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 5 November 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Nov 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 338 429
Rank change year-on-year -20 +91 -28
Permanent Java Engineer jobs 390 191 174
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.43% 0.55% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.61% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 311 41 76
10th Percentile £55,000 £24,000 £24,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £47,201
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £106,250 £100,000
% change year-on-year -29.41% +6.25% +33.33%

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
5 Nov 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent job adverts in the UK excluding London matching a recognised job title 82,698 31,235 45,382
% of permanent job adverts matching a recognised job title 91.63% 89.92% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 56,005 19,305 24,614
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £64,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +12.38% -8.70% -4.17%

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 5 November 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 5 November 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 +93 227 £70,000 -1.75% 15
North West +47 139 £75,000 -6.25% 13
South West -49 62 £70,000 +16.67% 8
Yorkshire +9 46 £70,000 -1.75%
North East -27 42 £55,000 - 2
Midlands -54 36 £70,000 +16.67% 2
South East -58 34 £90,000 +44.00% 12
West Midlands -41 28 £70,000 +14.29% 1
Scotland -74 20 £82,500 +17.86% 1
East Midlands -44 8 £75,000 +134.38% 1
East of England -60 8 £80,000 - 6
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
Wales - 2 £60,750 - 2
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 November 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%390
2Software Engineering57.2%223
3Full-Stack Development36.4%142
4AWS24.4%95
5Agile21.0%82
6Spring17.9%70
7Microservices11.8%46
7Security Cleared11.8%46
7Spring Boot11.8%46
10CI/CD11.5%45
11Kubernetes9.2%36
12Azure9.0%35
13Python8.5%33
13SC Cleared8.5%33
15AI8.2%32
16Docker7.7%30
17DevOps7.4%29
18Mentoring6.7%26
19Front End Development6.4%25
20REST6.2%24
21Kafka5.9%23
21TDD5.9%23
21Test Automation5.9%23
24JavaScript5.4%21
25SDLC5.1%20
26PostgreSQL4.4%17
26TypeScript4.4%17
28Digital Transformation Programme4.1%16
28Scrum4.1%16
28Technical Leadership4.1%16

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 Engineer44.6%174
2Senior Java Engineer41.0%160
3Full-Stack Engineer24.6%96
4Senior Java Software Engineer13.1%51
5Technical Engineer9.7%38
6Senior Full-Stack Engineer7.9%31
7Lead Java Engineer6.9%27
8AWS Engineer6.4%25
9Python Engineer5.4%21
10AWS Software Engineer4.4%17
11Python Software Engineer3.8%15
12Lead Software Engineer3.6%14
12Principal Java Engineer3.6%14
14Scala Engineer3.1%12
15Technical Leader2.6%10
16Java Server Engineer2.3%9
17Artificial Intelligence Engineer1.8%7
17Cloud Engineer1.8%7
17Senior Scala Engineer1.8%7
17Serverless Engineer1.8%7
45 Java Engineer jobs in the UK excluding London