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 25 November 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 426 392
Rank change year-on-year +65 -34 +56
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 143 172 160
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.39% 0.36% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.39% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 43 77 121
10th Percentile £24,450 £24,000 £41,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +13.04% -
75th Percentile £81,875 £90,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £98,000 £107,000 £83,750
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 33,414 44,440 28,399
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.16% 94.28% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 21,092 23,792 21,514
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,727 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £54,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.22% -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 25 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 25 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 +65 86 £83,750 +67.50% 2
North of England +12 21 £62,500 -7.41% 3
South West +4 14 £60,000 -11.11% 7
North West +29 11 £80,000 +23.08% 2
South East +23 11 £63,750 -8.93% 21
Midlands +59 10 £57,500 - 5
Yorkshire +18 8 £70,000 +33.33% 1
West Midlands +54 7 £62,500 +8.70% 5
East Midlands +32 3 £32,000 -28.89%
North East +12 2 £39,500 -50.63%
East of England +22 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 25 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.

1 143 (100.00%) Java
2 117 (81.82%) Software Engineering
3 103 (72.03%) Agile
4 90 (62.94%) Spring
5 87 (60.84%) CI/CD
6 86 (60.14%) SDLC
7 68 (47.55%) AWS
7 68 (47.55%) Operational Stability
8 57 (39.86%) AI
9 54 (37.76%) Machine Learning
10 46 (32.17%) Spring Boot
11 44 (30.77%) SQL
12 43 (30.07%) Community of Practice
12 43 (30.07%) React
13 42 (29.37%) Full-Stack Development
14 41 (28.67%) Kafka
15 37 (25.87%) Continuous Improvement
16 33 (23.08%) Visualisation
17 31 (21.68%) Kubernetes
18 28 (19.58%) Decision-Making
19 26 (18.18%) Oracle
20 23 (16.08%) Problem-Solving
20 23 (16.08%) RESTful
21 22 (15.38%) AngularJS
21 22 (15.38%) Mentoring
22 21 (14.69%) JavaScript
23 20 (13.99%) TypeScript
24 19 (13.29%) DevOps
24 19 (13.29%) Jenkins
24 19 (13.29%) Microservices

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 (4.90%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.10%) Camunda
2 3 (2.10%) Cloud Foundry
2 3 (2.10%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.70%) Apache
3 1 (0.70%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.70%) CMS
3 1 (0.70%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 68 (47.55%) AWS
2 11 (7.69%) Azure
3 9 (6.29%) Amazon S3
3 9 (6.29%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (6.29%) GitHub
3 9 (6.29%) Serverless
4 7 (4.90%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (4.20%) GCP
6 5 (3.50%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.80%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (2.80%) SaaS
8 3 (2.10%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (2.10%) Amazon MSK
8 3 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.40%) BlazeMeter
9 2 (1.40%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.70%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.70%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.40%) AMQP
1 2 (1.40%) Internet
2 1 (0.70%) HTTP
2 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.49%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (9.79%) NoSQL
3 12 (8.39%) Relational Database
4 11 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
5 9 (6.29%) MongoDB
6 8 (5.59%) Big Data
6 8 (5.59%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (5.59%) KDB
7 7 (4.90%) RDBMS
8 6 (4.20%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (4.20%) Kdb+
9 5 (3.50%) Oracle Database
10 4 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (2.80%) Apache Hive
10 4 (2.80%) Hadoop
10 4 (2.80%) HBase
10 4 (2.80%) InterSystems Cache
11 3 (2.10%) Electronic Patient Records
12 2 (1.40%) MySQL
12 2 (1.40%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (13.29%) Jenkins
2 13 (9.09%) Git
2 13 (9.09%) JUnit
2 13 (9.09%) Maven
3 4 (2.80%) Cucumber
