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 26 May 2026.

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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 347 383
Rank change year-on-year +82 +36 -105
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 394 186 423
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.59% 0.66% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.74% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 279 115 358
10th Percentile £45,000 £30,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,625 £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 £78,125 £71,250 £73,438
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £85,375
UK median annual salary £70,000 £73,750 £73,750
% change year-on-year -5.08% - -7.81%

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 62,970 25,190 67,231
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.78% 88.98% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 41,929 13,343 48,972
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -6.43%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £76,250
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 26 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 26 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 +128 227 £70,000 +7.69% 32
Yorkshire +40 104 £75,000 +68.54% 12
South East -2 82 £80,000 +23.08% 11
North West +51 78 £66,250 - 14
North East +3 45 £50,000 - 6
South West -41 30 £60,000 - 12
Scotland -15 22 £60,000 +4.35% 1
West Midlands -50 19 £35,750 -40.42% 2
Midlands -58 19 £35,750 -40.42% 2
Wales - 14 £65,000 - 6
East of England - 9 £50,000 - 4
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 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.

1 394 (100.00%) Java
2 146 (37.06%) AWS
3 123 (31.22%) CI/CD
4 117 (29.70%) Agile
5 111 (28.17%) Full-Stack Development
6 110 (27.92%) Spring Boot
7 105 (26.65%) DevOps
7 105 (26.65%) Docker
8 103 (26.14%) Spring
9 93 (23.60%) Serverless
10 84 (21.32%) AngularJS
11 81 (20.56%) Microservices
12 77 (19.54%) Jenkins
13 76 (19.29%) Amazon ECS
14 74 (18.78%) Security Cleared
15 72 (18.27%) Amazon S3
16 69 (17.51%) AWS Lambda
17 66 (16.75%) SC Cleared
18 64 (16.24%) SQL
19 62 (15.74%) AWS CloudFormation
20 59 (14.97%) TypeScript
21 58 (14.72%) Git
21 58 (14.72%) Kubernetes
22 54 (13.71%) DynamoDB
23 52 (13.20%) AWS Step Functions
23 52 (13.20%) JavaScript
24 49 (12.44%) TDD
25 48 (12.18%) Scrum
26 47 (11.93%) React
27 44 (11.17%) Maven

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 11 (2.79%) OpenStack
2 7 (1.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (1.52%) JBoss
4 2 (0.51%) CICS
4 2 (0.51%) WildFly
5 1 (0.25%) Confluence
5 1 (0.25%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.25%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 146 (37.06%) AWS
2 93 (23.60%) Serverless
3 76 (19.29%) Amazon ECS
4 72 (18.27%) Amazon S3
5 69 (17.51%) AWS Lambda
6 62 (15.74%) AWS CloudFormation
7 52 (13.20%) AWS Step Functions
8 31 (7.87%) Amazon SQS
9 27 (6.85%) Amazon ECR
9 27 (6.85%) Apigee
10 26 (6.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 26 (6.60%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 26 (6.60%) Azure
11 24 (6.09%) GitHub
12 22 (5.58%) Amazon EKS
12 22 (5.58%) SaaS
13 11 (2.79%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (2.79%) Datadog
13 11 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (2.28%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.02%) Internet
2 1 (0.25%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.25%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (13.71%) DynamoDB
2 38 (9.64%) NoSQL
3 31 (7.87%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (6.60%) Amazon Athena
5 23 (5.84%) Relational Database
6 8 (2.03%) MySQL
7 6 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.02%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.51%) DB2
9 2 (0.51%) Hazelcast
9 2 (0.51%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.51%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.25%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.25%) CockroachDB
10 1 (0.25%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.25%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.25%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 77 (19.54%) Jenkins
2 58 (14.72%) Git
3 44 (11.17%) Maven
4 39 (9.90%) GitLab
5 31 (7.87%) SonarQube
6 28 (7.11%) Cypress.io
7 26 (6.60%) JUnit
8 13 (3.30%) Mockito
9 10 (2.54%) JIRA
10 7 (1.78%) Eclipse
11 5 (1.27%) Cucumber
11 5 (1.27%) IntelliJ
12 4 (1.02%) Gradle
12 4 (1.02%) JMeter
12 4 (1.02%) Spock
13 3 (0.76%) Selenium
14 2 (0.51%) Artifactory
14 2 (0.51%) Subversion
15 1 (0.25%) Karma Test Runner
15 1 (0.25%) TestNG
General
1 38 (9.64%) Finance
2 32 (8.12%) Social Skills
3 26 (6.60%) Public Sector
4 15 (3.81%) Banking
5 11 (2.79%) Health Technology
6 7 (1.78%) Advertising
7 6 (1.52%) Aviation
8 5 (1.27%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.27%) Tech for Good
9 4 (1.02%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.02%) Digital Health
10 3 (0.76%) Digital Healthcare
11 2 (0.51%) Aeronautics
11 2 (0.51%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.51%) Automotive
12 1 (0.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.25%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (27.92%) Spring Boot
2 103 (26.14%) Spring
3 84 (21.32%) AngularJS
4 47 (11.93%) React
5 44 (11.17%) Node.js
6 43 (10.91%) REST
7 30 (7.61%) Jest
8 29 (7.36%) Gherkin
9 23 (5.84%) RESTful
10 19 (4.82%) Web Services
11 18 (4.57%) Elastic Stack
12 17 (4.31%) Kafka
13 15 (3.81%) HTML
14 13 (3.30%) Hibernate
14 13 (3.30%) JPA
15 12 (3.05%) Mustache
16 11 (2.79%) CSS
17 9 (2.28%) Spring MVC
18 7 (1.78%) Java EE
18 7 (1.78%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.11%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (2.79%) Cloud Native
3 6 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (1.27%) NHS
4 5 (1.27%) Private Cloud
5 4 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.02%) IoT
5 4 (1.02%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.51%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (0.51%) Mainframe
6 2 (0.51%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.51%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.25%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.25%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.25%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.25%) Lidar
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.82%) Linux
2 2 (0.51%) Android
2 2 (0.51%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (31.22%) CI/CD
2 117 (29.70%) Agile
3 111 (28.17%) Full-Stack Development
4 105 (26.65%) DevOps
5 81 (20.56%) Microservices
6 49 (12.44%) TDD
7 48 (12.18%) Scrum
8 43 (10.91%) SDLC
9 37 (9.39%) Clean Code
10 36 (9.14%) Software Engineering
11 33 (8.38%) Containerisation
12 31 (7.87%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (6.60%) Mentoring
14 25 (6.35%) Continuous Integration
15 24 (6.09%) Secure Coding
16 23 (5.84%) ITIL
16 23 (5.84%) Problem-Solving
16 23 (5.84%) Test Automation
16 23 (5.84%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
17 21 (5.33%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 394 (100.00%) Java
2 64 (16.24%) SQL
3 59 (14.97%) TypeScript
4 52 (13.20%) JavaScript
5 37 (9.39%) Bash
6 36 (9.14%) Groovy
7 31 (7.87%) Python
8 30 (7.61%) Kotlin
9 18 (4.57%) PL/SQL
10 14 (3.55%) C++
11 4 (1.02%) C
11 4 (1.02%) Go
11 4 (1.02%) R
12 3 (0.76%) C#
12 3 (0.76%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.51%) Perl
14 1 (0.25%) PHP
14 1 (0.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 74 (18.78%) Security Cleared
2 66 (16.75%) SC Cleared
3 27 (6.85%) AWS Certification
4 22 (5.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 22 (5.58%) ITIL Certification
5 12 (3.05%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.54%) Degree
7 8 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.54%) QA
2 1 (0.25%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 105 (26.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 58 (14.72%) Kubernetes
2 27 (6.85%) HP Fortify
3 18 (4.57%) Terraform
4 13 (3.30%) Ansible
5 8 (2.03%) Kibana
6 2 (0.51%) Grafana
6 2 (0.51%) Packer
7 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (6.35%) Oracle
2 10 (2.54%) AppDynamics
3 8 (2.03%) Splunk
4 7 (1.78%) IBM
5 4 (1.02%) Pega
6 3 (0.76%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.51%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.25%) Cognos
8 1 (0.25%) Google
8 1 (0.25%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.25%) Veracode
8 1 (0.25%) VMware
8 1 (0.25%) WSO2