Java Engineer Jobs 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 3 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 244 436
Rank change year-on-year -102 +192 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 257 858 305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.61% 1.09% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 1.15% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 76 200 106
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,875 £44,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year - -6.40% +15.75%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,063 £89,852
90th Percentile £110,000 £91,250 £96,770
UK median annual salary £110,000 £90,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% - +16.13%

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 37,615 74,684 47,185
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.19% 94.94% 88.93%
Number of salaries quoted 20,030 52,064 28,905
10th Percentile £25,625 £27,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% +4.95%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Java Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in the UK excluding London

Java Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Java Engineer 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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -49 103 £57,500 +15.00% 34
South West +130 63 £121,386 +111.11% 18
North of England +30 40 £65,000 -0.71% 36
North West -11 31 £65,000 -0.71% 22
South East +50 21 £70,000 - 15
Midlands +71 18 £60,000 -7.69% 9
West Midlands +66 17 £60,000 -7.69% 7
Northern Ireland +49 8 £55,000 -47.62% 7
Yorkshire +46 6 £35,000 -46.54% 9
East of England +36 4 - - 4
North East +42 3 £65,000 -0.71% 5
East Midlands - 1 £24,000 - 2
Java Engineer
UK

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 3 July 2025, Java Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 257 (100.00%) Java
2 188 (73.15%) Agile
3 172 (66.93%) Software Engineering
4 156 (60.70%) Finance
5 150 (58.37%) SDLC
6 146 (56.81%) Spring
7 130 (50.58%) CI/CD
8 120 (46.69%) Law
9 113 (43.97%) Artificial Intelligence
9 113 (43.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 107 (41.63%) AWS
11 90 (35.02%) Operational Stability
12 88 (34.24%) Spring Boot
13 73 (28.40%) Kafka
14 70 (27.24%) Machine Learning
15 67 (26.07%) Kubernetes
16 65 (25.29%) React
16 65 (25.29%) Banking
17 63 (24.51%) Microservices
18 60 (23.35%) Full-Stack Development
18 60 (23.35%) SQL
19 57 (22.18%) Community of Practice
20 53 (20.62%) Docker
21 51 (19.84%) Social Skills
22 50 (19.46%) Cloud Native
23 49 (19.07%) Marketing
24 48 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
24 48 (18.68%) Algorithms
25 47 (18.29%) Continuous Improvement
26 46 (17.90%) Public Sector

