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 £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 October 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 324 391
Rank change year-on-year -72 +67 +35
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 314 236 257
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.68% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.76% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 246 61 96
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £24,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £46,292
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £79,063
90th Percentile £96,250 £85,000 £93,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £107,500 £100,000
% change year-on-year -27.91% +7.50% +25.00%

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 80,247 30,893 50,421
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.00% 89.51% 95.27%
Number of salaries quoted 55,654 17,175 28,342
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £64,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 +66 184 £75,000 +3.45% 76
North West +59 117 £75,000 -14.77% 50
South West -81 49 £70,000 +22.81% 68
Yorkshire -4 34 £80,000 +12.28% 13
Midlands -32 34 £77,500 +29.17% 25
North East -37 33 £45,000 -25.00% 13
South East -46 30 £90,000 +28.57% 20
West Midlands -38 27 £85,000 +41.67% 16
Scotland -60 19 £70,000 - 132
East Midlands -29 7 £60,000 +150.00% 9
East of England -29 4 £85,000 +6.25% 3
Northern Ireland -87 2 - - 15
Wales - 2 £60,750 - 7
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 October 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.

1 314 (100.00%) Java
2 164 (52.23%) Software Engineering
3 122 (38.85%) Full-Stack Development
4 77 (24.52%) Agile
5 67 (21.34%) AWS
6 64 (20.38%) Spring
7 38 (12.10%) Spring Boot
8 36 (11.46%) Python
9 35 (11.15%) CI/CD
9 35 (11.15%) Microservices
10 32 (10.19%) AI
11 31 (9.87%) Security Cleared
12 26 (8.28%) Mentoring
12 26 (8.28%) REST
13 24 (7.64%) Kubernetes
14 23 (7.32%) DevOps
15 21 (6.69%) Test Automation
16 18 (5.73%) Docker
16 18 (5.73%) JavaScript
16 18 (5.73%) Serverless
16 18 (5.73%) SQL
17 17 (5.41%) AngularJS
17 17 (5.41%) Azure
17 17 (5.41%) Problem-Solving
17 17 (5.41%) React
17 17 (5.41%) SC Cleared
18 16 (5.10%) SDLC
18 16 (5.10%) TDD
19 14 (4.46%) Design Patterns
19 14 (4.46%) 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 3 (0.96%) SharePoint
1 3 (0.96%) Tomcat
1 3 (0.96%) WebSphere
2 2 (0.64%) Confluence
3 1 (0.32%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.32%) JBoss
3 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (0.32%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 67 (21.34%) AWS
2 18 (5.73%) Serverless
3 17 (5.41%) Azure
4 11 (3.50%) SaaS
5 9 (2.87%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (2.55%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (2.23%) Anthropic Claude
8 6 (1.91%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (1.27%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.27%) GitHub
10 2 (0.64%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.64%) GCP
10 2 (0.64%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.32%) Amazon ECR
11 1 (0.32%) Amazon MSK
11 1 (0.32%) Apigee
11 1 (0.32%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.96%) Network Security
2 2 (0.64%) HTTP
3 1 (0.32%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.32%) Modbus
3 1 (0.32%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (3.18%) Relational Database
3 7 (2.23%) MySQL
3 7 (2.23%) NoSQL
4 6 (1.91%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.27%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.64%) Redis
7 1 (0.32%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.32%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 12 (3.82%) Jenkins
2 11 (3.50%) Git
3 10 (3.18%) JUnit
4 9 (2.87%) Mockito
5 8 (2.55%) GitLab
6 7 (2.23%) Claude Code
7 5 (1.59%) Selenium
7 5 (1.59%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.27%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.27%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.27%) JIRA
8 4 (1.27%) JMeter
9 3 (0.96%) Maven
10 2 (0.64%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.64%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.64%) Eclipse RCP
10 2 (0.64%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.64%) Mocha
General
1 23 (7.32%) Banking
2 14 (4.46%) Finance
2 14 (4.46%) Social Skills
3 12 (3.82%) Health Technology
4 8 (2.55%) Investment Banking
4 8 (2.55%) Public Sector
5 7 (2.23%) Financial Institution
6 4 (1.27%) Digital Health
7 3 (0.96%) Front Office
7 3 (0.96%) iGaming
7 3 (0.96%) Law
7 3 (0.96%) Manufacturing
7 3 (0.96%) Marketing
7 3 (0.96%) Tech for Good
8 2 (0.64%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.32%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (20.38%) Spring
2 38 (12.10%) Spring Boot
3 26 (8.28%) REST
4 17 (5.41%) AngularJS
4 17 (5.41%) React
5 13 (4.14%) Vue
6 11 (3.50%) Kafka
7 9 (2.87%) Hibernate
7 9 (2.87%) RESTful
8 7 (2.23%) HTML
9 6 (1.91%) Jest
9 6 (1.91%) JSON
9 6 (1.91%) WireMock
10 5 (1.59%) Apache Camel
10 5 (1.59%) JPA
10 5 (1.59%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (1.59%) Web Services
11 4 (1.27%) jQuery
11 4 (1.27%) Node.js
11 4 (1.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.32%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.10%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (0.96%) Marketing Technology
4 3 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (0.64%) Life Science
5 2 (0.64%) Product Ownership
5 2 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (0.64%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.32%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.32%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.32%) IoT
6 1 (0.32%) NHS
6 1 (0.32%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.32%) Robotics
6 1 (0.32%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (52.23%) Software Engineering
2 122 (38.85%) Full-Stack Development
3 77 (24.52%) Agile
4 35 (11.15%) CI/CD
4 35 (11.15%) Microservices
5 32 (10.19%) AI
6 26 (8.28%) Mentoring
7 23 (7.32%) DevOps
8 21 (6.69%) Test Automation
9 17 (5.41%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (5.10%) SDLC
10 16 (5.10%) TDD
11 14 (4.46%) Design Patterns
11 14 (4.46%) Secure Coding
12 13 (4.14%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (3.82%) Front End Development
13 12 (3.82%) Observability
14 10 (3.18%) Scrum
15 9 (2.87%) Clean Code
16 8 (2.55%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 314 (100.00%) Java
2 36 (11.46%) Python
3 18 (5.73%) JavaScript
3 18 (5.73%) SQL
4 9 (2.87%) C++
5 8 (2.55%) Scala
5 8 (2.55%) TypeScript
6 4 (1.27%) Shell Script
7 3 (0.96%) Groovy
8 1 (0.32%) Bash
Qualifications
1 31 (9.87%) Security Cleared
2 17 (5.41%) SC Cleared
3 6 (1.91%) Degree
4 4 (1.27%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.96%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.64%) PhD
7 1 (0.32%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.91%) QA
2 5 (1.59%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (5.73%) Docker
2 1 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.32%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 24 (7.64%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.27%) Kibana
3 3 (0.96%) Ansible
4 2 (0.64%) Packer
5 1 (0.32%) Grafana
5 1 (0.32%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.32%) MOM
5 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (1.59%) IBM
2 4 (1.27%) Dynatrace
2 4 (1.27%) Splunk
3 3 (0.96%) Adobe
4 2 (0.64%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle
5 1 (0.32%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.32%) Wonderware