Java Engineer Job Trends in England

Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Engineer salary in England is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 298 346
Rank change year-on-year -63 +48 +23
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 476 395 487
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 0.91% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 1.00% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 347 239 360
10th Percentile £48,000 £57,500 £56,125
25th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% +23.53%
75th Percentile £96,875 £135,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £77,500 £110,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -29.55% +10.00% +17.65%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 93,357 39,308 65,680
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.60% 90.38% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 66,083 23,655 40,777
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,300 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,591 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £74,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Java Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Java Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Java Engineer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Java Engineer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Java Engineer job vacancies in England

Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in England over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Java Engineer in England

Java Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 10 September 2026. 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
London -57 256 £87,500 -20.45% 259
North of England +56 143 £75,000 +9.09% 52
North West +53 89 £77,000 -12.50% 29
South West -100 36 £60,000 +9.09% 39
North East -34 30 £45,000 -30.77% 5
South East -13 25 £90,000 +28.57% 15
Yorkshire -23 24 £80,000 +65.80% 18
Midlands -41 24 £77,500 +29.17% 23
West Midlands -29 18 £85,000 +41.67% 14
East Midlands -20 6 £60,000 +150.00% 9
East of England -31 1 £72,500 - 4
Java Engineer
UK

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 10 September 2026, Java Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 476 (100.00%) Java
2 203 (42.65%) Software Engineering
3 165 (34.66%) Spring
4 163 (34.24%) AWS
5 142 (29.83%) Spring Boot
6 131 (27.52%) Microservices
7 122 (25.63%) Agile
8 121 (25.42%) CI/CD
8 121 (25.42%) Full-Stack Development
9 108 (22.69%) Test Automation
10 88 (18.49%) Kafka
11 83 (17.44%) Event-Driven
12 75 (15.76%) Mentoring
13 73 (15.34%) SQL
14 69 (14.50%) Infrastructure as Code
15 62 (13.03%) NoSQL
16 61 (12.82%) Kubernetes
17 60 (12.61%) Python
18 59 (12.39%) AI
19 55 (11.55%) Security Cleared
20 53 (11.13%) BDD
20 53 (11.13%) DevOps
21 48 (10.08%) GitLab
22 47 (9.87%) AWS CloudFormation
23 46 (9.66%) CQRS
24 44 (9.24%) SC Cleared
25 43 (9.03%) Cucumber
26 42 (8.82%) Docker
26 42 (8.82%) Event-Driven Architecture
26 42 (8.82%) REST

