Java Engineer Jobs

Java Engineer
UK

The median Java Engineer salary in the UK is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 October 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 312 324
Rank change year-on-year -56 +12 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 503 598 1,613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.66% 1.02% 1.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 1.06% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 339 307 1,061
10th Percentile £48,500 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £71,250 £53,875 £62,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £75,554 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +32.36% -13.65% +16.67%
75th Percentile £128,750 £97,290 £115,000
90th Percentile £148,750 £130,500 £133,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 72,160 56,195 134,726
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.93% 95.71% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 37,655 40,750 78,298
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,874 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,900 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.66% - +5.00%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in the UK

Java Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Engineer.

Salary trend for Java Engineer in the UK

Java Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer over the 6 months to 26 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Engineer in the UK

Java Engineer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 26 October 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
England -43 450 £100,000 +32.36% 96
Work from Home -28 327 £115,000 +53.33% 65
London +73 311 £115,000 +27.78% 47
UK excluding London -157 182 £60,000 - 56
South West -3 49 £63,750 +10.87% 11
North of England -58 45 £67,500 +12.50% 21
Scotland -17 37 £47,557 -37.06% 2
South East -41 34 £70,000 +21.74% 16
North West -53 28 £62,500 +2.88% 19
North East -25 9 £80,000 +10.34%
Midlands -47 9 £57,500 -4.17% 2
Yorkshire -5 8 - - 2
West Midlands -25 8 £57,500 -4.17% 2
Wales +15 7 - -
East Midlands -41 1 £45,000 -
East of England -50 1 - - 1

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 October 2024, 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 featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 503 (100.00%) Java
2 394 (78.33%) Software Engineering
3 342 (67.99%) AWS
4 320 (63.62%) Agile
5 287 (57.06%) Finance
6 269 (53.48%) JavaScript
7 238 (47.32%) Python
8 234 (46.52%) Banking
9 208 (41.35%) TypeScript
10 205 (40.76%) Asset Management
11 196 (38.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 195 (38.77%) Investment Banking
13 194 (38.57%) Equities
13 194 (38.57%) Front Office
14 190 (37.77%) Hedge funds
14 190 (37.77%) Derivative
14 190 (37.77%) Fixed Income
15 183 (36.38%) Amazon Athena
16 182 (36.18%) Apache Airflow
16 182 (36.18%) dbt
16 182 (36.18%) Apache
17 180 (35.79%) SciPy
17 180 (35.79%) NumPy
17 180 (35.79%) Snowflake
17 180 (35.79%) Dremio
17 180 (35.79%) Apache Ignite
17 180 (35.79%) Apache Arrow
17 180 (35.79%) gRPC
17 180 (35.79%) Data Lake
17 180 (35.79%) Protocol Buffers

