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 £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 April 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 444 377 190
Rank change year-on-year -67 -187 +336
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 130 128 1,035
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.47% 1.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.53% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 99 75 211
10th Percentile £45,000 £36,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +1.56% +2.40%
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £101,000 £132,406 £91,934
UK median annual salary £80,000 £105,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -23.81% +50.00% -22.22%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 60,696 24,066 64,233
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 88.35% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 38,829 14,617 46,940
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £76,770
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%

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 29 April 2026.

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 29 April 2026. 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
North of England -11 72 £67,500 +3.85% 14
North West -7 47 £80,000 +23.08% 12
South East -36 21 £82,500 +17.86% 17
Midlands -25 18 £53,750 -10.42% 2
South West -70 17 £60,000 -44.09% 5
North East -25 16 £24,000 -63.08% 1
West Midlands -27 13 £50,000 -16.67% 1
Yorkshire -58 9 £53,565 +53.04% 1
Scotland -23 8 £57,500 -28.13% 1
East Midlands - 4 £60,000 - 1
East of England -21 1 £75,000 -
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 2026, 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.

1 130 (100.00%) Java
2 83 (63.85%) Software Engineering
3 43 (33.08%) Agile
4 42 (32.31%) AWS
5 39 (30.00%) Spring
6 35 (26.92%) Full-Stack Development
7 33 (25.38%) Spring Boot
8 29 (22.31%) Mentoring
8 29 (22.31%) SQL
9 26 (20.00%) Test Automation
10 24 (18.46%) Microservices
11 23 (17.69%) REST
12 20 (15.38%) DevOps
13 19 (14.62%) CI/CD
14 18 (13.85%) AI
14 18 (13.85%) TDD
15 16 (12.31%) React
16 15 (11.54%) AngularJS
16 15 (11.54%) BDD
16 15 (11.54%) Design Patterns
16 15 (11.54%) Kubernetes
16 15 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
17 13 (10.00%) NoSQL
18 12 (9.23%) Coaching
19 11 (8.46%) Claude Code
19 11 (8.46%) Continuous Improvement
19 11 (8.46%) Data Science
19 11 (8.46%) Platform Engineering
19 11 (8.46%) SaaS
19 11 (8.46%) Secure Coding

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 1 (0.77%) JBoss
1 1 (0.77%) OpenStack
1 1 (0.77%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 42 (32.31%) AWS
2 11 (8.46%) SaaS
3 10 (7.69%) Anthropic Claude
4 9 (6.92%) Azure
5 7 (5.38%) Serverless
6 5 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.31%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (2.31%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.54%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.77%) HTTP
1 1 (0.77%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 9 (6.92%) MySQL
4 8 (6.15%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.08%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.54%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.77%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 11 (8.46%) Claude Code
2 5 (3.85%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.85%) JUnit
3 4 (3.08%) Git
4 3 (2.31%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.54%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.54%) GitLab
5 2 (1.54%) JIRA
5 2 (1.54%) JMeter
5 2 (1.54%) Mockito
5 2 (1.54%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.54%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.77%) Appium
6 1 (0.77%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.77%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (0.77%) Maven
6 1 (0.77%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.77%) Selenium
General
1 14 (10.77%) Finance
2 11 (8.46%) Public Sector
3 6 (4.62%) Banking
3 6 (4.62%) Investment Banking
4 5 (3.85%) Social Skills
5 3 (2.31%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.31%) Games
6 2 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.54%) Marketing
7 1 (0.77%) Automotive
7 1 (0.77%) Aviation
7 1 (0.77%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.77%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (30.00%) Spring
2 33 (25.38%) Spring Boot
3 23 (17.69%) REST
4 16 (12.31%) React
5 15 (11.54%) AngularJS
6 10 (7.69%) RESTful
7 5 (3.85%) Node.js
7 5 (3.85%) Web Services
8 4 (3.08%) JSON
8 4 (3.08%) Kafka
8 4 (3.08%) Vue
9 3 (2.31%) Apache Camel
9 3 (2.31%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (2.31%) J2EE
9 3 (2.31%) OAuth
9 3 (2.31%) OAuth2
9 3 (2.31%) SOAP
10 2 (1.54%) ActiveMQ
10 2 (1.54%) HTML
10 2 (1.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (9.23%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.31%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.54%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (1.54%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.31%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (63.85%) Software Engineering
2 43 (33.08%) Agile
3 35 (26.92%) Full-Stack Development
4 29 (22.31%) Mentoring
5 26 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 24 (18.46%) Microservices
7 20 (15.38%) DevOps
8 19 (14.62%) CI/CD
9 18 (13.85%) AI
9 18 (13.85%) TDD
10 15 (11.54%) BDD
10 15 (11.54%) Design Patterns
11 12 (9.23%) Coaching
12 11 (8.46%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (8.46%) Data Science
12 11 (8.46%) Platform Engineering
12 11 (8.46%) Secure Coding
12 11 (8.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 10 (7.69%) Clean Code
13 10 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 130 (100.00%) Java
2 29 (22.31%) SQL
3 8 (6.15%) TypeScript
4 6 (4.62%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.85%) Python
6 3 (2.31%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.54%) Go
7 2 (1.54%) Groovy
7 2 (1.54%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.77%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (8.46%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.38%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.08%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.77%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.31%) QA
System Software
1 9 (6.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (11.54%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.62%) Terraform
3 4 (3.08%) Packer
4 3 (2.31%) Ansible
5 2 (1.54%) Kibana
5 2 (1.54%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (2.31%) Oracle
2 2 (1.54%) Adobe
2 2 (1.54%) AppDynamics
2 2 (1.54%) Dynatrace
2 2 (1.54%) IBM
2 2 (1.54%) Splunk