Java Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Java Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Java Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 382 250 210
Rank change year-on-year -132 -40 -88
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 461 841 1,324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.66% 1.36% 1.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 1.52% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 383 589 987
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +13.21%
75th Percentile £74,375 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £85,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 66,438 55,416 67,544
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.30% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,143 31,373 42,828
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,368
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,725 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Java Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Developer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Java Developer 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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024. 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
South East -37 157 £70,000 +9.80% 17
North of England -22 83 £60,000 -14.29% 17
Scotland -98 79 £60,500 -9.70% 14
South West -73 66 £60,000 - 9
North West -17 62 £62,500 -10.71% 11
Midlands -47 31 £51,250 -14.58% 6
Wales +10 25 £44,250 -13.24%
West Midlands -22 21 £55,000 -8.33% 5
East of England +9 16 £50,000 -28.57% 5
Yorkshire +55 13 £55,000 +0.92% 4
East Midlands -30 9 £42,500 -32.00% 1
North East -4 8 £42,750 -34.73% 2
Northern Ireland -30 6 £60,000 +20.00% 4
Java Developer
UK

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Java Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 459 (99.57%) Java
2 254 (55.10%) Spring
3 249 (54.01%) AWS
4 226 (49.02%) Agile
5 171 (37.09%) Docker
6 170 (36.88%) Spring Boot
7 157 (34.06%) JavaScript
8 147 (31.89%) Microservices
9 137 (29.72%) TDD
10 135 (29.28%) Git
11 128 (27.77%) REST
12 126 (27.33%) Kubernetes
13 121 (26.25%) Jenkins
14 114 (24.73%) AngularJS
15 111 (24.08%) SQL
16 103 (22.34%) DevOps
17 98 (21.26%) React
18 97 (21.04%) Azure
19 96 (20.82%) Software Engineering
20 95 (20.61%) CI/CD
21 90 (19.52%) Finance
22 87 (18.87%) PostgreSQL
22 87 (18.87%) Full Stack Development
23 86 (18.66%) Scrum
24 77 (16.70%) Mentoring
25 75 (16.27%) Problem-Solving
26 74 (16.05%) SDLC
27 73 (15.84%) Serverless
27 73 (15.84%) Social Skills
28 65 (14.10%) BDD

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 36 (7.81%) OpenStack
2 18 (3.90%) Confluence
3 13 (2.82%) Apache Spark
4 12 (2.60%) JBoss
5 11 (2.39%) Red Hat Fuse
5 11 (2.39%) Tomcat
6 6 (1.30%) Apache
7 3 (0.65%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.65%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.43%) Mule
8 2 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.22%) Jetty
9 1 (0.22%) nginx
9 1 (0.22%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 249 (54.01%) AWS
2 97 (21.04%) Azure
3 73 (15.84%) Serverless
4 54 (11.71%) Amazon ECS
5 51 (11.06%) Amazon EKS
6 28 (6.07%) GCP
7 26 (5.64%) SaaS
8 22 (4.77%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (3.90%) GitHub
10 15 (3.25%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (3.04%) Amazon S3
12 8 (1.74%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (0.87%) npm
16 3 (0.65%) Amazon Kinesis
16 3 (0.65%) AWS IoT
17 2 (0.43%) Azure Pipelines
17 2 (0.43%) OpenShift
18 1 (0.22%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.60%) Internet
2 2 (0.43%) AMQP
3 1 (0.22%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (18.87%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (12.36%) NoSQL
3 52 (11.28%) Relational Database
4 40 (8.68%) MySQL
5 17 (3.69%) SQL Server
6 13 (2.82%) Apache Hive
6 13 (2.82%) Big Data
7 12 (2.60%) DynamoDB
8 11 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (2.39%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.08%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.65%) GIS
12 2 (0.43%) CouchDB
12 2 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.43%) DB2
12 2 (0.43%) Redis
13 1 (0.22%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 135 (29.28%) Git
2 121 (26.25%) Jenkins
3 52 (11.28%) JUnit
4 35 (7.59%) Maven
5 26 (5.64%) GitLab
5 26 (5.64%) JIRA
6 24 (5.21%) Mockito
