Java Engineer Jobs

Java Engineer
UK

The median Java Engineer salary in the UK is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 231 360 287
Rank change year-on-year +129 -73 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 1,312 880 2,517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.23% 0.94% 1.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.29% 1.03% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 469 660 1,041
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £66,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £90,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £100,640
90th Percentile £148,750 £150,000 £128,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% +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 101,543 85,646 164,275
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.91% 91.24% 95.98%
Number of salaries quoted 71,805 55,459 85,654
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

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 6 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Engineer in the UK

Java Engineer
Top 16 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 6 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
UK excluding London +279 1,024 £65,000 -3.70% 69
Scotland +138 794 £50,000 -28.57% 10
England -81 508 £80,000 -11.11% 98
Work from Home -75 342 £84,288 -8.55% 84
London -65 281 £100,000 +5.26% 48
North of England +8 74 £65,465 -6.48% 13
South West -3 65 £53,750 -21.50% 25
South East +14 57 £70,000 - 6
North West -7 53 £65,465 -9.70% 11
West Midlands -10 24 £60,000 - 3
Midlands -12 24 £60,000 +20.00% 3
Yorkshire +48 14 £65,465 +24.69% 1
North East - 7 £65,465 - 1
East of England -17 6 £80,000 +18.52% 1
Northern Ireland +8 2 £105,000 - 9
Wales +1 2 £55,000 -15.38% 2

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

For the 6 months to 6 June 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 1,312 (100.00%) Java
2 1,174 (89.48%) Software Engineering
3 1,021 (77.82%) Agile
4 939 (71.57%) Finance
5 817 (62.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 785 (59.83%) Law
7 693 (52.82%) SDLC
8 687 (52.36%) CI/CD
9 652 (49.70%) Operational Stability
10 640 (48.78%) AWS
11 582 (44.36%) Artificial Intelligence
12 568 (43.29%) Machine Learning
13 557 (42.45%) Spring
14 516 (39.33%) SQL
15 402 (30.64%) Community of Practice
16 378 (28.81%) Banking
17 372 (28.35%) Microservices
18 315 (24.01%) React
19 308 (23.48%) Continuous Improvement
20 301 (22.94%) Investment Banking
21 290 (22.10%) Cloud Native
22 289 (22.03%) Spring Boot
23 287 (21.88%) Marketing
23 287 (21.88%) Risk Management
24 285 (21.72%) NoSQL
25 282 (21.49%) Visualisation
26 278 (21.19%) JavaScript
27 277 (21.11%) AngularJS
28 268 (20.43%) Kafka
28 268 (20.43%) Full Stack Development

