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 6 August 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 453 319 222
Rank change year-on-year -134 -97 +281
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 192 255 700
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.74% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.83% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 145 72 140
10th Percentile £45,000 £30,700 £30,525
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,438 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile £95,000 £72,500 £72,813
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £110,000 £93,500
% change year-on-year -27.27% +17.65% +3.89%

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 71,771 30,825 56,901
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.59% 89.62% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 49,683 17,756 37,944
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £28,121
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 6 August 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 6 August 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 +37 116 £70,000 +7.69% 22
North West +41 74 £85,000 +13.33% 14
South East -29 28 £90,000 +28.57% 14
South West -96 23 £60,000 +17.07% 15
Yorkshire -9 21 £80,000 +128.57% 5
North East -35 21 £24,000 -63.08% 3
Midlands -39 19 £60,000 - 19
West Midlands -33 14 £62,500 +4.17% 15
Scotland -55 11 £70,000 - 24
East Midlands -14 4 £60,000 +150.00% 4
Northern Ireland -77 2 - - 7
Wales - 2 £60,750 - 3
East of England -28 1 £72,500 - 4
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 August 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.

1 192 (100.00%) Java
2 100 (52.08%) Software Engineering
3 76 (39.58%) Full-Stack Development
4 66 (34.38%) AWS
5 61 (31.77%) Spring
6 49 (25.52%) Agile
7 40 (20.83%) Spring Boot
8 39 (20.31%) Microservices
9 35 (18.23%) AI
10 33 (17.19%) Mentoring
11 29 (15.10%) Test Automation
12 27 (14.06%) SQL
13 24 (12.50%) REST
14 22 (11.46%) CI/CD
14 22 (11.46%) Python
15 21 (10.94%) DevOps
16 20 (10.42%) Kubernetes
17 19 (9.90%) AngularJS
17 19 (9.90%) Security Cleared
18 17 (8.85%) PostgreSQL
18 17 (8.85%) Serverless
18 17 (8.85%) TDD
19 16 (8.33%) Design Patterns
19 16 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
19 16 (8.33%) React
20 15 (7.81%) NoSQL
20 15 (7.81%) Secure Coding
21 14 (7.29%) BDD
22 13 (6.77%) Continuous Improvement
22 13 (6.77%) Docker

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 2 (1.04%) Confluence
2 1 (0.52%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.52%) JBoss
2 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 66 (34.38%) AWS
2 17 (8.85%) Serverless
3 13 (6.77%) SaaS
4 11 (5.73%) Anthropic Claude
4 11 (5.73%) Azure
5 8 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.04%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.04%) GitHub
9 1 (0.52%) GCP
9 1 (0.52%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.56%) Network Security
2 1 (0.52%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.52%) Modbus
2 1 (0.52%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.85%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (7.81%) NoSQL
3 12 (6.25%) MySQL
4 10 (5.21%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.17%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.08%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.04%) Redis
8 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.52%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 12 (6.25%) Claude Code
2 9 (4.69%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.65%) GitLab
3 7 (3.65%) JUnit
4 6 (3.13%) Git
5 5 (2.60%) Mockito
6 4 (2.08%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.08%) JIRA
6 4 (2.08%) JMeter
7 3 (1.56%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.04%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.04%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.04%) Eclipse RCP
8 2 (1.04%) IntelliJ
8 2 (1.04%) Maven
8 2 (1.04%) Mocha
8 2 (1.04%) Selenium
9 1 (0.52%) Vagrant
General
1 14 (7.29%) Public Sector
2 12 (6.25%) Banking
3 11 (5.73%) Health Technology
4 9 (4.69%) Investment Banking
4 9 (4.69%) Social Skills
5 5 (2.60%) Finance
6 4 (2.08%) Digital Health
7 3 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.56%) Front Office
7 3 (1.56%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.56%) Marketing
8 2 (1.04%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.52%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (31.77%) Spring
2 40 (20.83%) Spring Boot
3 24 (12.50%) REST
4 19 (9.90%) AngularJS
5 16 (8.33%) React
6 13 (6.77%) Vue
7 12 (6.25%) RESTful
8 6 (3.13%) HTML
8 6 (3.13%) JSON
8 6 (3.13%) Kafka
9 5 (2.60%) Apache Camel
9 5 (2.60%) Node.js
9 5 (2.60%) Web Services
9 5 (2.60%) WireMock
10 4 (2.08%) ActiveMQ
10 4 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (2.08%) Hibernate
10 4 (2.08%) jQuery
10 4 (2.08%) Swing
10 4 (2.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.63%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.81%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.56%) Marketing Technology
4 3 (1.56%) NHS
4 3 (1.56%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.04%) Life Science
5 2 (1.04%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.04%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.52%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.52%) IoT
6 1 (0.52%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.52%) Robotics
6 1 (0.52%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (52.08%) Software Engineering
2 76 (39.58%) Full-Stack Development
3 49 (25.52%) Agile
4 39 (20.31%) Microservices
5 35 (18.23%) AI
6 33 (17.19%) Mentoring
7 29 (15.10%) Test Automation
8 22 (11.46%) CI/CD
9 21 (10.94%) DevOps
10 17 (8.85%) TDD
11 16 (8.33%) Design Patterns
11 16 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (7.81%) Secure Coding
13 14 (7.29%) BDD
14 13 (6.77%) Continuous Improvement
15 11 (5.73%) Clean Code
16 10 (5.21%) Coaching
16 10 (5.21%) Observability
16 10 (5.21%) Open Source
16 10 (5.21%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 192 (100.00%) Java
2 27 (14.06%) SQL
3 22 (11.46%) Python
4 13 (6.77%) JavaScript
5 9 (4.69%) TypeScript
6 5 (2.60%) Scala
7 4 (2.08%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.04%) C++
8 2 (1.04%) Groovy
9 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 19 (9.90%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.21%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.60%) Degree
4 3 (1.56%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.04%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.60%) QA
2 2 (1.04%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (6.77%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.52%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (10.42%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.60%) Terraform
3 4 (2.08%) Kibana
4 3 (1.56%) Ansible
4 3 (1.56%) Packer
5 1 (0.52%) Grafana
5 1 (0.52%) MOM
5 1 (0.52%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (2.08%) Dynatrace
1 4 (2.08%) Splunk
2 3 (1.56%) Adobe
3 2 (1.04%) AppDynamics
3 2 (1.04%) IBM
4 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.52%) Wonderware