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 £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 November 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 425 400
Rank change year-on-year +52 -25 +51
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 149 177 158
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.37% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.39% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 43 80 117
10th Percentile £24,450 £24,000 £41,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,438 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +4.35% +0.44%
75th Percentile £81,875 £90,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £98,000 £105,500 £84,750
UK median annual salary £105,000 £100,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% +33.33% -11.76%

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 33,297 45,518 28,881
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 94.41% 95.66%
Number of salaries quoted 21,025 24,676 21,761
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% -4.17% -

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 22 November 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 22 November 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 +69 88 £83,750 +67.50% 4
North of England +15 25 £62,500 -5.66% 26
North West +26 15 £80,000 +23.08% 20
South West -1 14 £60,000 -11.11% 12
South East +21 11 £63,750 -8.93% 27
Midlands +68 10 £57,500 - 10
Yorkshire +11 8 £70,000 +33.33% 5
West Midlands +56 7 £62,500 +8.70% 7
East Midlands +31 3 £32,000 -28.89% 3
North East +11 2 £39,500 -50.63% 1
East of England +22 1 £80,000 -
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 November 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.

1 149 (100.00%) Java
2 122 (81.88%) Software Engineering
3 108 (72.48%) Agile
4 94 (63.09%) Spring
5 92 (61.74%) CI/CD
6 89 (59.73%) SDLC
7 71 (47.65%) AWS
8 70 (46.98%) Operational Stability
9 59 (39.60%) AI
10 56 (37.58%) Machine Learning
11 50 (33.56%) Spring Boot
12 46 (30.87%) SQL
13 45 (30.20%) Kafka
14 44 (29.53%) Community of Practice
14 44 (29.53%) Full-Stack Development
14 44 (29.53%) React
15 37 (24.83%) Continuous Improvement
16 34 (22.82%) Kubernetes
17 33 (22.15%) Visualisation
18 29 (19.46%) Decision-Making
19 26 (17.45%) Oracle
20 23 (15.44%) Mentoring
20 23 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
20 23 (15.44%) RESTful
21 22 (14.77%) AngularJS
21 22 (14.77%) DevOps
21 22 (14.77%) Microservices
21 22 (14.77%) TDD
22 21 (14.09%) JavaScript
22 21 (14.09%) REST

