Java Engineer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Java Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Java Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 October 2025.

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

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 410 427
Rank change year-on-year +53 +17 +52
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 191 186 145
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.55% 0.39% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.41% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 41 88 103
10th Percentile £24,000 £24,000 £41,600
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,306 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £74,375
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £83,250
UK median annual salary £110,000 £100,000 £75,781
% change year-on-year +10.00% +31.96% -10.85%

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 31,007 45,901 30,484
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.07% 95.28% 95.94%
Number of salaries quoted 17,983 25,028 22,904
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £31,813 £40,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,603 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £56,988 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.88% -5.02% -

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Java Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Java Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Java Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Java Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Java Engineer in the UK excluding London

Java Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 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
Scotland +54 107 £70,000 +47.19% 6
North of England +6 31 £72,500 +7.41% 25
South West +25 30 £60,000 -5.88% 14
North West +3 22 £83,750 +34.00% 16
Midlands +53 12 £60,000 +4.35% 7
South East -9 10 £65,000 -7.14% 71
West Midlands +50 9 £62,500 +8.70% 3
Yorkshire +11 6 £71,250 - 6
East Midlands +13 3 £32,000 -28.89% 4
North East +8 3 £55,000 -31.25% 3
East of England +11 1 £80,000 - 1
Java Engineer
UK

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 26 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 UK excluding London region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 191 (100.00%) Java
2 149 (78.01%) Agile
2 149 (78.01%) Software Engineering
3 126 (65.97%) SDLC
4 124 (64.92%) Spring
5 114 (59.69%) CI/CD
6 90 (47.12%) AWS
6 90 (47.12%) Operational Stability
7 84 (43.98%) AI
8 71 (37.17%) Machine Learning
9 68 (35.60%) Spring Boot
10 63 (32.98%) Kafka
11 58 (30.37%) React
12 57 (29.84%) Community of Practice
12 57 (29.84%) SQL
13 56 (29.32%) Full-Stack Development
14 52 (27.23%) Kubernetes
15 49 (25.65%) Continuous Improvement
16 44 (23.04%) Visualisation
17 37 (19.37%) Microservices
17 37 (19.37%) Oracle
18 36 (18.85%) Decision-Making
19 35 (18.32%) TDD
20 34 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
21 30 (15.71%) DevOps
21 30 (15.71%) RESTful
22 29 (15.18%) AngularJS
22 29 (15.18%) Docker
23 28 (14.66%) JavaScript
24 27 (14.14%) Test Automation

