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 15 October 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 323 415
Rank change year-on-year -69 +92 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 331 215 211
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.63% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.70% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 260 53 89
10th Percentile £49,829 £29,750 £24,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £89,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £107,500 £100,000
% change year-on-year -30.23% +7.50% +29.03%

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 80,403 30,800 47,820
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 89.55% 95.39%
Number of salaries quoted 55,684 17,423 26,302
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.35% -2.73% -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 15 October 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 15 October 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 +89 202 £75,000 +3.45% 19
North West +71 128 £75,000 -11.76% 13
South West -67 48 £70,000 +16.67% 8
North East -29 38 £45,000 -25.00% 4
Yorkshire -4 36 £78,500 +8.28% 2
Midlands -27 33 £70,000 +14.29% 6
South East -38 28 £92,500 +32.14% 4
West Midlands -34 26 £70,000 +12.00% 6
Scotland -63 17 £82,500 +17.86% 1
East Midlands -22 7 £60,000 +150.00%
East of England -43 4 £85,000 +6.25%
Northern Ireland -77 2 - -
Wales - 2 £60,750 -
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 October 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.

1 331 (100.00%) Java
2 173 (52.27%) Software Engineering
3 127 (38.37%) Full-Stack Development
4 80 (24.17%) Agile
5 78 (23.56%) AWS
6 66 (19.94%) Spring
7 41 (12.39%) Microservices
7 41 (12.39%) Spring Boot
8 40 (12.08%) CI/CD
9 36 (10.88%) Python
10 32 (9.67%) Security Cleared
11 31 (9.37%) AI
12 30 (9.06%) Kubernetes
13 28 (8.46%) Mentoring
13 28 (8.46%) REST
14 25 (7.55%) DevOps
14 25 (7.55%) Docker
15 22 (6.65%) Azure
15 22 (6.65%) TDD
16 20 (6.04%) SC Cleared
16 20 (6.04%) Test Automation
17 19 (5.74%) JavaScript
18 18 (5.44%) SDLC
19 17 (5.14%) Kafka
20 16 (4.83%) JUnit
20 16 (4.83%) Scrum
20 16 (4.83%) Serverless
21 15 (4.53%) Mockito
21 15 (4.53%) PostgreSQL
22 14 (4.23%) Front End Development

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 7 (2.11%) WebLogic
2 3 (0.91%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.91%) Tomcat
2 3 (0.91%) WebSphere
3 2 (0.60%) Confluence
4 1 (0.30%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.30%) JBoss
4 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 78 (23.56%) AWS
2 22 (6.65%) Azure
3 16 (4.83%) Serverless
4 8 (2.42%) Amazon ECS
4 8 (2.42%) SaaS
5 7 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (1.81%) GitHub
7 4 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (1.21%) Anthropic Claude
7 4 (1.21%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (0.91%) GCP
9 2 (0.60%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.60%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.30%) Amazon ECR
10 1 (0.30%) Amazon MSK
10 1 (0.30%) Apigee
10 1 (0.30%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.30%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (0.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.91%) Network Security
2 2 (0.60%) HTTP
3 1 (0.30%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.30%) Modbus
3 1 (0.30%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.53%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (3.02%) Relational Database
3 8 (2.42%) MongoDB
4 7 (2.11%) NoSQL
5 6 (1.81%) MySQL
6 4 (1.21%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.60%) Redis
8 1 (0.30%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.30%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 16 (4.83%) JUnit
2 15 (4.53%) Mockito
3 12 (3.63%) Jenkins
4 11 (3.32%) Git
5 8 (2.42%) GitLab
6 5 (1.51%) Selenium
7 4 (1.21%) Claude Code
7 4 (1.21%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.21%) JMeter
8 3 (0.91%) Maven
8 3 (0.91%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.60%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.60%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.60%) Eclipse RCP
9 2 (0.60%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.60%) JIRA
9 2 (0.60%) Mocha
General
1 23 (6.95%) Banking
2 18 (5.44%) Social Skills
3 15 (4.53%) Finance
4 12 (3.63%) Health Technology
5 8 (2.42%) Financial Institution
5 8 (2.42%) Public Sector
6 5 (1.51%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.21%) Digital Health
8 3 (0.91%) Front Office
8 3 (0.91%) iGaming
8 3 (0.91%) Law
8 3 (0.91%) Manufacturing
8 3 (0.91%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.60%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (0.60%) Marketing
10 1 (0.30%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (19.94%) Spring
2 41 (12.39%) Spring Boot
3 28 (8.46%) REST
4 17 (5.14%) Kafka
5 14 (4.23%) React
6 12 (3.63%) AngularJS
7 11 (3.32%) Vue
8 10 (3.02%) RESTful
9 9 (2.72%) Hibernate
9 9 (2.72%) HTML
10 6 (1.81%) Jest
10 6 (1.81%) WireMock
11 5 (1.51%) Apache Camel
11 5 (1.51%) CSS
11 5 (1.51%) JPA
11 5 (1.51%) Node.js
11 5 (1.51%) Web Services
12 4 (1.21%) jQuery
12 4 (1.21%) JSON
12 4 (1.21%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.97%) Cloud Native
2 13 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (0.60%) Life Science
6 2 (0.60%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (0.60%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.60%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.30%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.30%) IoT
7 1 (0.30%) NHS
7 1 (0.30%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.30%) Robotics
7 1 (0.30%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.60%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (52.27%) Software Engineering
2 127 (38.37%) Full-Stack Development
3 80 (24.17%) Agile
4 41 (12.39%) Microservices
5 40 (12.08%) CI/CD
6 31 (9.37%) AI
7 28 (8.46%) Mentoring
8 25 (7.55%) DevOps
9 22 (6.65%) TDD
10 20 (6.04%) Test Automation
11 18 (5.44%) SDLC
12 16 (4.83%) Scrum
13 14 (4.23%) Front End Development
13 14 (4.23%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (3.93%) Continuous Improvement
15 12 (3.63%) Digital Transformation Programme
16 11 (3.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
16 11 (3.32%) Collaborative Culture
16 11 (3.32%) Observability
17 10 (3.02%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 331 (100.00%) Java
2 36 (10.88%) Python
3 19 (5.74%) JavaScript
4 14 (4.23%) SQL
5 12 (3.63%) TypeScript
6 11 (3.32%) C++
6 11 (3.32%) Scala
7 4 (1.21%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.60%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.30%) Bash
9 1 (0.30%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 32 (9.67%) Security Cleared
2 20 (6.04%) SC Cleared
3 6 (1.81%) Degree
4 4 (1.21%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.60%) PhD
6 1 (0.30%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.30%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.51%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.21%) QA
3 3 (0.91%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (7.55%) Docker
2 1 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.30%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 30 (9.06%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.21%) Kibana
3 1 (0.30%) Ansible
3 1 (0.30%) Grafana
3 1 (0.30%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.30%) MOM
3 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (2.11%) Oracle
2 4 (1.21%) Dynatrace
2 4 (1.21%) Splunk
3 3 (0.91%) IBM
4 2 (0.60%) Adobe
5 1 (0.30%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.30%) Wonderware