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 29 October 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 345 428
Rank change year-on-year -19 +83 -25
Permanent Java Engineer jobs 381 191 182
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.55% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.62% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 306 41 87
10th Percentile £55,000 £24,000 £24,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £79,375
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £110,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -31.82% +10.00% +32.36%

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 adverts in the UK excluding London matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all permanent IT job adverts they make up.

6 months to
29 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent job adverts in the UK excluding London matching a recognised job title 82,916 30,996 45,766
% of permanent job adverts matching a recognised job title 91.87% 89.94% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 56,513 18,250 24,938
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,974 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.63% -8.05% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,603
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £52,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year +12.38% -7.89% -5.00%

Java Engineer Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent Java Engineer job postings 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 Java Engineer jobs in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 October 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 Java Engineer jobs within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 October 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		 Job Ads
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
North of England +102 228 £70,000 -3.45% 14
North West +73 140 £75,000 -10.45% 12
South West -42 58 £70,000 +16.67% 8
Yorkshire +5 46 £70,000 -1.75%
North East -34 42 £55,000 - 2
Midlands -44 36 £70,000 +16.67% 3
South East -38 33 £90,000 +38.46% 6
West Midlands -34 29 £70,000 +12.00% 2
Scotland -69 17 £82,500 +17.86% 2
East of England -40 8 £80,000 - 3
East Midlands -31 7 £60,000 +87.50% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
Wales - 2 £60,750 -
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 October 2026, Java Engineer job ads cited 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 Java Engineer job ads across the UK excluding London region.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Java100.0%381
2Software Engineering57.5%219
3Full-Stack Development37.5%143
4AWS23.9%91
5Agile21.5%82
6Spring19.2%73
7Spring Boot12.6%48
8Microservices12.3%47
9CI/CD11.0%42
10Security Cleared10.5%40
11Kubernetes8.9%34
11Python8.9%34
13AI8.4%32
13Azure8.4%32
15Mentoring7.6%29
16Docker7.3%28
16SC Cleared7.3%28
18DevOps6.8%26
19REST6.3%24
20Test Automation6.0%23
21Kafka5.8%22
21TDD5.8%22
23Front End Development5.5%21
23JavaScript5.5%21
25SDLC5.0%19
26Problem-Solving4.2%16
26SQL4.2%16
26TypeScript4.2%16
29Continuous Improvement3.9%15
29PostgreSQL3.9%15

Java Engineer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1Java Software Engineer45.7%174
2Senior Java Engineer40.4%154
3Full-Stack Engineer26.0%99
4Senior Java Software Engineer14.4%55
5Technical Engineer10.2%39
6Senior Full-Stack Engineer7.9%30
7Lead Java Engineer7.6%29
8AWS Engineer6.0%23
9Python Engineer5.5%21
10AWS Software Engineer3.9%15
10Python Software Engineer3.9%15
12Lead Software Engineer3.7%14
12Principal Java Engineer3.7%14
14Scala Engineer3.1%12
15Technical Leader2.9%11
16Full-Stack Software Engineer2.4%9
16Java Server Engineer2.4%9
18Cloud Engineer1.8%7
18Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer1.8%7
18Senior Scala Engineer1.8%7
35 Java Engineer jobs in the UK excluding London