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 17 June 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 296 210
Rank change year-on-year -126 -86 +333
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 180 255 951
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.86% 1.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.96% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 137 74 220
10th Percentile £45,000 £35,500 £24,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,313 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,438 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,250 £91,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £107,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -25.58% +43.33% -16.67%

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 63,568 26,499 74,878
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 89.04% 94.83%
Number of salaries quoted 44,047 14,332 53,600
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,296 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 +34 108 £70,000 +7.69% 31
North West +40 73 £80,000 +23.08% 16
South West -90 25 £60,000 -50.00% 11
South East -11 24 £90,000 +28.57% 31
Midlands -13 23 £50,000 -16.67% 17
North East -30 21 £24,000 -63.08% 4
West Midlands -16 17 £50,000 -16.67% 7
Yorkshire -34 14 £80,000 +128.57% 11
Scotland -75 5 £45,000 -20.00% 23
East Midlands - 5 £60,000 - 10
East of England -15 2 £73,750 - 22
Northern Ireland -36 2 - - 15
Wales - 1 £57,500 - 6
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 June 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.

1 180 (100.00%) Java
2 98 (54.44%) Software Engineering
3 75 (41.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 65 (36.11%) Spring
5 56 (31.11%) AWS
6 50 (27.78%) Agile
7 44 (24.44%) Spring Boot
8 37 (20.56%) Microservices
9 35 (19.44%) Mentoring
10 31 (17.22%) SQL
11 30 (16.67%) Test Automation
12 27 (15.00%) AI
13 25 (13.89%) REST
14 24 (13.33%) DevOps
15 20 (11.11%) AngularJS
15 20 (11.11%) TDD
16 19 (10.56%) CI/CD
16 19 (10.56%) Kubernetes
17 18 (10.00%) Design Patterns
17 18 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
17 18 (10.00%) React
18 16 (8.89%) BDD
19 15 (8.33%) NoSQL
19 15 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
19 15 (8.33%) Serverless
20 14 (7.78%) Claude Code
20 14 (7.78%) SaaS
20 14 (7.78%) Secure Coding
20 14 (7.78%) Vue
21 13 (7.22%) Anthropic Claude

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 (1.11%) Confluence
2 1 (0.56%) JBoss
2 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 56 (31.11%) AWS
2 15 (8.33%) Serverless
3 14 (7.78%) SaaS
4 13 (7.22%) Anthropic Claude
5 9 (5.00%) Azure
6 8 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.11%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.56%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.56%) Modbus
1 1 (0.56%) Network Security
1 1 (0.56%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 11 (6.11%) MySQL
4 10 (5.56%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.33%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.22%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (7.78%) Claude Code
2 7 (3.89%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.33%) JUnit
4 5 (2.78%) Git
5 4 (2.22%) GitLab
5 4 (2.22%) JIRA
5 4 (2.22%) JMeter
5 4 (2.22%) Mockito
6 3 (1.67%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.11%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.11%) Mocha
7 2 (1.11%) Selenium
7 2 (1.11%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.11%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.56%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.56%) Maven
General
1 14 (7.78%) Public Sector
2 9 (5.00%) Banking
2 9 (5.00%) Investment Banking
3 6 (3.33%) Finance
4 5 (2.78%) Health Technology
5 3 (1.67%) Marketing
5 3 (1.67%) Social Skills
6 1 (0.56%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.56%) Automotive
6 1 (0.56%) Aviation
6 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.56%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (36.11%) Spring
2 44 (24.44%) Spring Boot
3 25 (13.89%) REST
4 20 (11.11%) AngularJS
5 18 (10.00%) React
6 14 (7.78%) Vue
7 10 (5.56%) RESTful
8 6 (3.33%) HTML
8 6 (3.33%) JSON
8 6 (3.33%) Kafka
9 5 (2.78%) Apache Camel
9 5 (2.78%) Node.js
9 5 (2.78%) Web Services
10 4 (2.22%) ActiveMQ
10 4 (2.22%) Hibernate
10 4 (2.22%) jQuery
10 4 (2.22%) WireMock
10 4 (2.22%) XML
11 3 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (1.67%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 17 (9.44%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.67%) Marketing Technology
4 3 (1.67%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.11%) NHS
6 1 (0.56%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.56%) IoT
6 1 (0.56%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.56%) Robotics
6 1 (0.56%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (54.44%) Software Engineering
2 75 (41.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 50 (27.78%) Agile
4 37 (20.56%) Microservices
5 35 (19.44%) Mentoring
6 30 (16.67%) Test Automation
7 27 (15.00%) AI
8 24 (13.33%) DevOps
9 20 (11.11%) TDD
10 19 (10.56%) CI/CD
11 18 (10.00%) Design Patterns
12 16 (8.89%) BDD
13 15 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (7.78%) Secure Coding
15 13 (7.22%) Continuous Improvement
15 13 (7.22%) Platform Engineering
16 12 (6.67%) Clean Code
16 12 (6.67%) Data Science
16 12 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 10 (5.56%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 180 (100.00%) Java
2 31 (17.22%) SQL
3 12 (6.67%) JavaScript
3 12 (6.67%) Python
4 8 (4.44%) TypeScript
5 4 (2.22%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.67%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.11%) Groovy
8 1 (0.56%) Go
Qualifications
1 13 (7.22%) Security Cleared
2 8 (4.44%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.22%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.67%) Degree
5 2 (1.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.67%) QA
2 2 (1.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (7.22%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (10.56%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.33%) Terraform
3 4 (2.22%) Kibana
3 4 (2.22%) Packer
4 3 (1.67%) Ansible
5 2 (1.11%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.56%) MOM
Vendors
1 4 (2.22%) Dynatrace
1 4 (2.22%) Splunk
2 3 (1.67%) Adobe
2 3 (1.67%) Oracle
3 2 (1.11%) AppDynamics
3 2 (1.11%) IBM
4 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.56%) Wonderware