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 £75,000 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 754 753 795
Rank change year-on-year -1 +42 -113
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Java Engineer 3 8 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.004% 0.013% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.004% 0.015% 0.080%
Number of salaries quoted 2 8 2
10th Percentile - - £53,875
25th Percentile £72,500 £46,250 £57,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £52,500 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -23.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £64,688 £77,813
90th Percentile - £86,250 £80,625
UK median annual salary £110,000 £145,000 £113,750
% change year-on-year -24.14% +27.47% +19.74%

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%

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
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 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
South East - 2 £75,000 - 2
Scotland - 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 9 May 2024, 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%) Scala
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) Web Design
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Subversion
2 2 (66.67%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Debt
2 2 (66.67%) Wearables
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Web Development
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (33.33%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (33.33%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (33.33%) Operational Stability
3 1 (33.33%) Functional Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (33.33%) Databricks
3 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Marketing
3 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
3 1 (33.33%) Finance

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%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Subversion
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Wearables
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
2 1 (33.33%) Games
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Law
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Debt
1 2 (66.67%) Web Design
1 2 (66.67%) Web Development
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 1 (33.33%) ATDD
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Functional Programming
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) Operational Stability
2 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
2 1 (33.33%) Software Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Scala
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks