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 10 September 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 331 256
Rank change year-on-year -108 -75 +224
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 237 235 529
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.68% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.76% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 184 61 108
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £24,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £50,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £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 77,559 30,894 53,118
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.75% 89.36% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 54,042 17,645 31,784
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,500
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 £87,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 10 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 10 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 +56 143 £75,000 +9.09% 52
North West +53 89 £77,000 -12.50% 29
South West -100 36 £60,000 +9.09% 39
North East -34 30 £45,000 -30.77% 5
South East -13 25 £90,000 +28.57% 15
Yorkshire -23 24 £80,000 +65.80% 18
Midlands -41 24 £77,500 +29.17% 23
West Midlands -29 18 £85,000 +41.67% 14
Scotland -68 14 £70,000 - 83
East Midlands -20 6 £60,000 +150.00% 9
Northern Ireland -80 2 - - 15
Wales - 2 £60,750 - 1
East of England -31 1 £72,500 - 4
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 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.

1 237 (100.00%) Java
2 118 (49.79%) Software Engineering
3 94 (39.66%) Full-Stack Development
4 66 (27.85%) Spring
5 59 (24.89%) AWS
6 57 (24.05%) Agile
7 41 (17.30%) Spring Boot
8 33 (13.92%) AI
8 33 (13.92%) Microservices
9 31 (13.08%) CI/CD
10 28 (11.81%) Python
10 28 (11.81%) REST
11 27 (11.39%) Security Cleared
12 23 (9.70%) Mentoring
12 23 (9.70%) Test Automation
13 21 (8.86%) DevOps
13 21 (8.86%) Kubernetes
14 18 (7.59%) AngularJS
14 18 (7.59%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (7.59%) React
15 17 (7.17%) Serverless
15 17 (7.17%) SQL
16 16 (6.75%) Design Patterns
17 15 (6.33%) Docker
17 15 (6.33%) JavaScript
17 15 (6.33%) Secure Coding
18 14 (5.91%) Continuous Improvement
18 14 (5.91%) SC Cleared
19 13 (5.49%) SDLC
19 13 (5.49%) TDD

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 (0.84%) Confluence
1 2 (0.84%) SharePoint
1 2 (0.84%) Tomcat
1 2 (0.84%) WebSphere
2 1 (0.42%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.42%) JBoss
2 1 (0.42%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 59 (24.89%) AWS
2 17 (7.17%) Serverless
3 11 (4.64%) SaaS
4 9 (3.80%) Amazon EKS
4 9 (3.80%) Anthropic Claude
5 7 (2.95%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (2.53%) Azure
7 4 (1.69%) GitHub
8 3 (1.27%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.84%) GCP
9 2 (0.84%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.42%) Amazon MSK
10 1 (0.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.27%) Network Security
2 1 (0.42%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.42%) Modbus
2 1 (0.42%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (4.22%) Relational Database
3 7 (2.95%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.11%) MySQL
5 4 (1.69%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.84%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.84%) Redis
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.42%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 11 (4.64%) Jenkins
2 10 (4.22%) Claude Code
2 10 (4.22%) JUnit
3 9 (3.80%) Git
4 8 (3.38%) Mockito
5 7 (2.95%) GitLab
6 5 (2.11%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.69%) JIRA
7 4 (1.69%) JMeter
7 4 (1.69%) Selenium
7 4 (1.69%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.27%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.84%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.84%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.84%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.84%) Eclipse RCP
9 2 (0.84%) Maven
9 2 (0.84%) Mocha
General
1 16 (6.75%) Banking
2 11 (4.64%) Social Skills
3 10 (4.22%) Health Technology
4 9 (3.80%) Investment Banking
5 8 (3.38%) Finance
6 5 (2.11%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.69%) Digital Health
8 3 (1.27%) Front Office
8 3 (1.27%) iGaming
8 3 (1.27%) Law
8 3 (1.27%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.27%) Marketing
9 2 (0.84%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (0.84%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.42%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (27.85%) Spring
2 41 (17.30%) Spring Boot
3 28 (11.81%) REST
4 18 (7.59%) AngularJS
4 18 (7.59%) React
5 13 (5.49%) Vue
6 10 (4.22%) Kafka
7 7 (2.95%) Hibernate
7 7 (2.95%) HTML
7 7 (2.95%) RESTful
8 6 (2.53%) JSON
8 6 (2.53%) WireMock
9 5 (2.11%) Apache Camel
9 5 (2.11%) Node.js
9 5 (2.11%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (2.11%) Web Services
10 4 (1.69%) ActiveMQ
10 4 (1.69%) jQuery
10 4 (1.69%) Swing
10 4 (1.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.86%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.75%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.27%) Marketing Technology
4 3 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (0.84%) Life Science
5 2 (0.84%) Product Ownership
5 2 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (0.84%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.42%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.42%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.42%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.42%) IoT
6 1 (0.42%) NHS
6 1 (0.42%) Robotics
6 1 (0.42%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (49.79%) Software Engineering
2 94 (39.66%) Full-Stack Development
3 57 (24.05%) Agile
4 33 (13.92%) AI
4 33 (13.92%) Microservices
5 31 (13.08%) CI/CD
6 23 (9.70%) Mentoring
6 23 (9.70%) Test Automation
7 21 (8.86%) DevOps
8 18 (7.59%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (6.75%) Design Patterns
10 15 (6.33%) Secure Coding
11 14 (5.91%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (5.49%) SDLC
12 13 (5.49%) TDD
13 12 (5.06%) Observability
14 10 (4.22%) Architectural Patterns
14 10 (4.22%) Clean Code
14 10 (4.22%) Front End Development
15 8 (3.38%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 237 (100.00%) Java
2 28 (11.81%) Python
3 17 (7.17%) SQL
4 15 (6.33%) JavaScript
5 8 (3.38%) TypeScript
6 6 (2.53%) Scala
7 4 (1.69%) C++
7 4 (1.69%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.84%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 27 (11.39%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.91%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.53%) Degree
4 3 (1.27%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.27%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.42%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.53%) QA
2 4 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.84%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (6.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.42%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.42%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (8.86%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.69%) Kibana
3 3 (1.27%) Ansible
4 2 (0.84%) Packer
5 1 (0.42%) Grafana
5 1 (0.42%) MOM
5 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (1.69%) Dynatrace
1 4 (1.69%) IBM
1 4 (1.69%) Splunk
2 3 (1.27%) Adobe
3 2 (0.84%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.42%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.42%) Wonderware