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 10 May 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 386 257 208
Rank change year-on-year -129 -49 -79
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 442 795 1,354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.62% 1.33% 1.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 1.49% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 366 552 987
10th Percentile £38,438 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +13.21%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,625 £86,250 £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 67,288 53,426 67,910
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.15% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 47,613 30,415 42,495
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -34 156 £70,000 +7.69% 16
North of England -8 78 £60,000 -14.29% 11
Scotland -87 75 £56,318 -16.57% 15
South West -80 61 £60,000 - 12
North West -21 59 £62,500 -10.71% 9
Midlands -60 29 £47,500 -20.83% 5
Wales +12 25 £44,250 -13.24% 1
West Midlands -37 19 £55,000 -8.33% 4
East of England +1 15 £50,000 -28.57% 2
Yorkshire +57 12 £55,000 -8.33% 1
East Midlands -25 9 £42,500 -33.33% 1
North East -11 7 £42,750 -34.73% 1
Northern Ireland -36 5 £66,250 +32.50% 7
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 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.

1 440 (99.55%) Java
2 248 (56.11%) Spring
3 242 (54.75%) AWS
4 218 (49.32%) Agile
5 160 (36.20%) Docker
5 160 (36.20%) Spring Boot
6 145 (32.81%) JavaScript
7 140 (31.67%) Microservices
8 132 (29.86%) TDD
9 128 (28.96%) Git
10 121 (27.38%) REST
11 120 (27.15%) Kubernetes
12 110 (24.89%) Jenkins
13 103 (23.30%) AngularJS
14 102 (23.08%) SQL
15 101 (22.85%) DevOps
16 95 (21.49%) Software Engineering
17 94 (21.27%) CI/CD
18 92 (20.81%) React
18 92 (20.81%) Azure
19 90 (20.36%) PostgreSQL
20 85 (19.23%) Full Stack Development
21 81 (18.33%) Scrum
22 80 (18.10%) Finance
23 76 (17.19%) Mentoring
24 75 (16.97%) SDLC
25 72 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
25 72 (16.29%) Social Skills
26 70 (15.84%) Serverless
27 63 (14.25%) 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 35 (7.92%) OpenStack
2 18 (4.07%) Confluence
3 13 (2.94%) Apache Spark
4 12 (2.71%) JBoss
5 10 (2.26%) Red Hat Fuse
5 10 (2.26%) Tomcat
6 6 (1.36%) Apache
7 3 (0.68%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.68%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.45%) Mule
8 2 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.23%) Jetty
9 1 (0.23%) nginx
9 1 (0.23%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 242 (54.75%) AWS
2 92 (20.81%) Azure
3 70 (15.84%) Serverless
4 52 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
5 49 (11.09%) Amazon EKS
6 27 (6.11%) GCP
7 25 (5.66%) SaaS
8 21 (4.75%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (3.62%) GitHub
10 14 (3.17%) Amazon S3
11 13 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (1.81%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (1.58%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (1.13%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (0.90%) npm
15 4 (0.90%) OpenShift
16 2 (0.45%) Amazon Kinesis
16 2 (0.45%) AWS IoT
17 1 (0.23%) AWS CloudFormation
17 1 (0.23%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.49%) Internet
2 2 (0.45%) AMQP
3 1 (0.23%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.23%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (20.36%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (12.67%) NoSQL
3 50 (11.31%) Relational Database
4 37 (8.37%) MySQL
5 17 (3.85%) SQL Server
6 13 (2.94%) Apache Hive
6 13 (2.94%) Big Data
7 12 (2.71%) DynamoDB
8 11 (2.49%) MongoDB
9 9 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.13%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.68%) GIS
13 2 (0.45%) CouchDB
13 2 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.45%) Redis
14 1 (0.23%) Apache Cassandra
14 1 (0.23%) Couchbase
14 1 (0.23%) DB2
14 1 (0.23%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 128 (28.96%) Git
2 110 (24.89%) Jenkins
3 49 (11.09%) JUnit
4 31 (7.01%) Maven
5 26 (5.88%) GitLab
5 26 (5.88%) JIRA
6 19 (4.30%) Mockito
7 18 (4.07%) Selenium
8 15 (3.39%) IntelliJ
