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 £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 September 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 319 264 453
Rank change year-on-year -55 +189 -20
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 237 474 131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.69% 0.86% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.90% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 62 104 90
10th Percentile £43,750 £24,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,306 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +10.64%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £80,938
90th Percentile £84,500 £92,000 £89,852
UK median annual salary £110,000 £100,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% +17.65% -

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 30,681 52,633 32,550
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.33% 95.20% 93.24%
Number of salaries quoted 17,452 30,845 24,346
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,000 £28,290
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,572 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

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

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -26 104 £70,000 +40.00% 5
South West +79 56 £55,000 -4.35% 7
North of England +20 31 £70,000 +3.70% 10
North West +8 23 £88,000 +34.42% 6
Midlands +62 20 £60,000 -8.02% 3
West Midlands +58 18 £60,000 -8.02% 2
South East +36 16 £70,000 - 13
Northern Ireland +20 5 £55,000 -47.62% 1
North East +15 5 £65,000 -18.75% 2
East of England 0 5 £80,000 - 1
Yorkshire +10 3 £70,000 +6.93% 3
East Midlands - 2 £24,000 - 1
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 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.

1 237 (100.00%) Java
2 178 (75.11%) Agile
3 164 (69.20%) Software Engineering
4 149 (62.87%) SDLC
5 139 (58.65%) Finance
6 135 (56.96%) Spring
7 121 (51.05%) CI/CD
8 115 (48.52%) Artificial Intelligence
9 112 (47.26%) Law
9 112 (47.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 103 (43.46%) AWS
11 90 (37.97%) Operational Stability
12 76 (32.07%) Spring Boot
13 71 (29.96%) Machine Learning
14 70 (29.54%) Kafka
15 63 (26.58%) Kubernetes
16 58 (24.47%) React
16 58 (24.47%) Banking
16 58 (24.47%) SQL
17 57 (24.05%) Community of Practice
18 55 (23.21%) Full-Stack Development
19 50 (21.10%) Marketing
20 48 (20.25%) Microservices
21 47 (19.83%) Continuous Improvement
22 46 (19.41%) Public Sector
22 46 (19.41%) Cloud Native
23 44 (18.57%) Algorithms
23 44 (18.57%) Visualisation
24 43 (18.14%) Social Skills
25 42 (17.72%) Docker

