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 £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 November 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 387 440 395
Rank change year-on-year +53 -45 +48
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 131 163 171
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.35% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.37% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 41 73 122
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,950 £41,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% +1.81%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £73,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £109,000 £86,000
UK median annual salary £105,000 £100,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% +33.33% -11.76%

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 33,853 43,557 28,214
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.20% 94.15% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 21,405 23,215 21,341
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,750 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 29 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 29 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 +60 81 £83,750 +67.50% 1
North of England +21 18 £62,500 -7.41% 3
South East +32 12 £60,000 -14.29% 21
South West -5 12 £60,000 -11.11% 6
North West +33 8 £80,000 +23.08% 2
Yorkshire +1 8 £70,000 +33.33% 1
Midlands +56 7 £32,000 -44.35% 1
West Midlands +55 4 £40,750 -29.13% 1
East Midlands +28 3 £32,000 -28.89%
North East +8 2 £39,500 -50.63%
East of England +34 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 29 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.

1 131 (100.00%) Java
2 106 (80.92%) Software Engineering
3 94 (71.76%) Agile
4 83 (63.36%) CI/CD
5 82 (62.60%) Spring
6 81 (61.83%) SDLC
7 64 (48.85%) Operational Stability
8 59 (45.04%) AWS
9 55 (41.98%) AI
10 52 (39.69%) Machine Learning
11 42 (32.06%) Community of Practice
11 42 (32.06%) Spring Boot
12 41 (31.30%) SQL
13 40 (30.53%) Full-Stack Development
13 40 (30.53%) React
14 39 (29.77%) Kafka
15 36 (27.48%) Continuous Improvement
16 32 (24.43%) Visualisation
17 28 (21.37%) Kubernetes
18 27 (20.61%) Decision-Making
19 22 (16.79%) Mentoring
19 22 (16.79%) RESTful
20 21 (16.03%) Oracle
20 21 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
21 20 (15.27%) AngularJS
22 18 (13.74%) Jenkins
22 18 (13.74%) REST
23 17 (12.98%) DevOps
23 17 (12.98%) JavaScript
23 17 (12.98%) Microservices

