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 £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 208 532
Rank change year-on-year -306 +324 -40
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 43 985 216
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 1.40% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 1.48% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 35 137 101
10th Percentile £42,250 £45,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,875 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £85,200 £91,524 £91,250
UK median annual salary £107,500 £70,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +53.57% -17.65% +21.43%

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 33,156 66,640 54,781
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.03% 94.78% 89.23%
Number of salaries quoted 18,505 47,222 31,088
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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 +33 15 £65,000 -0.71% 35
South West +75 12 £47,500 -9.52% 13
North West -7 9 £65,000 -0.71% 22
South East +92 8 £70,000 -20.00% 47
Midlands +74 7 £60,000 -4.36% 27
West Midlands +45 7 £60,000 -4.36% 18
Yorkshire +68 4 £35,000 -46.54% 8
North East +45 2 £65,000 -0.71% 5
Scotland -117 1 - - 7
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 1 May 2025, 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 43 (100.00%) Java
1 43 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 21 (48.84%) AWS
3 19 (44.19%) Agile
4 16 (37.21%) Microservices
5 13 (30.23%) Spring
6 11 (25.58%) DevOps
6 11 (25.58%) CI/CD
7 10 (23.26%) Code Quality
7 10 (23.26%) Docker
8 9 (20.93%) Kafka
8 9 (20.93%) Scrum
8 9 (20.93%) JavaScript
8 9 (20.93%) Design Patterns
9 8 (18.60%) Azure
9 8 (18.60%) Spring Boot
10 7 (16.28%) HTML
10 7 (16.28%) MySQL
10 7 (16.28%) Test Automation
10 7 (16.28%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (16.28%) Containerisation
11 6 (13.95%) Domain-Driven Design
11 6 (13.95%) CSS
11 6 (13.95%) XML
11 6 (13.95%) Finance
11 6 (13.95%) Kubernetes
11 6 (13.95%) Continuous Delivery
11 6 (13.95%) Relational Database
12 5 (11.63%) Software Delivery
12 5 (11.63%) React

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 2 (4.65%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 21 (48.84%) AWS
2 8 (18.60%) Azure
3 5 (11.63%) GCP
4 2 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (4.65%) SaaS
4 2 (4.65%) Serverless
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.33%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (2.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.28%) MySQL
2 6 (13.95%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.65%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.33%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 4 (9.30%) NetBeans
2 3 (6.98%) JIRA
3 2 (4.65%) Git
4 1 (2.33%) LabVIEW
4 1 (2.33%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (2.33%) Selenium
General
1 6 (13.95%) Finance
2 4 (9.30%) Public Sector
2 4 (9.30%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.98%) Advertising
3 3 (6.98%) Law
3 3 (6.98%) Online Betting
4 2 (4.65%) Games
5 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Banking
5 1 (2.33%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (30.23%) Spring
2 9 (20.93%) Kafka
3 8 (18.60%) Spring Boot
4 7 (16.28%) HTML
5 6 (13.95%) CSS
5 6 (13.95%) XML
6 5 (11.63%) React
7 4 (9.30%) JavaFX
8 2 (4.65%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (4.65%) React Native
8 2 (4.65%) REST
9 1 (2.33%) GraphQL
9 1 (2.33%) OpenAPI
9 1 (2.33%) RESTful
9 1 (2.33%) SOAP
9 1 (2.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.98%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (4.65%) Online Games
3 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.33%) NHS
3 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 19 (44.19%) Agile
3 16 (37.21%) Microservices
4 11 (25.58%) CI/CD
4 11 (25.58%) DevOps
5 10 (23.26%) Code Quality
6 9 (20.93%) Design Patterns
6 9 (20.93%) Scrum
7 7 (16.28%) Containerisation
7 7 (16.28%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (16.28%) Test Automation
8 6 (13.95%) Continuous Delivery
8 6 (13.95%) Domain-Driven Design
9 5 (11.63%) Artificial Intelligence
9 5 (11.63%) Computer Science
9 5 (11.63%) CQRS
9 5 (11.63%) Software Architecture
9 5 (11.63%) Software Delivery
9 5 (11.63%) TDD
9 5 (11.63%) UML
Programming Languages
1 43 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (20.93%) JavaScript
3 3 (6.98%) C#
4 2 (4.65%) Python
4 2 (4.65%) SQL
5 1 (2.33%) Fortran
5 1 (2.33%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 5 (11.63%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (11.63%) Degree
2 2 (4.65%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) Def Stans
1 4 (9.30%) IEC 61508
2 2 (4.65%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.33%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 10 (23.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (13.95%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.33%) Argo
2 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (2.33%) Atlassian