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 £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 380 333 500
Rank change year-on-year -47 +167 +132
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 160 364 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.46% 0.66% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.69% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 36 56 44
10th Percentile £49,375 £37,500 £43,600
25th Percentile £57,500 £46,306 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,585
90th Percentile £88,500 £95,000 £84,625
UK median annual salary £110,000 £115,000 £86,250
% change year-on-year -4.35% +33.33% -1.43%

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 30,736 52,765 32,139
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.30% 95.21% 93.34%
Number of salaries quoted 17,476 30,933 24,084
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,620 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

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

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -28 101 £67,500 +35.00% 4
South West +63 20 £47,500 -17.39%
North of England +9 19 £72,500 +9.05% 4
North West +1 13 £88,000 +58.56% 3
Midlands +59 11 £60,000 -14.57% 1
West Midlands +54 11 £60,000 -14.57% 1
South East +54 8 £70,000 -37.78% 7
North East +19 4 £65,000 -18.75% 1
Yorkshire +24 2 £71,250 +8.84% 1
East of England - 1 £80,000 -
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 18 September 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.

1 160 (100.00%) Java
1 160 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 132 (82.50%) Agile
3 120 (75.00%) Finance
4 113 (70.63%) Spring
5 112 (70.00%) Law
5 112 (70.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 111 (69.38%) SDLC
7 105 (65.63%) CI/CD
8 90 (56.25%) Operational Stability
9 85 (53.13%) AWS
10 75 (46.88%) Artificial Intelligence
11 71 (44.38%) Machine Learning
12 62 (38.75%) Spring Boot
13 60 (37.50%) Kafka
14 59 (36.88%) Banking
15 57 (35.63%) React
15 57 (35.63%) Community of Practice
16 50 (31.25%) Marketing
17 49 (30.63%) SQL
18 48 (30.00%) Kubernetes
19 46 (28.75%) Continuous Improvement
20 45 (28.13%) Full-Stack Development
21 44 (27.50%) Visualisation
21 44 (27.50%) Algorithms
22 41 (25.63%) Cloud Native
23 37 (23.13%) Microservices
24 36 (22.50%) Oracle
24 36 (22.50%) Decision-Making
25 34 (21.25%) 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 (5.63%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.50%) Camunda
2 4 (2.50%) Cloud Foundry
2 4 (2.50%) Confluence
2 4 (2.50%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.63%) Apache
3 1 (0.63%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.63%) CMS
3 1 (0.63%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 85 (53.13%) AWS
2 21 (13.13%) Azure
3 15 (9.38%) GCP
4 12 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (7.50%) Serverless
5 11 (6.88%) GitHub
6 10 (6.25%) Amazon S3
7 9 (5.63%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (2.50%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (2.50%) Amazon MSK
10 4 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (2.50%) SaaS
11 3 (1.88%) BlazeMeter
12 1 (0.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (0.63%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (0.63%) Amazon SQS
12 1 (0.63%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.88%) Internet
2 2 (1.25%) Broadband
3 1 (0.63%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.13%) NoSQL
2 18 (11.25%) Relational Database
3 15 (9.38%) MongoDB
4 13 (8.13%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (7.50%) Apache Cassandra
6 11 (6.88%) Big Data
7 9 (5.63%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (5.00%) KDB
8 8 (5.00%) Kdb+
8 8 (5.00%) RDBMS
9 7 (4.38%) MySQL
9 7 (4.38%) Oracle Database
10 6 (3.75%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (3.75%) InterSystems Cache
11 5 (3.13%) Apache Hive
11 5 (3.13%) Hadoop
11 5 (3.13%) HBase
12 4 (2.50%) Electronic Patient Records
13 2 (1.25%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 18 (11.25%) Jenkins
2 17 (10.63%) Maven
3 13 (8.13%) Git
4 12 (7.50%) JUnit
5 7 (4.38%) Selenium
6 6 (3.75%) GitLab
7 5 (3.13%) Gradle
7 5 (3.13%) JIRA
8 4 (2.50%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.50%) Subversion
