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 £65,465 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 258 425 649
Rank change year-on-year +167 +224 -217
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 638 264 234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.98% 0.55% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.03% 0.61% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 92 57 177
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £49,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,465 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.74% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £71,991 £77,715 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,250 £91,250 £87,000
UK median annual salary £95,000 £88,750 £87,500
% change year-on-year +7.04% +1.43% +34.62%

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 61,941 43,162 74,370
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.65% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 41,460 27,696 44,286
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +129 557 £50,000 -32.46% 2
North of England -25 37 £65,465 +4.74% 5
South West -12 27 £55,000 -15.38% 5
North West -29 22 £65,465 -15.53% 2
West Midlands -1 9 £65,465 +9.11% 2
Midlands -38 9 £65,465 +30.93% 2
North East - 8 £65,465 - 2
Yorkshire +37 7 £65,465 +30.93% 1
South East -24 5 £87,500 +9.38% 1
Wales +15 2 £55,000 -
East of England -6 1 £65,000 +18.18%
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 26 July 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.

1 638 (100.00%) Java
2 637 (99.84%) Software Engineering
3 565 (88.56%) Agile
4 540 (84.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 539 (84.48%) Finance
6 529 (82.92%) Law
7 478 (74.92%) SDLC
8 460 (72.10%) CI/CD
9 446 (69.91%) Operational Stability
10 408 (63.95%) Machine Learning
10 408 (63.95%) Artificial Intelligence
11 335 (52.51%) SQL
12 316 (49.53%) Spring
13 301 (47.18%) Community of Practice
14 228 (35.74%) AWS
15 217 (34.01%) React
16 203 (31.82%) Continuous Improvement
17 201 (31.50%) Visualisation
18 195 (30.56%) Cloud Native
19 194 (30.41%) Marketing
20 190 (29.78%) Risk Management
20 190 (29.78%) NoSQL
21 187 (29.31%) Kafka
22 186 (29.15%) Algorithms
23 172 (26.96%) Microservices
24 167 (26.18%) Full Stack Development
25 166 (26.02%) Legal
26 162 (25.39%) AngularJS
27 160 (25.08%) Banking
28 149 (23.35%) Investment Banking