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 182 (36.18%) Apache
1 182 (36.18%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (2.78%) Confluence
3 4 (0.80%) nginx
3 4 (0.80%) Tomcat
4 3 (0.60%) WildFly
5 2 (0.40%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.40%) FileNet
5 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.20%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.20%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 12 (2.39%) Ripple
2 3 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 342 (67.99%) AWS
2 182 (36.18%) dbt
3 180 (35.79%) Snowflake
4 112 (22.27%) GCP
5 69 (13.72%) Azure
6 52 (10.34%) Amazon ECS
7 37 (7.36%) Amazon EKS
8 32 (6.36%) Amazon EC2
9 19 (3.78%) Serverless
10 15 (2.98%) GitHub
11 14 (2.78%) SaaS
12 13 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (2.39%) AWS Step Functions
14 11 (2.19%) Amazon SQS
15 6 (1.19%) Amazon S3
16 5 (0.99%) Figma
17 4 (0.80%) Amazon Cognito
17 4 (0.80%) OpenShift
18 3 (0.60%) Azure DevOps
19 2 (0.40%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.59%) Broadband
2 5 (0.99%) Network Security
3 4 (0.80%) HTTP
3 4 (0.80%) SSL
4 3 (0.60%) Internet
5 2 (0.40%) AMQP
5 2 (0.40%) DHCP
5 2 (0.40%) DNS
5 2 (0.40%) Firewall
5 2 (0.40%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.40%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (36.38%) Amazon Athena
2 180 (35.79%) Apache Arrow
2 180 (35.79%) Apache Ignite
2 180 (35.79%) Data Lake
2 180 (35.79%) Dremio
3 59 (11.73%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (5.77%) NoSQL
5 27 (5.37%) MongoDB
6 23 (4.57%) MySQL
7 17 (3.38%) Elasticsearch
8 16 (3.18%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.39%) RDBMS
10 6 (1.19%) MariaDB
11 5 (0.99%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.60%) SQL Server
13 2 (0.40%) Data Hub
13 2 (0.40%) Metadata
13 2 (0.40%) Oracle Database
14 1 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
14 1 (0.20%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 45 (8.95%) Git
2 24 (4.77%) JIRA
3 16 (3.18%) Cucumber
4 15 (2.98%) Jenkins
5 14 (2.78%) Maven
6 12 (2.39%) JUnit
7 10 (1.99%) Bitbucket
7 10 (1.99%) Subversion
8 9 (1.79%) TeamCity
9 7 (1.39%) GitLab
9 7 (1.39%) Selenium
10 5 (0.99%) CppUnit
10 5 (0.99%) LabVIEW
10 5 (0.99%) NetBeans
10 5 (0.99%) Rational DOORS
10 5 (0.99%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.60%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.60%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.40%) Gradle
12 2 (0.40%) Mockito
General
1 287 (57.06%) Finance
2 234 (46.52%) Banking
3 195 (38.77%) Investment Banking
4 194 (38.57%) Front Office
5 70 (13.92%) Social Skills
6 52 (10.34%) Law
7 35 (6.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 28 (5.57%) Legal
9 23 (4.57%) Analytical Skills
10 20 (3.98%) Retail
11 16 (3.18%) Financial Institution
12 14 (2.78%) Public Sector
13 10 (1.99%) Marketing
14 7 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.19%) Tech for Good
15 6 (1.19%) Wearables
16 5 (0.99%) Military
16 5 (0.99%) Retail Banking
17 3 (0.60%) Back Office
18 2 (0.40%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (35.79%) gRPC
1 180 (35.79%) NumPy
1 180 (35.79%) Pandas
1 180 (35.79%) Protocol Buffers
1 180 (35.79%) SciPy
2 114 (22.66%) Spring
3 95 (18.89%) Spring Boot
4 51 (10.14%) RESTful
5 50 (9.94%) React
6 39 (7.75%) AngularJS
7 31 (6.16%) PySpark
8 26 (5.17%) Kafka
9 19 (3.78%) Web Services
10 16 (3.18%) HTML
10 16 (3.18%) Node.js
11 14 (2.78%) REST
11 14 (2.78%) SOAP
12 12 (2.39%) Lambda Expressions
12 12 (2.39%) OAuth
13 10 (1.99%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 196 (38.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 194 (38.57%) Equities
3 190 (37.77%) Derivative
3 190 (37.77%) Fixed Income
3 190 (37.77%) Hedge funds
4 99 (19.68%) Pricing Data
5 30 (5.96%) Cloud Native
6 23 (4.57%) Public Cloud
7 12 (2.39%) Blockchain
7 12 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (2.39%) NFT
8 8 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.39%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.39%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.19%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.19%) Blog
10 6 (1.19%) PKI
11 5 (0.99%) Acoustics
11 5 (0.99%) IoT
11 5 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.57%) Linux
2 3 (0.60%) Windows
3 2 (0.40%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.20%) AIX
4 1 (0.20%) Android
4 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 394 (78.33%) Software Engineering
2 320 (63.62%) Agile
3 205 (40.76%) Asset Management
4 144 (28.63%) Investment Management
5 115 (22.86%) Microservices
6 85 (16.90%) Mentoring
7 68 (13.52%) TDD
8 59 (11.73%) CI/CD
8 59 (11.73%) Test Automation
9 53 (10.54%) Fintech
9 53 (10.54%) Full-Stack Development
10 50 (9.94%) Problem-Solving
11 43 (8.55%) DevOps
12 42 (8.35%) Continuous Improvement
13 41 (8.15%) BDD
14 35 (6.96%) Line Management
15 34 (6.76%) SDLC
16 32 (6.36%) Computer Science
16 32 (6.36%) Migration
17 30 (5.96%) Greeks
Programming Languages
1 503 (100.00%) Java
2 269 (53.48%) JavaScript
3 238 (47.32%) Python
4 208 (41.35%) TypeScript
5 112 (22.27%) SQL
6 24 (4.77%) Kotlin
7 15 (2.98%) C#
7 15 (2.98%) Go
8 14 (2.78%) C++
8 14 (2.78%) Rust
9 12 (2.39%) Solidity
10 8 (1.59%) Scala
11 5 (0.99%) Bash
11 5 (0.99%) Fortran
11 5 (0.99%) MATLAB
11 5 (0.99%) Perl
12 4 (0.80%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.40%) PHP
13 2 (0.40%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (5.96%) Degree
2 25 (4.97%) Security Cleared
3 14 (2.78%) DV Cleared
4 10 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (1.99%) SC Cleared
5 4 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.40%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.56%) Data Quality
2 14 (2.78%) QA
3 5 (0.99%) Def Stans
3 5 (0.99%) IEC 61508
3 5 (0.99%) ISO 9001
4 4 (0.80%) Accessibility
System Software
1 64 (12.72%) Docker
2 2 (0.40%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 83 (16.50%) Kubernetes
2 27 (5.37%) Terraform
3 15 (2.98%) Grafana
4 12 (2.39%) Ansible
5 8 (1.59%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.19%) Kibana
7 2 (0.40%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 2 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.40%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.40%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 15 (2.98%) Bloomberg
1 15 (2.98%) Reuters
2 13 (2.58%) Microsoft
2 13 (2.58%) Oracle
3 12 (2.39%) Atlassian
4 10 (1.99%) Google
5 8 (1.59%) Splunk
6 5 (0.99%) Adobe
7 4 (0.80%) AppDynamics
7 4 (0.80%) Cognizant
8 2 (0.40%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.40%) ForgeRock
8 2 (0.40%) HP
8 2 (0.40%) Okta
8 2 (0.40%) PayPal
8 2 (0.40%) Ping Identity
8 2 (0.40%) Solace
9 1 (0.20%) IBM
9 1 (0.20%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.20%) SAP