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 June 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 315 388
Rank change year-on-year +56 +73 -114
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 418 216 426
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.63% 0.73% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.82% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 301 128 356
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £48,750 £43,563
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 £85,625
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 62,390 26,239 72,577
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 89.06% 94.94%
Number of salaries quoted 43,046 14,192 52,127
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,968 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £34,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £76,950
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 9 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 9 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 +132 241 £67,500 +3.85% 28
Yorkshire +48 109 £75,000 +68.54% 10
South East -10 82 £80,000 +25.49% 12
North West +64 79 £65,000 - 11
North East +8 53 £50,000 - 7
South West -18 35 £55,000 -8.33% 8
Scotland -22 20 £60,000 +4.35% 6
West Midlands -32 19 £35,750 -41.63% 6
Midlands -43 19 £35,750 -40.42% 6
Wales - 17 £65,000 - 6
East of England +1 9 £50,000 +11.11% 3
Northern Ireland -45 1 - -
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 418 (100.00%) Java
2 150 (35.89%) AWS
3 124 (29.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 123 (29.43%) CI/CD
5 113 (27.03%) Agile
6 105 (25.12%) DevOps
6 105 (25.12%) Spring
6 105 (25.12%) Spring Boot
7 103 (24.64%) Docker
8 91 (21.77%) Serverless
9 90 (21.53%) AngularJS
10 85 (20.33%) Microservices
11 76 (18.18%) Jenkins
12 75 (17.94%) Amazon ECS
13 74 (17.70%) Security Cleared
14 71 (16.99%) AWS Lambda
15 70 (16.75%) Amazon S3
16 66 (15.79%) SC Cleared
16 66 (15.79%) SQL
17 65 (15.55%) AWS CloudFormation
18 64 (15.31%) Git
19 60 (14.35%) TypeScript
20 56 (13.40%) DynamoDB
21 55 (13.16%) AWS Step Functions
22 53 (12.68%) Kubernetes
23 52 (12.44%) JavaScript
24 51 (12.20%) React
25 47 (11.24%) TDD
26 46 (11.00%) SDLC
27 45 (10.77%) 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 8 (1.91%) OpenStack
2 7 (1.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (1.44%) JBoss
4 2 (0.48%) CICS
5 1 (0.24%) Confluence
5 1 (0.24%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.24%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 150 (35.89%) AWS
2 91 (21.77%) Serverless
3 75 (17.94%) Amazon ECS
4 71 (16.99%) AWS Lambda
5 70 (16.75%) Amazon S3
6 65 (15.55%) AWS CloudFormation
7 55 (13.16%) AWS Step Functions
8 31 (7.42%) Amazon SQS
8 31 (7.42%) Azure
9 28 (6.70%) Amazon ECR
9 28 (6.70%) Apigee
10 27 (6.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 27 (6.46%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 26 (6.22%) GitHub
12 21 (5.02%) SaaS
13 18 (4.31%) Amazon EKS
14 13 (3.11%) GCP
14 13 (3.11%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (2.87%) Datadog
16 9 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.48%) Internet
2 1 (0.24%) ATM
2 1 (0.24%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.24%) HTTP
2 1 (0.24%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (13.40%) DynamoDB
2 39 (9.33%) NoSQL
3 28 (6.70%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (6.46%) Amazon Athena
5 21 (5.02%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.15%) MySQL
7 4 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.96%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.48%) Couchbase
8 2 (0.48%) Db2
8 2 (0.48%) Hazelcast
8 2 (0.48%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.48%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.48%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.24%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 76 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 64 (15.31%) Git
3 44 (10.53%) Maven
4 39 (9.33%) GitLab
5 32 (7.66%) SonarQube
6 29 (6.94%) Cypress.io
7 27 (6.46%) JUnit
8 13 (3.11%) Eclipse
