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 £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 March 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 442 409 230
Rank change year-on-year -33 -179 +257
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 96 112 676
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.37% 1.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.41% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 82 51 215
10th Percentile £48,289 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,625 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £83,750 £107,500 £73,250
90th Percentile £93,375 £140,677 £91,250
UK median annual salary £82,500 £105,000 £68,500
% change year-on-year -21.43% +53.28% -21.71%

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 45,867 27,340 50,744
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.49% 91.02% 94.87%
Number of salaries quoted 28,841 13,947 38,944
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,236 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,200 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

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 2 March 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 2 March 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 -12 45 £67,500 +3.85% 14
North West +2 27 £70,000 +7.69% 6
South East -12 20 £80,000 +14.29% 30
Midlands +2 12 £50,000 -9.09% 7
Yorkshire -34 12 £55,000 +57.14% 6
South West -41 10 £60,000 -42.86% 17
West Midlands +9 8 £50,000 -11.11% 3
Scotland -16 7 £85,000 +6.25% 8
North East -5 6 £52,130 -22.77% 2
East Midlands -26 3 £70,000 +55.56% 4
East of England - 2 £77,500 - 4
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 March 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 96 (100.00%) Java
2 66 (68.75%) Software Engineering
3 35 (36.46%) AWS
4 31 (32.29%) Spring
5 30 (31.25%) Agile
6 24 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 23 (23.96%) Full-Stack Development
8 22 (22.92%) Spring Boot
9 21 (21.88%) SQL
10 20 (20.83%) CI/CD
11 19 (19.79%) Test Automation
12 18 (18.75%) DevOps
12 18 (18.75%) Microservices
12 18 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
13 17 (17.71%) Coaching
14 15 (15.63%) TDD
15 14 (14.58%) BDD
15 14 (14.58%) RESTful
16 12 (12.50%) NoSQL
17 10 (10.42%) Azure
18 9 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
18 9 (9.38%) Event-Driven
18 9 (9.38%) Kubernetes
18 9 (9.38%) MongoDB
18 9 (9.38%) MySQL
18 9 (9.38%) TypeScript
19 8 (8.33%) AI
19 8 (8.33%) Continuous Deployment
19 8 (8.33%) Investment Management
19 8 (8.33%) Kafka

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 1 (1.04%) Apache Solr
1 1 (1.04%) CMS
1 1 (1.04%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 35 (36.46%) AWS
2 10 (10.42%) Azure
3 6 (6.25%) SaaS
4 4 (4.17%) GitHub
5 3 (3.13%) Anthropic Claude
6 2 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.08%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.08%) Serverless
7 1 (1.04%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.04%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.04%) AMQP
1 1 (1.04%) HTTP
1 1 (1.04%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 9 (9.38%) MongoDB
3 9 (9.38%) MySQL
4 3 (3.13%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.04%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.04%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.04%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.04%) Redis
5 1 (1.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (5.21%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.13%) Claude Code
2 3 (3.13%) Cucumber
2 3 (3.13%) JMeter
2 3 (3.13%) JUnit
3 2 (2.08%) Git
3 2 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (2.08%) Vagrant
4 1 (1.04%) Appium
4 1 (1.04%) GitLab
4 1 (1.04%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (1.04%) Maven
4 1 (1.04%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.04%) Selenium
General
1 22 (22.92%) Finance
2 9 (9.38%) Public Sector
3 7 (7.29%) Games
4 4 (4.17%) Social Skills
5 3 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.13%) Retail
6 2 (2.08%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.08%) Health Technology
6 2 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.04%) Advertising
7 1 (1.04%) Automotive
7 1 (1.04%) Aviation
7 1 (1.04%) Banking
7 1 (1.04%) Marketing
7 1 (1.04%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (32.29%) Spring
2 22 (22.92%) Spring Boot
3 14 (14.58%) RESTful
4 8 (8.33%) Kafka
4 8 (8.33%) React
5 7 (7.29%) REST
6 4 (4.17%) Hibernate
6 4 (4.17%) Micronaut
7 3 (3.13%) AngularJS
7 3 (3.13%) J2EE
7 3 (3.13%) Node.js
7 3 (3.13%) OAuth
7 3 (3.13%) OAuth2
8 2 (2.08%) SOAP
8 2 (2.08%) Vue
8 2 (2.08%) Web Services
9 1 (1.04%) GraphQL
9 1 (1.04%) JPA
9 1 (1.04%) Ruby on Rails
9 1 (1.04%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.58%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.13%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.13%) NHS
4 1 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.04%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.21%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (68.75%) Software Engineering
2 30 (31.25%) Agile
3 24 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 23 (23.96%) Full-Stack Development
5 20 (20.83%) CI/CD
6 19 (19.79%) Test Automation
7 18 (18.75%) DevOps
7 18 (18.75%) Microservices
8 17 (17.71%) Coaching
9 15 (15.63%) TDD
10 14 (14.58%) BDD
11 9 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (9.38%) Event-Driven
12 8 (8.33%) AI
12 8 (8.33%) Continuous Deployment
12 8 (8.33%) Investment Management
12 8 (8.33%) Open Source
12 8 (8.33%) Operational Stability
12 8 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
12 8 (8.33%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 96 (100.00%) Java
2 21 (21.88%) SQL
3 9 (9.38%) TypeScript
4 5 (5.21%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.13%) Go
5 3 (3.13%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.04%) Python
6 1 (1.04%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (3.13%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.08%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.04%) Degree
3 1 (1.04%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 6 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (9.38%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.17%) Progress Chef
2 4 (4.17%) Terraform
3 2 (2.08%) Ansible
3 2 (2.08%) Grafana
3 2 (2.08%) Packer
4 1 (1.04%) Istio
4 1 (1.04%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (4.17%) Oracle
2 2 (2.08%) Splunk
2 2 (2.08%) VMware