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 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 226 525 502
Rank change year-on-year +299 -23 -100
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 920 216 379
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.21% 0.38% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.27% 0.43% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 130 78 244
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,125 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,465 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.74% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,715 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,318 £91,625 £85,000
UK median annual salary £87,500 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +13.33% +36.36%

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 72,166 50,263 70,760
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.90% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,782 29,433 42,686
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 £50,244
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
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 1 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 1 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 +143 796 £50,000 -25.93% 8
North of England +22 51 £65,465 +2.69% 9
South West -11 40 £52,500 -22.22% 15
North West -1 37 £65,465 -9.70% 8
South East -21 20 £87,500 +9.38%
West Midlands -15 10 £65,465 +9.11% 1
Midlands -29 10 £65,465 +30.93% 1
Yorkshire +43 7 £65,465 +30.93%
North East -4 7 £65,465 +39.29% 1
Wales +3 2 £55,000 - 2
East of England -7 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 1 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.

1 920 (100.00%) Java
2 916 (99.57%) Software Engineering
3 817 (88.80%) Agile
4 783 (85.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 781 (84.89%) Finance
6 771 (83.80%) Law
7 685 (74.46%) SDLC
8 660 (71.74%) Operational Stability
9 656 (71.30%) CI/CD
10 569 (61.85%) Machine Learning
11 568 (61.74%) Artificial Intelligence
12 489 (53.15%) SQL
13 460 (50.00%) Spring
14 403 (43.80%) Community of Practice
15 388 (42.17%) AWS
16 291 (31.63%) Marketing
17 289 (31.41%) Continuous Improvement
18 287 (31.20%) Visualisation
19 283 (30.76%) React
20 282 (30.65%) Risk Management
21 265 (28.80%) Algorithms
21 265 (28.80%) NoSQL
22 263 (28.59%) Microservices
23 258 (28.04%) AngularJS
23 258 (28.04%) Cloud Native
24 256 (27.83%) Legal
25 250 (27.17%) Full Stack Development
26 224 (24.35%) Banking
27 218 (23.70%) Kafka
28 217 (23.59%) 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
1 186 (20.22%) Apache Spark
2 42 (4.57%) FileNet
3 32 (3.48%) Cloud Foundry
4 23 (2.50%) Apache
5 21 (2.28%) GemFire
6 14 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.11%) JBoss
7 1 (0.11%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 388 (42.17%) AWS
2 85 (9.24%) Azure
3 51 (5.54%) GCP
4 42 (4.57%) Amazon S3
4 42 (4.57%) BlazeMeter
5 29 (3.15%) GitHub
6 28 (3.04%) Amazon EKS
7 17 (1.85%) Serverless
8 14 (1.52%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (1.41%) Amazon SQS
10 12 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (1.20%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (0.43%) npm
12 4 (0.43%) OpenShift
13 2 (0.22%) IBM Cloud
13 2 (0.22%) SaaS
14 1 (0.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 1 (0.11%) Cloud Computing
14 1 (0.11%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.85%) Kerberos
2 11 (1.20%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 265 (28.80%) NoSQL
2 174 (18.91%) Big Data
3 110 (11.96%) MongoDB
4 97 (10.54%) Apache Cassandra
5 87 (9.46%) Elasticsearch
6 79 (8.59%) Hadoop
7 45 (4.89%) MySQL
8 44 (4.78%) Relational Database
9 38 (4.13%) CockroachDB
10 36 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
11 25 (2.72%) Apache Hive
12 21 (2.28%) Hazelcast
13 17 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
14 14 (1.52%) HBase
15 12 (1.30%) RDBMS
16 11 (1.20%) Electronic Patient Records
17 7 (0.76%) Oracle Database
18 6 (0.65%) CouchDB
19 3 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
19 3 (0.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 131 (14.24%) JUnit
2 85 (9.24%) Cypress.io
3 81 (8.80%) Jasmine
4 63 (6.85%) Selenium
5 60 (6.52%) Karma Test Runner
5 60 (6.52%) Protractor
5 60 (6.52%) WebDriver
6 51 (5.54%) Jenkins
7 28 (3.04%) JMeter
8 27 (2.93%) Git
9 26 (2.83%) Cucumber
9 26 (2.83%) Maven
9 26 (2.83%) Mockito
10 21 (2.28%) Jaeger
11 17 (1.85%) Gradle
12 10 (1.09%) JIRA
13 6 (0.65%) IntelliJ
14 5 (0.54%) Robot Framework
15 4 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
16 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 783 (85.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 781 (84.89%) Finance
3 771 (83.80%) Law
4 291 (31.63%) Marketing
5 256 (27.83%) Legal
6 224 (24.35%) Banking
7 168 (18.26%) Investment Banking
8 96 (10.43%) Influencing Skills
9 64 (6.96%) Social Skills
10 53 (5.76%) Private Banking
11 34 (3.70%) Public Sector
12 22 (2.39%) Prime Brokerage
13 17 (1.85%) Financial Institution
14 9 (0.98%) Analytical Skills
15 4 (0.43%) Tech for Good
16 3 (0.33%) Games
17 2 (0.22%) Electronics
18 1 (0.11%) Aerospace
18 1 (0.11%) Aviation
18 1 (0.11%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 460 (50.00%) Spring
2 283 (30.76%) React
3 258 (28.04%) AngularJS
4 218 (23.70%) Kafka
5 217 (23.59%) Spring Boot
6 175 (19.02%) J2EE
7 143 (15.54%) HTML
8 126 (13.70%) Node.js
9 125 (13.59%) Hibernate
10 121 (13.15%) JMS
11 112 (12.17%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 111 (12.07%) CSS
13 88 (9.57%) JSON
14 83 (9.02%) jQuery
15 79 (8.59%) RESTful
16 75 (8.15%) REST
17 60 (6.52%) Jest
18 59 (6.41%) GraphQL
19 54 (5.87%) Web Services
20 51 (5.54%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 265 (28.80%) Algorithms
2 258 (28.04%) Cloud Native
3 96 (10.43%) Public Cloud
4 73 (7.93%) Data Structures
5 69 (7.50%) Onboarding
6 44 (4.78%) Reference Data
7 41 (4.46%) Legacy Code
8 28 (3.04%) Private Cloud
9 27 (2.93%) Market Risk
10 21 (2.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 21 (2.28%) Replication
11 14 (1.52%) Credit Risk
12 8 (0.87%) Client/Server
13 6 (0.65%) PropTech
14 3 (0.33%) Distributed Systems
15 1 (0.11%) Acoustics
15 1 (0.11%) Distributed Applications
15 1 (0.11%) Distributed Computing
15 1 (0.11%) Greenfield Project
15 1 (0.11%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 39 (4.24%) Unix
2 21 (2.28%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 916 (99.57%) Software Engineering
2 817 (88.80%) Agile
3 685 (74.46%) SDLC
4 660 (71.74%) Operational Stability
5 656 (71.30%) CI/CD
6 569 (61.85%) Machine Learning
7 568 (61.74%) Artificial Intelligence
8 403 (43.80%) Community of Practice
9 289 (31.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 287 (31.20%) Visualisation
11 282 (30.65%) Risk Management
12 263 (28.59%) Microservices
13 250 (27.17%) Full Stack Development
14 208 (22.61%) Decision-Making
15 153 (16.63%) TDD
16 128 (13.91%) Architectural Design
17 126 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
18 124 (13.48%) BDD
19 119 (12.93%) Performance Tuning
20 110 (11.96%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 920 (100.00%) Java
2 489 (53.15%) SQL
3 139 (15.11%) Scala
4 129 (14.02%) JavaScript
5 93 (10.11%) TypeScript
6 85 (9.24%) Python
7 22 (2.39%) Groovy
8 16 (1.74%) C#
9 8 (0.87%) Kotlin
10 4 (0.43%) C++
10 4 (0.43%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.33%) C
12 2 (0.22%) Ruby
13 1 (0.11%) Fortran
13 1 (0.11%) Go
13 1 (0.11%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 28 (3.04%) Degree
2 9 (0.98%) Security Cleared
3 7 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (0.65%) Master's Degree
5 5 (0.54%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (2.61%) SLA
2 11 (1.20%) Accessibility
3 10 (1.09%) QA
4 1 (0.11%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.11%) IEC 61508
4 1 (0.11%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 41 (4.46%) Docker
2 14 (1.52%) HDFS
3 2 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 104 (11.30%) Kubernetes
2 62 (6.74%) Terraform
3 45 (4.89%) Grafana
4 22 (2.39%) Kibana
4 22 (2.39%) Prometheus
5 21 (2.28%) HAProxy
5 21 (2.28%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (2.28%) Zipkin
6 7 (0.76%) Graphite
7 1 (0.11%) Ansible
Vendors
1 163 (17.72%) Oracle
2 52 (5.65%) Databricks
3 48 (5.22%) Splunk
4 43 (4.67%) Dynatrace
5 24 (2.61%) Google
6 18 (1.96%) SaltStack
7 14 (1.52%) Cloudera
8 9 (0.98%) TOWER Software
9 4 (0.43%) IBM
10 3 (0.33%) Cognizant
11 1 (0.11%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft
11 1 (0.11%) Red Hat