Java Engineer
UK

The median Java Engineer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 231 373 271
Rank change year-on-year +142 -102 +19
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 1,248 956 2,289
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.28% 0.90% 1.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.36% 0.98% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 380 748 1,041
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £65,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £90,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +24.14% +16.00%
75th Percentile £102,500 £120,625 £100,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £150,000 £128,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +8.70% +9.52%

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 91,989 97,583 147,027
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.61% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 66,379 61,119 85,881
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Engineer in the UK

Java Engineer
Top 17 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 19 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
UK excluding London +291 1,051 £62,500 - 66
Scotland +160 793 £55,000 -21.43% 17
England -84 434 £70,000 -22.22% 99
Work from Home -64 280 £68,250 -24.17% 65
London -107 188 £95,000 -5.00% 52
North of England +60 92 £65,465 +2.69% 10
North West +34 65 £65,000 -8.62% 9
South West +25 63 £52,500 -19.23% 19
South East +24 56 £70,000 -12.50% 7
Midlands -12 28 £60,000 +14.29% 7
West Midlands +29 25 £60,000 +6.23% 6
Yorkshire +81 20 £65,465 +24.69% 1
Northern Ireland +33 9 £107,500 - 3
North East -1 7 £65,465 +39.29%
Wales +7 5 £55,000 -15.38% 1
East of England 0 5 £80,000 +23.08% 2
East Midlands -38 3 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 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 1,248 (100.00%) Java
2 1,126 (90.22%) Software Engineering
3 975 (78.13%) Agile
4 855 (68.51%) Finance
5 810 (64.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 781 (62.58%) Law
7 697 (55.85%) SDLC
8 680 (54.49%) CI/CD
9 659 (52.80%) Operational Stability
10 603 (48.32%) Spring
11 584 (46.79%) AWS
12 579 (46.39%) Artificial Intelligence
13 567 (45.43%) Machine Learning
14 518 (41.51%) SQL
15 400 (32.05%) Community of Practice
16 391 (31.33%) Microservices
17 328 (26.28%) React
18 319 (25.56%) AngularJS
19 307 (24.60%) Continuous Improvement
20 306 (24.52%) Banking
21 288 (23.08%) Marketing
22 287 (23.00%) Spring Boot
23 284 (22.76%) Visualisation
24 283 (22.68%) NoSQL
25 281 (22.52%) Risk Management
26 280 (22.44%) Cloud Native
27 270 (21.63%) Full Stack Development
28 268 (21.47%) Kafka
29 264 (21.15%) Algorithms
30 259 (20.75%) Legal

