Java Engineer Jobs 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 2 May 2025.

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

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 62 100
Rank change year-on-year +35 +38 -25
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 8 9 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 2.81% 1.30% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.03% 1.36% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 8 4 0
10th Percentile £47,750 £81,500 -
25th Percentile £50,000 £95,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £105,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -47.62% - -
75th Percentile £60,000 £109,375 -
90th Percentile - £112,750 -
UK median annual salary £105,000 £70,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +50.00% -22.22% +20.00%

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 264 662 821
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 95.53% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 72 320 449
10th Percentile £23,854 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £34,112 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £70,313 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £66,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in Northern Ireland

Java Engineer
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Salary trend for Java Engineer 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 2 May 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 +43 8 £55,000 -47.62% 4
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, 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 across the Northern Ireland region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Java
1 8 (100.00%) Finance
1 8 (100.00%) Spring
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
1 8 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 8 (100.00%) Docker
1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 8 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 8 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (87.50%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (87.50%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (75.00%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (75.00%) Kafka
4 5 (62.50%) Bitbucket
4 5 (62.50%) JAX-RS
4 5 (62.50%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (62.50%) REST
4 5 (62.50%) Dependency Injection
4 5 (62.50%) Life Science
4 5 (62.50%) Selenium
4 5 (62.50%) Mockito
4 5 (62.50%) Cucumber
4 5 (62.50%) BDD
4 5 (62.50%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (62.50%) Gherkin
4 5 (62.50%) Mustache
4 5 (62.50%) Ansible
4 5 (62.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 5 (62.50%) MVC

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 5 (62.50%) nginx
1 5 (62.50%) Tomcat
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (37.50%) Azure
4 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (75.00%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (62.50%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (62.50%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (25.00%) DB2
5 1 (12.50%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (62.50%) Bitbucket
2 5 (62.50%) Cucumber
2 5 (62.50%) JUnit
2 5 (62.50%) Maven
2 5 (62.50%) Mockito
2 5 (62.50%) Postman
2 5 (62.50%) Selenium
2 5 (62.50%) SonarQube
2 5 (62.50%) TestNG
General
1 8 (100.00%) Finance
2 7 (87.50%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
3 5 (62.50%) Manufacturing
3 5 (62.50%) Public Sector
4 2 (25.00%) Advertising
5 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) Spring
1 8 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 6 (75.00%) Kafka
3 5 (62.50%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (62.50%) Gherkin
3 5 (62.50%) Guice
3 5 (62.50%) JAX-RS
3 5 (62.50%) Mustache
3 5 (62.50%) OpenAPI
3 5 (62.50%) REST
3 5 (62.50%) RESTful
3 5 (62.50%) Swagger
3 5 (62.50%) WireMock
4 3 (37.50%) AngularJS
5 2 (25.00%) Middleware
5 2 (25.00%) React
6 1 (12.50%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Life Science
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (62.50%) Auto-Scaling
2 5 (62.50%) BDD
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Code Quality
2 5 (62.50%) Dependency Injection
2 5 (62.50%) Innovative Thinking
2 5 (62.50%) Multithreading
2 5 (62.50%) MVC
2 5 (62.50%) OO
2 5 (62.50%) OOP
2 5 (62.50%) Test Automation
2 5 (62.50%) Unit Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Trade Surveillance
4 2 (25.00%) Case Management
4 2 (25.00%) Problem Management
5 1 (12.50%) High Availability
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) PL/SQL
3 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) Bash
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (62.50%) Ansible
2 5 (62.50%) Kustomize
2 5 (62.50%) Packer
2 5 (62.50%) Terraform
3 3 (37.50%) Control-M
3 3 (37.50%) Prometheus
4 2 (25.00%) Grafana
4 2 (25.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Red Hat
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle
3 2 (25.00%) Dynatrace
3 2 (25.00%) Splunk
4 1 (12.50%) AppDynamics
4 1 (12.50%) BMC
4 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow