Principal Java Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Principal Java Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Principal Java Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 May 2025.

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

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 548 755 746
Rank change year-on-year +207 -9 +46
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Java Engineer 3 1 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.008% 0.001% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% 0.001% 0.020%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 11
10th Percentile £65,000 - -
25th Percentile £68,750 - £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.64%
75th Percentile £85,000 - £72,500
90th Percentile - - £82,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £110,000 £145,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% -24.14% +27.47%

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 33,611 66,718 54,815
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.29% 94.80% 89.24%
Number of salaries quoted 18,667 47,265 31,119
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £52,750
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.21% +5.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

Principal Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Principal Java Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Principal Java Engineer in the UK excluding London

Principal Java Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Principal Java Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Principal Java Engineer in the UK excluding London

Principal Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Java Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Principal Java Engineer in the UK excluding London

Principal Java 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 Principal Java Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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 +135 2 £80,000 -
North of England - 1 £65,000 - 1
North West - 1 £65,000 - 1
Principal Java Engineer
UK

Principal Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Principal Java 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 Principal Java Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 2 (66.67%) Software Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
2 2 (66.67%) Java EE
2 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
2 2 (66.67%) MVC
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL

Principal Java 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
1 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
1 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (66.67%) Java EE
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) MVC
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Software Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes