Java Engineer
UK

The median Java Engineer salary in the UK is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 230 357 279
Rank change year-on-year +127 -78 +17
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 1,299 898 2,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.27% 0.92% 1.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.34% 1.01% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 439 676 1,029
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,625 £67,188 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £90,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £112,500 £122,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £148,750 £152,500 £128,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 97,260 88,990 160,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.41% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 69,382 56,369 85,188
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,663
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Java Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in the UK

Java Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Engineer.

Salary trend for Java Engineer in the UK

Java Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Engineer in the UK

Java Engineer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
UK excluding London +315 1,037 £65,000 - 75
Scotland +156 817 £50,000 -28.57% 11
England -85 474 £75,000 -17.66% 111
Work from Home -71 315 £75,000 -18.63% 89
London -66 257 £100,000 - 59
North of England +43 75 £65,465 -3.02% 17
South West -3 57 £54,000 -21.14% 20
South East +15 55 £70,000 +3.70% 8
North West +16 54 £65,465 -9.70% 14
West Midlands +21 24 £60,000 - 2
Midlands -8 24 £60,000 +20.00% 2
Yorkshire +58 14 £65,465 +24.69% 1
North East 0 7 £65,465 +39.29% 2
East of England -7 5 £80,000 +18.52% 3
Northern Ireland +9 2 £105,000 - 12
Wales -5 2 £55,000 -15.38% 2

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Java Engineer 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 featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 1,299 (100.00%) Java
2 1,170 (90.07%) Software Engineering
3 1,023 (78.75%) Agile
4 942 (72.52%) Finance
5 843 (64.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 811 (62.43%) Law
7 717 (55.20%) SDLC
8 707 (54.43%) CI/CD
9 676 (52.04%) Operational Stability
10 637 (49.04%) AWS
11 597 (45.96%) Artificial Intelligence
12 584 (44.96%) Machine Learning
13 568 (43.73%) Spring
14 531 (40.88%) SQL
15 411 (31.64%) Community of Practice
16 379 (29.18%) Microservices
17 367 (28.25%) Banking
18 320 (24.63%) React
19 317 (24.40%) Continuous Improvement
20 299 (23.02%) Marketing
21 297 (22.86%) Cloud Native
22 295 (22.71%) Spring Boot
22 295 (22.71%) Risk Management
23 291 (22.40%) Visualisation
24 290 (22.32%) NoSQL
25 288 (22.17%) AngularJS
26 285 (21.94%) Investment Banking
27 278 (21.40%) Full Stack Development
28 273 (21.02%) Kafka
29 269 (20.71%) Algorithms