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
1 183 (13.95%) Apache Spark
2 141 (10.75%) Apache
3 132 (10.06%) Apache Airflow
4 42 (3.20%) FileNet
5 33 (2.52%) Cloud Foundry
6 21 (1.60%) GemFire
7 8 (0.61%) Confluence
8 2 (0.15%) Drupal
8 2 (0.15%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.076%) JBoss
9 1 (0.076%) Tuxedo
9 1 (0.076%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.076%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 640 (48.78%) AWS
2 155 (11.81%) Azure
3 119 (9.07%) dbt
4 115 (8.77%) GCP
5 112 (8.54%) Snowflake
6 49 (3.73%) Amazon S3
7 45 (3.43%) Amazon EKS
8 42 (3.20%) BlazeMeter
9 38 (2.90%) GitHub
10 25 (1.91%) Amazon ECS
11 23 (1.75%) Serverless
12 17 (1.30%) Amazon SQS
12 17 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
13 16 (1.22%) Amazon EMR
14 15 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (0.69%) IBM Cloud
16 7 (0.53%) Azure DevOps
16 7 (0.53%) SaaS
17 5 (0.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 5 (0.38%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.30%) Kerberos
2 12 (0.91%) Network Security
3 3 (0.23%) HTTP
4 1 (0.076%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 285 (21.72%) NoSQL
2 173 (13.19%) Big Data
3 120 (9.15%) Amazon Athena
4 119 (9.07%) MongoDB
5 115 (8.77%) Apache Arrow
5 115 (8.77%) Apache Ignite
5 115 (8.77%) Dremio
6 111 (8.46%) Data Lake
7 98 (7.47%) Apache Cassandra
8 89 (6.78%) Elasticsearch
9 82 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
10 76 (5.79%) Hadoop
11 61 (4.65%) MySQL
12 52 (3.96%) Relational Database
13 38 (2.90%) CockroachDB
14 24 (1.83%) Apache Hive
15 21 (1.60%) Hazelcast
16 18 (1.37%) RDBMS
17 17 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
18 13 (0.99%) HBase
Development Applications
1 133 (10.14%) JUnit
2 87 (6.63%) Cypress.io
3 82 (6.25%) Jasmine
4 66 (5.03%) Git
4 66 (5.03%) Jenkins
5 65 (4.95%) Selenium
6 60 (4.57%) Karma Test Runner
6 60 (4.57%) Protractor
6 60 (4.57%) WebDriver
7 43 (3.28%) Maven
8 39 (2.97%) Cucumber
9 29 (2.21%) JMeter
10 28 (2.13%) Mockito
11 23 (1.75%) JIRA
12 21 (1.60%) Jaeger
13 17 (1.30%) Gradle
14 15 (1.14%) TeamCity
15 13 (0.99%) IntelliJ
16 9 (0.69%) GitLab
17 8 (0.61%) Subversion
General
1 939 (71.57%) Finance
2 817 (62.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 785 (59.83%) Law
4 378 (28.81%) Banking
5 301 (22.94%) Investment Banking
6 287 (21.88%) Marketing
7 261 (19.89%) Legal
8 128 (9.76%) Front Office
9 96 (7.32%) Influencing Skills
9 96 (7.32%) Social Skills
10 62 (4.73%) Public Sector
11 51 (3.89%) Private Banking
12 29 (2.21%) Analytical Skills
13 22 (1.68%) Prime Brokerage
14 20 (1.52%) Financial Institution
15 19 (1.45%) Retail
16 14 (1.07%) Tech for Good
17 6 (0.46%) Wearables
18 5 (0.38%) Games
19 4 (0.30%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 557 (42.45%) Spring
2 315 (24.01%) React
3 289 (22.03%) Spring Boot
4 277 (21.11%) AngularJS
5 268 (20.43%) Kafka
6 175 (13.34%) J2EE
7 148 (11.28%) HTML
8 143 (10.90%) Node.js
9 137 (10.44%) Hibernate
10 121 (9.22%) JMS
11 116 (8.84%) CSS
11 116 (8.84%) gRPC
12 115 (8.77%) NumPy
12 115 (8.77%) Pandas
12 115 (8.77%) Protocol Buffers
12 115 (8.77%) SciPy
13 112 (8.54%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 101 (7.70%) JSON
15 100 (7.62%) RESTful
16 98 (7.47%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 290 (22.10%) Cloud Native
2 260 (19.82%) Algorithms
3 136 (10.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 123 (9.38%) Fixed Income
5 119 (9.07%) Hedge funds
6 116 (8.84%) Derivative
7 115 (8.77%) Equities
8 95 (7.24%) Public Cloud
9 73 (5.56%) Data Structures
10 68 (5.18%) Onboarding
11 48 (3.66%) Pricing Data
12 42 (3.20%) Reference Data
13 40 (3.05%) Legacy Code
14 33 (2.52%) Private Cloud
15 27 (2.06%) Market Risk
16 21 (1.60%) Replication
17 14 (1.07%) Client/Server
17 14 (1.07%) Credit Risk
17 14 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
18 11 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 39 (2.97%) Unix
2 33 (2.52%) Linux
3 7 (0.53%) Windows
4 5 (0.38%) AIX
5 2 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,174 (89.48%) Software Engineering
2 1,021 (77.82%) Agile
3 693 (52.82%) SDLC
4 687 (52.36%) CI/CD
5 652 (49.70%) Operational Stability
6 582 (44.36%) Artificial Intelligence
7 568 (43.29%) Machine Learning
8 402 (30.64%) Community of Practice
9 372 (28.35%) Microservices
10 308 (23.48%) Continuous Improvement
11 287 (21.88%) Risk Management
12 282 (21.49%) Visualisation
13 268 (20.43%) Full Stack Development
14 209 (15.93%) Decision-Making
15 204 (15.55%) TDD
16 182 (13.87%) Asset Management
17 160 (12.20%) Investment Management
18 149 (11.36%) BDD
19 148 (11.28%) Problem-Solving
20 142 (10.82%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,312 (100.00%) Java
2 516 (39.33%) SQL
3 278 (21.19%) JavaScript
4 239 (18.22%) Python
5 225 (17.15%) TypeScript
6 154 (11.74%) Scala
7 48 (3.66%) Kotlin
8 34 (2.59%) C#
9 22 (1.68%) Groovy
10 9 (0.69%) C
10 9 (0.69%) Go
11 6 (0.46%) Ruby
12 5 (0.38%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.30%) C++
14 2 (0.15%) PHP
14 2 (0.15%) Rust
15 1 (0.076%) Bash
15 1 (0.076%) Dart
15 1 (0.076%) F#
15 1 (0.076%) R
Qualifications
1 39 (2.97%) Degree
2 17 (1.30%) Security Cleared
3 15 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (0.99%) SC Cleared
5 6 (0.46%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.30%) PhD
7 2 (0.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.15%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.076%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (2.82%) Data Quality
2 31 (2.36%) QA
3 23 (1.75%) SLA
4 14 (1.07%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.076%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.076%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.076%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 94 (7.16%) Docker
2 14 (1.07%) HDFS
3 2 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 193 (14.71%) Kubernetes
2 97 (7.39%) Terraform
3 52 (3.96%) Grafana
4 24 (1.83%) Prometheus
5 23 (1.75%) Kibana
6 21 (1.60%) Ansible
6 21 (1.60%) HAProxy
6 21 (1.60%) ITRS Geneos
6 21 (1.60%) Zipkin
7 7 (0.53%) Graphite
8 1 (0.076%) Istio
Vendors
1 166 (12.65%) Oracle
2 51 (3.89%) Databricks
3 48 (3.66%) Splunk
4 43 (3.28%) Dynatrace
5 24 (1.83%) Google
6 18 (1.37%) SaltStack
7 14 (1.07%) Cloudera
8 11 (0.84%) IBM
9 9 (0.69%) Red Hat
9 9 (0.69%) TOWER Software
9 9 (0.69%) YouTube
10 4 (0.30%) Cognizant
10 4 (0.30%) Confluent
10 4 (0.30%) Microsoft
11 3 (0.23%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.23%) Reuters
12 2 (0.15%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.15%) Solace
12 2 (0.15%) TIBCO
13 1 (0.076%) Xamarin