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 13 August 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 462 328 217
Rank change year-on-year -134 -111 +264
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 188 248 700
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.71% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.80% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 142 66 138
10th Percentile £45,000 £28,125 £30,825
25th Percentile £55,313 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £61,250 £65,232
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -6.10% -3.36%
75th Percentile £94,688 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £78,750 £83,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £110,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +15.79% +8.57%

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 72,860 31,084 56,821
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.41% 89.47% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 50,337 17,810 37,410
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% -3.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% - -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 13 August 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 13 August 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 +31 115 £70,000 +7.69% 40
North West +42 73 £85,000 +13.33% 25
South East -9 27 £90,000 +28.57% 18
North East -36 24 £24,000 -63.08% 7
South West -90 23 £60,000 +26.32% 27
Yorkshire -10 18 £80,000 +142.42% 8
Midlands -41 17 £60,000 - 25
West Midlands -31 14 £62,500 +4.17% 19
Scotland -65 11 £70,000 - 66
East Midlands -27 3 £60,000 +150.00% 6
Northern Ireland -74 2 - - 11
Wales - 2 £60,750 - 3
East of England -26 1 £72,500 - 6
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 August 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.

1 188 (100.00%) Java
2 92 (48.94%) Software Engineering
3 76 (40.43%) Full-Stack Development
4 61 (32.45%) Spring
5 60 (31.91%) AWS
6 43 (22.87%) Agile
7 37 (19.68%) Spring Boot
8 35 (18.62%) AI
9 34 (18.09%) Microservices
10 26 (13.83%) Mentoring
10 26 (13.83%) REST
11 24 (12.77%) CI/CD
12 23 (12.23%) Test Automation
13 22 (11.70%) Python
13 22 (11.70%) SQL
14 20 (10.64%) Security Cleared
15 19 (10.11%) AngularJS
15 19 (10.11%) DevOps
16 18 (9.57%) Kubernetes
17 16 (8.51%) Design Patterns
17 16 (8.51%) React
17 16 (8.51%) Serverless
18 15 (7.98%) Problem-Solving
18 15 (7.98%) Secure Coding
19 14 (7.45%) JavaScript
20 13 (6.91%) SaaS
20 13 (6.91%) TDD
20 13 (6.91%) Vue
21 12 (6.38%) Claude Code
21 12 (6.38%) 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 2 (1.06%) Confluence
2 1 (0.53%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.53%) JBoss
2 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.53%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.53%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 60 (31.91%) AWS
2 16 (8.51%) Serverless
3 13 (6.91%) SaaS
4 11 (5.85%) Anthropic Claude
5 8 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (3.72%) Azure
7 6 (3.19%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (3.19%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.06%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.06%) GitHub
10 1 (0.53%) GCP
10 1 (0.53%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.60%) Network Security
2 1 (0.53%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.53%) Modbus
2 1 (0.53%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (5.32%) NoSQL
3 8 (4.26%) Relational Database
4 7 (3.72%) MySQL
5 5 (2.66%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.13%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.06%) Redis
8 1 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.53%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 12 (6.38%) Claude Code
2 9 (4.79%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.26%) JUnit
4 7 (3.72%) Git
4 7 (3.72%) GitLab
5 6 (3.19%) Mockito
6 4 (2.13%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.13%) JIRA
6 4 (2.13%) JMeter
7 3 (1.60%) Selenium
7 3 (1.60%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.06%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.06%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.06%) Eclipse RCP
8 2 (1.06%) IntelliJ
8 2 (1.06%) Mocha
9 1 (0.53%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.53%) Maven
General
1 12 (6.38%) Banking
2 11 (5.85%) Health Technology
3 9 (4.79%) Investment Banking
3 9 (4.79%) Public Sector
3 9 (4.79%) Social Skills
4 5 (2.66%) Finance
5 4 (2.13%) Digital Health
6 3 (1.60%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.60%) Front Office
6 3 (1.60%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.60%) Marketing
7 2 (1.06%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.53%) iGaming
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (32.45%) Spring
2 37 (19.68%) Spring Boot
3 26 (13.83%) REST
4 19 (10.11%) AngularJS
5 16 (8.51%) React
6 13 (6.91%) Vue
7 8 (4.26%) Kafka
7 8 (4.26%) RESTful
8 6 (3.19%) HTML
8 6 (3.19%) JSON
9 5 (2.66%) Apache Camel
9 5 (2.66%) Node.js
9 5 (2.66%) Web Services
9 5 (2.66%) WireMock
10 4 (2.13%) ActiveMQ
10 4 (2.13%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (2.13%) jQuery
10 4 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (2.13%) Swing
10 4 (2.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.77%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.51%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.60%) Marketing Technology
4 3 (1.60%) NHS
4 3 (1.60%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.06%) Life Science
5 2 (1.06%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.06%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.53%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.53%) IoT
6 1 (0.53%) Robotics
6 1 (0.53%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (48.94%) Software Engineering
2 76 (40.43%) Full-Stack Development
3 43 (22.87%) Agile
4 35 (18.62%) AI
5 34 (18.09%) Microservices
6 26 (13.83%) Mentoring
7 24 (12.77%) CI/CD
8 23 (12.23%) Test Automation
9 19 (10.11%) DevOps
10 16 (8.51%) Design Patterns
11 15 (7.98%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (7.98%) Secure Coding
12 13 (6.91%) TDD
13 12 (6.38%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (5.85%) Observability
15 10 (5.32%) Architectural Patterns
15 10 (5.32%) Clean Code
16 9 (4.79%) Platform Engineering
16 9 (4.79%) SDLC
17 8 (4.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 188 (100.00%) Java
2 22 (11.70%) Python
2 22 (11.70%) SQL
3 14 (7.45%) JavaScript
4 8 (4.26%) TypeScript
5 5 (2.66%) Scala
6 4 (2.13%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.06%) C++
7 2 (1.06%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 20 (10.64%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.85%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.66%) Degree
4 3 (1.60%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.06%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.66%) QA
2 3 (1.60%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (5.85%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.53%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (9.57%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.13%) Kibana
2 4 (2.13%) Terraform
3 3 (1.60%) Ansible
4 2 (1.06%) Packer
5 1 (0.53%) Grafana
5 1 (0.53%) MOM
5 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (2.13%) Dynatrace
1 4 (2.13%) Splunk
2 3 (1.60%) Adobe
2 3 (1.60%) IBM
3 2 (1.06%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.53%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.53%) Wonderware