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 leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 399 262 209
Rank change year-on-year -137 -53 -75
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 430 715 1,427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.54% 1.29% 1.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 1.46% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 359 487 1,011
10th Percentile £32,500 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £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 £72,500 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,250 £86,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £73,750 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -7.81% +6.67% +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -68 145 £70,000 +7.69% 19
North of England -26 80 £57,500 -17.86% 27
Scotland -97 69 £50,750 -24.81% 13
North West -33 65 £60,000 -19.46% 21
South West -95 59 £60,000 -4.00% 15
Midlands -73 32 £42,500 -29.17% 9
Wales +19 25 £45,000 -10.00% 2
West Midlands -41 19 £45,000 -25.00% 5
East of England -22 15 £50,000 -28.57% 1
East Midlands -35 12 £42,500 -39.29% 4
Yorkshire +39 8 £52,500 -16.00% 4
North East -21 7 £42,750 -38.93% 2
Northern Ireland -29 5 £57,500 +15.00% 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 12 June 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.

1 428 (99.53%) Java
2 220 (51.16%) Spring
3 215 (50.00%) AWS
4 182 (42.33%) Agile
5 145 (33.72%) Spring Boot
6 138 (32.09%) Docker
7 126 (29.30%) JavaScript
8 125 (29.07%) Microservices
9 115 (26.74%) TDD
10 108 (25.12%) REST
11 104 (24.19%) Kubernetes
12 102 (23.72%) Git
13 89 (20.70%) Jenkins
13 89 (20.70%) SQL
14 88 (20.47%) React
15 86 (20.00%) CI/CD
15 86 (20.00%) Software Engineering
16 85 (19.77%) DevOps
17 83 (19.30%) AngularJS
18 82 (19.07%) Azure
18 82 (19.07%) Mentoring
19 79 (18.37%) PostgreSQL
20 73 (16.98%) SDLC
21 70 (16.28%) Full Stack Development
21 70 (16.28%) Scrum
22 69 (16.05%) Finance
23 68 (15.81%) Social Skills
23 68 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
24 55 (12.79%) Web Services
25 51 (11.86%) Kafka

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 28 (6.51%) OpenStack
2 11 (2.56%) JBoss
3 9 (2.09%) Red Hat Fuse
4 8 (1.86%) Confluence
5 6 (1.40%) Tomcat
6 5 (1.16%) Apache
6 5 (1.16%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.70%) WildFly
8 2 (0.47%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.47%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.47%) nginx
8 2 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.23%) CMS
9 1 (0.23%) Jetty
Cloud Services
1 215 (50.00%) AWS
2 82 (19.07%) Azure
3 51 (11.86%) Serverless
4 41 (9.53%) Amazon ECS
5 38 (8.84%) Amazon EKS
6 27 (6.28%) GCP
6 27 (6.28%) SaaS
7 15 (3.49%) GitHub
8 12 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (2.33%) Amazon S3
10 9 (2.09%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (1.86%) OpenShift
12 7 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (1.16%) Amazon SQS
15 4 (0.93%) npm
16 2 (0.47%) AWS Fargate
17 1 (0.23%) AWS CloudFormation
17 1 (0.23%) AWS CodeBuild
17 1 (0.23%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.40%) Internet
2 1 (0.23%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.23%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (18.37%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (10.70%) NoSQL
3 45 (10.47%) Relational Database
4 31 (7.21%) MySQL
5 17 (3.95%) SQL Server
6 12 (2.79%) DynamoDB
6 12 (2.79%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.16%) Apache Hive
7 5 (1.16%) Big Data
7 5 (1.16%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.47%) Couchbase
9 2 (0.47%) CouchDB
9 2 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.47%) GIS
10 1 (0.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 102 (23.72%) Git
2 89 (20.70%) Jenkins
3 47 (10.93%) JUnit
4 26 (6.05%) Maven
5 25 (5.81%) GitLab
6 20 (4.65%) Selenium
7 17 (3.95%) Mockito
8 16 (3.72%) JIRA
9 14 (3.26%) IntelliJ
10 11 (2.56%) CircleCI
11 9 (2.09%) Gradle
12 8 (1.86%) TeamCity
13 6 (1.40%) Bitbucket
13 6 (1.40%) Cucumber
13 6 (1.40%) JMeter
