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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 389 257 208
Rank change year-on-year -132 -49 -73
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 429 781 1,376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.60% 1.32% 1.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 1.48% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 353 542 993
10th Percentile £37,525 £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% +14.29%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £86,000 £85,000 £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 67,966 52,773 69,497
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.88% 89.23% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 47,979 30,132 42,817
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 20 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 20 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 -34 152 £70,000 +7.69% 40
North of England -20 76 £60,000 -14.29% 15
Scotland -94 71 £56,318 -16.57% 17
South West -86 59 £60,000 -2.04% 13
North West -24 58 £62,500 -13.19% 14
Midlands -57 26 £45,000 -25.00% 11
Wales +15 25 £44,250 -12.38% 1
West Midlands -27 16 £55,000 -8.33% 9
East of England -10 15 £50,000 -28.57% 2
Yorkshire +52 11 £53,750 -10.42%
East Midlands -29 9 £42,500 -34.62% 2
North East -5 7 £42,750 -38.93% 1
Northern Ireland -27 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 20 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.

1 427 (99.53%) Java
2 243 (56.64%) Spring
3 237 (55.24%) AWS
4 213 (49.65%) Agile
5 156 (36.36%) Docker
5 156 (36.36%) Spring Boot
6 139 (32.40%) JavaScript
7 138 (32.17%) Microservices
8 131 (30.54%) TDD
9 127 (29.60%) Git
10 120 (27.97%) Kubernetes
10 120 (27.97%) REST
11 110 (25.64%) Jenkins
12 102 (23.78%) AngularJS
13 98 (22.84%) DevOps
14 97 (22.61%) SQL
15 96 (22.38%) Software Engineering
16 95 (22.14%) CI/CD
17 91 (21.21%) PostgreSQL
17 91 (21.21%) Azure
18 90 (20.98%) React
19 83 (19.35%) Full Stack Development
20 79 (18.41%) Scrum
21 77 (17.95%) Finance
22 76 (17.72%) Mentoring
23 73 (17.02%) SDLC
24 72 (16.78%) Problem-Solving
25 69 (16.08%) Serverless
26 68 (15.85%) Social Skills
27 63 (14.69%) 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 (8.16%) OpenStack
2 18 (4.20%) Confluence
3 13 (3.03%) Apache Spark
4 11 (2.56%) JBoss
5 10 (2.33%) Red Hat Fuse
6 8 (1.86%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.70%) Apache
7 3 (0.70%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.70%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.23%) Jetty
9 1 (0.23%) Mule
9 1 (0.23%) nginx
9 1 (0.23%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 237 (55.24%) AWS
2 91 (21.21%) Azure
3 69 (16.08%) Serverless
4 52 (12.12%) Amazon ECS
5 49 (11.42%) Amazon EKS
6 26 (6.06%) GCP
7 25 (5.83%) SaaS
8 20 (4.66%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (3.73%) GitHub
10 14 (3.26%) Amazon S3
11 13 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (1.63%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.17%) OpenShift
14 4 (0.93%) npm
15 2 (0.47%) Amazon Kinesis
15 2 (0.47%) AWS IoT
16 1 (0.23%) AWS CloudFormation
16 1 (0.23%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.33%) Internet
2 1 (0.23%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.23%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (21.21%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (12.82%) NoSQL
3 51 (11.89%) Relational Database
4 37 (8.62%) MySQL
5 18 (4.20%) SQL Server
6 13 (3.03%) Apache Hive
6 13 (3.03%) Big Data
7 11 (2.56%) DynamoDB
8 10 (2.33%) MongoDB
9 9 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.17%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.70%) GIS
12 2 (0.47%) CouchDB
12 2 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.23%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.23%) Couchbase
13 1 (0.23%) DB2
13 1 (0.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 127 (29.60%) Git
2 110 (25.64%) Jenkins
3 47 (10.96%) JUnit
4 28 (6.53%) GitLab
4 28 (6.53%) Maven
5 26 (6.06%) JIRA
6 19 (4.43%) Selenium
7 18 (4.20%) Mockito
8 14 (3.26%) IntelliJ
9 11 (2.56%) CircleCI
10 10 (2.33%) Gradle
11 9 (2.10%) TeamCity
