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 12 January 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 449 426 255
Rank change year-on-year -23 -171 +192
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 57 125 394
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.35% 1.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.37% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 48 50 160
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,375 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £54,063 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +21.74% +1.81%
75th Percentile £80,938 £95,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,000 £110,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £100,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% +53.85% -25.71%

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 37,950 33,421 33,069
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.43% 92.92% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 23,124 16,269 25,086
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 -9 23 £70,000 +7.69% 21
North West +21 14 £70,000 +7.69% 11
South East +12 13 £73,750 -7.81% 38
Midlands +24 9 £50,000 -13.04% 10
West Midlands +26 7 £50,000 -13.04% 8
Scotland +1 7 £92,500 +15.63% 7
Yorkshire -12 7 £71,250 +35.71% 6
South West -15 4 £60,000 -25.00% 18
North East -1 2 £39,500 -50.63% 4
East Midlands -6 2 £40,000 -11.11% 2
East of England - 1 £80,000 - 12
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 January 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 57 (100.00%) Java
2 30 (52.63%) Software Engineering
3 23 (40.35%) AWS
3 23 (40.35%) Spring
4 19 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 19 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 15 (26.32%) Agile
5 15 (26.32%) Mentoring
6 14 (24.56%) Spring Boot
7 11 (19.30%) DevOps
8 10 (17.54%) Microservices
8 10 (17.54%) SQL
8 10 (17.54%) Test Automation
9 9 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (14.04%) Event-Driven
11 7 (12.28%) Coaching
11 7 (12.28%) E-Commerce
11 7 (12.28%) Jenkins
11 7 (12.28%) Kafka
11 7 (12.28%) RESTful
12 6 (10.53%) BDD
12 6 (10.53%) Collaborative Culture
12 6 (10.53%) Investment Management
12 6 (10.53%) JavaScript
12 6 (10.53%) Kubernetes
12 6 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
12 6 (10.53%) Thought Leadership
12 6 (10.53%) TypeScript
13 5 (8.77%) API Integration
13 5 (8.77%) Continuous Improvement

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 (1.75%) Apache Solr
1 1 (1.75%) CMS
1 1 (1.75%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 23 (40.35%) AWS
2 5 (8.77%) GitHub
2 5 (8.77%) SaaS
3 2 (3.51%) Amazon S3
3 2 (3.51%) Azure
3 2 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (3.51%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (1.75%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.51%) AMQP
2 1 (1.75%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.51%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.51%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.75%) Couchbase
4 1 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.75%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.75%) MySQL
4 1 (1.75%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (12.28%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.02%) Cucumber
2 4 (7.02%) JMeter
2 4 (7.02%) JUnit
3 2 (3.51%) Appium
3 2 (3.51%) Git
3 2 (3.51%) Katalon Studio
3 2 (3.51%) REST Assured
3 2 (3.51%) Selenium
3 2 (3.51%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.75%) GitLab
4 1 (1.75%) TestNG
General
1 24 (42.11%) Finance
2 7 (12.28%) Games
3 6 (10.53%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (5.26%) Retail
5 2 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.51%) Financial Institution
5 2 (3.51%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Advertising
6 1 (1.75%) Aviation
6 1 (1.75%) Banking
6 1 (1.75%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.75%) Legal
6 1 (1.75%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (40.35%) Spring
2 14 (24.56%) Spring Boot
3 7 (12.28%) Kafka
3 7 (12.28%) RESTful
4 5 (8.77%) Hibernate
4 5 (8.77%) REST
5 4 (7.02%) React
6 3 (5.26%) Micronaut
6 3 (5.26%) Node.js
6 3 (5.26%) SOAP
7 2 (3.51%) J2EE
7 2 (3.51%) OAuth
7 2 (3.51%) OAuth2
7 2 (3.51%) Web Services
8 1 (1.75%) ActiveMQ
8 1 (1.75%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.75%) JPA
8 1 (1.75%) jQuery
8 1 (1.75%) OpenID
8 1 (1.75%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.02%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (5.26%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.75%) NHS
3 1 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.02%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (52.63%) Software Engineering
2 19 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 19 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 15 (26.32%) Agile
3 15 (26.32%) Mentoring
4 11 (19.30%) DevOps
5 10 (17.54%) Microservices
5 10 (17.54%) Test Automation
6 8 (14.04%) Event-Driven
7 7 (12.28%) Coaching
7 7 (12.28%) E-Commerce
8 6 (10.53%) BDD
8 6 (10.53%) Collaborative Culture
8 6 (10.53%) Investment Management
8 6 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (10.53%) Thought Leadership
9 5 (8.77%) API Integration
9 5 (8.77%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (7.02%) SDLC
10 4 (7.02%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 57 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (17.54%) SQL
3 6 (10.53%) JavaScript
3 6 (10.53%) TypeScript
4 2 (3.51%) Go
4 2 (3.51%) Kotlin
4 2 (3.51%) Python
5 1 (1.75%) Groovy
5 1 (1.75%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (5.26%) Degree
2 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.75%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.75%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 4 (7.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.26%) Terraform
3 2 (3.51%) Ansible
3 2 (3.51%) Grafana
3 2 (3.51%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.75%) Istio
4 1 (1.75%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (3.51%) Splunk
1 2 (3.51%) VMware
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle