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 £66,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 December 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 424 449 371
Rank change year-on-year +25 -78 +87
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 80 148 196
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.35% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.37% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 40 66 121
10th Percentile £26,025 £41,875 £41,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £66,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +15.22% +1.81%
75th Percentile £80,938 £91,500 £72,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £100,000 £100,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +37.93% -17.14%

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 35,626 40,138 27,761
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.70% 93.79% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 21,807 21,180 21,084
10th Percentile £27,625 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -

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 7 December 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 7 December 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 +23 37 £83,750 +67.50% 7
North of England -3 16 £70,000 +3.70% 16
South East +30 12 £60,000 -20.00% 25
Midlands +35 7 £32,000 -44.35% 1
North West +18 7 £80,000 +23.08% 12
South West -2 7 £60,000 -18.64% 6
Yorkshire -7 7 £71,250 +35.71% 1
West Midlands +32 4 £40,750 -29.13% 1
East Midlands +16 3 £32,000 -28.89%
North East +2 2 £39,500 -50.63% 3
East of England - 1 £80,000 - 1
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 December 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 80 (100.00%) Java
2 57 (71.25%) Software Engineering
3 45 (56.25%) Agile
3 45 (56.25%) Spring
4 44 (55.00%) CI/CD
5 37 (46.25%) AWS
6 32 (40.00%) SDLC
7 24 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 24 (30.00%) Operational Stability
8 23 (28.75%) SQL
9 22 (27.50%) AI
9 22 (27.50%) Spring Boot
10 19 (23.75%) Kafka
10 19 (23.75%) Machine Learning
10 19 (23.75%) Mentoring
11 18 (22.50%) React
12 16 (20.00%) Community of Practice
12 16 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (20.00%) Kubernetes
13 15 (18.75%) DevOps
13 15 (18.75%) Test Automation
14 13 (16.25%) Microservices
15 12 (15.00%) RESTful
15 12 (15.00%) Visualisation
16 11 (13.75%) JavaScript
16 11 (13.75%) Jenkins
16 11 (13.75%) REST
17 10 (12.50%) Decision-Making
17 10 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
18 9 (11.25%) AngularJS

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 3 (3.75%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.25%) Apache Solr
2 1 (1.25%) Camunda
2 1 (1.25%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.25%) CMS
2 1 (1.25%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 37 (46.25%) AWS
2 7 (8.75%) GitHub
3 5 (6.25%) Amazon S3
3 5 (6.25%) Azure
4 4 (5.00%) SaaS
5 3 (3.75%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (3.75%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (3.75%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (3.75%) Serverless
6 2 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.50%) GCP
6 2 (2.50%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.25%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (1.25%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.25%) BlazeMeter
7 1 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.50%) AMQP
2 1 (1.25%) HTTP
2 1 (1.25%) Internet
2 1 (1.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 6 (7.50%) Apache Cassandra
4 5 (6.25%) Relational Database
5 4 (5.00%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.75%) Big Data
6 3 (3.75%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (3.75%) KDB
6 3 (3.75%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.50%) Apache Hive
7 2 (2.50%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.50%) HBase
7 2 (2.50%) Kdb+
7 2 (2.50%) Redis
8 1 (1.25%) CockroachDB
8 1 (1.25%) Couchbase
8 1 (1.25%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (1.25%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 11 (13.75%) Jenkins
2 7 (8.75%) JUnit
3 6 (7.50%) Git
4 5 (6.25%) Maven
5 4 (5.00%) Cucumber
5 4 (5.00%) JMeter
6 3 (3.75%) Selenium
7 2 (2.50%) Appium
7 2 (2.50%) GitLab
7 2 (2.50%) Gradle
7 2 (2.50%) Katalon Studio
7 2 (2.50%) REST Assured
7 2 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.25%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.25%) Jasmine
8 1 (1.25%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (1.25%) Mockito
8 1 (1.25%) Protractor
8 1 (1.25%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.25%) webpack
General
1 55 (68.75%) Finance
2 33 (41.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 30 (37.50%) Law
4 16 (20.00%) Marketing
5 14 (17.50%) Banking
5 14 (17.50%) Social Skills
6 8 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (8.75%) Games
8 5 (6.25%) Legal
9 3 (3.75%) Advertising
9 3 (3.75%) Financial Institution
9 3 (3.75%) Retail
10 2 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.50%) Investment Banking
10 2 (2.50%) Tech for Good
11 1 (1.25%) Health Technology
11 1 (1.25%) Private Banking
11 1 (1.25%) Publishing
11 1 (1.25%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (56.25%) Spring
2 22 (27.50%) Spring Boot
3 19 (23.75%) Kafka
4 18 (22.50%) React
5 12 (15.00%) RESTful
6 11 (13.75%) REST
7 9 (11.25%) AngularJS
7 9 (11.25%) Hibernate
8 6 (7.50%) Web Services
9 4 (5.00%) J2EE
9 4 (5.00%) JPA
9 4 (5.00%) Node.js
9 4 (5.00%) SOAP
10 3 (3.75%) CSS
10 3 (3.75%) FIX Protocol
10 3 (3.75%) HTML
10 3 (3.75%) jQuery
10 3 (3.75%) Micronaut
10 3 (3.75%) OpenID
11 2 (2.50%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.25%) Cloud Native
2 12 (15.00%) Algorithms
3 5 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.00%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.50%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.50%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.25%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.25%) Derivative
7 1 (1.25%) Equities
7 1 (1.25%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.25%) IoT
7 1 (1.25%) Life Science
7 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.25%) NHS
7 1 (1.25%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.25%) Linux
2 2 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (71.25%) Software Engineering
2 45 (56.25%) Agile
3 44 (55.00%) CI/CD
4 32 (40.00%) SDLC
5 24 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 24 (30.00%) Operational Stability
6 22 (27.50%) AI
7 19 (23.75%) Machine Learning
7 19 (23.75%) Mentoring
8 16 (20.00%) Community of Practice
8 16 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (18.75%) DevOps
9 15 (18.75%) Test Automation
10 13 (16.25%) Microservices
11 12 (15.00%) Visualisation
12 10 (12.50%) Decision-Making
13 9 (11.25%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (11.25%) TDD
14 7 (8.75%) Coaching
14 7 (8.75%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 80 (100.00%) Java
2 23 (28.75%) SQL
3 11 (13.75%) JavaScript
4 9 (11.25%) TypeScript
5 7 (8.75%) Python
6 6 (7.50%) Go
7 3 (3.75%) C#
7 3 (3.75%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.25%) C++
8 1 (1.25%) Groovy
8 1 (1.25%) Ruby
8 1 (1.25%) Rust
8 1 (1.25%) Scala
8 1 (1.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (5.00%) Degree
2 3 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.75%) QA
System Software
1 7 (8.75%) Docker
2 2 (2.50%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 16 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.75%) Terraform
3 4 (5.00%) Grafana
4 2 (2.50%) Ansible
4 2 (2.50%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.25%) Istio
5 1 (1.25%) Kibana
5 1 (1.25%) Netcool
5 1 (1.25%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 1 (1.25%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 7 (8.75%) Oracle
2 5 (6.25%) Splunk
3 3 (3.75%) Dynatrace
3 3 (3.75%) Google
4 2 (2.50%) Cloudera
4 2 (2.50%) Databricks
4 2 (2.50%) Facebook
4 2 (2.50%) VMware
5 1 (1.25%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.25%) IBM
5 1 (1.25%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.25%) Solace
5 1 (1.25%) TIBCO