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 £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 April 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 377 187
Rank change year-on-year -62 -190 +329
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 124 106 1,012
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.41% 1.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.46% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 98 67 214
10th Percentile £45,000 £33,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,375 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +6.12% -2.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £140,677 £91,729
UK median annual salary £80,000 £107,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -25.58% +53.57% -22.22%

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 57,397 23,094 62,710
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 88.80% 94.73%
Number of salaries quoted 36,565 14,506 46,264
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,822 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.00%

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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -35 67 £65,000 +8.33% 6
North West -4 43 £75,000 +15.38% 3
South East -38 20 £82,500 +17.86% 13
Midlands -28 17 £50,000 -16.67% 2
South West -70 16 £60,000 -45.45% 6
North East -17 14 £24,000 -60.00% 3
West Midlands -12 11 £50,000 -16.67% 1
Yorkshire -57 10 £55,000 +57.14%
Scotland -24 8 £57,500 -28.13% 1
East Midlands - 5 £60,000 - 1
East of England -24 1 £75,000 -
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 April 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.

1 124 (100.00%) Java
2 83 (66.94%) Software Engineering
3 40 (32.26%) Agile
4 39 (31.45%) AWS
5 37 (29.84%) Spring
6 33 (26.61%) Full-Stack Development
7 30 (24.19%) SQL
8 29 (23.39%) Spring Boot
9 27 (21.77%) Mentoring
10 25 (20.16%) Test Automation
11 22 (17.74%) Microservices
12 20 (16.13%) DevOps
13 18 (14.52%) CI/CD
14 17 (13.71%) REST
15 16 (12.90%) AI
15 16 (12.90%) TDD
16 14 (11.29%) BDD
16 14 (11.29%) NoSQL
16 14 (11.29%) React
17 13 (10.48%) Coaching
17 13 (10.48%) PostgreSQL
18 12 (9.68%) Design Patterns
18 12 (9.68%) Kubernetes
19 11 (8.87%) RESTful
20 10 (8.06%) AngularJS
20 10 (8.06%) Azure
20 10 (8.06%) Claude Code
20 10 (8.06%) Continuous Improvement
20 10 (8.06%) Data Science
20 10 (8.06%) MySQL

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:

Cloud Services
1 39 (31.45%) AWS
2 10 (8.06%) Azure
2 10 (8.06%) SaaS
3 9 (7.26%) Anthropic Claude
4 4 (3.23%) Serverless
5 3 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (1.61%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.81%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.81%) HTTP
1 1 (0.81%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.29%) NoSQL
2 13 (10.48%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (8.06%) MySQL
4 8 (6.45%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.61%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (1.61%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.81%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.81%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.81%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.81%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (8.06%) Claude Code
2 4 (3.23%) Cucumber
2 4 (3.23%) Git
3 3 (2.42%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.61%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.61%) GitLab
4 2 (1.61%) JIRA
4 2 (1.61%) JUnit
4 2 (1.61%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.61%) Vagrant
5 1 (0.81%) Appium
5 1 (0.81%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.81%) JMeter
5 1 (0.81%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (0.81%) Maven
5 1 (0.81%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.81%) Selenium
General
1 16 (12.90%) Finance
2 9 (7.26%) Public Sector
3 5 (4.03%) Social Skills
4 4 (3.23%) Banking
4 4 (3.23%) Investment Banking
5 3 (2.42%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.42%) Games
5 3 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.61%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.81%) Automotive
7 1 (0.81%) Aviation
7 1 (0.81%) Marketing
7 1 (0.81%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (29.84%) Spring
2 29 (23.39%) Spring Boot
3 17 (13.71%) REST
4 14 (11.29%) React
5 11 (8.87%) RESTful
6 10 (8.06%) AngularJS
7 5 (4.03%) Kafka
7 5 (4.03%) Node.js
8 4 (3.23%) Vue
9 3 (2.42%) OAuth
9 3 (2.42%) OAuth2
10 2 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.61%) Hibernate
10 2 (1.61%) J2EE
10 2 (1.61%) JSON
10 2 (1.61%) Playwright
10 2 (1.61%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.61%) SOAP
10 2 (1.61%) Web Services
10 2 (1.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.68%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.87%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.42%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.42%) NHS
4 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.81%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (66.94%) Software Engineering
2 40 (32.26%) Agile
3 33 (26.61%) Full-Stack Development
4 27 (21.77%) Mentoring
5 25 (20.16%) Test Automation
6 22 (17.74%) Microservices
7 20 (16.13%) DevOps
8 18 (14.52%) CI/CD
9 16 (12.90%) AI
9 16 (12.90%) TDD
10 14 (11.29%) BDD
11 13 (10.48%) Coaching
12 12 (9.68%) Design Patterns
13 10 (8.06%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (8.06%) Data Science
13 10 (8.06%) Platform Engineering
13 10 (8.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 8 (6.45%) Investment Management
14 8 (6.45%) Open Source
14 8 (6.45%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 124 (100.00%) Java
2 30 (24.19%) SQL
3 9 (7.26%) TypeScript
4 6 (4.84%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.42%) Kotlin
5 3 (2.42%) Python
6 2 (1.61%) Go
6 2 (1.61%) Groovy
7 1 (0.81%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (8.06%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.65%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.42%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.61%) Degree
5 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.61%) QA
System Software
1 6 (4.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (9.68%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.84%) Terraform
3 4 (3.23%) Packer
4 2 (1.61%) Ansible
4 2 (1.61%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.81%) Grafana
5 1 (0.81%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (3.23%) Oracle
2 2 (1.61%) AppDynamics
2 2 (1.61%) IBM
3 1 (0.81%) Adobe
3 1 (0.81%) Splunk