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 19 November 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 343 434 390
Rank change year-on-year +91 -44 +64
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 179 174 160
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.37% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.39% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 44 77 118
10th Percentile £24,675 £24,000 £41,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £80,938 £90,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,000 £104,614 £84,500
UK median annual salary £105,000 £100,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year +5.00% +35.59% -15.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 32,941 44,575 28,840
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.93% 94.38% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 20,617 23,832 21,684
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £51,242 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.30% -2.40% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £53,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.83% -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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 2025. 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
Scotland +70 109 £83,750 +67.50% 5
North of England +29 26 £70,000 +3.70% 23
South West +5 22 £60,000 -4.00% 9
North West +11 15 £80,000 +23.08% 14
Midlands +58 11 £60,000 +4.35% 8
South East +17 10 £67,500 -3.57% 25
West Midlands +46 8 £62,500 +8.70% 5
Yorkshire +10 8 £70,000 - 7
East Midlands +27 3 £32,000 -28.89% 3
North East -2 3 £55,000 -31.25% 2
East of England +19 1 £80,000 -
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 November 2025, 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.

1 179 (100.00%) Java
2 149 (83.24%) Software Engineering
3 138 (77.09%) Agile
4 117 (65.36%) Spring
5 116 (64.80%) SDLC
6 112 (62.57%) CI/CD
7 90 (50.28%) Operational Stability
8 87 (48.60%) AWS
9 78 (43.58%) AI
10 71 (39.66%) Machine Learning
11 62 (34.64%) Spring Boot
12 57 (31.84%) Community of Practice
13 56 (31.28%) Kafka
13 56 (31.28%) React
14 55 (30.73%) SQL
15 53 (29.61%) Full-Stack Development
16 49 (27.37%) Continuous Improvement
17 44 (24.58%) Kubernetes
17 44 (24.58%) Visualisation
18 36 (20.11%) Decision-Making
19 35 (19.55%) Oracle
20 30 (16.76%) Problem-Solving
21 29 (16.20%) AngularJS
21 29 (16.20%) RESTful
22 28 (15.64%) TDD
23 27 (15.08%) Microservices
24 26 (14.53%) DevOps
25 25 (13.97%) JavaScript
25 25 (13.97%) Mentoring
25 25 (13.97%) TypeScript

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 9 (5.03%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.23%) Camunda
2 4 (2.23%) Cloud Foundry
2 4 (2.23%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (1.68%) Confluence
4 1 (0.56%) Apache
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.56%) CMS
4 1 (0.56%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 87 (48.60%) AWS
2 14 (7.82%) Azure
2 14 (7.82%) GitHub
3 12 (6.70%) Amazon S3
3 12 (6.70%) AWS Lambda
3 12 (6.70%) Serverless
4 9 (5.03%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (4.47%) GCP
6 6 (3.35%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (3.35%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.23%) Amazon EMR
7 4 (2.23%) Amazon MSK
7 4 (2.23%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.23%) SaaS
8 3 (1.68%) BlazeMeter
9 2 (1.12%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.56%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.56%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.68%) Internet
2 2 (1.12%) AMQP
3 1 (0.56%) HTTP
3 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.17%) NoSQL
1 20 (11.17%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (8.94%) Relational Database
3 14 (7.82%) Apache Cassandra
4 13 (7.26%) MongoDB
5 11 (6.15%) Big Data
5 11 (6.15%) KDB
6 10 (5.59%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (5.03%) RDBMS
8 8 (4.47%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (4.47%) Kdb+
9 7 (3.91%) Oracle Database
10 6 (3.35%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (3.35%) InterSystems Cache
11 5 (2.79%) Apache Hive
11 5 (2.79%) Hadoop
11 5 (2.79%) HBase
12 4 (2.23%) Electronic Patient Records
13 3 (1.68%) MySQL
14 2 (1.12%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (12.85%) Jenkins
