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 16 March 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 451 419 232
Rank change year-on-year -32 -187 +264
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 98 94 744
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.34% 1.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.38% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 83 57 220
10th Percentile £48,289 £32,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £84,375 £100,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £140,677 £91,250
UK median annual salary £81,250 £105,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year -22.62% +60.39% -25.94%

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 49,190 24,920 55,972
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.03% 90.19% 94.79%
Number of salaries quoted 31,218 14,459 42,509
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -5.65%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £64,294
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 16 March 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 16 March 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 -26 47 £65,000 +10.64% 19
North West -7 31 £70,000 +7.69% 5
South East -8 20 £80,000 +16.36% 12
Midlands -7 13 £50,000 -9.09% 4
Yorkshire -40 10 £55,000 +57.14% 10
South West -52 10 £60,000 -45.45% 5
West Midlands +3 8 £50,000 -11.11% 1
Scotland -16 7 £85,000 +6.25% 2
North East -20 6 £52,130 -22.77% 4
East Midlands -34 4 £60,000 +33.33% 3
East of England - 1 £75,000 - 1
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 March 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 98 (100.00%) Java
2 68 (69.39%) Software Engineering
3 35 (35.71%) AWS
4 34 (34.69%) Agile
5 29 (29.59%) Spring
6 23 (23.47%) SQL
7 22 (22.45%) Full-Stack Development
7 22 (22.45%) Mentoring
8 21 (21.43%) Spring Boot
9 19 (19.39%) Test Automation
10 18 (18.37%) Microservices
11 17 (17.35%) CI/CD
12 16 (16.33%) PostgreSQL
12 16 (16.33%) TDD
13 15 (15.31%) Coaching
13 15 (15.31%) DevOps
14 14 (14.29%) BDD
15 13 (13.27%) RESTful
16 11 (11.22%) NoSQL
17 10 (10.20%) AI
17 10 (10.20%) Azure
18 9 (9.18%) MongoDB
18 9 (9.18%) MySQL
19 8 (8.16%) Continuous Deployment
19 8 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
19 8 (8.16%) Investment Management
19 8 (8.16%) Kubernetes
19 8 (8.16%) Open Source
19 8 (8.16%) Operational Stability
19 8 (8.16%) Thought Leadership

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:

Cloud Services
1 35 (35.71%) AWS
2 10 (10.20%) Azure
3 6 (6.12%) SaaS
4 5 (5.10%) Anthropic Claude
5 3 (3.06%) GitHub
6 2 (2.04%) Serverless
7 1 (1.02%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.02%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.02%) AMQP
1 1 (1.02%) HTTP
1 1 (1.02%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.33%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (11.22%) NoSQL
3 9 (9.18%) MongoDB
3 9 (9.18%) MySQL
4 2 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.02%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.02%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.02%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.02%) Redis
5 1 (1.02%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (6.12%) Claude Code
2 4 (4.08%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.06%) Cucumber
3 3 (3.06%) JUnit
4 2 (2.04%) Git
4 2 (2.04%) JMeter
4 2 (2.04%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.02%) Appium
5 1 (1.02%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.02%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (1.02%) Maven
5 1 (1.02%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.02%) Selenium
5 1 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (21.43%) Finance
2 9 (9.18%) Public Sector
3 7 (7.14%) Games
4 3 (3.06%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (3.06%) Social Skills
5 2 (2.04%) Health Technology
5 2 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.04%) Retail
6 1 (1.02%) Advertising
6 1 (1.02%) Automotive
6 1 (1.02%) Aviation
6 1 (1.02%) Banking
6 1 (1.02%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.02%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (29.59%) Spring
2 21 (21.43%) Spring Boot
3 13 (13.27%) RESTful
4 7 (7.14%) React
5 6 (6.12%) Kafka
5 6 (6.12%) REST
6 3 (3.06%) AngularJS
6 3 (3.06%) Hibernate
6 3 (3.06%) J2EE
6 3 (3.06%) Node.js
6 3 (3.06%) OAuth
6 3 (3.06%) OAuth2
7 2 (2.04%) Micronaut
7 2 (2.04%) Playwright
7 2 (2.04%) SOAP
7 2 (2.04%) Vue
7 2 (2.04%) Web Services
8 1 (1.02%) .NET
8 1 (1.02%) Ruby on Rails
8 1 (1.02%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.24%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.06%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.06%) NHS
4 1 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (69.39%) Software Engineering
2 34 (34.69%) Agile
3 22 (22.45%) Full-Stack Development
3 22 (22.45%) Mentoring
4 19 (19.39%) Test Automation
5 18 (18.37%) Microservices
6 17 (17.35%) CI/CD
7 16 (16.33%) TDD
8 15 (15.31%) Coaching
8 15 (15.31%) DevOps
9 14 (14.29%) BDD
10 10 (10.20%) AI
11 8 (8.16%) Continuous Deployment
11 8 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (8.16%) Investment Management
11 8 (8.16%) Open Source
11 8 (8.16%) Operational Stability
11 8 (8.16%) Thought Leadership
12 7 (7.14%) Event-Driven
13 6 (6.12%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 98 (100.00%) Java
2 23 (23.47%) SQL
3 7 (7.14%) TypeScript
4 4 (4.08%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.06%) Go
5 3 (3.06%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.02%) Python
6 1 (1.02%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (3.06%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.04%) Degree
2 2 (2.04%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.02%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.04%) QA
System Software
1 6 (6.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (8.16%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.06%) Progress Chef
2 3 (3.06%) Terraform
3 2 (2.04%) Grafana
3 2 (2.04%) Packer
4 1 (1.02%) Ansible
4 1 (1.02%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (4.08%) Oracle
2 2 (2.04%) Splunk
3 1 (1.02%) VMware