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 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 233 358 285
Rank change year-on-year +125 -73 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 1,306 890 2,492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.24% 0.94% 1.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.31% 1.03% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 454 670 1,029
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,450 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,313 £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 £112,500 £122,500 £100,502
90th Percentile £148,750 £152,500 £128,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +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 99,838 86,540 162,414
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 91.29% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,991 55,953 84,888
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,676
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 £50,238
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%

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 2 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 2 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 +271 1,033 £65,000 - 70
Scotland +137 807 £50,000 -28.57% 10
England -70 489 £76,250 -15.28% 109
Work from Home -87 327 £80,000 -13.20% 81
London -63 266 £100,000 - 59
North of England +21 74 £65,465 -3.02% 13
South West -2 61 £53,750 -21.50% 22
South East +4 58 £70,000 +3.70% 9
North West -7 53 £65,465 -9.70% 11
West Midlands +3 24 £60,000 - 1
Midlands -13 24 £60,000 +20.00% 1
Yorkshire +38 14 £65,465 +24.69% 1
North East -5 7 £65,465 +39.29% 1
East of England -8 5 £80,000 +18.52% 3
Northern Ireland +7 2 £105,000 - 10
Wales -4 2 £55,000 -15.38% 2

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 1,306 (100.00%) Java
2 1,169 (89.51%) Software Engineering
3 1,019 (78.02%) Agile
4 937 (71.75%) Finance
5 830 (63.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 798 (61.10%) Law
7 706 (54.06%) SDLC
8 697 (53.37%) CI/CD
9 664 (50.84%) Operational Stability
10 635 (48.62%) AWS
11 590 (45.18%) Artificial Intelligence
12 576 (44.10%) Machine Learning
13 565 (43.26%) Spring
14 523 (40.05%) SQL
15 406 (31.09%) Community of Practice
16 376 (28.79%) Microservices
17 370 (28.33%) Banking
18 317 (24.27%) React
19 313 (23.97%) Continuous Improvement
20 295 (22.59%) Spring Boot
21 293 (22.43%) Cloud Native
22 292 (22.36%) Marketing
22 292 (22.36%) Risk Management
23 290 (22.21%) Investment Banking
24 288 (22.05%) NoSQL
25 287 (21.98%) Visualisation
26 282 (21.59%) AngularJS
27 272 (20.83%) Full Stack Development
28 271 (20.75%) Kafka
29 266 (20.37%) Legal

