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 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 230 393 474
Rank change year-on-year +163 +81 -123
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 722 319 476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.11% 0.66% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.17% 0.74% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 149 102 242
10th Percentile £33,250 £43,200 £40,399
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,447 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +15.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile £72,500 £89,577 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £97,186 £90,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £80,294
% change year-on-year - +12.09% +14.71%

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 61,941 43,162 74,370
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.65% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 41,460 27,696 44,286
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +126 572 £50,000 -33.82% 3
North of England -31 50 £65,465 -6.48% 10
South West -12 44 £58,750 -15.40% 7
South East -3 33 £68,750 -11.29% 2
North West -32 28 £65,465 -18.17% 7
Yorkshire +32 13 £65,465 +0.71% 1
West Midlands +3 13 £65,465 +9.11% 3
Midlands -34 13 £65,465 +30.93% 3
North East -3 9 £65,465 -12.71% 2
East of England -2 6 £80,000 +18.52%
Wales +11 2 £55,000 -18.52% 1
Northern Ireland -4 2 £105,000 - 8
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 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.

1 722 (100.00%) Java
2 657 (91.00%) Software Engineering
3 597 (82.69%) Agile
4 556 (77.01%) Finance
5 547 (75.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 531 (73.55%) Law
7 486 (67.31%) SDLC
8 463 (64.13%) CI/CD
9 446 (61.77%) Operational Stability
10 421 (58.31%) Artificial Intelligence
11 409 (56.65%) Machine Learning
12 359 (49.72%) Spring
13 347 (48.06%) SQL
14 301 (41.69%) Community of Practice
15 257 (35.60%) AWS
16 237 (32.83%) React
17 205 (28.39%) Continuous Improvement
18 202 (27.98%) Kafka
19 201 (27.84%) Visualisation
20 197 (27.29%) NoSQL
20 197 (27.29%) Cloud Native
21 194 (26.87%) Marketing
22 190 (26.32%) Risk Management
22 190 (26.32%) Microservices
23 186 (25.76%) Algorithms
24 185 (25.62%) Full Stack Development
25 176 (24.38%) AngularJS
26 166 (22.99%) Legal
27 164 (22.71%) Spring Boot
28 162 (22.44%) 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 84 (11.63%) Apache Spark
2 42 (5.82%) FileNet
3 32 (4.43%) Cloud Foundry
4 21 (2.91%) GemFire
5 3 (0.42%) Confluence
5 3 (0.42%) WildFly
6 2 (0.28%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.14%) JBoss
7 1 (0.14%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 257 (35.60%) AWS
2 88 (12.19%) Azure
3 45 (6.23%) Amazon S3
4 33 (4.57%) BlazeMeter
4 33 (4.57%) GitHub
5 31 (4.29%) GCP
6 6 (0.83%) Serverless
7 5 (0.69%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (0.69%) IBM Cloud
7 5 (0.69%) OpenShift
8 4 (0.55%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (0.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (0.42%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (0.42%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.28%) SaaS
10 2 (0.28%) WhatsApp
11 1 (0.14%) Amazon EMR
11 1 (0.14%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.14%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.35%) Kerberos
2 13 (1.80%) Network Security
3 1 (0.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (27.29%) NoSQL
2 88 (12.19%) Big Data
3 80 (11.08%) Apache Cassandra
4 71 (9.83%) MongoDB
5 67 (9.28%) Elasticsearch
6 38 (5.26%) CockroachDB
7 37 (5.12%) PostgreSQL
8 33 (4.57%) MySQL
9 23 (3.19%) Hadoop
9 23 (3.19%) Relational Database
10 21 (2.91%) Hazelcast
11 17 (2.35%) Amazon Aurora
12 11 (1.52%) RDBMS
13 7 (0.97%) Oracle Database
14 6 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
15 4 (0.55%) SQL Server
16 1 (0.14%) Apache Hive
16 1 (0.14%) Couchbase
16 1 (0.14%) CouchDB
16 1 (0.14%) GIS
Development Applications
1 118 (16.34%) JUnit
2 85 (11.77%) Cypress.io
3 81 (11.22%) Jasmine
4 65 (9.00%) Selenium
5 60 (8.31%) Karma Test Runner
5 60 (8.31%) Protractor
5 60 (8.31%) WebDriver
6 35 (4.85%) Jenkins
7 31 (4.29%) Git
8 29 (4.02%) Cucumber
9 28 (3.88%) JMeter
10 27 (3.74%) Maven
11 21 (2.91%) Jaeger
11 21 (2.91%) Mockito
12 13 (1.80%) JIRA
13 12 (1.66%) Gradle
14 8 (1.11%) IntelliJ
14 8 (1.11%) Subversion
15 6 (0.83%) GitLab
16 5 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 556 (77.01%) Finance
2 547 (75.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 531 (73.55%) Law
4 194 (26.87%) Marketing
5 166 (22.99%) Legal
6 162 (22.44%) Banking
7 150 (20.78%) Investment Banking
8 63 (8.73%) Social Skills
9 61 (8.45%) Influencing Skills
10 34 (4.71%) Public Sector
11 22 (3.05%) Prime Brokerage
12 15 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
13 9 (1.25%) Private Banking
14 6 (0.83%) Tech for Good
14 6 (0.83%) Wearables
15 5 (0.69%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.69%) Games
15 5 (0.69%) Retail
16 3 (0.42%) Electronics
16 3 (0.42%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 359 (49.72%) Spring
2 237 (32.83%) React
3 202 (27.98%) Kafka
4 176 (24.38%) AngularJS
5 164 (22.71%) Spring Boot
6 148 (20.50%) J2EE
7 131 (18.14%) HTML
8 120 (16.62%) Hibernate
9 115 (15.93%) Node.js
10 113 (15.65%) JMS
11 107 (14.82%) CSS
12 104 (14.40%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 92 (12.74%) JSON
14 83 (11.50%) jQuery
15 63 (8.73%) RESTful
16 61 (8.45%) GraphQL
17 60 (8.31%) Jest
18 55 (7.62%) REST
19 49 (6.79%) Web Services
20 46 (6.37%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 197 (27.29%) Cloud Native
2 186 (25.76%) Algorithms
3 61 (8.45%) Data Structures
4 53 (7.34%) Onboarding
5 36 (4.99%) Public Cloud
6 27 (3.74%) Market Risk
7 25 (3.46%) Reference Data
8 21 (2.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 21 (2.91%) Legacy Code
8 21 (2.91%) Replication
9 20 (2.77%) Private Cloud
10 14 (1.94%) Credit Risk
11 7 (0.97%) e-Learning
12 5 (0.69%) Blockchain
12 5 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (0.69%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.55%) Distributed Computing
13 4 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
14 3 (0.42%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.60%) Linux
2 25 (3.46%) Unix
3 7 (0.97%) Windows
4 5 (0.69%) AIX
5 2 (0.28%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.14%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 657 (91.00%) Software Engineering
2 597 (82.69%) Agile
3 486 (67.31%) SDLC
4 463 (64.13%) CI/CD
5 446 (61.77%) Operational Stability
6 421 (58.31%) Artificial Intelligence
7 409 (56.65%) Machine Learning
8 301 (41.69%) Community of Practice
9 205 (28.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 201 (27.84%) Visualisation
11 190 (26.32%) Microservices
11 190 (26.32%) Risk Management
12 185 (25.62%) Full Stack Development
13 158 (21.88%) TDD
14 135 (18.70%) Decision-Making
15 124 (17.17%) BDD
16 99 (13.71%) Architectural Design
17 93 (12.88%) Test Automation
18 89 (12.33%) Information Architecture
19 86 (11.91%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 722 (100.00%) Java
2 347 (48.06%) SQL
3 143 (19.81%) JavaScript
4 97 (13.43%) TypeScript
5 85 (11.77%) Scala
6 57 (7.89%) Python
7 22 (3.05%) Groovy
8 7 (0.97%) C#
8 7 (0.97%) C++
9 6 (0.83%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.55%) C
11 3 (0.42%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.14%) Fortran
12 1 (0.14%) Go
12 1 (0.14%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 12 (1.66%) Security Cleared
2 11 (1.52%) Degree
3 8 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (0.69%) Master's Degree
4 5 (0.69%) SC Cleared
5 4 (0.55%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (2.91%) QA
2 3 (0.42%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.14%) Def Stans
3 1 (0.14%) IEC 61508
3 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (5.82%) Docker
2 2 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 109 (15.10%) Kubernetes
2 36 (4.99%) Grafana
3 35 (4.85%) Terraform
4 22 (3.05%) Kibana
4 22 (3.05%) Prometheus
5 21 (2.91%) HAProxy
5 21 (2.91%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (2.91%) Zipkin
6 7 (0.97%) Graphite
7 3 (0.42%) Ansible
Vendors
1 128 (17.73%) Oracle
2 39 (5.40%) Splunk
3 38 (5.26%) Databricks
4 34 (4.71%) Dynatrace
5 19 (2.63%) Google
6 10 (1.39%) SaltStack
7 9 (1.25%) TOWER Software
8 7 (0.97%) IBM
9 6 (0.83%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.55%) Cognizant
11 3 (0.42%) Microsoft
12 2 (0.28%) Confluent
12 2 (0.28%) Solace
12 2 (0.28%) TIBCO
13 1 (0.14%) Atlassian
13 1 (0.14%) Cloudera
13 1 (0.14%) Informatica
13 1 (0.14%) SAP
13 1 (0.14%) YouTube