Java Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Java Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Java Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 183 492 372
Rank change year-on-year +309 -120 -72
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 1,075 293 639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.54% 0.47% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.62% 0.53% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 216 164 379
10th Percentile £41,875 £37,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,813 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £72,813 £77,715 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,592 £92,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £90,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -22.22% +24.14% +16.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 66,266 55,558 67,659
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.27% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,071 31,423 43,057
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,292
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,606 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Java Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in the UK excluding London

Java Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Java Engineer 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 24 April 2024.

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 24 April 2024. 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 +158 816 £55,000 -21.43% 8
North of England +54 92 £65,465 +2.69% 13
North West +28 65 £65,000 -8.62% 11
South West +19 65 £52,500 -19.23% 20
South East +39 55 £70,000 -12.50% 9
Midlands -23 28 £60,000 +14.29% 6
West Midlands +26 25 £60,000 +3.02% 5
Yorkshire +71 20 £65,465 +24.69% 1
Northern Ireland +30 9 £107,500 - 3
North East +8 7 £65,465 +39.29% 1
Wales +9 5 £55,000 -15.38% 1
East of England +5 5 £80,000 +23.08% 3
East Midlands -38 3 - - 1
Java Engineer
UK

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Java Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number 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 1,075 (100.00%) Java
2 1,003 (93.30%) Software Engineering
3 901 (83.81%) Agile
4 816 (75.91%) Finance
5 807 (75.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 785 (73.02%) Law
7 707 (65.77%) SDLC
8 672 (62.51%) Operational Stability
9 670 (62.33%) CI/CD
10 592 (55.07%) Artificial Intelligence
11 576 (53.58%) Machine Learning
12 562 (52.28%) Spring
13 515 (47.91%) SQL
14 460 (42.79%) AWS
15 408 (37.95%) Community of Practice
16 325 (30.23%) Microservices
17 320 (29.77%) React
18 310 (28.84%) AngularJS
19 298 (27.72%) Marketing
20 297 (27.63%) Continuous Improvement
21 291 (27.07%) Visualisation
22 283 (26.33%) Risk Management
23 275 (25.58%) Full Stack Development
24 273 (25.40%) NoSQL
25 269 (25.02%) Algorithms
26 263 (24.47%) Cloud Native
27 259 (24.09%) Legal
28 253 (23.53%) Spring Boot
29 246 (22.88%) Kafka
30 234 (21.77%) Banking

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 193 (17.95%) Apache Spark
2 40 (3.72%) FileNet
3 31 (2.88%) Cloud Foundry
4 23 (2.14%) Apache
4 23 (2.14%) JBoss
4 23 (2.14%) Red Hat Fuse
5 21 (1.95%) GemFire
6 16 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.37%) MQSeries
8 2 (0.19%) Confluence
9 1 (0.093%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 460 (42.79%) AWS
2 134 (12.47%) Azure
3 60 (5.58%) GCP
4 43 (4.00%) Amazon S3
5 41 (3.81%) Serverless
6 40 (3.72%) BlazeMeter
7 31 (2.88%) GitHub
8 30 (2.79%) Amazon EKS
9 18 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (1.49%) Amazon ECS
11 15 (1.40%) Amazon SQS
12 13 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (1.21%) Amazon EMR
13 12 (1.12%) IBM Cloud
14 7 (0.65%) SaaS
15 5 (0.47%) Azure DevOps
16 4 (0.37%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (0.37%) npm
17 3 (0.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 2 (0.19%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.58%) Kerberos
2 9 (0.84%) Network Security
3 1 (0.093%) Internet
3 1 (0.093%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 273 (25.40%) NoSQL
2 181 (16.84%) Big Data
3 115 (10.70%) MongoDB
4 94 (8.74%) Apache Cassandra
5 86 (8.00%) Elasticsearch
6 84 (7.81%) Hadoop
7 53 (4.93%) MySQL
8 51 (4.74%) Relational Database
9 38 (3.53%) CockroachDB
10 35 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
11 30 (2.79%) Apache Hive
12 21 (1.95%) Hazelcast
13 17 (1.58%) Amazon Aurora
14 16 (1.49%) HBase
15 15 (1.40%) RDBMS
16 12 (1.12%) Electronic Patient Records
17 6 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
17 6 (0.56%) CouchDB
18 5 (0.47%) Oracle Database
18 5 (0.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 128 (11.91%) JUnit
2 86 (8.00%) Cypress.io
3 81 (7.53%) Jasmine
4 67 (6.23%) Jenkins
5 65 (6.05%) Selenium
6 63 (5.86%) Git
7 60 (5.58%) Karma Test Runner
7 60 (5.58%) Protractor
7 60 (5.58%) WebDriver
8 39 (3.63%) Maven
9 36 (3.35%) IntelliJ
10 27 (2.51%) Cucumber
11 26 (2.42%) Mockito
12 25 (2.33%) JMeter
13 21 (1.95%) Jaeger
14 18 (1.67%) Gradle
15 11 (1.02%) JIRA
16 7 (0.65%) GitLab
17 5 (0.47%) Robot Framework
18 4 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 816 (75.91%) Finance
2 807 (75.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 785 (73.02%) Law
4 298 (27.72%) Marketing
5 259 (24.09%) Legal
6 234 (21.77%) Banking
7 169 (15.72%) Investment Banking
8 96 (8.93%) Influencing Skills
9 73 (6.79%) Social Skills
10 71 (6.60%) Public Sector
11 56 (5.21%) Private Banking
12 22 (2.05%) Prime Brokerage
13 20 (1.86%) Financial Institution
14 18 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
15 8 (0.74%) Games
15 8 (0.74%) Retail
16 4 (0.37%) Manufacturing
17 3 (0.28%) Aerospace
17 3 (0.28%) Health Technology
17 3 (0.28%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 562 (52.28%) Spring
2 320 (29.77%) React
3 310 (28.84%) AngularJS
4 253 (23.53%) Spring Boot
5 246 (22.88%) Kafka
6 192 (17.86%) J2EE
7 159 (14.79%) Hibernate
8 151 (14.05%) HTML
9 123 (11.44%) Node.js
10 122 (11.35%) JMS
10 122 (11.35%) JSON
10 122 (11.35%) REST
11 116 (10.79%) CSS
12 114 (10.60%) RESTful
13 111 (10.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 84 (7.81%) jQuery
14 84 (7.81%) Web Services
15 78 (7.26%) JPA
16 72 (6.70%) XML
17 61 (5.67%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 269 (25.02%) Algorithms
2 263 (24.47%) Cloud Native
3 100 (9.30%) Public Cloud
4 75 (6.98%) Data Structures
5 70 (6.51%) Onboarding
6 47 (4.37%) Reference Data
7 43 (4.00%) Legacy Code
8 34 (3.16%) Private Cloud
9 25 (2.33%) Market Risk
10 22 (2.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 21 (1.95%) Replication
12 12 (1.12%) Credit Risk
13 10 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (0.74%) Blockchain
14 8 (0.74%) Client/Server
14 8 (0.74%) e-Learning
14 8 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
15 6 (0.56%) Distributed Systems
15 6 (0.56%) PropTech
16 4 (0.37%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 41 (3.81%) Unix
2 34 (3.16%) Linux
3 10 (0.93%) Windows
4 4 (0.37%) AIX
4 4 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,003 (93.30%) Software Engineering
2 901 (83.81%) Agile
3 707 (65.77%) SDLC
4 672 (62.51%) Operational Stability
5 670 (62.33%) CI/CD
6 592 (55.07%) Artificial Intelligence
7 576 (53.58%) Machine Learning
8 408 (37.95%) Community of Practice
9 325 (30.23%) Microservices
10 297 (27.63%) Continuous Improvement
11 291 (27.07%) Visualisation
12 283 (26.33%) Risk Management
13 275 (25.58%) Full Stack Development
14 215 (20.00%) Decision-Making
15 170 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
16 169 (15.72%) TDD
17 133 (12.37%) Architectural Design
18 131 (12.19%) BDD
19 118 (10.98%) Performance Tuning
20 115 (10.70%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1,075 (100.00%) Java
2 515 (47.91%) SQL
3 150 (13.95%) JavaScript
4 139 (12.93%) Scala
5 121 (11.26%) Python
6 116 (10.79%) TypeScript
7 36 (3.35%) C#
8 22 (2.05%) Groovy
9 18 (1.67%) Ruby
10 14 (1.30%) Kotlin
11 6 (0.56%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.47%) C++
13 3 (0.28%) C
14 2 (0.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 39 (3.63%) Security Cleared
2 33 (3.07%) Degree
2 33 (3.07%) SC Cleared
3 7 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (0.56%) Master's Degree
5 4 (0.37%) PhD
6 1 (0.093%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.093%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.093%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.093%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.42%) SLA
2 17 (1.58%) QA
3 14 (1.30%) Accessibility
System Software
1 85 (7.91%) Docker
2 17 (1.58%) HDFS
3 1 (0.093%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 137 (12.74%) Kubernetes
2 68 (6.33%) Terraform
3 44 (4.09%) Grafana
4 22 (2.05%) Prometheus
5 21 (1.95%) HAProxy
5 21 (1.95%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (1.95%) Kibana
5 21 (1.95%) Zipkin
6 7 (0.65%) Graphite
7 6 (0.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 165 (15.35%) Oracle
2 54 (5.02%) Databricks
3 47 (4.37%) Splunk
4 41 (3.81%) Dynatrace
5 28 (2.60%) Google
6 18 (1.67%) SaltStack
7 17 (1.58%) Cloudera
8 13 (1.21%) IBM
9 9 (0.84%) TOWER Software
10 8 (0.74%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.37%) Confluent
11 4 (0.37%) Solace
11 4 (0.37%) TIBCO
12 3 (0.28%) YouTube
13 2 (0.19%) Microsoft
14 1 (0.093%) Informatica