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (1.47%) Camunda
2 4 (0.84%) Confluence
3 3 (0.63%) Tomcat
3 3 (0.63%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.42%) JBoss
4 2 (0.42%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.21%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 163 (34.24%) AWS
2 47 (9.87%) AWS CloudFormation
3 40 (8.40%) Azure
4 28 (5.88%) GCP
5 21 (4.41%) Serverless
6 19 (3.99%) SaaS
7 18 (3.78%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (2.52%) Anthropic Claude
9 11 (2.31%) GitHub
10 8 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (1.47%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (1.26%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (1.26%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (1.26%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (1.26%) Azure Storage
13 5 (1.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (1.05%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.05%) Datadog
13 5 (1.05%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.26%) DMARC
2 1 (0.21%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.21%) Modbus
2 1 (0.21%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (13.03%) NoSQL
2 19 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (3.57%) MongoDB
4 14 (2.94%) Redis
4 14 (2.94%) Relational Database
5 6 (1.26%) MySQL
5 6 (1.26%) RDBMS
6 3 (0.63%) KDB
6 3 (0.63%) Power BI
7 2 (0.42%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.42%) Db2
8 1 (0.21%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.21%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.21%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.21%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.21%) Flink
8 1 (0.21%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 48 (10.08%) GitLab
2 43 (9.03%) Cucumber
3 21 (4.41%) Jenkins
4 16 (3.36%) Git
5 13 (2.73%) Claude Code
5 13 (2.73%) Selenium
6 9 (1.89%) TeamCity
7 8 (1.68%) JUnit
8 7 (1.47%) JIRA
9 6 (1.26%) Mockito
10 4 (0.84%) JMeter
11 3 (0.63%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.42%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.42%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.42%) Eclipse RCP
12 2 (0.42%) Maven
12 2 (0.42%) Mocha
12 2 (0.42%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
General
1 90 (18.91%) Finance
2 56 (11.76%) Banking
3 35 (7.35%) Social Skills
4 22 (4.62%) Financial Institution
5 19 (3.99%) Health Technology
6 18 (3.78%) Front Office
7 17 (3.57%) Public Sector
8 14 (2.94%) Retail
9 12 (2.52%) Investment Banking
9 12 (2.52%) Law
10 10 (2.10%) Tech for Good
11 9 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.68%) Analytical Skills
13 4 (0.84%) Back Office
13 4 (0.84%) Digital Health
14 3 (0.63%) iGaming
14 3 (0.63%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.63%) Marketing
15 2 (0.42%) Aviation
16 1 (0.21%) Prime Brokerage
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (34.66%) Spring
2 142 (29.83%) Spring Boot
3 88 (18.49%) Kafka
4 42 (8.82%) REST
5 39 (8.19%) React
6 28 (5.88%) RESTful
6 28 (5.88%) Terraform
7 21 (4.41%) AngularJS
8 18 (3.78%) Node.js
9 13 (2.73%) Vue
10 12 (2.52%) HTML
10 12 (2.52%) RabbitMQ
11 11 (2.31%) Playwright
12 9 (1.89%) Hibernate
13 8 (1.68%) YAML
14 7 (1.47%) Akka
14 7 (1.47%) CSS
14 7 (1.47%) OAuth
14 7 (1.47%) OAuth2
15 6 (1.26%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 99 (20.80%) Cloud Native
2 82 (17.23%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (7.98%) e-Learning
3 38 (7.98%) Public Cloud
4 25 (5.25%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (1.89%) Fixed Income
6 8 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.26%) AI Agents
7 6 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.26%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.05%) Blog
8 5 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (0.84%) Algorithms
9 4 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.84%) Clustering
9 4 (0.84%) Data Structures
9 4 (0.84%) Equities
9 4 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.63%) Marketing Technology
10 3 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.10%) Linux
2 1 (0.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (42.65%) Software Engineering
2 131 (27.52%) Microservices
3 122 (25.63%) Agile
4 121 (25.42%) CI/CD
4 121 (25.42%) Full-Stack Development
5 108 (22.69%) Test Automation
6 83 (17.44%) Event-Driven
7 75 (15.76%) Mentoring
8 69 (14.50%) Infrastructure as Code
9 59 (12.39%) AI
10 53 (11.13%) BDD
10 53 (11.13%) DevOps
11 46 (9.66%) CQRS
12 42 (8.82%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 40 (8.40%) Architectural Patterns
14 38 (7.98%) Performance Testing
15 37 (7.77%) Continuous Improvement
16 31 (6.51%) Containerisation
16 31 (6.51%) Observability
17 29 (6.09%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 476 (100.00%) Java
2 73 (15.34%) SQL
3 60 (12.61%) Python
4 32 (6.72%) TypeScript
5 25 (5.25%) JavaScript
6 23 (4.83%) Kotlin
7 15 (3.15%) C++
7 15 (3.15%) Go
8 6 (1.26%) Rust
8 6 (1.26%) Scala
9 5 (1.05%) C#
10 4 (0.84%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.42%) Groovy
12 1 (0.21%) Perl
12 1 (0.21%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 55 (11.55%) Security Cleared
2 44 (9.24%) SC Cleared
3 38 (7.98%) AWS Certification
3 38 (7.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 19 (3.99%) Degree
5 15 (3.15%) DV Cleared
6 11 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.63%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.21%) OCP
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.21%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.94%) QA
2 6 (1.26%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.05%) GDPR
4 4 (0.84%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.42%) WCAG
6 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.21%) PSD2
System Software
1 42 (8.82%) Docker
2 1 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.21%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 61 (12.82%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.31%) Grafana
3 4 (0.84%) Kibana
4 3 (0.63%) Ansible
5 2 (0.42%) Argo
5 2 (0.42%) Packer
5 2 (0.42%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.21%) MOM
Vendors
1 10 (2.10%) Microsoft
2 9 (1.89%) Palantir
3 7 (1.47%) Google
4 6 (1.26%) AppDynamics
4 6 (1.26%) SendGrid
5 5 (1.05%) Oracle
5 5 (1.05%) Splunk
6 4 (0.84%) Dynatrace
6 4 (0.84%) IBM
7 3 (0.63%) Adobe
7 3 (0.63%) OutSystems
7 3 (0.63%) Red Hat
7 3 (0.63%) Revolut
8 2 (0.42%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.21%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.21%) Databricks
9 1 (0.21%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.21%) Solace
9 1 (0.21%) Sybase
9 1 (0.21%) Wonderware