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
1 189 (15.14%) Apache Spark
2 65 (5.21%) Apache
3 58 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
4 38 (3.04%) FileNet
5 30 (2.40%) Cloud Foundry
6 28 (2.24%) JBoss
6 28 (2.24%) Red Hat Fuse
7 21 (1.68%) GemFire
8 6 (0.48%) Confluence
9 4 (0.32%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.16%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (0.080%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 584 (46.79%) AWS
2 167 (13.38%) Azure
3 104 (8.33%) GCP
4 45 (3.61%) Amazon EKS
5 44 (3.53%) Serverless
6 43 (3.45%) Amazon S3
7 42 (3.37%) dbt
8 38 (3.04%) BlazeMeter
9 32 (2.56%) Snowflake
10 30 (2.40%) GitHub
11 20 (1.60%) Amazon ECS
12 19 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
13 17 (1.36%) Amazon SQS
14 15 (1.20%) Amazon EMR
15 13 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
16 12 (0.96%) IBM Cloud
17 10 (0.80%) SaaS
18 5 (0.40%) Azure DevOps
19 4 (0.32%) GitHub Actions
19 4 (0.32%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.28%) Kerberos
2 9 (0.72%) Network Security
3 3 (0.24%) HTTP
4 1 (0.080%) Internet
4 1 (0.080%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.080%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 283 (22.68%) NoSQL
2 177 (14.18%) Big Data
3 119 (9.54%) MongoDB
4 93 (7.45%) Apache Cassandra
5 85 (6.81%) Elasticsearch
6 82 (6.57%) Hadoop
7 64 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
8 62 (4.97%) MySQL
9 55 (4.41%) Relational Database
10 43 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
11 40 (3.21%) Apache Arrow
11 40 (3.21%) Apache Ignite
11 40 (3.21%) Dremio
12 37 (2.96%) CockroachDB
13 31 (2.48%) Data Lake
14 30 (2.40%) Apache Hive
15 21 (1.68%) Hazelcast
16 19 (1.52%) RDBMS
17 16 (1.28%) Amazon Aurora
17 16 (1.28%) HBase
Development Applications
1 126 (10.10%) JUnit
2 84 (6.73%) Cypress.io
3 80 (6.41%) Jasmine
4 79 (6.33%) Git
5 69 (5.53%) Jenkins
6 66 (5.29%) Selenium
7 60 (4.81%) Karma Test Runner
7 60 (4.81%) Protractor
7 60 (4.81%) WebDriver
8 43 (3.45%) Maven
9 41 (3.29%) IntelliJ
10 31 (2.48%) Cucumber
11 25 (2.00%) Mockito
12 24 (1.92%) JMeter
13 21 (1.68%) Jaeger
14 20 (1.60%) JIRA
15 18 (1.44%) Gradle
16 15 (1.20%) TeamCity
17 9 (0.72%) GitLab
18 5 (0.40%) Robot Framework
General
1 855 (68.51%) Finance
2 810 (64.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 781 (62.58%) Law
4 306 (24.52%) Banking
5 288 (23.08%) Marketing
6 259 (20.75%) Legal
7 225 (18.03%) Investment Banking
8 94 (7.53%) Influencing Skills
9 91 (7.29%) Public Sector
10 83 (6.65%) Social Skills
11 55 (4.41%) Private Banking
12 54 (4.33%) Front Office
13 24 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
14 23 (1.84%) Financial Institution
15 21 (1.68%) Prime Brokerage
16 18 (1.44%) Retail
17 9 (0.72%) Tech for Good
18 7 (0.56%) Games
19 4 (0.32%) Aerospace
19 4 (0.32%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 603 (48.32%) Spring
2 328 (26.28%) React
3 319 (25.56%) AngularJS
4 287 (23.00%) Spring Boot
5 268 (21.47%) Kafka
6 193 (15.46%) J2EE
7 168 (13.46%) Hibernate
8 150 (12.02%) HTML
9 132 (10.58%) Node.js
10 131 (10.50%) REST
11 130 (10.42%) RESTful
12 128 (10.26%) JSON
13 120 (9.62%) JMS
14 115 (9.21%) CSS
15 109 (8.73%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 89 (7.13%) Web Services
17 87 (6.97%) JPA
18 83 (6.65%) jQuery
19 78 (6.25%) XML
20 60 (4.81%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 280 (22.44%) Cloud Native
2 264 (21.15%) Algorithms
3 98 (7.85%) Public Cloud
4 76 (6.09%) Data Structures
5 68 (5.45%) Onboarding
6 57 (4.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 46 (3.69%) Reference Data
8 44 (3.53%) Fixed Income
9 42 (3.37%) Legacy Code
10 39 (3.13%) Hedge funds
11 36 (2.88%) Derivative
12 35 (2.80%) Equities
12 35 (2.80%) Private Cloud
13 23 (1.84%) Market Risk
14 21 (1.68%) Replication
15 15 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
16 14 (1.12%) Client/Server
17 12 (0.96%) Credit Risk
18 10 (0.80%) Blog
18 10 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 41 (3.29%) Unix
2 35 (2.80%) Linux
3 11 (0.88%) Windows
4 4 (0.32%) AIX
4 4 (0.32%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,126 (90.22%) Software Engineering
2 975 (78.13%) Agile
3 697 (55.85%) SDLC
4 680 (54.49%) CI/CD
5 659 (52.80%) Operational Stability
6 579 (46.39%) Artificial Intelligence
7 567 (45.43%) Machine Learning
8 400 (32.05%) Community of Practice
9 391 (31.33%) Microservices
10 307 (24.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 284 (22.76%) Visualisation
12 281 (22.52%) Risk Management
13 270 (21.63%) Full Stack Development
14 211 (16.91%) Decision-Making
15 198 (15.87%) TDD
16 182 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
17 145 (11.62%) Mentoring
18 141 (11.30%) BDD
19 134 (10.74%) Architectural Design
20 131 (10.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,248 (100.00%) Java
2 518 (41.51%) SQL
3 196 (15.71%) JavaScript
4 185 (14.82%) Python
5 156 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 148 (11.86%) Scala
7 53 (4.25%) C#
8 48 (3.85%) Kotlin
9 25 (2.00%) Ruby
10 22 (1.76%) Groovy
11 9 (0.72%) C
12 8 (0.64%) Go
13 6 (0.48%) C++
14 5 (0.40%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.16%) PHP
15 2 (0.16%) Rust
15 2 (0.16%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.080%) Dart
16 1 (0.080%) F#
16 1 (0.080%) R
Qualifications
1 46 (3.69%) Security Cleared
2 41 (3.29%) Degree
2 41 (3.29%) SC Cleared
3 13 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (0.48%) Master's Degree
5 4 (0.32%) PhD
6 3 (0.24%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.16%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.080%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.080%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.08%) QA
1 26 (2.08%) SLA
2 14 (1.12%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.04%) Data Quality
System Software
1 109 (8.73%) Docker
2 17 (1.36%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 190 (15.22%) Kubernetes
2 91 (7.29%) Terraform
3 49 (3.93%) Grafana
4 22 (1.76%) Kibana
4 22 (1.76%) Prometheus
5 21 (1.68%) HAProxy
5 21 (1.68%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (1.68%) Zipkin
6 17 (1.36%) Ansible
7 7 (0.56%) Graphite
8 1 (0.080%) Istio
Vendors
1 165 (13.22%) Oracle
2 51 (4.09%) Databricks
3 46 (3.69%) Splunk
4 41 (3.29%) Dynatrace
5 29 (2.32%) Google
6 18 (1.44%) SaltStack
7 17 (1.36%) Cloudera
8 12 (0.96%) IBM
9 9 (0.72%) YouTube
10 8 (0.64%) Red Hat
10 8 (0.64%) TOWER Software
11 4 (0.32%) Confluent
11 4 (0.32%) Solace
11 4 (0.32%) TIBCO
12 2 (0.16%) Microsoft
13 1 (0.080%) CA Agile Central
13 1 (0.080%) Informatica
13 1 (0.080%) ServiceNow
13 1 (0.080%) Xamarin