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 11 (4.64%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.53%) Confluence
3 5 (2.11%) nginx
3 5 (2.11%) Tomcat
4 4 (1.69%) Camunda
4 4 (1.69%) Cloud Foundry
4 4 (1.69%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.42%) Apache
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.42%) CMS
5 1 (0.42%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 103 (43.46%) AWS
2 22 (9.28%) Azure
3 16 (6.75%) GitHub
4 15 (6.33%) GCP
5 12 (5.06%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (5.06%) Serverless
6 11 (4.64%) Amazon S3
7 9 (3.80%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (2.53%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (2.11%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 5 (2.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 5 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (2.11%) SaaS
10 4 (1.69%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (1.69%) Amazon MSK
10 4 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (1.27%) BlazeMeter
11 3 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.42%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.27%) Internet
2 2 (0.84%) Broadband
3 1 (0.42%) AMQP
3 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (11.39%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (9.70%) NoSQL
3 21 (8.86%) MongoDB
3 21 (8.86%) Relational Database
4 14 (5.91%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (5.49%) Big Data
6 12 (5.06%) Apache Cassandra
6 12 (5.06%) KDB
7 11 (4.64%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (3.38%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (3.38%) Kdb+
8 8 (3.38%) MySQL
8 8 (3.38%) RDBMS
9 7 (2.95%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (2.95%) Oracle Database
10 6 (2.53%) InterSystems Cache
11 5 (2.11%) Apache Hive
11 5 (2.11%) Hadoop
11 5 (2.11%) HBase
12 4 (1.69%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 28 (11.81%) Jenkins
2 22 (9.28%) Maven
3 19 (8.02%) JUnit
4 18 (7.59%) Git
5 15 (6.33%) Selenium
6 13 (5.49%) Cucumber
7 9 (3.80%) GitLab
8 8 (3.38%) Mockito
9 7 (2.95%) JIRA
10 6 (2.53%) TestNG
11 5 (2.11%) Bitbucket
11 5 (2.11%) Gradle
11 5 (2.11%) Postman
11 5 (2.11%) SonarQube
12 4 (1.69%) Subversion
13 3 (1.27%) Cypress.io
14 2 (0.84%) JMeter
14 2 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
14 2 (0.84%) Spock
14 2 (0.84%) TeamCity
General
1 139 (58.65%) Finance
2 112 (47.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 112 (47.26%) Law
3 58 (24.47%) Banking
4 50 (21.10%) Marketing
5 46 (19.41%) Public Sector
6 43 (18.14%) Social Skills
7 28 (11.81%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (7.17%) Legal
9 8 (3.38%) Investment Banking
9 8 (3.38%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.53%) Retail
11 5 (2.11%) Advertising
12 4 (1.69%) Private Banking
13 3 (1.27%) Electronics
14 2 (0.84%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.84%) Games
14 2 (0.84%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.84%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.42%) Digital Healthcare
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (56.96%) Spring
2 76 (32.07%) Spring Boot
3 70 (29.54%) Kafka
4 58 (24.47%) React
5 30 (12.66%) REST
5 30 (12.66%) RESTful
6 28 (11.81%) AngularJS
7 16 (6.75%) Hibernate
8 12 (5.06%) FIX Protocol
9 11 (4.64%) HTML
9 11 (4.64%) Web Services
10 9 (3.80%) JPA
10 9 (3.80%) OpenAPI
10 9 (3.80%) Swagger
11 7 (2.95%) CSS
12 6 (2.53%) J2EE
12 6 (2.53%) Middleware
12 6 (2.53%) OAuth
12 6 (2.53%) OpenID
12 6 (2.53%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (19.41%) Cloud Native
2 44 (18.57%) Algorithms
3 34 (14.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (6.33%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (3.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (3.38%) Reference Data
7 6 (2.53%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.53%) Life Science
7 6 (2.53%) Wiki
8 5 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.69%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.69%) Derivative
9 4 (1.69%) Distributed Applications
9 4 (1.69%) Equities
9 4 (1.69%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.69%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.69%) Smartphone
10 3 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.95%) Unix
2 5 (2.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (75.11%) Agile
2 164 (69.20%) Software Engineering
3 149 (62.87%) SDLC
4 121 (51.05%) CI/CD
5 115 (48.52%) Artificial Intelligence
6 90 (37.97%) Operational Stability
7 71 (29.96%) Machine Learning
8 57 (24.05%) Community of Practice
9 55 (23.21%) Full-Stack Development
10 48 (20.25%) Microservices
11 47 (19.83%) Continuous Improvement
12 44 (18.57%) Visualisation
13 39 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
13 39 (16.46%) TDD
14 36 (15.19%) Decision-Making
15 34 (14.35%) Test Automation
16 33 (13.92%) DevOps
17 27 (11.39%) Code Quality
18 26 (10.97%) Containerisation
19 21 (8.86%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 237 (100.00%) Java
2 58 (24.47%) SQL
3 33 (13.92%) JavaScript
4 23 (9.70%) Python
4 23 (9.70%) TypeScript
5 13 (5.49%) C#
6 8 (3.38%) Go
7 6 (2.53%) PL/SQL
8 5 (2.11%) Rust
9 4 (1.69%) Scala
9 4 (1.69%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.27%) Groovy
11 2 (0.84%) C++
12 1 (0.42%) Fortran
12 1 (0.42%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.42%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 8 (3.38%) Degree
2 7 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.69%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.27%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.27%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.42%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.69%) QA
2 1 (0.42%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 42 (17.72%) Docker
2 5 (2.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 63 (26.58%) Kubernetes
2 20 (8.44%) Terraform
3 7 (2.95%) Grafana
4 6 (2.53%) Ansible
5 5 (2.11%) Kustomize
5 5 (2.11%) Packer
6 4 (1.69%) Netcool
6 4 (1.69%) Netcool/OMNIbus
6 4 (1.69%) Tivoli
7 2 (0.84%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.42%) Istio
8 1 (0.42%) Kibana
8 1 (0.42%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 36 (15.19%) Oracle
2 16 (6.75%) Red Hat
3 15 (6.33%) IBM
4 9 (3.80%) Dynatrace
4 9 (3.80%) Splunk
5 7 (2.95%) Databricks
5 7 (2.95%) Google
6 6 (2.53%) Facebook
7 5 (2.11%) Cloudera
8 4 (1.69%) Bloomberg
8 4 (1.69%) Microsoft
8 4 (1.69%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.69%) Solace
8 4 (1.69%) TIBCO
9 3 (1.27%) Sybase
10 2 (0.84%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.84%) SAP
11 1 (0.42%) VMware