Java Engineer
UK

The median Java Engineer salary in the UK is £73,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 November 2023.

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

6 months to
29 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 297 329 338
Rank change year-on-year +32 +9 -53
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 559 1,413 1,412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.03% 1.12% 1.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 1.18% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 274 1,026 1,009
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.24% +13.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £96,250 £115,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £133,750 £128,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £56,480 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.81% +2.69% +4.76%

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 51,668 119,945 122,710
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.49% 95.32% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 37,837 75,409 83,805
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 29 November 2023.

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 29 November 2023. 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 -21 422 £70,000 -20.00% 144
Work from Home +21 358 £72,500 -9.38% 80
UK excluding London +162 356 £57,500 +1.81% 99
London -87 172 £90,000 -2.70% 70
North of England +138 104 £57,500 +9.52% 23
South West +105 74 £57,500 -11.54% 18
North West +132 60 £57,500 -11.54% 18
Scotland +91 59 £75,554 +0.74% 5
South East +129 41 £57,500 -8.00% 35
Yorkshire +79 40 £57,500 +9.52% 4
Northern Ireland +57 30 £110,000 +22.22% 4
Wales +22 23 £57,500 +4.55% 3
Midlands +42 22 £55,000 -2.62% 7
East Midlands +41 18 - -
North East +40 4 £72,500 +3.57% 2
West Midlands +38 4 £55,000 -2.62% 7
East of England +63 3 £72,500 -3.33% 4

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

For the 6 months to 29 November 2023, 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.

1 559 (100.00%) Java
2 434 (77.64%) Software Engineering
3 324 (57.96%) Spring
4 264 (47.23%) Microservices
5 254 (45.44%) Problem-Solving
6 247 (44.19%) Mentoring
7 241 (43.11%) Agile
8 237 (42.40%) Actionable Insight
9 232 (41.50%) React
10 227 (40.61%) Python
11 196 (35.06%) AWS
12 195 (34.88%) Security Cleared
13 186 (33.27%) SC Cleared
14 183 (32.74%) Design Patterns
15 182 (32.56%) C#
16 171 (30.59%) Containerisation
17 169 (30.23%) Continuous Integration
18 165 (29.52%) Code Quality
19 162 (28.98%) Coaching
20 159 (28.44%) Git
21 157 (28.09%) Unit Testing
22 156 (27.91%) Serverless
23 155 (27.73%) Clean Code
24 154 (27.55%) J2EE
25 146 (26.12%) Ruby
25 146 (26.12%) Ruby on Rails
26 124 (22.18%) Docker
27 116 (20.75%) Finance
28 113 (20.21%) AngularJS
29 108 (19.32%) Police

