Java Engineer Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Java Engineer
UK > Northern Ireland

The median Java Engineer salary in Northern Ireland is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 52 48
Rank change year-on-year +14 -4 +52
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 4 2 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 1.27% 0.39% 1.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.41% 0.40% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50,000 £102,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £105,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -47.62% - -
75th Percentile £60,000 £107,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £107,500 £100,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +7.50% +25.00% -5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Northern Ireland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Northern Ireland. 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 Northern Ireland with a recognized job title 284 502 369
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.45% 97.29% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 139 264 287
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £54,897 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.19% -8.33% -

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Java Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Java Engineer job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Java Engineer
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for Java Engineer job vacancies in Northern Ireland.

Salary distribution trend for Java Engineer job vacancies in Northern Ireland

Java Engineer
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Engineer within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 4 October 2025. 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
County Antrim +22 4 £55,000 -47.62%
Java Engineer
UK

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland

For the 6 months to 4 October 2025, Java Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Northern Ireland region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) JUnit
1 4 (100.00%) OOP
1 4 (100.00%) OO
1 4 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 4 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
1 4 (100.00%) Maven
1 4 (100.00%) Life Science
1 4 (100.00%) Selenium
1 4 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 4 (100.00%) Guice
1 4 (100.00%) TestNG
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (100.00%) nginx
1 4 (100.00%) RESTful
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 4 (100.00%) Mockito
1 4 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 4 (100.00%) BDD
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 4 (100.00%) REST
1 4 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 4 (100.00%) Mustache

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) nginx
1 4 (100.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 4 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (100.00%) JUnit
1 4 (100.00%) Maven
1 4 (100.00%) Mockito
1 4 (100.00%) Postman
1 4 (100.00%) Selenium
1 4 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 4 (100.00%) TestNG
General
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 4 (100.00%) Guice
1 4 (100.00%) JAX-RS
1 4 (100.00%) Kafka
1 4 (100.00%) Mustache
1 4 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 4 (100.00%) REST
1 4 (100.00%) RESTful
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
1 4 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 4 (100.00%) Swagger
1 4 (100.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 4 (100.00%) BDD
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 4 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 4 (100.00%) Innovative Thinking
1 4 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
1 4 (100.00%) OO
1 4 (100.00%) OOP
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Kustomize
1 4 (100.00%) Packer
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat