Java Software Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Java Software Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Java Software Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £65,465 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 June 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
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 233 513 543
Rank change year-on-year +280 +30 -142
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 885 223 367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.12% 0.40% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.18% 0.45% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 129 73 231
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,465 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,715 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £92,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% +45.45%

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 74,776 49,490 72,464
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.01% 88.82% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 52,251 29,308 43,150
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +5.94% +6.32%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
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%

Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Software Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Java Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Java Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Software Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Java Software 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 Java Software Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
Scotland +143 761 £50,000 -28.57% 11
North of England +3 51 £65,465 +0.71% 10
South West -15 43 £52,500 -23.33% 16
North West -6 37 £65,465 -9.70% 9
South East -23 18 £87,500 +9.38%
West Midlands -6 9 £65,465 +9.11% 1
Midlands -54 9 £65,465 +30.93% 1
Yorkshire +50 7 £65,465 +30.93%
North East - 7 £65,465 - 1
Wales +1 2 £55,000 - 2
East of England -17 1 £65,000 +18.18% 1
Java Software Engineer
UK

Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 8 June 2024, Java Software 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 Java Software Engineer in the job title.

1 885 (100.00%) Java
2 881 (99.55%) Software Engineering
3 780 (88.14%) Agile
4 746 (84.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 743 (83.95%) Finance
6 734 (82.94%) Law
7 650 (73.45%) SDLC
8 626 (70.73%) Operational Stability
8 626 (70.73%) CI/CD
9 545 (61.58%) Machine Learning
10 544 (61.47%) Artificial Intelligence
11 463 (52.32%) SQL
12 435 (49.15%) Spring
13 391 (44.18%) Community of Practice
14 358 (40.45%) AWS
15 278 (31.41%) Marketing
16 276 (31.19%) Continuous Improvement
17 274 (30.96%) Visualisation
17 274 (30.96%) React
18 267 (30.17%) Risk Management
19 256 (28.93%) NoSQL
20 253 (28.59%) Microservices
21 252 (28.47%) Algorithms
22 251 (28.36%) Cloud Native
23 243 (27.46%) AngularJS
24 241 (27.23%) Legal
25 235 (26.55%) Full Stack Development
26 213 (24.07%) Kafka
27 211 (23.84%) Banking
28 203 (22.94%) Spring Boot

Java Software 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
1 171 (19.32%) Apache Spark
2 42 (4.75%) FileNet
3 32 (3.62%) Cloud Foundry
4 21 (2.37%) GemFire
5 17 (1.92%) Apache
6 11 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.11%) JBoss
7 1 (0.11%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 358 (40.45%) AWS
2 77 (8.70%) Azure
3 45 (5.08%) GCP
4 42 (4.75%) Amazon S3
4 42 (4.75%) BlazeMeter
5 28 (3.16%) GitHub
6 22 (2.49%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (1.58%) Serverless
8 11 (1.24%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (1.13%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (0.90%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (0.45%) npm
12 4 (0.45%) OpenShift
13 1 (0.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 1 (0.11%) Datadog
13 1 (0.11%) IBM Cloud
13 1 (0.11%) SaaS
13 1 (0.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.92%) Kerberos
2 13 (1.47%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 256 (28.93%) NoSQL
2 162 (18.31%) Big Data
3 104 (11.75%) MongoDB
4 97 (10.96%) Apache Cassandra
5 84 (9.49%) Elasticsearch
6 67 (7.57%) Hadoop
7 45 (5.08%) MySQL
8 41 (4.63%) Relational Database
9 38 (4.29%) CockroachDB
10 36 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
11 21 (2.37%) Hazelcast
12 19 (2.15%) Apache Hive
13 17 (1.92%) Amazon Aurora
14 11 (1.24%) HBase
14 11 (1.24%) RDBMS
15 8 (0.90%) Electronic Patient Records
16 7 (0.79%) Oracle Database
17 6 (0.68%) CouchDB
18 3 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
18 3 (0.34%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 131 (14.80%) JUnit
2 85 (9.60%) Cypress.io
3 81 (9.15%) Jasmine
4 62 (7.01%) Selenium
5 60 (6.78%) Karma Test Runner
5 60 (6.78%) Protractor
5 60 (6.78%) WebDriver
6 47 (5.31%) Jenkins
7 28 (3.16%) JMeter
8 26 (2.94%) Cucumber
8 26 (2.94%) Git
8 26 (2.94%) Mockito
9 25 (2.82%) Maven
10 21 (2.37%) Jaeger
11 17 (1.92%) Gradle
12 10 (1.13%) JIRA
13 6 (0.68%) IntelliJ
14 5 (0.56%) Robot Framework
15 4 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
16 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 746 (84.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 743 (83.95%) Finance
3 734 (82.94%) Law
4 278 (31.41%) Marketing
5 241 (27.23%) Legal
6 211 (23.84%) Banking
7 162 (18.31%) Investment Banking
8 96 (10.85%) Influencing Skills
9 63 (7.12%) Social Skills
10 47 (5.31%) Private Banking
11 34 (3.84%) Public Sector
12 22 (2.49%) Prime Brokerage
13 14 (1.58%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.02%) Analytical Skills
15 4 (0.45%) Tech for Good
16 3 (0.34%) Games
17 2 (0.23%) Aviation
17 2 (0.23%) Electronics
18 1 (0.11%) Aerospace
18 1 (0.11%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 435 (49.15%) Spring
2 274 (30.96%) React
3 243 (27.46%) AngularJS
4 213 (24.07%) Kafka
5 203 (22.94%) Spring Boot
6 169 (19.10%) J2EE
7 140 (15.82%) HTML
8 127 (14.35%) Node.js
9 124 (14.01%) Hibernate
10 118 (13.33%) JMS
11 112 (12.66%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 108 (12.20%) CSS
13 87 (9.83%) JSON
14 83 (9.38%) jQuery
15 74 (8.36%) RESTful
16 68 (7.68%) REST
17 60 (6.78%) Jest
18 59 (6.67%) GraphQL
19 49 (5.54%) Web Services
20 45 (5.08%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 252 (28.47%) Algorithms
2 251 (28.36%) Cloud Native
3 84 (9.49%) Public Cloud
4 70 (7.91%) Data Structures
5 66 (7.46%) Onboarding
6 40 (4.52%) Reference Data
7 38 (4.29%) Legacy Code
8 27 (3.05%) Market Risk
9 25 (2.82%) Private Cloud
10 21 (2.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 21 (2.37%) Replication
11 14 (1.58%) Credit Risk
12 8 (0.90%) Client/Server
13 6 (0.68%) PropTech
14 3 (0.34%) Distributed Systems
15 1 (0.11%) Distributed Applications
15 1 (0.11%) Distributed Computing
15 1 (0.11%) Greenfield Project
15 1 (0.11%) Management Information System
15 1 (0.11%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 36 (4.07%) Unix
2 22 (2.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 881 (99.55%) Software Engineering
2 780 (88.14%) Agile
3 650 (73.45%) SDLC
4 626 (70.73%) CI/CD
4 626 (70.73%) Operational Stability
5 545 (61.58%) Machine Learning
6 544 (61.47%) Artificial Intelligence
7 391 (44.18%) Community of Practice
8 276 (31.19%) Continuous Improvement
9 274 (30.96%) Visualisation
10 267 (30.17%) Risk Management
11 253 (28.59%) Microservices
12 235 (26.55%) Full Stack Development
13 193 (21.81%) Decision-Making
14 151 (17.06%) TDD
15 123 (13.90%) BDD
16 122 (13.79%) Architectural Design
17 120 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
18 116 (13.11%) Performance Tuning
19 104 (11.75%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 885 (100.00%) Java
2 463 (52.32%) SQL
3 133 (15.03%) Scala
4 130 (14.69%) JavaScript
5 90 (10.17%) TypeScript
6 80 (9.04%) Python
7 22 (2.49%) Groovy
8 17 (1.92%) C#
9 6 (0.68%) Kotlin
10 4 (0.45%) C++
10 4 (0.45%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.34%) C
12 2 (0.23%) Ruby
13 1 (0.11%) Fortran
13 1 (0.11%) Go
13 1 (0.11%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 24 (2.71%) Degree
2 9 (1.02%) Security Cleared
3 7 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (0.68%) Master's Degree
5 5 (0.56%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.45%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (2.37%) SLA
2 10 (1.13%) QA
3 8 (0.90%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.11%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.11%) IEC 61508
4 1 (0.11%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 39 (4.41%) Docker
2 11 (1.24%) HDFS
3 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 102 (11.53%) Kubernetes
2 59 (6.67%) Terraform
3 45 (5.08%) Grafana
4 22 (2.49%) Kibana
4 22 (2.49%) Prometheus
5 21 (2.37%) HAProxy
5 21 (2.37%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (2.37%) Zipkin
6 7 (0.79%) Graphite
7 1 (0.11%) Ansible
Vendors
1 156 (17.63%) Oracle
2 49 (5.54%) Databricks
3 48 (5.42%) Splunk
4 43 (4.86%) Dynatrace
5 23 (2.60%) Google
6 18 (2.03%) SaltStack
7 11 (1.24%) Cloudera
8 9 (1.02%) TOWER Software
9 4 (0.45%) Cognizant
10 3 (0.34%) IBM
11 1 (0.11%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft
11 1 (0.11%) Red Hat