Java Engineer Jobs

Java Engineer
UK

The median Java Engineer salary in the UK is £107,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 June 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 246 352
Rank change year-on-year -57 +106 -66
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 554 1,247 876
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.99% 1.12% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.10% 1.18% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 289 494 638
10th Percentile £52,400 £45,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,563 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £77,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.71% -13.89% +16.13%
75th Percentile £135,000 £116,250 £126,875
90th Percentile £139,000 £148,750 £152,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £65,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year -1.92% -6.40% +15.75%

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 50,489 105,891 83,410
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.83% 94.82% 91.16%
Number of salaries quoted 26,690 74,857 54,406
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,754 £38,734 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +7.00%

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 20 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Java Engineer in the UK

Java Engineer
Top 15 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 20 June 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
England +94 426 £108,750 +27.94% 490
London +79 280 £110,000 +10.00% 297
UK excluding London -127 257 £63,750 -1.92% 275
Work from Home -18 177 £110,000 +22.22% 282
Scotland -45 104 £56,250 +12.50% 57
South West +116 63 £121,386 +131.21% 27
North of England +31 41 £65,000 -0.71% 66
North West 0 32 £65,000 -0.71% 46
South East +66 20 £70,000 - 85
Midlands +85 17 £60,000 -7.69% 15
West Midlands +68 17 £60,000 -7.69% 11
Northern Ireland +50 8 £55,000 -47.62% 10
Yorkshire +50 6 £35,000 -46.54% 11
East of England +33 4 - - 13
North East +45 3 £65,000 -0.71% 9

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

For the 6 months to 20 June 2025, 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.

1 554 (100.00%) Java
2 424 (76.53%) Software Engineering
3 406 (73.29%) Agile
4 387 (69.86%) Finance
5 325 (58.66%) AWS
6 229 (41.34%) Spring
7 226 (40.79%) Banking
8 213 (38.45%) SDLC
9 204 (36.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 195 (35.20%) Law
11 192 (34.66%) CI/CD
12 174 (31.41%) Kubernetes
13 148 (26.71%) Microservices
14 145 (26.17%) Spring Boot
15 140 (25.27%) React
16 139 (25.09%) Docker
17 137 (24.73%) Artificial Intelligence
18 134 (24.19%) JavaScript
18 134 (24.19%) Kafka
19 133 (24.01%) TypeScript
20 132 (23.83%) Python
21 131 (23.65%) Operational Stability
22 125 (22.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
23 120 (21.66%) Front Office
24 115 (20.76%) Fixed Income
25 114 (20.58%) Equities
26 112 (20.22%) Asset Management
26 112 (20.22%) Amazon Athena
27 110 (19.86%) SQL
27 110 (19.86%) Investment Banking

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
1 103 (18.59%) Apache Airflow
2 84 (15.16%) Apache
3 17 (3.07%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.99%) Confluence
5 8 (1.44%) nginx
5 8 (1.44%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.72%) Camunda
6 4 (0.72%) Cloud Foundry
6 4 (0.72%) GemFire
6 4 (0.72%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.72%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.18%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 325 (58.66%) AWS
2 103 (18.59%) dbt
3 79 (14.26%) Snowflake
4 67 (12.09%) GCP
5 45 (8.12%) Amazon EC2
6 39 (7.04%) Azure
7 23 (4.15%) GitHub
8 21 (3.79%) Serverless
9 20 (3.61%) Amazon ECS
10 17 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (2.53%) Amazon S3
12 11 (1.99%) Dagster
13 10 (1.81%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 9 (1.62%) Amazon SQS
15 8 (1.44%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 7 (1.26%) Amazon MSK
16 7 (1.26%) SaaS
17 6 (1.08%) npm
18 5 (0.90%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.54%) Internet
1 3 (0.54%) SSL
2 2 (0.36%) Broadband
2 2 (0.36%) Network Security
3 1 (0.18%) Firewall
3 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (20.22%) Amazon Athena
2 107 (19.31%) Apache Iceberg
3 103 (18.59%) Apache Arrow
3 103 (18.59%) Dremio
4 81 (14.62%) PostgreSQL
5 67 (12.09%) Apache Ignite
6 63 (11.37%) Data Lake
7 50 (9.03%) NoSQL
8 31 (5.60%) Relational Database
9 29 (5.23%) MongoDB
10 26 (4.69%) Big Data
11 19 (3.43%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (3.07%) KDB
12 17 (3.07%) MySQL
13 15 (2.71%) Amazon RDS
13 15 (2.71%) Apache Cassandra
14 14 (2.53%) Amazon Aurora
15 12 (2.17%) Kdb+
15 12 (2.17%) RDBMS
16 11 (1.99%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 41 (7.40%) Jenkins
2 40 (7.22%) Git
3 36 (6.50%) Maven
4 28 (5.05%) JUnit
5 27 (4.87%) Cucumber
6 23 (4.15%) IntelliJ
7 19 (3.43%) Selenium
8 15 (2.71%) JIRA
9 14 (2.53%) Mockito
10 11 (1.99%) GitLab
11 10 (1.81%) TestNG
12 9 (1.62%) Bitbucket
13 8 (1.44%) Cypress.io
13 8 (1.44%) Postman
13 8 (1.44%) SonarQube
14 7 (1.26%) webpack
15 6 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
16 5 (0.90%) Gradle
17 4 (0.72%) git-flow
17 4 (0.72%) Subversion
General
1 387 (69.86%) Finance
2 226 (40.79%) Banking
3 204 (36.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 195 (35.20%) Law
5 120 (21.66%) Front Office
6 110 (19.86%) Investment Banking
7 80 (14.44%) Social Skills
8 60 (10.83%) Marketing
9 52 (9.39%) Public Sector
10 46 (8.30%) Analytical Skills
11 40 (7.22%) Financial Institution
12 24 (4.33%) Legal
13 13 (2.35%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.62%) Advertising
15 8 (1.44%) Retail
16 5 (0.90%) Electronics
16 5 (0.90%) Online Betting
17 4 (0.72%) Private Banking
17 4 (0.72%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.72%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 229 (41.34%) Spring
2 145 (26.17%) Spring Boot
3 140 (25.27%) React
4 134 (24.19%) Kafka
5 95 (17.15%) Pandas
6 87 (15.70%) NumPy
6 87 (15.70%) SciPy
7 86 (15.52%) AngularJS
8 70 (12.64%) gRPC
9 68 (12.27%) Protocol Buffers
10 62 (11.19%) REST
11 56 (10.11%) RESTful
12 34 (6.14%) Node.js
13 29 (5.23%) PySpark
14 28 (5.05%) Vue
15 27 (4.87%) Akka
15 27 (4.87%) Web Services
16 21 (3.79%) FIX Protocol
17 18 (3.25%) Hibernate
17 18 (3.25%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 125 (22.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 115 (20.76%) Fixed Income
3 114 (20.58%) Equities
4 108 (19.49%) Derivative
5 92 (16.61%) Cloud Native
6 79 (14.26%) Hedge funds
7 74 (13.36%) Algorithms
8 52 (9.39%) Pricing Data
9 38 (6.86%) Public Cloud
10 34 (6.14%) Hybrid Cloud
11 30 (5.42%) Distributed Systems
12 19 (3.43%) Enterprise Software
13 18 (3.25%) Data Structures
14 11 (1.99%) Distributed Applications
14 11 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
15 9 (1.62%) Life Science
15 9 (1.62%) Mobile Banking
16 8 (1.44%) Equity Derivative
16 8 (1.44%) Reference Data
17 7 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.61%) Linux
2 12 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (76.53%) Software Engineering
2 406 (73.29%) Agile
3 213 (38.45%) SDLC
4 192 (34.66%) CI/CD
5 148 (26.71%) Microservices
6 137 (24.73%) Artificial Intelligence
7 131 (23.65%) Operational Stability
8 112 (20.22%) Asset Management
9 108 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
10 95 (17.15%) TDD
11 93 (16.79%) Community of Practice
12 92 (16.61%) Machine Learning
13 89 (16.06%) Fintech
14 83 (14.98%) Investment Management
15 78 (14.08%) Continuous Improvement
16 73 (13.18%) Full-Stack Development
17 72 (13.00%) Containerisation
18 69 (12.45%) DevOps
19 68 (12.27%) Test Automation
20 67 (12.09%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 554 (100.00%) Java
2 134 (24.19%) JavaScript
3 133 (24.01%) TypeScript
4 132 (23.83%) Python
5 110 (19.86%) SQL
6 34 (6.14%) Kotlin
7 20 (3.61%) Go
8 18 (3.25%) Scala
9 17 (3.07%) C#
10 11 (1.99%) C++
10 11 (1.99%) Rust
11 10 (1.81%) PL/SQL
12 7 (1.26%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.72%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.36%) Groovy
15 1 (0.18%) Bash
15 1 (0.18%) Fortran
15 1 (0.18%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 34 (6.14%) Degree
2 18 (3.25%) Master's Degree
2 18 (3.25%) PhD
3 9 (1.62%) Security Cleared
4 8 (1.44%) AWS Certification
4 8 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (1.44%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.18%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (0.90%) Accessibility
2 4 (0.72%) QA
3 2 (0.36%) Def Stans
3 2 (0.36%) IEC 61508
4 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 139 (25.09%) Docker
2 5 (0.90%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 174 (31.41%) Kubernetes
2 47 (8.48%) Terraform
3 15 (2.71%) Grafana
4 11 (1.99%) Ansible
5 8 (1.44%) Kustomize
5 8 (1.44%) Packer
6 6 (1.08%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.72%) Netcool
7 4 (0.72%) Netcool/OMNIbus
7 4 (0.72%) Tivoli
8 3 (0.54%) Control-M
8 3 (0.54%) Kibana
9 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 60 (10.83%) Oracle
2 19 (3.43%) Red Hat
3 15 (2.71%) IBM
3 15 (2.71%) Splunk
4 12 (2.17%) Google
5 11 (1.99%) Dynatrace
6 9 (1.62%) Solace
6 9 (1.62%) TIBCO
7 7 (1.26%) Databricks
8 6 (1.08%) Facebook
9 5 (0.90%) Bloomberg
9 5 (0.90%) Cloudera
9 5 (0.90%) Microsoft
9 5 (0.90%) ServiceNow
9 5 (0.90%) Sybase
10 4 (0.72%) SAP
11 2 (0.36%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.36%) Revolut
12 1 (0.18%) BMC
12 1 (0.18%) CA Agile Central