14 2 (0.47%) Eclipse
14 2 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
15 1 (0.23%) Cypress.io
15 1 (0.23%) JHipster
General
1 69 (16.05%) Finance
2 68 (15.81%) Social Skills
3 29 (6.74%) Public Sector
4 28 (6.51%) Banking
5 23 (5.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (3.95%) Law
7 16 (3.72%) Games
8 15 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
9 10 (2.33%) Marketing
10 9 (2.09%) Tech for Good
10 9 (2.09%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.16%) Electronics
11 5 (1.16%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.16%) Private Banking
12 4 (0.93%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.70%) Advertising
13 3 (0.70%) Automotive
14 2 (0.47%) Front Office
14 2 (0.47%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (51.16%) Spring
2 145 (33.72%) Spring Boot
3 108 (25.12%) REST
4 88 (20.47%) React
5 83 (19.30%) AngularJS
6 55 (12.79%) Web Services
7 51 (11.86%) Kafka
8 47 (10.93%) Hibernate
8 47 (10.93%) HTML
8 47 (10.93%) Node.js
9 45 (10.47%) CSS
10 34 (7.91%) Apache Camel
11 31 (7.21%) JSON
12 28 (6.51%) Elastic Stack
12 28 (6.51%) XML
13 23 (5.35%) RESTful
13 23 (5.35%) SOAP
14 15 (3.49%) Java EE
14 15 (3.49%) jQuery
15 13 (3.02%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 36 (8.37%) Distributed Systems
2 33 (7.67%) Greenfield Project
3 30 (6.98%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (3.02%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.09%) Algorithms
7 7 (1.63%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.40%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.16%) NHS
10 4 (0.93%) Client/Server
10 4 (0.93%) Mobile App
10 4 (0.93%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.70%) Augmented Reality
11 3 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.70%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (0.70%) IoT
11 3 (0.70%) Virtual Reality
12 2 (0.47%) Life Science
12 2 (0.47%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.47%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.12%) Linux
2 13 (3.02%) Unix
3 5 (1.16%) Windows
4 1 (0.23%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (42.33%) Agile
2 125 (29.07%) Microservices
3 115 (26.74%) TDD
4 86 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 86 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 85 (19.77%) DevOps
6 82 (19.07%) Mentoring
7 73 (16.98%) SDLC
8 70 (16.28%) Full Stack Development
8 70 (16.28%) Scrum
9 68 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
10 48 (11.16%) BDD
11 44 (10.23%) Kanban
12 43 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
13 31 (7.21%) Containerisation
13 31 (7.21%) Fintech
14 30 (6.98%) Test Automation
15 29 (6.74%) Integration Testing
16 28 (6.51%) Computer Science
17 23 (5.35%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 428 (99.53%) Java
2 126 (29.30%) JavaScript
3 89 (20.70%) SQL
4 48 (11.16%) Python
5 33 (7.67%) TypeScript
6 19 (4.42%) Shell Script
7 12 (2.79%) C#
8 10 (2.33%) Go
9 9 (2.09%) Kotlin
10 4 (0.93%) Groovy
11 3 (0.70%) PHP
11 3 (0.70%) Ruby
11 3 (0.70%) Rust
12 2 (0.47%) Perl
13 1 (0.23%) C++
13 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (9.30%) Degree
2 36 (8.37%) Security Cleared
3 31 (7.21%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.79%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.16%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.70%) PhD
9 2 (0.47%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.47%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.65%) QA
2 2 (0.47%) Accessibility
System Software
1 138 (32.09%) Docker
2 19 (4.42%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 104 (24.19%) Kubernetes
2 37 (8.60%) Ansible
3 25 (5.81%) Terraform
4 7 (1.63%) 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 46 (10.70%) Oracle
2 28 (6.51%) WSO2
3 14 (3.26%) Google
4 11 (2.56%) Microsoft
5 6 (1.40%) Splunk
6 5 (1.16%) ForgeRock
6 5 (1.16%) SAP
7 4 (0.93%) Dynatrace
7 4 (0.93%) Sybase
8 2 (0.47%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.47%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.47%) YouTube
9 1 (0.23%) Apple