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 191 (14.70%) Apache Spark
2 122 (9.39%) Apache
3 113 (8.70%) Apache Airflow
4 42 (3.23%) FileNet
5 33 (2.54%) Cloud Foundry
6 21 (1.62%) GemFire
7 7 (0.54%) Confluence
8 2 (0.15%) Drupal
8 2 (0.15%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.077%) JBoss
9 1 (0.077%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (0.077%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 637 (49.04%) AWS
2 158 (12.16%) Azure
3 114 (8.78%) GCP
4 98 (7.54%) dbt
5 91 (7.01%) Snowflake
6 49 (3.77%) Amazon S3
7 45 (3.46%) Amazon EKS
8 42 (3.23%) BlazeMeter
9 38 (2.93%) GitHub
10 24 (1.85%) Serverless
11 23 (1.77%) Amazon ECS
12 18 (1.39%) Amazon SQS
12 18 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
13 17 (1.31%) Amazon EMR
14 13 (1.00%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (0.77%) IBM Cloud
16 8 (0.62%) SaaS
17 6 (0.46%) Azure DevOps
18 5 (0.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 5 (0.38%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.31%) Kerberos
2 11 (0.85%) Network Security
3 3 (0.23%) HTTP
4 1 (0.077%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 290 (22.32%) NoSQL
2 179 (13.78%) Big Data
3 124 (9.55%) MongoDB
4 99 (7.62%) Amazon Athena
5 98 (7.54%) Apache Cassandra
6 94 (7.24%) Apache Arrow
6 94 (7.24%) Apache Ignite
6 94 (7.24%) Dremio
7 91 (7.01%) Elasticsearch
8 90 (6.93%) Data Lake
9 82 (6.31%) Hadoop
10 81 (6.24%) PostgreSQL
11 61 (4.70%) MySQL
12 56 (4.31%) Relational Database
13 38 (2.93%) CockroachDB
14 28 (2.16%) Apache Hive
15 21 (1.62%) Hazelcast
16 20 (1.54%) RDBMS
17 17 (1.31%) Amazon Aurora
18 15 (1.15%) HBase
Development Applications
1 131 (10.08%) JUnit
2 87 (6.70%) Cypress.io
3 82 (6.31%) Jasmine
4 69 (5.31%) Jenkins
5 65 (5.00%) Selenium
6 64 (4.93%) Git
7 60 (4.62%) Karma Test Runner
7 60 (4.62%) Protractor
7 60 (4.62%) WebDriver
8 44 (3.39%) Maven
9 38 (2.93%) Cucumber
10 29 (2.23%) JMeter
11 28 (2.16%) Mockito
12 22 (1.69%) JIRA
13 21 (1.62%) Jaeger
14 17 (1.31%) Gradle
15 15 (1.15%) TeamCity
16 12 (0.92%) IntelliJ
17 10 (0.77%) GitLab
18 7 (0.54%) Subversion
General
1 942 (72.52%) Finance
2 843 (64.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 811 (62.43%) Law
4 367 (28.25%) Banking
5 299 (23.02%) Marketing
6 285 (21.94%) Investment Banking
7 269 (20.71%) Legal
8 107 (8.24%) Front Office
9 96 (7.39%) Influencing Skills
10 93 (7.16%) Social Skills
11 62 (4.77%) Public Sector
12 55 (4.23%) Private Banking
13 28 (2.16%) Analytical Skills
14 22 (1.69%) Financial Institution
14 22 (1.69%) Prime Brokerage
15 18 (1.39%) Retail
16 14 (1.08%) Tech for Good
17 5 (0.38%) Games
17 5 (0.38%) Wearables
18 4 (0.31%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 568 (43.73%) Spring
2 320 (24.63%) React
3 295 (22.71%) Spring Boot
4 288 (22.17%) AngularJS
5 273 (21.02%) Kafka
6 179 (13.78%) J2EE
7 148 (11.39%) HTML
8 142 (10.93%) Node.js
9 139 (10.70%) Hibernate
10 123 (9.47%) JMS
11 117 (9.01%) CSS
12 112 (8.62%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 102 (7.85%) RESTful
14 100 (7.70%) JSON
14 100 (7.70%) REST
15 95 (7.31%) gRPC
16 94 (7.24%) NumPy
16 94 (7.24%) Pandas
16 94 (7.24%) Protocol Buffers
16 94 (7.24%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 297 (22.86%) Cloud Native
2 269 (20.71%) Algorithms
3 115 (8.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 103 (7.93%) Public Cloud
5 102 (7.85%) Fixed Income
6 98 (7.54%) Hedge funds
7 95 (7.31%) Derivative
8 94 (7.24%) Equities
9 75 (5.77%) Data Structures
10 70 (5.39%) Onboarding
11 47 (3.62%) Reference Data
12 42 (3.23%) Legacy Code
13 36 (2.77%) Pricing Data
13 36 (2.77%) Private Cloud
14 27 (2.08%) Market Risk
15 21 (1.62%) Replication
16 14 (1.08%) Client/Server
16 14 (1.08%) Credit Risk
16 14 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
17 11 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 41 (3.16%) Unix
2 32 (2.46%) Linux
3 6 (0.46%) Windows
4 4 (0.31%) AIX
5 2 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,170 (90.07%) Software Engineering
2 1,023 (78.75%) Agile
3 717 (55.20%) SDLC
4 707 (54.43%) CI/CD
5 676 (52.04%) Operational Stability
6 597 (45.96%) Artificial Intelligence
7 584 (44.96%) Machine Learning
8 411 (31.64%) Community of Practice
9 379 (29.18%) Microservices
10 317 (24.40%) Continuous Improvement
11 295 (22.71%) Risk Management
12 291 (22.40%) Visualisation
13 278 (21.40%) Full Stack Development
14 218 (16.78%) Decision-Making
15 206 (15.86%) TDD
16 167 (12.86%) Asset Management
17 150 (11.55%) BDD
18 148 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
19 147 (11.32%) Investment Management
20 143 (11.01%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,299 (100.00%) Java
2 531 (40.88%) SQL
3 254 (19.55%) JavaScript
4 221 (17.01%) Python
5 205 (15.78%) TypeScript
6 156 (12.01%) Scala
7 49 (3.77%) Kotlin
8 33 (2.54%) C#
9 22 (1.69%) Groovy
10 9 (0.69%) C
10 9 (0.69%) Go
11 6 (0.46%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.46%) Ruby
12 3 (0.23%) C++
13 2 (0.15%) PHP
13 2 (0.15%) Rust
14 1 (0.077%) Dart
14 1 (0.077%) Perl
14 1 (0.077%) R
14 1 (0.077%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (3.16%) Degree
2 18 (1.39%) Security Cleared
3 15 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (1.00%) SC Cleared
5 6 (0.46%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.31%) PhD
7 2 (0.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.15%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.077%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (2.54%) Data Quality
2 29 (2.23%) QA
3 25 (1.92%) SLA
4 15 (1.15%) Accessibility
System Software
1 95 (7.31%) Docker
2 16 (1.23%) HDFS
3 2 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 195 (15.01%) Kubernetes
2 98 (7.54%) Terraform
3 52 (4.00%) Grafana
4 24 (1.85%) Prometheus
5 23 (1.77%) Kibana
6 21 (1.62%) HAProxy
6 21 (1.62%) ITRS Geneos
6 21 (1.62%) Zipkin
7 20 (1.54%) Ansible
8 7 (0.54%) Graphite
9 1 (0.077%) Istio
Vendors
1 173 (13.32%) Oracle
2 53 (4.08%) Databricks
3 48 (3.70%) Splunk
4 43 (3.31%) Dynatrace
5 25 (1.92%) Google
6 18 (1.39%) SaltStack
7 16 (1.23%) Cloudera
8 12 (0.92%) IBM
9 9 (0.69%) Red Hat
9 9 (0.69%) TOWER Software
9 9 (0.69%) YouTube
10 4 (0.31%) Confluent
10 4 (0.31%) Microsoft
11 2 (0.15%) Cognizant
11 2 (0.15%) Solace
11 2 (0.15%) TIBCO
12 1 (0.077%) CA Agile Central
12 1 (0.077%) Informatica
12 1 (0.077%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.077%) Xamarin