Java Software Engineer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Java Software Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Java Software Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 November 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 384 520 455
Rank change year-on-year +136 -65 +125
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 142 83 93
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.17% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.18% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 19 36 64
10th Percentile £55,000 £38,125 £41,325
25th Percentile £58,125 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +4.35% +0.88%
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,625 £70,313
90th Percentile £101,500 £95,000 £77,154
UK median annual salary £110,000 £115,000 £75,554
% change year-on-year -4.35% +52.21% -13.65%

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 31,192 45,476 29,114
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.93% 95.03% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 19,147 24,655 21,956
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £37,856
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -

Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Java Software Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Java Software Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Java Software Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Java Software Engineer job vacancies 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 November 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 5 November 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
Scotland +76 103 £82,500 +57.14% 10
North of England -2 17 £72,500 +3.57% 48
South West +35 14 £60,000 +4.35% 11
North West +19 11 £82,500 +37.50% 33
Midlands +54 5 £60,000 - 12
West Midlands +51 4 £61,250 -18.33% 7
Yorkshire +3 4 £73,750 - 13
South East +43 2 - - 55
North East +4 2 £63,750 -20.31% 2
East Midlands +17 1 £40,000 -11.11% 4
East of England - 1 £80,000 - 8
Java Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 November 2025, Java Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 142 (100.00%) Java
1 142 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 126 (88.73%) Agile
3 110 (77.46%) SDLC
4 105 (73.94%) Spring
5 102 (71.83%) CI/CD
6 90 (63.38%) Operational Stability
7 76 (53.52%) AWS
8 71 (50.00%) AI
8 71 (50.00%) Machine Learning
9 58 (40.85%) Spring Boot
10 57 (40.14%) Community of Practice
11 56 (39.44%) React
12 53 (37.32%) Kafka
13 48 (33.80%) Continuous Improvement
13 48 (33.80%) SQL
14 44 (30.99%) Full-Stack Development
14 44 (30.99%) Visualisation
15 43 (30.28%) Kubernetes
16 36 (25.35%) Decision-Making
16 36 (25.35%) Oracle
17 30 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
18 29 (20.42%) TDD
19 28 (19.72%) AngularJS
19 28 (19.72%) RESTful
20 24 (16.90%) Microservices
21 23 (16.20%) TypeScript
22 22 (15.49%) JavaScript
23 21 (14.79%) Architectural Design
23 21 (14.79%) NoSQL