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 6 (4.58%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.29%) Camunda
2 3 (2.29%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (1.53%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.76%) CMS
4 1 (0.76%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 59 (45.04%) AWS
2 9 (6.87%) Azure
2 9 (6.87%) GitHub
3 8 (6.11%) Amazon S3
4 6 (4.58%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (4.58%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (4.58%) Serverless
5 5 (3.82%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (3.05%) GCP
6 4 (3.05%) SaaS
7 3 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.53%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (1.53%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (1.53%) BlazeMeter
8 2 (1.53%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.76%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.76%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.53%) AMQP
1 2 (1.53%) Internet
2 1 (0.76%) HTTP
2 1 (0.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.92%) NoSQL
1 13 (9.92%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (9.16%) Relational Database
3 9 (6.87%) Apache Cassandra
4 8 (6.11%) KDB
5 7 (5.34%) Big Data
5 7 (5.34%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (5.34%) RDBMS
6 6 (4.58%) Kdb+
6 6 (4.58%) MongoDB
7 5 (3.82%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (3.82%) Oracle Database
8 3 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.29%) Apache Hive
8 3 (2.29%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.29%) HBase
8 3 (2.29%) InterSystems Cache
9 2 (1.53%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (1.53%) MySQL
9 2 (1.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (13.74%) Jenkins
2 11 (8.40%) Git
2 11 (8.40%) JUnit
2 11 (8.40%) Maven
3 4 (3.05%) Cucumber
3 4 (3.05%) JMeter
3 4 (3.05%) Selenium
4 3 (2.29%) Gradle
4 3 (2.29%) Subversion
5 2 (1.53%) Appium
5 2 (1.53%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.53%) GitLab
5 2 (1.53%) Katalon Studio
5 2 (1.53%) REST Assured
5 2 (1.53%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.76%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.76%) Mockito
6 1 (0.76%) Protractor
6 1 (0.76%) TestNG
6 1 (0.76%) WebDriver
General
1 105 (80.15%) Finance
2 82 (62.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 79 (60.31%) Law
4 38 (29.01%) Banking
5 36 (27.48%) Marketing
6 23 (17.56%) Social Skills
7 16 (12.21%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (9.92%) Legal
9 7 (5.34%) Games
10 5 (3.82%) Investment Banking
11 3 (2.29%) Advertising
11 3 (2.29%) Financial Institution
11 3 (2.29%) Private Banking
11 3 (2.29%) Retail
12 2 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.53%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.76%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.76%) Publishing
13 1 (0.76%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (62.60%) Spring
2 42 (32.06%) Spring Boot
3 40 (30.53%) React
4 39 (29.77%) Kafka
5 22 (16.79%) RESTful
6 20 (15.27%) AngularJS
7 18 (13.74%) REST
8 15 (11.45%) Hibernate
9 10 (7.63%) Web Services
10 8 (6.11%) FIX Protocol
11 7 (5.34%) JPA
12 6 (4.58%) J2EE
12 6 (4.58%) SOAP
13 5 (3.82%) HTML
13 5 (3.82%) OpenID
14 4 (3.05%) CSS
14 4 (3.05%) jQuery
14 4 (3.05%) Node.js
14 4 (3.05%) OAuth
14 4 (3.05%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 32 (24.43%) Algorithms
2 29 (22.14%) Cloud Native
3 11 (8.40%) Public Cloud
4 7 (5.34%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (4.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (4.58%) Reference Data
6 3 (2.29%) Credit Risk
6 3 (2.29%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.29%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.29%) Equities
6 3 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.29%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.53%) Derivative
7 2 (1.53%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.76%) IoT
8 1 (0.76%) Life Science
8 1 (0.76%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.76%) NHS
8 1 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.82%) Linux
2 3 (2.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (80.92%) Software Engineering
2 94 (71.76%) Agile
3 83 (63.36%) CI/CD
4 81 (61.83%) SDLC
5 64 (48.85%) Operational Stability
6 55 (41.98%) AI
7 52 (39.69%) Machine Learning
8 42 (32.06%) Community of Practice
9 40 (30.53%) Full-Stack Development
10 36 (27.48%) Continuous Improvement
11 32 (24.43%) Visualisation
12 27 (20.61%) Decision-Making
13 22 (16.79%) Mentoring
14 21 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (12.98%) DevOps
15 17 (12.98%) Microservices
15 17 (12.98%) Test Automation
16 15 (11.45%) Risk Management
16 15 (11.45%) TDD
17 13 (9.92%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 131 (100.00%) Java
2 41 (31.30%) SQL
3 17 (12.98%) JavaScript
4 15 (11.45%) TypeScript
5 14 (10.69%) Python
6 8 (6.11%) Go
7 7 (5.34%) C#
8 4 (3.05%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.29%) Scala
9 3 (2.29%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.76%) C++
10 1 (0.76%) Groovy
10 1 (0.76%) Ruby
10 1 (0.76%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (3.82%) Degree
2 4 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.53%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.29%) QA
System Software
1 10 (7.63%) Docker
2 3 (2.29%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 28 (21.37%) Kubernetes
2 12 (9.16%) Terraform
3 6 (4.58%) Grafana
4 3 (2.29%) Netcool
4 3 (2.29%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 3 (2.29%) Tivoli
5 2 (1.53%) Ansible
5 2 (1.53%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.76%) Istio
6 1 (0.76%) Kibana
Vendors
1 21 (16.03%) Oracle
2 9 (6.87%) Splunk
3 7 (5.34%) Dynatrace
4 5 (3.82%) Google
5 4 (3.05%) Databricks
5 4 (3.05%) Facebook
6 3 (2.29%) Cloudera
6 3 (2.29%) IBM
6 3 (2.29%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.29%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.53%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.53%) Solace
7 2 (1.53%) Sybase
7 2 (1.53%) TIBCO
7 2 (1.53%) VMware