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 £70,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 September 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 311 334
Rank change year-on-year -93 +23 +116
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 291 239 342
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.69% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.78% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 227 63 99
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £24,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £46,278
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,750 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.85% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £78,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £84,000 £92,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £107,500 £100,000
% change year-on-year -27.91% +7.50% +21.21%

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 80,009 30,777 51,939
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.17% 89.41% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 55,403 17,440 29,602
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 25 September 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 25 September 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 +68 172 £75,000 +5.26% 87
North West +54 109 £75,000 -14.77% 56
South West -87 44 £64,250 +12.72% 63
Yorkshire -7 32 £80,000 +12.28% 17
Midlands -31 32 £85,000 +41.67% 27
North East -44 31 £45,000 -30.77% 14
South East -40 29 £90,000 +28.57% 21
West Midlands -38 25 £85,000 +41.67% 16
Scotland -66 18 £70,000 - 115
East Midlands -27 7 £60,000 +150.00% 11
East of England -24 2 £78,750 -1.56% 1
Northern Ireland -92 2 - - 15
Wales - 2 £60,750 - 6
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 September 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.

1 291 (100.00%) Java
2 152 (52.23%) Software Engineering
3 115 (39.52%) Full-Stack Development
4 72 (24.74%) Agile
5 66 (22.68%) Spring
6 60 (20.62%) AWS
7 40 (13.75%) Spring Boot
8 33 (11.34%) Microservices
8 33 (11.34%) Python
9 32 (11.00%) CI/CD
10 31 (10.65%) AI
11 29 (9.97%) Security Cleared
12 27 (9.28%) REST
13 26 (8.93%) Mentoring
14 22 (7.56%) DevOps
15 21 (7.22%) Kubernetes
15 21 (7.22%) Test Automation
16 20 (6.87%) React
17 19 (6.53%) AngularJS
17 19 (6.53%) Problem-Solving
18 18 (6.19%) JavaScript
18 18 (6.19%) Serverless
19 17 (5.84%) Docker
20 16 (5.50%) Design Patterns
20 16 (5.50%) SC Cleared
20 16 (5.50%) SDLC
20 16 (5.50%) Secure Coding
21 15 (5.15%) SQL
22 14 (4.81%) Observability
23 13 (4.47%) Continuous Improvement

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 3 (1.03%) SharePoint
1 3 (1.03%) Tomcat
1 3 (1.03%) WebSphere
2 2 (0.69%) Confluence
3 1 (0.34%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.34%) JBoss
3 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 60 (20.62%) AWS
2 18 (6.19%) Serverless
3 11 (3.78%) Azure
4 10 (3.44%) SaaS
5 9 (3.09%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (2.41%) Anthropic Claude
8 6 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (1.37%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.37%) GitHub
10 2 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.69%) GCP
10 2 (0.69%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.34%) Amazon ECR
11 1 (0.34%) Amazon MSK
11 1 (0.34%) Apigee
11 1 (0.34%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.03%) Network Security
2 1 (0.34%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.34%) HTTP
2 1 (0.34%) Modbus
2 1 (0.34%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.78%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (3.44%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.72%) MySQL
3 5 (1.72%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.37%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.37%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.69%) Redis
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.34%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 12 (4.12%) Jenkins
2 11 (3.78%) Git
3 10 (3.44%) JUnit
4 9 (3.09%) Mockito
5 8 (2.75%) GitLab
6 7 (2.41%) Claude Code
7 5 (1.72%) Selenium
7 5 (1.72%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.37%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.37%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.37%) JIRA
8 4 (1.37%) JMeter
9 3 (1.03%) Maven
10 2 (0.69%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.69%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.69%) Eclipse RCP
10 2 (0.69%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.69%) Mocha
General
1 21 (7.22%) Banking
2 14 (4.81%) Social Skills
3 12 (4.12%) Finance
4 11 (3.78%) Health Technology
5 9 (3.09%) Investment Banking
6 6 (2.06%) Public Sector
7 5 (1.72%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.37%) Digital Health
9 3 (1.03%) Front Office
9 3 (1.03%) iGaming
9 3 (1.03%) Law
9 3 (1.03%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.03%) Marketing
10 2 (0.69%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (0.69%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.34%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (22.68%) Spring
2 40 (13.75%) Spring Boot
3 27 (9.28%) REST
4 20 (6.87%) React
5 19 (6.53%) AngularJS
6 13 (4.47%) Vue
7 11 (3.78%) Kafka
8 9 (3.09%) Hibernate
9 7 (2.41%) HTML
9 7 (2.41%) RESTful
10 6 (2.06%) Jest
10 6 (2.06%) JSON
10 6 (2.06%) WireMock
11 5 (1.72%) Apache Camel
11 5 (1.72%) JPA
11 5 (1.72%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (1.72%) Web Services
12 4 (1.37%) ActiveMQ
12 4 (1.37%) Swing
12 4 (1.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.90%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.50%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.03%) Marketing Technology
4 3 (1.03%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (0.69%) Life Science
5 2 (0.69%) Product Ownership
5 2 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (0.69%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.34%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.34%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.34%) IoT
6 1 (0.34%) NHS
6 1 (0.34%) Robotics
6 1 (0.34%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.37%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (52.23%) Software Engineering
2 115 (39.52%) Full-Stack Development
3 72 (24.74%) Agile
4 33 (11.34%) Microservices
5 32 (11.00%) CI/CD
6 31 (10.65%) AI
7 26 (8.93%) Mentoring
8 22 (7.56%) DevOps
9 21 (7.22%) Test Automation
10 19 (6.53%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (5.50%) Design Patterns
11 16 (5.50%) SDLC
11 16 (5.50%) Secure Coding
12 14 (4.81%) Observability
13 13 (4.47%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (4.47%) TDD
14 12 (4.12%) Front End Development
15 10 (3.44%) Architectural Patterns
16 9 (3.09%) Clean Code
16 9 (3.09%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 291 (100.00%) Java
2 33 (11.34%) Python
3 18 (6.19%) JavaScript
4 15 (5.15%) SQL
5 9 (3.09%) C++
6 8 (2.75%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.41%) Scala
8 4 (1.37%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.03%) Groovy
10 1 (0.34%) Bash
Qualifications
1 29 (9.97%) Security Cleared
2 16 (5.50%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.06%) Degree
4 4 (1.37%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.03%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.69%) PhD
7 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.06%) QA
2 5 (1.72%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.03%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (5.84%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.34%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (7.22%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.37%) Kibana
3 3 (1.03%) Ansible
4 2 (0.69%) Packer
5 1 (0.34%) Grafana
5 1 (0.34%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.34%) MOM
5 1 (0.34%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (1.72%) IBM
2 4 (1.37%) Dynatrace
2 4 (1.37%) Splunk
3 3 (1.03%) Adobe
4 2 (0.69%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.34%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.34%) Wonderware