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 £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 September 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 322 266
Rank change year-on-year -100 -56 +186
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 255 237 474
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.69% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.77% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 197 62 104
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £24,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £84,500 £92,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £110,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -29.55% +10.00% +17.65%

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 78,697 30,688 52,634
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 89.33% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 54,596 17,458 30,845
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,572
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 17 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 17 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 +57 150 £75,000 +7.14% 93
North West +45 93 £75,000 -14.77% 55
South West -89 40 £60,000 +9.09% 71
North East -39 30 £45,000 -30.77% 13
Midlands -34 29 £70,000 +16.67% 30
Yorkshire -17 27 £80,000 +14.29% 25
South East -40 27 £90,000 +28.57% 31
West Midlands -33 21 £85,000 +41.67% 19
Scotland -71 14 £70,000 - 129
East Midlands -35 8 £60,000 +150.00% 11
Northern Ireland -77 2 - - 23
Wales - 2 £60,750 - 5
East of England -35 1 £72,500 -9.38% 6
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 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.

1 255 (100.00%) Java
2 124 (48.63%) Software Engineering
3 104 (40.78%) Full-Stack Development
4 67 (26.27%) Spring
5 62 (24.31%) Agile
6 58 (22.75%) AWS
7 41 (16.08%) Spring Boot
8 34 (13.33%) Microservices
9 33 (12.94%) CI/CD
10 31 (12.16%) AI
10 31 (12.16%) Python
11 28 (10.98%) REST
11 28 (10.98%) Security Cleared
12 25 (9.80%) Mentoring
13 23 (9.02%) Kubernetes
14 22 (8.63%) DevOps
14 22 (8.63%) Test Automation
15 19 (7.45%) AngularJS
15 19 (7.45%) React
16 18 (7.06%) Design Patterns
16 18 (7.06%) Docker
16 18 (7.06%) Problem-Solving
16 18 (7.06%) Serverless
17 17 (6.67%) SQL
18 16 (6.27%) JavaScript
18 16 (6.27%) Secure Coding
19 15 (5.88%) SC Cleared
19 15 (5.88%) SDLC
20 14 (5.49%) Continuous Improvement
20 14 (5.49%) Observability

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 2 (0.78%) Confluence
1 2 (0.78%) SharePoint
1 2 (0.78%) Tomcat
1 2 (0.78%) WebSphere
2 1 (0.39%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.39%) JBoss
2 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 58 (22.75%) AWS
2 18 (7.06%) Serverless
3 10 (3.92%) SaaS
4 9 (3.53%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (3.14%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (3.14%) Anthropic Claude
6 7 (2.75%) Azure
7 6 (2.35%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (1.57%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.57%) GitHub
9 3 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.78%) GCP
10 2 (0.78%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.39%) Amazon ECR
11 1 (0.39%) Amazon MSK
11 1 (0.39%) Apigee
11 1 (0.39%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.18%) Network Security
2 1 (0.39%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.39%) Modbus
2 1 (0.39%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (3.92%) Relational Database
3 7 (2.75%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.96%) MySQL
5 4 (1.57%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.57%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.78%) Redis
7 1 (0.39%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.39%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 12 (4.71%) Jenkins
2 10 (3.92%) Git
3 9 (3.53%) JUnit
4 8 (3.14%) Claude Code
4 8 (3.14%) GitLab
4 8 (3.14%) Mockito
5 5 (1.96%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.57%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.57%) JIRA
6 4 (1.57%) JMeter
6 4 (1.57%) Selenium
7 3 (1.18%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.18%) Maven
8 2 (0.78%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.78%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.78%) Eclipse RCP
8 2 (0.78%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.78%) Mocha
General
1 20 (7.84%) Banking
2 13 (5.10%) Social Skills
3 10 (3.92%) Health Technology
4 9 (3.53%) Investment Banking
5 7 (2.75%) Finance
6 5 (1.96%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.57%) Digital Health
8 3 (1.18%) Front Office
8 3 (1.18%) iGaming
8 3 (1.18%) Law
8 3 (1.18%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.18%) Marketing
9 2 (0.78%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.39%) Legal
10 1 (0.39%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (26.27%) Spring
2 41 (16.08%) Spring Boot
3 28 (10.98%) REST
4 19 (7.45%) AngularJS
4 19 (7.45%) React
5 13 (5.10%) Vue
6 12 (4.71%) Kafka
7 9 (3.53%) Hibernate
8 7 (2.75%) HTML
8 7 (2.75%) RESTful
9 6 (2.35%) JSON
9 6 (2.35%) WireMock
10 5 (1.96%) Apache Camel
10 5 (1.96%) Jest
10 5 (1.96%) JPA
10 5 (1.96%) Node.js
10 5 (1.96%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (1.96%) Web Services
11 4 (1.57%) Swing
11 4 (1.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.63%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.27%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.18%) Marketing Technology
4 3 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (0.78%) Life Science
5 2 (0.78%) Product Ownership
5 2 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (0.78%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.39%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.39%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.39%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.39%) IoT
6 1 (0.39%) NHS
6 1 (0.39%) Robotics
6 1 (0.39%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (48.63%) Software Engineering
2 104 (40.78%) Full-Stack Development
3 62 (24.31%) Agile
4 34 (13.33%) Microservices
5 33 (12.94%) CI/CD
6 31 (12.16%) AI
7 25 (9.80%) Mentoring
8 22 (8.63%) DevOps
8 22 (8.63%) Test Automation
9 18 (7.06%) Design Patterns
9 18 (7.06%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (6.27%) Secure Coding
11 15 (5.88%) SDLC
12 14 (5.49%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (5.49%) Observability
13 12 (4.71%) Front End Development
13 12 (4.71%) TDD
14 10 (3.92%) Architectural Patterns
15 9 (3.53%) Clean Code
16 8 (3.14%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 255 (100.00%) Java
2 31 (12.16%) Python
3 17 (6.67%) SQL
4 16 (6.27%) JavaScript
5 9 (3.53%) TypeScript
6 6 (2.35%) C++
6 6 (2.35%) Scala
7 4 (1.57%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.18%) Groovy
9 1 (0.39%) Bash
Qualifications
1 28 (10.98%) Security Cleared
2 15 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.35%) Degree
4 4 (1.57%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.18%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.78%) PhD
7 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.35%) QA
2 4 (1.57%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.78%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (7.06%) Docker
2 1 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.39%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 23 (9.02%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.57%) Kibana
3 3 (1.18%) Ansible
4 2 (0.78%) Packer
5 1 (0.39%) Grafana
5 1 (0.39%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.39%) MOM
5 1 (0.39%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (1.57%) Dynatrace
1 4 (1.57%) IBM
1 4 (1.57%) Splunk
2 3 (1.18%) Adobe
3 2 (0.78%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.39%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.39%) Wonderware