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (5.06%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.11%) Confluence
3 5 (1.95%) Apache
3 5 (1.95%) nginx
3 5 (1.95%) Tomcat
4 4 (1.56%) Camunda
4 4 (1.56%) Cloud Foundry
4 4 (1.56%) GemFire
4 4 (1.56%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 107 (41.63%) AWS
2 32 (12.45%) Azure
3 21 (8.17%) GCP
4 14 (5.45%) GitHub
5 12 (4.67%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (4.67%) Serverless
6 10 (3.89%) Amazon S3
7 8 (3.11%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (2.33%) npm
9 5 (1.95%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 5 (1.95%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 5 (1.95%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.56%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (1.56%) Amazon MSK
10 4 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.17%) BlazeMeter
11 3 (1.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.17%) Internet
2 2 (0.78%) Broadband
2 2 (0.78%) Network Security
3 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (11.28%) Relational Database
2 27 (10.51%) NoSQL
3 26 (10.12%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (9.73%) MongoDB
5 15 (5.84%) Elasticsearch
6 14 (5.45%) Apache Cassandra
6 14 (5.45%) Big Data
7 13 (5.06%) KDB
8 12 (4.67%) RDBMS
9 11 (4.28%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (4.28%) MySQL
10 10 (3.89%) InterSystems Cache
11 8 (3.11%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (3.11%) Kdb+
12 7 (2.72%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (2.72%) Oracle Database
13 6 (2.33%) Apache Hive
14 5 (1.95%) Hadoop
14 5 (1.95%) HBase
14 5 (1.95%) Redis
Development Applications
1 29 (11.28%) Jenkins
2 23 (8.95%) Git
3 22 (8.56%) Maven
4 18 (7.00%) JUnit
5 17 (6.61%) Cucumber
6 15 (5.84%) Selenium
7 9 (3.50%) JIRA
8 8 (3.11%) Cypress.io
8 8 (3.11%) GitLab
8 8 (3.11%) Mockito
9 7 (2.72%) webpack
10 6 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (2.33%) TestNG
11 5 (1.95%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.95%) Gradle
11 5 (1.95%) Postman
11 5 (1.95%) SonarQube
12 4 (1.56%) Subversion
13 2 (0.78%) NetBeans
13 2 (0.78%) TeamCity
General
1 156 (60.70%) Finance
2 120 (46.69%) Law
3 113 (43.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 65 (25.29%) Banking
5 51 (19.84%) Social Skills
6 49 (19.07%) Marketing
7 46 (17.90%) Public Sector
8 31 (12.06%) Analytical Skills
9 16 (6.23%) Legal
10 8 (3.11%) Advertising
10 8 (3.11%) Investment Banking
10 8 (3.11%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.95%) Online Betting
11 5 (1.95%) Retail
12 4 (1.56%) Private Banking
13 3 (1.17%) Electronics
13 3 (1.17%) Front Office
14 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.78%) Games
14 2 (0.78%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (56.81%) Spring
2 88 (34.24%) Spring Boot
3 73 (28.40%) Kafka
4 65 (25.29%) React
5 34 (13.23%) RESTful
6 32 (12.45%) AngularJS
7 29 (11.28%) REST
8 17 (6.61%) Web Services
9 14 (5.45%) Hibernate
9 14 (5.45%) HTML
10 13 (5.06%) FIX Protocol
10 13 (5.06%) Middleware
11 11 (4.28%) RabbitMQ
12 10 (3.89%) CSS
13 9 (3.50%) JPA
13 9 (3.50%) OpenAPI
13 9 (3.50%) Swagger
14 7 (2.72%) jQuery
15 6 (2.33%) Node.js
15 6 (2.33%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 50 (19.46%) Cloud Native
2 48 (18.68%) Algorithms
3 34 (13.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (8.17%) Public Cloud
5 14 (5.45%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (4.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 11 (4.28%) Data Structures
7 11 (4.28%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (3.89%) Distributed Applications
9 8 (3.11%) Derivative
9 8 (3.11%) Reference Data
10 7 (2.72%) Equities
10 7 (2.72%) Fixed Income
11 6 (2.33%) Life Science
11 6 (2.33%) Wiki
12 4 (1.56%) Credit Risk
12 4 (1.56%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.56%) Smartphone
13 3 (1.17%) Credit Derivative
13 3 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.67%) Unix
2 10 (3.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (73.15%) Agile
2 172 (66.93%) Software Engineering
3 150 (58.37%) SDLC
4 130 (50.58%) CI/CD
5 113 (43.97%) Artificial Intelligence
6 90 (35.02%) Operational Stability
7 70 (27.24%) Machine Learning
8 63 (24.51%) Microservices
9 60 (23.35%) Full-Stack Development
10 57 (22.18%) Community of Practice
11 48 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
12 47 (18.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 44 (17.12%) Visualisation
14 42 (16.34%) TDD
15 41 (15.95%) Test Automation
16 37 (14.40%) DevOps
17 36 (14.01%) Decision-Making
18 32 (12.45%) Containerisation
19 29 (11.28%) Architectural Design
20 26 (10.12%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 257 (100.00%) Java
2 60 (23.35%) SQL
3 35 (13.62%) JavaScript
4 26 (10.12%) Python
5 21 (8.17%) TypeScript
6 14 (5.45%) C#
7 9 (3.50%) PL/SQL
8 8 (3.11%) Go
9 6 (2.33%) Scala
10 5 (1.95%) Rust
11 4 (1.56%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.78%) C++
12 2 (0.78%) Groovy
12 2 (0.78%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.78%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.39%) Bash
13 1 (0.39%) Fortran
13 1 (0.39%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.39%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (5.06%) Degree
2 8 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.33%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.95%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.17%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.39%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.95%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.17%) QA
3 2 (0.78%) Def Stans
3 2 (0.78%) IEC 61508
4 1 (0.39%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 53 (20.62%) Docker
2 5 (1.95%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 67 (26.07%) Kubernetes
2 22 (8.56%) Terraform
3 10 (3.89%) Grafana
4 8 (3.11%) Ansible
5 5 (1.95%) Kustomize
5 5 (1.95%) Packer
5 5 (1.95%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.56%) Netcool
6 4 (1.56%) Netcool/OMNIbus
6 4 (1.56%) Tivoli
7 3 (1.17%) Control-M
7 3 (1.17%) Kibana
Vendors
1 43 (16.73%) Oracle
2 16 (6.23%) Red Hat
3 15 (5.84%) IBM
4 11 (4.28%) Dynatrace
4 11 (4.28%) Splunk
5 9 (3.50%) Solace
5 9 (3.50%) TIBCO
6 7 (2.72%) Databricks
6 7 (2.72%) Google
7 6 (2.33%) Facebook
8 5 (1.95%) Bloomberg
8 5 (1.95%) Cloudera
8 5 (1.95%) Microsoft
8 5 (1.95%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.95%) Sybase
9 2 (0.78%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.78%) SAP
10 1 (0.39%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.39%) BMC