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 £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 431 181 485
Rank change year-on-year -250 +304 -113
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 120 1,084 281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.32% 1.54% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 1.62% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 79 213 152
10th Percentile £39,750 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £140,677 £91,250 £92,500
UK median annual salary £106,250 £70,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +51.79% -22.22% +20.00%

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 33,611 66,718 54,815
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.29% 94.80% 89.24%
Number of salaries quoted 18,667 47,265 31,119
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £52,750
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.21% +5.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

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 3 May 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 3 May 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
South West +94 43 £120,000 +128.57% 7
North of England +10 27 £65,000 -0.71% 37
South East +64 20 £70,000 - 48
North West -19 18 £65,000 -0.71% 21
Midlands +50 10 £60,000 - 17
West Midlands +37 10 £60,000 - 14
Northern Ireland +34 8 £55,000 -47.62% 4
Scotland -116 8 £80,000 +60.00% 8
Yorkshire +61 6 £35,000 -46.54% 10
East of England +48 4 - - 7
North East +45 3 £65,000 -0.71% 6
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, 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.

1 120 (100.00%) Java
2 59 (49.17%) Agile
3 52 (43.33%) Software Engineering
4 45 (37.50%) Microservices
5 44 (36.67%) AWS
5 44 (36.67%) Spring
6 41 (34.17%) CI/CD
7 39 (32.50%) Finance
8 37 (30.83%) Docker
9 35 (29.17%) Spring Boot
10 32 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence
10 32 (26.67%) Public Sector
11 29 (24.17%) Test Automation
11 29 (24.17%) Kubernetes
11 29 (24.17%) SDLC
12 24 (20.00%) DevOps
12 24 (20.00%) Social Skills
13 23 (19.17%) Hybrid Cloud
14 22 (18.33%) Azure
14 22 (18.33%) Kafka
15 21 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
16 20 (16.67%) Containerisation
16 20 (16.67%) Design Patterns
17 19 (15.83%) OO
18 18 (15.00%) JavaScript
18 18 (15.00%) Multithreading
19 16 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
20 15 (12.50%) Code Quality
20 15 (12.50%) Git
21 14 (11.67%) RESTful

