54,063 £49,375 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £85,000
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 71,120 30,840 56,998
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.66% 89.61% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 49,141 17,770 38,038
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £28,119
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £79,600
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 +118 232 £65,000 - 20
Yorkshire +44 92 £75,000 +15.38% 7
North West +31 71 £65,000 - 4
South East -23 71 £82,500 +57.14% 13
North East +10 69 £52,500 -19.23% 10
South West -7 61 £52,500 -12.50% 9
Wales - 33 £70,000 - 4
Midlands -60 24 £70,000 +16.67% 4
Scotland -28 21 £60,000 +4.35% 9
West Midlands -45 21 £70,000 +7.69% 4
East of England -14 12 £50,000 +11.11% 1
Northern Ireland -80 5 £60,000 +33.33% 4
East Midlands -27 3 - -
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 August 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.

1 455 (100.00%) Java
2 147 (32.31%) AWS
3 136 (29.89%) Full-Stack Development
4 124 (27.25%) CI/CD
5 118 (25.93%) Spring
6 110 (24.18%) Docker
7 109 (23.96%) Microservices
8 107 (23.52%) Agile
9 101 (22.20%) Spring Boot
10 100 (21.98%) DevOps
11 83 (18.24%) AngularJS
11 83 (18.24%) Security Cleared
12 78 (17.14%) Serverless
13 76 (16.70%) Git
14 74 (16.26%) SC Cleared
15 70 (15.38%) Jenkins
16 68 (14.95%) Kubernetes
17 63 (13.85%) AWS Lambda
17 63 (13.85%) JavaScript
18 61 (13.41%) Amazon ECS
19 60 (13.19%) AWS CloudFormation
20 59 (12.97%) React
21 58 (12.75%) SQL
22 56 (12.31%) Amazon S3
23 55 (12.09%) Python
24 53 (11.65%) TDD
25 52 (11.43%) TypeScript
26 50 (10.99%) Scrum
27 49 (10.77%) RESTful
28 48 (10.55%) Azure

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 (1.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (1.10%) JBoss
3 3 (0.66%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.44%) CICS
4 2 (0.44%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.22%) Apache
5 1 (0.22%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.22%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 147 (32.31%) AWS
2 78 (17.14%) Serverless
3 63 (13.85%) AWS Lambda
4 61 (13.41%) Amazon ECS
5 60 (13.19%) AWS CloudFormation
6 56 (12.31%) Amazon S3
7 48 (10.55%) Azure
8 45 (9.89%) AWS Step Functions
9 30 (6.59%) GitHub
10 27 (5.93%) GCP
11 24 (5.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 23 (5.05%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 23 (5.05%) Amazon SQS
13 20 (4.40%) Amazon ECR
13 20 (4.40%) Apigee
14 15 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
16 12 (2.64%) Datadog
17 11 (2.42%) GitHub Copilot
18 10 (2.20%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.22%) ATM
1 1 (0.22%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.22%) HTTP
1 1 (0.22%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (9.67%) DynamoDB
2 39 (8.57%) NoSQL
3 25 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (5.05%) Amazon Athena
5 20 (4.40%) MySQL
6 19 (4.18%) Relational Database
7 13 (2.86%) MongoDB
8 9 (1.98%) SQL Server
9 4 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.44%) Couchbase
10 2 (0.44%) Db2
10 2 (0.44%) Hazelcast
10 2 (0.44%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.44%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.22%) Big Data
11 1 (0.22%) GIS
11 1 (0.22%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 76 (16.70%) Git
2 70 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 38 (8.35%) JUnit
4 36 (7.91%) Maven
5 30 (6.59%) Eclipse
5 30 (6.59%) GitLab
6 23 (5.05%) SonarQube
6 23 (5.05%) Subversion
7 21 (4.62%) Cypress.io
8 13 (2.86%) Mockito
9 9 (1.98%) JIRA
10 6 (1.32%) Cucumber
11 5 (1.10%) JMeter
11 5 (1.10%) Selenium
12 4 (0.88%) IntelliJ
12 4 (0.88%) Spock
13 3 (0.66%) Postman
14 2 (0.44%) Artifactory
15 1 (0.22%) Gradle
15 1 (0.22%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 44 (9.67%) Finance
2 32 (7.03%) Social Skills
3 25 (5.49%) Public Sector
4 23 (5.05%) Banking
5 14 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (1.76%) Advertising