3 4 (2.80%) Gradle
3 4 (2.80%) JMeter
3 4 (2.80%) Selenium
4 3 (2.10%) GitLab
4 3 (2.10%) Subversion
5 2 (1.40%) Appium
5 2 (1.40%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.40%) Katalon Studio
5 2 (1.40%) Mockito
5 2 (1.40%) REST Assured
5 2 (1.40%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.70%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.70%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.70%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.70%) webpack
General
1 112 (78.32%) Finance
2 88 (61.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 85 (59.44%) Law
4 43 (30.07%) Banking
5 40 (27.97%) Marketing
6 25 (17.48%) Social Skills
7 18 (12.59%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (9.09%) Legal
9 7 (4.90%) Games
10 6 (4.20%) Investment Banking
11 3 (2.10%) Advertising
11 3 (2.10%) Electronics
11 3 (2.10%) Financial Institution
11 3 (2.10%) Manufacturing
11 3 (2.10%) Private Banking
11 3 (2.10%) Retail
12 2 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.40%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.40%) Tech for Good
12 2 (1.40%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (62.94%) Spring
2 46 (32.17%) Spring Boot
3 43 (30.07%) React
4 41 (28.67%) Kafka
5 23 (16.08%) RESTful
6 22 (15.38%) AngularJS
7 19 (13.29%) REST
8 16 (11.19%) Hibernate
9 10 (6.99%) Web Services
10 8 (5.59%) FIX Protocol
10 8 (5.59%) JPA
11 6 (4.20%) HTML
11 6 (4.20%) J2EE
11 6 (4.20%) Node.js
11 6 (4.20%) OpenID
11 6 (4.20%) SOAP
12 5 (3.50%) jQuery
12 5 (3.50%) OAuth
12 5 (3.50%) OAuth2
12 5 (3.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (23.08%) Algorithms
1 33 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.69%) Public Cloud
3 7 (4.90%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (4.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (4.20%) Reference Data
5 4 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.10%) Credit Risk
6 3 (2.10%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.10%) Derivative
6 3 (2.10%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.10%) Equities
6 3 (2.10%) Fixed Income
6 3 (2.10%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.70%) Life Science
7 1 (0.70%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.20%) Linux
1 6 (4.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (81.82%) Software Engineering
2 103 (72.03%) Agile
3 87 (60.84%) CI/CD
4 86 (60.14%) SDLC
5 68 (47.55%) Operational Stability
6 57 (39.86%) AI
7 54 (37.76%) Machine Learning
8 43 (30.07%) Community of Practice
9 42 (29.37%) Full-Stack Development
10 37 (25.87%) Continuous Improvement
11 33 (23.08%) Visualisation
12 28 (19.58%) Decision-Making
13 23 (16.08%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (15.38%) Mentoring
15 19 (13.29%) DevOps
15 19 (13.29%) Microservices
15 19 (13.29%) TDD
15 19 (13.29%) Test Automation
16 15 (10.49%) Information Architecture
16 15 (10.49%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 143 (100.00%) Java
2 44 (30.77%) SQL
3 21 (14.69%) JavaScript
4 20 (13.99%) TypeScript
5 19 (13.29%) Python
6 9 (6.29%) Go
7 7 (4.90%) C#
8 5 (3.50%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.10%) Scala
9 3 (2.10%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.70%) C++
10 1 (0.70%) Groovy
10 1 (0.70%) Ruby
10 1 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 6 (4.20%) Degree
2 5 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.10%) DV Cleared
3 3 (2.10%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.40%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.10%) QA
System Software
1 14 (9.79%) Docker
2 4 (2.80%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 31 (21.68%) Kubernetes
2 12 (8.39%) Terraform
3 6 (4.20%) Grafana
4 3 (2.10%) Netcool
4 3 (2.10%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 3 (2.10%) Tivoli
5 2 (1.40%) Ansible
5 2 (1.40%) Kibana
5 2 (1.40%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.70%) Istio
Vendors
1 26 (18.18%) Oracle
2 9 (6.29%) Splunk
3 7 (4.90%) Dynatrace
4 6 (4.20%) Google
5 5 (3.50%) Databricks
5 5 (3.50%) Facebook
6 4 (2.80%) Cloudera
7 3 (2.10%) IBM
7 3 (2.10%) Microsoft
7 3 (2.10%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.40%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.40%) SAP
8 2 (1.40%) Solace
8 2 (1.40%) Sybase
8 2 (1.40%) TIBCO
8 2 (1.40%) VMware
9 1 (0.70%) Atlassian