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 2 July 2025.

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

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 419 260 484
Rank change year-on-year -159 +224 +87
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 164 756 242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.39% 0.96% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 1.01% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 36 127 63
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,465 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +0.71% +8.33%
75th Percentile £72,813 £76,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £83,500 £91,250 £92,250
UK median annual salary £110,000 £90,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year +22.22% +2.86% +8.98%

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 37,343 74,790 47,363
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.24% 94.93% 88.94%
Number of salaries quoted 19,822 52,152 28,899
10th Percentile £25,625 £27,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% +4.95%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -48 100 - - 60
South West +102 23 £47,500 -13.64% 17
North of England +20 22 £65,000 -0.71% 23
North West 0 16 £76,500 +16.86% 16
Midlands +70 11 £60,000 -8.35% 6
West Midlands +67 11 £60,000 -8.35% 5
South East +84 8 £70,000 -20.00% 57
Yorkshire +53 3 £35,000 -46.54% 3
North East +42 3 £65,000 -0.71% 4
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 2 July 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.

1 164 (100.00%) Java
1 164 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 137 (83.54%) Agile
3 123 (75.00%) Finance
4 115 (70.12%) Law
5 113 (68.90%) Spring
6 112 (68.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 110 (67.07%) SDLC
8 105 (64.02%) CI/CD
9 90 (54.88%) Operational Stability
10 86 (52.44%) AWS
11 74 (45.12%) Artificial Intelligence
12 70 (42.68%) Machine Learning
13 61 (37.20%) Spring Boot
14 59 (35.98%) Kafka
15 58 (35.37%) React
15 58 (35.37%) Banking
16 57 (34.76%) Community of Practice
17 49 (29.88%) Marketing
17 49 (29.88%) SQL
18 46 (28.05%) Kubernetes
19 45 (27.44%) Continuous Improvement
20 44 (26.83%) Visualisation
20 44 (26.83%) Algorithms
21 43 (26.22%) Full-Stack Development
22 39 (23.78%) Cloud Native
23 38 (23.17%) Microservices
24 36 (21.95%) Oracle
24 36 (21.95%) Decision-Making
25 34 (20.73%) TDD

