Java Engineer
UK

The median Java Engineer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 227 358 273
Rank change year-on-year +131 -85 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 1,281 967 2,316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.31% 0.92% 1.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.38% 1.01% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 388 755 1,037
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £54,688 £65,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £90,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +20.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £105,625 £122,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £150,000 £128,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.40% +4.17% +14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Engineer in the UK

Java Engineer
Top 17 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 27 April 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
UK excluding London +302 1,073 £64,000 +2.40% 68
Scotland +152 819 £55,000 -21.43% 7
England -93 441 £70,000 -22.22% 113
Work from Home -76 284 £70,000 -24.05% 69
London -112 199 £95,000 -5.00% 55
North of England +49 90 £65,465 +0.71% 12
South West +29 64 £52,500 -19.23% 22
North West +26 64 £65,232 -8.29% 9
South East +47 53 £70,000 -12.50% 12
Midlands -18 28 £60,000 +14.29% 8
West Midlands +23 25 £60,000 +3.02% 6
Yorkshire +73 19 £65,465 +24.69% 2
Northern Ireland +36 9 £105,000 - 2
North East +2 7 £65,465 +39.29% 1
Wales +12 5 £55,000 -15.38% 2
East of England -5 5 £80,000 +45.45% 3
East Midlands -37 3 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 1,281 (100.00%) Java
2 1,156 (90.24%) Software Engineering
3 1,004 (78.38%) Agile
4 888 (69.32%) Finance
5 835 (65.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 806 (62.92%) Law
7 719 (56.13%) SDLC
8 701 (54.72%) CI/CD
9 679 (53.01%) Operational Stability
10 614 (47.93%) Spring
11 599 (46.76%) AWS
12 597 (46.60%) Artificial Intelligence
13 585 (45.67%) Machine Learning
14 533 (41.61%) SQL
15 413 (32.24%) Community of Practice
16 399 (31.15%) Microservices
17 339 (26.46%) React
18 323 (25.21%) AngularJS
19 321 (25.06%) Banking
20 315 (24.59%) Continuous Improvement
21 301 (23.50%) Marketing
22 295 (23.03%) Spring Boot
23 292 (22.79%) Visualisation
24 290 (22.64%) Cloud Native
25 289 (22.56%) NoSQL
25 289 (22.56%) Risk Management
26 280 (21.86%) Kafka
27 278 (21.70%) Full Stack Development
28 270 (21.08%) Algorithms
29 264 (20.61%) Legal