8 13 (3.11%) Mockito
9 11 (2.63%) JIRA
10 8 (1.91%) Subversion
11 6 (1.44%) Cucumber
12 5 (1.20%) JMeter
13 4 (0.96%) IntelliJ
13 4 (0.96%) Selenium
13 4 (0.96%) Spock
14 3 (0.72%) Gradle
15 2 (0.48%) Artifactory
16 1 (0.24%) Karma Test Runner
16 1 (0.24%) Postman
General
1 44 (10.53%) Finance
2 35 (8.37%) Social Skills
3 23 (5.50%) Public Sector
4 17 (4.07%) Banking
5 11 (2.63%) Health Technology
6 9 (2.15%) Advertising
7 6 (1.44%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (1.44%) Aviation
7 6 (1.44%) Tech for Good
8 5 (1.20%) Investment Banking
9 4 (0.96%) Digital Health
9 4 (0.96%) Retail
10 3 (0.72%) Digital Healthcare
11 2 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.24%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.24%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (25.12%) Spring
1 105 (25.12%) Spring Boot
2 90 (21.53%) AngularJS
3 51 (12.20%) React
4 42 (10.05%) Node.js
5 37 (8.85%) REST
6 31 (7.42%) Gherkin
6 31 (7.42%) Jest
7 29 (6.94%) RESTful
8 22 (5.26%) Web Services
9 17 (4.07%) Kafka
10 15 (3.59%) Elastic Stack
10 15 (3.59%) HTML
11 14 (3.35%) JPA
12 13 (3.11%) Hibernate
12 13 (3.11%) J2EE
13 11 (2.63%) CSS
14 10 (2.39%) Spring MVC
15 9 (2.15%) Mustache
16 8 (1.91%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 25 (5.98%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (2.39%) Cloud Native
3 7 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (0.96%) Management Information System
6 4 (0.96%) NHS
6 4 (0.96%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.48%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.48%) IoT
7 2 (0.48%) Mainframe
7 2 (0.48%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.48%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.24%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.24%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.24%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.24%) Lidar
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.50%) Linux
2 3 (0.72%) Unix
3 2 (0.48%) Android
3 2 (0.48%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (29.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 123 (29.43%) CI/CD
3 113 (27.03%) Agile
4 105 (25.12%) DevOps
5 85 (20.33%) Microservices
6 47 (11.24%) TDD
7 46 (11.00%) SDLC
8 45 (10.77%) Scrum
9 41 (9.81%) Software Engineering
10 37 (8.85%) Clean Code
11 31 (7.42%) Containerisation
12 30 (7.18%) Continuous Improvement
13 28 (6.70%) Problem-Solving
14 27 (6.46%) Mentoring
15 26 (6.22%) Continuous Integration
15 26 (6.22%) Digital Transformation Programme
16 25 (5.98%) Secure Coding
17 24 (5.74%) Computer Science
17 24 (5.74%) Test Automation
18 23 (5.50%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 418 (100.00%) Java
2 66 (15.79%) SQL
3 60 (14.35%) TypeScript
4 52 (12.44%) JavaScript
5 38 (9.09%) Bash
5 38 (9.09%) Groovy
6 36 (8.61%) Python
7 32 (7.66%) Kotlin
8 20 (4.78%) C++
9 18 (4.31%) PL/SQL
10 8 (1.91%) Perl
11 6 (1.44%) Go
12 4 (0.96%) C
12 4 (0.96%) R
13 3 (0.72%) C#
13 3 (0.72%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.24%) PHP
14 1 (0.24%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 74 (17.70%) Security Cleared
2 66 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 27 (6.46%) AWS Certification
4 22 (5.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 22 (5.26%) ITIL Certification
5 18 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (4.31%) Degree
6 12 (2.87%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.39%) QA
2 2 (0.48%) Good Clinical Practice
3 1 (0.24%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 103 (24.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 53 (12.68%) Kubernetes
2 28 (6.70%) HP Fortify
3 18 (4.31%) Terraform
4 12 (2.87%) Ansible
5 9 (2.15%) Kibana
6 4 (0.96%) Grafana
7 2 (0.48%) Packer
8 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (6.22%) Oracle
2 10 (2.39%) AppDynamics
2 10 (2.39%) Splunk
3 7 (1.67%) IBM
4 4 (0.96%) Dynatrace
4 4 (0.96%) Pega
5 2 (0.48%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.24%) Cognos
6 1 (0.24%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.24%) Veracode
6 1 (0.24%) VMware
6 1 (0.24%) WSO2