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 9 November 2025.

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

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 341 435 405
Rank change year-on-year +94 -30 +55
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 192 172 158
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.54% 0.36% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.38% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 43 74 116
10th Percentile £24,450 £24,000 £41,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £89,000 £95,000 £85,000
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 31,784 45,014 29,598
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.86% 94.80% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 19,596 24,206 22,244
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £37,860
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £64,875 £66,067 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -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 9 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 9 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 +72 108 £82,500 +88.57% 18
North of England +13 31 £70,000 +3.70% 67
South West +15 29 £60,000 +4.35% 15
North West +9 20 £80,000 +28.00% 41
Midlands +56 12 £60,000 +4.35% 17
South East +16 11 £62,500 -10.71% 131
West Midlands +41 9 £62,500 +8.70% 9
Yorkshire +15 8 £70,000 - 20
East Midlands +20 3 £32,000 -28.89% 7
North East +2 3 £55,000 -31.25% 6
East of England +27 1 £80,000 - 3
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 192 (100.00%) Java
2 155 (80.73%) Software Engineering
3 150 (78.13%) Agile
4 125 (65.10%) SDLC
5 123 (64.06%) Spring
6 117 (60.94%) CI/CD
7 91 (47.40%) AWS
8 90 (46.88%) Operational Stability
9 83 (43.23%) AI
10 71 (36.98%) Machine Learning
11 67 (34.90%) Spring Boot
12 61 (31.77%) Kafka
13 58 (30.21%) React
13 58 (30.21%) SQL
14 57 (29.69%) Community of Practice
15 56 (29.17%) Full-Stack Development
16 49 (25.52%) Continuous Improvement
16 49 (25.52%) Kubernetes
17 44 (22.92%) Visualisation
18 37 (19.27%) Oracle
19 36 (18.75%) Decision-Making
20 34 (17.71%) Microservices
20 34 (17.71%) TDD
21 32 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
22 30 (15.63%) DevOps
22 30 (15.63%) RESTful
23 29 (15.10%) AngularJS
24 28 (14.58%) JavaScript
25 27 (14.06%) Docker
25 27 (14.06%) 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 (4.69%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.13%) Confluence
3 4 (2.08%) Camunda
3 4 (2.08%) Cloud Foundry
3 4 (2.08%) 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 91 (47.40%) AWS
2 19 (9.90%) GitHub
3 15 (7.81%) Azure
4 12 (6.25%) Amazon S3
4 12 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (6.25%) Serverless
5 9 (4.69%) Amazon ECS
5 9 (4.69%) GCP
6 6 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.08%) Amazon EMR
7 4 (2.08%) Amazon MSK
7 4 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.56%) BlazeMeter
8 3 (1.56%) SaaS
9 2 (1.04%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.52%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.52%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.56%) Internet
2 2 (1.04%) AMQP
2 2 (1.04%) Broadband
3 1 (0.52%) HTTP
3 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.02%) NoSQL
2 23 (11.98%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (9.38%) MongoDB
4 16 (8.33%) Relational Database
5 14 (7.29%) Apache Cassandra
6 12 (6.25%) KDB
7 11 (5.73%) Big Data
8 10 (5.21%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (4.69%) RDBMS
10 8 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (4.17%) Kdb+
11 7 (3.65%) Oracle Database
12 6 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (3.13%) InterSystems Cache
13 5 (2.60%) Apache Hive
13 5 (2.60%) Hadoop
13 5 (2.60%) HBase
14 4 (2.08%) Electronic Patient Records
14 4 (2.08%) MySQL
15 3 (1.56%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 25 (13.02%) Jenkins
2 17 (8.85%) Maven
3 16 (8.33%) Git
3 16 (8.33%) JUnit
4 11 (5.73%) Selenium
5 10 (5.21%) Cucumber
6 9 (4.69%) GitLab
7 7 (3.65%) JIRA
8 5 (2.60%) Gradle
9 4 (2.08%) JMeter
9 4 (2.08%) Subversion
10 3 (1.56%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.56%) Mockito
11 2 (1.04%) Appium
11 2 (1.04%) Katalon Studio
11 2 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (1.04%) REST Assured
11 2 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (1.04%) Spock
11 2 (1.04%) TeamCity
General
1 144 (75.00%) Finance
2 115 (59.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 112 (58.33%) Law
4 58 (30.21%) Banking
5 50 (26.04%) Marketing
6 38 (19.79%) Social Skills
7 25 (13.02%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (8.85%) Legal
9 13 (6.77%) Public Sector
10 8 (4.17%) Investment Banking
11 6 (3.13%) Games
12 4 (2.08%) Private Banking
13 3 (1.56%) Advertising
13 3 (1.56%) Electronics
13 3 (1.56%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.56%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.56%) Retail
14 2 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (1.04%) Tech for Good
14 2 (1.04%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (64.06%) Spring
2 67 (34.90%) Spring Boot
3 61 (31.77%) Kafka
4 58 (30.21%) React
5 30 (15.63%) RESTful
6 29 (15.10%) AngularJS
7 25 (13.02%) REST
8 19 (9.90%) Hibernate
9 13 (6.77%) Web Services
10 12 (6.25%) FIX Protocol
11 10 (5.21%) JPA
12 8 (4.17%) HTML
12 8 (4.17%) Node.js
13 7 (3.65%) J2EE
13 7 (3.65%) OpenID
13 7 (3.65%) SOAP
14 6 (3.13%) jQuery
14 6 (3.13%) Middleware
14 6 (3.13%) OAuth
14 6 (3.13%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (22.92%) Algorithms
2 41 (21.35%) Cloud Native
3 15 (7.81%) Public Cloud
4 10 (5.21%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (4.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (4.17%) Reference Data
7 6 (3.13%) Wiki
8 5 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.08%) Credit Risk
9 4 (2.08%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.08%) Derivative
9 4 (2.08%) Distributed Applications
9 4 (2.08%) Equities
9 4 (2.08%) Fixed Income
9 4 (2.08%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.52%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.65%) Unix
2 6 (3.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (80.73%) Software Engineering
2 150 (78.13%) Agile
3 125 (65.10%) SDLC
4 117 (60.94%) CI/CD
5 90 (46.88%) Operational Stability
6 83 (43.23%) AI
7 71 (36.98%) Machine Learning
8 57 (29.69%) Community of Practice
9 56 (29.17%) Full-Stack Development
10 49 (25.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 44 (22.92%) Visualisation
12 36 (18.75%) Decision-Making
13 34 (17.71%) Microservices
13 34 (17.71%) TDD
14 32 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
15 30 (15.63%) DevOps
16 27 (14.06%) Test Automation
17 26 (13.54%) Mentoring
18 21 (10.94%) Architectural Design
19 20 (10.42%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 192 (100.00%) Java
2 58 (30.21%) SQL
3 28 (14.58%) JavaScript
4 24 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 22 (11.46%) Python
6 11 (5.73%) C#
7 9 (4.69%) Go
8 6 (3.13%) PL/SQL
9 4 (2.08%) Scala
9 4 (2.08%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.56%) Groovy
11 2 (1.04%) C++
12 1 (0.52%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (3.65%) Degree
2 6 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.56%) AWS Certification
3 3 (1.56%) DV Cleared
3 3 (1.56%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.60%) QA
System Software
1 27 (14.06%) Docker
2 5 (2.60%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 49 (25.52%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.33%) Terraform
3 9 (4.69%) Grafana
4 4 (2.08%) Netcool
4 4 (2.08%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 4 (2.08%) Tivoli
5 2 (1.04%) Ansible
5 2 (1.04%) Kibana
5 2 (1.04%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.04%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.52%) Istio
Vendors
1 37 (19.27%) Oracle
2 14 (7.29%) IBM
3 11 (5.73%) Splunk
4 10 (5.21%) Red Hat
5 9 (4.69%) Dynatrace
6 7 (3.65%) Databricks
6 7 (3.65%) Google
7 6 (3.13%) Facebook
8 5 (2.60%) Cloudera
9 4 (2.08%) Bloomberg
9 4 (2.08%) Microsoft
9 4 (2.08%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.08%) Solace
9 4 (2.08%) TIBCO
10 3 (1.56%) Sybase
11 2 (1.04%) SAP
11 2 (1.04%) VMware
12 1 (0.52%) Atlassian