6 8 (1.76%) Health Technology
7 7 (1.54%) Retail
8 5 (1.10%) Investment Banking
9 4 (0.88%) Aviation
9 4 (0.88%) Digital Health
10 2 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.44%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.22%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.22%) Law
11 1 (0.22%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.22%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (25.93%) Spring
2 101 (22.20%) Spring Boot
3 83 (18.24%) AngularJS
4 59 (12.97%) React
5 49 (10.77%) RESTful
6 33 (7.25%) Jakarta EE
6 33 (7.25%) Node.js
6 33 (7.25%) REST
7 31 (6.81%) Web Services
8 26 (5.71%) Hibernate
9 25 (5.49%) Gherkin
9 25 (5.49%) JPA
9 25 (5.49%) Kafka
10 23 (5.05%) Struts
11 22 (4.84%) Jest
12 17 (3.74%) HTML
13 13 (2.86%) CSS
13 13 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
14 10 (2.20%) Spring MVC
14 10 (2.20%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 25 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (3.74%) Cloud Native
3 11 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (1.76%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.10%) Private Cloud
7 5 (1.10%) Virtual Team
8 4 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.44%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.44%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.44%) NHS
10 1 (0.22%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.22%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.22%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.22%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.22%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.22%) Life Science
10 1 (0.22%) PKI
10 1 (0.22%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 34 (7.47%) Linux
2 6 (1.32%) Unix
3 1 (0.22%) CentOS
3 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (29.89%) Full-Stack Development
2 124 (27.25%) CI/CD
3 109 (23.96%) Microservices
4 107 (23.52%) Agile
5 100 (21.98%) DevOps
6 53 (11.65%) TDD
7 50 (10.99%) Scrum
8 48 (10.55%) Software Engineering
9 45 (9.89%) SDLC
10 42 (9.23%) Problem-Solving
11 39 (8.57%) Containerisation
12 37 (8.13%) Computer Science
13 36 (7.91%) Clean Code
13 36 (7.91%) Mentoring
14 34 (7.47%) Continuous Improvement
14 34 (7.47%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 32 (7.03%) Technical Architecture
16 28 (6.15%) Continuous Integration
17 27 (5.93%) Secure Coding
18 26 (5.71%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 455 (100.00%) Java
2 63 (13.85%) JavaScript
3 58 (12.75%) SQL
4 55 (12.09%) Python
5 52 (11.43%) TypeScript
6 37 (8.13%) C++
7 32 (7.03%) Groovy
8 30 (6.59%) Bash
8 30 (6.59%) Kotlin
9 21 (4.62%) Perl
10 17 (3.74%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.88%) C#
11 4 (0.88%) Go
11 4 (0.88%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.66%) Scala
13 1 (0.22%) PHP
13 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 83 (18.24%) Security Cleared
2 74 (16.26%) SC Cleared
3 35 (7.69%) Degree
4 33 (7.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (4.40%) AWS Certification
6 16 (3.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 16 (3.52%) DV Cleared
6 16 (3.52%) ITIL Certification
7 12 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.66%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.44%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.86%) QA
2 2 (0.44%) Good Clinical Practice
3 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 110 (24.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 68 (14.95%) Kubernetes
2 22 (4.84%) Terraform
3 20 (4.40%) HP Fortify
4 10 (2.20%) Ansible
5 9 (1.98%) Grafana
5 9 (1.98%) Kibana
6 6 (1.32%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.44%) Packer
Vendors
1 25 (5.49%) Oracle
2 17 (3.74%) Splunk
3 10 (2.20%) AppDynamics
4 6 (1.32%) Dynatrace
4 6 (1.32%) IBM
5 4 (0.88%) Pega
6 2 (0.44%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.22%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.22%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.22%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.22%) Workday
7 1 (0.22%) WSO2