12 6 (1.40%) Bitbucket
13 5 (1.17%) JMeter
14 4 (0.93%) Cucumber
15 2 (0.47%) Eclipse
15 2 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
16 1 (0.23%) Cypress.io
16 1 (0.23%) JHipster
General
1 77 (17.95%) Finance
2 68 (15.85%) Social Skills
3 36 (8.39%) Banking
4 35 (8.16%) Public Sector
5 31 (7.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (5.83%) Law
7 16 (3.73%) Games
8 13 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (3.03%) Private Banking
9 11 (2.56%) Police
10 9 (2.10%) Marketing
10 9 (2.10%) Tech for Good
11 6 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.40%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.17%) Electronics
12 5 (1.17%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.70%) Advertising
13 3 (0.70%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.70%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (56.64%) Spring
2 156 (36.36%) Spring Boot
3 120 (27.97%) REST
4 102 (23.78%) AngularJS
5 90 (20.98%) React
6 61 (14.22%) Node.js
7 60 (13.99%) Web Services
8 46 (10.72%) HTML
8 46 (10.72%) Kafka
9 45 (10.49%) Hibernate
10 44 (10.26%) CSS
11 43 (10.02%) JSON
12 41 (9.56%) Apache Camel
13 39 (9.09%) XML
14 35 (8.16%) Elastic Stack
14 35 (8.16%) RESTful
15 22 (5.13%) SOAP
16 18 (4.20%) jQuery
17 14 (3.26%) Java EE
18 12 (2.80%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 45 (10.49%) Distributed Systems
2 30 (6.99%) Enterprise Software
2 30 (6.99%) Greenfield Project
3 16 (3.73%) Algorithms
4 15 (3.50%) Data Structures
5 12 (2.80%) Private Cloud
6 11 (2.56%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.17%) IoT
8 5 (1.17%) NHS
8 5 (1.17%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.93%) Client/Server
9 4 (0.93%) Mobile App
9 4 (0.93%) PropTech
10 3 (0.70%) Augmented Reality
10 3 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.70%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (0.70%) Virtual Reality
11 2 (0.47%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.47%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.20%) Linux
2 11 (2.56%) Unix
3 5 (1.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (49.65%) Agile
2 138 (32.17%) Microservices
3 131 (30.54%) TDD
4 98 (22.84%) DevOps
5 96 (22.38%) Software Engineering
6 95 (22.14%) CI/CD
7 83 (19.35%) Full Stack Development
8 79 (18.41%) Scrum
9 76 (17.72%) Mentoring
10 73 (17.02%) SDLC
11 72 (16.78%) Problem-Solving
12 63 (14.69%) BDD
13 53 (12.35%) Kanban
14 49 (11.42%) Continuous Integration
15 37 (8.62%) Computer Science
16 35 (8.16%) Containerisation
17 34 (7.93%) Test Automation
18 33 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
19 32 (7.46%) Design Patterns
20 30 (6.99%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 427 (99.53%) Java
2 139 (32.40%) JavaScript
3 97 (22.61%) SQL
4 54 (12.59%) Python
5 34 (7.93%) TypeScript
6 22 (5.13%) Shell Script
7 12 (2.80%) C#
8 9 (2.10%) Go
8 9 (2.10%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.93%) Groovy
10 3 (0.70%) Ruby
10 3 (0.70%) Rust
11 2 (0.47%) Bicep
11 2 (0.47%) PHP
11 2 (0.47%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.23%) C++
Qualifications
1 56 (13.05%) Security Cleared
2 49 (11.42%) Degree
2 49 (11.42%) SC Cleared
3 19 (4.43%) AWS Certification
4 12 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.56%) Azure Certification
6 4 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (0.70%) PhD
8 2 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.47%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.23%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.96%) QA
2 2 (0.47%) Accessibility
System Software
1 156 (36.36%) Docker
2 27 (6.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 120 (27.97%) Kubernetes
2 48 (11.19%) Ansible
3 32 (7.46%) Terraform
4 6 (1.40%) Kibana
5 3 (0.70%) Grafana
6 1 (0.23%) Istio
6 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 48 (11.19%) Oracle
2 35 (8.16%) WSO2
3 17 (3.96%) Google
4 15 (3.50%) Microsoft
5 5 (1.17%) ForgeRock
5 5 (1.17%) SAP
5 5 (1.17%) Splunk
6 4 (0.93%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.47%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.47%) Sybase
7 2 (0.47%) YouTube
8 1 (0.23%) Apple
8 1 (0.23%) Red Hat