7 20 (4.34%) IntelliJ
8 17 (3.69%) Selenium
9 15 (3.25%) Gradle
10 13 (2.82%) TeamCity
11 11 (2.39%) CircleCI
12 6 (1.30%) Cucumber
13 5 (1.08%) Bitbucket
14 4 (0.87%) JMeter
14 4 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
15 3 (0.65%) Cypress.io
15 3 (0.65%) Eclipse
16 2 (0.43%) Spinnaker
17 1 (0.22%) Postman
General
1 90 (19.52%) Finance
2 73 (15.84%) Social Skills
3 42 (9.11%) Banking
4 38 (8.24%) Public Sector
5 36 (7.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (5.42%) Law
7 16 (3.47%) Games
8 13 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (2.82%) Private Banking
9 11 (2.39%) Police
10 9 (1.95%) Marketing
11 8 (1.74%) Tech for Good
12 7 (1.52%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.08%) Electronics
14 5 (1.08%) Front Office
14 5 (1.08%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.87%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.87%) Retail
16 3 (0.65%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 254 (55.10%) Spring
2 170 (36.88%) Spring Boot
3 128 (27.77%) REST
4 114 (24.73%) AngularJS
5 98 (21.26%) React
6 64 (13.88%) Web Services
7 63 (13.67%) Node.js
8 51 (11.06%) Hibernate
9 50 (10.85%) HTML
10 49 (10.63%) Kafka
11 46 (9.98%) CSS
11 46 (9.98%) JSON
12 45 (9.76%) RESTful
13 43 (9.33%) Apache Camel
14 41 (8.89%) XML
15 36 (7.81%) Elastic Stack
16 25 (5.42%) SOAP
17 21 (4.56%) jQuery
18 17 (3.69%) J2EE
19 16 (3.47%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 45 (9.76%) Distributed Systems
2 33 (7.16%) Enterprise Software
3 30 (6.51%) Greenfield Project
4 16 (3.47%) Algorithms
5 15 (3.25%) Data Structures
6 12 (2.60%) Private Cloud
7 11 (2.39%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.95%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.30%) IoT
11 5 (1.08%) NHS
12 4 (0.87%) Client/Server
12 4 (0.87%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.87%) PropTech
12 4 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.65%) Augmented Reality
13 3 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
13 3 (0.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 3 (0.65%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.21%) Linux
2 11 (2.39%) Unix
3 6 (1.30%) Windows
4 2 (0.43%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (49.02%) Agile
2 147 (31.89%) Microservices
3 137 (29.72%) TDD
4 103 (22.34%) DevOps
5 96 (20.82%) Software Engineering
6 95 (20.61%) CI/CD
7 87 (18.87%) Full Stack Development
8 86 (18.66%) Scrum
9 77 (16.70%) Mentoring
10 75 (16.27%) Problem-Solving
11 74 (16.05%) SDLC
12 65 (14.10%) BDD
13 56 (12.15%) Kanban
14 48 (10.41%) Continuous Integration
15 41 (8.89%) Containerisation
15 41 (8.89%) Test Automation
16 39 (8.46%) Computer Science
17 35 (7.59%) Design Patterns
18 33 (7.16%) Continuous Improvement
18 33 (7.16%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 459 (99.57%) Java
2 157 (34.06%) JavaScript
3 111 (24.08%) SQL
4 59 (12.80%) Python
5 36 (7.81%) TypeScript
6 22 (4.77%) Shell Script
7 12 (2.60%) C#
8 10 (2.17%) Kotlin
9 7 (1.52%) Go
10 4 (0.87%) Groovy
10 4 (0.87%) Ruby
11 3 (0.65%) C++
11 3 (0.65%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.65%) Rust
12 2 (0.43%) Bash
12 2 (0.43%) Bicep
12 2 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 58 (12.58%) Security Cleared
2 51 (11.06%) Degree
3 50 (10.85%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.34%) AWS Certification
5 14 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (2.60%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.87%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.65%) PhD
9 2 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.43%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.43%) OCP
9 2 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.22%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.22%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.47%) QA
2 2 (0.43%) Accessibility
System Software
1 171 (37.09%) Docker
2 28 (6.07%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 126 (27.33%) Kubernetes
2 51 (11.06%) Ansible
3 34 (7.38%) Terraform
4 5 (1.08%) Kibana
5 2 (0.43%) Grafana
6 1 (0.22%) Istio
6 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (9.76%) Oracle
2 36 (7.81%) WSO2
3 17 (3.69%) Google
4 15 (3.25%) Microsoft
5 5 (1.08%) ForgeRock
5 5 (1.08%) SAP
6 4 (0.87%) Dynatrace
6 4 (0.87%) Splunk
7 3 (0.65%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.43%) Sybase
8 2 (0.43%) YouTube
9 1 (0.22%) Apple
9 1 (0.22%) IBM