Java Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Java Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Java Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 183 500 378
Rank change year-on-year +317 -122 -62
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 1,084 275 617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.54% 0.45% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.62% 0.50% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 213 145 355
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,715 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £92,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £90,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -22.22% +20.00% +20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 66,718 54,726 68,124
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.24% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,226 31,089 43,036
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Java Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in the UK excluding London

Java Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Java Engineer 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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024. 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 +156 830 £50,000 -27.27% 6
North of England +45 87 £65,465 +2.69% 10
South West +6 63 £52,500 -22.22% 19
North West +27 61 £65,465 -6.48% 8
South East +48 59 £70,000 -12.50% 20
Midlands -1 27 £60,000 +20.00% 8
West Midlands +21 24 £60,000 +6.23% 6
Yorkshire +67 19 £65,465 +24.69% 1
Northern Ireland +28 8 £105,000 - 2
North East -3 7 £65,465 +39.29% 1
Wales +12 5 £55,000 -15.38%
East of England -1 5 £80,000 +45.45% 3
East Midlands -30 3 - - 2
Java Engineer
UK

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Java Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number 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 1,084 (100.00%) Java
2 1,007 (92.90%) Software Engineering
3 909 (83.86%) Agile
4 830 (76.57%) Finance
5 820 (75.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 797 (73.52%) Law
7 718 (66.24%) SDLC
8 682 (62.92%) Operational Stability
9 680 (62.73%) CI/CD
10 600 (55.35%) Artificial Intelligence
11 584 (53.87%) Machine Learning
12 567 (52.31%) Spring
13 520 (47.97%) SQL
14 454 (41.88%) AWS
15 412 (38.01%) Community of Practice
16 326 (30.07%) Microservices
17 325 (29.98%) React
18 309 (28.51%) AngularJS
19 304 (28.04%) Marketing
20 302 (27.86%) Continuous Improvement
21 294 (27.12%) Visualisation
22 287 (26.48%) Risk Management
23 278 (25.65%) Full Stack Development
24 275 (25.37%) NoSQL
25 272 (25.09%) Algorithms
26 268 (24.72%) Cloud Native
27 261 (24.08%) Legal
28 258 (23.80%) Spring Boot
29 250 (23.06%) Kafka
30 238 (21.96%) Banking

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 193 (17.80%) Apache Spark
2 42 (3.87%) FileNet
3 32 (2.95%) Cloud Foundry
4 23 (2.12%) Apache
4 23 (2.12%) JBoss
4 23 (2.12%) Red Hat Fuse
5 21 (1.94%) GemFire
6 16 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.28%) MQSeries
8 2 (0.18%) Confluence
9 1 (0.092%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 454 (41.88%) AWS
2 130 (11.99%) Azure
3 61 (5.63%) GCP
4 45 (4.15%) Amazon S3
5 42 (3.87%) BlazeMeter
6 39 (3.60%) Serverless
7 36 (3.32%) GitHub
8 30 (2.77%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (1.48%) Amazon ECS
11 15 (1.38%) Amazon SQS
12 13 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (1.20%) Amazon EMR
13 12 (1.11%) IBM Cloud
14 7 (0.65%) SaaS
15 5 (0.46%) Azure DevOps
16 4 (0.37%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (0.37%) npm
17 3 (0.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 3 (0.28%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.57%) Kerberos
2 10 (0.92%) Network Security
3 1 (0.092%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 275 (25.37%) NoSQL
2 181 (16.70%) Big Data
3 117 (10.79%) MongoDB
4 96 (8.86%) Apache Cassandra
5 91 (8.39%) Elasticsearch
6 84 (7.75%) Hadoop
7 52 (4.80%) MySQL
8 51 (4.70%) Relational Database
9 38 (3.51%) CockroachDB
9 38 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
10 30 (2.77%) Apache Hive
11 21 (1.94%) Hazelcast
12 17 (1.57%) Amazon Aurora
13 16 (1.48%) HBase
14 15 (1.38%) RDBMS
15 12 (1.11%) Electronic Patient Records
16 6 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (0.55%) CouchDB
16 6 (0.55%) Oracle Database
17 5 (0.46%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 130 (11.99%) JUnit
2 87 (8.03%) Cypress.io
3 82 (7.56%) Jasmine
4 67 (6.18%) Git
4 67 (6.18%) Jenkins
5 66 (6.09%) Selenium
6 60 (5.54%) Karma Test Runner
6 60 (5.54%) Protractor
6 60 (5.54%) WebDriver
7 41 (3.78%) Maven
8 35 (3.23%) IntelliJ
9 28 (2.58%) Cucumber
10 27 (2.49%) JMeter
10 27 (2.49%) Mockito
11 21 (1.94%) Jaeger
12 18 (1.66%) Gradle
13 11 (1.01%) JIRA
14 7 (0.65%) GitLab
15 5 (0.46%) Robot Framework
16 4 (0.37%) Eclipse
General
1 830 (76.57%) Finance
2 820 (75.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 797 (73.52%) Law
4 304 (28.04%) Marketing
5 261 (24.08%) Legal
6 238 (21.96%) Banking
7 172 (15.87%) Investment Banking
8 96 (8.86%) Influencing Skills
9 77 (7.10%) Social Skills
10 71 (6.55%) Public Sector
11 57 (5.26%) Private Banking
12 22 (2.03%) Prime Brokerage
13 20 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
13 20 (1.85%) Financial Institution
14 8 (0.74%) Games
14 8 (0.74%) Retail
15 4 (0.37%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.37%) Tech for Good
16 3 (0.28%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.28%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 567 (52.31%) Spring
2 325 (29.98%) React
3 309 (28.51%) AngularJS
4 258 (23.80%) Spring Boot
5 250 (23.06%) Kafka
6 195 (17.99%) J2EE
7 159 (14.67%) Hibernate
8 151 (13.93%) HTML
9 127 (11.72%) Node.js
10 123 (11.35%) JMS
10 123 (11.35%) JSON
11 122 (11.25%) REST
12 117 (10.79%) CSS
13 115 (10.61%) RESTful
14 112 (10.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 85 (7.84%) Web Services
16 84 (7.75%) jQuery
17 78 (7.20%) JPA
18 71 (6.55%) XML
19 63 (5.81%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 272 (25.09%) Algorithms
2 268 (24.72%) Cloud Native
3 103 (9.50%) Public Cloud
4 75 (6.92%) Data Structures
5 70 (6.46%) Onboarding
6 48 (4.43%) Reference Data
7 43 (3.97%) Legacy Code
8 35 (3.23%) Private Cloud
9 27 (2.49%) Market Risk
10 22 (2.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 21 (1.94%) Replication
12 14 (1.29%) Credit Risk
13 9 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (0.74%) Blockchain
14 8 (0.74%) Client/Server
14 8 (0.74%) e-Learning
14 8 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
15 6 (0.55%) PropTech
16 5 (0.46%) Distributed Systems
17 4 (0.37%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 41 (3.78%) Unix
2 34 (3.14%) Linux
3 9 (0.83%) Windows
4 4 (0.37%) AIX
5 3 (0.28%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,007 (92.90%) Software Engineering
2 909 (83.86%) Agile
3 718 (66.24%) SDLC
4 682 (62.92%) Operational Stability
5 680 (62.73%) CI/CD
6 600 (55.35%) Artificial Intelligence
7 584 (53.87%) Machine Learning
8 412 (38.01%) Community of Practice
9 326 (30.07%) Microservices
10 302 (27.86%) Continuous Improvement
11 294 (27.12%) Visualisation
12 287 (26.48%) Risk Management
13 278 (25.65%) Full Stack Development
14 221 (20.39%) Decision-Making
15 174 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
16 172 (15.87%) TDD
17 135 (12.45%) BDD
18 134 (12.36%) Architectural Design
19 119 (10.98%) Performance Tuning
20 116 (10.70%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1,084 (100.00%) Java
2 520 (47.97%) SQL
3 147 (13.56%) JavaScript
4 142 (13.10%) Scala
5 118 (10.89%) Python
6 113 (10.42%) TypeScript
7 36 (3.32%) C#
8 22 (2.03%) Groovy
9 18 (1.66%) Ruby
10 11 (1.01%) Kotlin
11 7 (0.65%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.46%) C++
13 3 (0.28%) C
14 2 (0.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 38 (3.51%) Security Cleared
2 32 (2.95%) Degree
2 32 (2.95%) SC Cleared
3 7 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (0.55%) Master's Degree
5 4 (0.37%) PhD
6 1 (0.092%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.092%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.40%) SLA
2 17 (1.57%) QA
3 15 (1.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 79 (7.29%) Docker
2 17 (1.57%) HDFS
3 2 (0.18%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 138 (12.73%) Kubernetes
2 68 (6.27%) Terraform
3 44 (4.06%) Grafana
4 22 (2.03%) Prometheus
5 21 (1.94%) HAProxy
5 21 (1.94%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (1.94%) Kibana
5 21 (1.94%) Zipkin
6 7 (0.65%) Graphite
7 5 (0.46%) Ansible
Vendors
1 171 (15.77%) Oracle
2 54 (4.98%) Databricks
3 47 (4.34%) Splunk
4 42 (3.87%) Dynatrace
5 28 (2.58%) Google
6 18 (1.66%) SaltStack
7 17 (1.57%) Cloudera
8 14 (1.29%) IBM
9 9 (0.83%) TOWER Software
10 8 (0.74%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.37%) Confluent
11 4 (0.37%) Microsoft
12 3 (0.28%) Solace
12 3 (0.28%) TIBCO
12 3 (0.28%) YouTube
13 1 (0.092%) Informatica