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 21 November 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 424 401
Rank change year-on-year +72 -23 +64
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 173 176 157
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.47% 0.37% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.39% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 43 79 117
10th Percentile £24,450 £24,000 £41,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +4.35% +0.88%
75th Percentile £81,875 £85,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £98,000 £104,486 £84,750
UK median annual salary £105,000 £100,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% +33.33% -11.76%

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 33,279 44,784 28,801
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.09% 94.38% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 20,919 24,017 21,692
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £51,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £53,048 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.74% -4.17% -

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 21 November 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 21 November 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
Scotland +79 108 £83,750 +67.50% 4
North of England +11 25 £62,500 -7.41% 21
South West -1 18 £60,000 -4.00% 13
North West +21 15 £80,000 +23.08% 15
South East +32 11 £63,750 -8.93% 26
Midlands +61 10 £57,500 - 8
Yorkshire +12 8 £70,000 - 5
West Midlands +49 7 £62,500 +8.70% 5
East Midlands +31 3 £32,000 -28.89% 3
North East +2 2 £39,500 -50.63% 1
East of England +25 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 21 November 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.

1 173 (100.00%) Java
2 146 (84.39%) Software Engineering
3 132 (76.30%) Agile
4 114 (65.90%) Spring
5 111 (64.16%) SDLC
6 109 (63.01%) CI/CD
7 89 (51.45%) Operational Stability
8 84 (48.55%) AWS
9 73 (42.20%) AI
10 70 (40.46%) Machine Learning
11 61 (35.26%) Spring Boot
12 57 (32.95%) Community of Practice
13 56 (32.37%) Kafka
14 55 (31.79%) React
15 54 (31.21%) SQL
16 52 (30.06%) Full-Stack Development
17 48 (27.75%) Continuous Improvement
18 44 (25.43%) Visualisation
19 42 (24.28%) Kubernetes
20 35 (20.23%) Decision-Making
20 35 (20.23%) Oracle
21 29 (16.76%) AngularJS
21 29 (16.76%) Problem-Solving
21 29 (16.76%) RESTful
22 26 (15.03%) TDD
23 25 (14.45%) JavaScript
23 25 (14.45%) Microservices
24 24 (13.87%) DevOps
24 24 (13.87%) Mentoring
24 24 (13.87%) TypeScript