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
1 194 (15.14%) Apache Spark
2 75 (5.85%) Apache
3 67 (5.23%) Apache Airflow
4 40 (3.12%) FileNet
5 32 (2.50%) Cloud Foundry
6 28 (2.19%) JBoss
6 28 (2.19%) Red Hat Fuse
7 21 (1.64%) GemFire
8 7 (0.55%) Confluence
9 4 (0.31%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.16%) Drupal
11 1 (0.078%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (0.078%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 599 (46.76%) AWS
2 167 (13.04%) Azure
3 106 (8.27%) GCP
4 51 (3.98%) dbt
5 46 (3.59%) Amazon EKS
5 46 (3.59%) Amazon S3
6 44 (3.43%) Snowflake
7 43 (3.36%) Serverless
8 41 (3.20%) BlazeMeter
9 31 (2.42%) GitHub
10 20 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
11 18 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
12 17 (1.33%) Amazon SQS
13 15 (1.17%) Amazon EMR
14 13 (1.01%) Amazon EC2
15 12 (0.94%) IBM Cloud
16 10 (0.78%) SaaS
17 6 (0.47%) Azure DevOps
18 4 (0.31%) GitHub Actions
18 4 (0.31%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.33%) Kerberos
2 9 (0.70%) Network Security
3 3 (0.23%) HTTP
4 1 (0.078%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.078%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 289 (22.56%) NoSQL
2 181 (14.13%) Big Data
3 123 (9.60%) MongoDB
4 95 (7.42%) Apache Cassandra
5 88 (6.87%) Elasticsearch
6 84 (6.56%) Hadoop
7 66 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
8 62 (4.84%) MySQL
9 57 (4.45%) Relational Database
10 52 (4.06%) Amazon Athena
11 49 (3.83%) Apache Arrow
11 49 (3.83%) Apache Ignite
11 49 (3.83%) Dremio
12 42 (3.28%) Data Lake
13 38 (2.97%) CockroachDB
14 30 (2.34%) Apache Hive
15 21 (1.64%) Hazelcast
16 19 (1.48%) RDBMS
17 17 (1.33%) Amazon Aurora
18 16 (1.25%) HBase
Development Applications
1 128 (9.99%) JUnit
2 86 (6.71%) Cypress.io
3 81 (6.32%) Jasmine
4 78 (6.09%) Git
5 72 (5.62%) Jenkins
6 66 (5.15%) Selenium
7 60 (4.68%) Karma Test Runner
7 60 (4.68%) Protractor
7 60 (4.68%) WebDriver
8 44 (3.43%) Maven
9 41 (3.20%) IntelliJ
10 33 (2.58%) Cucumber
11 27 (2.11%) JMeter
12 26 (2.03%) Mockito
13 21 (1.64%) Jaeger
13 21 (1.64%) JIRA
14 18 (1.41%) Gradle
15 15 (1.17%) TeamCity
16 9 (0.70%) GitLab
17 5 (0.39%) Robot Framework
General
1 888 (69.32%) Finance
2 835 (65.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 806 (62.92%) Law
4 321 (25.06%) Banking
5 301 (23.50%) Marketing
6 264 (20.61%) Legal
7 240 (18.74%) Investment Banking
8 96 (7.49%) Influencing Skills
9 92 (7.18%) Public Sector
10 86 (6.71%) Social Skills
11 62 (4.84%) Front Office
12 56 (4.37%) Private Banking
13 25 (1.95%) Analytical Skills
14 24 (1.87%) Financial Institution
15 22 (1.72%) Prime Brokerage
16 18 (1.41%) Retail
17 11 (0.86%) Tech for Good
18 8 (0.62%) Games
19 4 (0.31%) Manufacturing
19 4 (0.31%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 614 (47.93%) Spring
2 339 (26.46%) React
3 323 (25.21%) AngularJS
4 295 (23.03%) Spring Boot
5 280 (21.86%) Kafka
6 196 (15.30%) J2EE
7 169 (13.19%) Hibernate
8 151 (11.79%) HTML
9 135 (10.54%) Node.js
10 131 (10.23%) REST
10 131 (10.23%) RESTful
11 129 (10.07%) JSON
12 122 (9.52%) JMS
13 116 (9.06%) CSS
14 111 (8.67%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 90 (7.03%) Web Services
16 87 (6.79%) JPA
17 84 (6.56%) jQuery
18 78 (6.09%) XML
19 62 (4.84%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 290 (22.64%) Cloud Native
2 270 (21.08%) Algorithms
3 101 (7.88%) Public Cloud
4 75 (5.85%) Data Structures
5 70 (5.46%) Onboarding
6 68 (5.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 56 (4.37%) Fixed Income
8 50 (3.90%) Hedge funds
9 47 (3.67%) Derivative
9 47 (3.67%) Reference Data
10 46 (3.59%) Equities
11 43 (3.36%) Legacy Code
12 36 (2.81%) Private Cloud
13 26 (2.03%) Market Risk
14 21 (1.64%) Replication
15 14 (1.09%) Client/Server
16 13 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
17 12 (0.94%) Credit Risk
17 12 (0.94%) Pricing Data
18 10 (0.78%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 41 (3.20%) Unix
2 33 (2.58%) Linux
3 10 (0.78%) Windows
4 4 (0.31%) AIX
4 4 (0.31%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,156 (90.24%) Software Engineering
2 1,004 (78.38%) Agile
3 719 (56.13%) SDLC
4 701 (54.72%) CI/CD
5 679 (53.01%) Operational Stability
6 597 (46.60%) Artificial Intelligence
7 585 (45.67%) Machine Learning
8 413 (32.24%) Community of Practice
9 399 (31.15%) Microservices
10 315 (24.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 292 (22.79%) Visualisation
12 289 (22.56%) Risk Management
13 278 (21.70%) Full Stack Development
14 218 (17.02%) Decision-Making
15 204 (15.93%) TDD
16 186 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
17 146 (11.40%) BDD
18 143 (11.16%) Mentoring
19 139 (10.85%) Test Automation
20 138 (10.77%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 1,281 (100.00%) Java
2 533 (41.61%) SQL
3 210 (16.39%) JavaScript
4 194 (15.14%) Python
5 166 (12.96%) TypeScript
6 153 (11.94%) Scala
7 52 (4.06%) C#
8 47 (3.67%) Kotlin
9 25 (1.95%) Ruby
10 22 (1.72%) Groovy
11 9 (0.70%) C
12 8 (0.62%) Go
13 6 (0.47%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.39%) C++
15 2 (0.16%) PHP
15 2 (0.16%) Rust
15 2 (0.16%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.078%) Dart
16 1 (0.078%) F#
16 1 (0.078%) R
Qualifications
1 48 (3.75%) Security Cleared
2 42 (3.28%) SC Cleared
3 41 (3.20%) Degree
4 13 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (0.47%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.31%) PhD
7 3 (0.23%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.16%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.078%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (2.19%) QA
2 26 (2.03%) SLA
3 16 (1.25%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.09%) Accessibility
System Software
1 110 (8.59%) Docker
2 17 (1.33%) HDFS
3 1 (0.078%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 196 (15.30%) Kubernetes
2 93 (7.26%) Terraform
3 50 (3.90%) Grafana
4 23 (1.80%) Prometheus
5 22 (1.72%) Kibana
6 21 (1.64%) HAProxy
6 21 (1.64%) ITRS Geneos
6 21 (1.64%) Zipkin
7 17 (1.33%) Ansible
8 7 (0.55%) Graphite
9 1 (0.078%) Istio
Vendors
1 169 (13.19%) Oracle
2 54 (4.22%) Databricks
3 47 (3.67%) Splunk
4 41 (3.20%) Dynatrace
5 29 (2.26%) Google
6 18 (1.41%) SaltStack
7 17 (1.33%) Cloudera
8 13 (1.01%) IBM
9 9 (0.70%) TOWER Software
9 9 (0.70%) YouTube
10 8 (0.62%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.31%) Confluent
11 4 (0.31%) Solace
11 4 (0.31%) TIBCO
12 2 (0.16%) Microsoft
13 1 (0.078%) Atlassian
13 1 (0.078%) CA Agile Central
13 1 (0.078%) Informatica
13 1 (0.078%) ServiceNow
13 1 (0.078%) Xamarin