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 65 (11.63%) JBoss
1 65 (11.63%) Red Hat Fuse
2 19 (3.40%) Apache
2 19 (3.40%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (0.72%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.72%) MQSeries
3 4 (0.72%) nginx
4 3 (0.54%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.18%) Camunda
5 1 (0.18%) Liferay
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 196 (35.06%) AWS
2 156 (27.91%) Serverless
3 79 (14.13%) Azure
4 40 (7.16%) GCP
5 29 (5.19%) OpenShift
6 20 (3.58%) dbt
7 11 (1.97%) Amazon S3
8 8 (1.43%) Apigee
8 8 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (1.07%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (1.07%) GitHub
10 5 (0.89%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (0.72%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (0.72%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (0.72%) SaaS
12 3 (0.54%) AWS IoT
12 3 (0.54%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (0.36%) Power Platform
13 2 (0.36%) Snowflake
13 2 (0.36%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.54%) AMQP
1 3 (0.54%) Internet
2 2 (0.36%) Firewall
2 2 (0.36%) HTTP
2 2 (0.36%) Multicast
2 2 (0.36%) SSL
2 2 (0.36%) Unicast
3 1 (0.18%) Network Security
3 1 (0.18%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (4.29%) NoSQL
2 21 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (3.58%) MySQL
4 19 (3.40%) Apache Arrow
4 19 (3.40%) Dremio
5 18 (3.22%) Amazon Athena
5 18 (3.22%) MongoDB
6 17 (3.04%) Apache Ignite
7 10 (1.79%) Big Data
8 9 (1.61%) Relational Database
9 8 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (1.25%) SQL Server
11 6 (1.07%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.54%) Apache Hive
13 3 (0.54%) Hadoop
13 3 (0.54%) Redis
14 2 (0.36%) Flink
14 2 (0.36%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 159 (28.44%) Git
2 69 (12.34%) IntelliJ
3 34 (6.08%) Jenkins
4 27 (4.83%) Artifactory
5 25 (4.47%) Gradle
6 22 (3.94%) GitLab
7 20 (3.58%) Bitbucket
8 19 (3.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 14 (2.50%) Cucumber
10 13 (2.33%) Maven
11 7 (1.25%) Cypress.io
12 6 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (0.72%) Selenium
14 2 (0.36%) JUnit
15 1 (0.18%) Eclipse
15 1 (0.18%) JIRA
15 1 (0.18%) Robot Framework
15 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
15 1 (0.18%) WebDriver
General
1 116 (20.75%) Finance
2 108 (19.32%) Police
3 74 (13.24%) Public Sector
4 49 (8.77%) Banking
5 43 (7.69%) Front Office
6 32 (5.72%) Aerospace
7 24 (4.29%) Social Skills
8 23 (4.11%) Investment Banking
9 14 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (2.15%) Law
11 8 (1.43%) Analytical Skills
12 7 (1.25%) Games
12 7 (1.25%) Marketing
13 6 (1.07%) Aviation
14 4 (0.72%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.72%) Legal
15 3 (0.54%) Health Technology
15 3 (0.54%) Retail
15 3 (0.54%) Tech for Good
16 2 (0.36%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 324 (57.96%) Spring
2 232 (41.50%) React
3 154 (27.55%) J2EE
4 146 (26.12%) Ruby on Rails
5 113 (20.21%) AngularJS
6 91 (16.28%) Spring Boot
7 84 (15.03%) REST
7 84 (15.03%) RESTful
8 82 (14.67%) Kafka
8 82 (14.67%) Web Services
9 77 (13.77%) Hibernate
10 74 (13.24%) JSON
11 72 (12.88%) XML
12 68 (12.16%) SOAP
13 67 (11.99%) JPA
14 65 (11.63%) XSD
15 56 (10.02%) Java EE
16 27 (4.83%) React Native
17 20 (3.58%) HTML
18 19 (3.40%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 23 (4.11%) Greenfield Project
2 19 (3.40%) Derivative
3 14 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (2.50%) Public Cloud
4 11 (1.97%) Private Cloud
5 10 (1.79%) Cloud Native
5 10 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (1.43%) Fixed Income
6 8 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.25%) Distributed Applications
8 6 (1.07%) Hedge funds
9 5 (0.89%) Algorithms
9 5 (0.89%) Product Ownership
9 5 (0.89%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.72%) Hackathon
10 4 (0.72%) IoT
11 3 (0.54%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (0.36%) Legacy Code
12 2 (0.36%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 28 (5.01%) Linux
2 12 (2.15%) Windows
3 4 (0.72%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.54%) Unix
5 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 434 (77.64%) Software Engineering
2 264 (47.23%) Microservices
3 254 (45.44%) Problem-Solving
4 247 (44.19%) Mentoring
5 241 (43.11%) Agile
6 237 (42.40%) Actionable Insight
7 183 (32.74%) Design Patterns
8 171 (30.59%) Containerisation
9 169 (30.23%) Continuous Integration
10 165 (29.52%) Code Quality
11 162 (28.98%) Coaching
12 157 (28.09%) Unit Testing
13 155 (27.73%) Clean Code
14 98 (17.53%) Collaborative Working
15 95 (16.99%) DevOps
16 74 (13.24%) User Experience
17 65 (11.63%) Data Design
17 65 (11.63%) Front End Development
17 65 (11.63%) UX Design
18 54 (9.66%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 559 (100.00%) Java
2 227 (40.61%) Python
3 182 (32.56%) C#
4 146 (26.12%) Ruby
5 87 (15.56%) JavaScript
6 63 (11.27%) TypeScript
7 56 (10.02%) SQL
8 46 (8.23%) Kotlin
9 17 (3.04%) C++
10 3 (0.54%) Go
11 2 (0.36%) Bash
11 2 (0.36%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.36%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.36%) Rust
11 2 (0.36%) Scala
11 2 (0.36%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.18%) C
12 1 (0.18%) Embedded C++
12 1 (0.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 195 (34.88%) Security Cleared
2 186 (33.27%) SC Cleared
3 29 (5.19%) Degree
4 9 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (0.72%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.54%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (0.54%) Sun Certification
7 2 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.18%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
1 1 (0.18%) QA
1 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 124 (22.18%) Docker
2 2 (0.36%) HDFS
3 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 102 (18.25%) Kubernetes
2 50 (8.94%) Terraform
3 27 (4.83%) Ansible
4 3 (0.54%) Puppet
5 1 (0.18%) Kibana
5 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 16 (2.86%) Google
2 11 (1.97%) Oracle
3 4 (0.72%) IBM
3 4 (0.72%) Solace
3 4 (0.72%) TIBCO
4 3 (0.54%) Confluent
5 2 (0.36%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.18%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.18%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.18%) Databricks
6 1 (0.18%) Facebook
6 1 (0.18%) PayPal
6 1 (0.18%) TOWER Software