Java Software Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Java Software Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Java Software Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £64,000 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 208 552 489
Rank change year-on-year +344 -63 -91
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 979 213 400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.39% 0.35% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.47% 0.39% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 131 98 280
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,125 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £58,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.94% -2.08% +14.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £91,250 £85,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -14.71% +21.43% +27.27%

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 Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Java Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Java Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Software Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Java Software 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 Software 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 +163 823 £50,000 -25.93% 6
North of England +49 64 £65,465 +24.69% 7
North West +26 45 £65,465 -6.48% 5
South West -4 42 £52,500 -20.75% 19
South East +18 25 £87,500 +9.38% 10
Midlands -4 14 £65,465 +45.48% 7
Yorkshire +72 12 £65,465 +24.69% 1
West Midlands +18 11 £65,465 +13.85% 5
North East -3 7 £65,465 +39.29% 1
Northern Ireland +25 5 - - 1
Wales +14 5 £55,000 -
East Midlands -30 3 - - 2
East of England -5 1 £65,000 +18.18% 3
Java Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Java Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 979 (100.00%) Java
2 976 (99.69%) Software Engineering
3 867 (88.56%) Agile
4 807 (82.43%) Finance
5 806 (82.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 795 (81.21%) Law
7 707 (72.22%) SDLC
8 682 (69.66%) Operational Stability
9 671 (68.54%) CI/CD
10 583 (59.55%) Machine Learning
11 582 (59.45%) Artificial Intelligence
12 516 (52.71%) Spring
13 505 (51.58%) SQL
14 412 (42.08%) AWS
14 412 (42.08%) Community of Practice
15 305 (31.15%) React
16 304 (31.05%) Marketing
17 296 (30.23%) Continuous Improvement
18 294 (30.03%) Visualisation
19 293 (29.93%) AngularJS
20 287 (29.32%) Risk Management
21 285 (29.11%) Microservices
22 272 (27.78%) Algorithms
23 267 (27.27%) NoSQL
24 266 (27.17%) Cloud Native
25 261 (26.66%) Legal
26 260 (26.56%) Full Stack Development
27 233 (23.80%) Banking
28 227 (23.19%) Spring Boot
29 222 (22.68%) Kafka

Java Software 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
1 192 (19.61%) Apache Spark
2 42 (4.29%) FileNet
3 32 (3.27%) Cloud Foundry
4 23 (2.35%) Apache
4 23 (2.35%) JBoss
4 23 (2.35%) Red Hat Fuse
5 21 (2.15%) GemFire
6 16 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.10%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 412 (42.08%) AWS
2 96 (9.81%) Azure
3 58 (5.92%) GCP
4 42 (4.29%) Amazon S3
4 42 (4.29%) BlazeMeter
5 33 (3.37%) Serverless
6 30 (3.06%) Amazon EKS
7 29 (2.96%) GitHub
8 14 (1.43%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (1.33%) Amazon SQS
10 12 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (1.12%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (0.41%) IBM Cloud
12 4 (0.41%) npm
12 4 (0.41%) SaaS
13 2 (0.20%) OpenShift
14 1 (0.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 1 (0.10%) Datadog
14 1 (0.10%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.74%) Kerberos
2 10 (1.02%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 267 (27.27%) NoSQL
2 178 (18.18%) Big Data
3 115 (11.75%) MongoDB
4 96 (9.81%) Apache Cassandra
5 90 (9.19%) Elasticsearch
6 83 (8.48%) Hadoop
7 50 (5.11%) Relational Database
8 47 (4.80%) MySQL
9 38 (3.88%) CockroachDB
10 33 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
11 29 (2.96%) Apache Hive
12 21 (2.15%) Hazelcast
13 17 (1.74%) Amazon Aurora
14 16 (1.63%) HBase
15 14 (1.43%) RDBMS
16 11 (1.12%) Electronic Patient Records
17 6 (0.61%) CouchDB
17 6 (0.61%) Oracle Database
18 4 (0.41%) SQL Server
19 3 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 129 (13.18%) JUnit
2 85 (8.68%) Cypress.io
3 81 (8.27%) Jasmine
4 65 (6.64%) Selenium
5 60 (6.13%) Karma Test Runner
5 60 (6.13%) Protractor
5 60 (6.13%) WebDriver
6 54 (5.52%) Jenkins
7 46 (4.70%) Git
8 28 (2.86%) IntelliJ
8 28 (2.86%) Maven
9 27 (2.76%) JMeter
10 26 (2.66%) Mockito
11 25 (2.55%) Cucumber
12 21 (2.15%) Jaeger
13 18 (1.84%) Gradle
14 9 (0.92%) JIRA
15 5 (0.51%) Robot Framework
16 3 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
17 1 (0.10%) TeamCity
General
1 807 (82.43%) Finance
2 806 (82.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 795 (81.21%) Law
4 304 (31.05%) Marketing
5 261 (26.66%) Legal
6 233 (23.80%) Banking
7 172 (17.57%) Investment Banking
8 96 (9.81%) Influencing Skills
9 65 (6.64%) Social Skills
10 59 (6.03%) Public Sector
11 57 (5.82%) Private Banking
12 22 (2.25%) Prime Brokerage
13 19 (1.94%) Financial Institution
14 11 (1.12%) Analytical Skills
15 3 (0.31%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.31%) Games
16 2 (0.20%) Electronics
16 2 (0.20%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 516 (52.71%) Spring
2 305 (31.15%) React
3 293 (29.93%) AngularJS
4 227 (23.19%) Spring Boot
5 222 (22.68%) Kafka
6 194 (19.82%) J2EE
7 150 (15.32%) Hibernate
8 147 (15.02%) HTML
9 123 (12.56%) Node.js
10 122 (12.46%) JMS
11 113 (11.54%) CSS
11 113 (11.54%) JSON
12 112 (11.44%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 109 (11.13%) RESTful
14 103 (10.52%) REST
15 84 (8.58%) jQuery
16 83 (8.48%) Web Services
17 78 (7.97%) JPA
18 71 (7.25%) XML
19 60 (6.13%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 272 (27.78%) Algorithms
2 266 (27.17%) Cloud Native
3 103 (10.52%) Public Cloud
4 75 (7.66%) Data Structures
5 70 (7.15%) Onboarding
6 48 (4.90%) Reference Data
7 43 (4.39%) Legacy Code
8 31 (3.17%) Private Cloud
9 27 (2.76%) Market Risk
10 21 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 21 (2.15%) Replication
11 14 (1.43%) Credit Risk
12 8 (0.82%) Client/Server
13 6 (0.61%) PropTech
14 2 (0.20%) Distributed Systems
15 1 (0.10%) Distributed Applications
15 1 (0.10%) Distributed Computing
15 1 (0.10%) Greenfield Project
15 1 (0.10%) Management Information System
15 1 (0.10%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 41 (4.19%) Unix
2 21 (2.15%) Linux
3 2 (0.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 976 (99.69%) Software Engineering
2 867 (88.56%) Agile
3 707 (72.22%) SDLC
4 682 (69.66%) Operational Stability
5 671 (68.54%) CI/CD
6 583 (59.55%) Machine Learning
7 582 (59.45%) Artificial Intelligence
8 412 (42.08%) Community of Practice
9 296 (30.23%) Continuous Improvement
10 294 (30.03%) Visualisation
11 287 (29.32%) Risk Management
12 285 (29.11%) Microservices
13 260 (26.56%) Full Stack Development
14 217 (22.17%) Decision-Making
15 166 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
16 155 (15.83%) TDD
17 134 (13.69%) Architectural Design
18 127 (12.97%) BDD
19 119 (12.16%) Performance Tuning
20 116 (11.85%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 979 (100.00%) Java
2 505 (51.58%) SQL
3 139 (14.20%) Scala
4 128 (13.07%) JavaScript
5 105 (10.73%) Python
6 95 (9.70%) TypeScript
7 33 (3.37%) C#
8 22 (2.25%) Groovy
9 18 (1.84%) Ruby
10 11 (1.12%) Kotlin
11 6 (0.61%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.51%) C++
13 3 (0.31%) C
14 2 (0.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (3.47%) Security Cleared
2 30 (3.06%) Degree
3 28 (2.86%) SC Cleared
4 6 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (0.61%) Master's Degree
5 4 (0.41%) PhD
6 1 (0.10%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.66%) SLA
2 13 (1.33%) Accessibility
3 9 (0.92%) QA
System Software
1 46 (4.70%) Docker
2 16 (1.63%) HDFS
3 2 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 106 (10.83%) Kubernetes
2 64 (6.54%) Terraform
3 44 (4.49%) Grafana
4 22 (2.25%) Prometheus
5 21 (2.15%) HAProxy
5 21 (2.15%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (2.15%) Kibana
5 21 (2.15%) Zipkin
6 7 (0.72%) Graphite
7 1 (0.10%) Ansible
Vendors
1 169 (17.26%) Oracle
2 54 (5.52%) Databricks
3 47 (4.80%) Splunk
4 42 (4.29%) Dynatrace
5 28 (2.86%) Google
6 18 (1.84%) SaltStack
7 16 (1.63%) Cloudera
8 9 (0.92%) TOWER Software
9 6 (0.61%) IBM
10 2 (0.20%) Microsoft