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (4.71%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.14%) Confluence
3 4 (2.09%) Camunda
3 4 (2.09%) Cloud Foundry
3 4 (2.09%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.52%) Apache
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.52%) CMS
4 1 (0.52%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 90 (47.12%) AWS
2 19 (9.95%) GitHub
3 16 (8.38%) Azure
4 12 (6.28%) Amazon S3
4 12 (6.28%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (6.28%) Serverless
5 10 (5.24%) GCP
6 9 (4.71%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (3.14%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (3.14%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (2.09%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (2.09%) Amazon MSK
8 4 (2.09%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.57%) BlazeMeter
9 3 (1.57%) SaaS
10 2 (1.05%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.52%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.52%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.57%) Internet
2 2 (1.05%) AMQP
2 2 (1.05%) Broadband
3 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.09%) NoSQL
2 22 (11.52%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (9.42%) MongoDB
3 18 (9.42%) Relational Database
4 13 (6.81%) Apache Cassandra
5 12 (6.28%) KDB
6 11 (5.76%) Big Data
7 9 (4.71%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (4.71%) RDBMS
8 8 (4.19%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (4.19%) Kdb+
9 7 (3.66%) Oracle Database
10 6 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (3.14%) InterSystems Cache
11 5 (2.62%) Apache Hive
11 5 (2.62%) Hadoop
11 5 (2.62%) HBase
12 4 (2.09%) Electronic Patient Records
12 4 (2.09%) MySQL
13 3 (1.57%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 25 (13.09%) Jenkins
2 17 (8.90%) Maven
3 15 (7.85%) Git
3 15 (7.85%) JUnit
4 10 (5.24%) Cucumber
4 10 (5.24%) Selenium
5 9 (4.71%) GitLab
6 7 (3.66%) JIRA
7 5 (2.62%) Gradle
8 4 (2.09%) JMeter
8 4 (2.09%) Subversion
9 3 (1.57%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.57%) Mockito
10 2 (1.05%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.05%) Spock
10 2 (1.05%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.52%) Appium
11 1 (0.52%) Katalon Studio
11 1 (0.52%) REST Assured
General
1 140 (73.30%) Finance
2 113 (59.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 112 (58.64%) Law
4 59 (30.89%) Banking
5 50 (26.18%) Marketing
6 35 (18.32%) Social Skills
7 23 (12.04%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (8.90%) Legal
9 14 (7.33%) Public Sector
10 8 (4.19%) Investment Banking
11 4 (2.09%) Advertising
11 4 (2.09%) Games
11 4 (2.09%) Private Banking
12 3 (1.57%) Electronics
12 3 (1.57%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.57%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.57%) Retail
13 2 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.05%) Tech for Good
13 2 (1.05%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (64.92%) Spring
2 68 (35.60%) Spring Boot
3 63 (32.98%) Kafka
4 58 (30.37%) React
5 30 (15.71%) RESTful
6 29 (15.18%) AngularJS
7 23 (12.04%) REST
8 19 (9.95%) Hibernate
9 12 (6.28%) FIX Protocol
10 11 (5.76%) Web Services
11 10 (5.24%) JPA
12 8 (4.19%) HTML
13 7 (3.66%) J2EE
13 7 (3.66%) OpenID
14 6 (3.14%) jQuery
14 6 (3.14%) Middleware
14 6 (3.14%) Node.js
14 6 (3.14%) OAuth
14 6 (3.14%) OAuth2
14 6 (3.14%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (23.04%) Algorithms
2 42 (21.99%) Cloud Native
3 15 (7.85%) Public Cloud
4 11 (5.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (4.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (4.19%) Reference Data
7 6 (3.14%) Data Structures
7 6 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (3.14%) Wiki
8 5 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.09%) Credit Risk
9 4 (2.09%) Derivative
9 4 (2.09%) Distributed Applications
9 4 (2.09%) Equities
9 4 (2.09%) Fixed Income
9 4 (2.09%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.52%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.19%) Linux
2 7 (3.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (78.01%) Agile
1 149 (78.01%) Software Engineering
2 126 (65.97%) SDLC
3 114 (59.69%) CI/CD
4 90 (47.12%) Operational Stability
5 84 (43.98%) AI
6 71 (37.17%) Machine Learning
7 57 (29.84%) Community of Practice
8 56 (29.32%) Full-Stack Development
9 49 (25.65%) Continuous Improvement
10 44 (23.04%) Visualisation
11 37 (19.37%) Microservices
12 36 (18.85%) Decision-Making
13 35 (18.32%) TDD
14 34 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
15 30 (15.71%) DevOps
16 27 (14.14%) Test Automation
17 22 (11.52%) Mentoring
18 21 (10.99%) Architectural Design
19 20 (10.47%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 191 (100.00%) Java
2 57 (29.84%) SQL
3 28 (14.66%) JavaScript
4 24 (12.57%) TypeScript
5 22 (11.52%) Python
6 11 (5.76%) C#
7 9 (4.71%) Go
8 6 (3.14%) PL/SQL
9 4 (2.09%) Scala
9 4 (2.09%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.57%) Groovy
11 2 (1.05%) C++
12 1 (0.52%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (3.66%) Degree
2 6 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.57%) AWS Certification
3 3 (1.57%) DV Cleared
3 3 (1.57%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.05%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.14%) QA
System Software
1 29 (15.18%) Docker
2 5 (2.62%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 52 (27.23%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.38%) Terraform
3 9 (4.71%) Grafana
4 4 (2.09%) Netcool
4 4 (2.09%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 4 (2.09%) Tivoli
5 2 (1.05%) Ansible
5 2 (1.05%) Kibana
5 2 (1.05%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.05%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.52%) Istio
Vendors
1 37 (19.37%) Oracle
2 15 (7.85%) IBM
3 11 (5.76%) Red Hat
3 11 (5.76%) Splunk
4 9 (4.71%) Dynatrace
5 7 (3.66%) Databricks
5 7 (3.66%) Google
6 6 (3.14%) Facebook
7 5 (2.62%) Cloudera
8 4 (2.09%) Bloomberg
8 4 (2.09%) Microsoft
8 4 (2.09%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.09%) Solace
8 4 (2.09%) TIBCO
9 3 (1.57%) Sybase
10 2 (1.05%) SAP
10 2 (1.05%) VMware
11 1 (0.52%) Atlassian