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 July 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 318 231
Rank change year-on-year -121 -87 +298
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 189 261 823
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.77% 1.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.86% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 138 80 184
10th Percentile £45,000 £32,300 £39,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -3.85% -6.40%
75th Percentile £92,813 £74,063 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £99,550 £91,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £107,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year -25.58% +19.44% -

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 67,746 30,184 69,521
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.70% 89.33% 94.83%
Number of salaries quoted 46,875 17,245 49,315
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,968 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.12%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,000 £64,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 15 July 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 July 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 +37 111 £70,000 +7.69% 18
North West +33 71 £85,000 +30.77% 11
South East -16 28 £90,000 +28.57% 18
South West -99 27 £60,000 -33.33% 8
Yorkshire -18 20 £80,000 +128.57% 5
Midlands -29 20 £60,000 - 10
North East -41 20 £24,000 -63.08% 2
West Midlands -32 14 £62,500 +4.17% 5
Scotland -66 8 £45,000 -35.71% 11
East Midlands -20 5 £60,000 +150.00% 5
East of England -22 2 £73,750 - 5
Northern Ireland -63 2 - - 5
Wales - 1 £57,500 - 3
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 July 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.

1 189 (100.00%) Java
2 105 (55.56%) Software Engineering
3 76 (40.21%) Full-Stack Development
4 67 (35.45%) Spring
5 65 (34.39%) AWS
6 51 (26.98%) Agile
7 45 (23.81%) Spring Boot
8 38 (20.11%) Microservices
9 34 (17.99%) AI
10 33 (17.46%) Mentoring
11 29 (15.34%) SQL
11 29 (15.34%) Test Automation
12 27 (14.29%) DevOps
13 26 (13.76%) REST
14 23 (12.17%) CI/CD
15 21 (11.11%) Kubernetes
16 20 (10.58%) AngularJS
17 19 (10.05%) PostgreSQL
18 18 (9.52%) Design Patterns
18 18 (9.52%) React
18 18 (9.52%) Serverless
18 18 (9.52%) TDD
19 17 (8.99%) Python
20 16 (8.47%) NoSQL
21 15 (7.94%) Problem-Solving
21 15 (7.94%) Secure Coding
22 14 (7.41%) BDD
22 14 (7.41%) Docker
22 14 (7.41%) Vue
23 13 (6.88%) Clean Code

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 (1.06%) Confluence
2 1 (0.53%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.53%) JBoss
2 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 65 (34.39%) AWS
2 18 (9.52%) Serverless
3 13 (6.88%) SaaS
4 11 (5.82%) Anthropic Claude
5 10 (5.29%) Azure
6 8 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.06%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.06%) GitHub
10 1 (0.53%) GCP
10 1 (0.53%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.53%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.53%) Modbus
1 1 (0.53%) Network Security
1 1 (0.53%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.05%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (8.47%) NoSQL
3 11 (5.82%) MySQL
4 10 (5.29%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.70%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.12%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.06%) Redis
8 1 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 12 (6.35%) Claude Code
2 9 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.70%) JUnit
4 6 (3.17%) Git
4 6 (3.17%) GitLab
5 5 (2.65%) Mockito
6 4 (2.12%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.12%) JIRA
6 4 (2.12%) JMeter
7 3 (1.59%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.06%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.06%) IntelliJ
8 2 (1.06%) Maven
8 2 (1.06%) Mocha
8 2 (1.06%) Selenium
8 2 (1.06%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.53%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.53%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 14 (7.41%) Public Sector
2 11 (5.82%) Banking
2 11 (5.82%) Health Technology
3 9 (4.76%) Investment Banking
4 6 (3.17%) Social Skills
5 5 (2.65%) Finance
6 4 (2.12%) Digital Health
7 3 (1.59%) Marketing
8 2 (1.06%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.06%) Front Office
8 2 (1.06%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.53%) Automotive
9 1 (0.53%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (35.45%) Spring
2 45 (23.81%) Spring Boot
3 26 (13.76%) REST
4 20 (10.58%) AngularJS
5 18 (9.52%) React
6 14 (7.41%) Vue
7 12 (6.35%) RESTful
8 7 (3.70%) Kafka
9 6 (3.17%) HTML
9 6 (3.17%) JSON
10 5 (2.65%) Apache Camel
10 5 (2.65%) Node.js
10 5 (2.65%) Web Services
10 5 (2.65%) WireMock
11 4 (2.12%) ActiveMQ
11 4 (2.12%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (2.12%) Hibernate
11 4 (2.12%) jQuery
11 4 (2.12%) XML
12 3 (1.59%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 29 (15.34%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.47%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.59%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (1.06%) NHS
5 2 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.53%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.53%) IoT
6 1 (0.53%) Life Science
6 1 (0.53%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.53%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.53%) Robotics
6 1 (0.53%) SCADA
6 1 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.12%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (55.56%) Software Engineering
2 76 (40.21%) Full-Stack Development
3 51 (26.98%) Agile
4 38 (20.11%) Microservices
5 34 (17.99%) AI
6 33 (17.46%) Mentoring
7 29 (15.34%) Test Automation
8 27 (14.29%) DevOps
9 23 (12.17%) CI/CD
10 18 (9.52%) Design Patterns
10 18 (9.52%) TDD
11 15 (7.94%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (7.94%) Secure Coding
12 14 (7.41%) BDD
13 13 (6.88%) Clean Code
13 13 (6.88%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (6.88%) Platform Engineering
14 12 (6.35%) Data Science
14 12 (6.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 11 (5.82%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 189 (100.00%) Java
2 29 (15.34%) SQL
3 17 (8.99%) Python
4 12 (6.35%) JavaScript
5 8 (4.23%) TypeScript
6 4 (2.12%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.06%) Groovy
7 2 (1.06%) Scala
8 1 (0.53%) C++
8 1 (0.53%) Go
8 1 (0.53%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 13 (6.88%) Security Cleared
2 6 (3.17%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.12%) Degree
3 4 (2.12%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.06%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.65%) QA
2 2 (1.06%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (7.41%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.53%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.17%) Terraform
3 4 (2.12%) Kibana
3 4 (2.12%) Packer
4 3 (1.59%) Ansible
5 2 (1.06%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.53%) Grafana
6 1 (0.53%) MOM
6 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (2.12%) Dynatrace
1 4 (2.12%) Splunk
2 3 (1.59%) Adobe
2 3 (1.59%) Oracle
3 2 (1.06%) AppDynamics
3 2 (1.06%) IBM
4 1 (0.53%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.53%) Wonderware