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 8 (4.62%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.31%) Camunda
2 4 (2.31%) Cloud Foundry
2 4 (2.31%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (1.73%) Confluence
4 1 (0.58%) Apache
4 1 (0.58%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.58%) CMS
4 1 (0.58%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 84 (48.55%) AWS
2 13 (7.51%) Azure
2 13 (7.51%) GitHub
3 11 (6.36%) Amazon S3
3 11 (6.36%) AWS Lambda
3 11 (6.36%) Serverless
4 9 (5.20%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (4.05%) GCP
6 6 (3.47%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (2.89%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (2.31%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (2.31%) Amazon MSK
8 4 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.31%) SaaS
9 3 (1.73%) BlazeMeter
9 3 (1.73%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.16%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.58%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (0.58%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.73%) Internet
2 2 (1.16%) AMQP
3 1 (0.58%) HTTP
3 1 (0.58%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.56%) NoSQL
1 20 (11.56%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (9.25%) Relational Database
3 14 (8.09%) Apache Cassandra
4 13 (7.51%) MongoDB
5 11 (6.36%) KDB
6 10 (5.78%) Big Data
6 10 (5.78%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (5.20%) RDBMS
8 8 (4.62%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (4.62%) Kdb+
9 7 (4.05%) Oracle Database
10 6 (3.47%) InterSystems Cache
11 5 (2.89%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (2.31%) Apache Hive
12 4 (2.31%) Electronic Patient Records
12 4 (2.31%) Hadoop
12 4 (2.31%) HBase
13 3 (1.73%) MySQL
14 2 (1.16%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (13.29%) Jenkins
2 16 (9.25%) Git
2 16 (9.25%) JUnit
2 16 (9.25%) Maven
3 8 (4.62%) Selenium
4 7 (4.05%) Cucumber
5 6 (3.47%) GitLab
6 4 (2.31%) Gradle
6 4 (2.31%) JIRA
6 4 (2.31%) JMeter
6 4 (2.31%) Subversion
7 3 (1.73%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.73%) Mockito
8 2 (1.16%) Appium
8 2 (1.16%) Katalon Studio
8 2 (1.16%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.58%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.58%) Protractor
9 1 (0.58%) webpack
General
1 141 (81.50%) Finance
2 114 (65.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 111 (64.16%) Law
4 58 (33.53%) Banking
5 49 (28.32%) Marketing
6 33 (19.08%) Social Skills
7 23 (13.29%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (9.83%) Legal
9 8 (4.62%) Investment Banking
10 7 (4.05%) Games
11 4 (2.31%) Private Banking
12 3 (1.73%) Advertising
12 3 (1.73%) Electronics
12 3 (1.73%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.73%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.73%) Retail
13 2 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.16%) Public Sector
13 2 (1.16%) Tech for Good
13 2 (1.16%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (65.90%) Spring
2 61 (35.26%) Spring Boot
3 56 (32.37%) Kafka
4 55 (31.79%) React
5 29 (16.76%) AngularJS
5 29 (16.76%) RESTful
6 22 (12.72%) REST
7 19 (10.98%) Hibernate
8 12 (6.94%) Web Services
9 11 (6.36%) FIX Protocol
10 9 (5.20%) JPA
11 8 (4.62%) HTML
12 7 (4.05%) J2EE
12 7 (4.05%) OpenID
12 7 (4.05%) SOAP
13 6 (3.47%) jQuery
13 6 (3.47%) Node.js
13 6 (3.47%) OAuth
13 6 (3.47%) OAuth2
13 6 (3.47%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (25.43%) Algorithms
2 42 (24.28%) Cloud Native
3 15 (8.67%) Public Cloud
4 8 (4.62%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (4.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (4.62%) Reference Data
5 4 (2.31%) Credit Risk
5 4 (2.31%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.31%) Derivative
5 4 (2.31%) Distributed Applications
5 4 (2.31%) Equities
5 4 (2.31%) Fixed Income
5 4 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.31%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.73%) Wiki
7 1 (0.58%) IoT
7 1 (0.58%) Life Science
7 1 (0.58%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.58%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.47%) Linux
1 6 (3.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (84.39%) Software Engineering
2 132 (76.30%) Agile
3 111 (64.16%) SDLC
4 109 (63.01%) CI/CD
5 89 (51.45%) Operational Stability
6 73 (42.20%) AI
7 70 (40.46%) Machine Learning
8 57 (32.95%) Community of Practice
9 52 (30.06%) Full-Stack Development
10 48 (27.75%) Continuous Improvement
11 44 (25.43%) Visualisation
12 35 (20.23%) Decision-Making
13 29 (16.76%) Problem-Solving
14 26 (15.03%) TDD
15 25 (14.45%) Microservices
16 24 (13.87%) DevOps
16 24 (13.87%) Mentoring
17 22 (12.72%) Test Automation
18 20 (11.56%) Information Architecture
18 20 (11.56%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 173 (100.00%) Java
2 54 (31.21%) SQL
3 25 (14.45%) JavaScript
4 24 (13.87%) TypeScript
5 22 (12.72%) Python
6 10 (5.78%) Go
7 9 (5.20%) C#
8 5 (2.89%) PL/SQL
9 4 (2.31%) Scala
9 4 (2.31%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.58%) C++
10 1 (0.58%) Groovy
10 1 (0.58%) Ruby
10 1 (0.58%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (4.05%) Degree
2 6 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.73%) AWS Certification
3 3 (1.73%) DV Cleared
3 3 (1.73%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.73%) QA
System Software
1 20 (11.56%) Docker
2 4 (2.31%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 42 (24.28%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.67%) Terraform
3 7 (4.05%) Grafana
4 4 (2.31%) Netcool
4 4 (2.31%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 4 (2.31%) Tivoli
5 2 (1.16%) Ansible
5 2 (1.16%) Kibana
5 2 (1.16%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.58%) Istio
Vendors
1 35 (20.23%) Oracle
2 11 (6.36%) Splunk
3 9 (5.20%) Dynatrace
4 7 (4.05%) Google
5 6 (3.47%) Databricks
5 6 (3.47%) Facebook
6 4 (2.31%) Cloudera
6 4 (2.31%) IBM
6 4 (2.31%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.31%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.73%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.73%) Solace
7 3 (1.73%) Sybase
7 3 (1.73%) TIBCO
8 2 (1.16%) SAP
8 2 (1.16%) VMware
9 1 (0.58%) Atlassian