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 to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 212 551 488
Rank change year-on-year +339 -63 -85
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 950 210 395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.34% 0.35% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.41% 0.39% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 131 95 273
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £91,250 £89,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +21.43% +27.27%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 67,217 53,628 67,833
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.16% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 47,585 30,477 42,470
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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 9 May 2024.

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 9 May 2024. 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 +166 819 £50,000 -27.27% 7
North of England +49 53 £65,465 +24.69% 6
South West -2 39 £52,500 -20.75% 14
North West +21 38 £65,465 -9.70% 4
South East -11 22 £87,500 +9.38% 5
Midlands -33 12 £65,465 +45.48% 6
West Midlands +10 11 £65,465 +13.85% 4
Yorkshire +74 8 £65,465 +24.69% 1
North East 0 7 £65,465 +39.29% 1
Wales +3 3 £55,000 -
Northern Ireland +23 1 - - 2
East of England -2 1 £65,000 +18.18% 1
East Midlands -37 1 - - 2
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 9 May 2024, 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.

1 950 (100.00%) Java
2 947 (99.68%) Software Engineering
3 853 (89.79%) Agile
4 808 (85.05%) Finance
5 806 (84.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 795 (83.68%) Law
7 707 (74.42%) SDLC
8 682 (71.79%) Operational Stability
9 672 (70.74%) CI/CD
10 583 (61.37%) Machine Learning
11 582 (61.26%) Artificial Intelligence
12 506 (53.26%) SQL
13 489 (51.47%) Spring
14 413 (43.47%) AWS
15 412 (43.37%) Community of Practice
16 304 (32.00%) Marketing
17 296 (31.16%) Continuous Improvement
18 294 (30.95%) Visualisation
19 290 (30.53%) React
20 287 (30.21%) Risk Management
21 280 (29.47%) AngularJS
22 272 (28.63%) Algorithms
23 271 (28.53%) Microservices
24 267 (28.11%) NoSQL
25 266 (28.00%) Cloud Native
26 261 (27.47%) Legal
27 260 (27.37%) Full Stack Development
28 233 (24.53%) Banking
29 229 (24.11%) Spring Boot
30 223 (23.47%) Kafka

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
1 192 (20.21%) Apache Spark
2 42 (4.42%) FileNet
3 32 (3.37%) Cloud Foundry
4 23 (2.42%) Apache
5 21 (2.21%) GemFire
6 16 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (1.05%) JBoss
7 10 (1.05%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.11%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 413 (43.47%) AWS
2 96 (10.11%) Azure
3 58 (6.11%) GCP
4 42 (4.42%) Amazon S3
4 42 (4.42%) BlazeMeter
5 30 (3.16%) Amazon EKS
5 30 (3.16%) GitHub
6 17 (1.79%) Serverless
7 14 (1.47%) Amazon ECS
8 13 (1.37%) Amazon SQS
9 12 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (1.16%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (0.42%) IBM Cloud
11 4 (0.42%) npm
11 4 (0.42%) SaaS
12 3 (0.32%) OpenShift
13 1 (0.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 1 (0.11%) Datadog
13 1 (0.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.79%) Kerberos
2 10 (1.05%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 267 (28.11%) NoSQL
2 178 (18.74%) Big Data
3 115 (12.11%) MongoDB
4 96 (10.11%) Apache Cassandra
5 90 (9.47%) Elasticsearch
6 83 (8.74%) Hadoop
7 50 (5.26%) Relational Database
8 47 (4.95%) MySQL
9 38 (4.00%) CockroachDB
10 34 (3.58%) PostgreSQL
11 29 (3.05%) Apache Hive
12 21 (2.21%) Hazelcast
13 17 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
14 16 (1.68%) HBase
15 14 (1.47%) RDBMS
16 11 (1.16%) Electronic Patient Records
17 7 (0.74%) Oracle Database
18 6 (0.63%) CouchDB
19 4 (0.42%) SQL Server
20 3 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 129 (13.58%) JUnit
2 85 (8.95%) Cypress.io
3 81 (8.53%) Jasmine
4 65 (6.84%) Selenium
5 60 (6.32%) Karma Test Runner
5 60 (6.32%) Protractor
5 60 (6.32%) WebDriver
6 53 (5.58%) Jenkins
7 30 (3.16%) Git
8 28 (2.95%) Maven
9 27 (2.84%) JMeter
10 26 (2.74%) Mockito
11 25 (2.63%) Cucumber
12 21 (2.21%) Jaeger
13 18 (1.89%) Gradle
14 15 (1.58%) IntelliJ
15 9 (0.95%) JIRA
16 5 (0.53%) Robot Framework
17 4 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
18 1 (0.11%) Spock
General
1 808 (85.05%) Finance
2 806 (84.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 795 (83.68%) Law
4 304 (32.00%) Marketing
5 261 (27.47%) Legal
6 233 (24.53%) Banking
7 172 (18.11%) Investment Banking
8 96 (10.11%) Influencing Skills
9 65 (6.84%) Social Skills
10 57 (6.00%) Private Banking
11 46 (4.84%) Public Sector
12 22 (2.32%) Prime Brokerage
13 19 (2.00%) Financial Institution
14 11 (1.16%) Analytical Skills
15 3 (0.32%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.32%) Games
15 3 (0.32%) Tech for Good
16 2 (0.21%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 489 (51.47%) Spring
2 290 (30.53%) React
3 280 (29.47%) AngularJS
4 229 (24.11%) Spring Boot
5 223 (23.47%) Kafka
6 179 (18.84%) J2EE
7 145 (15.26%) HTML
8 137 (14.42%) Hibernate
9 124 (13.05%) Node.js
10 122 (12.84%) JMS
11 112 (11.79%) CSS
11 112 (11.79%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 100 (10.53%) JSON
13 95 (10.00%) RESTful
14 90 (9.47%) REST
15 83 (8.74%) jQuery
16 69 (7.26%) Web Services
17 65 (6.84%) JPA
18 60 (6.32%) Jest
19 59 (6.21%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 272 (28.63%) Algorithms
2 266 (28.00%) Cloud Native
3 104 (10.95%) Public Cloud
4 75 (7.89%) Data Structures
5 70 (7.37%) Onboarding
6 48 (5.05%) Reference Data
7 43 (4.53%) Legacy Code
8 31 (3.26%) Private Cloud
9 27 (2.84%) Market Risk
10 21 (2.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 21 (2.21%) Replication
11 14 (1.47%) Credit Risk
12 8 (0.84%) Client/Server
13 6 (0.63%) PropTech
14 2 (0.21%) Distributed Systems
15 1 (0.11%) Distributed Applications
15 1 (0.11%) Distributed Computing
15 1 (0.11%) Greenfield Project
15 1 (0.11%) Management Information System
15 1 (0.11%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 41 (4.32%) Unix
2 21 (2.21%) Linux
3 2 (0.21%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 947 (99.68%) Software Engineering
2 853 (89.79%) Agile
3 707 (74.42%) SDLC
4 682 (71.79%) Operational Stability
5 672 (70.74%) CI/CD
6 583 (61.37%) Machine Learning
7 582 (61.26%) Artificial Intelligence
8 412 (43.37%) Community of Practice
9 296 (31.16%) Continuous Improvement
10 294 (30.95%) Visualisation
11 287 (30.21%) Risk Management
12 271 (28.53%) Microservices
13 260 (27.37%) Full Stack Development
14 217 (22.84%) Decision-Making
15 155 (16.32%) TDD
16 137 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
17 134 (14.11%) Architectural Design
18 127 (13.37%) BDD
19 119 (12.53%) Performance Tuning
20 116 (12.21%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 950 (100.00%) Java
2 506 (53.26%) SQL
3 139 (14.63%) Scala
4 126 (13.26%) JavaScript
5 95 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 89 (9.37%) Python
7 22 (2.32%) Groovy
8 17 (1.79%) C#
9 11 (1.16%) Kotlin
10 7 (0.74%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.53%) C++
12 3 (0.32%) C
13 2 (0.21%) Ruby
13 2 (0.21%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (3.16%) Degree
2 20 (2.11%) Security Cleared
3 14 (1.47%) SC Cleared
4 6 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (0.63%) Master's Degree
5 4 (0.42%) PhD
6 1 (0.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.74%) SLA
2 13 (1.37%) Accessibility
3 9 (0.95%) QA
System Software
1 46 (4.84%) Docker
2 16 (1.68%) HDFS
3 2 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 107 (11.26%) Kubernetes
2 64 (6.74%) Terraform
3 44 (4.63%) Grafana
4 22 (2.32%) Prometheus
5 21 (2.21%) HAProxy
5 21 (2.21%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (2.21%) Kibana
5 21 (2.21%) Zipkin
6 7 (0.74%) Graphite
7 1 (0.11%) Ansible
Vendors
1 170 (17.89%) Oracle
2 54 (5.68%) Databricks
3 47 (4.95%) Splunk
4 43 (4.53%) Dynatrace
5 28 (2.95%) Google
6 18 (1.89%) SaltStack
7 16 (1.68%) Cloudera
8 9 (0.95%) TOWER Software
9 6 (0.63%) IBM
10 2 (0.21%) Microsoft