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 22 July 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 443 309 225
Rank change year-on-year -134 -84 +284
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 191 264 761
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.78% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.87% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 141 81 163
10th Percentile £45,000 £32,500 £35,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -3.85% -6.40%
75th Percentile £93,750 £73,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £99,500 £87,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £110,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +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 68,824 30,367 64,012
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 89.52% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 47,665 17,402 44,594
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,929 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%

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 July 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 22 July 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 +42 114 £70,000 +7.69% 11
North West +36 73 £85,000 +30.77% 6
South East -21 27 £90,000 +28.57% 18
South West -104 26 £60,000 - 5
Yorkshire -24 21 £80,000 +128.57% 1
Midlands -24 20 £60,000 - 15
North East -35 20 £24,000 -63.08% 4
West Midlands -20 14 £62,500 +4.17% 11
Scotland -63 10 £70,000 - 3
East Midlands -22 5 £60,000 +150.00% 4
Northern Ireland -71 2 - - 1
East of England -9 1 £72,500 - 1
Wales - 1 £57,500 -
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 July 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.

1 191 (100.00%) Java
2 104 (54.45%) Software Engineering
3 77 (40.31%) Full-Stack Development
4 65 (34.03%) AWS
4 65 (34.03%) Spring
5 50 (26.18%) Agile
6 44 (23.04%) Spring Boot
7 38 (19.90%) Microservices
8 34 (17.80%) AI
9 33 (17.28%) Mentoring
10 29 (15.18%) SQL
10 29 (15.18%) Test Automation
11 26 (13.61%) DevOps
12 25 (13.09%) REST
13 23 (12.04%) CI/CD
14 21 (10.99%) Kubernetes
15 19 (9.95%) AngularJS
15 19 (9.95%) PostgreSQL
16 18 (9.42%) Serverless
16 18 (9.42%) TDD
17 17 (8.90%) Design Patterns
17 17 (8.90%) Python
17 17 (8.90%) React
18 16 (8.38%) NoSQL
19 15 (7.85%) Problem-Solving
20 14 (7.33%) BDD
20 14 (7.33%) Docker
20 14 (7.33%) Secure Coding
20 14 (7.33%) Security Cleared
21 13 (6.81%) Continuous Improvement

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 2 (1.05%) Confluence
2 1 (0.52%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.52%) JBoss
2 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 65 (34.03%) AWS
2 18 (9.42%) Serverless
3 13 (6.81%) SaaS
4 11 (5.76%) Anthropic Claude
5 10 (5.24%) Azure
6 8 (4.19%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (3.14%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (3.14%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.05%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.05%) GitHub
10 1 (0.52%) GCP
10 1 (0.52%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.05%) Network Security
2 1 (0.52%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.52%) Modbus
2 1 (0.52%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.95%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (8.38%) NoSQL
3 11 (5.76%) MySQL
4 10 (5.24%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.66%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.09%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.05%) Redis
8 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 12 (6.28%) Claude Code
2 9 (4.71%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.66%) JUnit
4 6 (3.14%) Git
4 6 (3.14%) GitLab
5 5 (2.62%) Mockito
6 4 (2.09%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.09%) JIRA
6 4 (2.09%) JMeter
7 3 (1.57%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.05%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.05%) IntelliJ
8 2 (1.05%) Maven
8 2 (1.05%) Mocha
8 2 (1.05%) Selenium
8 2 (1.05%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.52%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.52%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 14 (7.33%) Public Sector
2 12 (6.28%) Banking
3 11 (5.76%) Health Technology
4 9 (4.71%) Investment Banking
5 6 (3.14%) Social Skills
6 5 (2.62%) Finance
7 4 (2.09%) Digital Health
8 3 (1.57%) Front Office
8 3 (1.57%) Marketing
9 2 (1.05%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.05%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.52%) Automotive
10 1 (0.52%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (34.03%) Spring
2 44 (23.04%) Spring Boot
3 25 (13.09%) REST
4 19 (9.95%) AngularJS
5 17 (8.90%) React
6 13 (6.81%) Vue
7 12 (6.28%) RESTful
8 7 (3.66%) Kafka
9 6 (3.14%) HTML
9 6 (3.14%) JSON
10 5 (2.62%) Apache Camel
10 5 (2.62%) Node.js
10 5 (2.62%) Web Services
10 5 (2.62%) WireMock
11 4 (2.09%) ActiveMQ
11 4 (2.09%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (2.09%) Hibernate
11 4 (2.09%) jQuery
11 4 (2.09%) XML
12 3 (1.57%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 29 (15.18%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.38%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.57%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (1.05%) NHS
5 2 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.52%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.52%) IoT
6 1 (0.52%) Life Science
6 1 (0.52%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.52%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.52%) Robotics
6 1 (0.52%) SCADA
6 1 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (54.45%) Software Engineering
2 77 (40.31%) Full-Stack Development
3 50 (26.18%) Agile
4 38 (19.90%) Microservices
5 34 (17.80%) AI
6 33 (17.28%) Mentoring
7 29 (15.18%) Test Automation
8 26 (13.61%) DevOps
9 23 (12.04%) CI/CD
10 18 (9.42%) TDD
11 17 (8.90%) Design Patterns
12 15 (7.85%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (7.33%) BDD
13 14 (7.33%) Secure Coding
14 13 (6.81%) Continuous Improvement
15 12 (6.28%) Clean Code
15 12 (6.28%) Platform Engineering
16 11 (5.76%) Coaching
16 11 (5.76%) Data Science
16 11 (5.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 191 (100.00%) Java
2 29 (15.18%) SQL
3 17 (8.90%) Python
4 12 (6.28%) JavaScript
5 8 (4.19%) TypeScript
6 4 (2.09%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.57%) Scala
8 2 (1.05%) Groovy
9 1 (0.52%) C++
9 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 14 (7.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (4.19%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.09%) Degree
4 3 (1.57%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.05%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.62%) QA
2 2 (1.05%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (7.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.52%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (10.99%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.14%) Terraform
3 4 (2.09%) Kibana
3 4 (2.09%) Packer
4 3 (1.57%) Ansible
5 2 (1.05%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.52%) Grafana
6 1 (0.52%) MOM
6 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (2.09%) Dynatrace
1 4 (2.09%) Splunk
2 3 (1.57%) Adobe
2 3 (1.57%) Oracle
3 2 (1.05%) AppDynamics
3 2 (1.05%) IBM
4 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.52%) Wonderware