Java Software 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (6.34%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.82%) Camunda
2 4 (2.82%) Cloud Foundry
2 4 (2.82%) Confluence
2 4 (2.82%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.70%) Apache
3 1 (0.70%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.70%) CMS
3 1 (0.70%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 76 (53.52%) AWS
2 14 (9.86%) Azure
3 12 (8.45%) AWS Lambda
3 12 (8.45%) Serverless
4 11 (7.75%) GitHub
5 10 (7.04%) Amazon S3
5 10 (7.04%) GCP
6 9 (6.34%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (3.52%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (2.82%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (2.82%) Amazon MSK
9 4 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.11%) BlazeMeter
11 2 (1.41%) SaaS
12 1 (0.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (0.70%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (0.70%) Amazon SQS
12 1 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.11%) Internet
2 2 (1.41%) Broadband
3 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (14.79%) NoSQL
2 15 (10.56%) MongoDB
2 15 (10.56%) Relational Database
3 14 (9.86%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (8.45%) Apache Cassandra
5 11 (7.75%) Big Data
6 9 (6.34%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (6.34%) RDBMS
7 8 (5.63%) Amazon Athena
7 8 (5.63%) KDB
7 8 (5.63%) Kdb+
8 7 (4.93%) Oracle Database
9 6 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (4.23%) InterSystems Cache
10 5 (3.52%) Apache Hive
10 5 (3.52%) Hadoop
10 5 (3.52%) HBase
11 4 (2.82%) Electronic Patient Records
12 3 (2.11%) MySQL
13 2 (1.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (12.68%) Jenkins
2 17 (11.97%) Maven
3 14 (9.86%) Git
4 12 (8.45%) JUnit
5 7 (4.93%) Selenium
6 6 (4.23%) GitLab
7 5 (3.52%) Gradle
7 5 (3.52%) JIRA
8 4 (2.82%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.82%) Subversion
9 3 (2.11%) Mockito
10 2 (1.41%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.41%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (1.41%) Spock
10 2 (1.41%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.70%) Jasmine
11 1 (0.70%) Karma Test Runner
11 1 (0.70%) Protractor
11 1 (0.70%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.70%) webpack
General
1 124 (87.32%) Finance
2 112 (78.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 112 (78.87%) Law
3 58 (40.85%) Banking
4 50 (35.21%) Marketing
5 26 (18.31%) Social Skills
6 22 (15.49%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (11.27%) Legal
8 8 (5.63%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.82%) Games
9 4 (2.82%) Private Banking
10 3 (2.11%) Electronics
10 3 (2.11%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.11%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.11%) Retail
11 2 (1.41%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.41%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.70%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.70%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (73.94%) Spring
2 58 (40.85%) Spring Boot
3 56 (39.44%) React
4 53 (37.32%) Kafka
5 28 (19.72%) AngularJS
5 28 (19.72%) RESTful
6 20 (14.08%) REST
7 14 (9.86%) Hibernate
8 10 (7.04%) JPA
8 10 (7.04%) Web Services
9 8 (5.63%) FIX Protocol
10 7 (4.93%) HTML
10 7 (4.93%) OpenID
11 6 (4.23%) OAuth
11 6 (4.23%) OAuth2
11 6 (4.23%) SAML
12 5 (3.52%) J2EE
12 5 (3.52%) jQuery
12 5 (3.52%) Node.js
12 5 (3.52%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 44 (30.99%) Algorithms
2 40 (28.17%) Cloud Native
3 14 (9.86%) Public Cloud
4 8 (5.63%) Reference Data
5 5 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.82%) Credit Risk
6 4 (2.82%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.82%) Derivative
6 4 (2.82%) Distributed Applications
6 4 (2.82%) Equities
6 4 (2.82%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (2.82%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.82%) Wiki
7 2 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.52%) Unix
2 3 (2.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 126 (88.73%) Agile
3 110 (77.46%) SDLC
4 102 (71.83%) CI/CD
5 90 (63.38%) Operational Stability
6 71 (50.00%) AI
6 71 (50.00%) Machine Learning
7 57 (40.14%) Community of Practice
8 48 (33.80%) Continuous Improvement
9 44 (30.99%) Full-Stack Development
9 44 (30.99%) Visualisation
10 36 (25.35%) Decision-Making
11 30 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
12 29 (20.42%) TDD
13 24 (16.90%) Microservices
14 21 (14.79%) Architectural Design
15 20 (14.08%) Information Architecture
16 19 (13.38%) DevOps
16 19 (13.38%) Risk Management
17 17 (11.97%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 142 (100.00%) Java
2 48 (33.80%) SQL
3 23 (16.20%) TypeScript
4 22 (15.49%) JavaScript
5 20 (14.08%) Python
6 10 (7.04%) C#
7 7 (4.93%) Go
8 5 (3.52%) PL/SQL
9 4 (2.82%) Scala
9 4 (2.82%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.41%) C++
10 2 (1.41%) Groovy
11 1 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (2.82%) Degree
2 3 (2.11%) AWS Certification
2 3 (2.11%) DV Cleared
2 3 (2.11%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.41%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.11%) QA
System Software
1 20 (14.08%) Docker
2 5 (3.52%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 43 (30.28%) Kubernetes
2 13 (9.15%) Terraform
3 7 (4.93%) Grafana
4 4 (2.82%) Netcool
4 4 (2.82%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 4 (2.82%) Tivoli
5 2 (1.41%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.70%) Istio
6 1 (0.70%) Kibana
Vendors
1 36 (25.35%) Oracle
2 9 (6.34%) Dynatrace
2 9 (6.34%) Splunk
3 7 (4.93%) Databricks
3 7 (4.93%) Google
4 6 (4.23%) Facebook
5 5 (3.52%) Cloudera
6 4 (2.82%) IBM
6 4 (2.82%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.82%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.11%) Sybase
8 2 (1.41%) SAP
9 1 (0.70%) Atlassian