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 83 (13.01%) Apache Spark
2 42 (6.58%) FileNet
3 32 (5.02%) Cloud Foundry
4 21 (3.29%) GemFire
5 1 (0.16%) JBoss
5 1 (0.16%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 228 (35.74%) AWS
2 59 (9.25%) Azure
3 42 (6.58%) Amazon S3
4 33 (5.17%) BlazeMeter
5 28 (4.39%) GCP
6 27 (4.23%) GitHub
7 4 (0.63%) OpenShift
7 4 (0.63%) Serverless
8 3 (0.47%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (0.47%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (0.31%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.16%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.16%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.16%) Datadog
10 1 (0.16%) SaaS
10 1 (0.16%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.66%) Kerberos
2 13 (2.04%) Network Security
3 1 (0.16%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (29.78%) NoSQL
2 85 (13.32%) Big Data
3 80 (12.54%) Apache Cassandra
4 68 (10.66%) MongoDB
5 67 (10.50%) Elasticsearch
6 38 (5.96%) CockroachDB
7 36 (5.64%) PostgreSQL
8 31 (4.86%) MySQL
9 23 (3.61%) Relational Database
10 22 (3.45%) Hadoop
11 21 (3.29%) Hazelcast
12 17 (2.66%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (1.72%) RDBMS
14 7 (1.10%) Oracle Database
15 3 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
16 2 (0.31%) SQL Server
17 1 (0.16%) Couchbase
17 1 (0.16%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 117 (18.34%) JUnit
2 85 (13.32%) Cypress.io
3 81 (12.70%) Jasmine
4 61 (9.56%) Selenium
5 60 (9.40%) Karma Test Runner
5 60 (9.40%) Protractor
5 60 (9.40%) WebDriver
6 34 (5.33%) Jenkins
7 28 (4.39%) JMeter
8 26 (4.08%) Cucumber
9 21 (3.29%) Jaeger
9 21 (3.29%) Mockito
10 20 (3.13%) Maven
11 12 (1.88%) Gradle
12 10 (1.57%) Git
12 10 (1.57%) JIRA
13 4 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
14 2 (0.31%) GitLab
15 1 (0.16%) IntelliJ
15 1 (0.16%) Spock
General
1 540 (84.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 539 (84.48%) Finance
3 529 (82.92%) Law
4 194 (30.41%) Marketing
5 166 (26.02%) Legal
6 160 (25.08%) Banking
7 149 (23.35%) Investment Banking
8 61 (9.56%) Influencing Skills
9 47 (7.37%) Social Skills
10 28 (4.39%) Public Sector
11 22 (3.45%) Prime Brokerage
12 9 (1.41%) Analytical Skills
12 9 (1.41%) Private Banking
13 5 (0.78%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.63%) Tech for Good
15 3 (0.47%) Electronics
15 3 (0.47%) Games
16 2 (0.31%) Aviation
17 1 (0.16%) Manufacturing
17 1 (0.16%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 316 (49.53%) Spring
2 217 (34.01%) React
3 187 (29.31%) Kafka
4 162 (25.39%) AngularJS
5 147 (23.04%) J2EE
6 135 (21.16%) Spring Boot
7 126 (19.75%) HTML
8 117 (18.34%) Hibernate
9 113 (17.71%) JMS
9 113 (17.71%) Node.js
10 104 (16.30%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 102 (15.99%) CSS
12 84 (13.17%) JSON
13 83 (13.01%) jQuery
14 60 (9.40%) Jest
15 59 (9.25%) GraphQL
16 52 (8.15%) RESTful
17 44 (6.90%) Spring Integration
18 41 (6.43%) REST
18 41 (6.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 195 (30.56%) Cloud Native
2 186 (29.15%) Algorithms
3 61 (9.56%) Data Structures
4 53 (8.31%) Onboarding
5 36 (5.64%) Public Cloud
6 27 (4.23%) Market Risk
7 25 (3.92%) Reference Data
8 21 (3.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 21 (3.29%) Legacy Code
8 21 (3.29%) Replication
9 18 (2.82%) Private Cloud
10 14 (2.19%) Credit Risk
11 3 (0.47%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.16%) Acoustics
12 1 (0.16%) Client/Server
12 1 (0.16%) Distributed Applications
12 1 (0.16%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.16%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.16%) PropTech
12 1 (0.16%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.92%) Unix
2 17 (2.66%) Linux
3 1 (0.16%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 637 (99.84%) Software Engineering
2 565 (88.56%) Agile
3 478 (74.92%) SDLC
4 460 (72.10%) CI/CD
5 446 (69.91%) Operational Stability
6 408 (63.95%) Artificial Intelligence
6 408 (63.95%) Machine Learning
7 301 (47.18%) Community of Practice
8 203 (31.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 201 (31.50%) Visualisation
10 190 (29.78%) Risk Management
11 172 (26.96%) Microservices
12 167 (26.18%) Full Stack Development
13 143 (22.41%) TDD
14 135 (21.16%) Decision-Making
15 119 (18.65%) BDD
16 99 (15.52%) Architectural Design
17 89 (13.95%) Information Architecture
18 80 (12.54%) Test Automation
19 74 (11.60%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 638 (100.00%) Java
2 335 (52.51%) SQL
3 123 (19.28%) JavaScript
4 82 (12.85%) TypeScript
5 81 (12.70%) Scala
6 44 (6.90%) Python
7 22 (3.45%) Groovy
8 6 (0.94%) C#
8 6 (0.94%) C++
9 4 (0.63%) C
9 4 (0.63%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.47%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.16%) Fortran
11 1 (0.16%) Go
11 1 (0.16%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 8 (1.25%) Degree
2 7 (1.10%) Security Cleared
3 6 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (0.78%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.47%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.16%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (1.57%) QA
2 1 (0.16%) Def Stans
2 1 (0.16%) IEC 61508
2 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (3.45%) Docker
2 2 (0.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 88 (13.79%) Kubernetes
2 36 (5.64%) Grafana
3 35 (5.49%) Terraform
4 22 (3.45%) Kibana
4 22 (3.45%) Prometheus
5 21 (3.29%) HAProxy
5 21 (3.29%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (3.29%) Zipkin
6 7 (1.10%) Graphite
7 1 (0.16%) Ansible
Vendors
1 128 (20.06%) Oracle
2 39 (6.11%) Splunk
3 38 (5.96%) Databricks
4 34 (5.33%) Dynatrace
5 19 (2.98%) Google
6 10 (1.57%) SaltStack
7 9 (1.41%) TOWER Software
8 4 (0.63%) Cognizant
9 2 (0.31%) IBM
10 1 (0.16%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.16%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.16%) SAP