9 3 (1.88%) Mockito
10 2 (1.25%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.25%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (1.25%) Spock
10 2 (1.25%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.63%) Jasmine
11 1 (0.63%) Karma Test Runner
11 1 (0.63%) Rational DOORS
11 1 (0.63%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.63%) webpack
General
1 120 (75.00%) Finance
2 112 (70.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 112 (70.00%) Law
3 59 (36.88%) Banking
4 50 (31.25%) Marketing
5 27 (16.88%) Social Skills
6 22 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (10.00%) Legal
8 8 (5.00%) Investment Banking
9 7 (4.38%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.50%) Private Banking
11 3 (1.88%) Electronics
11 3 (1.88%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.25%) Advertising
12 2 (1.25%) Games
12 2 (1.25%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.63%) Automotive
13 1 (0.63%) Military
13 1 (0.63%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (70.63%) Spring
2 62 (38.75%) Spring Boot
3 60 (37.50%) Kafka
4 57 (35.63%) React
5 28 (17.50%) AngularJS
6 24 (15.00%) RESTful
7 22 (13.75%) REST
8 13 (8.13%) Hibernate
9 10 (6.25%) HTML
9 10 (6.25%) Web Services
10 9 (5.63%) JPA
11 8 (5.00%) FIX Protocol
12 6 (3.75%) CSS
12 6 (3.75%) OAuth
12 6 (3.75%) OAuth2
12 6 (3.75%) OpenID
12 6 (3.75%) SAML
13 5 (3.13%) J2EE
13 5 (3.13%) jQuery
13 5 (3.13%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 44 (27.50%) Algorithms
2 41 (25.63%) Cloud Native
3 14 (8.75%) Public Cloud
4 8 (5.00%) Reference Data
5 5 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.50%) Credit Risk
6 4 (2.50%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.50%) Derivative
6 4 (2.50%) Distributed Applications
6 4 (2.50%) Equities
6 4 (2.50%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (2.50%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.50%) Wiki
7 2 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.25%) Online Games
7 2 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.13%) Unix
2 2 (1.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 132 (82.50%) Agile
3 111 (69.38%) SDLC
4 105 (65.63%) CI/CD
5 90 (56.25%) Operational Stability
6 75 (46.88%) Artificial Intelligence
7 71 (44.38%) Machine Learning
8 57 (35.63%) Community of Practice
9 46 (28.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 45 (28.13%) Full-Stack Development
11 44 (27.50%) Visualisation
12 37 (23.13%) Microservices
13 36 (22.50%) Decision-Making
14 34 (21.25%) TDD
15 30 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
16 26 (16.25%) DevOps
17 21 (13.13%) Architectural Design
17 21 (13.13%) Containerisation
17 21 (13.13%) Continuous Delivery
18 20 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 160 (100.00%) Java
2 49 (30.63%) SQL
3 24 (15.00%) JavaScript
4 22 (13.75%) TypeScript
5 21 (13.13%) Python
6 12 (7.50%) C#
7 7 (4.38%) Go
8 5 (3.13%) PL/SQL
9 4 (2.50%) Scala
9 4 (2.50%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.25%) C++
10 2 (1.25%) Groovy
11 1 (0.63%) Fortran
11 1 (0.63%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.63%) Rust
Qualifications
1 6 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (3.75%) Degree
2 4 (2.50%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.88%) AWS Certification
3 3 (1.88%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.25%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.63%) ISO 9001
1 1 (0.63%) QA
System Software
1 29 (18.13%) Docker
2 5 (3.13%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 48 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (8.13%) Terraform
3 7 (4.38%) Grafana
4 4 (2.50%) Netcool
4 4 (2.50%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 4 (2.50%) Tivoli
5 2 (1.25%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.63%) Istio
6 1 (0.63%) Kibana
Vendors
1 36 (22.50%) Oracle
2 9 (5.63%) Dynatrace
2 9 (5.63%) Splunk
3 7 (4.38%) Databricks
3 7 (4.38%) Google
4 6 (3.75%) Facebook
5 5 (3.13%) Cloudera
6 4 (2.50%) IBM
6 4 (2.50%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.50%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.88%) Sybase
8 2 (1.25%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.25%) SAP