2 17 (9.50%) Maven
3 16 (8.94%) Git
3 16 (8.94%) JUnit
4 8 (4.47%) Selenium
5 7 (3.91%) Cucumber
6 6 (3.35%) GitLab
7 5 (2.79%) Gradle
8 4 (2.23%) JIRA
8 4 (2.23%) JMeter
8 4 (2.23%) Subversion
9 3 (1.68%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.68%) Mockito
10 2 (1.12%) Appium
10 2 (1.12%) Katalon Studio
10 2 (1.12%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.56%) Karma Test Runner
11 1 (0.56%) Protractor
11 1 (0.56%) webpack
General
1 142 (79.33%) Finance
2 115 (64.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 112 (62.57%) Law
4 58 (32.40%) Banking
5 50 (27.93%) Marketing
6 33 (18.44%) Social Skills
7 24 (13.41%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (9.50%) Legal
9 8 (4.47%) Investment Banking
10 7 (3.91%) Games
10 7 (3.91%) Public Sector
11 4 (2.23%) Private Banking
12 3 (1.68%) Advertising
12 3 (1.68%) Electronics
12 3 (1.68%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.68%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.68%) Retail
13 2 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.12%) Tech for Good
13 2 (1.12%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (65.36%) Spring
2 62 (34.64%) Spring Boot
3 56 (31.28%) Kafka
3 56 (31.28%) React
4 29 (16.20%) AngularJS
4 29 (16.20%) RESTful
5 24 (13.41%) REST
6 19 (10.61%) Hibernate
7 13 (7.26%) Web Services
8 11 (6.15%) FIX Protocol
9 10 (5.59%) JPA
10 8 (4.47%) HTML
11 7 (3.91%) J2EE
11 7 (3.91%) OpenID
11 7 (3.91%) SOAP
12 6 (3.35%) jQuery
12 6 (3.35%) Node.js
12 6 (3.35%) OAuth
12 6 (3.35%) OAuth2
12 6 (3.35%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (24.58%) Algorithms
2 42 (23.46%) Cloud Native
3 15 (8.38%) Public Cloud
4 8 (4.47%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (4.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (4.47%) Reference Data
5 5 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.23%) Credit Risk
6 4 (2.23%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.23%) Derivative
6 4 (2.23%) Distributed Applications
6 4 (2.23%) Equities
6 4 (2.23%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.23%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.68%) Wiki
8 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.56%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.91%) Unix
2 6 (3.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (83.24%) Software Engineering
2 138 (77.09%) Agile
3 116 (64.80%) SDLC
4 112 (62.57%) CI/CD
5 90 (50.28%) Operational Stability
6 78 (43.58%) AI
7 71 (39.66%) Machine Learning
8 57 (31.84%) Community of Practice
9 53 (29.61%) Full-Stack Development
10 49 (27.37%) Continuous Improvement
11 44 (24.58%) Visualisation
12 36 (20.11%) Decision-Making
13 30 (16.76%) Problem-Solving
14 28 (15.64%) TDD
15 27 (15.08%) Microservices
16 26 (14.53%) DevOps
17 25 (13.97%) Mentoring
18 23 (12.85%) Test Automation
19 20 (11.17%) Information Architecture
19 20 (11.17%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 179 (100.00%) Java
2 55 (30.73%) SQL
3 25 (13.97%) JavaScript
3 25 (13.97%) TypeScript
4 23 (12.85%) Python
5 10 (5.59%) Go
6 9 (5.03%) C#
7 6 (3.35%) PL/SQL
8 4 (2.23%) Scala
8 4 (2.23%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.56%) C++
9 1 (0.56%) Groovy
9 1 (0.56%) Ruby
9 1 (0.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (3.91%) Degree
2 6 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.68%) AWS Certification
3 3 (1.68%) DV Cleared
3 3 (1.68%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.12%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.23%) QA
System Software
1 21 (11.73%) Docker
2 5 (2.79%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 44 (24.58%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.94%) Terraform
3 7 (3.91%) Grafana
4 4 (2.23%) Netcool
4 4 (2.23%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 4 (2.23%) Tivoli
5 2 (1.12%) Ansible
5 2 (1.12%) Kibana
5 2 (1.12%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.56%) Istio
Vendors
1 35 (19.55%) Oracle
2 11 (6.15%) Splunk
3 9 (5.03%) Dynatrace
4 8 (4.47%) IBM
5 7 (3.91%) Databricks
5 7 (3.91%) Google
6 6 (3.35%) Facebook
7 5 (2.79%) Cloudera
8 4 (2.23%) Microsoft
8 4 (2.23%) Red Hat
8 4 (2.23%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.68%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.68%) Solace
9 3 (1.68%) Sybase
9 3 (1.68%) TIBCO
10 2 (1.12%) SAP
10 2 (1.12%) VMware
11 1 (0.56%) Atlassian