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 9 (5.49%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.66%) Confluence
3 4 (2.44%) Camunda
3 4 (2.44%) Cloud Foundry
3 4 (2.44%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.61%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 86 (52.44%) AWS
2 21 (12.80%) Azure
3 15 (9.15%) GCP
4 12 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (7.32%) Serverless
5 11 (6.71%) GitHub
6 10 (6.10%) Amazon S3
7 8 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (3.66%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (3.05%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (2.44%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (2.44%) Amazon MSK
10 4 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (1.83%) BlazeMeter
12 2 (1.22%) SaaS
13 1 (0.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 1 (0.61%) Amazon EKS
13 1 (0.61%) Amazon SQS
13 1 (0.61%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.83%) Internet
2 2 (1.22%) Broadband
3 1 (0.61%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (12.20%) NoSQL
1 20 (12.20%) Relational Database
2 14 (8.54%) MongoDB
3 12 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (6.71%) Apache Cassandra
4 11 (6.71%) Big Data
5 9 (5.49%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (5.49%) MySQL
6 8 (4.88%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (4.88%) KDB
6 8 (4.88%) Kdb+
6 8 (4.88%) RDBMS
7 7 (4.27%) Oracle Database
8 6 (3.66%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (3.66%) InterSystems Cache
9 5 (3.05%) Apache Hive
9 5 (3.05%) Hadoop
9 5 (3.05%) HBase
10 4 (2.44%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (1.22%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 18 (10.98%) Jenkins
2 17 (10.37%) Maven
3 13 (7.93%) Git
4 12 (7.32%) JUnit
5 7 (4.27%) JIRA
5 7 (4.27%) Selenium
6 5 (3.05%) GitLab
6 5 (3.05%) Gradle
7 4 (2.44%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.44%) Subversion
8 3 (1.83%) Mockito
9 2 (1.22%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.22%) NetBeans
9 2 (1.22%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (1.22%) Spock
9 2 (1.22%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.61%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.61%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (0.61%) Protractor
10 1 (0.61%) webpack
General
1 123 (75.00%) Finance
2 115 (70.12%) Law
3 112 (68.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 58 (35.37%) Banking
5 49 (29.88%) Marketing
6 28 (17.07%) Social Skills
7 22 (13.41%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (9.76%) Legal
9 8 (4.88%) Investment Banking
10 7 (4.27%) Public Sector
11 4 (2.44%) Private Banking
12 3 (1.83%) Electronics
12 3 (1.83%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.83%) Online Betting
13 2 (1.22%) Advertising
13 2 (1.22%) Games
13 2 (1.22%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.61%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.61%) Military
14 1 (0.61%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (68.90%) Spring
2 61 (37.20%) Spring Boot
3 59 (35.98%) Kafka
4 58 (35.37%) React
5 27 (16.46%) AngularJS
6 23 (14.02%) RESTful
7 21 (12.80%) REST
8 13 (7.93%) Hibernate
9 12 (7.32%) HTML
10 10 (6.10%) Web Services
11 9 (5.49%) JPA
12 8 (4.88%) CSS
12 8 (4.88%) FIX Protocol
13 6 (3.66%) OAuth
13 6 (3.66%) OAuth2
13 6 (3.66%) OpenID
13 6 (3.66%) SAML
14 5 (3.05%) J2EE
14 5 (3.05%) jQuery
14 5 (3.05%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 44 (26.83%) Algorithms
2 39 (23.78%) Cloud Native
3 14 (8.54%) Public Cloud
4 8 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (4.88%) Reference Data
5 5 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.44%) Credit Risk
6 4 (2.44%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.44%) Derivative
6 4 (2.44%) Distributed Applications
6 4 (2.44%) Equities
6 4 (2.44%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (2.44%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.44%) Wiki
7 2 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.22%) Online Games
7 2 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.05%) Unix
2 2 (1.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 137 (83.54%) Agile
3 110 (67.07%) SDLC
4 105 (64.02%) CI/CD
5 90 (54.88%) Operational Stability
6 74 (45.12%) Artificial Intelligence
7 70 (42.68%) Machine Learning
8 57 (34.76%) Community of Practice
9 45 (27.44%) Continuous Improvement
10 44 (26.83%) Visualisation
11 43 (26.22%) Full-Stack Development
12 38 (23.17%) Microservices
13 36 (21.95%) Decision-Making
14 34 (20.73%) TDD
15 32 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
16 25 (15.24%) DevOps
17 23 (14.02%) Architectural Design
18 22 (13.41%) Test Automation
19 21 (12.80%) Containerisation
19 21 (12.80%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 164 (100.00%) Java
2 49 (29.88%) SQL
3 25 (15.24%) JavaScript
4 21 (12.80%) Python
5 20 (12.20%) TypeScript
6 12 (7.32%) C#
7 7 (4.27%) Go
8 5 (3.05%) PL/SQL
9 4 (2.44%) Scala
9 4 (2.44%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.22%) C++
10 2 (1.22%) Groovy
11 1 (0.61%) Fortran
11 1 (0.61%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.61%) Rust
Qualifications
1 8 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (4.88%) Degree
2 4 (2.44%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.83%) AWS Certification
3 3 (1.83%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.22%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.61%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.22%) Accessibility
1 2 (1.22%) Def Stans
1 2 (1.22%) IEC 61508
2 1 (0.61%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.61%) QA
System Software
1 28 (17.07%) Docker
2 5 (3.05%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 46 (28.05%) Kubernetes
2 12 (7.32%) Terraform
3 7 (4.27%) Grafana
4 4 (2.44%) Netcool
4 4 (2.44%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 4 (2.44%) Tivoli
5 2 (1.22%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.61%) Kibana
Vendors
1 36 (21.95%) Oracle
2 9 (5.49%) Dynatrace
2 9 (5.49%) Splunk
3 7 (4.27%) Databricks
3 7 (4.27%) Google
4 6 (3.66%) Facebook
5 5 (3.05%) Cloudera
6 4 (2.44%) IBM
6 4 (2.44%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.44%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.83%) Sybase
8 2 (1.22%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.22%) SAP