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
1 188 (14.40%) Apache Spark
2 129 (9.88%) Apache
3 119 (9.11%) Apache Airflow
4 42 (3.22%) FileNet
5 33 (2.53%) Cloud Foundry
6 21 (1.61%) GemFire
7 8 (0.61%) Confluence
8 2 (0.15%) Drupal
8 2 (0.15%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.077%) JBoss
9 1 (0.077%) Tuxedo
9 1 (0.077%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.077%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 635 (48.62%) AWS
2 156 (11.94%) Azure
3 112 (8.58%) GCP
4 105 (8.04%) dbt
5 98 (7.50%) Snowflake
6 49 (3.75%) Amazon S3
7 44 (3.37%) Amazon EKS
8 42 (3.22%) BlazeMeter
9 39 (2.99%) GitHub
10 24 (1.84%) Serverless
11 23 (1.76%) Amazon ECS
12 18 (1.38%) Amazon SQS
12 18 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
13 17 (1.30%) Amazon EMR
14 13 (1.00%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (0.77%) IBM Cloud
16 8 (0.61%) SaaS
17 6 (0.46%) Azure DevOps
18 5 (0.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 5 (0.38%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.30%) Kerberos
2 11 (0.84%) Network Security
3 3 (0.23%) HTTP
4 1 (0.077%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 288 (22.05%) NoSQL
2 177 (13.55%) Big Data
3 121 (9.26%) MongoDB
4 106 (8.12%) Amazon Athena
5 101 (7.73%) Apache Arrow
5 101 (7.73%) Apache Ignite
5 101 (7.73%) Dremio
6 98 (7.50%) Apache Cassandra
7 97 (7.43%) Data Lake
8 90 (6.89%) Elasticsearch
9 81 (6.20%) PostgreSQL
10 80 (6.13%) Hadoop
11 61 (4.67%) MySQL
12 54 (4.13%) Relational Database
13 38 (2.91%) CockroachDB
14 26 (1.99%) Apache Hive
15 21 (1.61%) Hazelcast
16 19 (1.45%) RDBMS
17 17 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
18 14 (1.07%) HBase
Development Applications
1 133 (10.18%) JUnit
2 87 (6.66%) Cypress.io
3 82 (6.28%) Jasmine
4 68 (5.21%) Jenkins
5 67 (5.13%) Git
6 66 (5.05%) Selenium
7 60 (4.59%) Karma Test Runner
7 60 (4.59%) Protractor
7 60 (4.59%) WebDriver
8 44 (3.37%) Maven
9 39 (2.99%) Cucumber
10 29 (2.22%) JMeter
11 28 (2.14%) Mockito
12 23 (1.76%) JIRA
13 21 (1.61%) Jaeger
14 17 (1.30%) Gradle
15 15 (1.15%) TeamCity
16 12 (0.92%) IntelliJ
17 9 (0.69%) GitLab
18 8 (0.61%) Subversion
General
1 937 (71.75%) Finance
2 830 (63.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 798 (61.10%) Law
4 370 (28.33%) Banking
5 292 (22.36%) Marketing
6 290 (22.21%) Investment Banking
7 266 (20.37%) Legal
8 114 (8.73%) Front Office
9 97 (7.43%) Social Skills
10 96 (7.35%) Influencing Skills
11 62 (4.75%) Public Sector
12 53 (4.06%) Private Banking
13 29 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
14 22 (1.68%) Prime Brokerage
15 21 (1.61%) Financial Institution
16 18 (1.38%) Retail
17 14 (1.07%) Tech for Good
18 6 (0.46%) Wearables
19 5 (0.38%) Games
20 4 (0.31%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 565 (43.26%) Spring
2 317 (24.27%) React
3 295 (22.59%) Spring Boot
4 282 (21.59%) AngularJS
5 271 (20.75%) Kafka
6 177 (13.55%) J2EE
7 148 (11.33%) HTML
8 142 (10.87%) Node.js
9 138 (10.57%) Hibernate
10 122 (9.34%) JMS
11 116 (8.88%) CSS
12 112 (8.58%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 103 (7.89%) RESTful
14 102 (7.81%) gRPC
14 102 (7.81%) JSON
15 101 (7.73%) NumPy
15 101 (7.73%) Pandas
15 101 (7.73%) Protocol Buffers
15 101 (7.73%) SciPy
16 100 (7.66%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 293 (22.43%) Cloud Native
2 265 (20.29%) Algorithms
3 122 (9.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 109 (8.35%) Fixed Income
5 105 (8.04%) Hedge funds
6 102 (7.81%) Derivative
7 101 (7.73%) Equities
8 99 (7.58%) Public Cloud
9 74 (5.67%) Data Structures
10 69 (5.28%) Onboarding
11 44 (3.37%) Reference Data
12 42 (3.22%) Pricing Data
13 41 (3.14%) Legacy Code
14 34 (2.60%) Private Cloud
15 27 (2.07%) Market Risk
16 21 (1.61%) 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 40 (3.06%) Unix
2 32 (2.45%) Linux
3 6 (0.46%) Windows
4 4 (0.31%) AIX
5 2 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,169 (89.51%) Software Engineering
2 1,019 (78.02%) Agile
3 706 (54.06%) SDLC
4 697 (53.37%) CI/CD
5 664 (50.84%) Operational Stability
6 590 (45.18%) Artificial Intelligence
7 576 (44.10%) Machine Learning
8 406 (31.09%) Community of Practice
9 376 (28.79%) Microservices
10 313 (23.97%) Continuous Improvement
11 292 (22.36%) Risk Management
12 287 (21.98%) Visualisation
13 272 (20.83%) Full Stack Development
14 214 (16.39%) Decision-Making
15 206 (15.77%) TDD
16 171 (13.09%) Asset Management
17 152 (11.64%) Investment Management
18 150 (11.49%) BDD
19 149 (11.41%) Problem-Solving
20 144 (11.03%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,306 (100.00%) Java
2 523 (40.05%) SQL
3 262 (20.06%) JavaScript
4 226 (17.30%) Python
5 211 (16.16%) TypeScript
6 156 (11.94%) Scala
7 48 (3.68%) Kotlin
8 33 (2.53%) 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 (0.31%) C++
14 2 (0.15%) PHP
14 2 (0.15%) Rust
15 1 (0.077%) Bash
15 1 (0.077%) Dart
15 1 (0.077%) F#
15 1 (0.077%) R
Qualifications
1 41 (3.14%) Degree
2 17 (1.30%) Security Cleared
3 15 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (1.00%) SC Cleared
5 6 (0.46%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.31%) PhD
7 2 (0.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.15%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.077%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (2.60%) Data Quality
2 30 (2.30%) QA
3 24 (1.84%) SLA
4 15 (1.15%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.077%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.077%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.077%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 96 (7.35%) Docker
2 15 (1.15%) HDFS
3 2 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 195 (14.93%) Kubernetes
2 97 (7.43%) Terraform
3 52 (3.98%) Grafana
4 24 (1.84%) Prometheus
5 23 (1.76%) Kibana
6 21 (1.61%) HAProxy
6 21 (1.61%) ITRS Geneos
6 21 (1.61%) Zipkin
7 20 (1.53%) Ansible
8 7 (0.54%) Graphite
9 1 (0.077%) Istio
Vendors
1 169 (12.94%) Oracle
2 52 (3.98%) Databricks
3 48 (3.68%) Splunk
4 43 (3.29%) Dynatrace
5 25 (1.91%) Google
6 18 (1.38%) SaltStack
7 15 (1.15%) Cloudera
8 12 (0.92%) IBM
9 9 (0.69%) Red Hat
9 9 (0.69%) TOWER Software
9 9 (0.69%) YouTube
10 4 (0.31%) Confluent
10 4 (0.31%) Microsoft
11 3 (0.23%) Cognizant
12 2 (0.15%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.15%) Solace
12 2 (0.15%) TIBCO
13 1 (0.077%) CA Agile Central
13 1 (0.077%) ServiceNow
13 1 (0.077%) Xamarin