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 £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 July 2026.

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

 6 months to
20 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 529 385 258
Rank change year-on-year -144 -127 +302
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 97 164 693
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.48% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.54% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 85 36 110
10th Percentile £48,289 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,750 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -2.62% +0.71%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,813 £74,688
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,500 £91,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £110,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +15.79% +8.57%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 68,551 30,401 65,937
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.74% 89.42% 94.87%
Number of salaries quoted 47,522 17,433 46,246
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,948 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £36,145
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year - +2.80% -10.83%

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 20 July 2026.

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 20 July 2026. 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 +3 48 £65,000 -
North West +15 37 £70,000 -20.45%
South West -58 26 £60,000 +26.32% 2
South East -21 8 £90,000 +28.57% 4
Yorkshire -20 7 £52,130 +48.94%
Scotland -68 7 £45,000 - 2
Midlands -34 5 £60,000 - 5
North East -44 4 £53,565 -17.59%
West Midlands -26 3 £45,000 -25.00% 3
East of England - 2 £73,750 -
East Midlands - 2 £60,000 - 2
Wales - 1 £57,500 -
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 20 July 2026, 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 97 (100.00%) Java
2 95 (97.94%) Software Engineering
3 39 (40.21%) Full-Stack Development
4 34 (35.05%) Agile
5 33 (34.02%) Spring
6 27 (27.84%) AWS
7 22 (22.68%) Spring Boot
8 21 (21.65%) AI
9 19 (19.59%) SQL
10 18 (18.56%) Microservices
11 17 (17.53%) DevOps
12 13 (13.40%) Platform Engineering
13 12 (12.37%) Data Science
13 12 (12.37%) PostgreSQL
13 12 (12.37%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 12 (12.37%) Test Automation
14 11 (11.34%) Coaching
14 11 (11.34%) Mentoring
14 11 (11.34%) NoSQL
14 11 (11.34%) RESTful
14 11 (11.34%) TDD
15 10 (10.31%) SaaS
16 9 (9.28%) Claude Code
16 9 (9.28%) Clean Code
16 9 (9.28%) MySQL
16 9 (9.28%) React
17 8 (8.25%) Anthropic Claude
17 8 (8.25%) Azure
17 8 (8.25%) BDD
17 8 (8.25%) Continuous Deployment

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 1 (1.03%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 27 (27.84%) AWS
2 10 (10.31%) SaaS
3 8 (8.25%) Anthropic Claude
3 8 (8.25%) Azure
4 2 (2.06%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (2.06%) Serverless
5 1 (1.03%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.03%) GitHub
5 1 (1.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.37%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (11.34%) NoSQL
3 9 (9.28%) MySQL
4 8 (8.25%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.06%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.03%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 9 (9.28%) Claude Code
2 2 (2.06%) IntelliJ
2 2 (2.06%) JUnit
2 2 (2.06%) Vagrant
3 1 (1.03%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.03%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.03%) Maven
3 1 (1.03%) Mockito
3 1 (1.03%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (10.31%) Public Sector
2 4 (4.12%) Digital Health
2 4 (4.12%) Health Technology
3 3 (3.09%) Banking
4 2 (2.06%) Front Office
5 1 (1.03%) Finance
5 1 (1.03%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.03%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (34.02%) Spring
2 22 (22.68%) Spring Boot
3 11 (11.34%) RESTful
4 9 (9.28%) React
5 7 (7.22%) AngularJS
5 7 (7.22%) REST
6 4 (4.12%) Vue
7 2 (2.06%) Node.js
7 2 (2.06%) Swing
8 1 (1.03%) .NET
8 1 (1.03%) GraphQL
8 1 (1.03%) Micronaut
8 1 (1.03%) Spring Batch
8 1 (1.03%) Spring Cloud
8 1 (1.03%) Spring MVC
8 1 (1.03%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.49%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.03%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (1.03%) IoT
2 1 (1.03%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (97.94%) Software Engineering
2 39 (40.21%) Full-Stack Development
3 34 (35.05%) Agile
4 21 (21.65%) AI
5 18 (18.56%) Microservices
6 17 (17.53%) DevOps
7 13 (13.40%) Platform Engineering
8 12 (12.37%) Data Science
8 12 (12.37%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 12 (12.37%) Test Automation
9 11 (11.34%) Coaching
9 11 (11.34%) Mentoring
9 11 (11.34%) TDD
10 9 (9.28%) Clean Code
11 8 (8.25%) BDD
11 8 (8.25%) Continuous Deployment
11 8 (8.25%) Design Thinking
11 8 (8.25%) Open Source
11 8 (8.25%) Operational Stability
12 7 (7.22%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 97 (100.00%) Java
2 19 (19.59%) SQL
3 6 (6.19%) TypeScript
4 4 (4.12%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.03%) Go
5 1 (1.03%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (7.22%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.12%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.03%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.03%) QA
System Software
1 5 (5.15%) Docker
2 1 (1.03%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.03%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (7.22%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.12%) Terraform
3 2 (2.06%) Packer
3 2 (2.06%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (3.09%) Oracle
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