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 6 (5.00%) Tomcat
2 5 (4.17%) Apache
2 5 (4.17%) nginx
3 4 (3.33%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.33%) Confluence
3 4 (3.33%) GemFire
4 1 (0.83%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 44 (36.67%) AWS
2 22 (18.33%) Azure
3 14 (11.67%) GCP
4 8 (6.67%) npm
5 6 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (4.17%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 5 (4.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 4 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (3.33%) SaaS
7 4 (3.33%) Serverless
8 3 (2.50%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.83%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (0.83%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.83%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (0.83%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.83%) Azure Service Fabric
10 1 (0.83%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.67%) Network Security
2 1 (0.83%) Internet
2 1 (0.83%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.67%) Relational Database
2 12 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 10 (8.33%) MySQL
4 6 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (5.00%) NoSQL
5 5 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.33%) Apache Ignite
6 4 (3.33%) Big Data
6 4 (3.33%) DB2
6 4 (3.33%) InterSystems Cache
6 4 (3.33%) RDBMS
6 4 (3.33%) Redis
7 3 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.67%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.67%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.83%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.83%) KDB
Development Applications
1 15 (12.50%) Git
2 13 (10.83%) Cucumber
3 11 (9.17%) Jenkins
4 8 (6.67%) Cypress.io
4 8 (6.67%) Selenium
4 8 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (6.67%) webpack
5 7 (5.83%) JUnit
5 7 (5.83%) TestNG
6 5 (4.17%) Bitbucket
6 5 (4.17%) JIRA
6 5 (4.17%) Maven
6 5 (4.17%) Mockito
6 5 (4.17%) Postman
6 5 (4.17%) SonarQube
7 4 (3.33%) NetBeans
8 1 (0.83%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.83%) Gradle
8 1 (0.83%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.83%) LabVIEW
General
1 39 (32.50%) Finance
2 32 (26.67%) Public Sector
3 24 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 12 (10.00%) Banking
5 9 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (6.67%) Law
7 7 (5.83%) Advertising
8 5 (4.17%) Manufacturing
8 5 (4.17%) Online Betting
8 5 (4.17%) Retail
9 3 (2.50%) Front Office
10 2 (1.67%) Cantonese Language
10 2 (1.67%) Games
10 2 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.67%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.83%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (36.67%) Spring
2 35 (29.17%) Spring Boot
3 22 (18.33%) Kafka
4 14 (11.67%) RESTful
5 10 (8.33%) React
5 10 (8.33%) REST
6 9 (7.50%) HTML
6 9 (7.50%) RabbitMQ
7 8 (6.67%) CSS
7 8 (6.67%) Jest
7 8 (6.67%) Web Services
8 7 (5.83%) Middleware
9 6 (5.00%) OpenAPI
9 6 (5.00%) Swagger
9 6 (5.00%) XML
10 5 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (4.17%) Gherkin
10 5 (4.17%) JAX-RS
10 5 (4.17%) Mustache
10 5 (4.17%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 23 (19.17%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (11.67%) Cloud Native
3 9 (7.50%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (7.50%) Public Cloud
4 8 (6.67%) Distributed Applications
4 8 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (4.17%) Data Structures
5 5 (4.17%) Life Science
6 4 (3.33%) Algorithms
6 4 (3.33%) Derivative
6 4 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.33%) Smartphone
7 3 (2.50%) Credit Derivative
7 3 (2.50%) Equities
7 3 (2.50%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.67%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.67%) Online Games
8 2 (1.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.83%) Linux
2 5 (4.17%) Unix
3 1 (0.83%) Solaris
3 1 (0.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (49.17%) Agile
2 52 (43.33%) Software Engineering
3 45 (37.50%) Microservices
4 41 (34.17%) CI/CD
5 32 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence
6 29 (24.17%) SDLC
6 29 (24.17%) Test Automation
7 24 (20.00%) DevOps
8 21 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (16.67%) Containerisation
9 20 (16.67%) Design Patterns
10 19 (15.83%) OO
11 18 (15.00%) Multithreading
12 16 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
13 15 (12.50%) Code Quality
14 12 (10.00%) Architectural Design
14 12 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
14 12 (10.00%) End-to-End Testing
15 11 (9.17%) OOP
15 11 (9.17%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 120 (100.00%) Java
2 18 (15.00%) JavaScript
3 12 (10.00%) SQL
4 7 (5.83%) Python
5 6 (5.00%) C#
6 4 (3.33%) Rust
7 3 (2.50%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.67%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.67%) Scala
8 2 (1.67%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.83%) Bash
9 1 (0.83%) Fortran
9 1 (0.83%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.83%) PHP
9 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (8.33%) Degree
2 5 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.50%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.67%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.67%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.83%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.17%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.33%) Def Stans
2 4 (3.33%) IEC 61508
3 1 (0.83%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.83%) QA
System Software
1 37 (30.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (24.17%) Kubernetes
2 11 (9.17%) Terraform
3 8 (6.67%) Ansible
4 5 (4.17%) Kustomize
4 5 (4.17%) Packer
5 4 (3.33%) Grafana
6 3 (2.50%) Control-M
6 3 (2.50%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.67%) Kibana
8 1 (0.83%) Argo
Vendors
1 8 (6.67%) Oracle
2 6 (5.00%) Red Hat
3 5 (4.17%) Solace
3 5 (4.17%) TIBCO
4 2 (1.67%) Dynatrace
4 2 (1.67%) Splunk
4 2 (1.67%) Sybase
5 1 (0.83%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.83%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.83%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.83%) BMC
5 1 (0.83%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.83%) Revolut
5 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow