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 £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 December 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 464 438 290
Rank change year-on-year -26 -148 +144
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 49 137 278
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.34% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.37% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 39 59 124
10th Percentile £25,800 £45,500 £41,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +21.74% +1.81%
75th Percentile £81,875 £93,500 £72,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,000 £87,125
UK median annual salary £100,000 £100,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +42.86% -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 37,176 37,275 27,254
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.88% 93.78% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 22,452 19,197 20,612
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,119 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,430 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.45% -0.95% -

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 14 December 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 14 December 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
North of England -7 16 £70,000 +3.70% 17
South East +22 11 £63,750 -15.00% 16
Scotland +12 9 £83,750 +4.69% 5
Midlands +30 7 £32,000 -44.35% 5
North West +10 7 £80,000 +23.08% 12
Yorkshire -2 7 £71,250 +35.71% 3
South West -18 5 £60,000 -11.11% 3
West Midlands +29 4 £40,750 -29.13% 2
East Midlands +2 3 £32,000 -28.89% 3
North East -5 2 £39,500 -50.63% 3
East of England - 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 14 December 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 49 (100.00%) Java
2 26 (53.06%) Software Engineering
3 22 (44.90%) Spring
4 21 (42.86%) AWS
5 20 (40.82%) CI/CD
6 17 (34.69%) Mentoring
7 15 (30.61%) Agile
8 13 (26.53%) DevOps
8 13 (26.53%) Full-Stack Development
9 12 (24.49%) Spring Boot
10 11 (22.45%) SQL
11 10 (20.41%) Test Automation
12 9 (18.37%) Microservices
12 9 (18.37%) PostgreSQL
13 8 (16.33%) Kubernetes
14 7 (14.29%) Coaching
14 7 (14.29%) E-Commerce
14 7 (14.29%) JavaScript
14 7 (14.29%) Jenkins
14 7 (14.29%) Kafka
14 7 (14.29%) RESTful
15 6 (12.24%) Collaborative Culture
15 6 (12.24%) Event-Driven
15 6 (12.24%) Hibernate
15 6 (12.24%) REST
16 5 (10.20%) Docker
16 5 (10.20%) GitHub
16 5 (10.20%) React
16 5 (10.20%) TypeScript
17 4 (8.16%) AI

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 1 (2.04%) Apache Solr
1 1 (2.04%) CMS
1 1 (2.04%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 21 (42.86%) AWS
2 5 (10.20%) GitHub
3 4 (8.16%) SaaS
4 2 (4.08%) Amazon S3
4 2 (4.08%) Azure
4 2 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (4.08%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.08%) AMQP
2 1 (2.04%) HTTP
2 1 (2.04%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.37%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.12%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (6.12%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.08%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.08%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.04%) Couchbase
4 1 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.04%) Hazelcast
4 1 (2.04%) KDB
4 1 (2.04%) MariaDB
4 1 (2.04%) MySQL
4 1 (2.04%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.04%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 4 (8.16%) Cucumber
2 4 (8.16%) JMeter
2 4 (8.16%) JUnit
3 3 (6.12%) Git
4 2 (4.08%) Appium
4 2 (4.08%) GitLab
4 2 (4.08%) Katalon Studio
4 2 (4.08%) REST Assured
4 2 (4.08%) Selenium
4 2 (4.08%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.04%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.04%) TestNG
General
1 25 (51.02%) Finance
2 8 (16.33%) Social Skills
3 7 (14.29%) Games
4 3 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.12%) Financial Institution
4 3 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (6.12%) Retail
5 2 (4.08%) Advertising
5 2 (4.08%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (4.08%) Tech for Good
6 1 (2.04%) Banking
6 1 (2.04%) Health Technology
6 1 (2.04%) Legal
6 1 (2.04%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (44.90%) Spring
2 12 (24.49%) Spring Boot
3 7 (14.29%) Kafka
3 7 (14.29%) RESTful
4 6 (12.24%) Hibernate
4 6 (12.24%) REST
5 5 (10.20%) React
6 3 (6.12%) Micronaut
6 3 (6.12%) Node.js
6 3 (6.12%) SOAP
6 3 (6.12%) Web Services
7 2 (4.08%) AngularJS
7 2 (4.08%) J2EE
7 2 (4.08%) Playwright
8 1 (2.04%) CSS
8 1 (2.04%) GraphQL
8 1 (2.04%) HTML
8 1 (2.04%) MACH
8 1 (2.04%) Vert.x
8 1 (2.04%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.12%) Cloud Native
1 3 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (6.12%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (4.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.04%) IoT
3 1 (2.04%) Life Science
3 1 (2.04%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.04%) NHS
3 1 (2.04%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.16%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (53.06%) Software Engineering
2 20 (40.82%) CI/CD
3 17 (34.69%) Mentoring
4 15 (30.61%) Agile
5 13 (26.53%) DevOps
5 13 (26.53%) Full-Stack Development
6 10 (20.41%) Test Automation
7 9 (18.37%) Microservices
8 7 (14.29%) Coaching
8 7 (14.29%) E-Commerce
9 6 (12.24%) Collaborative Culture
9 6 (12.24%) Event-Driven
10 4 (8.16%) AI
10 4 (8.16%) API Integration
10 4 (8.16%) BDD
10 4 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (8.16%) Technical Leadership
11 3 (6.12%) Computer Science
11 3 (6.12%) Performance Testing
11 3 (6.12%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 49 (100.00%) Java
2 11 (22.45%) SQL
3 7 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 5 (10.20%) TypeScript
5 3 (6.12%) Python
6 2 (4.08%) Go
7 1 (2.04%) C#
7 1 (2.04%) Groovy
7 1 (2.04%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.04%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (6.12%) Degree
2 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.12%) QA
System Software
1 5 (10.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (16.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.12%) Terraform
3 2 (4.08%) Ansible
3 2 (4.08%) Grafana
3 2 (4.08%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.04%) Istio
4 1 (2.04%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (4.08%) Splunk
1 2 (4.08%) VMware
2 1 (2.04%) Bloomberg
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle
2 1 (2.04%) Solace
2 1 (2.04%) TIBCO