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 £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 October 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 367 365
Rank change year-on-year +64 -2 -82
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 469 169 258
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.53% 0.49% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.55% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 329 80 144
10th Percentile £41,500 £45,000 £24,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -12.73%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,000 £76,150 £84,625
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% 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.

6 months to
21 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 81,376 30,648 46,509
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 89.58% 95.41%
Number of salaries quoted 56,079 17,606 25,414
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £52,500 £56,252
% change year-on-year +12.38% -6.67% -6.25%

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 21 October 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 21 October 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 +40 181 £65,000 - 45
South East -24 79 £75,000 +20.00% 13
North East -4 72 £60,000 -7.69% 23
South West -9 68 £55,000 -16.98% 8
Yorkshire +12 61 £77,500 +40.91% 12
North West -44 48 £65,000 - 11
Scotland +20 42 £70,000 -6.67% 22
Midlands -42 37 £70,000 +5.66% 15
Wales - 35 £70,000 - 3
West Midlands -45 34 £70,000 - 14
Northern Ireland -61 21 £60,000 +33.33% 22
East of England -38 6 £60,000 +33.33% 1
East Midlands -42 3 - - 1
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 October 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.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Java100.0%469
2AWS29.0%136
3Spring28.6%134
4Microservices26.7%125
5CI/CD24.5%115
6Docker24.1%113
6Full-Stack Development24.1%113
6Spring Boot24.1%113
9Agile21.3%100
10DevOps18.1%85
11Git16.8%79
12Kubernetes16.6%78
13Security Cleared15.1%71
14AngularJS12.8%60
14JavaScript12.8%60
14SC Cleared12.8%60
17Problem-Solving12.6%59
18AWS CloudFormation11.9%56
18RESTful11.9%56
18Serverless11.9%56
21Azure11.1%52
22Containerisation10.9%51
22NoSQL10.9%51
22Scrum10.9%51
22SQL10.9%51
26React10.7%50
27Mentoring10.4%49
27TDD10.4%49
29Amazon ECS10.2%48
29Amazon S310.2%48

Java Developer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1Senior Java Developer30.9%145
2Full-Stack Java Developer14.7%69
3Java Software Developer6.4%30
3Junior Java Developer6.4%30
5AWS Developer6.2%29
6Backend Developer4.7%22
7Lead Java Developer4.3%20
8Angular Developer3.2%15
9C++ Software Developer2.8%13
9C++/Java Developer2.8%13
11Senior Full-Stack Developer2.6%12
12PL/SQL Developer1.3%6
12SC Cleared Java Developer1.3%6
14Senior Java Software Developer1.1%5
15Lead Full-Stack Developer0.6%3
16Cloud Developer0.4%2
16Low Latency Java Developer0.4%2
16React Developer0.4%2
16Senior Backend Developer0.4%2
20Junior JavaScript Developer0.2%1
127 Java Developer jobs in the UK excluding London