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 7 (4.70%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.01%) Camunda
2 3 (2.01%) Cloud Foundry
2 3 (2.01%) Confluence
2 3 (2.01%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.67%) Apache
3 1 (0.67%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.67%) CMS
3 1 (0.67%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 71 (47.65%) AWS
2 12 (8.05%) GitHub
3 11 (7.38%) Azure
4 9 (6.04%) Amazon S3
4 9 (6.04%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (6.04%) Serverless
5 7 (4.70%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (4.03%) GCP
7 5 (3.36%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (2.68%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (2.68%) SaaS
9 3 (2.01%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (2.01%) Amazon MSK
9 3 (2.01%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.01%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.34%) BlazeMeter
10 2 (1.34%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.67%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.34%) AMQP
1 2 (1.34%) Internet
2 1 (0.67%) HTTP
2 1 (0.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.08%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (11.41%) NoSQL
3 12 (8.05%) MongoDB
3 12 (8.05%) Relational Database
4 11 (7.38%) Apache Cassandra
5 9 (6.04%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (6.04%) KDB
6 8 (5.37%) Big Data
7 7 (4.70%) RDBMS
8 6 (4.03%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (4.03%) Kdb+
9 5 (3.36%) InterSystems Cache
9 5 (3.36%) Oracle Database
10 4 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (2.68%) Apache Hive
10 4 (2.68%) Hadoop
10 4 (2.68%) HBase
11 3 (2.01%) Electronic Patient Records
12 2 (1.34%) MySQL
12 2 (1.34%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (12.75%) Jenkins
2 13 (8.72%) Git
2 13 (8.72%) JUnit
2 13 (8.72%) Maven
3 7 (4.70%) Cucumber
3 7 (4.70%) Selenium
4 6 (4.03%) GitLab
5 4 (2.68%) Gradle
5 4 (2.68%) JIRA
5 4 (2.68%) JMeter
6 3 (2.01%) Subversion
7 2 (1.34%) Appium
7 2 (1.34%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.34%) Katalon Studio
7 2 (1.34%) Mockito
7 2 (1.34%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.34%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.67%) Protractor
8 1 (0.67%) TestNG
8 1 (0.67%) webpack
General
1 117 (78.52%) Finance
2 90 (60.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 87 (58.39%) Law
4 44 (29.53%) Banking
5 41 (27.52%) Marketing
6 28 (18.79%) Social Skills
7 19 (12.75%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (8.72%) Legal
9 7 (4.70%) Games
10 6 (4.03%) Investment Banking
11 3 (2.01%) Advertising
11 3 (2.01%) Electronics
11 3 (2.01%) Financial Institution
11 3 (2.01%) Manufacturing
11 3 (2.01%) Private Banking
11 3 (2.01%) Retail
12 2 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.34%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.34%) Tech for Good
12 2 (1.34%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (63.09%) Spring
2 50 (33.56%) Spring Boot
3 45 (30.20%) Kafka
4 44 (29.53%) React
5 23 (15.44%) RESTful
6 22 (14.77%) AngularJS
7 21 (14.09%) REST
8 16 (10.74%) Hibernate
9 10 (6.71%) Web Services
10 9 (6.04%) FIX Protocol
11 8 (5.37%) JPA
12 7 (4.70%) J2EE
13 6 (4.03%) HTML
13 6 (4.03%) Node.js
13 6 (4.03%) OpenID
13 6 (4.03%) SOAP
14 5 (3.36%) jQuery
14 5 (3.36%) OAuth
14 5 (3.36%) OAuth2
14 5 (3.36%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (22.82%) Cloud Native
2 33 (22.15%) Algorithms
3 12 (8.05%) Public Cloud
4 8 (5.37%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (4.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (4.03%) Reference Data
7 4 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.68%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.01%) Credit Risk
8 3 (2.01%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.01%) Derivative
8 3 (2.01%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.01%) Equities
8 3 (2.01%) Fixed Income
8 3 (2.01%) Wiki
9 1 (0.67%) IoT
9 1 (0.67%) Life Science
9 1 (0.67%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.03%) Linux
1 6 (4.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (81.88%) Software Engineering
2 108 (72.48%) Agile
3 92 (61.74%) CI/CD
4 89 (59.73%) SDLC
5 70 (46.98%) Operational Stability
6 59 (39.60%) AI
7 56 (37.58%) Machine Learning
8 44 (29.53%) Community of Practice
8 44 (29.53%) Full-Stack Development
9 37 (24.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (22.15%) Visualisation
11 29 (19.46%) Decision-Making
12 23 (15.44%) Mentoring
12 23 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (14.77%) DevOps
13 22 (14.77%) Microservices
13 22 (14.77%) TDD
14 21 (14.09%) Test Automation
15 16 (10.74%) Architectural Design
15 16 (10.74%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 149 (100.00%) Java
2 46 (30.87%) SQL
3 21 (14.09%) JavaScript
3 21 (14.09%) TypeScript
4 19 (12.75%) Python
5 9 (6.04%) Go
6 7 (4.70%) C#
7 5 (3.36%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.01%) Scala
8 3 (2.01%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.67%) C++
9 1 (0.67%) Groovy
9 1 (0.67%) Ruby
9 1 (0.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 6 (4.03%) Degree
2 5 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.01%) DV Cleared
3 3 (2.01%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.34%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.01%) QA
System Software
1 17 (11.41%) Docker
2 4 (2.68%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 34 (22.82%) Kubernetes
2 12 (8.05%) Terraform
3 6 (4.03%) Grafana
4 3 (2.01%) Netcool
4 3 (2.01%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 3 (2.01%) Tivoli
5 2 (1.34%) Ansible
5 2 (1.34%) Kibana
5 2 (1.34%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.67%) Istio
Vendors
1 26 (17.45%) Oracle
2 9 (6.04%) Splunk
3 7 (4.70%) Dynatrace
4 6 (4.03%) Google
5 5 (3.36%) Databricks
5 5 (3.36%) Facebook
6 4 (2.68%) Cloudera
7 3 (2.01%) Bloomberg
7 3 (2.01%) IBM
7 3 (2.01%) Microsoft
7 3 (2.01%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.01%) Solace
7 3 (2.01%) TIBCO
8 2 (1.34%) SAP
8 2 (1.34%) Sybase
8 2 (1.34%) VMware
9 1 (0.67%) Atlassian