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 £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 December 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 474 433 282
Rank change year-on-year -41 -151 +148
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 47 131 295
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.35% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.37% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 38 55 124
10th Percentile £25,575 £46,750 £41,500
25th Percentile £52,125 £51,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +21.74% +1.81%
75th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £89,500 £113,000 £84,750
UK median annual salary £100,000 £100,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +42.86% -20.00%

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 37,920 35,482 26,658
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.23% 93.47% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 23,015 17,792 20,250
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,070
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 22 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 22 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
North of England -7 14 £62,500 -3.85% 64
South East +17 11 £63,750 -20.31% 37
Scotland +7 9 £83,750 +4.69% 7
Midlands +29 7 £32,000 -44.35% 26
Yorkshire -9 7 £71,250 +35.71% 23
North West +15 5 £67,500 +3.85% 36
South West -21 5 £60,000 -18.64% 24
West Midlands +38 4 £37,000 -35.65% 11
East Midlands -3 3 £32,000 -28.89% 14
North East +2 2 £39,500 -50.63% 6
East of England - 1 £80,000 - 18
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 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 47 (100.00%) Java
2 26 (55.32%) Software Engineering
3 21 (44.68%) AWS
3 21 (44.68%) Spring
4 20 (42.55%) CI/CD
5 17 (36.17%) Mentoring
6 14 (29.79%) Agile
6 14 (29.79%) Full-Stack Development
7 12 (25.53%) DevOps
7 12 (25.53%) Spring Boot
8 10 (21.28%) Test Automation
9 9 (19.15%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (19.15%) SQL
10 8 (17.02%) Microservices
11 7 (14.89%) Coaching
11 7 (14.89%) E-Commerce
11 7 (14.89%) JavaScript
11 7 (14.89%) Jenkins
11 7 (14.89%) Kafka
11 7 (14.89%) Kubernetes
11 7 (14.89%) RESTful
12 6 (12.77%) Collaborative Culture
12 6 (12.77%) Event-Driven
13 5 (10.64%) Docker
13 5 (10.64%) GitHub
13 5 (10.64%) Hibernate
13 5 (10.64%) REST
13 5 (10.64%) TypeScript
14 4 (8.51%) API Integration
14 4 (8.51%) BDD

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 1 (2.13%) Apache Solr
1 1 (2.13%) CMS
1 1 (2.13%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 21 (44.68%) AWS
2 5 (10.64%) GitHub
3 4 (8.51%) SaaS
4 2 (4.26%) Amazon S3
4 2 (4.26%) Azure
4 2 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (4.26%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) AMQP
2 1 (2.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.15%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.38%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (6.38%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.26%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.26%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.13%) Couchbase
4 1 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.13%) MariaDB
4 1 (2.13%) MySQL
4 1 (2.13%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (14.89%) Jenkins
2 4 (8.51%) Cucumber
2 4 (8.51%) JMeter
2 4 (8.51%) JUnit
3 3 (6.38%) Git
4 2 (4.26%) Appium
4 2 (4.26%) Katalon Studio
4 2 (4.26%) REST Assured
4 2 (4.26%) Selenium
4 2 (4.26%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.13%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.13%) GitLab
5 1 (2.13%) TestNG
General
1 23 (48.94%) Finance
2 7 (14.89%) Games
3 6 (12.77%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (6.38%) Retail
5 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.26%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (4.26%) Tech for Good
6 1 (2.13%) Advertising
6 1 (2.13%) Aviation
6 1 (2.13%) Banking
6 1 (2.13%) Health Technology
6 1 (2.13%) Legal
6 1 (2.13%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (44.68%) Spring
2 12 (25.53%) Spring Boot
3 7 (14.89%) Kafka
3 7 (14.89%) RESTful
4 5 (10.64%) Hibernate
4 5 (10.64%) REST
5 4 (8.51%) React
6 3 (6.38%) Micronaut
6 3 (6.38%) Node.js
6 3 (6.38%) SOAP
7 2 (4.26%) J2EE
7 2 (4.26%) Playwright
7 2 (4.26%) Web Services
8 1 (2.13%) ActiveMQ
8 1 (2.13%) CSS
8 1 (2.13%) GraphQL
8 1 (2.13%) HTML
8 1 (2.13%) MACH
8 1 (2.13%) Vert.x
8 1 (2.13%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.38%) Cloud Native
1 3 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (6.38%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.13%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.13%) NHS
2 1 (2.13%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (55.32%) Software Engineering
2 20 (42.55%) CI/CD
3 17 (36.17%) Mentoring
4 14 (29.79%) Agile
4 14 (29.79%) Full-Stack Development
5 12 (25.53%) DevOps
6 10 (21.28%) Test Automation
7 8 (17.02%) Microservices
8 7 (14.89%) Coaching
8 7 (14.89%) E-Commerce
9 6 (12.77%) Collaborative Culture
9 6 (12.77%) Event-Driven
10 4 (8.51%) API Integration
10 4 (8.51%) BDD
10 4 (8.51%) Technical Leadership
11 3 (6.38%) AI
11 3 (6.38%) Architectural Patterns
11 3 (6.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 3 (6.38%) Observability
11 3 (6.38%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 47 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (19.15%) SQL
3 7 (14.89%) JavaScript
4 5 (10.64%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.26%) Go
5 2 (4.26%) Python
6 1 (2.13%) Groovy
6 1 (2.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (6.38%) Degree
2 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) QA
System Software
1 5 (10.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (14.89%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.38%) Terraform
3 2 (4.26%) Ansible
3 2 (4.26%) Grafana
3 2 (4.26%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.13%) Istio
4 1 (2.13%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (4.26%) Splunk
1 2 (4.26%) VMware
2 1 (2.13%) Oracle