9 11 (2.49%) CircleCI
9 11 (2.49%) Gradle
10 10 (2.26%) TeamCity
11 6 (1.36%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.13%) Cucumber
12 5 (1.13%) JMeter
13 2 (0.45%) Eclipse
13 2 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
14 1 (0.23%) Cypress.io
14 1 (0.23%) JHipster
14 1 (0.23%) Postman
General
1 80 (18.10%) Finance
2 72 (16.29%) Social Skills
3 37 (8.37%) Banking
4 36 (8.14%) Public Sector
5 34 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (5.66%) Law
7 16 (3.62%) Games
8 13 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (2.94%) Private Banking
9 11 (2.49%) Police
10 9 (2.04%) Marketing
10 9 (2.04%) Tech for Good
11 7 (1.58%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.13%) Electronics
13 5 (1.13%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.90%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.68%) Advertising
15 3 (0.68%) Front Office
15 3 (0.68%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 248 (56.11%) Spring
2 160 (36.20%) Spring Boot
3 121 (27.38%) REST
4 103 (23.30%) AngularJS
5 92 (20.81%) React
6 61 (13.80%) Node.js
7 60 (13.57%) Web Services
8 47 (10.63%) Hibernate
8 47 (10.63%) Kafka
9 46 (10.41%) HTML
10 44 (9.95%) CSS
11 43 (9.73%) JSON
12 42 (9.50%) Apache Camel
13 40 (9.05%) XML
14 37 (8.37%) RESTful
15 35 (7.92%) Elastic Stack
16 22 (4.98%) SOAP
17 19 (4.30%) jQuery
18 14 (3.17%) J2EE
18 14 (3.17%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 45 (10.18%) Distributed Systems
2 31 (7.01%) Enterprise Software
2 31 (7.01%) Greenfield Project
3 16 (3.62%) Algorithms
4 15 (3.39%) Data Structures
5 12 (2.71%) Private Cloud
6 11 (2.49%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.58%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.13%) IoT
9 5 (1.13%) NHS
10 4 (0.90%) Client/Server
10 4 (0.90%) Mobile App
10 4 (0.90%) PropTech
11 3 (0.68%) Augmented Reality
11 3 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (0.68%) Virtual Reality
12 2 (0.45%) e-Health
12 2 (0.45%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.20%) Linux
2 11 (2.49%) Unix
3 6 (1.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (49.32%) Agile
2 140 (31.67%) Microservices
3 132 (29.86%) TDD
4 101 (22.85%) DevOps
5 95 (21.49%) Software Engineering
6 94 (21.27%) CI/CD
7 85 (19.23%) Full Stack Development
8 81 (18.33%) Scrum
9 76 (17.19%) Mentoring
10 75 (16.97%) SDLC
11 72 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
12 63 (14.25%) BDD
13 53 (11.99%) Kanban
14 48 (10.86%) Continuous Integration
15 38 (8.60%) Computer Science
15 38 (8.60%) Test Automation
16 36 (8.14%) Containerisation
17 33 (7.47%) Continuous Improvement
18 32 (7.24%) Design Patterns
19 31 (7.01%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 440 (99.55%) Java
2 145 (32.81%) JavaScript
3 102 (23.08%) SQL
4 57 (12.90%) Python
5 35 (7.92%) TypeScript
6 22 (4.98%) Shell Script
7 12 (2.71%) C#
8 10 (2.26%) Kotlin
9 9 (2.04%) Go
10 4 (0.90%) Groovy
10 4 (0.90%) Ruby
11 3 (0.68%) C++
11 3 (0.68%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.68%) Rust
12 2 (0.45%) Bicep
12 2 (0.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 56 (12.67%) Security Cleared
2 49 (11.09%) Degree
2 49 (11.09%) SC Cleared
3 19 (4.30%) AWS Certification
4 12 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.49%) Azure Certification
6 4 (0.90%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (0.68%) PhD
8 2 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.45%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.23%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.23%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.62%) QA
2 2 (0.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 160 (36.20%) Docker
2 27 (6.11%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 120 (27.15%) Kubernetes
2 49 (11.09%) Ansible
3 32 (7.24%) Terraform
4 6 (1.36%) Kibana
5 3 (0.68%) Grafana
6 1 (0.23%) Istio
6 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (11.09%) Oracle
2 35 (7.92%) WSO2
3 16 (3.62%) Google
4 15 (3.39%) Microsoft
5 5 (1.13%) ForgeRock
5 5 (1.13%) SAP
5 5 (1.13%) Splunk
6 4 (0.90%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.45%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.45%) Sybase
7 2 (0.45%) YouTube
8 1 (0.23%) Apple
8 1 (0.23%) Red Hat